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Local Happenings of the Week in Browno-
ville and Girard.
An Eneouraglng Profipect—Vot DmiI-Knights of
Labor and Their Orunn -OirnrJ Baptist Church
festival—Minor News Notes.
Our little sister Browneville, just across 1 the
Chattahoochee, is still on a boom, numerically,
socially and morally. The week just past was
not very eventftil, but still there is evidence of
life all along the line. New buildings are going
up, new stores are being opened, new citizens
are moving in, new enterprises are being inau
gurated, and citizens generally are cheerful and
hopeful. The temperance men are advancing
slowly but surely, and have appointed delegates
to the state temperance alliance, which meets in
Montgomery on next Tuesday, 16th. This alli
ance will take action looking to unconditional
prohibition in Alabama. As to morals and re
ligion, the community is decidedly on an im
proving scale, and the Browneville of to-day is
not the Browneville often years ago. A petition
is being circulated asking the legislature now in
session to make certain amendments to the
town charter by which a portion of the revenue
raised for municipal purposes shall be devoted to
the cause of education. Altogether the outlook
for Browneville is hopeful, and the prospect for
increase and expansion quile flattering.
Mot Bead.
■Later news from Texas is to the effect that
neither the doctor nor his brother John Palmer
is dead. The latter was seriously eut by a tramp
at Corsicana and was expected to die, but didn’t.
On the contrary, he is rapidly recovering, and
wishes his friends hereabouts to be made ac
quainted with the fact. John, when in Browne
ville, was considered a very worthy youth, and
his old friends here will be glad to hear that he
-did not succumb to the assault of an unprincipled
assassin.
The Knights and the Investigator.
We see by yesterday’s edition that the K. of L.
have endorsed the Brownevjlle Investigator as
their organ. So far so good. They have a right
to an organ if they want one, and the Invesliga-
iorjso far presents good claims for a liberal support.
But it will strike the general reader that the K.
of L. go a little too far in the way of boycott when
they assert that a certain class of advertisements
•shall not appear therein. It is claimed for our
country that it is the laud of freedom—free re
ligion, free speech aud free business alliances.
Whatever the government and states may toler
ate cannot best be suppressed by proscription
Browneville* Brief*.
The dust is downed at last.
Good showers fell on Weduesday and Thurs
day.
Mr. D. E. Wade is still considered critically ill.
Mr. B. M. Smith is building a handsome resi
dence at his country seat a mile or two west of
town.
The tax collector will make his last call next
Thursday and Friday, 18th and 19tli.
The county line briok store is soon to be occu
pied by Mr. E. Jefferson.
Mr. M. T. Lynn reports nothing new in sport
ing circles. No big stories of birds and ducks.
Mr. Dan Littleton, who has been running as
train hand on the Central railroad, is on a visit
o old friends in Browneville.
There are two or three cases of serious illness
in the vicinity, but it is hoped that the present
healthful breezes will soon restore perfect health.
Marshal Miller says Lively is still running on
its good benavior, aud that there have been no
arrests and no cause for arrests the past week.
Chestnut Bell—We shall say nothing more
about the drouth at present, but we can’t help
b serving that the river is still very low.
Prof. Yarborough gave his closing soiree
Thursday night. His dancing pupils aud friends
passed a very enjoyable evening.
GIB A III) (ILKANINOS.
Leading Event of the Week—The Lougfttrect
Bavine— Personal and Other News Notes.
Girard is not afflicted with sensations. Her
•citizens are not built that way. They are a mat
ter-of-fact sort of folk, who work hard for
their daily bread, and who love law and
order, peace and sobriety. There may be occa
sional cases of disorder, but they are few and far
between, and, altogether, old Girard is remarka
bly well behaved. The only event which at
tracted attention the past week was the ladies’
festival, gotten up for the benefit of the new Bap
tist church. It was held on Thursday, Friday and
last nights. Notwithstanding the rather unpro-
pitious weather it was well attended throughout,
and resulted in the realization of a neat little
■sum for the promotion of a good cause, to say
nothing of the social aspects of the affair.
We learn that Rev. R. II. Bullock lias been
again called to serve this church for the ensuing
year. There has been a decided and marked ad
vance in the spiritual and material welfare of
the church under the administration of this gen
tleman during the past year.
Completed ai Last.
The brick culvert across the Long street gully
has at last been completed to the satisfaction of
those appointed to receive and pass upon the
work. Of course there will be found growlers
who will not and cannot be satisfied in any
thing. If the work saves the road at that weak
point it is a success. If it does not, as in the case
of bridges, the contractor should be held liable.
News Briefs and Personals.
There was one interment in the cemetery.
The solicitor-general of the gypsies is in town.
Miss Grace Jackson has gone on a visit to
friends in Eufaula.
U. L. Martin and son attended the fair at
Montgomery.
Mr. Walter Howard has gone on a visit of love
and affinity to Wewahitchka, Fla.
Miss Mary Lou Howard and Miss Ora Somer-
kamp left per Naiad Tuesday on a visit to
Florida.
