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DAILY ENQUIRER * SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1886. ColimiksCmjnitTr^jm. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The EN'lUIKHft-SUN in Issued every day, ex •apt Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday. The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by •arrlers in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub ■oribera for 7I5«. per month, $i!.AO for three months, .00 tor six months, or $«.00 a year. The Snnday is delivered by carrier boys in the •Ky or mailed to subscribers, postage froe, at $1.00 a year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken tor the Daily at $1 per square of 10 lines or less for the ■rat insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and tor the Weekly at $1 for each in sertion. All communications intended to promote tho private ends or Interests of corporations, societies or individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary fates. None but solid metal cuts used. All communications should be nddressed to the Bnocikbr-Scn. AN KVKNT. Tlio telephone announced to Columbus on Friday last that daylight showed through Fine Mountain. It is the first time that pick and powder 1ms admitted the rays of a bright sunshine into this natural harrier. Politically the moun tain was annihilated when lion. Thomas W. Grimes was so flatteringly nominated for congress in LaGrange lust summer. That removed a so-called barrier which men had eonjureil up to make clans of people in the same district, people actua ted by the same motive and acting to gether for tho general good. Now, physically, the frowning sandstone has yielded to the pluck of Columbus men and forever has the glory departed from this overgrown hill whose importance no more can be exaggerated. We allude to this event more as an item for Christmas congratulation than otherwise. Itoaineop]iortunely with tho season for rejoicing and congratulation. It came as a fitting cap-stone to the monument of victory for Columbus l’luck has welded during tho memorable year of 188(5. In raino as a matter of irrefutable evidence of the worth and en ergy of young men of the proof that ob stacles have no terror for the flood of tho generation who claims the age as their’s. Wo are now accessible and in hand-shaking distance with the best friends Columbus ever had. The progressive and wealth pro ducing clement north of the mountain, who years ago did all their business here and mingled socially with us at this, the joyous season of the year. The advantages, more accessible terms gave in quicker transportation and easier com munication, were from us for the nonce those old friends of ours, so far as trade was concerned; hut tin' memories of uuld lang syne linger, and we will now he closer friends than ever. We congratulate the Midland author ities upon the event and the more do wo congratulate Columbus. To our friends in Meriwether and beyond we wisli a happy new year, and hope that 1887 will he ns pregnant wit h triumphs for them and us as 18815 has been. mill Mi THE CrUVASN. The great middle and lower classes in England not only accept the fact of caste —they are, for the most part, caste-wor shippers. The pretensions of the roynl family and its titled retainers and sup porters to he made of finer clay and to have “better blood” than ordinary hu manity, and by reason of this claim to have the right to rule their country and the privilege to be as had as they please without incurring tho penalty for moral ofTenses which society visits upon persons of “common birth,’’ deserve to be dis credited and destroyed. Such pretensions are if hindrance to the progress of liberty and the establishment of equality on the earth. Here in America the fashion of aping the English applies not to the sturdy vir tues of the race, but chiefly to its vices and its follies. Anything, therefore, which helps to show the natural tenden cies of an aristocracy cf wealth and titles —tendencies that are tho same in all ages and all countries—is clearly a public ser vice. The revelations of the Dilke ease, followed closely by those of the almost incredible baseness of Lord Colin Camp bell, a scion of one of the most ancient families in the kingdom, pull aside again the curtain that veils the inner life of this boasted aristocracy. And in tho light of tho disclosure thus made it is Been how unfounded is the assumption of euperiority, and how monstrous the claim of divine or hereditary right upon which it retains its unjust privilege. TUB ANGEL UK THE IIKAKTI1STONE. There was no need of the song of the poet or the wisdom of the philosopher to proclaim yesterday that it was Christmas day. And yet it was the day of all days When the fullness of hope, tho realization of tho season’s anticipation flowed into perfect life and involuntarily burst forth into sweetest song. The anthem of Christmas is, in truth, the psalm of life, and it is a strain with which thousands of hearts beat and throbbed yesterday in jov.i is unison. All were happy—too happy to know or Nfcrc why we were u w beings living over again in fuel, and ns in fancy, the spring time of life, un ci la led or unshaded by sorrow or care. II-.