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THE DAILY TIMES.
JOHN H. MARTIN, ... Editor.
Columbus, lia..
TUESDAY FtCKUAEY 13, 1*77.
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LARGEST CIRCULATION
la Iks Caaatlas A4|sm aad Trading
at Colamhni.
Hon. B. H. Hill slated in a recent
■pcccb that he never used, applied or ap
propriated the phrase "tnvinciblo in
peace— invisible in war,
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The United States man-of-war Plym
outh, drawing nineteen fort six inches,
passed through Eads' jetties in the South
Pass of the Mississippi river on Friday.
We believe that about twelve feet was
the maximum depth before the Jetties
were commenced.
There were 3,089 National Banks
in existence in July, 1876, with an ag
gregate capital amounting to $505.-
000,000. It Is said ihe banks pay an
average dividend equal to ten peif
cent, per annum. This is a large
dividend, considering that in most
States of the Union interest is but
six per cent.
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It is|a common opinion.that Messrs.
Evarts and O’Conor did not oomo up
to the expectations based on their
high distinction as lawyers, ’in their
arguments before the Electoral Com
mission, Messrs. Morrick, Field,
Matthews and Black are regarded as
the champions of their respective
partios in the contest before that tri
bunal.
“Bukll” telegraphs from Washington
to the New Orleans Democrat, that if
the Electoral Commission decide not to
go behind'lhe certificates in the Louisiana
case, "Judges Clifford and Field will im
mediately resign from the commission ;
the five Democrats will refuse to take
any further part in the action of the Tri
bunal. Then look out for fun.”
A Washington special to the Cin
cinnati Enquirer says that “a third in
eligible Republican Elector in Louis
iana turns up in the person of Frank
Joseph, who served three years in
the Alabama Penitentiary, and has
never had his disability removed.
He is consequently barred from
holding any office of trust or profit.
The Democratic counsel say thefact
can be established by an abundance
of testimony.”
The Waynesboro’ Expositor says:
"We understand that there is a plan
maturing to lay before the present
Legislature a request to form anew
oountry, taking from Burke, Scriven,
Emanuel and Bulloch. We sincerely
hope that the bill, when brought be
fore the two houses, will pass.”
And we as sincerely hope that
neither that nor any other new coun
ty will be formed by the Legislature;
also that if a Constitutional Conven
tion is called, it will put its everlast
ing veto on the creation of new
counties.
Wk learn from thel Car tersv file
Express that Col. John W. Wofford,
a prominent politician of that sec
tion, and one of the Electlors who
east the vote of Georgia for Tilden
and Hendricks, has removed to
Kansas City. Thero are rumors of
professional bad conduct by Col. W.
before his departure, and the Atlan
ta Constitution says that it is report
ed that Ex-Gov. Brown will ask for
a requisition to have him brought
back to account for his action touch
ing a note for $4,000, for which
Brown was his surety.
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Judge Whitaker, last week, called
the attention of a grand jury in New
Orleans to the fact that statements
had been made on oath that the
president of the returning board of
Louisiana had been guilty of altera
tions and forgeries, or of procuring
alterations and forgerios, of the pub-
Uo records of the State relative to the
late general election; and he gave in
charge to the jury the 853d section of
the Revised Statutes of Louisiana,
whloh provides that any one guilty
of forging, altering, or of procuring
the forgery or alteration of any pub
lic record, and publishing the same
as genuine, shall be punished by im
prisonment from two to fourteen
years at hard labor in the penitenti
ary.
Col. Martin, of the Columbus En
quirer, is not in favor of a conven
tion, and he eloquently announced
the fact on the very day thnt the bill
providing for one passed the Senate.
—Atlanta Constitution.
Incorrect in every particular. Col.
Martin has not been connected with
the Enquirer for over a year, and this
paper has always favored a conven
tion, and in its specials appeared the
fact that the bill had passed as soon
ns it was given in the Constitution.
We presume Harris meant it as one
of bis “funny” paragraphs.—Colum
bus Enquirer.
Wo did not intend to notice the
fling of the Constitution, but as our
neighbor has kindly corrected some
of its inaccuracies, we will complete
the job.
Ist. We are no Colonel.
2d. We did not oppose a Conven
tion in the article referred to, but ex
pressed acquiescence In its call, as a
seeming necessity forced upon us by
the tactics of those who opposed
what we thought a better mode of
amending the Constitution.
