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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1SS0. INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENT*. Feauut* Bartow Reed Fo ink* F. Wei the children in the wu ages, and there is no w vestment can ho made. of educational a lvant- v in which a better in* Will- Mger. For Rent —Jas. A. Lewis. Dry i roods The Beehive. Hough’s Business School. landlords —L. 11. Clmppell Ice Cream Emilio E Cavaleri. ^Boy Wanted -Rothschild Bros. Browneville Street Tax Notice. Overstocked J A. Kirvcn A Co. I>o Not Fail J. O. Burras. Adm'r. Lost and Found—M. I>. Ho«*d Co. Your Last Chance C. P. Cray A Co. Furnished Rooms Mrs. T. Burnham. Masonic Notice John (’. Cook, Sec’y. Meal at ft.K» per Hack at .1. J. Wood's. Board of Control—Frank C, Reich. Sec’y. Dr. Jordan Resumes His Practice at once. Southern Female College 1. F Cox. Pres Muscogee Mutual 1/mn Association J. S cox. Treasurer. Closing Out Summer Dross Fabrics Blanchard. Booth A: Huff. Regular Meeting of Friendship Lodge No. 282, K. and L. of 11., to-morrow evening. The Sale Continues Another Week Allen Bros. Gents' Furnishings - A. <’. Chancellor FUNERAL NOTICE. The friends and acquaintances of Mr. R. M. Calhoun are invited to attend his funeral from the residence of Mr. Frank Jepson, southwest corner of Ninth street and Third avenue this afternoon at 3:30o’clock. V. M. C. \. Meeting at t o’clock this nftemoon for men only. A cordial invitation is extended to all young men. especially strangers in tin city. < »n Monday night the regular monthly businc-s meeting will beheld at 8 o’clock Refreshment - will he discussed, with other business. From the Lost Oregon. Mr. (». Gunby .Iordan has just received a letter that was aboard the ill-fated Oregon which sunk on the7th of March and was recovered a short time ago. The letter was mailed at Queenstown. Irelands and bore evidence of having been in tin* sea. Open Air Meeting. This meeting will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock if the weather Is favorable. We hope that Brother Brittain and other ministers will af ford us their presence and assistance. A supply of good religious papers will he on hand for dis tribution. Pastors will please announce. .1. II. Campbell. The Crops in Marion. Mr. Haiti}) Stevens, of this city, who is on a visit to Marion county, writes back that crop prospects in that county are not near so bad as he had expected to find them. The corn i 1 - j doing splendidly, and the cotton gives promise of a good yield. Marion has not suffered so much from excessive rains as thi« immediate section. The Columbus District ('•inference. The Columbus district conference has been in I session at Buena Vista several days. Gentlemen j who returned from there yesterday report that I the attendance is unusually largeand the services I of a most interesting character. The people of 1 Buenu Vis a and vicinity are entertaining the delegates in a royal manner. Cheaper Money Orders. The post office department has issued an order i to the postmasters of the country, that on ami , after the 26th of July the fees on money orders I for $5 or less is to be reduced IVon eight to five I cents. If anybody wants to semi us any money : in the meantime, they needn’t wait for there- l duction. Just send it along and we ll remit the extra three ceutfl. BANK* AND RANK Ell*. No Scarcity of .Money With Which to (ondiict Business A Great ('ll a mo in the Ban king *}*•• tein. While upon the subject of money matters, it will be interesting to the people of Columbus and to the trading community to know that there is ample money in the city for conducting all legiti mate channels of trade. We know this, as wo have the assurances of the hank officials for the statement. In this, as in other incidents of our prosperity Medley of Busy Hundreds Occupying the Ground Once Sacred to Silence. i we cannot resist the temptation to note the differ- ! euee between the Journalism of that day and ibis. t The journalists of th.it day filled their misQons 1 like men. and, as a rule, when they “fell on sleep ! and were not,” they left the precious ointment of I a good name behind them. Palsied be the hand 1 that would pick one rose from their withered j wreaths. But little was given to them, and of them but little was required. If one of our late A Copy nfth«* Enquirer Which Beads Like a Paper j-foe perfecting presses had been from Another World-Some Interesting features • lp?t down fhom of Kuril Newspaper Work in ( oiuinhiis— I he their midst, a council of war among them could Newspaper W ork of To-Daj. i no t have decided whether it was acorn mill or a 1 kind of cannon. This is not written derisivelyjfew for these men. God bless them—they were our It is Money that Makes Progress in the World. And ( olinnhiiN