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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1886. Ideas Suggested by a Stroll Through the City. The Clever Fellow Who IHtl n Good Dn><l Once in IIIn Lift—Fifty Pounds of Hoses to One Ounce of Attur—Figures flint Give the mniensions of Heaven—The Mmh Who Knows All About Mm- hie. '•This isn’t a world of angels, I know, hut it isn’t the worst kind of people that its entirety, either. I did a tolerably good thing once myself. “You did!” said the astonished reporter. “Fact. I was a young man and was clawing around the outside edg s of politics, and knew some people who had a knowledge of the inside of the smaller politics. Among them was a man who knew everything and owned nothing. I happened to own $2500. The man know that a ■corporation would give $5000 for a certain lot, and he knew that the man who owned it would sell it for fhr less I was to furnish the money, buy the lot, sell to the company and divide profits with the man who knew things. I went to the owner of the lot and asked him what he would take for it. He had a red worsted mufflerrouifd his neck, though it was early in the fall, and there was a Are in the stove; also lie hacked and coughed at every fifth word. He said he would take $2500 if he could get cash inside of a week. I said I would give him just $2200 for it; though the hack and the cough made me ashamed of myself for jewing him down. He said that it was worth more than $2500, but that he was obliged to sell to pay a judgment against him. And he hacked and coughed and said that $2500 would just leave him $150 to go on till spring, and the doctors had told him that he wopld not be able to work before then. While he was hacking and coughing a little blue-eyed three-year-old had toddled into the room, and moreover, had caught hold of my finger, and I felt like a pickpocket. So I just blurted out, “Old fellow, that lot is worth $5000 and I’ll be d—rowned in Gibson’s brick yard if you shan't get it.” “And you paid him that price, did you?” said the newspaper man, brnsliing away a tear. “I sold it for him and he gave me all sorts of blessings, but the other fellow went on consid erably about it.” “His blessing did you good though?” “Well, if it did, the charm worked very slowly. The fact is my luck ran down at the heel for quite a while. However, I guess it was all right. 1 am not suffering for want of anything.” “Smell of that. It takes fifty thousand roses to one ounce of attar and sells for $100 an once.” That was what Bob Carsen, of the live drug firm of Brannon & Carson, said to the reporter, pushing a small bottle under his nose. “Do you have much call for it ?” we asked. “Oh, yes; but there is not a great deal of the genuine article sold here; it is too expensive. The genuine attar of roses, which is made in India and Australia, costs $100 an ounce at the places of distillation. It takes 50,000 roses to make an ounce of attar. The roses which are used are the common roses, of which variety there are large fields in California, where the distillation of attar could be made very profit able. I have never been through that part of the •country, but have been told hedgerows near Sonoma, in that state, are so dense with these roses that the odor from them caused a feeling offhintress and oppression on the passer-by. In India the roses are, however, regularly culti vated. They are planted in rows in the fields and are particularly hardy.” “Do you know anything of the process used in ■distilling the attar 1 ?” “The work is done by women and children, •who regard it more as a pleasure. As soon as the roses begin to bloom they are picked. The leaves are then separated and distilled in twice their ■weight of water, which is afterwards drawn off into open vessels. These stand over night, be ing covered, to keep out dirt and insects, which »re attracted by the odor of the roses. In the morning the water is coated with a thin oily film. This is the rare attar of rose. It is skimmed off with a fine feather and put into vials, which are hermetically sealed. So it may well be imagined that any essence or oil that required the distill ing of 50,000 roses to fill an ounce vial is worth «very bit of the price asked for it.” •“Did you ever read the 16th verse of the 21st chapter of Revelations. No? well, read it and you will get some interesting figures about the world above the skies. It gives the dimensions of heaven, and reads this way: ‘And he meas ured the city with a reed, 12,000 furlongs. The length and the breadth add the height of it are equal.’ ” “Have you ever made the calculation ?” “Yes, here it is now;” and he handed the re porter the following : “Twelve thousand ftirlongs equal 7,920,000 feet, which, being cubed, is 496,793,088,000,000,000,000 •cubic feet. Reserving one-half of this space for the throne and court of heaven, and half the bal ance for streets, we have the remainder 124,198,- 272.000. 