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DAILY ENQUIRER : COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SUNDAY" MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1886.
An Animal That Never Was on Sea or
Land.
llow He “CjJeitmMl Up” n Town of People and
Money—A Story of Other Days Which Is Liter*
ally True—How Two Vermonters dot u Sturt in
Life.
About fourteen months ago I was sent on a
three weeks’ tour through Florida to write up
the state for a paper in Charleston. I was thor
oughly familiar with the entire state except
south Florida. I had never been there. And my
instructions were to pay particular attention to
that section. After paying a two days’ visit to
a Methodist minister in middle Florida, against
whom his worst enemy can urge no change of
evil, except that he is responsible for my exist
ence, and consequently indirectly responsible for
a great many things that ought not to be printed,
I packed my valise and sharpened a lead pencil
and set out for the terra incognito, south
Florida. There I found a quondam wilderness
blossoming as a rose. Towns were springing up
with the rapidity of mushrooms and the solid
ness of iron. I never saw the substance and the
evidence of so much money in a new country in
my lifte; though with me, alas! as with all my
profession, it was the substance of things hoped
for and the evidence of things not seen. But the
money was there without mistake. I could al
most hear the dollars rattle as I rode through the
country on the cars. And charge ! Those peo
ple can outcharge the “ light brigade.” When
the proprietor of a hotel in Sanford charged me
forty-live cents for a five cent bottle of ginger ale
that I drank at dinner I kicked, and asked him if
I looked like a bloated bondholder. He said I
looked bloated, but he didn’t think it
was bonds that was the matter with
oao* I paid the bill and then gave
his hotel a free pufT in my letter. My lack of
gall has always made me admire it in others.
Yes, south Florida was booming. One secret of
it—according to my solution—was the fact that
everybody believed in printers’ ink. I never saw
such advertisers as those people are. When they
start a new town, they have a weekly paper filled
with advertisements before they dig a well or
shingle a house. One man I saw down there was
so enthusiastic on the subject of printers’ ink that
he had painted his house with it.
But I am not writing up south Florida now,and
I must hasten on. One night on my return from
south Florida, I stopped all night at the little
town of Bassville, in Baker county, which
is in one of the oldest sections of the
state, between middle and south Qlorida.
Bassville was formerly known as Madrid,and was
settled by the Spaniards more than two hundred
years ago. It has retained its prime features to
this day. The spirit of iconociasm and change
that is tearing up the old towns of Florida like a
destroying angel seems to pass over Bassville as
if its door posts and lintels were sprinkled with
the blood of protection. The little brick hotel
where I stopped was all covered with moss and
lichen. It was once the mansion of an old
Spanish grandee. An agod lady of eighty, the
proprietor’s mother, sat with me on the porch
.behind the ivy covered trellis that evening and
her dim eyes glistened with a light that was
Almost like that of youth as she told me well
authenticated legends of love and
of dar-keyed senoritas and spurred
aud booted chevaliers—
Whose armors are rust
Whose bodies are dust
And whose souls are with the Lord, I trust.”
But bb far back even as fifty years ago no trace of
tbe Spaniards was left save the peculiar archi
tecture of the town, and since then and even
before the native Floridian has had the town for
a local habitation and has given it its name,
Bassville, unpoetic Bassville.
That night in the smoking room of the little
hotel I met the principal men of the village.
There were a half dozen of them—gray-haired,
obese old patriarchs who had come out to the
hotel after supper to escape a scolding wife or to
have the pleasure, like the men of Athens, of
hearing or telling something new. Every
mother's sou of them had a
military title, to which he gravely answered. But
not a man of them heard a cap pop during the
war, and if one of them had a scar on him it
was made by the briars in which he hid from the
yankeos during the war. Bassville hasn’t a
very brilliant war record, but as a consequence it
im* its frill quota of male citizens. The old men
got to spinning reminiscences that night. I was
the first stranger who had stopped in the town
in many days, and I suppose they wanted to en
tertain me. They did it. A lean old man with
blue eyes smiled at me with some twenty-dollar
teeth that relieved the monotony of his counte
nance like an ivory isle in a sea of wrinkles, and
said: ‘‘Ever hear ’bout bow the Guyascutus
men done this town in fifty-three?” “I never
did,” I answered. ‘‘Well, I’ll tell you. (General,
pass me a light over here. This seeguar smokes
like it was built crossways, and it’s got coperas
in it, too. The best seeguar I ever smoked I took
from the body of a dead yankoe officer that I
killed with my bayonet at the battle of Seven
Pines.) Well, now about the Guyascutus. It
was in fifty-three, before railroads and telegraph
was circulatin’ much, and consequently these
fellows was never catcht up with. Two young
fellows in Veraiont—Vermont’s a hard place—
concluded to raise the wind with a Guyascutus
show. They made one grand farewell tour and
they tuck in many a dollar and many a man.
You say ‘why didn’t they come ’round again ?’
Why, man, tliar was two hun
dred little towns south of
Mason’s and Dixon’s line where either one of
them young men w’ould have been hanged if he
had showed up there in ten years after that
grand farewell tour of theirn. I’ll tell you how
they done up Bassville, and it’s a pretty fair
sample of the rest I reckon. One day a dapper
young fellow got off the stage here. He was
traveling by himself. He stopped at this very
hotel. Newt Timmons was keepin’ it then. It
was the year before Newt was killed by climbin’ of
rcom and sot um up incessantly, the bov 8 tuck I
to him kindly and ’lowed every word he said was
so. When he got about four drinks of Ned’s !
