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DAILY INQUIRER - SUN ; COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 188 ’>.
Resume of a Week's Happening, in
Browneville and Girard.
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In Browneville this week there l,»s been but
one idea, and that was Christmas and its pleas
As an o° U t nBa ".a °’ d ^ had the
As an outgrowth of this idea Christmas tree.
On Friday evening a Christmas festival was
St fTha P s 10 ara ‘, mpUst “ th. bene
fit of the Sunday school. A beautiful tree was
laden with presents and the church was hand
somely decorated by the ihtr ladies of the church.
A very large audience was present at 7 o’clock
Christmas Eve, and the exercises of the hour
melon * ‘"v!” 8 ' Tll ° lla PP* ne8s ofthe
little ones was the object in view, and this was
fhlly realized, as was evinced by the many
happy faces present ou that occasion.
There were a number of trees prepared in p, i va te
families for the happiness ofthe household "oils
Among these was one at the residence of Mr. a
H. Buchanan, a leading citizen of Broivnevilie.
Tne Enquirbb-Sgm reporter was invited to take
in this tree, and also to partake of the hospital-
ity ot the noontide hour, for which he felt grate
ful and retired duly sober, and in the full convic
tion that there are many innocent and inexpen
sive methods by which the happiness of family
circles may be promoted.
Church .News.
We notice by the last appointments ofthe Ala
bama Conference that Browneville has been made
a station, and that liev. Air. Cummings has been
returned there for the third year. This is quite
au advance in church matters, and indicates that
Browneville is progressing in the right direction,
liie trinity officials and members have been im
proving for several years, and last year came up
so handsomely in the matter of finance that the
Conference deemed it proper to promote Browne-
villa to the dignity of a station, and gave it the
benefit of a preacher’s full time and talent. The
appointment is au excellent one, and we have no
doubt the ensuing year will witness a markeef im
provement in the religious prospects of Trinity
-Church and the comm unity generally.
Married.
On Thursday evening, at the residence of the
bride’s mother, by Rev. L. F. Davidson, Mr. Doc
Davis to Miss Eva Stephonie, of all Browneville.
Closed.
As a matter of economy and precaution nearly
all the stores and saloons of Lively and Browne
ville were closed yesterday.
Browuevillo Briefs.
Christmas is all the go.
Many of the little folks were happy yesterday.
Santa Claus took his. departure at 12 o’clock
last night.
Mr. Jack Wall, of Nashville, is on a vi 3it to his
old home in Browneville.
Rev. Mr. Gumming has not yet returned.
Whisky went down considerably yesterday,
but there were no serious disturbances in the
suburbs.
There was no council meeting last week, but
the treasury was somewhat replenished by fines
and penalties.
Let there be light. The streets of Browneville
and Lively are sadly in need of street lamps.
There are some improvements north of the
railroad. Mrs. Cutes has built a new residence
and Mr. James Saxon has greatly improved his
home by the addition of a new poroh,
Messrs. John Collins and Wm. Kimball are the
champion hunters. In a day and a half this
week they captured 1 beaver, 2 coons, 13 ducks, 1
rabbit and 70 squirrels.
Miss Nora L. Floyd’s school closed Friday for a
week’s holiday, and on that occasion she gave
the scholars a candy party which they cDjoyed
immensely. She will resume her school at Card
er’s Hall January 3,1887.
Mr. E. H. Floyd left for Opelika yesterday,
where he will spend the holidays.
GIRARD GLEANINGS.
Whisky Still Goes—Tho New Baptist Church—A
New Preacher for the M. E. Church—Minor
Dots.
The township trustees held a meeting on
Wednesday evening. The principal business of
the session was the fixing of the barroom tax in
the district at $300. This is the minimum on
lowest rate allowed by law. This will swell the
total whisky tax in the district to about $800. One
would think that this was quite sufficient to in
timidate the liquor traffic, but it lias not done ho,
as we understand that all three of the bar-rooms
which were run last year will take out liconse
and continue business the ensuiDg year. There
are two saloons in Lively, kept by M. T. Lynn
and J. A. Allen & Co., aud one in Girard by W.
A. Martin & L. M. Chalmers. However much the
temperance people may regret this, the saloon
tax will largely increase the public school reve
nue and stimulate the business interests of the
suburbs.
Tlio New Baptist Church.
The building committee has exhausted its re
sources and calls for more money. Up to this
time about$1100 has been collected and expended
In the work, and the revenue is now exhausted
And the church in debt. It will take several
hundred dollars yet to complete the edifice in ac
cordance with the designs, and how to raise this
money i3 the question. The Girard Baptists are
quite poor, though up to thi3 time they have
done remarkably well. There is plenty of
.surplus money in this section to build all needed
churches, and it is to be hoped that some of it
may find its way to Girard. The exterior work
is nearly completed, but the church needs paint
ing, plastering, seats etc. On next Sabbath the
cerqmony of laying the corner stone will take
place, conducted by Rev. R. H. Harris of Colum
bus. The ceremonies will doubtless be quite in
teresting and attract a large congregation.
