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COLUMBUS SUNDAY ENQUIRER: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1877.
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SUNDAY OCTOBER 28, 1877.
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Fbosi Mississippi comes the pleasant
report, that the State debt will be paid
off in three years.
Geo. L. Fox, tbe^H-taown comedian
and clown is dead. His Hnmpty Dnmp-
ty is celebrated this country over.
Thebe are fourteen ex-GoTemors in the
Senate, and eight in the House, besides
several ex-Governors o^Territories.
Senator Wallace says of the outlook
in Pennsylvania that he thinks there is
donbt the entire Democratic ticket will
elected.
Ma Longfellow honored Mias Mary An-
darson, the tragedienne, on Monday last,
by inviting her to a seat in his pros-
ceninm box at the Boston Theatre.
Bbistow never asks for an office; he
alwavs wants it “tendered” to him. How
ever,’he is always in the vicinity when
the tendering is going on.
Genebal Gbant and party visited the
Elysee Thursday afternoon. They were
received by Marshal and Madame Mac-
Mahon, the latter acting as interpreter.
Pbominent Cubans in New York do not
believe the report of the capture of Presi
dentjThomas Estrada,of the Guban Repub-
lie. They have had advices that Don Esta-
ven Dugui de Estrada, a rebel Lieutenant
Colonel, had been captured, and believe
the similarity of the names led to the
story of the President a capture.
Sats the New York Eerald: “Of what
advantage is it to the Republicans to
have secured the Presidency if the in
cumbent of the office severs his connec
tion with them and follows his individual
views without regard to what they may
wish or think ?” The Eerald thinks that
“an attitude so unusual cannot long be
maintained without irreconcilable es
trangement.” ^
Stanley Matthews voted to refer the
credentials of Senator Spofford to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections.
This was a piece of self-stultification
which must lose for Kim whatever linger
ing atom of respect anybody had for him.
If any Senator was bound by his previ
ous connection with Louisiana affairs
to resist this attempt to longer deprive
that State of representation, that man
was Stanley Matthews.
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Sitting Bull, on rejecting the over
tures of the United States at the
recent conference, was informed by the
Canadian Government that he would not
hereafter be permitted to cross the border
and make war on the Americans, and that
if he should attempt such movement, be
would have English as well as American
troops to contend with. No doubt he
will consider it a great hardship, but it
does seem that nothing remains for Sit
ting Bull but compulsory quiet.
The colored men in Hanover oounty,
Va., have invented a remedy of their own
for the tramp nuisance. One of their
color, a big, strong fellow, having tramp
ed into “the Slashes,” historio as the birth
place of Henry Clay, “the recently en
franchised,” instead of giving him crust
and kind counsel, laid him over a barrel and
belabored him with a stave, after which
he was told to '‘git up and go ’long back
whar he come from,” a piece of advice he
proceeded to follow to the best ability.
Mn Henby F. Taintob, the expert em.
ployed at Mr. Tilden’s suggestion to un
earth the Ring frauds, explained to the
investigating Aldermen Wednesday the
way in whioh the work was done and the
results obtained. He satisfied himself
that in three and a half years the Ring
stole $25,500,000 from the city; and his
belief is that they got away with from
$4.5,000,000 to $50,000,000. It is his
■^pTnionT as an expert that Peter B.
Sweeny could have been shown to have
had a band in the stealing.
The only basis for the rumor that the
President and his Secretary of Treasury
had quarreled appears to have been this :
“Hayes gave Sherman to understand that
if there was to be any more caucusing of
sore-beaded Republicans, he would be
pleased to have such meetings held at
some other place than the residence of a
Cabinet Minister. Those who knew of
this reprimand to Sherman imagined he
would resign ; but it is characteristic of
the Sherman family that they never loose
their grip on anything that has a salary
attached to it.
Senator Douglas’ monument is at
length to be pushed rapidly to comple
tion. A new and stronger foundation is
to replace the present one. It is sixteen
years since the “Little Giant of the West”
died in Chicago at the early age of 45.
He was Attorney General of Illinois at
22; Secretary of State at 27; Judge of the
Supreme Court at 28; elected to Congress
at 29, and served four years; elected to
the United Rtates Senate at 34, and serv
ed in that body until his death. He is
the only person who ever entered upon a
third term in the Senate, served 14 years
and died at the age of 45.
Genebal Cassius M. Clay has a pretty
little estate of 2,200 acres in Kentucky,
in the centre of which stands a stately
mansion. He has a splendid library and
many excellent paintings. In his home
General Clay is spending his old age with
his adopted son, an intelligent young
Russian, for his companion. This old
abolitionist now holds the most gloomy
opinions as to the condition and the pros
pects of the colored race. He says that
of those freed by him many years ago,
none turned out well. He adds that the
colored people are rapidly decreasing in
numbers and must finally become ex
tinct.
Washinoton special to Thursday's Cin
cinnati Inquirer : Spofiord’s friends are
more hopeful than they have been that
the Senate election Committee will re
port his case to the Senate without delay.
Don Cameron, who is a member of tbe
Committee, says he is uncertain how he
shall vote; that he advised his brother-in-
law, Wayne Mc\eagh, to goon the Presi
dent s Louisiana Commission, and is in
clined to thick that the Senate should
anstain the work of that Commission. If
the oase does get to the Senate, Spofford’s
friends count on the vote of Stanley
Matthew’s, Christiancy and David Davis,
at least, and that would insure his seat.
Augustin Daly and Miss Fanny Da
venport were cab-riding on Broadway
late tbe other night, having jast crossed
over from Brooklyn. The horses took
fright and dashed into an excavation made
by woikmen engaged in repairing gas-
pipes. The horse was instantly killed,
the cabman was thrown violently on the
pavement and bruised and cut up, and the
oab was upturned in the pit and smashed
pretty mooh to pieces. Daly and Miss
Davenport were not hurt, but were very
roughly shaken up and frightened acoord-
fngly. The borso and cab were of no use
except to fill the bole, and were left for
tbe exoavatora to dispose of. Daly is
broken np now and of not mnch account,
bat M»»a Davenport came very neer being
spoiled for the pnblio.
OUB SENATORIAL CONTEST.
The counties of Muscogee, Marion and
Chattahoochee compose the Twenty-
fonrth Senatorial District. Several years
ago it was agreed by the delegates of the
several counties in convention to “rotate”
the office—that is, that each county should
be entitled to a Senator every third term.
Mnscogee, feeling that she was not ob
taining her share of representation, many
months ago gave notice that in fntnre
she would not hold herself bound to the
arrangement, bat would allow the then
coming term to be filled by a selection
from Chattahoochee county without op
position. Since this action of Mnscogee
the three connties are independent. Many
of onr people are opposed to rotation in
fntnre, and desire an open field for ev-.
erybody.
