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D DAILY ENQUIRER • PTTN : COLUMBUS, OEOROIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 15, 1*86. The Steady Rite in Georgia Central Stock. t'haarm lor I'abnlouK Fortune* for Tlicwc Who Knew Whst Wu Coming—The Public T.keii Unaware -The ’I’ossum Policy of (in. Alexau dor's Friends. Savannah. December 12.—What a great stock Central railroad was four months ago for speculation 1 Could one then have seen with clairvoyant power the figures at which the stock Is quoted to-day he would have had within his grasp a fortune to sate a Midas. In that timo the stock basal- most doubled in price. Then it was 60. Yesterday it was 132. If the upward move ment is not checked the quotations before the present week is out will be double what they were in August. For three or four weeks now it has forged steadily ahead, and that has been the history of the stock ever since the boom started with one exception. That was when it fell back from 107 to par. Nine of every ten on the street were ready to swear that the bottom had dropped out, but after a short rest as if for a breathing spell the market again be came firm, up climbed the stock slowly, but as surely as the mercury in a ther mometer on a balmy spring day. Some day it will come down like the mercury does when struck by a blizzard. It is amusing now to recall the predictions made by those who know it all. At first they said it would never reach par. A mere broker’s boom, quoth they. When it reached 100 the prophets vowed it would not top 106, and every point above that has been named as the limit, but still it keeps going higher, and the pretended wise have about given up further guessing in despair. £9ome two or three months baok the sug gestion of Gen. Alexander’s candidacy was pooh-poohed on every side. One of the gentlemen whose names are attached to the petition for the mandamus filed last week against the directors made a written statement for publication, not long since, to the effect that there was no disposition to change the management. The infer ence is that at the beginning of the con test the opposition divided Itself into two parties. One came out openly, while the other trained with those in control and S ave out statements from time to time lat there would be no fight. Whether the management was fooled or not is a question. If they wore not they pretended to be, for they declared that they did not think the stock was changing hauds. One of Gen. Alexander’s friends said, a few dags ago, that his side has 31,000 shares. If that is so, it is safe to gamble on the general’s chances of being the next presi dent. He would only need 6000 shares more,, and they can surely be had for money. Two enthusiastic Raoul men were dis cussing the situation in one of the hotel lobbies this morning. Said one of them warmly: “If I hadn’t any other reason in the world for voting my stock for Captain Raoul I would do it because he wears a soft hat. I tell you, we crackers believe in a man who covers his head with a slouch chapeau. Take Major Lester, for instance. There is hardly a man in the state wearing a stiff hat who could carry the country dis tricts in a gubernatorial canvass against him.” GEN. LAWTON SET RIGHT. I learn that in giving publication to the report th it General A. R. Lawton, leading counsel for the Central railroad, was work ing for the election of Gen. Alexander, General Lawton’s positin was misrepre sented. Two months or* so ago, when General Alexander first intimated that he would be a candidate for the presidency of the company, General Lawton declined to receive the confidence of General Alexan der or his friends, and notified him that he could not help him in the election. Throughout the contest he has kept aloof from the opposition to the present man agement of the road, and has no more knowledge of their plans than the general public. To avoid even the color of being put in an equivocal light he has gone so far as to refuse to sell stock with proxies to vote at the election, and stock, too, which he desired to sell, and on which he could have made a handsome profit. It is but just to add that he has the per fect confidence qf Captuin Raoul and the management. OTHER RAILROADS. Central, however, is not exactly monop olizing the public’s attention. Some other railroad matters nre looming up. The main complaint of the ever curious public is that too little information is obtainable. General Van Fosseu’s presence here last week revived interest in the momentarily forgotten Savannah, Dublin and Western Short Line. The general represented a New York railroad construction coinpauy, which is reported to bo bauked by ample capital. He said that he felt confident that his company would build the Dublin road. The company will take bonds for pay and by the time the road is completed may own it. About $240,000 has been sub scribed along the line. Just so Savannah gets the line she does not seem to care much what the scheme