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DAILY ENQUIRER • Sl?N: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1^6.
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JHe Fails to Tell Why He Went to Senle.
Si TtinnkHfftvlng Dimicr. it limit nml a Snrlitlilr.
Fuir Amateur (kiokn Who K.w! 1'raU‘mlmuilr.
The lunoecnt Arrests n Whole I'hiiiII, at (In
I’olnt nr a tlun.
Shade, Alabama, November 26, 1386.—
This letter leaves me at Seale. I wouldn’t
■care If all ray letters left me here. I'm “all
broke up” on Seale. It is a dreary looking
place, If you use a car window for your
stereoscope. But when you get out and
get acquainted, and taste and test its hos
pitality, it is like pulling eye teeth to
leave it. I don’t know whether the peo
ple here like me or whether they don’t
want me to be running loose about the
town, but some of the citizens have been
with me ever since I got here. Sometimes
I think they are charmed with my com
pany, and sometimes I think they are
watching me. We never know anything
in this world.
I left Columbus on the 1:40 p. m. train on
Wednesdav. It is nobody’s business what
my mission is. A postal clerk on the Mo
bile and Girard railroad has asked twenty
or thirty people in Seale what in the so
and so I was doing down here. Thej told
him they didn’t know, hut they believed 1
was doing it. Ilis reply to this piece ol in
formation was drowned out by the whistle
of the engine, but the engine had to hump
itself to do it.
No, it doesn’t make any difference what
I came here after. A man exhibits un
enormous amount of good sense by coming
to Seale, whether he comes on any partic
ular business or not. I was here last week;
I am here now; and if I can get in about
two hours more Work on a inan I have just
met, and whom 1 have never visited, I
think I’ll get an invitation to come
back next week. He is a man that you
have to be easy with and not crowd him
-or spring anything on him suddenly.
Even as I pen these burning lines he smiles
and dreams not of .the fate that awaits him;
hut the prospects are that I will have him
throttled and will be his gufest by this
time next week. There is no redress in
law for such cases as this.
On this trip I have had the good luck to
be the guest of Mr. Wilmer Waddell, one
■of the editors and proprietors ol the Bus
sell Register, at the residence of his father,
Major J. F. Waddell. Mr. Wilmer Wad
dell is the youngest editor in
the state, though his editorials
display a research and mental maturiy
that would do credit to a journalist of
twenty years’ experience. He and his
partner, Mr. Guerry, have made the Reg
ister one of the best weeklies to be found
anywhere. It is taken by every family in
the county almost, besides having a heavy
general subscription list. The paper is
known far and wide for its fearlessness,
and Its influence in the county is far
beyond that of the average county paper.
I was in the editorial room when a man
came in and “tackled” Mr. Wilmer Wad
dell for writing au editorial unfavorable
to a friend of his who was under indict
ment for a very serious off nee. The
youthful editor told the visitor that he
wrote it and was glad he did, and would
do the same thing over again every time,
and that he didn’t care who it suited and
who it didn’t suit; but that it was the
truth, and every good man in the com
munity said amen to it. The man wi h
the grievance went away in deep study.
That young man will succeed in journal
ism.
It gives one the all-overs to sit down and
hear an inspired idiot telliuga crowd about
a big dinner he ate somewhere, and how
he enjoyed it. It is meaner and more bor
ing than to pick your teeth in front of a
man who is hungry and strapped. And a
man who will do either one will steal the
wool from the back of a lost lamb in Jan
uary. But 1 am going to mention the
Thanksgiving dinner at Major Waddell’s
yesterday. (That’s not what I am down
here after.) The cook went away to a
. funeral, accompanied by the house girl,
and the four young ladies of the household
cooked the “chief dinner of all the
year.” If there is anything I am a good
judge of, it is cooking. I have never cooked
any food myself, but I have monkeyed
with it so often utter it was cooked, that I j
know all about it. The four fair amateur I
-cooks had evidently heard that I was an j
expert authority on cooked food, and de- [
termined to leave no gap down for criti-
c is in. At any rate a more superb Thanks- ,
giving dinner was not spread in Alabama
that day. The guests lingered long at the !
feast, for the cooks were at the table too, I
and entertained even better than they
cooked. In the evening there was a socia- ,
ble at the residence of Major Wad
dell at which about all the |
young people of the village were j
present. There were music and singing j
and other innocent enjoyments “nameless
here forevermore;” and at midnight the
company dispersed, and the house which
bad been resonant all day with laughter,
and music, and song, was silent at last. I
have never enjoyed a day more in my life.
When I come back to Columbus, I won’t
be able to straighten up and pat my vest
and say : “I’ve gained thirteen pounds in j
fourteen days,” like the heavy editor did
the other day when he came in from his i
two weeks vacation. But I can say that I ,
crowded fourteen days of unalloyed pleas
ure into one. The fourteen pounds cun be
blowed. I know when I’ve got enough. [
Yesterday morning, in company with ;
Mr. Wilmer Waddell, of the Register. I j
started on a bird hunt we had arranged.
[That isn’t what I came down aero for.] I .
told him bow many thousands of ducks I
had slaughtered on the St. John’s river and
the inland lnkes of Florida. And he said |
he knew from the way I talked that I was
a hunter from huiitsville, and that it was
going to be a fatal day for the feathery
tribe. Mr. Waddell keeps several fine
pointers. I wish he hud kept one of them
at home that day. One of them seemed to
iike me. It was a mutual mash, and 1 had
been petting him a good deal. About a mile
from the house in crossing a muddy marsh
on a log, I met my friend the pointer. 1 he |
fresh mud was two inches thick all oyer
him and he was dripping with the water
in which he had just wallowed. We met
on ttie log. He gazed into my lace
a moment and with a halt bara and half
yell of mingled love and delight he leaped,
"into my arms. He knocked the gun o
mv shoulder, and I had to hug him with |
b itli arms in order to balance myself on
the log and keep from falling mtne water.
