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DAILY EJ4QHRER • SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1886.
TIMM III.K AT HKAIII.AMI.
There is a Hli^lit cloud Imaging over
educational circles in Headland, Ala
bama. And it !h not to be marveled at.
They have a method of selecting a teach
er down there that is not only original,
but at times so intensely original as to he
possitivoly inconvenient. Their method
of electing a teacher is very democratic
and very fair, and gives every man a
whole winter’s supply of representation
for a trifling amount of taxation. Their
method of selecting a teacher just lays it
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ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD.
Daily, Weekly and Sunday.
The ENQUIRER-SUN Ih issued every day, ex
cept Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday.
The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by
carriers in the city or mailed, postuge free, to sul>-
■c fibers for 75c. per month, $2.00 for three
/months, $1.00 for six monthh, or $7.00 a year.
The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the j over anything ill the way of a method
city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at j W(i have ever seen. But like all bless-
■! n i lings, this Headland, Alabama, method
The Weekly is issued on Monday, and ifi mailed , , . . . • . . .
subscribe™, postage fYee, at $1.10 a year. j electing ft teacher lias its drawbacks.
Transient advertisements will be taken for the It would 1)0 the daisiest method ill the
Daily at |i per square of 10 lines or less for the j wor id if somebody would only invent an
first insertion, and fio cents for each subsequent . , , , , j, , ...
. .. ' ......., . air-brake to stop the method with, when
insertion, and for the Weekly at (I for each In- I 1 1
■ertion. j >* had run as long as they wanted it to
All communications intended to promote the
private ends or interests of corporations, societies
or individuals will be charged as advertisements.
Special contracts made for advertising by the
year, Obituaries will be charged for at customary
gates.
None but solid metal cuts used.
Ail communications should be addressed to the
SSnquirkr-Hun.
LET ’KM THY EMORY.
Our midnight dispatches in this issue
Announce a fearful tragedy at the Uni
versity of North Carolina early Sunday
morning. Some negro ex-convicts in the
village cursed several of the students
shamefully. The latter got reinforce
ments and went to where the negroes
lived and called to them to come out for
an'explanation. The latter fired on the
students, killing one and wounding an
other. The faculty and the municipal
authorities deserve great credit. They
have not caught the murderer or done
anything else to them; but they are “in
vestigating the matter” nobly.
If the thculty and town authorities of
Chape) Hill village get real reckless they
arc just as apt as not to pass a resolution
condemning the action of tlie negroes in
murdering one student and wounding
another; Imt it is to he hoped that they
will not he hasty. The resolution might
offend the negroes who did thc-shooting.
There is a college in the state of (Jeor-
gia known as lCmory college. It is sit
uated in tin* picturesque village of < Ixford.
A more thorough school and a more gen
tlemanly set of students are not in
existence. But the boys there
.have a reputation which has
ripened into a tradition for disposing of
■colored criminals and roughs who seek
the glory of bullying young white men.
it is to be regretted that some of those
tar heel negroes coukl not tackle a dele
gation of “Emory Innocents.” And if
-such a thing were to occur the writer
would give his all for a hack seat to Hoe
tlie circus. And if there were any pools
sold it would he safe to bet that the
funerals would not he postponed, and
that the corpses would not be of a very
light color. Scipio Afrieanas lias hrtd
unvarying bad luck in his bouts with
Georgians. There’s nothing like being a
•Georgian.
coititKcmu i nm.Hi’oitAHY.
Tlie people of Brunswick feel that they
are very badly treated by the Central
Kailroad and the Savannah, I’lorida and
'Western road. It appears that these
loads have refused to deliver through
freights to the Brunswick and Western
read for delivery to Brunswick shippers.