Rev. Mr. Jones.
This is the name of the new preacher appointed
by the Alabama conference last week to Girard.
The place has been disconnected from Trinity
and left to rely on its own resources, backed up
by a small appropriation from the missionary
ftind. Mr. Jones had not arrived up to yesterday,
but a report comes that he is a good man for tho
place. With Smith in Columbus and Jones in
Girard, the cause will prosper, as these are luc ty
names. _ _ _ _
Short-Stops.
The ravine bridge has been repaired.
Many tnrkeys made their exit from time >es-
te Mr.C. B. Brown, of Eufaula, is on a visit to
friends in Girard. ' ... o-urict
The Girard youngsters got their Bhare ofCh
mas. Most of them had a good time.
Public and private schools have been suspended
until the first Monday in January.
This is the last Sunday in the year, and m
gratitude the people should attend church am
make new resolutions. ,
It has been a long time since Christmas day
smiled so benignly upon the people. Yester ay
was among the loveliest days of the winter.
The Bushin Olraril.
U. a. Hyde’s store was crowded Christmas eve
and yesterday from morning till night by people
Irani Columbus, Browneville and the country,
A Pleasant Kplsml..
AVe have always said the bread winners of Co-
mrabus had more native inborn appreciation of
t heir position, end more regard for their em-
ploiers than any like class of people in so hon
orable a pursuit in the union. Recognizing the
natural duties and dependence upon one an
other those in authority ill our establishments
have always maintained the moot cordial rela
tions with the employes. A beautiful illustra
tion of t'ae appreciation of this and the kindly
feeling existing was shown yesterday, when the
overseers iu the woolen department of the Eagle
and Phenix mills presented their super
intendent, Mr. E. N. Clemeuce with a
bpuutifu] gold-headed cane. The usual presenta
tion remarks ivero made and Mr. Clemeuce re
sponded fittingly and feelingly to the committee.
Mr. Clemeuce is one of tho many northern
nion who has mado Coliunhus his home during
tne past few years. Quietly end intelligently
following the duties of his office, he has not only
wou the confidence and respect of tlioso to whom
lie is accountable, but also those over whom the
authority of his offico gives him control.
Christmas aud its good cheer brings uo sweeter
Bolace to life than these little episodes which
make more Ilian the gilt on the pages nf our
life’s record. To the liberal donors and the
happy recipient we extend the compliments of
the season, with the wish that we all may live to
see many such brght and happy Christmas
days. It may ho more blessed to give than re
ceive, but to be the recipient uudersucii circum
stances should be happiness enough for one
Christmas.
Indian illeillitine.
For the Enquirer-Sun.
“Teaching men the art. of simples,
And tho cure of nil diseases.
Thus vas first made known to mortals
All the mystery of medamiu,
AU the secret, all of heating.”
—Longfellow.
The medicine man of an Indian tribe is
at the same time its priest. Many of tho
patent medicines, blood purifiers, on the
market at the present time come directly
from the Cherokee Indians. The first and
most powerful impetus given to these com
pounds emanated from a letter written to
tile Medical Record by J. Marion Sims, in
which he gave the formula and describod
a decoction formerly used by the Creeks
and Cherokees, and obtained from them
through Horace King, if former
well-known bridge builder who
lived first in Montgomery coun
ty, Ala,, and then iu this city. This
was the only medicine used to any extent
by these tribes. Curiously enough this
mixture is now used mainly and highly
vaunted for a trouble the Indians did not
have at that time. This medicine was
used by tho Indians after it was prepared
by the medicine chief. Of course it passed
through charms, incantations and conjure,
and then It was believed not only to cure,
but to protect the Indian’s lifp against
arrows, the.toinuhawks of another tribe and
the rifle of the pale face. In briefer
terms, it was looked upon with confident
eyes just as calomel is among our tribe.
This mixture contained originally ash,
poke root, American sarsaparilla, etc.,
latterly the name is all that holds
it together, whisky and iron having dis
placed tho other ingredients. The faith of
an Indian in any mixture given bv his
medicine chief is greater than that evinced
by the usual modern patient. The fighting
forco never dare in tho field without his
presence. In any case of alarming illness
the medicine chief is sent for together
with hia assistants, who are old women,
that do the howling and stand only a little
lower than the chief. The treatment is
always the same, whether the patient is
dying of consumption, or suffering from an
acute attack of mumps. Tho women
lift up their voices arid rend the air with
howls and yells most doleful and lugu
brious. Then some of the women from
the neighboring tribes come around like it
was a quilting and join in the howls
until the whole camp is one chaotic pande
monium of howls, groans, shouts, moans,
squeaks and screams. At the present time
our motto for the civilized physician is :
In quietness, rest and confidence is our
healing ability. After the female corps
has done its own work, which often finish
es up the matter, the medicine chief comes
in muttering incantations, and armed with
the prickly ash aud sarsaparilla.
If all this fail then the chief calls in a lusty
young buck and placing a tom-tom in his
hands, orders it to be beaten with all force
immediately over the head of his patient.
