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„DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER IT, 1886.
J,A1? V
A Spring that Secures Immunity from
Death and Decay.
A Sermon Preached at the Flint Baptist Church
by Rev. Robt H. Harris Last Sunday Night, an:!
Reported Specially for the Enquirer-Ban.
Text: “Living Water.” John 4:10.
In the arid regions of the east there are two
classes of wells—shallow excavations, containing
brackish water that has soaked down through
alkaline sands; and deeper openings, supplied
with fresh water from subterranean springs, or
“veins.” The former is called, in oriental lan
guage, stagnant or “dead” water; the latter
“living water.”
When Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, “If
thou knewest the gift of God and who” (I am i,
“thou wouldst have asked of (me) and (I) would
have given thee living water,” she gave His
words a literal construction: She thought He
alluded to the character of the water in Jacob’s
“deep well,” upon whose curb He sat. Hence
her reply, as recorded in the next verse. But He
had another and a deeper meaning, ns she soon
discovered, and as we presently shall see.
Three hundred and ninety years ago the belief
was prevalent, if not universal, in Europe that
somewhere in the unexplored regions of the
earth there existed the
“fountain of eternal youth.”
A limpid spring, a draught of whose crystal
waters and a plunge into whose pellucid depths
would arrest age, stop decay and rejuvinate man,
insuring to him perpetual youth and absolute
exemption from natural decrepitude and death.
This belief, it seems, was especially strong in
Spain, where it swayed all classes from the king
and his courtiers to the peasant and the pauper.
The desire to find the fubled spring was intense
and all-absorbing, and the haughty don, the
dashing cavalier and the vagrant ad
venturer all turned their eager
eyes toward the newly-discovered wilds of the
western hemisphere as the favored region, where
their bright hopes might be fulfilled. Before that
time dauntless men had, doubtless, sought
that fountain in the desert’s heart. The alchem
ists of old had failed in all their efforts to brew or
distill the “elixir of life,’’and men lmd concluded
that the immortal draught, in which their faith
was still unshaken, could only be found as poured
from nature’s alembic into some lone basin of the
wilderness. So they toiled onward, over thorny
roads and stony paths, through billowy drifts of
burning sand, freezing by night, under the ex
treme and suddeu fall of temperature, scorched
and blistered by day under the terrific glare.
With aching bones they stood at morn, and
rolled their wild and sunken eyes upon the
sun, as he bounded like a ball of brass
above the gray horizon line, growing and glow
ing into fiery life and incandescence fierce, as up
he rose; at noon, the parched skin hanging in
shreds and strips from their bleeding faces, they
sought the shadow of the cracked and baking
rock, to hide them from his focal eye, now open
wide upon them like a white-hot furnace door.
The desert was strewn with bleaching bones of
.horses, camels and men, and frenzied beings
mad with thirst, plunged down the rocky gorges,
or rushed with frantic fury up the stony heights—
but, alas! the spring, the fountain of immortality
WAS NEVER FOUND.
And, thus, countless thousands perished in the
blistering sand storms—of dire disease—of famine
and of mortal thirst—in vain quest of an immor
tal draught. At last the desert search was
abandoned and longing hearts reached out to
ward the alluring western wilds, whither Co
lumbus had taught the way across the trackless
ocean. But none had yet formed a just coneep-
tiornof the extent, nor the character of the newly
discovered lands, and there was a great diversity
of opinion as to the probable location of the
fabulous fountain. Some thonglit it might be
found on one of the Bahamas. Oranello located
it in the continental region, west of the Orinoco,
whither, more than a century later, Raleigh
nought it in vain, whilst others maintained still
different theories. In the meantime,
DON JUAN PONCE DE LEON,
a trusted lieutenant of Columbus’ on his second
voyage, having, for reasons that I need not men
tion, become separated from his chief, proceeded
with three vessels, upon a voyage of his own
planning, and discovered a region that he named
Florida, in honor of the day on which he
landed—Pascua Florida, the Palm Sunday
of the Spanish Catholics. It is long since I have
read the history of those events, and my recol
lection may not be strictly accurate, but I think
Ponce sailed along the eastern coast of Florida
as for as the latitude of St. Augustine, whence he
doubled on his track, passing around the south
ern point of the peninsula, discovering the Tor-
tugas, and pushed his way as far north perhaps
as Tampa bay. He had been promised the gov
ernorship of all the lands he might discover and
colonize, so he landed and attempted the con
quest of the country. Advancing from the shal
low waters of the surlless shore across the snow-
white beaches and the sandy dunes, he traversed
the pine-crowned hills and pressed his way into
the dark and noisome* swamps of the Kis
simmee and the sjumbrous Okeechobee.
There, in the gloomy shadows of ftinereal
cypress boughs and wierd palmettoes and
clinging lianas, festooning creepers
and trailing vines, where gleamed the epiphyte
and perennial orchids bloomed above the giant
ferns that threw their enormous fronds aloft into
the reeking, miasmatic air, and where fever and
death lurked in the stagnant atmosphere, bold
Ponce and his mailed followers encountered the j
fierce Tustenuggees, of the Everglades, and their j
hideous warriors, whose horrid warwhoop drowned ,
the booming of the bittern and the bellow of the
saurian, wid whose poisoned arrows were dead
lier than Bie fangs of slimy snakes that writhed
in the fetid ooze and squirmed about their bus-
kined feet. There could be no conquest without
war to the death. And de Leon might have
abandoned his bootless invasion, had he not
from captives heard
A STORY OF STRANGE FASCINATION.
