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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 188b. ColttmliusCaiifuiter^utt. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The ENQUIRER-SUN is issued every day, ex eept Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday. The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by carriers in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub ■cribers for 75r. per month, $£.00 for three ■tonths, $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 subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a year. Transient advertisements will Ire taken for the Daily at $1 per square of 10 lines or tesR for the ■rst Insertion, and 50 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 •r individuals will be clinrged as advertisements. Special contracts mode 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 Snquibbr-Hun. I’atti’s favorite color is red and Neill- *onV is blue.. They both match well with American gold. Twkntv widows own twenty adjoining farms in Green county, Ohio. A single man does not dare to approach the local ity unarmed. Tint month of the Bartholdi stature iB said to be a yard wide. Wonder if it is all wool? And this goddess of liberty has also seven spiked horns on iier head as if forbidding liberty. As the devil lias only two horns it follows that the god dess beats the devil. Wb have been glancing over the re port of a New York benevolent society and have found a sentence which, to say tin* least, is somewhat ambiguous. It rends thus: “Nothwitlintamling the large amount paid for medicines and medical attendance, very few deaths occurred during the year.” A Montreal doetor who had an ne- eount with a job printer agreed to take his pay in work. After he had had all the printing done that ho needed there still remained a balance, and, as his wife was very sick, lie decided to have some blank funeral notices struck off with her name on them. lie locked them in his desk. Ills wife got well and found them, and now she talks of getting a divorce. ' Tub new marriage laws of Pennsylva nia, framed to prevent hasty marriages, have been in operation a year. They have had one certain result; they have increased the revenues of the Jersey par sons who live near the Pennsylvania line. In Camden the Roman Catholic clergymen refuse to marry hasty couples , from Philadelphia, but many of the Pro- j testants are not so conscientious. 'One parsop stayed home during Iuh summer vacation and made some $.'100 in fees. Another has cards, giving his residence and minute directions how to get there, distributed on all the ferryboats plying between Philadelphia and Camden. A SLAVE TO CAI1E. Many persons think that, in order to enjoy perfect liberty, it is only necessary to he free from the control of other peo ple. If no one exacts obedience, regu lates their lives, or interferes with their will, they triumphantly call themselves free. Yet there is a bondage, which is not the less slavish because they forge the chains themselves. There are tyrants that hold men in unllinching servitude, and burdens under which they bend without thinking it possible to rebel against the one or to east off the other. One of the most common forms of this unacknowledged slavery is that which we are under, to care. Now care is some, tiling that rightly falls to the lot of all. Childhood alone may claim exemption from it. As the life advances it comes with every now responsibility, and every honest, man ami woman accepts it cheer fully as liis or her share in the world’s burdens. So far, however, cave is no grinding taskmaster. It develops power, it encourages endeavor, it promotes hap piness. No one hut the seltish idler would wish to be entirely free from care; but we justly hold him in honor who faithfully takes up that which falls to his lot and faithfully fulfills the duties it in volves. Insensibly, however, in many eases, the time arrives when tlie man is no longer master of the situation. Care gradually tightens its grasp and extends ! its dominion until, by and by, lie who I had once governed and regulated it be comes its victim. llo has, perhaps, be come involved in business ventures tHat tax all his powers of body and mind. Not only bis own money, but that of others is implicated; not only his own welfare, but that of a dependent family hangs upon the issues. The ups and downs that once were borne cheerfully now wear upon his nerves and irritate his temper. 