And yet Indians nre not a remarkably
short-lived race. Through all the doctor
ing the medicino man must maintain a
grave and dignified demeanor. How life
like ! The Sioux medicine chief this very
day has only one treatment for all diseases,
and this is it: A stone chamber is built
and a fire made inside and kept up until
the stones are quite hot, then
no matter what the disease,
measles, cholera morbus, typhoid or what
soever, old man, woman or baby, it is
well baked in this stone oven and then
dipped immediately into the river. This
remedy would doubtless bring about an
appreciable change at least, and vary the
bulletin as to the suffering one’s condition.
If the patient recover the medicine man is
the recipient of bounteous offerings, for an
Indian believes that all disease is a mani
festation powers of the evil one.
Charms, in. sand coDjure through a
process ol ion have handed them
selves down, and even to-day they con
tinue to be Wn full-fledged like Minerva
sprang from Jupiter.
Somubody seems anxious to start a school of
journalism—at least mush is said about it in the
papers. Ask any reporter who knows his busi
ness and you can get n pointer on this journalism
business. He will likely tell you that by the
midnight fire and the murder in the slums; be
side tlie police justice; in the divorce court; with
the rummiest politician and at the bail of my
lady • between the wheels of trade and amid the
roar of a thousand industries; wherever man is
at his best and worst, where he worships God and
courts the devil, there is journalism’s kinder
garten, there you will learn its alphabet. For
what is journalism 7 The lesson of to-morrow in
the story of to-day. _______
MR Blaine, permanent presidential candidate
of the United States, has been talking in Boston
about religion, lie demands protection for ex
tempore preaching in the pulpit, and wants a
hieh tariff placed on manuscript sermons, as it
were. He is right in this matter. A congrega
tion will listen, perforce, to a very poor speaker if
he does not use notes, while even an eloquent
talker is often handicapped by manuscript. A
little hard work would make many a preacher
nteresting to his hearers who now bores them
by his inability to break away from the safe bat
prosy method of eermon reading.
SIGNS OF THE TIES
The Ancient Origin of Signs and of Sign
Painting.
A lUekwsril OIhtwc at These nf Onr English An-
coRtora -Some Morifvn Siur.s \Thi<*li Have At*
tftincri Notoriety.
lu these latter clays, with so many means for
advertising, the use of signs is in a great measure
passing away. And even among those who still
cling to them there is hut iittle attempt at pic
tures. Another thing has acted us a strong
factor in bringing them into disrepute, the law
which has beau passed in so many cities abolish
es swinging aigns, some municipalities not even
permitting a square of tin to he hung beside the
dour, unless it is nailed to the wall.
Tbelaw is, however, by no means a now one,
for there tire records of similar laws having been
passed in London. The rage for great signs,
elaborate affairs ofoa r ving, gilding and painting
was so great that stringent laws were passed by
parliament to no away with them. The falling
ot an immense sign in Little Russell street, Lon
don, in the tiin-j of Charles II., cansod the death
of two young ladies, tho kings’jeweler and a
cobbler, and was tno immediate cause ofthe act
which forced the tearing down of all of the
swinging signs.
Columbus is about as badly a filleted in this re
spect as any city in the country, as a glance
down any of the business streets will show.
Those immense, swinging, creaking, view-ob
structing slabs of wood and paint arc of no tna
terial use iu directing the purohusor to tho marts
of sale. They are relics of a by eg on o ago and
should be abolished.
There are still ujino signs which are of Interest
us their origin readies far back, for hundreds of
years. The first ol these fa a b..rbor pole. In the
south the primitive p.iinti g, red and white, is
still retained, but in other sections of the United
Slates the other uutional color, blue, has been
added.
The origin of the colors is said t o have origi
nated in the custom of having the victims, which
the barbers ble ed in their capacity of surgeons,
hold on to a pole, and tho blood trickling down
the white pole, it was adopted as the emblem < f
the craft.. A couplet from tho celebrated Dean
Swift would seem to indicate that the barber
shops were also run in couuection with the tav.
erns.
“Run not from polo to pole, but f-tep in here.
Where naught excels the shaving bat the beer.”
Sir Walter Scott alludes to the same thing in
similar lines in tho “Fortune of Nigel.”
The mortar and pestlo ofthe druggist claim an
ancient origin, as do the three little gold balls
that hang in front of pawn brokers shops; the
latter having been tho arms of tho powerful
family of Medici, which played such an important
part in European politics, and who were the
original pawn brokers.
The boot and shoe makers still cling to their
olden sign, and several ofthe modern crafts in
dicate their places by suspending productions of
their handiwork over their doors. According to
Pliny the Elder a tavern in Rome was known by
the name of “The Bear with the Hat On,” and
Fabius records that one was located near the
forum called the “Cock.” In the ruins of Pom-
prii has been fauna carved in bas-relief, over a
wine cellar door, two slaves carrying a cask of
wine.
