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DAir 'Y INQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGI A, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 188 >.
An Enquirer-Sun Representative Visits
the Magic City of Alabama.
8om« linarrMlonH That It N»l» ... . ...
TH. Wsnilnrftil OrJi"
Wlutltam. of the Col«mbu« People are |)ole K .
Special Correspondence Emiulrer-Sun.
Birmingham, Ala., December He,-I came I
Jiave seen, and 1 have been conquered. Like a
great many other people, before I saw Blrming.
I hT^d ah™? " ine ‘ teUthB of the statements
I heard about the handsome fortunes that had
‘““7* 11 ™ de ** ere an d the remarkable
growth of the city. Now, 1 assure you that I
Thi eV h H i ° h ? art ’ a,Kl a ® rea ‘ deal more.
The half has not been told. Birmingham, in
my humble opinion, is dostined to be the largest
city in the south, and that at no very distant
day. 1 hey tell me here that between five and
six hundred houses of all characters are going
up, and 1 believe It. They are building on every
side and in the middle, and yet thev say the
building boom will begin in the spring, other
cities might learn a lesson from Birmingham
Here everybody is working for Birmingham!
a “ d 1 have 5'et to see n man with the
■slightest symptom of tile blues. Every man
■woman and child believes in the future of the
city, and they all join in a grand chorus iu sing
ing its praise. Every man who comes here, even
4is a visitor, goes away as a drummer for Birming
ham. He can’t help it. When he sees what is
already here, what is being dene, and what it
seems certain must follow in the future, he falls
in lov; with the place. If he has no money to in
vest he wishes he did have it. I know this much
by experience. There is a get-up-and-get about
the people here that a man can’t help admiring.
They tell me here that it is rather dull in Bir
mingham now, as a great many people have
£one to their old homes to spend the holidays,
and the capitalists and speculators are taking
Christina*. This is no doubt true, but I have
stood on a corner, up on First avenue, every day
for a while since I have been here and looked
■down the sidewalk, and it seemed almost im
possible to liud room to jam another man into
the mass of people that stretched out before my
wondering eyes for more than half a
mile. You would think that the
•crowd was following a band wagon or a circus
procession; but it is that way all day, and every
day, and the greater part of every night. On
the business part of Second avenue it is pretty
much the same way. I do not mean to say,
however, that all the business is confined to
these two avenues. On the other avenues and
s treets there are handsome business houses, and
all of them have the appearance of being well
patronizeq. I know that somebody will be ready
to say that I have been given two corner lots to
write about Birmingham in this style,
but I will pledge you my honor—
and that is all I’ve got—that nobody
has even so much as offered me a foot of dirt. It
is too precious to be given away, and shou Id an y
man forget himself so much as to make me a
present of a lot, he’d kick himself the next day
because it had advanced so rapidly since it
changed hands.
This reminds me of a case that was related to
me last night. An old citizen here who bought a
house and a large lot several years ago fora mere
song, sold a short time ago for $30,000. Since
then the same property has advanced until it is
worth nearly twice thirty thousand, and the old
-citizen has been kicking himself all over town
because he sold too soon.
Before I came here I heard a great many peo
ple say with an air of wisdom that the prices of
real estate in Birmingham could not possibly go
any higher. That has been the cry for the last
four years, but real estate has continued to ad
vance, and I firmly believe that the end is not
near at hand. There is still great room for an in*
■crease in value, and especially of desirable subur
ban property. I don’t believe it will be a great
while, however, before most of these
suburbs will be taken in by the
city, so rapid is its growth. A man who knew
the Birmingham of even a year ago would not
recognize the Birmingham of to-day. What has
been accomplished within the past year will be
small, in my opinion, in comparison with wlmt
Will be done in the next vear. There are already
a great many mammoiii industrial enterprises
hero and manv more are being projected. The
demand for residences far exceeds the supply, as
people are coming in faster than the houses can
be erected. The people here firmly believe that
Birmingham will have two or three hundred
thousand inhabitants within two years. There
are already about 35,000 souls here.
I like the spirit that pervades the business
community here. Confidence in the future of
one’s own town begets confidence in visitors and
prospectors. The people of Birmingham have
shown their confidence by laying out plans for a
great city, and they are going ahead with a vim
and push that defies failure to carry out those
plans. Street car lines and dummy lines are
almost as common here as the tracks of hack
wheels in the average town. These lines do not
stop at the present city limits either, but extend
in some cases two or three miles. All along
them are erected homes and manu
facturing exterprises. In going out to
Avondale the other day on a street car I noticed
the extensive building of the Baxter Stove com
pany, and farther on I saw the Columbus Ice
factory. In the same neighborhood are the
great Sloss and Mary Pratt furnaces. The Alice
furnace and the immense rolling mills ore at the
other end of the city. Near the Columbus Ice
factory are several other manufacturing enter
prises, all of which are located in Avondale. I his
makes me believe that Avondale property is going
to double in value in a very short time.
