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DAILY ENQUIRER • RUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY
1886.
ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLi
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months. 84.00 fur six months, or 8i.ini tt year
The Sunday is delivered by carrier buys in tie
city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, a*
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insertion, and for the Weekly tit 81 fur each in
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All communications intended tu promote tin
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or individuals will be charged as advertisements,
(special contracts^ made for advertising by the
year. Obituaries will be charged for ut customary
rates.
None but solid metal cuts used.
All communications should he addressed to the
proprietor of the ENqriHKii-Sl'N.
It was iii 17si>. just
ago, that tlu* legislatin'
posed the convention
from the then several
i hundred years
of Virginia pro
of eoinniissii mers
tjites of the Atucri-
■ resident to comply with his wishe*
attsed the ilisapj (tinted Vermont states-
■ tun to make another etrort to get thi
ix iI service reform up to his standard.
To this end lie lias introduced a hill
a hit’ll not only relieves the president
mm consulting the senate in
large class of appointments, but takt •*
uvav t'roni him the far more important
>n iict i, >n of removal.
If Senator Edmunds had any idea that
it'ii a h'U would lierome a law, it shows
t stupidity that lie lias never been ti'-
•lised of possessing. If he could litnl re
I'tililieaiis in siillieient numbers, eithei
,'iiiilisli or vieiniiH, enough to vote for it.
tin- president would not sign it. If an
attempt should be made to override I lit
veto I lie president would most assuredly
put ii|,<m it, the democrats would not
give the republicans any assistance.
can union to consider plans lor the im
provement of the trade and commerce ol
1 he country, in short, to revise the eon-
federation system. In May, 17x7, the
commissioners met in I’hiladelphia. < hit
of this Virginia proposition and Phila
delphia meeting, with kindred move
ments, and after three years of effort,
grew the constitution of the United
States.
Tim weather prophets are tolerably
unanimous in announcing the imminence
of severe thunder-storms within the next
two or three days, a prediction which is a
pretty safe one to make at the beginning
of July, w hen the summer heats begin to
manifest their full strengtli on a soil sat
urated with moisture. Hut there is a
joint on which experts are puzzled, and
that is the manifest increase in the num
ber and destructiveness of thunder- ■
storms within the last fifty years. It j
would seem that the general use of light- j
ning-oondiictors would draw oil’the at-j
niospheric electricity and prevent de
structive discharges, but this is not the
case.
IIKHKand there a Blaine organ raises
feeble how l on the pretext that anion
pension hills lately vetoed by President
Cleveland was one in tlie interest of a
.soldier who, although marked a> a de
serter oil the army roll, w as really a pris
oner at Andersonville. Well.it is rather
late in the day to do justice in this ease.
The war ended over twenty-,me years
ago. Since then the nation has been
most oftlic time in republican hands.
Why has not this ox-prisoner ofAndor-
sonville been vindicated and re wart let I
long ago? Was he a democrat ? Or are
m» to believe that it lias taken twenty-
one years to tind out thut lie was an An-
dersonville prisoner, that he was not a
deserter or that he ought to have a pen
sion? If not, why did not the men w ho
are now so much Jconcerncd Jahout him
sw that ,justice was done him a dozen
years ago?
IMUKtsK IN Nl/K. Ptll’l I.ATION t.NIl lit SI-
N 1 '.NS.
It is a recognized fact that within the
Iti-t few years Columlms has taken
on new life. This is shown by the re
markable increase in size, in population
and in business importance.
That Columbus has increased in size
it is only necessary to make a few state
ments of facts to prove. Three years ago
there was hardly a residence east of
Sixth, avenue, formerly Mercer street,
any where south of the county jail, and
hut few between that point and the
union depot. Now the commons have
been built up until the city extends three
Mocks further east and down within two
blocks of the base ball park. All these
blocks are as thickly settled its it was
possible to build houses that would he
comfortable. In the upper part of
the city, and near the Swift mills,
entire new Mocks of buildings have been
erected. In various parts of the city va
cant lots have been ornamented with
handsome residences. This, to say notin'
ing of the block after block of new build
ings recently erected just outside the city
limits and in hearing of the church bells.
That the population ! as increased
needs no further argument, as these
houses are all full of people. Blit there
is even better proof than this. The cen
sus taken in lsso shows that the popula
tion of Columbus and immediate vicinity
was a little more than fifteen thousand.
A careful enumeration made in |sx|
showed that it was nearly twenty-three
thousand. If the increase has kept up in
the same proportion since then,there are
- | now more than twenty-live thousand in
habitants in the city and surrounding
suburbs.
