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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN : COLUMBUS, GEOHGIA, FRIDAY MORNING DECEMBER 24, 1X86.
Scheme of the University of Pennsylvania
to Establish a Chair of Journalism.
What the Lnnlsvllle Courier.JnuriiAl Hi,a to Say
of Hip Proposition—Some Troths A hoot the
Business Not (Irncrtllv Known to the Public.
The editor of t he Courier-Journal has re-
cciv d a letter which Heems to be of enough
public interest to justify a public answer.
The following extract will explain the
case :
“It is proposed by the trustees of ono of
the :. ' nicul schools of the University of
Pennsylvania to establish a choir in jour
nalism. The plan under oonslderatios is
to have an instructor who will give upcJui
attention to English composition, an > to
supplement his work by lectures given in
course by leading Journalists. It is desira
ble to obtain opinions of the representative
men in the profession upon t be ud\ inability
of the scheme. May I ask if, in your opin
ion, instructions in the art of newspaper
making, given in connection with other
studies in college, would be either feasible
or advantageous? If it would be, what in
your opinion should be, briefly, the chief
end to be aimed at? Let me say that this
information is sought to the end that a
practical solution ot the problem involved
may be secured.”
There can be but one reply to the first of
the above interrogatories; a school of
special instruction in newspaper work is
feasible and desirable, and, if properly
organized and conducted, would be advan
tageous.
Of course education can insure success in
no calling. Eminence in every walk of life
is the outcome of conditions not embraced
by systems and of qualities distinctly per
sonal. But there is no more reason why
particular training should not benefit
THE INTENDED JOURNALIST
tlinn the intended machinist, musician, or
soldier. On the contrary, the increasing
exactions and complexities of newspaper
work create a peculiar need for such par
ticular training. Its realization is only a
question of time and will be determined,
soon or late, partl.v by the newspaper de
mand for skilled labor ami partly by the
practical wisdom of thi SB undertaking its
organization and development.
As a rule, two types of young men pro-
sent tneinselves for admission into news-
I inper offices; the callow collegiate, who
mows too much, atul the poor devil, who
knows nothing. Of the two, the latter is
to he preferred. He has less to unlearn.
Ho is as a fresh sheet of letter paper, and,
if lie bo clenn, and made out of good stock,
there is hope of him. The other may get
on, but the likelihood is that, after failing
in all the lines of ambitious work, lie will
at last drop into a position of ill-paid ob
scurity and fixed subordination, and be
come n harmless crank. He is the "crush
ed tragedian” of journalism.
In each instance some preparatory in
struction would bo valuable, and not less
to journalism than to journalistic aspirants
and applicants. It would spare journalism
the wear and tear and the risk of depend
ing upon novices for work too often im
portant and delicate, whilst educating
them. It would disclose the unfitness of
many would-be journalists in time to save
them and put the more promising upon
TIIE BIGHT HOAD.
There is not a newspaner manager in the
country who would not be glud to recruit
his little army of news gatherers from a
School in which the rudimentary princi
ples of newspaper requirements and re
sponsibility are well taught. Such n
school would no more make a journalist
than West Point makes a soldier. But it
would lay the needful foundations.
The chief end to be aimed at by a school
of journalism should be, first, simple train
ing in the preparation of copy for publica
tion, embracing the art of condensation,
and second, moral training in the obliga
tions oi decency and truthfulness, which
the individual assumes when he becomes n
public, writer or reporter for the press.
