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Appeal.
(JUTHBERl
Enterprise and
BY JAS. W. STANFORD.
“Independent in Ail Thmgs—Neutral in Nothing.”
TERMS $1.00 IN ADVANCE.
VOL. VII. cSEES K."«;J;,s^ ,ab ! i .* hc ‘ 1 }™ : co, MUCA ™ ,«*.
CUTHBERT,- GA., THURSDAYS DECEMBER 8, 1887.
NO. 47
Eiterprise & Appeal
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Arrive 11:11 P. M.
Hiop.i at Union Springs. Eufanla,
Cuthhcrt. Dawson, between Montgom
ery ami Smitiiville.
Port Gaines train makes close con
nection with the Montgomery A Macon
Passsenrer at Cuthbcrt.
D. IMIKI.l'S. A~on^-
DR~WESTMORELAND.
»E.TrMT,
OflVr* Inn services to the public in
all the branches of Dentistry.—
Work warranted. ODice over the
Postotth-e. Rooms formerly occu
pied by Dr. Worsham. lie will
spend the first week of each
month in Fort Gaines, comment
ing the first Monday. Rooms at
the Light,foot House. mar3l ct
W. R. THORNTON,
DENTIST.
CUTIIBERT, GA
O FFICE West Side P».blic iquare,
over I.. K. Key** st»>re. u»M7-ly
NO HORE EYE-GLASSES,
Mort
Weak
Eyes!
m,tchel ^e salve
A UcrlJiin. Safe and Eflrctive Itemed v for
SORE, WEAK, AND INFLAMED EYES,
Producing l.ong-Sightedness. and Re
storing the Sight of the Old.
Cures Tear Drops. Granulation. St ve Tu
mors. ftrd Eves. Matted Eve bashes,
AND PRODUCING Ql'll’ft HE!.IFF
AND PERMANENT (.THE.
Also equally efficacious when used in
other maladies, such ns Ulcers, Fever
gores. Tumors. Salt Ithoum. Burn*. Piles
or wherever in Ham at ion exists. MITCH-
Ki.I/S SAI-V K may he used to advan
tage. Sold by all Druggists at 25 cents.
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Reduction of Prices in Each Department. Another,Arrival of New and Handsome Goods.
Ladies and Misses Wraps. HOST ELEGANT LINE OF DRESS GOODS. 25 Pieces
Of Black and Colored Silk. Will be sold at a Reduced Price. Our Second Stock was Bought after the Decline
of Dry Goods in the Eastern Markets—hence we give Customers the Benefit of our Purchases.
Each day adds New Goods to this Department. Everybody can be suited and fitted in Quality and Price, at
Ladies and Misses Shoes, Children Shoes, Hand Sewed, every Pair guaranteed, and money refunded if satisfactory
wear is not obtained. A great reduction in prices. An early call, while the stock is still complete, is solictied.
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Malaria,
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fmiccr of the Tongue.
My wife, some three or four years
ago.’ was troubled with an uleer on the
side of her tongue near the throat. The
pain w as incessant, causing loss of sleep
and producing great nervous prostra
tion. Accompanying this trouble was
rheumatism. It had missed from the
shoulders and centered in the wrist of
one hand, she almost losing the use of
it. Between the suU'rring of the two
life liail grown lmrdcn>oinc. By the
use of a half dozen small-sized bottles of
Swift’s Specific, she was entirely reliev
ed and restored to health. This was
three years ago. and there has been no
return of the disease.
11. I,. Midulebkooks.
Six Times n Bride.
