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DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 26. 1». ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The BNQUIRER-9UN Is issued every day, ex •apt Monday. The Weekly is Issued on Monday. The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by Oarriers in the city or mailed, postage Dee, to sub ■orlbers fbr Tie. per mouth, $2.00 for three months, $4.00 fbr six months, or $7.00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the 0My or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at $1.00 a year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily at $1 per square of 10 lines or less for the first Insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at f 1 for each in sertion. All communications intended to promote the i private ends or Interests of corporations, societies or Individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary sates. None but solid metal cuts used. All communications Bhould be addressed to the Enquirrr-Hun. Thu <lea ') of Senator Logan removes the bud grammar element from our national politics. Why not cut Texas into a Bullicent number of states to gel a demoeratie ma jority in tlie senate? Gen. Hazen will retire on account of ill health. Nome of the weather ho lias given the country was enough to wreck his health. The hoodie aldermen were a combina tion of thirteen. There’s luck in odd numbers just the same as before their coming to grief. But it is bad luck to join a party of thirteen, all thieves. The Courier-Journal considers one of the abominable inconsistencies of the dictionaries is the spelling of nog in egg nog with one “g.” While they were about it, why didn’t they drop one of the “g's” from egg and make the word eg- nog? Most people would look upon “eg- nog,” however, as rather weak. Those who use it at all in the holidays want four g’s in it. Kgg-nogg is the word. Os next Saturday the Savannah Times will issue a mammoth edition, “which will be circulated judiciously throughout the entire section tributary to Savannah. A special feature of this issue will he an interesting and carefully prepared re sume of the trade of Savannah the past year, and its progress and growth." This will givethe Augusta Chronicle an oppor tunity to he avenged. The Illinois legislature meets next week, and one of its duties will ho the election of a United States senator to suc ceed Gen. Logan. A dispatch from Chi cago says that Gov. Oglesby will appoint a senator to serve until an election is had, and suggests Robert T. Lincoln as the man, provided the governor docs not deem him dangerous to his own aspira tions to return to the senate. Charles B. Farwell, of Chicago, who lias long clier- j ished a senatorial ambition, will probably I contest the seat mith Gov. Oglesby before I the legislature, which body is strongly ] republican, and will choose a man whose I presence in the senate will not change its j political complexion. Tiie last two years have been sorely i fatal to the men who have competed for ' the offices of president and vice-president. Grant. Hancock, Davis, Fremont, Tilden, Hendricks, Seymour, Arthur, Gratz Biown and Gen. Logan have all passed away within the period mentioned. There lives hut one man who has ever occupied and retired from the presiden tial office—Mr. Hayes, and there is but one man living who lias been elected viee-oresident—Hannibal Hamlin. Of unsuccessful candidates for the vice- presidency, there is (speaking of the great parties) none living, and of such candidates for the presidency Mr. Blaine is the only one. EVIDENCE OF COLl'MIll'S' PROSPERITY. The Christmas trade in Columbus, on an average, has so far been the best that our merchants have experienced in ten years past. There is not a merchant in any line of business in the city that lias not made money, more or less, while in some lines and with some houses a great deal of money lias been made. Not only has the Christmas trade been good, but during a rather exhaust ive canvass of the city on this subject, we have heard but few complaints either at the amount of business done during the year or the margin of profits upon which it was transacted. All seem to have had fairly good trade, and trade lias been extended in many new direc tions. It was predicted in the spring that a short crop would cut the business short, and perhaps it did, but it seems that our merchants have successfully looked for business in other directions, and what was curtailed in one section was made up in new territory not here tofore worked by