After all, success in every enterprise is
referable to the ability mid skill of the
men who originate it and devote them
selves to it. Many excellent schemes fail
for lack of adequate handling. But we are
inclined to think that a time has come
when the organization of a faculty for a
school of journalism is possible. The great
newspaper properties of the country arc
for the most pm-t in the bands of those
who are not willing to part with them, and
are consequently beyond the rench of many
poor young men, who have only their ox-
{ lorience and talents to sustain them and to
ook to, in the subordinate places of man
aging editor and city editor, which they
have attained, and beyond which there is
no probable promotion. These ure not, as
a role, so well paid for the most arduous
w,.rk known to man that their services
might not be hud as instructors by
i A PROSPEROUS SCHOOL OP JOURNALISM
und their qualification to give practical in
structions will not he denied. Of course,
occasional lectures or courses from the
greater guns might stimulate and adver
tise, and would lie interesting as individual
performances, if not instructive as lessons
in journalism; hut of the utilitarian value
of elementary instruction by expert every
day journalists we have us little doubt us
we have that these latter may bo secured
by the inducements which lure others
from active professional work to the busi
ness of professional teaching.
On the whole, therefore, it seems to us
that the idea of the university of Pennsyl
vania is feasible and desirable, and we may
add the expression of the opinion that no
better sight for the proposed school could
be found than the city of Pliila lelpbiu,
which is in close contiguity to so many ot
the great cities, yet apart from them, 'and
where practical journalism has made un
common advances the last ten or twelve
years, creating a certain competitive en
thusiasm and a professional esprit de corps
favorable to those atmospheric, conditions
that, in journalism, hardly less than in art
atul letters, germinate und enlarge the
species which they permeate and envelop.
Almost every one is troubled with nerv
ousness in some form, and nine-tenths of
the prevailing illness comes from nervous
exhaustion, brought on by overwork,
mental strain or dissipation. No wonder
people are asking for a reliable nerve
remedy like Moxie Nerve Food ; it builds
you up, and strengthens your whole nerv
ous system. Try it.
Obliged le Hurry tp.
“ Conductor,” inquired a hungry pas
senger on a southern railroad, “ how long
will this train stop for refreshments at the
next station?”
“Just long enough,” replied the official,
“for me to down three hard boiled eggs
and a cup of coffee. If my watch is any
where near right, and it’s ticking fairly
well at present; we are in the neighbor
hood of from two to five hours behind
time, or thereabouts.”
Watterson to Cleveland.
One thing is certain, and that, is that if
We are to nominate Mr. Cleveland to be his
own successor, which at present seems to
us inevitable, we cannot elect him unless
We come to some better understanding
than now exists. In truth, if tie is not with
us heartily, and in good faith, and all
along the line, we do not care to elect him.
Between a mugwump in the white house
and a stalwart republican, we should pre
fer to take our chance of the future in a
square hand-to-hand fight on principle
with the republican, gettiug with our vic
tory, if we should win a victory, a change
of public policy, than to eke out a preca
rious milk-and-water servitude to a fast-
and-loose, pig-and-puppy, now-you-see-it
and now-you-don’t, too-good-to-be-houest
and too-great-to-be-iiseful administration
of Cheap John statesman, wearing second
hand apparel and pinchback jewelry.
This is the feeling among the mass of
democrats. It is the feeling among the
file leaders. Some one, without a grudge
and with perfect good humor, ought to
any it, to say it plainly and with a will, to
sa.v It in senson and in earnest; for if its
lesson and meaning be not heeded, and wo
go stumbling and blundering along as we
are going, we shall find, when the votes
come to no counted out. that somebody
has fallen without knowing who or what
hurt him.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
COLUMBUS
Iron Works
A MONT MHKItAL. OFFER.
The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich.,
offer to send their celebrated VOLTAIC
Belts and Electric Appliances on thirty
days' trial to any man afflicted with Norv
ms Debility, Loss of Vitality, -lanhood
.vc. Illustrated pamphlet in iiealed en-
ve >pc with full particulars, mailed free.
iVrito ( hem at once. l&wtf
The Telephone anil Telegraph.
According to nature, the question of tel-
ephouy vs. telegraphy has been recently
discussed bv a well-known German elec
trician, Dr. Weilleslnicli. The chief hin
drance to the use of tile telephone for long
distances is. be points out, of a financial,
not of a technical, nature. A telephone
] ns 2000 km. long (about, 1243 miles), costs
considerably over a million marks ($250,-
000). It is still possible to speak very well
this distance; but even supposing the line
wero in constant use day and night, the
receipts must be five marks (say shillings)
a minute to make it nay. In telephone
work, however, the line is in use only a
few hours d illy; hence a short conversa
tion would cost at least fifty marks(£2 10s).