While we are in for a free fight for
Representatives in all the counties where
there is no division of party, and we are
satisfied onr connty prefers an open
race for Senator, yet we are
inclined to the opinion that,
for the sake of harmony, where these
counties have an interest and are not apt
to work in conoert except by some nnder-
standing, it is best to adopt
some plan that is fair and just to
all. We think there will be no difficulty
in getting up such au agreement. Our
plan is the true Democratic one, of equal
representation. The counties of Marion
and Chattahoochee poll about as many
votes as Mnscogee, yet the wealth of
Mnscogee connty in taxable property is
about seven times as great as that of the
other two connties combined. Snch being
the case, it is not asking too mnch for
Mnscogee to have one term, and Chatta
hoochee and Marion together to have one.
This wonld be nothing bnt fair and equal
representation, and we think the three
connties could adjust the matter on snch
a basis. We do not favor one county
selecting the Senator, bnt the three conn
ties to do so.
To illustrate, suppose Mnscogee was
entitled to tbe Senatorship. Then let
delegates, three from Chattahoochee,
three from Marion and six from Musco
gee, meet and make the selection. Mus
cogee wire-workers may have so manipu
lated the primaries as to control the dele
gation of Mnscogee for a certain man.
If this man is not acceptable to the other
two connties, he conld not be the choice,
and some other Mnscogee man mnst be
nominated. The same rule wonld apply
when the other oonnties have a selection.
This plan wonld accomplish good in many
ways. The connties which were not en
titled to the Senator wonld prove a check
to the one that was, and force to the
front its best man, otherwise
the connty’a choice wonld be repudiated.
The present mode of nominating a candi
date for these connties is not only un
satisfactory to the other two connties, bnt
is open to the objection of trickery and
wire-pulling with which our local politics
are so much cursed.
On November the first, there will be a
meeting in Cossets, to which Marion and
Muscogee are invited. Marion has ac'
oepted and appointed delegates. Musco
gee has done nothing. Wonld it not be
well for the Democratic Execntive Com
mittee to appoint six delegates to attend
this meeting, and if any satisfactory plan
can be matured, let the delegates report
back to the committee, and then let the
committee call a meeting of the connty
which can reject or ratify? We suggest
this mode becanse we doubt if the com
mittee can get the party together in time
to appoint delegates. The committee’s
delegates should go with the understand
ing that the aotion of the meeting in
Cusseta will not be binding on the party
in this connty until ratified. We trnst
the Execntive Committee will do some-
thingin the matter. Courtesy demands that
some notice of the invitation should be
taken. It has heen respectfully given,
and should be equally respectfully re
ceived. Muscogee county has no right to
ignore the other two connties and while
we feel confident snch is not the feeling
the apathy manifested may be taken as
such.
After all, even the other two counties
may adopt the plan of having a hurdle
race open to all aspirants, which is the
fairest mode of all.
THE ELOQUENCE OF BREVITY.
It belongs to that class which echoes
down the corridors of time. Terseness
prodaces an impression that nothing else
can. An epigram lives; a graceful sen
tence dies away with the lips that utter it.
We still hear quoted the “Quid times,"
Ccesarem vehis, and the veni, vidi, vici of
the old Roman days, and through the
ages the exclamation of Francis, “All is
lost save honor!” the “out d—d spot” of
Macbeth, and many others which are as
familiar as household words. Napoleon’s
“allons” when the engineers reported to
him the passage of the San Bernard was
barely possible is repeated as one of the
immortelles’’ of genins and indomitable
energy, and Victor Hngo devotes four or
five pages of his best novel to the elo
quence of Cambronne’s answer to the
British at Waterloo when the surrender
of the Old Guard was demanded. Many
of onr own orators have gained their
highest reputation by the tense brevity of
sentences. Gen. Toombs’ “Liberty in its
last analysis is bnt the blood of the brave’’
is copied near and far. Wendell Phillips
has acquired a character for felicitous
sayings, and so are the many who have
won fame and fortune. Even the “Who
serves his country serves his party best,”
of Mr. Hayes, is floating the ronnds. Sit
ting Ball is the latest on this line. At the
reoent conference where he indignantly
rejected the proffers of the United States,
beoanse the nation was one of liars and
could not be trusted. Gen. Terry made
a long speech. He told what the Presi
dent wonld do if he and his followers
wonld surrender; how they would be locat
ed in fertile reservations; how their arms
and ponies would be taken from them and
cows and hoes given in exchange, and how
they wonld be transferred from warriors
and banters to tillers of the soil and plow-
boys behind slow oxen. Sitting Ball sat
quietly smoking his pipe, listened to the
harangue, and opened his lips morely to
ntter the egnttnral, “Go to h—11!” It
may not have been chaste or beautiful,
bnt it meant bnsiness and a great deal of
it. The Commissioners had their answe
tersety and forcibly and there was no need
of another word. All were satisfied.
Reinstatement of Pensioners.—The
New York Times and other Radical or
gans have started the falsehood that Sen
ator Merrimon, of North Carolina, has in
troduced a bill which places Confederate
soldiers on the pension roll. The bill of
Senator Merrimon, says the Washington
special of the Courier Journal, simply
repeals section 4,71G of the Revised Stat
utes, which prevents any pensioner of the
war of 1812 and of the war with Mexico,
who acted with the South in tbe late war,
from receiving any farther pension mon
ey. No one is placed on the rolls except
persons who served in the armies of the
United States. The same bill in substance
passed a Republican House of Represen
tatives some years ago.
Released on Ball.
Wilmington, Del., October 27.—A tel
egram from Atlanta, Ga., announces that
on Job H. Jackson’s arrival there he was
at onoe released on bail, and will leave
for homo to-day.
GEORGIA HEWN
—Mrs. M. A. Hunnel died suddenly in
Aagnata.
—Heavy rains fell on the Samleiaville
Fair on Thursday.
—The total registration in Augusta up
to the 25th was 534
—Troup connty fair will open next
Wednesday, in L .Grange.
—A one-armed lawyer in Hartwell
kills two dacks at a shot.
—Mr. W. C. Cossenn, of Savannah,
died in that city Thnrsday.
—Augusta has received to date 30,473
bales of cotton against 43,599 last year.
—A yonng white girl, 12 years old, in
Hart oonnty, picked 224 pounds of cotton
one day last week.
—A man named Lancaster attempted to
shoot his brother-in-law, who is a preach
er, in Hall connty the other day.
—Mr. Randolph, living near Jefferson,
lost bis dwelling bouse by fire on Saturday
night, including two bales of cotton.
—The Deputy Marsbalsbip of the
Sontbern District of Georgia has been
tendered Captain John W. Anderson.
