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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1886.
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•Correspondence Philadelphia News.
Cannbuton, Pa.. July 13.—On the farm
of Burns White, half a mile east of the eonl
mines, there is what is known to the
people of the valley as the Breathing
Ground. And the name is not a misno
mer, for it is in reality a breathing ground
—a plnce where the earth heaves and pul'
.sates exactly rs does the human breast.
In the spring of the year, when the pul
sations are most pronounced, a thin, white
•cloud of smoke is often seen hovering over
the earth for a couple of days, and then a
terrific explosion, which can be heard all
through the valley, takes place, after
which the smoke disappears and the earth
resumes its normal condition. There is no
hole or fissure in the surface of the ground,
.and the only apparent effect of the explo
sion is the scattering of the dust and clods
•of earth which lie in the vicinity.
This peculiar freak of the earth has been
noted by Mr. White for several years. His
attention was first called to it by Beeing a
dense smoke rising just beyond a hifi a
.short distance from nis house. Thinking
it was a fire at the house of one of his
neighbors he started to the rescue.
THE GROUND ON FIRE.
When he reached the brow of the hill
he still saw the smoke, but instead of com
ing from the roof of a house it was coming
right out of the center of a field. He went
closer and tried to find out what was burn
ing, but all he could see was smoke. There
was no fire and very little heat. A couple
of days later he was working about his
farm when he was startled by an explosion
which sounded like a whole battery of ar
tillery going oil’. Looking across the field
to where he had seen the smoke, he saw a
heavy clould of dust which, as he watched
it, settled gradually to the earth, and the
field looked just as it had a week before.
Ever since that, however, there has been a
perceptible pulsation or that particular
portion of the field, and at intervals, gener
ally in the spring or early summer, the
smoke returns and an explosion takes
place.
To a reporter who visited the place yes
terday, Mr. White said : “Very few people
outside of my immediate neighbors know
anything about my little phenomenon, t t'or
I have kept very quiet about it when away
from home, for fear people would not be
lieve what I told them. It is here now,
however, and you can see it for yourself.
Several times my family or some of my
neighborsjhave been called out by a cry of
fire, when the only thing that was burning
about there was that little patch of ground.
FIRE UNDERGROUND.
“Can I explain the mystery? No, I can
not. I thought at first there must be a vol
cano down there somewhere, and that it
might break out and fill the valley, some
thing after the style of Pompeii, but it has
been going so long now that i don’t bother
myself any more about it. There is lire
down under the surface somewhere, that’s
sure, but I don’t know where it is, and 1
don’t know that I care much. I have
thought that it might be a vein of cannel
coal which had in some W'ay caught fire,
but if it was coal it would smoke all
the time and not only at intervals. Some
people who have been here lately think
that natural gas is to blame for it. There
is certainly a great deal of gas in this vi
cinity, and it may be that in some way or
another it is the cause of the phenomenon.
Still natural gas don’t smoke, and I don’t
know just how it could explode without
tearing the ground to pieces more than it
does.
LIKE A WINEGLASS.
“Down on the Little Beaver creek, half
a mile from here, there is gas coming right
up through the fissures in the rock
bottom of the stream, but it
never does any exploding. When lighted
it burns in the shape of a ^wineglass
several feet high, and from its light you
can see the holes in the rock from which
it issues. We have had it burning several
times lately, and it seems to be as strong
to-day as it was when we first discovered
it, a good many years ago. When not
burning it comes up with force enough to
keep the water in a constant froth. Gas
escapes at several other places along the
creek, within a few miles of here, but not
in so large a quantity.”
The escaping natural product has at
tracted the attention of gas operators, and
the prospect of striking a big well in that
vicinity has added to the interest already
felt in the field on account of its prospects.
In addition to the gas which escapes from
the creek bottom, there are several wells
■drilled, many of them ten years ago,in the
vicinity, which are still producing. One
well, ten miles east of Canneiton, which is
•only about 700 feet deep, produces a flow of
tuel that when lighted burns ten fret from
the surface of the ground. It has been
producing since about 1870.
Sardines or Heat ii.
Courier-Journal.
The wires between Maine and Washing
ton ip’e evidently kept pretty hot these
days by dispatches to the effect that some
Maine fishermen have been chased away
from St. Andrews, N. B., where they had
gone for herring.
Bontelle is in a stow about the matter,
and has pecked away at the state depart
ment ana drawn a letter from Mr. Bayard,
in which the secretary informs him that
he is doing all that can be expected of him
in the premises.
A sentence from the letter of Mr. Bayard
discloses the nature of Maine’s grievance.
“I have just received your telegram of this
date,” writes the secretary, “stating that
you nad a dispatch from East port, Maine,
that American boats after herring tor sar
dines at St. Andrews, N. B., were driven
away by the Dominion cruiser Middle-
ton.’’
There! The secret is out! Fishermen
' of the pine tree state, free and loyal citi
zens of these United States, have been in
terfered with in their inalienable right to
secure young herring off the coast ol New
Brunsick, put them up in tin boxas, label
them “French Sardines,” and sell them as
French sardies to their credulous fellow-
citizens.
