Columbus enquirer-sun. (Columbus, Ga.) 1886-1893, December 16, 1886, Image 4
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■nqoiurb-Sun.
Ex-,Senator Spencer, of Alabama, can’t
bog any escape from the nomination of
Cleveland and Blaine in 1888.
President Ci.evei.and has the assur
ance that lie will not bo idle even if lie
docs not gut another term at the white
house, lie can read the “sure cure” re
ceipts for rheumatism sent him by peo
ple which they didn't cure.
Better advice to mothers was never
given than that of Mrs. Bradley, in an
address to the W. C. T. U. Says she :
“Don’t let your daughters marry a man
to save him.” A pure woman is worth a
legion of corrupted men, and the advice
is that of Christian expediency.
When we think of the very many
wicked things they have in Chicago, it
looks as though the hog killers are strain
ing at a gnat and swallowing whole
camels down at a gulp when they tackle
the ballot. The truth probably is that
they want to begin to reform at the little
end.
■ Now and then some intrepid soul,
stamping around where angels fear to
tread, tackles one of the questions of the
ages. The Albany Argus lias reverently
settled one historical conundrum: “Why
do the heathen rage ?” askes a religious
paper. Because there are so many
plugged coins and suspender buttons in
the collections taken up for their ben
efit.”
Mr. Blaine seems to he peculiarly un
fortunate in nursing his boom. I Tin snub
to Mr. Edmunds got up the biggest sort
of disgust among the Green mountains,
and now be is bringing himself into dis
repute in the nutmeg region by trying to
prevent the re-electibn of Senator Haw
ley, in Connecticut. Mr. Hawley opposed
his nomination in 1884 and the influence
was felt by the plumed knight.
The holiday trade in Columbus tli's
year promises to bo large. The book,
fancy, drygoods, clothing, jewelry and
various other stores, and the establish
ments of dealers of every kind of useful
articles are already beginning to be
thronged with purchasers. People
should lose no time in making their
purchases, and they should consult, the
columns of the Enquirer-Sun from day
to day, where they will find the place to
gel just exactly what they want anil from
the most reliable establishments.
A Chicago cotemporary very kin ally
explains why it is that such cold weather
has been thrust upon us, and all is for
given. Here is what it says: “We trust
our southern fellow citizens who were
amazed by the recent freeze and snow
storm will not regard it as an intentional
visitation from the north. We would
keep our blizzards for home use if we
could. Doubtless in the future we shall
do better. But the weather bureau, like
other things at Washington, is at loose
ends just now,”
The fact that Senator Jones, late of
Florida, is mailing his old associates
in Washington, n large num
ber of newspapers with articles
on “The Grain Trade,” and such like,
marked with a blue pencil, causes them
to believe he is crazy. This is about as
sensible a performance as some of the
other senators sending out penciled
speeches in the Congressional Record,
and no one has ever accused them of be
ing crazy. It is a difficult matter to dis
tinguish the gradations of insanity when
they are so indistinctly marked.
TnE Kansas City Times puts on tropic
al airs and remarks: “In this soft, sen
suous climate, where the zephyrs sug
gest the spicy breezes which blow o’er
Ceylon’s isle, where every prospect
pleases, with flannels out of style, it is
hard to realize that Geoigia lies under a
foot of snow and people are sleighing in
Atlanta.” Our esteemed cotemporary
doesn’t know Atlanta. If anybody on
the American continent has anything
Atlanta wants, it must not hang around
loose or she will get it. All in the world
tliat keeps Atlanta from being a seaport
is the scarcity of water. Atlanta is a
dry town.
how ro Cl,HIM KIDS.
The following note has been received
at the Enquirer-Sun office. It is written
on gilt-edge linen paper, that must have
cost forty rents a quire, and it smells like
Hoyt’s German cologne :
Atlanta, Oa , December 14, lfisfl. —Editor Mn-
qiTHEii-SuN : I am a regular reader of your excel
lent paper, and you will excuse my troubling you
a moment. I am ft young married lad/tivcnty-
Bix years old,and ijinakejt a rule to gather up all
the valuable recipes in regard to household mat
ters that I can. Will you please send mo an in
fallible recipe for cleaning kids? Respectfully
yours, Ida TnAYWicK.
Ida, deur, we are glad to hear that you
are a “regular reader.” If there is any
thing that saws on our nerves, it is to sit
in earshot of anybody—highland or low
land, prince or peer—who reads irregu
larly like a dog harks or a whistle toots.
