Newspaper Page Text
4
DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN • COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30, 1886.
(Columl'usCRijuiiTr-Sim/
ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD.
Daily, Weekly and Sunday.
The BNQUIRER-SUN is issued every day, ex
Mpt Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday.
The Daily (including Sunday) is delivered by
carriers in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub
•orlhers for 76c. per month, $2.00 for three
months, .00 fbr six months, or $7.00 a year.
The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the
City or mailed to subscribers, postage fVeo, 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 squaro of 10 lines or less for the
first insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent
Insertion, and for the Weekly at |1 for each in
sertion.
All communications intended to promote the
private ends or interests of corporations, societies
or individuals will be charged as advertisements.
Special contracts made for advertising by the
year. Obituaries will bo charged for at customary
rates.
None b»it solid metal cuts used.
All communications should be addressed to thl*
Enquirur-Hun.
Ot’M will never take the plneo of to
bacco I or chewing purposes. It is not
nasty enough.
Women are the source of all curiosity.
Occasionally a man is found who pos
sesses it to some degree.. Hut the chances
are that he inherited it from his mother.
There’s a woman at the bottom of it after
all.
It was a great and perhaps good man
who said, “When God’s finger touches n.
man I take mine oil.” In this spirit the
southern press has been exceedingly
kind in commenting upon the life of
Gen. John A. Logan.
The friends of Mrs. Sojourner Truth
are making efforts to place a stone over
her grave at Hattie Creek, Midi. This
enterprise is to be commended. Some
thing ought to be done to make truth a
sojourner in Michigan.
A max who has ever spent an hour in
a church festival doesn’t mind being
lynched. Being mobbed is, a sort of re
creation by comparison. Such remarks
as tiie above are generally intended for
jokes when they are written by men who
have never been there.
Ai.icE Oates, the former queen of
comic opera, is now living in want and
poverty in Philadelphia. She lias been
her own worst enemy, and her star has
been careering toward the darkness of
its Occident ever since she ceased to bo
innocent. What n woman she might
have been.
John A. Lou ax was a looming figure in
American polities for nearly three de
cades, and he bad some admirable traits
of character, prominent among which
was his constancy to bis friends. Levi
I 1 . Morton and Zneli Chandler bated the
south worse than General Logan did.
They were the only two men in America,
however, of whom this can he said.
I.KT IIKK liOOM.
That the south is nowon the greatest
b intn over experienced in this or any
country has become every-day talk. The
newspapers north, east, west and south
up full of it, and it is by no menus bush ;
th.it is the best part of it. Continued re
ports that come from every part of the
south of the starting of new industrial
enterprises and investments in mining
and manufacturing are of the most en
couraging nature. One needs no bet
ter evidence that a new era lias
dawned in the south. Thu Baltimore
Manufacturers’ Record, which displays u
great deal of diligence in following up
this subject, thus comments:
“Never before, probably, In tbo history of this
country, has there been such an era of indus
trial development as we now see in the south.
Kor the last few weeks tile rapidity with which
enterprises of groat extent ami Importance have
followed one upon another has been simply as
tounding. The click of tile telegraph as it an
nounces the organization of one great enterprise
lias hardly ceased ore another is reported, and
each day scorns to swell the volume .of new bus
iness. Taking tho last two weeks only, and,
briefly as possible, summing up some oft he most
important enterprises reported ill our weekly list,
of new Industries during that tune, we may well
ho amazed at wlint tiie south is doing.”
BradHtreet this week furnishes some
very interesting figures regarding tho
production of iron in the south. North
ern iron men are plainly told that they
must hereafter count'upon a greatly in
creased southern product as a competi
tive factor in business. Southern pig
iron keeps coining east at a rushing rate.
