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DAILY ENQUIRER -SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1886.
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THE MAN FROM TOM’S RIVER.
tt. Quad, in Detroit Free Pres*.
You may have seen something in the
papers about the coast defenses. The idea
aaa somehow got abroad that our coasts
ought to be lined with forts and guns as a
Warning to Europe against declaring war
•gainst us some morning l ‘ fo.'e breakfast.
Engineers have surveyed and reported,
and for about fSO,000.000 we can get tilings
tn such shape Hint when the enemy’s (irst
Iron-clad heaves in sight Bhe cau be saluted
* n yf r ”ot Cr of' V us were sitting in the depot
waiting-room at Trenton, and the only
nan wno had a newspaper was reading
•way for dear life, when a stranger en
tered with two sachets and a tall girl,
chugged the boggnge under a seat, waved
the girl to another, and walked up to the
nan with the newspaper and nsked:
"Mister, is there anything in the paper
about our coast defenses?”
“No, sir!” was the grufT reply.
"That’s singular. Have they given
up
the idea, do you think?”
"I don’t know what you mean, sir.”
"You don’t? Why, they’ve been talking
for the last year aliout building forts to
protect our coasts. I livo down near the
nouth of Tom’s River, and X rather ex
pect they will build a big fort there. The
way things are now England, France or
Germany could declare war against us
and land a force at Tom’s River before wo
had our eyes open. They’d land right on
my farm, ami nobody knows what damage
they’d do. Don’t see anything about a
fort at Tom’s River, eh?”
"No, sir.”
"Well, that’s singular. If this govern
ment expects me to get down behind a
rock with my old shotgun and keep Eu
rope from lauding at that point it’s ex
pecting a leetle too much for one man. I’d
fight to the death, of course, but the
chances are that a hull navy could lick one
nigh-sighted man. So the paper don’t any
any thing?”
‘•Didn’t I toll you no in the first place?”
"Say! mebbe you don’t keer a copper
•bout const defenses!” exclaimed the two-
aachcl man, as a red spot appeared on
either check.
"Not a copper, sir.”
"I thought so from the start. You live
out in Michigan, or Indiana, or Illinois,
and are tucked away in sonic holler where
the sheriff can’t find ye, let nlono an in
vader of our sacred silel Oh, no, you
don’t keerl”
“Father!” chided the tall girl as she
half rose; but he turned on her with:
“Mary, you keep abet! I’ve alius thought
If Europe declared war ngiu us we’d have
plenty of enemies right at home, and
here’s a case to prove it! Stranger, did you
fit in the last war?”
"None o’ your business, sir!”
"Thero's his open hand, gentlemen!”
•aid the two-sachel man as be turned to
the crowd. “When you find a man who
don’t keer how soon the hull of Europe
jumps on tills country you have found a
man who’d dig up the bones of Washing
ton and sell ’em to a junk man for ijb.”
The niun with the newspaper laid it
down,got on his feet and asked the other if
heiwon’t step outdoors n minute.
"No, sir, 1 won’t!” was the prompt re
ply, “In the fust place, I’ve got these
two saeliels to purled; in the Second
S lace, there’s Mary; in the third place. I
on’t. light with no man who didn’t fight
in the last war. In the last place 1 nskei;
ye if there was anything in the paper
about oi.r coast defences.”
“And 1 said no, you idiot!"
"And you said you didn't keer!”
“Neither do I!”
“There’s his hand agin, gentlemen!
Wliilo I’m lying behind a rock at Tom's
River, waiting to sell my ltfo in defense of
my country, here's a feller from Comi
Holler, state of Indiana, who don’t keer >:
cooper’s copper how quick Europe kiver.-
the site of New Jersey witti the blood ot
our bravest men!"
"Father!” chided Mary again.
"Leinme alone, Mary! Yon know ull
about carpet rags and darning and house
work, but you never heard the rumble nt
war. If Europe is going to jump onto
this country I want to know who’s going
to shoot me iu the backus I face the ene
my.”