- • r she who has grown old doing bat tle «ith tho realities of poor, frail hu- m.in nature, was young again, at least for a lew fleeting hours. It must have been uiie who has fought sadly in vain who could not go back to the morning glow of life to recall its fondest, most passionate longings, and be a child again. Yesterday was a dny of dreams and a day of realities. One cannot help con juring up a picture that must have been present to the mind’s eye of every one who has ever felt the softeningand benef- icient influences of the day which, how ever men may divide the year, is really the culmination of all its joyH and pas sions and hopes. Rebind the midnight veil, tlint divided the rest of the world from the first moments of the Christinas morn, stood one who for ages has pre figured tho perfection of human hap piness, tiic idealization of all that there is of good and kindly and sweet in tho life of t lie young and Hie old. Just beyond the flliny line stood the angel of light brooding, like the harbinger of all joys, with outstretched wings over tho slum bering city ready to descend like tho fabled shower of gold into all the homes and to tho thousands of firesides at which will be told to-day the story of the revolving year, lie had a gift in either generous hand for all, and he awaited only the merry chime that was to usher in the glorious day. The white and downy wings were wide expanded ns if to hold by anticipation in their warm embraces those whom he had come to reward for the good deeds of the passing yean The fluttering plumes spoke eloquently of the emotions that would be stirred in every heart and in every breast. Then came the cadences of the sweet-toned bolls for whose sound the messenger of peace and love had so eagerly waited. The last silvery note died away in music on the air and the curtain was raised on the Merry Christ mas. The angel had lost his individual ity. In tho peaceful und quiet hours lie nestled with the innocent sleeper in his cradle. lie stood by the bedside of the maiden, repeating in her dreams the tale tliut is but once told. He paused over the restful couch of age, trembling on the verge ofthe days to come. He lifted the curtain to gaze on the thousands of fair-haired boys atjd sunny-haired girls whose bosoms all unconsciously were heating to the music that filled the air whereverthe angelic footsteps had passed. He breathed into every year the old, old story of peace and good will, of charity and love and loving kindness. And he departed as lie came, softly and silently and gently, and left each one to sleep on till the sun arose on a regenerated world. No wonder that the city awoke to the exceeding loveliness of a day that was blessed by the visitation of so delightful a visson. All the gold in Golconda’s mine could not purchase the happiness in the heart of just one father and mother as they watched tho expressions of antici pation, joy an surprise of their prattling little girl—rosy-cheeked, curly-haired lit tle darling—as she gazed upon tho doll seated in the eosv little chair, the tea set, the tiny doll cradle and many other gifts which considerate Santa Claus had pro vided. The little boy—heaven bless the little boys—as he romped with his roller horses or bounced his ball, was a picture to cause the highest emotions of gratifi cation and pleasure to thrill the heart. And yet there were thousands of such scenes witnessed yesterday morning. it takes both houses to reject it; and when there are two certificates from the same state, each having the approval of an electoral tribunal, it takes both houses to receive one of them and count the votes therein. The joint session for counting the vote is to meet on the second Monday in Jan uary and tho session is to continue, with out a recess longer than to the next day, till the work is done; and, if on the fifth day the count shall have not been com pleted, the session must continue without recess until the task is finished. The bill is as fair and reasonable, ap parently, us it can he made, and the question that threatened the peace of the country ten years ago, and has been un settled ever since, will he adjusted, we may hope, forever. T0-I1AT, YESTEItDAT AND TO-MOBBOW. It seems hut a moment since we said, “This is the day before C.nistmas; to morrow will lie Christmas Day,” and lo! that to-day has become yesterday, and that to-morrow has become to-day and, in its turn, gone back to join the great army of days that are past. We say now, “Yesterday was Christmas Day,” and saying this, we feel that “’Tis greatly wise to talk with our past days, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven.” “in to-day already walks to-morrow,” and to-day, with its sober features, its wearing cares and its unrealizable joys, is the most precious of them all, for through it may we mould the to-morrow that THE KLKCTOBAL OOI NT. The house has passed, after slightly amending if, the senate bill regulating the method of counting the votes for president and vice-president, and there is now, for the first time, an encouraging promise that a law will be enacted set tling the open and dangerous points in tliis important