>
DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24. 1886.
ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD.
Daily, Weekly and Sunday.
The ENQUIRER-SUN la Issued every day, ex
oept Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday.
The Daily (Including Sunday) is delivered by
carriers in the city or mailed, postage (Yeo, to sub-
aeribers for 75r. per month, 82.00 for three
months, $4.00 for six months, or $7.00 a year.
The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the
eity or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at
$1.00 a year.
The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed
to subscribers, pontage Dree, at $1.10 a year.
Transient advertisements will be taken for the
Dally at $1 per square of 10 lilies or less for the
llrst Insertion, and SO cents for each subsequent
Insertion, and for the Weekly ut $1 for each in
sertion.
All communications intended to promote the
private ends or interests of corporations, societies
or individuals will be oharged as advertisements.
Special contracts made for advertising by the
year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary
rates.
None but solid metal cuts used.
All communications should be addressed to the
ENQUIBliR-BUN.
Tiikrk is excellence without studious
effort. After ull, when it comes to genius
in literature, genius is nothing but shoe
makers' wax placed on the seat of an au
thor’s chair.
New newspapers aro springing up like
an epidemic now. Any town is liable
to have a newspaper started in it. If it
is not a good one and <1och not make
money it can abuse the town.
The congressmen who have been hop
ing and expecting to get back all these
months are being dropped by the people
in platoons. After a man has had turkey
in view for a long time, it is hard for
him to realisli his crow.
It it has been proved that water will
rot and destroy the toughest leather.
We merely throw out this as a suggestion.
But if they so desire it the antis in Maine
can use it ns an argument against Neal
how and the prohibitionists.
A Physiologist says that no man’s
body is as strong uh his appetite. This
solves the question as to why the pile of
victuals a tramp can eat in a day is
bigger than the pile of wood he can saw
in the same lengt h of time.
Ip Geranium gets lonesome in Florida
he might organize an army out of the
northern tourists and scalp all the hotel
proprietors in the state. This is (Jeroni
mo’s only chance to redeem hie reputa
tion. Let. him ito this and a whole con
tinent will rise up and call him blessed.
Death and danger are$ oftenest found
when least expected. The other day a
lady in a New York street car was burned
to deatii hv her celluloid bustle, which
exploded and set tire to ho* dress. This
freaky bustle points a moral and adorns
a story which should bo a lesson to
others.
The wild western coroner’s jury may
sleep, but it never dies. It can he counted
on for one or two unique and original
verdicts every season. A Colorado jury
sat on a man last week who was shot
dead in a gambling den. The verdict
Tends thus: “We, thor jureo, find that.
Nat Vickers cum to his doth from lead
poisoning.”
The eheering news comes from across
the water that Mr. James Russell Lowell
sailed for Bo ton on the Pavonia last.
Tuesday, With both llolmos and Low
ell absent, it has been, a lonely summer
in Boston.—Boston Post. Now, honest
ly, say that the absence of Henry F,.
Dixey and John L. Sullivan has been fell
most, ami that the star representatives of
bulloonry and muscle have been most
talked about by “the people” of Boston.
It is explained that the reason the
majority of women wear black stockings
while bathing in the sea is to frighten
away the sharks. At least that is what
Frank Stockton assigns as the reason for
wearing black hose in the water in his
amusing story of "Mrs. Leeks and Mrs.
Aleshine.” One of the heroines pro
pounds as a fact that sharks never eat
colored persons, and the nearest they can
come to being colored in the water is to
wear stockings of a sable hue. A color
that will frighten away spying men has
not yet been discovered. They aro worse
than sharks.
THE COM JIBIK MAItUIAUK EPIDEMIC.
It is said that there are to be a score of
marriages between forty of the best
young men and ladies in Columbus this
fall and winter. The writer witnessed a
beautiful marriage ceremony a few hours
ago, the opening marriage of the season,
that of Mr. Evans and Miss Waddell, an
account of which is published on another
page, and it lias set him to thinking. It
lias set him to thinking, not frivolously,
but solemnly about the sweet restfulness
and peace which hang forever like fixed
suns in the holy horizon of marriage.
