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DAILY ENQUIRER SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 188*1.
A Couple of Yarns About the Fertile
Soil.
lift) on a Dakota Farm CantraNtod with (Irornln
llninm—A 1’ronresiilvo Town in tlir Wentmi
WIMa—Privations to Which the Natives arc
Subjected—A Ward About Dakota Generally.
Correspondence Enquirer-Sun.
Two gentlemen said to me ve-terdnv •
•'Why did you not tell us something about
Dakota in your letter from there ?” There
fore, assuming that others, as well as these
two, would like to know something of
th s wonderland of the far northwest, and
being reminded that in my lost. I promised
to tell something of it, with your permis
sion. I will now endeavor briefly to do
so, and it 1 should happen to repeat some
thing already written I know I will be ex
cused when 1 tell you that I have never
seen or heard of my letter since it was
mailed to you, and being written in the
bustle and confusion of the livest western
town I was oyer in, I have forgotten what
X did say. But I rememberthis much, that
that letter was written for the lovers of
sport, and this I intend for those who are
interested in the material development of
this great country of ours; and, further 1
intend it especially for those who are dis
posed to be dissatisfied with the
small returns which they receive
from the soil here as a reward for their
labor. The sun set over the rather broken
country of Wisconsin on the 16th of August
.as we sped along by the beautiful lakes
and fertile farms, and when we retired in
our sleeping car berths we could peep out
of our windows and catch glimpses ot tho
moonlit mounds and knolls of Minnesota;
and on the morning of the 17th, after we
had rubbed the sleep from our eyes, we
went out on the platform to see the great
state as we passed, with the legend “Min
nesota” on its eastern face and “Dakota”
on its sunset side; and as we looked, be
hold 1 What a sight to eyes acccustomed
to be limited in their range by the hills
and pines of Georgia and Alabama. Far,
far away to where the sky kissed mother
earth, north, east, west and south, are vast,
trackless, treeless, almost streamless,
earth. I say earth, for nothing else seems
to express size enough.
THAT IS DAKOTA,
and just as we flash past the stake that
marks the western line of the states, a
beautiful covey of prairie chickens fly up
and away, as though they meant us to un
derstand them to welcome us to Dakota.
Poor things! little did they know that we
had two preachers aboard,and one of them
a Methodist at that. I stood long in ad
miring contemplations of the prairie, cov
ered by its brown spots of wheat fields, its
^reen spots of grass lands, its yellow
patches of wild sunflowers, and its red
patches of crimson rose apples; but ofter a
lew weeks sojourn I became impressed
with the idea that in time I would grow
tired of this sameness of scene.
ON THE TRATN
going out we met a number of pleasant
people, some on the same mission as our
selves, and of these there were parties
from Chicago, Boston, New York and
London. Adi were communicative and
talkative, and as some of the gentlemen
whom we met had lived out in the territo
ry and some had been out on trips before,
tlieir conversation was most interesting.
But I did not care to talk to the hunting
fellows much, for I had talked with
George Waddell and some other members
of our gun club about hunting and shooting
matters generally right after we beat the
Oswichee club, and somehow what these
New York and London fellows had to say
•sounded kinder flat and tame. But I was
much interested in what the other gentle
men had to tell me about Dakota. One
old gentleman from Chicago was going
■out, he said, in answer to a telegram from
a loved son who had been dangerously in
jured a few days before. Upon our ex
pressing lively sympathy for his anxiety,
the old fellow grew more confidential and
told us the cause of his son’s trouble. He
said: “My son lives in a two-story house.
The soil of his farm is very rich. The
spring was late and when the sun did
finally come out warm things grew off as
if by magic. Well, he planted some pump
kin seed in his garden, which is about one
hundred yard3 from his house. On the
night of the third day after he planted the
seed he went to bod as usual, and about 12
o’clock he awoke to find himself in what
he supposed the deadly embrace of un
anaconda. He could hear hir, ribs crack
and his leg bones snap, aud when finally
his stilled cries brought help he lay an
inert mass of broken, bleeding humanity.”
Was it an anaconda? I asked. “Oh, no,”
he answered, “it was that infernal pump
kin vine that had climbed up the side of
the house and into the open window, up
the bed post, until it coiled around him
as he lay asleep, and grew so fast as to
nearly murder him in his own bed before
he could get help.” I expressed fresh sym
pathy for his soil and felt a great deal more
for the father, and was about to retire,
when another gentleman who sat just in
front of us asked the old fellow if he had
ever heard
HOW HE LOST HIS HOUSE
in Dakota, and being answered in the neg
ative, he said that in an unfortunate mo
ment he planted a row of beets on the
sunny side of his house, and being then
ignorant of the great fertility of the soil,
he put them too close to his
house, aud they grew so fast that
one night while he was away
from home the expansion of the beets
pushed his house entirely off his land on
to that of an unfriendly neighbor, who not
only would not let him take his house off.
but was now suing him for damages for
for trespass. At this point I made an ex
cuse and got away, with a suspicion in my
mind that those two fellows were real
estate agents and had mistaken me for a
capitalist in disguise. I went to bed and
dreamed of the depravity of human na
ture. About ten years ago
THE SIOUX INDIANS
were moved from the portions of Dakota
l visited to their reservation on both sides
of the Missouri river, in a few miles ot
which we went, and the territory thrown
open to settlers. Since the removal of the
Indians, owing to the enterprise ol the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad, set
tlers have poured into Dakota. This cor
poration determines upon an extension
of its lines in some direction. '1 he
location of the towns are all marked
onthelmap beforehand,and the land where
the towns are to be is secured by the rail
road, then the road is built, the town sur
veyed, lots sold at auction, lumber hauled
out by the railroad, and behold, a town! 1
will give an illustration. In June, 1680,
the town of Huron was located, and tho
country was so wild and unsettled that
while the engineers wore surveying the
lots a broad antlered antelope, attracted
by the novel scene, stood with lifted head
and staring eyes on a little knoll a few
hundred yards away and watched with ab
sorbed interest the strange sight. This
scene has been transferred to steel and is
now the seat of
, ITHE CITY OP HURON.
