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4 ColumlmsCmiHircr-San. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The HVHUIRER-SUN is issued every day, ez «ept Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday. The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by oarrtan in the oity or mailed, postage free, to sub aorlhere fbr 75c. per month, $2.(10 for three months, $4.00 for six months, or $7.00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the •*ty or mailed to subscribers, postage tree, at $1.M 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 Dally at $1 per square of 10 lines or less for the ■ret Insertion, and 50 oents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each tn- aertion. All communications Intended to promote the private ends or interests of corporations, societies •r Individuals will be charged as advertisements, ■pedal oontracts made for advertising by the pear. Obituaries will be charged for at customary rates. None but solid metal cuts used. All communications should be addressed to the ■■rqurnan-Suir. Mr. Cleveland's civil service reform is all right if he would exercise it enough to keep it healthy. Jeff Davis’ daughter has captured the north. What a help she would have been to the confederacy. Nothing costly is cheaper than a New York alderman’s influence, except the way he feels after ho is found out. Mb. Edmunds’ credentials for another term were presented to the United States senate yesterday. Ho didn’t offer to shake hands with anybody on the strength of it. B. Jack Logan appears to be still “lost to eight;” hut he has not reached the point of being “to memory dear” with any considerable number of people. ■B. OATF.N OK FUNERtliS. Congressman Oates, of Alabama, is now clinching the reputation he has had for some time of being one of the nerviest and brainiest men in the congress of the United States. Yesterday he introduced into the house a resolution prohibiting the appointment of committees to attend the funerals of deceased congressmen, and also prohibiting the draping of pub lic buildings in mourning except by order of the president. It requires a man of no ordinary cour age to come out squarely against these hoary and fossilized follies. But it is high tiino they were dene away with, and that a cessation should be Called in this shameless squandering of the peo ple’s money. The average congressional funeral train, according to reports made of them heretofore, is a drunken debauch- on wheels, and the mourning and danc ing often becomo sadly mixed. Besides the liquor drank and the shameless scones enacted on these funeral frolics, there j are some valuable perquisites furnished to the high-stepping weepers under the head of “incidentals.” We commend Mr. Oates tor his fearlessness, and congratulate him in advance upon the fantastic abuse that will be heaped upon him and his measure in the name of “refinement” and “civilization." Con gressional funerals are travesties upon real sorrow, and they ought to be sup pressed, if for uo other reason, because they aro paid for out of the people’s pock ets without the people’s consent. LABOR IK THE SOUTH. “Southward the star of empire takes its course.” That the new south is awakening, and is already tolerably well awakened there is accumulative evidence. In fart the south is shaking herself like a young giant, and this is becoming to bo appre ciated and recognized all over the coun try. .lust now the particular spot which seems to attract its full share of attention is the coul and iron fields of Alabama. A staff correspondent of the Cincinnati En quirer has visited Birmingham and has strolled over Bed Mountain. He is a northern man “to the manor born,’’ and the manner in which he treats of t he ne gro problem and its relations to the north will be interesting. After going through the mines he thus speaks of the labor en gaged: “Negroes who came from the sur rounding fields are the principal toilers in the mines. Many of them wore once slaves, and many are stout young fellows born since the war. They get $1.10 per day for outside mining and $1.25 for drift mining. Here in the mines, as in the mills, all work requiring experience, skill and brains, is done by white men, who get much higher wages than the black men." “ The iron ore being fossiliferous, is rotten and is easily broken by wedges and sledges. The negroes work in the quarries .or mines in a lazy, hum-drum sort of way. They do not swing the sludge with the force and vigor of the white man, but in a slovenly way that is characteristic of the shiftless and irre sponsible life and habits of the black men in the south. All over the mines you can hear them chanting their pecu liar music and songs, the melody rising above the confusion of toil. This indi cates that they are happy and contented, and happy and contented labor is some- DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14. 