“Far in the depths of yonder forest” (pointing to
the westward of the glittering “bear,” that looked
from the cold north, upon the flick
ering camp fires), the captives said, “ there is
a bright, blue spring, and whosoever drinks of
its clear waters and bathes in its cool depths,will
remain forever young, and disease to hitn will be
unknown.” That is what the Spaniard under
stood the Indians to say. This is probably what
they did say, and I veuture the suggestion mod
estly : “Away to the northwestward of this spot
there is a spring of clear, blue water, cool and re
freshing to the taste, and delightful for the bath.
It is located in a region of wonderful salubrity
where sickness is almost unknown, and where
air; and the bright fishes below you, surrouuded
by their rainbow halos, their fins gleaming with
prismatic hues, seem poised between the heaven
and the earth. This lovely spring is encircled by
stately evergreens, whose graceful boughs hang
pendant above its bosom like a feathery emerald
fringe around some priceless, crystal gem. It is
THE BEAUTIFUL WAKULLA,
the peerless Florida fountain. It is a delight to
quaff its sparkling waters and to lave the weary
limbs in its cooling, azure depths; and it is located
in a region once noted for its salubrity. Reach
ing away to the north and westward, beyond the
Ochlockonee, in Florida, and nearly to the Flint,
In Georgia, there is a lovely land, of swelling un
dulations, clothed with towering pines, inter
spersed with odorous hammocks, of beech and
grand magnolias, studded with silver lakes and
threaded by* amber streams, where the pioneers
knew no physician and needed none. That is
the region, perhaps, of which the Indians spoke
But de Leon was advancing in age, his brow was
seamed and his cheeks furrowed by toil and care,
bis hair was streaked with grav and his limbs
were weakened by hardships, by battles and by
years.
HE LONGED FOR YOUTH
again, and he struggled to reach the spring; but
in his second attempt he was permanently foil
ed. Struck down by a poisoned arrow, he wus
carried to Cuba to die; and thus the only man
who ever thought that the. immortal fountain
was palpably within his reach, breathed out his
lif<? before his eyes cauld be gladdened by its sil
very sheen. Gradually the superstition faded
from the minds of men, and now there is none
left to believe in the existence of the fobled
fountain.
But there Is an innate longing in the
human heart for the refreshing diaught that
somewhere must be found. Argument is not
needed to convince men of the immortality of
the soul. The conviction of this truth is in
grained in the minds of the most barbarous
tribes, and we know, without external proof, that
there is an eternity of punishment or reward.
We know that we must drink from the putrid
pool of stagnation and death, unless we can find
the gushing
SPRING OF HEALTH AND LIFE.
This conviction, doubtless, caused the material
istic minds of men more readily to believe tlie
fable of tlie physical fountain of immortality,
which, possibly, originated in a misconception
and misconstruction of the figurative, spiritual il
lustrations of the Holy Scriptures.
Awakened iu the twilight of the earliest morn
ing, here, the soul yearns for the opening of the
incorporeal day.
“The future is man’s immemorial hymn —
In vain, goes the present a-wasting —
To a golden goal, in the distance, dim,
In life, in death, he is hasting.
The world grows old—and young-and old.
But the ancient story still bears to be told.
Hope smiles on the boy from the hour of his
- birth; k
To the youth it gives bliss, without limit;
It beams, for old age, a star on eaith.
And the darkness of death cannot dim it:
Its rays will gild even fat homless gloom,
When the pilgrim of life lies down in the tomb.
Ne’er deem it the ‘shibboleth’ phrase of the
crowd,
Ne’er call it the dream of the rhymer;
The instinct of nature proclaims it aloud,
‘We are destined for something sublimer.’ ”
Goethe never uttered truer words than these.
We are conscious of an immortal destiny, and
tho soul thirsts for the water of life. “Oh ! that
I might find the immortal spring!” cries out the
anguished human heart, “and drink, and drink,
and live forever, insured against decrepitude,
exempt from cankering cares that kill.”
WELL, I HAVE FOUND IT!
The “Fountain of Eternal Youth!” And I am
not the sole discoverer. The woman of Samaria
found it and she drank of the “living water,
flowing from the Throne of God. Her townsman
found it, who “believed on Christ for the saying
of the woman.” as well as those who “believed
because of His own word.” The redeemed, in all
ages, have found the spring, and Christians be
fore me, to-day, have found the sour :e of that
“river, the streams whereof make glad the city
of our God.” It is the “fountain filled with
blood,” the precious blood of Jesus, and, verily,
“there is no other name under heaven, that is
given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
There is no other fountain from which we may
drink and live. We must be plunged beneath
“that healing flood” to secure immunity from
decay and death.
