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Enquirkr-Bun.
It is easier to got n divorce tliuii it is to
get a drink of whisky in Maine. Maine
is a republican state and they marry like
they vote—early and often.
CoNCtimss should not forget Salt river
when making out the pro ratas in the
river and harbor hill. A great many
mem here of this congress will navigate
that stream during the fall elections.
Black .Jack Logan still smiles ns he
contemplates the corpse of John Sher
man’s presidential boom. Black evi
dently thinks he did il with his little
jawbone, hut it was dead all the time.
Nortiiwkst Texas lias been blistered
by a drought for many months. The
crops have failed and the citizens are
about out, of everything but ammunition
and ropes. When these give out the
government ought to relieve the suffer
ing. His claimed that the people in one
neighborhood recently ate a team of
mules. The driver is supposed to have
escaped.
Mas. John W. Mai Kay’s social prestige
in England lias been established at last.
The Prince of Wales attended her recent
magnificent fete. If the prince had to
depend on his moral character instead of
his pedigree for his social standing, he
wouldn’t he allowed to sleep on the back
steps of the meanest collier’s cabin in
England, lie may improve his position,
high as it is, but he can never improve
his nature, lie may he king someday,
hut lie will he a worn out roue still.
STATE IIANKS.
Wit h the ascendency of the democratic
party came the removal of personalism
and prejudice from our politics. Cleve
land’s administration meant t Vie death of
all those gloomy forebodings, which
many really honest men in the north
held would he the result of a change in
tin* dominant party. Vital, earnest
questions enter in the politics of this day
ami hour—questions which all'cct all
sections of our common country alike,
and must lie solved bv the whole people.
Labor, taxation and linauce arc these
issues. Complex and grave are all these
questions, hut none more so than
the great, unsolved question of the char
acter and Iquantity of our money and
the tokens to be used to express
it. A congress fresh from llie
people lias in no unmistakable
way said that silver must stand as
one of the coined precious metals of this
country. Its quality as money must re
main unimpaired. The people, left to
their own selection, want for daily uses
neither silver nor gold as a medium of
exchange. They desire and should have
some token based on a tangible security
and redeemable in constitutional coin of
the realm.
As evidence of the fact that paper
money is what the people want and
handle, it is shown by the official reports
of the receipts of customs in New York
that, hot withstanding the law that “coin
only shall be received for custom dues,”
over SI per cent of the June receipts were
in greenbacks and ttt per cent, in paper
money. Again our bonds are payable in
“coin,” and yet of the lil'ty millions of
111 roe per cents. pai4 oil' since
January 1st, over 7o per cent, of
them were paid in paper
money; because the holders preferred
paper. As a war measure and to force
the purchase of United States govern
ment bonds Salmon 1’. Chase conceived
and inaugurated the national bank sys
tem of this country. It is true that to
day it is free to any one to start such a
hank and issue under the law t)0 per cent,
of the deposited face value of bonds in
national bank notes. But is no longer
profitable to do this, owing to high price
of government bonds and the fact that
they are being rapidly paid oil', and the
issue of national bank notes has been in
the last few years contracted over eighty
millions of dollars.
The treasury surplus resolution, now
passed by the house and agreed to by the
senate committee, will make bond calls
A lie more rapid and further reduce the
national currency. The limit by law to
greenback legal tender is $310,000,000.
The national hanking system is the most
non-elastic prohibited by law from lend
ing on the best collateral known, real
estate. The national hanks oiler no re
lief to land owners. So at ruinous rates
I we borrow from foreign corporations yi\
our real estate.
| We have a uniform currency but ut
great cost. Did our readers ever think
, exactly how much the south and west
pays each year on the currency they use?
The hanks are taxed on circulation to
begin with. Then in the fall, when we
: need money to move the trops, a tele
gram is sent to New York for currency.
I The express company gets two dollars a
i thousand for toll. The telegram costs
money, the three days in transit is lost
| in interest. Then, when summer comes,
j the banks send this identical money
back to New York by express to create
exchange. Another express toll is
exacted, and thus annually about a half
per cent, on every dollar is lost to the
people, but they pay it, by this
very rigidity of our hanking
system. The three per cent United
States bonds will soon ho paid off. There
are one hundred and seven millions of
these held by the national hanks upon
which our currency is issued. In lHtil
the four and a half per cents mature.
The banks hold over fifty millions of
these. It is a grave question to supply
all this currency that the paying off these
bonds will take out of circulation. To
give strength to the national currency
mid thus help the government in its
needy days, congress put a tax of ten per
cent on state hank issues. It is now the
time to repeal that act, then the hanks of
this state could issue their own hills based
upon Georgia bonds; and these four and
a half per cent bonds being above par, an
issue of one hundred per cent in cur
rency for each dollar in such bonds
would lie practical and safe.