Reports show that 1-10,000 tons of pig
iron were sent norili in 1880, against I
100,000 tons in each 1885 and 1884, and
00,000 tons in 1883. And upon Ibis sub
ject of iron we yesterday morning gave
the figures as compiled by the Chatta
nooga Tradesman from exhaustive re
ports from all the iron and steel works in
the south. This enterprising jour
nal, and there, is not one more enter
prising in the south, shows that the
gain in the pig iron production in the
south in six years is 535,200 tons. Ala
bama gained in annual capacity since
1880, 25(1,000 tons ; Georgia, 27,000; Ten
nessee, 210,000; Texas, 12,000; North Caro
lina, 7200; Virginia, 14,000; West Virginia,
38,000; Kentucky lost 43,000; Maryland
12,000, and Missouri, 88,000. The rate of
gain of capacity in Alabama, Tennessee
and'Georgia, the three central iron states
of the south, was 233 per cent, since
1880. The Tradesman says; “At the
same rate of gain they will have at the
next census nearly 1,500,000 tons annual
capacity, but the indications point to a
capacity of 2,000,000 tons annually at
that time.”
The New Orleans Timcs-Democrat
finds another evidence of special pros
perity in the south in the comparative
increase in exports from the southern
ports. Baltim re shows an increase of
$8,000,000- in the last ten months of the
present year, as compared with the cor
responding period of 1885; New Orleans,
an increase of $7,800,000; Newport News,
$3,000,000; Galveston, $2,700,000; Charles
ton, $1,000,000; Savannah, $1,100,000, and
Norfolk, $800,000—a total increase of
$23,000,000; while the leading northern
cities, in the same period, show a falling
off of $21,000,000. It looks as if the ,
southern people were beginning to in
crease their productions very largely,
and to turn their vast resources to profit-
aide account.
The Canada papers, in speaking of
our Bartholdi, mention the t inted
States as too mean to buy eoal-oil for a
lantern borrowed from l-Vance. This is
unkind on the part of the Canada press
when it is remembered that thousands of :
hoodie men from trust fund banks and
fat offices havt taken millions of United
States money to Canada to spend there
and grow up with the country.
Caktkii Uaumsox is a candid man
from away hack, lie says that when he
is running for olliee he would he glad to !
have the devil’s vote, These words are!
Mr. Harrison's compliments to his eon-:
stitueuts in the city of Chicago, lie
knows what elected him mayor. It is
needless to say that if tho devil had a
vote, Carter Harrison would get it. The
former personage has the reputation of
taking care of his own.
Use by one our fond dreams fade. It
now turns out that Thomas Jefferson,
whose name gave the descriptive adjec
tive to “ Jeffersonian simplicity,” spent
more money for wine than any of tho
presidents, lived in high style, mort
gaged his farm, and died in debt. It may
turn out yet that the great and honest
Diogenes stole his lantern with which
lie searched by daylight for another hon
est man.
UEATI1 AND FAME.
During the past eighteen months death
has displayed more than ever its love for
n shining mark. The list is appalling.
During the year and a half just gone
there have died Brown, Davis, Hancock,
Hendricks, McClellan, Grant, Seymour,
Tilden, Arthur and Logan. And how
soon great names are forgotten. Fame is
like a bubble or a leaf that bursts or
fades while it is being admired. In a
generation or two the names we have
enumerated will have ceased to he men
tioned.
“ Ciesar Head and turned to clay
Miglitstop a crack to keep the wind away."
After till it is better to be good than
great. For the fo-mer attribute gives us
u grip on two worlds instead of one.
They are the truly wise who pray Queen
Catherine’s prayer, “ Lord, make others
great, but keep me pure."
\
T1IK TIMKS-IMON.
The Jacksonville Times-Union makes
itn many readers a handsome Christmas
present by donning an entire new dress.
It is now one of the most handsome
newspapers in the south, and is fully
abreast with the journalistic enterprise
of the present day and time. Jackson-j
ville, and in fact the entire state of Fieri- !
da, is to he congratulated on having such ;
a wide awake paper, and the publishers j
of the paper are to he congratulated that i
they have located in a city that has such j
enterprising business men as the adver- j
tiding columns of the Times-Tnion indi- j
eate them to be.