3d. We never attempt to write
"eloquent” editorials—think that
style as inappropriate to ordinary
newspaper articles as the efferves
cing gush and far-fetched alliteration
which we find in some of our ex
changes.
4th. We are no Colonel.
Chinese Sakd Pears.— The Thora
asvllle Enterprise states that “Mr. H.
H. Sanford, of Dixie Nursery, near
that town, raised last year 700 young
i>ear trees of this valuable variety
from cuttings, and found ready sale
for them at $1 each. This pear seems
remarkably adapted to this section,
is a very fine fruit, commences bear
ing from four to five years from the
cutting, grows rapidly into a large
standard tree, and is a profuse bar
er.”
ONE MTEP IN THE RIUHT DIRECTION.
The report of Saturday’s proceed
ings of the Legislature, which we
copy from the Constitution., contains
the reports of the committee on the
reduction of Judicial Districts, and
the committee on Retrenchment,
making recommendations by which
some saving in the expense of ad
ministering the State government
will be effected. The curtailments
and reductions proposed by these
committees are good as far as they
go, but it is to be hoped
that they do not embrace all
the retrenchment which tbey have
to offer. We believe the number of
Judicial Districts to be too large after
cutting off the four recommended by
the committee, and that the Legis
lature will not come up to the popu
lar demand in stopping short where
the report does in the reduction of
salaries. Sufficient proof of the fact
that the salaries of most public offi
ces are too large is found in the un
precedented rush and scramble to
obtain them. If they paid no more
than private positions requiring the
same amount of work, capacity, or
responsibility, they would not be
considered so very desirable as
to tempt cupidity and excite a scram
ble that is demoralizing alike to in
dividual industry and to party har
mony. Retrenchment can bo made
a morai agency by restraining this
great and growing evil. Thoroughly
applied, it would remove a bad ex
ample that is corrupting to the rising
generation. Let them he taught that
it is in the private enterprises and
ordinary industries of the country
that they must seek employment and
an honest livelihood, and they will be
less apt to grow up idlers and sharpers
than when they see so many of the
men of their time chronic expectants
and soekers of efllce. The times, too,
are inopportune for taxing the peo
ple heavily to make provision for a
large number of office-holders, or to
pay high salaries to those that are
Indispensable. There ought always
to be some parity in the prosperity
of the people and that of the officers
whom they have to pay.
We do believe that the people
of the State will consider these two
reports a full and adequate response
to the urgent appeal made by Gov.
Colquitt for Retrenchment and Re
form.
Communicated.]
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 12th, 1876.
Editors Columbus Times ;
Gentlemen Yesterday I arrived
in your city, intending to make but a
short stay, as my business requires
me away from here.
My understanding of the newspa
per business is, that its highest aims
are to elevate public morals and give
to the publio a true and bonest state
ment of current news.
I see in a newspaper, the Columbus
Enquirer, of yesterday, certain slurs
upon the public acts of one of your
Representatives in our Legislature,
which missrepresents and distorts
the facts to so gross an extent that
some notice is proper.
While Hon. R. J. Moses is endeav
oring to the best of his ability, and
that is saying no little, to so repre
sent his constituency as to reflect
oredit upon the section from which
he hails, he has neither the time, nor
do I believe, the Inclination to defend
himself against these puerile attacks.
But, aggravated beyond endurance
by the course the Columbus Enquirer
has taken, I desire upon my own re
sponsibility to make this statement:
Any attempt to injure the umblem
ished character of this gentleman is
born of personal malice, has no
foundation in fact, and is a disgrace
to the paper that encourages it—and
the public records in Atlantn will
show that the Columbus Enquirer
has distorted facts to subserve its
base ends.
I desire further to ask this paper to
desist from cloaking its personal
venom under the shield of its “a cor
respondence,” “our correspondent,”
or as editorials; and with that man
hood to be expected of gentlemen,
come out under the own proper sig
nature of the writer with all it has
to say about this gentleman.
If the Columbus Enquirer will so
do, perhaps they may find that per
sonal responsibility will act judicious
ly as a check to their pen.
Respectfully,
W. M. Moses.
A FAITHFUL, PICTURE.