Now this same city of Huron has a street
railroad, gas, telephone, electric lights and
a fine system of water works, elegant
hotels, splendid brick and stone busines
houses, four and five stories high, and a
population of 4000, which is being in
creased every day. As I stood _ on the
streets of this busy, bustling city, and
watched the eager throngs hurrying to and
fro, on business bent, I could hardly believe
that less than seven years ago right where
I stood was only the wild and trackless
prairie, with nothing in sight but the hori
zon-bounded stretches of green,and overall
the solitude of absolute stillness. And 1
am told that other towns have grown and
are growing as ftuft :ut this on%' But mf
wonder grew after 1 nhad beew longer iii
the territory and found out what hardships
and privations were endured by these early
settlers, lor the country is being settled up
as fast as the towns. The soil is black
loam, and as fertile as the decomposi
tion of vegetable matter for nges can
niake it; and when the prairie is
broken the first time the sod is
turned entirely over to the depth of three
to tour inches and has to lie in this condi-
ttoii a year before it can be further broken.
Alter it is turned over in this way a hole Is
cut m it with an axe aud corn" dropped,
and nothing more is done to it till it is
gathered. As it is planted in June and
trost iell this year on the night of the 24th
ot August, a good corn crop is a rare thing;
the most of it does not grow over five or
six feet high. Wheat does better, but
owing to the fearful cold of winter, which
is frequently 40’ below zero, only spring
wheat can be raised. Fifteen bushels to
the acre is considered a big crop. One
gentleman with whom we stopped, who
was a very intelligent man from Michigan,
told me that he kept three large, higu-
priced horses; his working force was com
posed of himself, father and step-son, all
stout, able-bodied men; his wife and
daughter did all the work in the house,
even to the washing. His crop of wheat
this year, which is the only money crop
there, was 1100 bushels. This he sold for
50 cents a bushel. He had nine in his
family, and the money return of the whole
family for a year’s work was $550. From
what I saw and heard afterward this is a
pretty fair specimen of
FARMING IN DAKOTA.
Not a farmer that I talked to admitted
that he was making any money, and still
to live there they have to fight eight
months of winter, with the cold frequently
down to 40° below, and in the short sum
mer it.(sometimes goes up to 120’above
zero. The same gentleman referred to
above asked me to get the commissioner
of agriculture for Georgia to write to him
and send him some statistics, and I shall
do it, for if the state of Georgia displayed
half the enterprise in that direction as
doe3 tho Chicago and Northwestern rail
road for Dakota, thousands of well-to-do
farmers would flee from the ice and snow
of the northwest to flud happy and com
fortable homes in Georgia. Just think of
its costing fifty dollars to run one stove
for the vyintcr! Still, that is what one man
told me in Dakota that it cost him to keep
his dining room warm last win
ter. I hope each farmer who
by chance happens to read these lines
will compare these figures with the figures
of his own farming experience, ana see
how far even cotton farming beats wheat
raising in Dakota. There is one man in
Dakota who has one solid wheat field of
35,000 acres, and everybody says he loses
money farming. The only explanation I
could find of why people persist in putting
up with all the inconveniences and hard
ships attendant upon frontier life, is the
earth-hunger which lies in the heart of
every man. It looks so alluring to know
you can get a home of 160 acres by either
building a house on it and living six
months in it, and then pay the govern
ment $1.25 per acre for it; or by planting
ten acres ot trees and making proof—after
eight years—that there are 675 trees living
on each acre of the ten planted. This
looks easy, but the trees have so many
enemies that in reality it is one of tho
HARDEST WAYS TO GET A HOME.
To sum it all up, if you have no home
and you are willing to put up with ten thou
sand discomforts and privation, extreme
cold and heat, drink alkali for water,
burn hay to cook with and have your
wife do all her drudgery, and do without
fruit and live without trees, and have never
heard of the smiling skies and sweet air,
and delicious fruits and pure water, gener
ous soil, beautiful trees, and the lovely
women of Georgia, then go to Dakota and
get a home and I will come out in the sum
mer and go hunting with you, and tell
you of this God-blessed land of ours and
make you dissatisfied with your frigid
home. I saw some instances of
REAL PICTURESQUE LIFE.
Miss Alice Lyman was a school teacher
near Cleveland, Ohio. She had a widowed
sister who wished to go to Dkaota. They
went, each filed a claim on a quarter sec
tion of land, and got their claims near
together: each had a claim cabin built,
and each lived in their respective cabins
the required six months and then proved
up their claims and got a patent from the
government. On several of our hunting
expeditions we noticed in the distance a
herd of sheep attended by a woman on
horseback. A field glass brought to bear
on the scene showed the woman to be
young and pretty, well mounted and at
tended by a faithful shepherd dog, but
otherwise entirely alone with her sheep.
So here was a real live shepherdess at last,
the first one I had ever seen, and by a
unanimous vote it was determined that
we should make her acquaintance, but as
our course did not lie that way
that day, and as our guide said his mother
knew the shepherdess, we decided to
call some evening. So taking the lady of
the house where we were stopping with
us one evening, and the returns of our
afternoon’s hunt as a peace ottering, we
called on Miss Lyman and her sister. We
found her as bright and sprightly in mind
as she was pretty and straight of figure.
