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Mkn are still starting newspapers to
"fill a long-felt want.” The want is in
their own pocketbooks.
Co no it bhs man WibKiNH, of Ohio, esti
mates the democratic majority in the
next congress nt twenty-five.
Tim opera "Crowing lien” was written
and performed before the race between
the Mayflower and the Galatea.
Tiik king of Spain is up in arms^
There will be no war, but u bottle of
soothing syrup will quiet things.
No spa an i no man can be considered
first-class until he meets .lohn L.Sullivan
in (lie rope arena and breaks his neck.
Tub St. Louis papers now publish pic
tures of people who speak well of the
town. Subjects for illustration are about
ex bam tod.
Tub congressmen who got left this
year arc beginning to realize that, after
all, the best joint canvass is the one that
covers a ham.
Mbn who whistle and smoke cigars
may not he agreeable in all places; but
they are men who will never steal up
behind you and slug you in the dark.
A PAi'Kit called The Crank is published
in Geuda Springs, Kansas, It has for its
motto: "The elevation of public morals
ami horse thieves.” It isn’t so cranky
nfter all.
Tint present 1 lakota delegate is from
that part of the territory known as south
Dakota, and the republicans of that
section have laid the wires to renomi
nate him.
Why doesn't Illnck .lack Jogan come
up to the help of Itlainc against the
mighty. Between Neal Dow, rum, St.
John and the pump, Mr. Blaine can’t
survive long.
Tins colored man appears to he more
unanimous tlum he was, although he is
primarily a republican and olectorally a
democrat, with a hand open for a third
party and stray ducats. Cufie never gets
left.
Tins Jewish new year, the ."i(>47t!i year
of the world according to the Hebraic
calendar, begin ■ on September ”11 at sun
down. Being an almanac maker In
trude, it was t h i - ancient Ilebivwjcalen-
dar tluil Wiggins wanted to shakeout of
existence.
Tuuni-: is to lie an election in Bulgaria
on the loth of October. Stuinbleofi, who
is now running things there, will prob
ably discover that his name is Tumbleoll’
when tin' returns come in. Old Snutch-
emoir, and his right bower, Knoekemotf,
are in the field against him.
Notwithstanding the Webster head—it
was Webster who had the big head—Ben
Ferley Poore says that Daniel Webster
could not quote Latin without making a
blunder. Poor Daniel! Why bring this
against him ? Black Jack Logan cannot
quote Ktiglish or speak it correctly.
Tub eagerness with which the republi
can managers in Pennsylvania are call
ing for outside help, and the violence
with which the republican organs arc
abasing the prohibition candidate for
governor, would seem to indicate that
anxiety is taking the place of confidence.
Now and then an English newspaper
is almost brutal in its disrespect for
royalty. The London Truth scolds the
queen for her ostentatious invitation to
Prince Alexander to visit the English
court. It characterizes the invitation as a
ridiculous sort of defiance of the courts of
St. Petersburg, Berlin and Vienna, and
adds: “The queen should be respectfully
advised to empty her head of the But-
tenbergs, which have filled it a great deal
too long.”
The report of the pension commissioner Bhows
that 52 per cent, ot the army and navy pension
ers are of foreigh birth. This is a little item for
nativists and know-nothings to cut out and paste
in their hats.—Philadelphia Record.
Here, says the Indianapolis News is
another curious pension speculation.
To-day, seventy-fine years after the
event, there are 18,397 widows of the
war of 1812 drawing pc sions—a number
nearly equal to the nu -her in our army
engaged in that war. I n the same ratio
what will he the size of our pension roll
for the war of 1S01-5 seventy five years
hence?!
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DAILY ENQUIRER- SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 1. 1S86.
nr VI It OK JOHN KSTKN enotv.