Signs have played no considerable part in the
political history of tho world. During the reign
of Edward IV. of England, a tavern keeper was
beheaded for alleged disloyalty in the display of
his sign, and still later, when Chartes I. was be
headed, a rampant royalist named John Taylor
was put up a “mourning crown,” which the
rump parliament forced him to take down.
These same Puritans also tore down tho sign of
the “Cat and tho Fiddle,” as profane and un
godly.
An old sonnet, by Thomas Haywood, a poet
now forgotten, gives some of tho old names of
the taverns in the time of good Queen Bess.
“The gintry to tho King’s Hoad,
The nobles to the Crown;
The knight unto the Golden Fleece,
And to the Plough the clowne.
Tho churchman to the Mitre,
The shepherd to the Star;
The f ardener hies him to the Rose,
To the Drum the man of war.
The huntsman to the White Hart,
To the ship the merchants goe;
But you that doe the muses love,
Tho sign called River Po.”
Tho Parisians went to such extravagant
lengths, and breadths also, in their shop signs as
to call for some laws on the subject, the enforce
ment of which occasioned several bloody riots.
Sign painters were a very honorable crafr, and
in 1762 there was “an exhibition of tlie society of
sign painters.” 'The Spectator of January 8, 1743,
gave an account of a splendid sign that cost
£500. It was a life size carved portrait of Queen
Elizabeth, painted and gilded.
As memorials of historical events, the Royal
Oak sign was a great favorite after Charles II.
ascended the throne. In Cheapside the sign of
the “Gospel Oak” commemorated the time
when, under an oak close by, the Bible was road
to the illiterate. After the Highland insurrec
tion of 1743, all ofthe signs of tho Scottish High
landers over the snuff shops were ordered taken
down.
A famous sign in London was the “Ass in the
Bandbox.” Home of the queerest were: Shovel
and Boot, Whale and Crune, Bull and Mouth,
Razor and Crane, Devil and Pack of Nails, Pig
and Tinder Box, Pig in Misery, Hog in Armor,
Goose and Gridiron, Elephant and Castle, Cat in
Cage.
Some of these find parallel in onr own immedi
ate times. In this city there is a White Elephant
hotel, and the grand saloons in Waco, Ft. Worth
and San Antonio, Tex., have become famous.
“Hole in tho Wall” has been a favorite sign for
two centuries for small groggeries.
On the levee at New Orleans, a resort for the
negro steamboat hands rejoiced in the name of j
“The Buzzard’s Roost,” and another house fre-
quented by English sailors sought to reconcile
them to their voluntary exile by hanging out the
sign ofthe “Pig and Whistle.”
Tobacco stores still ornament their fronts and
block the Bidewalks with statues of Indians,
Turks and extravagant females called “Girls of
the Period.” Butchers in tho markets sell tough
beef underneath pictures of fat and brilliantly
colored cows and steers.
The wire and glass signs are now considered
the correct thing, and are certainly more sensible
than the hideous and cumbersome wooden frame
works that, hang over the nidewolks to tho infin
ite danger of every passe my.
K< epMJikCH.
Each lover has a keepsake
For the memory of his love;
One has a note or ribbon,
And one a curl or glove.
But I am rich in keepsakes;
Three notes I treasure apart;
There are two, accepting my presents,
And one, declining my heart.
Weekly Rank Statement.
New York, December 24.—Following is
the statement of the New York associated i
banks for tlie week, and which shows the 1
following changes :
Reserve increase $3,224 000 |
Loans decrease 6,209.000 |
Specie increase 2,917,000 .
Legal tenders decrease 215.300
Deposits decrease 1,089,200
Circulation decrease 11,100
The banks now hold $7,232,200 in excess j
ofthe 25 per cent. rule. I
MISERY AND MIXTURE.
flow nn rnfiiilhfn! Wife imd « W’irked Partner
Played Havoc With Llfo’h Prospects.
Memphis, Tenn., December 25.—A trial
wna concluded before Judge Hammond in
the United Htnteu court to-day that pre
sented a remarkable revelation in morals
as well ns knotty points of law. It was re
moved from Jackson, Tenn., to Memphis,
for convenience, and had been on trial for
two days. The following is an outline of
the ease, which appears on the docket as
Samuel F. Hunt, vs. Jacob Fisher, admin
istrator, and others: In 1875 J. W. Walker
and C. B. Young, the latter n Cincinnati
man, were operating the Brown iron fur
nace in Decatur county, Tennessee, under
the firm name of Walker & Young. Be
sides the furnace the firm possessed
valuable mining property and a store
and stock of goods worth, in all, about
2160,000 of which Walker owned one-thid.
