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DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1886,
Now It Wat Celebrated by Our Fore
fathers.
A Cow ran n Mollcln) In Whirli All IHii People Min
gled In the (lenernl Merriment tml Hospitality
Held I'nlrerKRl Knny.
In the fifteenth <ind sixteenth centuries
this whole season was given up to revels
and jollity, in which eating and drinking
had a prominent part. In London, in the
fifteenth century, the first duty of the lord
mayor and corporation was to dine, and
then go, as soberly as might be, to church
and sit through the wnolo service. On
other festival days and Sundays they had
a habit of skipping out after the prayers
Were under way, nut on Christmas they
Were bound to set nn example of perse
verance. Service over, their worships
rode on horseback by torchlight, through
the market of Chcpe and back to the
church, where, being in a liberal frame of
mind on account of the day and the good
dinner, they made a money offering to the
church. Each man contributed the mag
nificent sum of one penny to its treasury I
This duty done, they returned to their own
houses, and made more or less a night of
it, after the immemorial manner of good
city fathers, in privnte, the custom not
having yet arisen of manifesting lmti piuess
by “painting the town red.”
Christmas was always a demo -ratio festi
val; all classes mingled in the games and
merriment, nnd hospitality was universal.
An English gentleman in the country, on
Christmas day in the morning, had all his
tenants and neighbors enter the hall by
daybreak. The strong beer was
broached, and tho blackjacks were plen
tifully round, with toasts, sugnr,
nutmeg nnd good Cheshire cheese.
The great sausage (the hackin) must
bo boiled at daybreak, and if it failed to be
ready two young men must take the
maiden (i. e., the cook.) by the arm and
run her round the market place till she is
ashamed of her laziness. The maids had,
however, some privileges of resort. In
some places in Oxfordshire it was the cus
tom for the maid servant to nsk the man
for ivy to dress the house, and if the man
refused or neglected to fetch the ivy the
maid stole a pair of ids breeches and nailed
them up to the gate in the garden or high
way. During the festival days tlie tallies
were perpetually spread; the sirloin of
beef, the minced pie, the plum-porridge,
turkeys, geese and plum-puddings were all
brought upon the board at once, and every
one ate heartily and was welcome, so that
the proverb originated of “ ’Tis merry in
hall when beards wag all.” The gentlemen
went to enrly service in the church, and re
turned to breakfast on brawn and mustard
and malmsey. Brawn was a dish of great
antiquity. It was made from the ilesh of
large boars which lived in a half wild state,
and when put to fatten were strapped and
belted tight round the carcass, in order to
make the flesh liei-oine dense nnd brawny.
It came to market in rolls two feet long by
ten inches in diameter, packed in wicker
baskets. At dinner the first course served
was the boar’s head, on a silver platter,
adorned with bays and rosemary, carried
Into Ibe hall with much state, preo .'fieri by
the master of revels, and followed by eho.-
isters and minstrels singing and playing
compositions in its honor.
Another dish, common in Shakespeare's
day, which added at least to tho show of
the feast, was the “stately pye,” that is, a
peacock or pheasant pie. In the days of
chivalry the knights took their vows at a
solemn feast, on presentation of a roasted
peacock in a golden dish. This custom
was kopt up at Christmas by the bringing
in, on the most magnificent dish the hou
could afford, of n peacock in a pie, pr
serving as much as possible the form -
the bird, with the head elevated above the
crust, the beak richly gilt, and the beauti
ful tail spread out to its full extent. It
was from this superb dish that the oat-h
came, “By cock and pye, sir.” At the
•upper two servants attended, bearing fair
torches of wax next beforo the musicians
and the trumpeters, and they stood above
the fire, (the fire ofse.vcoal being originally
in the middle of the room,) with the musi
cians till tho first course was served, when
they retired, with the music, to the battery.
