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DAILY ENQUIRER * SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1$8$.
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^ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD.
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ensapt Moaday. The Weekly is Issued on Monday.
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'Scribers for <8e. per month, $2.00 for three
. -months, $4,0* for six months, or $7.00 a year.
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kretty or nailed to subscribers, postage free, at
a year.
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> subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a year.
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’ l Sally at $1 per square of 10 lines or less for the
blast insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent
t insertion, and for the Weekly at |1 for each in-
'•eertion.
All communications intended to promote the
.private ends or interests of corporations, societies
"wr Individuals will be charged as advertisements.
CcQnelal contracts made for advertising by the
i rear. Obituaries will be charged for at customary
None bat solid metal cute used.
All communications should be addressed to the
i'. Suotnam-SuN.
Columbus business men are busy and
4 r.lieir operations so far this season have
■been very satisfactory.
The appearance of that deadly disease,
4 diphtheria, in so many sections of the
country iB a general warning for every
city and for every householder to clean
up. It is a disease whicli grows and
flourishes where there are uncleaned
streets and alleys, badly ventilated
. houses, foul sinks and vaults, and defi-
• cient plumbing. All these combined
■'don’t cost as much to remedy as doctors’
and undertakers’ bills, aside from the
" calamities to the homes.
The story that Bulgaria is Blinking
-about culling an American to the throne
i'J&as developed a great cloud of nomina-
ti tiens. There is scarcely a community
"thathas not half a dozen “statesmen”
■whom It would gladly send away to Bul
garia, or anywhere else, to get well rid of
-'■them. Even Columbus might spare one,
-'■ or nrvav be two, at the risk of leaving the
» city'.to run its affairs.
Newspapers since the death of Presi-
r dent Arthur occasionally revive the dis-
• cussion of the absolute retirement into
■which presidents of the United States
■ are forced by custom. With the excep
tion of John Quincy Adams and Andrew
■ Johnson, who was elected United States
■- senator, the example set has been one of
: rigid abstention from any interference or
participation in public affairs. The sug
gestion that ex-presidents should be
made life senators is growing common.
TIIK IIKiHKST LET Kb.
'According to a Chicago coteinporary, a
a minister in that city on Sunday last
found inspiration for an excellent sermon
in the want advertising of the Sunday
papers, which he described as a photo
graph of the axieties of life and an
■encyclopedia of its woes. He saw in
these advertisements a reflection of the
iucompetenoy of many, and inadequacy
of present methods of education, an ap
peal for greater interest in the new edu
cation repassented by the kitchen, gar
den, manual training schools, etc. When
a preacher is candid enough to throw off
• obstinate prejudice and find in the most
material department of a paper sugges
tions of sound moral philosophy, the im
pulse to a humane and humanity teach
ing sermon, it is surely possible for a
-free, wholesome mind to perceive the
■values to a great constituency of a paper
that aims to epitomize the best thoughts
af thinking men as well as chronicle the
ifaote of the huge, restless, ever doing
v* world.
In commenting upon this fact the idea
■is very appropriately suggested that the
■ Sunday newspaper with its directions
; and warnings, its ideas of beauty and
: truth us well as its pictures of folly, vice
and iniquity, reaches a groat class of
readers who are eager consumers of all
that is good and wholesome in its eol-
. umns, a class that is well nourished by
the food it there finds, and is better,
broader, stronger in morals and in tuind
for the acquaintance it lias with the Sun-
- day paper. If ministers better under
stood who are the readers of the Sunday
paper they would hesitate before con
demning it or preaching against it. The
.-Sunday paper is the most extensively cir
culated paper of the week, and it is es
sentially the home paper. It goes more
:nto the household than any other, nnd
it is, therefore, made more of a family
paper than any other. Its mutter is more
carefully selected, with a view to its in
fluence upon the home, and the editor
crowds into its columns the best things
. at his command.