There are already a number of busi
ness houses and a greater number of
residences erected in Avondale and many more
.are going up. The syndicate which put this
property on the market has had a route surveyed
through it for a dummy line and has reserved a
large plot for a park, in which is one of the most
beautifnl springs I ever saw. While Avondale is
•called a suburb, it is already linked to Birming
ham by a splendid street car line and numerous
buildings which continue at intervals from t e
very outskirts of the suburb to the gates of the
eity, and, no doubt, in the near future it will be
incorporated as a part of the Magic City.
I went out to Lake View on the dummy line
on Thursday. It is a beautiful resort, an m
owned by the Elyton land company. A low
lake lies to the right of the line. On the rig i
th 3 lake is a cosy boat house, and to the le
large pavillion. A little to the left of t e
lion is a mineral spring and the taste of
very perceptible in the water. Up on 1
lands in front of the pavillion are a ha 'f d ° za "
more neat and comfortable cottages. 11
isvisited every day, even in the winter im ,, .
large number of people, and the dummy
proving a bonanza to its owners. They
tell me here that Elyton land comply
stock is worth thirty-eight for ■
During my visit here I have been placed un
lasting obligations to Messrs WiU Thorna i
Josiah Allen, both of whom devoted much t^
to showing me the sights of the city,
tamiliar face I saw when the LoutarUta « d *
vine north bound train emptied !»« > « »
Ingham was that of Will f° m “’ and as soon
my feet struck the precious dirt he gave . ^
hearty shake of the hand. a thought it
and I have a taint suspicion hat WP
was ftiU of money, but I hastened to assure
cuaVthat"l°w,« " CP,llUo,d co,laz M4 a Ptir of
on A n!, wub taking along to make a change
dav - I left homo thinking llnii 1
but m m ' f “ d '‘ 7C " Columbu8 People here,
but I run against a Columbus man at every turn,
and I was glad to hear that they are all doing
* Ir : Y■ A ChenoWe, h is one of the proprietors
of a latge hardware establishment that does a
UBuiess of $150,000 a year. I am told that he
and hds partners made the snug little sum of
$ ,000 recently on an Investment of $5000 in
highland property. n e has a nice home In the
south hig,,1a, ds.iighton the dummy line, and
is building two other residences near his own.
George Waddell is here in business with Mr.
Cuenowetli’s firm.
Charley Hough is the head ol a large stove
and house furnishing establishment. Dick Hales
is a salesman in the house and Mr. Brock, for
merly agent of the singer company ut Colum
bus, is their book-keeper. Toombs Crawford has
his office in their store. Jesse Johston and Pierce
Lewis are botli salesmen in a large retail
grocery house. Mr. J. D. Johnston is in the
real estate business. WiU Harrison is at the
headoi the Clifford Douse bai. Mr. David Averett
is doing a good mercantile business here. Her
man Loweuthal is running a Uourishing grocery
business and employs three or four clerks. Mill
ville GriUln, Wade Brannon and several other
old Columbus boys are all doing well. Mr. L. li. ,
Ldge, who is doing a real estate business, is said 1
to be worth $10,(lira or $50,000, and I believe it is !
true. Mr. Josiah Allen and Mr. John Ryau are |
botli large real estate owners, aud are well Hired.
I know 1 have not mentioned all of the old Co
lumbus people who are here, but I can’t call \
them to mind right now.
In this correspondence I have not attempted to I
give you a description of Birmingham, It would
take a volume to do it, I cannot write even all
that I would like to tell about, hut have simply
given you a rambling account of a few things
that impressed me. It is not necessary to resort to
figures to prove that Birmingham lias tire re
sources at her command to make her a great city.
It is a fact that needs no proof, it is not a math
ematical problem to be solved. The solution of
the causes of its present wouderful and rapid
growth and its greater future is-made apparent
to any limn who will como here and see for him
self. Tile city Is unquestionably on a more solid
foundation than those towns that must depend up
on the success of agricultural interest for their
prosperity and whose fortunes are su bject to the
freaks of the weather and the changes of the sea
sons. Hire the laberiug classes work all the
time and trade is as good in July as in any other
month of the year. The health of the town is
good, the society is reiined, and the morals are
up to the standard. Handsome churches anil
BCliool buildings dot the city, and these are evi
dences not only that the people have come here
to stay, but that they are not entirely given up
to money making. 1 did not come here to boom
Birmingham, but I could not suppress the im
pulse to give the readers of the Enquirer-Sun
an idea of what is beiug done here.
wo aro fumbled to (live the indicated sup
ply ami place it in comparison ivilli prtdm-
blo consumption, ns shown in annexed
statement:
W. o. J.
A SECRETARY IN LOVE.
The Annual Cotton Circular of Groone &
Co. for 188S-87.
Ihtlmateof the Crap anil Its Probable Oispasltlon.
Comp irlstnif w Mi Estimates and .trlaal ItasultN
for Nevcral Cost Tears.
New York, December 27.—Introducing
our annual circular, embracing the usual
estimate of the cotton crop of the United
States and its probable disposition, we
have little or nothing new to suggest as to
methods employed in compilation. Our
form of inquiry has been much the same as ■
during the past lew years, and extended to \
every section of the cotton growing nrea,
though with the bonellt of repeated expe
rience, it has been possible to discriminate
somewhat more closely as to the mo3t val
uable points lfor information, aud guide
ourselves accordingly. To about the aver
age number of requests sent out, we have
received cheerful and expeditious, yet evi
dently carefully considered replies, in pro
portion siignliy in excess of Inst .year; and
the result of thu information thus obtained
is brought together m thu threefold form
of tabulation we have been accustomed to
present, us follows:
CHOP ESTIMATES.