‘’Rocky Mountain Honey Dew’ liquor under his
corset, and began to describe the Guyascutus
that was coinin’, his eloquence would have tuck
a whole army by storm. I often wonder what
ever become of that young man. I bet by jueks I
he’s in kongress right now. Bays he in tellin’
'bout the animal: ‘Gentlemen, the man that
misses seein’ the great and only original Guyas
cutus, the only one ever taken, the only one now
in captivity, and the only one for all I know on
the face of the earth, misses the opportunity of a
thousand lifetimes, if each one was ten times as
long as Methuselah’s was. I don’t believe
the animal 1ms a duplicate on earth. I !
think it fell from another planet on a meteor and
survived the fall. It was captured among the
mountains of Asia. It took 400 hundred men, a
company of artillery and fifty bloodhounds to
capture him, and he wouldn’t have been cap
tured then If wc hadn’t made him umonscious
a popular tree arter a coon.
Poor Newt he died
at the post of juty. He was trying to git some
meat ftir his boarders, who was kickin’over the
protracted absence of that article of diet from
the table. We give Newt a regular four-horse
Mineral. Old Parson Gabo Dawkins furnished
the trimmins and ceremony and soforth; and
when old man Gabe got to that part of the
funeral service which says:
‘‘Repentance sought, she may be found,
’Twixt the tree top and the ground,”
the hull crowd broke down with weepin’—partly
fhr sorrow, partly fur satisfaction, for the>
knowed then that Newt was all right. Newt
never run much on Sunday school, but he paid
his debts, and that was considered sufficient in
them days. Old Parson Gabe got seven dollars
in cash and four bushels of corn for preachin
the funeral.”
“What the devil has Newt’s funeral got to do
with the Guyascutus?” said the general, im
patiently. .
“General,” said the old man with the mouthful
of false teeth, reprovingly, “do you know how
the streets of Jerusalem was kept clean? Ef you
don’t I’ll tell ye; it was by every man sweeping in
front of his own door, which is to say tendin to
his own business. Gim’rna ’nuther light. Well,
as I was sayin’, this young man landed in Bass-
ville, and begin to talk up the great
Guyascutus show which was coming. e
could outtalk any youngster ever I see. A Philar
. delphia lawyer would be a dumb brute in his pres-
. «aoe. And as he hung around Ned Riggs’ bar
by spouting about 2000 gallons of chloroform ovei
him with a hose-pipe and nozzle, which were pro
pared and taken along for the occasion. Gentle
men, this Guyascutus is a theatre, circus,
museum, zoological garden, concert, female com
mencement exhibition, brass band, shooting
match, cotton exposition and orphan asylum, all
rolled and melted and moulded into one.’
“That’s the way ho talked, only he done it by
the hour He got this whole town anil surround
ing country excited on the subject. Everywhere
men gathered, at the court house or the church,
and everywhere wojnen met one another, at a
Dorcas society or a quiltin’ or a funeral, the
topic on every tongue was the great
Guyascutus. The young man said*his pard
would be along the next Wednesday night with
the beast, and he hired the big academy to give
the show in. Wednesday night come and sho’
’nuff his pard come with it on the stage. He
never had nothin’ but a 'rip sack, but he give it
out that the Guyascutus was coinin’ on behind
and would appear at the school house on time.
The village was packed with people. I was post
master then, but I didn’t distribute the mail that
night. Nobody wanted any mail. I never see
sich a crowd as was nuined end jammed into
that big academy at a dollar a head. Men that
hadn’t been seen with a dollar in six
months come ard fetcht their wives
and children. Thar was three blind
men thar. They ’lowed ef they couldn’t
see it, it was worth a dollar to hear it roar. One
fellow that had only one eye tried to get into the
show for half price on that ground, but the show
men Towed they charged one-eyed men double
price because it took ’em twice as long to see as
it did anybody else. Anyhow, by 8 o’clock in
the evening you couldn’t have got three more
people into that house if you had fired ’em at the
door from a cannon. The two young showmen
had up a stage curtain, and while the crowd was
gatherin’ you could hear log chains rollin’ and
hear growls that would have curdled the blood
in the veins of Julius Ciesar. About every five
minutes the young man with the slick tongue
would see that the women and children,and men,
too, for that matter, were gittin’ nervious. So he
would come down to the footlights and say : ‘La
dies, I beg you not to be frightened. It is true our
Guyascutus is the most ferocious of living things.
He can hold an elephant under one paw and a
lion under the other, and gnaw off their heads
with alternate bites. If he were to break his
chain and escape to-night not a one of this vast
audience would escape alive. [Startling sensa
tion among the ladies.] But don’t be frightened;
he is chained with log chains and there is no
possibility of his getting loose.’ He made sev
eral speeches like this, and the mingled fear and
excitement of the audienco were intense.
