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DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1886.
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HNqumim-SbN.
Thu spe ■ -It made by Henry \V. Grady
at the New England society banquet 1ms
attracted favorable comment throughout
the country. It was a big speech and
Henry has good cause to feel proud of
himself.
Mr. Joseph PuuTr.HR, of the Now York
World, gave a Christmas dinner to six
hundred poor children in that city. Of
course a great many people will accuse
Mr. Pulitzer of selfishness in this matter,
hut what of that ? The poor little children
got their dinner just the same. Whether
this is pure business or pure philan
thropy does not effect the main fact.
The children got the dinner and lie
should have his reward in as much
credit as he desires. Certainly his own
Christmas dinner was all the happier for
it.
Tins New Orleans Picayune thus draws
the distinction: “Two nice Indians, in
bad health, who had murdered a white
man, have been pardoned instead of be
ing hanged. When the governor pardons
a murderer, and turns him loose to com
mit other crimes, he does it upon the
plea of restoring the hoodlum to citizen
ship; bur why an Indian, who cannot
vote for his pardoner, should bo par
doned, iH past finding out.”
Those Georgia newspapers which have
been poking fun at tile Augusta Chroni
cle gets a lick square out from the shoul
der. It, calls attention to Augusta’s ad
vantages and says:
“Our groat, advantages and superior
facilities, as shown in the Georgia
edition, proved a revelation. Our neigh
bors, fearing full utilization and’cmploy-
inent of the same, resoit to feeble at
tempts at levity, which take (lie form of
sneers, in order to impress the average
reader that Augusta’s claims are brag
and bluster. We detect and remember
this spirit of journalism which would en
deavor to efface a faithful and honest pic
ture. Let Augusta business men prove,
in the year to come, that what wo have
said of Augusta is truth—not imaginative
portrait painting, but faithful pho
tography.”
A cotemporauy that lias been looking
into the matter, says that the Union
Pacific Railroad company owoh the
United States over $70,000,000; the Cen
tral Pacific owes the nation $58,000,000.
The aided portion of tlie roads aggrega
ting about 2300 miles, the companies
already owe the nation over $.30,000 a
mile, which is more than the roads are
worth. The debt is moreover increasing,
since the United States pays nearly
$1,000,000 interest annually and must
continue to pay it for ten or twelve
years longer. The roads are buried
under first mortgage bonds to a greater
extent than the government lien, and
those bonds have been granted priority
by an indulgent congress. It follows in
evitably that the roads will be sold out
under first mortgage and t ho government
will lose every dollar. These roads have
three debts, each of which is as much as
tlie roads are worth—their stocks, their
bonds, their dues to government.
The Missouri Republican says: Mr.
Blaine was much happier in Ilia fore
fathers’ d iy address before the Congre
gational club at Bjstou than he is in his
political speeches. There was no politics
in it, but it was full of theology and re
ligious questions, which he handled with
the skill of a preacher. His hardest hit
was at the New England habit of read
ing sermons. “Literally speaking, the
gospel is not preached,” said he; “you
read it. When you put the non-con
ductor of a pile of manuscript between
you and the audience, you are not preach
ing the gospel; you are reading it. What
would you think of a lawyer at the bar,
witli a man’s life depending on what he
should say before twelve men sworn to
decide the fate of the prisoner, if ho
ehould haul out a pile of manuscript and
begin to read them?” New England
clergymen will not probably take this
little* lecture from the gentleman from
Maine very kindly. They will think the
politician fiad better mind his own busi
ness. Nevertheless, it is certain that
reading the gospel is not an improvement
on preaching it.
A NEW NORTH—A NEW SOUTH.