The semi-annual returns of the state
hanks now just made to the governor
shows these institutions the strongest in
the state. Their capital is ample and well
invested and the people show their con
fidence in them by giving the largest de
posits.
This is not only true of our state banks,
hut it applies in other states. Sound
bunking laws are already in vogue here,
and if congress a ill repeal the proscrip
tive tax of ten per cent, on state bank
circulation, we can supplement our laws
by conservative ones, regulating issue
based on state bonds. In this way the
demand for state bonds will lie enhanced;
interest upon them can he established on
a lower plane, taxation lie reduced and
(he people made richer. Such an issue
does not j>uy tribute in semi-anmuil
trips to and from New York.
It is here when wanted, moves the crops
when needed and our agricultural popu
lation get the benefit In increased prices
for their products and use their lands as
collateral. No valid argument obtains
as to want of security in such banks.
The record of the state bunks of this
statu refute any hucIi argument. A seri
ous truth it is that it requires more pro
ducts of human labor to-day to pay off
the reinailiing portion of tho public debt
than it would have required when that
debt was two billions of dollars. The
purchasing power of money has largely
increased ; the scarcer it gets the lower
goes the products of human labor. So
its basis is sound—tho more .circulating
medium we have the better for the peo
ple who work. No money taken could
ho sounder than a note issued on Georgia
bonds at par. No currency would he
freer of non-elasticity than it..
Nothing would go farther t< -
ward building up this section of coun
try, and for Vtate banks, under propi r
laws, the people are heartily favorable
to. Congress tries to solve this question
by passage of a hill creating small silver
certificates; grave senators suggest a ’Vein
certificate” payable either ill gold or sil
ver. The real solution is far easier tlain
they suppose. Let them repeal the ten
percent, tax clause against state hank hills?
and the people will settle their currency
needs in a manner satisfactory to them
selves and profitable to the country.
Ol K MEXICAN TKOIHI.K.
The following is the latest from the
scene of our threatened Mexican trouble:
Paso ck*l Norte continues full of Mexican
troops. The higher portions of the city are
plainly visible from the American side, and
troops cun be seen busy at something or other
o i the elevation back of the historic old cathe
dral. It is thought that they are throwing up
e n th works. The commander of the Mexican
post is Colonel Unds, who achieved quite a
reputation in the war against Maximilian. In
the few instances where Americans vent ure there
t u*y are scowled at, and often they are summa
rily searched for weapons, and if any are found
they are taken away from them. The feeling
among the Mexican masses is very bitter against
Americans. They are quite defiant, and say it
will be an easy matter for Wieir country to whip
the United states.
They have somehow brought themselves to be
lieve that the tiring of the first gun would be a
signal for the southern states to come to their
assistance to avenge themselves upon the north
ern states. They likewise feel convinced that
England would at once take their part and
blockade the Atlantic and the gulf ports of the
United States. Senor Escapor, the Mexican
consul.at El Paso, says that unless one country
or the other backs down war cannot be averted,
and, he adds, “Mexico will never comply with
the demand that has been made. If it comes to
that, you may be sure Mexico will accept war
first.”
Mexico occupies about the same rela
tions to a civilized government that a
jackass does to a race horse. And Mex
ican officials know about as much of the
diplomatic etiquette and amenities of
cultivated nations ns a digger Indian
does about differential calculus. Taken
individually or collectively the average
Mexican is a cross between
a horse thief and a lunatic.
He is as destitute of principle as an ice
berg is of warmth; and the hare idea of
Ills ever exercising either discretion or
forbearance is simply a huge joke. He
is a mongrel by accident and a murderer
by nature. Hie ; dicy toward the weak
is oppressive. Ilia policy toward the
-trong is flight. Even in the article of
battle itself liiri martial (?,i instincts in
cline him to assault the pockets of the
dead rather than the persons of the liv
ing. The typical Mexican is a chem
ically constructed compound of
bile, bloodthirstiness and deceit.
Rascally grand, hut neither gloomy
nor peculiar, he sits like a ecep-
tered hermit upon the apex of liis own
infamy, wrapt in the solitude of his
dense ignorance of the difference be
tween his own and his neighbor’s goods.
He is lavish in nothing hut meanness,
prolific in nothing hut treachery,
and expert in nothing hut wagging his
jaw and breaking his. word. He is
creation’s cartoon upon honest men. To
sum up, the evil that Mexicans do lives
after them; the good is oil interred with
their bones, without crowding the bones
much either.