000.000.000 cubic feet. Divide this by 4006, the cubic feet in a room 16 feet square, and there will be 30,321,843,750,000,000 rooms. Now. sup pose the world always did and always will hold 290.000. 000 inhabitants and that a generation lasts thirty-three and one-third years, making in -all 2,070,000,000,000 inhabitants every century, and that the world will stand 100,000,000 years, or 1000 • centuries, making in all 2,070,000,000,000 inhab itants. Then suppose there were 100 worlds equal to this in the number of the inhabitants and duration of years, making a t otal of 2,979,- 000,000,000,000 persons, and there would be more than a hundred rooms sixteen feet square for each person. What Elledge doesn’t know about marble is not worth knowing. This the reporter found out when he dropped in to see Mr. Elledge to get the estimated cost of a marble house. “ It is likely that you will have to get a slight increase in salary before you build one, 1 said he, “ though a house built of marble would be beau- tiftil and just as desirable as stone.” “Why are not houses bifilt of marble then ?” “The reason colored marbles are not used for building is simply because they cost too much. Look at the wonderful beauty and polish of dif ferent colored marbles in soda water fountains, they are marvels of exquisite taste. These mar bles, though, do not come lrom one quarry, but from many throughout Europe, Africa and Amer ica. It would require a very wealthy man to erect a magnificent building of fine marbles se lected throughout the world. The Deu\y expense of shipping and paying duty is one drawback. But the greatest reason, per haps, is owing to the fact that a house built ol fine white stone costs enough to get the stone on the ground and put it up, without paying an enormous additional price for fancy marble. To use the fancy material is too much like a waste, or a vain attempt to imitate the late mad king of Bavaria.” How many kinds of marble are there ? “Now you count them. There is the Algerian and Mexican onyx, translucent white, veined with opaque white, yellow or pink; Bardiglio, delicately veined gray; Sarragossa, shadec cream white, veined with dark graj , Etrurian, pure porcelain white; Rouge antique, deep red; Warwick, brilliant red, veined with white; Gryottee of France, deep red, shaded with red and brown; Violet brocatel, purple, mottled and veined with golden yellow; Grayotte fleure, purplish red, mot tled with pearl white; Tennessee chocolate tested with white; Sarrancolin, shaded pear •tray, dashed with carnelian red; Belgian, vel- | vety block; Lisbon, reddish; Genoa, green; Ital- j • an, white, veined and clouded with bluish-gray: 1 •Sienna, golded yellow, clouded with white and i veined with olive and brown; Aftica, yellow, yel- : low, with purple veins; and brocatel, richly mot- ' tied, yellow, purple, brown, white and red. * These are some of the most beautiftil marbles j in the world What a palace of wonder nil these j various colored marbles would make. It would i rival Solomon’s temple, and bo a monument for j untold ages yet to come. The Pantheon and the Coliseum would sink into insignificance besides j the lasting glory of such a structure.” ALL Kill FIFTY (ENTS. Liming for the Principal of the Thing Runs 11 l'|* to Two Hundred Hollars. In former days in this country when planters had much leisure time and when credit was easy and money plentiful,it occasionally occurred that long, tedious and expensive law suits would spring out of slight diffeicnces in matters of small value. Some of the hottest court house contests hove been about matters which in them selves were comparatively insignificant. The blood of the litigants would be up and the spirit which possessed them was like that which stired the furious Macbeth when in rage he cried out, “Lay on. McDuff.” The reports show that such cases would sometimes be carried before the highest judicial tribunals, and there be considered and passed upon with as much gravity as though thousands of dollars Were involved and the is sues were of the gravest nature. Of course, in the midst of these contests, mem bers of tlie bar and bystanders who were cool and calm, would look on the tremendous “tempest in a tea-pot” with mingled feelings of wonder and merriment. The contestants themselves would fully realize the folly of their legal luxury only when t he fray was ended and bills of expense were to be footed up. Then they would feel like one who had sud denly been awakened out of n horrid nightmare. The same man rarely ever has this kind of expe rience twice in a life time, for one time will fill the full measure of his legal combativeness. One of these big little cases is now pending in one of the circuit courts of Alabama. The princi pal amount