Miss Wanna Dudley, of Birmingham, is visit
ing relatives.
The trustees of the Peabody School have re
ceived $300 from the Peabody fund, for which the
citizens will feel very thankful.
The lady who lost twenty turkeys Thursday,
found them next day up the creek and has since
been quite happy.
The town treasury has been replenished slight
ly by fines and the officers are in better spirits.
A good many of the citizens are getting ready
to attend court again at Seale this week when
the criminal docket will be taken up.
A Card of Thanks.
We herewith tender our earnest and heartfelt
thanks to the many kind friends who so nobly
came forward with generous contributions, and
also to those who by their presence and liberal
patronage helped us to carry our three uights
festival to a successful issue.
May Heaven bless you all is the sincere wish
of the
Girard Baptist Ladies Aid Society.
Old Nick’s Tail Cut Off.
Dr. R. H. McCutcheon, Lively Drug Store,
Lively, Alabama, conducts the Drug and Seed
business precisely on the principle and in accord
and full sympathy with a sentiment we once
heard at a camp meeting from a pious, zealous
and ever responsive old darkey. The minister
prayed the good Lord to curtail the devil’* power
DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1886.
then and the**; whereupon Sambo suddenly
blated out, “Dat right, Lord; cut he tail smooth
smack off.” Apropos Dr. Me. has already whit
tled down prices and carved a solid half smooth
smack off prices on everything in the Drug and
Seed line, and asks no boot nor favor.
Our New Solicitor-General.
The Hamilton Journal has the following to say
of the election of the new solicitor-general:
“The election of James H. Worrill solicitor-
general of the Chattahoochee circuit , while it de-
feats the hopes wo entertained for our talented
j townsman, promotes to office a friend
| whom we esteem highly. He will make au ex-
| eellent officer, and while we would have been
happier to have had the position coufeired upon
a son of Harris county, we are still happy that it
is conferred upon one of her sons-in-law.
A Jail Breaker Arrested.
The Eufhula Times says : “On last Sunday
evening about dark there were six prisoners
broke Columbus, Ga., jail and made good their i
escape. On Wednesday evening about 0 o’clock, I
when Mr. Barney Rhody comes on duty, and im
mediately in front of Pat Morris’ saloon, he pass
ed a man by the name of J. W. Livingston, whom
he knew had been in jail at Columbus, charged
with burglary, but thinking he had had his trial
and come clear, did not arrest him. But when
he got to McCormick & Richardson’s corner,
where the balance of the force was,and told them
about it, Marshal Pippin told him that there
had been a jail breaking in Columbus and that
said Livingston was one of the number who had
escaped. Mr. Rhody, in company with Messrs.
Brown and James, went to arrest him. They
found him eating supper at a colored eating
house kept by Charity Griggs, and arrested and
lodged him iu jail. An officer from Columbus
came after him Iasi night.”
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
RANKIN HOUSE.
L. Cartlebert, If. Y.; Fred T. Ilisson, N. Y.; W.
M. Lowentliall, Agt. Patti RosajW.B. Dix, Spring-
field, O.; Jas. M. King’ Rochester, N. Y.; U. L.
Hahn, N. Y.; W. J. Freeman, Cleveland, O.; A. A.
Stone, Q. M. & G. R. R.; H. Hirsch, Seale, Ala,;
T. W. Barton, wife, nurse and two children, At
lanta, Ga.; Miss Millie Fitzsimmons, Atlanta; R.
W. Domegau, Louisville, Ky.; Rowan Miller,
Chicago; Bos Waddell, Seale, Ala.; E. S. Cest-
heiraer, Baltimore.
CENTRAL HOTEL.
A. H. McAfee, Mithville, Ga.; J. H. Bennett,
Louisville, Ky.; Stephen Neal, Georgia Midland;
H. P. Moffett, Alabama; W. E. Taylor, Savannah;
T. P. Nobles, L. F. Arons, Augusta, Ga.; O. F.
Pollard, Meriwether county; A. A. Williams,
Montgomery; Jas. Staff, Alabama; Joe S. Leon
ard, Charleston; P. I. Nole, Georgia; T. O. Falls,
Tennessee; I. Leopold. Baltimore; W. D. Jones,
Alabama.
A PROSPEROUS GULF PORT.
Noun* Farts and Figures that Shaw the Import-
sure of tp<iinr!ilrola~Thc Timber Business—
New Enterprise*. Ktr.
SALAl) FR#M NEALE.
A Meeting of the Temperance People—Other
Notes of General Interest.
Correspondence Enquirer-Sun.
Seale, Ala., November 13.—A meeting was held
at theN^ourt house last night for the purpose of
selecting five delegates to represent Russell coun
ty at the prohibition convention in Montgomery
next week. The following gentlemen were se
lected : Rev. J. A. Howard, Rev. D. C. Crook, R.