At short intervals the chains rat
tled and the gutteral roars grew
louder aud louder and more angry. Fi
nally, the young man pranced out to make his
last speech before unveiling the awfhl Guyascu-
tas. In the midst of his speech, the roaring and
rattling drowned his voice until he excused him
self to go behind the curtain and quiet the Guy
ascutus. He disappeared behind the curtain, but
the roars grew fiercer and the rattle more terri
ble. It was simply terrific, and the building
shook like a storm was passing ovor. At last,
when the noise was at its heighth the young
man—the slick talker—shot out from behind the
curtain. His shirt front was smeared with what
we took to be blood ; every hair stood on end,
and his eyes bulged out until they hung down on
his cheeks like grapes. He lit into the middle of
the aisle about ten feet from
the stage, and as he lit he
hollered, ‘The Guyascutus is loose ! The Guy
ascutus is loose!’ I never want to be in such a
place and sucli a scene again, The women give
a united scream, and the men a united yell,
while everybody made for the doors and win
dows. People were run over and trampled under
foot, but they got up and took to their heels as if
they had never been hurt. In two seconds the
house was empty and the woods was frill. The
three blind men all got up the same tree, and
there was six pairs of crutches left in the house.
It was 8 o’clock the next morning before every
body crawled out of the woods. By that time it
was too late to overtake the two showmen. They
was gone nobody knew where. They never had
no Guyascutus nor no nothin’ but a carpet bag
full of chains. The fellow behind
the curtain rattled the chains and
done the roaring. There was the
maddest set of people in this settlement for the
next few days I ever saw. It is only a memory
now, for that was thirty-two years ago. But the
folks ain’t forgot it yet. To thisday nigger nurses
scare the children with yarns about the Guyas
cutus. And last Christmas night when old Cap’n
Macadam got drunk and tuck the town of Bass
ville with his Winchester rifle, he kept jumpin’
up and poppin’ his feet together and squallin’
out, “The Guyascutus is loose.” No, they ain’t
all forgot it yet. H. D. H.
The Coining Minstrels.
There has been a large number of reserve seats
sold for the Wilson and Rankin’s minstrels per
formance Tuesday night, and a fine audience
will be present. The Baltimore American says:
“Wilson* aud Rankin are a team that is hard
to beat; in fact, they cannot be excelled. Wilson
is the originator of his clever style of business,
which has been extensively copied by other lead
ing minstrels, and Carl Rankin stands
among the first of his profession. When he
came here as a member of other companies in
past seasons, he always received considerably
more applause than the greater lights with him,
and deservedly so since he is a thorough come
dian. His antics and dialect are peculiarly his
own. and never fail to create laughter. He also
possesses a remarkably good voice, and plays
upon a variety of instruments very acceptably.
The end men, especially Jerry Hart, are much
above the average, and the balance of the
company do well. The feature of the entertain
ment, however, outside of the principals, are the
European novelties, the Poluski Bros, and the
Pavanelas, in their original musical act, in which
they produce music from articles of every kind,
from which most people would think not a note
could be gotten. The house looked much brighter
and prettier with its new decorations and
changes, and the heat was not felt a bit.
The Apache Captives.
About 400 Apache Indians passed through Union
Springs yesterday enroute from St. Louis to Fort
Marion, Fla. We learn that a large number of
people assembled at the depot to see them pass
through.
Price of Sewing Machines reduced to close out
stock on hand. J* H. Bramhall,
1117 Broad Street.
Come early lor choice. dtf
Local Happenings in Brownevilie and
Girard.
The Town of Brownevilie (Julet, But Clearing the
Becks for Business—Carp Browing—Church
Notes and Minor Topics.
The town officials and business men report the
past as one of the most quiet and uneventfril
weeks of the summer. The continued hot and
oppressive weather reminds the inhabitants more
of midsummer than of the “ melancholy days—
the saddest of the year.” But though tfti l people
are looking out for and preparing for the equi
noctial storm, which the almnnacs say may be ex
pected about this time. The merchants have laid
in their fall stocks anil arc clearing the decks for
business, still hoping that something may turn
up to brighten the prospects >• nd cheer the droop
ing spirits. Hope continues as of vore to tell a
flattering tale, and it is well she does, otherwise
people would oftener sink under the wearying
oppressions of life. Altogetner, though news be
scarce, and times hard and money “ tight,” the
people of Brownevilie are comfortable, and slow
ly but Burelj improving their condition from
year to year.
Carp (irowing.
Mr. H. A. Gibson, of Summerville, commenced
carp raising about two years ago. He has two
ponds well stocked, and is now enjoying the
benefits of his venture. The old tiresome and
lying custom of sitting on a slick log half a day
without a nibble is obviated, and it is not neces
sary to chew a half plug of “terbacker” and spit
on his hook every ten minutes to beguile the
finny tribe from their hiding places under the
roots and willows. Gibson says that he and his
little son caught twenty-seven fine carp in • fif
teen minutes, the fish varying in length from six
to ten inches. This is much better “luck” than
many fishermen report, although some fish
stories are regarded as “whoppers.” If this carp
business can cure fishermen of laziness and lying
it will certainly greatly improve the fish busi
ness. Gibson pronounces his carp quite prolific
and of excellent quality, though of this last as
sertion the reporter would be a better judge were
he permitted to tackle a half dozen or so of the
finest. The fish were put in the ponds two years
since, and Mr. G. is well pleased with the experi
ment.