The dog mistook my tight but necessary I
hugging for a demonstration ot increased ,
affection on my part, and he put his paws
inside of my shirt collar and blew his hot i
loving breath in my fnce. I HuTlly V %
to land before he could dig aH the buttons
off my vest with his hind teet, which npre
going iike a flutter mill. I was alone i
the forest. But I couldn’t help saying j
something—communing with myself, so t
speak. My remarks are omitted here for
want of space. At this juncture the
of the Register came up and asked me hoi
I came to fall in. I told him I didn t fall
in. He asked me if I went into the mud
on purpose. I told him no, that his pointer
—his retriever—had brought me ail the ,
mud 1 wanted without going in after it. 1 ;
like a dog that will retrieve, but I draw
the line it white mud My companion
and I separated again and continued the
hunt, he taking one dog and I the other. ,
The retriever still stuck to me. and I had
to keep one barrel of the gun empty all
the time, so that I could pop caps at the
retriever when he tried to get close to me
and shake himself. At last my dog set a
u ?y®iV of birds in some underbrush in an
old Held. When the covey flew up l lirod
| both barrels nt it and knocked about
three feet off the top of the clay
chimney of a negro cabin just in front of
[lie, and which I had failed up to that
tune to sue. It was chock full of darkies
otall sizes, and the excitement among
them was intense. They crawled out of
the windows and doors and crevices liku
rats from a burning hospital. I hurried
up to the house with the intention of com
promising the case by paying for the dam-
age nod giving tho father of the family a
riolla, or i wo ex ra to keep quiet. But to
my surprise Ihu man and his wife both
threw up their hands as I approached and
yelled: “Hub mussy, boss, I simindah;
I surrlndah.” Before I could tell them
that I was not out gunning for free-born
American citizens that day, the man con
tinued, “I never would er tuck de shout,
but I thort hit was one o’ mine. Hit was
een my mark, a crop and a slit ecu one
.yeah an’ a swnllow-fork een de yuthor.
I 11 pay fur de hog an’ no ’sputen ’bout it.
boss.” I tumbled at last. The negro bad
been eating some pork to which he couldn’t
show the titles, and he thought I had come
to arrest him. I told him I’d let him off
this time. He thanked me profusely- and
I continued my hunt. I didn’t get the
bird I shot at in front of
the cabin but I am satisfied
that I excited him considerably.
After leaving the cabin of the man whose
benefactor I was, I again encountered the
editor of the Register, and from that on
we hunted together. We found the birds
rapidly and both of us had unusually good
luck, as we only missed one more time
each during the entire hunt.
Taking the hunt, the thanksgiving din
ner and the visit all together, they have
made me want to move to Suale. I' don’t
know how the town would vote on this
move, but I have decided not to submit, it
to th<* people. Majorities are always
wrong anyhow. II. D. II.
A BOOM FOB THE SOUTH,
rim Niiulli Attracting: the Attention of Inri'Hlurs
nml SiH'Oaluliirs—An firn of lam Prints Tlint
lliil It—Wliy tin- Prh-o of Iron Slioniil Sot Ail-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Speculation is rife in Wall street. There
is a demand for stock and bonds so eager
that men do not stop to examine their in
trinsic worth. It is not alone in Wall
street but through the whole country the
fever of speculation has spread. To the
south it has turned, and it is bringing
millions of dollars with it for investment.
At no time in the history .of the country
have the southern states attracted the at
tention of investors and speculators as they
are doing to-day. Everywhere railroaus
are building, cities are located, mines are
opened, forests are given to the ax. The
center of this activity is Birmingham. In
that territory twenty-one new iron fur
naces will shortly be erected, or are now
under contract. A few years ago the stock
of the Sloss company was valued at from
100 to 110; recently it advanced to 125. The
sale made of property last week to an
eastern syndicate made the stock worth
from 300 to 350. Real estate in Birming
ham is as valuable as in Chicago a few
years ago.
There must be something substantial
back of this movement, as there must be
back of every speculative enterprise of
this character. It was in 1883 that the
Courier-Journal undertook to show that
iron could be made in the south for f9 or
$10. At that time the price of iron was
high enough to make eastern capitalists
indifferent. There followed an era of de
pression which closed many eastern fur
naces. Next came an advance in prices
which led to investments in the south.
The high-priced furnaces in the north
have not all yet been put in blast. Every
advance in the price of iron one dollar a
ton opens n new furnace in Ohio or Penn
sylvania.
It was an era in low prices for pig iron
that fixed the alterition of capitalists oil
the southern lields. When the reaction
came they built new furnaces in the
cheaper fields rather than put the old fur
naces in blast where it costs $20 a ton.
As far as the iron interests ill the south
are concerned, we are only at the begin
ning of the development. The corner of
tlie iron industry twenty years hence wile
be in the south. The coming of that d ly
is delayed, not hastened, by the tariff. At
last the furnace owners of the south begin
to see it. The price of iron is advancing,
and in order to prevent, it going too high,
they are selling the product of furnaces
not yet built; they are striving to keep
down the price.
Why? Because the advance to old figures
will open again the high-priced furnaces
in the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. If
prices do not advance sufficiently to justify
this, the coal fields and the iron fields of
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, North
Carolina and Virginia will be in greater
demand: will have an additional value.
It seems somewhat contradictory to say
that an advance in iron is an injury to the
iron interests of the south, but it is true,
as every unprejudiced man will see who
examines the situation. The iron interests
now all centre in Pennsylvania. Millions
of capita) are there invested, not only in
the furnaces, but in rolling-mills, In foun
dries and factories of all kinds. Capital is
timid, conservative; it moves slowly and
with hesitation As long as prices are
high enough to make certain a profit,
large or small, capitalists cannot be in
duced to make changes. They leave new
ventures and experiments to others, and
for a time all the forces of society work
for them.
Then coines a change. The demand
slackens, prices fail, and there is no profit
in high-priced furnaces. Then the owners
begin to enquire into the causes, and to in
vestigate the results of the experiments of
the pioneers. If prices again advance to
the paint where profits are assured their
investigations cease and their enterprise
It is a low-price era which develops new
fields and insures the adoption of economi
cal methods or machines. A tariff that
makes a profit possible on the high-priced
furnaces, keeps those furnaces in blast and
delays the development of new fields.