She said she enjoyed the open air life she
led and that it agreed with her, and that
she much preferred it to the confinement
of the school room. She said she never
got lonely out on the prairie, for she al
ways took something to read or some
fancy work with her. Did the wolves
ever trouble her sheep? we asked. Not
often, she said; but she had the pleasure of
helping kill one once. She caught him in
a trap, she said, and shot him with a
pistol. Yes, she said she drove a reaper
sometimes, and could manage one as well
as a man, and so on through the whole
chapter of the happenings of her rough,
but happy, frontier life. We bade Miss
Alice good-bye, with the inward convic
tion that there was a girl who was in fine
training to make some study Dakota farm
er a good wife, and when she does, my
congratulation shall he : “May you live
long enough to have a happy home—in
Georgia.”
I would tell something of the sun houses
or claim cabins of Dakota, but will desist
for want of space and for fear I might be
classed with the narrator of the pumpkin
story. m P-
In a sermon at Round Lake Sam Jones
said: “You should not ridicule a man for
gettin’ an idea in such shape that lie can
get it into your little puny heads. Brother,
sav, that’s the reason I illustrate. Christ
was great at illustrating. Well, Brother
Grigger was converted at one of my old
churches down in middle Georgia. The
minister told him if ho would do before he
got religion what he thought he
would do after he got religion
ho would have religion. Grigger
joined the church. Ho went home, told
his wife, and says, ‘Get down the Bible,
we’re going to have family prayer.’ ‘Why!
arc vou going to have family prayer before
you have religion?’ she asked. Grigger
said he wanted it and the minister said if
he’d do before he got it as he thought he’d
do after he got it he’d have it. Well, Grig-
ger could not get the idea into his head.
But Grigger stuckto it, and in a few weeks
Grigger was the finest case of religion 1
ever saw. It broke out all over him.”
The Avalanche is glad to know that I
Bob and Alt' have, through their com
mittees, recognized the absurdity of
trying to run against Barnum s
circus in their Memphis appointment.
The chief prompting to our delight
with the change is that we didn’t intend
to miss the circus, and we, humanely,
didn’t want Bob and Alf to miss us.—Mem
phis Avalanche.
Cyrus W. Field is trying hard to cook
Lieut.-Gov. Ames’ goose, but he can t get
the oven hot enough with all his millions.
FAILED TO HEDGE.
Niuv York Hrokprs ttiulp lluu'k nipt hy u NpornlilL
ing UonlMontliil Clerk—$106,000 Lost In a Few
Weeks.
New York, September 26.—It was re
ported this afternoon that the suspension
of John M. Moore & Co., bankers and
brokers, of 76 Broadway, as announced
Thursday, was the result of irregularities
on the part of a trusted employe of the
house. At Moore & Co.’s office it was ad
mitted that such was the fact, but tho
name of tlie offender was withheld. It
was ascertained that some months back
the firm took into thoit' employ a young
man. aged 21, who had up to that time re
sided in a western city.
He brought with him to tho metropolis
a novel method of growing rich with ease
and rapidity aud without the expenditure
of capital. Having no faith in the rise of
stocks, lie reached the conclusion that such
of the linn’s customers who gave orders to
buy should sell instead, and on numerous
orders lor long account lie gave directions
for selling short, without the knowledge
of the linn. Finding the market going
against him, ho left the city a few
days since, notifying the firm by
letter that his * “hedging” process,
which had been carried on for some weeks,
had panned out disastrously, and that the
Ann, according to his calculations, would
find themselves short some ijjjbO.OOO. An
examination of t ho books revealed the fact
that the firm ha.s thus far sustained a loss
of close onto ^100,(XX). The whereabouts of
the confidential clerk are unknown. The'
loss occasioned bv the clerk’s speculation
falls upon the firm alone. They exect to
resume business in a few days.
CINCINNATI'S HING57ERS.
Hour Strafing wan Carried on by the Public Works
Hoard.
Cincinnati, September 21.—The revela
tions of speculation in office, followed by
the arrest of George Doll and James Mor
gan, ex-members of the defunct board of
public works, and of Charles Blackburn
and George Seiter, clerical employes of
the old board, are but a beginning of a
series of exposures of official rottenness that
will make Cincinnati celebrated. Charles
Doll and James Morgan were members of
the board of public works, which the leg
islature abolished last winter. Morgan is
a republican and is the only member of
the old board of public works that Gov.
Foraker appointed on its auccessor, the
new board of public affairs. He has been
an office-holder for twenty years
and has held positions in
both administrations. Charles Doll
is a democrat. Charles Blackburn,
the clerk of the defunct board, is a demo
crat. Seiter, assistant clerk of thejold board
aud of the new, is of undefined politics. Ho
has held office right along for years through
changing administrations. Blackburn pro
tests innocence. All the others refuse to
talk except to say the matter is wholly in
the hands of their attorneys. This is the
first muttering of a reform earthquake that
will shake things lively.
The method of stealing is described as
being simple, but effective. Seiter, who
was assistant clerk, would make out
vouchers on the comptroller, which would
be certified to as correct by President Doll,
of the board of public works, and Charles
Blackburn, clerk of the board. Blackburn
would present the vouchers to the comp
troller and obtain a warrant on the treas
urer for the money.
These vouchers are, many of them, made
out in names which are not to be found in
the directory. Most of the bills ure for
stone, gravel and hauling. All the parties
were released on bail ranging from $3500
to $15,000.
DIED IN AGONY.
A Quarrel Between a New Orleans Mini anil Wife
Results In » ShortIng Murder.