After supper, ns well as before, there were
revels and dancing during the twelve days
of Christmas, and games in which all
classes joined. Oncol' the favorite games
was known as snap dragon. Brandy was
set on lire and raisins thrown into it. The
diversion consisted of adventures to pluck
out the raisins. The master of revels sang
a song or carol, in which tlie gentlemen
took part at his command. The requisites
of good Christmas fare were plenty of good
drink, a blazing fire in the hall, brawn,
pudding, and souse, and mustard with all
(mustard is your great provoker of a noble
thirst,) beef, mutton, and pork, shred
or minced pies of the best, pig,
veal, goose, capon, turkey, ch ese,
apples and nuts, with jolly carols. When
the company tired of games and romping
sports, it gathered about tlie Middy firt- and
had tales of legendary lore, adventures of
the knights and ludit-s and friars,of strange
apparitions and ghosts, of coaches on lone
ly moors drawn by steam of headless
horses driven by a headless coachman,
with graveyard passengers, of wonderful
portents in nature, stories of true love
wrapped in mystery nnd ending in grief,
and all sorts of ghostly reminiscences,
whicn seemed as real as tin- dancing
shadows which the light of Yule log east
upon tho dusky timbers of the hall. Such
t-ues, we read, formed a principal part of
the rural conversation at all such as
semblies as this at Christmastime.
A conspicuous character in the days of
ancient festivity was the lord of misrule,or
abbot of unseason, who performed during
the season for the king and the great no
bles and societies, the office of master
of revels, and had, for the time, al
most unlimited power, aping the state of
royalty and leading in all the mummeries
and dissipations of the day. Tile universi
ty of Cambridge had its imperator, one of
the master of arts, who was placed over
the juniors for the regulation of their
games and diversions, and exercised his
sovereignty for twelve days, receiving a
fee of 40 shillings. Oxford also had a
Christmas prince, or lord of misrule. The
king appointed his lord of misrule, or
master of merry disport, ns did the lord
mayor and eaoh of the sheriffs of
London. These lords began their
rule, or misrule, on Allhallow eve,
and continued it until Candlemas
day. The lord was the promoter of
Bacbaualinu rites and preposterous disor
ders—masking and mumming and danc
ing. "A dance about the oalfe,” says an
old Puritan, rather “than such a dance as
Divid danced before the nrke, with spirit
ual rejoicing in God’s mercies.” The per
formance of this lord during the twelve
days of his license of disorder recalls in
many points the feasts of Saturn, called
Saturnalia, which the Puritans insisted
were copied in tlie English Christmas.
The master and all his household must
obey the lord of misrule as the Romans
obeyed the masters of t he feasts of Saturn,
and there was the same equality of ser
vants with their masters that character
ized the d tys of license and revelry during
the Roman Saturnalia.
At the Christmas season of 1635 there
was a lord of misrule in the middle teln-
ple, a mock-monarch attended with great-
parade, followed hy a lord keeper, a lord
treasurer, eight white staves, a captain of
hia hand of pensioners, and two chuolains,
who preached before him on the pre
ceding Sunday in Temple church, and
gravely saluted him (as is done in the
chapel royal on preaching before the king)
on assending the pulpit. Tho pole-axes
for his gentlemen pensioners were bor
rowed from Lord Salisbury; Lord Holland,
his temporary justice in eyre, supplied
him with venison; the lord mayor and
sheriffs of London with wine. On twelfth-
day, on going to church, he received many
petitions,which he handed over to his mas
ter of requests; and, like other kings, he
had a favorite, whom he knighted, togeth
er with other gentlemen of high quality,
on returning from church. After he was
deposed the king knighted him at White
hall. His expense for his spree, all from
his own purse, was £2,000. In 1553. when
Edward VI kept his Christmas with open
house at Greenwich, George l -'errors, of
Lincoln’s Inn, was lord of misrule, and
gave his majesty great delight in diversion.
At one ofthe revels in the inner temple on
St. Stephen’s day, the lord of misrule,
mounted upon a scaffold borne by four
men, and preceded by drummers, was
carried three times round the hearth (the
hearth in great halls being often in tho
middle, so thnt processions and dances
were performed “round about the sea-coal
fire,”) to the cries of “A lord! a lord I"
Then he descended and went to dance, and
after that he called his court by name,
using such titles as “Sir Randle Rackabite,
of Raskall Hall, in the county of Rake-
hall,” etc., etc. Then followed the ban
quet, with minstrelsy and mirth and more
dancing.
In 1666 Evelyn saw this solemn foolery
nt Lincoln’s Inn, when this mock king was
gloriously clad and attended ; at this revel
the king (Charles II) and the duke of York
were present. On the 6th of January his
majesty opened the revels himself by throw
ing tlie dice In the privy chamber, nnd lost
nt the play £100; but he could afford it, for
tlie year before he won £1500. The ladies
also played very deep. As late as the
times of Kings George I. and II. the revels
remained, and those, gracious kings played
in public nt the hazard table.