Tho man with tlio newspaper opened it
and sat down with n dangerous glitter iu
his eyes, and there was a solemn silence
for a few minutes. Then the Tom’s River
man edged over to Mary, and they slid
outdoors together. Then lie beckoned
through tho open window to throe or four
of us, und as we went out he surrouudud
us and whispered:
"Gentlemen, it's my solemn opinion
that that follow is a jannissury from Eng
land who has conic ovor hero to coax Un
cle 8am not to put up any coast defenses.
I want to say right here, and I want you
to hear and remember it, that if the enemy
land at Tom’s River it will be over my
dead body, and 1 won't be to blame for
It."
flnbll* are Hard to tlroak.
Miss Ingenue—How is it. one never sees
any but the most desirable young men
attentive to your daughters?
Mrs. Wordly—You see, my dear, in the
beginning I engage the young men in a
game of eribbage, where the cards are
dealt one at a time. If they deal live ami
then stop, that settles them. They play
poker. ^
An fml in Ilnur Scrolling.
Edward Shepherd, of Ham-burg, Hi.,
says: "Having received so much benefit
from Electric Bitters, i feel it my duty to
let suffering humanity know it. il we had
a running sore on my leg tor eight years; my
doctors told mo I would have to "have the
bone scraped or leg amputated. I used,
Instead, three bottles of Electric Billers
amt seven boxes of Buck leu's Arnica
Salve, and my leg is now sound and well.”
Electrio Bitters are sold at 50 cents a
bottle, and Bueklen’s Arnica Salve al 2oo
per box, by Brannon & (’arson. eod&w
'I’ll is Unrhii’t A nil) tu l.i.wrs.
“Now, Jamie, you nuisn't stay at the
Jcwet’s until you wear your welcome,
out.” said a fond mother.
"I know when to come home,” replied
the youth. "You don’t catch me staying
after they begin to talk slow.”
Bl’CKI.K.N’S ARNICA SALVK.
The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
So es, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, mid positive
ly cures Piles, or no pay is required. It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 35 cents per
box. For sale by Brunuon & Corson.
je'2-1 oedAw
The Only Alternative.
Passenger—That’s all tiie money I have.
Conductor (examining a trade dollar)—I
can't take that piece.
Passenger—Ah, well, give it to the com
pany, then.
O, the shaking of the ague I
O, the tortures of Neuralgia 1
O, the misery of dyspepsia 1
O, title wretchedness of headache t
O, the gripes of bilious colie 1
All of t hese will surely vanish
Like the snow befor Hie Southwind,
If you’ll only take Smith’s Bi;,e Beans.
You cau buy them nt your drug store
Por a quarter of a dollar;
And if you will only try them
You will never be without them.
deel eod&wlm
Marl.nl ’Em Pawn to I'm- '1 m bn.
Shoe dealer (to partner)—Thai new lot
ot French slippers is going very slowly.
Hadn’t wo better mark 'em down?
Partner—Yes; mark the fives down to
threes, and the iour3 to twos.
This change was made, and in a day or
two the Block was exhausted.
for If• man Only.
A Boston paper sayB society young men
will powder their face this winter.
An authority maintains that high-heeled
slioes cause more weak spines ana bad fig
ures than tight lacing ever did.
Massachusetts spinsters are said to de
vote more time to the study of family
genealogy than the Virginia blue bloods.
The women In two rows of boxes at the
Metropolitan opera house, iu New York,
displayed <1,000,000 worth of diamonds at a
single porformouce last week.
A spicy correspondent, who keeps her
eyes open, avers that men are much given
to casting shy glances at the mirror when
they think themselves unobserved.
Exoerlenco shows that all dull, rich silks
wear' greasy; that a good satin outlasts
three silks and three cheap satins; and
that black velvet lasts longer than col
ored.
The incomprehensible girl of the period
will go to the table, mince over delicacies
witli the most fastidious taste, then slip
back into the kitchen and eat a raw potato.
