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Rnquirkh-Hun.
It taken a shrewd man to dispone of
his property so that his relatives will not
got it.
It iH a pity that Wigging can only be
hung in efligy. We prefer the old way
in his case.
It makes a sight of difference who is
presiding. When John L. Sullivan
umpires a base ball game 'there is no
kicking nt his decisions.
Titumc is nothing known to science
which Wiggins cannot predict. lie will
be specially retained for the Delaware
peach crop next season.
Jons C. Freund is to lecture on “lie-
lore and Behind the Footlights.” John
may be pretty good on a straddle, but if
be doesn’t mind he’ll set himself on fire.
AViikn a politician finds that his base
acts are discovered, he generally changes
his base. The devil never tempts a poli
tician. lie is an economist, and lets
good enough alone.
Tiik strong arm of the law is a very
good thing when it is in trim. But it seems
to be bandaged and carried in a sling in
New Orleans since the Ford-Murphy
trial. That was only a spasm of virtue
after all.
Henry George has put himself up as a
workingman’s candidate for mayor of
New York. Henry works his brains
more than his hands, and is better
known as an agitator than as a laborer.
As to bis candidacy ho should know that
the workingmen of New York live in
New Jersey and Brooklyn, that law-
abiding and wealthy citizens are too
busy to vote, and that the election of
mayor is left to the toughs who live on
bar rooms.
OOLONKL UHICKNK ANI) TDK BOSTON POST
Charles Gordon Greene, who started
tlie Boston Post fifty-live years ago ns an
advocate of ((Id Hickory, died the other
day at his home in Boston. Some fifteen
years after flic beginning of the Post,
that paper, alone among newspapers,
began the experiment of a column of
brief, light an I lively original paragraphs,
which soon became popular as the “All
Sorts” column. Ill 1847 Mr. P. B.Shilla-
ber, then a journeyman printer in the
ollice, began to enliven tlint column with
a daily paragraph about-“Mrs. Parting
ton’’ and her funny, blundering sayings.
For a dozen years this was kept up to
the increase of the Post’s reputation.
After Colonel Greene retire- the man
agement of t he paper was not so success
ful, but the Post now seems to be return
ing towards its old time character as a
fresh and interesting democratic journal.
Colonel Greene was 82 years old.
STATU CONVENTIONS.
The democratic state convention of
Massachusetts assembled Thursday at
Worcester. John F. Andrew, of Boston,
was nominated for governor. The con
vention passed resolutions strongly en
dorsing the administration of President
Cleveland, and said of him: "He has
given to the country a clean, capable
and patriotic administration, worthy of
I lie support of all friends of good govern
ment. He lias vindicated the democratic
party from tilt' slanders of its enemies by
demonstrating its fitness for power and
its ability and determination to give the
nation an honest, thrifty and conserva
tive management of its affairs.”
The territorial democratic convention
of Dakota also was in session at Aber
deen. The resolutions adopted by it
likewise endorse President Cleveland.
That Cleveland’s administration is giving
satisfaction, and daily gaining upon the
confidence of the American people, in
spite of the raving and ranting of the
northern republican leaders, is very man
ifest.
Consul Baiz, of Honduras, says the
Central American can earn enough in a
few days to live on a month. A man
with a capital of $25 can buy a plot of
land, build a house and settle down to a
life of ease. Wages are 30 cents a day,
but one day’s wages will pay for a week’s
food, and a bit of cloth will do for clothes,
while a native never troubles about
shelter. This seems to be the spot to
seek if .me wishes to live the life of a
goat, hut the programme of existence
there does not include the higher social
and intellectual enjoyments that have
come to he necessary to intelligent hu
man beings.
DAILY ENQUIRER- SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1886.
I THE JMHItanR EPIDEMIC IN ((H.I MflLS.
I The following note was actually re
ceived by Hie party to whom it was ud-
i dressed on yesterday:
“Charleston, H. C., September 29 -Mr. ,
Knquirur-Hun office, Columbus, (Ja. — Dear Sir:
I have read an editorial in the Enqliiieb-Sun en-
j titled ‘The Marriage Epidemic in Columbus.’
1 And I am satisfied that you wrote it. I can com
pare it to nothing but the prayer of the Pharisee.