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North Carolina..
South Carolina ..
Georgia
Alabama
M ississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Average
Galveston
New Orleans...
Mobile
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington....
Norfolk
..0,0*18,000 1
..6,2 U,ODD I
..0.3-17,000 !
.0.JJ7.U00 ;
..6.223,MR)
..0,11.2,000 j
..0,130,000 1
..0,171.000 1
..0,4bU,Ul)0 j
..0,888,000
..6,332,000 !
..0,380,0(0 I
..0,4.0,000 |
,..0,401,000 |
..0,..75,000 j
S i?
Mr. Lamar Sniil to ho Courting a Macon Lady.
Macon, Ga., December 27.—Secretary
Lamar is still here spending his time visit
ing relatives. There is a bare possibility
of his marriage, but so far everything is
based on guess work, somewhat strength
ened by circumstances.
Kcmciiilicriiig Hod's Poor.
Charleston, 8. C., December 27.—The
News and Courier will publish in the
morning a report of the distribution of the
donation of ffiOO from Sami. C. Whitney,
of Washington, and f330 through White-
law Reid, of the New York Tribune, to
help give a “ Merry Christmas” to the
sufferers by the earthquake. The report
shows that several hundred persons, in
cluding the orphans in the asylums here
and elsewhere, the inmates of white and
colored alms houses, street car drivers,
and a large number of other worthy per
sons of reduced means, received reasonable
and most welcome presents. Their letters
of acknowledgment are most grateful and
pathetic.
Ilingliain Captured.
Raleigh, N. C., December 27.—It is ru
mored that Walter Bingham, the murder
er of Miss Turlington, has been captured
in Canada. Governor Seales offered a re
ward Saturday night of f-lflO for the cap
ture of Bingham. Miss Turlington’s body
was carried to Wilmington for interment.
Cold .Weather.
Chicago, December 27.—At 9 o’clock I
this morning the thermometer registered 1
live degrees below zero, and as the Bun
came up the temperature rose two degrees.
At 7 o’clock it was twelve degrees below,
at 8 o’clock it was eighteen below and at 9
o'clock nine.
Murdered Foully.
New Orleans, December 27.—A dis
patch from Grenada, Miss.,to the Picayune
says: “Walter Demont, a popular young
farmer, was shot down to-mght by George
Gardner. The assassin escaped.”
Testimony of a Painter.
No. 105 Carleton Avenue, Brooklyn,
jj, Y.—Allcock’s Porous Plausters are un
doubtedly the best external remedy man
ufactured. I make this assertion to the
public from my own personal experience
of their wonderful virtues. Suffering from
severe pains in my side and chest, con
tracted through a severe cold, I applied a
couple of Allcock’s Porous Plasters upon
going to bed at night. The result was that
in eight hours after applying them I could
get up and walk about with very little
pain or ache, when the night previous I
could neither get up nor down without
help, nor stoop to remove my shoes. I
have since used them in my family for
various ailments, and have never known
them to fail to give almost immediate re-
T. H. BACKUS.
No Chief of Police.
New Orleans, December 27.—Chief of
Police Baehemins has resigned. Mayor
Guillatte says he will not appoint a chief
until about January 5, when the force will
be reorganized.
The Best.
There is an advertisement in the Ex
aminer this week of a remedy -hat is su
perior to all others, and as nearly all dis
ease owes its origin to the impure
condition of the blood, this is by far the
best preparation ever offered to the trade.
It pur ills and enriches the blood gives
Mlftated “wf® lo ‘IM, «d will
lV SwiftAX 1 e n c e iflc is now sold in dry form
well as liquid. The dry can easily be
Prepared at home, and can be used with-
^spirits if desired. Price fifty cents per
PPPkige. Sent by mail on receipt of price.
Some of the most wonderful cures have
been 6 made by using the remedy without
“ There'is no longer any ground for besj-
tanev on the part of the reader.. Swift’s
Soediflc reaches all diseases arising from
an Pm mi re and vitiated condition of the
hloo” 1 Exhaustive tests have been made
in this class of diseases. Irrefragible testi-
.. iv m ncorjle of all classes and walks
S 01 “fife,’“professional men merchants,
ninuhaii cs and laborers, all agreeing in
their verdict that Swift’s Specific is a sure
cu?Lfofevery disease that inheres in the
b F°or sale by all druggists. Treatise on
lanta, Ga.
Average 6,376,000 (
INTKaiOR TOWNS.
Memphis 8,512,1100 !
Charlotte 6,232.000 ,
Montgomery ■' 6,112.000 {
St. Louis 0,475,000 I
Cincinnati 6,056.000 |
Shreveport 0,531,000
Atlanta 0,302,000 1
Houston 0,510,000 i
Vicksburg 0,207,000
Average 0,117,000
Our correspondents, wo find,while again
very generally admitting a fairly good
start for the plant, arc also quite positive
in asserting that subsequent mutations of
weather greatly modified the earlier prom
ising features in many sections, and this is
fully in accord with un impression that lias
for some time been gaining ground hero.