Women needing renewed strength or
wiio suffer from nervous weakness, will
find nothing to help them like Moxie
Nerve Food. It is certainly a great invig
orator, and will restore a shattered nerv
ous system to a healthful and natural con
dition in a few da;, a. The physicians say
it is the best nerve food yet discovered.
Tlie Barber's Bay Rum.
Do you know, I don't think there’s a
barber in town, first-class or otherwise,
what uses bay rum. I mean just as I say—
I ay rum. Ho, sir; notone. They can’t
afford it. The genywinearticle’s too high
fur’em. W’y, bless your soul, bay rum
’ .'hat is bay rum costs ye (5 a gallon—that
is, bay rum what is made from the real
bay leaves—distilled like. Now, we ain’t
huntin’ round to waste our good profits on
f5 bay rum, wheu we can take the bay oil
and alcohol what iB pure and mix up a bay
rum for J1.80 a gallon, which we afterward
dilute about half. Yes. it's just as good,
and a heap better, so far as that goes,
’cause it smarts on tlie face harder and
costs less. Every trade has its tricks, and
ours is hay ruin. Then the bay rum what
we makes up is pretty good drinkin’, mind
you.
A CARD.
To all who aro suffering from tho errors nnd
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, onrly
doeay, loss of manhood, Ac., I will Bend arocipo
that will euro you,FREE OF CHARGE. This great
remedy was discovered by a missionary in South
America. Fond a so if-ad dressed envelope to the
REV. Joseph T. Inman, Station D, iVetu York City
ne 11 eodifcwlv ffol < r m)
Duffy’s Pure Mail Whiskey
find
Duffy’s Formula.
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veliow. constant Iftngu
took your lnittyV Put
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iii.it weaknir.-
Malt WhlbUi’N
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lit) Jackson St., Pater
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Puri Mall Whiskey and
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taken place. JOHN DU FI V.
40 Pink St. Khzametii, N
Gentlemen—I have found the tri-au*! i• i»«»f
In the Uio of vour Bully's Pure Malt Wliish v
and Duffy's Formula in breaking up the v\ i..i
and fever, with which I had luen trouble.! -r
1- years. 1 have been troubled also with inv
lungs and blood snlttiua, which bn*- also i.eeu
. relieved. A. J. OJ.KFBON.
3*22 York St., W. Pusla., Pa.
Gentlemen—I had malarial fever, which wm
followed by typhoid and pneumonia. l’hvst-
clans prescribed cod-liver ml, Put did not n-
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Duffy's Pure Malt Wh’skey and Dull'v’g Ko,
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a skeleton, and would not have believed it v
fibln to maUu the progress I did In a short
lime. 1 caunot Bay to
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sick with M il.o
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your Haw Fee
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regard It- power mcuring malaria a* nomo
king wonderful. J. 11. IlOONE.
TDK DUFFY MALT WHISKEY GO.,
llALTIMoUU. MD.
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bv « l.D s.a t T i . in person
r who 1 as traveled all over tho
Custom Made Suits,
$40 00 Suits for
35 (X) Suits “
30 (X) Suits “
16 CM) Suits “
$25 00
20 00
18 00
10 00
Early fullers May Secure a Great Bargain!
OUR MANUFACTURING EF.PARTMENT is
well filled with a superior stock of
Piece Goods
OP EVERY DESCRIPTION.
The extraordinary push ofthe post sixty days is
now about over, ana we are prepared to All orders
now with promptness.
G. J. PEACOCK,
Clothing Mnnufncturer, 1300 A 1303
Hroiu Wired, Columbus On.
CAPITAL PRIZE, - $150,000
" TFc do hereby certify that tee supervise the ar-
rangemetit for all the. Monthly and Quarterly
Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery O m-
pany, and in person manage and control the
Drawings themselves, and that the same are con
ducted with honesty, fairness, and in good fa th
toward all parties, and ire. authorize the Company
to use this certijicate, with facsimiles o our >ig-
n itures attached, to its advertisements.”
Commissiouertk.
We the. undersigned Banks arid Bankers will
pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lot
teries which may be presented at our counters.
