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BT JAS. W. STANFORD. "Independent in AH Thing*—Neutral in Nothing/ —— ^ Y and Appeal. TERMS $1.00 IN ADVANCE. VOL. VIII. S Ythrert \rrr.\h. Established 1WK. ) .'I THKRT KKTCRPMSK, 1SSI. ) CoVHOLIMATSP I8S4. CUTHBERT, GA„ THURSDAY, MARCH j, 1888. NO. 7 mum people HARRIS’S POPBLAR MANY BONDS! IS THE LEADING DRY GOODS HOUSE 12} CDTHBERT. MR. P. H ARRIS is now in the Northern markets purchasing his mammoth stock of DRY GOODS, ami soon will have on exhibition in his store all the latest shades and styles of Dress Goods and Silks—all the latest novelties out. mm mi goods nuns Buys exclusively for cash and sells at the lowest living profit The trade of prompt paying customers solicited on time. Yon can buy as cheap on lima as for cash, at •msses h- Enterprise & Appeal. KUB.SCKIPTIOS PRICK : One copy one year .... $1.00 *• * Six months . . . . 50 “ Three months ... 25 flstil Mon*! Nrhcdnlr. t>AT UASSKSUMA,GOING WEST. Arrive 3:10 r. m. Gorsti East. Arrive 1- **• FLORt»\ A Urr.BTVr.K rAHSF.NGKK. ».«>**« WENT. Arrive 3:15 a. m. coixn EAST. Arrive ll:lt P. w. Stop* at Union Springs* r-ufauln, Cnthbcrt. Dawson, between Montgom- •rv and Smithville. Fort Game** train makes close con nection with the Montgomery Macon Passseneorat c-uthhert. 1> IMIKI.PS. Agent. DR WESTMORELAND, BRUTIMT, Offers liia service* to the public in ail the branches of Dentistry-— Work warranted. Office over the I'nslotffce. Room* formerly circu pied by Dr. Worsham, in a id l ct V. R. THORNTON, dentist. CUTIIBERT, GA. hFFICB West Public Square, ^ over l«. E. Kev’* Sterc. feblT-l.v POWDER Absolutely Pure. T HIS Powder never varies. A ma r - vel of purity, strength ami whole «*o»m*ue-«. More economical than the ordinary kind*, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or pbo*phate t »owder*. Sold only in mu*. Koval Ra- linjfPowtler t'o., *IO»i Wall Strret. New ' York. inav&My ^ White and jmle shades of paint may In* beautifully cleaned i»\ ti8it:s whiting in the water. 163 BROAD ST. *pr-10-ly. s. s. s. On'.v $1.75. at J. W. STAxrono’s. —You CAS GET ThBEE POUNDS ok Good Tobacco at J. W. Stas foiid's lor one dollar. 4t A Woman’s Discovery. “Another wonderful discovery has been made and that too by a lady in this county. Disease fa?tend its clutches upon her and for seven years she withstood its severest tests, liut tier vital organs were undermined and death seem ed imminent. For three months site coughed incessantly anil could j not sleep. She bought of us a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discov ery for Consumption and was so much relieved on taking first dose that she slept all night and with one bottle lias been miraculously cured. Her name is Mrs. I.uilier Lutz.” Thus writes W. C. Ham rick it Co., of .Shelby. N. C.—Gel a free trial bottle at J. W. Stas foiid's Drug Store. — — Carpets will look much brighter after sweeping if wiped oil wi.l. a damp doth. I S 1= ; '.-1 ¥ i £ tHWiiilic feWMy Headquarters ior PIANOS AND ORGANS! X Can Bell Yon an ORGAN OR PIANO Cheapen THAN ANY HOUSE WITHIN 500 Miles of this point. When you want any Instrument, confer with me in regard to price before buying, and I will savo you mon ey. I also sell Piano and Organ Stools separate. J J. W. STANFORD. Marie Autiduetfe’s Emeralds. A German newspaper contains he interesting announcement that the Czar presented the Czarina on ner fortieth birthday, Nov. 2ti. last year, a necklace of forty mag nilircnl onuraids. The purchase id these forty gem* had been kept a profound secret w hile I lie Czar's igcnls for the nine niontfl^ pre ceding the presentation were en gaged in collecting them. For lie sake of the brilliant woman who received so imperial a present l is to be Imped that she wilt uot recall the sail auguries that have been historically furnished in Iht connection of emrralds and ill fated women wlm were sovereigns also. One of Dumas' great stories is founded on the emerald neck lace presented to Marie Antoi uette, about the disnp|iearanee o' which so much of romance am. suffering was woven in the terri ble days that saw her die upon the scaffold. The mention of etn cralds and Marie Antoinette re calls a sltange story