This is, of course, too dear for ordinary
traffic. The telegraph works, with almost
the same speed, more than ten times more
cheaply. Thus the question as to rivalry
between telephone and telegraph finds its
settlement.—Electrical Review.
A Ulnnt Indertiiking.
Mr. George Parsons Lnthrop is to be ono
of the board of three editors who are to
conduct Mr. Seliginan’s new weekly paper
in New York. It is to be called the Epoch
and is to assist in bolstering up what Mr.
Lathrop calls the literary movement in
tlie metropolis.—Boston lierald.
CLINGi^AM’S
T obacco
REMEDIES
THE CLIHOMH TOBACCO OIKTHEKT
lou IlHii.i.r I Mi;*, linn never Inilod to pive
jirinint rj'liuf. Will emu Aiuil Ulcers. Abncess,.
I i-.t mu, lot tor. Suit l.licum Bnrl er’a Itch, Iling-
\v .niiH, Pimples, H ires r.ud Boils. Pi ic«* oOrlM*
THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO CAKE
NVITUli’M OWN ItlWIDY, („,,, „a
\\'tunas. (JutH. Brolson, Ktmiins, Erjslpoliis. lirilH,
< 'rliitndes. llum, Luduns, Ulcers, Soros, Siiro Byes,
Hi.ro'I hroiit Bunions Corns Nouriilgin Knonmatisn),
Oivlntis limit Rhoum.itio Omit O. Ids, Coughs.
Bronchitis Milk I.og, HtnUo and Dog Bites. Htiiigi
i t InsoctH. tto In ITn fcnll iyu all local Irritation nnf
Inllaniniiition from whatever enure. J»i U*4* ( >| M|
THE CLINGMAN TOBACCO PLASTER
I'mtitN'il iircnr<1 Ind to tlie most heientilic
iiriiinpIcN, ot the rilflisT si:i).\TIVI{
i Nti |{ Bill 10.compounded with tho purest
lohaceo Flour, jmd is specially recommended for
(,i oup Weed or (Jake m t lie Breast, and for that class
oi irritant or innnmniatory maladies. Allies and
P.imH where from too delicate a state of the system,
ti 'pi't lent is unable to hoar the stronger application
ol t he lob.iccoCake l<nr lloud-iciio or other Aches
and Fains, it is invaluable. Price I., eta.
Ask your druggist for t hose remedies, or write to the
CliNGHAN TOBACCO CURE CO.
DURHAM. N. C. J. S. A.
M other’s
Friend
Not only shortens the time
of labor und lessens the in
tensity of pain, but it great
ly diminishes the danger to
life of both mother and child
and leaves the mother m a
condition highly favorable
to speedy recovery, and far
less liable to Hooding, Con
vulsions,and other alarming
symptoms Incident to slow
or pninftil labor. Its wonder-
ftil efficacy in this respect
entitles it to be called Tun
Motiiisk’h Friknd aiul to be
ranked as one of the life
saving remedies of the nine
teenth century.
We cannot publish certifi
cates concerning this reme
dy without wounding the
delicacy of the writers. Yet
we have hundiedson tile.
Send for our book, “To Mothers,” mailed free
Bkapfikld Bkgulatou Co., Atlanta, Ga.
jy21 eod&w arm (8)
Catarrh
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ELY’S
lold in Head,
CATARRH,
HAY FEVER.
lot a Liquid, Snuff or
, ’owder. Free from
■ mm niurious drugs and
|#%Y ** Jr tSm V BU R ineusive odors.
A particle Is applied into each nostril and is
agreeable. Price 50 rents at Druggists; by mail,
registered 50 ets. Circulars free. ELY BROS.,
Druggists. Owego. N. Y. auirtf eod*wtf nrm
INFA NTS^^I N VALIDS
'AsAd MURK.