Differing, however, from last year, the loss
seems to be looked upon as more positively
shown in quantity than quality, the latter
apparently, in some sections, running re
markably good, and this in its general
bearing upon the productive capacity of
the crop is a factor not to be forgotten. In
quite a number of instances, the informa
tion is volunteered that the crop has been
moved forward with a great deal of rapidi
ty, aud carrying the impression that the
supply back in tbe hands of planters, or
under the control of the banks, is much
less than lust season. Carefully consider
ing all figures received, therefore, and the
suggestions accompanying them, wc place i
our estimate at0,co0,0li0 bales for the crop ,
of 1886-87, a figure we must confess some
what below expectations when making I
tbe preliminary movements to secure our j
reports.
By way of comparison, we append the
following table, showingaverage estimates
and actual results attained for a few years
past:
Average estimates, 1833 5,801,000
■ ‘ •• 1881 6.732,000
• • “ 1885 0,620,000
“ 1830 8,350,000
Official crop, 1883 5,714,000
“ " 1881 5,06 . 000
•• “ 1885 0,650,000
•• “ 1886 'I
In repeating the table of estimates calcu
lated upon the acreage, the rainfall during
the critical period for the plant, and the
average condition-of crop October 1, wo
areagai n impressed with the close approx
imation to result shown through our pre
ceding aud probably more natural form of
compilation, anil accept, the indicated crop
noted as follows in endorsement of tho
figures decided upon and already named.
3 3
8 8
‘’‘Estimated.
Wc here have a showing to indicate a
supply for the cotton year of 1886 87 of
7,I'M,00(1 bales against 7,487,000 bales during
tlie preceding year, and an increased esti
mate of consumption. The division of the
amount used last year was, in round num
bers 4,858,000 bales by Europe, and 1,998.000
bales by America, with the increase of con
sumption showing about. 7 per cent, for
Europe, 18 per cent, for America, and for
the world nearly 11 per cent. From tho
present outlook it appears safe to estimate
a further increase of consumption this
season of 3 per cent, for Europe and 5 pt-r
cent, for America, as, taking the generally
improving condition of business with the
reasonable expectation that cotton must
participate, it is fair to look for a growth
of about 3A per cent, in the world’s con
sumption of American cotton. Placing
the quantity that the world
will require therefore at <1,587,000
bales, against the estimate of 7,49(1.000 bales
to meet the demand, there will lie left at
the end of the season about 879,(XX) bales
visible supply and mill stocks, with possi
bly about the same relative division as
this season, though it is doubtful if spin
ners will allow their reserve to run quite
so low ns during previous years. Referring
again to conditions of our crop, however,
it most not bo overlooked that its spinning
quality is probably 2 percent, greater than
last season, nor can thu contingency of an
interruption to uniform business improve
ment be ignored. Political complications
in Europe are by no moans a remote possi
bility; and tlie silver question, so promi
nent a disturbing factor last year, still re
mains virtually in abeyance, and likely at
any time to become a renewed source of
annoyance and irregularity.
The estimate of domestic movement with
usual comparisons will be found as fol
lows :
■ m o gi di g
question, yet current feeling aud expres
sion of views indicate that ideas run over
a range exceeding 2 cents per pound lie-
tween highest and lowest for the season.
We beg to express our warmest thanks
for the prompt, replies kindly sent us.
C, I., Greene & Co.
HARKKTN DY TK1.E4JKAPH.
riHKiieiul.
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.
New York, December 27. -Noon—Stocks
dull, firm. Money easy quiet ut 5 iicr cent.
Exchunife—long $179 4, shirt $4>3V<i)$I.H3 1 .,.
State bonds neglected. Government bumfs
dull, steady.
New York, December 27. -Exchange dull anil
steady. Mosey quiet; B(®7 - at closing 6 per coat
offered. Government bonds arc dull nut steady,
new four per cents. 128.’,, three per cents
128’ State bonds (lull, sternly.
SUa-TUEASUIlY IIAl.ANl-as.
Gold in the Sub-Treasury $127,888,000; currency
$19,148,000.
STOCK MARKET.
New York, December 27.-The following were
closing quotations of the stock exchange:
Ala class A 2 to 6.... 108 C & N 78
do class B 5s 101-7 N. O. i’ac. lsts 82
Ga 0’s -—■ N. Y. Central 112’.,
Ga 8’s mortgage. ..."110 j Norfolk .YW'ti pre.. 47',
N CO's 123 Northern Pacino... 2lf‘„
dot’s lot)’., do preferred 59 l M
S O con Brown 110’., Pacific Mail -47 1 u
Teiiii. sottlem’t3s 79 .Rending dl’,
Virginia 0s *47 Rich. A Alleghany 10
Virginia consols... 53 ’ Richmond A- Dan idtio
Ciiesap’ke A Ohio s', I Rich A \V. 1’. Ter’l ;ll 7 ,
CilicagoAN. W ll2t(,lKock Island 121P,
do preferred 189’a St. Paul 87' 1 *
Del. A Lack 131',, do preferred 117
Erie .*'2 l „ Texas Pacific 2o' H
East Tenu I I 1 ,., Union Pacific 68 ! „
Luke Shore U3‘* N. J. Oentrnl 50 l „
L. A N 02b, Missouri Pacific 105
Memphis A Oliar.. 47 IWesIcrn Union.... O1P4
Mobile A Ohio 15 I ‘Bid. '(Asked.