P. Dexter, W. J. Boykin and R. Wiluier Waddell.
Rev. Dr. Chambliss, of Union Springs, was ex
pected to be present and address the meeting,
but a telegram was received in the afternoon
from the doctor stating that it would be impossi-
for him to come. Prof B. J. Conyers was invited
to speak, and though he had no time for prepara
tion his lecture was an able and interesting one.
Circuit court will re-convene Monday. The
most important case on the docket is that of
Lynn Ogletree, charged with the murder of
Needham Bennefield. It is set for Thursday.
Miss Genie Walker, of your city, was here yes
terday en route to Glennville, wnere she goes to
visit the Misses Perry.
Miss Bettie Boykin, of Auburn, is the guest of
Mrs. W. A. Bellamy.
Seale sent a handsome delegation to the Mont
gomery fair. The body as a unit profess them
selves well pleased with the fair; and especially
with the exhibits from Oswichee.
The Seale Shakespearean Society will meet at
the academy Wednesday night. The play of
Julius Ctesar will be read.
The young men of the town are thinking of
organizing an anti-shaving club. Shaving will
be made a criminal offence, punishable with a
fine of $1 for each offence.
TIIE BLOODY DOOR BAB.
Mr. Reuben Sanders has His Head Broken While
Peacefully numbering In His Bed—Warrants
Issued for Tol and Joe Carden.
The Russell Register has the following account
of the murderous attack on old man Sanders, al
ready noticed in the Enquirbr-Sun :
An attempt was made last Friday night to mur
der Mr. Reuben Sanders, an aged citizen of near
llatchechubbee.
The would-be murderers effected an entrance
into the house by climbing in at the chimney, as
indicated by the foot prints. An iron bar was re
moved from the door, and, as the old man lay
peacefully slumbering, it was brought down
across his head with all the force of a mighty
arm. Instant death would have been the result,
but for one circumstance—the old man’s left
hand was lying across his face. So powerful was
the blow that his thumb was cut off, two of his
fingers badly mashed and his skull broken. He
now lies in an unconscious and c.itical condition.
There seems to be no chance for his recovery.
Mr. Sanders lived in his house alone.
Suspicion pointed to Messrs. Tol aud Joe Car
den as perpetrators of the deed, and warrants
were issued for their arrest.
Sheriff Ballamv and his vigilant deputies have
been unable to procure their arrest, though they
came very near getting Tol Tuesday morning.
Deputies Chadwick and Bishop shadowed their
men Monday night, and Tuesday morning track
ed them to their father’s home. Neither of the
deputies knew either of their men. They ap
proached the house cautiously, but before they
reached it a man came out and bolted lor the
woods. The deputies followed in hot pursuit.
Two women, two children and a number ol dogs
joined in the chase. The dogs, women and chil
dren were after the deputies and not the fugi-
1 The race was a close one, but the fugitive was
long-winded and licet of Got. After running
about a mile and a half the deputies gave up the
Iii the meantime Mr. Chadwick had found it
necessary to shoot one ol the dogs. I he women
and children were left far behind, but were push
ing bravely on when they met tlie deputies re-
It'is highly probable that both men will be ar
rested in a few days.
Weekly Bank Statement.
New York, November 13.—Following is
the statement of the New York associated
banks for the week, and which shows the
following changes :
Reserve increase
Loans increase JSi’JS;
Specie increase
Legal tenders increase 1
Deposits increase l,0 S inn
Circulation decrease v °“ ,uu
The banks now hold $7,891,350 in excess
of the 25 per cent. rule.
Tin* t'annoh Burst.
Galesburg, 111., November 13.—During
the celebration at Knoxville over the elec- j
tion of Gen. Post as congressman from the j
10th district a cast iron cannon,with which :
a salute was being fired, burst, instantly |
killing Henry Arms, a young merchant, i
who was walking on the sidewalk 200 feet ;
from where the cannon stood, a piece of
the iron, weighing five and a half pounds,
striking him in the back between the |
shoulders. Quite a number of boys and
men standing around the cannon escaped
Correspondence Enquirer-Bun,
Apalachicola, November 11.— It has
been some time since I have had the pleas
ure to drop you a line relative to Apalachi
cola's prospects for this season, and to give
you an idea of our trade.
Wo now have in our harbor the follow
ing large vessels loading for all parts of the
world, viz:
British bark Sivian Star, 5117 tons.
British bark Caledonia, 1112 tons.
British hark Romeo, 499 tons.
Britisli hark Julia II., 579 tons.
British hark Julius, Stitf tons.
British bark Colorado, OtXi tons.
Portugese bark Oliuda, 317 tons.
American bark Adelaide, (138 tons.
American schooner Belle Horgeu, 451
tons.
American schooner Albert Butler, 327
tons.
There i3 also in port twenty or more
small coasting schooners. In my last
article I gave you an idea of our commerce
for the year ending July 1, 188(1, but I will
give it again:
The exports wore $ 161,000
Lumber, shingles, etc., shipped coast
wise 15,000,000
Merchandise received lor Apalachicola
and inland 1,000,000
Our saw mills have the following capaci
ties:
Feet Per Day.