J. H. OGLESBY. Pros. La. Xut'l R»uk.
J.W. li K l,nni:i II. Pros State XaPl JR k.
\. ll llih%VIX. Pros. NT. O. Nat l Hatch
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NPEECEDENTED ATTRACTION !
Over Half a Million Distributed
Soule kM & Co
Louisiana State Lottery Comp’y.
Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the LegiH’a-
turefor Educational and Charitable purpose*
with a capital of $1,000,000—to which a reserve
fund of over $550,006 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
de a part of the present. Stat
.opted December 2d, A. D. 1878.
The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by
the people of any State.
IT NEVER SCALES OR POSTPONES.
Its Gt'iuid Mingle !Vuinl>er Pniuings
take liloiultiy, and lii<* Kemi>An»
mini llrnwingN regiilarly every *i.%
mouths (.Jttaoe ;in<l IDoceciifcier;.
a opiNiii'n nity t<*
WIN A FORTUNE. FIRST GRAND
DRAWING, CLASS IN THE ACADEMY Of
MUSK NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, bmiiue j
lllii. -30011a Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $150,000.
Notice -Tickets tm< Ten Dollars only, Uuhfn.
£>. Fill Its, #2. Tenths, $1.
LIST OP PRIZES.
.1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF $151),000 $150,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 50,000 50,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 20,000
2 LARGE PRIZES OF 10,000 20,0 0
4 LUiUE PRIZES OF 5,000 20,0t0
20 PRIZES OF 1,000 20,OC0
50 PRIZES OF. 000 2o.0i 0
100 PRIZES OF 300 30,0,'C
200 PRIZES OF 200 40,0(0
600 PRIZES OF 100 60,Of0
1,000 PRIZES OK 50 60,010
A PPOXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes of $300 $30,0(0
100 “ “ 200 10.0'0
100 “ “ 100 :. 10,000
2.179 Prizes, amounting to $535 OCO
Application for rates to clubs should be mt.de
only to 1 he Office of the Company in New Orleans.
For further information write cleariv, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express
Money Orders, or New York Exchange in ordi
nary letter. Currency by Express (at our tx-
pense) ad dressed 51. A. B > A t T* HIN,
Now Orleans, La.
Or ML A. DAmiliV
Washington. 1>. C.
Malic P. 0, Money Orders payable and ad
dress Rcsrislcred Letters to
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V ? I?AT TAM UV 1> That the presence ol
V 1L I) 1 j 1V. Generals Beauregard
and Early, who are in charge ofthe drawings, it-
a guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity,
that the chances are nil equal, and that no one
can possibly divine what numbers will draw n
Prize. All parties, therefore, advertising to guar
antee Prizes in this Lottery, or holding out any
other impossible' inducements, arc swindlers, and
only aim to deceive ami defraud the unwary.
SOULE REDD. J. C. HAILE
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
•by given to all persons having
demands against J. E. Walker, late of said coun
ty, deceased, to present them to me properly au-
thentieat >1. within the time prescribed bylaw,
and all persons indebted to -aid deceased, are
required to make me immediate payment.
Adm’r
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
All parties having claims against Thos. D.
Fortson, (U eased, are hereby notitied to present
the same, duly authenticated, to tue. within tin
time prescribed by law ; and all parties indebted
to said Thos. D. Fort-sou are required to make
immediate payment to me.
T. \V. FORTSON,
oefi QftwOw Administrator.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
BY F. M. KNOWLES & 00., Auctioneers.
By virtue of an order from the court of ordinary
of Muscogee county, Georgia. 1 will sell to the
highest bidder, at public outcry, iu front of the
auction house of F. M. Knowles & Co., Broad
street, in the c}ty of Columbus Georgia, the
usual place of holding sheriff sales, in and for
said county, on lhe first Tues ay m January,
next, between the legal hours of sale, the follow
ing described real estate: Part of lot one hun
dred and ninety-one iu the Nineunth I9th
district, Muscogee county. Georgia, containing
fifty acres; also a large seven-room Dwelling
House, crib, stable, etc.; also large garden con
taining one acre. and large orchard;
being ten 10) miles nor h of Columbus
end one quarer of a mile rom Columbus und
Rome railroad, adjoumig Fert.son’s on >outluast,
the same being 1 he real estate of Wm Hedge, de
ceased. Sold for division. „ „
Terms cash. t. F. DIXON.