—Messrs. Ma’aiea &, Mannary lost their
warehouse, sixty bales of cotton and two
new gins last-week in Pike county. In
cendiary fire.
—Mr. P. W. Alexander has bought the
residence of Mr. John R. Winters, and
also the latter's interest in the Kennesaw
Mill, and will reside permanently in Mari
etta.
—The Commissioner of Agriculture
thinks from the numerous letteis he has
received the tide of emigration from the
North and West will soon turn to Georgia.
All are welcome.
—Cotton stealing from the piles left
over night in the fields is getting epidem
ic in some parts of the State. Last Satur
day night over one thousand pounds dis
appeared from a field near Barnesville.
—The Covington Star says that Daniel
Edwards, an old negro, who lives within
the incorporation of the city, will make
nine bales of cotton and corn enough to
do his family of six. He only woiked
one mule.
—A bill of injunction hns been fi'ed by
some of the parties through whose land
the North Georgia miners have obtained
permission to cut ditches, etc., from tbe
Legislature, and they were restrained from
proceeding under their charter.
—In PickeDS county a former U S. Dep
uty Marshal, Samuel Kenny, who had com
mitted a misdemeanor, killed the bailiff
who, at the head of a posse of twelve
men, was endeavoring to arrest him. The
posse fired on and killed Kenny.
—Stafford Davis, Sr., of Coffee county,
was three years old when the Declaration
of Independence wai signed in 1776. He
recently married a young lady in her
teens, who presented him with a son and
heir on his one hundred and fifth birth
day.
—The Covington Enterprise mentions
the rumor that a young lady, formeriy of
Newton connty, of pleasing address, and
possessed of rare charms of beauty and
intellect, and who was esteemed and ad
mired for her modesty, is leading an
abandoned life at Cincinnati.
—A Spalding connty man shot a negro
in his corn field the other night, and
thinks he killed him. There were two
others in tbe field, and it is supposed that
they have either buried their fellow thief,
or, if he is not dead, that they have placed
him where be can’t be found.
—The Democracy of Randolph county,
in mass meeting, has deemed it inexpe
dient to make any nomination for Repre
sentative from that county. Two gentle
men ere in the field, Mr. J. J. McDonald
and Mr. W. M. Tnmlin, and they are in
augurating a lively campaign in tbe
county.
—A special to the Constitution, s&ys at
the Thomasvilie Fair the Grange premi
ums were awarded as follows: To the
Quitman Grange, $100—the best stock
display; to the Boston Grange, for the
best general display, $100; to the Ockloc-
konee Grange, for the best display of ar
ticles of home mannfactnre, $100.
—On Wednesday qnite a sanguinary
engagement took place at Brooks’ Station,
on the Selma, Griffin and North Alabama
Railroad, between Mr. McCnllnm, an at
torney, and three brothers, named John,
Frank and Tice Brassell, sons of Mr.
Willis Brassell, lately deceased. It orig
inated about a law suit. Guns and pis
tols were used. Some wonnded, bat none
mortally.
—In the face of the figures given by
tbe State road officials of tbe increase in
oorn, bacon, wheat, etc., brought into
Georgia this year over last, the Constitu
tion quotes the Atlanta merchants as tes
tifying unanimously “that there is not
more than one-half the demand for corn
and meat in Georgia that there was four
years ago and that the demand has steadi
ly decreased every year.”
—Messrs. Lewis, Leonard & Co.,
Hawkinsville, the bankers, have made ad
vancements of upwards of fifty thousand
dollars upon eleven hundred bales of cot
ton now stored in tbe warehouses at
Hawkinsville. Of this amount five hun
dred bales are owned by farmers and the
remaining six hundred by merchants.
Evidently somebody mnst be expecting
an advance in the price of cotton.
—The enlargement of the Augusta Ca
nal, which was commenced in 1871, was
finished last Saturday, by the completion
of the dam across the Savannah river at
the Locks. The original estimate of the
cost, made by Mr. Olmstead and present
ed in a report to the City Council in July,
1871, was $371,606 56. The aotnal coat
from first to last has been $968,036 63.
The capacity of the canal before enlarge
ment was 800 horse power, and its present
capacity is 14,000 horse power.
—Telegraph-Messenger : — It seems
about March, 1874, Mr. Asa W. Chapman,
while walking along Third street, fell into
the cellar under the drug store now occu
pied by Messrs. Rankin, Massenberg &
Co. Mr. Chapman had been suffering
from sore eyes, and had procured from
the drag store a preparation, and gone
home. Subsequently he applied the pre
paration to his eyes. It caused him great
pain, and he hastened back to the store
for relief with his handkerchief over his
eyes. The result was he tumbled into
the cellar and injured himself about one
of his hips and legs. The result was a
suit against the city for the nominal sum
of $20,000. The case resulted in a ver
diet for the oity.
—It is to be hoped the Atlanta Con
stitution will at least be courteous in its
columns. Very often in personal allusions
they descend to the coarseness of a fourth
rate Bowery saloon. Snch things as this
funny man perpetrates for wit, and he is
the very funniest of funny people, remind
ns very much in its delicacy and refine
ment of the end men in the Rentz tronp.
Some of his late efforts are the very richest
things ever were coined. They are suoh
exquisite prodnetions of a brain that’s
overflowing with jollity, jnst like the
Rentz’s and that class. He ought to join
Callender’s minstrels and make a fortune.
Then he is so courteous, he describes
other editors “Jimmie” and “Tmmoy,”
&c., and that he regards as the perfection
of comedy. He)has been to minstrel
shows ; that is evident, he is so terribly
funny. The proprietors should give him
a pint. Probably be has been successful
at the Fair wheel and that has made the
scientillation of his brilliant mind so ex
traordinarily dazzling.
—The Postmaster General received a
short time ago a letter from a citizen of a
Georgia town containing an application
for the postmastership, and assigning
some rather novel reasons why his appli
cation should be favorably responded to.
The applicant said that he was a poor man
with thirteen girls on his hands; that the
present postmaster was not a native of
the South, but was born in New Hamp
shire, aiid that he owned the biggest
hotel in the town and made plenty of
money out of it. An answer has been
returned to the effect that the present
postmaster should not be censured be
canse be was born in the North, as that
was a matter beyond bis control; that the
fact of bis owning a hotel was not canse
for removal, and as to the thirteen daugh
ters he conld not be made responsible for
their existence. Therefore, nnless some
better reason for his removal should be
advanced, tbe Department felt constrained
not to disturb him.
Joseph F. Pou for plaintiff in error;
Hatoher & Goetchius contra.
Pending the argument of Mr. Pou, the
cnnrt adjourned until 10 a. m. to morrow.
Constitution.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga , October 26, 1877.
CHATTAHOOCHEE CIRCUIT.
