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X DAILY ENQUIRER * SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1$8$. '<£ioluuilius<Eiu)ui«r-Sun. ^ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. 'Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The BNQUUM5R-3UN Is Issued every day, ex ensapt Moaday. The Weekly is Issued on Monday. The Deny (Including Sunday) Is delivered by . joarrlers In the city or mailed, postage free, to sub 'Scribers for <8e. per month, $2.00 for three . -months, $4,0* for six months, or $7.00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the kretty or nailed to subscribers, postage free, at a year. The Weekly is Issued on Monday, and is mailed > subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the ’ 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.