Mrs. Annie R. Bidwcll, of Chico, Cal,,
has been trying to civilize the Digger In
dians but though they have made some pro-
f ress, they set more store by the brass
and organized among them than by the
Sunday school.
Tho court kiss for women In England is
changed. When the Princess of Wales and
her lady friends salute each other nowa
days they just light on the tips of each
other’s noses like two birds picking at a
lump of sugar.
A Brooklyn woman was to have been
married last week, hut broke off - the match
because she accidentally learued that the
groom was not going to make her a prom
ised gift of diamonds. No diamonds, no
wife, wns her ultimatum.
Tho London Truth remarks that in tho
widow of n shirtninker ofCockspur street
fleeced by this I cannot say. Doubtless,
however, it would be an attraction to the
Primrose Dames to know that tho conserv
ative wolves who prow) round them ore ar
rayed in sheep’s clothing.
There is a woman living at a fashionable
New York hotel who coaches people for
society, especially those who are not well
informed as to social usages, matters of
literary importance, etc. This woman is
of an old New York family, and has all the
old-time scandals at her tongue’s end, can
give tips as regards the marriages and in
termarriages of families; can tell one who
Mrs. B. wns before her marriage, how her
father made his money, and all the small
gossip.
New York Town Topics says: Miss
Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson Davis,
is at present in town, and the guest of some
southern friends—the Dews, in Fifty-fourth
street. A reception was given in her
honor on Wednesday, and u number of
representative New Yorkers and south
erners were present; among them, Mrs.
Joseph Pulitzer, who wns a Miss Davis of
Baltimore, and a distant cousin of Miss
Winnie Davis. Thu artist, Munkacsy, was
also a guest. lie is at work on a portrait
of Mrs. Pulitzer.
Moxle Nrrre Feoil for the Nervous, Nlce|iien nnd
Menlnll) OveriTOrteil. It
Is recommended by clergymen and en
dorsed by eminent physicians.
It contains no ulcoholic or other stimu
lant.
It is not n drug.
It. is a lood; not a medicine.
It induces a good appetite.
It insures sound, healthful sleep.
It is perfectly harmless.
Tho priceless pearl,I
With.aut tho diamond's sparkling cjes,
The rnliv’s hlusho-i -there it lies,
Modest us the tender diuvn
When her purple v.-ii's withdrawn,
The flower of gems atitv cold and pale.
For.ill forms of nasal catarrh where
there is dryness of tho air passages with
what is commonly called "stuffing up,”
especially when going to bed, Ely’s Cream
Balm gives immediate relief. Us benefit,
to me has been priceless.—A. G. Chase, M.
D., Milwood, Kan.
The bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm that 1
obtained of you last summer has entirely
cured my little boy of a severe attack of
catarrh.— Mrs. Bailie Davis, Green Post
Office, Ala. eod&w
Life u X)-1 rrj.
Oli scholar striving late and rising early,
E’en, now, i trow,
Tho little child who died ere dawn this morning
Knows more than thou.
It is not death that's darkness, dread uufath-
oiucd;
Life is tiie mystery.
O student, to all problems past tliy solving
Death holds tiie key!
A Family Blessing.
Simmons’ Liver Regulator—the favorite
home remedy—is entirely vegetable, ami is
the purest and best family medicine that
is compounded. No error to be feared in
administering, no injury from exposure
after taking, no loss of time. It is the best
preventive medicine, and safe to take, no
matter what the sickness may prove to be,
and in any ordinary disease vvili effect u
speedy euro, eod,SE&\v
Senator Edmunds is said to have the finest
toboggan slide in the country. If Mr. Ed
munds were a little taller he would make a
pretty good toboggan slide himself.—Chi
cage News.
BILIOUSNESS
Is an affection of the Liver, and can be
thoroughly cured by that Grand
Regulator of the Liver and
Biliary Organs.