is. Attempts were made for two or three days during the week to get a quorum of the incorporators of the Savannah and Western road. This is a line projected from Savannah out toward Eastman on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. It will strike three county seats not tuuched by railroads now. The line will be a hundred miles long. One of the in corporators said a couple of days ago that the road is to be built to give the East Tennessee an entrance of its own into Sa vannah, and that it would give the East Tennessee direct and through connections between Savannah . and Kansas City. Should that be accomplished it will be a good thing for both cities, beenuse it will give them competing lines, the Central expecting to have through connection to Kansas City very shortly. A prominent Savannah, Florida and Western official in timated yesterday that.the incorporators of the new line want to force some one to buy them out. His road hauls the East Tennessee’s Savannah freight and passen- f er traffic from Jesup. But in order to old on to that business it is not likely that the Plant Company will make a bid for the new company’s charter. THE CENTRaTCONTEST. Rumors About tlit 1 Rust Tennessee's Interest lu It. Savannah News. The rumorthat the negotiations bet ween the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia and Norfolk and Western railroad compa nies by which the Norfolk and Western people have obtained a controlling inter est in the East Tennessee, may be connect ed with the movement to secure control of the Central railroad is creating some stir. The fact which is now pretty generally known that Messrs. Brice & Thomas, the controlling spirits in the East Tennessee, have been among the heaviest buy ers of Central stock in New York during the past six weeks, seems to bear out what was said by the Morning News a day or two ago that it may be that the $1,800,000, which was set aside by the East Tennessee, at its last annual meeting, for advancing the interests of the road, is be ing used to purchase a controlling interest in the Central, which is the only way it can prevent the building of the Birmingham extension, and that through the alliance which the East Tennessee has formed with the Richmond and West Point terminal system these two systems will have control of the business in an immense territory, which they will take over tbelr lines to Norfolk. A gentleman who is well posted In re- sard to the present movement, so far a i lie Central is concerned, said last nigh that in event of tho Alexander movement being successful, a majority of the Centra! stock will at once go into the Richmond and West Point Terminal Company. Gen. Ale ander, he said, has always been very careful to say that in event of his election he will manage the road solely in the interests of the stockholders, but he does not intimate who a large majority of the stockholders will be If bis party gets control. “It is pretty evident.” the gentleman said, “that they will not be Identified with Georgia as the present stockholders are. The Morning News hit the nail on the head when it said that the building of the Birmingham extension means disaster to the East Tennessee and its allies, and the only way in which it can be prevented is to get control of the Central. This is just what Messrs. Brice and Thomas are trying to do. Gen. Alexander being the most available man by reason of his family re lations and other connections in the south for the presidency, has been selected. Mr. Pat Calhoun, who was quite prominently with Gen. Logan and others in the termi nal company’s scoop of the Richmond and Danville, is very naturally one of General Alexander’s backers, being closely identi fied with the Terminal company.” There is a suspicion, although the re- S ort has been denied, in railroad circles, iat the Pennsylvania railroad has been helping the Norfolk and Western in its scheme to get hold of the East Tennessee. The Pennsylvania has met with a good deal of difficulty in extending its system into the south. It is understood to have fallen out with the Atlantic Coast line, and it now proposes building an independent line from Norfolk to Jacksonville. Because of its trouble with the Coast Line people and in view of the reported probable ex tension of the Baltimore and Ohio and Erie into the south, it has been thought the Pennsylvania would be glad to make an arrangement of some kina with such a line as the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. The Pennsylvania already con nects with the Norfolk and Western through the Shenandoah Valley railroad, whose northern terminous is at Hagers town on the line of the Cumberland val ley road. The Norfolk and Western road Is not interested in any steamship compa ny, but does own nearly all the capital stock of the Shenandoah Valley. A through freight line could thus easily be established between the PennBylvana lines and the East Tennessee system by which the Norfolk and Western would get 160 mileB