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» DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MOHMNQ, DECEMBER 18. 1S8K. ColuudiusC-mjitirtr-fiiii. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. Tde HNQUIRBR-SUN [■ Issued every itay, ox oepl Monilxy. The Weekly in issued on Monday. Tho Daily (Including Sunday) in delivered by carriers In the city or mnilod, postage free, to sub fv ihr:/' for lor. per month, 8d,ll0 for three ■uoulh.', S'.iJO for six nionlliH, or 87.0(1 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in tlie City or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at *1.69 a year. The Weekly isfssucd on Monday, and is mailed subscribers, postage free, at 81.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily at (1 per square of 10 lines or less for the Brst insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for tho Weekly at $1 for each in- aerlion. All communications intended to promote tho private ends or interests of corporations, societies «r Individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by tire year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary rates. None but solid metal cuts used. Ail communications should be addressed to the MNQmarcn-SuN. Tins Brooklyn yotinfr republican club in out for Hlninc. In the language of another, "that <lo settle i(.” Cassius M. Clay is so confident that Kentucky is going over to the republi cans that ho wants the nomination for governor. IIo should remember Taylor. It- Mr. Blaine doesn’t take another tour soon the boom will cool off. But it had as well become accustomed to cold days, in anticipati n of the day in ’88 on which it will get left. Washumvton Ihvino Bishop, the mind reader, married last week. He had to ask the girl before bo knew if she would have him. Mind reading won’t do to hank on when ono is dealing with a woman. PeunAPs after all James G. Blaine, jr., will create a better feeling toward his much known and little loved parent by entering the ranks of journalism. Is Jimmie, jr., a sort of "sop to Cerberus,” which his father has thrown among the editors? Am, the Washington correspondents are not numbskulls, to soy the least of it. One of them avers that this is a country of good laws and unwisely prepared vict uals. He thinks it would be easier al ways to find a competent secretary of state than a satisfactory cook for the white house. Tins labor candidate for mayor of Bos ton did not attract many votes. lie re ceived only .’HUT, notwithstanding the speeches made by Mr. Henry George in his behalf. Mayor O'Brien, the demo cratic candidate for re-election, received 28,387 votes, and Mr. Hart, tho republi can, 18,710. McNeill and labor reform probably brought out just, the labor vote. Accoititixo to the New York Graphic the annual report of the secretary of the treasury i- an exposition of linnncinl principles bo lucid, comprehensive and logical that it ought to be adopted as a text book in our colleges and seminaries. If thus utilized, we might be spared the humiliation and loss inseparable from the prevalence of fallacious, chimerical or dishonest liscu! theories atnongso many congressmen and their constituents. If it is ever excusable to become lost in meditation, Messrs. .Incline and Me- Quude ought to be given latitude in that respect when they sit.down on their iron cots at night to ponder over the past. 'These two ex-city fathers may not say anything during these waking dreams, hut if they don’t think a bad word occa sionally they ought to have a medal for it. They are beginning to realize that sometimes when a man sella his vote, he unintentionally sells himself along with it. It has been jocosely remarked tliat “Floridians live off of Yankees in the winter and gophers in the summer.” Just now Florida is getting in her full supply of “winter food.” The winter rush hits commenced in earnest and the Yankees are flocking to the state by the hundreds.^The indications arc that the season;will L 'be the most successfuljever known.tfcThis may perlmns be accounted for by the fact that- it is an unusual’win- ter. Gnu train from Savannah last Sat urday carried over L’dO ilrst-class passen gers to Florida. The hotels are rapidly filling up. If the Illinois supreme court felt the need of a strengthening plaster, to be ap plied to the judicial spine when the ap peal of the condemned anarchists comes tip, the congress of federated trades Inis supplied one of perfectly reliable charac ter. This assemblage was composed ol skilled and practical workingmen who knew all about the feelings and wants o! the real workiugtnenJlof America, and when they opened their mouths they spoke words of solid wisdom and truth. “Let the law take its course,” said they. The real workingman has nothing in common with the lazy and besotted an archists. These