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OAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: 00LUMBU8, GEORGIA, TtTES0\Y MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1887.
rOI.LT IS WISDOM—PERIL IS Sil'ETT.
tlfrin Prucktd bj Rev. Robert II. Harris, of
the Flint Beptlet Chargh, on Similar Martin*,
September ISth, Bepeatod at the Urgent Bequest
of Number* on Sunday Sight, September 23th,
and Reported for the Uuqnirer.Sun.
Text— 1 "There la but a etep between me and
<deatb.’’— lam. xi: iii.
This la the language of David to Jonathan im
mediately after Saul’s attempts upou bis lifb. He
alluded, of course, to the danger that he appre
hended at the hands of the king; but aside from
that danger, the expression of David was most
. solemnly true. It is a moat solemn truth that
there is but a step between every man and death.
Ot all creatures, man enjoys the weakest
tenure upon life It is a startling fact that of all
amlnula, man is the most easily killed. Some of
us have known men to survive the most horrible
Injuries, and persons nave been known to rr-
cover under circumstances which seemed to
render death inevitable; but it is nevertheless
true that, as a rule, the human being succumbs
more readily than any other animal, to death.
Other animals survive the most horrid mutila
tions, when shot to pieces, or when gashed into
shreds. The insect, crushed beneath the un-
wary foot, will often resume its shape and crawl
sway. Hut men have died Ifom a scratch, the
mere puncture of an lnsiguihcant artery, in the
wrist, or temple, or elsewhere, the sting of an in-
- sect, a breath of foul vapor. A blood clot in a
valve of the heart will produce instant death, a
-cardiac spasm stops the machinery of life, a
blood clot in the brain means a madman and a
-corpse.
Life—physical life- is the most uncertain of all
things, and physical death is the only earthly
thing that is absolutely oertaln at all. We know
not when the end will come; but, of a certainty,
we do know that death is inevitable. Sooner or
later, we know that we mutt die.
I flatter myself with a vain delusion when I
lay claim to any^lnd of guarantee of lifb. I am
young, I am strong, I am sound of body, head
and limb. I have no disease, and I am a stranger
to pain. My ancestors, on both sides, have been
long-lived men and women. They all reached
their threescore years and ten. Have I not the
assurance of longlife? Ah, not Lightning has
.atruck where the sun was shining, t he strong
have died, while the weaklings nave lived on.
Years ago, in south Georgia, there was a fhmlly
-of five brothers. Four of them were types of vig
orous health; the filth was a weakling invalid,
ffom infancy. His parents had never expected
him to reacn maturity; but, contraiy to all expec
tation, he attained manhood, still an invalid,
And he and ail his brothers married and settled
-x>n adjoining plantations. There they lived
for many years and all brought up fami
lies around them, but, during that p -
riod, as I have been told, the four
healthy bro hers met repeatedly at the home of
the invalid to see him die. Finally death came,
hut not to the feeble one. The stronger brothers,
-one by one, succumbed, and when I formed the
acquaintance of the fhmily.tbe weakling was the
only survivor of tbe flvs.
No, dear friends, we canoot count on health,
nor vigor, nor longevity of ancestors for lease of
life. Life iB precarious as a veeri
end is oertaln, and, verily, “there
null is uoruiuii »uui
between us ana death.”
Hear the suriptures: ‘‘What Is your life? It is
even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and
*then vanisheth away.” “My days are swifter
than a we Tver’s shuttle; swifter than a post, they
flee away.” “They are passed away, as the swill
-ships—as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.”
“Whatman is he that liveth and shall not see
•death? Shall he deliver his soul from * * * the
grave? One dieth in his lull st re nth, being wholly
•at ease and quiet; his blasts are ftill of milk ana
his bones are moistened witn marrow. Another
airth in the bitterness of his soul and never
eateth wish pleasure, They shall lie down alike
in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
All flesa shall perish together, and man shall
turn again into dust. Mao’s days are but grass;
as a flower of the held, so he flounsheth; the
-wind pass-th over it and it is gone, and the place
thereof knoweth it no more. Make me to know
.mine end snd the measures of my days what it is
that I may know how frail I am. I know that
thou wilt bring me to death—to the house ap-
poin ed for all living. Therein no discha-gein
that war. There is an appointed time for man
upon earth; his days are as the da> s of an hire
ling; his days are determined, the number of his
mouths is with thee; thou hast appointed his
' -bounds that he cannot pass. Thou change t his
<couu;enauce andsenoest him away.”
Hear the apostle Paul exclaiming: “Why
r.stand we in jeopardy every hour?” I tell you the
danger is mom ntary—at every moment, “there
is but a step between us and death.” And there
is more thau the physical existence in danger.
'The pouI is in jeopardy. The spiritual welfare is
Involved iu this physical existence. It is while
inhabiting tht mortal body, that the immortal
spirit becomes an heir of heaven or is doomed to
.hell We die as we have lived, and so shall we
r&ppearin the judgment. “Where the tree talleth,
itnere shall it he ,r “Tuere is no work nor device
in the grave, whither thou got-st,” O man. As
there is but a step between us and physical
•death, so is there out a step between the unre-
generale man and eternal doom.
“Oh! that the people would consider.” A
■guarantee of spiritual safety may be secured to-
da>, but we have no assurance of it
■to-morrow. Delay is danger—it may be
.•spiritual death. Faith in Christ will savd. By
-tho grace of God you may exercise that thith to-
■day; to-morrow, or at some future time, or upon
«the death bed, you may not be able. Many are
mot I’d not question the possibility of death
bed repentance and forgiveness; but, I tell you,
•the risk is hazardous in the extreme. Last sum
mer a Christian girl of this city passed so deeply
■•down into the shadows that her physician* and
family despaired of her revival But, by the
power of God, she rallied, and with almost her
first words she said to her pastor: “Warn people
against putting off repentance to the death-bed.
while I lay so low I couldmot think—I coulc not
pray. I ci uld trust, but I could not have re
pented then.” And again and again have I ut-
stared the warning. Scorched with fever and
racked with pain, writhing in agony, you may
'.not be able to think—to repent. Ana
men there is the stupor, that so
often precedes death for days—oh! the
•dreadful coma! In that condition the Christian,
though he cannot pray, rests safely upon the
promise of Him who has said, ‘ I ain with you
alway, even unto the end of the world;” but the
•inner! what is his supprrt and stay? Ah, dear
friend, the hazard is too great. It is the part of
wisdom to repent now, while health is yours
-and your mental faculties are unimpaired.