1
HMUM LULU (UAHLr
MANUFACTURED BY
J. H. ZEILIN A CO., - Philadelphia, Pa.
I wa> afflicted lor several years with dis
order'd liver, which resulted in a sever?*
attack of jaundice. I trad its good medical
attendance as our section adonis, w.io
failed utterly to restore me to the enjoy
ment of my former Hood health. I then
tried the favorite prescription of oue of
tin' most renowned physicians of Louis
ville, Ky., but tv> no purpose; whereupon
1 was induced to try SIMMONS LIVER
REGULATOR. I found immediate be no
th from its use. and it ultimately restored
me to the full enjoyment of health.
A. H. SHIRLEY,
Richmond, Ky.
HEADACHE
Proceeds from a Torpid Liver and tin*
purities of the Stomach. It can be
Invariably’ enred by taking
' , ‘ 1 "M REGl"
Let all who suffer remember that
siik and nmn headaches
Can he prevouted by taking a dosa as soou as
their symptoms indicate the coming
of an attack.
eod t»cd.w top col nrm (i)
ALWAYS ON TIME!
FURNITURE!
Will buy an elegant Bureau, German Plate Glass.
For an excellent, well made Cotton Top Mattress.
For a Hair Mattress.
Woven Wire Bed Spring for $3.00
For a set of Furniture complete, with Marble Top and Toilet
Washstand.
-A.
A genuine Plush Parlor Smit, seven pieces, for $35.00.
A No. 7 Flat Top Cooking Stove, complete, for $10.00.
The Best
Suit in Georgia 1
No. 6 Step Stove complete (20 pieces) for $6.50.
All Other Goods usually kept in a First-class Furniture Store.
HBMEMBBH, TjEEIE PLACE,
A. G.RHODES&CO.
No. 10J7 Broad Street.
ZE^^IIj:R,O.A.:D
Is now open for Freight and Passengers to points
between Columbus and Waverly Hall. Com
mencing Tuc day, December 21st, the following
schedule will be run:
COMING SOUTH.
Leave Waverly H ill 8:00 A. tn
Arrive at EUerslie S;20 “
“ Midland 8:40 44
“ Flat Rock 8:52 “
“ Columbus 9:36 “
GOING NORTH.
Leave Columbus 3:00 p. ra.
Arrive at Flat Rock 3:44 “
“ Midland 3:49 44
“ Ellerslie 4:05 44
44 Waverly Hall 4:30 44
All trains arrive and leave from depot at old
Star pArk. M. E. GRAY,
deolO dtf Superintendent.
O IE-31 ZED 'W
RUDOLPH FINZER’S
STARLIGHT
AND
CAPITAL Pi]
At Wholesale by
LOUIS BUHLER & Co,
OOXjXJjVEIBXJS,
Je5 eodCm
Custom Made Suits,
$40 00 Suits for
35 00 Suils “
30 00 Suits “
16 00 Suits “
Ordered in from every direction, OF RECENT
MAKE AND EXCELLENT VALUE, will be
closed out as follows;
. $25 00
. 20 00
. 18 00
. 10 00
Early Callers May Secure a Great Bargain!
OUR MANUFACTURING EEPARTMENT is
well tilled with a superior stock of
Piece Goods
OF F.VERY DESCRIPTION.
The extraordinary push of the past sixt. days is
now about over, and we are prepared to till orders
now with promptness.
G. J. PEACOCK,
flothluft Mimntaiturrr, 1200 4t 1202
Broni Sheet, ColniubuM Ga.
ELECTION NOTICE.
’T’HERE will he an election held at the different
A court grounds iu each militia district of said
county of Museoss- e on H.m-rday, the 1st day o
January next, tor two Constables for each dis
trict. aceontiua to the statute.
This December till, liwc
dtd F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary
COOD BARGAINS
-AT-
Onc lot (50 dozen) colored bordered Damask Doylies, for
mer price $1 50; we now offer them at $1 00 per dozen.
