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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS, 1886
News from the Three States Told in
Brief Paragraphs.
K»nn‘ In Telephone CnnimunIrntluu With <i H ilv.
den—Athens to Issue | n n mM l, to
Nee tire the Teelmologlciil School— Ciiterplllurs
In llouiflierty—NewsFnnu Alnlmmn ami Klorlila,
tieorirls.
Dalton is now pushing for water works.
Carrollton favors a public school system.
Rome is one of the healthiest cities in
the country.
Caterpillars are proving destructive to
cotton in Dougherty county.
Several bar rooms in Darien will go dry
in January for want of business.
Several new houses will soon be erected
in Albany.
The public schools of Brunswick will he
reopened on October 1.
Cotton is opening quite freely in some
sections of Stewart county.
The corn crop of Stewart county is said
to be an unusually good one.
Frying chickens are cheap at Cedartown
being worth but 8c. and 10c.
The Central hotel at Brunswick has been
leased to Mr. Lattimer, of Hawkinsville.
Col. J. A. Fort, of Stewart county, is an
nounced as a candidate for the legislature.
Mrs. Jane M. Cobb, of Americus, has
had 15 children, 51 grandchildren and 24
great grandchildren.
The old Barnes house in Albany, which
is now vacant, is being thoroughly repair- .
ed by Judge Pope.
The bicycle craze has reached Albany
and these machines may be seen on the
streets at all hours of the day.
Augusta has formed a bicycle club, and
it is interesting to see Congressman Barnes
ride one.
The “dog pound” and several adjacent j
buildings in Dawson were destroyed by j
Are Saturday.
Athens voted for issuing 835,000 in bonds
to the school of Technology by a vote of |
1320 for, to 47 against.
• Dalton is so prosperous under prohibi j
tion rule that it would be quite a difficult
thing to reinstate King Alcohol.
W. H. Mercer, of Webster, is an indepen- j
dent candidate for the legislature, against 1
Hon. D. B. Harrel, the democratic nomi
nee.
Rev. Mr. Reynolds, of LaFayette, whose \
fall from his buggy inflamed an old wound,
is in a critical condition. His leg is terribly !
swollen.
The extension of the telephone line from !
Centre to Gadsden is an accomplished fact,
and Rome now has telephonic communi
cation with the latter city.
At a meeting of the directors of tire
Augusta Gas Light Company it was decided
to reduce the price of gas to 82 per thous
and and to make no charge for metre.
Barnesville will have two new merchants
September 1. Charles Tyler opens up a
nice line of millinery goods, and James W.
Crutcher a choice stock of fancy groceries
on that date.
A resident of Augusta, speaking of the
strike of the mill operatives of that place,
put the greater part of the blame for the
state of affairs on the Rev. J. S. Meynardie, j
the Master Workman preacher, and said j
he ought to be lynched.
At Athens Saturday the election for
$35,000 in bonds, to be given to the techno- j
logical school, ’ provided it be located in
Athens, passed off quietly. Only a few
votes were polled against the issue of bonds, j
and 660 were polled for bonds, twelve over
a two-thirds majority. The election will
be contested.
Out of eighty-six convicts in camp nc-ur
Lumpkin, Captain J. A. Simpson save that
thirty-five are preachers and the balance
members of the church. -The proposed
campmeeting will be held within a mile
of the stockade, and the chance-, are that
there will be a revival, among the black-
sliders who are now wearing the stripes.
The appearance of a few caterpillers in
Dougherty county has caused some plant
ers to be somewhat alai med. it - thought
by many that it is now too late for them to
do much damage, though in some sections
of the country they are mv.ltinlying very
fast and have done considerable harm to
the otherwise excellent cotton crop.
C. H. Stubbs, of Lumpkin, caught a
chicken in a pea field a few days ago that
had mated with a partridge and was roam
ing through toe woods and making sire: cl
ous efforts to It an: to whistle. Mr. Stubbs
carried the chicken home and turned it
loose with the fowls, but it was so wild ;
that it immediatelytook to the wo< ids again.
He went into the field, where be found,
the curiously matched pair, and heard the
partridge disconsolately whistling for its
lost mate.