Palmyra, N. Y., November 17
—The revent death of Mrs. Jose
! phi Be Baxter at her home in Trn-
mnnshurg, recalls to those who
knew her the remarkable series of
vicissitudes through which she
passed during her eventful life
Her married life was an extrnor
dinary one. and in detail reads
more like fiction than a story of
— t life
She was six times a bride and
five limes a widow. Born in Can
adaigua, in August, ’32, her maid
name was Josephine Tabor. 1
a child she was the acknowl-
store. Iu June. *06, site was mar j A Traveling Island. ! The Populutina of the World,
ried at Nyack, N. Y., to Lieut. Os j Springfield, III, Nov. 12.— ! The human family now living
car Williams, of the Uutted Stales j The arguments were concluded on the earth consists of 1,450,
army, and went with him to Foil | before Judge Greeliam today in 000.000 individuals; not less than
Sully, Dakota. They lived to-1 the suit of ex State Treasurer this number and probably mo^e
getlier happily, aQ d Mrs. Williams Ruiz against Benjamin Sieger and They are so distributed over the
became a favorite at the fort. In' the city of St. Louis. The court •earth’s surface that there are now
August, *67, her husband was j allowed three weeks for the filing no parts of any size still uninhah
drowned, and his wife became for | of additional printed arguments, j'.led. In Asia, where there is lit-
and took the cise under advise
tneni.
liorol
Island
a third time a widow.
Her father, w ho had heard of
his only daughter's misfortunes.
home
tic doubt the human race fust rx
The points involved are isted, there arc now ajjproximate-
»i<t interesting. Arsenal j *y about 800,000/ 00, an average
formerly lay west of the! for the entire continent of 120 to
j en
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fcO Sparta. Ga., June 5, 188G.
Treatise on Blood and skin Dis-
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PIANOS AND ORGANS!
and be forgiven, but she would nut main channel of the Mississippi ! the equate mile. Tbc cheerless
go. For two years sbe was a gov-j liver, jnst in front of Ihe cenlre of; and thinly populated steppes of
erness in the family of a Louisville i ifie tiiv of St. Louis, anti belonged 1 Sibet ia reduce the average of pop-
mercb: nt. She married Rev. Ed to that ci'y It contains about j ulalion for litis continent, which
edged beauty of the neighboi hood, ward Lukes, at Covington. Ky., in 300 acres. The city gave Seeger in some parts is the most closely
land everybody who leraembeisj G9. Her husband was sent a 1 i L a nominal lease to the island and packed quarter ol the globe. Thus.
: her as a young lady recalls her j lie later as Presbyterian mission put him in possession to take throughout Hindustan »u average
i particularly vivacious and de j ary to India, and she accompanied j charge of it. Gradually the island i ol 172 persona to the square mile,
j liglitful manners, la 50, when him. i hey made their home sue j moved away from its original an j and in China proper each square
j site was eighteen years of age. slit 1 cesstvely in India, Hong Kong and i-horago, slid down the river cross mile represents a population of
j was sent to the Palmy ra Academy. | Honolulu, in each of which places j ing the channel in its progress, j 226. The population of Europe
j From the day of her arrival she j Mrs. Lukes was will known for and halted on the Illinois side.! is about 350 000,000, averaging
was the conceded belle of the I her devotion to her husband, who • just off land in St. Clair county ! 100 to the square mile, not so
Academy. was a consumptive. j owtftd by Edmund Rutz. It as crowded as in Asia, but every
Her affection soon set upon an Mr. Lukes died in the Sand stinted this position about 1S7G where dense, and overpopulated
impecunious but smart young wich Islands iu 74, and his wid j Then, in its work of river im at all points. Africa has an esti-
teachcr in the academy named ow made her way back to America
Odell, ami one night in December, with iter husband's body. For a
'57, she eloped with him. Her ! year she made her home with her
father and mother had repeatedly brother near this place, then le
begged her to discard Odell, and | movetl to Philadelphia, where she
when the announcement of the j entered a private hospital as
marriage was made they were wild nurse. Among the patients to
with grief. Josephine returned whom she ministered, was Gra
to Canandeigua two weeks later, ham P. Estey, a sugar and wo-
and stopping at a hotel there, lasses merchant at New Orleans
begged for a reconciliation with lie fell desperately in love with once
her parents, who remained obdu j his nurse, and after months of
rate, am) she went to Toledo to 1 very warm courtship, married her
itb her | in March, '78. Their happy
provement, the Government built * mated population of some 210,
a dyke from the head of the island , 000 000, or about eighteen to the
lo the Illinois shore, and by natu
ral deposits the remaining space
between the island and the origi
nal western line of Rut/.'s farm
has been entirely filled up, so that
the water's edge is now not at
Uutz's original weslcrn boundary,
but at llie west side of what was
Arsenal Island. In 18S4
; struggle for a livelihood t
husband. He became a
1 Can Sell You an
ORGAN OR PIANO
Cheaper
THAN
ANY HOUSE WITHIN 500
Miles of this point.