A friend suggests to us a political
caricature, which we think would be
a much better hit than any o' the
scurrilous designs of Nastin Harpers’
Weekly. But as we have no artist
who can engrave the pioture, we can
only represent it by words. He sug
gests that we draw an immense black
spider, with the head of Senator Ed
munds, who conceived and drafted
the Electoral Commission bill; the
spider standing at the mouth of a
meshy den, proportionate in size
and strength to itself, and ex
tending to Democratic Congressmen
the alluring invitation. “Will you
walk into my parlor,” &c. In front
of, and approaching the den, comes
a big “blue-bottle” fly, with the
head of Abram S. Hewitt, and in a
long train behind him the Democrat
ic Congressmen who “walk into the
parlor.”
We think the suggestion a capital
one, and if it would not be mixing
up emblems too much, we would in
scribe in the rear of the spider’s den
Dante’s legend of the infernal
regions—“ All hope abandon, ye who
enter here.”
Don’t Shoot the Crows.—A crow
was recently killed in the orchard of Mr.
Burbric, Portland, Maine, and on opening
his crop, over twenty nests of caterpillar’s
eggs were found, showing that this much
abused bird had dined on about five thou
sand embryo caterpillars. The crow is
not only a*scavenger, ridding tbe fields of
putrid carrion, but is a wholesale destroyer
of the insects and worms that prey upon
the crops. Notwithstanding the trifling
damage done to young corn, the crow is
the farmer’s beet friend.- Georgia Orange.
CONUTITtmONAL CONVENTION.
Editors Times:
We have observed that in all ques
tions of vital interest to the people,
a unanlmnity on the part of the
press touching any one question was
pretty sure to indicate that the peo
ple thought as the press wrote. In
this day of rlDgs and put up jobs it is
hard, even through the ballot box, to
get a true expression as to what the
j people yuut. Editors who write for
the people, and who are really expo
nents of the public will, seldom fait
to Had out the true sentiment of the
publio mind, and haing, found this
out they advocate that sentiment for
and in behalf of the public. Wo
think, then, that the surest index of
how the publio think, is to be found,
in the way the newspapers, taken
collectively, write. Now it is true,
that touching the question of a Con
stitutional Convention for ourbtate,
the press of Georgia are unanimous
in adrocating its call. The people of
Georgia want a convention, and why
the Legislature is tampering and
hesitating over the calling of a con
vention is a mystery to us. Ills true
that the vote of the House on the
question someduys since was strong
ly in favor of the convention. This
is but another proof of the
fact that tho people desire it,
for the House is properly and direct
ly from the people. The vote of the
Senate, a body which does not re
flect the wishes of its constituents,
but is guided by the whims and
prejudices of individuals, shows the
motives actuating that body. What
that motive was we will not here
surmise, only to say that self, the
curse of our ago, seems to have had a
very active part in deciding the yeas
and nays. That the Senate has recon
sidered the vote on the main question
and placed tho bill for the call in
such a position as to be killed by the
House, is another fact that shows
which way the majority of the Sena
tors are looking. If the people
ever do meet in convention,one of the
first steps will be towards reform in
our legislative system, and away will
go the present expensive und ruinous
manner of law-making. Such a step
would directly affect the legislators
of to-day and especially would it
touch the pockets and the prestige of
the Senators elect. There is "the
milk in the cocoanut.” Verily, it
looks as if the hands of tho people
were tied. For three or four years
has this question of a convention
been agitated, and now in this year,
when the demands are urgent and
unanimous, when the evils to
be remedied are numerous, when
the intelligent citizens of the
States are loudly calling for a change
in their organiic law, when there is
no possible excuse for delaying save
the interests of certain individuals
in the face of all this, it seems as if
tho question is to be again post
poned.
The Constitution of Georgia as it
Btands to-day is a shame upon the
intelligence and good name of this
commonwealth. Reform is needed
in every department of government,
executive, legislations and judicial.
We mean no reflection on the offi
cers of government. Many (not all)
of them have dono tho best they
could do with the means at hand.
Men ought not to be blamed for poor
work when the mateiial with which
to work is poor. We believe that if
the proposition was made to-day for
the people of Georgia to meet and
instruct the Legislature what to do,
every county would hasten to send
the word to the Capitol, “vote for a
call of the convention, with no pro
visoes,” nor conditions whatever
annexed.” Populus.