And yet such a hybri and hideous
nationality of men as this, inhabitating a
little tropical pumpkin patch, wliict\ i- a
connection rather than a country, be
tween the United States and Central
America and hacked by a Mv hundred
rusty muskets and militiamen, is bid
ding defiance to “the greatest government
the world ever saw.” Oh I for one hour
of Andrew Jackson, with his oaths and
artillery. If this Cutting case had hap
pened during Old Hickory’s administra
tion the prisoner would have been re
leased on demand, or in forty-eight hours !
the town of Paso del Norte would have
been an aslibed and a banquet for vul- i
tures.
We are not disposed to approve of!
harshness and haste in matters of stqje I
involving the possibilities of a war. We l
would rattier counsel conservatism. But i
there is a point at which conservatism
becomes cowardice. Has Secretary Bay
ard reached that point? The Mexicans
appear to think so; and many Americans ;
are of a like • opinion. Editor Cutting
is one man and one oh- i
scare man at that to whom [
tiiis country owes no more than it -does
to any other citizen. Ordinarily it would
be like finding a lynch pin and making a
carriage to tit it, to go to war for one
man’s personal sake. But this is not the
issue. Cutting’s case involves a principle ;
that it is worth a Waterloo to establish.
Secretary Bayard, as the organ of the
government, has demanded Cutting's
unconditional release. The demand
has been received with derision and
treated with non-compliant contempt.
There is no honorable course left now
hut to compel. This is the expressed
sentiment of the press and the people.
Will it be respected ? So far Mr. Cleve
land’s administration lias been an
anomaly of backbone and nerve. It is
to he hoped that its record will not be
spoiled by a milk and water policy to
ward Mexico, with that coun
try entirely in the wrong.
Tiie authorities at Washington have
enough to inspire and spur them to
action. The whole world lias focussed
its eye on Paso del Norte. And the spec
tacle is worth the attention. In the days
of Rome’s palms and screaming eagles, a
citizen imprisoned on the remotest shore
of the known barbaric world, had only to
announce his Roman citizenship and his
appeal to Cic-'ftr, when his shackles
were loosed and his captors shrunk
back in awe. But it was
reserved for us to behold the specta
cle of an American citizen, incarcerated
without cause and bleaching in a bever-
niined cell, from whose window fie can
gaze upon the green shore, and waving
ilujj.nl' his country—a country that has
left him naked to his enemies,
displays in throwing around free of
charge each year columns of advice to
the honest tillers of the soil. It is
j really astounding to pause and
I,‘unsider the growing disposition
j .in the part of congress to make large ap-
| propria.Hons for almost every purpose for
which they are asked. No regard is
given to the fuet that the money comes
out of the pockets of the people after all.
They pay the taxes, whether direct or in-
din I t. and they have to hear the burdens
entailed by such wanton extravagance as
is indulged in by the latter day congress
men. There is in ,uesti utably room for
reioi'in, and the times demand it.
As the Chicago anarchist murder trial goes on
every dr ; 's developmei Is show how inadequate
cur I,result criminal laws are in providing
against these conspiracies. No punishment yet
prt-crihed for such conspiracies, unless they are
exec uted and result in murder, is at all equal to
the malignant and heinous nature of the crime.
Legislatures and congress have got to face this
fact, and it is for the American people to see that
the task is entrusted to another sort of men than
the trimming and tricky demagogues who too
oh en get'into legislative bodies.
The "aspfting terrier” is the far from compli
mentary term applied by the New York Times to
Lord Randolph Churchill referring to that ambi
tious young statesman's efforts to take upon
himself the leadership in British politics.
A newly discovered island has been reported
from the North Pacific ocean, but as it is said to
be covered with trees, it is not likely to lie a new
creation. One would think that tlie Pacific had
been so thoroughly sailed over that there was no
room for such discoveries at this late day, but
this island seems to have been missed in some
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1 T)TIT
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mis week;.*
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The lightning is no respecte v of persons. On
Monday night a bolt struck a dead man who had
just been laid in his coffiu at Ottawa.
This is the season when star actresses are be
ing robbed of diamonds and meeting with hair
breadth escapes. Nothing like advertising.
The “bill” mill at Washington is grinding out
legislation at a rapid rate these days—legislation
good, bad and indifferent. It is the same with
the closing days of a session of congress as it is
with a gre it battle ; it is only after it is all over
that the result can be reckoned up. If one could
project himself into the middle of next week, he
might be able to give some trustworthy statis
tics of the killed, wounded and missing; but
until then all must wait.
Absolute Bargains and Ho Buncomb!
We have just finished taking stock, and find that we still
have thousands of dollar?* - worth of Summer Goods which we
will he compelled to carry over unless they are sold within
the next thirty clays.
We need the money. If yon need the goods now is your
opportunity.