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When you want any Instrument, confer with me in
regard to*price before buying, and I will save you mon
ey. I also sell Piano and Organ Stools separate.
J. W. STANFORD.
i 1
teacher' home in New Otleans was broken
anight school, and to_ make {up by her husband's failure the age and riparian ownership to
rls meet his young wife was j next year and liis suicide because centre of the river. The corpi
to do sewing in her
of his financial losses.
Lett a widow for the fifth time
Odell
square mile. But this can be a
mere approximation only, as so
much of the continent is still un
explored. America has a popula
lion estimated at about 105.000,
000, relatively thinly scattered,
and averaging, altogether not
more than seven lo the square
mile. On ail the islands of the
Ruiz brought suit in the St. Clair oceans there are probably 10,-
County Circuit Court to rp cl i 000,000 of inhabitants. The
Seeger from possession, claiming {while people of the human race
ail accretion on this shore front are estimated at about 550.000,-
the 000; the rest are «f Intermediate
pora- color. Of the entire race 6ome
tion of the city of St. Louis ap 500,000,000 are well clothed, that
in
ends
compelled
rooms.
In July, 1S5S
consumption
dependent on her own labor. She j er s home a few weeks after her j case transferred io the Federal | naked. Some 500.000,000. may
was too proud to return to her I husband's death. For several j Court in this city. The defense j be said to live in houses partly
peared in court at Belleville, w as is comfortably and entirely; 700,
died of j and broken ia health and spirit, t made a defendant in the suit as 000,000 are partly clothed, and
leaving the widow [Mrs. Estey returned lo her broth-1 ti, c actual owner, and had the j some 250,000,000 are practically
| home and ask for help from her
; months she
f '
herself! convalescing when her fattier diet! ! pinged upon Rutz's farm, is not
: parents, but maintained
j by her needle until February, j of old age.
I860, when she married Clarence Until 'SI she lived with her
Cushman, a wealthy pork packer brother, and about that time be
at Cincinnati. iSlie was then twen : came acquainted with a wealthy
tv eight, and notwithstanding her | and retired gold miner namad
hard toil for a livelihood, was as Albert Baxter. They were nur-
These pills were a wonderful discovery. Ia others like them in the world. Till positively
core or relieve all manner ef disease. The information around each box is worth ton times
the east of a boa of pills. Find out about them, and yon will always be thankful. One pill
a dose. Parsons' an■§ H BB Mood sad ears
Pills .-0ttt:nEyBH ■ fiWfl ehronieillhealth
nothing harmful, WTW B| H ML 1 than $5 worth of
are easy to take. BUS £■ WB H %2ggB. “7 "^"reme-
and cause no in- H M yet diseov-
eoavanienee. One ■■AjBBered. If people
box will do more Pm ■■ KB wMiW '°^ bC U
to purify the H BS M KB realxxe Uxe xmar-
Tsloux power of thexe pills, they woald walk 100 miles to get a box if they conld not te had
without. Seat br mail for 26c. ia stamps. Illustrat'd pamphlet free, postpaid. Send ftr it;
the iaftnaatiouis vary valuable. I. A JOHSSOI * CO., *2 Custom House St., Boston, Mass.
Make New Rich Blood!
oetloly
was very ill aod was i j s the island Ita9 merely iai i furnished with the appointments
I of civilization, S00,000,000 live in
natural accretion and is entitled huts or caves with no attempt at
to move on again if the govern i furnishing them with any luxuries
ment will take its dyke away; that j nr scarcely conveniences, 260.
rests there as a deposit upon 060,000 and more have nothing
it
the bottom and that Rutz never ■ that can be called a home. Fullv
had any ownership in the bed of three filths of the race, therefore.