1886. thing (lint the north cannot boast of now, and will not for years to come. Looking at this problem of cheap labor in the south I think it is the sure and perma nent foundation of southern prosperity. Every strike in the north affrights capi tal and paralyzes industry, and northern capital is fast turning its eyes yearningly southward, looking for a place where safe investments can be made without danger of disaster and disturbance. The north has been favored as no other land over was. In her unexampled prosperity the people have become wildly extravagant in their wants and habits of life. Now that something has begun to pinch the northern toiler, he is restless and unrea sonable in his demands. The south’s prostration was the north’s opportunity. The south, impoverished, chastened and afflicted, learned well her great lesson of suffering amd sorrow. They have been taught they must work. They have been taught to- respect the dignity of toil. They no longer consider it a disgrace for a man to work with his hands. And now that south is lifting herself 1 like a mighty giant, with new blood thrilling in her veins, and fresh hope burning in her heart. The great law of compensa tion has set the tide of growth and devel opment southward, and it will continue to flow in this direction for many years.” IKTBB-KTATE C9HHKUCK. It seems to be tolerably well under stood that this bone of contention in the United States congress is about to be set tled in a way satisfactory to contending factions. A substitute for the Cullom and the Reagan bills has been agreed upon, and the substitute comprises the principal features of both measures. The indications are now that the bill will be come a law without much further delay. Thero were two very essential points in the senate bill which was known as Cullom’s bill, and in the house bill des ignated as the Reagan bill. The one creates a national railroad commission of five members, while the other left the remedy for violations of the law to be en forced by the courts upon complaint of the parties aggrieved. The substitute which has been agreed to secures to ag grieved persons the right to resort to the courts if they prefer it, but they may make their complaints to the commis sion, which will endeavor to obtain re dress through an investigation and repre sentations to the offending companies, and may, in case of failure, apply to United States courts for the enforcement of its orders in the premises. This covers the ground more satisfactorily than either of the original bills, for in most cases the commission would doubtless be able to secure redress without litigation, but in some instances in which definite 'dam ages could be proved a judicial deter mination might be more desirable. Another of the chief points of differ ence has been the vexed question of the long and short haul. Railroad managers have very justly contended that there are often circumstances that not only justify, but practically compel, the charg ing of higher rates for a shorther distance on the same line than for a longer dis tance which includes the shorter, or, as they prefer to put it, lower rates for the longer distance. The Reagan bill recog nized no necessity or justification for such a policy, and absolutely prohibited the charging in any case of more for transportation on a portion of a line than was charged for a longer distance that in cluded that portion. The provisions of the senate bill in regard to this matter have been in substance adopted. It is made unlawful to charge a higher rate for a shorter than for a longer distance, on the same line and in the same direc tion, when the shorter distnnee is in cluded in t he longer, “under substantial ly the same circumstances and condi tions,” but the commission may in special cases on application from a railroad and after investigation, prescribe the extent to which the road may be relieved from this rule. The bill, as agreed to, goes the whole length of the Reagan bill in prohibiting pooling arrangements. All railroads en gaged in inter-state traffic and subject to the provisions of the bill are required to publish and to post at all stations full schedules of their rates and to adhere to them. No increase can be made without ten days’ notice. A decrease may be made without not’ce, but must be an nounced as soon as made and included in the schedules. All the companies nre left at liberty to make their own rates without either maximum or minimum limitation, and there seems to lie no ef fective provision for preventing the kind of cut-throat competition which forced the adoption of the pooling device. There are evils and abuses connected with the pooling system,‘but there are still greater evils in unregulated competition, and it will probably be found that something will have to be devised to serve the pur pose of pooling contracts if they are abandoned. Women suffragists can take courage in the diet that