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THE MT. VERNON ESTATE. Till' 1’roponMl Vr»e Untr.nio—A Statement In B. . Imlfofthr AMmlntlnn. A Washington special to the Baltimore Sun says: At Mount Vernon there are 200 acres to care for. It is a country home and farm. There is the old mansion to bo looked after, and greenhouses, gardens, lawns, roads, a wharf, descendants of the Washington family servants) with their little dwellings, cuttle, all necessitating a constant drain upon the resources ofthe association in carrying out its design—to maintain the estate os Washington left it and make it a visible tradition for the en joyment of generations to come. The tomb itself was originally a poorly built af fair, and is a never-ending care and expense. All repairs which are made to the old mansion, the barn, the other outbuildings, the fencing, the roads, are scrupulously made to con form in design, mater ial and construction to the original, and if Washington could return in the flesh to the place he so loved, he would find it all exaetly as he left it, ex cepting a few additional articles of furni ture and bric-a-brac, which have been placed in some of the rooms, but which are also mostly of the style of his day. In view of the actual facts, it is almost unac countable how many false impressions have obtained as to the amount and man agement of the Mount Vernon funds. The New York Herald has asserted that no re port has been made of the finances for six years. To the contrary, a full report has been made and printed year by year of all the receipts '' and ex penditures of the association, and I have never seen a more simple or satis factory exhibit ofthe affairs of any corpo ration. Mrs. Margaret J. M. Sweat, vice regent for Maine, and secretary of councils, is Just gbout to send to the printer her minutes of the session for this year, with the rr ports of receipts and expenditures. The minutes and the report are a model in •style and comprehensiveness, entering into every detail with a cogency and a per spicuity which can leave nothing to be asked. Omitting the centennial year of 1870, when about r?SKX>0 was added to the endowment or permanent fund, the aver age of current receipt s and expenditures were nearly $1000 in excess of the receipts. The whart, which is subject to extensive ■damages every winter and spring by reason of ice and freshets, cost 1*1970 to re pair; *410 was spent on the tomb, 1*1192 on the mansion and *1153 in keeping the grounds in order. The endowment fund, which constitutes the balance in bank, is now between $10,000 and £40,000. Outside *>f the,*9000 placed to its credit in (lie centennial year, it has been made up altogether of voluntary contributions. The nucleus of this fund was a contribution of *11,000 from Charles Maealester, of Phila delphia, tlie father of the regent, Mrs. Laughton, and a contribution of $500 from John Mussey, of Maine, the father of Mrs. Sweat, the vice-regent from that state. The ladies have all interested themselves in securing accretions to this fund. Mrs. Laugiiton has obtained the largest number of individual subscriptions, and it is rarely, if ever, that a year passes when Miss Emily Harper, the vice-regent for Maryland, does not hand in a contribution for it. It is invested in the bonds of the United States, and the object is, when it attains sufficient proportions to meet expenses, to repeal the admission fee to Mount Vernon. From the time of the purchase all visitors coming by land have paid only twenty-live cents. Visitors by water pay fl, of which the boat owner re ceives sixty-six cents and the association thirty-four cents. Nine cents of this latter is applied to the repair of the wharf. The round trip by water is thirty miles. Be fore making the existing contract for the transportation of water passengers the as sociation invited estimates and proposals, and in awarding the contract were influ enced by the belief that it was required to ■construct a boat especially adapted for the purpose, and the association reserving a supervisory control. Nothing is easier than to criticise, and the Mount Vernon association has had to bear its full share of carping and