men never uttered a greater truth than when tiny sail’: “The great trades cf America arc dependant on law and order for continued existence and Support,” Tlll lONVirrs AI) I'HK HDAIIH. Tho pablic roads of the stale of Geor- riu are not level enough to make a trac tion engine of uny use iu the state as a general thing. The state of Georgia Is old enough and populous enough and wealthy enough to be transacted by turnpikes, instead of washed gullied, and ill-kept country roads. The roads are worked too seldom and too superfleially, and when worked at all, the labor is often conducted on the principle that what is everydody’s business is nobody’s business. It is not the men who super vise and work tho roads who are to blame for this; it is tho system under which it is done. A number of men of various occupations and trades meet at a certain fork or cross-roads at about 11 o’clock in the morning. Some of them have walked several miles and have brought their dinners in tin buckets. They have been “summonsed" in the dread name of the law. Like unwilling school children they obey. They are bound to answer the'“summons,” and frequently the an swer is about all. There is generally no previous assignment of tools, and each man brings an ax, shovel, hoe, pick or plow. If the men have been “sum monsed” to work for three days, the man who brings the horse and plow on ihe first day generally stays away during the other two to got even, though ho really considers the state in debt to him after working only one day out of three. The men who bring axes are tho most numerous. Tho ax is the least serviceable and the most popular of all road working tools. And the fact that the man who brings tho ax to work with invariably trees a rabbit and cuts him out of a hol low, either going to or coming from road work, is purely incidental. Our present road working system is worse than anything we have except tho roads themselves. We have described and inveighed against the disease, and we are willing to shoulder the onus of providing a remedy. The proper place for our convicts is on tho public roads. Convicts are rapidly becoming a white elephant on the bands of the state, because wherever they are set to work tho cry of competition with free labor is raised. If there is anywhere that a convict can be put to work and be free from the jealousy of free labor, it is on the public highways. Tho free la borer, when he does work the pulllic highway, has to do it for nothing. He will resign in the convict’s favor without a murmur. If the convicts of the state of Georgia were put to work upon the public roadB for a decade, it would be an easy matter to travel over the entire state on a bicy cle, much less in a buggy; and the stran ger who came among us would find every highway in the state a boulevard instead of as now, a billowed and gullied and log- strewn by-path. Let some member of Ihe general assembly who wants to em balm his name fot history inaugurate a plan to (ait the convicts upon the public roads. IIOKS PIlOUIlllTO TllOIlllilTl The Chicago Daily News has been do ing a good work, if it be a good work to refute Ihe idea that prohibition does not prohibit in prohibition states. Bo gen erally lias (be question been asked whether or no f prohibition really does prohibit, the News lias undertaken to ascertain the situation and the expo- | rienee iu Kansas. To this end il has | written a letter to every probate judge in i Kansas (the sane: as ordinary in this stale), :i-kh,:. r hoiv the number of saloons now compare with the number before prohibition in-.-a -ures were adopted, and also as to die crimes committed which grew out of the use of alcoholic beverages compared with the period preceding that of prohibition in Kansas. This information was sought from the probate judges for the rear on tliat these officials are directly concerned with the administration of the prohibition law. It is evident that the views expressed by these gentlemen redact the prevailing sentiment of their respective counties The replies are thus summarized: "Replies have been received from forty-nine of these, or from more than one-half of the entire number. The replies to the questions asked by the News are answered overwhelmingly in the ainrmaltve. Only live counties — Sheri dan, Ford, Clark, Republic and Harper—pro nounce the law unqualifiedly a failure; in Kinc- uuin it is frankly admitted that the law is not en forced; in Rush. Trego, Riley and Clay, although the replies are rather in the nature of opinions— as are almost all of those above mentioned-in stead of statement of observed fact, they are rat her favorable than otherwise. “With these exceptions, the answers show a decrease in the use of intoxicating drinks In Kansas, ranging front 50 to 75 per cent, and in crimes and olfenses growing directly