■“ To-day, if ye will hear His voice, harden not
your hearts.”
In my boyhood I read au account of a man
who, for Ci ay* in succession, attracted immeare
multitudes to Niagara to witness his perform
ances on a rope stretched across the chasm, just
below the falls. The gorge is at that point, I
think, 4750 feet in width and the cliff* nearly 200
feet high. At, or near that point, there was a
rope stretched across the gorge from cliff to cliff,
and, upon that swagging line, Blondin passed
from the American to the Canada side.
“What folly!” said the people who had
assembled to witness the sensational perform
ance. Ah, no! it was wisdom, compared with
the daily conduct of thousands who applauded
and condemned him. And his “peril” was
aafety, compared with their condition.
Then Blondin performed the same feat blind
fold, and the papers proclaimed his “folly” all
over the laud, ana their flaming headlines blazed
with exclamations of “peril!” But the blindfold
folly was wisdom, compared with the course ol
the thousands who denounced it, even while
their vociferous applause swelled up above the
roar of the water-fall, and his blindfold peril was
safety, compared with theirs.
Then, horror! still blindfold, he rolled his wife
in a wheelborrow from brink to brink along that
swayiug rope at that appalitig height in the
midst of Niagara’s stunning roar, while swirling
wreaths of spray from the boiliug depths
enshrouded the performers, the raging wa
ters rushed and foamed along below, ana tbe
rapt multitudes that thronged the shores stood,
with curdling blood and buted breath, in horrid
la cination at the sight. Oh ! was not that su
premo folly ? Was not that p a ril in the extreme ?
No; even that was wisdom and safety, compared
witu the habitual conduct and ordinary esndition
of millions in this land—of thousands in this city
—perhapsof some in this congregation! You
•re walking upon the swaying rope of life, above
the horrid gorge of death, to-day. There is but
-a seep between you and death. You are blind
fold, aud in darkness, and the rope is slippery
with the mists of sin. And many there are who
are driving before them, upon the slender, swag
ing line, their dear ones—a wife, or a husband,
or children—safely seated, as they imagine, in
the frail vehicle of indifference, or un
belief, whose single, ungrooved wheel
rolls precariously along a slippery thread, while
the fiery billows of perdition in raging surges
howl below and fling aloft the glowing spray.
Here the acme of folly is attained—here infinite
peril is impending every hour.
Blondin mav have been sa'hr at his dizzy
height, from the very fact that his hoo.iwinkod
eyes were closed againsLtiie danger below him—
his peril was physicid*mfd it lu seuse that
I speak of it and of his folly; but your wilUhl
blindness augments your folly and intensifies
your peril a million fold. Yours is a spiritual
folly and a spiritual peril, in both of which Blon-
din must have shared; but they are as much
superior to his physical folly and his physical
peril as the immortal soul is superior to the mor
tal body.
The spiritual hoodwinks that we wear are com
posed of various bandages. One of these is the love
of pleasure. “The lust of the eye and the pride
•of life”—the gratification of sinful appetites.
This produces indifference to our present spirit-
*ul condition and blinds us with a disposition to
procrastinate. Probably not a single person in
thi: cuy expects to be lost. AU expect, in some
fashion and at some indefinite time, to
nitiKo peace and secure favor with God; but, for
the present, many are disDOsed to indulge freely
in what they call pleasure, intending- Honestly
intending—after awhile to repent and be for
given. Let them beware! “There is but a step
between them and death” aud “in such an hour
as they know not of the Bon of Man couieth ”
Another bandage of the hoodwink is ihe spirit
of bravado. Many pei pie pride themselves upou
an assumed superior*:} to tear. They seem, by
their actions, *o say, "1 will show the congrega
tion that I am not to be frightened by the
threats of that preacher. ” Threats, iudeed! when
the minister, in agonize 1 auxiety for the salva
tion ot souls is only uttering tne solemn warnings
that are proctaiine i in the word of God. Dear
friend, let me remind you that bravado is an
evidence of moral cowardice. Bravado is not
bravery. True courage is never boastful. The
man who swells aud struts around, parading a
vaunted courage, in words or actions, is a miser-
anle coward. I will uot pronounce his proper ap-
pellation in this sacred place, before this refined
audience. The name will suggest itself. The
mail or woman who assumes an air of bravado
uncer the dreadful warnings of God’s law betrays
the grossest moral co.vardice and binds on a
spiritual bandage that binds inieed.
Another banc ago is the love of beiug courted.
There are those wuo like to imagiue that they
would be most desirable acquisitions to the
church, and who hug themselves in the fond de
lusion that they are sought tor their own sakes
alone. It is, doubtless, quite proper
for Christians to feel special in
terest In those most dear to them, for An
drew as soon as he became a disciple, went and
brougnt his brother, oimou, to Jesus, and Philip
brought Nathanael. Each minister knows per
sons in whom there appears to be special piomise
of U8eftUness, and toward such it is quite proper
that we should turn his eyes, for we are encour
aged to “covet the best gifts.” But spiritual co
quetry, on tne part of those who desire to be
courted, is perilous in the extreme. These traits
—and others that might be mentioned—singly
or two or more together, compose the bandages
with which human souls are hoodwinked and
blinded, whilst they stagger along the swaying
rope above the fathomless abyss of hell, totally
oblivious of the awful truth that there is but a
step between them and eternal death. Whetner
composed of one bandage ot more, selfishness is
the hoodwink that darkens the spiritual sight.
AU the traits mentioned and intimated are but
phases of the vice of selfishness, and men are
dammed because they will not deny themselves.
“If any man wiU come after me,” says Jesus, “let
him deny himself and take up his cross oaity,
and follow me.”
Blonain’s folly was folly and his peril was im
minent. There was but a step between him and
death—but a step between his wife, who I sup
pose was dear to him, and destruction—and the
gaping crowds that swarmed upon the bluffs
ought to have been scattered to the four quarters
of the continent. Yet, in the physical sense, he
was wise compared with thousands who spead|in
spiritual “jeopardy every hour.” Blondin’s rope
was made fttst to immovable stakes upon the
river bluffs, while you, dear friend, are reeling
upon b floating thread that is moored at neither
end, but io sinuous undulations hangs on nothing
above perdition’s deep abyss.
