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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