No. 13. London, assignee, et al., vs.
Golemaii, receiver, et al. Motion, from
Museogee. Argued. R. J. Moses, C. H:
Williams, for plaintiff in error; Peabody
& Brannon, Blandford & Garrard, G. E.
Thomas, contra.
No. 16. Withdrawn.
No. 18. Western R. R. Co. vs. Thorn
ton & Acee. Certiorari, from Muscogee.
—The Troy Light Guards will attend
the State Fair at Montgomery this week.
—J. H. Gant, Marshall Scott and J.
Hartley, old citizens of Butler connty,
are dead.
—The bridge across the river at Fort
Gaines is completed and loaded wagons
are crossing.
—H. T. Bnrgis, aged 63 vears, fell from
tbs steps of the sheriff’s office in Greens
boro and was killed.
—Ten or twelve families from Cincin
nati have pnrehased lands near Huntsville
as homes for themselves.
—The residence of Mr. J. W. Ethe
ridge, situated near Castleberry, Conecuh
oonnty, was bnrned on tbe morning of
the 19tb.
—Last Monday, in the neighborhood
of LaFayette, Chambers connty, tbe cabin
of a negro was bnrned with his fourteen
year old son.
—Dr. W. H. Coker, formerly of Cone-
cub county, was shot and killed in Rob
ertson connty, Texas, on Friday week,
by Mr. C. Davis, of Bryan.
—Mr. Sam Hall, of Barhonr county,
who was sent to tbe insane asylum at Tna-
caloosa, a few months ago, has been re
stored to sanity and returned home.
—A portion of the Stone lands on the
wost:ude of Wetnmpko have been purchas
ed, we nnderstand,with the view of estab
lishing an agricultnral department in con
nection with the Freedman's College.
—The jail birds in one of the Henry
county cells tried to burn a hole in the
jail one night last week, and so far sno-
oeeded as to necessitate their removal to
another cell. It seems that the spirit of
jail breaking is rampant.
—Lewis and Merida Dorsey were com
mitted to jail week before last, in Tua-
kegee, in de'anlt of bail, to
answer an indictment to be preferred
against them for placing obstructions on
tbe Western Railroad, near Clough’s sta
tion. They were brought before Judge
Holt, last Friday, on habeas corpus, who,
after hearing the evidence, remanded
them to jail in defanlt of bail in the sum
of $200.
TBE BRAZIL MISSION.
OPPOf ITION TO THE APPOINTMENT OF MB.
HILLIARD—HIS SECESSION RECORD AS
SAILED.
Washington Special to Cincinnati Gazette.]
This morning extracts from the Jour
nals of the Senate of Tennessee during
the spring of 1861 were printed here,
showing that Mr. Hilliard, lately nomi
nated as Minister to Brazil, was an agent
of the Confederate Government to visit
Nashville, after Tennessee had voted
against secession, and indnee the Legis
lature to enter into a military league with
the Confederacy. The documents are
lengthy and show that Hilliard was a most
active secessionist. To make the whole
matter more striking, Representative
Alexander H. Stephens, then Vice Presi
dent of the Confederacy, and Senator
Isham G. Harris, then Governor of Ten
nessee, who urged legislation to receive
Hilliard as agent of the Confederacy,
called together to-day, at the State De
partment, for the purpose of urging that
the Administration might still stand, by
Hilliard
Among other original letters which
some of the Southern Republicans are
using to defeat the confirmation of Mr.
Hilliard for Minister to Brazil is the fol
lowing, written after Tennessee had first
refused to secede.
“Montgomery, Ala., June 1, 1861.
Sir—I have the honor to acknowledge
tbe receipt of your two letters, which
reached me this morning. Some days
since the President is3ned his proclama
tion announcing the ratification of a
league entered iDto with the State of Ten
nessee, and I supposed that you had been
officially notified of it. I have already
written to the Department of State, re
questing that this may be done without
delay. The ratification was, I believe,
unanimous. Very great gratification was
felt by the President end Cabinet at the
course pursued by yonr Excellency and
the Legislature of Tennessee. As to the
appointment of the yonng gentleman to
the lieutenancy in the army, also recom
mended by you, I have this moment ad
dressed a letter to Gen. Walker, urging
his compliance, and I hope that the ap
pointment will soon be made. Next
Saturday tbe important vote is to be
taken in Tennessee, and I can not doubt
that both ordinances will be ratified by
an overwhelming majority.
“Very respectfully yours,
“Henry W. Hilliard.”
It is known definitely that when Gov.
Harris, of Tennessee, and others, urged
the appointment of Mr. Hilliard, no inti
mation of his extreme secession record
was given to President Hayes.
Senator Blaine on Hayes’ Title.
From the Brooklyn Union.]
Washington, October 18. — Senator
Blaine said to-day that so far as the title
Alexander H. Stephens accords to Hayes
is concerned, the simile is peculiar. “Mr.
Stephens,’’says he, “saysMr. HayeBholds
his office by a better title than George
Washington did, because Mr. Hayes was
put there by the highest judicial tribunal
ever formed in this country. That reminds
me,” said Mr. B aine, “of an old fellow np
in Maine who ran for office, and they
charged on the stamp that he had been
indicted for villainy of some kind. The
candidate answered in his own behalf that
the other candidate made a great blunder
in making tbe charge. He admitted the
indictment, and pointed to tbe fact that
he had the verdict of twelve jurymen to
the effect that be was an honest man,
while his opponent had never even keen
indicted, and, conseqnently, conld not
have snch a recommendation for the suf
frage of the people.”
CIVIL SERVICE ORDER.
ITS INTERPRETATION BY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DEVENS.
Boston, October 27.—Attorney General
DeveDS writing from Washington, excus*
ing himself from active participation in
the State campaign, says : I learn, with
surprise and regret, that any of the Re
publican officials hesitate either to speak
or vote, alleging as a reason the Presi
dent’s recent civil service order. In dis
tinct terms, that order states that the
right of officials to vote and express their
views on pnblio questions, either orally
and through the press, is not denied,
provided it does not interfere with the
discharge of their official dnties. If such
gentlemen choose not to vote, or not ex
press, or enforce thc ; r views in support
of the principles of the liepnblican party,
either orally or otherwise, they, at least,
should not give a reason for snoh a course
which is not justified by the order re
ferred to, and which is simply a perver
sion of it.
MEXICO.
SONORA SECEDED — DIAZ DETERMINED TO
ENFORCE EXTRADITION.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Havana, October 27.—Advices from
the City of Mexico to the 18th says:
The attempted revolntion in tbe State
of Michoacan was instantly suppressed.
It is authentically reported that the State
of Sonora has seceded.
Peace prevails in other States. Report
ed insurrections on tbe northern border
prove nntrae.