Oh, ye worn and weary, broken down with
toil and care and anxiety and grief! come to the
fountain of life and drink your fill. You need
not drag your sun-flayed limbs through scorching
deserts, nor plunge through dark forests, reeking
swamps and miasmatic fons. When Hagar
wailed in the desert, oblivious of her o wn suffer
ings, in the agony of maternal sympathy for the
famishing Ishmacl, the angel said : “Look up.”
The living spring was above her. I say to you to
day “look up” to Calvary’s summit, where flows
the crimson stream of life. Go up and drink and
live. Are you young ? Ah, then, you’ll be forever
young! Are you old ? One draught will stay
decrepitude. Accept the “living water” of sal
vation though faith in Christ and live forever
more.
Dear brethren, the face may become furrowed,
the hair may be bleached and the eye grow dim,
the bending form may totter on tremulous limbs,
and men may call it age: but the heart of the
Christian will ever be young. Plunge into the
cool, sweet depths of the Fountain of Youth and
lave the fevered soul; drink deep, and deeper
draughts of the potent elixir of life; your “youth
is renewed like the eagle’s;” joyous we live and
joyous take our heavenward flight, at last to
bathe, forever, in the boundless, beatific ocean
of God’s eternal love.
CITY Dltro STORE.
I>rn?M. Fancy Article* and Dm* »«**«•
dries.
We are now receiving a new supply of all Fancy
Goods and Staples in our line.
An endless variety of Bristle Goods, Tooth
Brushes, Hair Brushes, Nail Brushes, Baby
Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Blackiilg and Cloth
Brushes. The best 25c Tooth Brush ever sold in
Ideas Suggested by a Stroll Through the
City.’
The Dentist of tho Groat Metropolis Behind Those
ol Columbus—A Kluvulnr Surgical Operation,
Figures for Travelers to Fonder—The Olrl of tin*
Fe led—Remand for a Readlng'Maelilne- VSfllh* J
nIoun of a Statesman.
New York is agog over the operation of a den
tist who Has transplanted some teeth from the
mouth of one man to that of another.
They are behind tho times in the great met roj>-
olis. Their dentist might have come to Colum
bus ten years ago and learned from young prac
titioners liow to perforin the operation which
now seems to t hem so wonderftil. Col malum has
even laymen who, when uudei a state of peculiar
mental perturbation, have been k* own to trans
plant their teeth Into another man’s nose or ear,
and there are cases where fingers have been sub
jected to this wonderful transplantation.
But there has recently been a feat in dentistry
in this city that lays over anything of the kind
that has come to our notice. A gentleman
walked into one of our dental rooms and asked
the dentist to plug a tooth which was giving hint
considerable trouble. It was a back tooth, and
it was with tho greatest difficulty that the cavity
could be reached. To serve his convenience the
dentist pulled out the tooth, took it to bis war' .
room, filled the cavity, and then replaced it in
the man’s mouth. The tooth is as sound and
good as any lie has in his mouth, and Dr. Tigner
is the man who did it.
But when it comes to doctors, whether tooth
doctors or otherwise, Columbus can equal the
great metropolis or any other citv. We remem
ber a case which occurred not a great while ago
in which a little girl had considerable skin and
flesh torn from one of her limbs. In order to
give her the treatment that was best, it was nec
essary to procure more skin to replace that which
had been torn away. In the emergency a little
brother bared his arm, shut his eyes and extend
ing it to the doctor said, “cut it out’”
The doctor took tlie skin from the little heroe’s
arm and transplanted it to the sister’s wound. If
healed and grew there, and is now all right.
Willie Ferguson was the brave lad’s name and
Dr. Jordan tlie physician who did it.
Do you travel? Then think of these figures as
you rattl * along.
From an examination of an article in Poor’s
Manual on the railroads of the United States it
appears that the total length of railroad tracks in
this country up to December 31, 1885, was 128,-
969 79 miles. This would make a railroad wind
ing around the earth at the equator five times
and leave enough truck for an extension to the
center of the earth. If pointed out into space it
would reach more than half way to the moon.
The total liabilities of all these roads amount to
only $8,073,573,394, while their assets arc* but $214,*
261,220 more than this.
The total train mileage of all roads reported
was but 560,173,865. The number of passengers
carried was 351,427,088, which, if things were run
according to the views of the socialists, would
have given every man, woman and child in tlie
United States six rides on the railroad last year.
The total mileage of these passengers was 9,133,-
673,956 miles, or an average of only thirty miles
each; Tons moved were 437,040,099, ortons moved
one mile, 49,151,894,169, or only the one hundred-
thousandth part of the weight of the earth, which
is put at nearly 6000trillion tons. The earnings
from the passengers were only $200,883,911,which
would average less than 60 cents each or only
two cents a mile. The number of deadheads is
not given, an important omission. The net earn
ings of the roads were only $206,488,993, or about
$2000 to the mile of track.
“This world is frill of queer things that we
never get on to.”
“What do you mean by that?” querried tlie rc- j
poster of the dude, who seemed anxious to im- |
part some useful information.