The twilight of the year IH.Sfi has been
lit ip iiv scenes and incidents which
augur a brighter and better day for this
Hi nt blessed of all the continents of the
earth. Over the watery waste three
thousand miles away, political cauldrons
are. seething in every capital, and there
are minors of wars und confusion of
noise. Kings and eaiiinets are laving
plot-traps, one for another; standing
armies are chafing for battle, and nations
are gnashing their teeth. With them the
new year in anticipated only through a
horoscope of blood. But how
differently the unrolling future beams
upon us. If tlie prophet’s question to
the Bhunamito woman were put to the
American people, they could answer, "it
is well with 11s and well witli our chil
dren,”
From the incipieney of our government
there has been more danger from sec
liimalism than from party spirit. Parties
are t he creatures of opinion, having name
hut not local habitation. Sectional hatred
appeals to locality and is a sort of cir
cumscribed patriotism which gathers un
natural heat from its pent up limits.
While the great parties have boon to a
degree modified by geographical influ
ences, it lias ever been tlie anxiety
of the purest and most seer-like of
our statesmen not that party spirit but
that sectional hatred would work out the
filial and irromedial dissolution of the
union. Northern statesmen havealways
regarded the union as superior to tlie
constitution, while tlie southerner has
ever estimated tlie constitution above
the union. Out of that clash of con
scientious opinion grew the germ of the
war between tlie states. If sectional
hatred was in a red glow when tlie war
began, it was at a white heat when it
closed. And lie was deemed an insanely
sanguine prophet in 1805 who foresaw
aught but eternal bickering and blood
shed between the north and south for all
time to come.
The laying down of weapons between
the sections was not a signal of peace.
One section was drunk with victory and
the other was prostrate in defeat. There
was mourning in the south and cheering
in tlie north. But the mourning was the
mourning that comes up from a Iiouho of
death; and the cheering was the cheer
ing of carpet-baggers and robbers coming
down to divide the spoils. The prospects
for real peace were gloomier at the close
than at the beginning of the war. For
where was there a wind to
breathe upon the slain on
either sido that they might live? If
tho hatred between the sections abated
for an instant there were tlie memories
and the graves of tho dead to revive it.
And of all tlie trespasses that men must
forgive, tho hardest is to forgive them
who have wronged odr dead. Was he
anything but a true prophet seemingly,
who in 1805 predicted that peace would
return to the north and south no more
forever.
But a happier fate awaited us. The
white flakes of reconciliation have fallen
so slowly and so imperceptibly that no
man saw them, and no man noticed them
until tliev had filled up the bloody
chasm between tlie north and south. It
required from 1805 to 1880, twenty-one
years, the period that nature requires to
make a man; but the consummation has
come at last,. The union is no longer
pinned together with bayonets and
cemented with blood. We are a re
united people. The north ami tlie south,
the two contending sections, have clasped
hands across the bloody chasm, forming
a bridge of brotherly love whose fibers
are flesh and blood; aiul neither the
toreli of another Sherman, nor the
tongue of another Toombs, nor the
bayonets of another Grant nor the usur
pation of another Hayes, nor the gates
of hell shall prevail against it.
While every year has contributed Us
mite to this now consummate peacemak
ing, the year just closing lias witnessed
the major part of the ceremony that re
welds and reiveds this once divided pair,
the north and the south. The union of
the states was the work of men, but the
union of the sections which this year will
conclude, is the work of God. “And
whom God hath joined together, let no
man put asunder.”
As if twenty years and
a half had but half-sufficed
to bring us together, Providence appeared
to crowd the remainder of events into
the last six mouths of this year. First
came tlie earthquake and burrowing
under the moral capital of secession,
it shook its towers together like toys
until scarcely one stone was left prone
upon another. And what a scene fol
lowed. It was worth the loss of Charles
ton to see it. Northern states and north
ern cities gathered around Charleston
like weeping women about the bed of a
stricken sister, and outwatclicd the stars
in their vigils of grief. And when, by
and by, the second Charleston shall rise
up more beautiful than the first, tlie
mortar in her buildings will have been
mixed by northern beneficence, and
this fact will remain forever as a moral
rainbow promise that there shall bo no
more war.
