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DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10. 1886. Coimn!m5C«i|uira*Sim. | TIIK f'OSTKNf TIRTTUM.Y OVKU. j Condnaioni-, reached from neWHjiaper pnldicationH nmde by (ionorul K. 1*. Alex- mr aipier, together with facts which are ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. | esteemed as reliable, lead to the belief ... . .! that the contest for the presidency of the ’ (Vntrnl railroad is virtually over, and Daily, Weekly and Sunday, t that General Alexander is defeated. That | (ienerul Alexander himself believes this The ENQUIRER-SUN Is Issuod every day, ex sept Monday. The Weekly is Issued on Monday. The Daily (including Simdayi is delivered by oerrieri in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub ■cribers for 75c. per month, fti.OO for three month., $4.00 for six months, or $7.00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the oity or mailed to subscribers, postage tree, at #1.00 a year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily at |1 per square of 10 lines or less for the ■rst insertion, and 50 oents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at |1 for each In- ■ ertion. All communications intended to promote the {private ends or interests of corporations, societies tsr individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special oontracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary None bnt solid metal cuts used. All communications should be addressed to the Hirquiaan-SoN. A orrat many men, who themselves are prominent, seem to think that Presi dent Cleveland is a bigger man than they supposed. Ik consistency is u jewel, St. Louis is not a very inrge stockholder in the jew elry business. That city kicked desper ately against the ballet, but turned out the biggest house of the season to see the ballet kick. It is an old saw that the “hair of the dog is good for his bite.” Whether the South Carolina legislators think so or not, they propose to put a tax on dogs in order to raise a sufficient income to sup port the Farmers’ college. Some one has remarked that a whole row of Toledo girls removed their hats at the theatre the other night. This shows conclusively that it is not the biggest cit ies in the country that have the most eliteness. As Mrs, Cleveland has ad mitted the justico of ladies removing their tall hats on such occasions, it is hoped this fashion will prevail. Secretary Whitney makes u very good ^suggestion when tie recommends that a way be opened for deserving naval ap prentices to win by merit commissions as officers in the navy. It would be a good thing for the hoys, and would be a useful lesson to sueh snobbish quarter deck officers as ignore or affect to look down upon the engineer officers educated in the same school as themselves. A little infusion of apprentice blood in that ex clusive circle might make it move demo cratic and American. is plainly indicated in the interview pub lished in the Enquirer-Si - n yesterday morning. While General Alexander virtually ad mits his defeat, he does not how grace fully to the inevitable, nor does he, in our opinion, attribute it to the proper cause. “The refusal of the hoard to allow us access to the list of stoekhol 'ers,” says he, “and the impression that there was really to be no contest conveyed to many by a circular letter sent to every stockholder by the president, with a re quest for proxies, may possibly defeat me at the election in January." It may be that General Alexander thinks that this will be the cause of his defeat, but in our judgment it has little to do with it. brokers had more railroad stock thun they cared to carry. In order to dispose of it to the best advantage it became nec essary for them to create a stir or a sensa tion in the market. With the most flat tering assurances of hiH success, General Alexander was persuaded to enter a con test for the presidency. The fact that Sirs, tireen’s stock could lie procured for [ him, that the brokers would give him their undivided support, and that his friends would be even more firm to him than they were four years ago, was an al luring bait, and General Alexander bit. but there was a miscarriage in the plans mapped out and he will be no stronger, if as strong, as he was in the election held four years ago. These are conclusions as we draw them from General Alexander’s own publica tions. We candidly admit, however, that we are in possession of information of sucli u character as to lead to hucIi con clusions had not he published a line in regard to the contest. We have no de sire to do General Alexander any injus tice and this information would not have been used had not, lie paved the way for it. When some of his friends declined to support him upon the ground that their voteH had been premised to the present management, it seems that Gen. Alexander did not take it that they, at least, preferred an administration in which they had the utmost