Church Afitiotincemonts.
The pastor will preach at Trinity at the morn
ing service on the subject of “Infant Baptism.”
Rev. Mr. Osborne will preach at night.
At the Girard M. E. church there will be no
service at the morning hour. The pastor will
preach at night.
A New Itonch K.\ to rm I rfa to r>
Mrs. Gill, of Lively, has found out a simple
contrivance for the extermination of roaches,
which she is willing to impart to her
friends and neighbors “free gratis for nothing.”
She lives in the back rooniB attached to Mr.
East's store, where the bugs are unusually plen
tiful. She took a tin pan about three inches
deep, put a little syrup and bread at the bottom,
and the hungry roaches, while prowling at night,
find their way into the pan in search of food.
When once in, the vermin are securely caged,
for they cannot crawl up the smooth edges of
the pan. Duriug the past few nights over a
thousand of these bugs have been caught and
destroyed in this way.
Brownevilie Briefs.
Miss Susie Beeland, who has been seriously
ill, is steadily improving.
For the Knights of Labor cigar—the best in the
market—call at M. T. Lynn’s, in Lively, Ala.J
Sweet potatoes and white and speckled green
peas are flowing in freely.
Col. Devon, the cranky bootblack, says one of
the preachers has promised him $10 a month
next year to travel with and preach for him occa
sionally. This would be better than some of the
preachers are paid.
There was a nice ice cream supper at the resi
dence of Wm. McCollister Friday night. Those
present enjoyed a delightful time.
Cochran’s Jehosephat wood yard is now sell
ing wood already prepared for the stove at $1.50
per load. This is a good idea these hard times.
A Brownevilie youngster while out hunting the
other day killed two of Mr. Somebody’s tame
turkeys which were found some distance from
home in the woods. The case was compromised
by the payment of damages.
The street gang have done some good work the
past week in the way of building and repairing
street bridges.
A subscriber of the Enquirer-Sun says he has
not received a paper since the earthquake, and
he wants to know if his name was shook from the
book during that visitation.
Cherokee Indian Vegetable Fills.
The best Pill in the market. Single box 15c,
two boxes 25c, at Dr. McCutcheon’s Lively Drug
Store, Lively, Ala. Tutt’s Pills, two boxes 2ac;
Brandretli’s Pills, two boxes 25c; Simmon’s Liver
Regulator 10c, two packages 15c; Allcock’s Plas
ters, two for 25c; morphine35ca drachm; Quinine,
P. & W.’s, 75c per oz. bottle. It will pay you to
call at the Lively Drug Store.
(GUARD ITEMS.
A Broom Factory—The New Baptist Church—Stray
Shots,
Girard has added another to the long list of
her real and imaginary industries. It is a veritar
ble broom factory, where about thirty-five or for
ty dozen excellent modern corn broom,are turned
out per week. Mr. J. C. Hughes is the proprietor
and chief operator. The material is shipped from
Nashville, and the work of putting together is
done here. The brooms compare well with those
made anywhere. At present all brooms made
are readily taken by dealers in Columbus, Browne
vilie and Girard. As the demand increases, the
capacity of the factory will also be increased. As
southern editors are wont to say, this is another
step in the right direction and another link in
the chain of independence. It is no longer nec
essary to send to the land of wooden nutmegs
for every trivial invention needed on the farm
and in the house. The broom is by pre-eminence
the woman’s offensive and defensive weapon,
and though a new broom may sweep clean, some
body’s head will get cracked.
Church News.
A revival has been in progress at the
Methodist church during the past week. There
has been some excellent preaching by the pastor
and Rev. Walker Lewis, of Columbus. Good
congregations have attended, and the religious
outlook is encouraging. The pastor will conduct
services to-night.
The pillars for the new Baptist church have
been put in place, and the wood work will be
commenced soon by Mr. Fred Worrill, who has
the contract. The friends of churches and relig
ion will congratulate the Girard Baptists on'the
prospects of the early completion of a neat and
tasty house of worship in a more eligible situa
tion.
The Cemetery.
The sexton requests all lot owners to call and
clean up their lots during the next twenty days,
and it is.hoped his request will be duly heeded.
There was only one interment—a resident—
during the week.
Short Stops.
The war continues.
The skeeteraare more pestiferous this fell than
usual.
Mrs. Jackson boasts of the handsomest gang of
turkeys in the borough.
Mr. Ben Faircloth and Miss Mary Woodfleld
were married last Tuesday.
Quite a number of the young folks attended a
party at Mrs. McCauley’s in Summerville Friday
night. The affair is pronounced a decided social
success.
Mr. Bickerstuff is at work on the Long street
ravine, ll is to be hoped his skill may save the
road and stop growling.
Therearotwosidestop.il questions, so they
say, and one man has as much right to his opin
ion as another. There arc differences as to pub
lic policy in all communities. As a general rule
compromise affords a better basis of settlement
thaiiA iolence and bloodshed.
PerKOfinl.
Mrs. Hattie Barfield went to Macon yesterday,
accompanied by Master Sam Barfield Palmer,
who goon home to enter Mercer University afrer
spending a pleasant vacation in Columbus.