The only perfect substitute for Mother**
milk. invaluable In Cholera Infantum
and Teething, a nr«.digested food tor Dys
peptics, Consumptives, convr “
■ • -—Heat In all Wasting
o cooking. Our Hook,
. convalescents.
Perfect nutrient in all Wasting Diseases*
Requires no cooking. Our Hook, The Care
and Feeding of It."ants, mailed free.
DOUBER. OUODALH m OT Boston. MftM
Mi
Lost Alunhood, etc., having tried in vain every
known remodv, ban dK'nvorod n pimple self-cure,
which ho will Bond FRG* to his fellow sufferers.
Address, C. J. MASON, I*. O. Box ai7», New York CltT.
8c2oeod<kw ly
COMPANY,
Columbus,
Georgia.
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS,
-DEALERS IN-
Limc, Shingles, Dressed and Matched Ceiling and Flooring
and other Lumber. Specially made of Dress
ing Lumber for other parties.
-AGENTS FOB
Royal Pumps, Judson Governors, Eberman Feeders, Standard
Injectors, Hancock Inspirators and
BROWN COTTON GINS
MANUFACTURERS OF
Stratton’s Improved Absorption Ice Machines, Saw Mills.
Pumps, Hollow Ware, Syrup Kettles,
GOLDEN 00TT03ST PRESSES
The Improved Calender Rollers.
i’cL =.
The above cut represents the Improved Calender Rollers,
so much admired and extensively used by Cotton Manufac
turers of the present day. They consist principally of five
Rollers, six inches in diameter, 40' inches long; two of them
hollow, being a receptacle for steam. They are furnished
with all necessary pipe and valves, fitted up ready to be at
tached to a Boiler; has all the latest improvements ou same,
including the Selvage Rollers ane Cloth Yard Folder ; a taut
and loose Pulley, 20 inches in diameter, 4 inches face, all
ready to lie connected to a line of Shafting. It only requires
a trial to demonstrate their indispensibility.
1e20 wed .se&wftm
XS TZEEZMZIXTO- WITH
Bargains for the Holidays
The entire stock of Winter Goods reduced in price to
close before the end of the season.
Blankets, Flannels, Cassimeres, Jeans, Balmoral Skirts,
Dress Goods, Merino Underwear, all marked down.
Our Bargain Counters are replenished daily with
goods at prices that cannot be had elsewhere.
You will save money by calling on
J". ZED
$50 zr,:ew_a_:r,:d.
We will |i;iv I lie above reward fur any case of Itlicunialisin. lilooil Poison or Kidnev
Disease that IIUNNICUTTS RHEUMATIC CURE fails to
ntre permanently if taken according to directions. We mean just what we say. This won
derful Tonic and Wood Purifier is for sale bv all first-class Druggists,
deciid.y J- M. HUNNICUTT & CO., Atlanta, Ga
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
To the Stock or the
Ulil 11HIMM1 IX UULI
OOIMnP^HSTy.
I t being officially known to tho Board of Direct
ors of the Georgia Midland and Gull Railroad
Company that tho first section of twenty miles ot
Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad, of four feet
and nine inches grade, between Columbus, Ga.,
and Atlanta. Ga., or between Columbus, Ga., und
some point on the Fast Tennessee, Virginia ami
Georgia Railroad between Atlanta, Ga., and
Macon, Ga., with the privilege ol enierins At
lanta on the track of any rail road wth U ••mined
facilities there, is graded and readv l'or tho cross
tit'8, trestles and bridges, and wli('Tv:i'\ by the
terms of subscription tin first insuiilmcnl oftbd
same b*comes due und payable upon official pub
lication of the completion of the work ««• aho*e.
Be ir resolved, That ihe Treasurer is autl-oifa-it
to publish in the name of this Board the c omple
tion of the first section of twenty mill s, as stipu
lated in said subscription notes, und to call' on
the subscribers i or payment of the first install
ment notes of 25 per cent., which notes are now
due and payable at the National Bank of Col am
bus, Ga.