Minus u Gratify imr Exhibit in this Direction- Money in the I row Miry to Meet all Demands I he Bonded Debt of the City and Boo it is Paid 1 lews as Expressed by Our Bankers Plenty of .Money in Our Banks, The ENqrinnfeSt N has frequently’ boasted j that Columbus is the healthiest city in the | country. The figures, taken from the health de- j part men t of the United States, back up the as sertion. No city in this section of country is in such healthful financial condition as Cc. u . uvun . - - , ( thank, to the efficient city official, and Quance of‘he latter quality," a> a bank cashier said to us ; t .Htay, he would be a stranger In a ktrangc laud committee and we prop,me to give the official yesterday, "if indulged in too freely cut. down j He would find that his roysterm* friend.; had J<> >> “ »'* "° rlte ? sUt hot .lays Satire, to Drove It. his dividends.” In this section good security is 1 long since sought the #rave fora house and the | “ nl1 slept seven nnoi.i mams. It is an easv matter to sav that we have the ! scarce, arid the bunkers bank more on confi- I worms for companions. He would find brick THKY died of oi.d aok. not insomnia. healthiest citv in the country that no city is in dence. hence the rate is higher. j walls and business, electric lights and factories, | Their European news was two months old. and a better financial condition,’that to no commu- W.iile there is no deficiency of money in our railroads and wires, and the humming medley of their "New York items" only six weeks younger, nitv is offered belter facilities for advancing the banks and while the facilities for the transaction busy hundreds, occupying the ground once sacred No wonder they could sleep, commercial interest, that everything combines to '»f ill legitimate business is ample, in our Invne- 1 to silence-tile ground upon which the "Indian ; But now, what of us who wear their mantles? ’ >ii of country advancing has been 11 r*e- warrior wooed his dusky mate, and the wild fox ! wo are born at high pressure, and night work L Several re v.wms combine for this, dug his hole unseated." lie would find (Joluui- 1 makes us old before age can make us gray. VVe disposed to be more cautious and dis- bus metamorphosed fYom a trading post to a have hitched steam and lightning to our pencils, us over a broader and more diversified metropolis, and filled with sights and sounds. We have tied the ears of two continents together Fifty years ago! What a dive into Lethe that , . .. . How many eventful lives are spanned fYom | others They did know the truth and the truth and progress, we could give the figures, but sta- birth to obituary by the finger-tips of that half, nia e * ree * wore no raan s nor no tistics are not worth much to the banks where a ; century of gloom and glory. And yet what a 1 monopo st s co ar, an woe o e apos eo constant change is going on. The bank officer span it is after all; for “A thousand years in Thy relies more upon his knowledge of men and j sight are but as yesterday." If ft citizen of Co- things than upon statistical facts, and this re- | lumbus who died fitly years ago could burst the 1 bini to powder. employed slow agencies ; crookedness who come between the upper and I nether millstone of their wrath, for they ground Those were slow time*, and they The daily paper was at diate 1 make a city prosper and grow, but when it comes I to substantiating such statements by undisputa- ble proof, it is quite another thing. It is a habit the Enquirer-Sun has got of not saying any thing about Columbus that it cannot prove. 1 K P rtct * Re: There is 110 sense in making a statemet just for , blarney, and when we say that Columbus is in a healthful condition, we mean every word of it. To start Value •onditim ), here a ASS'* is 1 estate i dm market Wharf . Two bridges Market meat and Public buildings 1 chamber, school maira/ine Stock in Mobile ( oinp.tny. prof ri Stork in (ias Light c*it\ limits the city siir- lie put on the vegetable. ngme houses, eon lieil houses, hospital' and tml Girard Railroad flo.floo tf.(iO') 00,00(1 12.000 Hi. 000 122.000 late is the principal security offered cotton factors and they hold, as a roe*, ns bland as «hey are able or willing to carry, sense of security has been disturb * 1 and iv «mall causes combine to lead to a stagna- i*.j business. Strikes and things of that v.e er are onlcunU-d to have a bad inline ce. se facts conduce to make an entire cli inge , 1 tncante-bellu'n system of bankinga.i 1 there c.»miir.m! change going on in the new eh would he, to him, as inexplicable ns they with an electric thread and our items are very weavers’ shuttles which have the ocean for their These reflections were forced upon the mind of ! loom. We are magicians who spread a member of the Enijvuikh-Sun staff yesterday in looking