Columbus. The many new faces seen on our streets and the new names appearing on the books of our merchants indicates unerringly that the “ Queen City of the Chattahoochee” has been pushing the borders of her trade territory in all directions. Thus it happens that wlmt seemed a real disas ter with regard to short crops, has been but a blessing in disguise, because we will hold the new trade and when the old revives wo will do the business in tin' future as wo have always done it in the past. Another evidence of advancing pros perity is seen in the elegant new busi ness houses erected and improvements made upon old ones during the past year. An enumeration of nil these would be too much for our space, but any one passing along Broad and other streets will see that no past season of our history has been so marked by real substantial pro gress. In the residence portions of the city, the improvement has been even more marked and extensive. Wise peo ple do not build elegant houses to live in unless they can afford it, anil when a business man does so you may take it always as a sure indication that lie is at least prospering. Judged by this rule, ('olumbus can point to an advance which is truly marvelous. In some sections of the city whole blocks of new houses have been built, while new houses of far bet ter grade than heretofore dot I ho old blocks thickly. The suburbs to the north and cast have gone ahead apace. The Northern Liberties, Wynn- ton and Lynwood have felt the touch of an impulse as novel ns it is promising, and these delightful regions have built many new houses, some of them very line, and all of them comfortable and good. To all this the Enquirer-Sun proudly points to our improved streets, our better crossings, our excellent system of sewers which are now almost an underground network. These have all cost money and not in small sums. Such a municipality ns that which manages our affairs does not spend money unless the city is doing well, unless there is a prospect that in the future the obligations will be met. Nor do outside markets covet the bonds of a city where there are no improvements, no progress. In this respect Columbus is fortunate. Her bonds readily find eager purchasers at a prem ium. Were she going hack or even stand ing still, this would not he the case. It takes a place stepping to the front to have her securities sought after as in vestments. Indeed, all things considered, we may well be very proud of the progress made by Columbus during the year now clos ing. Now, let every legitimate energy he exhausted to roll 1887 up alongside of 1880, if we do not even surpass it. A united pull and a pull all together, hurts no one man but benefits all alike. The Enquirer-Sun promises to do its full share of the good work for the coming year. THE REPORTER'S STATUE. A reporter of the Baltimore Sun was recently sent to jail for an indefinite period for refusing to disclose to the grand jury information imparted to him confidentially in his professional capacity. The reporter has acted like a true man, though there are few men who would have followed the dictates oftheir consciences with such a penalty hanging over them. The imprisonment of this reporter springs an issue which is in some re spects new, and which will have to be decided some day for good and all, even if it is taken to the highest of our federal courts. At first blush it would appear to be a simple ease of contempt of court. But the reporter’s relations to the courts, to the public, and to private individuals is not that of an ordi nary citizen. And the quicker his status is fixed so that he is placed beyond the tyranny of ill-tenijfcred and arbitrary j judges the better it will be for all con cerned, and especially for a newsloving j public. When a man becomes a special newsgatherer for the benefit of society and the public he should be given special j immunities, not for his own sake but for his work sake. If these immunities arc | not granted he is hampered, and to the j extent that he is hampered, the public must suffer in the loss of his work. There are many reasons why a newspaper re porter is a privileged per son. The system of journalism is impersonal. The reporters are known in every rank and class, and yet they are not known, for it is not possible to say that a particular article was written by a certain person, even when one thinks he knows. All the world comes to the re porter and tells him everything. The newspapers almost invariably know more than the professional detectives. And the newspapers are the great and effective