Biit more than this ; low prices increase
consumption. Next to low prices for food
and clothes, a new country needs low
prices for iron. It enters into all our la
bors ; it is present in some form every
where. With iron cheapened it would dis
place articles now substituted for it, as
steel rails have displaced iron rails.
With even the present demand for iron,
scores of furnaces must remain idle. I-or
every new furnace built a new market
must open or an old furnace must go out
of blast. The development ol t ie south-
ern iron fields would be helped greatly,
therefore, by an era ot steady and low
prices for pig iron, for in this way compe
tition from the high-priced furnaces would
be lessened, and at the same time new
avenues for the low-priced product would
be opened. .
If the southern states are as wise as tlie
children of this world erroneously sup
pose themselves to be, they will insist on
the retention of the duty on sugar and a
reduction of the duty on pig iron to *3 per
ton.
fan'l Malm Anything Like II.
I have been practicing medicine for
twentv years, and have never been able to
out un a vegetable compound that would,
like Simmons Liver Regulator, promptly
and effectively move the liver to action
and at the same time aid (instead of weak
ening) the digestive and assimilative pow-
6 'no^other^'remedy within my knowledge
can fill its place. l m H M. D.,
no27 eodjie&w Washington, Ark.
Some of tlie Evidence Secured for the
Enquirer-Sun Before the Trial.
KJa rt (mqior, n P^rn, L'uJpr Arrest lor Com
plicity In 1 lie Marilpr— V ir-st-t-i]!lion oftlie Two
Young Cai-iIpiih—All Own Ibirlr Y|ijioiini AvuinNt
I Special Correspondence Enqulrcr-Sun.
i Beaus, Ala., November 26.—Joe and Tol
; Garden, charged with ttie murder ot old
Mr. Reuben Banders near Hatchcchubbee,
i Ala., were arraigned before Judge E. H.
] Glenn this morning to btaml their commit
ment trial. The lawyer who had been re
tained by Solicitor Leo to represent tlie
j state having been employed by the de
fence, and having gone ever to that side,
the case was postponed till December 9.
Tol and Joe Carden are both young men,
apparently not over 26 and 28
years olu respectively. They sal near
tneir counsel, and wore dressed about liku
i tho average young country lurnier. Their
I luces are not attractive, nut bear no dis-
j tinot truces of vie to usings. A reporter for
J the Enquiiusk-Sn-V, who was iu uio court
1 house, asked for an interview with the
; prisoners. The judge said it would tie
, granted with the consent of tho counsel,
but one of me counsel lor ttie defense pro
tested strongly against the interview.
Seeing the prisoners would have neon a
small matter at best, as a simple denial
was all they had for any questioner. Tile
reporter soon found another man,
however, who was worth a
dozen prisoners, so far as get
ting at ttie facts ill tlie ease was con
cerned. This man was Mr. Henry Carden,
an own uncle of the two prisoners who is,
strange to say, a witness for the prosecu
tion. Mr. Henry Garden is a bright spoken
man of 35 wno, unlike his nephews anil
their alleged victim, bears a good nattier
among his neighbors. Mr. Garden s.ii-.i to
the reporter: “Those boys are my
nephews, and I hope they'll come clear;
but 1 come here to swear to the truth and
I’ll do it. What I say will go against them.
All I know about the ease is this: Oil
Monday after old man Saunders accused
Tol and Joe of stealing his money, Joe,
Tot’s brother, came by where I was pick
ing cotton. I said, ‘Joe, 1 hear old man
Saunders has accused you and Tol of steal
ing his money.’
“Joe said, ‘Yes he has, and wo are going
to kill the for saying it loo.’ •’
“I never said any more to Joe, but went
on to the house to my breakfast, which was
ready. A day or two after that old man
Saunders came to Seale and
hod Joe and Tol indicted on
two charges, one for larceny and one for
assault and battery. He said they Jiad
tired into his house with guns and he saw
’em do it. He said that when they
robbed him of his money they came down
his chimney at night ami he saw ’em take
it, but he was afraid to let ’em know he
wasn’t asleep for fear they would kill him.
Not long after he had the boys indicted
and not long after they said to me that
they were going to kill him—he was mur
dered. I don’t know who murdered him,
of course.”
It may be mentioned here
that Mr. Claude Heard, the
jusLice of the peace at Hatchcchubbee,
states to every one who cares to ask hini
that Joe and Tol Garden confessed the
murder to him privately, or at least before
old Mr. Sanders died, and after they were
arrested they confessed that they gave
him the beating, from the effects of vvnieh
he died. The confession was before tlie
old man’s death. Mr. Claude Heard is a
thoroughly reliable man.
A young mnn named John Wright, a
witness for the state, who. it was said,
had heard the Garden boys confess
the murderer was introduced to tlie re
porter, but lie appeared to lie frightened
and refused to say anything at all. Just ,
ns Wright turned to leave tne reporter, 1
whom he appeared to look upon ns a
dragon with forty heads and horns, u depu
ty came up with a negro named Elbert !
Cooper, who had just been arrested l'or j
complicity in the murder. Cooper was j
frightened nearly out of his wits. He !
shook as it with palsy, and I
whined like a litter of hound puppies. |
His wife accompanied him at i
every step and kept insisting that“Elbut
ain’t do um. How lie gw i’ kill ole man]
Sanders, wen he bin sleep, tell he ain’t j
know uuthin, de whole night tell day- |
break? ’Fo’ Govvd Elbut nevak is bin do i
it.”