involved in the suit L one dollar and seventy-five cents and the parties split on a difference of fifty cents in settlement and that split served as the casus belli. The case runs about this way: A man brought suit in a justice court in Alabama against a citizen of that state. After suit was brought the matter was settled, but the costs had not been provided for, where upon the presiding justice issued nil execution against the plaintiff for the costs, and caused the same to be levied on a certain mule, the property of the firm of which the plaintiff was a member. Then the firm put in a claim for the mule and a judgment rendered on the claim case, muking the property subject to the cost of execu tion; whereupon the claimant appealed to the circuit court, and when the case was called in that court it was stoutly argued pro and con and the presiding judge, who is one of the best law yers in East Alabama, took time to examine the nice issues of law which had been raised in the debate, and the affair now looks as though the supreme court of Alabama will be called upon to decide this dollar and seventy-five cents case,and if so, the costs all around and attorneys’ fees will spoil the face of two one-hundred dollar bills mighty badly. MOBILE ANI) GUI A Kl>. The Committee Will Leave for Savannah Monday to Lease It to the Central for Ninety-nine Years —A Few Reflections Concerning the Lease. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Mobile and Girard railroad a resolution was unanimously passed authorizing the directors to lease the road for ninety-nine years to the Cen tral Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, or to such persons as that company might con sent to. The Enquirer-Sun gave all the facts at the time and since has been wniting for action by the board. At this stockholders’ meeting there was appointed a committee of three, viz: G. Gunby Jordan, chairman; A. Illges and Dr. J. T. Warnock, who were to act with the directory, and the lease, if it should be satis factory to the committee, would then bind the Mobile and Girard stockholders. The directors, we learn, have not held their meeting early owing to the absence of some of their body, and they were anxious also to thoroughly acquaint themselves with the whole financial ainl physical history of their railroad. That meeting has been now held, and at it resolutions were adopted naming John Peabody, chairman; Dr. N. P. Banks and C. H. Franklin as a committee to visit Savannah representing the Mobile and Girard directory to perfect the lease, if possible. They also invite the shareholders’ committee named above, of which Mr. Jordan is chairman, to ac company them. We learn this action being officially telegraphed to the Central railroad directory, President Raoul has named Tuesday next as the day for the conference. The committees will leave Mon- day, and we trust will be successful in making terms alike satisfactory to the Central !and the many needy shareholders of the Mobile and Girard. The confi ling peopl j who years ago put their money in this property had waited in vain for any return upon it. It was run down financially when the Central railroad took charge of its operations under a contract. It is now one of the best feeders that system has; is in good condition and is easily earning a surplus beyond its interest charge. It was, therefore, thought a fitting time by the stockholders to show their appreciation of the Central’s management by offering unani mously to lease to them. It would be a graceftil and a wise thing, we believe, for the Central to get it under some permanent arrangement. It will prove more and more remunerative to them and the lease will tie the people stronger to those who befriend them. We have confidence in the experience and sagacity of the six gentlemen who go forward iu this matter and have no doubt they will act safely and wisely in the matter. We can but believe the Central will meet them in that spirit which the Mobile and Girard share holders have shown. Heavy Competition, But the Shortest One Takes the Cake. The IV<’4 tlicr DisciisMOfI by .ficti W ho Had Been Thi>ri‘—Two Horse Brovers from Texas amt a Stemiilioiit Captain Gel Left by a Peddler, Scenes in a (oluiiihin. Restaurant. SEALE SALAIL Hie (■nn Club Still Happy—Fe mil Note Special to Enquirer-Sun. Seale, Ala., August 28.