hantlsome as ever. She livctl in j rie<l at Palmyra in ’82. The couple j t |i e stream, but owned only to the i lie below the line which thecivili
quiet style anti nn couple were | "pent n year or more in travel in i water's edge as it sloo.1 before the I zntion of the Anglo Saxon wouhl
ever more tlevoletl Ui one another. ] Europe ami Egypt. During U>e | | s Iao«l migrated from Missouri to fix as the lowest limit at which
| Illinois. The books
Two children were born to them., past year Mr. Baxter has been
but both died in infancy. Mr. [engaged in building a magnificent | ca se like this and its decision will
and Mrs. Cushman went to Eu j mansion lor their occupancy, near ; Le original contribution to
rope in 1S03. .In Rome the litis j Ithaca. It was their intention ttt American jurisprudence. It is a
band caught the Roman fever, of spend their remaining days there,
which he suddenly diet). The j and Mrs. Baxter, who had known
so many disappointments and be
reavements, looked forward with
pleasure to her bright prospects.
But in all this there was still nn
other disappointment for her. She
young woman, again a widow, re
turned to London only to find lit >1
her husband had been insolvent
for several weeks previous to his
death. She was left with only a
few thousand dollars For a year
or two she was governess in the
house of a London hanker, and
then, losing all of her money in an
unfortutnate speculation, she re , William Gladstone, who recent-
turned to America. ■ ly died at Lawrence, was a second
For two years she was a sales- ! cousin of the English statesman
woman in a New York dry goods 1 of that name.
lake-front ease with extraordinary
features of its own.
present no j deprivation and discomfort can
he endured. Of coarse the above
is a division by races, and takes
r.o account of the great needy
coun-
class in cities of civilized
tries —Inter Ocean.
A twelve pound cannon shot I
was found imbedded seventeen ;
inches deep in an oak tree in the
suburbs of Franklin, Tenn. It
was attacked about two months | , vas evidently fired from a Fedcr-
about m remove to her a [ cannon during the bloody bat-
j ago, when
| mansion, by a fatal disease,
j died last Friday.
She
tie twenty three years ago, as it
entered the tree on the aide next
to the town. The fibers of oak
arc still attached to the bail
| The grave of Thomas H. Mar
shall, the famous Kentucky ora
tor and wit, is in an open field
not far from Versailles. It is un
cared for, and the mound has
been rooted up by bogs. The
stone at the head of the grave is
small.and insignificant.
The Lightning Calculator.
Reuben Fields, a most extra
ordinary individual, lias returned
to bis home near this place, after
an absence of some years in the
West. Fields is known far and
wide as the ••Mathematical Prod
igv.” and, indeed, lie is a most
wonderful creature. Perfectly
illiterate, not being able lo tell
one letter or figure from another,
be hears the same relation lo the
science of mathematics that
Blind Tom dues to music. Fields
is now about twenty eight years
of age, and his ability lo quickly
and coi redly solve the most dif- j about
ficull problems was discovered
when lie was but eight, years old.
That faculty continued to develop
until he is able to salve, with
lightning like rapidity, any prob
lem in simple or compound frac
tions, or anything in lha higher
I branches of mathematics. For
! instance, the moon is a certain
number of miles from the earth; a {
| grain of corn is so long; how i
many grains will it taka to con-
nact these points? The answer to
this or any other problem comes
like a flash. Hecan also tell, to
the fraction ol a second, the time
of night or day. This marvellous
man has been tested by the most
expert mathematicians and his
answers lo problems have been
found lo be invariably correct.
Scientists have examined Field's
head and pronounce his wondrous
ly developed faculty a profound
mystery lo them. Fields knows
little less than this extraordinary
ability. He claims that his pow
er in this respect is a direct gift
from his Cieator and liable lo be
taken away from him if not prop
erly used. The possessor of Ibis
gift never went te school a day-
in his life, and never did a day's
work, except to occasionally aid
merchants in invoicing their
gootls, and io Ibis business he
has been known to keep a score
of clerks busy (anting up columns
of figures. He is a very large!
man and lias a look the reverse ofi
intelligent. Having no occupa
tion, be lives among bis acquaint
ances. putting up wherever night
overtakes him. He is very proud
of his gift, and frequently com
pares himself to Samson. Fields
gave an exhibition of bis powers , , . , , ,,
, . . to Ins plug hat and umbrella,
before Gov. Crittenden and other
distinguished men of Missouri on
a late visit West, and they un
hesitatingly pronounce him one
of the greatest wonders of tbc
century.—Oicingecille, Ky, Let
ter to Courier Journal.