haul from Bristol to Roanoke, and the Shenandoah Valley 240 miles, from Roanoke to Hagerstown. It is argued that in this way the Pennsylvania could get a good foothold in the south, and that it could afford to assist the Norfolk and Western in Its efforts to bring about a lease. The denial to this story is to the effect that the Pennsylvania’s policy is to build and not to buy, and that the New York. Philadelphia and Norfolk wifi be extended south to Jacksonville, paralleling the Coast Line system. It is not the intention at present to build a network of lines, but only one main stem, although traffic ar rangements will no doubt be made with existing intersecting lines. Whatever may be the outcome of the present seemingly complicated condition of affairs, and whether or not the Pennsyl vania is in any way connected with the Norfolk and Western’s negotiation with the East Tennessee, it is prejty generally believed here that the East Tennessee and Richmond Terminal people are behind the Alexander movement to get hold of the Central, and that it is for the purpose of preventing the building of the Birming ham extension, as well as to get control of a valuable railroad property. A cold of unusual severity which I took last autumn developed into a difficulty de cidedly catarrhal in all its characteristics, threatening a return of my old chronic malady, catarrh. One bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm completely eradicated every sympton of that painful and prevailing disorder.—E. W. Warner, 165 Hudson street, Rochester, N. Y. Ely’s Cream Balm is the best medicine for Catarrh I have ever used.—Mrs. O. 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I got disgusted and procured your Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey and Duffy's For-iv ula. They did me good at once. I was almost a skeleton, and would not hare believed K pos sible to make the progress I did In a sliorl time. 1 cannot say too much in their favor. WM. LINDKMRYER. 27 Hopkins St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gentlemen—A venr ago my mother vai taken alck with Malaria, and alter her recov ery she was troubled with a very bad cougn. She coughed a great de.al in the morning. She commenced to use your Duffy’s Pure Malt Whis key and she thought it helped her. I sent tor your Raw Beei Formula and prepared It at once end I am happy to Inform you nor cough was entirely cured. She still continues to use ? our whiskey as a tonic. I have recommended t to several aged people, and they prefer It to any other stimulant. MAUI A M. LYNCH. Pure Malt Whiskey and Duffv’s Formula,’ 1 am feeling better than 1 have'in six years and I regard its power tu curing malaria" as some thing wonderful. J. H, UOONK. THE DUFFY MALT WHISKEY CO., lUr/rtMomt, md. Wiiibkkv ib Sold only in Skalsd Bottles, Nkvkk in Bulk. OLD SAUL’S CATARRH CURE. \ BOi),ooo Single Rox< s 8*'Id by OLDSAIM., In person who lias traveled all over the %■ United States. ** Of Druggists or Mail. OLD SAUL COMP Y, gf* • BALTIMORE. Ml). l#tS. iimranp •leaning fit for market a» much Clover Seed in ONE «os tho VICTOR DOUBLE HliLLER. Illustrated circu lar mailed free. NEWARK . _ . MACHINE CO,, Columbus,O. Ko.Ur. Routt, ttagentown A FREE SAMPLE “ CHRISTMAS GIFT, CHRISTMAS GIFT. HERE COMES DADDY WITH COLGATE’S HSTEW Don’t rot your clothes and injure your skin by purchasing large cakes of adulterated Soaps, just because they are cheap. There is no economy in using adulterated Soaps, even if they were given away. Colgate’s “NEW” Soap is the CHEAPEST for it is the PUREST. Remember that Colgate’s “NEW” Soap washes better and lasts longer than any other. kwheat and Fancy Patent Flour; Mince Meat, Jellies and Preserves; New Mackerel; Thurber’s Deep Sea Codfish. GREEN and DRIED FRUITS. New Currants, Seedless Raisins, Citron, Candied Lemon and Orange Peel, Oranges, Lemons and Apples. Fancy Dark Cranberries. O-A-HSTILTEID GOODS. A varied assortment of extra fine and standard goods as is in the city. FARINACEOUS GOODS, Etc. New Meal from this year’s corn. Pearl Grits, Granula, Cracked Wheat, ShTeaded Oats Steamed Oat Meal, Split Peas, Green Peas, Sago. Tapioca, Manioca, etc. Fine Flour, Sugars, Coffees and Teas, Ferris k Co.’s Breakfast Bacon and Hams J. J. WOOD, 1026 Broad Street. At KIRVEN’S Description of Prisoners Escaped From Muscogee County Jail, November 7th, 1886. JOSFPH B. JENKINS, (white,)—6 feet elever inches high, weight about 165 pounds, dark swatkey complexion, dark hair, small dark mus tache, large gray eye, stoop shouldered, very pro- faue in conversation. WILLIAM COURTNEY, (white.)