Thoughtful people do not laugh about
marrying. It would be more appropriate
to laugh about dying. For
one is the putting on, and the
other the taking off the hard rubbing
harness of life. And yet there is a bea
tific music woven into the woof and warp
of matrimony which never reaches a
celibate’s ear. People who marry “as
Hod’s word doth allow,” like St. John in
his semi-tranBlation from the Isle of
Patmos, have some experiences which
they come back to theworld and tell,
and they have other experiences, so
sweet and so holy that they are convinced
at once that these are they of which it is
said, “It is not lawful for man to utter.”
.The suhlimest compliment one human
being mu pay another is to extend an
offer of marriage. There are fifteen hun
dred millions of people in the world. For
two people to choose eacli other out of
all of those is a wonderful
tiling, and it ought to he
enough to coment their souls forever and
forever. A marriage ih a thrilling sight.
There are only three events in anybody’s
lift*. They are to be born, to marry, and
to die. The birth and the death come in
on fund go with a cry of pain. They are the
dank, shady valley on either side. But
marriage is the beam-lit hill top carpeted
with emerald green and domed with
cerulean, blue, and over whose patch of
holy territory heaven spreads out its
brightest stars.
One and one make two in all the arith
metics in the world save one. In the
arithmetic of matrimony one and one
make one. Thus there has been a mira
cle at every marriage that has taken
place sinco the one in Cana of Galilee.
It 1h a bright day for any man when a
pure woman says to him, as Ruth said
to Naomi of old, "Whither thou goest I
will go, where thou lodgest I will lodge;
thy people shall lie my people, and thy
God my God. The Lord do so unto me,
and more also if aught but death part
thee and me.” A man contemplating
his bride is a solemn sight. It is the
spiritual, not the animal in him, that
brings a flush to his face and a fullness
to his. throat as he gazes upon her bella
donna eyes and lollipop lips and cheeks
like rose buds crushed in snow. A
young man goes down to his bridal
feeling that, he is marching back
through the gates of that paradise out of
which Adam and Eve were’driven 0000
years ago. And he is right; for marriage
is the only institution that'escaped the
fall. Saint Paul, the sacred orator of all
the ages to whom the providence of
God denied the sweets of this holy
estate, silt amid his loneliness and deso
lation and sang a pastoral song in its
praise that will live on and on and on,
after the stars have dropped from their
sockets in the sky like untimely figs
from a tree. When you marry, when
you happily marry, every breeze is spiced
and every bird is singing; every day is a
poem, and every sunset a picture; and
the future beckons and brightens at
every turn of the path. Marriage! It
doubles our joys and divides our cares,
and makes light to shine within light
like the angel of the apocalypse in the
sun. A wife is a good thing and a sweet
heart is a good thing; but the best of all
is a wife and a sweetheart both in one.
God bless the people who marry.
SENSATIONAL PROPHETS.
Yesterday’s issue of the Enquirer-Sun
contained the prediction of Professor
Wiggins, ■ of Canada, that on the 29th
inst. a destructive earthquake would pass
from east to west, having the centre of
its path about on a line with the cities of
Macon, Mobile and New Orleans. His
prediction was based alone upon the fact
that, at that time, certain planets would
he in conjuction and would
occasion a shifting of the
earth’s centre of gravity, and that
as a consequence of the shifting of that
centre, great subterranean upheavals
would result.
We admit that certain planets will he
in conjunction on the 20th instant, but
we deny that tlpit, circumstance will af
fect the earth’s surface. We deny it, be
cause conjunctions of planets have oc
curred at certain regular astronomical
periods throughout all the ages since the
time when the earth was first given
shape and our solar system was first es
tablished by the Divine Arehitoet of the
universe.
These conjunctions of the planets and
their effects on the earth have been close
ly watched by all astronomers of every
age and every nation from the time of
the Egyptian astrologers and eastern
sooth sayers down to the present hour.
