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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 188ft. GolmnliusCuijuirrrfiiu. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The ENQUIRER-SUN is Issued every day, ex •ept Monday. The Weekly is Issued on Monday, The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by Mtrrler* in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub ■orlbers for ;5r. per month, (2.00 for three Months, (4.00 for six months, or $>.00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the flty or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at $1.9# 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 8rst insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each in sertion. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of corporations, societies •r individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary fates. Mono but solid metal cuts used. All communications should be addressed to the ■nqoiurb-Sun. Ex-,Senator Spencer, of Alabama, can’t bog any escape from the nomination of Cleveland and Blaine in 1888. President Ci.evei.and has the assur ance that lie will not bo idle even if lie docs not gut another term at the white house, lie can read the “sure cure” re ceipts for rheumatism sent him by peo ple which they didn't cure. Better advice to mothers was never given than that of Mrs. Bradley, in an address to the W. C. T. U. Says she : “Don’t let your daughters marry a man to save him.” A pure woman is worth a legion of corrupted men, and the advice is that of Christian expediency. When we think of the very many wicked things they have in Chicago, it looks as though the hog killers are strain ing at a gnat and swallowing whole camels down at a gulp when they tackle the ballot. The truth probably is that they want to begin to reform at the little end. ■ Now and then some intrepid soul, stamping around where angels fear to tread, tackles one of the questions of the ages. The Albany Argus lias reverently settled one historical conundrum: “Why do the heathen rage ?” askes a religious paper. Because there are so many plugged coins and suspender buttons in the collections taken up for their ben efit.” Mr. Blaine seems to he peculiarly un fortunate in nursing his boom. I Tin snub to Mr. Edmunds got up the biggest sort of disgust among the Green mountains, and now be is bringing himself into dis repute in the nutmeg region by trying to prevent the re-electibn of Senator Haw ley, in Connecticut. Mr. Hawley opposed his nomination in 1884 and the influence was felt by the plumed knight. The holiday trade in Columbus tli's year promises to bo large. The book, fancy, drygoods, clothing, jewelry and various other stores, and the establish ments of dealers of every kind of useful articles are already beginning to be thronged with purchasers. People should lose no time in making their purchases, and they should consult, the columns of the Enquirer-Sun from day to day, where they will find the place to gel just exactly what they want anil from the most reliable establishments. A Chicago cotemporary very kin ally explains why it is that such cold weather has been thrust upon us, and all is for given. Here is what it says: “We trust our southern fellow citizens who were amazed by the recent freeze and snow storm will not regard it as an intentional visitation from the north. We would keep our blizzards for home use if we could. Doubtless in the future we shall do better. But the weather bureau, like other things at Washington, is at loose ends just now,” The fact that Senator Jones, late of Florida, is mailing his old associates in Washington, n large num ber of newspapers with articles on “The Grain Trade,” and such like, marked with a blue pencil, causes them to believe he is crazy. This is about as sensible a performance as some of the other senators sending out penciled speeches in the Congressional Record, and no one has ever accused them of be ing crazy. It is a difficult matter to dis tinguish the gradations of insanity when they are so indistinctly marked. TnE Kansas City Times puts on tropic al airs and remarks: “In this soft, sen suous climate, where the zephyrs sug gest the spicy breezes which blow o’er Ceylon’s isle, where every prospect pleases, with flannels out of style, it is hard to realize that Geoigia lies under a foot of snow and people are sleighing in Atlanta.” Our esteemed