Ah! Christians, lei us strive to remove the
hoodwinks from the eyes ol our friends. Ten
derly, yet earnestly, let as persist. The people
are not fools, in the harsh sense ol that
term, but they will not be rudely
driven. We make a mistake—often fatal—when
we attempt to uuuse people into repentance, as
there is but a step between us, every cue, and
physical death, so there is but u step between
them and sp litual destruction, and a single rude
push may hurl them into the frightful depths be
low.
And, oh 1 dear unregenerate friend, reach out
aud grasp tlic extendei hand of Jesus, who will
remove you from the unsubstantial filament on
which you wavering tread and place your feet
upon the eternal rook. Verily, “there is nut a ■ ep
between you and death.”
THE STATE ROAD.
Senator Broun Ktste* Win Position fin the l.ues-
• Ion of Betterment*.
MATTERS FROM MONTGOMERY.
A Collation of Interesting News Items From ila-
lism.'s Capitol City.
Montgomery, September 26.—Mr. and Mrs. W
D. Brown has returned from their northern tour.
Hundreds of people visited the new fair
grounds yesterday.
‘Dear George’a” minstrels will be at tbe Mont
gomery theatre to-night. “Waltz me again.”
Another cheap excursion to Birmingham on
the 29th Inst.
The Alabama Great Northwestern” is the
name of another proposed railroad from Mont
gomery to the Mississippi line. It will pass
through the counties of Autauga, Chilton, Bibb,
Shelby, Tuscaloosa, Jefferson, tVulker, Fayette,
Lamar, Pic tens aud Marion. This roao will be a
continuation of tbe Alabama Midland, which is
tobebuil from southeast Alabama to this city.
In order to keep up with them, it would be a
good idea to number these projected railroads in
Alabama the same as you do tbe giu houses that
are destroyed by fire. ,
The couuty officers of Chilton bare fallen out
with their weekly paper, and want somebody to
start another.
Tbe Montgomery shooting club want 3,000
pigeons for their shooting match.
The surveying party of the Florence, Tusca
loosa and Montgomery railroad have reached
this city,
Mr. W. Pelt, of your city, is visiting the family
here of Col. O. O. Nelson.
Yesterday I rode out to tbe chemical works.
They are situated about two aud a half miles
from the city, near the river. The company here
built three large two-story buildings, twelve
residences and twenty-one ovens.
About fifteen or twenty German tailors have
come to tbe city iu tbe last month to work dur
ing the winter, and I understand more are adver
tised for.
Mesdames King, Frazier, Viscber and Miss
Crush, dressmakers, have all returned from the
north, where they went to buy goods and catch
on to the latest styles.
Mr. S. J. Sykes will very probably be appoint
ed one of the mail carriers for this city,
Mr. Josiah Morris’s contract with Messrs. Figh
& Williams, of this city, for the brick work on
his proposed building in Birmingham is for $80,-
000.
Mr. Morris is also having built iu this city in
rear of Bt. John’s Episcopal church a very hand
some brick chapel, a present to the ehurch.
Mr. Joe Booth, of Decatur, formerly of this city,
aud Miss Rebecca Gerald were married at the
residence of the bride’s father in this city this
morning at 6 o’clock. The bride is the daughter
of Chief of Police Gerald.
Mr. John Dalton, an old ex-confederate soldier,
died at his home near Kiveiside Park yesterday
and was buried this morning.
Tbe Second Alabama regiment baud here re
ceived their new instruments, aud there will bo
music in the air.
Anniston, Ala., has decided to wake her ex
hibit first at tbe Piedmont exposition and then
at the Alabama state fair.
Mr. Wilson, who keeps a s'ore at Pike road >
on the Montgomery and Eufaula railroad, has
had a couple of large bears chained In bis yard
for a number of years. It was reported here yes
terday that they had escaped, and had wounded
a negro or two who were trying to capture them.
Messrs. Figh A Williams, contractors, it is said,
will locate in Birmingham.
Messrs. Tom Hainilt n and G. G. Lanier left
Saturday night for Birmingham.
The mail'rain due here at seven o’clock last
night, did not arrive until six o’clock this morn
ing. The cause of the delay was the wrecking of
a freight train near Birmingham, in which an en.
giueer was slightly wounded. A special was
made up and sent out to Mobile.
HOTEL ARRIVAL*.
RANKIN HOUSE.
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. RATES 12.30 TO $3.30
PER DAY.
G. B. Duv, Proprietor.
Terrell Smith, Macon; H D Garden, John M
Gault, Sig MahofT, New York; C A Simpson,
Griffin; H D Stratton, Tennessee; L J Strouse,
J H Worrell. Talbotton; Eugene Chambers, Joe
P Holmes, Sam S Einstvin, Richmond; H G Slap-
pey, Atlanta; J T Morrison, J E King,
New Orleans; James Goutdmon, H C
Brady, Macon; Henry J Walter, Philadelphia;
B S Stowe, G A Heaven, R E L Wells, New York;
A W Warner, Atlanta; Tucker Tanner, W J Dow
ling, Atlanta; S Raphael, Philadelphia; Charles
W Sherill, St. Louis; Geo R Vernon, New Yo k;
E F hummus aud wife, Juniper, W B Shelden, F
P Wright, New York; Hugh W Gabbel, Fort
Worth, Texas; It K Kiug, Chattanooga: J B Wil
son,Virgluia.
CENTRAL HOTEL.
STRICTLY FIRMT-CI.ASS. GASLIGHT* IN ROOMS. $2
per day. Simeon O’neal. Prof’r.
J N Willis, North Caioliua; R P Tallmau.