5.0(H) Yards beautiful Summer Prints at 33c ; sold last
week at 6c.
2.500 Yards choice styles Figured Muslin at 7c; last
week's price 10c. ‘
. About $500 worth of Remnants Check Nainsooks, Lawns,
Figured Lawns. Calicoes and Dress Goods, at one-half the
price usually paid. These goods will not last 24 hours. So
don't expect to get them a month hence.
2.500 White Linen Lawns, hist week 10c; this week 11 £c.
About 4<> pieces Figured Lin< n Lawns at 124c; last week
25 cents.
500 Pairs Kid Gloves
'.lit m no OTHIM
Du. B.vrtol says lie would not abolish hell if
he could. The New York Sun tells him that he
has nothing to do with it. Of course not, as the
revisers of the Billie did that sometime ago and
slioel was put in its plane.
Our regular Dollar Glove, odd sizes, 25 cents.
25 Dozen Misses’ full regular made Hose, all colors, 10c,
worth 40c or nothing.
,5.000 Yards yard-wide Sea Island 5 cents.
5.000 Yards undressed Bleached Colton 5 cents.
I Him! Wjp, m
.A.T YOUR OW1T PRICE.
W e shall positively close out this department, if price is
any inducement.
250 Pairs Ladies’ Cloth Gaiters, small sizes, at 50c (for
mer price SI.50), just as long as they last.
Our stock of White Goods is si ill unbroken, It must he
cleared.
Laces and Embroideries—stacks and piles of them. Mon
day is the day to buy them cheap. We are going to clean
them up. Bargains all over the house. Come early and
bring vour friends.
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Nervousness or Nervous Exhaustion. Everybody
knows that a strong, vigorous nervous system is
essential to good health.
MOXIE
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It is perfectly harmless.
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COLUMBUS, GA., July 24, 1886.
W r EST BOUND TRAINS.
No. 1.
Pass’ger.
No. 3.
Accom.
No. 5.
Accom.
No. 9.
Sunday]
Pass’ger.
Leave Columbus Union Depot
Columbus Broad Street Depot
2 30 p m
2 46 p ill
5 37 p m
6 46 p m
8 eO p 111
7 23 p m
10 33 p m
5 45 p m
5 55 p m
8 59 p m
9 30 p m
4 55 a m
5 05 a m
£67 a m
9 18 a m
6 35 a ni
6 45 a m
9 35 a m
9 40 a m
11 10 a m
7 23 p m
Leave Union Springs {
“ Montgomery, M. & E. R. R •
“ Eufaula. M. A E. R. R
12 20 a m
10 33 p m
7 23 p m
10 50 a m
EAST BOUND TRAINS.
No. 2.
Pass ’ger.
No. 4.
Accom.
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No. 10.
Sunday
Pass’ger.
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“ Eufaula. M. A E. R. R
- Trov
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4 20 a m
5 48 a ill
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.Arrive Union Spring?-
Leave Union Sgrings
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“ Columbus
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Train* N«*s. 1 and 2 Mail; daily. Nos. 3 and *1 -Macon and Montgomery Through Freight and
Accommodation/ daily except Sunday. No. 5 and fi (Way Freight and Accommodation) daily ex-
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BOOM FOB HKFOIOI.
It is not known, probably, to tho aver
age reader that congressmen are allowed
twenty cents for mileage for tire round
triii. from their homes to Washington.
The aggregate mileage of members for
each session is about 8112,000, or nearly
u quarter of ti million for each congress.
In these days and times when travel is.
so cheap it is an outrage upon the people’
that such extravagant allowances should
be made. One-fourth of that amount
would he amply sufficient to cover this
item, and congressmen have no right to
receive more than they expend for this
purpose. It probably cost our forefathers
twenty cents a mile for the round trip to
get to Washington, but the facilities for
traveling in those days are not to be com
pared to what they are now.
A resolution lias been introduced in i
the house that each member be paid i
what lie actually disbursed in railroad
fare, but it is hardly probable that it will
receive consideration at this session, j
Members of congress, as a rule, are not in 1
a hurry to take any step that will keep
money out of their own pockets, even ]
though they have no moral right to it. ;
Like charity, reforms should begin at I
home, and congress might convince the
public of its desire to do right by allow
ing to remain in the public treasury each
term nearly 8208,000 in hard cash that is
distributed gratuitously among the mem
bers for a purpose to which it is never ap
plied.
It makes the average citizen doubt that
the words patriotism and statesmanship
have a meaning in these days of modern
politics and legislation, to watch the reck
less manner in which the public treasury
is plundered. An appropriation of ten
million dollars is made with as much
recklessness and indifference to the gene
ral welfare as the average newspaper man
. Jnu
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