Potion.
VISIBLE SUPELV.
New York, Dec. 27 Tho total visible supply oi
cotton for the world is 3,128,181, of which 2,718,■
281 is American, against 2,901,800, and 2,009,460
respectively last year. Receipts at all interim
towns 180,931. Receipts IV0111 pluntuious, 305,020.
Crop in sight 4,331,021 bales.
New York, December 27.—Cotton maker!
quiet, firm; sales 100 bales; middling uplands
9 7-1 Be, Orleans OC'^c.
Consolidated net receipts 17,021 bales; export:.
I Great Britain 9151, continent 1117; France
1490; stock 1,008,040.
NEW YOUK FUTURES.
New York. December 27. Net recetDts 103.
gross 4171. Futures closed quiet, sales 38,300
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“p;Btirrpo
A' rcago
(000
omitted). I
Rainfall, I
Inches,
July, August, Sept.
Average Crop Con
dition to Oi,t. 1. |
Acreage I
(000
omitted). I
Rainfall, i
Inches,
July, August, Kept. 1
Average Crop Con
dition to Oct. 1. |
Rainfall, I
incites, |
July, August, Sept. 1
Average L’rop Con
dition to O .t. 1. 1
Acreage
(000
omitted).
“ Rainfall,
Inches,
July, August, Sop'.
A ve/age Crop C.>.\-
dit on t»(Jjt. «.
IlalnfulJ,
Inches,
July, August, Sept.
Awrage (Jrop C »n-
• ■ill ui to (Jet. 1. j
Product in Bales (00-)
omit ed). !
Yield per Acre in
Pounds.
&
Assuming that the crop estimates are
correct, and expecting that American
sninners will take the ‘2,050,000 bales from
this crop allotted to them as above, there
will be left for Europe about 4,300,000
hales against an actual consumptive neees-
siiy ol 4,500,000 bales. We see no reason
why our home demand for cotton should
be disturbed by any influence other than
extreme cost, and on a basis of the takings
already suggested the foJlowing figures are
significant:
KST/MATI3D SUPPLY AND URQUIUHMENTS, 8EPTKM-
BEIt 1 TO AUGUST 31, 18rfli-^7.
United States 2,050,000
Canada and Mexico 75,000
Europe 4,500,000
Total
Averugo estimates received
0,625,000
6,350,000
83388223,23
838338 23J23
Slis IH ?i ill
Havinq reached an estimate of the quan
tity of American cotton likely to be mar
keted and added to amounts carried over,
Apparent deficiency 276,000
We have rio idea that if the crop turns
out at a lis-tire approximating the estimate
given, spinners are likely to suffer for
want of supplies against their actual wants,
but they will probably have to pay about
present rates or a little more, provided
they are able to retain the easy-going con-
1 servativo form of trading prevailing during
the (last season. With the apparent
strength of the statistical position, how-
■ ever, any struggle to obtain possession of
! tlie cotton means a decided stimulus at
' once, and should speculative demand set in
not only would thu deficiency in the supply
become marked, but the possibilities on
price it is useless to predict beyond the
chance that they would he carried up until
consumption received a direetand positive
c.mek. That speculation is easting a long
ing eye upon cotton has already been dem
on .tiated, a id while local and seasonable
influences tend to momentarily check a
free movement, interest has by no means
abated. Operators who have made money
in other commodities and exhausted the
markets, beside a great many who have
; become anxious to secure similar success
are looking about for investment,and there
him:.ns t , be a natural drift toward cotton
on its merits, in any event it is not dear,
it liaihad no inflation of values, and ap-
pe rs to offer the safest investment of any
staple merchandise open to investment on
contract. Suggestive prices are out of the
Rio, cargos, common to prime, 13W^,
15c Hngiir quiet but .steady—Lc»U)«*mmi open
kettle - strictly mime 4' H 'c, prime 4o, centrifugals
ensicr, hoice yellow clarified 5fa5 1-I6c.
New Yore, December 27.—Coffee fHir, Rio
firm— I I’ $. No. 7 Rio, December 12 450, Jftn*
uary 12 5().<t>12 60, February — March 12 35(5^
12 55. July 11 55'<vll 6/>. Hugar dnfl—
centriflignls, fiiir to good refining 4 r, ^«4%cw
refined steady and quiet—C 4 :l ua4'-£c, extra O
4Vi4 7 hC, white extra C 5c, yellow 4 % (/<i4%c f
off A 5 , h"»'5 , 4, mould A 5 7 s c. confectioners A
standard A 5* H o. cut loaf ana crushed 6 3-16aG 3;14*
powdered 5 15-16'ro6 l ,c, granulated 51 l-ldfaifr^o,
cubes, 5 $(<»j513-16c.
Cincinnati, December 27. — Sugar steady,
unchanged —New Orleans
Konln mid Turpentine.