I You appear to he so delighted with the theory of
, marriage that you are resolved not to mar it by
I practice. If you would preach less and practice
| more, if you woi Id show less faith and
; more works on the subject of matrimony,
| your rounded periods might bring
many converts to yourside. As it
is, 1 am afraid your ministry is, and will con
tinue to be, barren of fruits. Now, Mr. , I
say with all the re spec; and kindness in the
world that you ought to marry or you ought to
hush. Respectfully,
“Claha E. Pitts.”
Cluru, dear, when we marry we’ll have
to "hush,"it will be somebody else’s time
then. After a man is married, the more
“hush” lie wears around on
him the less apt lie is
to catch—catch what, Clara? It isn’t
cold. It is something warm—something
hot—the hottest thing, the hottest place
you can think of. We know two or
three married men who get on a big
“hush” occasionally, like other men do
on a spree, and stay on it for weeks. It
isn’t as funny as drinking liquor, but it
clears more dividends. Clara, we would
like to hush a little for your dear sake.
It is a pleasure to us to do things for
people that they find it impossible to do
themselves. But the married men in
our neighborhood have worn this
hush business to a frazzle. It has
got to he such a common
nuisance that people ring chestnut hells
on one every time he “hushes.” But
you “hush” yourself a moment, Clara.
We’ve got something else to tell you.
You have a way of jumping at conclu
sions that will break your leg some day.
just imagine that a conclusion is a spar
row and that you are a hawk, if you can,
and you’ve got a mental tableau of the
way you swoop down on a conclusion.
Two of the editors of this paper are
happily married, and the other one is on
the fence looking around for a soft place
to jump on. The logical inference—not
your inference, Clara—is that one of the
benedict editors wrote “The Marriage Epi
demic in Columbus.” In fact, everybody
knows it but you. Now don’t cry, child.
Do you suppose a single editor would be
required to write an editorial recommend
ing marriage—be required to relate an
experience he never had—he required to
paint a picture which to him is unre
vealed, while there jare plenty of mar
ried men standing around shaking their
chains and ready to testify that every
link is a bond of love, anti every fetter
a fresh delight? Hardly, Clara, hardly.
Remember, now, that the marriage ar
ticles in this paper are written by a mar
ried man whose own experience leaves
hint no alternative hut to take a rosy
vi w of the subject.
But, speaking of the fact that one of
the editors of this paper is unmarried and
on the fence, and is considered tolerably
good loo—. How old are you, Clara? And
how much hair do you wear out
in a year? And how often
do you go shopping, and how hard do
you shop when you go? Are you gradu
ally, hut surely giving way to the fear
ful habit of saddling a Gventy-dollar bon
net on a one-tlollar bruin, and wearing.a
pair of shoes whose heels look like two
sticks of licorice whittled down to a
point? is your cookery hook new inside
and covered with dust outside, while
your French novel is thumbed and worn
till it looks like a museum relic? Do you
dance all night and sleep till noon, and
then superintend your aged mother
while she washes the dishes? Can you
paw a piano until it screams for quarter,
while you know in your heart that you
couldn't tell a dinner stove from a donkey
engine? These questions may appear
somewhat personal at the first blush—it
won’t he your first blush, Clara; that's an
old trick of yours—hut you must remem
ber that you arc, if we understand the
case correctly, trying to drive us, no.
draw us, into a marriage, and hence this
sudden curiosity of ours iu regard to your
life and habits. Now you send us an an
swer to each of the above questions and
we’ll write you by return mail, stating
our terms, which are strictly in advance.
We were going to ask you if you wore
your hair in paper at night, if you snored
and if you thought you could be happy
in “a home without a mother.” But we
don’t want you to think us inquisitive
and we won’t do it. Clara, do you talk
much? And if so, how long does it take
you to do it ? And do you ever stop for
wood and water? There are one or two
other questions we would like to ask
you, hut for fear of being thought guilty
of too much curiosity we desist.
Clara, when you lose your temper do
you sulk, sail in, or just sit down and
cry? Is your rich uncle very healthy?
and what is your middle name?
What religion do you have? or rather,
wlnit religion do you profess? No; that
isn’t it. What religion do you profess to
have? That’s what we mean. There
are some other minor points on which
we would like to quiz you, but it is not
considered an fait, ne plus ultra, or Erin
go bragh, for a gentleman to seek to
know too much about a lady’s
affairs. Say, Clara, do you
wear dead birds on your
tint ? and do you scream when you meet
a“ cow at a summer resort, while at
home you milk four of them before
breakfast? We’would like to propound
other questions to you, but you might
think us unduly anxious to know about
your affairs, hence our resolution to lie
silent. Clara, how ninny men have you
been engaged to before this time? If so,
please state color of hair and nose, size
of shoes worn and post otlice address
when last heard from. Were they still
going when last seen? We desist from
these interrogatories for fear of being
deemed morbidly inquisitive. Clara,
what is your mother’s opinion of
a huslxmd’s duty? We sup
pose site had once once, and has
iter opinion ready made, or at least, that
it can he cut and altered so as to flt our
case.
