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DAILY ENQUIRER • SUN- COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 18*7.
ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD
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None but solid metal cute used.
All communications should be addressed to the
To(tv<imiiKR-3uN.
When a politician begins to write his
ti'eminissccnces it is a sure sign that he
Stas become one himself-
A wood cut of Captain Greely is going
if,he rounds of the press, but he can pay
•them back in still uglier weather.
Sherman is coming south to warm his
little boom. It needs it. Sherman may
’>3>e the next candidate, but not the next
BBresidenl.
A aBi'iPRociTY treaty, and not a war, is
what we want inaugurated between the
f / nitfid States and Canada. One treaty
j.is worth a thousand wars.
It is said that the average New Yorker
swill fight if you call him an alderman.
Well , even the average New Yorker can’t
.'.ifie expected to take everything, if the al-
< derinen did do it.
Governor Hill, of New York, is in-
a dustriously laying pipe for the presi
dency. His recent suppression of Mayor
■Hewitt's letter was a bid for the labor
rvote.
New Orleans is holding indignation
'.meetings to protest against the Sunday
v ,.aw. They had forgotten there ever was
any Sunday, and it grates on ’em like a
/regular blue law.
When a man with a small salary tries
17,0 support a saloon and a family at the
■.aaine time, the family will have to suc-
«eumb. It has been tried, and the saloon
<icomes .out on top every time.
Who would have thought Holman, the
•great watch dog objector, would have
• voted against the president’s veto of the
mail per pension hill? We “have wor
shipped an idol and found it to be clay.”
The sportsmen ou both sides of the
water are intensely interested in the
.• joining ocean race between the yachts
rCoronet and Dauntless. Over $500,000
mavealready been staked on the outcome
<®f the race.
General Butler has dislocated his
oulder. This physical discrepancy,
1 -oupled with the out-of-gear condition of
rt.be optic nerve of his oil eye, gives the
•..aid spoon grabber a decidedly comic and
jaunty appearance.
The New York legislature spent an
•..entire day in lauding and enumerating
the alleged virtues of General Logan.
oBut tlie day was not lost. While the
Mvnemorial exercises were going on the
. republican caucus was gaining time on a
f' big money job.
A New England writer says it is a
popular error to suppose that all minis-
''.ers’ sons are hanged or sent to the peni
tentiary, and he furnishes a list of forty-
rhree who are respectable and law-abid-
5 rig men. May be the writer is a
preacher’s son and the list a bogus onr.
The matter ought to he investigated.
It ie said that during the earthquake
An Italy, the American tourists behaved
with great presence of mind and heroism
•while the natives were panic-stricken
. and demoralized. Americans from every
ipart of the union should cease trying to
pass off themselves as Charlestonians in
foreign lands.
The entire press of the country is re-
ggarding a Minneapolis editor with min
gled wonder and envy. Ho has gone to
Europe on a wedding tour. The average
editor considers himself fortunate if he
• can take a trip to his state capital, prom
enade the principal streets with his bride
■ >n his arm, lunch at a restaurant, take in
. a. dime museum and then go back home
.; •.■) work.
THEY MUST SWALLOW.
Tire republican party is now a party of
•supposition pure and simple, and will evi-
- iently vote for or against anything, re
gardless of conviction or principle, on
. .he barest hope that it may embarrass
-he democratic administration. But
Cleveland’s famous backbone is making
. t rather uncomfortable for the republic
ans of the senate just now. He has
rnominated Trotter, of Boston, another
rolored man, to be register of deeds for
A;he District of Columbia. Mr. Cleveland
will make the republican senate “swal-
jiiow a nigger” or tell the reason why.
THE CEMETERY QUESTION.
It is absolutely certain that within a
very short time there must bo Additional
cemetery facilities for the city. All the
lots that are at all desirable, and in fact
most all the lots of any kind in the ceme
tery have been disposed of and they are
not to be purchased for love or money.
Whether this facility is afforded by an
extension of the present cemetery limits,
or whether there is an entirely new loca
tion must depend upon the wisdom and
discretion of the city council.