enginery in the seeking out and punish ment of crime. For illustration, a crime is committed in a large city, and the per petrator is successfully hidden some where in the great numbers who know nor care nothing about each other. A detective Lakes a description of the criminal, if he can get it, and begins his search. The press obtains the same description on the night of the perpetration of the crime, and before the detective has eaten his breakfast, the story of the crime and the description of the criminal has been whispered by the press into the ears of a hundred thousand people. This vast number of readers become at once in one sense the assistants and deputies of the officers of the law. And the chances are that the fugitives will be apprehend ed whether much professional detective work is done or not. If the courts hamper the reporters by regarding their refusal to divulge professional secrets as contempt, they hamper the press through the reporters and really aid the criminals whom it is their mission to punish. A journalist never has a private motive for shielding a criminal, and never seeks to do it; hut he is often crammed full of private and efficient motives for shield ing those who are not criminals, and who have given him information under a solemn pledge of secrecy as to its source. The doctrine which ought to cover the whole case is this: The purpose of the reporter is the same as that of the officers of justice. What he can And out that will he of use in the discovery of a crim inal lie will publish, or will give it to the grand jury voluntarily. He will publish every matter, the smallest de tail, and will do it at the earliest possible moment. When his judgment is satis fied, when lie has told all he thinks proper, there should bo no authority to pursue him further. His ear should be as sacred as that of a confessor. And every honorable reporter’s ear is. There was a case in France recently, wherein a confessor came to the knowledge of a most infamous and revolting crime, and did nothing to set the officers of justice on its trail, nothing to as sist that justice which was the supremest necessity of organic society. Yet the courts do not prosecute or perse cute him. 11 is ear is considered sacred. Under similar circumstances a journalist would have worked day and night to es tablish justice. The reporter is entirely devoted to the interests of society. lie must himself be a man of more than average ability in order to perforin his duties at all. If he survives the arduous labur of his daily service until lie has at tained years lie comes bit by bit into the possession of an enormous mass of secret information. If lie were not the sepulchre of their secrets, he would up turn the foundation of society. If lie were not prudent, silent, or at least secre tive, he would bring on a revolution. Many people upon whom society smiles would tremble and turn pale if they dreamed Half of what newspaper report ers know. Journalists mingle with men in high places every day whose lives they could blight if they would. But there are tilings which a reporter should publish, and he does it. There are other tilings he should keep hidden and he does it. lie is the judge. His discretion is the most important part of his qualifi cation. llis judgment has been trained by years of exercise. When he has arrived at the limits of his privilege, he feels instinctively that his highest duty is to stop there. No court should force him further. It is a principle in law that a man cannot be compelled to criminate himself. A reporter who divulges that which lie has pledged his word to keep hidden, criminates himself morrully if not legally. T\ III A A m XX x fl 1aY in Invite Your Attention to Their Long List of Useful, Inexpensive & Appropriate Holiday Gifts, Cassimere and Cashmere Shawls, double and single, black and colors. A splendid line of Ladies’ Traveling and Shop ping Bags. Kid and Fabric Gloves of every description. Silk Handkerchiefs and Silk Mufflers; Ladies’ and Gentle men’s Hemmed and Corded and Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, plain and colored borders—a splendid line. The largest line of Embroidered Handkerchiefs it has ever been our pleasure to show. Some very choice Wraps left to he sold very cheap. Handsome Blankets. Could a more common sense present be made? OUR FANCY GOODS DEPART® IS FULL OF UTIES! You can buy such useful presents in our Dress Goods de partment. Black Silks, Colored Silks, Black Cashmeres, Black Dress Goods of every description. A splendid line of Ladies’ Silk