You stick to your habit of regular read
ing. It is of vastly more importance
than cleaning kids. Just freeze to the
Enquirer-Sun and the Bible and they
will carry you through.
But when it comes to cleaning kids
you sorter catch us off our base. We
have never been stuck on kids much, to
start off with. And we tolerate them
not for what they are, but for what they
will be. AVe boarded at a place oncei
years ago, where the landlady ha 1 sev
eral and she seemed to be pretty much
in your fix. She had no recipe for clean
ing them. Her kids were four in num
ber; they all appeared to. bo about, four
years old, and they were a sort of cross
between an iron window shutter and a
Cape Colony monkey. They made the
sweet spring-time of our life a howling
wilderness, and it didn’t take up half
their time either.
Still, as you have asked usTor a recipe,
and we make it a rule never to say no to
a woman, here’s your goods. The best
lime to clean your kids is in the gloam
ing, and the best place is a back yard
with a high board fence around it.
Catch them just as they reverse their
throttles to hack ofT from the supper ta
ble, and while their greasy hands and
mouths are showing at their best. Take
the oldest kid—say six years old—into
the yard and sit on him while you stop
up his mouth with a perpendicular corn
cob. When you have got him into a
condition of respectful silence, strip him
and tie him to a tree, and turn
the garden hose on him for three-
quarters of an hour. This method
has been recommended to us by a dis
tinguished German physician and we are
willing to stake our reputation as a kid-
cleaner on its efficacy. It is known in
Europe as the “long taw” style of doing
the thing, and does away entirely with
the old plan of laying the kid across
your lap and scouring his features with
a crash towel while you suppress his re
marks by inserting a cake of soap into
his mouth. Besides you avoid
the danger of being kicked
and bitten. If the kid is
an infant with only a few months of total
deoravity streaming like a comet tail in
his wake, we would not use the hose on
him immediately after he is weaned. He
might grab the hose pipe, and try to seek
nourishment from it. The force of habit
is very strong in young children and you
have to wean them from their early
habits of infantile dissipation very
gradually. If, however, you have been
bringing up your baby on a nursing
bottle and have been getting yo :r milk
from an Atlanta dairy, you can use the
hose on him at nice. If be tackles it,
he’ll never know the ditleronee.
In eases where the hose is not admissa-
hlo on very young kill >, our plan is to
strap the animal to the end of a fishing
pole and take him to a river and whip
the stream with him fora mile or two,
after which we would shoulder Ihe pole
and return homo. If the kid is still on
the end of the pole when you get home,
he will be dean, and will also have added
a new leaf to his book of experience.
Please inform us by return mail how
our r.cipcs have panned out. We havn’t
any kids of our own, but the orphan asy
lum business is paying pretty well now;
and we may be compelled to stand a
civil service examination some day in or
der to get a position in one.
SOUTHERN POSTAL MATTERS.
To-day the order issued by the post
master-general authorizing the postotliee
at Washington city to make up and dis
patch mails for Havana via Tampa goes
into effect. This mail is to include cor
respondence for Cuba and l’orto Rico via
Cuba.
There can be no objection to quick
mails for Cuba, or for any other point,
but when such schedules are made at the
expense of the rest of the country, wo
submit there is nothing fair or just about
it. This seems to he the ease with this
fast southern mail, and no city in the
south is a greater sufferer than Columbus.
If the local trains into and out of this
city were studiously arranged to run for
the inconvenience of those who use the
mails most, it could not be worse
than it now is. It is only
by the courtesy of the railroad
officials in allowing us to use the freight
trains that the Enquirer-Sun published
at 4 o’clock in the morning can be for
warded to subscribers before 3 o’clock in
the afternoon. To have this serious
trouble augmented by the post ofliee de
partment is carrying the thing too far,
and we protest against it. Atlanta made
complaint u few days ago that New York
mail was received in Jacksonville, Fla.,
six hours ahead of the mails received in
Atlanta, yet Atlanta is several hundred
miles nearer. It is even worse than that
in Columbus. Atlanta and this city are
of nearly equal distance from New York,
yet mail is received in Atlanta twelve
hours earlier than it i- iu this city, and
it frequently occurs that it is twenty-four
hours behind in arriving here.
Postal affairs seem to be torn up and
run on a very loose schedule generally in
all this section of country. It is no un
common thing for the papers received
from Jacksonville to be four or five days
old when they reach here. New York
papers seem to drop in just when they
take a notion,regardless of being on time,
and so with all our northwestern ex
changes. Sometimes they are allowed
to accumulate on the road, as four or five
copies of different dates will come in at
one time. And there is no certainty
even as regards our state exchanges.