President Diaz shows an inflexible de
termination to extradite criminals on the
Rio Grande, believing extradition neces
sary to preserve the national decornm.
Gen. Trovino and Gov. Charles, of
Coahuila, arrived at the capital on the
16th inst. from the border States, bring
ing favorable acconnts of tbe situation,
except that discontent is manifested at
Diaz’s determination to extradite all
criminals. Several regiments of infantry
and cavalry have marched for the border.
Tbe relics of tbe Lerdo faction are still
at work. Tbe Lerdestas are actively or
ganizing to co-operate with Escobedo in
his efforts on the Rio Grande.
WASHINGTON.
TROUBLESOME BORDER NEWS
RADICAL BITTFBNESS AGAINST HAYES AS
SHOWN BY THEIR ORGAN—DADDY8 D:L.
LAB—BLUE AND BRASS—JAY G UID DE
VOUR ’em—HARLAN NOT TOTTCHED YET —
THE BBITISH MINISTER THE LAMENT fF
THE BUBEAU—BLAINE BETTER—BATTER
IES RETURNED FROM PENN-YLVANIA.
BADICAL organ’s BITTERNESS AGAINST
HAYES — FITZ^IMMON', CF GEORGIA, A
NEPHEW OF WADE HAVPT< N
Washington, October 27 —The Repub
lican, in an article on the duty of the
Senate, among other bitter things, says:
We should regard it as palpable direlec
tion of dnty on tbeir part, if they should
yield their approval to a prosecuting line
of policy that removes capable and honest
Republicans from office, and places in
their stead the enemies of Republicans,
or Repnblicans]who are not tbeir peers in
any regard.
In a separate paragraph the paper says:
Tbe fact has leaked out that Fitzsimmons,
tbe Democrat who has been appointed
Marshal of Georgia, is a nephew of Wade
Hampton, and that his appointment was
asked by the Sonth Carolina Governor.
Perhaps Mr. Hampton will be called upon
to suggest a name for the English mis
sion.
These extracts are telegraphed as an
indication of the policy which animates
tbe wing of the Radical party of which
the Republican is the organ.
daddy’s dollar.
There is claimed to be a majority in the
Senate in favor of restoring the dollar
de mon pere.
BLUE AND BRASS.
Railway postoffice officials and route
agents are required to dress in blue and
brass buttons.
JAY GOULD EXPLAINS.
The Judiciary Committee heard Jay
Gould to-day on tbe Paoific Railroad.
Tbe committee has not yet considered
HARLAN 8 NOMINATION
to the Supreme bench.
BRITISH MISSION.
Sir Edward Thornton hss returned to
Washington as the British Minister.
THE BUREAU GR EYED.
Gen. Howard is reported to have said
that he bad muoh to grieve him, and that
the telegraph reporters have lied. Tears
glistened in the General’s eyes.
IMPORTANT FROM THE RIO ORANDE BORDER.
The Secretary of State has bad advices
from special agents on the Rio Grande
border of sufficient importance to render
a conference between Mr. Evarts and the
President nesessary this afternoon.
LOUISIANA NOMINATIONS.
It is stated all Louisiana nominations
except King’s will go to tbe Senate Mon
day.
BLAINE
is better, bnt still bedridden.
ARTILLERY FROM PENNSYLVANIA.
The artillery have returned from Penn
sylvania. . Battery C. goes to Fort John -
sod, North Carolina Batteries U. and
M. go to Pensacola.
FLOKIDA.
THE BEST OF THE HARDIN GANG ARRESTED.
Whiting, Ala., October 27.—Henry
Sutton, the father-in-law of Brown Bow
en, and McCall, the chtim of John Wesley
Hardin, were arrested near this place last
night by Sheriff Hutchinson, of Escambia
county, Florida. This about disposes of
the gang which has so long bid law de
fiance hereabouts.
National Liberian League.
Rochester, N. Y., October 27.—The
National Liberian League organized to
day with the election of F. E. Abbott, of
Boston, President, and forty Vice Presi
dents, among them R. G. Ingersoll, G.
W, Julian, O. B. Frodbrigham, E. T.
Wright, and Robert Cuyler.
A platform was adopted adverting to
the separation of Chnrch and State, na
tional protection for national citizens and
universal education on the basis of uni
versal suffrage.
NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT PUT OFF.
Special to Enquirer-SunA
Rochester, October 27.—The Liberal
League Congress was augmented to-day
by the arrival of many delegates. It de
cided to postpone the nomination of
Presidential candidates for 1880 for a
year.
Letters of greeting were received from
various societies, and several addresses
were made.
THE TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR.
TEE RUSSIANS ON TOP.
RUSSIAN PURSUIT OF TURKS IN ARMENIA —
RUSSIANS HAVE INVESTED PLEVNA.
PLEVNA INVESTED.
London, October 27.—The Daily News'
Bucharest correspondent represents the
investment of Plevna as oomplete. The
Russians appear determined to surround
Plevna by a series of works as the Ger
mans did Paris. The correspondent
doubts whether Plevna is provisioned for
a winter seige. The correspondent con
cludes: I mnst say now that the question
of the second campaign is resolutely
faced, and the prospects look more hope
ful for the Russians than at any time since
Gen. Krudener’s defeat in July.
RUSSIANS PURSUING TURKS IN ARMENIA.
It is reported that the Russians, part
suing Ghazi Mouhktar, have advanced as
far as Khorassan and Monhktar has re
treated to Koprikoi, between Khorrassan
and Hassan Kaleh. Erzeronm is prepar
ing for a seige. The inhabitants are
arriving and reinforcements hastening np
from Trebizond.
Ghazi Monhktar, however, reports that
the Russians have not advanced farther
than Mellidooz, on the western slope of
Zoghanli Dagh, which is more probable
than the first statement.
Trance.
TUMULTUOUS POLITICS.
THE PROBABLE COURSE OF THE MINISTRY—
GEN. GBANT WONT TALK POLITICS BUT
PRAISES THE COUNTRY,
The Cabinet and its Probable Course
Murder and Arsou.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Cincinnati, Oct. 27. — An unknown
person entered the honae of E. S. McVay,
toll-gate keeper on the Circleville pike,
six miles north of Chillicotbe, Ohio, last
night, shot McNay through the heart, bis
wife through the head—killing both in
stantly. A little girl, the only other oc
cupant of the honse, hearing the shooting
jumped out of bed and escaped. The
murderer, after ransacking the house for
plunder, set fire to it and escaped to the
woods.