Elbert whimpered assent to his wife’s
speech of defense and stood trembling ami I
leaning against one of the court house col- !
limns, while his hand-cuffed hands hung '
listlessly in front of him. Elbert hadn’t!
had time to get u lawyer to cork up ]
his mouth, and when his wire
closed her mouth he began to fire off his
like a sixteen-shooter. When the reporter
asked him what made him kill Mr. Sana- I
ders, he put on a look of astonishment that ]
would have done credit to an aelor ami ]
said:
“Who? me? bless grashus, boss, you j
ain’t tink say I kill um. I would not do :
um fur de wurld. I kin tell you who done
it dough. I kin tell you who fust say he ■
gwi to do it. It was Joe and Tol Carden. !
I heah um say dey was gwi kill ’im. j
An’ after he was dead old ]
man Carden, de father oi dein
two boys, come to me and told me of I ;
didn’t promise to swear in favor of his
boys, him and dem would swear de inui-- |
der on me. I told him I couldn’t swear to ;
no lie, and dat’s de reason I’m heah now.”
“What did you know about it to swear?” (
asked the reporter.
“Nuth’n ’eept what I heard de boys say. j
Dey saiddey was gwine to kill him lor ]
sayin’ dey robbed him.”
The Carden boys hung around Cooper’s
house when they were hiding from the [
sheriff, and Cooper hadtocompell them ]
to leave several times. One night a 1
sheriff's posse who lay in the bushes near ]
Cooper’s house watching to catch the
Garden boys, beard Cooper drive them
off and tell them he wanted nothing to do ,
with them. The sherff’s pos-.ee then gave
chase but failed to catch the boys
that night. Elbert Cooper is not
known to have had any unpleas
antness with Mr. Saunders.
But it is not yet known what evidence will
be brought against him. In fact, Cooper’s
arrest is an entirely new feature in the 1
case and astonished everybody. If he was
arrested on the affidavit of the father of
the Carden boys, as it is reported, tho gen
eral impression in Seale is that his arrest
will injure the ease of the Carden boys. ■
The evidence against the two Cardens is
entirely circumstantial, but from all that
can be learned they have a bad case
against them. Still it i> to behopedtb.it i
they will be able to establish their inno
cence. 11. D. II.
Tin- President of tin: New York State Senate. |
For expediting iegislatve business, Ed
mund L. Pitts, the president of the New
York state senate, stands almost without a ]
peer. Such a place as he holds is a most .
trying one and requires great powers of en- j
durance. One of Mr. Pitts’ ablest suppor
ters will be seen iu his letter given below :
State of New Yoke, Senate Ciiambkk,
Albany. March 11, 1884. j
I have u-ed Allcox’s Porous Plasters in
my family for the past five years, and can
truthfully say they are a valuable remedy
and effect great cures. 1 would not be
without them. I have in several instances
given some to friends suffering with weak
and lame backs, and they have invariably
afforded certain and speedy relief. They
cannot be too highly commended.
Edmund L. Pitts.
A CHURCH ON THE BORDER.
A Surprinticr ilovlui 1 YVht.-li u Slrnnui-r Hi-iiiirliul
in Omaha—Hoir Hie Mmikry IV.is La-i-tvd
IM'IWOII.
“You sue, some mon hs ago au eusturn
chump with a pule face and big spectacles
landed in Wnytmek ail’ put up tlie purtlest
little sknlehouse ye ever sot eyes on, an’
got n brand new cow bell rigged in tliocu-
polo before lie discovered there weren’t a
chick nor child in the hull place,” said a
stranger to u piano denlof, according to
the Omaha World.
“l{ ither short-sighted l should say. Why
didn’t sonn one tell him?”
"Wayback people lioz got Inter the hab
it of mindin' their own business. It’s safer.
We didn’t know wot he was doin’ and he,
as you say. was near-sighted, an’ 1 guess
his spectacles was second-handed ones any
how. rtowsomovee, wo bought him out
an’ intended to use tho party bnildin’ for n
new saloon, but dang me if it didn’t look
so much like a church that it made us
homesick.”
“I see.”
“Yes. the hoys just felt ns if that there
cow hell was u-niigin’ out a kind of or
benediction when they went to trike it
down, So they let it stn.y there und got
inter the habit, of swuarin’ n little less em
phatic ill.v when a-standin’ in front of it.”
“Yes.”
“Well, tilings went on, the spirit of
grace a growin’ an’ a-growin’ till one day
an Italy an struck the town with a hand
organ, an’ just like a providence that
music factory played ‘Old Hundred’ and
another church tune some of the boys
knew."
“ That helped along, no doubt.”
“Helped! With that there elmre.lt,y-
lookiu’ sknlehouse on one side of theutreut
an’that hand organ a-playin’ 'Old Hun
dred on the other, it just made us feel ns if
we were to home again playin’ mumpeHy-
peg in the back pews with the dear dead
and gone old folks prayin’ ter their sins on
tlie mourner’s bench. I toll you we
couldn’t stand it, an’ we just made Yip our
minds we’d turn that skulehouse inter a
church. But there’s one tiling I forgot.
There ain’t no one in VVaylmek wot kin
play a organ, an’I’ll have to hire an or
ganist too.”
“I believe I can find a young man will
ing to move there if tlie inducements are
sufficient.”
“Well, we talked over that, an’ allowed j
that, us we hadn’t no preacher, we could
give him $2 u Sunday, and Brother Billkins
promised him a regular job as billiard-
maker during the week.”
“But that won’t suit, I know.”
“Well, it is rather slow work, that’s so,
an’ I thought of that too, an’ it struck me
that a3 there’s a good many dudes in Wuy-
baek now I could make a nice arrange
ment with a man who understands hand
ling tne organ an’ knows all about how to
mix drinks. Brother Bluffers said only
last week that he wanted u feller of -that
kind, ail'd besides that there’s two or three
E oker rooms in need of steady, reliable
elp. There’s plenty of incioocemenfs,
you see, fer a steady goili’ Christian feller,
an’ we got a law against shootin’ now, so
he kin refuse to drink whenever he thinks
he’s had all he kin stand. That’s a big
improvement, ain’t it?”
“I should say so; but 1 thought you inti
mated that a revival was already in pro
gress?”