None of these, with all their watching,
ever before discovered that earthquakes
occurred simultaneously with a conjunc
tion of the planets. We are, therefore,
fully authorized to assert roundly and
squarely that they do not so occur, and if
not, then there can be no manner of con
nection between them. IIow Professor
Wiggins can attribute earthquakes to
a conjunction of the planets, or what
possible connection he can find between
the two phenomena, when the concurring
observations of all scientists throughout
all ages show that the two events occur
at different periods of time, is more than
anybody can see but the sensational pro
fessor himself.
Now if earthquakes result from a con
junction of the planets, then there ought
to be no earthquake except when a con
junction occurs; but observations
establish the fact that tremors or quakes
of a greater or less degree of violence
occur on some part of the earth’s surface
on an average of one a day throughout
the entire year. If conjunctions occurred
as often as earth tremors, then conjunc
tion of the planets would lie the rule and
not as now the rare exception.
When a man foretells the coming of a
great event and how and when and where
it will occur and gives scientific reasons
for his prediction and invites public confi
dence in his statements, then we expect
him to stand squarely by his utterances.
But now comes this professor
and changes the entire route
of the great quake which he
had manufactured and locates its route
away down through South America, Cen
tral America and California. Gracious!
What a leap he takes. He didn’t wait
for us to get fairly frightened at\ his bug
aboo before ho sends it at one bound clear
out of our reach.
It occurs to us just hero that this Wig
gins is the same man who, a few years
ago, predicted hurricanes, floods, earth
quakes, volcanic eruptions, wars, pesti
lences and famines all over the earth,
and that none came in response to his
predictions. His predictions-of that day
were based, as his present prediction is
on the conjunction of the principal plan
ets. The day on which he said there
would be terrific convulsions was an un
usually beautiful day all over the coun
try. It seemed to mock this weather
prophet by its very calmness.
It is claimed now that lie predicted
the Charleston earthquake. The truth
is, he was never heard of, in that con
nection, until two .weeks after the earth
quake was over.
Wiggins’ prediction, coming at any
other than just at this time, would have
served only to provoke a smile of in-
eredulty, but coming just after the
threatened recurrence of the earthquake
in Charleston, anil before the minds of
the people have been relieved from the
shock of that event, it will undoubtedly
cause some alarm and requires prompt
contradiction.
The fears of men, and especially of
women, are easily wrought upon by those
who pretend to extraordinary foresight
or knowledge, and it may be truly said
of fear, as of love, that it prepares the
mind to believe anything. Many people
yet live who remember how, many years
ago, a preacher by the name of Miller
alarmed the people over a large section
of this state by his predictions that the
world would come to an end on a certain
day. Miller was able from the prophe
sies and certain chronological calcula
tions to prove to the satisfaction of a
great number that all mundane affairs
would soon wind up.
The sensational prophets have left that
beaten path and have now started on
earthquakes.
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE.
TnefMlny Evening, September 28.
POSITIVE APPEARANCE OF
MR, EDWIN THORNE,
In his Greatest Success, the
Black Flag!
Supported by a Powerful Dramatic Company,
And With New Modeled Scenery,
Note—When a Convict Escapes from Portland
Prison, England, the Authorities
Hoist the “Black Flog.”
General Admission, 75 cents,.
Kir Reserved Beats at Chaffin’s, Without Extra
Charge. sept24-4t
GrandLodge, F,M M„
OIF 1 GEORGIA.
Office of Grand Secretary
Macon, Ga., September 21, 1886.
r pHE Annual Communication of the Grand
1 Lodge. P. and A. M., of the state of Georgia
will be held in the Grand Lodge Hall, in the city
of Mncon, commencing on Toeaday, 26th day of
October next, at 10 o’clock am.
Officers and delegates will take due notice and
govern themselves accordingly.
A. M. WOLJHIN,
sep24 4t Grand Secretary.
UNPRECEDENTED
STOCK OF
Piece Goods
NOW READY
For Fall, 1886.
Clothing Made to Order.
Variety ITnpitritlleled.
Prices Rchnoliable.
Satisfaction Guaranteed*
GOODS selected now will be made ready for
delivery at any date desired. Call and favor us
with an order.
G. J. PEACOCK,
Clothing Manufacturer, 1200 1202
Broac Street. ColiunbuM Ga.
eodtf
FOR RENT.