Tho business was prosperous and the
partners wore in a fair way to Income
very wealthy, when a woman’s frailty in
tervened ana started them down the
road to ruin. Mrs. Walker became in
fatuated with Young, and lie yielded to
the temptation of her smiles. Their rela
tions soon became so open that the hus
band could not help detecting them, and
here came in the moat curious feature of
the case. Instead of blowing tho top of
Young’s head off with a shotgun, as is the
custom ofthe country, he condoned his
offence in a busine 'a-like way. After {a
consul’ at ion with guilty pair Walker
sold out- his one third hiteivsb in the prop
erty and business to his w ife with the
stipulation that she was to settle all his
partnership debts and $15,000 of individual
debts, and pay him up annuity of $1000 dur
ing hzs life lime. A divorce was obtained
and the woman married
THE WJOKED PARTNER
and they cominued the business. Their
management, was bad, and Young wont,
into bankruptcy on his own individual ac
count at N ishvillo. During this stale ol
affairs be persuaded his wife to join with
tho creditors of the ir.n in a settlement of
composition in bankruptcy which resulted
in the appointment of u trudue who took
possession ofthe furnace and undertook io
manage it and pay the debts. They iir.it
executed a mortgage for $10,000 to raise
money, which was to bo a prior lien ovqr
all other creditors. Tho money was not
paid and the mortgagees sold out tho
property in the federal court nfc Nashville.
Prior to this time Walker, who.after tho
divorce had become a pauper, filed a bill
in the chancery court of Decal-ur county
to force Young and his wife to pay the
annuity and the debts provided for iu the
contract. A few months later the Bank of
Tennessee filed a bill in the chancery
court at Nashville to enforce the payment
of a debt due tho bank under that con
tract. In this case there was a decree of
sale, and Samuel F. Hunt, a Cincinnati
lawyer, bought the one-third interest
which Walker-had transferred to his wife
for $100.
Walker died and his administrator con
tinued the litigation in Decatur county
and procured a decree of sale. This lici u-
tion was unknown to the litigants at Nash
ville, and that in Nashville was unknown
to the litigants in Decatur county. Hunt
filed a bill in the Decatur chancery court to
enjoin tlie sale by the administrator, ami
got an injunction and removed the case to
the federal court where the administrator
filed a cross-bill to enforce his rights under
the Decatur decree. Tlie case, therefore,
presents the following
NOVEL SITUATION.
There is a contract between man and
wife by which be sells out to her his inter
est in a partnership and authorizes her to
carry on the partnership; for a few months
there was a partnership with a married
woman: then a partnership with u di
vorced wile; then a partnership with a
man’s own wife; then follow a bank
ruptcy of the individual partnership; a car
rying on of tho business by trustees in
bankruptcy; bills to foreclose; insolvent
bills by administrators: bills by creditors
on their owu account, and a general muss
and mixing in of things. Judge Ham
mond reserved his decision.
FOOLED FOR FiFTY.
fared it to him for 12,000f. The ambassa
dor repaired secretly to the peasant's
dwelling to examine it and found it was a
bona Hdo gem of the fourth century. He
telegraphed the discovery to the trench
minister of fine arks, who authorized him
to conclude the bargain. But there was
a serious difficulty to overcome, and that
was to get-it out of the country without
being detected by the customs authorities.
After some reflection the ambassador in
structed tlie p \amnt how to set lo work.
He was to hide the statue in a cartload of
vegetables, drive down to a creek on the
seashore where he should find a boat from
the French sloop stationed at tho Piraeus
waiting to receive him. The job was per
formed successfully. The statue, in the
midst of the Vegetables, was shipped on
the boat, and the 12,000f. was handed to
the poasant by the captain as he left, the
shore. On tho arrivalol’lhe statue in Paris
it was placed in the Louvre, not far from
the famous Venus of Milo, while its dis
coverer, tlie poor Greek peasant, is now
leading the life of a small gentleman
farmer on the proceeds.
Not Unlit Thin Way.
Had Paris soon I-Iollon attempt to shoo
a cow out of the back yard, it i safe to
say that the Trojan war would never have
been waged and Homer would have been
obliged t ) take the liny market riot for an
epic. Hap Antony seen Clopatra chase a
street car down a dusty avenue of Cairo, it
is safe to state that lie would have fled dis
enchanted back t.o Oct-avia, and the di
vorce court lawyer—“decree quietly sc-
j cured; uo publicity” would never have
made a cent from him. Had Dante seen
Beatrice fire a half brick at- the vandal
! hen which prospected for seeds in her
I flower-bed every spring, it is again safe to
! say that- lie would have sent back her
notes, her white mou ;o pen wiper, tho lava
smoking set with “Merry Christmas paint
ed across tho stern, mil discontinued that
rookv courtship which he subsequently
celebrated in a poem called ‘The Inleruo.’
Scaling WiixTof Various Colors.
A society journal declares that- all per
sons having pretensions to bo in the higli-
I life movement now use wax and seals
1 with ores!s to fasten their letters. Borne
| ultra refined people adapt the color ol tho
I wax to their humor or the contents of the
' letter. A sombre tint would indicate en
nui of tho writer; rose color or bright
I blue would denote a happy frame of mind
l ot’ announce to receiver an agreeable mes
sage before opening tho letter.—Galigna-
ni’rt Messenger.
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GEORGIA SR'iniKMliES.
Corrected by John Eltu'lnmir, t'oiuns
ImM, €>}(».