“Its in full blast, mister. Wish you
could see it. After that there hand-organ
I was speakin’ about stopped playin’ we
chipped in an’ asked tlie feller wot he
would take for it, and told him he ought to
put the price low for the good o( tho
cause. Well, he did."
“He did?”
“Yes, he made us an offer that surprised
us, but he had a monkey with him atul in
sisted we’d have to take i he monkey, too,
and he charged like—like lira for that.”
“Yon took it?”
“Oh, we had to. There weren’t no get- ]
tin’ out of it: besides that we didn’t know
but the monkey might lie useful for turnin’
the crank or ringin’ the bell, but he !
weren't—not half big enough.”
“So you started your revival with that j
instrument, eh?”
“Yes, ancV lor the first three Sundays
everything went as slick as grease. The
boys weren’t quite sure about any tune ex- I
cent ‘Old Hundred.’ so we didn’t try the !
other one. But last Sunday we got kinder j
tired Bingin' that over an’ over again, so j
re concluded to try the other, but dang i
me if we didn’t have to play through the
wickedest lot of circus music you ever |
heard before we got to it. It was tlisgus- •
tin’.”
“So I should imagine.”
“Yes; we just felt as if the sanctity of the
day was broken, so we went back to
Brother Bluffer’s poker-rooms. Then we
held a mootin’ an’ I was delegated to come
to Omaha an’ get a reg’lar organ arid some
one to manage it, an’ the boys don’t want
any of ycr uproaratie organists, either.”
“Of course not. But what did you do
with the monkey?”
“The monkey! Oh! He weren’t good
for nothin’ else] so wo took the unregene- I
rate little cuss down to the pond, immersed !
him a couple o’ times, -looted him deaeon, \
an’ now he takes up the collection.”
I could scarcely speak; it was almost ini- !
possible to breathe through my nostrils. !
Using Ely’s Cream Balm a short time the
trouble entirely disappeared.—J. O. Tiohe- i
nor, Shoe Merchant, Elizabeth, N. J.
I have been badly troubled with catarrh
from my earliest reeolieetion and have
tried everything Imaginable for it, but
never derived any permanent help until I
used Ely’s Cream Balm. It is working
wonders.—A. H. Viets, Sup’t Public
School, Coleman, Texas. eod&W
A Sad St‘iitcm-1*.
Chic'oo, November 26.—Throe vessels
lmve been lost on the lakes this season,
and forty-one sailors have perished.
Malaria.
Twenty-five hundred dozen bottles of
Ague Conqueror ordered in one month, it
positively eradicates all Malaria, Fever
and Ague, Bilious and Intermittent Fevers
in any climate. Read our book of 1000
testimonials.
Due West, S. C., March 12,1833.—G. G.
Green, Dear Sir—We will soon need more
Ague Conqueror, it is taking likg “hot
cakes” and giving satisfaction.
Yours, Elias Bros.
Fairfield, Mo., August 29,1886.—G. G.
Green, Dear Sir—Your Ague Conqueror j
knocks the Chills and DumB Ague every
time. I warrant every bottle and it never |
fails. I have cured eases where quinine
had no effect whatever.
Yours truly,
actl2 d&wlv W. H. Shaw & Co.
loss, it Is Columbus' gain. The doctor Is already
eminent In his profession, and doubtless goes to
a Held where Ills e‘ jit-rienee and efficiency as n
doctor will have u broader scope to operate in.
We cheerfully commend him to tho people of
Columbus, and bospcik for him a liberal portion
ef file practice there.
The recent change In the shipment of cotton
by giving through freight from Hamilton has
caused tile Heecy staple tocomniAUd better prlc s
than before. We hour less complaint from the
ta mers than ut nby previous time. There are
many things w’ich were formerly sources of
grievances removed by tins change. The cotton
shipper ^inform* his customers here when to ex
pect him; they have their ootton In shape;
weighed on tlie same scales ns the- merchant
buys; not subject lo mending, drnynge, etc. A
few days ago we saw tbe entire streets blockaded
with cotton, an:l on inquiry ascertained that
one of the livest business men of Hamilton bad
changed his plan of shipping nod that he bought
Ids cotton here an 1 sold il at the same place.
Shadrlck Ham ami Malis-a Metlee were duly
j lined in tile bond of holy wedlock this evening
m the court house, the justice if tho ponce for
Hamilton district performing the short but
pointed ceremony.
Hamilton must oe on a b
a circus and menagerie n
comber. A lingo crowd will witness the perform
ance. It ha- been quite an ego since a show was
here. The town has been posted and quite a
crowd daily gaze with wonder a the gaudy pie-
We arc to have
on tho 8d of Do-
turns <
i the
vails
Our now a id effi dent sheriff, Mr. Livingston,
is stirring considerably, trying to get the court
papers in shape, lie k also taking in boarders
at reasonable rides. He had tin acquisition to his
number Monday evening -one lias West-who
used ills knife a little too freely on Joe McKay
Sunday night, lie w-is tried before Justice
Harris and committed to jail in default of a 150
bond.
Mr. A. K. Truitt, our efficient clerk, has lately
laid his home entirely renovated and painted.
Ho dlsplavcu good taste in the changes made
H is dwelling now adds much to llu upponvauce
of that portion of our city. Wl.eu a burner makes
over six een bales of ootton on sixteen acres of
land ho can alfor 1 to tear down and fix up anew.
Lon makes a good clerk, a succor till farmer and
an excellent architect.
Arrival of the Msumer Smith.
The steamer Milton H. Smith arrived Thurs
day night. She brought TIH IjiiIuh of cotton, con
signed us follows: Slade -A, Iitheredge, 22; ltluoch-
«rd, Burr as & Co., 29; Geu. I’. Swift & Son, 111;
Carter A Bradley, 49; F. J. .leal-ins A Co., 27; Co
lumbus Fertilizer Cop-puny, 17; Flournoy A Upp
ing, Ml); Hatcher A Wilkerson, 2ii.