Now that this thriving New England
“sardine” industry is threatened by the
impudent Canucks, the American eagle,
himself with a well developed taste for
fish, should, without more ado, resonantly
squawk, and the American people, who
have already shown their desire to protect
this ingenious industry of their shifty
Yankee compatriots by laying a tariff on
genuine sardines,should proclaim in stento-
rian tonus their determination to maintain
the right of the New England fishermen
to obtain sardines wherever they can rind
a Candian herring. Great Britain and all
her provinces may as well understand that
the people of the United States ot America
intend to have French sardines, it they
catch the last herring in or out of Canadian
waters. Let the cry go forth, and let it he
re-echoed by every patriot who draws the
breath of liberty—“Sardines or death.
A Moot! Field for Rad Lawyers.
San Francisco Chronicle.
“Yes,” said the old fellow who had been
beaten for superior court judge at the last
election. “Yes, bad lawyers always make
good judges. Most bad lawyers are given
to conscience and honesty.”
“Well—judge—” , ,
“That’s all right. I’m a bad lawyer.
That’s why I wanted to be a judge, it
saves you a lot of trouble and teaches you
your business when other lawyers fill vou
up with the facts and figures of the law.
A good lawyer can never be trusted on the
bench. He’s always liable to give
a decision against the cleverest law
yer in the case, just to show “is
.smartness. A bad lawyer on the bench
•doesn’t take law so much as justice into
cotwidenlion, and no defendant or plain
tiff ever yet was injured by a common
sense decision. It is a great fallacy of our
great republican form of government tha!
'.he voice of the people, spoken througi
•he ballot box, purifies the man elected
ma that the election of a lawyer to tin
lench destroys all the weakness of humuii
lature he may have had before. In tin
livine government purification precede,
■lection. In the human government, elec
ion precedes puritlcatiou. I don’t believi
i lawyer’s any more honest when they
uake him a judge than he was before
They call him n lawyer until he becomes a
ludge, then he is spoken of as a distin
guished jurist.”
The Modern Mermaid.
New York Times.
The ways of mermaids are Inscrutable
ind various are their arts. Time was
when they were wont to sit upon the low
shore, ns Odysseus saw them, singing to the
music of a magic harp songs of unspeaka
ble enticement to lure the passing sailor to
their arms and his destruction. The mer
maids of the Rhine, who were most poetic,
delightful, and dangerous creatures, used
to perch upon thejclifls. with no clothes
on to speak of, and comb their golden hair
with golden combs, singing divinely all the
while of the pleasures of a subaqueous life
and playing the very dickens with the
Rhenish boatmen, who were so bewitched
by the songs and the charms of the maid
ens that they rowed and steered with fatu
ous imprudence, and so went to the bot
tom in large numbers.
Then there was the mermaid who popped
up, sweet and moist, near the fisher who
sat tranquilly eyeing his line, and re
proached nim for alluring her little fishes
out of the flood into the frying pan; and
“She spake to him, she sang to him,
Aud thus it happened then,
Half drew she him, half sank he in,
And ne’er was seen -gain.”
But who ever heard before of a mermaid
making use of such a prosaic and sordid de
vice as the warrant of a police justice to
entrap an intending seafarer? Anri who
before ever heard of a mermaid as a litigant
over a Metropolitan Elevated railway-
bond or any other security what
ever? Can mermaids no longer
sing? Is the making of harps a lost art. in
the deeps? Where are the gifts and the
charms by which the legendary mermaid
bamboozled her innumerable victims? Or
is the beautiful and fatal race really ex
tinct, and “llollie” Adams, Col. Gilder’s
persecutor, only a modern showman’s
simulacrum of a mermaid? We should be
sorry to accept this last explanation as the
true one, and we prefer to believe that
mermaids have changed with the times
and now take as naturally to law and
police courts as they once took to harps and
the water.
Out- Airy Her!ll on a I'tillitian Car.
Chicago Herald.
“Beating one’s way on the passenger
trains is not an easy thing to do outlie
Pacific roads,” said a traveler from the
west: “but during my last trip I saw a most
novel expedient employed by a tramp.
Early one morning, when we were pretty
well up in the mountains, I got up and
dressed and took a chair out on the plat
form for a breath of fresh air. Presently
the train stopped at a water tank and I
jumped down to the ground to stretch my
legs a moment. As I walked up ahead I
was surprised to hear a snore. ‘Can it be
possible,’ I thought, ‘that there is any
body who can snore loud enough to be
heard through the double floor ot a Bleep
ing car?’ The snoring seemed to
come from under the coach, and so 1 re
solved on a closer look. Bending down l
glanced under the body of the car and saw
there a scene which struck me as being
about the oddest I had ever witnessed. In
a hammock, which he had evidently stolen
from some door yard in California, lay a
tramp sleepingisoundly and snoring noisily.
The hammock was swung under the car
close to the floor and one leg of its occu
pant hung out and trailed rather close to
the ground. In that queer bed his tramp-
ship had been riding all night without
ticket or berth check and with no fear of
being compelled to join in a |2 all-round
for the benefit of the porter at the end of
his journey. He roue some fifty miles
further before he was discovered and
bounced, and then strode off in search of
food and to wait until night before resum
ing his journey under another palace car.”
The Dream of Fair Women.
Philadelphia Times.
Washington is threatened with a profes
sional beauty craze during the coming win
ter. While the United States have fur
nished professional beauties for both Lon
don and Parisian society to go wild over,
the idea of showing off the prize beauties
| in competition with each other seems
never to have taken root in Washington.
A POWERFUL JAPANESE FRIGATE.
I Di'Hi rlpIIon of tln> Minii,,ii Knu, that la to
Iti'volntioiilii' Naval Warfare.
