Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. Hie BNQUIRBR-SUN Ih issued every (lay, ex cept Monday. The Weekly In Iraued on Monday. The Dally (including Sunday) Ik delivered by carriers In the city or mailed, postage free, to snh- ecriber* for 7.V. per month, ('.Mill for three months, *1 .00 for six months, or (i.00 a year. The Sunday Is delivered by carrier boys In the city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, nt $1.00 a year. The Weekly is Issued on Monday, and is mailed to subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a year. rranslent advertisements will be taken for the Daily at$l per squnre of 10 lines or less for the first insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at tl for euch in sertion. All communications inlonded to promote the private ends or interests of corporations, societies or individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will becharged for at customary rates. None but solid metal cuts used." All communications should be addressed to the Rnquirkh-Hun. It taken a shrewd man to dispone of his property so that his relatives will not got it. It iH a pity that Wigging can only be hung in efligy. We prefer the old way in his case. It makes a sight of difference who is presiding. When John L. Sullivan umpires a base ball game 'there is no kicking nt his decisions. Titumc is nothing known to science which Wiggins cannot predict. lie will be specially retained for the Delaware peach crop next season. Jons C. Freund is to lecture on “lie- lore and Behind the Footlights.” John may be pretty good on a straddle, but if be doesn’t mind he’ll set himself on fire. AViikn a politician finds that his base acts are discovered, he generally changes his base. The devil never tempts a poli tician. lie is an economist, and lets good enough alone. Tiik strong arm of the law is a very good thing when it is in trim. But it seems to be bandaged and carried in a sling in New Orleans since the Ford-Murphy trial. That was only a spasm of virtue after all. Henry George has put himself up as a workingman’s candidate for mayor of New York. Henry works his brains more than his hands, and is better known as an agitator than as a laborer. As to bis candidacy ho should know that the workingmen of New York live in New Jersey and Brooklyn, that law- abiding and wealthy citizens are too busy to vote, and that the election of mayor is left to the toughs who live on bar rooms. OOLONKL UHICKNK ANI) TDK BOSTON POST Charles Gordon Greene, who started tlie Boston Post fifty-live years ago ns an advocate of ((Id Hickory, died the other day at his home in Boston. Some fifteen years after flic beginning of the Post, that paper, alone among newspapers, began the experiment of a column of brief, light an I lively original paragraphs, which soon became popular as the “All Sorts” column. Ill 1847 Mr. P. B.Shilla- ber, then a journeyman printer in the ollice, began to enliven tlint column with a daily paragraph about-“Mrs. Parting ton’’ and her funny, blundering sayings. For a dozen years this was kept up to the increase of the Post’s reputation. After Colonel Greene retire- the man agement of t he paper was not so success ful, but the Post now seems to be return ing towards its old time character as a fresh and interesting democratic journal. Colonel Greene was 82 years old. STATU CONVENTIONS. The democratic state convention of Massachusetts assembled Thursday at Worcester. John F. Andrew, of Boston, was nominated for governor. The con vention passed resolutions strongly en dorsing the administration of President Cleveland, and said of him: "He has given to the country a clean, capable and patriotic administration, worthy of I lie support of all friends of good govern ment. He lias vindicated the democratic party from tilt' slanders of its enemies by demonstrating its fitness for power and its ability and determination to give the nation an honest, thrifty and conserva tive management of its affairs.” The territorial democratic convention of Dakota also was in session at Aber deen. The resolutions adopted by it likewise endorse President Cleveland. That Cleveland’s administration is giving satisfaction, and daily gaining upon the confidence of the American people, in spite of the raving and ranting of the northern republican leaders, is very man ifest. Consul Baiz, of Honduras, says the Central American can earn enough in a few days to live on a month. A man with a capital of $25 can buy a plot of land, build a house and settle down to a life of ease. Wages are 30 cents a day, but one day’s wages will pay for a week’s food, and a bit of cloth will do for clothes, while a native never troubles about shelter. This seems to be the spot to seek if .me wishes to live the life of a goat, hut the programme of existence there does not include the higher social and intellectual enjoyments that have come to he necessary to intelligent hu man beings. DAILY ENQUIRER- SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1886. I THE JMHItanR EPIDEMIC IN ((H.I MflLS. I The following note was actually re ceived by Hie party to whom it was ud- i dressed on yesterday: “Charleston, H. C., September 29 -Mr. , Knquirur-Hun office, Columbus, (Ja. — Dear Sir: I have read an editorial in the Enqliiieb-Sun en- j titled ‘The Marriage Epidemic in Columbus.’ 