It must be good, for everybody recom
mends it, and the doctors prescribe it.
We mean Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Price,
20 cents.
The Republican aide of the Oregon
Ease.
Special to the Cincinnati Commercial,]
Senator M itchell, of tbe Committee
on Priviliges and Elections, charged
with the investigation of the Oregon
Electoral vote, will submit his re
port to the Senate early next week.
He sums up;
1. Conceding that Watts was ineli
gible, the Governor of the State had
no jurisdiction to discriminate, and
all his action in the premises was
void.
2. That the question of Watts’ in
eligibility was never raised before
any tribunal. He did not take his
seat, in the College on the grouud
that he was made an Elector by the
votes of tbe people, but in conse
quence of his election by a majority
of the College, and therefore his vote
cannot be questioned,
S3. Under the laws of Oregon the
lectors present on the day of the
meeting of the College, can fill va
cancies occasioned by death, refusal
to act, neglect to attend, or other
wise. Therefore, admitting for ar
gument, but not as a fact, that the
election by the people was void, the
College has full authority to fill a va
cancy.
4. The Governor’s certificate on
its face shows that two Republican
Electors were elected. These were a
majority of the College, aud the only
ones contemplated by law to fill a va
vancy, and their record of the pro
ceedings of the College is the only
one admissible, and it shows that
Cronin did not attend the meeting or
participate in its proceedings; that
he set himself up as the Electoral
College of Oregon, aud proceeded to
fill two other places without, a shad
ow of authority in the law governing
the case.
Payment In Nißer*.
From the Raleigh (N. O.) Obaerver.3
Some time since a distinguished
citizen of North Carolina was in New
York, aud in conversation with a
somewhat pompous bank officer, the
latter asked him if North Carolina
would pay her old State debt. “Yes,”
was the reply, “she is able to pay it
and she is going to doit.” “What!”
said the banker, “will she pay the
whole debt, old and new, at par?”
“Yes,” replied the North Carolinian.
“How?” asked the bank officer.
“She will pay it.” was the reply, "in
negroes valued at SI,OOO each.” “Ah,
but we have freed your negroes,’
was the response of the banker.
“But,” retorted the North Carolinian,
“we have got your money for our
bonds.” Some people think this is
the only way in which our State
debt will be paid.
LAPSED LIFE INHCUANCB EOLI-
Cl EM.
IMPORTANT TO SOUTHERN CLAIMANTS FOR
THE RETURN OF PREMIUMS.
New York correspondence of the Cincinnati Com.
mercitl.]
An ingenious plan hits been conceived
for getting money from the people ol the
South, and especially the border States,
against which they should be on their
guard. A Philadelphia lawyer has re
cently advertised extensively in the pa
pers of New York city, and also m the
larger cities of the South, that he can col
lect from Northern insurance companies
the amount of premiums paid before the
war on policies which lapsed by non-pay
ment of premiums, owing to the sus
pension of communication during hostili
ties.
The question of the possibility of col
lecting these premiums having been sub
mitted to the officers of the Hartford and
New York life companies which had a
heavy Southern business before 1861, they
are unanimous in expressing the opinion
that the claims which this lawyer offer
to take cannot lie successively pros
ecuted, and the lawyer either
designs a swindle or wholly misunder
stands the purport of the decision of the
United States Supreme Court, in Octo
ber last, in certain Southern insurance
cases. These cases had been brought
against the Manhattan Life, of New York
and two other companies, to recover the
amount of policies on the lives of persons
who died in the South during the war,
and after their policies had lapsed by tnu
non-payment of the premiums, which
could not be transmitted to the compa
nies, communication having been inter
rupted. It will lie seen that these cases
were of a very different character from
those which the Philadelphia lawyer
offers to prosecute, which are only the
claims to surviving policy-holders for re
turn of premiums Therefore while the S
upreme Court decided in these cases that
the heirs of the deceased might recover,
not the face of the policies, but the pre
miums that had been paid, that decision
had no hearing on the cases of surviving
policy-holders. Their class of claims was
not even referred to in the decision, and
the fate they might expect in the Su
preme Court may be inferred from the
dissenting opinion of Chief Justice
Waite and three other Justices in the
cases before them, which was to the ef
fect that they thought the companies
bound to pay neither the policies nor to
pay hack the premiums, on the ground
that the war could not create a special
agreement for the return of the premi
ums which was not set forth in the orig
inal contract between the companies and
the policy holders.