The Sunday papermore than any other
reflects the character of the community;
the daily paper is surrendered to the
pressure of current events; the other is a
thing largely of choice and selection,
made use of in a way to please the
patrons who determine by their support
the quality and tone of their paper. But,
aside from a question of personal preju
dice, it is too late to resent the Sunday
paper. It is an established foot, establish
ed upon popular desire, in obedience to
a growing demand; and the tiling to be
considered is not how successfully to op
pose it, but how best to make it service
able in the struggle of civilization with
inoral, physical and mental depravity.
WIIAT IS MAXI
Anthropology is a fascinating, study.
Man is the capstone in the architecture of
creation, lie is the only animal in the
Creator’s image. Of all creatures his eyes
alone turn upward, indicating that the
earth is not “his only abiding place."
Even the created angels cannot claim pre
cedence overman until the Deity has died
for them. All sub-creation is surrendered
to his service. If lie is a wayward child,
his Father has built the universe for lii«
play house, and given him a title to its
temples of immortality. Before ever the
dry land was formed, ortho waters had in
habited the many-eaved deeps, and while
abstract omnipotence hung out over im
mensity like a brooding wing, even then
man, that was yet to be, was the central
idea of that God whose every thought is
a glittering star.
Viewed in one light man is an infinite
speck in tho million-miled vastness of
creation; viewed in another, he is
the axis on which all created matter
wheels. When thegreat psalmist of all the
ages was led captive by his fears, and
stood on the flat roof of his house-top
that night in Jerusalem gazing at tho
firmament above him, in which the blue
waB blotted out with stars, inspired by
his evil forebodings he exclaimed:
“When I behold the heavens,the work of
thy fingers, and the moon and the stars
which thou hast ordained, what is man
that thou art mindful of
him or the son of man
that thou visitest him?" But the same
querulous spirit learned later that God
was “a very present help in time of
need;” and when his hands were grown
clammy with age, and his cold feet were
feeling slowly for the unseen paths in
the valley of the shadow of death, amid
the red flashing sunset of life that im
parted unnatural and mystical lore, he
cried out in an anthem of victory that is
echoing yet, “Thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me.”
Man is a creature of such over-tower
ing importance that if Christ had been
making a world, when blind Bartimeas
cried, Ho would have stopped, to open
the beggar’s eyes. And man’s
asserted insignificance will ever
remain a paradox, as long as
the beautiful truth abides that He who
piled the immemorial mountains in their
quenchless grandeur around us, who
walled in the universe with a stockade
of worlds, and who shoots His showery
storms of stars athwart the midnight
sky, is the same God who counts the sick
infant’s pulse-beats, and covers the backs
of the shivering poor.
The soul of man is the indestructible
jewel over which a divided universe is
warring.
"Hell moves below to work His death,
Heaven stoops to give Him life."
The possibilities that lie dormant in
man are stupendous and infinite. But
they are curtained by an unlifting fog
which no eye has ever pierced
and no wing has ever cleaved. The grave
iH the womb through which man is born
into life. This world is but the vestibule
of existence. We must walk its glitter
ing aisles hereafter, and gaze upon the
scenery and listen to the music which
"eye hath not seen and ear hath not
heard.” The rude philosophy of every
age lias shattered its own maxims in at
tempting to describe the future of man.
But the pictures it has drawn are but
the reflex of its own fleshly desires. j
The Koran promises the desert-parched j
Aral) a paradise of fountains and fruits
and liouris. The tradition of the ab
origine assures him an in
heritance of happy hunting grounds !
whore no pale face ever approaches to !
molest him or make him afraid. These
are but the dreams of an innocent super
stition. They are salty and unsatisfying
to the soul. It was left for our own in
finite gospel to give us the <jnly glimpse
of man’s future we have. It is only a
glimpse, but it is a glimpse into the.
“light of the perfect day.” Our gospel
rising above the sensual instincts of an
earth-burdened philosophy describes
man’s future as a condition and not a lo
cality.. It required inspiration to divine
that it matters not so much where we are
as what we are. Man’s condition after
death is his chief concern. And even
inspiration’s only hint to the faithful, is
that we shall then be more like Jesus.
Here we must let tho curtain fall, but
let it fall to the music of one. promise
that descends from the heavens like a
dove. “It doth not yet appear what
manner of men we shall be; but we know
that when He shall appear that we shall
be like Him for we shall see Him as He
is.”