1 And I am satisfied that you wrote it. I can com pare it to nothing but the prayer of the Pharisee. I You appear to he so delighted with the theory of , marriage that you are resolved not to mar it by I practice. If you would preach less and practice | more, if you woi Id show less faith and ; more works on the subject of matrimony, | your rounded periods might bring many converts to yourside. As it is, 1 am afraid your ministry is, and will con tinue to be, barren of fruits. Now, Mr. , I say with all the re spec; and kindness in the world that you ought to marry or you ought to hush. Respectfully, “Claha E. Pitts.” Cluru, dear, when we marry we’ll have to "hush,"it will be somebody else’s time then. After a man is married, the more “hush” lie wears around on him the less apt lie is to catch—catch what, Clara? It isn’t cold. It is something warm—something hot—the hottest thing, the hottest place you can think of. We know two or three married men who get on a big “hush” occasionally, like other men do on a spree, and stay on it for weeks. It isn’t as funny as drinking liquor, but it clears more dividends. Clara, we would like to hush a little for your dear sake. It is a pleasure to us to do things for people that they find it impossible to do themselves. But the married men in our neighborhood have worn this hush business to a frazzle. It has got to he such a common nuisance that people ring chestnut hells on one every time he “hushes.” But you “hush” yourself a moment, Clara. We’ve got something else to tell you. You have a way of jumping at conclu sions that will break your leg some day. just imagine that a conclusion is a spar row and that you are a hawk, if you can, and you’ve got a mental tableau of the way you swoop down on a conclusion. Two of the editors of this paper are happily married, and the other one is on the fence looking around for a soft place to jump on. The logical inference—not your inference, Clara—is that one of the benedict editors wrote “The Marriage Epi demic in Columbus.” In fact, everybody knows it but you. Now don’t cry, child. Do you suppose a single editor would be required to write an editorial recommend ing marriage—be required to relate an experience he never had—he required to paint a picture which to him is unre vealed, while there jare plenty of mar ried men standing around shaking their chains and ready to testify that every link is a bond of love, anti every fetter a fresh delight? Hardly, Clara, hardly. Remember, now, that the marriage ar ticles in this paper are written by a mar ried man whose own experience leaves hint no alternative hut to take a rosy vi w of the subject. But, speaking of the fact that one of the editors of this paper is unmarried and on the fence, and is considered tolerably good loo—. How old are you, Clara? And how much hair do you wear out in a year? And how often do you go shopping, and how hard do you shop when you go? Are you gradu ally, hut surely giving way to the fear ful habit of saddling a Gventy-dollar bon net on a one-tlollar bruin, and wearing.a pair of shoes whose heels look like two sticks of licorice whittled down to a point? is your cookery hook new inside and covered with dust outside, while your French novel is thumbed and worn till it looks like a museum relic? Do you dance all night and sleep till noon, and then superintend your aged mother while she washes the dishes? Can you paw a piano until it screams for quarter, while you know in your heart that you couldn't tell a dinner stove from a donkey engine? These questions may appear somewhat personal at the first blush—it won’t he your first blush, Clara; that's an old trick of yours—hut you must remem ber that you arc, if we understand the case correctly, trying to drive us, no. draw us, into a marriage, and hence this sudden curiosity of ours iu regard to your life and habits. Now you send us an an swer to each of the above questions and we’ll write you by return mail, stating our terms, which are strictly in advance. We were going to ask you if you wore your hair in paper at night, if you snored and if you thought you could be happy in “a home without a mother.” But we don’t want you to think us inquisitive and we won’t do it. Clara, do you talk much? And if so, how long does it take you to do it ? And do you ever stop for wood and water? There are one or two other questions we would like to ask you, hut for fear of being thought guilty of too much curiosity we desist. Clara, when you lose your temper do you sulk, sail in, or just sit down and cry? Is your rich uncle very healthy? and what is your middle name? What religion do you have? or rather, wlnit religion do you profess? No; that isn’t it. What religion do you profess to have? That’s what we mean. There are some other minor points on which we would like to quiz you, but it is not considered an fait, ne plus ultra, or Erin go bragh, for a gentleman to seek