confidence to one that must necessarily be in a large measure an experiment. In this con nection we quote from aSavannah stock holder in a letter under date of the Hth inst.: “Gen. Alexander’s supporters in Savannah are well known speculators. However, It is true that they have succeeded in convincing a few of our business men of the plausibility of their scheme, which, in spite of ail that has been published con cerning It, is still vague. Gen. Alexander, if elected, will be compelled to cut short all new enterprises and investments for this company in order to make good his obligations. His greedy friends will be howling for unheard of dividends. They will own large blocks of stork and compose the board of directors, and will mercilessly con trol him. The cry for dividends will grow louder and louder, ami the net proceeds of the company will be distributed among them. This company stands alone to-day throughout the south one larvc number of gigantic organ I/.a- business on a large settle in which he is a partner, ami for the expenses of which he has to pay his share, which will he greater or less according to the fitness, capacity an.1 fidelity of hi» agents, who are the officials he and his neighbors and fellow-townsmen select to transact it. Ilia profits are whatever return begets in the peace and safety of his home, family and possessions; honest custody of the public money, the advantage of proper high ways, waler, gas, and other conveniences, of the best available quality and at. fair honest cost; grod schools lor his children, provision for the poor, good service in all the public offices—the very best, that can be had. Some of these the taxpayer gels, lie is entitled to all of them and will get them if he persists in voting for the best men to fill the offices, and apply to the choice ■ of their public agents the same common sense rules they act upon in other and far less important concerns. Having failed in their attempt to pros trate their local grand jury to partisan purposes, the republican managers at Indianapolis are now making another despe'ate attempt in the United States courts. If they do not steal a United States senator it will not be from lack of energy. Mut tile night Spirit. The Augusta Chronicle says that “Chattanooga eagerly grasps at any article that deprecates Birmingham.” What is the matter with our esteemed Tenues- SPECIAL S-A-LIEI -OF- MILLINERY! A Week of the Greatest Bargains Ever Offered DUST THIS 3LI2STE,. Commencing Monday, December Will, 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 specitied : On Monday and Tuesday, De cember Will and 7th. We will offer our entire stock of UN- see eotemporaries, any way? The mere mention I Xew^YoriPeoS or'fess B0NNETS at of Birmingham almost frightens tho Nashville |. 50 Dozen FELT HATS, our $1 00 goods, American into a spasm. Taking hia cue from I will be reduced to 35 cents, that most excellent, but easily frightened I 50 Dozen best imported FUH FELTS, journal, a Nashvillian thus pawsarouud : ! usual Drive ft 60 and fl 75, will be sold at No doubt the American did “boom” Binning- I ft 00 each, hain to the extent warranted by I he facts, but ate | 50 Dozen Ladies’ and Misses’ STRAW not these men who are climbing over each other , HATS, colored and black, in good shapes, ^u^atock in the various enterprises inaugu- new goods, at 25 cents; worth double and The ship of 42,(>()() acres of land in one body in Tallahatchie county, in the Yazoo Delta, Miss., to a Chicago capital ist, is announced. This is perhaps the ridlest cotton laud in the world, and is ° f reached both bv river and rail. It is pro- | tious in itfl on fiflaiilH,v. Planned by our ... i forefathersand managed by wise and conserva- ' tee.led against Is by the levees along ; tivc b 19tncas mcn it tfVday n K ,. an(l 8UCCeKSi I the MiriHMnippi river, ililtl P8 long «* these and Georgians made it so. It is the richest of’ feT*e maintained the productive eupueity j all your possessions, and is the most valuable in- ; «f like land seems to be unlimited. These I heritanee that yon can bestow upon the rising i - . ... . . . is, generation. General Alexander’s udiuinistra- lauds are rapidly coining into market tion , oonlro „ e j ash0 won)d be and entertaining 1 and Will in the near future bo an impor- 1 ideas ami hopes that lie and his friends indulge taut factor in the yield of the south's ill, would he reckless and suicidal in this clay of [ im*Jlt Staple I new 1 merpr bcs, vigorous competition and low j — - - - i rales. The small stockholder will soon disap- ■ The question as to wlmt to dof with I f ear in Ueor «, , “' The president's office will ibid ; . . . .. .. . . 