A few weeks ago Congressman Kelly,
of Pennsylvania, who has been number
ed among those who were not our
friends, from his youth until his head
was hoary with years, came through the
south on a tour as he had done twenty
years ago. Then he found it a howling
wilderness of barrenness and strife, and
returned home to denounce it as a sec
tion, through the press and from liis seat
in congress. This time lie found it an ]
eden without a serpent. He was given j
■in ovation and a welcome in every town
And even his aged and sluggisli blood j
was made quicker by tlie intoxicating |
visions of our southern section’s future |
which “rushed red on his sight” at every
turn of the kaleidoscope. No
southern enthusiast could have painted
such word pictures of praise and beauty
about his own country as have involun
tarily dripped from this unwilling old
man’s pen. When tho Savior of mankind
hung bleeding and dead on the cross,
and nature’s convulsions were attesting
her horror at tlie murder of a god, a
Roman soldier who had been a witness
and a party to the crime, cried out,
“Surely this man was a god!” And now,
in this year of grace, I88(i, one of the
men who stood by and gave his consent
when the south was crucified, prompted |
by the spirit, let us hope, of the crucified j
Christ, has acknowledged that the Boutli .
was not and is not an imposture and a j
fraud.
Last week a southern editor, Mr.IIenry
Grady, was an invited guest and speaker :
at the New England club banquet in
New York city, He was tlie first south
erner who had ever spoken at their
board. His speech was a manly defense
of everything southern, and an appeal
for a never ending brotherhood between
the sections hereafter. It was cheered to
tlie echo by his northern audience, com
mended without stint by the northern
press, and it has waked up an amen in
every hidden nook between the two
oceuns that bound ourcontinent on either
shore. The year J887 will usher in the
only true union that ever existed be
tween tlie north and tlie south. May this
union continue always; and may tho
light of tlie peace that grows out of it
“Shine Bupremo and bright
Till sun and stars have sunk in night.”
SENATOR LOGAN DEAD.
Senator John A. Logan, of Illinois,
died at his home ill Washington about 3
o’clock on Sunday afternoon.
I n tlie death of General Logan another
of tlie distinguished politicians of the
country passes away almost without
warnimr. His death was a surprise to
his family and friends and was notin tlie
least expected by tlie country at large.
Only a few days ago and his name was
upon thousands and thousands of lips as
a possible presidential candidate, and to
day lie lies cold in tlie arms of death.
That his death will be a severe blow to
tlie political party with which lie affilia
ted, there are none who will question.
Though there was nothing in his career
as a statesman that might mark him as a
brilliant character in national politics,
nevertheless his services were invaluable
to tlie party and in this respect his death
is a calamity.
It is true that Senator Logan did not
represent that element in polities which
rejoices at the general prosperity of the
entire country, but it is charitable to at
tribute this to an error of the head and
not of the heart. Trained as a soldier he
had come to look upon the “red tape
line” as a necessity. I11 his intercourse
with men, and in his discussions of the
great questions of the day, his course was
not such us to conciliate contesting fac
tions, nevertheless his death will be felt
seriously by those with whom lie was a
leader, and ids faults will be forgotten by
those against whom lie contended.
At the time of his death General Logan
was nearly sixty-one years of age. He
was born in Jackson county,Illinois,Feb
ruary i), 182li. ilia father was a native
Irishman, and a man of intelligence and
education. He iiad all the advantages of
an early education. He has always had
the reputation of an elegant gentleman,
kind in his family, who have the sincere
sympathy of the people regardless of
political or religious inclination.
CARD.
To all who aro flulToring from the errors and
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early
decay, loss of manhood, &c., I will send a recipe
that will cure you, FREE OF CIIARGE. This groat
remedy was discovered by a missionary in South
America. Sond a solf-addressed envelope to the
11EV. Joseph T. INMAN, Station D, New York City
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The Georgia Midland and
Gulf Railroad Company.
THE semi annual interest on the firet-i
-4 bonds of this company will be paid
sontation of coupons at the office of the c
imbus, Ga., or to Cent
Pioneer buildiug, Columbus,
Trust Company, Now ” '
January 3,1887. "
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SUPERIOR RAKING POWDER
VERY PURE
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This certifies that I have recently purchased of several
grocers in this city, packages of CLEVELAND’S
SUPERIOR BAKING POWDER, have
submitted their contents to chemical analysis, and have found
them to consist only of very pure and entirely * wholesome
materials, very suitably combined for their purpose. They
contain no other acid than that of the Purest Grape Cream of
Tartar, and are completely free from Alum or any other
deleterious or doubtful substance. They are, as to their com
position, in all respects what the manufacturers claim.