to know too much about a lady’s affairs. Say, Clara, do you wear dead birds on your tint ? and do you scream when you meet a“ cow at a summer resort, while at home you milk four of them before breakfast? We’would like to propound other questions to you, but you might think us unduly anxious to know about your affairs, hence our resolution to lie silent. Clara, how ninny men have you been engaged to before this time? If so, please state color of hair and nose, size of shoes worn and post otlice address when last heard from. Were they still going when last seen? We desist from these interrogatories for fear of being deemed morbidly inquisitive. Clara, what is your mother’s opinion of a huslxmd’s duty? We sup pose site had once once, and has iter opinion ready made, or at least, that it can he cut and altered so as to flt our case. Clara, does your mother come to see you many times a year when you are married? If so, how so, and why, and what remedy would you prescribe in a bad attack of a ease of this kind? Ex cuse so many questions. We now realize their impropriety. Clara, do you think you could support a husband n“ he should he supported? Would you turn him out to graze on u tree-lunch route like a wornout hack horse on a sward, while you visited the neighbors to save the wear and tear of the house at home? Confidentially now, would you? After these one or two questions are answered we may have several others to ask. But we are not going to he inquisi tive. Still, if you fail to answer every question, then the sweet shimmering lmlo of romunee that now arches us with its rainbow promise of bliss must fade away, and the bright, bright dream is in definitely postponed on account of the weather, and the whole thing is busted up- LOGAN ELECTIONEERING. Senator John A. Logan addressed the republicans at Pittsburg last Saturday evening. He said: “After painstaking examination, covering the past twenty-five years, the democratic party ad mits that the record of the republican party for purity and official integrity is the marvel of the world. The percentage of loss through fraud during the republican administration defies com parison with any government on earth.” Black Jack is at work to secure the nomination of his party for president two years hence, and he is quite reckless in his assertions. When and where did the democratic party ever make any such admission as that which he proclaims? The democratic party has been persistent and unceasing in declarations of a con trary character. The independent re publicans gave as their reason for aban doning the old part y hull that the cor ruptions in government, under its man agement, had grown so great they saw no chances of reforming abuses while remaining within its ranks. It was a notorious fact that the republi can party was honey-combed by corrupt rings, and some of the better elements of the party tried, in 1884, to put it on a higher plane of rectitude. They were defeated by the corrupt rings, and then Schurz, Curtis, the Evening Post, the 1 New York Times, and thousands of re-} publicans abandoned the party and sup- ported the democratic candidate. To call to mind just now a few in stances of fraud, what does Gen. Logan say about, the broken-backed ship, the Niagara, which was sold to the government for $450,000? Government experts had examined her and declaretl her to he worth not over $00,000, and this only on account of her machinery, which might he removed; but the secretary of war purchased the ship, and the government paid $450,000 for her. It was a complete job. hut the government hooks simply showed that a ship was bought and paid for; tin* vouch ers were filed—account balanced to a cent. The ship was never able to go to sea. It was not doubted hut that Mar shal O. Roberts, the seller of that ship, devoted a good part of t lie money lie received for her to tlie republican electioneering funds of Indiana and one or two other states; hut this understanding did not appear, in the vouchers nor on the books. A committee of congress found ttiat in breaking up one of the old war ships at Charlestown—one that had never been finished—the iron, copper and other parts of her were sold at the price of old junk, 2 or 3 cents a pound, and these same articles were sold hack to the government for a new ship at over 30 cents apound. The corrupt inside rings pocketed large sums in this way, in the purchase and sale of government vessels, and in contracts for army, navy and Indian supplies, and in land jobs. The independent republicans, as well as til e democrats, understood these things and protested. The corrupt practices went on till the independents bolted, and the people reversed the order and brought forward an administration that is doing better and cleaner work. What about the Union Pacific railroad claims and property of more than one hundred millions of dollars in value? But why make further enumerations of the immense frauds and patent corrup tions in the party—going so far in that direction as to stink in the nostrils of its own adherents? Yet this presidential aspirant rises to the enormous height of brazen