It is reported that a iteing with
and | a face that is half man and half
are nearly as hard as the iron it- {dog lives near Oil City, and goes
s elf. upon all foil rs.
The new comet recently discov
ered by the astronomers is said
to be now visible to the naked
eye and may be found in the eve
ning in the northwest sky. The
comet is moving eastward, ia
large anil bright, and promises to
become more brilliant in a few
WCCks.
Life Over in Liberia.
‘■When the judgment comes I j
hope it will begin with Liberia.
If it does it will be used up before
it can go any further.”
These are the words in which
Charles II. J. Taylor, the United
States minister to the African
Republic, summed tip last evening
his opinion of the little country
on the West coast. Mr. Taylor
has recently retained from his
station, and has resigned his
mission. As his resignation does
not take effect until January 11,
aud he is, therefore, still connect
ed with the State Department, he
s wary of expressing his opinions.
He has written a book about the
country, however, which will soon
be published, and it is probable
that he will lecture iu this and
other cities. Mr. Taylor is a col
ored ntan of marked ability, and
has been city attorney of Kansas
City. Last evening he chatted
entertainingly of the habits and
customs of Liberia.
"The startling disproportion,”
he said "between tbc natives and
the immigrants anti theirdescend
ants is not generally known. Ol
the 1,000.000 inhabitants of Li
hcria, 888,000 are natives and
12.000 immigrants. There were
27.000 itnmigrants from America,
but, as you see, most of them are
dead. They have been going over
from America for sixly-six years,
and missionaries hare been at
work there for fifty years, aud
these figures indicate all they
have accomplished. Thecivilized
sre to the uncivilized as one lo a
h u ml red.
"There arc never any children
in the third generation of itnrni
grant families. One reason is the
humid dampness of the country,
which imperceptibly, but surely,
exhausts the strength of all but
natives. The temperature rauges
between 83 degrees and 77 de
grees. You may polish your
shoes at night, ami in the morning
they will be covered with mildew.
All of the natives go nude. Two
of the tribes are very light color
ed and pretty. The full dress of
the men is a tall hat and an urn
brella. Then, in general, all the
uncivilized influences are the
stronger. The children of immi
gracts have never seen any civili
zatioa but that of their parents,
and they soon learn to go nude,
like the great uirjority of people
them. There are many
other evil things about Liberia ol
which I cannot speak now.
DECEIVED BY AGENTS.
"When I went to Liberia 1
thought I wanted every negro in
America to pack bis satchel and
go to that paradise. Now I say
to them, slay away from it. Only
deluded American negroes go
i there now. Tbqy are led to go by
the Colonization Society. The
motives of the society r.re good,
but they do not know the truth
about Liberia. They are deceived
by their agents over there, who
make money out of the society. I
am going lo New York to-morrow
i to meet some members of the so
ciety and tell them the truth.”
"What are some striking facts
about the condition of the conn
try?”
"There is not a horse or a mule
or a jackass in the country. The
cows are about as big as New
foundland dogs and give no milk.
The oxen are useless. There is
net a carriage or wagon or even a
wheelbarrow in the Republic, and
there are not three plows owned
in the whole population. They
have a secretary of the navy, but
not a canoe nor a rowboat. They
have a secretary of war, but not
a cannon tn fire a salute. The
army consists of 417 ^soldiers, of
whom 388 are officers and 29 pri
vates. The Legislature meets an-
e
anally and consists of eight Sena
tors and thirteen representatives,
who stand for 2,375 voters. The
natives are not represented in the
government. The President is H.
W. R. Johnson, who was horn
there of American parents. He
wears a linen duster in addition
He
appoints all the officers, from
members of his cabinet down to
constables. Nearly every voter is
as officer of some kind.”
“What are the native tribes?”