11is brow is contracted wrinkles betoken an anxious spirit, the smile fades from l\is Uj>s. Absorbing care lias fastened upon him, and, though lie imagines lie is free, lie is in fact, and for the time, a slave. Or he has/entered political life, with high hopes and bright prospects, lie counts much upon his friends, he under takes large enterprises, and binds him self by many promises. Presently com plications arise; obstacles impede bis path; friends grow cool and enemies p ring up; hi,- ami - scour to recede hour him, even his motives become clouded ; care overshadows him and he can no longer control it; his freedom is gone. One is extravagant, and, yielding to his inclination or vanity, lie spends first up to his income, then a little beyond it, then incurs liabilities which he cannot meet, and then care lias gained a su premacy over him that he can in no way throw off. Another gives way to some temptation, and wrecks his own life and the happiness of all that are dear to him, and the care that guilt brings sits forever at his board. One is immersed in details and takes the cares that properly belong to many oth ers upon his own shoulders, until they weigh him to the earth; another, by neg lecting to hold the threads of life in un- orderly way, becomes entangled in a web of care, from which he struggles in vain to extricate himself. Thus, in numerous ways, do men give up the liberty they profess to prize, and submit to a tyranny that fetters the soul, that palsies the en ergies, that weakens the will. Who that has writhed under such n despotism would not escape from it with gladness, even at the loss of much that he holds dear? Yet, like all tyranny, it must cost a revolution to break the yoke. It is true that excessive care is some times the result of circumstances that cannot be controlled, but usually it is not so. Often it is only a question of limit. IIow much to undertake and to promise? How far to accept responsibility? What Htyle of living to adopt? The practical answers to such questions frequently de cide whether care is to be an honorable and useful servant, or a cruel and tyran nical master. Our powers are all lim ited, and their best efficiency is never secured by straining them to the utmost. Always to leave a margin, a reserved force of strength or means, is a valuable rule of life. To aim at excellence in one thing, rather than mediocrity in many, to un dertake few things, and those few with a whole soul, will greatly help to ward off the tyranny of care. So, above all, will firm principles that place truth, honest'- and fidelity so high that no temptation can assail them, and a pure and simple life that prizes righteousness above gain and draws its happiness from nobler sources than luxury or display. TIIE NIUOElt AND THE RAZOR. The razor teems to be the latest favorite with the colored persuasion for the commission of homicide.—Russell (Ala.) Register. Great Juggernaut! A razor a new weapon to a nigger. When the ancestors of our present colored citizens, centuries ago in Africa, were in the habit of crawl ing out of a crevice in the rocks at day light with sharpened sticks in their hands to harpoon lizzards for breakfast, even then they hankered after the razor. They had never seen a razor any more than they had a pair of pants, but the long-felt want of the hackspringless sheer careered around their hide-bound anato mies like circus horses in a sawdust ring. They had never seen the razor, hut they felt its inspiration, and the hope of one day whetting one on the calf of his leg in the happy hunting grounds to which lie j was going, has cheered many a barbaric African chief as be went down to the grave, and made him smile in death, until His mouth looked like a tanyurd shirked with tombstone’.' A razor "the latest favorite with the col ored persuasion Is fodder a new thing to a mule? Is “cussing” a new accom plishment to a steamboat captain? is talking n new tiling to u woman? Is whisky a new thing to an old, boot- broken toper, who lias drank until he bus an appetite for liquor that will keep water oil'him