This matter was discussed at consider
able length at a meeting of the city coun
cil on,Wednesday night. At the meeting
a proposition was submitted by some of
the representative citizens of the city,
asking the privilege of forming a corpora
tion for the purpose of inaugurating
something new for this section of the
state. It is that of a cemetery to be own
ed bv the stockholders thereof, but over
which the city is to have general super
vision. To all intents and purposes they
desire to establish a cemetery very much
upon the same plan and to be operated
in much the same way as that of the
present cemetery.
It was perhaps wise in the city council
that action on the matter was deferred to
the next meeting. While we c«n see
nothing wrong in any such enterprise,
we must confess that the mere idea of a
speculation in that direction is not very
agreeable, and that it may probably be
best for the city to own and control its
own place for burial of the dead. It is
understood that the city council are very
nearly equally divided upon the subject,
and this within itself is sufficient to sug
gest a careful consideration of the sub
ject. Those who favor the new plan do
so under the honest conviction that it
will be best for the city. Their opinions
are entitled to respect. It is a plain
proposition and one that can be easily
understood. It is argued that the ceme
tery is au expense to the city, but, even
while this is the case, it is probably best
that the city should have exclusive con
trol. We can certainly afford to bury our
dead. What new developments a discus
sion of the subject may bring out remains
to be seen, but at present the old plan is
as good as any that is likely to be adopted.
NOT A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION.
When men submit to interviews, and
particularly when they do so of their
own motion, they frequently say things
that had just as well be left unsaid. The
Brooklyn Eagle has recently interviewed
lion. Abram S. Hewitt, mayor of New
York city, and that gentleman is reported
as saying:
“Either the knights of labor or the democratic
party must go under, because their fundamental
principles are in absolute antagonism to each
other. Tile former body is organized on military
principles, and is necessarily a despotism. The
knights have announced that they are going into
politics to put in practice their secret methods
and absolute control of their members. This will
compel the democratic party either to surrender
or to light.”
.lust why the ‘knights of labor or the
democratic party r. list go under” does
not, appear at all plain. There may be a
great many knights of labor who are
democrats, as most of the earnest and
honest working men are, but as an
organization the one lias no connection
whatever with the other. The knights
of labor is an industrial organization, and
as lo”g as it takes no part in politics and
makes no attempt to interfere with the
government, there is no cause for any
political party to oppose it, or throw any
impediment iu the way of its progress.
Whenever it ceases to be an industrial
and becomes a political organization; or
whenever it attempts to be both an in
dustrial society and a political party, it
then inaugurates a fight on democ
racy which democracy must re-
sent. At present it professes that it is.
simply a business association, and though
its practices have In frequent instances
belied its professions in this respect-, it
has as yet afforded no ground for a party
attack on it. Whenever it does so,
neither Mr. Hewitt nor anyone else need
fear that the democratic party will shirk
its responsibilities. But it will not be a
question of whether “the democratic
party or the knights of labor must go
under.” There will be no question about
it. When the knights of labor openly
take, their secret society into polities,
they give the signal for its destruction.
This is not, nor can it be made to be, a
government by secret society.
LORD IVOLSEtEY’S ARTICLE.
Lord Wolseley, “England’s only gen
eral,” has written an article on General
Robert E. Lee in the last number of Mac
Millan’s Magazine. In the closing para
graph of the article he says:
“When all the angry feelings roused by the
secession are buried with those which existed
when the Declaration of Independence was
written; when Americans can review the his
tory of their last great rebellion with calm im
partiality, 1 believe all will admit that General
Lee towered far above all men ou either side iu
that struggle. I believe he will be regarded not
only as the mo3t prominent figure of the confed
eracy, but as the great American of the nine
teenth century, whose statue is well worthy to
stand on an equal pedestal with that of Wash
ington, and whose memory is equally worthy to
be enshrined in the hearts of all his country
men.”
Lord Wolseley is a true and honest
soldier, and he has only done General
Lee the justice due him. Davis and
Jackson and Lee were the triple patriots
of the only true republic that ever flew a
flag. And they and it are none the less
revered because the flag they fought
under went down in a defeat more glo
rious than many victories.
Mit. 0EE0UGK AND HIS DOCTRINE.