out of the use of such drinks, a decrease of from 50 to 90 percent. It is worth noting that the counties which pronounce prohibition a failure are sur rounded by or adjoining others in which the most satisfactory results are -claimed." , Fourteen United States senators have their sons serving them in the espacity of committee clerks or private secretaries. Russell Sags:, the well-known Wall sp-eei operator, has a southern tripi n prospect after Christmas. He has lately been putting a good deal of money into southern enterprises. We are not disposed to get up a stampede of our young men and old bachelers to the golden gates, but it is said that San Francisco has three hundred unmarried ladies who are heiresses to more than half a million dollars each. with free labor. Work on the roads, on canals, o : national highways, every kind of work brims la the mutter of competition. Kbnll we support them in idleness or kiii them ! That is what the e.wvicl lab ,r qu stion has resolved itself into in this country. Tub Mexicans will go to hear Patti, notwith standing the imposition by the bogus agent, and they will pay prices twenty-five per cent, ahead of those already paid by them. It speaks well for tlie diva's charms when people are willing to paytwiee over for tho privilege of seeing and hearing her and to submit to a twenty-five per cent, increase at that. Tin; south now asks for northern capital, ex actly ns if the northern capital could do the work. But capital cannot do anything without directing minds. The south wants capital rep resented In productive plants, no doubt, and it does not so much matter from whence it comes, if only tho young men there put themselves in training so that they can become a part of the new order of affairs. Northern capital directed solely by northern men cannot benefit the south save iu a superficial way. The idea tliat the re sources of that section wholly relate to iron, ccal, cotton and so forth, is preposterous. The intel lectual resources of the southern people need de veloping quite as much.—Philadelphia North American. A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. The Hones of Enormous Beasts Exhumed in Spokime County, IV. T. W. M. Lee, tho well known fruit grower of Tacoma, gives tile particulars of a won derful discovery of bones of extinct ani mals in V/a-bington territory which will attract tho attention of the students of natural history and arciueology all over the world. In a letter to the Ledger front Spokane Falls, ju-il received, he says; Tne face of the whole termo, / shows unmis takable evidence of great volcanic up heavals. On my trip through Spokane county I stopped at Latah, and in conver sation with Mr. Coplen of that place, re garding the volcanic formation of that see tion, he informed me that he had ex amined some large bones of great antiquity. Accompanied by Mr. Coplen I went to the spring whore the relics were dug out. It is located on a low strip of springy prairie. Tho excavation around the spring is twelve or fifteen feet deep, and thirty or forty feet across. The bones were covered by several distinct layers. The first layer was ancient peat, then gravel, then volcanic ashes, then a layer of coarse peat. From this spring were taken no less than nine mammoths or elephants of diffe. ent sizes, the remains of a cave bear and hyenas, extinct birds and a sea turtle. Mr. Coplen kindly presented me with some specimens of these relics. The dimensions of some of the bones of the larger mammoths wore wonderful to look at. The horns were a sort oftusk and pro truded from the head just below the eyes, extending downward below the jaws, then upward over the head. By dropping the head in the ;iet of feeding the circle of the horns that extending below tho jaws, par tially rested on the ground, giving support to the head, which is estimated to have weighed a ton. The horns were wornaway several inches deep at. the bottom of the turn or half cir cle, indicating constant use by rubbing on the ground or ro-ks. One of these horns was ten feet and one inch long and twenty- four inches in circumference. It weighed 124 pounds. One of the tusks measured twelve feet and nine inches in leDgth and twenty-seven inches round. It weighed 295 pounds. The jaw weighed sixty-three pounds. The molar teeth weighed eighteen pounds each. Some of the ribs were eight met long. The pelvic arch was six feet across, and an ordinary man could walk erect through this opening. This huge and antique monster was eighteen and a half feet high and was estimated to weigh twenty tons. Just imagine far bock in the misty by gones of antiquity, probably before the appearance of man upon the earth, that Washington teritory was the home of these monstrous animals, that roamed over the great prairies, traversed the Columbia river, and