God help the man whose heart does
not cry out amen! to the sentiment, “I
shall be satisfied when I wake in thy
likeness.” And we’ll wake again some
day, though we sleep a quad
rillion of years. We may go
as a mite to swell the con
quering empire of dust; and
cities may build and decay above our
weed-grown graves. But if we die in the
fold and the faith, we are one of the
King’s buried jewels—more precious to
him than any that ever rattled in the
coffers of Croesus, and lie will come and
take us home with him by and by if lie
has to “burn the world and sift the
ashes” to find us.
DON'T SHDN THE NEWSPAPERS.
When a man is appointed to a position
on the police force in an American city
the first tiling taught him is to keep to
himself information of all crimes that
come to his knowledge. He is especially
cautioned against giving any pointers to
reporters, on the theory that it will he
impossible to catch a criminal If the pa
pers niako known theSftict of the crime.
This is the antediluvian position occupied
by the average police captain and by a
great many other people as well. Once
in awhile—not a very great while, either
—something occurs which proves how
fallacious this idea is. Recently an El-
mira, N. Y., woman was robbed of her
watch and diamonds, and the police
were instructed not to let
the newspapers hear of the mat
ter. Tlie woman spent a round sum
of money with a clairvoyant, who sent
her on a wild-goose chase after her prop
erty, which, of course, she didn’t find.
Then a reporter heard of the robbery and
published the details. The police were
wrathy and so was the woman, the latter
writing an impudent letter to the news
paper, claiming that the publication
would warn the thief and make it impos
sible for her to recover her watch and
diamonds. The same <lay that this let
ter was printed, the stolen articles were
returned by a young man who had
bought them of an acquaintance, the lat
ter claiming that they were the property
of a deceased relative. There are detec
tives who do not detect, and policemen
who do not protect, but the newspaper
is better in both these lines than a very
large majority of those who are paid for
trying to fill the positions.
Another contest for a seat in the New
Jersey legislature is announced. So many
close votes occurred in New Jersey at the
late election that no doubt tho next elec
tion will show a much fuller vote. Those
who have been indifferent to the high
privilege of the elective franchise will feel
that an individual vote is oftentimes of
more importance than they are willing
to accord it. .
General Lor,an says that “no man can
tell what time will bring forth in poli
ties.” Quite t-ue; and it is just possible
that it is on this distressing uncertainty
that the general bases his highest hopes.
SPECIAL SALLE
-OF-
MILLINERY!
A Week of the Greatest Bargains Ever Offered
I2ST THIS ZLiIHSriEj,
Commencing Monday, December 6th, and Continuing. Through
the Week.
We are overstocked, in fact we have twice as many goods
as we ought to have this time of year, and we will offer our
stock next week at New York cost in order to reduce it.
Each special line will be sold at the reduced prices only on
particular days, as below specified :
On Monday and Tuesday, De
cember 6th and 1th.
We will offer our entire stock of UN
TRIMMED HATS and BONNETS at
New York cost or less.
60 Dozen FELT HATS, our $1 00 goods,
will be reduced to 66 cents.
60 Dozen best imported FUR FELTS,
usual price $1 60 and $1 75, will be sold at
$1 00 each.
50 Dozen Ladies’ and Misses’ STRAW
HATS, colored and black, in good shapes,
new goods, at 26 cents; worth double and
thribble.
Misses’ and Children’s Trimmed and
Untrimmed STRAWS and FELTS, all in
cluded iu the great reduction; but remem
ber that it is positively for two days only.
WISE BN1) ALCOHOL.
For the Enquirer-Sun.
Martin Luther .had some vagaries that
have been zealously preserved. He said
who has never loved wine, woman and
song lives a fool his life-long. He might
have hedged this dictum about with the
addition that it is well enough, however,
not to allow the passion too great play in
any of the trilogy, for they are all admi
rable when the reins are drawn tight and
kept well in hand. These three factors
seem to run through all human dealings,
and as musicians speak, wine, woman and
song are the motif for most earthly ac
tions the very color and life of nations
depending on them, from Helen and Ham
to Lola Montez. It is, indeed, singular
enough, how wine seems to awaken plum-
bering powers that threaten to live unseen.