better than a four dollar umbrella will? If so, we may be crazy, and the razor may be a new thing to a nigger. When the New Kngland slave ships first began to vomit ttieir cargoes of un civilized niggers upon the docks of Bos ton. the poor creatures we-e starved the last two days of the passage in order to make them submissive. And when they staggered up the gang plank and fell fainting on the shore, they screeched in their uneuphonic lingo, first for razors and then for something to eat; and from those days to these their civilized de scendants have loved the razor like Romeo did Juliet. A nigger can’t sleep without a razor in his pocket,and he can do anything with one but shave. Ma homet peopled His paradise with Mack- eyed, bewitching houris—maidens mated to immortality—and surrounded them with percolating fountains and pendant fruits, and rivers of nectar and moun tains of diamond, and skies that were bluer than the sen in the sun. This paradise was so satisfying that ttie sensual followersofMalunnet were willing to light and to die on the faith of it. But it doesn't satisfy Sambo. Ilis paradise is a barber shop lined with shelves chocked with razors, whore he can stand on one foot and whet a razor on the shoe sole of the other, while the years of eternity go grinding on. A nigger will not use any other tool when a razor will answer. He pares his nails and cuts bis hair, and slices his tobacco and cuts his bread with a razor. But it is as a weapon that he loves it most. As a weapon lie can’t do w'ithont it. Negroes have been known to [ swap wives in order that one might get a j razor to boot. We have seen a negro go to a political meeting to help save the S country. His toilet impressed one with I the idea that he didn't have rags enough i on him to bide a toothpick. And yet n lieu a general r « a Lulled he whipped UEORUIA SECVRITIEN. Correctcil by John Hlnckniar. Cotan*' bat. Un. STOCK AND BOND BROKER. RAILROAD BONDS. Americut, Preston and Lumpkin 1st mortgage 7s 100 @101 Atlantic and Gult’7a 117 @119 Central non mortgage 7s 113 @114 Colurtibus and Rome 1st 6s, endorsed Central R. R 104 @100 Columbus and Western 1st mortgage B.h, endorsed by Central It. R 103 @108 Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 1st , mortgage 114 @116 Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 4s 2d mortgage lib @111 C • rgia Railroad 6s 106 @108 Mobile and Girard 2d mortgage en dorsed by Central Railroad 108 @10# Montgomery and Eufaula 1st mort gage 6s and Centra Railroad 108 @109 South Georgia and Florida 1st, en dorsed by state of Georgia, 7 per cent US @119 South Georgia and Florida 2d, 7 per cent Ill $118 Western R. R. Alabama 1st mortgage, endorsed by Central Railroad 107 @119 Western Alabama 2d mortgage, en dorsed 110 @111 RAILROAD STOCKS. Atlanta and West Point 101 @103 Atlanta ami West Point 6 per cent. scrip 103 @105 Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent 127 @130 Central common 99 @100 Central railroad 6 per cent, scrip 101 @102 Georgia 10 per cent 192 @193 Mobile and Girard iyj per cent, guar anteed 24 @ 25 Southwestern 7 ner cent, guaranteed..125 @127 CITY BONDS. Atlanta 6s 105 @107 Atlanta 7s 112 @118 Augusta 7s 109 @112 Augusta 6s .103 @106 Columbus 7s 112 @118 Columbus 5s 101 @1( 3 LaGrange7s 100 @101 Maeou 6s 110 @in Savannah 5s 102 @103 STATE PONDS. Georgia 106 @107 Georgia 6s 103 @104% Georgia 7s, 1896 120 @122 Georgia 7s, 1890 Ill @112 FACTORY STOCKS. Eagle and Pheuix 95 @ 96 Muscogee 95 @ 96 Georgia Home Insurance Comnany 135 @140 BANK STOCKS. Chattahoochee National 10 per cent... 176 @*oo Merchants’ <3t Mechanics’ 10 per cent..123 @125 MISCELLANEOUS. Confederate Coupon Bonds 1 @ 1 FOR SALE. $5000 Americas, Preston and Lumpkin Rail road 7 per cent Bonds. $25,000 Georgia new 4% per cent. 30 year Bonds 50 Shares Eagle and Phenix Factory Stock. 30 Shares Merchants and Mechanics’ Bank Stock. $ (KM) Columbus Ice Co. Stock, November divi dends go with the stock to purchaser. WANTED. 