Col. Holt’s spacious Brick Store and rooms
above, on Sixth avenue, near Swift’s mill.
Also a new two-story, modernly constructed,
five-room Dwelling on same lot.
The Jordan Brick Dwelling, North Jackson St.
Interior Handsomely Finished. Plumbing for Gas
and 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.
Prices reduced to rock bottom aa the season
draws to a close.
L. H. CHAPPELL,
Broker, Beil Estate and Insurance
dtf
igeit
CLEVELAND’S
SUPERIOR in POWDER
DOES NOT CONTAIN
AMMONIA,
ALUM,
LIME,
OR ANY ADULTERATION WHATEVER.
IT IS A STRICTLY PURE
GRAPE CREAM OF TARTAR
BAKING POWDER.
CLEVELAND BROTHERS,
ALBANY, N. V.
I
COLU M BUS
ron Works
COMPANY,
Columbus,
Georgia.
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS,
-DEALERS IN-
Lime, Shingles, Dressed and Matched Ceiling and Flooring
and other Lumber. Specialty made of Dress
ing Lumber for other parties.
-AGENTS FOR
Royal
Pumps, Judson Governors, Eberman Feeders, Standard
Injectors, Hancock Inspirators and
BROWN COTTON GINS
-MANUFACTURERS O.F-
St.rg.tton's Improved Absorption Ice Machines, Saw
Pumps, Hollow Ware, Syrup Kettles,
Mills.
iti> Ij
AND THE CELEBRATED
IE C
Golden's Improved Iron Screw Cotton Press,
This cut is an illustration of “Golden*** Improved lrou Screw Cotton ^rexs,”
erected in the most substantial and convenient manner. It is simple in construction, and so well
illustrated by the cut, that scarcely a word is needed by way of explanation. Being simply an
Iron Screw aii€l Nut. substituted for wood, the wood work of its construction, and the manner
of operating it, are substaDstantially the same as in the old style of wooden plantation screw, but
the timbers required are not so heavy or long. Most planters of experience prefer the wooden screw
to any of the more modern Cotton Presses in use, but the difficulty and uncertainty of controlling
labor and mechanical skill in the season of the year most convenient to the planter for their erec
tion, usually renders it a matter of economy, as well as necessity, with him, t*o buy some kind of
Press that requires but little mechanical skill to put it in operation. “Golden’s Screw,” Ib a
sort of compromise bet ween the old style of wooden screw and the modern Cotton Press, combining
the principal advantages of the former with the convenience and economy of the latter. It can be
operated with greater facility than the wooden screw, and the rapidity of its performance, like that
of the wooden screw, or any other press, depends upon its management—as on the old style screws
some planters would pack ten bales, and others thirty or thirty-five bales per day. Any ordinary
mechanic who can make a good plantation gate, or common plow stock, can do the wood work.
Within the last eleven years we have made and sold a great many of these screws, and have yet
to hear of the first one that has not given entire satisfaction.
We furnish all the Iron Work for these Screws, of which we make two sizes, and fully warranted.
Je2^edjse&w6m
i the language of to
y!4 wed satawim
FOR SALE,
WHE VERY DESIRABLE FIVE (5) BOOM
1 residence of W. A. Redd on Jackson street.
One-lralf C%) sere. Terra, most liberal. Apply si
SOULS REDD,
sepidlm Broker
AUraiN A S W JUN 1A JJ. collection
rof the moat thrilling personal adventures, ex.
" ploits of scouts andf piee, forlorn hopes,hero-
le bravery, imprisonments and heir-breadth
escapes, bsmJ-to-hsnd struggles, perilous journeys, daring
raids end bold deeds OH Born ST nice duringthe Greet Civil
Supreme Court of Georgia.
CLERK’S OFFICE,
Atlanta, Ga., September 14, 1886.
I T APPEARS FROM THE DOCKET OF THE
Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, for the
September Term, 1880, that the order of the cir
cuits, w the number of cases from each count,
and city courts, is as follows:
, ATLANTA CIRCUIT.
Fulton 82 (1 continued),Citv Court of Atlanta
18 (1 continued) 45
STONE MOUNTAIN CIRCUIT.
