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DAILY INQUIRER - SUN ; COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 188 ’>. Resume of a Week's Happening, in Browneville and Girard. *he Olorlou-I ChflMma. Time* .ml tl.c Chrlutni*. r.rc7r H " h ' ***«■«*££ m JUST ,,ue "“ on - !,, '"* N " ( « *»-' 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. A O 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. AliVEETISING AGENTS poaltlv* remody lor tuo abtrrfl by Its ut thouiMiDU of CAMS of the worst kind end of lonjf sundlDf hr ,, bu«n :ure«.. Indeed, so Btronr la my fetth In !•« emcee?, that 1 will rend TWO BOTTLKH Fit KB, toi<e*her r/tth e VAI# UA1SI... TKKAT18I on tbls Jleeese, toi*ny sufferer. Cslv*.R* ,TMwir.v.udniii wi.».a8UieDiM4i 2 KLDiNG PHILADELPHIA Ur>r. Chestnut untl Eighth 8tru Receive AdirrtisrifirntH for this Paper,. fP-mt ,Trn For StlfrKPAPftRADYFJLTf A39 r^IC r.JJ lmltI wO at LowoBt Cash ft ‘.v^VftYER & SON’S MtaWH lee TO I A.M Kin* Cole red I. -nv.n? of ihT rrlorr,{ th« Ancient Loiltfe IK-oia .a which the ,tl.,i(»«ln N.Americawaehelit. Alrolargelllne. t«,i Cut&lofnM of Muonic book* and cjood* *itl» tom iintm. A In. offer of fir»t cln« bnBlnew. r Hcwmth of spur oiub.Hirft. REDD1 NO A C<X* hmitf .lM*nu'.*tur.:n'.7>ll liruiuiw.iy N.-./^ork, AGENTS large ; i! 1 styles. 1’ictures guaraireed. Special AGENTS S A rw'.TALTIEi*u“?J5{2USl! “ mousy needed to nuv Write for CetsldRue ... ’ upeefa offer. The UUjp»cr Alfa. 4’-a. Uluuied). ClaeinsaUTt