“Extra Billy” Smith.
Among the candidates talked about for succes
sion to lliddleberger in the United States senate
is ex-Gov. “Extra Billy” Smith of Parquier coun
ty. He got the surname by his readiness at any
time to run for any office, and the willingness—
almost amounting to eagerness—with which he
sought participation in duels, either as principal
or second. He is as ready as ever to enter a con
test, although he is nearly 90 years old. “Extra
Billy,” while a student at the University of Vir
ginia, began his career as an expounder of the
code by sending a bullet through the wrist of a
fellow-student who had insulted him in the class
room. Along in 1846 he increased his reputation
by the famous duel with State Senator Williams
It arose from a political quarrel. When the com
batants faced each other, Smith, who was a crack
shot, asked his opponent, coolly, where he want
ed to receive the bullet.
“Anywhere you can put it,” answered Williams
defiantly. “Very well,” said Smith. “I know
you can't hit me, and as l don’t want to kill you
or injure you badly, I will only make it a flesh
wound in the shoulder—the right one.”
When the smoke cleared away after the first
shot Smith stood smilingly examining the barrel
of his pistol, while Williams’ weapon dropped to
the ground and his pistol arm hung useless aud
bleeding by his side. An examination showed
that he had suifered a flesh wound in the right
shoulder.
In subsequent duels “Extra Billy” invariably
asked his opponent where he wanted the bullet, I
and invariably complied with all requests, except j
in one case, where he severely wounded a man •
who was a good shot and evidently bent on kill- J
ing. St ill Smith never killed a man. and he has !
come forth unscratched from all his fights, save
for a broken huger which he received in one en
counter.
An Englishman who was beguilded to invest
in real estate in an American Eden called Ante
lope Valley, California, has gone back home and
written a book about it. Incidentally he bears
testimony that the phrase “Yankee shrewd
ness” is not misplaced. Englishmen ought to
know by this time that people over hero are :
shrewd enough to occupy all the Edens where
fortunes can be made easily, and that garden
spots of this character are held at their fill
value.
Ornkual Butlkr has in his day proved him-
snlf, like York k, a tnan of “Infinite jest'’ and has-
played more parts than the vorerable party de
scribed by tho melancholy Jacques. We may
regard him as a successful lawyer, as the con
queror of New Orleans, iih the upholder of public
virtue in the great impeachment trial, as a hor
ny-handed son of toil, seeking the support of his
fellow-work men; as the discoverer of a new pro
cess of‘anning the skins of paupers, as a manu-
fheturer of hunting, as thl owner of the yacht
America and a “sad sea dog” at that; as Blaine’s
monkey in tho recent presidential circus, or as a
“lone fisherman,” with a small hook and a big
bait, trying to catch another nomination. It is
in tiie latter aspect he must he viewed for the
present.
Tiikouork Hoohbvklt,being interviewed in Lon
don, gives this analysis of the vote in the New
York city election : To begin with, all the Irish
of the land league voted for George; all the
priests and the people they control supported
Hewitt; all the young Irish-Americans voted for
mo. Germans, as a rule, half voted democratic
and half republican. Of these, the republican
half mostly voted for George, and with them all
the crude theorists on social subjects, who, as a
rule, take little interest in political struggles.
The rest of the foreign populat ion, the Polish
Jews, Bohemians and Italians, voted for George.
On the other hand, lie got an extremely small
proportion of native Americans—in fact, I doubt
j if 7000 in all voted for him.
Kli Perkins oil Pools.
It must be that Eli Perkins is on the editorial I
staff of the New York Intelligencer, a Wall street !
railway journal, liefeving to railway pools Eli I
says:
“At lust the railroad prol was adopted, and un- j
der it a wonderful change in railroad methods '
has taken plneo. Discriminations have become
almost unheard of, and rate* have been reduced
all around. Novel* was the public treated so fair-
hr as it has been since the pool came in as a
factor to regulate rates. Merchants no longer
coinphiinUi.it rivals are able to undersell them
beenr. ? fcftlie cheaper transportation secured.