Adrn'r ofWm. Hodge, deceased.
<?ec7 oawtd
Brokers, Real Estate ami Fire Insurance Agents
toao Eiroad St. Telephone .55.
FOR RENT.
Two very desirable stores—one on Broad Street
und one one-half block from Broad in business
part of city.
FOR SALE.
A very valuable city lot near business portion
of Broad, suit able for erecting stores.
Dwelling house, new, water and gas, all mod
ern conveniences
Houses iu Browtu ville.
Elegant .> inuon residences.
Many desirable city residences at low prices.
Stocks and Bonds bought and sold.
prepared to handle all business satis-
ocl7 dly
J YU
Usfd for over >3 ycirn vd'h S r..,tsu vessby tha
physician, vt Paris, Nt Wit :n .1 Lot!.!. r\, ai d
*«lrlu'.lo i..i-s i rl .iii- i.vtp uro ,.f j*
cast's.ri-.-i iit. r re.- K it :. -e- im : lv up only in
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ELECTION NOTICE.
THP.Rr will be an election held at the different
* court grounds in each militia district of said
county of Muscogee on Saturday. the 1st day of
January next, for two Constables for each dis-
tnet. \ecormnc to the statute.
This Deeenibei 4th. tsse.
_dtd F. M. BROOKS. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
Whereas, George Y. Pond, administrator de
bonis non. ot estate of Ellen Thomas, represents
t< tit' court in his petition, duly tiled, that he
ha* fully administered said estate.
This is. therefore, to cite all persons concerned
heirs ami creditors, to show cause, if any the)
can, why said administrator should not be dis
charged from his administration nnd receive
letters of dismission on the tirst Monday in
March, 1887. '
Y. itness my official signature this December
7th. 1886 F. M. BROOKS.
dec7oawl2w Ordinary.
Electric Belt Free
To ii rroduce it and obtain agents we will for the nev.
sixt v ilays give away, free of chaivo, in eachcoeuu
in tUe L . S. a limited mui D-r o- r. n* '
F.Ie. , fi*o fltJvnnlc Sjisper?sf*rv Hells, i ;. • - .
a positive and unfailing cure for N\-rvou« t \ *.. r
Yar:e> vole. Emissions, It>iK»lency Are. >’ .inop-v.-; -
: :tid if “very Bolt we inanufaetuve di» n<>t »-»■*».'vr.n
■ irreiit. Address at occe ELEC i'DId
GOOD BARGAINS
-AJT—
j. i. mm i n
One lot (50 dozen) colored bordered Damask Doylies, for
mer price $1 50; we now offer them at $1 00 per dozen.
We are overstocked in Linen Towels and offer some excel
lent bargains to reduce our stock.
Irish Poplins, silk and wool, black 75c, colors 50c. These
goods are worth $1 00 a yard anywhere.
52-Inch Astrakans, in black, brown, chinchilla blue,
green and wine, $3 50 and $4 00.
We have the best Black Silk for One Dollar per yard in
this city.
A choice stock of Ladies’ and Children’s Lace Pins, Cuff
Buttons in good roll plate; also a good stock of initial Cuff
Buttons for gentlemen—good for Christmas presents.
Plush and leather Satchels and Silk Handkerchiefs in
great variety.
The rush continues with us, and we are receiving goods
every day to supply the increase in our business.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
OF
Shortest, Quickest and Best—308 Miles Shorter to New York
than via Louisville—Close Connection with Piedmont
Air Line and Western and Atlantic Railroad.
In effect November 14th, 1886.
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No. 51
No. 53
8 05 p m
120 p in
8 15 p m
9 85 p nt
2 28 p m
10 25 p ni
11 12 p m
11 44 p 111
“ Opelika
“ La Grange
10 58 a ni
12 03 p m
1 25 y m
2 15 a 111
Via VV. & A. Railroad.
140 pm
6 59 p m
7 50 a m
“ Chattanooga
7 07 p m
f> 50 p m
1 00 p 111
Via the Piedmont Air Line to New York aud East.
1 45 p m
6 15 p m
4 48 p rn
7 17 p m
9 20 p m
12 35 p m
3 20 p m
Pullman Palace Cars Montg.imeiy to Washington without change on all trains.
Train 31, Pullman Palace Buffet Car Atlanta to New York without change.