The executive committee of the Twelfth
senatorial district, which embraces the
counties of Webster, Stewart ami tjuit-
man, met Wednesday and appointed the
first Tuesday in September as the day for
holding the nominating convention and
Lumpkin as the place. According to th«
rotation system, it is now Quitman's turn
to select 'the candidate, and in case she
cannot produce r. suitable man in her own
territory, will have the privilege ol mak
ing a selection from the entire district.
Thomasville Enterprise: A novel ireak
in nature, if such it is, was exhibited on
our streets a few days ago. A large L.-
Conte pear, gathered from one of the top
most limbs of one of Mrs. Honieister s
large trees, bears the letters \ O R clc-ariy
marked upon the peel. The letters are I
about two inches long and so nearly per
fect in formation as to be readily recog
nizable even at a glance. Mrs. Homeisl.tr
feels sure that no one has at any time I: ecu
up the tree, while the height. >f the pear
and the slenderness of the limb upon
which it grew would seem to preclude tin-
possibility of any oue having 1 done thv
lettering: while the fruit was "rowing.
The seventh annual report of the public
schools of Americus has just been issued in
pamphlet form. The total number of
children between the ages of six and eigh
teen are 1,057 ; 4-15 being white and
colored. Of this number S11 arc ■'archert
on the school books, divided inti' iwcu'y
classes, and taught by fifteen teachers.
Of the number enrolled 305 are white, h-h
boys and 190 girls; 470 are colored, -o
boys and 25S girls. The average dair. at
tendance for the whites is 205: tor the col
ored 278. The per cent, of school popula
tion enrolled is 72 for the white- and .s
* for the colored. Not a single death was
reported in either the white or colored
schools during the last term. The treas
urer’s report shows that " the schools cost
during the school year just closed ts.Oot lo.
As the enrollment was S41 pupns this
makes the cost per scholar *9 58 for t ru
se hool year, or 81 06 a month, rhe cast:
balance on hand is $830 99. There is an
increase ot 44 pupils in the enrollment tan
year over that of last year—13 whites and
31 blacks. This makes the enrollment ot
the school population five per cent, more
than last year. There is also an increase
in the average number of scholars belong
ing to the public schools.”
Alatmiua.
Cullman county’s commissioner 1 have j
awarded contracts for two iron bridges.
The telephone line from Gadsden to C li
tre, with a branch line to Blaine, on the
Coosa river, is completed.
Choctaw county gave Seay 925 votes.
Bingham 4, Tanner none. In Cherokee .
county Seay got 2550, votes, Tanner 21,
Bingham none.
t uke T homa# l °*' Dale county,
fiti„(-"/w u e 11 '’“Hdreo years old on the
0th of October, rode horseback nine miles
to vote on the 2d.
According t°, the Florida Gazette Mr.
\\ illiain J. Beckwith, living in the western
pnrt of Lauderdale county, has found goon
coal on his farm.
Of the eight or ten candidates for the
uenioerutii nomination for congress in the
tilth district Macon and Tallapoosa coun
ties present three each.
A seventeen-year-old negro, named
John Douglass, was d -.aeu in the Ten
nessee river near Florence last Tuesday
night. He was crossing in a leaky skill'
with two other negroes, to take a train fo:
Birmingham when it sank with him. |
A northern man named Higdon, living
m Jackson county, on Sand Mountain,
cramped and was drowned while bathing
in Island creek about ten days ago. It is i
said that eleven neighbors stood on the |
bank and saw him meet his fate without
making an effort to save him.
The gelinA Times of Sunday makes formal
announcement of its purchase by the Selma
Printing Company and E. K. Kinsey. Mr.
Thomas 11. Clark will continue in charge !
as editor, and Mr. J. L. West and Mr. Kin- 1
sey will conduct its business alfairs. The \
paper is increased in size, and arrange- !
nients are in progress to largely add to its j
news department.
Florida.
The Levy county nominating convention
meets at Bronson September 6.
Palatka will have a telegraphic money
order system established some time this
month.
The Cedar Key post office was turned
over to the new incumbent, Henry R.
Shine, last Tuesday morning.
There is some probability that the South
Florida and St. John’s presbytery may
build their college in Bartow.