Clayton 8, DeKalb 4 7
EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Chatham 17, Effingham I, Liberty 2, City
Court of Savannah 10 30
MIDDLE CIRCUIT.
Bulloch 1, Emanuel 1, Jefferson 1, Screven 2,
Tatnall 1, Washington 10 10
AUGUSTA CIRCUIT.
Burke 3, Richmond 18, City Court of Rich
mond county 2 23
NORTHERN - CIRCUIT.
Elbert 2, Glasscock 1, Hancock 3, Hart 2, Lin
coln 1, Taliaferro 3 12
WESTERN’ CIRCUIT.
Clarke 1, Oconee 1, Walton 8, City Court of
Clarke county 1 g
NORTHEASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hall 8, Lumpkin 3, White 1, city Court of
Hall county 1 8
BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT.
Cherokee 1, Cobb 3, Dawson 1, Forsyth 1, (con-
* tinued), Milton 2, Pickens 1 9
CHEROKEE CIRCUIT.
Bartow 8 (2 continued), Catoosa 1, Dade 8,
Gordon 4, Murray 1 17
ROME CIRCUIT.
Chattooga 1, Floyd 8 (2 continued), Haralson
2, Polk 4 15
COWETA CIRCUIT.
Carroll 7, Coweta 1, Douglas 4, Fayette 2,
Heard 1, Menwcther 2 (2 continued),
Troup 1, City Court of Carrollton 3, (1 con
tinued) 21
FLINT CIRCUIT.
Butts 2, Henry 3, Monroe 5 (3 continued),
Newton 3, Pike 1, Rockdale 3, Spalding 4.. 21
OCMULGEE CIRCUIT.
Baldwin 3, Green 1, Jasper 1, Jones 3, Morgan
3, Putnam 1 12
MACON CIRCUIT.
Bibb 4, Crawford 2. Houston 2, City Court of
Macon 5 13
CHATTAHOOCHEE CIRCUIT.
Chattahoochee 4, Muscogee 7, Talbot 2, Tay
lor 3 16
PATAULA CIRCUIT.
Early 2, Terrell 2 4
SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT.
Lee 3, Macon 3, Schley 4, Stewart 1, Sumter 6,
Webster 2 18
ALBANY CIRCUIT.
Baker 1, Decatur 8 (2 continued), Dougherty
8, Mitchell 2, Worth 3 23
SOUTHERN CIRCUIT.
Brooks 4 4
OCONEE CIRCUIT.
Dodge 2 (1 continued), Dooly 2, Laurens 2,
Pulaski 2 8
BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT.
Appling 1, Charlton 1, Clinch 2, Glynn 3,
Ware 3, Wayne 1 11
342
The Macon Telegraph, Columbus Enquirer,
Savannah News and Augusta Chtomcle are re
quested to publish this notice once a week for
two weeks, and to send their bills to this office.
Z. D. HARRISON,
Clerk Supreme Court of Georgia.
arsarfJSfiVS:
#£«!U tbraUVSBOMOItMiiuw)
A. & M, COLLEGE.
Alabama Polytechnical Institute.
rpHE next session of this College will open Sep-
A tember 15th. Three courses of education are
offered:
I. Chemistry and Agriculture.
II. Mechanics and Engineering,
III. General course, including Latin, French
and German.
Laboratory Instruction constitutes an impor
tant feature and is given in: 1. Chemistry?
2. Physics; 3. Engineering and Surveying;
4, Agriculture • 5. Natural History: 0. Drawing?
7. Mechanic Aria, and 8. Printing and Telegraphy.
The Mechanic Art Laboratory will be enlarged
and two new departments added.
Tuition is free. For catalogues address
WM. LeROY BROUN, President,
aug31 eodt oclO Auburn: Ala.
CHAPPELL'S SCHOOL
For Girls and Young Ladies
Opens on Monday, September 27th, 1888,
Number of pupils strictly limited, Batisraction
guaranteed to every patron.
Terms, $75 a year, payable In installments of
$25 in advance.
For fbll particulars address
J. HARRIS CHAPPELL,
sepH eodlnJ Oolumhus, Ga.