cotemporary doesn’t know Atlanta. If anybody on the American continent has anything Atlanta wants, it must not hang around loose or she will get it. All in the world tliat keeps Atlanta from being a seaport is the scarcity of water. Atlanta is a dry town. how ro Cl,HIM KIDS. The following note has been received at the Enquirer-Sun office. It is written on gilt-edge linen paper, that must have cost forty rents a quire, and it smells like Hoyt’s German cologne : Atlanta, Oa , December 14, lfisfl. —Editor Mn- qiTHEii-SuN : I am a regular reader of your excel lent paper, and you will excuse my troubling you a moment. I am ft young married lad/tivcnty- Bix years old,and ijinakejt a rule to gather up all the valuable recipes in regard to household mat ters that I can. Will you please send mo an in fallible recipe for cleaning kids? Respectfully yours, Ida TnAYWicK. Ida, deur, we are glad to hear that you are a “regular reader.” If there is any thing that saws on our nerves, it is to sit in earshot of anybody—highland or low land, prince or peer—who reads irregu larly like a dog harks or a whistle toots. You stick to your habit of regular read ing. It is of vastly more importance than cleaning kids. Just freeze to the Enquirer-Sun and the Bible and they will carry you through. But when it comes to cleaning kids you sorter catch us off our base. We have never been stuck on kids much, to start off with. And we tolerate them not for what they are, but for what they will be. AVe boarded at a place oncei years ago, where the landlady ha 1 sev eral and she seemed to be pretty much in your fix. She had no recipe for clean ing them. Her kids were four in num ber; they all appeared to. bo about, four years old, and they were a sort of cross between an iron window shutter and a Cape Colony monkey. They made the sweet spring-time of our life a howling wilderness, and it didn’t take up half their time either. Still, as you have asked usTor a recipe, and we make it a rule never to say no to a woman, here’s your goods. The best lime to clean your kids is in the gloam ing, and the best place is a back yard with a high board fence around it. Catch them just as they reverse their throttles to hack ofT from the supper ta ble, and while their greasy hands and mouths are showing at their best. Take the oldest kid—say six years old—into the yard and sit on him while you stop up his mouth with a perpendicular corn cob. When you have got him into a condition of respectful silence, strip him and tie him to a tree, and turn the garden hose on him for three- quarters of an hour. This method has been recommended to us by a dis tinguished German physician and we are willing to stake our reputation as a kid- cleaner on its efficacy. It is known in Europe as the “long taw” style of doing the thing, and does away entirely with the old plan of laying the kid across your lap and scouring his features with a crash towel while you suppress his re marks by inserting a cake of soap into his mouth. Besides you avoid the danger of being kicked and bitten. If the kid is an infant with only a few months of total deoravity streaming like a comet tail in his wake, we would not use the hose on him immediately after he is weaned. He might grab the hose pipe, and try to seek nourishment from it. The force of habit is very strong in young children and you have to wean them from their early habits of infantile dissipation very gradually. If, however, you have been bringing up your baby on a nursing bottle and have been getting yo :r milk from an Atlanta dairy, you can use the hose on him at nice. If be tackles it, he’ll never know the ditleronee. In eases where the hose is not admissa- hlo on very young kill >, our plan is to strap the animal to the end of a fishing pole and take him to a river and whip the stream with him fora mile or two, after which we would shoulder Ihe pole and return homo. If the kid is still on the end of the pole when you get home, he will be dean, and will also have added a new leaf to his book of experience. Please inform us by return mail how our r.cipcs have panned out. We havn’t any kids of our own, but the orphan asy lum business is paying pretty well now; and we may be compelled to stand a civil service examination some day in or der to get a position in one. SOUTHERN POSTAL MATTERS. To-day the order issued by the post master-general authorizing the postotliee