See how often the prodigal in. wine at
last turns o#t to be the paragon.
Glance at history, and this repeats
itself fTom Paul to Small. It
is a profound mistake to think wine is
only alcohol and water. Wine closely re
sembles animate creation. It is possessed
of youth, maturity, old aee. It is whim
sical, fretful, buoyant, sparkling, given to
disease, redolent with sweet breatb, bois
terous in barrel and bottle. I’ve watched
the chiefs of the cellars along the Rhine
inspecting the barrels. Here a barrel is
discovered suffering from measles, say;
there another foaming like an epileptic;
yonder, another in a genuine
hysterical convulsion. These must all
be put in the hospital for sick wine; the
clothes must be changed by putting into
new barrels; sun-baths are ordered, or the
cold water cure practiced, while appro
priate remedies are administered. There
is, too, a nobility in wine just as in aniihals.
We look with awe-inspired eyes upon an
elephant. He is nature’s pet child of all
creation. His life is the longest by far. So,
too, with wine. There are short-lived
and long-lived wines. Burgundy is
less aromatic, less powerful, weaker,
shorter-lived than the potent Bordeaux
ladcned with the most enticing bouquet.
To bring about an enlightened maturity,
these wines are often sent, as parents are
wont, often with their children, to distant
parts. Wines, then, are made up of ethers,
tannin, tartrates, etc., etc. Alcohol vanes
in different wines, ranging from 7 to 20
per cent. Madeira, port and maiaga con
tain about 20 per cent., and must be
touched sparingly, for they are verily
gouty. Margaux, Lalitte, C'hablis, the de
licious, contain only 8 per cent., and would
have tickled even Timothy.
Wines that contain more than 20 per
cent, of alcohol should not be sold, for
they are fabricated. Wines thus aleho-
holized and colored with fuchsin or log
wood entail deplorable consequences on
public health, and we see the fruit of the
abundant consumption of strong drinks in
the grave disorders of the nervous system
now so prevalent. Red wine is red be
cause it lies in the grape hulls and pulp,
and it contains tannin, making it the tonic
par excellence. Whitewines contain little
tannin, but much potassic tartrate, which
renders them highly diuretic, and even
Hippocrates noted their action ou the kid
neys.
The tart Rhine wines, when diluted with
seltzer or apollinaris, constitute an agreea
ble beverage and possess undoubted prop
erties beneficial to the kidneys Cham
pagne, type of the effervescent wines, ren
ders us important service in medicine. By
the carbonic acid it contains, which is in
timately combined in the wine, cham
pagne hiis a wonderful calmotive ac
tion on the mucous membrane
of the stomach. Here we often And
nothing so good as iced champagne, whose
effects not seldom are marvelous. For
gouty subjects cider is the only beverage
that can conscientiously be recommended.
The salts of potash render it highly active
on the intestinal canal as well as kidneys.
Of whisky I say nothiug, as I do not be
lieve alcohol can conservatively be con
sumed in that high power.
Wednesday, December 8th.
On this day we will offer our magnificent
line of FANCY FEATHERS, BIRDS.
WINGS, also OSTRICH TIPS and
PLUMES at
NEW YORK COST.
Come and see whether these bargains
On Friday. December 10th,
We will put the knife into our entire
stock of
PLAIN AND STRIPED VELVETS,
PLAIN AND FIGURED PLUSHES,
Plain and Brocaded VELVETEENS,
ASTRAKHANS, SILKS, SATINS,
Also BLACK CRAPES.
These goods are suitable not only for
Millinery, but for Dress Trimmings, and
any one in need of any of them can save 50
per cent by buying them at Bougliton’s on
Friday, December 10th, one day only.
Saturday, December 11 th,
* •
WILL BE RIBBON DAY. .
Grandest bargains in these goods ever
shown in Columbus. We expect to sell
half our stock on this day ; but we would
rather have the money than the Ribbons.