Charleston, December 27. -Turpentine firm-
33‘^c. Rosin firm -good strained 80c.
New York, December 27.—Rosin quiet-
strained 1 OOufll 07%. Turpentine steady—36»4c.
Savannah, December 27.—Turpentine firm—
33% asked. Rosin firm—strained 90(o»$l 00j
sales — barrels.
Wilminoton, December 27.—Turpentine firm;
33%c. Rosin firm strained 75c; good 80c. Tar
firm—fl 15; crude turpentine firm—liartls $1 00,
yellow dip and virgin $1 90.
Wool and Hide*.
New York, December 27. Hides quiet—
New Orleans selected, 45 and 60 pounds,
y%^10c Texas selected, 50 aud 60 pounds, 10ft)
10%c.
New Yoke, December 27.—Wool quiet— do*
mestii tlceoe 30«u38e, pulled 14(a)35c. Texas
9(g) 25c.
Mv«» Nlock.
Cincinnati, December 27 Hogs dull—com
mon ami light $'J 30 .'4 10; packing and butchers
I *1 10,o 1 35.
Cotton Need Oil.
New Orleans. La., December 27.—Cotton seed
oil 21 <026c; miinmer yellow 30 / .!7c. crude 36(g>39c.
('ak< and meal, long ton, $19 00m 20 00.
New York, December 27.—Cotton seed oil,
29<a30c for new crude, 38c for refined.
Wlitaky.
Chicago, December27.—Whisky $1 18.
St. Louis, December 27. - Whisky steady; $1 13,
Cincinnati, December 27.—Whisky steady—
$1 13.
I'rihglitN.
New York, December 27.—Freights to Liv
erpool steady cotton, per steamer, 3-16d;
wheat, per steamer, 5d,
bales, us follows:
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
9 36-100(ft) 9 38-100
9 39-100M) 9 40-100
0 51-100M) 9 52-100
9 63 lOOfn 9 64-100
9 7t-100M> 0 75-100
9 84-100M) 9 85-100
9 91-100 -1.' 9 95-100
10 02-100m-10 03 100
10 09-100M>10 10-100
Ureen .to Co., intheir reporto n cotton futures,
says: A large amount of speculative interest
taken out of the market last week and an ab-
scncce of Liverpool advices to-day led to a very
stupid condition of affairs and nothing of special
noteworthy character has developed. About all
the trading was confined to a sort of local deal in
simill lots to preserve an appearance of life, uiul
the close differed but little from Friday evening.
Port receipts were pretty full.
Galveston, December 27.—Cotton dull;
mailings 8 15-16c; net receipts 4801, gross 4801;
sale? 576; stock 13,05; exports to continent
00. Great Britain 00; France 00.
Norfolk, December 27. -Cotton quiet; mid
dlings 9‘ h c; net receipts 2117, gross 2117; sales
00; stock 49,738; exports to Great. Britain 00,
to continent —.
Baltimore, December 27.—Cotton market
dull; middlings 9%c; net receipts 90, gross
719 sales 00. spinners 00; stock 14,718; exports
to Great Britain 00, to continent 00.
Boston, December 27—Colton quiet; middlings
9 9-16c; net receipts 107. gross 1350; sales 00; stock
00; exports to Great Britain 00.
Wilmington, December 27 Cotton quiet; mid
dlings 9 l-16c; net receipts 1229, gross 1229; sales
00; stock 20,750; exports to Great Britain 00;
France 00.;
Philadelphia, December 27—Cotton dull; mid
dlings 9’ v mc; net receipts 190, gross 190; sales 00;
stock 15,597; exports to Great Britain 00; conti
nent 00.
Savannah, Ga., December 27 -Cotton quiet;
middlings at 8 15-lOc; net receipts 6309. gross
5369; sales 1700; stock 119,812; exports to
Great Britaiu 4938, to continent 00, France
00,
New Orleans, December 27.— Cotton dull;
middlings at 9c; net receipts 23,035, gross
gross 23,035; sales 700; stock 412,948; exports
to Greai Britain 00, to continent 00, France
00.
Mobile, December 27.—Cotton market quiet;
middlings H I5-I6c; net receipts 5275, gross 5742;
sales 500; stock 44,270.
Memphis, December 27—Cotton market quiet;
middlings 8 15-10c; receipts 9960; shipments 9286,
sales 00; stock 155,774; spinners 00.
Augusta, Ga., December 27.—Cotton market
quiet; middlings 8 13-lOc; receipts 1433; ship
ments 00; sales 157; stock .
Charleston, December 27.—Cotton market
quiet; middlings at 9c; net, receipts 3451; gross
receipts 3451; sales 300; stock 61,618; ex
ports to Great Britain 00, to continent 00
France 00.
ProviftioiiM.
Chicago, December 27. — Cash quotations
were as follows : Flour steady and unchanged —
winter patents $4 25(a<4 50, choice to fancy Min
nesota patents $4 25‘<».4 60, soft wheat patents
84 00(g,4 25. Mess pork $11 75(fh$ll 80. Lard
$6 40. Short rib sides, loose, $5 75(«>5 80. Dry
salted shoulders, boxed, ft H0'o,4 85, short clear
sides, boxed, |6 O.VofO 10.