The citizens have called a meeting to
take the matter >n hand, and in order to
Jtive it a good starter, the Brunswick
Herald makes this statement:
“Columbus cotton receipts from September 1st
4o 26th aggregated 7111 bales. To avoid pat ron-
liing the Central rallrond this cotton is stripped
via Chattahoochee river steamers to Fernandiim
and thence to New York. It is conceded oil all
sides that whenever the connection between Al*
hany and Columbus is nil accomplished fact, at
least one-half of all Columbus cotton receipts will
passthrough Brunswick. Mr. Newman, of the
Arm of Newman & Grier, of this city, was pres
ent at a recent meeting of the board of trade of
that city, and they sny Columbus will subscribe
5100,000 towards the connection, and furthermore
•they agree to take stock themselves.*’
Without venturing into the whirlpool
of discontent that seems to he hovering
over Brttnswiek, we must say that the
Herald has been very seriously misin
formed so far as cotton shipments are
•concerned. On the filth day of Septem
ber the cotton receipts aggregated a total
of '111 bait's and the shipments 'nistl
bales, of these shipments ■'»IsI hales
were shipped over the Central railroad
to Savannah and thence by the Ocean
Steamship Company to eastern spinners,
and AOS bales taken by Columbus facto
ries. Not a single hale was shipped via
8lie Chattahoochee rivet to Feruandina.
It seems, therefore, that our cotem
porary has fallen into a very serious
error so far ns this statement is concern
ed. Columbus is well pleased at the
treatment in tlie way of rates given by
the Central railroad, and there is no dis
position to grumble. We are not by any
means authorized to say what Columbus
will or will not do in regard to a connec
tion with Brunswick, but it is believed
that our people are sufficiently anxious
to get tlie road to subeeribe very liberally
to such an enterprise. The people of
Columbus recognize the necessity for a
road in that direction.
John B. Andrew, the rich mugwump
■whom the democrats of Massachusetts
have nor. inated for governor, declares in
a published letter that lie will not fur
nish any money, directly or indirectly,
for campaign purposes, and that tlie
leaders of tlie party knew his views on
tiiis subject before his nomination. This
is highly commendable, but it will lead
to no end of wonder as to why he was
made tlie candidate for governor.
run. Tlie only trouble is the method
will keep a-gritiding.
Tlie other day they had to select a
principal for the school in Headland. So
they rolled tlie method out of tlie wood-
sited and greased it and started it to run
ning. It elected one first-class teacher,
but it kept a going. The president of
the board of trustees got behind a tree
and "hollered:” “Shet’erofF! Shot ’erofTI”
but the method was feeling its oats sorter
that day and it fairly humped itself.
Several of tlie trustees tried to lasso it
with a log chain, and an old lady patron
who sends seven children to school,
wanted to pour hot water on it. But in
spite of everything tliut could be done
tlie method elected another first-class
teacher before it could bo stopped, or
rather before it exhausted itself.
This wonderful and yet tricky method
is worthy of a description. Because,
while it is a dangerous machine for little
schools needing only' one teacher to fool
with, colleges desiring to elect a whole
faculty at once would do well to examine
it before purchasing elsewhere. The
method is this:
When u teacher is to be chosen the
applicants inaugurate a rival canvass
among the patrons, cajoling tlie men by
bragging on their crops and horses, and
tickling the women by telling them that
I heir lialiies are heavy and their bread
is light. A young man may be educated
from “baker” clear up to differential
calculus, but if he isn’t one of the
old blue hen’s chickens in the
art of electioneering lie can never
rub liis pantaloons against tlie
bottom of the principal’s chair in tlie
Headland, Alabama, academy. After
getting the promise of a majority of the
patrons to patronize him, tlie applicant
then notifies the board of trustees, who
“ratify” tlie choice of tlie patrons. It is
rather difficult to see what use it iH to
have a hoard of trustees to “ratify” an
action of the patrons if that action is
filial. But the board of trustees are there
with notiiing else to do, and we have no
doubt that it is not only a pastime, but a
pleasure to them to lay aside their coats
and vests and lints, and get in their sock
feet and spit oil their hands ami just
“ratify ” until they got red in the face and j
sink down from exhaustion and are
carried home on litters. “Ratifying” is
an old sport lml it is exciting and some
times dangerous. But it seems that the
Headland trustees resolved to quit "rati
fying'’ this year and switch nil'mi to an
other band. So when one teacher had
got the promise of four-fifths of the pa
trons to send to him, and the other
teacher had got the promise of nine-
tenths of them to send to him, the boat’d
of trustees “ratified” the latter, and the
former is kicking like a steer in a yellow
jacket’s nest.