Paris, Ootober 27.—The correspondent
of the Times telegraphs he believes Pres
ident MacMahon has fallen under the in-
fluence of those who are determined to
resist the will of the nation, but the Cab
inet is divided about how far snch resist
ance ought to be carried. The Dnke De-
Broglio, President of tbe Council and
Minister of Jn3tice, Dnke DeLyges, Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, General Berthant,
Minister of War, and Viscount DeMeaux,
Minister of Agriculture, might go as far
as the second dissolution of the Chamber
of Deputies, bnt if the Senate refused
this, they would resign.
There are some who dream of establish
ing a Dictatorship on the ruins of the
constitution.
The correspondent does not believe
President MacMahon will follow them
that far. Well informed Conservatives
think that the majority of the Cabinet
would be pleased to have the Senate re
fuse a second dissolution, and thereby
afford them the opportunity to bow to the
will of the Senate instead of the Chamber
of Deputies. Tbe correspondent adds, if
snch is really the idea of the Government,
I think the Senate will be disposed to
facilitate their retreat.
[Note.—It may be remembered that
Gambetta, in bis recent speech at Cheatan
Cbihon, bitterly attacked tbe Empire and
the Bonapartists, bnt spoke in very con
ciliatory tone of the other parties, and
predicted an eventual alliance between
■ them and the Repnblicans when tbe
present passions had time to cool.]
GRANT PBAISE3 FRANCE.
Several representatives of the French
newspapers have interviewed ex-Presi-
dent Grant, bnt found him very reticent.
He declined to express an opinion on the
political situation here. He said his first
impression of France was, that it wore a
presperooB, well ordered, and happy as
pect.
ENGLAND AND GBEEOE.
Athens, October 27.—Earl Derby
British minister for foreign affairs sent a
note to the Greek government, dec’aring
that the Britbh government never in
tended to question Greece’s liberty of ac
tion and recommending respect for treaty
obligations.
ENGLAND.
PARLIAMENT FURTHER PROROGUID.
London. October 27.—Parliament has
been farther prorogued to December the
19th.
AMERICAN MASONS TO BE PROSECUTED.
London, October 27,—Tbe Daily News
says: The Master Masons will prosecute
the men who accepted the package from
America under contract to work, and fur
ther rendered themselves liable by actu
ally entering upon work as contracted, if
they persist in acting with the strikers.
TACKMXti THE SCBIPTLRIS.
HOW AN IRREVERENT OLD SALT INTERPRETED
THE STORY OF ELIJAH AND THE*PROPHETS
OF BAAL.
Hark Twain in the November Atlantic Month
ly-]
One trip the Captain had a clergyman
on board, but did not know he was a
clergyman, since the passenger list did
not betray him. He took a great liking
to this Rev. Mr. Peters, and talked with
him a great deal; told him yarns, gave
toothsome scraps of personal history, and
wove a glittering streak of profanity
through his garrulous fabric th-rt waR re
freshing to a spirit weary of the dull neu
tralities of undecorated speech. One day
the Captain said, “Peters, do you ever
read the Bible ?”
“Well—yes.”
“I judge it ai’nt often, by tbe way you
say it. Now, yon tackle it in dead earn
est once, and you’ll find it’ll pay. Don’t
you get discouraged, bnt bang rigbt on
First, you wont understand it; but hy and
by thiDgs will begin to clear up, and
then you wouldn’t lay it down to eat.”
“Yes, I have heard that said.”
“And it’s so, too. There ain’t a book
that begins with it. It lays over ’em
all, Peters. There’s some pretty tough
things in it—there ain’t any getting around
that—bnt yon stick to them and think
them out, and when once you get on the
inside everything’s plain as day.”
“The miracles, too, captain ?”
“Yes, sir! The miracles, too. Every
one of them. Now, there’s that bnsiness
with the prophet of Baal; like enough
that stumped you.”
“Well, I don’t know, but ”
“Own np, now; it stumped you. Well,
I don’t wonder. Yon hadn’t any experi
ence in raveliDg such things oat, and nat
urally it was too many for you. Wonld
you like to have me explain that thing to
you, and show you how to get at the meat
of these matters ?”
“Indeed I wonld Captain, if yon don’t
mind.”
Then the Captain proceeds as follows:
1 11 do it, with pleasure. First, you see, I
read and reed, and thought and thought,
till I got to understand what sort of peo
ple they were in the old Bible times, and
then after that it was all clear and easy.
Now, this was the way I put it up, con
cerning Isaac* and the prophets of Baal.
There was some mighty sharp men
amongst the public characters of that
old ancient day, and Isaac was one of
them. Isaac had his failings—plenty of
them, too; it ain’t for me to apoligift for
Isaac; he played it on the prophets of
Baal, and like enough he was justifiable,
considering the odds that was against
him. No, all I say is, ’twan’t any miracle
and that I’ll show you, so’s’t you can see
it yourself.
“Well, times had been getting
rougher and rougher for prophets—that
is, prophets of Isaac's denomination.
There was 450 prophets of Baal in the
community, and only one Presbyterian;
that is if Isaac was a Presbyterian: which
I reckon he was, but it don’t say. Natu
rally, the piophets of Baal took a 11 the
trade. Isaac wus pretty low spirited, I
reckon, bnt he was a good deal of a man,
and no donbt he went a-prophesying
around, letting on to be doing a land-
office business, but’t wan’t any ose; he
couldn’t run any opposition to amount to
anything. By and by things got desper
ate with him; he sets his head to work
and thinks it all out, and then what does
he do? Why, he begins to throw out
hints that the other parties are this and
that and t’other—nothing very definite,
may be, but jnst kind of nndermining
their reputation in a quiet way. This
made talk of course, and finally got to
the King. The King asked Isaac what he
meant by his talk. Says Isaac, Oh,
nothing particular; only can they pray
down fire from heaven on an altar? It ain’t
much, may be, Your Majesty, only can
they do it? That’s the idea.’ So the
King was a good deal disturbed, and he
went to the prophets of Baal, and they
said, pretty airy, that if he had an altar
ready, they were ready; and they intima
ted he better get it inssued, too.
“So next morning all the children of
Israel and their parents, and the other
people, gathered themselves together,
Well, here was that great crowd of proph
ets of Baal packed together on one side,
and Isaac walking np and down all alone
on the other, putting up his job. When
time was called, Isaac let on to be com
fortable and indifferent; told the other
team to take the first innings. So they
went at it, the whole 450, praying around
the altar very hopeful and doing their
level best. They prayed an hour—two
hours—three hours—and so on, plnmb
till nooD. It wasn’t any use; they hadn’t
took a trick. Of course they felt kind of
ashamed before all those people, and well
they might. Now, what wonld a magnani
mous man do? Keep still, wouldn’t he? Of
course. What did Isaao do? He gravel
led the prophets of Baal every way he
conld think of. Says he, ‘You don’t speak
loud enough; your god’s asleep, like
enough, or may be he’s taking a walk; yon
want to holler, you know’—or words to
that effect; I don’t reoollect the exact lan
guage. Mind, I don’t apologize for
Isaac; he had faults.