1 On Moii.’dy last John Kduq Cook
died at hi- home, near Winchester,
Virginia, age I off years. This announce
ment will ciui“e an unfeigned pang of
sorrow wherever it goes, whether in the
forest wild, or in the city full. .John
E-ten Cook was one of the gallantest of
Jeh Stuart’s troopers—that princely and
j feci-less band who ate and slept in their
! Huddles for four years—and who fought
with a leopurd-like fierceness that would
put Caesar’s famous “Tenth Legion” to
shame. John Esten Cook went through
; the war. Ilis career as a soldier was
bounded on the one side by the first
Manassas and on the other by Appomat
tox Court House. He was an actor in the
moHt thrilling and bloody and realistic
dramas of the confederacy. Stonewall
Jackson fell into his arms when he was
shot, and John Esten Cook stood by the
great general’s dying couch and wept
the tears of a soldier while the man of
war and prayer told with his. latest
breath about the sweet rest that awaited
him, and about the shade trees he saw-
on the green swarded hanks of a river
which no geography lias ever yet de
scribed. But it is not as a soldier that
John Esten Cook will he known in
coining times. lie was pur excellence
the chronicler of the romances of the
confederacy. Whatever his pen touched,
it turned into gold, and with it he
knitted the sweetness of loving and
the horrors, of fighting so closely together
that with the one for his woof and the
other for his warp he wove romances of
women and wine and war that intoxi
cated two hemispheres with their beau
tiful ana innocent delirium. Previous to
the war he wrote “Lcatherstocking and
Silk” nnd “Old Times in Virginia.” But
John Esten Cook before the war, and
John Esten Cook after the war, were al
most, we might say, two different men.
Circumstances develop latent forces in
men. And he was an instance. Previous to
the war he was a carpet knight, dallying
with love and milking his conquests in
ladies’bowers. In the war he became a
cavalier, and after it a veteran. The war
changed his blood from milk of
roseH to leaping fire. And every
scene he went through burned
its picture on his memory. His
brain was a perfect palimpsest. But if
he was valuable to his section during
the war be was invaluable afterward.
When Lee surrendered and the Hag of
the confederacy was folded in ceaseless
night, going down in a defeat more
glorious than many victories, John Esten
Cook, sad and disapprynted, sought hie
wife anil his home in the quiet and love
ly valley of the .Shenandoah. Here the
scene of the mighty drama of war he had
just gone through crowded upon nerve
and brain. Nor could he drive them oft’.
Like the spook of Banquo, they heeded
not the bidding to depart. There was
but one remedy—to write. What a bless
ing, what a soothing it is to a wounded
spirit to write, to write its cares away.
Writing! It eases pain like cocaine;
it submerges trouble like Lethe.
And us he sat amid the ashes of the dead
baby republic he had loved so well,
while ex-slaves and aliens and traitors
held a wild wake of orgies and rejoicing
about him, there is little doubt that his
proud spirit prayed—
“Oh! tor some power to waft ,r,e
From this black Acaclelmn of sorrow, [
Where the dust of an earthy to-day,
Is the earth of a dusty to-morrow.”
I tut he was too brave to flee, and—he
wrote. From his pen came Surry of
Eagle’s Nest, Molinn and Ililt to I lilt, i
Were ever three such triplets horn to the j
south in a year? These books not only
calmed the author, they were oil on
the troubled sea of the south. Every
where hot-blooded southerners ceased
gnashing their teeth, and patted their
feet to keep time to the music of his pen.
These hooks did not breathe u forgiving
spirit. They did not counsel truculent
submission. But they made the south
ern confederacy more princely in the
dust of its downfall than it, had ever
seemed in the Hush of its bloom and
power. After Lee surrendered John
Esten Cook whipped the north with his
pen. Following the red (lashes of his
incomparable pen, southerners read the
story of the war by a light that was
almost divine, and,reading, they realized
for the first time that within the pale of
defeat there is not room enough for
sacrilege to dig a grave for glory. John
Esten Cook was the chosen apostle of
love and war. Who lias not been young,
and who has not loved? And yet, who
has not felt the old, old story|tbrill every
fiber of his body and soul anew
with puissant sweetness, after John
Esten Cook had clothed it with the pris
matic hues of his wonderful imagery? If
in the heart that read after him love
was dead, his incandescent genius de
scended into the valley of dry bones,
clothed them with flesh, infused them
with warmth and breathed upon the
slain and tiiey lived. He brought his
own dead and disappointed heart back,
to life and hope, and to the hearts of h’ •
people he was the champion reeu -
rectionist of the age. And then what .1
gorgeous drapery of moonlight and music
and romance lie hung over the rotting
corses and bleaching bones of war.