“You just come down the street past that big /
boarding house over there. A young fellow
meets you and lie’s whistling about the nightin
gale singing of you—of yon, you know, and you
E’en as the main, tliy circling monody
Upon tlie lone horizon meets the sky,
Where foi fitly flickers in the distance for
The afterglow of hope’s departed star.
Pour forth, sweet bird, thy requiem, and lo!
Night’s dreamy waves of sympathy o’erflow
To soothe thy pain: whih thoughts attuned to
thine,
Molt into twilight tenderness divine.
The following Is written on a flowered leaf in
the same album:
“They are uot ours, the fleeting flowers,
But lights of God that through the sod
Flash upwards from tho world beneath—
That region peopled wide with death—
And tell us in each subtle Hue
That life renewed is passing through
Our world again to hock the skies—
Its native realm of Paradise.”
On account of the beauty of thought in the
above the secretary will, no doubt, be readily for
given for making Paradise rhyme with skies.
THE UANt^l'ET AT SEALE.
A Urilliunl Entertainment HI van by the Yount;
Men of the Town.
Sealq, Alabama, contains the houses of a vi1_
lage and culture of a city. Like Mount Zion ot
old, it is bcuntiftil for situation, aiid it sits among
the hills like an architectural benediction. Peo
ple leave there for few places, put they go there
from every whmc. Society people from the largei
cities of Aluhama and Georgia are fond of visit
ing Seale, for there they find the refinement of
the city they have left among its red hills and
rural scenes and butterflies and breezes. The
young men there are educated, thrifty and steady,
ami the rising generation of young ladies
in the village has given it a reputa
tion for beauty which makes it red-lcttercd
among the towns of the state. But Seale’s hos
pitality is its strong point. Even a weary stranger
who lands there feels like a bird that has folded
its wings above its ownjnest. No full hearted
fhtlier ever held out the right haud of welcome
to the returning prodigal of his loins with a
purer, sweeter welcome than Seale holds to
friend and stranger who come within her gates.
On Friday evening last a member of the En
quirer-Sun staff attended a banquet in Scale
given by the young gentlemen of the village to
Misses Bell, of Montgomery, and Bass, of Glen-
wood, who are on a visit there. The Enquirer-
Sun man on his visit was the guest of Mr. Ben.
J. Dun id, one of the busiest and best lawyers of
his age in the state of Alabama. If Mr. Daniel
can entertain a court and jury as well us lie can
ft guest, there is a fortune ahead ofhiminthe
law business. The Enquirer-Bun representa
tive was splendidly entertained at Mr. Daniel’s
home, and through the kindness ol’his host hud
a horse and buggy at his disposal during his en
tire stay. The bauqueb was given
at the cosy and elegant hotel of Mrs. W. J.
Henry. The guests began to gather at 9 o’clock,
and before 10 nearly a hundred were present, the
brilliantly lit parlors being comfortably crowded.
The reporter has seldom Heen a more attractive
company assembled on a social occasion. The
belle of Seale, who is claimed by her admirers to
be the most beautiful girl in Alabama, was there.
The claim of hot admirers is well founded.
Quite a delegation came up on the 9 o’clock
train from Hatchcchubbee, and many others
from the surrounding neighborhood of Scale.
There were lamps above and laughter below, and
a rattling of silks and tiny footfalls, while amid
it all bright eyes and diamonds struggled like
contending stars for supremacy of light. The
banquet, which was prepared under the superin
tendence of Mrs. Henry, aided by her corps of
well trained servants, was superb in every par
ticular. The entire affair was splendidly con
ceived and prepared and conducted, and passed
off without n jar ora flaw. The long evening
flew rapidly away, and after midnight the happy
guests took a reluctant departure. They are
lucky people who get invitatl ♦ * visit Beale.
GEORGIA HIDLASi» EiLI *K>.
The First Shipment ofthrtloii Over tin* It >;nl -The
Work* AM Along the Line Progressing Finely—A
New Engine nwl New furs.
The tunnel heading is fifty-live feet under.
At this rate of progress the tunnel will not keep
track laying delayed much.
The stone piers for the iron span at the bluff
are all up. This completes all piers for fifty-two
miles.
| The force of masons are now at work on the
j piers of Flint river.
i Work has actively begun between the tunnel
and the river. In a month from to-day all
grading this side the mountain will be complete.
Locomotive No. 102, from the Baldwin Loco-
motive Works, came in Friday last. Like the
others it has all the latest improvements, in-
think how merry and free from care he is. You
hear a window open. You don’t put the two
things together at all, but if you look up you’ll
see a girl waving her handkerchief, and you'll
notice if you look back that the man has stopped
whistling and is waving his hand vigorously.