Leading futures ranged:
highest. Lowest. Closing:
Mess Pork—December fl l 75 fll 52!^ fll 76
January... 11 80 11 55 11 80
February... 11 95 Jl 65 11 95
May '..... 12 32*4 12 05 11 32*4
Lard—December 6 30
January 6 37j^
February.
TEN CENT COLUMN.
| Advertisements will bo inserted iu this column
for one cent a word each insertion, but no s in git
notice will be taken for less than twenty-tiv*
cents. I
INSON’S for New Year’s.
I /O It RKNT-MY HOUSE ON THIRTEENTH
1 street, between Second ami Third avenue*.
Six rooms and Kitchen attached, water works,
etc. Apply to ANDREW CRAWFORD, Georgia
Warehouse. 12-24 tl
A Htf FOR COLGATE’S “NEW” SOAP, THAT
is the best and cheapest in the market. 21 tf
C IOLGATE’S ‘ NEW” SOAP IS TAKING THH
) place of all other brands. Ask for it when
you go to buy, and take no other brand. 12-21 tf
L.D NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE AT THM
office at 50 cents per hundred tf
I 1j. POLLARD HAS JUST RECEIVED A
J. # fresh lot of CaudicH, Almomls, Wulnuts, Pe<
cans, Brazil Nuts ami Cocoanuls, and will sell at
wholesale and retail. 12-18 tf
I'(GOSH 8MOKIOH HALIFAX SALMON JUS?
I 1 received at Kavanagh’s. 12-21 3t
A F. GIBSON & CO. ARE SELLING FURnJ
• turn cheaper than ever, on installments or
otherwise. 12-14 tf
O
May...
Sh ort ri bs — J an uary..
February...,
March
May..
6 IV/t
6 82
6 921-2
6 35
6 40
6 07*/£
6 80
5 85
6 92%
c 17J4
6 42*4
6 70
ft 90
New Orleans, December 27.—Molasses steady;
Louisiana open kettle*, eauer—strictly prime.
42<^43c, Ixnnsiana open kettle, choice —, good
prime 38/ 40c, good common 27'" 29c, Louisiana
centrifugals, easier—choice -c, good prime to
Htrictly prune 22'/e>25c, common to good com
mon 12'<£ 15c, fair 36 " 37c. Louisiana syrup 30'«rt0.
Rice—Louisiana ordinary to prime 2 ; >4<«/4c.
St. Louih, December 27.—Flour, firm and
higher--P’air $2 75".z 90, choice $3 20'",3 30,
fancy fl 50(o)3 65, exLru fancy $3 80'" 4 06. Pro
visions very strong and generally higher. Pork
*11 87^(g)12 00. Lard $6 10'o*6 16. Bulk meats—
boxed lots, long clear sales $5 75, short ribs
f5 85, short clear sides f6 00. Bacon—long clear
sides |6 12X, short rib sides fO 25, short clear
sides |6 37/^j.
Louisville, December 27.—Provisions quiet,
Bacon -clear rib sides nominal, clear sides f7 25,
shoulders nominal; bulk meats--clear rib sides
|5 87)/., clear sides $6 12>£, shoulders ; mess
pork fll 75; bams, sugar cured, f ; lard —
choice leaf |7 75.
Cincinnati, December 27.—Flour steady—
famiy $3 35'".3 50, fancy $5 50'o-6 90. Pork ouiet;
—*12 00. I^ard stronger $6 20. held at $6 25.
Bulk meats firmer -short rib sides f5 87)4,
bacon firm—shortrib sides $6 62)4, short clear
sides |7 12)4. Hams •
44 ruin.
Chicago, December 27 Cash prices were as
follows: No. 2 spring w‘ieat 77)4'/t-77 ; >^c, No. 3
spring wheat 70c, No. 2 r«‘d 77)4c. Corn--No. 2
30%c. Oats—No. 2 mixed 26c.
Futures ranged and closed at following prices.
Highest. Lowest, closing:
Wheatr-December...
.. Tl'Ac.
.. 77/^c.
77%c.
~r%c
January
77 y.c.
77‘io
February
.. ’K/„c.
78 >/«c.
7H>^
May
.. 8~»*4c.
85‘<jC,
30%C
Corn — December...
3%°:
36'«e.
January
36 40.
37c
Febuary
.. 'ol'Afl.
37)yO.
37 : Xc
May
... 43)^c.
42c.
43’„c
Oats — December..
.. 26c.
c.
c
January
.. 26c.
c.
c
Fecruary
.. 26)<C.
c.
c
May
.. 31V 4 C.
c.
c
Ht. Louis, Decernh»r 27.—Wheat dnll and
quiet—No 2 red cash 8;t‘.,c. January 81c, Feb
ruary 82;hC, May 87 /■< 87 : .,c. Corn strong and
higher—No. 2 mixed, cash 34'yg35c. January
35">35)4c. Febbruary c, May 39)4'g)39Ji,c.
Oats dull—No. 2 mixed, cash 28>£c, January
c, February c, MiySlJ'gC.
Louisville, December 27.—Wheat quiet—No.