John Worthington, consul at Malta,
lends to the state department the follow-
ng description of the Japanese frigate
Maniwa Kau. He says: “This isaremark-
ible ship, being one of the latest types
if offensive warfare. She can attain great
•peed and is powerfully armed with two
(Pinch rifled cannon * for long range
.(ring, fore and aft, besides fi-inch rilled
muzzle loaders at the sides of her
midship raised battery. Not being armor-
lad, her great speed Is expected to keep
tier at a safe distance from the enemy, al-
hough able to punish him at long range.
8he was built and armed by Sir william
Armstrong in continuation of his ideas ol
i fighting cruiser. Siie is supposed to be
the fittest vessel for the protection of a
convoy of merchant vessels. Captain Ito,
.if this vessel, was educated at Annapolis,
and he has adopted the United States
uniform for his Japanese sailors.”
This Is thought by naval officers to be
the beginning of a revolution In naval war
fare. Armor has become so cumbrous that
it is likely to be discarded entirely, for the
thicker it is made the heavier tlie guns
sent against it. It is the story of the Mid
dle Ages over again. As the invention of
gunpowder ana more effective weapons
did away with armor for men, so may the
improved rifle-cannon make it a necesstiy
that boats be lightened and swifter, and
not depend on armor for defense.
A hunt I'emlon*.
Public Ledger.
It is a very easy thing before an audience
of easy-going people to get up favor for a
case of alleged hardship and meritorious
claim for a soldier in the recent war.
Here is an instance: One of the vetoed bills
proposed to srive a pension to the widow
of a man who enlisted in April, 18(51, was
sent to a preparatory camp in the suburbs
of Cincinnati, and while there died. This
on its face appeared to be the case of the
widow of a soldier who lost his life in the
military service of the country, and which
therefore appealed strongly to the feeling
called patriotic gratitude. Upon examina
tion, however, it was found that before the
man had ever been in the presence of the
enemy, or in active service in the field, lie
asked and got leave logo to Cincinnati;
while there, and not. in the discharge of
any military service, got into a brawl, dur
ing which lie received a blow, from the
etreets of which he died.
That is one of the cases about which
senators who follow Mr. Blair’slead gut on |
their dignity, and members of the other
house went off into rhapsody and frantic i
abuse. From the way that case was stated
by the pension papers and by the advocates
of the bill, no one would ever have sus
pected that the canonized dead soldier was
killed by a knock on the head in a personal
row.
It is a parallel case to that of the de
ceased husband of the Widow Bardell, in
“Pickwick.” Sergeant Buzfuz addressing
the jury is that celebrated case,impressively
said : “The plaintiff is a widow ; yes, gen
tlemen, a widow. The late Mr. B.irdell,
after enjoying for many years the esteem
and confidence of his sovereign, as one of
the guardians of his royal revenues, glided,
almost impereejjtibly, from the world, to
seek elsewhere for that repose and peace
which a custom house can never afford.”
That pathetic and patriotic description of
Mr. Barde’l’s life and death seduced a
large verdict from the impressible jury;
yet the facts were that, in the course of a
maudlin, drunken row in a tavern, Mr.
Bardell who was a tidewaiter,was knocked
on the head, with fatal result, by an
empty quart pot.
Now, while the foregoing case is not put
forward as representative of the merits or
demerits of the bills vetoed, it is an exam
ple showing how careless congress can be
m this “patriotic" and extremely senti
mental lousiness of enacting special
pension bills, and also as exhibiting
how little right congress can have either
to stand upon its dignity or to go off into
heroics or to indulge in personal or official
abuse because of these vetoes. The facts in
the vetoed cases show a large variety of
circumstance concerning the cause of death
or disability, and an almost ludicrous con
tradiction of the statements in the appli
cations for pension. We cannot go into
them, except to say that in nearly all of
the cases they had previously been ex
amined on their merits by the pension
office (not under the present democratic
commissioner, but under former republi
can administrations! and had been re
jected as inadmissible.
M.4RKKTM KY TEI.RUHAPII.
Financial.
Loudon, July 18.—I p. m, — Oonsols-
monoy 101 3-18.
NHW YORK MONEY MARKET.
Nkw York, July I8.--N0011—Stocks steady anil
easy Money easy, 1%i.02? a . Exchange—long
HM'a, ah r |t.871,.Stale bonds neglected, dull
liiict. Government bouda steady.
New Yoke, July 18.—Exchange$4.06%. Money
(.j percent. Government bonds are quiet and
irm. New four per cents 128%; 123% bid. State
>onds quiet.
SUB-THKASURY BALANCES.
Gold in the Sub-Treasury *128,157,000; currency
$19,349,000.
STOCK market.
New York, July 16.—The following were the
closing quotations of the stock exchange:
Vla-clasB A 2 to 5...103% C & N 58 %
do class B 5s 106!j,IN. O. Pac. lste 65
•Ga 6’a 100%IN. Y. Central 106%
Ga 8’s mortgage. .. 102 | Norfolk JfcW’n ore.. 39,'-,
N C6's 123k Northern Pacific... 27
dot’s 98 do preferred 59k
SC con Brown 107 I Pacino Mail
Tennessee 8s
•Virginia 6s 45
Virginia consols... 62%
Chcsap'ke & Ohio 8
Chicago & N. W 118k
do preferred 140'
Del. & Lack 126 7
Erie Sl-'/g
East Tenn 5k
Lake Shore 85 k
L. & N 42k
Memphis * Char.. 36
Mobile & Ohio 14k
Reading 25k
Rich. & Alleghany 1
Richmond & Dan.. 141
Rich & W. P. Ter'l 31%
Rock Island 126k
do preferred 140% St. Paul 93k
do preferred 122
Texas Pacific 10
Union Pacific 55%
N. J. Central 65k
Missouri Pacific 107 k
Western Union 67k
•Bid. «Asked.