Seaton Grantland, C. L. Davis,
Geo. P. Swift: ji*., N. J. Bussey,
W. J. Kincaid, J. F, Flournoy,
B. T. Hatcher, T. M Frley.
J. W. WoolfoJk.
The Board of Directors of the Georgia M idland
and Gull Railroad Company.
C. L. DAVIS,
novi6 pftw4w Treasurer.
FOR SALE.
A substantial Six-Room Residence, centrally
located; qmirter-acie lot; convenient to business,
churches, schools and street railroad. Owner
removing from the city, and will sell cheap for
cash, or on time.
Temperance Hall.
The Wilkereon Residence.
The Harrison place, Ben 11 wood.
Store No. 143 Broad Street.
Quarter-Acre Lot north Second Avenue.
PON XMEISTT.
Rooms over Singer Machine Office.
Six-Room Dwelling, Rose Hill.
Col. Holt’s Store and Dwelling, near Swift’
Mill.
L. II. CHAPPELL,
Broker, Real Estate and Insurance Aaenl,
dtf
JIG’S
Five Gold and Two Sllvor {Vledsls
awarded in 18S5 at the Expositiona of
New Orleans amt Louisville, aud the In
vnotions Exposition of London.
'i iie sui-i ct'irfiy of Coraline over hon
or whaleiioii'j luis now been demonstratec
by over five Jems' experience. It is raor,
durable, inoie pliahie, more comfortable
and never breaks.
Avoid cheap imitations made of variou
Linds of cord. None nre genuine tin'es 1
“Dr. TVarnbr'q Ookalinb” is print*
on inside of steel cover.
FPR SALE BY ALL UA01K0 MERCHANTS,
WARNER BROTHERS,
353 Broadway, New York CiU
miJKE
BEAMS
/^UWE Biltousr.nss; Slct< Heartache In Four hours,
One rtose relieves Nouralrjla. They cure anf
prevent Chills #.* Fever. SourSioniach Ba-'
llreath. Clear the Skin, Tone tho Hervos, and fliv.
ife .' l Vigor to the system. Dose i ON K ftlEAN.
ry thorn onco ana you will never bo without then
Price, 2S cents per bolile. Sold by ISrrjgic's »r,
Medlcino Dealers generally. Sent on Vecetg: l
price in stamps, postpaid, to any address,
o. F. SMITH & CO.,
Manufacturers and Solo Props.. ST. LOUIS, M0.
EXECUTORS’ SALE.
\\ r ILL be sold, agreeable to an order from the
»* Court ot Ordinary of Muscogee county, on
the first Tuesday in February next, at the auc
tion house of F. M. Knowles & Co., Broad street,
Columbus, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, the
following lands, as the properly of the estate of
Wm. D. Lynch deceased, to-wit: All of lot 2'and
parts of lots Nos. 28, 07, 39, 26 and 25. the whole
aggregating 510 acres, more or less, and ring and
being in the 9th district of said county of Musco
£. e r e ’ the property of the estate of said
Wm. D. Lynch, deceased. Terms made known
on t he day of sale.
This December 7th, 1886. A. B. LYNCH.
- „„ ,. L. M. LYNCH,
dec27 wid Executors.
Administratrix Sale.
I VTRSUANT to an order of the Court of Ordin
ary of Clarke county, Ga., will be sold before
the courthouse door of said county, on the first
Tuesday in February next, during the legal hours
of sale, seventeen (17) shares of the capital stock
of the Engle and Phenix Manufacturing Com
pany, ol Columbus, Oa. To be sold ns the prop
city of F. A. Lipscomb, deceased, for the benefit
of his heirs. Terms cash.
De-. 7, 1886. MARY A. LIPSCOMB, Admrx.
dec 20-w td8 of F. A. Lipscomb, dec.
