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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1886. * L- (Mwdni9<£m)niRr^m. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The ENQUIRKR-8UN Ih issued every day, ex eept Monday. The Weekly Is issued on Monday. The Dally (including Hunday) i« delivered by carriers in the city or mailed, pontage free, to sub scribers for 75r. per month, $£.00 for three monthf*, $4.00 for six months, or $7.00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at $1.00 a year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed THK BANNER COUNTY OF Till UNION. Berkeley county, South Carol i mi, in the sun and center of the hlack belt, and the heart of the ninth congressional din- trict represented in congress by the noto rious “gulla statesman,” the negro “General” Robert .Smalls. The “brother in black” is as thick in Berkeley as the biblical lice were in Kgypt, and they all belong to the “trooly loil ’—they all vote the republican ticket. Berkeley is a very large and a very wealthy county in spite of its political disadvantages, and at the democratic county convention held in Alt. Pleasant a few days ago, it was to subscribers, postage free, a. *1.111 a year. evident that the same spirit which swept Transient advertisements will be taken fortlie ! Wade Hampton into the governor 8 chan Daily at $1 per squnre of 10 lines or less for the first insertion, and 50 cents for eacli subsequent Insertion, ami for the Weekly at $1 for each in- ■ertion. All communications intended to promote the private ends or Interests of corporations, societies or Individuals will be chanted 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 Enquibhr-Hun. What does it mean? The Cincinnati Enquirer nays “more sIiivch lire being sold on the penitentiary auction block.” The lowest point of the thermometer at St. Vincent on the -11 h instant -van :s:!°. The highest at Key West on the same dav was 82°. The republican executive committee lms bitterly grieved Governor Foruker by suggesting that a considerable lapse of time might lie advisable before he makes any more campaign speeches. It seems singular that Pennsylvania, where labor is“proteeted,”a big court has to come in to save the workingman from the swindling store-order system. Penn sylvania lias made enough oil' her sister states to pity her workmen handsomely in cash, even when they are foreigners imported to take the places of Ameri cans. Tub eighteenth annual meeting of the American Woman -Suffrage Association is to he hold at Topeka, Kansas, oil the Uiitli, 27th and 2.8th inst. The hall oft lie house of representatives is to lie surren dered to their tender mercies. Brother Wiggins has not predicted any earth quake for that period. New Yoke Si n: There is no particu lar need of having a political campaign in Georgia this year, as General Gordon lias everything his own way, but he can’t lie blamed for making a speech once in a while, as he did at Bainbridge the other day after “riding to the grounds in a chariot in which were seated thir teen beautiful girls.” Our esteemed con temporary, the Savannah News, remarks that “Kadicalism is dead in Decatur." Of course. Who’s going to bo a radical when all the pretty girls are on the other side? Theiik are more political and religious cranks loose this year than ever before who are to the disgust of all sensible people tin-listing their peculiar, extreme i , and impracticable opinions into public ” llwr rc,l,h l,kc n '' oma,K ' u > and who is in many respects a remarkable man. lit in ’7fi, like a moral avalanche, was still alive in South Carolina. Berkeley coun ty is larger than the state of Rhode Island, and many of the delegates had to come two days’ ride on horseback to reach the county seat, and yet, out of two hundred delegates, there was not a man missing nor a proxy vote. And then these men, assembled in sight of the ruins and brick dust and smoke of the queenly metropolis of the Carolinas, and with their own houses, some in ruins and some propped up with poles and posts, and their wives and children still camping out, these men met and nomin ated a full straight-out demo cratic ticket, and swore a mighty oath in the form of a resolution that Berkeley county should be ruled by republicans no more forever. It will tako something worse than earthquakes to conquer men like the ones who composed that convention. There was nothing dra matic about the convention, but remem bering all the circumstances, the spirit it breathed reminds one of the days of Leovidas and Spartaeus, and Sparta, when tlie young men made their toilets as gladly for a battle as n bridal, and greeted the cold kiss of death with a smile when it comes in the form of honor. When Berkeley county goes demo cratic tlie leopard will have changed his spots and the Ethiopian his skin. The carrying of the county democratic would perhaps have a greater direct etleet upon state and national politics than any other county in the United States could possi bly have. First, it would change Un political complexion of the only republi can congressional district in South Caro lina ; it would break the spirit of the re publican party throughout the state ; and it would retire from congress Robert Smalls, the only negro with one excep tion now left in congress, and the only ox-convict without any exception who ever represented a district in congress. The men of Berkeley county evidently meant what they said in their resolution about carrying tlie county democratic. During the session of the convention, Captain Ostendorf, the republican county chairman, sent in a written proposition to nominate a coalition ticket. Tlie proposition was rejected with scorn and hisses, and the full democratic ticket was nominated. The most important ollicc in that county is that of sheriff, and it i.