Thr Barest Plant In Mexico.
In the botanical garden at the palace
_ _ they have the celebrated flower Tzapalilqui
The beauty and general attractiveness of Xoehitl, of the Aztecs. The story runs
the president’s new wife seems to have ; that there are only three of the kind in
given birth to the idea. Several sena- 1 the world, one at tlie palace, another at a
tors’ wives are sure they each know j different point in Mexico, and the mother
a young lady or two possessing • pj a nt on the mountain. At one time two
charms of face and figure quite equal to , tribes had a long and bloody war for the
those of Mrs Cleveland, and they propose possession of it, so the story goes, but
to bring on their beauties during the j w ith a great deal more exaggera-
coming season and show them off. In one j tion. The plant is commonly called the
instance, it is said that a lady of distinction j “flower hand,” as they claim that inside is
in Washington society proposes to help a i a perfect baby hand. I went to see it, and
beauty of this sort, who does not possess ( was much disappointed. The tree grows
the means to adorn herself expensively, to j t () n g rea t height. The leaves, heart-shape
the necessary wardrobe. It is a very poor ] are thick and about the color of the-under
and useless sort of craze, but if Washing- : p ar t of a silver maple leaf, except that
ton society wants to indulge in it there is I they arc very rough, which prevents
abundant material in this country upon them from glistening like the maple,
which to draw for this kind of a sensation. Th e thick wax-like, bell-shaped red
■ ■ » . blossom grows mouth upward, and in-
It is rather odd (hat Ulster, which, ac-| s j<j e is the so-called hand. It has five
cording to the Orangemen among its in- fingers and one thumb, but looks exactly
habitants, is the only civilized and law- like a bird’s claw, and not like a hand,
abiding part of Ireland, should be the part j The story ran that there are but three in ex-
from which the most disgraceful riots are 1 jstenee. ' Without doubt the plant is rare
reported as a result of the English elec- j an ff there may lie no more than a dozen, if
j tions. The orangemen would probably I that many, in the world, but I have seen
| account for this by saying that the Roman ; j n the gardens of two different, gentlemen
, Catholics arc in such overwhelming force ; the very same tree. One of these g entle-
in other parts of Ireland that the sporadic J men is in Europe, and the other bought
j Presbyterian who undertook to express bis j |,j iS plant from him, so there was no way of
I views would bo quietly knocked on the j learning where the tree came f
Cotton.
Liverpool, July 16.—Noon.—Cotton market
quiet, with moderate inquiry; middling uplands
5 5-lfld, Orleans 5%d; sales 8,000 bales—for
speculation and export 1000 bales.
Receipts 1300 bales—all American.
Futures quiet at the following quotations :
August and September 5 14-64'n j 15-t.UI
September amt October 5 10-64d
October and November 5 8-64d
November and December 5 5-64d
December and January 5 5-64d
September 5 15-64d
Tenders of deliveries lor to-dav’s clearing 600
bales of new docket and 00 bales of old docket.
Hales of tile week 57,000
American 43.000
Speculators- took 5.000
Exports took 2,700
Actual export 5,2ou
Imports 43,000
American 38.000
Stock 827,000
American *158,000
Afloat 136,000
American 52.000
2 p. m.—Sales to-day include 0,100 bales of
American.
2 i. M.—Cotton ftuuros: July delivery, 5 lu-fl4d
seders; July and August. 5 15-64d sellers; August
aud September, 5 !5-64d sellers; September and
October. 5 10-64*1 buyers; October and November.
5 6-04d sellers; November and December, 5 5-64d
sellers; December and January, 5 5-64*1 sellers;
January and February, 5 6-6-kl sellers; Septem
ber. 5 i5-6ld sellers. Futures dull.
■1:00 p. M. Futures: July delivery, 6 16-64d
value; July and August, 6 15-64d sellers; August
and September, 5 15-64(1 sellers; September and
October, 5 U-04d sellers; October and November,
5 6-*ild vulue; November and December, 5 6 64d
sellers: December and January, 5 6-64d sellers;
January and February, 5 7-61d sellers; September
5 15-64(1 buyers. Futures closed quiet but steady.
New Yoiik, July 16.—Cotton quiet and firm;
sales 137 bales, middling uplands 9'.,c, Orleans
9 1I-16C.
Consolidated net receipts 2263 bales; exports to
Great Britain 4136, continent 372, to France 00,
stock 285,856.
Weekly net receipts 133, gross 7292; exports
to Great Britain 13,261, to France 1550, continent
5391; sales 7305.