Her passengers were: Captain Geo. IT. White-
sides, Captain Dan Fry, Major 'Tom Robinson,
Hon. O. P. Durant, Jale Long, Apalachicola;
Mrs. Walter M. Howard, Miss Mary Lou How
ard, Miss Ora Soinm'rkainp, John Smith, tola;
James Mel).maid, J. Martin, Chattahoochee; J.
Bush, Neal’s lauding; A. M. Kimball, J. 1. Kil-
crease, W. II Carr, At. 1C. Haudsom, Gordon;
Miss Howard, Columbia; W. .1. Weller, Eufaula;
Mrs. Joiner, Florence; Patrick Henry, Lawson’s
landing, ten on deck. ,
a'Ji
maukki's hy ti:m:ukai»ii.
Flimndinl.
.London, November 26. I p. m.—Consols—
money 102 1-10, account 102%.
NKW YORK MO NBY MARKET.
Nhw York, November 20.—Noon—Stocks quiet
and firm. Money quiet, at 5orU per cent. Ex
change—Ion,* $4.81(8* 1.81' „ Hhcrt *1.81! ii.h4.84
Htate bomlH dull, Bteady. Government
dull, steady.
Nisw York, November 20.— Exchange at $4.80'...
Money 5'/j)7 per cent. Government bonds dull;
or cents 128 "
i dull, firm.
HUII-TRKA8UKY HALANCUfa.
Gold in the Sub-Treasury $.12o.909,000: currency
♦21,312,000.
STOCK MARKIN.
New Youk, November 20.—Tlie following were
closing quotations ol the stock exchange:
Ala class A 2 to 5.... 100!.
do class H 6.J 1U8
Ga 0’s
Ga 8's mortgage... \\ 11
N GO’S lil
do4's 09'i
S C con Brown 1 lo
Tonu. settlemT 3s
Virginia 0s '
Virginia consuls ..
OheaapMco a-. Ohio
Chicago Jc N. W
do preferred
Del. & Luck
Erie
East Te.m
Lake Shore
L. & N
Memphis & fJhar.
Mobile & Ohio....
C St N
, N. O. Loo. Iota
IN. Y. Central
I Norfolk .fcW’n pre..
Northern Pacilic...
do preferred
Pacino .Mail
„ Reading
17 Riel:. & Alleghany
.55 I lliuiuuoiid & Dan..
9 : j 1 Rich .v w. i'. Ter’l
119 H Ruck island
HI St. Raul
14CV 5 i do preferred
37 •„ Tottos Bundle
14'., Union Pacific
99 h N. d. Central
02-', Mis ouri Pnoillo
CU'.dWoMter.i Union....
21 * 11 Hid. \ Asked.
8D
28', |
« i
Cotfton.
Liverpool, November 20. -Noon. — Cotton
business good at unchanged rates; middling
uplands5 ;M0d, Orleans 5‘^d; sales 12,000 bales—
for speculation and export 20J0 bales.
Receipts 27,000 bales—American 2-1,800.
Futures quiet, steady, at the following quo
tations :
November 5 7-04d''i)5 8-04d
November and December 5 2-Old'w6 3-04d
December and January... 5 1-flhl
January and February 5 Hi id
February and March 5 2-H4d
March and April 5 3-04d^5 4-0-ld
April and May 5 IP)Id
May and June d
June and July 5 : 0 04d
'renders of deliveries for to-day's Hearing 1700
bales of new docket and 00 bales of old docket.
Sales of the week 09,000
American 53,000
Speculators Look 2,200
E x p o rts took 4,100
Forwarded from ship’s side direct to spin
ners
Actual export 4,100
Imports 170,000
American 150,000
Stock 480,000
American 313.000
Afloat 2-15,000
A inerican 229.000
2 i*. m.—Saies to-day include 9,000 bales ot
American.
Futures: November 5 7-64d buyers; November
and December. 5 3-04d sellers; December and
January, 5 l-04d valu-i; January and February.
5 l-01d' value; Feoruary and March, 5 2-04(1
buyers; March and April. 5 3-64(1 sellers; Apiil
and May, 5 0-0Id sellers; May and June, 5 8-04d
value; June and July 5 10-Old buyers. Futures
steady.
5:00 p. m. -November, 5 7-C4d buyers; Novem
ber and December, 5 3-Old sellers: December
and January, 5 1-Old buyers; January and Feb
ruary, 5 l-81d buyers; February and March,
5 2-54d sellers; Mureli and April, 5 4-Old sellers;
Aoril and May, 5 0-04d sellers; May and June,
5 8-0t(» sellers; June and July, 5 10-Old sellers.
Futures closed q uict.
London, November 20. -Imports into Great
Britain ol*cotton during past week were 179,379
Exports 13,302
Imports for tho year this 1‘ar have been.. 3,317,218
Exports for same period
New York, November 20. -Cotton market
steady; sales 213 bales; middling uplands at
9 3-16c, orleai.s 9) M e.
Consolidated not receipts 50,283 bales; export-
Great Britain 14,802, continent 6822. France 3597;
stock 910,854.
We Uv net receipts 2701, gross 71,-57; exports
to Great Britain 12,481, to Franco 1101. continent
13,715; sales 1,058; to spinners —; forwarded
—; stock 163.927.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
New York. November 23 -Net. receipts 410,
gross 9,259. Futures barely steady; sales 99,000
bales, as follows:
Weekly not receipts 41,430. gross 41,430; sale*
1' 121, exports t > Great Britain 27,763, continent
00.
Baltimore. November 26.—Cotter market
stiMuh: t.t 'Miine -9 1-J0e; net receipts 7?83, grow
3,M0: au lo- - sniun.Ts 00: slot k 11.8 2); .-^portal
» Gr r.i I .rdai.i 09. continent (.0.
Weekly net receipts 3020; gross 8,8-12; Hides ;
j to snlmievs 775; exports to Great Britain 0327,
continent 00.
Boston, November26.—Cotton quiet: middling*
9 5-lBc: net receipts 799 gross 599; sales 0; stock
00; exports to Greet Britain oo.