Cypress Lumber Company 75,000
Coombs & Co 45,000
L>. M Muuil & Co 45,000
Swindell Brothers 45,000
Brasil Mill .. 45,000
C. H. Purlin 45,000
Reynolds Si Co 45,000
Total per day 545,000
Besides the sawn lumber a large number
of cargoes of “square or hewn timber’’ is
shipped by I). M. Munn & Co., and Swin
dell Bros, to all parts of Europe.
It is an acknowledged fact that we have
the finest and more aeoesssble timber than
any other gulf port. Some of our mill
men are very much afraid that the great
advantages of Apalachicola as a timber
port will be known and do all they can to
prevent timber men from knowing the
great facilities we have for purchasing,
selling and shipping lumber and timber.
The finest of pine,' and cypress sell here
to the mills at from $3.50 to ft) per 1000
feet.
The L. W. Smith Oyster-Co., composed
of L.W. Smith and H. Ruge and sons, will
begin to day to pack the celebrated can
ned oyster known as “Alligator Brand.”
This brand is superior to the celebruted
“Saddle Rock” and already orders are
coming in for thousands of cans. Then
take the fine salted mullet, which are sold
by A. J. Mnrat in large quantities.
Then comes the sponge trade, managed
by F. Ruge & Son., John Cook and Frank
Messina,which leaves large sums of money
in our city. With all the lumber, timber,
oysters, sponge and fish industries, our 3500
to 4000 inhabitants find employment with
good paying wages.
What we want is a railroad, and we hope
to get one from Eufaula, Ala., to Apalachi
cola before very long, and with Congress
man Grimes to assist our efficient delega
tion, we hope to have the Chattahoochee
river kept navigable all the year.
Franklin.
OCEAN STEAMERS.
Honey Lost on Speedy Roots and Earned on the
Slow-fining Vessels.
A llotol on Fire.
[SVILLE, November 13.—7:20 p. m.—
ouisville hotel is on fire. It is feared
be a total loss.
New York Mail.
It has been clearly demonstrated that
fast ships do not pay, and if one line has a
fleet of greyhounds all lines must follow
suit. The vast cost represented by the
efficiency in speed already attained by the
large vessels now engaged in the trans-
Atlantic trade is enormous. The original
outlay of money in building these ships is
counted as nothing. It is the working ex
penses. The coal consumed by the Cunard
ships alone is estimated at 500,000 tons per
year. Comparing the performance of
a ship like the Etruria with the Britannic,
it is apparent that the difference in
time is gained at too great cost. The
Britannic burns on an average 100
tons of coal a day. Her average
time in making a trip is eight and a half
days. The amount of coal thus necessary
for the voyage is 850 tons. The Etruria,
on the other hand, which occupies six ana
a half days, or two days less than the
Britannic, consumes 320 tons of coal per
day, or over 2000 tons of coal on the voy
age. To save two days requires an extra
consumption of coal to the amount of 1200
tons and more. The enormous increase in
horse power required to put a knot or a
fraction of a knot in speed explains the
difference in the coal consumption of the
two ships. The additional expense does
not end here. Not only is it true that the
Britannic can mnke a voyage with about
one-third the amount of coal that is neces
sary for the Etruria, but she
has much more space available
for carrying freight or passengers. The
room required for the bunkers of a ship
that has to carry the amount of coal neces
sary to feed boilers like those of the Etru
ria, is an important item. Then again, en
gines to indicate a horse power necessary
to drive one of the big ships at a rate per
mitting her to make the trip in six days
nud a half costs infinitely more to build
than those that can be made to do their
work with the steam that a hundred tons
of coal will generate. They also, like the
coal bunkers, encroach upon the vessel's
space. As most of the shippers and im
porters are engaged in a business that will
not suffer in consequence of a day’s delay,
and as safety at sea is the first considera
tion in matters of ocean travel, it
is conceded that vessels that can
make the trip in eight days, or eight days
and a few hours, are the most profitable
and therefore the most desirable. Shippers
will not be forced to pay excessive freights
to make good the increased cost of speed
and the decreased amount of carrying
capacity. Passengers will he able to se«uro
more commodious quarters and at a less
cost, aud the dangers of collison and the
fatal consequences attending the same,
will be diminished; besides which, the
steamship companies can live and make
money. As an instance of the undesirabili
ty of the exceptionally fast steamers, the
Atlantic Express Service has been discon
tinued by mutual consent. The service
comprised the city of Rome and the
America, and has been run under the Uag
of the Anchor line.
HOW SAILORS VIEW BIRDS AT SEA.
Some »f the Feathered Trlln- llrine Hood Lock.
Others Mi-utl l! Isforlune.