Clara, does your mother come to see
you many times a year when you are
married? If so, how so, and why, and
what remedy would you prescribe in a
bad attack of a ease of this kind? Ex
cuse so many questions. We now realize
their impropriety. Clara, do you think
you could support a husband n“ he
should he supported? Would you turn
him out to graze on u tree-lunch route
like a wornout hack horse on a sward,
while you visited the neighbors to save
the wear and tear of the house at home?
Confidentially now, would you?
After these one or two questions are
answered we may have several others to
ask. But we are not going to he inquisi
tive. Still, if you fail to answer every
question, then the sweet shimmering
lmlo of romunee that now arches us with
its rainbow promise of bliss must fade
away, and the bright, bright dream is in
definitely postponed on account of the
weather, and the whole thing is busted
up-
LOGAN ELECTIONEERING.
Senator John A. Logan addressed the
republicans at Pittsburg last Saturday
evening. He said:
“After painstaking examination, covering the
past twenty-five years, the democratic party ad
mits that the record of the republican party for
purity and official integrity is the marvel of the
world. The percentage of loss through fraud
during the republican administration defies com
parison with any government on earth.”
Black Jack is at work to secure the
nomination of his party for president two
years hence, and he is quite reckless in
his assertions. When and where did the
democratic party ever make any such
admission as that which he proclaims?
The democratic party has been persistent
and unceasing in declarations of a con
trary character. The independent re
publicans gave as their reason for aban
doning the old part y hull that the cor
ruptions in government, under its man
agement, had grown so great they saw no
chances of reforming abuses while
remaining within its ranks.
It was a notorious fact that the republi
can party was honey-combed by corrupt
rings, and some of the better elements of
the party tried, in 1884, to put it on a
higher plane of rectitude. They were
defeated by the corrupt rings, and then
Schurz, Curtis, the Evening Post, the 1
New York Times, and thousands of re-}
publicans abandoned the party and sup-
ported the democratic candidate.
To call to mind just now a few in
stances of fraud, what does Gen. Logan
say about, the broken-backed ship,
the Niagara, which was sold
to the government for $450,000?
Government experts had examined her
and declaretl her to he worth not over
$00,000, and this only on account of her
machinery, which might he removed;
but the secretary of war purchased the
ship, and the government paid $450,000
for her. It was a complete job. hut the
government hooks simply showed that a
ship was bought and paid for; tin* vouch
ers were filed—account balanced to a
cent. The ship was never able to go to
sea. It was not doubted hut that Mar
shal O. Roberts, the seller of that ship,
devoted a good part of
t lie money lie received for
her to tlie republican electioneering
funds of Indiana and one or two other
states; hut this understanding did not
appear, in the vouchers nor on the
books.
A committee of congress found ttiat in
breaking up one of the old war ships at
Charlestown—one that had never been
finished—the iron, copper and other
parts of her were sold at the price of old
junk, 2 or 3 cents a pound, and these
same articles were sold hack to the
government for a new ship at over 30
cents apound. The corrupt inside rings
pocketed large sums in this way,
in the purchase and sale of
government vessels, and in contracts for
army, navy and Indian supplies, and in
land jobs. The independent republicans,
as well as til e democrats, understood
these things and protested. The corrupt
practices went on till the independents
bolted, and the people reversed the order
and brought forward an administration
that is doing better and cleaner work.
What about the Union Pacific railroad
claims and property of more than one
hundred millions of dollars in value?
But why make further enumerations of
the immense frauds and patent corrup
tions in the party—going so far in that
direction as to stink in the nostrils of its
own adherents? Yet this presidential
aspirant rises to the enormous height
of brazen effrontery to proclaim the
purity of its administration to he beyond
reproach.
The New York World of the 27th de
votes five columns to a review of the
present prospects of trade.
Tlie report shows a very general and
steady improvement in’ all classes of
trade, not in the shape of a boom, but a
healthy reaction and advance in the
price of staples.