Henry George’s recently published
tirade of abuse against the Catholic
church is quite audacious. Why should
he warn the poor against any thing or
anybody? What has he ever done for
the poor that he should rise up and pro
claim himself their prophet, priest and
king? He lias helped to make them
unhappy and turbulent., while a great
many other influences hav ; ever been
working for their welfare. Mr. George
has preached his gospel of confiscation
until the American people are heartily
sick of it. It has degenerated from a
novelty into a nuisance. Anever y one
knows that Mr. George’s attack on the
archbishop and the Catholic church was
prompted solely because the former re
fused to accept his crude and chimerical
theories as a substitute for the Gospel
of Jesus Christ in alleviating human
misery. Henry George is a thorough
bred crank ana the great American pub
lic have “got hi in on the list."
TEXAS SOLONS.
1L. S. Canfield, the correspondent of the
San Antonio (Texas) Express, is in Aus
tin reporting the proceedings of the leg
islature. He was recently expelled from
the press gallery and denied admittance
into the house by a large majority vote.
Ho wrote to his paper that the Texas
statesmen “ornamented their shirt bosoms
with tobacco juice and were foolingaway
the people’s time and money.” Hence
his expulsion. Mr. Canfield ought to
have known better than to write every
thing he found out to his paper. The
solons voted to expel the reporter, but
they never denied the charges. It is to
be inferred that they were correctly
drawn.
Idaho is a rugged clime and when two
journalists out there tackle each other it
sounds like the avalanching crash of
mountain boulders. Here is what one
Idaho editor recently said of another:
“We shall not cease our assaults until the thin
mantel of quasi-respectability is torn from his
shoulders, revealing him as he really is—reeking
with corruption, morally leprous, sin-stained, de
based, despised, abhorrent, abominated, detested,
scoffed at, reviled, a liar and a sneak.”
01‘ELIKA ITEMS. '
Busy ^Building Eino Houses—Commissioners Re*
-Saras appointed—The Circuit Court. tie;.m
i - v'M
Opelika, Ala., March 3.—Improvements and
building are going on all over the city. Mr. L.
F. Dixon has commenced the erection of his fine
residence on Chambers street, and Hudmon
Bros. Co. have commenced the erection of a
fine brick livery stable 50 by 100 feet on the same
street. Several other store houses and residences
will be erected soon.
The legislature enacted a law at its recent ses
sion in reference to the time of holding the cir
cuit courts in Lee and Russell counties. After
the spring term our courts will be held m May
and November instead of April and October.
Governor Seay has reappointed Augustus
Barnes, N. P. Renfro, T. L. Kennedy, J. T. Gor
man and G. W. Hopson commissioners for the
district of Opelika for the ensuing two years.
They will meet on the 8th inst. and elect ohe of
their number recorder, and other officers will also
be elected.
Business in the courts is very dull. A tramp
was found guilty in the county court a few days j
since and fined $50 and costs for carry ing con
cealed weapons. He could not pay it and was
sentenced to the chain gang. There are also a
few cases in the city court occasionally.
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE.
MON DA Y raid TUBS DA Y,
M VlUil 7 A H.
The Distinguished Tragedian,
James Owen O'Conor,
Supported by a Powerful Company, will pre
sent Monday Evening'
OTHELLO.
“O’Conor is McCullough’s legitimate success
or.”—New York Herald.
Prices as usual. Re c erved seats at Chaffin’s.
mil l 4t
BUSINESS PROPERTY
FOR SALE.
85x189—MUSCOGEE HOME CORNER, with
excellent two-story Brick Store, and two unim
proved business lots. Cellar walls intact and a
quantity of brick. Now rented for 6% per cent
on price asked. Splendid opportunity for in
vestment or speculation. Will be sold or with
drawn in one week.
L. H. CHAPPELL.
Broker, Real Estate and Insurance Agent.
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For Bent—Dwellings,
No. 309 Eleventh street; Nos. 215 and 413 Six-
Sixteenth street: No. 811 Seventh street; No. 821
Third avenue ; No. 1536 Fourth avenue ; No. 1442
First avenue; No. 112 Fifteenth street.
ZEC-A-HjILjS.