The pool has levelled rates, while it has not ad
vanced them, except from the ruinous figures
touched in rate wars, and ai which no railroad
could afford to do business. Everybody who is at
all acquainted with the last ten years of the
history of railroad management knows that the
influence of the pool has been to put shippers
upon the same level, as nearly as was practicable
to do It.”
Prom (’Imttanooga to Columbian.
From the Franklin News.
Tho Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus rail
road is the great theme of interest in Chatta
nooga. Petitions are in circulation asking the
council to subscribe $100,000 to the road. The
council will probably order an election on this
point soon.—Summerville Gazette.
It is evident that this road will ultimately be
built through to Columbus. Its construction ft*om
Chattanooga to Rome is almost a foregone con
clusion. Work on the link from Rome to Caroll-
ton will begin about the first of
February, and will be completed before
the opening of the cotton season of 1887.
The roau is already in paying condition from
Columbus to Chipley, and the link fr,om Chipley
to Carrollton is not more than fifty miles. Snell
a paying and important line cannot go unfinish
ed. It would be one of the best lines in the
south and would develop one of the richest belts
of country to be found anywhere. Nor is this an
idle assertion. The fact that every contestant
from Heard for the prizes ottered by the Gossyp-
ium company of Atlanta were successful fully
verifies our statement.
A CARD.
To all who are Buffering from tho errors and
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early
decay, loss of manhood, &c., I will send a recipe
t hat will euro you, FREE OF CHARGE. This groat
remedy was discovered by a missionary in South
America. Send a self-addressed envelope to the
REV. Joseph T. INMAN, Station D, New York City
oe 11 eod&wl v (fols r nU
NOTICE j
To Sewing Machine Companies
and Wholesale Dealers in
Sewing Machines.
State of Georgia,Comptroller Gkn’l’s Office, '
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 28,1886.
V LL Sewing Machine Companies and Whole
sale Dealers in Sewing Machimsin this state
are required to pay a tax of two hundred dollars
for the fiscal year 1887. and a tax of ten dollars for
each of their agents, before they are authorized
to do business in the state. These taxes will he
due January 1st, and must be paid to me The i
penalty for failure to pay said taxes is a fine of .
not loss than one hundred dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars. WM. A. WRIGHT,
decao tliAsat Comp. Uen’l.
H'ACFiEAM •
rPORTHETEETH m
<==
*APPLIED TO THE BRUSH 4*
— WITH AN —
IVORY (Celluloid) SPOON.
Z ONWEI8S ,o ft new Dental Cream.
Its cleansing, refreshing and presort alive
properties, delicious flavoring and convenience
of 118*. place it far in advance of nil previous
preparations for the Teeth. Sold by all Druggists
Johnson «t Johnson, Operatic* Chemists,
£3 Cedar Street* New York
dec28 eodlyj(n r m
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
will be 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.
deott dfed Cashier.
The Georgia Midland and
Gulf Railroad Company.
THE semi annual interest on the first-mortgage
Y bonds of this company will be paid on pre
sentation of coupons at the office of the company.
Pioneer buildiug, Columbus, Ga., or to Central
Trust Company, New York City, on and after
January 3.1887. CHARLES L DAVIS.
dec28 dtd Treasurer.
CLEVELAND’S
BAKING POWDER
Contains only purest grape cream of tartar,
bicarbonate of soda, and a little wheat flour,
the latter to preserve the strength of the
powder—nothing else whatever.
What other manufacturers impart to the
public a knowledge of ALL the Ingredients
that enter into their baking powder?
Consumers have a right to know what
they are using as food. In these times of
extensive adulteration the public should
demand this information, and in all cases
where not given should refuse to purchase
the baking powder.
Cleveland Brothers,
Albany, N.Y,
Invite Your Attention to Their Long List of
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 be sold very cheap.