- wortli $7)000 a year. Tim nominee for sheriil' is (’aptaiii William M. Hale,whose notice. General Anderson S. Wood concludes a published correspondence on female-sufferage with an cxortalion to all the women in the state of New York to demand registration and a vote, as their legal right, in tlie coming dele tion. Any limb of the law would be better authority as to their legal rights than a political crank. In the matter of | is a steamship captain by proles- i sion, and during the , war be- | tween the states, his feats of skill and daring as a blockade runner were the j topic of the day oil both side-s of the ! water. Captain Hale had never been j in polities until the canvass which has | just resulted in his nomination; and Un political and religious tunes the north ! "' i,v ‘l m llcrs and politicians had regarded seems to be having a monopoly. A Wasiiinuton special ton republican newspaper yesterday says: “Treasury officials show figures to prove that better times for the entire country are at the very doors of the people, a condition of affairs not the result of any political move, hut natural cm-unittaiuvs.” Is it possible! Why it was only a little while ago that the republican press told us that the election of a democratic presi dent meant the repudiation of our national obligations, the pensioning of “rebels,” bankruptcy, ruin, and the utter destruction of every industry in the land. Now tliev admit that with tlie elect ion of tquelching him as an easy job. But the old blockade runner lias a flow of elo quence that only belongs to men as a gilt and which no art or culture can ever imitate, and in the canvass he badly worsted several powerful competitors, lie will be elected. And he will make a model sheriff, lie never feared the face of man on land or sea, and yet he is ns tender as a woman. The writer ol this lias set-ii Captain Hale bor row $7> and give it to a child whose parents were both sick anti unable to work. Criminals will not sutler in tin- hands of a man like that, nor will the interest of the county mid of his constituents sutler in his hands. The a democratic president came a restora- ! earthquake will prove a blessing to South lion of national prosperity, hut thul it is | ^ urolinn il its upheavals should bring a not due to political causes. few more men like W, surface ns pit pi it- officials. M. 1 lale to the IIKt.ltEEs OK ( lilll K. It is funny that a minister should, while engaged in delivering a discourse against tlie use of impropr language,liirn- self at the very time lie guilty of most intemperate speech. Such was tlie case with Mr. Tulmage the other day, who, when preat liing to a congregation in one of the populous suburbs of New York, said that profanity or blasphemy was “worse than arson, burglary and mur der.” Mr. Talmage had rather listen to whole troops of blasphemers, “swearing worse than the army in Flanders,” than have one vicious scoundrel break into his dwelling house by night and set it on fire and murder tlie inmates. Any teaching which tends to demoralize society and to reverse the degrees of crime in the penal code is a proper sub ject of criticism by the secular as well as the religious press. Profanity or blasp hemous language is always unnecessary and ungentlemanly, and wicked and de plorable; but it is a crime chiefly against tlie Divine Ruler, while murder, arson, burglary and kindred offenses are crimes of the highest order, not only against God, hut of the blackest dye, against one’s neighbors and against soeietv. Til K KI.Kt’TKIN AMI THK M At'OX TKI.Kti IIA I'll. The following from the Macon Tele graph of the ffth expresses some views in which we do not concur: Georgia elects a governor amt legislature to day. Beyoiul those counties in which there may be a contest over legislative candidates, there will be no excitement and but little interest. This is not a healthy indication. The life of a state and the interests of the people are best pro moted where there is an active contest over the selection of public servants. A lopsided political organization cannot long retain its discipline and usefulness. It must be come the prey of small men and cliques and rings. Great parties develop great men. We understand the writer to character ize the democratic party of Georgia as a lop-sided organization because in the election just passed there has been at the polls no active opposition to its nomi