Columbus Guards Armory.
Over No. 1208 Broad street.
Webster Hall, with or without chairs.
SLEEPING ROOMS.
Over Nos. 1036,1111, 1206 and 1234 Broad street;
also in Webster Building.
FOE S^XjIE.
Property in all pa;ts of the city, paying from 8
to 20 per cent. Call and examine my list of
Dwellings, Stores and vacant lots for sale. If
you wish to invest in Real Estate g s ve me your
name and I will keep you posted.
JOHN BLACKMAR,
Rea! Estate Ag’t, Columbus, Ga.
Telephone 51.
ne wed fri tf
Dr. Mi, lilt fanruut bist,
‘ CERTIFIES TO THE
PURITY & MOTES
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CLEVELAND’S
Baking Powder.
New York, January 16, 1885.
I have, on several occasions during the past few years
and without the knowledge of the manufacturers, analytically
examined cans of CLEVELAND’S SUPERIOR BAKING
POWDER purchased by myself in the markets, and I take
pleasure in recommending it to public favor as a baking
powder that can be relied upon for purity, wholesomeness
and strength, as I have never found it to be adulterated with
lime or to be impure in any sense whatever.
DR. H. A. MOTT,
Professor of Chemistry New York Medical College, Ac
These Paints are in every respect strictly first-class, being composed of
the best and purest materials obtainable. They have a larger sale than
any other paints made in this country or abroad, and, although they cost
a trifle more per gallon, they will do more and better work for the same
amount of money, owing to their wonderful covering properties, while
their superior durability renders them the most economical paint3 in the
world. Sample Sheets and Descriptive Price List free by mail.
H. W. JOHNS MANUFACTURING CO.,
SOLE MANUFACTURERS OP
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Asbestos Steam Packings, Boiler Coverings, Roof Pa.nts, Fir*-Proof Paints etc,
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New Goods!
NEW GOODS!
Have .Just Received cend will Display Monday:
50 Pieces Satteens, choice styles, 10 and 15 cents.
50 Pieces Handsome Ginghams.
100 Pieces stylish Prints. *
50 Pieces Nainsook Checks at 6i cents.
50 Pieces Nainsook Checks at 8 cents.
25 Pieces Nainsook Checks at 10 cents.
10 Pieces Blouse Linen at 10 cents.
25 Pieces Curtain Scrims at 10c.
50 Pieces Percales, nobby styles, for children’s waists.
1000 Yards White Lawns, splendid value, at 8 cents.
150 Pieces All Linen TOUOHON LACE, 6 inch wide, 12 yards to piece, 15 cents.
150 “ “ “ *“ “ j “ “ 12 “ “ 20 “
100 “ “ “ “ “ 1 << “ 12 “ “ 25 “
100 “ “ “ “ “ 2 “ “ 12 « “ 40
150 it “ ii “ “ j “ solid red 12 “ “ 25 “
These Laces are j list about one-half the prices that they have formerly sold at in
this market. Don’t fail to compare them with other houses.
Every lady who prices our Hamburg Embroideries pro
nounce them the cheapest. We are selling them to adver
tise ourselves. They were never so cheap. Splendid Edges
from 3c per yard up.
NEW DRESS GOODS ! NEW DRESS GOODS!
In spring shades, from 12Jc to 25c, splendid goods for the money. Be sure to come to
our place for fresh New Goods of every kind. We get new goods nearly every day,
and we are selling them oheaper than ever.
BLANCHARD, BOOTH & HUFF
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Nor Opportunity but call for
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You can consult him about your eyes and how
to take care of them. More light for the unfortu
nate spectacle wearers, and the doom of blind
ness prevented by the use ofcorrect and strength
ening glasses, manufactured from
ALASKA BRILLIANTS k AUSTRALIAN CRYSTALS
A late discovery of combination of spectacles
and Patent Self-Adjusting Spring Eyeglasses. The
first time introduced in this country. Mannfho-
tured to order, and careftilly combined wilh
modem instruments.
ItEPBItElT OES.
Montgomery and Alabama.
Persons deprived of an eye can have this de
formity removed by the insertion of an artificial
one which moves and looks like a natural organ.