told the. Graphic soltte lime since, which, j as it relstes to emeralds, and some too reputed to lie of marvelous; size and purity, will bear telling I in tv|<e. In the northwest quarter ofj Washington, and upon the edge j of the most fashionable Section, i there stands an old fashioned three story house built nbutil fifty j years ago. Except that It is old fagliiime-i and seedy there is only one thing to call attention to it, besides its being the home of a re Uuced yet well known Virginia family. That one tiling is the fact I hat a back window on tiic second floor is closed tight with a pair of heavy iron shutters, in the top of which there are two amall light holes. A Southern gentleman living on his wits somewhat, though not in a disreputable sense, told the incidents herein narrated. He knows the Virginians, who are still possessors of a small properly and among the family a couple nl government appointments. He was aware that there was a room in the dwelling which was nevei opened, so far as visitors knew. The door thereto was heavily molded and evidently had a strong lock unit. In tiic course of a; friendly conversation he mention j ed a visit made to the Chinese ' Embassy (not the |>rcsent one) ! in the course thereof his host, one { of the accomplished attaches, who spoke English perfectly, led him to his private sitting room. The conversation accidentally turned on gems, on which subject the Chinese diplomat proved himself an adept. He showed his visitor a large number of rare jewels, dia monds and other stones, some of them of a most costly character. He was a gem collector, and.<being very rich, could readily gratify his most extravagant wishes. His visitor remembered afterward that as he told the incident quick glances passed lietweec members of the family. A few days passed by and he was waited upon at his office by one of the male members, wbn asked, alter exacting a pledge of secrecy, if he could bring the Chinese attache to the house with the iron shuttered window in or der to examine some very rare and valuable jewels. Of course this was done. Bulb gentlemen, the American and Clil ncsc. went on their call is quite n flutter of excitement. The hour set was late in the evening. Tliui were met at the door by the two gentlemen of the family. None of die ladies were visible, nor tlieir I fortune they were unable or afraid foully had held them in posses sion ever since. They had be • nine both a fa*i itialion and a •.crrnr to the family which had ap parently gone down the hill of well doing in guarding a great Where and How They Lire. t tub, than live in one of those hor It is said that there are 22,000 riblc , '" UH ‘' 9 ’ * el ll * ree of U,0,, ‘ New York who earn ‘ thal 1 9n * wcre filIeH lo the women in their daily bread and have no home other than such as they make for themselves. These wo Custom House Clerks. There is one department in the custom honsc for which there ar e and mostly by girls of the better, not many aspirants, though the ; das*. One occupant was an ex pay is good. It is the liquidating ; actress, who has taken to journal- j department. The work is The work is hard men-ihe greater number of them !' 8 n> for a living, and lives one j and puzzling, and it requires a at least—cannot afford to pay over : #3 a week for tl.eir lodging*, ami! mcn ’ ll,, '- v al1 l,tin S wrI1 p,, '“' ale<l \ ™»kc bis way in it. The liqtiida ‘‘and well bred girls. Within the one servant either. After removal ' i» utilize. «»f lints anti coats the callers wort j Tl»e Chinese gentleman was ea-! iskcl to go up stairs. They were- j * vr Lo Buy. Difficulties arose at , . „ • i the* are driven to many shifts to . , Tl 7’ aS , I'T 1 ™'° rs " ereUD ! find a decent home at that price. la8t lh " u new f ” r ' “ ^ 7’ e "‘T I ' ll " ng l ” lrUSl a " e * I,erl " ,lh i The larger number of the... I find j ™ rk ‘ D S llaT <* '*«*“ "I™' 1 a i,! 