-about 21 oi 22 years of age, 6 feet Dor 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 150 pounds, 5 feet 6 or 8 inches in height, some front teeth out, scar under left eye. SIP WILLIAMS, (col,)—5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, will weigh 175 pounds, dark ginger-cake color; dark spots on face; hangs his head while talking. WILLIS McAFEE, (col.,)—5 feet 6 inches in height, weight about 125 pounds; brown black color, long m< uatache for a negro; quick spoken: sharp features; ttUkslow; has served five years in Georgia penitentiary from Liberty county, Ga. Fiflty dollars each will be paid for the delivery 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 tc JOHN H. PALMER, Chief of Police, Columbus, Ga. A reward of fifty dollars each, in addition to the above is offered by the jailer of the Couuty ol Muscogee, for Jenkins or Courtney. nov21dlm FRESH ARRIVALS. The Luca Bustle, the latest and best. Ladies’ and Children’s Jersey Jackets. Call for our Chil dren’s Norfolk Jerseys. The best all-wool Five Dollar Newmarket in the city. The best Five Dollar all-wool Blankets in Columbus. Choice stock Hamburg Edgings and Insertions, white, rod and blue. They are scarce and hard to get. New stock of Knit Underwear. New stock of Jewelry. New stock of Ladies' Trunks. Call for our Ladies' French Ribbed Hose, unbleached, at 25c; they are well worth 40c. New stock Embroidered Flannels. New stock Plaid Nainsooks for Aprons at 10c and 121c. Our Dress Goods in wool, also silk fabrics, is being con stantly replenished and added to. Our five-button Kid Gloves at 50 cents are not trash, but fresh goods. , A small lot Children's Wraps left over from our last win ter stock will be sold at a sacrifice J. A. KIRVEN & CO. FOR SALE, A substantial Six-Room Residence, central^ located; quarfcer-acie lot; convenient to business churches, schools and street railroad. Owne removing from the city, and will sell cheap ft> cash, or on time. Temperance Hall. The Wilkerson Residence. The Harrison place, Beallwood. Store No. 143 Broad Street. Quarter-Acre Lot north Second Avenue. FOB ZRIElsrT. Rooms over Singer Machine Office. Six-Room Dwelling, Rose Hill. Col. Holt's Store 'and Dwelling, near Swift* Mill. L. H. CHAPPELL, Broker, Real Estate and Insurance Agent dtf Election for Justice of the Peace. WHERE will be an election held at the court A house, in the 668th distsict, G. M. (lower town) on Saturday, the 1st day of January next, for one Justice of the Peace ior said district, to supply the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Bel», Esq. This December 7th, 1886. F. G. WILKINS, N. P. and Ex-Officio J. P. for 668th Dist. G. M. dec7 dtd The Brown Cotton Gin Co., NEW LONDON, CONN. Manufacturers of the “Old Reliable” Brown Cotton Gins, Feeders and Con densers. All the very latest improvements: im proved roll box, patent whipper, two brush belts, extra strong brush, cast steel bearing" ... improved Feeder, enlarp-—.iusfc prop 'ondenser. I ■ ong, simpleir instruction, durable [gin ':<H* - is light, cleans the seed per feet. , and produces first class samples. DELIVERED FREE OF FREIGHT at any accessible point. Bead for Dill description and price Hat. COLUMBUS IRON WORKS, Agents, Columbus, Ga. DON’S KING tAr.Toledo. Ohio PAIN, into every family, PRIZE, goods which will 1 Send six oents for postage and recceive free a costly box of help all, of either sex, to make more money right away that anything else 1 this world. Fortunes await the workers abso lutely sure. Terms mailed free. Tans & Co. August*. Main* for Rem. JOHN BLACKMAR, Real Estate Agent, Columbus. Ga. Bookcases, Tables, Offiot Chairs, Letter Presses, Fine Cabinets, &c. TYLER DESK CO. AX) N. Fourth st., St. 1,01718 Send 4l> Lr 40 i*d. Catalonia W E W ANT Jf0U J, a nve I l lan or woman ™ ww ■ necdingprolitahleemploy* mentto represent us in ©very county. Salary $.-&mcntmy A expenses, or&largeccmmlsa* ion on sales i f preferred. Goods staple. uovl wly GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY: Whereas, Mrs. Leo. E. Swift applies foi letters of administration on the estate of George P. Swift, jr., late of said county*ceceased. These are. therefore, to cite all and singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to show cause, if atiy they have, within the time prescribed by law, why said letters should not be granted to said applicant. Witness my official signature this December 4th 1886. F. M. BROOKS, dec4 oaw4w Ordinary. GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY : Whereas, Michael Sullivan makes applicatior for letters oi administration on the estate of Katharine Sullivan, late of said county, de ceased. These are, therefore, to cite all persons interest ed kiudred and creditors, to show cause, if any they have, within the tiim prescribed by law, why letters of administration should not be urant- t d to said applicant. Witness my official signature this December 4th 1880. F. M. BROOKS. dec! oaw4w Ordinary. GEORGIA MUSCOGEE COUNTY: W hereas, R. E Farisb applies for If tters of ad ministration on the estate of James B. Slade, late ol said county, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite all and singular, kindred %nd creditors, of said deceased, to show cause, if any they can.within the time prescribed, why letters of adminjstratirn, as aforesaid, should not be granted to said applicant. Witness my official