We are overstocked in Linen Towels and offer some excel
lent bargains to reduce our stock.
Irish Poplins, silk and wool, black 75c, colors 50c. These
goods are worth $1 00 a yard anywhere.
52-Inch Asfrakans, in black, brown, chinchilla blue,
green and wine, $3 50 and $4 00.
We have the best Black Silk for One Dollar per yard in
this city.
A choice stock of Ladies' and Children's Lace Pins, Cuff
Buttons in good roll plate; also a good stock of initial Cun
Bullous I or gentlemen—good for Christmas presents.
Plush and leather Satchels and Silk Handkerchiefs in
great variety.
The rush conlinues wilh us, and we are receiving goods
every day to supply the increase in our business.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
EMPIRE STABLES.
SUCCESSORS TO
JOHN DISBROW & CO.,
East Side of First Ave., between 12ih and 13th Sts.
New J and. Natty Tariffs, Sal's tad Showy llorsos. Careful and Eiprritaced Drivel’s,
FUNERALS personally conducted and properly attended to. Tho finest Hearses in
die city.
AFTER SEPTEMBER 1st, Horses boarded and carefully cared for stt $16 r»er
month. Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers.
Hi-Tfli-vliiin, Vi,. r.H. ^ r
Fire Insurance free for one year. By paying two annual premiums I give von a nr.id
up three-year policy. will pay for *1600 a year. *?16 will nay
three years on your Dwelling, Furniture, etc.
LOW BATHS!
FAIR ADJUSTMENTS!
PROMPT PAYMENTS!
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Telephone .no. 51. Columbus. Ga.
CAPITAL PRIZE, - $150,000.
" We do hereby certify that we supervise the ar
rangement for all the Monthly and (.varUrly
Drawings of The Louisiana Slate Lottery C<m•
pany, and in person manage and control the
Drawings themselves, and that the same are con
ducted with honesty, fairness, and in good faith
toward all parties, and we authorize the Company
to use this certificate. with facsimiles o our sign
natures attached, to its advertisements."
Oommiulonrn.
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will
pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana Stale Lot
teries which may be presented at our counters,
J. II. OULENBY. Pren. Ln. Mat’l Bank.
M. W. K1LBHETH, Pren. State N at’I B'k.
A. BALDWIN, Pres. N. O. Nat’I Bank
u
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Over Half a Million Distribatei
Louisiana State Lottery Comp’y.
Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the Legisla
ture for Educational and Charitable purposes—
with a capital of 11.000,000—to which a reserve
fund of over $550,000 has Mince been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise
was made a part of the present State Constitu
tion, adopted December 2d, A. D. 1879.
77ie only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by
the people of any State.
IT NEVER SCALES OR POSTPONES.
Its Grand Single Number Drawings
take place Monthly, nnd the Semi-An
nual Drawings regularly every six
months (.Tunc and December).
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
WIN A FORTUNE. FIRST GRAND
DRAWINO, CLASS A, IN THE ACADEMY OF
MUSIC NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, Jauuarjr
11th, ISS7—300th Monthly Drawing.
Capital Prize, $150,000. •
•9-Notice— 1 Tickets are Ten Dollars nnly. UalTM.
*5. Fifths. $2. Tenths, $1.
LIST OP PRIZUS.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE OF *160,000 *160.000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 60,000 60,000
1 GRAND PRIZE OF 20,000 20,000
2 LARGE PRIZES OP 10,000 20,000
< LARGE PRIZES OF 6,000 20,000
20 PRIZES OF 1,000 20,000
60 PRIZES OF 000 20,000
100 PRIZES OF SOO 30,0.'0
200 PRIZES OF 200 40,000
600 PRIZES OF 101) :... OO.OCO
1,000 PRIZES OF 60 ’ 60.0CO
APPOXIMATION PRIZES.