Umbrellas with gold and silver heads, good qualities and cheap. Rich and elegant Table Linens and Napkins, by the yard and in sets. A large variety of Brussels and Nottingham Lace Curtains; they are not expensive; they are cheap. Table Covers and Table Scarfs. High Novelties in La dies’ and Children’s Hosiery, lovely goods. We are showing fresh goods in every department in the house. A beautiful line of Ginghams just received. A beautiful line of Prints just received. We are displaying the following new Bustles : Lucca, Lotta, Patti and Fedora. Novelties in Ladies’ Gossamers. Gossamers of every description for Ladies and children, and a great many other things which we haven’t room to mention here. We are offering bargains all through our house. Come and try us. BLANCHARD, BOOTH & HUFF- 1107 BROAD STREET, -DEPOT FOR- VITIATED BLOOD Scrofulous, Inherited and Conta gious Humors Cured by Cuticura. r FIIROUGH the medium of one of your books A received through Mr. Frank T. Wray, Drug- | gist. Apollo, Pa., T became acquainted with your : CUriCUKA REMEDIES, ana take this opportu nity to testify to you that their use has permanently cured me of one of the worst cases of blood poisoning, iiwcoimectiou with erysipe las, that 1 have ever seen and this after having been pronounced incurable by some of the best physicians in our county, I take great pleasure in forwarding to you this testimonial, unsolicited as it is by you, in order that others suffering from similar maladies may be encouraged to give your CUTICURA REMEDIES a trial. P. S. WHITLINGER, Leechburg, Pa. Reference : Frank T. Wray, Druggist, Apollo, Pa. M KOIT'UH'N ULCEUS. James E. Richardson. Custom House, New Or leans, on oath says: ‘ In 1870 Scrofulous Ulcers broke out on my body until I was a mass of cor ruption. Everything known to the medical facul ty was tried in vain. I became a mere wreck. At times could not lift my hands to my head, could not turn in bed; was in constant pain and looked upon life sjs a curse. No relief or cure in ten years. In 1880 I heard of the Cuticura Remedies, used them, and was perfectly cured.” Sworn to before U. S. Com. J. I). Crawford. ONE OF THE WORST C ASES. We have been selling your Cuticura Remedies for years, and have the first complaint vet to re ceive from a purchaser. One of the worst cases of Scrofula I ever saw was cured by the use of five bottles of Cuticura Resolvent, Cuticura and j Cuticura Soap. The Soap takes the “cake” as a i medicinal soap. TAYLOR it TAYLOR, Druggists, Frankfort, Kan. | SCROFULOUS. INHERITED, And Cor tagious Humors, with Loss of Hair, and cura Resolvent internally, when all other medi cines fail. Semi for Pamphlet. Cuticura Remedies are sold everywhere. Price : CUTICURA, the Great Skin Cure, 50 cts.; CUTI CURA SOAP, an Exquisite Beautifier, 25 cts : CUTICURA RESOLVENT, the New Blood Puri tier. $1.00. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO., Boston. IMMPLES, Blackheads, Skin Blemishes, and l Baby Humors, use Cuticura Soap. Shovel Plows, Watt's Cast and Chilled Plows, Scovil Hoes, besl. brands of Axes, Trace Chains, Nails, Iron, Shovels and Spades, Wagon and Buggy Timbers. Glass, Imported Cuttlery, Putty, American Cuttlery, Sash, Razors, Blinds, Scissors, Doors, Carvers. Strictly Pure White Lead. Linseed Oils, Varnish, Spirits Turpentine, Shot, Shells, Wads, Caps, Carpenters' Supplies and General Hardware. Mr. A. R. WILKERSON is with us, and will be pleased to meet his friends and former patrons. dec!9 d4m ESTABLISHED 1866. G.GUNBY JORDAN How My Back Aches ! Back Ache, Kidney Pains and Weak- less, Soreness, Lameness, Strains and vPain relieved in one minute by the Cuti- jcura ANTI PAIN PLASTER,—INFAL- 9L1BLE. se wedAW Election for Directors. Central R. R. & Banking Co. of Ga„ Savannah. Ga., Dec. 1st, 1886. An election for Thirteen Directors to manage the affairs of this Company for the ensuing year willtbe held at the Banking House, in Savannah, MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF JANUARY. 