(Mir business importance lias very
largely increased, as an investigation of
the tax books on sales will demonstrate.
Wholesale merchants have extended
their territory and have increased their
sales. But that this has not kept pace
with tint increase of the city in other re
spects is patent. AYe do not believe that
our citizens are lacking in enterprise or
in energy. Yet there is not that effort
towards heavy sales and small profits
that only can build up large cities and
gain tiio reputation that is desirable. No
city, content witii small transactions and
larger margins can attain that promi
nence which the reverse would give. In
other words, we must have more whole*
I stile houses than we have, and they
Tup: legal technicalities involved in the j should lie able to sell in just its many car-
fishery troubles between Canada and tin
I idled Slates w ill no doubt clear them
selves in due time. All passionate dis
cussion of them is apt to be a good deal
like stirring the waters in a muddy pool.
But it is a sorry comment on the ad
vanced civilization of two of the leading
nations ot the world that the New Kng-
b.uul men who go down to the sea in
ships must not stop at < 'unadinn ports to
gat a little needed bait ot coal. (If course
tire trouble lias come in part from the na-
1 i
tural smartness of these two ei\ilizatiotis j
and in jsirt from the ingiuined churli-h- I
ness and ugliness against the I'nited
states except when a reciprocity treaty is i
w anted. The policy for our people to j
pursue is to abstain from breaking t ana 1
diun law. to teinembet titi- di-play of
Canadian ugly feeling, and to W patient
until some Canadian delegate or some 1
distinguished diplomat comes here with I
a reeiproeitj treaty in bis band and much '
smooth talk about our common heritage
«if the language of M iltou and -liak-pe.uv
dropping from In- tongin .
lots as tt purchaser may dt
people of Columbus were
ire.
never
getting along more harmoniously than
now. All political elements of every
kind have been settled for the next two
years, and there is no reason why this
harmony should not continue to exist
and to extend w ith all its capacity into
ottr mercantile lelutions. Let every one
put a shoulder to the wheel, and more
especially let us have more wholesale
business liotl-es.
ill si KI P I* I !• WI I’ll Tin: AUK.
A~ Mr. John Bright bad till bis lile
been known as a liberal statesman and a
people’s man. and a man of convictions
given to following those convictions, it
ua» most natural that It is opposition to
M r t dadsp .tie s borne rule scheme should
be felt throughout the masses of England
more keenly than the opposition of any
other man. But for several years Mr.
right has been dropping out of bis old
posit ; on as an active leader of Knglish
liberal public sentiment. New ijtiesiions
have come up into which he could not
NAM’ AN HOI K WITH KDITOHS.
Kbit Thf j Hits ta '.ii suit Their (point W »< i
KipruwInK Ii -A Kew Notes lij the Wijrnlde.
Theodore Hurt, u member of the Pemisylvau .
egialature tout editor of the t’iuston (Jarett.
,v«s convicted of libel in the criminal court .
'.Vtlkesbarre last week. Thu libel complained
vns published several months at”, to the efl'ec
hat a Mrs. Patrick llart, residing near Pittstei,
>n account of the unhappiness of tier marv.o
.ife, had attempted suicide. Mr. Hart will ap
;ieal from the verdict to the supreme court.
It is to be hoped that Mr. Hart's appeal will In
sustained. The people amt the public are hede
ing and encroaching upon the inalienable rigli
of prevarication which belongs to the newspape.
profession until Simmy extremists,openly deelar
that an editor has no reserved rights whatever i.
regard to lying. What is the country coining > !l
and where are to get bread for our families if w,
we are pinned down like serftto t lie dreary.ashei
level of fhets V If lying becomes an indictab i
offense what is to become of Whitelaw Reid, e:
the New York Tribune t He is too old to lean
another trade, and even if he were not, lie eon.,
never distinguish himself nortakea pride in any
thing else. And there is our own proud aia.
priceless Henry Grady, of the Atlanta t’onstiti.
tion, who boasts that he was never “hampere*
by facts.” Think of him dealing in am
dealing out the truth and nothing but thetrutli.
What a necklace of millstones it would benbou
his neck. Think, if one can think, of the editor
of the Macon Telegraph and the Atlanta Const.-
tution conducting a gubernatorial campaign n.
stricter! solely to the employment of facts. A cat
tish turned loose to glare in a sun-baked brim
patch, would be in a home ofluxury,compared to
these men in such a predicament. And the court,
must be called in to compel editors to tell the
truth. Great Scott! Brethren, this is another
form ofthe boycott aimed against the profession :
and it must be suppressed. The judge who is to
try Mr. Hart’s case is a lawyer, of course, and we
have reason to hope for justice at his hands.