Mr. T. A. Williams left yesterday to spend a
few cloys in Macon.
Dr. C. E. Murphy, of Atlanta, was in the city
yesterday.
Mrs. J. F. Flournoy returned to the city yester
day
Mr. JI. a. Pitts, of Hamilton, was in the city
yesterday.
Miss Amoret Williford returned from Opelika
yesterday.
Mr. J. S. Harrison has returned from the east
ern markets, where he has been purchasing a
stock of hoots and shoes.
Miss Annie Ligon returned yesterday from
New York.
Mr. Geo. Briggs and Miss Mary Johnson re
turned yesterday from New York.
Miss Delhi Johnson, who has been visiting
relatives in Butler, returned home yesterday.
Misses Annie Ogburn and Mary Blackburn are
visiting Mrs. E. M. Johnson.
Mr. Martin Hollis, of Chattahoochee county,
is spending a few days in the ^ty.
Mr. David Winn, jr., of Cusseta, .Chattahoo
chee county, will make his homo in this city in
friture. He is located with Mr. Jos. Heoht, the
wholesale and retail grocer.
Miss Mittie Castleberry, of Cusseta, is visiting
Miss Lena Patterson.
Mrs. W. D Keen and baby and Miss Nellie
Keen returned home yesterday from Fortson,
where they have been spending some time.
Little Miss Emmie Keen is reported much bet
ter.
Captain Thomas Blanchard and lady returned
from the north last night.
Mr. J. E. Cargill returned from New York last
night, where he bought a choice stock of fall
and winter dry goods.
Hon. Thos. W. Grimes aud Major R. A. Bacon
returned from Atlanta last night,
Miss.Johnie Edge returned last night after a
pleasant visit of several weeks to Atlanta and
Hogansville.
Miss Josie Brooks returned from the north last
night.
Mr. Boughton and his sister, Miss May Bpugh-
ton, have returned from the north, where they
have been spending a month with relatives.
Their many friends in Columbus were glad to
welcome them back.
Mr. John W. Murphey, jr., went up to Chipley
yesterday.
Mr. H. J. Thornton went up to Hamilton yes
terday.
Mr. Harry Daniel will go over to Birmingham
to-day.
Miss Genie Perry, of Glennville, who lias been
visiting Miss Genio Brown, left for home yester
day.
Misses Aline Roper aud Mary Day, of Columbus,
who have been spending some time with the
family of Col. L. W. Martin in Vlllula, returned
home Monday.—Russell Register.
Mrs. EJKurniker and child, ofColumbus, are at
the hotel, where they expect to remain ubout two
weeks.—Hamilton Journal.
Hamilton JournuJ; Mrs. George Pierce, who has
been boarding for several weeks with Mrs. J. W.
Gamble, returned to Columbus this week.
Hamilton Journal: Mrs. W. H. Pitts is slowly
improving and her return to health is probably
only a question of a few days or weeks. Her
friends hope that her recoveiy may not be
long retarded.
(Georgia .Hid land Notes.*
Engineer McPhail returned from Augusta yes
terday morning with another engine for the
Georgia Midland. It was running on the line
yesterday.
Work on the road the past week has progressed
finely. Track laying has reached a point about
four miles from the city. #
Mr. Gifford is building t vo immense reservoirs.
They are to be twelve feet deep and eighteen feet
in circumference and will hold 20,000 gallons
each. The first one is to be located eight miles
from the city. The location for the second one
has not been decided.upon.
Thanks from Charleston.
Professor McCormack received die following
yesterday :
Charleston, September 15.—Mr. H. McCor
mack: Thanks to yourself and Madame Grant for
contributions. Wm. A. Courtenay, Mayor.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
CENTRAL HOTEL.
A. 8. Grant., Cincinnati; Henry C. Cameron,
Hamilton, Ga.; R. H. Bullock, Chipley, Ga.: C. B.
Lawrence, Box .Spring; It. A. Rsusell, Chipley; T.
Winelist, New York; Frank Wallace, Atlanta; J.
A. Petts, New Orleans; Clarence Phillips, Augusta;
David Zable, New Orleans; R. A. Bacon, Atlanta.
RANKIN HOUSE.
A. Sehloechter, Columbus, O.; T. Brown,
Louisville; C. G. Stark, Paul Yeakely, New York;
S. P. Mendez, Texas; J. M. Cranston, Georgia;
M. F. Echols, Selma; C. S. Wright, Macon; A. E.
Bignon, New Orleans.
For Tax C^llwTor.
I announce myself a candidate for Tax Col
lector of Muscogee county (election January
next), and ask for the support of the voters of
said county. J. C. Woolfolk.
sep7 dtf
S. I». (GLRERT,
Attorney-a (-Law. Columbus, (hi.
Prompt attention given to all business.
sep4 dly
Solevt Nrliool I'orLGrlN.
The exercises of this school will be resumed on
Monday October 4th. The services of competent
anil experienced teachers have been secured. Lo
cation the same as that of last session, at my
place of residence, corner of Fourth avenue and
Fourteenth street.
sep 12 tf Miss M. J. Thomas.