2 red 79c; corn, qu.ct—No. 2 mixed 36)4c;
white —c; oats steady— No. 2 31(^32c.
Cincinnati, December ‘27.—Wheat strong—
No. 2 red 81c. Corn firm—No. 2 mixed 38c.
Oats steaay--No. 2 mixed >iO l / 4 (&'OOy A .
Nuyrnr un«! Coffee.
New Orleans, December 27.—Coffee-weak;
J / VANH & HOWARIJ’K COLOGNE, TUB
j most lasting and refreshing on the market,
at fl 50 for full pint bottle. tf
1 ,'IlliaH SMOKED HALIFAX SALMON JUtff
. received ut Kavanagh’s. 12 24 31
'IHIE CHEAPEST PLACE IN COLUMBUS TO
1 buy Doll Carriages, Wagons, Velocipedes,
etc., is A. F. Gibson & Co.’s, 1222 Broau street, tf
C IOLGATE’S “NEW” SOAP WASHES BEr-
i ter and lasts longer than any other. See
big advertisement next Wednesday. tf
D iamonds fob ciiiustmast I'lfskvFS
just received and for sale cheup at J. II,
BiiAM HALL’S. tf
X JOR SIX DAYS -COMMENCING MONDAY
1 morning at 8 o’clock, 1 will produce large
Pnotogruphs for Christinas presents at one-
fourth my prices charged before. ALPHA ▲,
WILLIAMS. tf
I F YOU WANT THE BEST CAKES, CUfi
tards, Pies, etc., try my home-made. They
have no equal. It. JUSTICE, Agent. tf
'I ’IIE CHOICEST OIGABS IN THE MARKET
X at Giiuert & Blanchurd’s Drug Store, tf
S HIELD PERFECTION BOURBON WHIgC
ky. 1 commend to all who desire a really
good and reliable article. ROBERT H. CRANE)
Sole Agent. ts
IJKOKHN LOTS UNDERWEAR MUST MOV®
1) tins week at CHANCELLOR’S. ti
l TANDAKD OF THE WORLD —' 6lT>
k^smooiho and reliable Whisky, 85 cents per
quart, sold by ROLLIN JEFFERSON. 12-7 2m
ANTKIl-AN ACTIVE MAN (ONE OUT
of employment) to begin on moderate sal
ary and work himself up, representing, in hi*
own locality, an old established house. Refer
ences exchanged.
Am. Manufacturing House, 16 Barclay St., N.Y,
dcc9 tul in
Sealed Proposals Wanted.
I yROPOBA LS are invited for doing the city work
for year 1887, January 1 to December 31, aa
follows:
1. For making and repairing carts and shoeing
mules.
2. For making and repairing harness.
3. For feeding the city mules; tlie food, both in
quantity and quality to be such as the overseer
of tlie street hands shall require, and with the
privilege of storing tooh and such other property
of the city as may be desired, also with privilege
of boarding hor es of marshal, lieutenants of po
lice and sired overseer at same rates, if so de
sired by said ofiicers.
4. For making coffins for paupers, the same to
be stained, and head and foot bouids, and boards
for covering the coffin to be included.
5. For medicines und stimulants, as prescribed
by the ci»y physician, for a specified sum for the
year; medicines for orphans’ asylum to be in
cluded. This bid to include surgeon’s dressings,
as plasters, chloroform, lint, bandages, patent
medicines, etc., and every other article or medi
cine necessary for use by city nhyNieian in treat
ing diseases or wounds; all to be of best quality;
all prescriptions to be compounded only by li
censed druggists.
6. For lumber to he delivered from lumber yard
or in quantities at such places as muy be desig
nated. Quality to be strictly first-class. Bids for
lengths over 32 feet may be separately specified if
so desired.
7. For publishing proceedings of council, offi
cially if required, or full synopsis or reports of
same; also, any and all advertisements pertuin-
ing to municipal alfairs by tlie mayor, any com
mittee or officer of council, including treasurer,
clerk, marshal sales, etc , and chief engineer or
the fire department; also, any advertisements by
tlie commissioners of commons or trustees of pub
lic schools.
8. For all job work, including all blanks and
tax bookh of whatsoever character, as well aa
binding and job work of any description which
may be require 1, inducing the publishing in
pamphlet form of 200 copies of annual reports of
committees, address of Mayor, etc., just made to
council, and including the report ol the Superin
tendent of Public Schools, and the annual report
of the Chief of the Fire Department to be made
in January next. Estimate of probable amount
of work required will be furnished on request.
9. For lighting and extinguishing the street
gas lamps, according to usual custom of doing
the same.
Rids may be varied in any manner to suit bid
ders, and must be handed in by meeting of coun
cil on Wednesday evening, December *29th.
Council reserves the right to reject any or ail
bids. By order of council. M. M. MOURE,
dec!5td Clerk Council.
Market Stalls to Rent.
Y1TILL be rented at the Market House, at pub-
n lie outcry, to the highest bidder, on Mon
day, January 3d, all the Stalls in the Meat Mar
ket, under direction of the committee on market*
Qutarterly notes with good sureties required.
By order of the Committee.
M. M. MOORE,
dec24 id Clerk Council.^