Then you’ll meet another fellow. He’s whist- I eluding Westinghouse airbrake, signalling at-
ling a bit of *11 Trovatore’ in a careless, happy | tachments, etc. This makes three locomotives
way. You happen to glance up and you see a | already on the road.
girl waving her handkerchief, and he stops whist- I By the 1st proximo the company will have in
ling and takes oft* his hat, throwing up a smile j twenty more freight cars.
that goes up higher than the water from a fire 1 The first passenger cars are already awaiting
engine. A little later yo.u’ll meet another man. j shipment, so soon as twenty miles of track is
He has a bad cough, a very bad cough, but he | ready. That will be veiy soon. The iron bridge
gets better, squints up skyward and waves his j at Bull creek is being rapidly put in position,
hand, and a girl drops a smile upon him. It’s all ] Cars will cross that Ccreck and Willis’ by next
the same girl, but the men don’t know of one I Thursday. Then, there are no streams fora long
another’s existence, and some day there will be | stretch. Where there is no hinderance, the
a fight, for all those men will give the signal at track-laying gang get down three-fourths of a
the same time and they’ll find it out.” mile of track daily. The foreman says it will be
... . . 7 . . I a mile a day soon.
D.d you ever think what a (peat convenience | K im>er Cowan an(1 his oorp(j No . 3 , httvi „ g
a reading machine would be? i com pi e t e( j ,| lc location to McDonough, will now
What we mean is something m which you j ^ loyed bv the ttoltimbus anil Florida Rail-
could put the latest novel or freshest book, turn | ComplnJ '. ln making preliminary surveys,
a crank and have it read with feeling and expres* I xhe flrst slllpm ent of cotton came over tho
sion. Some such contrivance as this is absolute-| r0idvcsUrdtty u waB fr(m , Bljthel and waB
ly necessary to save us from being a nation of lwBn i v bale8 . This is but the forerunner of many
short-sighted people. In this age everybody reads | ^ Bhipm( nts . Heverai lots of cotton arc
more or less and American eyes are rapidly be
coming as bad as those of the Germans,
ing machine would save them. Then, too, what
a sociable element it would introduce into the
family. As it is now in reading households the
father and mother, sons and (laughters,aunts and
grandmothers, sit in a circle around the lamp,
and all in profound silence road to themselves.
A stranger droppieg in on them unexpectedly
might think that be had come upon a family of
mutes, or that each one of the silent readers
was in too sullen ^nd glum a humor for speech.
How different it would be with our ideal reading
How the family would gather around
large- shipment:
i waiting for shipment. This is the kind of return
A read- , wants. It is trade,, new friends and
this market. A beautiful Child’s Crush for 15c. machine
Combs of any kind and style. | it. as a center of common interest and sympathy!
All makes of Face Powders, A beautiful assort- ! How it would unify and solidify households !
ment of Puff Boses, Puffs and Sachet Powders. ; The picture that rises before us is so wholly
A large line of Colognes and Extracts from
every maker of prominence. Our White Rose
Cologne cannot he surpassed in the United
St \Vecarry the largest and most varied assort
ment of soapB of any house in the city, from 5c to
75c a cake. A special bargain at 50c per dozen.
iharming that we call upon Edison to supply
this great need of the hour with all convenient
haste.
It seems that Secretary Umar has become a
day-dreamer and has even taken to poetic effu- J following changes
sions. According to a Washington dispatch a | Reserve decrease
new territory.
The country the Midland traverses is the land
that settlers want. Huch substantial citizens as
J. E. Appier, and dozens ol others, are buying
homes on this line. This shows plainer than tojk
what the future will be.
Colonel Goetchius is in Gridin and has nearly
completed the right of way h rough that city.
The line through the country has all been com
pleted.
Chief Engineer Green, after visiting Mint river
bridge, was at the tunnel yesterday.
ColonelP. P. Dickinson left yesterday afternoon
for a trip up the line.
Treasurer Grav is act ing .superintendent of the
road. His long experience eminently fits him
for it.
JUS! MOSS HE RIVES,
Happenings in Browneville and Girard
Laconically Noted.
Sommer Lingering In Winter’ll Lap—The Denth of
Dr. Palmer -A Key that Comes l T p HiNKlnv
Organization of a New Order -The Lad lea’ Sap.
per— Personal, News Notes and Minor Topics.
Our Browneville neighbors, in common with
most people hereabouts, arc complaining of heal
and dust. Several days of the week were ardent
enough for July or August, and although ruin
seemed threatened, none came. The skies for
the past two days have been unclouded ami
cerulean enough lor the poet and dreamy philoso
pher, equaling the undimmed splendor of artistic
Italy. Yes, “all signs foil in dry weather,” has
boon fairly illustrated by the present drouth
which has continued for seven or eight weeks.
Mortals, true to their nature, will complain, and
yet complaining is useless when Providence is nt
the helm.
As to business, wo are told it is picking up a
little, though hardly up to expectations. Perhaps
expectations are too high, as they generally are
iu most things relating to man’s welfare and hap-
piuess here below. Home people are never satis
fied with “well enough,” and would complain
were they surround d by courtiers and palaces,
with the tabled gold of Midas. All in all, Browne
ville is comfortable, and most of her citizens en
joying the fruits of their industry.
Dr. It. I*. Fulmer Killed.
The citizens of Browneville received quite a
surprise in the nows conveyed to them a few days
since o the killing of Dr. It. U. Palmer, at Cor
sicana, Texas, on tho 9th instant. It will be re
membered that I)r. Palmer was a practicing phy
sician in Browneville fer several years, and four
or five years ago changed his residence to Texas.