1,1 77 ", i ll,e,r / t 7 ,t °, r . l 1 ° the 8*"" meet the difficulty bye. operation, j 0nc al 35 « Wcsl TW«j third ‘.v , ' P :'" ,l0f lb « r « , "*“g 11 ’-; or ,ive wilfelub together and was organized by the head Its lock was a comh.nat.ou one. j .faehe desire,! lo have expe.t ^ , (|| . ^ can „ et a i of a large dry goods shop, who was ST ,rL ' n f " U . ' * ! , ' S ‘ iU,, : n ' V “ l ° , V “' Ue am, 1 ,Ur ; tJ big room somewhere in which arc * w » k « ne ‘ l tj ll * e uf l’ ro .on shutters were closed, as usual, j before he ex,winded a pnaeely for- j <|ouJ)le ,^ (U am , . lou c j riding a decent home for his many . «r C nTr S „ , 1* r/T : lUnC ' 1 N ’ me " ,qni r? W “ re n,: ! de lUree or four dressing tables.: fcm » le tni l'b». v es. It is looked af but an iron stand, bolted to Hie a* to the History of the remarks li ler '»y the S,witty to Befriend ?hT;‘“} , w, rli 7 “ u :, r r ‘.T re ' i lt.t Cn e| r a:f were'bKTeTi ^pt'tbcr assets for meals T^se ! Gills, ami not only doc., I lieiloor was closed I>ehind them 1 ""*’ *■ were i,H.ueii except, it i,,,,,,- ... .„,.i, ,.r ,1,, : those of l.ic unfortunate tjuecn of J meals fluctuate as to quantity. If| ,tb, U ^ homes U such of the i France, whose necklace had parcnlly disappeared from the lace of (.'hiuesc gentlem home or aenl somewhere else luxurious character; but when the On the stand lay two cocked rc volvcrs. The visitms were asked o stand near the door. Both were men of nerve, and one had been • dashing cavalry officer and wa* scarred with a score of wounds Uul they confessed afterward that thrills of upprehension ran through them. One of the brothers o,reli ed the safe and the other slum where his hands would rcadilv grasp the revolvers. A few see : as to quanuiv. 11 1 ... a P‘ | the club is inTunds the uearcst! 8l, °l’ C irls as are " ,iU,out **r«» absolutely j re , tanrt|ljl aniI , „ a8 8love furcish ! but no young woman applying Tor aan w« recall.s| ll, * om wiU * *pre*d» of a mildly « night's lodging is turned away. slioilly afterward. He did not bay. That much and no more the Graphic knows. S>„ far as it "* I ^ingredients ol their breakfasts j lau attend, if they wish, classes ! ol sewing and instruction in The prettiest necessity for clothing becomes im minent with the recurring season, lea and crackers form the pnnei- acd many girls out of work are received there and ara aided, as far as |mssible, in finding employ menl. While they are idle they aware the marvelous gems are still I in Washington.—A". T. Graphic Kobliiiur the Farawn. and dicucrs. It is |>erfeclly sur , prising to find how long a healthy j household work, girl can live on this diet and stand “nd pleasantest home for grasp me re oners, a .ew see , Thp tarlff monoplists certainly , d , on bcllilia a L . oonlcr or j was o,K.ned this year at 59 M. bVfrrm will r'Ts.Tl *7*1 1 n ° l ‘ Mk an,1 “ cit - V ' sit stead.lyat a desk or type wri ! lon slrecl - Tl,e l’“ rlor * rcl " , ‘ 1. *• “ ' , l lbe K' l-ubiican party and Mr. S. ; tef You aon - t 8ee aBV fal w ,.men | cJ ** «<»»an's club, which hcl carefully wrapped in soft leatuer , j. Randall, of I’ennsy lvana. they , * -r, I to nav the coat of the whole hou and cotton, was as carefully rc moved. Ojiening tins there were exliib itoil to the astonished eyes ot the callers several large emeralds and evidently of great parity. The Chinaman trembled witii excite meat. He declared, as the larg est one, as big at least as n good 'ennsylvana. they .ire fearlessly proceeding to pluck the goose unmercifully. We have already mentioned the plow “combine,'’ by means of nhicb plows were increased in price to cover an arbitrary ad vance of over one hundred percent in the price of steel as well as the greed of the plow manufacturers sized pigeon's egg. was placed in ai en.selves. TUe -combine” bis band, that he bad never seen anything like it, while telling also of wofiderful geins that lie knew «f in China. The emeralds were rut in an antique style. There were a.dozen of them, and all re markably for their beauty and size. The Chinaman was allowed lo examine them all carefully. He did so with the utmost min uteness and delight. All the liinc the closest watch was kept, and he brothels, as well as the visi tors, seemed lo feel relieved when 1 hey were all outside the door and going down the staircase. in eludes all the great plow manufac turers of the country, and it is safe to say that plows are at least 75 per cent, higher than they would lie if the duties on them and the “combine” that