Sailors are credited with being the most
superstitious persons living. They have
whims, fancies and beliefs connected with
every ordinary occurrence of daily life, and
their actions are all influenced by some
one or more of these occurrences. On land
they watch for black eats, cross-eyed peo-
plej ladders, and many other objects, and
on sea their lives are made happy or un
happy by many of the lesser rather than
greater scenes of the voyage. They are be
lievers in fate,and when atsea they say their
fate is more or less influenced by the birds
that come and perch on their masts or
yards. An old and educated sea captain,
who has weathered many storms, been
shipwrecked a dozen times and who is yet
hearty and hale, was met recently on one
of the wharbs that surround this city by a
reporter for the Mail and Express. The
weather-beaten tar and the scribe adjourn
ed to a neighboring hostelry, and over
some steaming hot grog and cigars they
chatt-’d about the superstitions connected
with birds at sea.
“Yes,” said the captain, an he blew a
long, thin column of smoke through his
lips and watched it, curling fantastically
through the air. "Yea, we have a few lit
tle fancies when at sea about birds, and
some are a little scared when a gull or a
swallow perches on our mast, but, as a
rule, we are pleased to see these feathery
beauties, especially after along voyage, for
then we know weare nearing land and will
soon be among our Iriends again. The bo
lief of old soldiers is that if an albatross
be slaughtered it at once becomes
necessary to keen one's weather eye lifting
for squalls, but that no harm follows if the
bird be caught with a piece of fat pork
and is allowed to die a natural death on
j deck. The common house sparrow is much
! respected at sea. It iH gravely asserted
that should sparrows be blown away to
sea and alight upon a ship they are not
to be taken or even chased away, for
in proportion as the birds are molested
must sail be shortened to provide against
the storm that will certainly come.
The harmless and beautiful gull, whose
lovely sweepings and carvings through the
air, whose exquisite self-hahineitig capacity
in the teetli of a living gnle, whose bright
eyes, salt, shrewd voice and webbed feet
folded in bosoms of ermine it is impossible
to sufficiently admire, has a commercial
virtue t hat sets it high in the longshore
man's catalogue of tilings to be approved.
When this bird appears in great numbers
then is its presence accepted as an infalli
ble sign of the neighborhood of herring
shoals.
JACK HAVERLY ARRESTED.
lie Snjs It Wus an Attempt to Squeeze Him for
an Old Hue lit New York.
Chicago, November 12.—Mooney and
Boland, the detectives, to-day arrested J.
H. Haverly at the instance of Harry Miner,
of New York, and it took a writ of habeas
corpus to restore him to his liberty. Mr.
llaverly says that some time ago he was
arrested in New York oil an action for
debt and gave hail, with Harry Miner ns
surety. Then he came west ana judgment
was taken by default. llaverly claims that
he returned to New York and renewed the
bond after Miner hud asked to be released,
fearing that llaverly did not intend to re
turn. A writ authorizing a prisoner to be
taken wherever found to satisfy a bond
was, however, issued in New York and
sent to this city, and the arrest followed.
When llaverly was taken into custody a
petition for a writ of habeas corpus was
prepared, llaverly representing that he
feared he would be hurried to New York
unless rescued from the hands of the de
tectives. In the meantime ho was released
on bail pending a bearing of the ease,
John Howling being his surety in the buih
of $3500. “The whole thing,’’ said Mr.
Haverly after his release, “is that it is an
attempt to collect a civil debt by a crimi
nal process. I owed a little over f1000 in
New York, and made an agreement to pay
$500 a month. I have already paid $3000,
and there is ’about $1300 balance. A few
days ago I notified the New York parties
that I would be unable to pay this month,
and this is simply an attempt to squeeze it
out of me.” ^
Kvcnlmr Marriages Fin hidden.
Philadelphia Record, November 8.
Archbishop Ryan, in carrying out the
decrees of the recent council at Baltimore,
has enjoined the priests in this diocese
from performing marriage ceremonies in
the evening. He insists that weddings in
church must take place with a nuptial
ninss, or, tailing in that, as early in the af
ternoon as possible. Under none but the
most urgent circumstances will a marriage
ceremony be allowed to take place after
sundown. A prominent Catholic prelate,
in speaking of tills decree, said it was the
spirit of the church to surround tho nup
tial ceremony with all the impressiveness
and sanctity possible. “In the Catholic
church,” he said, “matrimony is one of
the sacraments, and should only be receiv
ed with the most intense devotion. The
couple to be married should he ill a state
of grace—that is, they should have made
a general confession and be prepared
to receive the holy communion at
the nuptial mass, and thus begin their new
life with a feeling that they will be
strengthened by the sacraments of the
church in the many trials they will have
to contend with. The archbishop desires
to increase the happiness of the married
state, and he feels that this can lie done by
impressing the members of his Hock with
the importance of the step they are taking,
and by compelling them to observe the
forms prescribed by the church for the
marriage ceremony. Hereafter in this dio
cese, and 1 have no doubt in all the dio
ceses in this country, instead of a collide
rushing into a church and being wedded
with a form that lasts about five minutes
they will have to be wedded with the
church’s greatest ceremony—a inass.”
A SCHOOL FOR THIEVES.
An KngliHh Convict's Way of Tcaclilng by Ex-
ample—The Fish ho Is Angling For.