NEW YOItK AND NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
New York, July 16.—Net receints 0, gross
371. Futures closed dull but steady; sales 71,800
bales, as follows:
July 9 45-100669 46-100
August 9 48-100
September 9 43-100si>9 44-100
October 9 33-100
November 9 32-1001.99 33-100
December 9 35-100(<o9 36-100
January 9 45-100rg;9 46-100
February 9 55-100(.t9 56-100
•March. 9 64 100fri.9 65-100
April 9 73-100(u,9 74-100
May 9 HS-lOOltiQ 84-100
Green & Co., in their report on cotton futures,
say; Few buying orders were received to-day,
but operators run mostly to local scalping efforts
and there was not much of a market for the day,
the close standing at about last night’s figures.
The first bale of r.ew crop Texas cotton is report
ed at Galveston to-day, showing an arrival one
week ahead of last year.
Nkw Orleans, July 16.-2:35 p. m.—Futures
closed quiet and steady; sales 12,200 bales, as fol
lows:
July 9 l(M00«v9 18-100
August ; 9 22-lOO«0 23-100
September 9 02-100099 03-100
October 8 89-100(n,8 90-100
November 3 85-100098 86-100
December 8 90-100
January 9 00-100*t9 01-100
February 9 ll-100(<(/9 12-100
March...' 9 23-100(5)9 24-100
Vpril 9 84-100519 35-100
May 9 45-100(0 9 47-100
TOTAL NET RECEIPTS AT THE POETS.
New York, July 16.—The following are the
total net receipts of cotton at all ports since
September 1, 1885:
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Norfolk
Baltimore
New York
Boston
Newport News
Philadelphia
West Point
Brunswick
receipts 00; sales 00; stock this year 640, last
year 1261; shipments 25,
Nashville, July 16.- Cotton steady; middlings
9c; receipts 151; shipments 00; 88168 241, spin
ners 113; slock tills year 752, last year 1187.
Port Royal, July 10.—Weekly net receipts 49;
slock 00.
Selma, July J8—Cotton steady; middlings 8%;
weekly receipts 10; shipments 45; stock 2159.
Rome, July 16,—Cotton nominal; middlings
8;!(e; receipts 8; shipments 00; stock 663.
Atlanta, July 18.—Cotton receipts 9 bales;
middlings 9c.
FrovlNloiiN.
Chicaoo, July 16. — Flour unchanged. Mess
pork unsettled, opened a stiade firmer but finally
closed easier-cash $8 85(0,8 90, August <8 85ia
8 95. Lard 7.po-lOv higher early but fell off
again — cash $6 60; August 46 85(0,6 72%.
Short rib aides steady —cash $8 35. Boxed meats
steady—dry salted, shoulders (5 90s96 00, short
clear sides $0 70.
St. Louis, July 18. — Flour unchanged —
choice 25m;3 40, fancy $2 6-57(43 75. Provision*
only moderately active but higher : Mem pork
10c higher—$10 60; lard steady~$6 30(g>6 35; bulk
meats 5($10c higher—boxed lot«, long clear aides
$6 50, short rib aides $6,56,abort clear sides $6 623 *
dt6 67*4; bacon Arm—long clear aides $7 10,
short rib aides $7 12!.j. short clear sides #7 2569
7 30; hams steady—$11 <Xk<yl2 50.
Nkw Oklhans, July 16.—Rice steady—Louisi
ana, ordinary to good 3> a @4’4c. Molasess
steady—Louisianna open kettle, good prime to
strictly prime 32c: centrifrigals, prime to strictly
prime 15«vl9c.
Louisville, July 16.—Provisions steady: Bacon,
clear rib sides $7 00, clear sides $7 37 4, shoul
ders $6 50; bulV meats -clear rib sides $6 50,
clear sides $6 87%, shoulders $6 00; mess pork
$11 00; sugar-cured hams $11 50(atl2 50; lard-
choice leaf $8 50.
Cincinnati, July 16, — Pork firm - $10 62!.>
Lard stronger--$6 25. Bulk meats quiet —
shoulders *5 75.short rib sides 6 37 W% bacon quiet-
shoulders $6 50, short rib sides $7 12! .1, short clear
aides $7 45.
drill n.
Chicago, July 16.—Wheat quiet and easier—
July 77%$78%c, August 78V ( '’78';,c, No. 2 spring
77c: Corn weak and closing lower-cash 87'^c.
37*.,m>38c, August 38'4({m38*.c. Oats quiet and
steady—cash 29‘^c, August 29' 8 M/29%c.
St. Louis, July 16.—Wheat active but lower—
No. 2 red, cash and July 76 ;, . t M/78 l ..c, August
77 : )4&v78c. Corn active and a shade higher—No.
2 mixed, cash 34'-^c, August 35 ' s m 35* ^c. Oats dull
but tinner—No. 2 mixed, casti 33(/i.*35c, August
27'yjc bid.
Louisville, July 16 .— Grain, market quiet:
Wheat, No. 2 red 71c. Corn, No. 2 white 40c.
Oats, new No. 2 mixed 32c.
Cincinnati, July 16.—Wheat active—No. 2 red
7()'.,m 77 , '„c. Corn in moderate demand —No. 2
mixed 38(g38\jC. Oats strong—No. 2 mixed 32‘.mi
RUNNING OF TRAINS.
Arrival mifl lioparfiiro of All Tralai
lit t'oliiinlmN Carrying PaNNMigrm-
In KiTort July IH. 1M*B
ARRIVALS.
COLUMBUS AND ROME RAILWAY.
Mail train from Greenville 10:11 a. m.
Accommodation from Greenville 7:07 p. m.
SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD.
Mail train from Mftcon 2:25 p. ra.