In the midst of the turmoil tlie editor
of the Headland Progress shoulders a
jug of oil and prances down toward
the troubled waters. After telling how
each teacher came to have hi< claim
on the school, the editor of the Progress
closes with these deep remarks. We
know they arc deep because we can’t
understand tliem. And when we can’t
see through anything yen can bet it is
deep or muddy one. But then, the latter
adjective, oi course, lias no reference to
t he editor of tlie Progress. But here are
the remarks :
Now, we have stated facts as near as we can
remember as was stilted to us. It is notour de
sire to misrepresent any mail or any business,
and if we keep on our equilibrium we will not,
and owlu&to our duty ofonrposition is tile reason
we make this publication. Onr columns have
always been proverbial for ttieir kind and com
plimentary notices of everything that savors of
purity, virtue and honor, and to keep np this
reputation we will inform tlie public that we are
not interested in the above matter no further
than our interest extends—and that is to do
justice to all which we have done.
This extract is worthy of a place in
English literature for its perspicuity, its
perspicuity and clearness remind one of
the question, “Which would you rather
do, or go a fishing'.”'
ABUSIM. TIIEIlt HOSPITALITY.
The convention of tlie Knights of
Labor now iu session at Richmond, Yu.,
appears to have thus far made progress
slowly. In some respects, however, it
seems to have hud a lively time.
There seems to have been much dis
satisfaction about the admission of cer
tain delegations which aroused feel
ings that at one time threatened to
split the convention. This was the
zeal exhibited by a New York dis
trict assembly to break down tlie color
line in the city of Richmond and to
force the citizens of that city to yield to
their notions of social equality and social
propriety.
It doubtless occurs to every sensible
and thinking man, inside and outside
the organization, that this manifestation
upon l lie part of some of the delegations
to engraft the question of seating him in
the orchestra, created a considerable
commotion, nnd their purpose of taking
him, in a similar way, to tlie Richmond
theatre Wednesday night would un
doubtedly have produced a riot if that
purpose had not been abandoned. The
determination thus manifested by* some
of the delegates to engraft the question
of social equality on to the ques
tion of labor bodes no good to
j the organization. If the labor
question is a vital one; if it is of para
mount importance, and if the members
of the order of knights are thoroughly
in earnest, then, to outsiders, it seems the
very acme of folly to disturb its most
solemn deliberations with dormant
questions which can never be of more
than local interest.
Every community of people claim for
themselves the right to fix their own
social rules. Visitors and strangers
ought always either to conform
to the social usages of tlie
people in whose midst they happen to
be, or else remain quietly in the back
ground. However unreasonable to
strangers tlie social customs of any
community may seem to fie, it is but an
evidence of ill-breeding and ruffianism
flagrantly to violate them. Whoever does
ho, manifests an utter disregard of tlie
feelings of the citizens of that commu
nity, and in so doing, offers them such
an insult as a high spirited people will
always resent. Tlie more refined and
cultured a man is, tlie more cartful will
lie lie, not to offend the social instincts,
even of savages; and especially so, if lie
is but a temporary sojourner in their
midst.
We do not consider, however, the
Knights of Labor, as an organization, re
sponsible for tlie unseemly conduct of
this district assembly. These animad
versions are directed at those who en
deavored, while away from home, ruth
lessly to violate the social usages of a
community, which had received them in
a spirit of hospitality.
I’OOIt I’OlYUKItLY.
Mr. Powderly’s letter, found elsewhere
in this paper, regarding the southern
editors who thought, and dared to say so,
that lie ought to have been introduced to a
Richmond audience by a white Knight
of Labor instead ofji negro, is a silly and
senseless production. Powderly’s artifi
cial elevation lias proved too much for a
man of liis small bore. He can never
pose as a martyr or reformer. He lias
disgusted many thousands of people in
Richmond, most of whom are white
Kniglits of Labor. Mr. Powderly’s allu
sions to the southern peojile’s prejudice
against the negro are buncombe, billings
gate, bilge-water. Tlie Knights of Labor
are a great and powerful organization. But
even an army of lions are harmless when
led bv an ass.
Tiie captain of a Mississippi steamboat
lias been found wlio is mean enough to
refuse succor to a burning and sinking
steamer. His name is Kbrough. lie
had ample opportunity to send aid to
tlie scalded and dying people on the
wreck of tlie exploded Mnscottethi other
day, but he brutally refused. There is a
demand that liis license shall be revoked.