The mail seems to let us have them just
as a notion takes it.
This is all wrong, and should be rome
died, a“ it can easily be done. It is a
shame and an outrage upon the public
that siicli a state of tilings sliouldexistin
our postal affairs. The lesser evils we
have to contend with in local matters
caused by inexperienced employes from
republican changes could he endured
with better grace, if such momentous
evils did not loom up in transportation.
It is hoped the city postmaster und oth
ers will take some steps to have these
abuses corrected.
THE lll T UN INC! OF THE J. B. WHITE.
The burning of the steamer J. M.
White and the attendant loss of life as
reported in our dispatches, furnishes an
other one of those lurid and holocaustic
horrors which can be related but never
described. The picture of half a hun
dred men, women and children being
eaten up by fire while their maddening
screams for help made the %gony of wit
nessing the pandemonium more terrible
every moment until all was hushed in
death, is one never t.o be forgotten. It is
passing strange that a steamer lied to the
bank of a river should take tire, and
the fire be discovered imme
diately, and yet that between fifty and a
hundred passengers should perish. There
was manifestly some criminal negligence
on the part of the boat’s management, or
else she was not in charge of her full
complement of men and officers. The
burning of the J. M. White should be in
vestigated thoroughly and the guilty par
ties punished. Upon whatever party the
blame falls, that party is guilty of the
murder of sixty people. Should such a
murderer go free? The Louisiana author
ities have the floor and they must answer
that question to the public.
A TOltlH ONE.
There is hardly an officer in the ser
vice of the federal government who has
been so roundly abused as Gen. Sparks.
Nor is there one who seems more capa
ble and competent to stand it than he.
As an esteemed cotemporary asserts, he
is the toughest customer who has filled a
federal office for many a day. Ho is not
to be intimidated or cajoled from the
discharge of his duty. When he is
threatened or attacked he fights back,
and his blows tell, us a great many peo
ple besides ex-Governor Warren, of Wyo
ming, can testify. When he is wheedled
lie is deaf, and no amount of ridicule
from republican papers or abuse from
land thieves and their friends swerves
him :i whit. He has already restored
?,750.000 acres of stolen la id to the pub
lic domain, and he will g i on to restore
millions more, with a knife in iiis sleeve
for those wl.io attempt fi> interfere with
him. llceifrned his salary a hundred
thousand times over last year, but we
doubt if he could pass a 40 per cent ex
amination before Mr. Dorman R. E111111.
Nevertheless, we are proud of him as a
product of “the Rowdy West.”
The Brooklyn Union, one of the mug
wumps stand-bys, Inis slipped hack into
the republican ranks. It couldn’t stand
the racket.
B I LIOUSNESS
Is an affection of the Liver, and can be
thoroughly cured by that Grand
Regulator of the Liver and
Biliary Organs.
MANUFACTURED BY
J. H. ZEILIN & CO., - Philadelphia, Pa.
I wa< afflicted for several years with dis
ordered liver, which resulted in a severe
attack of jaundice. I had as good medical
attendance as our section affords, who
failed utterly to restore me to the enjoy
ment of my former good health. I then
tried the favorite prescription of one of
the most renowned physicians of Louis
ville, Ky.. but to no purpose; whereupon
I was induced to try SIMMONS LIVER
REGULATOR. 1 found immediate bene
fit from its use, and it ultimately restored
me to the full enjoyment of health.
A. H. SHIRLEY.
Richmond, Ky.
HEADACHE
I'rociMMln from a Torpid Liver and Im
purities of the Moiiiim'Ii. It ran !>e
invariably cured by taking
Let all who suffer remember that
SICK AND NERVOUS HEADACHES
Can be prevented by taking a dose as soon as
their symptoms indicate the coming
of an attack.
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HOLIDAY GOODS!
Xmas comes but once a year, therefore make happy the hearts of those you love and esteem.
Read below enumerated a list of articles suitable for presents :
For Your Mother nnd Mister,
Nweetheort, Wile and
Friend.