made the genial clime of Puget sound tneir naunts iu winter. It matters Dot what theories may be in regard to these imbedded bones of such huge propor- ! tio-is; why so many of them were piled [ together in these springy places; what period or ago the animals lived; at what. j time the great change took place which ' made them disappear from t'as continent, \ whether tiny first made their appearance j in this part of A morion and whether or not w-i, then n, tropical climate-—Tacoma ; CLEVELAND’S BAKINS F0WI11 DESERVES TO B! HOMY REC0KHEMIE9. I have made a very careful, analysis of CLEVELAND’S SUPERIOR BAKING POWDER, bsnght from grocers in this city, and have feund it t:> fce per fectly pure, and manufactured from tho beet quality c f C renin of Tartar and other materials. It is entirely free fro.-.. A’mn, Acid Phosphates, Terra Alba and other substances, \ ■ hick are frequently used for the manufacture and acSultercticn c£ Taking Powde .'s ; and on account cf its purity and healthful constitu ents deserves to be highly recommended. P. A. GENTH, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Fa. West Philadelphia, Fa., December 7th, 1378. KID GLOVES Second Weekly Shipment .RECEIVED YESTERDAY' L’Allegro Club, S8e; Premium Black. 98c. Chattahoochee, 37c; Columbus Girl, 50c; These goods have to he seen and worn to be appreciated. Those who have tried them pronounce them superior to any thing ever offered for anything near the price. Kid Cloves, to be good and wear well, must be newly made of soft, elastic skins and freshly tanned. If they lay in stock long the skin becomes dry aud harsh; il is sure to follow that a very large percentage will crack, and in many instances the seams part ill putting on the first time. To prove the accuracy of the above statement, 1 have sold 25 dozen the past ten days and have not had one complain—n >1 one has •’proved-faulty; not one 1ms par led seams. Can more in- sain of Gloves that arc sold dally for 50 per cent more? I hope tin* ladies of Co lumbus v/ili appreciate this effort to give liieiu fresh Gloves al a verv low price, and give us their trade. CAPITAL PRIZE, - $150,000 We do hereby certify that u>e supervise th. ar. itiyemont for ail the Monthly and Quart rim 'mutiny* of The Louisiana State Lottery t , rZ *nnp, and in person manage and control tbs ■ irawimjs themselves, and that the same art. :ncted with honesty, fairness, and in yoml fa m tward all parties, and we authorise the Gump, no .< vsc thin certificate, with facsimiles o oh* unurea nttadud. to its advertisement*.*’ ^ o. c: ON. tamsBEia gv’rattgaagsigLaiBg-agaBigaEesgre^^ ijiw—i— f I i'S" is ill at™ vm The newspapers which went off half-cocked in attacking Dr. Dabi\ey, pension examiner, as having been a prison guard at Andersonviile, are in a bad plight. The doctor has most unequivo cally denied the charge. Papers, as well as peo ple that go off half-cocked, generally go wrong. The New Albany Ledger seems to be troubled about the convict labor question and asks: Shall convicts do no labor? If they do »ny kiud of labor they come into direct competi l.u 1)1 LIC Is an affection of the Liver, and can be thoroughly cured by that Grand Regulator of the Liver and Biliary Organs. SUMS m RBiliUM, MANUFACTURED BY J. H. ZHILIN & CO., - Philadelphia, Pa. I wa/ afflicted for several years with dis ordered liver, which resulted in a severe attack of jaundice. 1 liud as good medical attendance us our section affords, who failed utterly lo restore me to the enjoy ment of my former good health. 1 then tried the favorite prescription of one of the moat renowned physicians of Louis ville, Ky.. but to no purpose; whereupon 1 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. II. SHIRLEY, Richmond, Ky. HEADACHE Proceed** fnini a Torpid Idveraml Eni- (MiriticN of the .Stomach. It can be invariably cured by inking Lit UPAlUljAlUtl Let all who suffer remember that SICK A\D NERVOUS HEADACHES Zimmerman FRUIT evaporators . . iourma h v n < u baker n well a vhryer.it w..r..s l .-nMirtillv. n: M‘U.1 S.SIIKHMOK Vidros Zlmutvrxniin MuohtncCti.. Cincinnati. Ohio,i: S.A I |g j .fij It ft I ,ii il lib 1 i M Miuon!ct\iblit.hrT M rior <>f the Anui If dgo in N. \m e-i Catalogue o Masonic books and goods with t' of spur ou»b<> >Vp. oad Way, New York. ANHpOD„^,?jT,S?ffl t lm P rudonc a . causing Premature Decay, Nervous Debility Lost Manhood, etc., having tried In vain over* known remedy, has dlscnvomd a ntmple self-care, which he will send FRER to h!