Such a man should certainly not lie in
trusted with tlie care of human beings
on the Mississippi,
Pun.. A it not it, the Chicago millionaire,
buys a suit of clothes every year for each
of his olticc employes. The boys usually
select suits worth from !?:>0 to $35, hut a
fastidious clerk recently abused liis em
ployer’s generosity and sent in a tailor’s
bill of $125. Armour discharged him on
tlie ground that lie wanted 11is clerks to
stand on an equality.
lion elioler aroused a riot at I tell d. A
Hindoo tied a pig in a painful posture in
tlie sacred mosque of tlie Mahometans.
Several persons peri-died in the disturb
ance which ensued. And yet many
Americans believe in tlie importation of
esoteric Buddhism to this countrv.
Political Points.
The Indiana democrats are ivaisting some su-
peitluoi|s energy in the effort to elect fifteen con
gressmen in the thirteenth district.
Republicans, are now denying that they ever
had any big majority in Iowa. It is at least com
forting to know that they haven’t it now.
Amos J. Cummings, the well-known journalist,
is booked for the county democracy nomination
for congress in the sixth New York district.
The New Jersey Republican convention was
decidedly enthusiastic over the mention of
Blaine's name. They nearly all are. A republi
can convention without a Blaine clique would be
an oversight.
As the mugwumps like the nomination of An
drew for governor, but not that of Foster for
lieutenant-governor in Massachusetts, it has
been suggested that they vote for tlie former but
not for the latter, and so make a test of the
strength of their vote in the state.
Butterworth and McKinley are two Ohio men
who are already being backed for the speaker
ship of the next congress subject to conditions
that they are re-elected and that the next house
of representatives shall be republican. Your
Ohio man is always on time.
Theodore Roosevelt has been nominated for
president of the New York board of aldermen.
IVe hope he wont be elected. To have a repub
lican New York alderman write the name of
Thomas H. Benton for the ‘'American states
men" series would be simply dreadful.
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Jerseys! Jerseys! Jerseys! Jerseys!
Braided Jerseys, Plaited Vest Jerseys;
Plaited (entire front) Jerseys, Boacle Jerseys;
Elegant Jerseys in Plain Materials;
In fact, lliere is scarcely any end to the variety in this de
partment. About WEDNESDAY or THURSDAY we will
open our second stock of Children’s Jerseys. Among them
will be some very choice novelties which have not been shown
in this market.
500 JERSEYS at 50 cents, the best value we have ever
shown.
WE ARE ANXIOUS FOR YOU TO SEE OUR
STOCKINGS
Our Hosiery stock is tilled with new things, and it won't
cost you anything but your time to see them. We make a
specialty of Children's School Hosiery, don’t forget that. It
would take more space than we possess to ventilate this
stock properly. Bargains in Hosiery.
You must be sure to come and see us. It is worth your
while.
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AT THEIR
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New Stand.
OUR MAGNIFICENT STOCK
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Now on Exhibition.
All the novelties in Felts,
Astrakhan and Plush Hats
can be found at our store.
We are displaying the most
elegant line ot Fancy Feathers,
Birds' Wings, etc., ever shown
in this market.
Special bargains in Ostrich
Tips and Plumes.
25 Dozen Misses’ and Chil
dren's Trimmed School Hats
at from 50 cents up.
Our Pattern Hats are now
on exhibition.
The New York Store
Opened the Season with a House Full of Bargains in all
Classes of
GOODS,
And I lie people are showing their appreciation of this
fact by giving us their patronage. Our sales are double
what they were for tlie same time last season. The
Dress Goods Novelties and Trimmings are a special at
traction, and are selling rapidly at the low prices we put
upon them. Our CLOAKS and WRAPS are the admira
tion of all who have seen them.
We have found it necessary to increase our clerical
force, so that in future all can have polite and prompt
attention.