If any lady in Columbus needs any Ribbon,
or will need any during the whole season,
she had better come and buy it of us on
are genuine or not; but remember it is this day. All our elegant IMPORTED
for one day only. RIBBONS will be sold at cost with the
rest of the entire stook,
ONE DAY ONLY.
We will also include in this day’s bar
gains our stock of HAT ORNAMENTS,
PINS, BUCKLES, JET ORNAMENTS,
BALL PINS, BEADS, BEADED GUIMPS,
Imported Jet Trimmings suitable for
Dress Trimmings, one day only.
Thursday, December 9th.
All of our TRIMMED HATS and BON
NETS, including the patterns that we
have left: also INFANTS’ PLUSH AND
VELVET CAPS, HOODS, BONNETS, Ac.
Every buyer of Millinery should visit our store every day
through the week. You cannot afford to miss the oppor
tunity.
BOUGHTON & CO.,
JOSEPH’S OLIO ST-A^nsriD.
The Red Star Store.
The rumor that we are going to remove to Birmingham is
a mistake. If business would continue all the* year round
the same as the .past month, we have a bonanza here without
going away to hunt it. The future of Columbus bids fair to
be substantially, brilliant, and those who stick to her will
reap a rich reward.
NEW ARRIVALS:
Men's Kid Gloves, Men's Driving Gloves, Ladies’ Driving
Gloves, Boys' Hats, Boys’ and Girls’ Nancy Lees.
For Christmas - Presents!
Elegant Silk Umbrellas; new designs in Plush Fancies;
Extra Fine Walking Canes, &c., &c.
IMIAlTR/IECIEID -HDOWnST.
DRESS GOODS, WRAPS and WALKING JACKETS. Clothing at Cost and a
Waterbury Watch thrown in with every Overcoat and Suit.
TO ARRIVE : A lot of Misses’ and Ladies’ Gassamer Rubber Circulars that will
not leak. Also Men’s Rubber Coats of Heavy Drill and Duck.
LADIES’ KID GLOVES at 37c, 50c a d 88c. I am now having a lot of Black Kid
Gloves made that will surpass anything ever shown in Columbus before for the prieq ;
soft and elastic, and sold for less than one dollar!
Until after Christmas this store will be kept open until 9
o'clock every evening. *
O. C. JOHNSON.
EMPIRE STABLES.
SUCCESSORS TO
JOHN DISBROW & CO.,
East Side of First Ave., between 12th and 13th Sts.
New and Nobliy 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.
Q-Tcleplione Mil. 58. oc31 dly
FI! FI!! FI!!!
E,
Fire Insurance free for one year. By paying two annual premiums I give you a paid
up three-year policy. $8 will pay for $1600 a year. $16 will pay for $1600
three years on your Dwelling, Furniture, etc.
LOW BATES! FAIR ADJUSTMENTS! PROMPT PAYMENTS!
JOHN BLACKMAR
Telephone No. 51.
Columbus, Ga.
Description of Prisoners Escaped
From Muscogee'County Jail,
November 7th, 1886.
JOS FPU B. JENKINS, (white,)-® feet eleven
Inches high, weight about lltt pounds, dark
swathey complexion, dark hair, small dark mus
tache, large gray eye, stoop shouldered, very pro.
fane in conversation.
WILLIAM COURTNEY, (white,)~about 21 or
22 years of age, 8 feet 0 or 10 Inches in height
about 160 pounds in weight, dark hair, small
moustache and very black eye.
ALLEN HOOD, (col.) alias DOC BROOKS—
Black, about 160 pounds, 6 feet 6 or 8 inches in
height, some front teeth out, scar under left eve
SIP WILLIAMS, (col.)—5 feet 8 or 9 inchei
high, will weigh 176 pounds, dark ginger-cake
color; dark spots on fees; hangs hi®head while
talking.
WILLIS McAFEE, (col.,)—5 feet 9 inches in
height, weight about 126 pounds; brown black
color, long m, ustaclie for a negro; quick spoken-
sharp features; talks low; has served five years
in Georgia penitentiary from Liberty county, Q»
Fifit.v dollars each will be paid for the deliveiy
of the above described prisoners to any jail, to be
delivered to the authorities of the county of Mus
cogee in said state of Georgia. Wire or write to
JOHN H. PALMER,
Chief of Police, Columbus, Go.