New Orleans, La., September 26.—In
formation was brought to the police
headquarters this morning that George
Mitchell had dropped dead suddenly at his
home on Daupmne street. The police
went to the house and found Mitchell’s
dead body lying on the floor. An expres
sion of agony was upon his face. Borne
words from other people in the house led
to an examination of the body, when
it was found that Mitchell had not
dropped dead as was supposed, but had
been killed by his wife. They had had a
quarrel and a fight while in bed. After
struggling some time the woman grasped
her husband in a delicate place with al)
strength and force. He screamed and
shrieked, but she maintained her hold, un
til finally, in one desperate effort, he threw
himself from the bed, loosening her hold.
She then discovered to her horror that her
husband was dead in consequence of the
injury she had inflicted on him. She then
fled from the house and has not yet been
captured.
A BEAUTIFUL LEGEND
Of Fountain Camp Ground, Where the India
Plighted Their Troth*.
Washington Gazette.
Perhaps you have never heard the beau
tiful legend of Fountain camp ground, the
charming spot where the good people of
this and many other countries around are
wont to gather every year when the early
fall has tinged the precocious leaves with a
matchless hue. The people meet here to
worship God in the Druid-like temples, and
to make these sumo woods which once
echoed to the voice of the red man resound
with the praises of the Great Jehovah; and
on these occasions the spirit of true Chris
tian worship pervades the entire place and
people. But there is another side of the
picture that is not incompatible with the
spirit of these occasions.
Fountain camp ground comprises a tract
of two hundred acres of native forest lying
fourteen miles southeast of Washington.
It takes its name from the many pure and
sparkling streams that gush from the steep
hillside and spatter like myriads of dia
monds in the rippling stream that winds
its pebbly way around the base of the hill.
Among some of the tribes of Indians the
custom was that lovers would plight tlieir
love with tlieir hands joined across a beau
tiful stream—that their lives might flow
on together as beautifully and peacefully
as flowed the symbolic brook. A
legend tells us that in this same
enchanting nook before the pale face ever
trod the trackless forests around, the In
dian maidens and tlieir lovers were wont
to join tlieir hands and hearts above this
selt-same stream.
And even to this day the coy maidens
and their lovers, of a more enlightened if
not more noble race, ramble among the
bridle paths that wind about and ever and
anon cross this limpid stream; and tell
over and over this beautiful Indian legend,
the spirit of which Brushes up with the
story, as pure and as sweet as the never-
failing streams that give this place its
beautiful name.
Tin* Stale Fair.
We have received tne premium list of the
Georgia State Fair to be held at Macon, Ga.,
opening October 25 and continuing two weeks.
The premium list is large, and embraces almost
everything that could be enumerated in the agri
cultural or the industrial line. Tho occasion will
be an Important one for the display of our re-
sources. It is one of the ways of making others
acquainted with what we are doing and what we
have already accomplished. These fhirs
have heretofore served the valuable purpose of
| bringing into notice the varied industries and
| wonderful re^ouroes of our state. Columbus has
! already achieved a national reputation as the
j great mu nil Picturing city of the south. It would
I be well to use this occasion to still further ex*
I tend her reputation in that line, and to keep
j before the public eye what, in that way, we have
already gained.
I We had :i pleasant chat about tho coming fair
j on yesterday with Mr. T. J. Lyon, of Cartersvillo,
i one of the vice-presidents and the superintend
ent of department No. It. He seemed highly
I pie? sod with his visit to our city, and remarked
J that he did not know before coining hero that
| there was a barrel factory and a bagging factory
! iu t his state. Let Columbus have a hand in the
great display.
IIOTKfj ARRIVALS.
RANKIN HOUSE.
C. Kothe. Baltimore; W. TI. Baxter, New York;
A. H. Stevens, Hurtsboro; C). A. Sunders, Atlau-
ta; J. H. Worrill, Talbotton; E. T. Shubrick,
Georgia; Mark Wilkinson, New York; L. M.
Haynes, Stone Mountain; W. E. Murphcy and
wife, Chiploy; Albert A. Carson,i Butler; C. W.
Bachelor, Chicugo; H. Booler, New Orleans; C.
L. Dnvis, Warm Springs; .J. B. Shiploy, Cincin
nati; W. J. Wallace, New York; C. Mead, Chica
go; A. Miles, Atlanta; B. G. Farmer, Shorter-
villo; J. II. Washburne, agent F. C. Bangs Com
pany; T. J. James, R. A. Murphey, E. N. Mead,
Atlanta.
CENTRAL HOTEL.
R. T. Gould, 8t. Louis; N. G. Summers, Louis
ville, Ky.; F. T. Dunnaway, Atlanta; W. F.
Hayes, New York; W. 1). Kyle, wife uud daugh
ter, Opelika; W. S. Keyes, Boston, Mass.; John
Lawton, Augusta, Ga.; J. H. Kuykendall, De
troit; W. H. Rizell, Columbia, Ala.; W. 8. Heliums,
H. Morganthull, New York; Eli Browning, St.
Louis; C. Henderson, Union Springs; Morgan
Allen, Alexander City, Ala.; J. F. Comer, Jones,
Ala.; It. A. Richards, Talbotton, Ga.; J. F. Davis,
J. B. Albert, Baltimore; J. M. Vann, Seale, Ala.;
W. E. Taylor, Savannah.
Bnse Rail Brevities.
Following is the result of the games played
yesterday:
Washington—Washington .5, St. Louis 2.
Boston-Boston 1. Detroit 0.
Philadelphia--Philadelphia 2, Chicago 2. Game
called on account of darkness.
New York -New York 2. Kansas City 4.
St. Louis—No game; ram.
Pittsburg—Pittsburg 5, Athletics 1.
Louisville—No game ; rain.
COTTON FACTS.
Visible Supply—Receipts at Pol ls—Meat her, K(c.