J. E. CARGILL, Agent.
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To all who are suffering from the errors aud
Indiscretions ot youth, nervous weakness, early
decay, loss ot manhood, &e., I will send a recipe
that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by a missionary tn South
America. Send a self-addressed envelope to the
Rev. Joseph T. INMAN, Station D, AYu, York City.
sepll eod&wly (fol r m)
A MONTH ,UM * *•«»«•«• for 3
H IVIVIN I n Uve Young Men
or Ladies in each county,
P. W. ZIEGLER & CO.,
oclt w8t Philadelphia
Hatcher & Wilkerson,
Warehouse and Commission Mer
Fontaine Warehouse, Columbus, Ga.
WK 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.
sepj‘itawimw2m HATCHER &. WILKERSON.
ION & CO,
M. Joseph's Old Stand.
UNPRECEDENTED
STOCK OF
Piece Goods
NOW READY
For Fall, 1886.
Clothing Made to Order.
Varkly Fnpnrallolod.
Prlfc» Reasonable.
Satisfac tion 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 Maniifnctnrer, 1300 & 1203
Hroat, Street. Columbus tin.
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Mobile & Girarc
/AN and after this date Trains will run as follows:
R. 1
COLUMBUS, GA.,
Co.
October 3d, 1886.
WEST BOUND TRAINS.
No. 1.
Pass’ger
No. 3.
Accom.
No. 5.
Accom.
Arrive
Leave
Arrive
Columbus Union Depot
Columbus Broad Street Depot..
Union Springs
Union Springs
Troy
Montgomery, M. & E. R. R
Eufaula, M. & E. R. R
2 30 p m
2 46 p m
5 37 p m
6 46 p m
8 .SO p m
7 23 p ill
10 33 p ill
10 25 p ill
10 35 p ill
1 45 a ill
2 00 a m
6 20am
6 30 a m
10 29 a m
11 20 a m
1 15 p m
EAST BOUND TRAINS.
Leave Montgomery, M. & E R. R...
“ Eufaula, M. & E. R. R
“ Troy
Arrive Union Springs
Leave Union Sgrings
Arrive Montgomery', M. & E. R R...
“ Columbus
No. 2.
Pass’ger.
7 40 a m
4 25 a m
7 35 a m
9 10am
9 25 am
7 29 a m
12 45 p in
6 40 p ill
7 15 p m
3 45 a m
5 34 a m
6 29 a m
7 29 a m
10 19 a m
Trams Nos. 1 and 2 (Mail) daily. Nos. 3 and 4 (Macon and Montgomery Through Freight and
Accommodation) daily except Sunday. No. 5 and 6 (Way Freight and Accommodation) daily ex-
ceptcept Sunday. Nos. 9 and 10 (Passenger) Sundays only. _
W. L. CLARK, Sup’t. “ . D E. WILLIAMS, G. P. A.
At WIiolcHiile by
LOUIS BUHLER & C»„
OOLITE-BITS, C3-JL.
je5 eod6m
W. S. GREEN, Real Estate Agt.
I have for sale the following list of Real Estate
which I will be pleased to show to parties who
desire to purchase:
$1500. One eight room house on Eighth street, be
tween Third uiul Fourth avenues.
1800. One new live room house on Ninth street,
near court house.
$2400. One six room house, near court house.
$•1500. >4 acre lot with six room house on Second
avenue, near Thirteenth street .
$2500. New eight room house on lower Broad
street.
1800. A new five room residence on Rore Hill,
$3000, ' i acre lot with six room house, on Second
avenue near Fourteenth street.
3000. New six room residence, on Fifth avenue,
near Fourteenth street.
2500. Eight room residence on Rose Hill.
2200. Six room house on Fourth avenue, near
ing fourteen per cent.
750. Two new three room houses in lower town
paying fifteen per cent.
1000. Four new three room houses in Northern
Liberties, rents for $16 per month.
225. One vacant lot, near Slade’s school,
2400. 213 acres of land nine miles east or Colum
bus,
1200. 187 acres of land, seven miles trom city, on
Hamilton road.
3500. 160 acres of land in Wynnton, with six room
residence.
3 acres of tl
Alabama.
1600. 800 acres of land in Gadsden county, Fla.
TAX NOTICE.
Stale and fount)' Tales for the Year 1SSC
Are now due, and my books are open for collec
tion of same from and after Monday. Septem
ber 6th. D. A. ANDREWS,
Tax Collector Muscogee County.
Office : Georgia Home Building.
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