complaint. Its members are not infal lible any more than those who attack them, but a little Inquiry and investigation •only is necessary to dissolve all of the ma terial indictments brought against their management. Their method has been to make tjie atmosphere of Mount Vernon like a private home, with the halo of Washington forever around it. No tomb •can be more tenderly and more efficiently cared for than this, and this care is under the personal and gratuitous supervision of those who represent the women of Ameri ca, through whose noble eftorts the pur chase money was raised. No man, no ■woman,no true American,who stands with reverent head by the tomb of Washing ton will object to contributing twenty-five cents, not indeed as a fee, not as the price of a show, not for the pecuniary benefit of any one, but as his or her individual mite to keep the home as he left it. A STUDY IN LEGS. Their Position Indicates the Mental Condition of Their Owner. New York Morning Journal. Men generally cross their legs when there is the least pressure on their minds. You will never find a man actually en gaged in business with his legs crossed. The limbs at those times are straighter than at any other because the mind and body work together. A man engaged in auditing accounts will never cross bis legs, says the Denver Tribune, neither will a mail who is writing an article, or who is employed in any man ner where his brain is actively engaged. When at work in a sitting posture the limbs naturally extend to tile floor ill a perfectly straight line. A mail may cross his legs if lie is sitting in an office chair discussing some business proposition with another man, hut the in stant he becomes really in earnest and per ceives something to be gained, his limbs uncross quick as ii flush, he bends forward toward his neighbor and begins to use liis hands. That is a phase that 1 believe you w ill always observe. Men often cross their legs at public meet ing, because they go there to listen, or to be entertained; they are not tin; factors in the performance, and they naturally place themselves in the most comfortable posi tion known to them—namely, leaning well back in their chairs and crossing their legs. A man always crosses his legs when lie reads a newspaper, lint is more apt to lie down when he roods a book. He reads the paper, of course, to inform himself, but at the same time the perusal of its con tents is recreation for him, and his body again seeks its position of relaxation. When a mail is reading a newspaper and waiting for his breakfast his legs are al ways crossed, but so soon as the breakfast is brought to him he puts the paper aside, straightens out his legs and goes to work that is, begins to oat, his mind now turn ing on the duties of the day before him. Men cross their legs in a ball room, but it is far from an elegant tiling to do, and is not done by those who have been brought up in good society. It is your “three-penny-bit young mini” who crosses bis legs at a ball, and, would you believe it, I have seen young ladies do the same tiling. Itui'lii'l, Hip Actress. Shortly before the death of “Rachel,” with an indescribable expression in her wondrous eyes, ahe said toner sister Sarah, “I have been thinking of Polyeucte all night. If you only knew what new, what, magnificent effects I have conceived ! In studying, take my word for it, declamation and gesture are of litlle avail. You have to think to weep.” „ , . This dying utterance of Rueliel s, pub- !! s „ h ® d 4n he ’’ !»t«st biography, diBclosoi at least a possibility of immortality. As the near approach ot death unveiled her spirit ual perception to new and grander revela- tions of her art. the question arises—Why aid those .higher conceptions, those magnificent effects come during her dying moments, if there were to be no use for this reawakened jiower, this genius in whatever shape it may assume 7 Was it wasted and lost before attaining fuller de velopment ? The gleams of light like those seen by Kachel, and visions of departed friends tnat often come to dying people, give as- surance of immortality for the individual soul. It seemB to us that they outweigh any material evidence of a future