STOCK AND BOND BROKER.
RAILROAD BONDS.
Araericus, Preston aud Lumpkin 1st
mortgage 7 b 100
Atlantic and Gulf 7h 117
Augusta ami Knoxville 7 p-r cent 114
Augusta, Gibhon and Handersville 7
percent 1st mortgage 104
Central con mortgage 7s 116
Columbus and Rome 1st 0s, endorsed
Central U. R 104
Columbus and Western 1st mortgage
6s, endorsed by Central R. R 116
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 1st
mortgage 114
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 4s
2d mortgage 110
Guioesvile, Jefferson and Southern
1st mortgage guaranteed 118
Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern
2d mortgage Ill
Georgia Railroad 6s IOC
Mobile and Girard 2d mortgage en
dorsed by Central Railroad 108
Montgomery and Eufaula 1st mort
gage Hs and Centra Railroad 108
Ocean Steamship 6 per cent, guaran
teed by O. U. K 105
Savannah, Florida ami Western 6 per
cent 104
Soutli Georgia and Florida 1st, en
dorsed by state of Georgia, 7 per
cent 118
South Georgia anil Florida 2d, 7 per
cent Ill
Western R. R. Alabama 1st mortgage,
endorsed by Central Railroad 107
Western Alabama 2d mortgage, en
dorsed 110
RAILROAD STOCKS.
AtJanfa and West Point 104
Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent.
scrip 106
Augusta and Savannah 7 per cent.
Paken In By n Pair of
Bowling Green, K.y., December 24.—
Felix Gray, a prominent farmer of Butter
county, and one of the directors of tlie
Morgantown bank, was victimized yester
day to the amount of $50 by two confidence
men. They drove up to his house, near
Morgantown, in a buggy, and got out to
warm. While there they discovered that
Mr. Gray had a large wen on his nock.
One of them represented himself to bo
Dr. Atchison, a partner of Dr. McCormack,
of this city, and succeeded in
making the old gentleman believe the wen
could be removed by a receipt he had, for
which he charged $50. Mr. Gray was so
anxious to be relieved of the excrescence
that he gave tlie spurious doctor a check
for that amount on the Morgantown bank,
and sent a person with them to identify
them as being all right. After they left Dr.
Cohorn, of Butler county, happened to be
passing, and stopped in to see his old friend
Mr. Gray, who related the circumstances
to the former. Dr. Cohorn informed him
that Dr. Atchison hud uot practiced in
Bowling Green for many years, and Dr.
Cooper Wright was McCormack’s partner.
A man was immediately sent to head the
rascals off’ and stop the payment of the
check, but whether they were caught up
with has not yet been learned. Dr. Cohorn
came on to this city in search of the fel
lows. It is thought that one of the parties
is a young man recently from Logan
county, who endeavored to victimize sev
eral persons in this city with forged
checks.
More Precious Thun Gold.
New York Market Journal.
Not a dozen people in this city could
guess what wus in a little cigar box that
William A. Atkins, of Proviucetown, Capo
Cod, had under his arm when he was
here. If you saw it on the sidewalk you
would take particular pains to pass it by,
but you would pass by a small foitune.
The veilow and unpleasant looking and
unpleasant smelling stuff is ambergris of
the best quality, and it is worth more per
ounce than gold. It is found only in the
intestines of a deceased whale, and is U3ed
in the manufacture of fine cologne.
But one vessel this season hr* reported a
find of this sort, and that is the schooner
Antarctic, of Provincetown. A whale
that she killed in Sana bay, West Indies,
last April, yielded thirty pounds of am
bergris, and it has just arrived home. It
worth nearly $10,0000, and is of more value
than all the oil the vessel has on board.
Mr. A Lkins, who is tho owner of the An
tarctic and is at the head ofthe whaling
industry of Cape Cod, had a sample of it
in his cigar box. As no other ambergris is j
likely to be brought home this year he
has a corner on the market.
Tho Story of tlio Greek Slave,
Pall Mall Gazette.
Visitors to the Louvre of late may have
noticed a remarkable iittle marble statuo
labelled “A Young Athenian Girl.” The
st ry of its discovery aud acquisition, just
disclosed by the Temps, forms a curious
pagein the history of antiquities. A peas
ant of Pattissia while digging in the fields,
suddenly cume across an old statue. Know
ing that the # Greek law forbids the ex
portation of ancient objects of art found
in the country and that foreign amateurs
are always ready to pay a high price for
them, he at once took it home and hid it
nnder a heap of fagots. He then went to
the French Ambassador, who was well
known for his love of such relics, and of-
Central common
Central railroad 6 percent, scrip
120
Mobile and Girard 1 per cent, guar
anteed by Central R. it 24
Southwestern 7 percent. uriittranteed..l28
CITY BONDS.
Macon 6s
100
@106
@116
@112
119
112
@109
@100
@100
106
108
@110
@113
@110
@111
@106
@106
@181
@121
@107
@118
@112
@106
@113
@103
@101
@111
Savannah 5s 102 @103
STATE BONDS.