Woodaury; R L Harrison, Ap dachloola; W R
McDuffie, Atlanta; J L Dozier, G M Ac G R R;
W A Cuba, Georgia; R E Liudscy, Alabama; L
Margolius, Hatchechubbee' K F Humphrey,
Atlanta; C J Edge, Georgia; George T Mutudi,
Apalachicola; B A Richards, Talbotton; C L
Norton, North Carollua; James M Kiunon, Green
Hill; R W Williamson,Ga; Q 3 Celleu,Cincinnati;
C T Disk, Opelika. J T Leylleld, Montgomery; J
L Williams, Columbus >nd Western railroad; W
Dcmpf, Aug Voss, Louisville; W R McDuffie, At
lanta; J 0 Barnes, Opelika; T B Dabury, C R
Kus-elt, Walter Newtuau, Georgia; George JW
Ashley! Hatchechubbee; J D Holloway, White
Sulphur Springs; C F. Faulkeubarry, Georgia; Dr
M D. Shelton, Salem, Ala; Geo E Brewer, Chas
M White, Opelika; H T Humphrey, Atlanta; W
S Brooks, W A Peet, jr, Georgia; J B Clilton,
Macon.
A SUNDAY NIGHT EXPLOIT.
Protonloaal Burglar* at Murk In Seale—They
Enter Foar Store* and Blow Open n Safe—Sna-
ptcloaa Characters.
A professional burglar got in his work in the
little town of Seale Sunday night. He entered
four storek and Glennvllle street by boring
around the locks on the front doors. One of the
stores was occupied by Mr. B. M. Henry as a drug
■tore, another by Mr. E. F. Pye as a Jewelry store,
and two of them were vacant, which showed
that the burglar or burglars did not know mnoh
about the town,
Mr. Henry has a Mosler safe in the back part
of his store, whieh usually contains
SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS.
This was evidently what the burglar wanted. A
hole was drilled In the top of the safe aud dyna
mite or powder was used to blow the safe open.
The door of the sate was blown across the house,
a distance ot about sixteen feet, and crushed a
barrel of sulphur which was standing against the
opposite wall. The force of the explosives used
was so gr. at that bottles and lars all over the
house were Jolted out of place. The safe was
LITERALLY BLOWN TO PIECES.
The report was loud and aroused several citizens
near by, who thought that another earthquake
had come.
Fortunately, Mr. Henry had loaned all the
money he had on hand to a firm, Saturday, to
buy cotton, and hts Sunday sales only, which
amoun'ed to (4, fell into the greedy clutches
of the burglar. A dozen fine tooth-brushes,
some perfumery, and other small articles were
taken. Also, ten boxes of cigars, tbe brands
of which were “Baldwin's Protection,” “Creole
Female Tonic,” and “Cash.”
Several articles were also taken from Mr. Pye’s
■tore, the value of whieh Is small.
On the uigbt of the 11th of June last burglars
entered these same stores, and two nights later
several business houses at Geneva, Ga„ mere bur
glarized by the same gang, it is supposed. The
first gang were evidently novices at the busineae,
but everything seems to Indicate that a regular
professional managed this last burglary.
The city police have been posted and are dm
the lookout for the burglars.
SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS.
A well dressed man, evidently of German de
cent, reached Scale about dark Si tin-day. He J misalonc.
came from the direction ol Oolmubus ou loot. On | the number nndquaiit.y ol' crosVtieJ per
Longview street, about, a mile from town, lie got I mile, and that the side tracks arc to be laid
over the fence and helped himsed'to a stalk of with Iron rail. •
Captain s. B. B iuson’s sugar cane without ask- In the tooth of the law as above quoted
ing permission. Upon reactilug Seale lie went to ! aI1 ^ Gie TfipofO of the commissioners, I
the Mi.choil House, .where he remained
Editors Constitution : I have had noth
ing to say ou the question ol' betterments
Biiiee my letter to Governor Gordon in
July last. I notice a groat deal has been
said by the press and in the legislature.
1 see some of the houorable members, as
well .is many outsider, take the portion
that the steel rail in the Iraek is a fixture,
that the lessees have uo right to remove
no matter what our contract may be with
tbe state. This is an error. The question
of fixtures eannotFapply at all, because
the express, soeeific contract makes a
different provision. Neither tho lessee
act, nor the contract, bind the lessees to
return the road in any better condition
than they found it. The language is, that
it .shall be returned i i as good condition
ns they received it. Tho word “condition”
lias an important meaning. Everything,
iu other words, is to be returned as nearly
in the condition it was received, as possi
ble.
As stated in my former letter, the lease
ac; provides that “The governor shall
appoint three railroad men of
experience, who shall examine the
road and appurtenances carefully, and
shall make out in writing a schedule or in
ventory of the same, carefully describing
and setting forth the true condition of the
road and its rolling stock aud appurte
nances, and property of every character,
which shall be recorded in tne office of
secretary of state, and filed iu the execu
tive office, and in case the road and its
rolling stouk and appurtenances are not
returned at the expiration or forfeiture of
the lease in as good condition as when re
ceived. the company and their securities
on their said bond, shall be liable to make
good the difference to the Btate.” The law
require that thoy make a schedule setting
forth the true condition ot the road and its
rolling stock and appurtenances, and the
lessees are to return It at the expiration of
the lease ,ln as good condition as when re
ceived. This Is tbe whole extent ol the
obligation. If they received It with old
iron rail, there is nothing in the eontraot
that prevents them from returning it in
tbe Bame condition. In tact, the contract
Bays they shall do so. But aside from the
contract and lease act, the commissioners
appointed to make out the inventory and
schedule of the road in 1872, in their report
use this language;
“The lessees should return to the state,
at the expiration of Mjeir lease, 138 miles
of ma n track, laid with Iron rail, “T”
pattern, of the quality ordinarily used by
the railroads of the state of Georgia, re
duced in weight, by wear, from the general
standard of eighty-eight tons, to not less
than seventy-five tons per mile on on aver
age.”
This is a quotation from the report of
the commissioners. And it expressly pro
vides that the lessees shall return the road
laid with iron rail (not steel rail) of the
“T” pattern, and that the rail is to be re
duced in weight from the general standard
of eighty eight tons, to not lea* than seven
ty-five tons per mile on an average. In
other words, a mile of flfiy-six pound
rail, which 1b the quality used on the
Western and Atlantic, when new, weighs
eighty-eight tons, and the commissioners
provide that tho leasees are to return it
laid with iron rail, reduced in weight, by
wear, from eighty-eight tons to not less
than soventy-flve tons. In other words, we
are to return the road laid with iron rail,
of the “T” pattern, with not more than
thirteen tonB to the mile worn off of the
top of each milo. That is the express lan
guage of the report of tbe commissioners
appointed under the authority of the reso
lution of the legislature of 1872, to revise
and correct tho inventory made by tho
former commissioners. In other words,
this is tbo report of the democratio com-
The report also provides for
tiation, then the lessees will not agree to
return the road with betterments. Neither
is obligatory under the strict letter of the
law, or the contract. But the one is ns
much obligatory as the other. No more,
no less obligatory. If the state says we
will pay for no betterments, then the com
pauy replies, we will not hold ourselves
bound to furnish any. But we will carry
out our contract, which requires none.