—Everything has been quiet and dull here since the barbecue and shoot ing match on Thursday. Our club is happy over the result, as they have beaten every club they have shot against yet. Mrs. G. H. Waddell, of Columbus, is spending some time here. Mrs. J. P. Fuller, of Girard, who has been vis iting her parents at Villula, returned home this morning. Mr. Will Smith, of Atlanta, is visiting his brother here. The Ciceronians had their regular weekly de bate last night. Question: “Is the slanderer a more pernicious person than the flatterer?” De cided in favor of the affirmative, A party of hunters are out this morning chas ing fox. They always catch ’em. Masters Eugene and John Lewis, of Atlanta, are visiting here. Miss Gough Bastin, of Birmingham, who has been visiting here, will return home to-morrow. Y. M. C. A. The special meetings being held by the Young Men’s Christian Association will be continued through next week. Everybody, and especially the membership, are requested to attend. The regular meeting will be held at the hall this afternoon at 4 o’clock; everybody invited. Last night four men sut around a table in a Broad street restaurant. Two of them were Texas horse traders en route back homo from Florida, one was a steamboat captain and the fourth man was a reformed peddler, olio of that class who get rich and then reform. The entire quartette were past the meridian of life, and two of them—the steamboat captain and the re pentant peddler had passed many annual mile posts on the downward declivity. They were all stout men, and they possessed the stoutness that is brawny instead of obese. But aged ns they were, it was easy to see that under their four white boards there were more hot blood and vitality than in thrice the sumo number of dissipated and devitalized dndclings, who might have every advantage of these men in the mere matter of years. It was evident from garbled .-ections of their conversation that these men had seen the elephant in several senses of the word. They had climbed mountains, crossed continents, and, taking their ship prows for spoons, had skimmed the oceans like so many bowls ol‘milk. Take the best man who bus been further from home than his neighbors, and the old Adam, or the old Eve, in him will prompt him to impose on their ere. dulity. You could see that those four ven erable microscopic magnifiers of the truth, had been stuffing their yarns down their respective communities for years. But now they had met in solemn conclave, and just as the absence of heat implies cold, so their pres ence implied a lying match. “Truth is mighty and will prevail,” but these four tongue-tuned grand fathers got the underhold on her last night. It was interesting- It was exciting to sit in the gallery, as it were, and wVch the dust fly on the stage. The steamboat captain kept one big eye shut all the time, and the other eye was a perfect picture of a red, morocco-lined purse with a glass marble in it. At last he half closed eye number two and raised his voice. Here’s what we heard : “You all don’t know nothin* ’bout a big freshet. 1 never *tell a man what I’ve heard, because some man might tell me a lie and I’d be helpin’ fo spread it. I tell about what J’ve seen, am! 1 calc’late if a man ’sputes it, he wants to insult me. I have lived in Brazil, in South ’Mericy, and it’s the worst place for drouths I ever saw. I have known it to go eight months without rainin’, and red liquor and water was selling at the same price in every barroom.” “Where is that ?” “How far from here is it?” “What county is that in?” broke in a half dozen men in a chorus, who had not been paying atten tion to the story and whose ears had caught the last clause. “That was in Brazil, but ’taint so no more now,” replied the captain. “You wait a minute and you’ll find out if water is scarce as red liquor there. At the end of that long drouth tliar come a cloud in the sky no bigger than a woman’s hand—the smallest cloud on record. In forty minutes after the ffoud rose I was summoned on a jury to sit on ten corpses, men who had been beat to death with rain drops—not hail-raifii drops. And after bringing in a verdict of ‘deatli from taking a droptoomuch,’ the jury adjourned. I went to the hotel, where I roomed in the sev enth story. All the evening I sat in my rooifij 104 feet from the ground, aipl caught fish.” “Did you throw your line and hook into the street?” said a by-stander. “Hook any live sheol!” said the captain; “I caught them fish with my hands, without rolling up a sleeve or wettin’ a cuff.” Here the barkeeper whistled, and several men smiled. The captain glared around and put his hand on his hip-pocket. The barkeeper hastily explained that he was calling his dog from the street. The captain had to accept the explana tion, but the circumstance threw a damper on his yarn-spinning. He seemed hacked. But he closed with these remarks: “That weren’t the h ardest rain I ever saw. I’ve seen it rain in Missouri till water run up hill in every direction to get out of the way of the water coming down; and I kin prove by four witnesses that durin’ of the war betwixt the states, one night in a little town in Virginia it rained down the chimney of a three-story house faster than it could run out of every door and window in it. The water from the inside that had come down the chimney actually bursted