Georgia 4%s 106 @107
Georgia 6s 103 @104
Georgia 7s, 1806 120 @122
Georgia 7h, 1890 Ill @112
FACTORY STOCKS.
Eagle and Phenix 09 @100
Muscogee 96 @ 07
Georgia Home Insurance Company 136 @140
BANK STOCKS.
Chattahoochee National 10 per cent... 176 @200
Merchants’ & Mechanics’ 10 per cent..124 @126
MISCELLANEOUS.
Confederate Coupon Bonds 1 @ 2
HVH.MH.ivn Rf
Opelika, Ala., November 16th, 1888.
O N and after Monday. November 16th, 18R6, the
trains on this road will be run as follows :
No. I.
Leave Columbus 8 06 a na
Arrive Opelika 9 36 a na
No. 3.
Leave Opelika 9 46 a m
Arrive Columbus 11 01 a m
No. 3.
Leave Columbus 2 28 p m
Arrive Opelika 8 68 p m
No. 4.
Leave Opelika 109pm
Arrive Columbus 8 34 p in
No. 6.
Leave Coinm bus 6 60 a m
Arrive Opelika 9 03 a rn
Arrive Good water 6 46 p m
No. ft.
Leave Good water 4 46 a ra
Arrive Opelika 9 27 a ru
Arrive Columhus 12 26 p m
No. 7.
Leave Columbus 1 16 p ro
Arrive Opelika 3 OH p m
No. H.
Leave Opelika 4 00pm
Arrive Columbus 6 41 p a
The night trains are discontinued for the pres
ent. A. PLE vVELLEN,
dtf General Manager
m l if lili to,
Office General Manager,
Columbus, Oa„ November 28th, 1886.
O N and alter Sunday, September 12. 1880, the
schedule of Mail Train will be os follows:
No. 1 -Going North Daily.
Leave Coin in bus 3 08 p m
Arrive at Chipley 6 11pm
Arrive at Greenville B 16 p m
No. 2- Coming South Daily.
Leave Greenville 7 10 a m
Arrivegit Chipley 8 il a rr.
Arrive at Columbus 10 21 a ir
No. 3—Freight and Accommodation—North.
Leave Columbus fi on a m
Arrive at Chipley 8 11 a in
Arrive at Greenville 9 26 a m
No. 4—Freight and Accommodation—South.
Leave Greenville 10 22 a m
Arrive at Chipley 11 38 a m
Arrive at Columbus 2 11pm
W. L. CLARK. Gen’l Manager.
T. C S. HOWARD. Gen’l Ticket Agent.
fcb24 dlv
TEN CENT COLUMN.
[Advertisements will bo inserted in this column
for one cent a word each inseition, but no singl|
notice will be taken for less thau twenly-flft
cents.)
r |UIE BOSS CHURN MANUFACTURE)BY
I McDcrmaid A Allen, Rockford, 111., is the best
thing out. It is used with great satisfaction at
the Northside Dairy Karin, Fortson, Ga., and by
Messrs. F. W. Fort son, 18. H. Riggers and F. J.
Johnson. Goto H. F. Eveiett’s and see it for
yourself.
SITUATION WANTED- BY AN EXPEftf
enced lady. Address “I),” Postoffico.
|X)R RENT—MY HOUSE ON THIRTEENTH
.1 street, between Second and Third avenue*
bix rooms and Kitchen attached, water work*
etc. Apply to ANDREW CRAWFORD, GeorgS
Warehouse. 12-24 u
SK FOR COLGATE’S “NEW” SOAP, TUA®
is the best and cheapest in the market. 21 tf
/TOLGATE’S’NEW” SOAP IS TAKING THH
\j place of all other brands. Ask for it when
you go to buy, and take no other brand. 13-2111
LD NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE AT THIS
office at 50 cents per hundred it*
i L. POLLARD HAH JUST RECEIVED’~A
1 • fresh lot of Candies Almonds, Walnuts, Pe
cans, Brazil Nuts und Cocoanuta, and will s 11 at
wholesale aud retail. 12-J8 tf
I,Mil-Mil SMOIvEl) HALIFAX SALMON JUS$
V received at Kavanugh’s. 12 213fc
A F. U1B-.ON A CO. ARE SELLING FURN?
J\ • ture cheaper than ever, on i u stall in enta or
otherwise. 12-14 tf
»'ket*
tt^-1 80 lor full pint bottle. tf
f 'HE Cl I’Y DRUG STORE HAS A liEAUTL
1 ful lino of good* foi Holiday Presents. Don’t
forgot to go and see l hem. 12-17 tf
jj:'UHSU SMOKED li \ LI FAX SALMON JUST
1 received at ICavuuagh’s. 12 24 31
I U’ilECHEAPDsi' PLACE IN COLUMBUS TO
I 1 buy Dull Carriages, Wagons, Voioc.pedoa.
| etc., i« A. F. Gibson Ai Co.’s, 1222 Broad street, tf
1 d tOLUATE’S “NEW” riv)AP WASHES liEW
V_y it*i and lasts longer than unj f other. See
big advertisement next Wednesday. tf
D iamonds for chri.vi'mast present*
just received and for sulo cheap ul J. H.