at Washington city to make up and dis patch mails for Havana via Tampa goes into effect. This mail is to include cor respondence for Cuba and l’orto Rico via Cuba. There can be no objection to quick mails for Cuba, or for any other point, but when such schedules are made at the expense of the rest of the country, wo submit there is nothing fair or just about it. This seems to he the ease with this fast southern mail, and no city in the south is a greater sufferer than Columbus. If the local trains into and out of this city were studiously arranged to run for the inconvenience of those who use the mails most, it could not be worse than it now is. It is only by the courtesy of the railroad officials in allowing us to use the freight trains that the Enquirer-Sun published at 4 o’clock in the morning can be for warded to subscribers before 3 o’clock in the afternoon. To have this serious trouble augmented by the post ofliee de partment is carrying the thing too far, and we protest against it. Atlanta made complaint u few days ago that New York mail was received in Jacksonville, Fla., six hours ahead of the mails received in Atlanta, yet Atlanta is several hundred miles nearer. It is even worse than that in Columbus. Atlanta and this city are of nearly equal distance from New York, yet mail is received in Atlanta twelve hours earlier than it i- iu this city, and it frequently occurs that it is twenty-four hours behind in arriving here. Postal affairs seem to be torn up and run on a very loose schedule generally in all this section of country. It is no un common thing for the papers received from Jacksonville to be four or five days old when they reach here. New York papers seem to drop in just when they take a notion,regardless of being on time, and so with all our northwestern ex changes. Sometimes they are allowed to accumulate on the road, as four or five copies of different dates will come in at one time. And there is no certainty even as regards our state exchanges. The mail seems to let us have them just as a notion takes it. This is all wrong, and should be rome died, a“ it can easily be done. It is a shame and an outrage upon the public that siicli a state of tilings sliouldexistin our postal affairs. The lesser evils we have to contend with in local matters caused by inexperienced employes from republican changes could he endured with better grace, if such momentous evils did not loom up in transportation. It is hoped the city postmaster und oth ers will take some steps to have these abuses corrected. THE lll T UN INC! OF THE J. B. WHITE. The burning of the steamer J. M. White and the attendant loss of life as reported in our dispatches, furnishes an other one of those lurid and holocaustic horrors which can be related but never described. The picture of half a hun dred men, women and children being eaten up by fire while their maddening screams for help made the %gony of wit nessing the pandemonium more terrible every moment until all was hushed in death, is one never t.o be forgotten. It is passing strange that a steamer lied to the bank of a river should take tire, and the fire be discovered imme diately, and yet that between fifty and a hundred passengers should perish. There was manifestly some criminal negligence on the part of the boat’s management, or else she was not in charge of her full complement of men and officers. The burning of the J. M. White should be in vestigated thoroughly and the guilty par ties punished. Upon whatever party the blame falls, that party is guilty of the murder of sixty people. Should such a murderer go free? The Louisiana author ities have the floor and they must answer that question to the public. A TOltlH ONE. There is hardly an officer in the ser vice of the federal government who has been so roundly abused as Gen. Sparks. Nor is there one who seems more capa ble and competent to stand it than he. As an esteemed cotemporary asserts, he is the toughest customer who has filled a federal office for many a day. Ho is not to be intimidated or cajoled from the discharge of his duty. When he is threatened or attacked he fights back, and his blows tell, us a great many peo ple besides ex-Governor Warren, of Wyo ming, can testify. When he is wheedled lie is deaf, and no amount of ridicule from republican papers or abuse from land thieves and their friends swerves him :i whit. He has already restored ?,750.000 