FROM EX-GOVERNOR T. H. WATTS, SR,
Montgomery, Ala.. Nov. 24.—Prof. A. Strass-
man: I take pleasure in saying that the glusses I
got from you are pleasant to my eyes, and enable
me to see much better at a distance than any
glasses I have hud for years. I was pleased with
the skill you manifest in ascertaining precisely
what sort of glasses my ev es needed. I have no
hesitation in recommending you to the good peo
ple of Alabama and Georgia. Very respt’y yours,
T. H. WATTS, Sr.,
Judge Summerville, of Supreme Court of Ala.
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 29.—We have used
Prof. Strassman’s glasses and they give entire sat
isfaction. J, G. Stratford, Cashier.
Jobiah Morris, Pres. First National Bank.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 11, ’86.—After using
two pairs of glasses furnished by Prof. Strassraan
for several weeks, we cheerfhlly recommend them
as the most satisfactory we ever found, and he
deserves the patronage of all those who seek re
lief. i\ .1. W A(,\KR,
C’apt. KI>. HUNKY.
Montgomery, Ala-, Dec. 2 — I take pleasure ix
recommending Prof. Strassman to this communi
ty. His glasses have benefited the eyes of ray-sell
and daughters.
NrH. Judge S. L. A. It I lilt,
JiMlge ARRINGTON
€ol. SHORTER.
Prof. Strassman is a competent, conscientious
and skillful optician, and from his large and
superb selection of perfected lenses, and adjusted
with modern instruments, he is enabled to meet
successfully any optical defect with proper glasses
and I cheerfully recommenr him to my patients.
»ENJ. .1. ItAUkWTl,
Oculist and AiirfNt.
Montgomery. Ala., Nov. 29, ’86.—This is to cer
tify that I have purchased glasses ot Prof. Stnisa-
man of difficult combination, and he has suit* d
me as I have not been suited before.
T. Bi. JOXES, W’liolesnle Itferclinnt*
IiEHJlAN A KERR.
Columbus References:
T E Blanchard,
R T Young,
J IT Neil,
J. Rhodes Brown,
Mrs J.:M. Garrard,
Miss Mira Birdsong,
Mayor Grimes,
Col J F Iverson,
Dr Mitchell,
Mr H Middlebrook,
J B Holst,
Mrs Peter Preer,
L G Bovvers,
Mr Lyons,
Rev R H Harris,
Mrs E Bcott,
Col Peabody,
Blascoer,
Col. Geo. P. Swift,
L. Hamberger,
Judge F. M. Brooks,
Ed. Est.es,
T. S. Fontaine
Dr. J. E. Gillespie,
Mre. Spencer,
Miss Backus,
Lieut. Pickett,
Geo. M. Johnson,
Dr. Schley,
N. N. Curtis,
W, O. Coart,
Dr. Ware,
J. G. Burrus,
Wm. Swift,
T. J. Dudley,
Mrs. Steve Dixon,
J. J. Wood.
Mr. M. Hirsch.
Prof A P Mooty,
W H. Harvey,
Mr A Buhler,
Mrs G. W. Woodruff,
W G Woolfolk,
Wm. Clark,
Capt. T. Whitesides,
A. J. Nix.
E E Yonue,
Col L W Walker,
B T Hatcher.
M ra Lou Holmes,
Mrs. Flewellen,
W R r -dell,
Miss M J Howard,
W A McDougald.
Rev J W Howard.
Miss Tabitha Perkins,
C A Klink.
Wm, Redd, Jr,
W. S. Needham,
Philip Gittenger,
J. H. Palmer, Ch'f Poliot
Mrs. Thornton,
John L. Hogan,
J. F Burrus,£
Lieut. Forau.
Mr. Kyle,
Dr. Hurt,
Mrs. A. J. Lowe.
Mm. Morton,U
Mr. Rankin,
E. L. Wells,
8. H. Dickinson.
J. H. Hamilton,
Mr. I. Joseph,
Mrs. C. R. Russell,
Mrs. Hansard, ,
BJR Hines, \
Dr D J Bussey,
Geo Y Pond.
Mrs Howard,
Charlie Hein man.
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