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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1886. FREAK OF THE EARTH. »mok* IfMiPN from it Klelil—A Uvnulmi IMicnom . non lb nt J’umIm n Worthy IVnimflmnU Vnrnit . —Klre Under llround-lln* Uitmlitff TlirouKli KlitHnreN of a ltock. •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.» I Augusta. Maine d&wtf ?EEfS3YS6WAL FILLS “CH iC H LSTErVS £ GLiSrl•** The Origin'*! nn<l Only Genuine. H»fr an>] alwavs H-Ho’*!**. JWsA-of w,»r!h)r>4* JmltatlCM, luJl .pv.Ha .k-’to LADIES. A kU ; our Drugght tot “rhlehv*t«*r , K l?iifflUh”an4 lake* no other, or Inclose 4a. ■tanijiij to us tor |.*riiculurs m Irttrr by return nnul NAME PAPER. (.'hlot'Mts!' 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