A brick breakwater has been put all
along the front of the Florida Southern
railway property on the river in Palatka.
Owing to the wet season but little cot
ton has opened so far in Clay county, and
but tew, if any, have commenced picking,
u.The orange trees about Longwood are
looking well, and give promise of a fair
crop, but not by any means yearly a full
one.
The first bale of cotton was brought into
Tallahassee Friday by Clinton Sneed and
weighed by R. A\ Stine. It weighed 492
pounds.
In a severe thunder storm at Dyal Sta
tion Ibis week l wo fine cows belonging to
the little daughter of E. Harrison were
killed by one stroke of lightning.
The ten men from Trenton who were
before Judge Gardner at Gainesville Sat
urday, on the charge of destroying dams
constructed by J. R. Smith, were all dis
charged.
The county commissioners have raised
the valuation of - the: property in Nassau
county, as assessed by W. H. Garland, the
assessor, some 843,000, principally in the
city of Fernandina.
The hatch of wild turkeys this year
must have been unusually good, judging
by reports of large flocks of these “holi
day least’’ birds which have been fre
quently seen roaming the woods of late.
J. A. Brooks, rate clerk of the passen
ger department of the Florida Railway
and Navigation Company, proposes mak
ing arrangements for the manufacture of a
newspaper mailing machine, which he
has patented.
Arrangements are now pefected for
building a hotel at Okahumkee. The hotel
will contain about thirty extra large
rooms, and will be built by a company of
Peilndeldhia gentlemen, who own land in
that neighborhood.
Three letters were found on a stump on |
the road near Luke Inna teceutly with the
money y them to pay postage. A stranger ,
who/H as passing noticed them, brought
their to this city and totalled them. This |
only gois to -h. \\ tic -imlldc-nee placed in j
the'people of this seciion.
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Tlii> Scl’.oe. fillers to Medical Students unsui
passt-d cdmicul and other fnlvnntAsrt--. Send fort.
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EXTRACTS
li PURC5TAND
|l strongest
NATURAL PRUI
FLAVORS
MOST PERFECT MADE
Prepared with strict regard to Purity. Strength and
Heultht'ulness. l»r. Price’s Hakim; Powder <ontaina
no Ammonia. T.imo or Alum. Dr. Price’s Extract^
Vanilla. Lemon. Orange, etc., tlavor deliriously.
PRICE BAKING POWOEN CO., Chicago and St, Louis,
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SI For Fifty Years the great Remedy for S
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Interesting Treatise on Blood and fc>kin Diseases
mailed free to all who apply. It should be
carefully read by everybody. Address
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga.
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SEA FOAM
ALL FIRST-CLASS
StotopeiwilrapitMale
Ctiouml daily, and fVesh nil the time
At $1.15 rev Sack, CASH.
O NE OR MORE SACKS, as wanted. Theat-
prices will hold good unless some tiiuatui
tions in markets or the Merchants and Broker-
Association forces the mills to retUse to sell me
Where I furnish the tacks 2’ 2 c per bushel extra
will be charged for the suck. *
Pride of the Kitchen
SO-AYFL
FOR ALL
House Cleaning Purposes.
A Solid I 1 .*•«>/,. ( a!tc for 5c.
J. J. WOOD,
13A Brnarl SI root.
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Stimulate Business!
We are Offering Some
SFR/I1TG- GOODS
Spring Fashion Plates,
F 1O ZED G- OODS!
Suits Made to Order,
CLOTHING!
"WTG TdIE3STTIOTT _A. FEW:
i nian Lawns al 31c ;
Choice Muslins at 7c;
Figured Linen Lawns al co-i.
FcypH'nn Lace, tv or 111 12k:, now 8c.
Egyptian Lace, worth 20c, now 121c.
TO FAREXTS.
Many baking powders are very pernicious
to health. ami while every one regards hit*
own. in* should also have a care for the tender
ones—the little children.
SEA FOAJI
contains none of the bad qualities of baking
powdi i- ‘•ndn. or salerntus. It contains no
hurtful ingredient—no alum or ammonia.
SCIENTIFIC.