South Bound Trains.
Leave Atlanta 1 20 p m i 12 20 a m
Leave Columbus | i 2 28 p m ’
“ Opelika I I 5 09 p ml 4 25am
Arrive Cheliaw
“ Montgomery I ..
Arrive Mobile j
“ New Orleans ^ ^
Train 50, Pullman Palace Sleeping Car through to New Orleuns. Train 52, Family Emigrant
Sleeping Ca», free of charge, through to Texas without change.
Via Selma and Queen and Crescent.
Leave Columbus
“ Opelika
“ Montgomery
Arrive Selma
“ Marion
“ Greensboro
“ Meridan
“ Jackson
“ Vicksburg
“ Monroe
“ Shreveport
| No. 8. I
. 2 28 p m
. J 8 30 p m j
. i 11 30 p m
1 45 p in
4 00 p re
5 35 p in
6 27 p in
11 15 p m
422 am
6 50 a ill
1 40 p m
6 45 pm
CECIL GAteBETT, General Manager.
CHAS. H. CROMWELL,
General Passenger Agent.
Mobile & Girard R. R. Co,
M O
N and after thii date Trains will run as follows:
COLUMBUS, GA., December 19, 1886.
Trains Nos. 1 and 2 (Mail) daily. Nos. 3 and 4 (Macon and Montgomery Through Freight anil
Accommodation) daily except Sunday. No. 5 and 6 (Way Freight and Accommodation) daily ex-
D F. WILLIAMS. O. P. A.
WILLIAMS & POU,
Successors to J. A. WALKER.
Carriages, Buggies, Road Carts, Wagons,
ZHZ-AJE^IsriEiSSS SADDLEE.Y,
Plow Gear, Lap Robes, Etc.
WE CABBY THE LARGEST STOCK EVER KEPT IN COLUMBUS, and will take great pleas
ure in showing any me through our stock. It costs nothing to look. Call and see those
BEAUTIFUL COLUMBUS BUGGIES,
For which we are Sole Agents.
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WEBSIH
Sealed Proposals Wanted.
P ROPOSALS are invited for doing the city work
for year 1887, January 1 to December 81, as
follows: . _ . .
1. For making and repairing carts ana shoeing
mules.
2. For making and repairing harness.
3. For feeding the city mules: the food, both In
quantity and quality to be such as the overseer
of the street hands shall require, and with the
privilege of storing tools and such other property
ofthe city as may be desired, also with privilege
of boarding hor es of marshal, lieutenants of po
lice and street overseer at same rates, if so de
sired by said officers.
4. For making coffins for paupers, the same to
be stained, and head and foot boards, and boards
for covering the coffin to be included.
5. For medicines and stimulants, as prescribed
by the cfyy physician, for a specified :sum for the
year; medicines for orphans' asylum to be in
cluded. This bid to include surgeon’s dressings,
as plasters, chloroform, lint, bandages, patent
medicines, etc., and every other article or medi
cine necessary for use by city physician in treat
ing diseases or wounds; all to be of best quality;
all prescriptions to be compounded only by li
censed druggists.
6. For lumber to be delivered from lumber yard
or in quantities at such places as may be desig
nated. Quality to be strictly first-class. Bids for
lengths over 32 feet may be separately specified if
so desired.
7. For publishing proceedings of council, offi
cially if required, or full synopsis or reports of
same; also, any and all advertisements pertain
ing to municipal affairs by the mayor, any com
mittee or officer of council, including treasurer,
clerk, marshal sales, etc , and chief engineer of
the fire department; also, any advertisements by
tlie commissioners of commonsor trustees of pub
lic schools. . . .
8. For all job work, including all blanks and
tax books of whatsoever character, as well as
binding and job work of any description which
may be required, including the publishing in
pamphlet form of 200 copies of annual reports of
committees, tiddress of Mayor, etc., just made to
council, nnd including the report of tlie Superin
tendent of Public Schools, and the annual report
ofthe Chief of the Fire Department to be made
in January next. Estimate of probable amount
of work required will be furnished on request.
9. For lighting and extinguishing the street
gas lamps, according to usual custom of doing
the same. # . ...
Rids may be varied in any manner to suit bid
ders, and must be handed in by meeting of coun
cil on Wednesduv evening, December 29th.