upon the tlitrd day of the session of the United States senate, Senator Blair arose in li is place and moved a consideration of the select committee's proposition in regard to woman’s suffrage, and made a telling speech in its favor. Sbnatob Morrill is able to appreciate the “increased cost of living” imposed on the work ingmen because of the tobacco tax, and regards it as one of the crying evils of the day. But it has not occurred to him that warm clothing is a blessing almost as great as cigarette and plug tobacco. Wall Street News: At a late meeting of a de bating society in Kansas City, the question was discussed, “ Is Jay Gould a philanthropist, or what?” The discussion was a hot one, and last ed an hour and a half, and then a vote was taken and it was decided by four majority that lie was “or what.” “Gentlemen,” said a big man who looked into the room after the question was set tled, “allow me to congratulate you. There’s a crowd of fifty of us out here wh* were waiting for tlie vordlct, and if it had been ’philanthropist’ every blnmcd one of you whould have been car ried home on a shutter." Conoressman Herdekt, of Alabama, hhs of fered in congress a bill to remove from ex con federate soldiers the disabilities which forbid them to serve as officers in the army and navy of the United 81 ales. The fact that such disabili ties exist shows a most anomalous and absurd stale of affairs. To-day ex-confoder ate soldiers are cabinet ministers, senators, con gressmen, ambassadors to foreign countries and aro not debv.rrcd bylaw h orn occupying the high est office le the nation—that of chief magistrate of tile republic. There is no public station, honor or emolument in the gill of their countrymen they may not enjoy save and except the privilege of dying fbr their country, under the old flag and wearing the uniform of an officer of the army or navy. This is absurd e nfi contemptible in the extreme, and the politicians who arc instrumen tal in perpetuating such a pitiful outrage ought to be heartily ashamed of themselves. Tub holiday trade here this year, judging by all outward indications, is very much larger than it was last season. The streets have been throng ed for eeveral days, and the stort s are crowded with eager buyers. This shows the general im provement in the times, and if there is no cessa tion our merchants will have good cause to con gratulate themselves. finuictliliig Hare for Kentucky. Nicholasville, Ky., December 13.—A lively fight occurred at5 o’clock this even ing in the court yard between Hon. N. D. Miles, who wants the nomination of the democratic party for the legislature, and E. R. Hoover, a newspaper correspondent, in which the candidate was slightly worst ed. Hoover wrote something about Miles’ running in the interest of Hon. James B. Beck for United States senator, and Miles, in a card in the Jessamine Journal, called him an unmiti gated liar and nondescript and serf of another. They are both lawyers on the same square, and when they met Hoover told Miles he had to take his words back. Miles called Hoover a liar, and Hoover went for him with a cane until parties pulled him off. Miles was so surprised that he made no resistance. Hoover, in addition to being a live young man gener ally, is alBo lord nigh recorder of our oity, and will have to sit in judgment on his own case. Our streets are lined with poli ticians discussing the affair. GEBBOIA SECURITIES. Corrected by Jskn Blaekasr, Cetato- bns. Gs. STOCK AND BOND BROKER. RAILROAD BONDS. Americus, Preston and Lumpkin 1st mortgage 7s 10S R1C1 Atlantic and Gulf 7s 117 111 Augusta and Knoxville 7 per cent 114 115 Augusta, Gibson and Sandersville 7 per cent lBt mortgage 104 1M Central con mortgage 7s 115 116 Columbus and Rome 1st 6s, endorsed Central B. B 104 IN Columbus and Western 1st mortgage Ss, endorsed by Central B. B 105 #106| Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 1st mortgage 114 #11$ Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 4s 2d mortgage 110 Rill Gainesvile, Jefferson and Southern 1st mortgage guaranteed 118 lit Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern 2d mortgage Ill 112 Is Railroad 6s Georgia J ..100 RIM dorsed by Central Railroad! 