over a copy of the Columbus Enqufrkr dated JULY 10TH, 1836. It reads like a papt r from another world. And indeed with most of us it is nearer to another Tills OOSSIP OP THE WOULD on men’s breakfast tables that we may partake of their bread. Men may come and men may go. but the ceaseless treadmill of cur work goes on forever. We turn night into day, and sleep at odd hours to give us strength to *rl<l than it is backward through fifty years of work, instead of working to give us zest for sle that iched, hoxxe .'or, that the world •n such cheap money as we lm\e reached a safety ers at the low rate have hypothecate, or unques- *n t. lumbus. like the average citizen of the cbv, is not rich, hut $7.3i'6.fl75 shows that the city is in tolerably comfortable means, so to speak. One thing, the city does not owe more than she is willing, able and anxious t<» pay. Here is the TOTAL BONDED DEBT : 1 talk nig with th.* banker orally lias :iev< r seen sue! ’. This argues th it that the lx>rro etliing of value ti '•d guarantee of p** >mpt payi iKDUGIl MIDLAND l\l» (it LE MEM*. Prtbl Off -III* Settle lire *11111 of Mom*) lie General Contractor Ml Hi tin* Cent racers . Lilli Tills Dili I'nt 1 Circulation Here 'Uhe •d for the x f, r 3.| 3.I t, r. ^5 r 7 “ ~ r j J "2 2 £ 2 = If £ ' -3 |’2 ='r % I r ~ /) 9 ? z T r. Amount Outstanding. 1 5 5 1.1 Denomination. ?. =- ^ When Issued. ztr ~ > I ( ; 20),000 ci This puts ide r cummin has been awarded this week, contract ties f.ir the entire line. It is quite the* thing in high-toned railroad par lance to call cross-ties "sleepers." "It is quite English, you know." Hut the Midland folks call time*. The paper is yellow, it being as creamy n<*w with age as it then was with news. The an nouncements and advertisements have lost the sup of their meaning by the* changes the years huu* wrei.ght and they fall on the* ear like moldy disputed of death. But they possess a charm for the anti quarian belore* which the* fresh and flippant news of to-day trembles and melts away. For the reader to even approximate an appreciation of tin* changes since this paper was printed, it is necessary to remind him that since then the en tire* force of the paper, editor and office boy, print ers and pressmen, all have passed away into a goodly land where column rules are* never re versed ; where bores never bother, and where* de linquent subscribers are never hunted and chased by the paper’s collector; for it is the abode* of the just and they cannot enter there. It is necessary too TO RK.MIND THE R HAD Eli For this the world gives us little of its lucre, and less of its thanks. Those lew of u- - who grow rich, »lo it not by the grace of the world, hut in spite of it. We earn our money. The sweat- damped eagles on our dollars are the "Lighten- Ashen republic gales that sing us to sleep.’’ Many of the bright est of our craft go pinched and poor through one generation to have monuments built over us in the next. We ask them for bread, and they give us a stone. % mi: nam: rovnxiFN MEEK. ANOTHER ;s-tii ano Tlicir (hi In our advertising Messrs, r. p Gray Ar ( men of this city, make an inte of facts that the ladies would d. morning lire bonded. 'ol limits th the popular dry goods ting statement ell to carefully read. This enterpilsing firm is too well-known to need any vouchers as to the truth of their statement. They are in Columbus to stay, aim in order to make their stay profitable they must sell goods. All they ask is a fair trial, and they say they will make the trial a profitable one t<> the patron. Read the advertisement. Minstrels Next Tliursdiij Mirlit. Tlu* celebrated kings of minstrel comedy. Johnson. Coleman and McGough’s gigantic mas todon minstrels, will appear at Springer opera house next Thursday night. The troupe is com posed of colored ameteur talent, and lias forty in the first part, six song and dance artists, ten comedians and eight vocalists. One of the most prominent features will he "Editor" Harris in his side-splitting oration entitled "The prohibi- bition craze." General admission will he 2.7 Cents, reserved seats 35 and gallery 15 cents. Death of Mr. K. M. ( nllimin. Mr. R M. Calhoun died at 10 o’clock la-t night at the residence of Mr. Frank Jepson. whole he boarded. He was a native of Ninety-Six, \bbe- ville county. South Carolina, and was 33 years of age. He had no family and came to this city six years ago and has over since been connected with the marble works of Mr. A M. Rlledgt . lie was a quiet and unostentntions man. and pos sessed many virtues, which endeared him to his friends, who will be pained by the announcement of his death. Mr. Call) »utt was distantly iclated to John (’ Calhoun. He was a member of Mount Hermon lodge and will be* buried with Masonic honors at '(o’clock this afternoon ■' ! Interest Payable. Principal PayahJ = ( When Payab! 