Joseph E. Brown.
GATE CITV GOSSIP.
Tho Event* of tlie Day in thet n|titnl of the State.
am unuble to sue how any lawyer who
values his reputation as such, can coroe to
> V nlUCH luff ICUUiiUUUll UN HUl.ll. Vttll yJJlllL vvl
r^'t r V< ' 1 ^ Jay “ ftBrnoon ' He did not j lhe conclusion thut tho stale can require
register and gave nu name, but
that * he came from Savannah. He
was suspected of being the burglar, ami his
effects were searched. Nothing was found but
some tools used for tuning pianos. Later in the
day the man left town without his board. A
message was received at the Enquirer-Sun
office last nigh t stating this fact, aud it is now
thought that he is tl e burglar lor whose appre
hension the citizens ofSeale have offered
A REWARD OK $00.
The man iB about five feet eight inches in
height, is well built, has a red face and long
auburn mustache.
A man giving his name as Lindsay, and claim
ing to be from Pensacola, Fla., was in Seale Fri
day, and it is possible that the two may belong
to the same gang. This man is about five feet
six incites high, lias a black mustache and the
thumb of bis left hand is missing.
JUMPED III* 11(11nil.
Hsso Noriusn, Who Registered From Atlanta,
Dead-Beat* Hotel Riddle.
Friday afternoon a neatly dressed stranger
came to Hotel Riddle aud registered a* “Hago
Norman, Atlanta, Ga.” The man was apparently
a German and was a sort of a daudv, wearing a
glove on ono hand, a gray suit of clothes
and a duster on his arm. He
was about five feet ten jncheR
high and wore a long auburn mustache. Hu
mace himself very agreeable to Mr. George Kid
dle, offering him a long, slender cigar, which ho
said was of the finest. Mr. Riddle don’t smoke,
but took the cigar, which is now on
exhibition in his show case. This cigar
is all that is left of Mr. Hago Nor
man. He left Hotel Riddle about 10 o’clock
Suturday morning without paying his board bill,
and has not been seen since. Mr. R1 idle watched
all outgoing trains, but could not spot his man.
Norman claimed to be a civil engineer ou the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road.
It is thought that thiB is the man who Jumued
his board bill at Seale yesterday, und who i* sup
posed to have burglarized several store* iu that
place Sunday night.
If thi3 paragraph does Hago Norman injustice,
the Enquirer-Sun will cheerfully make any
necessary correction. •
THE OPENING GERMAN.
To be Given at Hotel Riddle Wednesday Night,
Complimentary lo Vlaltlng and Departing Young
Ladle*.
The First german of the season will be given at
Hotel Riddle to-morrow evening.
The german will be given complimentary to
viHltingand departing young lodie*. Among the
former arc Miss Rcnfroe, of Opelika, und Miss
Nabors, of Birmingham, who are the gueats o>'
Miss Inez Williams. The- Columbus young ladies
who will leave the city in a few nays are Misses
Ada French and Inez William*.
It iHexptcted that the german will be one of
the most interesting social event* of the season
A large number of young people will attend, aud
nothing wifi be left undone which would add to
tbe pleasure* of the occasion.
The fuming Anniversary.
The regu ar anniversary of tbe Young Men’s
Christian Association will be hold on Monday
eveuing, October 3, at tbe First Baptist church.
A very interesting programme has been arranged,
to consist of vocal and instrumental muiicand
speeches from at home and abroad. This will be
for the public.
the road to be liiirliii steel rail when it is
returned to the state, or can require new
iron rail. It can only require iron rail of
the “T” pattern with not more thau thir
teen tons to the mile, worn off' of the top.
And whattvrr may bo said to
the contrary, he who examines the
law and the report of the commissioners ii
obliged to come to the conelunion, that the
leasees can make changes in the truck or
rolling stock that they may think proper,
provided they return the road at the end
of the lease in as good condition as they re
ceived it. No particular mil on tho lino of
a road is a fixture. Old rails are taken up
und new ones put down, and rails that are
partly worn are taken up in short curves
and laid down on straighter sections of the
road, and other changes of that character
are made perpetually in railroading. The
question, therefore, is uot what was the
condition of the Western and Atlantiu
railroad at any time during the lease, or
what was its condition in 1887, but the
question Is, what was its condition at the
commencement of the lease, and what is
its condition at tbe termination of tbe
lease. If it is the same at the termination
that it was at tbo commencement, that is
all that the law of tbe contract reouires.
As it is important that the people should
fully understand these questions, I thought
It would not be an intrusion for me to add
this communication to the one previously
made, and as more has been said about the
track than any other one thing connected
with the road, I have thought it best to
quote t he language of the act of the legis
lature and of the commissioners, so that
the people may see that there is no pretext
for saying that the state can require tho
lessees to return tbe road laid with steel
rail, when the express language of the com
missioners is. that it shall be returned with
iron rail of the “T” pattern, reduced by
wear from the standard of eighty-eight
to the mile, to not less than seVerity-five
tons to a mile. And let me add here, that
a railroad laid with Iron rail with thirteen
tons to the mile worn off the top of it, is
very far from being in a good condition.
T.'.ut is what the state has contracted for,
however, and ail she is entitled to demand.
That was the condition In whieh the les
sees received the roud from the state.
As to the rolling stock, I do njt wish to
add anything, as 1 think no intelligent
in wer now contends that tho state is en
titled to any moro rolling stock than the
lessees received H or in any better condition
than they roceived it. In other words, the
state having delivered to tbo lessees fi71
freight cars, they are bound to return that
number in as good condition as they re
ceived them, and if they own 700 more,
bought and paid for with their money, I
think no one now contends that the 700
purchased and owned by them could be
taken possession of by the state.