The news came by-a postal card from Mr. Hurry
Holland to his uncle, Col. J, T. Holland. The
following is the brief announcement:
Austin, Texas, October 10.—Dr. Palmer was
killed yesterday. No particulars.
A Missing Key.
Nothing confuses a person more than to aj#
proaeh a place of business, with the mind full of
the duties of the day, and discover that the key
is missing from its accustomed place. None but
those who have experienced this direftil feeling
can fully sympathize with one of the “fair” mer
chants of Browneville, as she awoke to the con
sciousness the other morning, that not only her
key was missing, but also an Important page in
life’s unwritten history, it gives us pleasure to
state that in this particular instance the vexation
was short-lived, as the sting of remorse, or the
dream of reward, led one of the sterner sex to
restore the missing article.
Knights of tin* Holden Engle.
A lodge of this order was organized in Browne
ville on Friday night with sixty-two members.
It is the first lodge of this order yet organized in
Alabama. The officers elect are:
D. E. Wade, S T. C.
John Buminersgill, N. C.
M. T. Lynn, V. C.
H T. Waldrop, H. P.
James Ogletroe, M. of R.
George Davie, C. of E.
B. M. Meddler. It. of E.
William Morris, V. H.
L. J. Goins, E.
William Prlddy, E.
D. N. Bishop, W. C.
William Lawrence, F. G.
J. F. Vinson, B. G.
J. M. Boston, W. B.
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Ladies* Supper.
The ladies of Trinity church Aid Society gave a
public supper at. McCollister Hall on Wednesday
night, which, like all entertainments of the kind
attempted by the Browneville ladles, was a suc
cess in every particular. The supper was sump
tuous, many of the best people in the community
patronized it, and the result was an enjoyable
evening, and cash balance of about $50. This is
doing well, when it is remembered that the price
of a square meal was only 35 cents. ,
Trillli iu u Nutshell.
There is still .considerable sickness, but not
much of fotal character.
Cuba yams and nigger-killers are coming in
freely at 15 cents per peck.
The Ranch is taking stock, but still open for
the reception of paid up members.)
Mr. James McCollister and Miss Ida Laeroy, of
Browneville, were married Thursday night.
Rev. J. W. Howard officiated. The couple are
quite youthful.
A well digger on south Railroad street has
reached a depth of ninety-four feet, and yet has
found no water.
Lively and Browneville are reported very quiet
and orderly, and free from disturbances and sen
sations of all sorts.
The citizens art* generally elated at the early
visit of a circus, and many will go if they have to
do without a day’s rations.
Now is the time for a boom iu matrimony, but
we advise children t< remain single until they
have age and sense enough to know what they
are doing.
Church Appointments.
Rev. Mr. Cupps will preach at Trinity in the
forenoon and the pastor at night. At the morn
ing service several applicants will be received
into the church.
Not in*.
I have sold my interest in the books and ac
counts of Wade A Harrison to D. E. Wade.
Harrison.
Having bought the books and accounts of
Wade A Harrison, I respectfully invite all in
debted to call and settle at once.
D. E. Wadh,
its hiding place and greet that pub. func. with ft
friendly sipile. Death anc^ taxes are the only
sure things, and yet everybody will perhaps feel
better after those debt* have been paid. Tb#
youngsters and “coons”,are on the tiptoe of e»-
pectancy at seeing the circus bills, and this some
what allays the apprehended shortage when th«
collector comes round.
Ronds nnd Rond Workers.
Marshal Miller requests us to give notice that
he will postpone the working of the roads until
Monday week, and parties who have been sum
moned to appear to-morrow can come up on the
25th. This postponement is made tm
the hope of rain before the 25th, aa
the roads are unusually dry and hard at
present. Those who prefer to pay the road tax.
of $1.25 can do so during this week to J. S. G«n
rett.
(1 Irani llrlcfit.
There is much sickness reported on Long
street.
The tax collector will be round next Thursday,
21st inst.
Grandma Little, as she was called, died at her
residence near Cochran's brickyard last Wednes
day in her 81st, year. She was one of the first
settlers, and was loved and respected by those
who knew her.
There were four interments during the week —
one white, three colored; two resident and twe
non-resident.
Mrs. Lizzie Lloyd is putting her house north ot
the creek in thorough repair, and will have it re
painted.
Vegetables are very scarce and inferior on a*,
count of the drouth, and peas and Haters are the
only hope of poor folks t his fall.
The public school children can buy a copy
luok and bottle of ink for five cents, and school
hags for five cents et H. A. Hyde’s.
COLUMBUS AND FLOR DA RAILROAD.
Tin* Survey to III* Mmle Fromptly— Columbus Arts
While Others Talk—An Interesting Interview
With (iunliy .Ionian.
Ever watchful of the interest of this city, the
Enquirer-Sun has called attention to the neces
sity for a railroad south of us. This paper pointed
out the way the movement ought to start, and
told our people the effort should be made by
them—waiting never built a railroad. It is pleas
ant, therefore, to place the following before our
renders to-day: Hearing that there had been a
meeting held yesterday looking towards such a
railroad, a reporter of the paper began a search
for the facts. There had been no call in the pa
pers, and the meeting was one brought about by
the personal efforts of a few of our live citizens.