20 Shares Eagle and Phenix Factory Stock See me before you buy or sell. I can always dc as well, and often several points better, than anj one else. JOHN BLACKMAK. out two Concealed razor#, rolled up hi« even like bulging turnip*? and waded in with a yell that would have curdled the blood in a mummy. When a negro joins the church he will promise to do anything on earth but “quit totin’ er razor.” He draws the line there. At dances, weddings, funerals and picnics be carries a razor on the pocket end of his watch chain. He regards it at once as a weapon and a charm, lie says, mentally, “The artil leryman may have his cannon, the cav alryman Ids rapier and the infantry sol dier Ids musket, hut gimme my razor.” In youth the razor is. his recreation; in hisdeclining years he. relies on it and leans on it like a siaff. When a negro is asleep you can pull off his hoots and carry them away unobserved ; hut when you try to steal his razor you wake up both him and his wrath. Patrick Henry wanted liberty or death, hut a nigger will com promise on a razor. The nigger and the razor came to us along with liberty and union, and like liberty and union, they are one and inseparable. How the Russell Register, wide awake, brisk and bright as it is, ever came to utter such heresy to tradition as to make the statement that the razor is the latest favorite w ith the negro puzzles us. The paper owes the public in general and the colored race in particular an abject apol ogy- LABOR UNDER THE LAW. The Rights of Laboring Men Under the Larin of Georgia—Itn Strong Protecting Arm In Thrown Around Him. NUMBBR III. For the Enquirer-Sun. In my last letter the laborer was considered as a creditor, and it was then shown what remedies the law afforded to secure him in the fruits of his labor. We will now consider him as a debtor and see how far the law goes to protect him against the acts of his creditors. If all men were provident and industrious-at they might bn if they tried—still they would not be free from acci dent, from sickness, or other misfortune. Even the best and most industrious men are liable to become debtors, and when the cost of living is almost as great as the wages earned, there is but little chance for one who gets behind ever to catch up with his dcbtB. Now, the law favors creditors and they have a just right both in moral and public policy to be paid. “Pay what thou owest’’ is the command of Gc.d, and it is both scriptural and reasonable to enforce this command. There are two methods by which the law can compel the payment of debts. First, by arresting the person; second, by seizing t be property, rights and credits of the debtor In the earliest ages of civilization imprisonment and even punishment for debts was common. Allusion to such remedies is made by our Savior in one of His parables. When the unjust stewaid had been forgiven the debts due to his Lord and then showed no mercy to his debtors, the Lord gave him to the tormentors, who were to confine and torment him until he paid the last farthing. By the common law of England a debtor could be imprisoned until he made payment, and this was the law of Georgia for many years. By the constitution of 1798 the rigor of the coiil- mon law was modified, and it was then provided that “the person of a debtor, when there is not a strong presumption of fraud, shall not be de tained in prison after delivering bona fide all his estate for the use of his creditors.” It was still further modified by the constitution of 1865, which provided that “the person of a debtor shall not be detained in prison after tie livery for the benefit of his creditors of alibis estate not expressly exempted by law from levy ami sale.” By the constitution of 1868 im prisonment for debt was abolished, and no doubt it will never again be used in this state as a remedy to collect debts. The fundamental principle underlying this pro vision of the constitution is that human liberty is of more importance than property. Better for the creditor to lose his debt than for his debtor to languish in prison. But creditors are not easily satisfied when their hands are thus staid against the person, they become the more eager to reach the property of the debtor- And to such an extent did they go that even the daily wages of the laborers were seized upon by garnishment. It mattered not to him that the family of the poor debtor should want; the wages being subject was claimed by the creditor and allowed by the law. To remedy this evil and to encourage men to work even when they are in debt, the legislature has provided that “all journeymen