life that the world thinks it possesses to-day. It may be said that the sight of beloved friends making their appearance at the bed side of those who are passi’ g through the change are but the hallucinations of disease or disordered fancy. E ven then a significant fact remains to revive the hope. It is noticeable that in Jail the numberless ac- counts of these appearances, there is never an instance when one absent living person is seen. It invariably proves to be some one who has departed this life. If these visible presences appear, and repeatedly when the patient’s mind is known to be clear and conscious, it is strange tiint these so-called hallucinations, or optical illusions, do not occasionally take the shape of some absent person still in the flesh. No, these forms are invariablylvisitors from the “un discovered country.” And so long as this striking fact remains, this singular phe nomenon will be at once our slightest, yet strongest and most satisfactory assurance of immortality. Till* ffri'iif Host In I hr- Northwest. The hot air reservoir of the American continent just now is the great northwest ern plateau. A celebrated physicist com pares the earth to a mighty engine, of which the Equatorial zone is the boiler and the polar regions the condenser. This illustration, however, apparently fails during mid-summer on this continent. While in some parts of the West Indies, nearest to the equator, the sun’s heat does not, within a period of twenty years, ex ceed eighty-five degrees, the mercury on our great northern plains rises above 100 degrees. ’Die maximum heat officially re ported from Dakota was 103 degrees. Ladies Do you want a pure, bloom ing Complexion l If so, a few applications of Hagan’s MAGNOLIA BALM will grat ify you to your heart’s con tent. It does away w ith Sal lowness, Redness, Pimples, Blotches, and all diseases and imperfections of the skin. It overcomes the flushed appear ance of heat, fatigne and ex citement. It makes a lady of THIRTY appear but TWEN TY ; and so natural, gradual, and perfect are Ins effects, that It is impossible to detect its application. u- lT Opelika, Ala., May 8th, 1886. f tN and after Sunday, May 9th, 1886, the trains v r on this road will be run as follows: No. 1. Leave Columbus * 8 54 a m Arrive Opelika 10 20 a m No. 3. Leave Opelika 10 40 a m Arrive Columbus 11 55 a m No. Leave Columbus 2 28 p m Arrive Opelika 3 58 pm No. 4. Leave Opelika 5 05 p m Arrive Columbus 6 31 p m No. 5. Leave Columbus 7 30 a m Arrive Opelika 9 43 a m Arrive Good water 6 02 p m no: e. Leave Goodwater 6 00 a m Arrive Opelika 10 16 a m Arrive Columbus 119 pm No. 7. Leave Columbus 1 45 p m Arrive Opelika 3 38 p m No. H. Leave Opelika 4 13 p m Arrive Columbus 5 54 p m The night trains are discontinued for the pres ent. A. FLEWELLEN, dtf General Manager. O N and afte lows: Mail Train No 1—Going West Daily. Leave Union Depot, Columbus 2 30 p m Leave Broad Street Depot, Columbus 2 46 p m Arrive at Union Springs 5 37 p m Leave Union Springs 6 46 ]> m Arrive at Troy 8 30 pm Arrive at Montgomery 7 23 p m Arrive at Eufaula 10 33 p in Mail Train No. 2-Daily. Leave Troy 4 20 a m Arrive at Union Springs 5 W a m Leave Union Springs <• 33 a m Arrive at Eufaula 10 50 a m Arrive at Columbus 9 41 a in Night Freight ami Accommodation- Daily Ex cept Sunday. Leave Columbus Union Depot 5 15 P m Leave Columbus Broad Street Depot 5 55 p m Arrive at Union Springs 8 59 p m Arrive at Eufaula 10:P m Arrive-at Montgomery 12 20 a m Night Freight and Accommodation-Daily Ex- ci pt Sunday. Leave Montgomery 3 30 p m Arrive at Union Springs (5 to p m Leave Union Springs 7 io p m Arrive at Columbus 10 181 biu Wav Freight and Accommodation No. 5—Daily. Leave Columbus Union Depot 1 55 a m Leave Coin minis Broad Street Depot BOjjp in Arrive at Union Springs 3 57 a m Arrive at Eufaula... • - v 10 ’5P‘'l, 111 Way Freight and Accommodation No. 6-Daily. Leave Montgomery 7 40 a m Leave Union Springs 10 iio a m Arrive at Broad Street Depot, Columbus.. 