Where others saw only poly styles de
serted and palaces spoiled, and harvests
trampled, and owls and bitterns and bats
creeping amid the desolation of homes
and hearth-stones; where the lights
were out and the music hushed
and the pattering feet that
answered it stilled forever, John Esten
Cook descried and proclaimed the
sprouting flowers of a new regime and
the budding richness of a better day.
The white thread of hope ran with the
delicacy of a web and the strength of a
wire through every line he wrote. He
was to southern prose what Paul
Huynu was to southern poetry—at once
its apostle and master. They both
suffered with the south in theGethsem-
ii ne of her blood-sweating and agony, and
they both lived to he the petted princes
of her reign when she had set up her
kingdom anew. They were friends.
The flowers of the same season bloomed
above.their new made graves. “In life
they loved each other, and in death they
were not divided.”
It is hard to realize that John Esten
Cook is dead. It is hard to conceive that
his manly form, so rife with restlessness
and lire, lias become a prey to the clammy
sleep of death, and has been bottled up
in the blackness of the grave. The death
of such men as ho was is the best argu
ment in favor of a future existence.
There must be a condition and a country
where great characters are improved and
continued and perfected. Who does not
long for a life beyond the bounds of time
and sense, where be may behold and
commune with a Shelly filled with faith,
a Byron on Iuh knees and a Poe “clothed
and in his right mind?” Such a desire
implies such an existence, for the in
stinct of the soul does not err. How
attractive then, in the white light of
this estate, must be the character of a
man like John Esten Cook, whose life
was a pure poem of music and beauty,
and whose death was its fitting con
summation. We loved him here. But
his character here compared to his
character there is—
“As moonlight is to sunlight.
Or ns water is to wine."
St. Janies writing in his old age reached
out toward the, light that shines on the
mortal character when it has put on im
mortality, and when its richness blinded
his vision, he exclaimed: “It doth not
yet appear what we shall be. But we
know- that when He shall appear we shall
be like Him, for we shall see Him as He
is.”
And now, together with the whole
south that claimed him for her own, we
bid her peerless son farewell. His sword
is forever sheathed and his pen is sur
rendered to rust and decay. But the
soul of the warrior-author has joined Jeb
Htewart and Jackson and Lee among the
mighty battalions that meet and march,
and muster on the evergreen banks of
the “river of the water of life.” Peace to
his ashes, eternity to his memory and
rest to his kingly soul.
NICKNAMES.
Nicknames are often applied to races,
classes, sects, and even to species of birds
and animals, as well as to individuals.,
These are generally used good humbred-
ly and with no intention to cast a slur.
Names which are sometimes regarded as
nicknames are not such in fact. Webster
defines nickname to be a name given in
contempt, derision, or sportive familiar
ity. The word negro, as applied to the
sable sons and daughters of Africa, is
is regarded by that race as an opprobri
ous appellation,and hence they repudiate
it. Whereas,in fact,the word is legitimate
ly derived and is etymologically correct,
and is the proper word for the place, as
no other word in the English language
can so tersely and so correctly designate
the people to whom it is applied. The
Latin word niger, from which the English
word negro is derived, means black.
When, therefore, we say negro man, it is
simply another form of expression for
black mail. Why should the term black
man, or which is the same thing, negro
man, be any more offensive to Africans
than the term white man is to Euro
peans. The amount of opprobrium which
attaches to a name depends not upon
anything that is in the name
itself, but alone upon the conduct of the
person named; yet good breeding and
politeness dictates that generally every
body be allowed to select for themselves
the name by which they shall be
called. The negroes seem to prefer the
term colored man, but as applied to them
it is a misnomer, for black is said not to
be a color, and the term colored man,
therefore, can properly be applied only
to the brown or yellow races. The very
best of names may become, by the con
duct of the party who hears it, a term of
reproach, and a nickname, on the con
trary may become the very badge of
honor.
Tiie Sioux Indians, it is said, have de
termined in the national council of their
nation to establish mail and transporta
tion routes throughout the frontier re
gion, which shall be conducted exclu
sively as an Indian enterprise. It will
be done afoot by athletic young Indians.