Accommodation from Macon 2:43 a. m«
» COLUMBUS AND WESTERN RAILWAY.
Mail train from Montgomery 11:55 a. m.
Mail train from Atlanta 6:31 p. m.
MOBILE AND QIRARD RAILROAD.
Mail train from Troy and F.ufaula 9:55 a. rtu
Accommodation from Troy, Eufoula
and Montgomery 2:02 p.m.
Accommodation from Union Springs... 10:48 p.m.
DEPARTURES.
COLUMBUS AND ROME RAILWAY.
Mail train for Greenville 3:00 p.m.
Accommodation for Greenville 7:00 a. m.
SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD.
Mail train for Macon .....12:00 m.
Accommodation for Macon 11:45 p. m.
COLUMBUS AND WESTERN RAILWAY.
Mail train for Atlanta 8:54 #m.
Mail train for Montgomery 2:28 p. a.
MOBILE AND QIRARD RAILROAD.
Mail train for Trov 2:80 p. m.
Accommodation for Troy and Eufoula.. 4:55 a. m.
Accommodation for Union Springs and
Montgomery 5:45 pm
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY:
Whereas, Perry Spencer makes application for
letters of administration on the estate of Mrs. B
T. DuBose, late of said county, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite all and singular the
kindred and creditors of said dcceused, to show
cause, if auy they have, within the time pre»
scribed by law, why said letters should not bf
granted to said applicant.
Witness my official signature this July Sd, 188#
/ F, M, BROOKS,
Jy3 oawlw Ordinary.
IUUfi| vital ICO X UlliJJB, UAULUbVI VI A. ATI. IX.
philips, deceased, represents to the court in bii
Petition, du'
Ulll.1 LIUUilDin, ID BIIDIV kiuini, II (VI, J
can, why said executor should not be dischargee
from his executorship and receive letters of dis
mission on the first Monday in August, 1886.
Witness my official signature this May 6th, 188#.
my# oawSm F, M. BROOKS. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY:
Whereas. K. A. McFarlan applies for letters of
administration, do bonis non, on tlie estate of
John D. Stripling, late of said county, deceased.
These are, therefore, to rite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if
any they have, within the time prescribed bylaw,
why said letters should not be granted to said ap-
33c.
N EW
Rio, in
Sugar
kettle,
ttugji
Orleans,
cargoes,
mi! 4olJV
July
Colic
steady—
i# 10* jC,
n open
u »:o ii <; i a h Ki i n i t i i:s.
oCrreeled by John IMacknutr, Collin*
buK, bn.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER.
RAILROAD BONDS.
Americas, Preston and Lumpkin 1st
mortgage 7s 98 @100
Atlantic and Gulf 7s 117 fa>119
Central con mortgage 7s 112 (qtll3
Columbus and Rome 1st 6s, endorsed
Central R. R 102 @101
Columbus and Western 1st mortgage
6s, endorsed by Central R. R 103 @105
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 1st
rt Royal.,
Pensacola...
Indianola...
5,313,933
South ficorgit
Total
Galveston, July 16.—Cotton nominal: nna-
lings 9c; net receipts 94, gross 91; sales 00;
stock 3766; exports to continent 00.
Weekly net receipts 406, gross 406; sales 563;
exports to continent 00.
Norfolk, Julv 16. -Cotton quiet; middlings I wester
9 5-lBc; net receipts 223. gross 233; sales 00; stock endoi
8935; exports*to Great Britain 00. | Wester
Weekly net receipts too. gross 100; sales 262; (lorst .
exports to Great Britain 00.
Baltimore. Julv 16. -Cotton sternly: middlings | Atlantu
mortgage
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 4s
2d mortgage
Georgia Railroad 7s
Georgia Railroad 6s
~«7 I Mobile and Girard 2d mortp
! dorsod bv Central Railroad.
Montgomery and Kufaula 1
gage 6s and Centra Rail rout
South Georgia and Florida
dorse*I by state of Georgis
.112 («4l 13
id Florida 2d.
i-16c;
eeeipts
spin
00; stock
gre
00; salt
?ports to G
.•at
to spinners
xports to
Atlai
scrip.
Augusta
i Central
Central
It. R. Alaht
;ed by Conti
Alabama ‘M n
itXil.ROAl
ami West I'.iinl .
ami West Foin
ituilroad.
mortKtiffe
head without attracting public attention.
However this may be, the orangemen are
reported to have been the aggressors at i
Belfast, where they attaeked tlie police tor !
refusing to let them get at the Catholics. I
All this seems to east a blight upon tlie !
fond hopes of the toriesand unionists of a
serene session of parliament under a eoali- j
tion ministry in which nothing shall be
said about the Irish question.—New York j
Times. _
f.etlimr Bnne.
Ladies who would shriek with terror at !
sight of a pretty little caterpillar and faint
at the presence of a tomato worm are now j
wearing spiders and beetles on their hats. ■
The fashion has the one advantage of |
giving song birds a chance to recover .
courage.—Chicago News. i
Ifeltcr Call Often mill Sever Write.
Love-letters should always be written !
with invisible ink, oi tin* kind that is hlaek i
fora few months, and then gradually fades j
away until it entirely disappears and leaves j
the paper clean and white for the reeep- 1
tion of new vows of undying passion.-
Somerville Journal.
> 0 It list.