1 49 p m Arrive at Union Depot, Columbus 2 02 pm W. L. CLARK, Snp’t. D. E. WILLIAMS, G. T. A. dtf Office General Manager. Coi.r.Mnrs. (!a„ .July 18th, 188'i / vN and after Sunday, July 13,1886, the schedule ' ' of Mail Train will be as follows: No. 1—Going North Daily. Leave Columbus 3 00 p m Arrive at Chipley 5 01 p m Arrive at Greenville fi 07 p m No. 2—Coining South Daily. Leave Greenville J2® a m Arrive at Chipley 8 02 a m Arrive at Columbus 10 11 a m No. 3-Freight and Accommodation-North. Leave Columbus 7 00 a m Arrive at Chipley 9 32 a m Arrive at Greenville U 10 11IU No. 4—Freight and Accommodation-South. Leave Greenville 3 55 p m Arrive at Chipley J 22 p m Arrive at Columbus < 07 P m W. L. CLARK. Gen’l Manager. T. C.'S. HOWARD, Gen’l Ticket Agent. feb24 dly Still the Good Work Goes On! HEAR THE WITNESSES. SCAT!!! SCIATICA ! , Mi. A. T. LYON, the beat known photographer IN THE THREE! STATES of South Carolina. Georgia and Florida, says: * I liftye suffered EXCRUCIATING PAINS from SCIATIC RHEUMATISM. Stepping on uneven surfaces of a sidewalk would give me Perfect Agony. Various remedies have been tried, but with uo effect, until I commenced the use of Guinn’s Pioneer Blood Renewer, which has relieved me of the least semblance of F am. and ffiven me the f.ntirr itsk of my limbs. conscientiously commend it to the public. A. T. LYON. No. 118 Cherry St., Macon, Ga. A Certain Cure for Catarrh ! A Superb Flesh Producer and Tonic Guinn’s Pioneeh Blood Renewer cures all Blood and SkiniDiseases, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine. If not in your market it will he forwarded on receipt of price. Smull bottles $1.00, large size Essay on Blood and Skin Disuses mailed free. Macon Mc.llclne Co.. Macon, tin. A. FINE Florida Tonic Mr. FOSTER S. CHAPMAN, One of the landmarks of the Georgia Drug trade, now of Orlando, Florida, writes: “I can hardly select s single case ofthe many to whom I have sold Rubin’s I’liiiieer lllond Renewer but what have been satisfied: and I find it the best remedy for all Skin Diseases I . have ever sold, and a CHAPMAN, Orlando, Fla, A Certain Cure Cor Catarrh! A Superb Flesh Producer and Tonic! Outiin'M Plonker Blood llrnrwor Cures all Blood and Skin Diseuses, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Old Sores. A perfect Spring Medicine. If not in your market, it will be forwarded on receipt of price. Small bottles $1.00, Large $1.76. Essay on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. MACON MEDICINE COMPANY, Macon, (i Cares all Blood and Skin Diseases, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Old Sores. A PERFECT SPRING MEDICINE. PRICE, $1.00IPER BOTTLE. HLAljELG-R] SIZE $1,75 Essay on Blood and Skin Disease Mailed Free. Macon Medicine Company, Macon, Ga. Wholesale by Brannon & Carson and City Drug Store. l’KOCEKSIONAI. CARDS. D r. c. t. osburn, Dentist, (Successor to Dr. J. M. Mason.) Office next door to Puinkin House. Same en trance as Riddle's gallery. oc4-ly W F TIGNER, ~ # Dentist, 35% Twelfth street (formerly Randolph street. e7-ly SPBI3STG- GOOFS 1 Spring Fashion Plates, PIECE GOODS! Suits Made to Order, CLOTHING! GLOTHIIT CG! C TOME and give us your order. Do not wait tilt j you are pressed by the season, and then wan I a suit made m a hurry. We are prepared, bow ever, to get up suits at very short notice. If you want a suit quick! give us your order. If you want a suit in thirty days, give us your order, u you want a suit in sixty days, give us your order G. J. PEACOCK, ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. By F. M. KiiowIck A- Co., Auctioneers. BY VIRTUE of an" order issued by the Court of Ordinary of Muscogee county, < ia.. l will 11 from ofthe auction house ol l-.M. Knowles Po„ Broad street, city of Columbus. Mason, Overstocked —IN— HAMBURC EDGINGS AND LINEN TOWELS, We Must Unload AND WILL OFFER GOOD BARGAINS TO ENABLE US TO DO SO. REMNANTS IN EM DEPARTMENT AT PRICES TO SUIT YOl Co., Broad street, city of ( oiumhus. Muscokci j county, on Tuesday, the 13th da> of July, ism,, ad A KIRVFN & CO continued from day to day until the stock is <tis- ■ # m ■ 0 m m «. w Q t Wesleyan Female institute, GORDON AND BACON. READ WHAT THEY SAY! Will bo Noltl to tlio I'lrNt Lndy or den* (t email f lint fill In TVi In Way, —FOR— $2250 and $1800. Two vacant lots on First avenue. 1600. Six room House, out-house and kitchen* First avenue. 