Iu looking for railroad items it is always safe to
.jo to railroad people. After tea last night ths
reporter looked up Mr. G. Gunby Jordan and
put a few leading questions to him about this,
project.
“We hoar, Mr. Jordan, that there was a rail
road meeting this afternoon. Know anything
about it?”
“Ych. About twenty of the live men of Colum
bus met the charter members of the Columbus
and Florida railway and subscribed enough it
make a survey of that road.”
“You have a charter then?”
“Oh! yes; we organized under that charter sev
eral weeks since, appointed a committee and
authorized them to make arrangements to start
a surveying corps.”
“When does your corps start?”
“This week. Mr. Cowan, assistant engineer of
the Midland, having finished locating to Vfe-
Donough, will be here with his corps to-day.”
“It will be a Midland corps, then?”
“ No, their duties having finished with that
road the Columbus and Florida will now employ
the corps and foot all the expenses.”
“ Does the Midland and Gulf ruilroad control
this charter?”
“ No; outside of a few of us here iu Columbus
who are interested in both enterprises there is no
identity of interest.”
“ Not that—are the capitalists who are build
ing the Midland backing this?”
“ No, they have never heard of this road. I
hope if the survey shows upright, and the peo
ple along the line show any interest in the road,
to get them enlisted.”
“ Speaking of tlie line what will be the mute?”
“ We w II run one line to Albany and another
to the Georgia line in the direction of Tallahas
see, I snupme. This seemed to lx* the sense of
the meeting. Tlie committee appointed to-day
will rcguWc the routes,”
“Do you think Columbus will subscribe?”
“Will they? You ought to have seen how quick
we raised 4(5000 to complete the surveys, ft
doesn’t take Columbus long Ut act when her in
terest ic at stake.”
“And it is largely at stake here, you think?”
“Yes. The Buena Vista railroad is hurting us.
The AmcricuB, Preston and Lumpkin has almost
actually come to our warehouse doors and takes
our cotton away from us. The Pensacola and
Atlantic t<tok a part of our trade. Yes, we art
being damaged and must get our rightful trade
back.”
“Do you think it will be a paying line?”
“If any one bus ever carefully rend the statistics
of the Chattahoochee river valley as shown in that
splendid issue of the Enquirer-Sun of the 10th,
he can but be convinced that a railroad through
I such a country would pay. It will save Columbus
j her very best trade—trade that is daily leaving
! her for want of railroad facilities. Put us in
j direct communication with Florida and all its
i travel, open up a wilderness of heavy timber
i lands and put on a through line. Yes, it will pay
Columbus tc have such a railroad as that termin
ating here.”
i This ended the tolk. but it but begins the work
we, each of us, have before us, if we would soon
see this line under actual construction. In the
meantime, let Cusseta, Lumpkin, Dawson, Cuth-
bert and Bainbridge answer our slogan. A pull
railroad. Half way work
altogethei
Call and Sattla, | » P‘M> cr li,lc -
Wp hci-fhv ttivp notice to our ft iemln ami ! h ' ,,r the P resent this enterprise is iu the hand*
Wc turtny [pvt n >uct to out mends and cus- i , || an executive committee composed of Messrs.
turners that we have closed out our grocery busi- j <j. .A. Etheredgc, li. Ounby Jordan, John F.
ness in Browneville, and wish till indebted to us [ Flournoy, W. A. Little and C. B. Grimes,
to call and settle their accounts and save furth
Weekly llnnk Statement.
New Yoke, October 16.—The following is
the statement, of the New York associated
banks for tlie week, and which shows the
c a cake, a speem. ! Proof, which all will re K ard as conclusive, that tacreasc
«... ,1.1,1, Hpnartment is kept supplied with the , , . , . , Hpccic decrease 4I7.40 1
Our drugaepamiieui ^ p ^ , the secretary has “turned to thoughts of love,’ Legal tenders increase 219,30
beBt and purest drugs. ,
only We have secured the services of Mr. Wm.
McLendon, jr„ of ThomasvUle, a graduate in phar
macy, and in every way qualified to fill prescrip
tions, to which work we give special and careful
even the aired feel voung.” But the minds of the j attention.
Spaniaids vrereinflameif with the superstitions of | We have a full line of Teas and bp.ces, whtch
their times, and misunderstanding the captives , we guarantee pure.
by reason of the imperfect media of communica
tion they leaped to the conclusion that the red
men had located the fountain of perpetual youth.
As a matter of fact, there was and there
is, in the quarter indicated, a wonderful spring,
circular in form, hundreds of feet in diameter and
Large lot of Slate Sponges. .
Give us a call. Polite attention given all.
G.ve ca ciTY DRUG STO UE,
... Guo. A. Bhadkord, Manager.
Ticket for Aldermen.
smumu—. —. At the election on Saturday, the llth
from a dark car- Dece mber next for one alderman from each
ninety feet in depth, that flows .ro.uu the present members oft he hoard
Hy, near one edge, of unmeasured depth, filling . ward, friends ot i ep ...
the shapely basin and sending forth a sparkling | wl n support them for re^e action.
river, upon whose waters steamboats may safely | First Ward-J. 8. Garrett,
ride. The water possesses the magnifying power •
of a double lens, so that a silver coin upon the <
bottom appears larger than when held in the
hand, at a shorter distance from the eye. W hen, I
in your light canoe, you glide upon the crysta
toaom of the spring, you feel as if floating in the
Second Ward—A. M. Elledge.