JOHN DISBROW & CO.,
Sale, Feed and Liver) Stables.
New and Nobby Turnouts, Safe and Showy Horses, Careful
and Experienced Drivers.
FUNERALS personally conducted and properly attended to. The finest Hearses
in the city.
AFTER SEPTEMBER 1st, Horses boarded and carefully cared for at $16 per
month.
Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers.
sep!2 se&th4w
To the Trade and Smokers.
Beware of Imitations, and see that you get the
genuine
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We hereby notify the trade that all infringements will be vigorously prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
GKEO- F. LIES &c CO.,
Factory 200, 3d District, N. V.
The genuine are tor sale by W. S. Freeman, J. T. Kavanagh, Brannon & Carson, King & Daniel,
Peabody & Faber. T. A. Cantrell. J. H. Edwards, J. E. Deaton. W. R. Moore, E. M. Walsh & Co.,
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IN ORDER TO REDUCE OUR STOCK OF RUBBER HOSE,
I WILL OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR THE NEXT WEEK.
We have the beat and cheapest Hose in the market. A full line of Hose Reels and Nozzles.
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^ and after this date Trains will run as follows:
COLUMBUS, GA., October 3d, 1886.
WEST HOUND TRAINS
No. 1. i No. 3.
Pass’ger.j Accom.
Leave Columbus Union Depot
A “ Columbus Broad Street Depot
2 30 p m I 10 25 p m
2 46 p m 1 10 35 p m
6 46 p m j 2 00%tn
8 J»0 p m
7 23 p m j 4 50am
10 33 p mS
Arrive Troy
“ Montgomery, M. & E. R. R
“ Eufaula. M. & E. R R
EAST BOUND TRAINS.
No. 2. 1 No. 4.
Pasg’ger.: Accom.
Leave Montgomery, M. & E R. R
“ Eufaula, M. & E. R. R
I 3 30 p m
4 01 p m
9 10 ami 6 40pm
9 25 a m; 7 15pm
Arrive Montgomery, M. & E. It R
“ Columbus
12 45 pm! 10 49 p m
No. 5. j
Accom. |
6 20 a m,
6 30 a m!
10 29 a m
11 20 a mi
1 15 p m
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3 45 a m
5 34am
6 29am
7 29 a m
10 19 a m
Trains Nos. 1 and 2 (Mail) daily. Nor. 3 and 4 (Macon and Montgomery Through Freight and
Accommodation) daily except Sunday. No. 5 and 6 (Way Freight and Accommodation) daily ex-
oeptcept Sunday. Nos. 9 and 10 (Passenger) Sundays only.
W, L. CLARK, Sup’t.D. E. WILLIAMS, Q. P. A.
Hatcher & Wilkerson,
Warehouse and Commission Merchants,
Fontaine Warehouse, Columbus, Ga.
WE WILL continue the Warehouse and Commission Business in all its branches,
and solicit the patronage of our friends and the public generally. We guarantee strict
attention and prompt returns on all consignments.
BAGGING and TIES always on hand at cash prices.
Storage and Sale of COTTON a specialty.
Agents for the Latest Improved “LUMMUS COTTON GIN.
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HATCHER & WILKERSON.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
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\\ # Dentist,
35Lj Twelfth street (fonnerly Randolph street.)
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Savings Bank has this day received from the
Union Cigar Company of Chicago, to be held
as a Special Deposit,
U. 8. 4 °io Coupon Bonds,
as follows J
Ko. 22028 D. $500. Market Value of which Is
•* 41204 100. I
« 41205 10O. V $1012.
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$800. ) (S.) Jas. S. Gibbs, Cash.
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made. Elegant quality. Superior workman hip.
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Split Peas, Granula Cracked Wheat, Shreaded
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FRESH CRACKERS just in—Sweet and Plai*
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CANNED GOODS. Finest brands of new and
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Pine Flour, Sugars, Coffees and Teas,
Ferris & Co.’s Breakfast Bacon and Hama,
Pure Spices. Flavoring Extracts and Baking
Powders.
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WARNER BROTHERS,
353 Broadway, New York Ci1
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
NOTICE is hereby given to all parties having
demands against P. McArdle, late of Muscogeee
county, deceased, to present them to me properly
made out, within the time prescribed by law, so
as to show their character and amount. And all
persons indebted to said deceased are hereby re*
FOR SALE,
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J. residence of W. A. Redd on Jackson street.
One-half (%) acre. Terms most liberal. Apply at
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