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4 DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1886. Cohttul?us(&ni«m'r#im. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The EN(IUIRER-9UN Is Issued every day, ex sept Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday. The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by seniors in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub scribers for 76e. per month, $‘2.00 for three months, $4.00 fbr six months, or $7.00 a year. The Sunday Is delivered by carrier boys in the •ity or mailed to subscribers, postage tree, at •1.00 a year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed subscribers, postage freo, at $1.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Dally at $1 per square of 10 lines or less for the flrst insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at fl for each In sertion, All communications intended to promoto the private ends or interests of corporations, societ ies or individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries tvill be charged for at customary rates. .None but solid metal cuts used. All communications should be addressed to the 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 ne 11 eod&wlv (fols r ml •#APPLIED TO THE BRUSH** — WITH AN — IVORY (Celluloid) SPOON. Z ONIYEISS .a a new Dental Cream. Its cleansing, refreshing and preservative properties, delicious flavoring and convenience of use, place it far in advanco of all previous preparations for the Teeth. Sold by all Druggists Johnson & Johnson, Operative Chemists, S3 Cedar Street, New York —.■■■Ml deo28 eodly (n r m) 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. " dec28 dtd troi after CLEVELAND’S SUPERIOR RAKING POWDER VERY PURE rx> Entirely Wholesome 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., Professor of Chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. Director of the Conn. Agricultural Experiment Station. New Haven, Conn., December 7th, 1878. ESTES &> CO 1107 BROAD STREET, DEPOT FOR Shovel Plows, Watt's Cast and Chilled Plows, Scovil Hoes, best, brands of Axes, Trace Chains, Nails, Iron, Shovels and Spades, Wagon and Buggy Timbers. Glass, Imported Guttlery, Strictly Pure White Lead, Putty, American Guttlery, Linseed Oils, Sash, Bazors, Varnish, Blinds, Scissors, Spirits Turpentine, Doors, Carvers. Shot, Shells, Wads, Caps, Carpenters' Supplies and General Hardware. Mr. A. R. WILKERSON is with us, and will be pleased to meet his friends and former patrons. deo,19 dim ESTABLISHED 1866. G.GUNBY JORDAN Fire Insurance Agent Pioneer Building, Front Street. Telephone No. 104. REPRESENTING AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of PHILADELPHIA, Honestly paid every loss since 1810. 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 all classes of insurable property. Representative Companies. Courteous Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments. A share of your business solicited. sei)l2 dtf 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. Biliousness; Sick Headache InFourhoura. Uy One dose relieves Neuralgia. They cure and _ Prevent Chills <’ Fever, Sour Stomach Bad '■renin. Clear the Skin, Tone the Nerves, and give ife r* Vigor to the system. Hose: ONE BEAN, i ry them once and you will never bo without them. Vice, 26 conts por bottle. Sold by Druggists mid .ledicino Dealers generally. Sent on receip'. ut price in stamps, postpaid, to any address, o. F. SMITH & CO., Manufacturers and Solo Props., ST. LOUIS. MO, Something Worth Having. Our New Seed Catalogue for 1887. The 'hi y Catalogue published illustrating everything in Garden, Field and Flower Seeds. New Seeds, New Warehouse, Everything New. Ready for FREE d stribution early in December. •Send your address NOW. S. Tf. HAINES ,fc CO., S.'oilmen, oi and «H V Front St,, and 100 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. uov8 weow 6t 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. dec dtd 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 4t Si!S 8 !L_, F - M - brooks, ner4 oaw 4w Ordinary. A FREE TO F.A.M FineCoIored Engraving of th$ /nN interior of tha Ancient Lodge Room in which the lodge in N. America waabeld. AleolargeUlna- ^ trated Catalogue of Masonic books and goods with / yr \S2KP 1 P riee 5* Also offer of firat-claas buslneia, .. . ' Gif Beware of spurioue books. REDDING A CO* Idaeoak Publish*™ and ManuteUrereJS! .Broadway,NcwYorke