A western paper is asking its readers to say
what in their opinion is the highest testofhoii
esty.—N. Y. Tribune.
If civilization had reached the point in the west
which esteems street cars a luxury, the western
paper would not have to hunt around for an an
swer. Any street ear driver in Columbus could
tell him that the highest possible test of a man’s
honesty is for a passenger to drop his nickle in
the Iiox when the conductor lias forgotten to col
lect.
Thehe is a strong feeling that great injury has
been inflicted on the city, hut the preachers and
leading church members simply close their ears
to the statement and shout, “Glory hallelujah”
with renewed fervor.
This, says the Indianapolis News, is the com
ment from Atlanta as the result of tlie first day's
closing of tlie liquor shops there. It recalls the
ofl-told story of tire saloon-keeper who, com
plaining to a friend of had business, waved his
hand toward a new church spire that was climb-
ing heavenward with the remark: “Them's the
dam things that's rainin’the country.” It At
lanta thinks she is injured by tlie closing of the
whisky shops, let her keep account of the money
thereby saved for the actual outlay of the stuff
and on account of pauperism and crime, based
on present statistics, and she will find site will
have saved money enough in a short time to pay
for the whole business and the value of tlie prop
erty supposed to lie damaged, besides.
Our young editorial friends who run the Uni
versity Reporter ut Athens, have fallen into an
other historical error in this: “1851 Robert J.
Bacon, A. M., Albany, Ga., clerk of railroad com
mission of Georgia; member Georgia legislature:
senator Georgia legislature." Mr. Robert J. Un
coil, of Albany, was never connected with the
railroad commission. Mr. Robert A. Bacon, of
Columbus, who can out-talk a whole legisla tire,
was never a member of that body.-—Macon Tel:
graph.
The Telegraph is more in error than the Univer
sity Reporter. Major Bacon is away from
home, and we propose to see that he is not
misrepresented.
If he were to read the Telegraph’s description
of him lie would be so wrathy that he would be
tempted to say, "it is untrue;" but it is more
probable that he would only shake his head in a
negative manner.
Tiik Chattanooga Commercial wants to bury
Evarts and legati politically. The Nashville
American thoroughly sympathizes with tha
Commercial in its desire to bury these distin
guished statesmen of its own party, and we trust
that we may not tie deemed officious if we ven
ture to give our contemporary a pointer on ttie
way to do it. AVe suggest that tlie next repub
lican convention nominate them for president
and vice-president of tlie United States. That
will do the business.
Everv time a repitlican head falls with a dull
thud and the eager earth drinks up his martyr’s
gore, a sympathetic ivail goes up from iii: fellow-
partisans all over ttie land. They cant* get used
to it. somehow. They can’t rid themselves of the
erroneous impression that the earth is theirs and
the fulness thereof.
There is one patriot jwho is willing to light for
the cause of Ireland. It is John U. Sullivan.
John proposes to tight anybody in tlie world,
tlie receipts to go to the Irish nationalist fatal,
tt is hoped that John’s fistic* abilities may lie thus
utilized for tlie cause of humanity.
I ’. Ii. G ha ham. who intends to ride through t tie
whirlpool rapids at Niagara in a cask of his own
construction, made a trial of his invention at
Buffalo, N. Y., Thursday. The experiment was
successful. The attempt will lie made at an early
People’s Line
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•ola Monday at t! p m for Dninbridge and Colon.-
.. * . ... U n♦ I’liatt’ .
Connect with evening trains at Chattu
loochee Sundays going down and Tuesday.-
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utes of freight and passage to all points oil tm
Jhatiahoocnee ana Apalachicola rivers will b
is follows :
Uiouv per barrel. * 10 cent
Cotton per bale 25 cent
Other freight* in proportion.
Rates and schedule subject to change without
lotice.
Passage from Columbus to Apalachicola 0t.
’ )ther pi ’iiih in proportion. Through tickets suit
bv this line to savannah, Jacksonville and a-
points in East Florida.
Shippers will please have their freight at bore
ny 8.00 a in on day of leaving, ns none will be n •
oeived after that hour.
Boat reserves the right of not landing at an.
point when considered dangerous by the pilot.
Boat will not stop at any point not named i
the published list of landings ftirnished shij
pen* for 1880.
Our responsibility for freight ceases after it ha'
been di^cnarged at a landing when no person s
there to receive it. T. H. MOORE,
Agent, Columbus, Ga.
C. D. OWENS,
Traflc Manager, Savannnn, Ga. tf
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