1 its way to Wall street, and the Central of Georgia. COllVIutM is HHdCItllip: itself ill other I whioh , quoting fYom Jim Sit aw, is the best dirt j •outlierllstates beside(horgia. Ill South : road in the United Slates, will be a rgia in- 1 Carolina the legislature hits taken hold | atitution only in name.” \it tor the purpose of diminishing the j number of convicts in the state pimiten- j tiury, and for t he further purpose of j tiuving the roads worked. A hill has | lieen introduced looking to this end, and from this distance, both look as though they wore good things. The bill pro poses to semi all prisonous in the peni tentiary sentenced for one year or a less time to the county jails and vests the jpower in tlie county authorities to put them at work on the county roads. As was suggested by the Knquirkk-Siw a few days ago, this has its drawbacks, but it might bo made very elloctivo in re constructing the roads. The natural resources of the south arc strikingly illu -trutod by tho figures of the increased coal output from the Alabama mines as shown in the report of the state geologist sent in to the legislature a few days ago. It is only iil’tcon years since the beginning of the coal mining industry in Alabama. In 1S80 the total annual output had reached 0--/J0I tons. This had been increased in ISSo to 1?,225,- OOO tons, six-sevenths of which came from what is known as the Warrior coal field, comprising an area two-thirds as large as the coal area of Great Britain. That the coal deposits of Alabama have only been sampled at a few points is apparent if the estimates of the state geologist of the resources of this single tield are to be relied on. Ho claims that there are 100,000,000,000 tons of available coal of excellent quality in this deposit alone, the value of which is vastly in creased by its proximity to vast deposits of iron ore. rated by the Alabama people doing the same thing far more effectually and substantially than any newspaper can possibly do? And by so do ing ain’t they damaging the future growth and prospects of Nashville to an extent that ail the newspapers in the city cannot counteract? Birmingham wants the world, and if the moneyed men of Nashville and the rest of the country keep on “booming” her with their money and their business confidence as they are now doing, by the time she is half as old as Nashville now is Nhe will have about all of it that is worth anything to Nashville’s trade and manufacture. If a city is on a boom in the south, and that boom helps to build up the south, all hands should wish it prosperity. But men should not live in a city, and live off the people, then give their own city a black eye by investing the money olsewhe’e that they have made among their home people. Hard times never prevents Santa Claus from going about. If he cannot afford a grand piano he may leave a mouth harmonica. Our brethren of the Griffin press should not let their angry passions rise, but take editor Black burn’s advice, which runs thusly: Let each of them stop his foolishness and con clude that this world, even the little portion of it called Griffin, is amply large enough tfSr both of them to live together in, and if they can’t thus live without one of them accusing the other of theft, and the latter denouncing the former as a liar, just resolve never to speak or write of each other again. Naturally a man named Greenleaf might be a vegetarian, and a vegetarian of that name makes Harvard college happy by the information that it will get three or four hundred thousand dollars from his estate. He lived in a country village the life of an anchorite, a nd accumulated a large j property. What is still more remarkuble than the legacy, however, is that Gieenlcaf died at the ripe age of 96, having raised, for many yaars, | in his own little garden, the ' principal pail if not the whole of his food. Such testimony in support of Francis Newman's 1 theory for the diet of advancing years is i worth nearly as much to Harvard’s science as I the money. This t-lrange old fellow, who used i to deny himself all luxuries, had eccentric ideas , concerning property Ho divided the poor into three classes: the Lord’s poor, who were the vie- ’ tuns of disastrous circumstances: the devil’s • poor, made poor by their own lollies and ex travagance, and the poor devils who were too j buy to work. This came with lair grace from a > man who hud proved that he could support life 1 far into the ninth decade on potatoes, beans and cabbage grown by himself. thribble. Misses’ and Children’s Trimmed and Untrimmed STRAWS and PELTS, all in cluded in the great reduction ; but remem ber that it is positively for two days only. 