S. W. JOHNSON, Ph. D.,
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Director of the Conn. Agricultural Experiment Station.
New Haven, Conn., December 7th, 1878.
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Linseed Oils,
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RANKIN STABLES
In Bear of Bankin House, on First Avenue.
Sale, Feed and Livery Stables
New Turnouts: Showy, Gentle Horses, Careful Drivers. Horses boarded and
carefully attended to. I have ample accommodations for live stock and arrangements
to make my stable headquarters for dealers. HORSES AND MULES FOR SALE.
WAGON AND CARRIAGE REPAIR SHOP.
I am still running my Shop on Wynn’s Hill, and will continue to do all kinds
Carnage and Wagon Work on short notice.
WILLIAM M. AMOS.
nov22 wed se&w6m
HOSE I HOSE I
IN ORDER TO REDUCE OUR STOCK OF RUBBER HOSE,
IE WILL OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR THE M IEEE.
We have the best and cheapest Hose In the market. A full line of Hose Reels and Nozzles.
GEORGIA STEAM AND GAS PIPE COMPANE,
Telephone 99. 13 Twelfth Street.
Never before in the history
of Columbus has any one suc
ceeded in running their sales
of
I Up to a point that would jus
tify a standing order of
Twenty-five Dozen
Per week. We now find that
under our present arrange
ment we are unable to supply
the demand, and shall have
to increase our orders. Come
and try them.
0. C, JOHNSON.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE:
Mr. J. H. Hamilton’s Store, corner of First
avenue and Fourteenth street, the most desirable
store property for sale in this city. Rents are
paying 10 per cent, on price asked.
$t>u00 The valuable .cornei lot east of Georgia
Home building and corner of First avenue
and Eleventh street*, on which there is a
store paying 8300 per year rent, and room
lor wo more large stores and brick
enough to bulk them.
2250. Two M acre lots ou lower Broad street.
The corner lot is vacant. The othir lot
lias a new live-room House.
950 X’ acre lot corner of First avenue and
Fifth street,. Cheapest land in the city.
2200 ''■? acre lot, with six new tenant, houses, oa
north Fourth avenue. The rent of this
e roi erty pays 14 percent.
ne four-room house and four new two-
room houses in Girard that rent for 320 per
mouth, and room for three more houses.
3700 Mr. T. H. Moore’s house, south of court
house.
2000 Dr. Schley’s house on Second avenue,
west side, between Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets. The size of the lot is M of
an acr e .
2500 3ka acres of land east of the park, with
five new three-room houses
3200 Mr. o. C. Bullock’s house, next door south
of Eirls’ public school,
1700. I* acre lot with new five* room house on
Rose Hill on easy terms.
A number of vacant lots on Rose Hill, Prices
ranging from $75 to 8200, on terim to suit the pur
chaser.
WANTED.
From 70 to 100 feet front on Broad street, be
tween Tenth and Thirteenth streets. Purchaser
will pay a fair price. Apply to
W. S. GREEN, Real Estate Agt,
Third door west of Post Office.
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Election for Justice of the Peace.
rpHERB v ill be an election held at the court
1 house, in the 688th distsict, G. M. (lower town)
nn Saturday, the 1st day of January next, for one
.Justice of the Peace or said district, to supply
the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Bell.
Esq.
This December 7th, 1888.
„ F. G. WILKINS.
. N. P and Ex-Officio J. P. for 088th Dist. G. M.
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GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY;
Whereas. Leo Loch makes application for pe
manent letters of administration on the estat
o Moyer Greentree late of said county, decease
These are therefore to cite all and singula
the kindred and creditors of said deceased, t
show cause, i any they have, within the tim
Prescribed by law why permanent letters of at
ministration should not be granted to said at
plioant.
.Witness my official signature this Decembc
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lodge in N. America waabeld. AleolargeUlna-
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