A reward of fifty dollars each, In addition to the
above is offered by the jailer of the County ot
Muscogee, for Jenkins or Courtney. nov21dlm
Maple Syrup and Sugar;
New Buckwheat and Fancy Patent Floor;
Mince Meat, Jellies and Preserves;
New Mackerel j
Thurbefs Deep Sea Codfish.
GREEN and DRIED FRUITS.
New Currants, Seedless Raisins, Citron,
Candied Lemon and Orange Peel, 4
Evaporated Raspberries and Pears,
Dried Pitted Cherries, Huckleberries
and Prunes.
Oranges, Lemons and Apples.
Fancy Dark Cranberries.
OJLUsnsriEID Q-OOIDS.
A varied assortment of extra fine and standard
goods as is in the city.
FARINACEOUS GOODA, Etc.
New Meal from this year’s corn, Pearl Grits,
Granula, Cracked Wheat, Shreaded Gate,
Steamed Oat Meal, Split Peas, Green Peas, Sago,
Tapioca, Manioca, etc.
Fine Flour, Sugars, Coffees and Teas,
Ferris k Co.’s Breakfast Bacon and Bams.
J. J. WOOD,
1026 Broad Street.
Bates' Brick Yard,
24 AORBS,
FOR SALE.
A LSO Brick Machinery (Sword Improvedi; En
gine, 16-horfe power; Drays, Carts, and every
thing connected with making of btick, in com
plete running order; Stables, Barns, Tenant
Houses, and large commodious sheds. Capacity
30,000 a day. Present owner sold .3,000.000 last
S ear, with an increasing trade. Present price of
rick delivered is $6 a thousand., The plant will
be sold for less than cost. Ten acres of the 24
front on the commons, and are valuable building
lots. Joining this place on the west is the prant
of Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, made by
the city to that railroad. A side track across the
yard has been promised by the railroad. The
Columbus and Florida Southern survey also
passes through the yard, giving it connection
with all the railroads of the state. No drayago
is necessary iu shipments. The clay of this yard
is celebrated for its good quality, and will last 25
years, 5,000,000 a year. This property will be sold
for less than cost. Call and see me, or write for
farther particulars. It will prove the best paying
business you can engage m. No limit to its
growth.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Real Estate Agt, Columbus.Ga.
se wed fri tf
SOULE REDD. J. C. HA!
Soule Redd & Co
M
Brokers, Real Estate and Fire Insurance Agents.
1036 Broad Nt. Telephone 35.
Must be sold this week: Six well renting
Houses in Browneville.
City and Suburban Property for sale and rent.
Stocks and Bonds bought and sold.
Let us insure your houses. ocl7 dly
for Rent.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Real Estate Agent, Columbus, Ga.
se wed&fri tf
ELECTION NOTICE.
WHERE will be an election held at the different
A court grounds in each militia district of said
county of Muscogee on Saturday, the 1st day ot
January next, for two Constables for each dis
trict, according to the statute.
This December 4th. 1880.
dtd F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary.
R EGULAR MEETING to-morrow (Monday)
evening at 8 o’clock. Transient brethren in
good standing are cordially invited to attend.
J. F. WISE, N. G.
F. W. LOUDENBER. Sec’y. mb28sely
l\/| ANHO 0 Dti m^PjT.Pt R§ °im p r uclenva
|f | cAUblng Premature Decay, Nervous Debility,
Lost Mauhood, etc., having tried in vain every
known remedy, has discovered it simple self-cure,
which he will send FREE to his fellow sufferers.
Address, C. J. MASON, P, o! Box 81T«, New York City.
8c2oeod&wly
1¥T ANTED—Lady, active and intelligent, to
ff represent, in nor own localitj.au old firm.
References required. Permanent position and
E°J?JOhSsON, Manager, 16 Barclay St., N. Y.
nov9 iulm.