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4 (toiiuulius<Eitquirrr^jun. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58YE|RSOLO. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. I'm) ENQUIRER-SUN is issued every day, ex «epl Mouduy. The Weekly is Issued on Monday. The Daily (Including Sundny) is delivered by carriers in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub scribers for 7Sr. per mouth, til.00 for three months, #4.00 for six months, or 87.00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the city or mailed to subsOrilmrs, postage fYce, at $1.00 a.year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed to subscribers, postage free, at 81.10 a year. Transient advertisements will he taken for the Dally at $1 per sgunre of 10 lines or loss for the first, insertion, and r>0 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each in sertion. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of corporations, societies or individuals will bo charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary rates. None but solid metal cuts used.' All communications should be addressed to the Enuuikbr-Hun. It i« only fresh people who take stock in n salted mine. 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?! ... - .... •,. 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. SSSSSSSSSSSS For Fifty Years the great Remedy for Blood Poison ma Skin Diseases. For 50 Years. It never Fails! s s s s s s SSSSSSSSSSSS s.s.s. Interesting Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free to all who apply. It should be carefully read by everybody. Address THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. S S s s s s s s JOHN DISBROW & CO., 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, () 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. I 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