“Well, the prophets of Baal prayed
along the best they knew how all the
afternoon, and never raised a spark. At
last, about sundown, they were all tnck
ered out, and they owned np and quit.
“What does Isaao do, now ? He steps
np and says to some friends of his there,
‘Pour four barrels of water on the altar ! ’
Everybody was astonished ; for the other
side had prayed at it dry, yon know, and
got white washed. They poured it on.
Say he, ‘Heave on four more barrels.’
Then he says, ‘Heave on four more.
Twelve barrels, you see, altogether. The
water ran all over the altar, and all down
the sides, and filled up a trench around it
that wonld hold a couple of hogsheads—
‘measures,’ it says ; I reckon it means
about a hogshead. Some of the people
were going to put on their things and go,
for they allowed he was crazy. They
didn’t know Isaac. Isaac knelt down and
began to pray ; he strung along, and
strung along, about the heathen in dis
tant lands, and about the sister churches,
and about the State and the country at
large, and about those that’s in authori
ty in the Government, and all the usubI
programme, you know, till everybody
had got tired and gone to thinking about
something else, and then, all of a sndden,
when nobody was noticing, he outs with
a match and rakes it on the under side of
his leg, and puff ! np tbe whole thing
blazes like a house a fire! Twelve bar
rels of waterj? Petroleum, sir, petroleum!
that’s what it wa»!”
“Petroleum, captain ?”
“Yes, sir ; the country was full of it.
Isaac knew all about that. You read the
Bible. Don’t you worry about the tough
places. They ain’t tough when yon come
to think them ont and throw light on
them. There ain't a thing in the Bible
but what is true ; all yon want is to go
bravely to work and cipher ont how it was
done.”
*This is the captain’s own mistake.
There is Danner Ahead
When those usually active little organs, the
kidneys, are neglectful of their duties and
grew sluggish. Fatty degeneration, Bright’s
disease, diabetes, and other dangerous mala
dies. are the result ot r eglect to remedy this
Inactivity by medicinal means. When the all
important functions of the kidneys are imper
fectly discharged, those organs need stlmu-
Jatinir, and the best possible agent for that
purple—since it performs its office without
exciting them—is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitteis,
wh'ch, in combination with its tonic and ca
thartic properties, possesses valuable q-iaiities
as a diuretic. Both kidneys and bladder are
strrngthened by it, and the vigor which it im
parts to them, and tbe gentle but effectual im
pulse which it gives to their operations, is the
best possible ganranty against their becoming
diseased. The Bitters are invaluable In other
respects as well as the above, since they reme
dy general debility, uterine troubles, chills
and fever, dyspepsia, constipation, goat,
rheumatism, and other ailments.
announcements.
For the Legislature.
• I announce myfelf a candidate for
the House of Representatives of the
next Legislature, and respectfully request the
support of the voters of Muscogee oounty.
Election 5th day of Decomber next.
oc28 d&wtd LOUIS F. GARRARD.
Disease Killing Horses and Swine
in New Jersey.
New York, October 27.—A Port Re
public, Atlantic connty, N. J., dispatch
says the horse disease which prevailed
extensively in other sections, arrived here
in a most virulent form. Already nearly
fifty horses and mules have succumbed.
Now the malady is affecting swine, which
are dying rapidly. People in this vicinity
are killing pork to prevent them from
falling victims.
Scbell to Oppose Morrissey.
New York, October 27.—The Tamma
ny Democrats in the seventh senatorial
district nominated, Augustas Schell in
opposition to John Morrissey.
The poor and humble, alike with the
rich and powerfnl, find in Dr. Bull’s
Gongh Syrup a true, tried and trusted
friend. Price 25 cents; large size, 50
oents.
TO the Voters of Muscogee
County.
I respectfully announce myself a
candidate for the House of Represen
tatives of the next Legislature. I am in favor
of a fair race before the people.
oct26 d&wtd REESE CRAW FORD.
To the Voters of Muscogee,
Chattahoochee and
Marion.
I aunounco myself a candidate for
Senator to re; resent the 24th Sena
torial District In the next Legislature. I am
willing to submit my claims to whatever the
people may de.ire, whother It be a nomination
or hurdle race. I shall make a personal can
vats of the District, and will “shun no ques
tion and wear no mask.”
oc24 d&wtd* THOMAS W. GRIMES.
Of Interest to Everybody!
!^10,000 "W a. at e cl
At J. E. DEATON’S
Variety Store.
No. 168, nndcr Kaukln Honse,
In Exchange for Goods.
A T MY STORE may he found a large, va
ried anil miscellaneous stock, embracing
Dry Goods, Groceries, HatB, Shoes, Hardware
Wooden-ware, Crockery and Glass Ware, Sad
dles and Harness, a Good line of Plantation
and Houre Furnishing Goods and Notions.
These roods were Bought lor cash, and can
be Eold at bargains. Farmers, laborers and
oltizens generally will find It to their interest
to call on me before buying elsewhere.
J. E. DEATON.
0CtJ8 eod2m
DRESS MAKING.
M RS. M. M. LAMON desires to Inform the
public that she has taken rooms over
Mrs. Bussey’s Millinery Store, where she
would be pleased to see her former patrons,
and as many new ones as may call. oc23 lw
AMUSEMENTS.
America’s Grand Novelty!
SPRINGER’SWERA HOUSE.
Tuesday Evening, Oct. 30.
The justly celebrated and , great original
MADAME RENTZ’S
Female Minstrels!
The Dashing and Peerless
MABLE STANLEY’S
London -Burlesque Troupe,
In the great sensation Burlesque (first time in
America) translation irom the
French, entitled,
FORBIDDEN PLEASURES!
43-For fall particulars and list of artists see
small bills.
Reserved Seats secured three days In ad
vance, without extra charge, at Chaffin’s
Book Store. oc27,28&30
MILLINERY.
SPRINGER S OPERA HOUSE.
One Night Only-WEMESDAY, OCTOBER 31st.
Miss Kate Claxton Manageress
John A. Stevbns Business Manager
The Fashionable Event!
Miss Kate Claxton
as “LOUISE,” In the sterling success, the
Two Orpliaus,
as played by her an entire season at the Union
Square Theatre, New York, aided by her own
Special Selected Corps of Artists, presenting
the piece replete with new and elaborate
scenic effects and a most exempar cast.
SSTPopular Scale of Prices. Sale of Seats
commences Saturday, October 27, at Chaffin’s.
JOHN E. WARNER,
oc274t Gen’l Agent.
WANTS.
WANTED.
A POSITION by a young man who has had
experience in Banking and Insurance,
who Is willing to work. First-class testimo
nials. Address “BUSINESS,”
Sunday Enquirer.