The New York Financial Chronicle of Septem
ber 25 makes the total visible supply of cotton
I, 019,297 bales, a decrease as compared with last,
year ol 95,6(54, a decrease us com pared with 1881
of 391,074, and a decrease us compared with 188J
of 574,015.
For the week ending September 24 the receipts
at the United States ports reached 106,601 bales,
making the total since September 1 232,860
bales, showing a decrease of 42,605.
The twenty-six interior towns for the week end
ing September 24 received 05,575 bales, shipped
57,703 and had stocks of 58,734 bales. Same time
last year they received 73,287, shipped 55,809 and
had stocks of 52,452.
The above totals show that the old interior
stocks have increased during the week 4926
bales and are to-night 2679 balcB more than at
the same period last year. Tho receipts al the
same towns have been 15,718bules less than the
same week last year, and since September 1 the
receipts at all the towns are 14,281 bales less than
for the same time in 1885.
The exports for the week ending this evening
reach a total of 44,373 bales, of which 31,018 were
to Great Britain, 65-18 to Fruncc and 6777 to
the rest of the continent.
The Chronicle comments on its table of re
us follows:
shows—1. That the total
receipts from plantations since September J, 1880,
are 943,531 bales; in 1335 were 812,067 bales; m 188-1
were 275,865 bales.
2. -That, although the receipts at the out ports
the past week were 106,601 bales, the actual move
ment from plantations was 114,473 bales, the bal
ance going to increase the stocks at the interior
towns. Last year the receipts from the planta
tions for the same week were 132,351 bales and for
1884 they were 130,801 bales.
The Chronicle’s telegraphic weather reports for
the week are thus summarized;
Our telegrams from the south to-night indicate
that in general the weather conditions are favor
able. Picking has, as a rule, made very good
progress, but in a few sections of Texas rain lias
caused some interruption.
DAILY COTTON STATEMENT.
Columbus, Ga., September 27, 1886.
COTTON BILLS—SIGHT.
New York % off, Eastern % off, Boston slight
off, Savannah \\ off; Bank checking on New York
over the counter ^premium and on Savannah
at par.
Cotton.
Market to-day active; inferior 0; ordinary 5c;
good ordinary 6%c; low middling H e\
middling *%@8 13-16c; good middling 8%@9c.
RECEIPTS.
To-day. To Date.
By Southwestern railroad 113 598
By Mobile and Girard railroad 75 655
By Columbus and western road... 2 103
By Columbus and Rome railroad.. 167 1,120
By the river 92 1,269
By wagons 146 3,961
Totals..
. 595
SHIPMENTS.
7,706
By Southwestern railroad
By Columbus and Western road
By the river
Taken by Columbus factories
To-day. To Date
... 191 5,375
0
508
Totals IP! 5,883
Sales 1,261 0,287
STATEMENT.
Stock on hand August 31, 1885 1,079
Received to-day 595
“ previously 7,111—7,706
shipped to-day
“ previously..
5,883
2,902
dav.
.y 227.
Stocks on hand
Stock August 31, 1885. 350; recei\
736; total receipts 11,359; shipped f „
total shipments 7,986; stock 3,723; sales 853; mid
filing 8 : ^c.
MARKETS 15V TCMiilRAI»II.
i'iiiitiic Jill.
London, September 27. 1 p. m.— Consols—
New York, Scpte
id fii
Mo
acti
f4.82fo $4.8214,
bonds dull and steady. (I
steady.
New York, September
• pur
'EY MARKET.
-Noon-Stocks quiet
, 6. Exchange—long
1.84*6 (<; $4.85. State
uvenunent bonds dull,
27. —Exchange $1.81 '4.
market active and prices hardenfng; mid
dling uplands ft* 8 d, Orleans 5 7-lftd; sale*
15,006 bales—lor speculation and export. 2000
bales.
Receipts 5000 bales—1700 American.
Futures steady at advance, at following quo
tations :
September 6 20-64 ft >5 22-6 Id
September and October 5 H-64(.».5 l6-64d
October and November. 5 c-04 toft 10-64.l
November and December 5 7-64415 8-6 Id
December and January 5 6-64 »• 5 8-6 Id
January and February 5 7-04«fft 8-«>ld
February and March not quoted
March and April 6 M-6I@5 12-6Id
April and May 6 14-04d
Tenders of deliveries for to-day’s clearing 1700
bales of new docket and 00 bales of old docket.
2 p. m.—Sales to-day include 11,600 bales of
American.
Uplands 5 7-l0d, Orleans Slfjd.
2 p. m. -Futures: September delivery, 5 23-0ld
sclln s: September and October, 5 17-64d sellers;
October and November, ft tl-6ld sellers; November
and December, ft 9-6Id sellers; December and
Jnnurv, ft 0-64d sellers; January and February,
5 9-0id sellers; Fehruurv and March, 5 11-6 Id
sellers; March uml April, ft 13-6-kl sellers; April
and May, ft lft-64d sellers. Futures Arm at iho
advance.
4:00 p. m. -September delivery, ft 24-64 1 sellers;
September and Octouer, ft 18-64d sellers; October
and November, ft 12-Old sellers; November and
Decombei ft 0-04d buyern; December and January,
ft 9-6ld buyers; January and February, ft 9-84d
buyers. February and March, 5 ll-oicl sellers;
March and April, 5 13-5Id sellers; April and May,
5 15-04d sellers. Futures closed firm.
New York, September 27.—Cotton firm—
sales 690 bales; middling uplands 9 7- 16c,
Orleans ffrtc.
Consolidated net receipts 29,816 bales; exports
Great Britain 6819, to continent 295, France 5698;
stock 291,127.
NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
New York,September 27 Net. receiutsOO, gross
14,689. Futures closed barely steady; sales 71,200,
as follows:
September 9 24-100@9 25-100
October 9 25-100(a>9 26-100
November 9 30-100(.l9 31-100
December 9 85-100®9 36-100
January 9 42-100(3)9 43-100
February 9 51-100(^9 52-’.00
March- 9 60 100(a)9 61-100
April 9 OS-IOOOl9 69-ICO
May 9 76-100(a)u 77-100
June 9 H4-100(a'9 85-100
July 9 92-10001/9 93-100
August 9 97-100(6.9 99-100
Green & Co., in their report on cottou futures,
say: A quick demand again prevailed for near
months, with an advauce of 9<oj10 points and a
sympathy to the extentoffl points on distant op
tions, the imuket ruling pretty strong during
the greater portion of the day. Just at the close
Ihore was a fractional weakening under heavy
hammering by bears.
New Orleans,September 27—2:35r. m—Futures
steady; sales 20,200 bales, as follows;
September 9 00-100 bid
October 8 98-100@8 99-100
November 8 90-100(0)8 91-100
December 8 Hl-100@8 92-100
January 9 OO-lOOro 9 01-1(0
February 0 1(M00@9 11-100
March 9 20-100(0,9 21-100
April 9 30-100(o.9 31-100
May 9 40-100(49 41-100
June 9 50-100(o.9 51-100
July 9 58-100(0'9 60- 1(H)
Galveston, September 27—Cotton dull; mid-
lings 9L,c; net receipts 7837, gross 7837; sales
442: stock 48,804: exports to continent 00, Great
Britain 00.
Norfolk, September 27. -Cotton steady; mid
dlings 9'.,; net receipts 2159, gross2159; sales 681;
stock 6477; exports to Great Britain 00.
Baltimore, September 27.—Cotton 11 rm: mid
dlings 9','4.0; net receipts 0, gross 811; sales —,
spinners 00; stock 3690; exports to Great Brit
ain 00, to continent 00.
Boston, Sept. 27.-- Cotton quiet, firm; middlings
9/yC; net receipts 0, gross 1069; sales 00; stock
; exports to Great Britain 0.
Wilmington, September 27.—Cotton firm;
middlings U‘ M c; net. receipts 1601, gross 1804; sales
00; stock 5995; exports to Great Britain 00.
Philadelphia,September27— Cotton firm; mid
dlings 9%c; net receipts 00, gross 00; sales 00;
stock 7138; exports to Great Britain 00.
Havannah, Ga., .September 27. -Cotton steady;
middling* 9 1 H c; net receipts 7071, gross 7071;
sales 3050; stock 62,080.
New Orleans, September 27. -Cotton market
Arm; middlings 9' 1 ,Lc; net receipts 0331, gross
7973; sales 1100; stock 30,430; exports to Great
Britain 00, to continent 00.
Mobile, Beptemtoer 27.--Cotton quiet, steady;
1 middlings 9c; net receipts489, gross 587; sales 200;
stock 3779.
Memphis, Sept. 27-Cotton steady; middlings
9V s c; receipts 2397; shipments 191; sales 275;
stock 8184.
Augusta, September 27.—Cotton firm; mid
dlings 8%c; receipts 1210; shipments 0; sales 1008;
stock —.
Charleston, September 27.—Cotton market
firm; middlings 9c; net. receipts 4307, gross
4297; sales 1500; stock 28,059; exports to Great
Britain 00.
I'rovisionH.
Chicago, September27- -Flour dull, unchanged;
southern winter wheat $4 15.Y/.4 50. Mess pork
September $9 35@9 55, October J9 35(« 9 55,
November $9 lT'.yuU 00. Lard September closed
at $7 35, October $0 WmQ 20, November $0 10
(«$6 12jft, Short rib sides for cash $0 90. Boxed
meats —dry salted shoulders $6 12,Lj@6 25, short
clear sides at $7 10(«$7 15.
New Orleans, September 27. Rice (lull and
unchanged -Louisinmm, ordinary to good 3' ,
@8%c. Molasses dull; Louisiana open kettle
-good prime to strictly prime 32c, prime 20 u 22c,
fair 15(o 16, good common 13(o l ie; centrifugals,
firmer--prime to strictly prime 18@20c, fair to
good fair 12@13c, common to good common 1 1@
12c.
St. Louis, September 27. - Flourquiot, steady;
choice $3 25<u,3 40, family $2 60@2 75. Provisions
dull and about steady: Mess pork $10 25; lard
easy, at $6 20("*6 25; bulk meats about steady
boxed lots easier -long clear sides and short rib
sides at $7 10, short clear sides at $7 25; bucon
—long clear sides and short rib sides $7 62l v K
$7 75, short clear sides $8 25; hams- $12 00(4
18 50.
Cincinnati, ()., September 27.—Flour heavy—
family $3 2Q(a 3 40. Pork easy $10 00. Lard (lull
at $0 60. Bulk meats nominal—short rib sides
$7 00. Bacon easier shoulders $7 50, short rib
sides $7 87 short clear sides $8 25.
Louisville, September 27.—Provisions, market
quiet; Bacon, shoulders $0 75, clear rib $7 25,
clear sides $8 12'^. Bulk meats -clear rib sides
$7 12l^@37]^, clear sides $7 62^; mess pork $10 75.
Lard—choice leaf $8 00; hams, sugar-cured, 13c.
44 ruin.
Chicago, September 27. -Wheat—September
72"i 72;*c, October 72V./ 73' e, November 7IV"»
75' ,c. Corn closed — September 36'",36 l ..c, October
3ffi M (//j37 l - h c, November 38'V'/OW^c. Oats closed -
September 25(h25 i „c i Octoiler 2V%4'25? ft, Novem
ber 2(iJU«/20 7 M c.