effrontery to proclaim the purity of its administration to he beyond reproach. The New York World of the 27th de votes five columns to a review of the present prospects of trade. Tlie report shows a very general and steady improvement in’ all classes of trade, not in the shape of a boom, but a healthy reaction and advance in the price of staples. JOHN DISBROW & CO., Sale, Feed and Liver) 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-ZLTID TAKE 3STO OTHERS. We hereby notify the trade that all infringements will be vigorously prosecuted to the full extent of the law. GKEO- F. LIES &c CO., Factory 200, 3d District, N. V. The genuine are tor sale by W. S. Freeman, J. T. Kavanagh, Brannon & Carson, King & Daniel, Peabody & Faber. T. A. Cantrell. J. H. Edwards, J. E. Deaton. W. R. Moore, E. M. Walsh & Co., G. T. Miller, and all first-class retailers.aug3 tn th sataaegm HOSE I HOSE! I IN ORDER TO REDUCE OUR STOCK OF RUBBER HOSE, I WILL OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR THE NEXT WEEK. We have the beat and cheapest Hose in the market. A full line of Hose Reels and Nozzles. GEORGIA SIEAM AND GAS PIPE COMPANY, Telephone 99. 13 Twelfth Street. For Fifty Years the great Remedy for Blood Poison ana Sldn Diseases. ssssssssssss s' s s s s s. ssssssssssss For 50 Years. S.S.S. It never Fails! 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 Mobile & Girard R. R. Co. ^ and after this date Trains will run as follows: COLUMBUS, GA., October 3d, 1886. WEST HOUND TRAINS No. 1. i No. 3. Pass’ger.j Accom. Leave Columbus Union Depot A “ Columbus Broad Street Depot 2 30 p m I 10 25 p m 2 46 p m 1 10 35 p m 6 46 p m j 2 00%tn 8 J»0 p m 7 23 p m j 4 50am 10 33 p mS Arrive Troy “ Montgomery, M. & E. R. R “ Eufaula. M. & E. R R EAST BOUND TRAINS. No. 2. 1 No. 4. Pasg’ger.: Accom. Leave Montgomery, M. & E R. R “ Eufaula, M. & E. R. R I 3 30 p m 4 01 p m 9 10 ami 6 40pm 9 25 a m; 7 15pm Arrive Montgomery, M. & E. It R “ Columbus 12 45 pm! 10 49 p m No. 5. j Accom. | 6 20 a m, 6 30 a m! 10 29 a m 11 20 a mi 1 15 p m I 3 45 a m 5 34am 6 29am 7 29 a m 10 19 a m Trains Nos. 1 and 2 (Mail) daily. Nor. 3 and 4 (Macon and Montgomery Through Freight and Accommodation) daily except Sunday. No. 5 and 6 (Way Freight and Accommodation) daily ex- oeptcept Sunday. Nos. 9 and 10 (Passenger) Sundays only. W, L. CLARK, Sup’t.D. E. WILLIAMS, Q. 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. sep4 2tawlm w2m HATCHER & WILKERSON. ESTABLISHED 1866. G.GUNBY 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 on all classes of insurable property. Representative Companies. Courteous Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments. A share of your business solicited. sepl2 se tu&th if FROIFANIONAL CARD*. h R. C. T. 08BURN, Dentist, (Successor to Dr. J. M. Mason.) Office next door to Rankin House. Same en* trance as Riddle’s gallery. oo4-ly \\ T F. TIGNER, \\ # Dentist, 35Lj Twelfth street (fonnerly Randolph street.) e7-ly (Copy.) Chicago, April 2ist, l?>_ This is to certify, that the Illinois Trust anc Savings Bank has this day received from the Union Cigar Company of Chicago, to be held as a Special Deposit, U. 8. 4 °io Coupon Bonds, as follows J Ko. 22028 D. $500. Market Value of which Is •* 41204 100. I « 41205 10O. V $1012. •• 62810 100 f V < $800. ) (S.) Jas. S. Gibbs, Cash. We offer the above ns a FORFEIT, If our “FANCY GROCER” does not prove to be a genuine Havana-filler Cigar. -Union Cigar Co, Our LA LOMA 10c. Cigar Is strictly Hand made. Elegant quality. Superior workman hip. Sold by all Grocers. UNION CIGAR COMPANY, 76 N. CUstoa SU, • CHICAGO. Reta il by G. D. HUNT, Columbus, Ga. ie24 dly Vegetables and Fruits, NORTHERN CABBAGE, ONIONS, PO TATOES, APPLES, PEARS, &c. GARLIC! GAELIC I GAELIC! 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. FRESH CRACKERS just in—Sweet and Plai* Crackers. CANNED GOODS. Finest brands of new and seasonable goods. ) For scouring and cleaning purposes, 5c a cake. Pine Flour, Sugars, Coffees and Teas, Ferris & Co.’s Breakfast Bacon and Hama, Pure Spices. Flavoring Extracts and Baking Powders. J. J. WOOD, 1026 Broad Street. eod tf ER EBRO’S Five Gold and Two 8llver Meda awarded iu 1885 at the Expositions New Orleans and Louisville, and the ventions Exposition of London. The superiority of Coraline oyer h or whalebone has now been demonstra by over five years'experience. It is m durable, more pliable, more cowfortal and never breaks. Avoid cheap imitations made of vari hinds of cord. None are genuine un’ “Db. Warner’s Coraline" is prin on inside of steel cover. I0R 8ALI BY AU LEADING MERCHANT! WARNER BROTHERS, 353 Broadway, New York Ci1 Notice to Debtors and Creditors. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties having demands against P. McArdle, late of Muscogeee county, deceased, to present them to me properly made out, within the time prescribed by law, so as to show their character and amount. And all persons indebted to said deceased are hereby re* FOR SALE, rilHB VERY DESIRABLE FIVE (5) ROOM J. residence of W. A. Redd on Jackson street. One-half (%) acre. Terms most liberal. Apply at once to wpldlaa