Dividend Notice.
A SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND of FOUR
DOLLARS PER SHARE is payable to
Shareholders of
Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Co.
whose names shall appear as such on the books
of the Company, on NOVEMBER 1st, 1877.
The Transfer Books will be closed on the 20th
instant. G. GUNBY JORDAN,
octlfl td Treasurer,
LIBRARY LAMP.
HOUSE'S ARGANO BURNER;
o
Ask your dealer for this Lamp. If he will not
supply you, write to us for it. It gives tho light
of twenty candles, or one-third more than any
other lamp of similar style (same size burner)
in the world: the light being, also, steadier and
every way more satisfactory.
FOR SALE BY
L. L. C0WDERY & CO. f
123 Broad St., Columbus, Ga.
oct21 SElm
NEW FIRM—REMOVAL.
J. J. BRADFORD.
W. E. 8ANDKF0RD
Th.© Latest Sensationi
MILLINERY GOODS FORThE
Bargains for the Rich and IVr!
-AT-
Large, Varied and BeantiM Steel, at Prices Chtsner tlan Ew
-o:
^"Don’t Purchase until you have examined this St
I N DAILY CONNECTION WITH THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD „ h C *'
received dally. Bring In your children and fit them up for winter. u ‘ and Bew Oooj,
Ladies, my Goods and Prices will astonUta yon. call early
oct28 eod&w2m
Mrs. Colvin & Miss Donnelly
Have on hand a most select and complete assort *
sortment of
MILLINERY & FANCY GOODS,
Embracing all the Novelties of the Season in
Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine Straw, Felt, Plush and Velvet
HATS and BONNETS!
Also a most varied assortment of Children's Sni'y, tWquep. and Iuf M nt
{’’oaks
Si'i que
Ladies’ Cloaks from $3 to $20; also a complete line of Corsets, irieln 11„,• |) w
ner’s Health Corset, Cooley’s Cork Corset,and many other new and npprov. l m , l
G-XiOVES from SOo. to $2 •
Having purchased our Stock for Cash, we can and are determined to ae!l as low
est. Call and examine our stock before purchoslng.
BE the
OG) eo.lAwim
o. "70
BROAD STREET
■Will open during- tlie week
LARGE LINE OF CLOAKS,
FROM s$S TO
In Matalasse and Elegant Beavers, handsomely trimmed and
in the very latest styles!
Wait and see them before buying.
«T. S. JOJVES.
0014 eod&wtf
At BLANCHARD & HILL’S
ON MONDAY WILL BE OFFERED:
300 Balmorals at 65 cents, sold elsewrere at 75cents;
BRADFORD & SANDEFORD!
300
ll
$1.00,
ii
ii
$1.25;
300
ii
$1,25,
ii
ii
$1.50;
250
a
$1.50,
• ft
ii
$1.75;
200
ft.
$1.75,
ii
ii
$2.00;
175
ii
$2.00,
ii
ii
$2.25;
175
ii
$2.50,
ii
ii
$3.00.
The best yard-wide Bleached Cotton for 10c in this
market. It will be to your interest to examine it.
Special Bargains in CORSETS !
300 French Corsets at $1 50, sold elsewhere at $2.
Your attention is invited to these Coods especially.
Examine the prices of the most complete line of MERINO UNDEltSUITS ever
offered in Columbus:
200 Ladles’ Vests at 75c:
200 “ “ $1;
175 “ “ “ $175;
200 Ladies’ Vests at $125:
175 “ “ “ Si 50;
150 “ “ “ S2.
GENTS’ UNDER WEAK from 50 cents to $3.50;
SEAL BROWN CASHMERES—Empress Cloth, and Alpaca (jnst arrived) at as>
tonishingly low figures;
A Job Lot of RIBBONS (1,000 pieces), comprising all new shades, just in, to
be sold 25 per cent, cheaper than yon have ever bought them before.
Special Bargains in SASH RIBBONS;
A second shipment of CLOAKS will be received the latter part of the week
Also BLACK CASHMERES aDd SILKS;
Something entirely new in COLLARS, CUFFS and FANCY HOSE.
^"Do not fail to call and examine these Coods A word
to the wise is sufficient.
All Goods delivered free of charge,
BLANCHARD & HILL,
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$1 OO, worth $1 50;
1 25,
“ 176;
1 50,
“ 2 00;
2 25,
“ 2 76;
2 50,
“ 3 00;
1 OO,
“ 125;
75,
“ 1 OO;
0 SI 25;
Solid Colored “
Striped “
Ball and Tassel (II fringes^ in great variety;
Silk and Wool Calloons;
Brocade Velvets.
W E MEAN BUSINESS ! We have bought
out the stock of E. N. HAY"ES, Tinner,
and we are now going to sell at very low fig
ures ! Small profits and quick sales! Come
and see us
Stoves, Grates, Tin-Ware, Hollow-Ware,
Wooden-Ware, Crockery, Glass-Ware,
and House Furnishing Goods, &c.
W E have removed to the store No. 142,
under Central Hotel, where we will con
tinue to keep a fall stock of everything in our
line.
Mr. Hayes will remain with us to execute
all contraots in Roofing, Guttering, Repair
ing, &c.
Wo have the largest stock of Tin-Ware In
the city, and will continue to make its manu
facture a specialty.
Country merchants will find it to their inter
est to buy ol us. sepSO eodlin
SAFE INVESTMENTS
5.000 Western R. It. Honda, endorsed and
ijauranteed by the C. R. R. and Georgia R
K., 8 per cent., April and October (c).
2.000 City Columbus Bonds, new issue.
5.000 Georgia State 6 per cent. Bonds,
January and July Coupons, below par
10 Shares Georgia Home Ins. Co. Stock.
30 Shares Eagle & Phenix Factory Stock.
20 Shares Merchants' & Mechanics’
Bank Stock.
JOHN BLACKMAIL
aulo tf Broker
W F. TICNER. Dentist*
Ovkk Mason’s Drug Stork,
Randolph Street, Columbus, Ga.
OPIUM
«nd Morphine nau<«, absolute]7 ana
speedily cured. Painless: no publicity.
Send stamp for particulars. Dr. Carl
ton 1$ W6&i>9agt-,Cluca£t>iIU>
Just received my second Stock
Wool Dress Goods and Zephyr
Wools!
Zephyr Wools, white and colors, 15 cents per oz-
Call at once and secure bargains.
J. ALBERT KIRVEN.
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Sherry for Me! Sherry for Me!!
.Tust Received at tlie
THE CENTENNIAL STORES
AN EXTRA FINE QUALITY OF
Genuine Invportocl
ALHAMBRA SHERRY.
1 oilei' at per gallon.