1 it will thus be seel) that the total bonded debt of the city, at this date, is #511.700, and this amount is gradually being reduced by the put- chase of bonds. Since tin* first of .January the city treaMiier has paid $3500 of the 5 percent, bonds and is anxious to take $20,000 more at par. F.iglitceu months ago these 5 per cent, bonds sold at sound six months ago they could be bought at 00, but before the J11 iy coupons were clipped they •tore in di maud at i-Xh The interest for the past , largely facilitating communication six months js being paid as fast as the coupon- are {'resented, and even with these coupons off. the 5 per cents, are readily taken at par, as any who will take them to the city treasurer will find <mt. The city OWFS NO FLOAT I NO DEJ1T. and in a few year- the* reduction of the debt will the policy of the city council is of the bonds as the revenue of nit. The funding of the old 7 ■cut. bonds i'i new ones bearing 5 per cent, in- t. lias worked advantageously both to the city with responsible people. Tha* is of mure gen uine interest than the name they go by. The progressive profile shows the grading from the ninth to tweuty-i iiith mile as nearly com pleted. Most of it quite so. There is about three mile. - of the first nine not yet graded, but the force will be increased on this work promptly, and it will soon be cleaned up. Then the directors can announce "grading on the first twenty mile** is completed anil ready for bridges and trestles." That will mean the first notes of Columbus subscribers arc due. j And those notes will he paid -completely an swering the query of the capitalists. "Will the subscription notes be paid promptly?" Chief Engineer Greene has just returned from a trip over the work up to the t unnel. He reports that notwithstanding the unprecedented rains good progress lias been made. The Chattahoochee Brick Company will move oik* or move of their camps this week covering, mi a very few days, all the work not yet graded up to the tunnel. i The tunnel contractors art getting along well. ! They are working in sandstone, which will make a most perfect ballast for the railroad. Th© sup ply of it is inexhaustible, and the Midland is par ticularly favored in having such ballast immedi ately on its line of road. A contract has been made for forty miles of telegraph wires, to be put up just as soon as the wire reaches here. It is now on the way. Mr. John Baxley, the contractor, promises to do the work in ten days. For the present telephones will be used in this line, and there will be about five of them. These will connect with the main contractors and the resident engineers’ headquarters, tact is that way, and that when the paper was printed the spots upon j Vilen’s Grand ( tearing Oil! Sale to Iiiis( One More Week. DRIVES In Millinery. Hats at half price. Flowers at hal price. Trimmings of all sorts at regular slaugh tering prices. SHIRTS. Best Shirt, unlaundried, at 75c, worth $1 every where. Shirts, best goods, beautift;! piated bosoms at $1. worth $1 50 everywhere. Gents’ Socks, Scarfs, Ties, Handkerchiefs. Sus penders. TRUNKS At 75c, fl, $2, $3, $5 to $20. DRESS GOODS. Woolen Dress Goods half price to close out. Bargains in White Goods. RIBBONS. | Large stock -correct prices. ! Corsets, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Buttons, Col lars, Fischus. j Table Oil Cloths at 25c. shoes. oousiif 11 mein from One bank to another, and was > Men ’ s ami Boys'Button. Bala and Congress in a trunk which was stolen from the rear of the I * 3 '..."' nrth at A,lcn ’ 8 - Ladics “ nd stage by cutting the straps that held it on. Think of such primitive met hods of transporting money. Further down the same column are printed TWO RIVAL TICKETS for mayor and aldermen of Columbus. The first ticket reads thus: “ For mayor. J. S. Calhoun; 1 for aldermen. E. S. Norton, 1. W. Hillard, F. G. I Gordon, S. R. Andrews, Thos. Preston, T. C. j Evans.” The second ticket reads: " For mayor, J which the Perry house now stand were the two 1 1 best fishing ponds in Muscogee county. These magnificent hills and valleys about Columbus, : with homes set like jewels on their green and ! peaceful breasts, were unshorn of their under growth and untraversed save by the paths and j feet of the early settler, the Indian and the trader. In view of the difterence in the topography of ■ Columbus then and now, the following strange ; advertisement is not so strange, after all: “To Hire.