Third Ward—D. P. Dozier.
Fourth Ward—Theo M. Foley.
Fifth Ward—N. N. Curtis.
Sixth Ward- Gcorgs W. Dillingham. ^ ^
his newly acquired penchant for verse-making
He has not yet gone far as to let any of his
effusions go to the printer, but within the* last
month he has contributed a great many verses to
the autograph albums of his young lady friends.
The following is from the album of a little school-
j mate of his daughter:
j “May thy life be like a prairie
At the dawn of early spring.
Sprinkled with the fairest flowers
That the earth to us can bring;
Twinkling fountains by the wayside
Make sweet music for thy ear;
Laughing streams of limpid water
Every now and then appear,
Bearing off'thy cares ana troubles
As the waves glide slowly by;
And the sun smile on thee kindly
i From a bright unclouded sky.
In a book of a young lady whose favorite pet is
a dove, Mr. Lamar wrote the following weird
verses:
A tuneful mist above a silent sea
O’er which thou broodeRt seems thy voice to me,
A moan of widowed memory above
A tidelesa depth of erat impetuous love.
The banks now hold $4,619,950 in excess
of the 25 per cent. rule.
Ueluinbus I*mrelinking Agcnry.
Being frequently called upon by parties at a
distance to purchase goods and quote prices in
this market, have decided to make it a specialty
• in our business, and hereby solicit orders from
all who may wish any assistance in the matter
I of buying or having goods made up in any par-
j ticular style. We arc supplied with ull the latest
I Paris and New York fashion books, which we
| consult in selecting buttons, trimmings and dress
goods, also in purchasing cloaks, wraps, gloves,
bonnets, hats, and every article that is required
in making up a complete outfit for a lady.
Special attention given to bridal outfits and ball
room costumes. Our most accommodating and
experienced merchants will give us the benefit
of their personal aid and good taste in filling all
orders. Address all communications to
Miss Mollik Lkwih,
Columbus, Ga., P. O. box 113.
sepl2-lm-wed&oe
trouble. Books may be found at our old stand in
McCollister building.
octlOselt John Bummrsgili. A Co.
Notice to T»x Payers.
Real estate tax is due, and will be delinquent
after the 1st day of November. After that time
there will be a fee charged.
octlO se3t
. M. f no rc it soli.,
Clerk of Council.
More About Toney’s Wedge.
Strangers, when you visit Columbus, think to
cross o*er to Dr. McC’utchen’s “Lively Drug
Store,” Lively, Ala., and get acquainted with
prices, and then if you are not thoroughly con
vinced that you have been paying too much for
the wihstle on nearly everything in the Drug or
j Heed line, *you can certainly see for yourself
! what’s the matter with Banner, and whe e
! Toney hid the wedge, without its costing you a
out.
still C.«
LIKAK!l (iLEAMNCiS.
Ahead—Roads and Koad Work**
Fen Notes and Personals.
Despite the dull times old Girard is still going
ahead slowly but surely. The music of saw and
hammer is heard in the land, the new colony on
lying street is progressing surprisingly, the new
church assuming pleasing proportions, and suit
able repairs are noticeable here and there. The
growlers have somewhat subsided, and the dead
line on Bridge street is abolished. The roads
south of the creek have received attention and
are reported iu good condition. The only gloomy
premonition is the advent of the tax collector,
when the bottom dollar is expected to leap from
TOWN LOTH
For Male at Witverly Hull. Georgia.
We will offer for sale on November 1st, 1886, at
the above mentioned place, immediately on the
line of the Georgia Midland and Gulf railroad (a
new road that is being built from Columbus to
Athens, Ga., connecting with the Central, East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, Richmond and
Danville railroads,'. Lots suitable for building
residences, stores, etc. Waverly Hall is situated in
the “garden spot” of Georgia, farming lands
yielding above an average. The best school and
church advantages already established. Bociety
is as good as any city in Georgia or elsewhere.
People are alive to anything progressive, and
wiilingto lend a helping hand to any who may
locate in our midst. It is one of the best trade
point* in Harris county, being thickly populated
already, and only needs the new railroad now
being built to make it the nicest town in the state.
Healthfulness of the pluce is unexcelled. Water
the best. Between 2500 and 5000 bales of cotton
will be shipped from this point coming season.
This alone will be worth the consideration of
thoughtful business men who wish to do a good
business without having any heavy expense. To
those who wish to give their children the very
best educational advantages, our people especial
ly ask them to come and locate among us. AU
parents ure well aw are of the advantage of edu
cating their children in the country than in the
cities in a moral point of view. Lots will be
sold without reserve or limit to the highest bid
der. Any further information or inquiries will
be cheerftilly answered by applying to
I. H. Pitts & Bow,
8epldwed.se,td or W. L H. Pitts, p. 1C N