Mexican Corresponds
patch.
e Pittsburg bis- Dosros July Iti. totlo
pts 11 I
till: sales 00; stock |
t Hint In
rlmsi
’If -
idiiif!
.(th
in those days of tiresome diffuseness and
offensive s^lf-exhibitiou an example of
official modesty and laconic brevity should
•be specially welcome. In his address b>
tlie graduating class of the University of
the Pacific, lust week, President Stratton
happily illustrated this truth. Annroae'
ing them with that characteristic bio
of fatherly dignity and brotherly v. t
which lias made his presidency such
mil success, lie said only: “Young
and gentlemen of the graduating r!u
true--true to your instructors, true b
alma mater, true to yourselves, tr
your God, and, as your past lias been
orable, your future shall tie assured.” Kv
erv auditor applauded witli delight: ever,
graduate will remember it for life.— Sa
Francisco Alta.
Sunil.ik. Sli|i|iiTs I limit..
A Mussulman would rather be si ruck b
a poniard than by a slipper. The fir-
might mean death, but the latter mean
certain dishonor.
Greek women wore sandals, and lati
they came into general us
ports Great Britu
July 1(1. -Cotton fe
i!'ATE til INI)
FACTORY STOCK
lie
Bobby was very much impressed Try the ' people; but Spartan youths were trained to
remark of the minister at church that limn ; travel barefoot, and Homer’s waqriorx
was made of dust. • fought without boots.
“Ma ” he said, after a thoughtful silence, I During the reign of Ivinjj Arthur boot-:
“was I inade of dust, too?” came into general use, andhis ri tamers are
“Yes ” she replied. ! always described in battle array as “booted
“Well how is it, then, that my birthday and spurred,” and since” that time boots
comes in January? There ain’t no dust in have been a most essential adjunct of null-
stock 7495.
Weekly
I’STA, July 1
ipts 10;
shipment
222; ship.
shipments 00;
pts 31; shipments
Worttc
bon/ls, <
City
sales one else.
ant.
Witness my hand
July 3d, 1886.
jy:i oawlw
and official signature this
F. M. BROOKS,
Ordinary.
immon to prime,
and unchanged — Louis
;,c, strictly prime
centrifugal, choice white 6 3-10c, oil white I
6c, prime yellow clarified 5 13-16'«* 5 7 .,e, choice I
yellow clarified 5 13-llie.
New York, July 16. -Coffee, spot, fair Rio !
dull — 9'*}<e. Sugar dull and weak — centri- |
fugalS'oC, Jamaica and English islands 4 13-16c,
fair to “good refining l 7 *(u.6c; refined quiet- ;
yellow ,c, standard A 5 ,l . t e; cut loaf
and crushed 6‘v'i G’ .c, granulated 6*40.
Chicago, July 16.—Sugar—standard A O’hC.
Cincinnati, July 16.-Sugar steady — New
Orleans 5>. 4 c.
Rosin unci Turpentine.
New York, July 16.—Rosin dull — strained
$1 00((j>\ 05. Turpentine dull-—33%c.
Savannah, July 16.—Tupentine firm—31c bid,
31‘.«c asked; sales 00 barrels. Rosin steady-
boiled $1 17,‘^c; sales 00 barrels.
Charleston, July 16.—Turpentine steady—31c,
Rosin quiet—good strained 85c.
Wilmington, July 16. — Turpentine firm—
31*yC. Rosin steady—strained 75c; good 80c. Tar
firm— $1 30; crude turpentine firm—hard 75c,
yellow dip $1 70, virgin $1 80.
4'ollou Heed Oil.
New Orleans, July 16. — Cotton seed oil
steady aud firm—prime crude, delivered, 24
(a)25, summer yellow Site)32c. Cake and meal
$19 50ut'20 00 per ton.
New York, July 16.—Cotton seed oil—25@
26c for crude, 33(hj34c for refined.
Wool and ltiden.
New York, July 16.—Hides steady—wet salted
New Orleans selected. 45 and 60 pounds. 9!^(g>10c:
Texas selected, 50 ana 60 pounds, 10ra>10‘£c.
New York, Juiy 16.—Wool, market firm-
domestic fleece 27(«v36c, Texas 9(^122c.
Whisky.
Chicaoo, July 16.—Whisky steady—$1 12.
St. Louis, July 16.—Whisky strong-$l 07.
Cincinnati, July 16.—Whisky active—$1 07.
Frcijr hi*.
New York, July 16.—Freights to Liverpool
steady— cotton per steamer 9-64d ; wheat per
steamer 2 ’ 4 d.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE ( OUNTY.
Whereas, James M. Davis, administrator of
Robert B. Davis, deceased, represents t<» the court
in his petition duly filed that he ims tally admin
istered Robert B. Davis* estate.
This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned,
heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they
cun, why said administrator should not be dis
charged from his administration and receive let*
tors of dismission on the first Monday in July
lB8i>. F. M. BROOKS,
iipr6oawl2iv Ordinary.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY:
Whereas, Miss Caroline Stewart applies for let-
ters of administration on the estate ol Miss L. M«
Stewart, late of said county, deceased.
These are. therefore, to cite all persons con
cerned, kinured and creditors, to show cause, if
any they have, within the time prescribed by
law. why said letters should not be granted to said
applicant. . , , „ ,
Witness my official signature this third day of
July, 1886. F. M. BROOKS,
jya oawlw Ormnary.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
Whereas, Jacob G. Burros applies for permar
nent letters of administration on the estate of
Patrick McArdle, late of said county, deceased.