The celebrated Shield Bourbon is a very fine
Whisky blended from the best grades of Ken
tucky, six years old, put up in honest quart bot
tles at one dollar per bottle or four dollars per
gallon.
dtf Robert 8. Crank.
For Rheumatism, Malaria, Obstinate Ulcers.
Boils, Syphilitic Diseases, Scrofula and all Kid
ney and Liver Disorders, use Fontaine’s Great
Discovery. Sold by Brannon & Carson and City
Drug Store. my25 tf
Books of subscription for above series now open
at office of Yonge & Grimes.
Cliff B. Grimes. Hec’.v and Treas.
ym9tl
Choice Goshen Rutter, Extra CreamCheese,
Chipped Dried Beef, Boneless Pig’s Feet and
Choice Tripe in 3 lb. tins, Boston Baked Beans,
Cooked Corn Beef in 1 and 2 lb boxes, Imported
and American Sardines, Spanish Queen Olives,
Finest Olive Oil, Stove Polish, Bath Brick, Sapo-
lio for house cleaning, at Crane’s.
dtf
FsMhloti* Faiii'Icm.
New York Exchange.
Many of the autumn hats which the girls of the
period will wear will ho made of the same mate
rial as her supposed tailor-made suit.
Present style of arranging the feminine hair is
artistic anil stylish, and enables mosi women to
get along with what nature gave them.
Bourn ts of imported make are trimmed with
tiny shells and thin strands of coral on the sides
and top. The effect pleases the marines.
Dress patterns for fall and winter wear, as now
displayed, are simply magnificent. They are. in
deed. as advertised, "high novelties.”
Advanced women of fashion at Lenox now
carry a cane tied with a bow of ribbon, following
a Parisian fashion of very shady origin.
“Bar Harbor sunburn” is the newo t thing in
complexions, and even young women who were
not there can produce it at a small expense. \ f.i
During the driving hour, New Turk is now the
place of all others to see the “most superb lace
parasols that ever came to this country.”
High turn-over collars are to bo the rage on the
tailor-made suits and jackets, and this pleases
women who have a superfluity of neck.
It is predicted by those who arc supposed to
know nil about such things, that the bustle will
very soon decrease in size for now styles in skirts.
Plush Is to he continued in all its brilliancy
and glory. It comes in new shades, brocaded,
embossed and every other expeusive kind of
way.
There are several new perftimes, or old ones
with new names, among them “Sweet Grass,”
“Pink Clover,” and, silliest of all, “Bar Harbor
Spray.”
Bangles on which arc half a dozen little silver
bells are the newest. They were sold at Carls
bad and have been “brought over” by returned
Americans.
Scarfs made of strips of India Shawls are the
latest for the Brummels of the day. They come
in the “Stanley” and also in the four-in-hand
shapes,
TilE EYE.
IlnukeN’ New ('rystnlized l.ense*-
Nost llrillltint. Pure and Perfect
Lenses In I lie World.
They are as transparent and colorless as light
itself, and for softness of endurance to the eye
cannot be excelled, enabling the wearer to read
for hours without fatigue. In fact, they are
PUIIFFCT HIUHT PRESERVERS.
Testimonials from the leading physicians in
the United States, governors, senators, legisla
tors, stockq£n, men of note in all professions,
and in different branches of trade, bankers, me
chanics, etc., can lie given who have had their
sight improved by their use.
Hawkes’ Patent Extension Spring Eye-glass, are
the finest in existence, and are recommended by
the medical faculty throughout the country.
No pressure, producing irritation. No danger of
cancer that is sometimes the result of wearing
other eye-glasses, resting with ease upon any
nose.
FROM THE GOVERNOR OP LOUISIANA.
Baton Rouge, La.,January 23,1880.
To Mr. A. K. Hawkes -Dear Sir: I desire to tes
tify to the great superiority of your Crystalized
Lenses. They combine great brilliancy with
softness and pleasantness to the eye, more than
any 1 have ever found. S. D. McEnkry,
Governor of Ixmisiana.
FROM GOV. IRELAND, OF TEXAS.
To Mr. A. K. Hawkes -Dear Sir: It gives mo
pleasure to say that^I have been using your
glasses for some time past with much satisfaction.
For clearness, softness, ami for all purposes in
tended, they are not surpassed by any that I have
overworn. 1 would commend them to all who
want a superior glass. Very respectfully yours,
John Ireland.
FROM GOV. S. p. HUGHES, OF AHKAN8AS.
Having used A. K. Hawkes’ new Crystalized
Lenses for some months, l have found them the
finest glasses I have ever used.
Simon P. Hughes,
Governor of Arkansas.
from ex-gov. w. r. miller,
I find Hawkes' new Crystalized Lenses of supe
rior quality, having worn them with great satis
faction. W. R. Miller,
Ex-Governor of Arkansas.
THE GREAT EVANGELIST PENN WRITES:
Mr. A. K. Hawkes—Dear Sir: I take great
pleasure in saying that, after having worn your
new Crystalized Lenses for the past year, my
sight has greatly improved. W. E. Penn.
FROM THIS BAPTIST HERALD.
The Herald feels fully justified in recommend
ing to the public Mr. Hawkes’ new Crystalized
Louses, and Patent Spring Eye-Glasses, manu
factured by him, and that have such an enor
mous sale throughout the United States.