St. J/Ouih, September 27. Wheat fractionally
lower -No. 2 red, cash 7'&\</a 7%%e, September .
October 734:i'(/j,71' |0. November c. Corn quid
but irregular -No. 2 mixed, cash 34',(</.34'.' a c,
October 34 1 ,"/ 35' ;c, November 36<« 36\e < hits
steady --No. 2 mixed, cash 25J H («/26, 1 ,c, October
Nnit Vein*, S^ptembcf 27.—Cotton seed 8ll, 2- ; #> -
26c for crude, 40(44lc for refined.
Wool nml Hi (Ion.
New York, September 27.—Hides firm—New
Orleans selected. 45 and 60 pounds. Ot^lOc;
Texas selected. 50 and 00 pounds, 10"/10 1 u c.
New York, September 27.—Wool firm, quiet—**, w
—domestic fleece 30 »?-88o. Texas 10(5.25c.
WTiIdky.
Chicaoo, September 27.—Whisky steady—$1 17.
St. Louis, September 27.—Whisky firm; $1 12.
Cincinnati, September 27.—Whisky active*
firm—$1 12.
Frr JtflitN.
New York, Sept. 27. - Freights to Livemool
steady-cotton per steamer 9-5k/|»6-32d; wheat
per steamer 3-} id.
, No
11 her
ClN
innati, September
2 rod 76c. Corn weak N
strong and higher—No. 2
7.—Wheat quie
. 2 mixed 40c.
fixed 28c.
N(
Oat
lixed
.Siiuiw* an«l 4'oireo.
,w Orleans, Sept. 27. -Coffee dull and
langeo -Rio, in cargoes, common to prime,
Sugar quiet, 4«*adv op»m ketllr, prime
good fair to fully liiii I , / I 7-10<: fair U p:,
C4KOK44!A KWt’fUTIES.
furr(M*U‘d l*.v .lolm Itiuckiniir, 4'oinm-
Imim, 4411.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER.
RAILROAD BONDS.
Americns, Preston and Lumpkin 1st
mortgage 7s 100 felOH
Atlantic and Gulf 7s 117 (g 119
Central con niortgnge 7s 113 (&114
Columbus and Rome 1st 6s, endorsed
Central R. R 104 ($106
Columbus and Western 1st mortgage
6s, endorsed by Central It. R.. 103 (filOft
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 1st
mortgage 114 @115
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 4s
2d mortgage 110 (®112
Georgia Railroad 6s 106 @109
Mobile and Girard 2d mortgage en
dorsed by Central Railroad 107 @108
Montgomery and Eufaula 1st mort
gage 6s and 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 @113
Western It. R. Alabama 1st mortgage,
endorsed by Central Railroad 110 @111
Western Alabama 2d mortgage, en
dorsed 1W/MU3
RAILROAD STOCKS.
Atlanta and West Point 101 @103
Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent.
scrip 103 @104
Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent 127 @.130
Central common 96 (a 97%
Central railroad 6 per cent, scrip 102 &103
Georgia 11 percent 192 @193
Southwestern 7 percent, guaranteed..125 @126
CITY BONDS.
Atlanta 6s 105 @107
Atlanta 7s 112 @118
Augusta 7s 109 @ 112
Augusta 6s 103 @105
Columbus 7s 112 @113
ColumbuBfts 100 @102
LaGrange 7s loo @101
Mucou 6h 110 @111
Savannah 5s 102 @103
STATE BONDS.
Georgia 4’<s 107 @108
Georgia 6s 103 @104V£
Georgia 7s, 1896 120 @122
Georgia 7s, 1890 ill @112
FACTORY STOCKS.
Eagle and Phenix v 95 @ 96
Muscogee 96 @ 99
Georgia Home Insurance Company 135 @140
BANK STOCKS.
Chattahoochee National 10 per cent...175 @200
Merchants’ & Mechnnics’ 10 per cent..125 @130
MISCELLANEOUS.
Confederate Coupon Bonds 1 @ 2
FOR HALE.
$5000 Americas, Preston and Lumpkin Rail
road 7 percent Bonds.
15 Shares Southwestern Railroad guaranteed 7
per cent Stock.
$25,000 Georgia new 4!:, per cent. 30 year Bonds.
$5,000 Mississippi State new fis.
69 Shares Mobile and Girard Railroad Stock.
RUNNING OF TRAINS.
Arrivnl and Departure of* All Trains
al 4’oIiiiiiImin 4'mcrying l*MNM«*ng«>rM—
In Klleei September II, IHHtL
ARRIVALS.
COLUMBUS AND ROME RAILWAY.
Mail truin from Greenville 10:21 a. in.
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 0:43 p. m.
MOBILE AND GIRARD RAILROAD.
Mail train from Troy and Eufaula 12:45 p. m.
Accommodation from Troy, Eufaula
and Montgomery 10:30 p. m.
Accommodation from Union Springs... 11:05 a. m.
DEPARTURES.
COLUMBUS AND ROME RAILWAY.
Mail train for Greenville 2:29 p.m.
Accommodation for Greenville 6-00 a. m.
SOUTHVVMSTEKN UAILROAD.
Mail train for Macon 12:00 m.
Accommodation for Macon 11:45 p. w.
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 tram for ! rov 2:30 p. m.
AccomtBuuation for Troy and Eufaula.. 5:05 a. m.