That is u question too plain for discus
sion. I am muking no claim for better
ments, while we have a strong claim in
equity. While I have admitted, on all oc
casions, that the statute mukes no pro
vision binding the state to pay for better
ments; and it is equally clear that the
statute makes no provision that the
lessees shall return the road with
betterments. I am simply calling the
attention of the people of Georgia to the
condition in which the road now is, and
the condition in which It is our right to
return it three years hence, at the end of
the lease; and I have suggested that I
thought it would be to the interest of both
parties to make some equitable urrange
nieut by whieh, instead ot returning the
road in tbe wretched condition in which
we received it, the state would agree to pay
reasonably for its improved condition and
receive it back in the condition it now is.
If tbe representatives of the people will
not agree to allow anything for bettor
ments, which is simply a subject of nego-
Two Men Ihui Over by Trains.
Atlanta, September ”0.—Pat Kearney
was run over by a fl-eigut train while cross
ing Pryor street at the corner of tho union
depot Hbout dark to night. His right arm
and leg were crushed ami both have bceu
amputated. He is in u critical condition.
William Henry Ilisbop was run over near
Dallas, on tne East Tennessee road, and
brought hero to-day. His skull was frac
tured and be died iu the Ivy street hospitul
to-night.
Atlanta Misrelhtny.
Atlanta, September 26.—A now born
white baby was found dead wrapped in a
bag on Fortune street to-day in the out
skirts of the city. The coroner’s jury ren
dered a verdict of iutaulicido.
An old negro woman named Ann Mc
Afee, living on Mangum street, fell for
ward out of her chair to-day dead.
Overcoats are being worn iu Atlanta.
Pardoned by tlie Governor,
Atlanta, September 26.—The governor
to-day pardoned Charles Finch, sentenced
to one year on the chain gang and a duo
of $100 for assault and battery iu Effingham
eouuty. Finch has served his terra on the
chain gang and the pardon remitted the
fine at the Instance of a number of peti
tions.
Tobscco Not Damaged.
Danville, Va., September 28.—Roports
have been received here from all parts of
the tobacco country contiguous to Dan
ville, and all go to show that no damage
has been doue to growing crops of tobacco
by frost.
COTTON FAUT8.
Visible Supply—Receipts «l Ports— Weather, Etc.
The New York Financial Chronicle of Sept. 21
makes the tolal visible supply ot cotton 1,343,340
boles, an inureuse as compared with ias; year of
290,248,an increase a* compared with 1BS5,of 200,579
and o decrease as compared with 1884 of 94,831.
Fertile week ending 9epl 23, the receipts at tlie
United States port* reached 187,740 baleH, making
tbe total since September 1,4,414,737 bales,showing
an increase of 181,877.
The iweuty-six Interior towns for the week end
ing Sept. 23 received 110,097 bales, shipped 00,053
und had stocks of H2,534 sales. Home time last year
they received 05,575,shipped 67,708 aud had storks
of 68,734. trfV
Tbe ubuvo totals show that tho old interior
stocks have increased during the week 21,688
bales anil urc to-mgbt 21,600 bides more thun ut
the same period last year. Tbe receipts at live
same townH have been 43,707 bales more than the
same week last year, and siuco September 1 tbe
rec Opts at all the towns are,93,401 bales more thau
for the same time in 1880.
Tbe exports for the week ending this evening
reach u total ol 58,718 bales, of which 10,973 were
to Great Britain, 6131 to France und 12,811 lo
the rest of the eontlnont.
Tne Ghrjnicle comments on its table of re
ceipts from plantations us follows:
luc above statement shows- 1. Thut the total
rocripts froiu tlie plantations since (September 1,
1887. nre 478,401 bales; 111 1880 were 243,511
UaleBi 111 1883 were .112,017 bides.
2. no unovostatement shows that,although the
receipts at the outporis lire pawl week were 187,-
71. ba.es tlie actual movement from plantations
was 2!7,7e’2 bales, tbe balance going to increase
tne stocks a* ihe n terior towns. Lust year the
receipts irom the plantations for the sumo week
were i 14,473 bales aim for 1885 they were 132,351
Dales. «
The Chronicle’s telegraphic weather reports for
the woeit are ihns summarized:
(mr telegraphic advices from the south to-night
indicate mat lain lias laden in most districts
during tho week, unit that at a few poiuiH it has
intertered with the gathering of the crop. In
otnor sections, however, picking continues to
mike excellent progress, and cotton is beiug
marketed freely.
00,. gross 0,048. Fntnres closed weak; aria
100,610 hales, as follows:
September 9 22-100® 9 2S-1M
October 9 22-100® 9 23-1®
November 9 13-100
December 9 14-100® 9 1S-1H
January 9 19-100® 9 2f-l»
February 9 27-100® 9 28-100
March 9 33-100® 9 30-100
April 9 41-100® 9 45-100
May 9 51-100® 9 53-100
New York, September 26—Cotton market easy;
sales 482 Dales; middling uplands at 9>„c; Orleans
“Vo-
Consolidated net receipts 50 104 hales; expoitt
to Great Britain 21,210; to continent 0110; Franca
150, stock —.
Galvlston, Texas, Sept. 20.—Cotton market
quiet; inh’dlings nt 8%c; net receipts 13,018,
g.-ose 13,048; odei- 903; slock 43,047; exports Great
Britain 1 ,723; exports to France 00, exports U
continent 00. ■
NoneoLR, Sept. 26.—Cotton market steady;
at n 1-lGc: net receipts 2316, gross 2546; sales
1323. stock 13,027; exports to Great Britain 06)
to continent 00.
Baltimore, .September 26.--Cotton market
nom’l; middlings at 9’sc; net receipts 00, gross
1257; sales 0, spinners uO; stock 3533; exports
to Great Urifaiu 00, to continent 00, to Franos
50.
Boston, 8ept. 28-Colton market quiet; mid
dlings 94ic; net receipt* 17, gross 996; sales Oil
stock exports to Great Britain 989.
Wilmington, dept. 20.—Cotton market firm;
middlings 9;>c; net receipts 2743, gross 2743; sales
0; stock 22,008; exports to Great Britain 00,
France 00, to continent 00.
Philadelphia, Sept. 26. -Cotton dull; mid
dlings 9'- b c; not receipts 8, gross 1532; sales 00,
stock 4330; exports to Great Britain 00, oontf-
nent 00.
Savannah, Sept. 26—Cotton market dull;
middlings nt 8 13-10c; net receipts 10,820, gross
receipts 10.458; sales 2450; stuck 82,147; exports to
Great Britain 00, to continent 00, to Franos
00.