SIGHT IMPROVED.
New York City, April 7, 18H1.
Mr. A. K. Hawes -Dear Sir: Your patent eye
glasses received some time since, and am very
much gratified at the wonderful change that has
come over my eyesight since I have discarded my
old galsses, and am now wearing yours.
Alexander Agar,
Secretary Stationers' Board of Trade.
LOOK OUT FOR THEM—BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS.
We would caution the public against buying
spectacles of irresponsible peddlers traveling
through the country and representing them to he
A. K. Hawkes*, or selling the same cluss of goods.
My spectacles are stamped on frame “Hawkes,”
and none genuine unless stamped on frame, and
are not supplied to peddlers at any price.
Every pair warranted and all eyes fitted at the
drug firm of
BRANNON & CARSON,
Columbus, where an immense assortment of
these celebrated glasses can he found and proper-
ly adapted to all conditions of the eye.
. sepl3dlm
Persons wishing Paper Hanging will call on
M. M. Mauck, at Springer opera house,or at Cen
tralHctel. seplOdtf
.\«*h (•oihK. Iloltom Prices.
Fair and square dealing, coupled with courte
ous and prompt attention, promised to every in
habitant ofColumbus and surrounding country
that favor the Central Drug Store. Evans «fc
Howard, proprietors, with their patronage,
arc never too busy to give information or show
our goods, whether you buy or not. In the last
few days we have received a lot of the prettiest
and best made Tooth Brushes to be obtained,
specially imported for our trade. So much
trouble is experienced from the bristles coming
out of brushes. In the one we arc offering this
objection is obviated.
We are now headquarters for the Oakley Soup
and Perfumery Company, and have on displays
magnificent line of their goods we are selling at
living prices. Our stock of Hair, Tooth, Nail and
Scrubbing Brushes, Ivory, Celluloid, Rubber and
Horn Combs, Whisp Brooms, Clothes and Black
ing Brushes and Polishers is very complete—
every style, make anil price always on hand. We
stock every new preparation in the Drug, Chemi
cal, Patent Medicine, Perfume, Soap or Toilet
line as soon as brought to notice. Many articles
cun be found in our varied stock that cannot be
obtained from other sources.
To the smoking public let us say we have re
cently received large additions to this depart
ment, and we think there is no stock of Cigars
in this section equal in quality to ours.
Recent heavy additions to our Toilet Goods
line now gives us the largest, most meritorious
and prettiest line in Columbus. We shall con
tinue to dispense Soda water for sometime yet.
Give us a call, let us price you our goods, and we
feel confident we will share your patronage.
Evans A Howard,
»ug8 3m 1909 and 1132 Broad street.
OfrlirntHl Old Woodford U hlftky,l874
Kentucky’s finest production, distilled by Taylor
A Williams. Louisville. Sold only by Tobe New*
man; fl.50 per bottle. Try it. seplOdSw
Superior Spectacles and Eye Glasses a specialty
with C. Schomburo,
dtf The Jeweler and Watchmaker.
For Tax Collector.
I announce myself ns a candidate for Tag
Collector of Muscogee county (election
January next), and respectfully solicit the sup*
port of the voters of said county.
aug29 dtfwlm Oliver P. Poe.
’Flic City lieu* 1*try l,i«t
Is now open for registry of all citizens desiring to
vote in the approaching municipal election-
Those who are liable to a street tax aud have not
previously paid it, are required to pay at time of
registering. M. M. Moore,
sept 18 Into Clerk Council.
L'KOKBIA M:ct HITIEN.
Corrected l»y John lllixk mar. Coltim*
t»ns. tin.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER.
RAILROAD BONDS.
Americas, Preston and Lumpkin 1st
mortguge 7s 100 @101
Atlantic and Gulf7s 117 (£>119
Central con mortgage «*» 113 @114
Colun.bus and Rome 1st 0s, endorsed
Central It. R 104 @106
Columbus and Western 1st mortgage
6s, endorsed by Central It. It 103 @106
Charlotte, Columbia, and Augusta 1st
mortgage 114 @115
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 4s
2d mortgage 110 @112
Georgia Railroad (Is 106 @109
Mobile and Girard 2d mortgage en
dorsed by Central Railroad 107 @108
Montgomery and Eufaula 1st mort
gage (is uml Centra Railroad 108 @109
South Georgia and Florida 1st, en
dorsed by state of Georgia, 7 per
cent 118 @119
South Georgia and Florida 2d, 7 per
cent Ill @118
Western R. R. Alabama 1st mortgage, *
endorsed by Central Railroad 110 @111
Western Alabama 2d mortgage, en
dorsed 113)£@115
RAILROAD STOCKS.
Atlanta anil West Point 101 @108
Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent.
scrip 103 @104
Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent 127 @130
Central common 95 @ 96
Central railroad 0 percent, scrip 102 @103
Georgia 11 percent 192 @193
Southwestern 7 percent, guaranteed..124 @125
CITY BONDS.
Atlanta 6s 105 @107
Atlanta 7s 112 @118
Augusta 7s 109 @112
Augusta 6s 103 @105
Columbus 7s 112 @118
Columbus 5s 100 @ 102
LaGrunge 7s 100 (a 101
Macon 6s 110 @111
Savannah 5s 102 @103
STATE BONDS.