Accommodation for Union Springs and
Mo* < merv 10:26 o m
Wm.L.TILLMAN ) Georgia, Muscogee County—
vs. .-Mortgage, Ac. In Muscogee
R. II. Gifii.i >ON. ) Superior Court. May term, 1886.
IT appearing to the Court by the petition of
Win. L. Tillman, accompanied by the notes and
mortgage deed, that on the fourth day of May,
Eighteen Ilu idrul and Eighty-throe, the defend
ant. mailt and delivered to the* plaintiff her two
promissory notes, bearing date the day uml year
aforesaid, whereby the defendant promised by
one of said promissory notes to pay to the plaintiff
or bearer, twenty-four months nftei the date
thereof, Eighbwm Hundred and Eighty-eight.
Dollars amt Twenty-two Cents, with interest
from date at eight per cent per annum, and if
Siiid note was not paid at maturity, ten per cent
attorney’s fees for the collection thereof, for
value received; and by the other of said promi-
sory notes the defendant promised to pay to th©
plaintiff, or bearer, thirty-six months after th©
date thereof, Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-
eight, I tollars and Twenty-two Cents, with interest
from date at eight per cent per annum, and if
said note was not paid at maturity, ten per cent
attorney’s fees for the collection thereof, for valu©
received; and that afterwards, on the day and
year aforesaid, the defendant, the better to secur©
the payment of suirl notes, executed and deliver*
1 of mortgage, whfcr ’
aft
that tract or parcel of hind situated on the west
side of Broad street in the city of Columbus, and
in said county and state, being about twenty-five
feet in front on Broad street and running back the
full depth of said lot, and known us part of lot
number sixty-five, with all the improvements
thereon, upon which is situated Store House
number one hundred and forty-three; and it fur
ther appearing that said notes re main unpaid;
It is, therefore, ordered that the said defendant
pay into Court on or before the first day of th®
next t»*rin thereof, the principal, interest, attor
ney’s fees and costs due on said notes, or show
cause to the contrary, if any she can ; and that on
the failure of the defendant so to do, the equity
of redemption in .md to said mortgage premises
be forever thereafter barred and foreclosed.
And it is further ordered that t his rule be pub
lished in tlie Columbus Knoi irer-Sun, a public
gazette printed and published in said city and
county, once a month for fom months previous to
the next term of this Court, or served on the de
fendant or her special agent or attorney, at least
three months previous to the next term of this
Court. J.T. WILLIS,
C. J. THORNTON, Judge C. C. C.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
A true extract from the minutes of Muscogee
Superior Court, .May term, 1886.
my20 '
Chl I
uls U.j
fair Rio
Didn't Need It.
“ You know the new catcher of the base
ball nine ?”
“ Yes. ,;
“Saw him clown at the doctor’s office
the ocher day.”
“ What was he there for?”
“ Getting vaccinated.”
“Vaccinated. Why, great heavens!
What does he want to get vaccinated for ?
He’d never catch anything in a hundred
years.”—Merchant Traveler.”
iold in the Sub-Treasury $126,819,000; currency
i.734,000.
STOCK MARKET.
0:w York, September 27.—The following were
ising quotations of the stack exchange
lass A 2 to
do class B 5s...
Ga 6’s
Ga 8’s mortgage
N OS’s
do4’s
H C con Brown....
Tenn. eettlem’t 3s 78
Virginia 6s * 17
Virginia consols...i 53
Chesap’ke Ac Oh
Chicago & N. W..
do preferred...
Del. Lack
Erie
East Tenn
C N..
107 IN. O. Pac. lsts
; N. Y. Central
11 i/-a!Norfolk AcW’n pre..
124 Northern Pacific...
99>.j do prefer
64
751/
61 1
Pacific Mail
Reading 36 %
47 ! Rich. Hi Alleghany fij *
53 I Richmond & Dan.. 140
11V£ I Rich A W. P. Ter’l 40 V 2
117*41 Rock Island 127 *4
142 St. Paul 96)h
138* £ do preferred 124
353^ ! Texas Pacific 16! y
Union Pacific.
• A U I ildilw
Lake Shore 90J^ N. J. Central 61 ‘
L. & N 49 Missouri Pacific HU'a
Memphis A Char.. 41 Western Union. .. 72
Mobile & Ohio 16 | *Bid. \ Asked.
Cotton.
Liverpool, September 27. — Noon.— Cotton
New York, September 27 -Coll*
firm 11 1 .,c. Sugar, market dull and nominal
English island*, limited I * ,e. Mmcuv:ulo4 ; ,c. con- :
triniga! 1 i-16c;faii to u lod refining 1 i ( 13-ltfc,
refined quiet -extra C I ' f n c, white extra C
ft' .«/; |-16c, yellow (' l'.,c off, A 5 1 !-bW» ft* ,c: I
cut and mould 6c; standard A ft?„c, confcc- i
tinners A 6c, cut loaf and crushed 0 5-18c, pow- ;
dered 6%c. granulated sugar 6c, cubes •
eww*.
Chicago, September 27. Sugar quiet -stand- 1
Kns 1 n anil Tiir|M»nlin«‘.
New York, September 27. Rosin dull
strained $1 00@$1 07,'^. Turpentine quiet, at
37%c.
Savannah, September 27.—Turpentine dull,
at 35c ; sales — barrels. Rosin firm—good
strained 90o«( $1 07* ft; sales 00 barrels.
Wilmington, September 27. - Turpentine quiet,
3f,'/ftc. Rosin quiet -strained 75c; good 80c. Tar
firm $1 50; crude turpentine firm—hard 80c,
yellow dip $1 90, virgin $1 00.
Charleston, September27 —Turpentine steady
34%c. Rosin quiet—good strained 85@90c.
Cotton Need Oil.
New Orleans, September 27.— Cotton seed
oil products dull and nom’l—new prime crude oil
delivered 28>£@29c; summer yellow 36@37c. Cake
and meal, long ton, $19 00@ 20 00.
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