signature this December 4th, 1886. F. M. BROOKS, dec4 oaw4w Ordinary. DYKE’S REABD ELIXIR 7M0nUrhe.WhlU.rv0r ha* GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY; Whereas. Leo Loeb njakes application for pe manent letters of administration on the estate o f Meyer Greentree late of said county, deceased These are, therefore, to cite all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to show cause, i» any they have, within the time prescribed bylaw why permanent letters of ad ministration should not be granted to said ap plicant. • Witness my official signatdre this December 4th, 1886. F. M. BROOKS, dec4 oaw 4w Ordinary. GEORGIA, MUSBOGEE COUNTY: Whereas, C. A Redd, administrator of the es tate of Mrs. Mary S. Park, represents to the coun in his petition duty filed, that he has fully ad ministered Mary S. Park's estate. This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said administrator should not be dis charged from his administration and receive let ters of dismission on the first Monday in Februa ry. 1886. Witness my official signature this 30th day ol October. 1886. F. M. BROOKS, oc30 oaw3m Ordinary. “ilIOO.OO. pric* mt Pkg. «■*!«! and no*. Rtb MP«. o6T. paIatjn*. uja. uovSweowGia GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY. Whereas, George Y. Pond, administrator de bomsmon, oj estate of Ellen Thomas, represente U the court in his petition, duly filed, that he hat- fully administered said estate. | ThiB is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned. heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they 1 can, why said administrator should not be dis charged from his administration and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in March, 1887. Witness my official signature this December . 7th, 1886 F. M. BROOKS. I dec7oawl2w Ordinary. Meeting of Stockholders. Central R. R. & Banking Co. of Ga., •Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 1st, 1886. *The Annual Meeting of Stockholders of thia Company will take place at the Banking House in Savannah, on WEDNESDAY, December 22d, at 10 o’clock a m. Stockholders and their fami lies will be. passed free over the Company’s road to the meeting from the 19th to the 22d inclusive, and will be passed free returning from the 22tl t the 25th inclusive, on presentation of their stock certificates to the conductors. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, dec7 eod7t Cashier. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS To the Stock of the ,IA MIDLAND <6 GOLF R. R. Tt being officially known to the Board of Diroct- Xorsofthe Georgia Midland and Golf Railroad Company that the first section of twenty miles of Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, of four feet and nine inches grade, between Columbus, Ga., and Atlanta, Ga., or between Columbus, Ga,. and some point on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad between Atlanta, Ga„ and Macon, Ga„ with the privilege of entering At lanta on the track of any railroad with terminal facilities there, is graded and ready for the cross ties, trestles and bridges, and whereas, by the terms of subscription the first Installment of the same b> comes due and payable upon official pub lication of the completion of the work as above. Be it resolved, That the Treasurer is authorized to publisb in the name ot this Board the comple tion of the first section of twenty miles, as stipu lated in said subscription notes, and to cal) on the subscribers lor payment of the first install ment notes of 25 per cent., which notes are now due and payable at the National Bank of Colum bus, Ga. Seaton Grantland, C. L. Davis, Geo. P. Swift. jr„ N. J. Bussey, W. J. Kincaid, J. F, Flournoy, B. T. Hatcher, T. M. Fcley, J. W. Woolfolk. . . The Board of Directors of the Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad Company. , 0. L. DAVIS, novlS oaw4w Treasurer. $50 REWARD will be paid for any Grain Fan <4 same size that can clean and b«g »■ much Grain or Seed in one day a* oar Patent MONARCH Grata and Reed Separator K r or our Improved Wore* >uae MUl which we offer ciieap* Price LIM free. UEWARK MACHINE CO. Colombo*. Ou..* iienstH, from tho ca-HoPt time to thie. Lives - . furuous ploits of D< Soto, Li^alle, Staudi6h, Boone. VVi Crockett, Bo« i<\Houston, Carson,Custer, Bill, Gen. Crook, anil others. Illustrated with I'Jl i:uc eu£ D FAFWFQQ f Its causes, and a new L.Ar IN Luu . an( j successful CHID- your own home, by oue who was dear twenty-eight years. Treated by the most noted specialists without benefit. Cured hunscij in three months, and since then hundreds oi others. Full particulars sent on application. T. S. PAGE, No. 41 West 31st 8t., New York Cuy. oc28 tu th sat&wflm Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1st, 1885. A Dividend of FOUR DOLLARS per share from the earnings of this Company and i ts ““T pendencies has been declared, payable on s'" after December 20th, to the Stockholder as o* record this day. T M. CUNNINGHAM, dec7 eodl6t Cashier.