Weekly net receipts 27C1, gross 16,429; sales OK
exports to Great Britain 4415.
Wii.minoton. November 26.—Cotton firm;
middlings 8‘.je; net receipts 1232, gross 1132; sales
00: stock 23,381; exports to Great Britain 00
Weekly net receipts 9758, gross 9753; sales 00;
exports Great Britain 12.801.
Philadelphia.November20—Cotton firm; mid**
d I lags \r „c: net receipts 109. gross 070; sales 00;
stuck 19,862: exports to Great Britain 00.
Weekly net receipts2097, gross 5263; exports to
Great Britain 1801, continent 00.
Savannah. Gu., November 26.—Cotton market
•Heady, middling at Kv; net receipt* 870$,
eros* 8768 sales MOO; stock 140,631; exports to
Great Britain oo, to continent 00.
Weekly net receipts 48.747, gross 48,873; sale*
7.W; exports to Great Britain 20,000, France 00,
continent 8054.
Nesv Orleans. November 26. -Cotton market
linn; middlings H'^n; net receipts 14,5.70, gron*
15,914, baits 6700. .slock 284,381: exports to Great
Britain 00. to continent 00, France 00.
Weekly net receipts 86.815, gross 87,193; .sale*
31,709; exports to Great Britain 19,902; con Li nenk
17.373, Frunoe 8.799.
Moiulf., November 26.—Cotton market quiet;
middling.- 8’..o; net receipts26.76, gross 2656; sale*
1000; stock 26,003.
Weekly net receipts 10 922, gross 11,400; sales
3500; exports to continent. 00.
Memphis, November 26—Cotton market firm;
middling* 8'mc; receipts 6519; shipments 5343;
:des Ol). stock 147,624.
Weekly net receipts -45,717; shipments 29,885;
sales 12,800, to spinners 00. ^
Auovhta, (in., November 20. -Cotton steady,
quiet; middlings receipts 1446; shipments
Ot): sale- 1368; stock 15,805.
Weekly receipts 6786: shipments .7974; sales
4785- -spinnersOO.
Charleston, November 26.—Cotton market
firm; middlings at 8 11-lflc: net receipts 1710;
gross receipts 1710; sales 2800; stock Hi ,.‘>31; ex
ports to < Ireul Britain 00, to continent 00,
Franco 00.
Weekly net receipts 20,802. gross 20,802; sales
7500; exports to Great Britain 4516, France 00,
continent 7775,
Montgomery, November 26—Cotton steady;
middlings h 7-16c; weekly receipts 4761; shipment*
4920; stock this year 14,464, last year 11,990; sales
1970.
Macon, November 20—Cotton steady; middiinff
HV; recetpis 2002; sales 1821; stock this year 1989,
last year 6609; shipments 1753.
Nashville. November 26.—Cotton steady; raid*
dlings 8*«c; receipts 2762; shipments 1549; .sales
1690, stock 59; receipts this year 2318, lost year
8516
Fort Royal, November 26.—Weekly net re
ceipts 1112, gross 4086.
Rome, November 26.— Cotton steady; middlings
8‘^c; weekly receipts 3838; shipments 2073; stock
4018.
I’rovinloiRM.
Chicago. November 26.— Flour unchanged.
Cash quotations were as follows: Ales*
pork |9 75;a.9 97>£. Lard $5 92*^. Hhort rib sides
loose #5 35(o>5 60. Dry salted shoulders, boxed,
$5 lOui 5 20, short clear sides, boxed, f5 60(45 65.
Futures opened and closed at folio whig price*.
Highest. Lowest. Closing:
Mess Fork—November — $ $
December 9 72% 9 50 9 72%
January ... 10 52% 10 20 10 47%
February.. 10 65 10 65 10 35
Lard--November $
December 5 95 5 90 5 95
January 6 02% 6 00 0 02%
February 6 10 6 07% 6 10
Short ribs- January 6 32% 5 26 5 32%
February... 5 32% 6 35 35 5
March 5 45 6 40 5 42%
St. Louis, November 20.—Flour quiet, steady-
choice $3 25(d*3 40, family $2 55(42 70. Provisions
very dull but generiliy firmer: Mess pork
firm—$1 00. lard steady but unchanged—$5 90-
bulk meats firm—boxed lots, long clear sides
$5 35(u .7 45, short rib sides $5 40(«*5 45, short clear
sides 96 50(o 6 66, bacon easy—long clear $6 62%(#
0 76, short rib sides |6 87%: s/iort clear slaes
$7 OO-<i*7 10; Hams steady—9%(<$ll%c.
Louisville, November 20.—Provisions steady;
Bacon— shoulders nominal, clear ribs nominal,
clear sides |7 25. Bulk meats—clear rib sides
$6 00. clear sides $6 %c; mess pork $J0 50; lard
—choice leaf $7 60; hams, sugar-cured, $10 80.
New Orleans, November 26. — Rain checks
business. Rice—Louisiauua. fair to good 3(<u4%c.
Molasses—Louisiana open keitk, choice
40 •( 41e, prime 30 n,32c. goood common 20c; cen
trifugals, strictly prime 2426c, fair to prime
15a20u, good common l.T«il3%c, common I2*413c.
Syrup -Louisiana 25</t*25 ! %c.
Cincinnati, November 26.—Flour steady— fam
ily $3 i5'«.3 25. Porlc dull $19 (X). Lard steady—
prime steam $."> 92%'<v— Bulk meats steady—
boxed lots, long eleur $ , short rib sides
$5 62%. short clear sides $ . Bacon firm—
short rj\> sides 7 00, short clear sides $7 26; hams
fir
9*
IU
(■rail
Chicago. November 26.—Cash prices were a*
follows: .Vnent, No 2 Spring 73 ; H ''d74— ; No. 2
red wheat 7P.»c. Corn ,N ( )* 2 37—c. Oats
No. 2 26%c.
Futures ranged and closed at following prices:
Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat—November 74—c. 73;^c. 74c—
December 74j;,c. 78%c. 74%o
75 —c.