goes with them were abolished. Will some one of a mathematical women Mor snt helps among this class, however. They I lo P»> lUe ‘-'" 8l ° r lhe * llole l,OU8 « are very happy, though, apparent charming old- lt is one of those fashioned square roomed dwcll- to the fact of their absolute inde-! * n S s ' I’uilt before the days when |>endenee They ean slay out as late as they want to and arc not called U|Kin to explain their ah scnces, and they can ask their via itors into their own room. It is laud was so valuable on this is land that they began lo cut the slices thin, and there is a garden behind, with Bowers. The cost of living is so arranged that a girl not altogether the best life for. can G ot - 8 room there for from $4 them it is feared.* Some painful | to $5 a week, and the rulca are tragedies happen among these wo-1 k* and flexible. It was meant men and they lose a good many of; ^ ,r B b ,, P 8' r ^ 8 8n d factory bands, the best (eminine instincts living ! artists, stenographers, jour- in this co operative fashion. Do I mesticily and feminine reserve j can scarcely ffuuiish in such an atmosphere. People who arc de voting their lives to the study of turn of mind figure out bow much j lbese qlle8tions len me lbat> if tax Georgia pays a year on plows? j 1JO „ 8ible> cvery woman 8bould It would be interesting. But plows I havc a ruom of her OWD> no maller arc not all that are taxed by the |loff Uny u be Xlial lll(i BCD8C tariff protecteil “trusla.” The tlircsbing machine manfac- turers met in Chicago, about ten days ago, and formed a “trust. of absolute possession of every thing about her ia fostering to that domestic mstinct that is strong in all the best women. In the pursuance oi this quest I—on And this was the story of recalcitrant, if any, will be „ 1 81 1 1 > 11 L , lUe risk ol losing their entire liusi-1 f . Ba w Lite insideof two Virginians: Their paternal great-1 Be8S The maBBer in wWcb the 1 for 3 b ' 8lcr - 8JW lllC lnsl ‘ ,cof lWO grandfather was a military sur- Just as the French retolu- nalists and women in the higher class of work flowed in the first week and filled it up to the brim, so that there has never been a sin gle vacancy for |>oorer applicants Another honsc established this year is at 308 Second avenue, which accommodates some forty or more widows and elderly un webbing under fbur ounces ling office is the place where the final calculation of the duties to be paid nn imported goods is made. When the goods arc first entered a rough estimate of the duties as per invoice is made and the duties are deposited. Then, after the work of the surveyor’s office is completed and the apprai ser has examined the goods anil placed on the invoices their clas 1 sifieation and rate of duty, the work of the liquidating office be- gins. One of the liquidating clerks, in speaking to a reporter about the woi k of the office, said: “To one who is not acquainted by actual experience with the work, it is a hard maller to explain 'll. I have never known auch difficult work. In the first place the in voices come to yon in cvery known language, and the measures of quantity and value arc expect ed in the same tongue as Hint in which 'lie invoice is written All these, in the first place, have to be' reduced' lo American measures and values, and is trying Work. Then a man in our department lias to be a walking encyclopedia of commercial and trade technical! tics. “One of the most puzzling things in our work is the figuring out of the duly on articles which pay. a compound lax. Take for instance dress goods. Tiic tax is five cents a yard and 35 per cent ad vaio rein, or 7 ceuls a yard and 40 per cent., according to whether Hie value is over or under 20 cents a yard. Say we have a consignment of 1.000 yards of dress goods from England which are billed in the invoice at 2 shillings and 6 pence, less 1.37, a favorite discount less 5 per cent., less 2 per cent., and with charges say of £12. The charges must- be deducted and discounts taken off in order to find out just what the cost per vard is, and on this the duty is assessed. This is a simple opera tion compared to many we have. On all worsted goods there is a pecific and ad valorem