off the weather-boardin’, and the next morning there was nothing standing but the chimney and the frame of the house. That same night, in the same yard, I heard that it rained in the bunghole of a barrel faster than it could run out at both ends, with the head knocked out, too. But I didn’t see it and I wouldn’t tell it ’less I knew it was so.” Here the biggest of the two horse drovers who had been chewing a section of “nayy-plug” nervously during the whole recital of the steam- boatman’s experience, broke out with this: “Cap’n, you wouldn’t to have believed that if you hadn’t seen it, would you ?” “ No,” replied the captain. “ Well,” said the drover, “how do you expect us to believe it when we weren’t there.” The captain said he didn’t care whether they believed him or not, and the drover continued, “ I’ve never seen no rain—none worth speakin’ of, but I’ve seen and felt cold weather in my day. Yes, I hev. I’ve been in northers and blizzards in Texas. But I don’t count them. They will freeze a man to his horse with the perspirati n that has just collected between ’em a few hours ! before, and then they’ll freeze the horse to the i ground, and finally both horse and man to death. ; But I don’t count that cold. I’ve been further I and seen more.” “Tell us about it,” said the crowd, as one man. j The old captain hud up to the time he closed, j created the awe-inspiring impression on the ! crowd that he was the blue-ribbon, belt-wearing i liar of Columbus, and the state of Georgia. But j the drover appeared to be gaining on him, and the crowd was getting interested in the race. I “Tell us about, it." they repeated, i ‘Well,” said the drover, removing i his quid, which looked like a ! wet bundle of fodder taken through j the teeth of a horse rack after a rain, “well, I ! will. It was in Colorado in 1879. Gentlemen, the I man that doubts this incident only displays his j ignorance of science. You know it is a scientific truth that heat expands and cold contracts. Well, j in the winter of’79 T was living on the B. and W. railroad in Colorado just halfway between the two termini, the road being 147 miles long. One j night there came a freeze. Before sunset i saw a I big lake freeze up and float away in a cloud of dust. But kdidp’t know it was going to be as cold as it was. The next morning when I woke up I saw a sight I know no mortal ever saw before. The cold had drawn up the two ends of that railroad until they met in front of my house, forming a perfect hoop, exactly 117 miles in circumference. The two rails had brought the ties up with them, and if the whole thing had had a few gold touches on it, I would have thought it was ‘Jacob’s ladder’ I’ve heard my wife read about in the ‘Unyversalist ’Cyclo pedia’ or in ‘Grier’s Almanac,’ I forgit which.’ “Well, that was what I call cold concentrated, intensified and contracted,” said the other Texas horse drover, “but I hev seen it colder.” There was a risible stir among the twenty- three men in the restaurant at this announce ment. They clustered around the mendacious quartette like filings around a magnet. And two sets of billiard players laid down their cues and chalk in the middle of u game, and joined the group with bated breath. Most of the breaths were baited with Llmberger cheese and whiskey, and were not calculated to catch anything much but a hiccough. “Yes,” said the second drovor, “I hev seen colder weather ’an what that was, even. 1 was secretary of a seal ilshin’ com pany in the territory of Alaska in the year’72. One night thercum a friz up. 1 could hear water freezin’ more’ll a mile away. A yoke of oxen friz in my lot about sundown and yon could have hearn the report five miles square when it froze the horns offen ’em. Them was squally times as I sot there shiverin’and thankin’ Providence that 1 was born a butt-head. But the next inornin’ I sot out to see a neighbor of mine that I owed four hundred and eighty dollars to. I was gwine over to pay him. Gentlemen, when I got thur the cold had contracted that debt down till 1 paid it to the satisfaction of both parties with a punched nickel and a postage stamp. 1 hope 1 may die ef I didn’t.” Three of the four had now been heard from. The reformed peddler alone had not addressed the meeting; every eye centered on him. “Poys,” said ho nfter a long silence, “vat kin I haf ter say? I voot like to berticipate eon dor pliestivlties of der kashun, recardless of gonsequences. But 1 gannot. I nefer dold a lie cen my life, zo hcllup me. “Give him the cake! Give him the cake!” cried every man at once. He took it in spite of his terrible competition. You can bet on a ped dler every day in the week—but that depends on what you bet on him for. CENTRAL NOT SCOOPED. Till* Columbus iiml Western to Be Extended to Biriiiingliiiiii Any Wily—The Market Not Aft ■ lecled h\ (lie Humored Big Beal. It appears