mechanics and day laborers shall be i exempt from the process and liabilities of garnish- [ ment on their daily, weekly or monthly wages, j whether in the hands of their employers or ! others.” The classes thus exempt are precisely the same as are given special and general liens for their! wages. Without repeating what was written j about them, it is sufficient to remark that the terms include all those who labor with their i hands; and that ii is intended that the wages i which the law is so careful to secure to the laborer, is not to be divert d Jrom the support of ; himself and family, even to satisfy the just j claims of honest creditors. It is true that many unworthy persons take ad- j vantage of this liberal provision to evade the payment of debts which they might and ought ! to pay. But the fear that some poor and worthy man might suffer at the hands of a greedy creditor, is sufficient justification for the law. If it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape rather than one innocent should stiff, r; so it is better that ninety nine debtors should be exempt, rather than one worthy man should starve or his children beg tbe\T bread. Thus the laws of Geor gia have enforced the divine command: The labor letter and the spirit, by providing not only that j the wages be secured, but that they be paid to , him in person. Neither his employer nor his creditor shall deprive him of the fruits of his I labor. It is his living -the means whereby he J depends to provide food and clothing, and shel- [ ter for his family, and he is entitled to the fullest j Opening of the Musical Season—Our Favorites, protection. It is hard enough that he must earn ! l * ie his bread by the sweat of his face; but when he ADELAIDE RANDALL has thus earned it, both Christianity and n" /-\ humanity demand that he shall cat this bread in ; DIJOU L/p0f<l vOITl p3.fly, peace. j Augmented and Enlarged with Grand Chorus Efforts have been mode to restrict the ex- . and Orchestra, emptions and to allow a more particular class of i creditors to take even the wages of the laborer, j but such effort# failed, and it may nuwrbe| The TRAP, considered the settled policy of the state of Geor- j ( 3 gin. MARKET* BY TELEGRAPH. Cotton. Liverpool, November 6. — Noon. — Cotton market dull, prices generally buyers’ favor; mid dling upluuds 5! H d, Orleans 5 5-16d; sales 7000 bales—for speculation and export 500 bales. Receipts 10,000 bales—American 9700. Futures opened dull at the following quotations : November 4 61-64d November and December 4 58-64d December and January January and February February and March 4 58-64d March and April 4 61-64d(a)4 60-64d April and May 4 -63-64d June and July 1 p. m.—Sales to-day include 6,100 bales of American. Futures: November 4 61-64d sellers; November and December. 4 58-64d sellers; December and Januaiy. 4 57-64d buyers; January and February, 4 57-64(1 buyers; February and March, 4 58-64d buyers; March and April, 4 60-64d buyers; April and May, 4 G3-64d sellers; May and June, 5 1-644 buyers; June and July 5 4-64d sellers. Futures closed quiet, steady. New York, November 6.—Cotton dull; sales 94 bales; middling uplands at 9V£c, Orleans 9 5-16c. Consolidated net receipts 44,817 bales; export; Great Britain 14,557, continent 5,500, France 00; stock 668,669. VISIBLE SUPPLY. New York, Nov. 6.—The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 2,C6,126, of which 1,691,- 626 is American, against 2,105,367 and 1.840,167 respectively last year. Rereipts at all interior towns 20.736. Receipts from plantaions, 322,325 Crop in sight 2,025,176 bales. NEW YORK FUTURES. New York. November 6—Net receiots 707. gros* 4hl6. Sales 80,800, Futures closed as fol lows: November 8 79-100® 8 80-100 December 8 84-100®8 85-100 January 8 93-1006*58 91-100 I February 9 03-100®9 0-1100 March- 9 2 100®9 4-100 April 9 12-100@9 10-100 Mav 9 32-100®) o 33-100 Julie 9 42-100® 9 43-100 July 9 50-100 August 9 58-100®)9 60-tQQ Galveston. November 6.—Cotton dull: mid lings at 8 9-16c; net receipts 7107. gross 7107: sale? 735: stock 58,539: exports to continent , Great Britain 6548. j Savannah, Ga., November 6.