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 are genuine or not; but remember it is for one day only. On Friday, December 1 Oth. We wili put the stock of knife into our entire 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 Boughton’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 this day. All our elegant IMPORTED RIBBONS will be sold at cost with the rest of the entire stock, ONE DAY ONLY. We will also include in this day’s bar gains our stock of HAT ORNAMENTS, All of our TRIMMED HATS and BON- PINS, BUCKLES. JET ORNAMENTS, NETS, including the patterns that we BALL PINS, BE ADS, BEADED GUIMPS, have left: also INFANTS’ PLUSH AND Imported Jet Trimmings suitable for VELVET CAPS, HOODS, BONNETS, &c. Dress Trimmings, one day only. Thursday, December 9th. The national banks are still in a state of extreme consternation that neither the president nor the secretary of the treasury had anything*to say about their "relief." TIIK cm KliKCTIOM to-morrow. The municipal election, in which six aldermen, clerk of council, marshal, sex ton and some other city officials will he chosen, takes place to-morrow. Though there are opposing candidates, (lie can vass has been very quietly conducted and in a pleasant way. The candidates have ail had their say, so to speak, and now the time has come for the citizens of Columbus to do a little talking. In lliis the KsijvUURU-Srx proposes to throw out i a few suggestions. Ii is in its business and comm m sense aspect that voters should consider the whole matter of municipal elections, and act accordingly. Personal ami private ■ affairs have no honest place in conducting the affaire of the city government. The fact that a man is for or against the eow running ut large, is or is not a knight of labor, should not be thrust in where it does not belong. Many cities through out the country have paid heavy cost for their preference for machine-made can didates carried into office, under no greater influence than the cow question in Columbus. It is true that nothing of the kind lias occurred here, and we trust it will not. If there is a candidate or candidates who, by good service or by good repute, are entitled to endorsement this should not be withheld only when it is made apparent that there is a better man offering for the place. The name, and the wards of the candidates have been placed before people, and now selec tions should he made in accordance with the proper fitness of tilings. This is the way for the citizen to think of the matter, when lie is considering for whom he ought to vote. He should ap ply to the city’s business precisely the same sound rules of action he would in any other important affair of life. The city’s business is, in fact, his business—a ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. / « KORGI A, MUSCOGEE COUNTY-By virtue ' 1 of an order of the Ordinary of said county, .will be sold on Monday, the 20th day «.f Decem ber, 1886. b tween tho hours of 11 o’clock w m and l o'clock i> m, at the Kyle plantation, i:i said county, lately occupied by J. E. Walker; De ceased, all the perishable property of Raid J. E. Walker, deceased, embracing several thousand bushels of Corn in shuck, and Cotton Seed a lot of Hogs, also several thousand pounds of Fodder, oue Horse, Buggy and Harness, two Wagons, Bed Boom Furniture and other personal property of said deceased. The Corn and Cotton Seed Every buyer of Millinery should visit our store every clay through the week. You cannot afford to miss the oppor tunity. BOUGHTON & CO, IMI- JOSEPH’S OLD ST-A-ItTID. KID GLOVES Second Weekly Shipment. .HEGEIVED YESTERDAY' UNPRECEDENTED STOCK OF Piece Goods NOW READY For Fall, 1886. Clothing Made to Order, Variety Unparalleled. 1‘rlaoH ReaHouable. Mntletoctton Onaennteed. GOODS selected now will be made ready fct delivery nt any date desired. Gall and fovor u« with an order. G. J. PEACOCK, nothing; Mann torturer, I too A IMS Bruat Street. Columbus On. eodtf SOULE REDD. J, C. HA.ILB Soule Redd & Co., Brokers, Ileal Estate anil Fire Insurance Agents. lOSitt IIroad ML Telephone 3ft. 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 ycur houses. ocl7 dly Chattahoochee. 37c; Columbus Girl, oOc; These goods have to Those who have tried thing ever offered'for am to be good and wear well. skins and freshly binned. If they lay in T/Allegro Club, 88c; Premium Black, 98c. )c seen and avoid to be appreciated, hem pronounce them superior to any thing near the price. Kid Gloves, must he newly made of soft, elastic stock long the skin ery large A.dm'r Est. J. E. becomes d V y and harsh; il is sure lo follow that a v. i percentage will crack, and in many instances the seams part interest. Delivery must be made prompuy. putting on the first time. To prove the accuracy of the above statement, 1 have sold dozen the past ten days and have not had one complaint—not one lias "proved faulty; not one lias park’d seams. Can more he said of Gloves that are sold daily for 50 per cent more? I hope Hie ladies of Co lumbus will appreciate this effort to give them fresh Gloves ut a very low price, and give us their trade. O. C. JOHNSON. Webster Hall lot Rent, WITH Oil WITHOUT CHAIRS, By the day, right-, week or month. Large, mag nificent crystal chandelier. JOHN BLACK MAR. Real Estate Agent. Columbus, Ga. i sewedfritf CONSUMPTION I ha\e a pofltlvo remedy lor tuo above disease; by Its uat thouRandB of casca of tbe worst kind and of long standing b»\u boen cured. Indeed, so strone le my faith in Its efficacy, tluit 1 will scud TWO BOTTI F.S KKKK, together with a VAtr UAUL1. TREATISE on tkta disease, to any sufferer. Give Ex* probe aud 1*. O. address. Pit* T. A. SLOCUM, 181 Pearl St., N.Y novj9 e.idvVAvbm Election for Justice of the Peace. r PHERE will be an election held at t.hr court 1 house, in the 6dSrh dist’-iet. O. M. lower town on Saturday, the 1st day of January next, for oue Justice of the Peace or said d Ft tie:. i>, sunply the vacancy caused by the death of buiiiikl Bell, Esq. This December 7tli, 1896 X. 1* amt Kx-Offic oo. did Eh’cliou Central R. R. for Dirt’t'lors *:ivg Co. or (}.