Georgia 4*^a 107 @108
Georgia 6s 103 @104)4
Georgia 7s, 1896 120 to 122
Georgia 7s, 1890 Ill ($112
FACTORY STOCKS.
Eagle and Phenix 95 @ 96
Muscogee 96 @ 99
Georgia Home Insurance Company 135 @140
BANK STOCKS.
Chattahoochee National 10 per cent...175 @200
Merchants’ A Mechanics’ 10 per cent..125 @130
MISCELLANEOUS.
Confederate Coupon Bonds 1 @ 2
FOR SALE.
$5000 Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Rail
road 7 per cent Bonds.
$2000 Southwestern guaranteed Stock.
15 Shares Southwestern Railroad guaranteed 7
per cent Stock.
$25,000 Georgia new 4l£ per cent. 30 year Bonds.
$5,000 Mississippi State new 6s.
59 Shares Mobile and Girard Railroad Stock.
WANTED.
30 Shares Engle and Phenix Factory Stock.
Georgia Railroad Stock.
Merchants and Mechanics’ Bunk Stock.
Georgia Home Insurance Co. Stock.
See 1110 before you buy or sell. I can always do
as well, and often several points better, than any
one else. JOHN IftLAdiHAR.
RUNNING OF TRAINS.
Arrival anil l!><> par lure of All Train!
nf FoliinikiiN Carrying; I’asHrngers-
In Klfrcf September I I, 1HN6.
ARRIVALS.
COLUMBUS AND ROME RAILWAY.
Mail train from Greenville 10:21 a.
Accommodation from Greenville 2:11 p. m.
SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD.
Mail train from Macon 2:25 p. m.
Accommodation from Macon 5:20 a. m.
COLUMBUS AND WESTERN RAILWAY.
Mail train from Montgomery 11:20 a. m.
Mail train from Atlanta 6:43 p. m.
MOBIL!: AND GIRARD RAILROAD.
Mail train from Jp-y and Eufaula 12:45 p. m.
Accommodation from Troy, Eufaula
ami :»:«<. 1 igomery 10:30 p. m.
Accommodation from Union Springs... 11:05 a. m.
DEPARTURES.
COJjJJMnUS AND ROME RAILWAY.
Mail train lur Greenville 2:29 p. m*
Accommodation for Greenville 6:00 a. ir.
SO UT H W H8TERN It AILKOAD.
Mail train for Macon 12:00 m.
Accommodation for Macon 11:45 p. n».
COLUMBUS AND WESTERN RAILWAY.
Mail train for Atlanta 8:22 a. m.
Mail train for Montgomery 2:28 p. m.
MOBILE AND GIRARD RAILROAD.
Mail train for Trov 2:30 p. m.
Accommodation for Trov and Eufaula.. 5:05 a. m.
Accommodation for Union Springs aud
Montgomery 10:25 p m
FOR RENT.
The Dessau Dwelling, Rose Hill.
The Dessau Store, Rose Hill.
New Five-Room Dwelling, Rose Hill.
The Newman Dwelling, Rose Hill; six rooms,
kitchen and stable.
The Pavilion, Rose Hill, only Pleasure Resort
about Columbus.
The Jordan Brick Dwelling, North Jackson St.
Interior Handsomely Finished. Plumbing for Gas
anil Water. Bath rooms and Closets.
Five room dwelling, with kitchen and stable,
west side Jackson street, north of Perry House.
Brick Store on Triangle street, occupied by
M. M. Beck. Excellent stand for a Live Retailer.
The Harrison Dwelling and Farm, Beall wood,
for Sale or Kent.
Store north of Epping House, Broad St.
L. 11. CHAPPELL,
Broker, Real Estate ami Insurance Agent
dtf
GEORGIA. MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
Whereas. T lin.ias L. Williams, administrator
of ll. G. Williams, ricccusiri, represents to the
court in his petition duly filed, that he has fully
ml in ini.stereo R. G, Williams’ estate.
This is. therefore, to cite all persons concerned,
heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, why said administrator should not be dia*
charged from his administration and receive let-
ters of dismission on the first Monday in De
cember, 1866. F. M. BROOKS. Ordinary.
September 4th, 1686. oaw3m
(i E<)RGIA, MUSCOGEE C O UNT Y.
Whereas, Alexander Toles, administrator of
R. W. Williams, deceased, represents to the
court in his petition, duly filed, that he has fully
administered R. W. Williams’ estate.
'Phis, is therefore, to cite all persons con
cerned, heirs and creditors, to show cause, if any
they can. why said administrator should not be
discharged from his administration and receive
letters of dismission on the first Monday in De
cember, 1886.
F. M. BROOKS. Ordinary.
September 4th, 1886. oaw3m
wnereas, ueurge 1. ruim, guiuuiau iur ura zi.
Burton, having applied to the court of ordinary of
said county for a discharge from his guardian
ship of Ora A. Burton,
This fa, therefore, to cite all persons concerned
to show cause why the said George Y. Pond
should not be dismissed from his guardianship of
Ora A. Burton, and receive letters of dismission.
^Give^nunder my official■ignature^this^Sgjrtem*
sepsoawlw Ordinary*.