“The principal trilies are the
Kroos, Veys, Mandigoes, Pesselis,
Delis, Congo?, Bassahs and Gre-
boes. All of these are superior
intellectually and physically to
the immigrants. The Veya and
Delis are light in color and the
most intellectual people in Weal
Alrica. The Veys have a sylla
bic langnagc and are especially
bright. The Delia are hunters.
The Congoes are fighters. They
file their teeth and bite off the ears
of their enemies. Sometimes a
bloodthirsty warrior will eat an
ear. The Mandigoes are Mo-
hamedans. They read the Koran
and can writ* and read Arabic.
The Kroos are fishermen.
"When the immigrant arrives
he is met by the mnsical force of
the country, which consists of one
fife and one dram.” Later, be
meets the "btigga-buggas’ and the
drivers.’ These are ants. The
bugga buggas believe in woman
rule. They are commanded by a
queen, who is as big as a man’s
two thumbs and looks like a white
piece of bacoe. She and her fol
lowers will eat anything but iron.
Y’ou may build a house one day
and the next day, if yon were to
strike it the whole structure would
fall.
WHAT THE “DRtVEKs” WII.L DO.
“The drivers—O, Lord—they
will eat up a man. They have
eaten sick natives, and the natives
sometimes pnniah a criminal or un
enemy by tying him to -. tree amt
leaving him to hia fate. The
tlrivers are the scavengers of the
country. They march like an
army, in a closely knitted line,
numbering myriads. They have
generals, colonels, captains, lien-
tenants, and privates, ranking ac
cording lo size. The generals are
half as big as a little finger. They
eat everything unclean. The na
tives are obliged te bathe twice a
day. otherwise the drivers would
overwhelm them. A boaconstric-
lor, after crushing a victim lo
death, will make a wide circuit
around the body to be sure that
no drivers are near. The serpent
knows that after he has swallowed
the body be must sleep, and il the
drivers caught him in bis post
prandial slumber tliev would cat
him up. The drivers visit a house
about twice a month. Then you
have to go away until they are
gone.”
“What do the people do for a
living?’’
“I will only say that they earn
their living in a different way
from anybody in America. I can
not answer that question with
propriety yet.” Philadelphia
Times.
Wedding Presents.
Among the customs peculiar tn
wedding occasions the ring and
bride cake seem to be of the
most remote antiquity, the latter
being a modern improvement on
the heathen practice of using a
cake of wheat or barley at a mar-
riage. The presenting of gifts lo
the bride is also of very old ori
gin, the favorite present in the
Middles Ages being a pot of but
ler, which was brougfit forward
as soon as the happy couple re
turned home from the church,
and which was supposed to pres
age plenty and an abundance of
good things. Ollier bridal gifts
peculiar to the olden limes were
scarfs and laces, and, what is
stranger still, a pair of knives,
which it was the fashion for wo
men to wear sheathed and sus
pended from theirgirdles. Among
the Greeks, Romans, Jews and
many eastern nations it was the
custom for the bridegroom lo
place a considerable sum of money
in a purse or plate and give it to
his wife at the lime of the wed
ding; hut in early English times
the bride asked for any amount
she pleased, which the husband*
could n A in honor refuse.
Not very long ago so mack
were wedding gifts thought of in
Cumberland, England, that when
a poor but respectable couple de
cided to marry they advertised
the fact in the county paper, bead
ing the "invitation” as it was
termed, with some such couplet
as:
Sospeuil for one ilav your cares and
your labors.
Ami come to this wedding, kind friends
and good neighbors.
The people for miles aroond
would then on the eventful day
flock to the Inidcgreetn's house
and there be entertained by vari
ous games and pastimes, after
which each guest would drop a
contribution or “gift” into a bowl
or plate set for the purpose in a
convenient place. By this means
enough money was often collected
to set the newly married pair ap
in housekeeping.—American Ay
riculturist.
It is getting to be the fashion
now in the upper circles of Chi
cago society to name children be
fore they are born. Engraved,
cards are sent lo friends the in
stant the new bahy makes its ad
vent into the world, and to guard
against any mistake in prognos
tication two sets of cards are
printed, one bearing a masculine
and the other a feminine name.