that the railroad “scooping” busi ness lias had its day. The papers that were making such a parade about the Louisville and Nashville scoop of the Central have not found out there is no truth in it, but they have heard enough to keep very quiet on the subject. That Birmingham special man has gone so far as to ad init that the Columbus and Western mad will bj built to Birmingham any how. In a special to the Montgomery Advertiser, he says : “According to information received here to day the Louisville and Nashville management has quit denying the Georgia Central scoop but gives it out that the Goodwater road is to be built into Birmingham all the same. It is cer tain, though, that the scoop is serving as a basis for new schemes for a line from bore to .Savan nah. A Birmingham capitalist was told by a high authority on one side of the project a few days ago that the Savannah, Dublin and Bir mingham people hope to combine with the Ciy company. That they mean to build their road one way or another is additional information from the same quarter.” The Savannah News says there was no change in Central stock yesterday. The market was the same as it was the day before. The talk about the Louisville and Nashville having purchased a controlling interest in the road did not affect th j market in any way. The rumor that the Central has been or is about to he “scooped” by any rival syndicate is not credited by any one in Savannah. The Louisville and Nashville is certainly not in a position to want it. The principal busi ness of that road is north and south. It is claimed that in view of the western connection which the Central is about to obtain at Birming ham, and which it is claimed would very serious ly affect the Louisville and Nashville by giving the Central a through line to Memphis and the west from all points in the south where the Louisville and Nashville now reaches, that the Louisville and Nashville is anxious to get con trol of the Central. A gentleman who is well posted in railroad af fairs said to the News that there is no ground for any such claim. The competing line from Mem phis and the points west to such a connection as the Central will have at Birmingham is the Mem phis and Charleston road, and that is controlled by the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia; so there can be nothing in the claim thut the Louis ville and Nashville is after the Central to save its western business. It is not at all probable, the gentleman stated, that the state will ever let the Wt stern and At lantic get out of its hands, and the Louisville and Nashville people certainly have no show of getting hold of that road. It is claimed by those who profess to believe that a deal is on foot that, looking to the re-lease of the Western and At lantic at the expiration of the present lease, the Louisville and Nashville is unwilling to run the risk of failing to make satisfactory traffic arrange ments with the new lessees, and that it is neces sary, therefore, to make some other arrange ment. The most feasible plan was to obtain con trol of the Central, so that by the lines leased by that road, the Louisville and Nashville could reach Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Fort Royal and Charleston. The Central controls the Atlanta and West Point and the Western railway of Alabama. At Montgomery, therefore, the Louis- ville and Nashville would have easy connection with the entire Central system. There is no credence attached to any of these tumors, and the idea that the Louisville and Nashville is try ing in any way to get hold of the road is scouted on aJJ sides. Baptizing this Afternoon. There will be baptizing at four o’clock this after noon, at the Columbus and Western railroad bridge. Rev. J. W. Howard, pastor of the Second Baptist church, will officiate. True IhtppinoM*. The good wife hustled about the house, Her face still bright with a pleasant smile, As broken snatches of happy song Strengthened her hand and heart the while. The good man sat in the chimney nook, His little clay pipe within bis lips, And all he’d made und all he’d lost, Ready and clear on his finger tips. “Good wife, I’ve just been thinking a bit, Nothing has done very well this year; Money is bound to be hard to get— Everything’s bound to be very dear; How the cattle are going to be fed, How we’re to keep the boys at school, is a kind of debit and credit sum I can’t make balance by my rule.” PROSPERITY’ Summary of the Week's News in Browne- ville and Girard. The Educational Outlook in Browneville— im provements Non in Contemplation—lluppy Mar riage ami Sail Dentil—New* Notes ami Per sonal Gossip. Wc suppose it is generally known that Browne- ville has a public school board constituted by the legislature of Alabama. The bill confers powers similar to those of the Peabody school district of Girard,except