— For the present year a likely negro j man, wlu» is an excellent carpenter. Apply to ”W. L. JETKR.” In another column is a news item stating that one week previous the stage between Lynchburg j and Richmond, Virginia, had been robbed of j twenty-six thousand dollars. The money was a Children’s Shoes. Gigantic drive for spot cash. Give us a call. We’ll save you money. Every department full of ! bargains. ood Goods and fair dealing is our motto. Allen Bros., 1012 Broad t.. Second Door North ol Rankin House. Suit* to Moasun*. Why do you delay placing your order for a cool, light weight, perfect fitting garment, when Chancellor, at 1135 Broad street, is offering Piece Goods at prices that staitle the purchaser, dwtf J110. F«*ntaine ; for aldermen. Col. 1. A. Few, mf terwaids president of Emory coliege and a cele brated divine-, Thomas Preston. S, It. Andrews, G. W. Dillard, Thos. Hoxey \V. T. Colquitt,” (afterwards United States sen- I For lt**n(. ator. and father of Governor Colquitt..1 On the I From October 1st the three upper floors and second page it is announced that Senator John part of basement of Rooney building. C. Calhoun has just introduced "a bill for the ' jyll dtf Jas. a. Lewis. iiore rapid, a etirr a< man\ city will pci V ■ mil. and lilt* bomlholdt.-. 1 aided to pay the interest and 1 reduce the principal in sunn* having to resort to oppress bondholder has heeu benefit bond of undoubted security, principal and interest of whi< beyond all doubt. The m bonds has nWo advanced m< since tin* exchange and tlu* 7 there are $36,800 outstanding itv the JellK II ! left ye^terda;* re tbev will -pend s father, that h Ilamiltn Dr. Jno. Dr. D. C. Ticknoraud Mr, leave this morning for the \ Judge Mark B'.audO-d Warm Springs yesterdax. Mr. and Mrs. W. L, o’Ne; noon for Marvyu, Ala.. \vh •some time with Mr. O'Neal' O’Neal. He receiv seriously ill. Judge W. I. Hud city yesterday. Miss Mamie Hartmann no.’.: yesterday. Mrs. Irby Hudson, of Florida with her family vesurdav. Sh summer in Harris c uni’/. Miss Mattie Estes it t urned fr terdny. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Clark ai left yesterday for northern and Messrs. T. J. Pearce and A. from Buena Vista yesterday they had been as delegates to trict conference. They report meeting and a large attendance. Mr. George \Y. Dillingham i day at Juniper. He will return morrow. Hon. John l’eahody went up to Warm Springs yesterday to visit Mrs. Peabody, who is spending some time at this delightful resort. Mrs. Eugene Cranberry, daughter and son. have gone to the country for a few days recrea tion. Mrs. Hackney and her two accomplished daughters, and Miss Carrie Douglas.went up the - 113 1 the della x hi.1*. - dm •Apitansts a red m tlu* low in progri the s:\tiflac t aided debt of the city, *e . flow taxes in the ft i'liipare favorabi; ,/t in the union. Tile c urties have paid in tiieii lie adx autage - >f the lib** n-i that the sales of the < ivas thereby en tile same time degree, without taxation. The 1 by receiving a payment of tlu* at maturity, is *t value of tlu* luii! if pet cent, cent- of which now worth 112 onent and The great with these parties and the head office of the com. panv. This line will prove a great.convenience*. It xvill also connect directly with the entire telephone exchange in the city. Col. F. P. Dickinson, general contractor, ar rived in the city last night. Several cars of spikes and other material for the superstructure are enroute. Track-laving begins in August and xvill be pushed as rapidly as possible. Tlu rains may be a blessing in disguise. Cer tainly tluy ought to make a well settled road bed. The first connection with tlu side tr.wks of the which the rails and i be made just south I line of tin* S.uilh- ■isc.'t ion of Fifteenth II arrangements have Soulhxxestern railroad crosstie.s xvill be receiv: of Thirteenth street. The crossing of the xvestern xvill be near tl street and Tenth avetu been made tor this. Train loads of bridge and trestle timbers have been coming in. The Lindsey creek trestle, the first one going out of the city, is well under xvav. It will soon he up. Messrs. Hooien. and Brook Son, the contrac tors 111 Pike county, are now husil *• at xvc-rk on their respective contracts. When the grading 1 the first nine miles is completed there laidv bf about thirty n '' Mar k -, stmem „t ll)v ij m i K .,i miles of the unpa th any cit y of app sped xve •xinnite km- 011st ruction th. Work began ab. ,ny of course, at first. This »g:v.ss during the wettest here. I (M AI. I. ICONIC*. ad gin as organized C’lt v id three children ea-tern cities. S. llough returiu-i evening, whither the Methodist di>- t an iuteiesting is rusticating to- the city ti»- at enables it to meet all dt rj.lus for taking up the bon e advantage of all other ci tlu* t ixxs of the state the c debt xvitb.out a special act nit r this same special act o Columbus and Rome yesterday of Judge Biggers. Mrs. Wiley Williams left vest Ala., to xisit her parents. Miss Berry and Miss Arnold have been xisiting Mrs. Eberhart. returned home vesterdav. Col. P. P. Dickinson, the Georg; tractor, returned