Nhw Orleans, September 28.—Cotton market
weak; middlings at 8 16-16c: net receipts 11,030;
gross 12,014; sales 4260; stock 66,328; exports to
Great Britain 7549, to continent 00, to FzanOS
00.
Mobile, Ala., Sept. 26-Cotton market quiet;
middlings 8 15-16c; net reoeipte 1378, groee 1590;
sales 600; stock 0092; exports to Great Britain
00.
Mhmfhis, September 26 -Cotton market easier,
middlings 8 16-l8c; net reoeipte 7828; shipments
4125; sales 1400, spinners 0; stock 28,047.
Auciubta, September 26—Cotton dull, lower,
middlings sj^c; receipts 2106; shipments 00;
sales 1265; stock —.
Chaulbston, September 26,—Cotton markeO
quiet; middlings at c; net receipts 5868; gross
receipts 8863; sales 1500; stock 37,020; exports to
Great Britain 00, exports to oontinent 00,10
France 00.
Ptotiuess.
Ohioauo, September 26. —Cash quotations were
as follows; Flour market dull and un
changed-spring patents $3 50isi4 50, cholOO
to fhucy Minnesota patents $-—, winter wheoe
patent* $3 90®4 25. Mess pork $15 00. Lard
-$6 45. BOort rib sides, loose, $7 87Dry saltod
shoulders, boxed, $6 25® 5 30, short clear sides
boxed, $8 30®8 35.
• Leading futures ranged 1
Opening, Highest. Closing.
M. Pork —Year $12 00 $12 t5 $12 00
January 12 25 12 37%
Lard—bepiember... 8 40 0 45
October 6 40 8 45
January 0 46 6 47%
B. Ribs—Wentemher. ... 0 06 8 06
Octubur
January 0 25 6 30
Bt. Louir, September 26—Flour, market quiet—
fiuuily $2 4U®2 60, patent $3 60®4 00, laucy $—«
®—-—. Provisions dull: Pork irregular-
new mess $14 76® 16 00; standard mess . Lam
quiet - salable at $0 30. Dry salted meats boxed,
suouiders $6 02%; long clear Hides $8 25, clear rt»
sides $8 2o; short clear sides $8 46. Bacon
bo 1 ed, shoulders, $0 50; long clear sides $9 00®
9 12%; clear rib sides $9 12p„; short clear sldsa
$9 12%(g 9 25. Hums steady—$12 00® 14 00.
Louisville, September 20,-Provislon mark®
firm; Bacon—clear rib sides $9 60, clear aidss
<10 26, Hhoulder* $0 60, loose, clear sides
I Bulk meats—clear riL side* $8 12%; clea*
sides $0 00, shoulders, $6 00. Mess pora nomi
nal mins, sugar cured, $12 00® 13 50. l*rd,
choice leaf, $8 CKK9» 60.
Cincinnati, Heptember 26.— Flour market
stronger—Iftiuily $3 l-iia.8 40,fancy $3 tto®8 76. Pork
dull repacked $15 25; lard Hrm-$0 60; buUt
meats in moderate demand -short rtu side*
|8 37: bacoa lower— atoori rib nidea #9 14, short
clear aide-* $9 75.
Nkvz Uul.i-.anh, September 26. — MolaiiM*
strong CeutrilugalH, iinoliy P™ 1 *®
fair 28^330, mtr to «ood iJiirne 2'iCm26c, com
mon to u h<cl common i»'a>2lc. iiioe steady
with t'ooti tlem.tud Louibiuna, ordinary to
prime 4>„(a6%c*
MAKjttKIN BY TliLKUKAFH.
flnituttlal.
NMW YORK MONKY MARKUT.
Nkw Your, Sept. 26.-Noon.—Htock mark*,
dull aud heavy. *Vlouey easy, at 4 Oub per c ent
ExchauK6 -lonx at t4.7li:^r//t J.80, Micrt fi.bSWft
4 81. Btate bonds are neglected aud dull. Gov
ernment bonds dull.
New York, Sept. 26-Kxchauge quiet and
Bteady, at $ <&—Money eaay, at 4fc*,6—
closing ottered at 4 per cent. Uovernment
bonds dull, ntcady; new 4 per cent 124%; 4*4
per centH 108)4. Htau? bonur; very dull, steady.
SUI3*rRUAHL’RY HALANCKH.
Gold in the Hub-Treasury $133,531,000; currency
$13,641,000.
STOCK MARK BT.
Nkw York, Hept. 26—The following were th«
cIohiuk quotations of the stock exchange:
Ala class A 2 to 5.... 103J4 N. O. Pac. lets 81
do class B 5s 104 jN. Y. Central 107^
Ga 8’s mortgage....£105
N C 6’h 122
do 4’8 #7
H C con Brown 101
Tenu. scttlem’t 36 69
Virginia 6a w 47
Virginia consols... 45
Cheaap’ke At Ohio
Chicago A N.W....
do preferred Ill
1 1 Va
Norfolk A W’n pro.. 40*<i
I Northern Pacific... 24*4
do preferred 49%
Pad Ac Mail 38* H
; Heading 58y.
Rich. & Alleghany 7
Richmond A Dan. 150
I Rich At W. P. Ter . 23
Ruck island 120
dt. Paul 79
Del. & Lack 127^$ do preferred 115
Hrlo 29% Texas Pacific 23%
liiat Tenn i0!*,TennCoal A Iron... 25
Lake Kliore 93% Union Pacific 62%
L. At N 60% N. J. Ceutral 70%
Memphis At Char.. 46 Missouri Pacific 91%
Mobile Ac Ohio 10% Western Union.... 78%
DAN 73 1 Cotton Ofr Trust.... 28%
•Bid. i Asked.
Cotton.
Ljvkri'Ool Sept 26—12:30 p. M--Cofton market
qmet snd rather easier; middling uplands
at 6 7*16(1; Orleans at 5 7-16d; sales 10 000 bale*
-f.) speculator and exports 1000 bales. ^
Receipts 4030 bales 2200 American.