An English ex-convict tells this story to
a London Telegraph reporter concerning
a school for thieves which he has the repu
tation of keeping:
“Oh, it hain’t a school at all,” he replied,
with a laugh, “and it is all nonsense calling
it one. It got the name of being one a long
time ago, and it has stuck to it ever since.
It became known that. I used to have luds
up here of evenings, and I was waited on
by a police inspector. ‘J have come to
warn you,’ says he, ‘that we have informa
tion tiiat you keep a school for the instruc
tion of young thieves. If it is so, you will
have to put a stop to it or you will find
yourself in your old quarters.’ ‘All right,’
says I, ‘you shall come and hear for your
self what it is I teach them.’
‘There would be a lot of good in
that,’ says he, ‘there would he a
rather short attendance if it is known that
I was to he present. Besides, if they did
come you wouldn’t lie such a fool as to
give ’m their ordinary lessons.’ ‘I said,’
says I,‘that you should hear for yourself
not that you should be seen, if you
wouldn’t mind passing an hour this even
ing in that back attic ; there is only a thin
partition between it and this one, and lots
of chinks you can peep through. You can
satisfy yourself and nobody hut you and
me need he any wiser.’ And the inspector
agreed to the plan, and came and slipped
into the hack attic at the time mentioned,
and there he staid till the entertainment
was all over and the hoys had gone. And
then lie came out, and says he, ‘I shan’t
trouble you any further, Jerry. It is a rath
er backhanded way you have got in getting
at them, hut it is better than no way
at all. And he civilly wished ine good
night, and I haven’t been interfered with
by the police since. And so it is what may
lie called a backhanded way,” continued
Mr. Duff, “and it isn’t, pr’aps. a respecta
ble way, and it might tie objected that
there is underhandedness and artfulness in
it; hut what odds about that so that good
corned of it? It isn’t reading and writing
that I teach them. I am far too ignorant
a man for that. I tell them stories—sto
ries of my life in the different prisons and
of the crimes that got me there. That was
the bait X held out to them when I first be
gan to put the plan I bad long thought of
in practice. They were too young to
know anything about me themselves, hut
they had. no doubt, heard all about me
from tne older hands—and there
are plenty of them living about
here—and they were proud of the compli
ment when 1 asked them to come np to
my room, smoke a pipe and hear me spin
a yarn concerning my life and adventures.
And having been in the crooked way ever
since I was 13 till I last left Portland when
1 was 59 you may guess, aud having a good
Mobile & Girard R. R. Co.
o
N nncl after this date Trains will run as follows:
WEST ROUND TRAINS.
COLUMBUS, GA., November 14. IN*.
No. 1. 1 No. 3.
Pass’ger.; Accoin.
Leave Columbus Union Depot
“ Columbus Broad Street Depot
Arrive Union Springs
Leave Union Springs
Arrive Tro
“ Montgomery, M. & E. R. R
“ Euftuua, M. & E. R. R
EAST BOUND TRAINS.
Dagger
10 36 p ml 6 36 am
10 46 p m 6 44 a m
2 00 a m 9 37 a m
2 10 a ni I 10 25 a m
12 20 a in
5 00 a ml
I 11 20 a m
_ ...
Leave Montgomery, M. & E II. It..
” Eufitulft, M. E. It. R
Arrive Union Spring*
Leave Union Sgrings
Arrive Montgomery, M. & E. It It..
“ Columbus
8 10 a m 3 40 pm[
4 64 a in! '
H 07 u ni 4 00 a 111
9 42 a in| 7 15 pm! 5 18 a m
9 55 a in 7 35 j> in | 6 10 a ni
r 30 r
' 30 a 111
12 55 p mi II (M i> m 10 31 a ml.
cept Sunday.
W. L Cl.
ARK. Sup’t.
id 2 (Mail) daily. Nos. 3 and 4 (Macon and Montgomery Through Freight and
,ily except Sunday. No. 5 aud 6 (Way Freight and Accommodation) uaily ex*
D E. WILLIAMS. O. P. A.
memory, I had plenty of .stories to teH.
But tlie stirring adventures and dare-devil
deeds, which, of course, they liked to hear
about, were only tho sugar the pill was
coated with. \Vhat I wanted them to un
derstand without making too much of it
was that for every sixpen’orth of pleasure
obtained by crime it always, sooner or
later, meets with a pound's worth of
punishment. It don’t do to press this
view of it too hard to them, or they will at
once think you are gammoning. The way
is to [Hit it so that they may find it out for
themselves. They sometimes make their
comments to that effect when 1 have fin
ished a story I have been telling them.