\.. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1st, 1886. An election for Thirteen Directors to manage the affairs of this Company for the ensuing year will he held ut the Banking House, in Savannah, MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF JANUARY, 1837. between the bourn of io o’clock a ni and 3 o’clock p m. Stockholders and their families will be passed free over the Company’s road to attend the (lection from the 1st to the 3d of Jan uary inclusive, and be parsed free returning lYom the 3d to the 7th of January inclusive, ou pre sentation of their stock certificates to the con ductors. T. M. CUNNINGHAM. dec7 cod7t Cashier. ESTABLISHED 18S6. _ • G.GUNBY JORDAN Fire Insurance Agent, Pioneer Building, Front Street. Telephone No. 104. REPRESENTING AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of PHILADELPHIA, Honestly paid every loss since 1810. NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of NEW YORK, Every policy issued under New York Safety Fund law. SUN FIRE OFFICE, of LONDON Established ,7,0. Always successful. Policies issued on all classes of insurable property. Represenhtivf Companies. Courteous Treatment. Fair Adjustments, Prompt Payments. A shore of your business solicited. sepia dtf Combined with Great Refracting Tower, They are an Transparent and Color, lean aa Light I tar If, And for softness of endurance to the eye cannot be excelled, enabling the wearer to read for hours without fatigue. In fact, they are Perfect Sight Preservers. Testimonials fYom the leading physicians is the United States, governors, senators, legis lators, stockmen, jpen of note in all professions and in different branches of trade, bankers, me chanics, etc., can be given, who have had their sight improved by their use. ALL EYB8 FITTED AND THE PIT GUARANTEED BY BRANNON & CARSON, Druggists, Columbus, Georgia. FOR SALE. A substantial Six-Room Residence, centrally located; quartcr-acie lot; convenient to business, churches, schools and street railroad. Owner removing from the city, and will sell cheap for cash, or on time. Temperance Hall. The Wilkerson Residence. The Harrison place, Beall wood. Store No. 143 Broad Street. Quarter-Acre Lot north Second Avenue. FOR EE1TT. Rooms over Singer Machine Office. Six-Room Dwelling, Rose Hill. Col. Holt’s Store and Dwelling, near Swift's Mill. L. H. CHAPPELL, Broker. Real Estate and Insurant* Agent. ALYDOR GENT LEMEN3FRIE.ND * Cures G and G In a to 4 day* Aslt jronr druggist for it. Sent toany address for $JLB0 MALYDQRMF&CQ.SfllilMO & HOWARD, Agents immmm T Ilia School U the best m America. The most practical course of in struction and the most .eminent faculty. En dorsed by business houses. For circularf ami specimens of Pen manship, address UOUOili }. SSLBSltlTH, Principal Notice to Debtors and Creditors. GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY." All parties having claims against Thos. D. r orison, decased, are hereby notified to present 1 tlie same, duly authenticated, to me. within the time prescribed by law ; and all parties indebted to said rhos. D. Forts on are required to make ; immediate payment to me. T. W. FORTSON, oeff oawOw Administrator. ELECTION NOTICE. r I 1 HERE will ho an election held at the different * court grounds hi each militia district of said county of Muscogee on .Saturday, the 1st day of January next, for two Constables for each dis trict. according to the statute. This Decembci ith, *«««». fitd F. m. BROOKS, Ordinary. Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1st, isfifi. A Dividend o!' FOUR DOLLARS per share trom Uic earniugs of this Company and its de pendencies lias been declared, payable on and after December -.’Oili, to the Stockholders as of record this day. T M. CUNNINGHAM, dec7 eodlot Cashier. MUSCOGEE SHERIFF SALE. By v. M. KX4HYLKK £ CO., AiieUr*. . Will be sold the first Tuesday in January next, »n front of the auction house of F. M. Knowles & (.0., Broad street, city of Ooli.mbus, Muscogee county, Ga.. the following property, to-wit: Thir ty bushels of corn, more or less, two hundred bundles of todder. more or less. Levied on as the property of W. T. Pope, to satisfy a mortgage fi fft in my hands in favor of Geo. P. Swift & Son vs. W. T. Pope. Said property will be sold as stored, and it is stored in a bui ding on place rented by W. T. Pope from C. J. Thornton, about two and one half milrs east of city of Columbus. dec7 oaw4w J. G. BURRUS, Sheriff.