108 #148 Montgomery and Eufhuia 1st mort gage 6s and Centra Railroad 108 #188 Ocean Steamship 8 per cent, guaran teed by C. R. R. 106 1M„ Savannah, Florida and Western 6 per cent 104 10l South Georgia and Florida 1st, en dorsed by state of Georgia, 7 per cent 118 #118 South Georgia and Florida 2d, 7 per cent Ill #118 Western R. R. Alabama 1st mortgage, endorsed by Central Railroad 107 #118 Western Alabama 2d mortgage, en dorsed 110 #111 RAILROAD STOCKS. Atlanta and West Point 104 #106 Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent. scrip 106 181106 Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent ISO @181 Central common ISO (rtlSl Central railroad 6 per cent, scrip 101 @102 HOLIDAY GOODS l Xmas comes but, once a year, therefore make happy the hearts of those you love and esteem. Read below enumerated a list of articles suitable for presents : Mobile and Girard VA per cent guar anteed bv Central R. R 24 @ 25 Southwestern 7 Der cent. guaranteed..l29 @130 CITY BONDS. Atlanta 6s 105 @107 Atlanta 7s 112 @118 Augusta 78 109 @112 Augusta 6s 108 @106 Columbus 7s 112 @118 Columbus 5s 101 @108 LaGrange7s 100 @101- Macon 6s llo @111 Savannah 5s 102 @10$ STATE BONDS. Georgia 4',^s 106 Georgia 6s 103 Georgia 7s, 1896 120 Georgia 7s, 1890 ill FACTORY STOCKS. Eagle and Pheuix 99 Muscogee 95 Georgia Home Insurance Company 185 BANK STOCKS. Chattahoochee National 10 per cent... 175 Merchants' A Mechanics’ 10 per cent,.124 MISCELLANEOUS. Confederate Coupon Bonds 1 # 1 FOR SALE. I897OOO of Au K usta 7 P er cent Bonds, due $5000 Georgia Railroad 6s, due 1922. Four shares Eagle and Phenix Factory Stock, with December 3 per cent dividend. 25 Shares Eagle and Phenix Factory Stock $5000 Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Rail road 7 per cent Bonds. 10 Shares Merchants and Mechanics' Bank Stock. $1000 Columbus Ice Co. Stock. Profits last year over expenses 12 per cent. WANTED. City of Columbus 5 per cent. Bonds. Seo me before you buy or sell. 1 can always d< as well, and often several points better, than anj one else. JOIIK BLACKMAB. @100 ti3 @200 @128 SOULE REDD. J. C. HAILE Soule Redd & Co., Brokers. Real Estate and Fire Insurance Agents 105*6 Broad Nt. Telephone 35. Valuable City and Country Property for sale. Dwelling House and Stores Stores for rent. We can otfer first-class bargains. Stocks and Bonds bought and sold. Wc are agents for Continental Fire Insurance Company. Telephone No. 35 ocl7 dly Forepaugh & Samwell's Carnival of Novelties and Trained Animal Show Combined, under a Mammoth Tent, JVT COLUMBUS, BUT NOT UNTIL MONDAY, December 13t!i, for ONE WEEK. EVERYTH I NO NEW. Two performances dally. Doors open at l and 7 pm, commencing at 2 and 8 pm. See the Novel Street Parade. Admission to all only 10 eenta. d«C< 12 1815 18 For Your If .tiler and Sister, Sweetheart, Wife and Friend. Beautifol Lace Pins, Breast Pins, Ear Kings, Bracelets, Necklaces, Lockets, . Tiny Queen Chains, Weslcains, Silver or Gold Watch, Rings, Cuff Buttons, Cuff Pins, Collar Buttons, Qantelines, Silver or Gold Thimbles, Silver Hair Pins Silver and Gold Glove and Shoe But- toners. Opera Glasses, Vases, Jewel Boxes, Bronzes, Artistic Clocks, Osrd Receivers, Silver Card Cases, Silver Beils, Napkin Rings, Bronze Lamps, Picture Frames, Eye Glass Chains, Spectacles and Eye Glasses, Solid and Plated Forks, Knives and Spoons, Book Marks, Gold Pencils, Pens, Toothpicks. Solid Silver and Plated Cups, Solid Silver Soup and Oyster Ladles, Berry, Preserve and Sugar Spoons, Butter Knives, Butter Dishes, Fur Your Father and Brother, Husband and Friend. Silver or Gold Watches, Gold or Plated Chains, Cult Buttons, Collar Buttons, Watch Charms, Scarf Pins, Silver Match Safes, Stud Buttons, Napkin Holders, Eye Glasses, , . Pebble Spectacles in Steel and Nick el, Silver and Gold Frames, Napkin Rings, Opera Glasses, Office Clocks, Gold Toothpicks, Gold Pencils, Gold Headed Walking Canes, Seal Rings, Gold Headed Silk Umbrellas, Combination Breakfast Sets, Silver Tobacco Boxes, Wiskbroom, Solid Silver Handle, Society Pins, Ash Receivers. Guard Chains, For Vour Little Fete. Solid Silver and Plated Cups, Stiver Pap Spoons, Solid Silver Child’s Set, Silver Plated Child’s Set, Silver Thimbles flrom No. 1 upward. Necklaces, Lockets, Rings, Bracelets, Bib Pius, Breast Pins and EarRing^ Stud Buttons, Bangles, Solid Silver Baby Rattles, Silver Plated Napkin Rings, Solid Silver Napkin Rings. School Sets, Ear Rings, Sliver Knives and Forks, Silver frafetj Pins, Boys’ Watches, Microscope for botanical exploits. Pencils and Pens, Beautifol Little Diamond Bings, Silver Mugs. Diamonds mounted in Rings, Pins, Eardrops, Collar Buttons, Cuff Buttons, Studs, Scarf Pins, etc., at very reasonable prices. WATCHMAKER A^ZISriD JEWELER. Small line Ladies’ Merino Pants, very cheap. Ladies’ Merino Vests reduced in price to close. Children's Merino Underwear 20 per cent off. Gents’ cotton Flannel Drawers half price. A few choice combination Dress Patterns that can be bought very cheap Prices reduced on all Dress Goods and Trimmings. Cloaks and Wraps still lower to close. No excuse for not having a Wrap at the prices we name; they must go. Many Holiday Goods throughout the stock, which we will sell cheap. Big lot Silks and Satins placed on the bargain coun ter to be sold. Gents' and Ladies’ White Kid Gloves half former price. J". -EL CAE,03-IIL.Xj, oclO daw3m Ag’t. ESTABLISHED 1866. C.CUNBY 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 17.0. Always successful. Policies' issued on all classes of insurable property. Repmentativ* fompuies. fourtotus Treatment. Pair Adjustment*. Prompt Payment*. FOR COUNTY OFFICERS. For Clerk of Superior Court. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re- election to the office of Clerk of the Superior Court of Muscogee County at the electien to be, held in January next. Gao. Y. Pond. dect2td Fer oeustjr Treasurer. I wish my Mends to know that I will be a can didate for this office at the next election. I am here to run. R. J. Moess. nov20 dtd I announce myself a candidate for County Treasurer, and respectfully ask the voters at Muscogee county for their suffrage, dawtd John C. Cook. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for Treasurer of Muscogee county, and earnestly; solicit your support. I need the office and wM be very thankfol fer your assistance. I am pre pared to run. Election on the first Wednesday in January next, 1887. oc9 se&wedtd ’ Jordan L. Howbll. I announce myself ae a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, and respectfully solkdt your support for the same. Election January next. G. B. Gaqbb. Columbus, Ga., September 22,1886. asp28 tf For Tax Receiver. «onl2 dtf A share of your business solicited. $50 REWARD. Wc will pay the above reward for any case of Rheumatism. Blood Poison or Kidney Disease that HUNNICUTT S BI1EVMATIC CUBE fails to cure permanently if taken according to directions. We moan just what we say. This won derful Tonic and Blood Purifier is for sale by all first-class Druggists. J. M. HUNNICUTT & CO., Atlanta, Ga Bargains! Bargains! Drives in Table Linen, Drives in Hosiery, Drives in Handkerchiefs, Drives in Kid Gloves, Drives in Linen Towels, Drives in Dress Goods. I announce myself a candidate for election to be office of Tax Receiver, and respectfully solicit, ite votes of the citizens of Muscogee county, .lection Wednesday, January 5,1887. nOVlfl dtf W0tU.F0LK_WAI.K8IL I. announce myself a candidate for Tax Ho- tiver of Muscogee county, and respectfully tk the support of the voters. sep22 tf J. H. Harrison. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Receiver, and ask your suffrage. I have ever tried to discharge my duty as an officer, and will still do the sama if elected. Election January next. . J. O. Rbbdy. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for Tax Receiver of Muscogee county. Election fin* Wednesday in January. Geo. W. Cargill. nov7 td Fer Tax Cellecter, 1 announce myself as a candidate for Tax Collector of Muscogee connty (election January next), and respectfully solicit the sup port of the voters of said county. aug20 dtf wlm Olivbr P. Poh. I announce myself a candidate for Tax Col lector of Muscogee County. Election in Jan uary next. [ocl2 td] N. G. Oattis. Announcing myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Collector of Muscogee connty, I respectfully solicit the votes of ite dtixenL and will endeavor to deserve their support by fbithfUUy discharging the duties of this offioe is the foture as in < he past. Election first Wednes day in January next. »ep2l eodtd Davis A. Andbbws. I announce myself a candidate for Tax Col lector of Muscogee county (election January next), and ask for the support of the voters at said c-mnty. j. o. Woolfolk. sep7 dtf Far Coroner. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Cor oner for Muscogee county at the ensuing el.o- tion - , W. D. Amybt. nov7 dtd I announce myself as a candipate for Coroner of Muscocee county. dec!2 td Simpson Stribbling. I announce myself as a candidate for re-eleo- tion as Coroner of Muscogee county. dec!2 dtd Isaac T. Brooks. For Micriir. EVERYTHING GREATLY REDUCED! I can show the nobbiest line of Handkerchiefs in Colum bus, beautiful things for the holidays. Four or five shades Evening Surahs marked down very low. A magnificent line of Corsets. Splendid stock of Un derwear. Four or five grades imported Black Silks cheaper than ever. 1 I invite your special attention to my stock of Kid Gloves They are best makes, and I am anxious to sell them. My stock ol Collars and Cuffs will interest you Be- member I am closing up the business of the old firm of Hill & Law and will offer everything at reduced prices to expedite me in so doing. JOS. IB. HILL. I most respectfully announce myself as a c didate for re-election as sheriff of Muscogee cc ty. Election first Wednesday in January ncx decll td j. q. Burru DRUNXENNES! 0E THE LIQUOR HABIT, POSITIVELY CURED BY ADMINISTERING DR, HAINES’ GOLDEN SPECIFIC. It can l»e given in a cup of coffee or t< without the knowledge of tlie person to. * n B it; is absolutely harmless, and will < recta permanent and speedy cure, wheth the patient is a moderate drinker or an 8 coliolic wreck. It has been given in tho sands of cases, and in every instance a pc rect cure lias followed. It never fails. Tl system once impregnated with the Specif! it becomes an utter impossibility for tl liquor appetite to exist. For Sale by FOR S-A/EjE BY M. D. HOOD A GO., DfalSTS #3 BROAD ST., COLUMBUS, GA. 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