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wtv-.VTwyyy r»vr, ' 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 €oMu@0;m)uirtr#un. 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. A 1 m \j 11 irm rr A ill i AND SEE OUR SPLENDID LINE OF J E R S EYS! 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. BLANCHARD. BOOTH A HUFF, AT THEIR & CO, New Stand. OUR MAGNIFICENT STOCK —OF— Fall Milliner) 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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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. eodtf O ZE3I IEJ W RUDOLPH FINZER’S STARLIGHT ANI) CAPITAL PRIZE rti 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. 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