The routes will include every frontier
town and will engage several hundred
Indians. There will he three trips a
week and the carryalls will be strong,
light vehicles which, the men will pull
twenty-fix e miles a day. The whole na
tion will-■hare in the profits as a co
operative business.
The republican congressional conven
tion of the tenth Tennessee district con
tained IK) delegates, representing four
counties, "nd only 8 of the 90 were
white. The v, In e element of the repub
lican party i i ne district may be esti
mated from ';e»e figures at about 5 per
cent, of the total vote. This percentage
will hold for a large number of southern
districts, and when it is considered that
the accessions from among the negroes
to the democratic ranks are largely in
excess of the total number of white
southern republicans, it seems far from
probable that republican gains will be
reported from the south.
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Sale, Feed and Livery Stables,
New and Nobby Turnouts, Safe and Showy Horses, Careful
and Experienced Drivers.
FUNERALS personally conducted and properly attended to. The finest Hearses
In the city.
AFTER SEPTEMBER 1st, Horses boarded and carefully cared for at $16 per
month. ,
Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers.
sep!2 se&th4w
To the Trade and Smokers.
Beware of Imitations, and see that you get the
genuine
GRAND REPUBLIC CIGARROS!
-A-3SriD TJLZKZIE USTO OTHERS.
We hereby notify the trade that all infringements will be vigorously prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
GKE30- IE 3 . LILES & OO-,
Factory 200, 3«t District, Jf. T.
The genuine are for sale by W. S. Freeman, J. T. Kavanagh, Brannon & Carson, Ring & Daniel,
Peabody & Faber, T. A. Cantrell, J. H. Edwards, J. E. Deaton, W. B. Moore, E. M. Walsh & Co.,
G. T. Miller, and all first-class retailers.augS tn th satase3m
HOSIE I HOSE!
IN ORDER TO REDUCE OUR STOCK OF RUBBER HOSE,
IE WILL OFFER. SPECIAL BARGAINS FOIL THE jffl WEEK.
We have the best and cheapest Hose in the market. A full line of Hose Reels and Nozzles.
GEORGIA STEAM AND GAS PIPE COMPANY,
Telephone 99. 13 Twelfth Street.
Mobile & Girard R. R. Co,
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N and after this date Trains will run as follows:
COLUMBUS, GA., September 19, 1886.
WEST BOUND TRAINS.
No. 1.
Pass'ger.'
Leave Columbus Union Depot i 2 30 p ni I 10 25 p m I
“ Columbus Broad Street Depot ! 2 46 p m I 10 35 p m;
Arrive Union Springs , 5 37 p mj 1 15 a m
Leave Union Springs | 6 16 p ml 2 00 a m j
Arrive Troy I 8i0pm !
Montgomery, M. & E. R. R j 7 23 p m 4 50 a
~ i 10 33 p m |
Eufaula, M. & E. R. R..
5 05 a m .
5 IB a ml,
9 05am .
! 9 55 am:.
j 11 50 a m!,
I To Ha mi!
EAST BOUND TRAINS.
Leave Montgomery, M. & E R. R
“ Eufaula, M. & E. R. R
Arrive Uuion Springs
Leave Union Sgrings
Arrive Montgomery, M. & E. R R
** _ Columbus
Trains Nos. 1 and 2 (Mail) daily. Nos. 3 and 4 (Macon and Montgomery Through Freight and
Accommodation) daily except Sunday. No. 5 and 6 (Way Freight and Accommodation) daily ex-
No. 2. No. 4.
Pass ’ger. Aecom.
3 30 p m
4 01 p m
12 45 p m | 10 49 p m
4 00 a ni
549 am
6 29am
7 29 a m
10 19 a m
ceptcept Sunday. Nos. 9 and 10 (Passenger) Sundays only.
' .AUK, Sup’t.
D. E. WILLIAMS, G. P. A.
Hatcher & Wilkerson,
Warehouse and Commission Merchants,
Fontaine Warehouse, Columbus, Ga.
WE WILL continue the Warehouse and Commission Business in all its branches,
and solicit the patronage of our friends and the public generally. We guarantee strict
attention and prompt returns on all consignments.