Election for Justice of the Peace
M^TIERE will be nn election hell at tin court
X house, m the 66Sth distsict, O. M. (lower town;
on Saturday, the 1st day of January next, tor one
Justice ot the Peace or said district, to supply
the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Hell.
Esq. ’
This December 7th, 1886.
„ F. O. WILKINS,
N. P and Ex-Officio J. P. for 668th Dist. G. M.
dec; dtd
PDT 71? Send stx centB For postage and
A Ill/f li. recceive free n costly box cl
goods which will help all, of either sex, to mak
more money right away ths.a anything elsei
this world. Fortunes await the workers abso*
utely sure. Term* mailed free. Tana & Oo
Auguata, Maine.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
LAWVIiRB.
f^'OL Y. CRAWFORD,
Attoniey-at-Law,
Office up itails over Wtttioh & Kinsel’s je*
Btore
JOSEPH F. POU,
Attomey-*t-L*w.
Office up stair* over 1111 Broad street.
pEABODY. BRANNON & BATTLE,
Attorneys at-L*w.
Office second floor Burma building, comer
Broad and Twtiflh itreets.
tl'HOMAS W. GRIMES,
Attorney-at-Law.
Office up stairs over Robert Carter’s drug atom.
~yy M. A. LITTLE,
Attorney at-Law.
GI1IOSBY K THOMAS, JR. GRIGSBY E. CHAN DUS*.
’ j'HOMAS & CHANDLER,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office un stairs over O E. Hochstrasser’s store.
J AS. M. LENNARD,
Attorney-at-Law.
Office back room over C. J. Edge's shoe store
J L. WILLIS,
Attorney at Law
Office over Crane's corner.
] AS. G. MOON,
Attomey-at-Law and Real Estate Agent.
Office corner below Swift’s warehouse.
JAMES M. RUSSELL,
Attomey-at-Law.
Practices In the state and federal courts ol
Georgia and Alabama. Office over 1347 Broad 6U
S. B. HATCHER. f. D. PEABOUT
ATCHER & PEABODY,
IF
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office up stairs over 1119 Broad street.
yy A. TIGNER,
Attomey-at Law.
Office on second floor of Garrard building.
P. GILBERT,
Attomey-at-Law.
Prompt attention given to all business. Offlc*
over R. S. Crane.
yy B. SLADE,
Att orney-at-Law.
Office on second floor of Georgia Homo build-
in ft.
yy ALONZO CARTER,
Attorney-at-Law.
Office up stairs over R. S. Crane.
J OUIS F. GARRARD,
Attomey-at-Law,
PHYNICIANN.
rpHOS. S. MITCHELL,
Practicing Physician and Surgeon.
Office at Hall <t AVheat’s drug store. Telephone
No. 5. Residence on Rose Hill. Telephone
No. 110. dec7 3mJ)
JJ C. TICKNOR,
Practicing Physician.
Office at Robert Carter’s drug store.
J E. GILLESPIE,
Practicing Physician.
Offic at Robert Carter’s drug store.
tv. W. BRUCE. BERT BRRUOCOI
^7 W. BRUCE & SON.
Practicing Physicians.
JNO. J. MASON,
Practicing Physician.
Office at City Drug Store.
Q D. HURT,
Practicing Physician.
r Jl W. BATTLE,
Practicing Physician.
Offices over Brannon & Carson. Residence 737
Broad street.
R.
E. GRIGGS,
Practicing Physician.
DENTISTS.
W. F
TIGNER,
Office up stairs over Glass Bros’ drag store,
Twefth street.
QEO. W. McELHANEY,
Dentist.
Office up stairs over Wittioh & Kinsel’s, in
Garrard building.
\yM. J. FOGLE,
Dentist.
Office over Rothschild Bros., 1217 Broad street.
Central Railroad and Banking
Company of Georgia.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1st, 1886.
A Dividend, of FOUR DOLLARS per share
from the earning^ of this Company and its de-
peudencits has been declared, payable on and
20th, to the Stockholders as of
T. M. CUNNINGHAM,
d7ec eod!5t cashier.