AH Chemlstsiwho have analyzed Rea Foiuu
commend it. Housekeepers who linvo used If
will have no other. Cooks, whose best efi'ortw
have failed with other powders, are jubilant
>ver Sea Foam. Saves time, saves labor, saves*
tllOUrff,
It is positively unequaled. Absolutely pure..
Used by the lending hotels mid restaurant®
in New'York oily and throughout the country-
For bale by all first-class grocers.
GANTZ, JOXES cf; CO.,
170 Duane St., -TV. T.
BALL’S
iaunarieu amns
trio c*
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18 n j
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being ovoi'slockcd in Table Liu ai, Towels and Napkins,]
we will sell al prices 111 a I will pay yon lo buy and lay aside j
until you shall need Iheiu.
KIRVEN & CO.I
v?7ly satisfactory ■
. , vs icfmded fv
pr oe*. JbMvnre«i
A i.ne gciuntiC witho*i£ Haiti*
;.. • 0. -- CORSET cot
id St., New Yorfe. , ■
S'**ot St Vlltca;n, lift,. ^
RICE,
- Court Place, 1
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:, . ... wil*
Caret a-U Ibrms of FRIVATB,
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GLEE v. Orcbios, It*, aii. ,
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Cures Guaranteed in all Cases
inclertaken.
jl'T.aV/.TE COUNSELOR
. -. t ,, . : 11 v nlftf-s, B< oumlv rertlod, ft»r thirty
, . ■ ' vl to aii. Adi'i -1 an •> ov*
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HAY
A particle is applied into each
agreeable. Price 50 cents at Druggie. ■->.> ..i,
registeicnl. fih cts. Circulars free. ELY” BID>.*•.
Drnguistfi. < )\veiro. N. V auarS eod&wtf nrm
An infallible specific for
all the di-i - , • * niiat lo
women, such as painful 01
suppressed M *. n s t ma t i on.
Faliing •ft!.- ’.Vomi-. I.eii-
coj riuea or Whins, etc.
N.WJLYEIftSCN
ADVERTISING AGENTS
PHILADELPHIA
Cor. CliPHtnut and Eighth St«.
Receive AdvertiHementM for this Paicr
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
GEORGIA, MV-COGI V. '.'GCNTY.
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witll’n the ii ! ’ I" i ’ >* • I I; ■
ties indehi, d ;*>: i l Mol'i.
make imi'iedidlc; rmynietit tc> /
Ac* M-t .j, U8fi. (
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! If taken during this crit-
I it-.il period, gieut .?mfenng
apd danger can be entirely
avoided.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
NOT.or i- h'r, ' V tri-.-. n ;• i'll i>:n-s h i - tic
tor
Send for book eo
or women. It wil
Bra m i i:m
eodfiiw nxt rd nit
it tinina valuable information
'• be mailed free to applicants.
IH.oiii.ATOK <-<>., Atlanta, Ga.
EWENGLAND CONSERVATORY
0F MUSIC Boston, Mass.
THE LARCEST«m4 BEST EQUIPPED in tlio
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• -Gg. Kirip Art-.Orumr.v. Liurature. Fnench, (»pr-
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] •. *♦•.*• •" Fall Term hogina Sefx
; -.1 - . f r ■ r'alrnd.’.r, with I'll' infi-rniatiou,
IdreF". L TOt'HTEE J.ii., Frank I lu &«/., BOSTON, .Maa*
eo mv2. r »d2m weowft
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qtti’ 'I t«• make imm diat« payment to n • .
Thi*i - vinrust 5th isoi J. ti. li' liitUS.
nuK5 o;«\v8w Adminin’.alot.
Notice to Debtors and Creditor.
fE ORGI\ M!.Sro:n:K COUNTY: Ml ir-
. ' r ti«- • Laving cluiics ig; bi.-'t John h. S'.rijai-ig
late of id coun
lo present the same, duly iUilhcnticHi.ed, tu m-
i within the time pr stnibed by law. and ai. parti* s
1 indebted to said John l). Stripling are rc«ianvd to
j make immediate payment to
augs oaw ctr
ACTIVE AGENTS WANTED
1 1 CTIVE AGENTS WANTED to sell mining
iY specialties, liig money i;i o.ijnn.:-• ior. or
salary to good workers. Address Haii-l'i J Port-
abh Smelting Furnace ami Mining Cm.-ipunv.