Futures opened dull, at the following quo
tatioua:
Heptoraber 6 17-64dfa.5 19-64d
Heptember and October 6 H-bldfaS 9-64d
October and Novemlrer 6 4-«4d
November and December 6 .3-34(1
December and January 5 2-0k:(f}.5 3-64d
January and February 6 2-64dfa6 3-64(1
February and March 5 1144(1^6 4-0-ld
March and April 5 5*64d(^6 0-64(1
April and May 5 7-04d
readers of deliveries for to-day’s clearing
700 bales of new docket aud 00 bales of ole
docket.
p. m. -Hales of the day included 8,200 balw
($j American.
2 p. m. -Futures, uplands, low middling clause
at t he following delivery:
Heptember 6 l«-tV4d buyers
September and October 6 7-64(1 buyers
October and November 6 3*64d buyeis
Nove mber and December 5 2-«4d buyers
December and January 6 2-61d buyers
January and February 6 2-64d buyers
February and March 5 3-6ld Hellers
March and April 5 5-64d Hellers
April **nd May 5 7*64d Hellers
Futures dosed dull.
4:00 i*. m.—Futures, uplands, low middling
clause, at the following delivery:
September 5 15-84d buyers
September and October 5 7-64d sellers
f*ctober and November 6 :i-64d buyers
November aud December 6 2-04d value
De member and January 6 2-64d sellers
January and February 5 2-Old sellers
February and March Ji 3-64d sellers
March and April 6 4-64d buyers
April and May 6 6*64d buyers
Futures closed quiet.
NEW YORK rUTURBB.
Nkw York, Sept. 26-Oof on—Net receipt!
12 80
642 #
6 42%
6 45
7 85
6 25
Chic ago, Sep'embei 26.— Cash quotations wefe
as follows: Whom, No. 1 bpnug, /0%^»71C}
No. 3 Muring, t6o; No. 2 red 72%c. Corn,
No. 2. 42c. Oats, No. 2, 26c.
Futures ranged aud cloaed at following prloett
Opening. Highest. Closing'
71c. 70%C
71%o. “
79; hC.
41,’hC's
Wheat—Heptember
Ootooer
Ma.'
Ooru — Heptember..
October
Mai
Oats - September..
May.....
?0Xc.
78/hO.
41%C.
41%C.
44%C.
25>;$C.
25%C.
2*%C.
8t. Louis, Heptember 26.
42c.
45 %C.
25/hC.
26-%C.
2tr%c.
W heat
79%C
41/kC
41^hC
44%C
25-%0
257hC
29%C
strung,
closing %(o,lc a/gher- No. 2 red, October 69%g*
70%c, May 79%C9 80%. Corn higher and hrm—
cash l8,‘4«v10c, October 3H%fa 88;mC, May <c.
Oats dull but steady—cash 23%(<*24>h‘ 5 »
bid.
Cincinnati, Heptember 26.— Wheat strong—
No. 2 red 76o. uorn steady No. 2 mixed 46C.
Oats steady andflrm—No. 2 mixed 27%c.
Louihvillk, Heptember 26.—Grain, market in
good demand : Wheat - No. 2 red winter;
spot, 73c; cun —No. 2 mixed, shelled, 45c;
oats, No. 2 27(i 27%c.
Sugar aud t'olfee.
Nkw York, Heptember 26.—conee, spot fair, Rlc
firm -$19 50; No. 6 | , No. t # , option!
10(^15 points higher—No. 7 Rio Heptember 917 60;
October i 17 4Ooi 17 66; November 4 (gl ;
Decern bet $ .
Nkw Ohlranb, Heptember 26.—Coffee steady
and in fair demand -uio cargoes, common to
prime #18 37%r&2l 12%.
Nkw York, Heptember 26.-Hugar, market
firm-centrifugals #0 37%; molasses grades
c; fair lehning 4 13-ibc; refined easier—
whito extra
, refined
_ 6%<<s,6 1316c; yellow
mould A 6%f«j6 7* 10c; off \ 6%c; standard A 6<B
6 l-16c; conleciioner* A 6%c; cut loal and crushed
8 !M6'»H%c; powdered 6 9-l6(^b%c; granulated
6%c.
Nkw Orlkanh, September 26.—Sugar strong—
LouiHiaua open kettle fully fair 6%c, good tail
&%c; common c; Louisiana centriftigale,
choice white 6 S-lO^O^c; oil white 6%(fj,63-16c»
choic* yellow clarihed 6%c, prime yellow clarified
6 3* 16c; secouds c.
Chicago, September 26.—Hugar—standard A
6%c.
Cincinnati, September26.—Hugar firm—New
Orleans 4 : %(<4t6%c.
KohIiihiiU lurpentlne.
New York, Heptember 26. — Rosin dull—
strau ed $1 05^1 12%. 'turpentine dull— 32%c.
Chari.bston,Heptember 26 - Turpentine firm—
29%c. RoHiu quiet -good strained 85c.
Havan?iah, Heptember 26.-Turpentine firm-
29%c bid; sales 00 barrels. Rosin firm—strained
90(a97%: shIoh 00 barrels.
Wilmjnoton, September 26.-Turpentine firm
-29*40. Rosin firm straiutu 72%c; good 77%c
Ta firm—41 30; crude turjentine firm—hard
41 CO yellow dip $1 «5, virgin |1 65.
Wool ami Hides.
Nkw Yoke. September 26—Hides quiet, steady
— wet nailed, New OrlettnB selected, 4C and
60 pounds 9«.l12c; Texas selected, 5(j and 6f
pounds, iOc.
Nkw Yoke, September 26-Wool quiet—
dom Stic fleece 26i^*J5c, pulled 144$23o. Texas
m 23c.
C'otlou Need Oil.
Ni.w York, September i&—Cotton ^eed oil,
32'.c for crude, 41^430 for rtfined.
Nkw Orlkans, Heptember 26 -Cott-on seed oil
dull und nominal—prime crude 26 «i 28c offered;
hummer yellow 37(&3Hc. Cake and meal $20 00®
25 t.o per ton.
Whisky.
Cuicaoo,September 26.—Whisky fl 10.
St. Louis, September 26—^Whisky steady—fl 06
Cincinnati, September 26—Whisky steady—
$1 05.
Live Nlork.
Cincinnati. September 26— Hogs weak —
common and light |3 90; packing and
butchers, |4 60<v5 10.
Freights.
Nhw YoRK.September 28—Fraightato Liverpool
steady— cotton, per steamer. %d; grain pas
steamer !%d.