BEAM HALL'S. tf
lJOlt SIX DAYS--COMMENCING MONDAY
I morning at H o’clock, 1 will produce large
Photographs for Christman presents at ono-
l’uurth 1113 prices charged before. ALPHA A.
WILLIAMS.
tf
JF YOU WANT THE BEST CAKES, CUB-
1 turds, Pies, etc., try my home-made. They
lnivo no equal. H. .JUSTICE, Agent. tf
'I'llHCllUlDUHT UlciAKS IN THE MAUKK?
J at Gilocrt t’o Blanchard’s Drug Store, tf
SHIELD PERFECTION BOURBON WUlIf
IO ky. 1 commend to all who deu ip e a really
wood and reliable article. ROBERT S. CRANE,
Sole Agent. t«
| > KOKKN LUIS UnDKHWUAK MUST MOV*
±j this week at CHANCELLOR’S. tl
ktandakd of thf would — oL5
IO Hinooilie and reliable Whisky, 8.> c^nts par
quart, sold by HOLL1N JEFFERSON. 12-7 2m
-5=1
Sealed Proposals Wanted.
1 )UOPOSALS are invited for doing the city work
lor year 1887, January 1 to December 31, m
follows:
1. For making and repairing carts and shoeing
mules.
2. For making and repairing harness.
3. For feeding the city mules; the food, both in
quantity and quality to be such us the overseer
of the street bunds shall require, and with th*
privilege of storing toolt amt such other property
ofthe city us may be desired, also with privilege
of boarding lior 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 sumo I*
bo stained, and head und foot boards, and boards
lor covering the coffin u> be included.
6. For medicines und stimulautH, us prescribed
by tho cijy physician, for a specified sum ior th*
year; medicines for orphans’ asylum to be in*
eluded. This bid to include surgeon’s dressings,
as plasters, chloroform, lint, bamlugeH, patent
medicines, cic., and every other article or medi
cine necessary for use by city physician in treat*
ing diseases or wounds; all to be of best quulity;
all prescriptions lo be compounded only by li
censed druggists.
6. For lumoer to be delivered from lumber yard
or in quantities at such places as may bo design
mued. Quality to be strictly first-class. Bids for
lengths over 82 feet may be separately specified if
so desired.
7. For publishing proceedings of council, offi
cially lfrequired, or full synopsis or reports o#
same; also, any and all advertisements pertain
ing to municipal ulfairs by the mayor, any com-
nmtee or officer ol council, including treasurer,
clerk, mar-ihni sales, etc., and chief engineer of
the fire department; also, any advertisement* by
the commissioners of commons or trustees of pub
lic schools.
8. For ail job work, including all blunks and
tax book.* of whatsoever churacter, as well a*
binding and job work of any description which
may he require', inducing tne publishing iti
pamphlet form of 200 copies of annual reports of
commitU cc. uddress of Mayor, etc., just made bo
council, ami including the report ol the Superin
tended.. (.1 Public Schools, and the annual report
of the Chief of the Fire Department to he mad*
in Junuury next. Estimate of probable amount
of work required will be furnished ou request.
9. For lighting und extinguishing the stre*t
gas lamps, according to usual custom of doing
the same.
Rids may be varied in any manner to suit bid-
deis, aud must be handed in by meeting of coun
cil 011 Wednesday evening, December '29th.
Council reserves the right lo reject uny or all
bids. By order of council. M. Al. MOORE,
dccl5td Clerk Council.
FOR HALE.
$2000 Atlanta 8 per cent, duo 1002.
25 Shares Eagie and Phenix Factory Stock.
Amerious, Preston and Lumpkin Ranroad If*
mortgage 7 per cent Bonds, due 1906, at par and
inti.'rest.
10 Shares Merchants und Mechanics’ Bank
Stock.
$.000 Columbus ice Co. Stock. Profits lost
year over expenses 12 per cent.
WANTED.
City of Columbus 6 per cent. Bonds.
Sec me before you buy or sell. 1 can always d*
as well, and oiten several points better, than any
one else. JOHN IILACUHAII.
R EGULAR MEETING to-morrow (Monday
evening at 8 o’clock. Transient brethren ui
good standing are cordially invited to attend.
J. F. WISE, N. G.
F. W. LOUDENBER. Bec’y. mh28sely
Market Stalls to Rent.
W ILL be rented at the Market House, at pub
lic outcry, to the highest bidder, on Mon
day. January ;id. all the Stalls in *h>‘ .Meet Mar
ket, under direction of the comm'' •• .lurkat*
Central Railroad and Banking
Company of Georgia.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1st, 1M8.
A Dividend of FOUR DOLLARS per shar*
froifi the turnings of this Company and its de
pendencies has been declared, payable on and
alter December iiuth, to the Stockholders as of
record this day. T M. CUNNINGHAM,
d7ec eodl ot Cush ior.
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