P. O. Box No. 115. N wjiort, Ky. j . il.ev. lm
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
fLiiJ
lii Front of A iiHion Ho
if F. AI. Kiiowh s A 1
i GREEABLY to an orde.* issued out of the
-A ( ourt of Ordinary pf said county, will be .•
within the legal hours of sale, <*n !!»•• first 'ftie--
day in Hentember next, at the cornu r*l 1L ..id
ami Tenth stn ets, in tJu- city of CulumL. . d
state and county, all ofthepen-oju.] proju rtv *.<-
longing to the estate of Mollie Jr m s, laU-« !’ .:<l
county, deceased, con.-isting of J urlor am! L. d
Room Furniture, two .Carpets,, five Rugs and - no
Diamond King. cash.
GEO. V. POND,
ftugi oaw td Administrator.
We have l»:H al;uiii Kill |inirs of lbo.se Opera Slippers al
ode, reduced from •'••5e. 5u Pairs al s,(ii*. ri-duced from Si.25.
About 50 pail.- al #1.10. reduced from sl.5o.
In our btsl adverliseiii.riil we'[iiolcd J’igured lOc Lawns
ul 7c. They were eagerly lakeii ; bill we are left willi tin-
reimmnls. (Me will be llie price Alundiiy.
REMNANTS OF COTTON FLANNEL!
REMNANTS OF COTTON FLANNEL!
We measured aboiil 1.00U yards of (‘.olbm Flauuel Ri-m-
! Hants in our slock-Luking. and we shall pul them mi ibe
I counter al abmil ball’wliiti lliey cost. Call early if you waul
| iliem.
350 Yards A’lin's Veilings, in Tans, Browns and Drabs, al
' OJc lor Monday.
1.000 yards boauliful Summer Prints left at 33c for
I Monday.
45 Dozen l>,nlies' Solid Colored I lose, oil-boilrd and
; cli aicd seams, al 15c.
45 Dozen Ladies’ fast color Striped Hose at 15c for
| Momhiy.
-\il our Silk and Lisle Cloves reduced for Monday.
2.000 Yards more of llmse 5c Sea Islands left for .Monday.
LACE CURTAINS ! LACE CURTAINS!
We have a fair slock of Lace Curlains left, which we de
sire lo close oul before we receive the new slock. Prices will
be made lo soil you Monday.
Wc are advertising nothing to mislead you. A safe and sure business can’t be
built up that way. TVe want your confidence. We will show you every
thing in this card if you will call Monday,
Prices will be cut on all Summer Goods Monday. 3.000
Yards Check Nainsooks al 51c for Monday. About 30 dozen
Towels led al 50c per dozen. 5,000 Yards Figured Lawns 3L
BUICHARD. BOOTH h HUFF,
ADVERTISERS
Can learn the exact cost
of any proposed line cf
advertising in American
Papers ly addressing 1
Geo. P. Rowell A Co.*
Newspaper Advertising Pureau,
lO Spruce St., Now York.
Send lOfta for 10O-naoe Pamphlet
S$nci
OR THE LIUUOR HABIT. POSITIVELY
CURED BY ADMINISTERING DR.
HAINES’ GOLDEN SPECIFIC.
It ran lu* given in a cup of coffee or tea
without the knowledge of llie person talc,
ing if is absolutely harmless, and will ef«
feet a permanent and speedy cure, whether
the patient is a moderate drinker or an al
coholic wreck. It has been given in thou
sands of cases, and in every instance a per
fect cure lias followed. It tireer fails. The
system once impregnated with the Specific,
it becomes an utter impossibility for tUo
liquor appetite to exist. For Sale by
FOR SALE jBY*
!¥!. D, HOOD & GO.,
<L* BROAD ST.. (<>!.EMBUS, GA,
Call or write for circular & fuif particulars*
ROH -
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v ^— / send tot prices
. **" an Iiluet ».cu ♦ tiimogue ot
CiMNATi .-0.J COftBUGATINO CO,
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