‘Well, after all, Jerry, you didn’t get much
of a pull. You paid pretty dear for what
you did get, Jerry.’ To which I reply: ‘I
never did get the pull, and 1 always paid
dear for what I got. 1 had twenty-six
years of it and eighteen of these were
spent in prison, and, after all, here I am
making footstools at two-pence ha’penny
each and working fourteen hours a day to
earn enough to buy me a hit of victuals
and pay my lodging, and I tell vou I never
was half as happy in all my life.’ It isn’t
only of my own experience 1 tell them,”
continued Jerry, the schoolmaster. “While
I was at Dartmoor something went wrong
with my insides, and I was nut in
the infirmary as a nurse, ana was
there eighteen months. I know lots of
stories that the patients, being there sick
and brought low, have told me, some of
the men bciiij? the most wicked and des
perate: hut it was always the same tale
with tnem when it came to the last. They
are the yarns, as they call them, they like
best to hear, though perhaps you wouldn’t
think it. But it is a fact. Tne worst young
reprobates will go to the play, ana she l
tears over the affecting parts of a piece
that pleases them, and go again and again
to see it. I’ve had them pipe their eye
here many a time when I’ve been telling
them of a dying prisoner—a young fellow,
perhaps—and or the tender messages
he sent to his mother and those at
home. And what is more to tho
purpose,” said Jerry Duff, proudly, and
with something very like tears glistening
in his own eyes, “I’ve had many a one
come creeping back here,shy and ashamed
like when the others were out of sight and
wanting to know if I knew any more sto
ries like the last, and if so, would I mind
telling him all by himself and on the quiet.
1 never say nay, you may depend, sir. They
are the fish I am angling for in my back
handed way. They are rare, hut when
they do bite they are worth landing.” I
could do no more than agree, and as I have
already said, I shook hands with Jerry
Duff and wished hiin better luck with his
story-telling.
sellers: June and July 6 ll-64d buyers. Futures
steady.
New York. November 13. -Cotton market
firm; wales 146 bales; middling uplands at
9 3-lflc, Orleans 9 :, £c.
Consolidated net receipts 47,088 bales; export*
Great Britain 7542, continent 1700. France 4928;
stock 778,489.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
New York. November 13—Net receiDts 967*
I gross 6,938. Futures closed firm; sales 116,600
1 bales, as follows:
j Nove.nber 9 06-100©9 07-100
! December 9 09-100©9 10-100
January 9 18-100©9 10-100
February 9 28-100@9 29 100
March 9 38 100@9 39-100
April 0 4*-100@9 49-100,
May 9 58-100©* 69-100
June 9 08-100@» 69-100
July 9 76-100fOi5 77-100
August 9 84-100(a)9 85-100
VI8IRLE SUPPLY.
New York, Nov. 13 The total visible supply of
cotton for the world is 2,262,742, of which 1,884,-
842 is American, against 2,188,682 and 1,928,880
respectively last year. Uereipts at all interior
towns 194,857. Receipts from plantaions, 311,663.
Crop in sight 2,313,739 bales.
Galveston, November 13. -Cotton firm; mid-
lings 8 9-16e; net receipts 5098, gross 5098; sale*
7605: stock 76,720; exports to continent 00, Great
| Britain 00.
| Savannah, Ga., November 13.—Cotton market
j steady; middlings at 8 9-10c; net receipts 8232,
gross 8369; sales 2500; stock 149,397; exports to
I Great Britain 00, to continent 00.
j New Orleans, November 13.—Cotton market
I steady; middlings 8 9-lGc:net receipts 13,779,gross
14,094; sales 6750; stock 215,039; exports to Great
Britain 00, to continent 00, France 00.
<4 KO HGIA S E4 ’ UII I T I EN.
CornrlPil by John Iftlncltmnr, 4'oiuiu-
l»iiN, 44a.
STOCK AND BOND BROKER.
RAILROAD BONDS.
Amcricus, Preston and Lumpkin 1st
mortgage 7s 100 ($101
Atlantic uiul Gulf 7s 117 ©119
Central con mortgage 7s 113 ©114
Columbus and Rome 1st 6s, endorsed
Central It. R 104 @108
Columbus and Western 1st mortgage
6s, endorsed by Central R. R 103 ©105
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 1st
mortgage 114 ©116
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 4s
2d mortgage 110 ©112
Ce >rgia Railroad 0s 106 ©109
Mobile and Girard 2d mortgage en
dorsed by Central Railroad 108 ©109
Montgomery anil Eufaula 1st mort
gage 6s und Centra Railroad 108 ©1*6
South Georgia and Florida 1st, en
dorsed by state of Georgia, 7 per
cent 118 ©119
South Georgia and Florida 2d, 7 per
cent Ill ©113
Western R. R. Alabama 1st mortgage,
endorsed by Central Railroad 107 @119
Western Alabama 2d mortgage, en
dorsed 110 ©111
RAILROAD STOCKS.
Atlanta and West Point 101 @103
Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent.
scrip 103 @106
Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent 127 @130
Central common 100 ©101
Central railroad 6 per cent, scrip 101 @102
(leorgia 10 percent 192 @193
Mobile and Girard \ 'per cent guar
anteed 26 © 26
Southwestern 7 percent, guaranteed..127 ©128
CITY BONDS.
Atlunta 6s 106 ©107
Atlanta 7s 112 ©118
Augusta 7s 109 @112
Augusta 6s 103 ©106
Columbus 7h 112 @113
Co J u m b us 5s 101 @ 103
LaGrange 7s 100 ©101
Macon 6s 110 ©111
Savannah 6s 102 ©103
STATE BONDS.