8000. Comer Sixth avenue and Eighth street, K aero lot, Store House, Wagon Yard, and out-houses 1600. Quarter acre lot, 4 room House, up town* Second avenue. 2000. Quarter acre lot. 8 room House, 2 room kitchen, well of good water and watei works, First avenue. Six Houses and Lots 150 yards from lowef oridge, in Girard. Will sell separate. House with A, acre lot in Girard. One acre lot and four Houses in Girard. One House and Lot in Chipley. Two 2 room Houses in city. I have some fine suburban property which l will sell cheap. , Also several small Farms and some large Farms Will either sell or exchange for city property. FOR WENT. Several Houses from $4 to $20 per month. Come and sec and ask questions. We cannot trade unless we come face to face. J-. O. REEDY, Real Estate Agent, No.io 12th St. dtf Central Line of Boats, THE OLD ~R EL I ABLE Columbus, Ga., May 12,1886. O N and after May 12, 1886, the local rates o freight on the Chattahoochee,Flint and Apa lachicola rivers will be as follows: Flour per barrel 5 cent Cotton Heed Meal per ton 40 ceut Cotton per bale •. 25 cents Other freight in proportion. Passage from Columbus to Apalachicola, $6:00. Other points in proportion. STEAMER NAIAD Will leave Columbus for Apalachicola via Bain bridjjo every TUESDAY morning at 8 o’clock, re turning via Bainbridge. Above schedule will be run, river, etc., permit- ting. •Shippers will please have their freight at boat by 8 a. m. on day of leaving, as none will be re ceived after that hour. Boat reserves the right of not landing at any point when considered dangerous by the com mander. Boat will not stop at any point not named in list of landings furnished shippers under date of April 1, 1886. Our responsibility for freight censes after it has been discharged at a landing where no person il there to receive it. SAM’L J, WHITESIDE, Pres’t. GEO. B. WHITESIDE, Sec’y and Treas. febl4-tf People’s Line STEAMERS! The Steamer Milton H. Smith Will leave Columbus every Saturday at 8 a ra fo» Bainbridge and Apalachicola. Leave Apalachi cola Monday at 2 p ra for Bainbridge and Colum bus. Connect with evening trains at Chatta hoochee Sundays going down and Tuesday! coming up, river, fog, &c., permitting. The local rates of freight and passage to all points on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola rivers will be as follows : Flour per barrel 10 cento Cotton per bale 25 cento Other freights in proportion. Rates and schedule subject to change without notice. Passage from Columbus to Apalachicola $6 00. Other points in proportion. Through tickets sold by this line to Savannah, Jacksonville and all points in East Florida. Shippers will please have their freight at boat by 8:00 a m on aay of leaving, as none will be re ceived after that hour. Boat reserves the right of not landing at any point when considered dangerous by the pilot. Boat will not st p at any point not named in the publi- .vl i.. 'f landings shed skip pers for ; -J. Our re-'” sibility for freight ceases after it has been di ed at a landing when no person is there to . v e it. T. H. MOORE, Agent, Columbus, Ga. C. D. 0\\ r, Ns, Trat.c ..auger, Suvannan, Ga. tf Dr. W. W. Bruce & Son, Physicians and Surgeons, r l , HE Senior ofthe firm will devote special at- I tent ion to Female Diseases. Office over Frazer & Dozier’s Store. Residence at Lindsay place. Dr. Robert Bruce’s residence on Rose Hill. dtf ALL FIRST-CLASS StoretBBpers now teen itfor Sale said deceased. Terms cash. The sale w continued from day to day until the i posed of. J- G. 131 RIU S, | jy2 eodtd Temp. Adm’r hst. P. McArmc. j Postponed Administrator’s Sale. BY virtue of an order from the Court ofOrdina- 1 ry of .Muscogee county, Georgia, will tie sold on . the first Tuesday in Auxust next, on the i-erner of I Broad an.! T, nth streets, in the c;t> ol < •oiumhus, , bet«cell the lejfal houisof stile, to the blithest ! bidder, tile following d sc ribed property, to-tvit: | One hundred and sixty-lix e neres opt.ml, emrt ,,r I less, lying east ofthe etlv ol < oltaiP.tisanill uo'.yn and deserihed as part ol lots s.i. and ■ . in the ! Coweta Reserve of said county. Sold as the plot)- < erty ofE. 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