BAGGING and TIES always on hand at cash prices.
Storage and Sale of COTTON a specialty.
Agents for the Latest Improved “LUMMUS COTTON GIN.
sept2tawi,uw2m HATCHER & WILKERSON.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
G. GUN BY JORDAN
Fire Insurance Agent
Pioneer Building, Front Street. Telephone No. 104.
REPRESENTING
AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of Philadelphia. Honestly
paid every loss since 1810.
NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of New York. Every policy
issued under New York Safety Fund law.
SUN FIRE OFFICE, of London, Established 1710. Always
successful.
Policies issued ou all classes of insurable property.
Representative Companies. Courteous Treatment. Fair
A share of your business solicited.
sep!2 se tu&th tf
■'ItOfr'KNNIOKAI. CARDS.
| ) R.C.T.O*»URN u •:
(Successor to Dr. J. M. Mason.)
Office next door to Rankin House. Same en
trance as Riddle’s gallery. oc4-iy
\\r F. TIGNER, *
VY , Dentist.
35’a Twelfth street (formerly Randolph street'
e7-~ly
tCopy.) Chicago, April 21st,
This is to certify, that the Illinois Tru3t anc
Savings Bank has this day received from the
Union Cigar Company of Chicago, to be held
as a Special Deposit,
U. s. 4°lo Coupon Bonds,
as fol lows I
NO. 22028 D. i500. > Market Value of which is
41204 100. I
<!«0i >00. J. $1012.
"*800. J {
11870
"*80t>; ) (S.) yas. s. Gibbs, Cash.
We offer the above as a FORFEIT, if our
“ FANCY GROCER” does not prove to be a
genuine Havana-fillerCigar.-Union Cigar Co.
CIGAR
Our LA LOMA 10c. Cigar Is strictly Hand
made. Elegant quality. Superior workmanhip.
Sold by all Grocers.
UNION CIGAR COMPANY,
75 N. Clinton SL, - CHICAGO,
Retail by
C. D. HUNT, Columbus, Ga.
Ie24dly
FAMILY GROCERIES.
Vegetables and Fruits,
NORTHERN CABBAGE, ONIONS, PO
TATOES, APPLES, PEARS, &c.
! GARLIC! GARLIC!
Am receiving New and Seasonable Goods.
Fresh Ground Meal and Grits,
$1.25 per sack.
Split Peas, Granula Cracked Wheat, Shreaded
Oats and Steam Cooked Oats.
FBESH CRACKERS just in—Sweet and Plats
Crackers.
CANNED GOODS. Finest brands of new and
seasonable goods.
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For scouring and cleaning purposes, 5c a cake.
Fine Flour, Sugars, toffees and Teas,
Ferris k Co.'s Breakfast Bacon and Hams,
Pure Spices, Flavoring Extracts and Baking
Powders.
J. J. WOOD,
1026 Broad Street.
JjROS
Five Cold and Two Sliver Medal*,
awarded iu 1835 at the Expositions ol
New Orleans and Louisville, and the In
ventions Exposition of London.
The superiority of Coraline over horn
or whalebone has now been demonstrated
by over five years’ experience. It is tuors
durable, more pliable, more comfortably
and never breaks.
_ Avoid cheap imitations made of varlot*
Rinds of cord. None are genuine un'e*
“Da. Warner’s Coraline” is prints!
on inside of steel cover.
FOR SALE IY ALL LEADING MERCHANT!.
W/RNER BROTHERS,
353 Broadway, New York Ci*
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
NOTICE is hereby given to all parties having
demands against P. McArdle. late ofMuscogeee
county, i 'Ceased, to present them to me properly
made oat, within the time prescribed by law, so
as to show their character and amount. And all
persons indebted to said deceased are hereby re*
'ltured to make immediate payment to me.
This August 5th, 1886. J. G.
Aug5 oavvGw
FOR SALE,
M>HE VERY DESIRABLE FIVE (5) BOOM
1 residence °f W. A. Redd on Jackson street.
One-half (%) acre. Terms most liberal. Apply at
once to
.SOULE REDD,
Mfldlai Brokez