Beautiful Lace Pins,
Breast Pins, Ear Kings,
Bracelets, Necklaces, Lockets,
Tiny Queen Chains, Westcaius,
Silver or Gold Watch, Rings,
Cuff Buttons, Cuff Pins,
Collar Buttons, Gantclioes,
Silver or Gold Thimbles,
Si'ver Hair Pins
Silver and Gold Glove and Shoe But-
toners,
Opera Glasses, Vanes,
Jewel Boxes, Bronzes,
An isti -Clocks, Card Receivers,
Silver Card Ca-cs, Silver Bells,
Napkin Rings, Bronze Lamps,
Picture Frames, Eye Glass Chains,
Spectacle.* and Eye Glasses,
Solid and Plated Forks, Knives and
Spoons, Book Marko,
Gold Pencils, Pens, Toothpicks,
Solid Silver and Plated Cups,
Solid Silver Soup and Oy iter Ladles,
Berry, Preserve and Sugar Spoons,
Butter Knives, Butter Dishes,
Pickle Stands, Castors,
Pearl Handle Knives.
Far Yonr Father and Brother,
II unhand and Friend.
Silver or Gold Watches,
Gold or Plated Chains,
Cull Buttons,
Collar Buttons,
Watch Charms,
Scarf Idas,
Silver Match Safes,
Stud Buttons,
Napkin Holders,
Eye Glasses,
Pebble Spectacles in Steel and Nick
el, Silver and Gold Frames,
Napkin Rings,
Opera Glasses,
Ofliee Clocks.
Gold Toothpicks,
Gold Pencils,
Gold Headed Walking Canes,
Seal Rings,
Gold Headed Silk Umbrellas,
Combination Breakfast Sets,
Silver Tobacco Boxes,
Wiskbroom. Solid Silver Handle,
Society Pins,
Ash Receivers.
Guard Chains,
For Yonr Little Feta.
Solid Silver and Plated Cupa,
Silver Pap Spoons,
Bolin Silver Child’s Set,
Silver Plated Child’s Set,
Silver Thimbles from No. 1 upward.
Necklaces,
Lockets,
Rings.
Bracelets,
Bib Pins,
Breast Pins and Ear Rings,
Stud Buttons,
Bangles,
Solid Silver Baby Rattles,
Silver Plated Napkin Rings,
Solid Silver Napkin Rings.
School Sets,
Ear Rings,
Silver Kni ves and Forks,
Silver Spiety Pins,
Boys’ Watches,
Microscope for botanical exploits.
Pencil* and Pens,
Beautiful Little Diamond Rings,
Silver Mugs.
Diamonds moulded in Rings, Pins, Eardrops. Collar Buttons, Cuff Buttons, Studs, Scarf
Pins, etc., at very reasonable prices.
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■WATOHMAKBE; .A.HSTID JEWELER.
FOR COUNTY OFFICERS
THIS WEEK.
Small line Ladies' Merino Pants, very cheap.
Ladies’ Merino Vests reduced in price to close.
Children’s Merino Underwear 20 per ceni off.
Gents' cotton Flannel Drawers half price.
A few choice combination Dress Patterns that can he
bought very cheap
Prices reduced on all Dress Goods and Trimmings.
Cloaks and Wraps still lower to close. No excuse for
not having a Wrap at the prices we name; they must go.
Many Holiday Goods throughout the stock, which we
will sell cheap.
Big lot Silks and Satins placed on the bargain coun
ter to be sold.
Gents' and Ladies’ White Kid Gloves half former price.
For Flerk of Superior Court.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-
election to the office of Clerk of the Superior
Court cf Muscogee County at the election to be
held in January next. Geo. Y. Pond.
deal 2 td
For County Treasurer.
I wish my friends to know that I will be a ea»-
didate for this office at the next election. I am
here to run. R. J Moses.
riov20 dtd
I announce myself a candidate for County
| Treasurer, and respectfully ask the voters ®f
; Muscogee county for their suffrage. *
d&wtd John C. Cook.
I respectfully announce myself a candidate fbr
Trc. surer of Muscogee county, and earnestly
solicit your support. I need the office and wilt
be very thankful for your asristance. Iam pre
pared to run. Election on the flrst Wednesday
in January next, 1887.
oc9se«fcwedtd Jordan L. Howell.
I aunounce myself as a candidate for the office
of County 'Treasurer, and respectfully solicit
your support for he same. Election January
next. G. E. Gager.
Columbus, Ga., September 22,1886. Bep23 tf
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ESTABLISHED 186©.
For Tax Receiver.
G.GUNBY JORDAN
Fire Insurance Agent,
Telephone No. 104.
ADELPHIA,
Pioneer Building. Front Street.
REPRESENTING
AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of PH
Honestly paid every loss since 181o.
NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of NEW YORK,
Every policy issued under New York Safety Fund law.
SUN FIRE OFFICE, of LONDON Established 1710.
Always successful.
Policies issued on oil classes of insurable property.
Representative t'otapies. IWkens Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments,
A share of your business solicited.
kcd12 dtf
«nSH^!SKKESSiBEc5a:
63SO iEtiHS-WFA-iEtlD-
We will pay the above reward fur any case of Rheumatism. Flood Poison or Kidney
Disease that 'll UNNICUTT 8 RHEUMATIC CURE fails to
(Mire permanently if taben according to directions. We mean just what we say. This won
derful Tonic and Blood Purifier is for sale bv all first-class Druwists,
M. HUNNICUTT &. CO., Atlanta, Ga
fahouse
T. HATCHER
and Commission
Fontaine Warehouse, Columbus, Ga.
1 WILL continue the Warehouse and Commission Business in all its branches,
and solicit the patronage of my friends and the public generally. We guarantee strict
attention and prompt returns on all consignments.
BAGGING and TIES always on hand at cash prices.
Storage and Sale of COTTON a specialty.
Agent for the Latest Improved “LUMMUS COTTON GIN.
sep-t 2ta\vlm \v2in B. T. HATCHER.
EMPIRE STABLES.
SUCCESSORS TO
JOHN DISBROW & CO,
East Side of First Ave., between 12th and 13th Sts.
New and Nobby Turnouts, Safe and Showy Horses, Careful and Experienced Drivers,
FUNERALS personally conducted and properly attended to. The finest Hearses in
the city.
AFTER SEPTEMBER 1st, Horses boarded and caretully cared for at fl6 per
month. Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers.
6TT«leph«Bt V«. 01. ecU 41/
l announce mynelf a candidate for election to
■? office of Tax Receiver, ami respectfully solfcft
' votes of the citizens of Muscogee county,
ction Wednesday, January 5,1887.
ovl6 dtf Woolfolk Walker.
announce myself a candidate for Tax Re-
er of Muscogee county, and respectfully
the support of the voters.
sep22 tf J. H. Harrison.
I respectfully announce myself a candidate for
re-election to the office of Tax Receiver, and ask
your suffrage. I have ever tried to discharge
my duty as an officer, and will still do the same
if elected. Election January next.
Respectfully, J. C. Reedy.
nov5 td
I respectfully announce myself a candidate for
Tax Receiver of Muscogee county. Election firirt.
Wednesday in January. Qeo. W. Cargill.
For Taw 1'ollcctor.
i announce myself as a candidate lor Tax
Collector of Muscogee county (eleutiow
January next), and respectfully solicit the Bup-
poit of the voters of said county.
auir29dtfwlm Oliver P. Poe.
Announcing myself a candidate for re-election
to the office of Tax Collector of Muscogee county,
£ respectfully solicit the votes of its citizen*,
and will endeavor to deserve their support by
faith folly discharging the duties of this office in
the future as in 'he past. Election first Wednes
day in January next.
sep21 eodtd Davis A. Andrews.
I announce myself a candidate for Tax Col*
lector of Muscogee county (election January
next), und ask for the support of the voters of
said c unty. J. O'. Woolfolk.
nep7 dtf
For Coroner.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for Cor
oner for Muscogee county at the ensuing elec
tion. W. D. Amyet.
nov7 dtd
I announce myself as a candipate for Coroner
of Muscoace county.
dec!2 td Simpson Stribblino.
I announce myself as a candidate for re-eleo-
Slicriir.
I most respectfully announce myself an a can
didate for re-election as sheriff of Muscogee coun
ty. Election first Wednesday in January next,
decll td J. G. Burrur.
$250
A MONTH. Agents wanted. 90 boat
inc article ) in tbo world. 1 sample free
Add reap -« A V WROY«Ov Min*
S1N39V
.-sh’-t $2.b0, .Cl kinds. Guns <fc Rifles flit
u Ml A Monster 111. Cat. for 3-ot. stamp
.lulO Western Gun Works. Chicago. Itt
Forepaugh & Samwell’s
Carnival of Novelties and Trained Animal Show
Combined, under a Mammoth Tent,
A.T OOXjTJM:BXJS,
BUT NOT UNTIL
MONDAY, December 13th, for ON
EVERYTHING NEW.
Two performances daily. Doors open at 1 and
7 pm, commencing at 2 and 8 p in.
See the Novel Street Parade.