in the particular of raising {reven- urs. The schools were organized last year and run about six months. It is the desire of the board to do even better next year, and to this end, we are informed, an application lias or will be made to the state superintendent for an ap propriation from the Peabody fttnd. We have always argued that if any places in the south were entitled to become beneficiaries of that fund it is such places as Browneville and Girard, where are to he found hundreds of children of the poor laboring classes who never can be edu cated except through a public school system. There are in the places named at least one thousand' children who sadly need the benefits of all available funds, whether public or private. We are satisfied that no brighter or healthier set of youngsters are to be found in Alabama. They must be educated to become useftil and honor able, and to be educated most of them must knock at the doors of the public schools. These schools ought to be run nine nuv.ths, and no doubt can be with a liberal appropriation from the Peabody fund. We hope the state superin tendent, through whom such funds are distribu ted, will incline his ear to the application and grant the request. Educate the children and there will be better citizens und fewer convict!. Improvement*. Mr. James Summersgill has recently built an extension to the Jackson street sewer, with a view to improving the value of his property in that vicinity and the erection of a new brick store, for which a cellar is now being dug. Jeems is a live and energetic citizen. 11 is friends are glad he didn’t buyout New York, hut concluded to invest his surplus revenues in Browneville and Girard dirt. With a few more such enterprising citizens, Browneville would soon Ik* able to get up a boom. Prohibition Still Allnul. The public debate between the mugwump of the valley und Webibot of Went End, came off Wednesday night, according to announcement. A large crowd assembled to hear the argu ments. A decision was rendered by u board of arbitration in favor of the arguments on the prohibition side. “Get out of the way, ye whisky s dler.” Worse Than Snakes! There is an individual in Lively or thereabouts who went to the train the other day to witness the departure of a lady friend to north Alabama. He says when the train came in there was a calf on the cowcatcher, which jumped off and mn away as soon as the train stopped. Our informant doesn’t know where the man got his i whisky. , Death of ii Good Hoy. Daniel, a 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Copeland, died Friday night last, after a decline of about two years. Dan was a good boy, and a favorite with all who knew him. He bore his 1 ong suffering with Christian fortitude, and now sleeps the sweet sleep of the just. His parents and friends have the sympathy of the community in this their bitter bereavement. The ftineral will take place from the family residence this morning at 8:30 o’clock. Browneville Briefs. Miss Susie Beland is still very sick. Mr. James Newsoms and Miss Mary McAllister were married Thursday night. Rev. J. W. How ard officiated. Protracted religious services have been held nightly during the week, at the Baptist church, conducted by Rev. Messrs. Wilson und Wood. A good work lias been done. Services to-day and at night by the pastor. Miss Nora Floyd will return this week, and re sume her school next week. Miss Sarah MdCollister bus returned from a long and pleasant visit to Atlanta. Messrs. C. H. und S. W. Buchanan have re turned from a delightful sojourn in north Ala bama. Brother Cummings lias gone on a visit to his parents at Louisville, Barbour coin ty, Ala. Misses Genie Burma and Bennie Miller have returned from a pleasant visit to Talbot county, Ga. Mr. Joe Youngblood and lady have gone on a i visit to Meriwet her county, Ga. j W. H. Crawford, operator at Reynolds, Ga., is visiting his father in Browneville. Miss Maggie Blood worth bus returned toiler school at Alexander City. For Sale. My interest in the Alabama Free Press. Apply to M. T. Lynn. Lively, Ala. Shoes ami Hits. Mr. John Albright has added to the shoe busi ness a good line of hats, which he can afford to sell cheap. Jf you want bargains call on John in McCollister’s brick building. GIHAHD NEWS. The Situation Brightening ami the People Hope ful—Festival News—Soeial Gossip ami Minor Topics. Our reporter has but little to notice in the line of startling or changeful. The old town remains quiet and healthful, and order and law are iu the ascendant. It is reported that some changes will occur among business men in a short time, but of these it will be time enough to speak when they do occur. Just now there is not much of a boom in anything except in the ranks of the lazy club, which is adding to its numbers daily. The members deeply regret not having a dollar to “fill