—Cotton market ; quiet; middlings at 8%c; net receipts 7926, i gross 7926 sales 1400; stock 133,010; exports to i Great Britain 5100, to continent 00. ! New Orleans. November 6 - Cotton market j stead; middlings 8%c\ net receipts 16,915, groo> ■ 17,541; sales 2000: stock 159,527: exports to Great ! Britain 2891. to continent 5500, France 00 Remember the Great Closing Out Sale ■ OIF THE A \J rr E ) nrn n CONTINUES FROM DAY TO DAY Until Closed Out! We have added several thousand dollars* worth of New Goods, all of which will be sold at cost. You must see this stock of Dress Goods Before buying. You can save from 25 to 50 per cent. A large lot of Black and Colored Cashmere at 5c, worth 10c. Dress Goods 8 to 10 cents, worth 12 to 15 cents. Dress Goods 11 to 14 cents, worth 20 to 25 cents. Dress Goods 10 to 18 cents, worth 25 to 30 cents. Dress Goods 20 to 23 cents, worth 35 to 40 cents. Dress Goods 42 to 50 cents, worth 05 to 75 cents. BLACK SILKS BLACK SILKS BLACK SILKS! If you want a Black Silk, see these goods and you will buy. The finest display of Black Goods in the city. Striped Velvets in newest designs; Velvet Plushes and Velveteens. FLANNELSS! FLANNELS! FLANNELS! BLANKETS! BLANKETS! BLANKETS! Fail not. to see our Spread of Wraps, commencing at $2 and up to $38. WRAPS! WRAPS! WRAPS! Walking Jackets ! Walking Jackets ! Circulars ! Circu lars! Circulars! Newmarkets! Newmarkets! You will he sorry if yon buy before you see this stock, as we offer them at less than cost to manufacture. HOSIERY I HOSIERY I HOSIERY ! HOSIERY ! CORSETS I CORSETS! CORSETS! CORSETS! RIBBOHS! RIBBORS! RIBBORS! RIBBOHS ! The entire stock of Millinery at your own price. JAMES A. LEWIS, 1012 BROAD ST.. COLUMBUS, GA . Two doors above Rankin House. P. S.—Any one wishing to engage in the Dry Goods business I will sell them the stock on favorable terms and rent the best fitted up store in the city. oc25 sg&wtf What an Amazing Business We Did LAST RLOTSTTET! WHAT CROWDS WE ZEE .A. ID. How the Goods Moved: SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE. Monday. - - - November Nib. America’s Brilliant Young Tragedian, ROBERT DOWNING, - AS- Spa rta c u s, Under the management of Mr. JOSEPH H. MACK, In Forrest and McCullough’s Greatest Suc- THE G-LADIATOB Grand Historical Scenery. (.orireoiiN Costumes. Armors. Etc. Superior supporting Company, including pvin cipai members formerly with MoCULLOUGH AND SALVINI COMPANILS, and the world- famous Athlete, Wm. MULDOON. a*)-Reserved Seats $1 00—on sale Thursday worthy of his hire, both iu the j morning at Chaffin’s. nov4 It SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE. Frida; ;md Saturday. XotcmluT I2l!i and Idtli. NATVItOAY XIATIYKK. Kill HAY ICVKYI Xft drain’s I.alist Sucre We are equal to the demand. Ask both Telegraph com panies and they will tell you we use the wires daily to re plenish our stock. Ask the Express company; they will tell you that we use them freely for the same purpose. Received Last Week: New Dress Goods in choice shades in Tricots, Cassimere Traveres, Tricotines. Cashmeres, Serges, Homespuns, etc. New stock Eider Down. New stock Jersey Flannels, Jer sey Jackets and Plush Wraps. lew Stock Black and Colored Silks, We cannot mention here the many fresh arrivals, as our stock is changing daily. We are not given to bragging, but will modestly say if you will give us an even chance we will sell you your goods every time. Call and see us. J. A. KIRVEN & CO. Plastered New 3-Room Dwelling an cl Kitch en, ! Saturday Malinro--The Ever Popular MIKADO. of Grit 8200 CttNli, It.tliim-e SIOO a Year. This is a rare opportunity to secure a home. JOHN B1.AUKMA&, No. 2Y*. Real l&taiv Agent,Columbus, Ga. NirntDAY AIGIIT. Offenbach's Delightful Comic Opera. PHINCESS of TREBI /.ON DE. New and Gorgeous Costumes, imported from Paris and made by worth expres.-ly for the above Operas. -Admission $100. Gallery 50 cents Re served seats at Chaffin’s without extra charge. «ov7 5t EMPIRE STABLES. Succe.'oiorx fu JOHN I) I SB HOW <f- CO. Sale Feed and Livery Stables, East Side of First Ave., between 12lh and 13ih Sts. Vw ami Miliy Turnouts, Safe and Showy Horses, Careful and l’x|ioriiw«d Drivers. FUNERALS personally conducted and properly attended to. The finest Hearses in the city. AFTER SEPTEMBER 1st, Horses boarded and carefully cared for nt fl6 per month. Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers. W-Trl«|ilion« Kit. 5*. 0 c3I <Ur