« fellow sufferers! ov, P. o. r — ■■ — - — Addresa, C. J. MASON, BcJoeod&wly . Box UTO, N.v fork at. THIS "WEEK. Small line Ladies’ Merino Pants, very cheap. Ladies’ Merino Yesis reduced in price to close. Children’s Meriuo Underwear 20 per cent off. Gents’ cotton Flannel Drawers half price. A lew choice combination Dress Patterns that can be bought very cheap. Prices reduced on till Dress Goods and Trimmings. Cloaks and \Vraps si ill lower to close. No excuse for not having a Wrap at Ihe prices we name; llie.y 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". TIL C-A-ZE^O-ILL, 3 oclO d&wfitn EMPIRE STABLES. SUCCESSORS TO JOHN DISBROW & CO., East Side of First Ave., between 12tli and 13tli Sts. New and Nobby Turnouts, Safe and Showy Horses, Careful and Eiperienced Drivers, FUNERALS personally conducted and properly attended to. The finest Hearses in the city. AFTER SEPTEMBER 1st, Horses boarded and carefully cared for at fl6 per month. Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers. in»i«phsM a*, n. Cmnni Utsioner*. IFe li-e ui.'.U:raig:ie<l Hanks and Banter» itHl jji,;/ all Prizes dm-.m in The Louisiana Slat< JnS- ‘f.-ries which man be presented at our counters. .«. c». tMiUNIlY. l.u. Xnt’l linnk .1. W. ti I tt.lSttttUTU.PrcN. Stulo Nat’l irk %. HA I, am IN, Pirn Jl.o. Hnl’l Uiuh I j NPHIiCEDENTEFaTTBAOTION ! w Over Half a Million Distributed Louisiana State Lottery Comp’y. I ocurp-jrated in IMS for 25 ye'ars by the Leidtt-’a- ttre for iwlucntinnal anil Charitable ptuposeg- ' UJr a capital of if],COO,000—to which a reserve ■ unfi of over 0650,000 liar, since boeu added. By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise ■voh made a part of the present State Constitu tion, auopted December 2d, A. I). 1879. The only Loilery ever voted on and endorsed by the people of any Slate. IT NEVEK SCALES OR POSTPONES. Its draml Niiqtlc itinnix r llnminp, ir.Jee pliiro tltmlbl)-, itutl (lie Neml-An- .* Hi I Itriiwin^N i-esiilnily every six tnonilis (June anil Hveemtier). A MJftl.KNmn oriM>KT»’NITY TO WIN A FORTUNE. FI BBT QUA NR nUA\> INC). CLASS A. IN THE ACADEMY OF Sifslt NEW ORLEANS. TUESDAY, iRMUary 31 Six. ISS7-2<iO(h Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize, $150,000. Notice- Tickets nre Ten Dollars only. Halves. $5. Finiis,8-->. Tenths, $1. LIST OP PRIZES. 1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $160,000 IlSO.Oi'S 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 60,000 60,00$ 1 GRAND PRIZE OF 30,000 JO.Ot* 2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000 20 06$ •I LARGE PRIZES OF 6,000 20,116$ 20 PRIZES OF 1,009 20,$t$ iiO PRIZES OF 600 26,04$ 100 PRIZES OF 300 30,06$ 200 PRIZES OF 200 40,P.0 300 PRIZES OF 100 60,00$ 1.000 PRIZES OF 60 60,04$ APPOXIMATION PRIZES. 100 Approximation Prizes of $390 {30,0 $ 100 •' '• 200 10.IP* ino " " too io,o$> 2,179 Prizes, amounting to $535 $T Application for rates to clubs should be mod* only to theOfticcoftlieCompanyin New Orleans. For further information write clearly, pivii g full addresB. l-OSTAI. NOTES, Express Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordi nary letter. Currency by Express (at our ex pense) addressed M. A. HA 1 1*11 IN, New Orleans, JLa. Or K. A. HAITPHIN, Washington, D. C. Make P. 0, Money Orders payable and ad dress Registered Letters t« NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK. New Orleanft, U. m < v \f 17M RVH That the presenoo of j lvl 1 j I > Fj IV Generals Beauregard ami ICurly, who are in churgo of the drawings is n guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity* that the chances arc all equal, and that no one c ti possibly divine what numbers will draw a Pi ixs. All parlies, therefore, advertising to guor- .mice Prizes in this Lottery, or holding: out any other impossible induceireiUs.ave swindlers, aod o- \3im to deceive and defraud, the unwary. A Ktflndnrd Medical Work Fill YOUNG & MIDDLE-AGED IU ONLY 81.00 BY MAIL, POSTPAID. / :U r ~ SgwKrf? test ms ILLUSTRATED SAMPLE FREE TO ALI A Great Xledica! Work on HanhooM Exhausted Vitality, Nervous and Physical Debil ity. 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The Science of Life should be read by the young for instruction, and by the afflicted for relief, fl will benefit all.-London Lancet. There is no member of society to whom The Science of life will not be useful, whether youth, parent, guardian, instructor or clergyman.—Ar gonaut. A ddress the Peabody Medical Institute, or Dr. W. H. Parker, No. \ Bultinch street, Boston. Mass., who may be consulted on all diseases re quinngskill and experience. Chronic and obsti nate diseases that have baffled the skill of all other Physicians a specialty. Such treated suc cessfully without an instil nee of failure. Men tion this paper. ap28 wl Offices for Rent! 01 JOHN BLACKMAR, Real Estate Ageut, Columbus, Oa. 5 wed&fri tf ADVERTISERS Can learn the exact cost of any proposed line of advertising in American Papers by addressing Geo. P. Rowel], & Co.* Newspaper Advertising Bureau, lO Spruoe St., Ne v York* Send lOets. for lOO-oai.j Pamphla* kg whenbnalnesslt dull and pr! 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