Council reserves tlie right to reject any or all
bids. By order of council. M. M. MOORE,
decl 5 td Clerk Council.
BALLS
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cve-y r , ; .< «i.; j.- • refunded hy
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WEST BOUND TRAINS. I No. 1.
1 1’ass’ger.
No. 3.
Accom.
No. 5.
Accom.
Leave Columbus Union Depot 2 10 p m
“ Columbus Broad Street Depot j 2 25pm
10 3.1 f m
10 45 p m
8 00 a m
8 10am
Leave Union Springs
Arrive Tro\
“ Montgomery, M. & E. It. R
“ Eufaula, M. & E. R. R
6 3") p ni
8 14 p m
7 09 p 111
9 46 p m
2 10 a iu
’*5 00 am
12 50 p lit
2 15 p ill
7 09 p m
EAST BOUND TRAINS.
No. 2.
Pas? ’ger.
No. 4.
Accom.
No. 6.
Accom.
Leave Montgomery, M. & E R. R
“ Eufaula, M. & E. R. R
3 20 p m
3 50 p m
7 40 a 111
4 57 a m
7 20 a in
rj r.ft j, m
Arrive Montgomery, M. & E. R R
7 30 a m
9 19 a m
“ Columbus
10 09p m
1 48 p m 1
Description of Prisoners Escaped
From Muscogee County Jail,
November 7th, 1886.
JOS FPU B. JENKINS, (white,)—5 feet eleven
inches high, weight about 105 pounds, dark
swathey complexion, dark hair, small dark mus
tache, large gray eye, stoop shouldered, very pro-
lane in conversation.
WILLIAM COURTNEY, (white,)—about 21 or
22 years of age, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches in height,
about 160 pounds in weight, dark hair, small
moustache and very black eye.
ALLEN HOOD, (col ) alias DOC BROOKS—
Black, about 150 pounds, 5 feet 6 or 8 inches in
height, some front teeth out, scar under left eye.
SIP WILLIAMS, (col.)—5 feet8 or 9 inches
high, will weigh 175 pounds, dark ginger-cake
color; dark spots on face; hangs his head while
talking.
WILLIS McAFEE, (col.,)—5 feet 6 inches in
height, weight about 125 pounds; brown black
color, long m- ustaclie fer a negro ; quick spoken;
sharp features; talks low; has served five years
in Georgia penitentiary from Libert' county, Ga.
Fifity dollars each will be paid for the delivery
ofthe above described prisoners to any jail, to be
delivered to the authorities ofthe county ol'Mua*
cogee in said state of Georgia. Wire or write to
JOHN H. PALMER,
Chief of Police, Columbus, Ga.
A reward of fifty dollars each, in addition to the
above is offered by the jailer of the County ol
Muscogee, for Jenkins or Courtney. nov21dlm
DRUNKENNESS
OB THE LiaUOR HABIT. POSITIVELY
CUBED BY ADMINISTEBING DR.
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It can l>o Riven in a cup of coffee or tea
without tho knowledge of th#* person tak-
lug it; is absolutely harmless, and will of-
feet a permanent ami speedy cure, whether
the patient is a moderate drinker or an al
coholic wreck. It has been given in thou
sands of cases, and in every instance n per
fect cure has followed, it never fails. The
system once impregnated with the Specific,
it becomes an utter impossibility for the
liquor appetite to exist. For Sale by
■FOR BY*
M. D. HOOD & CO.,
U3 BltOAD ST., COLUMBUS, GA.
Call or write for circular & full particulars.
Combined with Great Refracting Power
They arc ns Transparent mill (ol
less ns I,lull! Itself,
And for soilness of endurance to the eye enu
be excelled, enabling the -.venrerto rend for hi
without fatigue. In fact, they ate
Perfect, Sight- Preservers.
i hT CS i vut 11 i a I j on * t * le ' ,ea <linK physicians
!!L. .7 1 States, governors, senators, lc
s Solium men o! note in all protissi
and in different branches of trade, hankers
SSS5 1 S^5i?"‘?f ,be .«l ven - " ho I,uvo lnul 41
sight improved by their use.
ALL EYES PITTED AND THE PIT GUARANTEED E
BRANNON & CARSON,
^ rLI §I£d s 'i- s i Columbus, Georg
AW? alasSBS are O0t supplied to peddlerf
auy price. 00la u