matter. One great ob stacle in the way of an agreement on a hill lias been the senate’s determination to claim for its presiding officer authority to decide certain questions and declare who are elected, and the determination ofthe house not to recognize such author ity. The house is so resolute on this point that, in the bill which passed last week, it refuses to allow the president of the senate as presiding officer of the joint session to announce the names of the persons elected, even after the votes shall have been harmoniously counted and the persons elected fairly decided on. The provisions of chief importance in the house bill are those regulating the question presented when there are two certificates from the same state, each pretending to bo the lawful one, and for determining the vote of a state when it is objected to. If there are two different certificates from the snme state, that one is to be received which shall have the approval of tho tribunal in the senate invested with authority to decide upon the question. If there bo two or more such tribunals in the same state, then tho two houses, acting sepa rately, must agree ou one of the certificates; if they do not ngree, both certificates are to he rejected and the votes from that state are lost. If there be no tribunal to decide electoral dis putes in the state, then that certificate which bears the state seal shall be re ceived, unless the two houses, acting separately, agree in rejecting it. In plain words, when there is but one certificate from a state bearing the seal of the state, Halt, gentlemen, for shame, what would ye do? Here in this pen I stand, murk well my word. Who draws a penknife on these Tenton boars, Pricked, squealing from their lair in royal wood, And hither brought in swinish discontent, Shall, when comes next the levy on the east, By Armour, crippled by a passing strike, Be drawn to cut ujj boys for butterine, And sausage stuff till choaked by Bridgeport smell. Begone, brave dudes, no pigs shall ye stick here— A pretty sport, indeed, to greet the coming year! If Mr. Bergh can stop the inhumane butchering of hogs, and can stop the utilization of captured boars for hunting purposes, why can he not in terfere in the matter of foxes captured for tho same use? The latter need protection more than the former, since the boars sometimes do a little torturing themselves. In his latest poetical endeavor Tennyson says that Edith was ‘ feminine to her tender feet.” Edith was, indeed, ‘‘rich in wisdom.” If she had tender feet, she did well to treat them with feminine gentleness. A woman who is harsh to her corns could never be worthy the praise of a great poet. But how did she happen to have tender feet? It is probably the same old tragic tale of tight shoo and foolish pride. There is, alas! a great deal of poor human nature even in heroines. Two Theories. There have always been two theories upon the shoeing of horses. One is that they ought to be shod, and the other, supported by what we will call the barefooted brigade, is that they should go without shoes. The shoers are much the more numerous, but the barefoots are, if anything more cocksure that they arc right. We have always been inclined to approve of shoes, not for weak and defective feet only, but as tho proper appliances for all feet, however good, and as practically iudispensable for horses that are liable to be called on for a high late of speed* When it comes to pounding, there must be some thing to pound with more substantial than the nuked hoof. Lady Randolph Churchill has issued 2000 in vitations to a reception which will be held at the foreign office on January 12. A Connecticut youth sent his best girl forty pounds of candy as a Christmas present. BARGAINS! Remember the Great Bargain Sale continues at our store The slock must positively be closed out even at a great sacri fice. We have space to give prices only on few lines. We shall offer to-morrow our entire stock of Dress Goods At a fearful loss. In this line it will pay you to inspect: 1000 Yards Remnants Canton Flannel at 4ie. 2000 Yards Remnants 4-4 Bleached Cotton al 5c. 2000 Yards Remnants Good Calico at 3c. 1000 Yards beautiful Curtain Scrim at 12£c, worth 20c. Flannels! Flannels! Blankets! Blanket tS must become to-day and yesterday, and Hosiery, Corsets, Trunks and Bags, by a wise use of its possibilities, we may be of those “whose yesterdays look back- Hosiery, Corsets, Trunks and Bags, ward with a smile.” Hosiery. Corsets. Trunks and Bags. Cruelty to Animals. The society of Prevention to the Cruelty to Ani mals is a good thing. Henry Bergh, its most warm advocate, uplifting the shield of the hu mane society and brandishing the sword of coin- WRAP S! WRAPS! mon sense, goes for the Chicago hog killers. Hear what he says: Only few Wraps left—some very fine ones. In this line we don’t refuse any reasonable offer. MILLI USTIEj IR'Y' I Many desirable goods left in this department. Any one wishing to engage in the Dry Goods business can rent the stare and buy the stock on favorable terms. JAMES A. LEWIS, 1012 :b:r,o.a.:d street, Two doors above Rankin House, - Columbus, Ga. ESTES&CO 1107 ZeiROJAID STREET, -DEPOT POE Shovel Plows, Hi's