Georgia 4^s 106 ©107
Georgia 6s 103 © 104 j £
Georgia 7s, 1896 120 @122
Georgia 7h, 1890 Ill ©112
FACTORY STOCKS.
Eagle and Pheuix 96 © 96
Muscogee 95 © 96
Georgia Home Insurance Company 135 ©140
BANK STOCKS.
Chattahoochee National 10 per cent... 175 @200
Merchants’ A: Mechanics’ 10 per cent..123 © J 25
MISCELLANEOUS.
Confederate Coupon Bonds 1 @ 2
FOR SALE.
$5000 Amcricus, Preston and Lumpkin Rail
road 7 per cent Bonds.
$25,000 Georgia new 4 1 <> per cent. 30 year Bonds
50 Shares Eagle and Phenix Factory Stock.
30 Shares Merchants aud Mechanics* Bank
Stock.
$ 000 Columbus Ice Co. Stock, November divi
dends go with the stock to purchaser.
WANTED.
20 Shares Eagle ami Phenix Factory Stock.
Sec me before you buy or sell. I can aiways dc
as well, and often several points better, than am
one else. JOB S KEAf 'U M A K.
MAItliETK ID TEEEGKAI»II.
(ollon.
Liverpool, November 13. —Noon. — Cotton,
business good at hardening rates; quotations of
American cotton all ndvunced 1-I0d; middling
uplandsb 3-lGd, Orleans 5’/l; sales 12,000 bales -
for speculation and export 2000 bales.
Receipts 21,000 bales American 17,500.
Futures opened active, at the following quo
tations :
November
November and December
December and January
January and February
February and March
March and April
April and May
BOUGHT! & CO.
AT THEIR.
New Stand
OUR MAGNIFICENT STOCK
—OF—
Fall Millinery
Now on Exhibition.
All (he novelties in Felts,
Astrakhan and Plush Hats
can he found at our store.
We are displaying- the most
elegant line ot Fancy Feathers,
Birds' Wings, etc., ever shown
in I his market.
Special bargains in Ostrich
Tips and Plumes.
25 Dozui Misses' and Chil
dren's Trimmed School Hats
at from 50 cents up.
Our Pattern Hats are now-
on exhibition.
>1
2- 6 Id
2 Old
3- 64d
..5 6-641i'u 5 7*64d
..5 2-r>ldr>i5 3-61 ti
..5 l-tt4d(fl.
..5 1-6 Id©.
..5 2-i'Adt'O,
..5 4-64d
..5 6-6-Rl©5 7-64d
May and June 5 9-64d
June and July 5 11-64<1 5 12-61d
1 p. m.—Sales today include 8,800 bales of
American.
Futures: November 5 6-64d buyers; November
and December. 5 3-&4d sellers; December and
January, 6 l-64d buyers; January and February,
6 l-64d buyers; February and March, 6 2-64d
sellers; March and April, 6 4-64d sellers; April
and May, 5 644d buyers; May aud June, 5 9-04d
BOUGHTON k CO
M. Joseph's Old Stand.
FAMILY GROCERIES.
Manlu Syrup and Sugar;
New Buckwheat and Fancy Patent Flour;
Mince Meat, Jellies and Preserves;
New Mackerel;
Thurber’s Deep Sea Codfish.
GREEN and DRIED FRUITS.
i New Currants, Heedless Raisins. Citron,
! Candied Lemon and Orange Peel.
I Evaporated Raspberries and Pours.
Drjed Pitted Ciierries, Huckleberries
ami Prunes.
Oranges, Lemons and Apples.
I-’ancy Dark Cranberries.
1 OA-HSTItTIEID O-OOZDS.
i A varied assortment of extra fine and standard
I goods as is in the city.
FA ICIN ACEOI'N GOODS, Etc.
| New Meal from this ’ ear’s corn, Pearl Grits,
Oranula, Cracked Wheat, Shrouded Oats,
1 .Steamed Oat Meal, Split Pens, Green Peas, SagO»
j Tapioca, Manioca, etc.
1 Fine Hour, Sugars, Codies anil Teas,
Ferris k Co.’s lirealiliit-1 Bacon and Ham,
Pure Spices, Flavoring Extracts and Baking
Powders.
J. J. WOOD,
1026 Broad Street.
THE IF'JIsriEST
Suburb Residence!
Mr. Geo. W. Woodruff's Linn-
wood Home.
CIX LARGE ROOMS, three large dressing
~ rooms with closets, wide hall with folding
doors, making a room of the rear hall 14x20;
three servants’ houses; large smokehouse, two
large hams; also stables with stalls, carriage
house; coal and wood house; two wells of good
water, kitchen with large pantry attuched; five
acres of land attuched to the place. Tho
finest conservatory in or around Columbus. All
fences and out-buildings in good repair. I will
: be pleased to show this magnificent place to any
1 one at any time. Price low and on long time.
| JOHN BLACK MAR.
Real Estate Agent, Columbus, Go.
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