from New V- rk 1 Mrs. John Bivins left for stone . terday to spend the summer. -it the family >f Nexvuun, \x ho t. in Wynnten. mauiN uni have a Is. C duinbus has tie- in the fact that tx cannot increase of the legislature, the legislature the ■ ity commons are placed in the hands of a strong • md {(iu-idit board of commissioners*, who are > lthnrized to dispose of the c-'inmons. The sale • >fcommons legs must be made at public outcry. s( that all the citizens may hare unequal op- port unity of securing this valuable property. C)iu*-fi(iirtb. of the proceeds is to go to the public school fund and three-fourths to the payment of the public debt. This gives bondholders the as surance that tlu* interest will be promptly paid and that taxation xvill not be onerous, thus as suring a healthful condition of our finances. In tlii- connection VIN (1 CITV demands made upon it fe refer xvith OCR (. "t entirely met r pr ixx ing sc ho* P“P' much juuk have much gn.*nn«l ] tl.e best in the state ti<dis are n< -t suffici*. grand -chool sys for s-> di ing, as But that our there are n and xve pvrhapa umiuoda- Tin* wedding bells will ring this week. -Rev. Walker Lewis will preae! at St. Paul this morning and at St. Luke to-night. At tlu* First Baptist (.’hlire’ll this nn ruing the pastor's subject xvill be’ Babel Builxlcvs.” and at night Why Not Say Yes?” -The Athletic club i> preparing for its anniver sary eelebrarion, the date of which has not been definitely settled upon. -1’he Amateurs of Mobile xvill plax the t’oluin- bus Amateurs a series of three games iu this city next week. The bicycle tournament begins on nextThurs- . day and xxnll continue three days. Over 100 visit ing wheelmen are expected, and the local bicyclists arc making extensive preparations for the occasion. -The incessant rains are causing >01111* of the ! farmers to abandon their bottom lands. In some . places the grass is higher than tlu corn and cotton. | —Mr. Charles Meyer, the handsome ticket 1 agent at the Union Depot, is taking a short ; respite from his arduous duties. In his absence i Mr. George Briggs is selling tickets. —Indications for Georgia and Alabama : Local ruins, stationary temperature, vurhilne winds, generally southerly. distribution of.the surplus which may remain in the treasury at the end of the uext year.” Mr. Cal houn avowed his willingness to withdraw the bill, provided a reduction of the duties could be effected, with the consent of all the great inter ests of the country. A clipping from the Mobile Chronicle states that Philander It. Broad has been sentenced in the federal court to he hung 011 the first Friday of the month following the month of publication. The following marriage notice appears, and if the happy couple xvere noxv living they xvould have celebrated their golden wedding: “On Thursday evening last by the Rev. Benjamin Bussey, Dr. James Me Lester to Miss Lucinda C. Woolridge, all of Muscogee county. But the MOST INTERESTING AltTK I E of all is a clipping taken from the “London John Bull.” It is a xv ell xvritten article containing a prophecy iu regard to Martin VanBurcu, which was afterward fulfilled. Butxvithal.it is a most spiteful fling at the then administration of our government. It read thus. “Were Gen. Jackson fifty or sixty years of age instead « f being as lie is. more than seventy, xve should have the French game played over on American soil—that of Na- polian Bonaparte. Andrew Jackson has all the* ambition of Napoleon, and nothing pleases him more than 10 be railed the Bonaparte of America. However, he is too old to ape his prototype much longer, and the next best thing to a perpetuation of his own supremacy'and despotism is that «.f securing the election of his creature. Martin Van- Huren. If the United States shall hold together long enough this man xvill be president.” In those days prohibition was evidently un- thought of in Columbus, for the firm of Allen A: Young advertise that they have just received >cventy-five barrels of "old rectified’’ whisky, fifty barrels of rum, fifty barrels of gin, and fifty’ barrels of brandy. What a midsummer Christmas they must have had in Columbus that year! In the advertising columns Mr. John E. Davis states that he has just opened on the corner of Broad and Randolph streets a "general assort ment of French, British and domestic* dry goods." In one corner of this old paper xvas FOl’ND A JOKE xx’hich is to-day going the rounds of the Georgia and Alabama press. Yes. here is tlu* birth place in Columbus fifty years ago. Instead of burying it rever. j ontly beside the bones of its contemporaries,who 1 l>o Not Fail to attend the large auction sale of fresh gro ceries, can goods, piece goods. clothing, etc., in front of the auction house of F. M. Knoxvles A Co., corner of Broad and Tenth streets, next Tuesday, the 13th. commencing at 10 o’clock. The sale will be continued, if necessary, from day to day until the whole stock is disposed of. J. G. Burr us, Adni’r of estate of lb McArdle, deceased Worth Vo nr Time To investigate the* close prices A. C. Chancellor i> making on Suits to measure. He has about forty Choice Suitings left and xvill dose them at prices to suit the purchaser. dwtf Friendship Lo«lg<* No. 2*2. Knight* him! of Honor. Regular meeting to-morrow - Monday, evening at 7:30 o’clock. By order of Protector. 