These are, therefore, to, cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if
any they have, within the time prescribed by law,
why said letters should not be granted to said ap
plicant. , . ,
Witness my hand and official signature this 3d
day of July, 1886. F. M. BROOKS,
jy3oaw 4w Ordinary.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
Whereas. E. L. Wells,administrator of E. Wells*
deceased, represents to the court in his petition
duly filed, that he has fully administered B.
“Telli * ‘ ‘
..106 , ^.107 1 ^
.. 100 1 107X
Wells’ estate.
This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned,
heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, why said administrator should not be dir
charged from his said administration and receive
letters of dismission on the first Monday in July,
1886. F. M. BROOKS.
ad«oawl2 Ordinary,
GEORGIA. MUSCOGEE COUNTY. M M
Whereas, Henry H. Epping, guardian for S. H.
and F. H. Hill, makes application for leave to
sell all the lands belonging to said ward. “
This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned
to show cause, if any they have, within the time
prescribed by law, why leave to sell
said property should not be granted to said appli
Witness my official signature this June 4th,
1886. F. M. BROOKS,
jy5 oaw 4w Ordinary.
that on the day of June, 1886, Mollie Jones, late
of the county of Muscogee, departed this life in
testate, and no person has applied for adminis
tration on the estate of the said Mollie Jones:
that administration will be vested In the Clerk of
the Supc .-I. .1 Court. or some other t and, proper
person,a Her the publication of, Lius citation, un
ion, ii.(C
valid o*
Given Mi' 1
3d day <•" ui
jy3 oaw lw
jctio’n is made to his appointment,
r my hand and official signature thi*
. 1886. F. M. BROOKS.
Ordinary.
GBORGIA. M CSCOGEE COUNTY.
Whereat, i.. L. Bardwell, executor of the e-itat*
of Sarah S. Bardwell, late of said county, de
ceased. represents to the court in his petition,
duly filed, tb. 1 he has fully administered said
Sarah S. Bard well’s estate;
This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned,
heim and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can. why said executor should not be discharged
from liis executorship and receive letters of dis
mission on the first Monday in October, 188C.
Witness my official signature this July 3d, 1886,
jy3 oaw3m F. M. BROOKS. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY :
Whereas. .John Duncan, administrator of Sylvia
Standfoni. represents to the Court in his petition
duty filed, that he has fully administered said
Sylvia Stanford’s estate.
This i-x, therefore, to cite all persons concerned,
heirs ami creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, whv said administrator should not be dis
charged* from his administration and receive let
ters of dismission on the first .Monday in October.
IS86.
Wi
ii signature this 3d day of
F. M. BROOKS,
Ordinary.
)GKK COUNTY.
1 .Met jowi'ii. Executor of Jonn
> to tlie Court in his petition,
has fully administered John
concerned,
if any they
not he dis-
tetr
ship
should
id
J E() R( 11A, MU
I c?!
Monday in Sep-
F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary.
OGEE COUNTY,
i 1 en 11, administrator of William
ii, represent.- t o the court in his
mI, that he lias fully administer
strutnr should not be
list ration and receive
: First Monday in Sep-
; my official sig
stir
this 4th day of
M. BROOKS. Ordinary.
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS,
CO 1,2.LG S’. 03’
I t NS \ 3> KI IM
i % i.t! >103';u:. m «*.
i Cary,
.* of the
end for a
ioi St.
»e\eral points better, than any
.roll* liL.K’li .VI AIt.
January. Chicago News.
Not for the First Few Years.
He is a wise young man who determines,
before he gets married, to become a doc
tor. It is hard for the young wife to de
cide whether his late appearance is due to
professional business or not.—Indianapolis
Journal.
tary dress.
His Father Thought Otherwise.
Indiana has a law to prevent weak-
minded persons from marrying. A crusty
bachelor insinuated that the weak-minded
are the only persons who ever think of
doing such a thing. His father presuma
bly thought otherwise.—Texas Siftings.
j 265, to spinners 00.
! Charleston, July 16. Cotton market quiet;
I middlings 9c; net receipts 6, gross 6; sales
| 00; stock £248; exports to contnent 00, coast
000.
I Weekly net receipts 667, gross 667; sales 50;
I exports to Great Britain 00, France* 00, eonti-
j nent 1624.
Montgomery, July 16.—Cotton steady; niid-
I dlings8 l a c; weekly receipts 93; shipments 518;
j stock this year 1963, lust year 1511; sales 518.
I Macon, July 16.—Cotton steady; middlings 8’ s c;
’OGEE COUNTY.
hereas, George Y. Pond, administrator of the
,te of Lucius Anderson, latp of said
GEORGIA. MU
Win
Anderson, latp of said county,
id, makes application for leave to sell all
the real estate belonging to said deceased.
This is, therefore, to cite all persons interested
to show cause, if any they have, within the time
prescribed by law, why leave to sell said property
should not be granted to said applicant.
Witness my official signature this Juiy 3d,
1886. F. M. BROOKS,
jy3 oaw4w Ordinary.
j ) I > I r/ 11 Send six cents for postage and
i hl/jl i. receeive free a costly box of
goods wiiith will help all, of either sex, to make-
more money right away than anything else in
this woild. Fortunes await the workers abso
utely sure. Terms mailed f >e; True & Co.»
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