up” at the Scale barbecue. The Church Festival Came off on Thursday night as per announce ment, at the residence of Mr. Pierce Coulter. A large crowd was present and young and old had a pleasant time. A ruin about 10 o’clock dis persed the crowd. About $30 was realized by the festival. CANNOT BE ARGUED DOWN. Low Prices Are lilting our business mountainward. White Goods Summer Dress Goods In All Fabrics. Our Summer Goods must lx* sold, as our Fall Goods are daily arriving. When our Fall Stork is complete we will show the people of Columbus the handsomest line of Dress Goods And Trimmings to mat( 4 h that have ever been exhibited in lids city. We are just re ceiving a beautiful line of Lace. Turkey and Madras Cur tains, Upholstery Goods, Lam brequins, Table Scarfs, Man tel Boards; beautiful line of Poles for Curtains, Window Shades in all sizes and colors, Fringes in the latest effects. A full line of Zephyrs and all articles belonging to a first- class Art and Embroidery De partment will be kept by us in the future, and our prices, as usual. Ihe lowest. All orders from out-of-town customers exceeding £5 00 will be sent, express pre-. paid. Sternbefg&Loewenherz LEADERS OF Low Prices. Sweeping Reductions IN THE PRICES OF u ii In. j .She turned her round from the baking bread, And she faced him with a chei rl'iil laugh: j “Whv husband, dear, one would think That the good rich wheat was only chaff . : And what if the wheat was only chair, j As long as we both are well and strong? 1 Pin not a woman to worry a bit, | Somehow or other we get along. i “In some lives some rain must fall, Over all lands the storm must beat, j But when the rain and storm are o’er i The after sunshine is twice ;ih sweet. Through every strait we have found a road, In every grief we’ve found u song; We’ve had to bear ami had to wait, But somehow or other we get along. “For thirty years we have loved each other, Stood by each other whatever befel, Six boys have called us father and mother, And all of them living and doing well. We owe no man a penny, my dear. We’re both of us living, well and strong; Good man, I wish you would smoke again, And think how well we’ve got along.” He filled his pipe with a pleasant lau^h; He kissed his wife with a tender pnde. He said: “I’ll do as you tell me, love; I'll just count up on the other side.” She left him then with his better thought, And lifted her work with a low, sweet soug- A song that followed me many a year, Somehow or other we get along. Hrlell The Templars cleared $11 by their cake cutting. The lazy club kicks against the club in Colum bus infringing upon their rights. Miss Laura Driggers, who inis been very low, is recovering her health. A nut lor the young folks Who pays for that bedstead ? An infant of Jack Guldens and wife died Wednesday. Miss Moflie Lewis, who has been the guest of Mis: Mollfc Roberts for some weeks, has re turned i > her home in Kufaula. They say the Soutli-b.de clothing dummy is in deep grief at her depai ILL GOODS At BOUGHTON & CO'S. WE WANT to entirely close out our stock of Spring and Summer Goods, and we realize that we have but about four weeks to do it in. We had much rather sacrifice now tluin carrv our goods over, consequently we offer our stock ol Flowers, light colored Hals and Bonnets und Summer Materials of all kinds for the remainder >fthe season at prices way below their actual vain 1 want to be obliged to \s goods. Now is surely miner Hat. suit ft s hone •d the influence of There can no damage pastors of llie churches of the school board. Wc the good in all our undertakings. Subscribers still complain of newspaper bor rowers. It is as little as borrowers can do to allow those who pay for pa tiers to read them first. intut TO IlE, ( MID, AU Our stock is new and all of the best quality. Give us a cull. Prescriptions promptly filled. No charge for examining and prescribing at the drugstore. Dk. Howard & Taft. Dr. Howard has resumed the practice of medi cine. Give him a trial. well! well!! well!!! The Early White Flat Dutch Turnip does well in these diggings, grows well, sells well, pays well, cooks well, tastes well. Well, it never sours on your stomach. Ruta Bega and fresh Turnip Seeds of all sorts at the “Lively Drug Store,” Lively, Ala. Costs you only half the price charged in Columbus; hut this is nothing un usual with Dr. McCutheon, because he sells everything else in the drug line just that way. Entrance through Hill & Law’s Store. An Infallible Remedy FOR FLOODING. T?ASY to obtain and costs nothing, Succeeds * ^ where the skill of the best physicians fails. To any one remitting me one dollar 1 will send recipe, and will refund the money if satisfaction is not obtained. I will state that before I used this remedy l paid heavy doctor bills every year, but now I d<*, not have to pay any. HOLLIS BELK, agu29 selm Buena Vista, Ga^