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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 SUBSCRIPTION' PRICE : ( Hie copy one year .... $1.00 “ Six moil*Us .... 50 “ Tlir *e m tilths ... 2> •Kail Koad Schedule. OAT fAHMEMiKH. UOI5W WEST. Arrive 3:10 r. *. WOI.NU EAST. Arrive 12 *• r LOUIS A A WESTERS EASREKOER. VOIKO WERT. Arrive 3:45 a. m. C.OIXG EAST. 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. aug25-ly ATTRA 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. HARRIS’ POPULAR DRY GOODS HOUSE. Ml ****** % welJ jr UIAIWUNuj . oiLvcr 163 BHOAD ST. npr-10-ly. —If you wish to exchange your old piano or organ for a new one, or wish In buy a new one cheap, von can*do so at 4t *J. W. STANFORD'S. to LsJ vwaJ o < iuarl7 o i> d c a M a ® -! ■tsS a 3 S 3 fj th cft o LZ r:3 *3 vs. as c.- 03 -d M * „ 0 H o K -is if O io £.2* . ®o« TJ Em g la 0 ■=!-• fc "O rs w o O EjJ LjJ y- ts- o o CUKES Cancer, Scrofula, JL’. w, »t««» y . Wood Poison Malaria, Ulcers, and all Diseases Caused from Impure lllood 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 I As fcO Sparta. Ga., June 5, 188G. Treatise on Blood and skin Dis- (5 j* £< 2 eases mailed fr«- THE SWIFT SPECIFIC UO.. I'r»wrr3, Atlanta, (la. K. Y„ 1S7 W st. Fvha-ljr Heaxlcjiiar* te i\s tor* 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. :o: 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.