Cast and Chilled Plows Mu. Robert Browning’s SOOT-line poem will he published, it is said, on the first day of March. LIST or liEXTERN. List of unclaimed letters remaining in the lumbus, Ga., post office for the week ending Dec. 20. If not called for within thirty days will be sent to the Dead Letter Office: Anderson mrs S Lamox Bishop T H Anthony M & W McCarter A E Antney S McCullough M col Armer missF McMillan E Bulia miss H Martin miss E Baker M Mathis H Bennett J M Millen miss L Boatwright J MillismissA Boone J T Miles B Bums an J A Mitchell miss W Bryant miss T P Mitchell miss E Brinson A col Montgomery Ed C L Bresnhan J Morris miss K Bridge L Morgan Z Brown miss P *ewman W L Brown A ool Nixon mrs A Bush miss P Nun R Cain miss L E Odom mrs P Cornelias miss E Orchard M E Carter J B Patten miss S A Clark J T Patrick miss J Clifton miss M Pasters miss A Codv M col 12) Pearce miss E Coachman R A Pitts mrs H Coiner miss M Pope rare A Gunnell miss F Posey miss G Cooney W H Posey miss L Cox miss W (2) Price J Coopper rarsS Reddin J H Coopper miss M Reese A T Crown N Reynolds miss M Daniel J H Robert* E E Daniel L Ropers F R Dunn W E Robinson I E twards G col Robison S Farmer W Rodgers J W Findley & Sanders Bussell A Fontaiu miss R Sauls H Frazier L W Sauders A R Gardiner W Shorts A W (2) Gordon mrs S J Sunons mrs E Goodman S C Smith mis3 M E Gray mrs F Swiff miss L Grnv W T Smith E Griffin miss I Smart F Griffin W col Smalk mrs J Harge P Smart M E Haines miss L Solomon H Hatson H Spies miss S Harris miss M Stewart mrs C A Harrison R £3 Turner B Harrsson T Thomas mrs M A Herring & Co Z W Thomas miss L Hobbs miRS I TiceJ Holiday T Tallar miss F Holt mrs M (2) Tyce B Hollis miss M Walton miss L Howard miss H Waren miss A Hudson A Weaver T J Jenkins missC L Wells W S Johnson mrs C Wheeler J W Hemp W M Williams E Heys mrs L col Williams H O Laffoon O W Wilson S Lawson Rev J P Wright D Little H col Yancey mrs M Young J col When calling tor these letters, please My they are advertised, giving date. TBOS. h WATT, P. K. Scovil Hoes, best brands of Axes, Trace Chains, Nails, Iron, Shovels and Spades, Wagon and Buggy Timbers. Glass, Imported Cuttlery, Strictly Pure White Lead. Putty, American Cuttlery, Linseed Oils, Sash, Razors, Varnish, Blinds, Scissors, Spirits Turpentine, Doors, Carvers. AGENTS FOR 1 MO’S EMI RIFLE POWDER. Shot, Shells, Wads, Caps. Carpenters' Supplies and General Hardware. Mb. A. R. WILKERSON is with us, and will be pleased to meet his friends and former patrons. decl9 d4m Cotton Seed IVieal. The best Fertilizer and the richest and most nourishing Food fo Stock. For sale by M. T. L,-, m, D. R. Bize, T. M. Foley, M. Simons. dec!9 d3m RANKIN STABLES, 111 Rear of Rankin House, on First Avenue. Sale, Feed and Livery Stables New Turnouts: Showy, Gentle Horses, Careful Drivers. Horses boarded and carefully attended to. I have ample accommodations for live stock and arrangements to make my stable he idquarters for dealers. HORSES AND MULES FOR SALE. WAGON AND CARRIAGE REPAIR SHOP. Crr'i” S SSNKSroSoui™' “* “ d ° *" ""><» »' WILLIAM M. AMOS. ■ov33 wed M&wtai Never before in the history of Columbus has any one suc ceeded iu running their sale* of ill A iL \J Up to a point that would jus tify a standing order of Twanty-five Dozen Per week. We now find that under our present arrange ment we are unable to supply the demand, and shall have to increase our orders. Come and try them. 0, C, J REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Mr. J. H. Hamilton’s Store, corner of Ftaft avenue and Fourteenth street, the most desirable store property for b»;e in this city. Rents art paying 10 per cent, on price asked. 8MW The valuable corner lot east of Georgia Home bunding aud corner of First avenue and Eleventh streets, on which there it a store paying $300 per year rent, and room for iwo more large stores and brick enough to bulb* them. 3259. Two M acre lots on lower Broad street. The corner lot is vacant. The othi r lot has a new five-room House. 950 acre lot comer of First avenue Fifth street. Cheapest land in the city. 2209 ** acre lot, with six new tenant houses, on north Fourth avenue. Tho rent of thin ptoj-erty pays 14 percent. 1209 One four-room houpe and four new tw** room houses in Girard that rent for $29 pen month, and room for three more houses. 3709 Mr. T. H. Moore’s house, south of court house. 2609 Dr. Schley’s house on Second avenun, west side, between Fifteenth and Six teenth streets. The size of the lot is af an acre. 2500 sFg acres of land east of the park, with five new three-room houses 3200 Mr. O. C. Bullock’s house, next door south of girls’ public school, 1700. acre lot * ith new five-room house on Rose Hill on easy terms. A number of vacant lots on Rose Hill, Prioea ranging from $75 to $200, on termt to suit the pur chaser. WANTED. From 70 to 100 fteet front on Broad street, be tween Tenth and Thirteenth streets. Purchaser will pay a fair price. Apply to W. S. GREEN, Real Estate Agt. Third door woet of Post Office. SPECIAL PRICES -FOR HIM During the coming week our stock must be still fur ther reduced. Every Line of Millinery Goods will be reduced this week. Special Isale every day through the week. & CO.