nees; because there has been no pulling, scrambling, fighting, cheating and vote- huving in the various precincts through out the state; because the laboring classes have not left the fields, the work shops and the looms, to spend a day in fever ish excitement over the fancied merits of some aspirant for office ; because tlie in telligent masses have seen proper to ac cept tlie men whom tlie conventions, state and county, have placed in nomi nation. Does the Telegraph want another party- in this state? If so, out of what mate rials would it proceed to construct it? Would it have the democratic party raise an issue within its own circle and split itself in twain? If so, upon what issue? Or would he have democrats to leave the democratic ranks and join the old negro or republican party, and revive and reanimate that stencliful oaganization? We have been accustomed totliink that issues made par ties and that without i-.-ues therecolud be i no earthly necessity for contending or- grnizations. Now, what issues are there j before the people of Georgia upon which ! they can divide? What questions are there of state or finance that cannot be considered and settle-1 within the party- limits? To create parties without princi ples and merely for the sake of having riotous contentions at the voting places over mere personal preferences would be folly. But if it be true “ that the life of a state and tlie interests of tlie people are best promoted where there is an active contest over the selection of public servants,” then was not the con test active enough during the Gordon- Bacou campaign? Was there not enough vituperation, enough heart burn ings engendered during that contest, to satisfy tlie helicose tendencies of the Telegraph? The Telegraph says that a ! lopsided party must become the prey of! small men, and cliques, and rings. There i are men enough inside the party out of | office, and anxious to gei in office, to - watch those who are already- in. When there, is danger of losing party ascendancy then the danger is that members of the party will, to save the party’s reputa tion and to keep party opponents from making capital, conceal and hide the , faults and short-comings of their fellows, I hut when no such motives for conceal ment exist, then tin- members of the | same party are watchful enough of the j conduct and doings of their officials. Great parties do not develop great men, ! but great issues do. Parties without j issues, where there is nothing to contend for hut the spoils of oliicc, develop, if they develop anything, only thieves and men who look to the loaves and fishes to repay them for their great outlay- while contending for the mastery. When Wall street rings undertake a corner on coal, as they have done re cently, then they become A-ery odious to ! the people of New York city. That was ■ bringing their speculations too close to I home. So long as the speculators deal in such of the necessities of life as affect [ only distant communities, it is all right. It makes a mighty difference whose ox lias been gored. Accorded Our Last Sunday’s Advertisement. LOTS AND CORDS OF Handsome Wool and Si Dress Goods Novelties SOLD. We are very much obliged to the ladies, and promise them a rare treat for this week. We have telegraphed for second shipment in Novelty Dress Goods, and they will he here Monday or Tuesday. We can’t describe them, because we haven't seen them. We simply wired right to head quarters for style and elegance, “Send us 50 handsome Wool Dress Goods Novelty Suits—your very lutes/ importation'' So every lady who read this may expect to see some pretty, nobby Dry Goods. We are showing a Dress Goods stock that would be a credit to any city in the south. II is choice, and not neces sity. when our people send away for their goods, 25 Pieces beautiful CHANGEABLE BROCADES at 18 cents. 35 Pieces 6-4 CASHMERES, blacks anrl colors, at 15 cents. 20 Pieces 6-4 CASHMERES, lilacks and colors, at 25 cents. 15 Pieces 0-4 beautiful BERLIN DIAGONALS at 4 cents. There is no trash in these goods. They are .jusl such values as close buyers call cheap. All the new shades in All Wool Cashmeres. Hindoo Serges. Cords and Diagonals, front 50c to $1 50 per yard. Dress Trimmings! Dress Trimmings! We think that tlie Trimming is half the Dress, and have bought Dress Trimmings accordingly. A world of beautiful Button Clasps. FEATHER TRIMMINGS, all shades; Fur Trimmings, Braids and Beaded Gimps, and a number of other styles of Dress Trimmings. Ask to see our Dollar Black Bilk. Ask to see our DoJ/ar Black B/iailrnne. Ask to see our Dollar Black Burak. \ All the light shades in Surahs at 75c, and a number of special bargains in the ! Dress Goods stock which we can’t mention here. Trunks! Trunks! Trunks ! Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! Blanchard, Booth & Huff. FOR RENT. The Jordan Brick Dwelling, upper Jackson 8t. The Russell Dwelling, opposite Crawford’s. Five room Dwelling on Jackson street, op posite Bedell’s. Peabody’s new five room Dwelling, Rose Hill. The Newman Dwelling, 8 rooms, kitchen and stable. Col. Holt’s Brick Store, near Swill’s mill. Store on Broad street, north of the Epping House. The Dessau Dwelling, Rose Hill. The De-sau Store, Rose Hill. FOR SALE. Dwelling and 40 a ires in Beallwood. Quarter acre lot north Jackson street. L. H. CHAPPELL. Broker, Real Estate and Insurance Agent. CO I CL < oc o o H o X CL r-—j CO CQ ESTABLISHED 1866. The one dollar silver certificates having on them the likeness of Martha Wash ington, the wife of the Father of His Country, will shortly be in circulation, as a distribution of these certificates from the sub-treasury has been made to the banks. Ik a conference of the powers should decree that Russia should keep her hands off Bulgaria and leave the popula tion of t lie Balkan countries to manage their own affairs, a defiance of that de cision would no doubt bring on a general war. In that case Russia’s difficulty would lit- England’s opportunity. A resolute English government could take a very long step toward ending the question of the Afghan boundary unfa vorably to Russia while Russia had her hands lull in southeastern Europe. It is generally safer, nevertheless, to trust to the probability that tlie peace will be kepi in Europe than to trust to rumors of war, however threatening and definite tliev in iv he. G. GUN BY JORDAN Fire Insurance Agent, Telephone No. 104. Honestly Pioneer Building, Front Street. REPRESENTING AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of Philadelphia, 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. Represciitiithc t’ompies, Courteous Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments. A share of your business solicited. aep!2 8e tu&th tf Sedow'cksteelwireFENCE Siiki.i.s from Shcrm.tiiV long Toms struck the marble blocks of the new South Carolina capitol. lire blackened I ln-tn, eiUTupt legislators hacked off the corners and 1 lit-grumble-some earthquake -lid w hat il could to shake them apart. But in spite of all this tin- new capitol, projected in I s',;;, now begins to look like a big house worthy of the Sumtcrs and Marions of patriotic memory. co OLD • — cm ■Ima CO C—z> CO CO < (XJ C C 1 . _C CO CL l_l o c!o <C A \J J I TA 11 l U i I &c CO’S OPENING DAY! Thursday, October 7th. Every time Mark Twain lias a new baby horn in his home lie celebrates the event by erecting a stone watering trough for horses somewhere on the l’oad lea-ling to his summer home at Elmira, and troughs are now scattered all along t lie road, with more to come. Is the best general purpose wire feneein use. It is a atrona net-work withnnt barbs. Don’t ..... . . ........ .. . . . •- I’ell as horses and cattle. The best fence neat.pretty stylos for Lawns, Parks. .v.vw ...... vvu.c.v..ro. I .*., wn.i itmi-u.um i»«.nt,or made of galvanized wire, as pre ferred. It will last a life-time. It is better than boards or barbed wire In every respect. Give it a fair trial; it will wear itself into favor. The Sedgwick Cintes made of wrought-iron pipe and steel wire, defy all competition in lightnoca, neatness,strength and durability. We make the best, cheapest and easiest working nil-iron nutomntic or self-open inn ante, and the neatest cheap iron fences now made. Tin* best Wire Stretcher, Cutting Pliers mill Post Angers. For prices and particulars ask Hardware Dealers, or address, mentioning paper, SEDGWICK BROS., Richmond, Ind. A CARD. To all who are anfforlug from the errors and Indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, oarly -lecay, loss of manhood, ,Ve., I will send a recipe - hat will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This groat remody was discovered by a missionary in South America. Send a solf-addresse-I envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman, station D, Xtm Vork City. sepll eod&tvly -fol r m) Catarrh IE LAST'S Cold in Hoad, CATARRH, HAY FEVER. I Not a Liquid, Snuff or ’owder. Free from usurious drugs and ensive odors. A particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable. Price 50 cents at Druggists; by mail, registered 50 eta. Circulars free. ELY BROS., Druggists, Owego, N. Y. aug3 eodawtf arm THE BOSS PRESS Is Without a Rival. THE LIDDELL VARIABLE FEED SAW MILL, Is the very best Saw Mill in tlie market. It took the only medal of the first class at the New Orleans Exposition. For the above, and for all other machinery, address, FORBES LIDDELL&CO., Montgomery, Ala. N. B.—Our stock of Wrought Iron, Pipe, Fittings and Machinery is the largest in this part of the country. jeldwSm On tlie above date we will ex hibit all the kite NOVELTIES insr \\ 1 1 \ il And be pleased to meet EVERY LADY IN GEORGIA, CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY. To all whom it may concern: E. J. Wynn hav ing applied to me for letters of administration on the estate of J. J. McCook, of the state of Louisi ana, deceased, situate in this state: This is to cite all and singular the creditors and next of kin of the said J. J. McCook, to be and appear at my office within the time pre scribed by law, and show cause, if any they can, why letters of administration should not be granted to the said E. J. Wynn on the estate of said J, J. McCook situate in this state.