duly for gcon lion was beginning he was in Paris, greatly interested, loo, in all stir ring event* of the |>eriod. He had apartments in the house of a ho had plowmakers were forced into lbe plow “combine” is a warning and an example to all who would other- wise Upld back from these unholy combinations. Nineteen out of the twenty one physician who had some court. II1>nurw . lurer8 of ^pers. mowers practice and yet was secretly 8 an( , bjn(ler8 mel , fem day8 ag „ radical. He was involved heavily ] amj ilulnciliate | y , )rocC eded to business. They pnqmsed at once lo curtail production and “reg as a gambler at onetime, and bor rowed: money to a considerable amount of his American friend. When the revolution became vio lent the Frenchman came under suspicion nn both sides. One day- lie brought to the Virginian, then about to return to America, a small jewel box and showed .lbe emeralds which had been exhibited to tlie visitors. He insisted upon his creditor taking them to Amer ica, where be promised lo come also. Suffice it to say they were brought lo the Virginian's borne. The French physician was never heard of afterward. The posses- emorandum of them, and bis ulale” prices. The * object of ail such con spiracies is to kill home compel! tion as thoroughly as the tariff prevents foreign cnai|ietiliun The farmer in all these cases pays the fiddler. When analyzed they prove to lie simply conspiracies to roll the farmers of the country, and what is most distressing, the government is a party to the great wrong and injustice—made so in sor of the emeralds held a transfer jdall, a Pennsylvanian member of Congress.—Telegraph. or three boarding bouses strictly for girls. Poor girls! They were every one of Ibcin cheap and un- s|H-akably nasty. Such odors, sour and greasy, ss lurked in those black halls and dingy rooms. The big rooms bad four beds in each and the small rooms were so small that even a new born kitten would have failed to find comfortable space for being swung around by tbe tail. There was a carpelless dining room on lbe second floor of one of these, ltuill over a shop and a stable,' and I saw delectable dishes of cabbage and pork being distributed about along the table prrparlory to the evening meal.— For the small room with board the occupant paid $9 a week, foi a share of one of the big rooms she paid $7. The appliances for tbe first instance by the Rcpnbli pathing were startling by their can party, anil held up lo lbe dark work by a handful of mcn under the leaderabip of Mr. S. J. Ran- absence. Were I a woman I should far rather rent a corner of a gar ret over some shop wliere # tberr : was nothing but a bed and bath nearly all canned vegetables. married women, and a branch, meant for girls not more than 18 or 20, gives shelter to thirty-five. Several years ago a M rs. Lcgget es tablished a hoarding house for business women in Clinton place, and as it was clean and well kept she soon bud lo lake two more bouses, sbe bad so many members clamoring for Admission. She got tired of tbe wutk after awhile, but put women, trained according to her ideas, at tbe bead of her es tablishments before she retired. Tbe uldesl of all these establish menls affording female refuge is tbe Home of tbe Ladies’ Christian Union, founded in 1861, in Wash ington square, before there were so many wash and cook ladies, and lllh name was more honored in tbe observance than in the breach. It baa spread out into macy branches all over the city, and it is and has been tbe vehicle of much good and comfort to homeless women.—Brooklyn Ea gie. Do not leave any tomatoes in the bottom of a tin can, but pour them into an carthern, bowl till you want them. This applies to a yard, ami another fur goods over four ounces, and on some other woolen goods we have to find out whether they cost 40, 60 or 80 cents a pound, because differem rates of duty are charged. 