acres of stolen la id to the pub lic domain, and he will g i on to restore millions more, with a knife in iiis sleeve for those wl.io attempt fi> interfere with him. llceifrned his salary a hundred thousand times over last year, but we doubt if he could pass a 40 per cent ex amination before Mr. Dorman R. E111111. Nevertheless, we are proud of him as a product of “the Rowdy West.” The Brooklyn Union, one of the mug wumps stand-bys, Inis slipped hack into the republican ranks. It couldn’t stand the racket. B I LIOUSNESS Is an affection of the Liver, and can be thoroughly cured by that Grand Regulator of the Liver and Biliary Organs. MANUFACTURED BY J. H. ZEILIN & CO., - Philadelphia, Pa. I wa< afflicted for several years with dis ordered liver, which resulted in a severe attack of jaundice. I had as good medical attendance as our section affords, who failed utterly to restore me to the enjoy ment of my former good health. I then tried the favorite prescription of one of the most renowned physicians of Louis ville, Ky.. but to no purpose; whereupon I was induced to try SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR. 1 found immediate bene fit from its use, and it ultimately restored me to the full enjoyment of health. A. H. SHIRLEY. Richmond, Ky. HEADACHE I'rociMMln from a Torpid Liver and Im purities of the Moiiiim'Ii. It ran !>e invariably cured by taking Let all who suffer remember that SICK AND NERVOUS HEADACHES Can be prevented by taking a dose as soon as their symptoms indicate the coming of an attack. cod ee aw top col nrm (4) HOLIDAY GOODS! 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 : For Your Mother nnd Mister, Nweetheort, Wile and Friend. Beautiful Lace Pins, Breast Pins, Ear Kings, Bracelets, Necklaces, Lockets, Tiny Queen Chains, Westcaius, Silver or Gold Watch, Rings, Cuff Buttons, Cuff Pins, Collar Buttons, Gantclioes, Silver or Gold Thimbles, Si'ver Hair Pins Silver and Gold Glove and Shoe But- toners, Opera Glasses, Vanes, Jewel Boxes, Bronzes, An isti -Clocks, Card Receivers, Silver Card Ca-cs, Silver Bells, Napkin Rings, Bronze Lamps, Picture Frames, Eye Glass Chains, Spectacle.* and Eye Glasses, Solid and Plated Forks, Knives and Spoons, Book Marko, Gold Pencils, Pens, Toothpicks, Solid Silver and Plated Cups, Solid Silver Soup and Oy iter Ladles, Berry, Preserve and Sugar Spoons, Butter Knives, Butter Dishes, Pickle Stands, Castors, Pearl Handle Knives. Far Yonr Father and Brother, II unhand and Friend. Silver or Gold Watches, Gold or Plated Chains, Cull Buttons, Collar Buttons, Watch Charms, Scarf Idas, Silver Match Safes, Stud Buttons, Napkin Holders, Eye Glasses, Pebble Spectacles in Steel and Nick el, Silver and Gold Frames, Napkin Rings, Opera Glasses, Ofliee 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 Yonr Little Feta. Solid Silver and Plated Cupa, Silver Pap Spoons, Bolin Silver Child’s Set, Silver Plated Child’s Set, Silver Thimbles from No. 1 upward. Necklaces, Lockets, Rings. Bracelets, Bib Pins, Breast Pins and Ear Rings, Stud Buttons, Bangles, Solid Silver Baby Rattles, Silver Plated Napkin Rings, Solid Silver Napkin Rings. School Sets, Ear Rings, Silver Kni ves and Forks, Silver Spiety Pins, Boys’ Watches, Microscope for botanical exploits. Pencil* and Pens, Beautiful Little Diamond Rings, Silver Mugs. Diamonds moulded in Rings, Pins, Eardrops. Collar Buttons, Cuff Buttons, Studs, Scarf Pins, etc., at very reasonable prices. o ■WATOHMAKBE; .A.HSTID JEWELER. FOR COUNTY OFFICERS THIS WEEK. Small line Ladies' Merino Pants, very cheap. Ladies’ Merino Vests reduced in price to close. Children’s Merino Underwear 20 per ceni off. Gents' cotton Flannel Drawers half price. A few choice combination Dress Patterns that can he 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. For Flerk of Superior Court. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re- election to the office of Clerk of the Superior Court cf Muscogee County at the election to be held in January next. Geo. Y. Pond. deal 2 td For County Treasurer. I wish my friends to know that I will be a ea»- didate for this office at the next election. I am here to run. R. J Moses. riov20 dtd I announce myself a candidate for County | Treasurer, and respectfully ask the voters ®f ; Muscogee county for their suffrage. * d&wtd John C. Cook. I respectfully announce myself a candidate fbr Trc. surer of Muscogee county, and earnestly solicit your support. I need the office and wilt be very thankful for your asristance. Iam pre pared to run. Election on the flrst Wednesday in January next, 1887. oc9se«fcwedtd Jordan L. Howell. I aunounce myself as a candidate for the office of County 'Treasurer, and respectfully solicit your support for he same. Election January next. G. E. Gager. Columbus, Ga., September 22,1886. Bep23 tf vT. 333. O^ZE^G-IZLiI oclO diwSm J 7 Ag’t. ESTABLISHED 186©. For Tax Receiver. G.GUNBY JORDAN Fire Insurance Agent, Telephone No. 104. ADELPHIA, Pioneer Building. Front Street. REPRESENTING AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of PH Honestly paid every loss since 181o. NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of NEW YORK, Every policy issued under New York Safety Fund law. SUN FIRE OFFICE, of LONDON Established 1710. Always successful. Policies issued on oil classes of insurable property. Representative t'otapies. IWkens Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments, A share of your business solicited. kcd12 dtf «nSH^!SKKESSiBEc5a: 63SO iEtiHS-WFA-iEtlD- We will pay the above reward fur any case of Rheumatism. Flood Poison or Kidney Disease that 'll UNNICUTT 8 RHEUMATIC CURE fails to (Mire permanently if taben according to directions. We mean just what we say. This won derful Tonic and Blood Purifier is for sale bv all first-class Druwists, M. HUNNICUTT &. CO., Atlanta, Ga fahouse T. HATCHER and Commission Fontaine Warehouse, Columbus, Ga. 1 WILL continue the Warehouse and Commission Business in all its branches, and solicit the patronage of my friends and the public generally. We guarantee strict attention and prompt returns on all consignments. BAGGING and TIES always on hand at cash prices. Storage and Sale of COTTON a specialty. Agent for the Latest Improved “LUMMUS COTTON GIN. sep-t 2ta\vlm \v2in B. T. HATCHER. EMPIRE STABLES. SUCCESSORS TO JOHN DISBROW & CO, East Side of First Ave., between 12th and 13th Sts. New and Nobby 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 caretully cared for at fl6 per month. Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers. 6TT«leph«Bt V«. 01. ecU 41/ l announce mynelf a candidate for election to ■? office of Tax Receiver, ami respectfully solfcft ' votes of the citizens of Muscogee county, ction Wednesday, January 5,1887. ovl6 dtf Woolfolk Walker. announce myself a candidate for Tax Re- er of Muscogee county, and respectfully 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 same if elected. Election January next. Respectfully, J. C. Reedy. nov5 td I respectfully announce myself a candidate for Tax Receiver of Muscogee county. Election firirt. Wednesday in January. Qeo. W. Cargill. For Taw 1'ollcctor. i announce myself as a candidate lor Tax Collector of Muscogee county (eleutiow January next), and respectfully solicit the Bup- poit of the voters of said county. auir29dtfwlm Oliver P. Poe. Announcing myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Collector of Muscogee county, £ respectfully solicit the votes of its citizen*, and will endeavor to deserve their support by faith folly discharging the duties of this office in the future as in 'he past. Election first Wednes day in January next. sep21 eodtd Davis A. Andrews. I announce myself a candidate for Tax Col* lector of Muscogee county (election January next), und ask for the support of the voters of said c unty. J. O'. Woolfolk. nep7 dtf For Coroner. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Cor oner for Muscogee county at the ensuing elec tion. W. D. Amyet. nov7 dtd I announce myself as a candipate for Coroner of Muscoace county. dec!2 td Simpson Stribblino. I announce myself as a candidate for re-eleo- Slicriir. I most respectfully announce myself an a can didate for re-election as sheriff of Muscogee coun ty. Election first Wednesday in January next, decll td J. G. Burrur. $250 A MONTH. Agents wanted. 90 boat inc article ) in tbo world. 1 sample free Add reap -« A V WROY«Ov Min* S1N39V .-sh’-t $2.b0, .Cl kinds. Guns <fc Rifles flit u Ml A Monster 111. Cat. for 3-ot. stamp .lulO Western Gun Works. Chicago. Itt Forepaugh & Samwell’s Carnival of Novelties and Trained Animal Show Combined, under a Mammoth Tent, A.T OOXjTJM:BXJS, BUT NOT UNTIL MONDAY, December 13th, for ON EVERYTHING NEW. Two performances daily. Doors open at 1 and 7 pm, commencing at 2 and 8 p in. See the Novel Street Parade.