2d\lth in on M. M. Moore. S-c’y. Yloliair* iinif Socilians Will go this week at prices that xvill make an im pression. It is your fault if you dr. not keep cool. A. C. Chancellor is making preparations for large winter purchases and must close all summer good-; at once. dwtf Hrowni’villi* Street Tux Notice. After the 15th inst. all delinquents will be re- (juired to pay a fee of fifty cents. s. M. Tngersoli.. Clerk and Treasurer. IOO Straw Hats. Will go this week at a big sacrifice. They arc choice styles and fin goods. A. C. Chancellor’s policy i« not to carry-goods from one season tx the next, but sell them for cash and put the money In new goods. dwtf Mimonlt* Nolle©. I Called coimiiuniciitlon of Mount Hermon Lodg 1 No. 301, F. and A. M.. xvill be held thin afternoon ut 3:30 o’clock for the purpose of attending th»> funeral of Brat her K. M. (’allioun. 1 All Masons in good standing are invited to | attend xvith us. By order of the W. M. J no. (’. Cook, Hec’y. | Miisroui'i* ffiifiiul liOiin AsNiM'infion. I The llth installment to this Association is due and payable on Wednesday, the 14th instant, at. | the office of D. F. Willcox. Money xvill bo Hold it. j 7:T5 p. m. J. 8. Willcox, jyll 2t Treasurer. Iloiirtl of Control. Members and officers of the ColuinbuH Board of Control, attend regular meeting Monday night at 8:30 o’clock. Frank C. Reich, Sec’y. H'AlltHl. An honest boy with good references as clerk in a grocery store. Rothschild Bros., Foot of Rose Hill. FnrnlMlKMl Kooiiin. Pleasant Front Rooms, with or without beard. Mrs. T. Burnham, 320 Eighth street. Emilio E. Cavaleri is going to make Bicycle Ice Cream Cakes, and any lady or gent that will j taste one will say that Cavaleri understands the ! making of Ice Cream. Jyll d3t Stick Wood. j We sell choice Oak. Hickory and Pine Wood in j stick as well as in block and split. Also Coal for | summer delivery. T. S. Fontaine &Co. ! jyfl tu&se j Emilio E. Cavaleri is going to make a big star of Ice Cream to he presented to tlie champion I bicycle rider. jyll d.3t — W’il.wouin.— , Dr. J. E. Gillespie, at n*v office or Carter’s drug , store, will take any orders for Magnetic Appli ances during my vacation. | jyfl tu wed se Carlii.se Terry, M. I). ' Fsesh Parched Peanuts ut Bartow Reed’s iVa- _ nut Stand. 1 parch every day. I will sav to the ladies please send your little children to me and 1 will take them all in. I am at T. M. Foley’s cor ner. Bartow Reed. A Groat Itnrgain Is offered in ueuily new four room House, xvith comfortable out house in yard. Water works in house. No. 702 Second avenue, within 100 feet of street car line. Yonge it Grimes. jv I se x\ ed se Series ('. ( ol 11 mIhis Miitmtl Loan As sociation. 'flic* books of this Association will be kept open until July 20th inst. Those wishing to subscribe can leave their names and pay their installments at the office of D F. Willcox. I). E. Williams, jv3 cod 1 xv Sec’y and Trea- ’r. House tor Sale. A live-room house on lower Oglethorpe street— one-fourth acre lot, stables and water xvorks, at reasonable prices and easy terms. Apply to J. H. Gabriel & Co. Also a Milk Cow and Calf for sale cheap. jel3 se tf For 30 Days W ill Sell : Barrel Pickles, per quart 15c; Thurher’s No. 31 Coffee, P> lbs for $1 00: Pickle Spice (for pickling) 35c per lb; Apalachicola Oysters, 1 lb cans, per dozen $100; No. 3 Mackerel. 10 3b kits 50c; No. 3 Mackerel, 15 lb kits 60c; London Layer Raisins, *4 boxesflOc: Damson Plums, 2 ’.beans UK*.; Rasp berries, 2 lb cans 12c: Goosebeu ic*. 2 lb cans 10c; Pears, 2 lb cans 15c: Blackberries. 2 lb cans 10c; Strawberries, 2 lb cans l?.c; Pineapple, 2 lb cuns 10c: Boneless Pigs’ Feet. 2 lb cans 15c; Lobsters, 2 lb cans 15c : Tapioca and Sago, per lb 6c; Dur- kee’s Salad Dressing, 27' .,e; Olive Oil. per bottle 25c: Mince meat. 5 lb buckets flue . Beef Tongues, per lb 12Le; Rountree's Breakfast l lb cans) Chocolate 30c: Lea & Perrins’ Sauce, pints l5o, ’ , pints 25c; Durkee’s Bird Seed. 2 lbs for 17c; Queen Olives, quarts 35c. pints 20c; Pickles • pints', per dozen |120: Seedless Raisins, per IblTKc. Hi uk A Starke. jy6 tu&se D. F. Willcox, Agent Tmelerri Insurance Co. Dear Sir—A few years ago you induced me to take out an Accident Policy in the Travelers, and upon your persuasion I have kept it up year by year, not at all anticipating the possible benefit to accrue. But I have now to thank you for it, a* well as for the Company’s check of $353.57 in payment of my claim for many weeks of disabil ity, the result of a very painful accident, threat ening the loss of my right hand. After this ex perience of how it is “the unexpected xvhich al - xvays happens." ( shall certainly keep up my Occident Policy, and I shall not forget the- promptness of the Company in paying my claim ttB soon as the amount could hi* ascertained. Yours truly. c. jv. IIochs»trabser, (,tf ’ IKK) Broad St. One Iron Sale, Apph to For Sab*. "Hull’s Patent" combination F. C. Weisioku. Fontaine Warehouse. 