1887, between the hours of 10 o’clock a m and 2 o’clock p m. Stockholders and their families will be passed free over the Company’s road to attend the election from the 1st to the 3d of Jan uary inclusive, and be passed free returning from the 3d to the 7th of January inclusive, on pre sentation of their stock certificates to the con ductors. T. M. CUNNINGHAM, dec29 dtd Cashier. The Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad Company. THE semi annual interest on the first-mortgage X bonds of this company will be paid on pre sentation of coupons at the office of the company. Pioneer building, Columbus, Ga., or to Central Tnist Company, New* York City, on and after January 3,1887. CHARLES L. DAVIS, Fire Insurance Agent Pioneer Ruilding, Front Street. Telephone No. 104. REPRESENTING AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of PHILADELPHIA, Honestly paid every loss since 1810. NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of NEW YORK, Every policy issued under New York Safety Fund law. SUN FIRE OFFICE, of LONDON Established 1710. Always successful. Policies issued on all classes of insurable property. Representative Companies. Courteous Treatment. Pair Adjustments. A share of your busiuess solicited. sepl 2 dtf HOSE!_HOSE! IN ORDER TO REDUCE OUR STOCK OF RUBBER HOSE IE WILL OFFER SPECIAL BARGAINS FOR HIE NEXT IEEE. We have the beet and cheapest Hose in the market. A fnll line of Hose Reels and Noizles GEORGIA STEAM ADD GAS PIPE COMPANY. Telephone 99. 13 Twelfth Street. Never before in the history of Columbus has any one suc ceeded in running their sales of Up to a point that would jus tify a standing order of Twenty-five Dozen Per week. We now find that under our present arrange ment we are unable to supply the demand, and shall have to increase our orders. Come and try them. 0. c, REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. Mr. J. H. Hamilton’s Store, corner of First avenue and Fourteenth street, the most desirable store property for sale in this city. Bents are paying 10 per cent, on price asked. $6000 The valuable corner lot cast of Georgia Home building and corner of First avenue and Eleventh streets, on which there is a store paying $300 per year rent, and room for iwo more large stores and brick enough to build them. 2250. Two *4 acre lots on lower Broad street. The corner lot is vacant. The othtr lot has a new five-room House. 950 X A acre lot corner of First avenue and Fifth street. Cheapest land in the city. 2200 A acre lot, with six new tenant houses, on north Fourth avenue. The rent of this nroperty pays 14 per cent. 1200 One four-room house and four new two- room houses in Girard that rent for $20 per month, and room for three more houses. 3700 Mr. T. H. Moore's house, south of court house. 2600 Dr. Schley’s house on Second avenue, west side, between Fifteenth and Six teenth streets. The size of the lot is l A ot an acre. 2500 3J4 acres of land east of the park, with five new three-room houses. 3200 Mr. O. C. Bullock’s house, next door south of girls’ public school, 1700. H acre lot w ith new five-room house on Rose Hill on easy terms. . A number of vacant lots on Rose Hill, Prices ranging from $75 to $200, on ternif to suit the pur chaser. WANTED. From 70 to 100 feet front on Broad street, be tween Tenth and Thirteenth streets. Purchaser will pay a fair price. Apply to W. S. GREEN, Real Estate Agt. Third door west of Post Office. SMITHS EANS 'URE Biliousness; Sick Headache In Four hours. ' One dose relieves Neuralgia. They cure and prevent Chills «» Fever, Sour Stomach e Bad ureath. Clear the Skin, Tone the Nerves, and give '.He e Vigor to the system. Dose: ONE BEAN, Try them once and you will never be without them. Price. 25 cents per bottle. Sold by Druggists mid Medicine Dealers generally. Sent on receipt ut price in stamps, postpaid, to any address, J. F. SMITH St CO„ Manufacturers and Sole Props.. ST. LOUIS. MO. Something Worth Having, Our Now Seed fatalogue for 1887. 'The Only Catalogue published illustrating everything in Garden, Field and Flower Seeds. New Seeds, New Warehouse, Everything; New. Ready for FREE distribution early in December. Send your address NOW. 8. Y. HAINES Jk <’0., Seed men. « ft and ttfl JT Front St., and 100 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. nov8 weow fit Election for Justice of the Peace. rpHERE will be an election held at the court house, in the 668th distsict, G. M. (lower town) This December 7th, 1886. „ _ F. G. WILKINS, N. P. and Ex-Officio J. P. for 668th Diet. G. M. dec7 dtd GEORGIA. MUSCOGEE COUNTY; Whereas. Leo Loeb makes application for pe maneut letters of administration on the estate °L.. yer Greentree late of said county, deceased These are therefore, to cite all ancl singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to show cause, if any they have, within the time prescribed by law. why permanent letters of ad ministration should not be granted to said ap plicant. Witness ray official signature tills December 4th- WM- , F. M. BROOKS, dec! oaw 4w Ordinary. FREK TO F.A.M Fin.Colored interior ot the Ancl.nt ‘ e Colored Engraving of 1 Lo>1g« Room in which t