37%C. 36 %c.
37 %e.
37 •/.<!.
7472i
•4%o
36; bC
January..
Corn — November...
December 37% e. 36 %c. 36%c
January. 37%c. .‘I6%c. 37%c
May 42! .jC. 41;^. 42%c
Oats — November 20% c. 20%c. 2fiic
December 20%c. 26%c. 26%c
January 20%c. 26%c. 26%c
' May 80%c. 30/ y M o. 30 %c
Hr. Louis, November 26.—Wheat dull and
lienv No. 2 rod, cash 76 l .,e, November 76c, bid.
December 76'’nC, January 78 1 h'^78%c: Corn dull
but better No. 2 mixed, 31%e November 34%c
bid, December 3! M -V(i31-V(C, January 35%c. Oats
dull but firm and „c higher—No. 2 mixed, cash
27c, December 28%c bid.
Cincinnati, November 26.—Wheat dull—
No. 2 red (".78c. Corn in good demand -No. 2
mixed 38. Oats in good demand—No. 2 mixed
29 (ft 29%.
Louisville,November26.—Grain quiet: Wheat
- new No. 2 red 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed 38; whits
39c.: oats, No. 2 29c.
Niigutr nml Coffee.
New York, November 26.—Coffee, quiet Rio
firm - 13!mC; options fairly active but lower—
No. 7 Riu, November li 30<ull 10, December
1J 30o.11 35, January 11 BO'/11 10. Sugar, market
dull - fair to good refining 4' M ' /-4!|c; refined
steady -C Uh' ''4%o, extra C 4'; M .«*4 :, .|C. white
extra C 1 ,,c, btandard A 5 5-16o, cut loaf and
crushed 6 3-10“< 6( 4 c, powdered 5 15-10c«< 6%c,
granulated 5 1-10C,.
New Orleans, November 26.—Coffee demand
light, but holders firm Rio, cargoes, common
mon to prime 11(<^11!.|C. Sugar: Louisiana open
kettle, strictly prime 4 l-16o, common to lair
3:,, •3; m c, common 3'^3%o; Louisiana cen-
_ | white 5 3-10C, cln
yellow clarified
im»PL.\i.\us i.\ iiucis
A Hatch of lute*
M cut Ion.
Correspondence Enquirer-Sun.
Hamilton, Ga., November 24. -The weather in
our section has at last changed, and it seems
from present indications that a little dust will be
appreciated before it will be seen.
We saw in tlie Enquirer-Sun last spring where
a dog barked himself to death at the candidates.
If this be true, we feel sorry for tlie canine race
in Harris. Some one who lives where candidates
do not frequent would do well to lay in a good
supply, us Harris will offer a fine market alter the
January elections.
The “handsomest” man in the county i3 a can
didate for sheriff, and if he does not spend too
much of his time on his toilet, will be hard to
down.
We regret to learn that Dr. T. 8. Mitchell, of
our city, intends at no distant day to move his
accomplished family to Columbus. We thought
that tbe doctor was a fixture here, but it seems
we were mistaken; and while his move is our
9 6 y-100 «;9 70-106
9 7 7-1 (>•)'<&9 78-100
. 9 8>100"/,9 86-100
eport on cotton futur
Novi* nber 0 03-!0Q@9 01-100
December 9 O'i-lOO: • 9 07-100 j
January 9I0-10O'«9 17-100 ;
February 9 27-100^9 28-190 ,
March 9 38 10(K'« 9 39-100 \
April 9 l*-100<%9 49-100
May
June
July
August.....
Green & Co., ii
say: It was notice day for De ember contra *t
and the market started in with tbe usual upward
turn, and assisted by a few buying orders the
gain amounted to some 8<(.0 points. Notices,
however, were not very plenty, and a determina
tion to hold December for the present curtailed
the demand for later months, and at the close
tho market had settled off to only about 1 points
over Wednesday, with the tone slow.
Galveston, November 20.—Cotton dull; mid-
lings 8;.rtc; net receipts 0133, gross 6433; sales
2608: stock 91,216; exports to continent —, Great
Britain 00.
Weekly net receipts 38,788, gross 39,583; sales
7267; exports to continent 2516; to Great Britain
17,450.
Norfolk, November 26.—Cotton steady; mid
dlings 8%c; net receipts 4956, gross 4956; saies
—; stock 57,667; exports to Groat Britain 00,
to continent —.
Cincinnati, November 26. — Bugar steady,
unchanged—New Orleans 4%(ty5%c.
Chicago, November 21. — Bugar—standard A
5%e.
INisiu and
New Youk, November 20. -Rosin quiet—
hi.'■< ined 95c"t 1 05. Turpentine stead* —37c
K<
Wilmington, November 26 -Turpentine quiet
-81 %c. Rosin linn-- r,trained 75c; good50c. lar
firm -jI CO; crude turpentine firm Jiards $1 00,
j olio >v dip $1 'Jo, virgin $1 90.
Cuakleston, November 26.—Turpentine, steady
— ; v c bid- Iiosin firm —good strained 50c.
Wool ami HiileM.
New York, November 26.—Hides steady—New
Orleans selected, 1. ana 60 pounds, o ^«yl0o;
J'o.vus selected, 50 and 60 pounds, 10:, 10! ..o.
New York, November 26. Wool quiet and
firm— domestic fieece 30'q>38c, Texas 9-y25o.
Colton c<! Oil.
New Orleans. La*., November 26.—Cotton seed
oil 24(fr>26c; summer yellow 36'^37c. crude JM39C.
Cake and meal, long ton, $19 00(^20 00.
New York, November26.—Cottonseed oil, 24'£
26c for crude, 37 j 38c for refined.
Whisky.
Chicago, November26.—Whisky |1 18.
St. Louis.November26.—Whisky firm—$143.
Cincinnati, November 26.—Whisky steady at
$1 13.
Freights.
Nhw York, November 26.—Freights to Liv
erpool steady—ootton, per„steamer, 3-16^)13-644;
wheat, per steamer, 6%d.