100 Approximation Prizes of *300 *30.000
100 " “ 200 10.000
100 " “ 100 10,000
2.170 Prizes, amounting to *636.000
Application for rat es to clubs should he muds
only to tnc Office of the Company in Now Orleans.
For further information write clearly, giving
full address. POSTAL NOTES, Express
Money Orders, or New York Exchange iu ordi
nary letter. Currency by Express (at our cx-
pence) addressed M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, Is.
Or M. A. DAUPHIN.
Washington, D. C.
Mab P. 0. -Money Orders payable and ad
dress Registered Letters to
sew'ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
REMEMBER SM? MSSSSS^f
aud Early, who ave in charge of the drawings, is
;\ guarantee of absolute fairness and integrity*
that the chances ore ull equal, and that no oue
can possibly divine wlict numbers will draw a
Prize, All parties therefore, advertising to guar
antee Prizes in this Lottery, or holding out any
other impossible inducen-cuts, are swindlers, uua
only aim to deceive nnd defraud the unwary.
Description of Prisoners Escaped
From Muscogee County Jail,
November yth, 1886.
JOSFPH B. JENKINS, (white,)—5 feet eleven
inches high, weight about !G> pounds, dark
swathey complexion, dark hair, small dark mus
tache, large gray eye, stoop shouldered, very pro
fane in conversation.
WILLIAM COURTNEY, (white.)-about 21 or
22 years of age, 5 feet Oor 10 inches in height,
about 160 pounds in w< ight, dark buir, small
moustache and very black eve.
ALLEN HOOD, (col ) alias DOC BROOKS—
Black, about 150 pounds, 5 feet 6 or 8 inches in
height, some front teeth out, scar under left eye.
SIP WILLIAMS, (col.)—5 feet8 or 9 inches
high, will weigh 175 pounds, dark ginger-cake
color; dark spots on face; hangs his head while
talking.
WILLIS McAFEE, (col.,)—5 feet C inches in
height, weight abo^t 125 pounds; brown black
color, long m ustnche for a negro; quick spoken;
sharp features; talks low; has served five years
m Georgia penitentiary from Libert county, Ga.
Flirty dollars each will be paid Fir the delivery
of the above described prisoners to any iail, to bo
delivered to the authorities of the county of Mus
cogee in said state cf Georgia. Wire or write to
JOHN H. PALMER,
Chief of Police, Columbus, Ga.
A reward of fifty del lore each, in addition to tho
above is oft‘-red by tiie jailer of the County ot
Muscogee, for Jcnkii s or Courtney. nov21dlm
Cjiabincil with Great Refracting Power,
They are an Trantymrent anil Color*
. , , leas »» Liii'Ht Itself,
Ami for softness ol endurance to the eve c.-iunot
be exeeded. enabling-lie wearerto veuil for hour*
without fatigue. Jn fact, they aie
Perfect Sight Preservers.
Testimonials from the leading physicians is
tnc uniteu States, governors, senators, legis
lator^, stockmen, men of note in nil professions
and ip a 1 tiere-nt branches of trade, bankers, me
chanics. etc., chu be given, who have hud theif
sight improved by their use.
ALL EYES FITTED AND THE FIT GUARANTEED BY
BRANNON <k CARSON,
Druggists, Columbus, Georgia.
These Glasses ate not supplied to peddlers at
auy Price. oolS llm_
SOULE REDD. j. c. HAILH
Soule Redd 4 Co.,
Brokers. Real Estate and Fire Insurance Agents.
1036 Broad Si. TeE^pKioue S5«
~ . . FOR RENT.
Two very desirable stores—one on Broad Street
and one oue-kulf block from Broud .in business
part of city.
. , ., for sale.
valuable city lot near business portion
of Brond suitable for erecting stores.
Dwelnns house, new, water and gas, all mod
ern conveniences
Routes in P.rowueville.
Elegant v* ynnton residences.
Many desirable city residences at low prices.
Stocks and Bonds bought and sold.
. prepared to handle all business satis-
lActonly
Telephone No. 35 oci7 dly