Handsome Blankets.
Could a more common sense present be made?
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 Naplyns, 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
ESTABLISHED 18S6.
C.GUNBY JORDAN
Fire Insurance Agent,
Pioneer Building, 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. Courteoas Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments.
A share of your business solicited.
sep!2 dtf
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
I
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. J0HNS01.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
Mr. J. H. Hamilton’s 8tore, corner of First
avenue and Fourteenth street, the most desirable
store property for sale in this city. Rents are
paying 10 per cent, on price asked.
$6000 The valuable cornei lot east 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
lor wo more large stores and brick
enough to builr them.
2250. Two A acre lots on lower Broad street.
The corner lot is vacant. The otht r lot
has a new rive-room House.
95° - 1 -’ Ji cre COI *ner 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
property pays 14 percent.
1200 One four-room house aud four new two-
room houses in Girard that rent for 820 per
month, and room for three more houses.
3700 Mr. T. H. Moore’s house, south of court
house.
2600 D r. nicy’s house on Second avenue,
west side, between Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets. The size of the lot is M of
an acre.
2500 3% acres of land ea»t of the park, with
five new three-room houses
3200 Mr. O. C. Bullock’s house, next door south
of girls’ public school,
1700. A acre lot v 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 terms to suit the pur
chaser.
WANTED.
From 70 to 100 feet front on Broad street, be
tween Tenth aud Thirteenth streets. Purchaser
will pay a fair price. Apply to
W. S. GREEN, Real Estate Agt.
Third door west of Post Office.
BEANS
aVURE Biliousness; Sick Headache in Four hours,
uy One dose relieves Neuralgia. They cure and
„ ,J ,re !S n * Chills Fever, Sour Stomach ^ Bad
Breath. Clear the Skin, Tone tho Nerves, and glvo
Ule Vigor to the system. Dose i ONE BEAN,
fry them onco and you will never be without the: ..
Price, 25 cents per bottle. Sold by Druggists and
Medicine Dealers generally. Sen! on -ocsir.* u(
price in stamps, postpaid, to any address,
J. F. SMITH Ss CO.,
Manufacturers and Solo Props.. ST. LOUIS. MO.
Something Worth Having.
Our New Seed Catalogue for 18H7. The
Gnly Catalogue published illustrating everythin*
in Garden, Field and Flower Seeds. New Seeds
New Warehouseh tlyer.v tiling Xow. Ready
for Ullih distribution early in December.
Send your address NOW. N.*Y. 11A1XEK A
€'<>.• Seedm<»ia. «I and do JJ Front St.,
and 100 Arch St., Philadelphia. Pa.
nov8 weow 6t
Election for Justice of the Peace.
THERE will be an election held at the court
1 house, ill the 688tli district, G. M. (lower town)
011 Saturday, the 1st day of January next, for one
Justice of the Peace lor said district, to supply
Ule vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Bell.
tLs December 7th, 1888.
F. G. WILKINS
decr'dtd an<i Ex ' 0fflcio J - P - for 6With Disi. G. M.
GEORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY- '
Loeb makes application forpa-
iii.tiu.nt It tters ol administration on the estate
o' Meyer Greentree late of said county, deceased
These are, therefore, to cite all ami sdnKdiS
the kindred and creditors of said deceased to
rm£r«’v l !-““ y *h hoy have ' within tlfe tlnS
1 rcscrioi a oj law \\ liy permanent letters of nd-
pUcnnt *°“ Sh ° Uld *’ e slanted tolsaid ap-
Witness my official signature this December
‘‘S^awtw ^ MBS (gS.
FREE TO F.A.M Kim-Colored Engrovlng of th. ?
in/t rwr of the Anciont Lodge Hoorn In which the
hot lodge In >.America wnaheld. AltoUrgelllus-
trnted Lntalogue of Masonic books and goods with
w \ P r,ce !* Also ‘‘Ifor of first-clafj« business.
A