'Vntci* Kents. ater rents fc«r the thiu! quarter of this yeai are due and payable at the "fficeof the Company, bx) Broad street - up stairs . A bscount five per cent null be allowed if paid be'ore the loth of July, and if not paid by tin lath the water will bo cut off. jyl lot Scnlit/and Anhmser Bottle Beer on icc, Lon don stout and McKvvan’s Sparkling Ale by the dozen. Rout. S. Crane dtf Fine < iun rs. Any *.f the following arc worthy of especial mention, and can recommend them as possessing all the* elements of fine quality and such as will give satisfaction to the smoker : Garrett’s No. 11, Pickwick. One Hu ml fed Per (but.. Our Firm and Conqueror. For sale at Crane’s Corner. dtf I He-No Tea. the kind the Chinese drink, is put up 1 1* »i»d 1 pound packages at 7oc. per pound. dlf R. S. Crane. Cram- xvill sell three cakes best Toilet Soap for 25c, (die dozen Honey and Glycerine Bouquet for flue.; abo, Laun lrv and Washing Crystals, Pear- lim-. etc. (|1J . I Goto Adams A’ Boxxers' Ice C’ream Saloon and be refreshed with soiiu of their delicious Cream. I.OMt. Even- year by farmers and gardeners, time and money, by not buying their Turnip Seed fresh and true to name, of M. D. Hood & Co. jyll xt3t se tu tli&xv2t Before Leaving Hie City dunk. dtf Teas. <M young Hyson Gunpowder and Imperial cop Formosa. Oolong and He-No Tea, pur all adulteration—kind the Chines Rorert S. Crane no- Du tom! I'm*. •suited free of charge by t*en the hour's of 2 and 6 - fro :h ■ 1 the f.ic-t that ( : has done and is do car there are appli- must be refused, ug great things for Dr. Bullard can he those unable to pay ! on Thursdays. Cateracts and plerggisnis removed eyes hiraigbtcticd without, pain. originated and enjoyed it, the country editors of Call at A. C. Chancellor’s and purchase a nice Georgia and Alabama keep the decrepid and toothless creatine galvanized with their own im- ; pudence and compel it mouth after mouth and week after xx’eek to drug its weather-beaten ear- ! cass athwart In their columns. Here is the joke: I "A negro xvent with his sweetheart Dinah to a I magistrate and asked the cost of getting married. | He xvas told txvo dollars. He asked, ‘xvhat you I charge to marry white folks’!' He was told five doi- l lars. He said, ‘Well, marry us like white folks | and I’ll pay de five dollars.’ The ceremony being over, the magistrate asked for bis fee. The , negro answered, *Oh, nu, muster; you aint come up to de 'greement. You aint kissed de bride.’ , He was kicked out of the office, but got married for nothing." If xve can persuade our brethren to give their dead joke a decent interment and an everlasting • rest, these researches into tlie past xvill not have been in vain. Peace to :t>aslies. In closing this sketch-peep into the long ago. , Silk Umbrella, Satchel, Trunk. Duster and Suit of Clothes. You may depend he will sell them close for the cash. dwtf Fonnd. The pluce where farmers and gardeners can buy their Turnip Seed fresh and true to name. M. D. Hood & Co. Call and be convinced. jyll d3t se tu th&xv2t "Hough's IliisinoNs School.*’ Persons desiring a business education should at once enter Hough's Business School at the Perry house. After this month rates of tuition will be advanced. Morning class from 8 a. m. to 12 m. Night cl as? from 8 to 10 p. 111 Student- can enter at any time. !>r. S«*th X. .torifoif Has returned home and will resume practice nt once. For Knit. Store House No. 60, on west side of Broad street formerly occupied by James E. Cargill as a dry goods store. Possession given immediately. jylH tf Apply to Louis F. Garrard. WrIVcIhc Eyesight. | Parties having defective Eyes are invited to call and have them examined by the Opthalma- sopic test free of charge, and if Spectacles can be j benefit they they will be fitted at moderate l )r ‘ ce ’ J- H. Bramhall, Watchmaker. Jeweler aud Optician. New number, 1117 Broad street 1 west side). Old number. 103 Broad street t west side) Co lumbus. Ga. leb21t! A fresh lot of choice Barrel Pickles and Yankee Beans just received at Robert Justice’s. Agent. Our Ice Cream is the best in town, andwai- Ada.ms A* Bowers,.