1 have had sometimes lo make as many as "twenty five different calcula Hons lo ascertain what the rate of duty was on a certain line of goods. We can’t go by the ap praiscr'e calculation at all; bis work is doue hurriedly in many cases, and wc can’t afford to trust him. “About tbe most tedious work we have is on invoices of glass. It comes in all sizes and weights, and there is a different duty for each size and weight. I have known of invoices that required the making of 10,000 figures to ascertain the duty. Sugar ia another tedious article to figure on. It ia graded by polariscope lest, and a differ ent rale of duty is charged for ev ery degree above 75. “W'inea, liquors and tobacco all have compound duties, which, as I saiiA give us the hardest work. Tbe work never gets easy, as puz zlers arc liable to come up at any time. There are men in the office who have been there fifteen years, and they will frequently come across something in an invoice which they have never met before. It is like silting down to solve a Chinese puzzle and keeping at it for eight or len hoora erery day. “It helps a man very little to be a mathematician. Young Malhe , who committed suicide, was in tbe office, and was a splendid mathe matician, but he was of a nervous temperament, ami 1 don’t doul-t that puzzling over some of those infernal ‘over or under four ounce’ invoices drove him crazy.”—Me,a York I’reix. ■ ■ • m The Last of tbe lluffnlocs. “It was but four years ago.” said W. S. Balrows. of Mandan, Dak., “that I bought 10.000 buffa lo horns, and to day it is about impossible to obtain one for love or money. According to the storks of hunters and lrap|ier* who have been engaged in tlieir occupations for years, one small herd of buffaloes exist at this time ns a representative of tbo countless thousands thal swarmed on the Western prairies, and they have sought protection in Hie Yel lowstone I’ark. There are about 30 in the herd, and many of the tourists thro’ the park last sum mer encountered them during their travels. Even these arc likely to become extui minuted, unless the government takes vigorous meas ure* for their security, as their whereabouts are known to n few daring spirits, who will take des perate chani es to kill them, if they ean be discovered near the boun dary line of the park where de tection would he exceedingly difficult. The expricnces of Tax idermist W. T. Hornaday, of the National Museum, in quest of specimens of buffulo for thal in stitution, have already been given at length, and he had orders be sides from European museums for some of these animals. After working industriously for two sea sons, and traversing all the coun try north and west of Minnesota to Canada, he succeeded in finding two or three animals, which havc been stuffed for lbe museum at Washington, and unless the Uni ted Stales government decides lo pick out a few of iu only herd as a prcseul to some European mu seum, the foreign orders never will be filled.—From the St. Paul Globe. The Fate of Ocean Wrecks. The almost daily reports by ar - riving vessels of passing derelict and abandoned vessels at sea, might lead the landsman lo sup pose that wrecks are more numer ous than is actually the case. But, in fact, a single wreck is re ported many times and frequent ly in a wide change of position. It may be seen to day on one part ot the coast and to morrow may be many miles from that position, as it drifts about with the current of the Gulf stream or it is driven a long distance by the winds. It is only a few weeks ago that the cruiser Atlanta towed into the capes of Delaware a dangerous derelict which had been drifting about off tbe coasts for weeks, and though sjiecial attention had been given by passing vessels to report this wreck, in order that the information might lead to finding and destroying it, it was along time bofore it could be placed. Often the wrecks that are reported at tbe hydrographic office lead to an extensive and un availing search only because they have been carried so far from tbo reported position by winds and currents that the searching vessel could not find them. When it is possible to tow them into port this is done; otherwise they are blown np with gun cotton torpe does. One wreck, seen on the lower edge of the banks of New foumllaml on Aug. 28, in latitude 43 degs. north, longitude 55 deg*, cast, bsd drifted to latitude 39 degs. north, longitude 64 deg* west, on Oct. 7. a distance of 6C0 miles, and had been reported font times.— Hea York Tribune.