The foregoing explanations arc given,
not with any intent of indorsing the
course the companies have decided to
pursue, hut of show ing how slight are
the prospects of prosecuting success! illy
any claims for the return of premiums,
and, further, of showing the probabilities
that retaining fees sent to lawyers who
advertise to prosecute such claims will be
money absolutely' wasted.
Come run's llreaeh or I’rtiinixe Mrrape
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Old Simon Cameron has had many
episodes in his checkered and wicked
life, but now that he is about ready
to take passage for Abraham's
bosom, a fair Treasury girl seeks to
pursue him for breach of promise.
MaryJ. Oliver, burning with indig
nation peculiar to her sex when
crossed iu love by such young bucks
as the Winnebago Chief, has invaded
the temple of justice, and in dry,
legal phraseology, filed the annexed
complaint. The plaintiff sues de
fendant for that: “Whereas, hereto
fore, that is to say on the seventh
day of December, 1872, in considera
tion that the said plaintiff, who was
then sole and unmarried, at the spe
cial instance and request of said de
fendant had then agreed and under
taken to marry and take said defend
ant theu, to-wit: On the day and
year lust aforesaid, undertook and
faithfully promised to said plaintiff to
marry and take her, the said plaint iff
to wife in a reasonable time then
next following; and she avers that,
although a reasonable time for that,
purpose hath long since elapsed, and
although she, the plaintiff, confiding
in the said last mentioned promise,
hatn always been ready and willing
to marry and take to her husband
him, the said defendant, yet defend
ant hath not taken her to wife, al
though often requested,” etc. She
lays her damages at $50,000. The
plaintiffin this ease is a lady of good
figure, rather under the ordinary size.
She has a pleasant countenance, light,
brown hair, blue eyes, and dresses
witli much taste. She is about 35 or
40 years of age, and is said to be a
widow from Pennsylvania, and has a
daughter at school. She has resided
here for several years past, and is
employed in the Treasury Depart
ment. Senator Christiancy advises
Cameron to take the girl, have done
with it, and save his money.
Another Element of Wealth Being? Ur
vrlopeil.
Several parties iu this State have open
ed anew avenue of foreign commerce.
Large amounts of grape vine cuttings are
being sent to France, in response to or
ders from that country. These cuttings
are ordered because it is found that sev
eral varieties of American grapes grow
more rapidly and are more healthy than
the European vines, and are used there
mainly for grafting and budding. Large
shipments were made last winter, and it
seems to have become a regular and suc
cessful business.
It does look somewhat like shipping
coal to Pittsburg; hut it is simply an
other proof of how little we really know
of our magnificent resources, and the
thousand and one avenues yet untried, at
our command, for the attainment of un
precedented industrial prosperity.
However insignificant such beginning
may appear at first, they, nevertheless,
hold within themselves great possibili
ties. An intelligent interest in the devel
opment, a judicious expenditure of means,
and unlimited thrift and enterprise,
would soon make our producing classes
masters of the situation, and make Geor
gia the peer of any State in the world.
Let us never despise small beginnings.
HAVE TOUR
Houses White-Washed
I AM prepared with the BF.ST LIME to WHITE
WASH houst-s, aud Plaster rooms,
PLEASANT RUSSELL k CO.
Between Muscogee aud Georgia Home build
ings. feblS dim
NEW FURNITURE
JUST RECEIVED.
I7UR3T LOT NOW IN STORE Consists of all
_ Articles in
The Furniture Line.
LATEST STYLES-ALL FRESH.
And will be sold Lower than usual.
L. Rooney,
83 and 85 Broad street.
tfj-Up Stairs. lebll Ow
PROCLAMATION!
BY THE
King of the Carnival.
O
TO all whom the*® present* shall ooroe—Greet
ing. KNOW YE, that inasmuch as
Mardi Gras,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1b77
Is set apart and ordained as the Grand Fcto Day
of ITis Most Gracious Majesty, the
KING OF THE CARNIVAL,
and dedicated to the annual visit of His Majesty,
to the lloyal Cspital.lt is hereby ordained and de
creed :
1. That all lines of transportation, extending
throughout the Royal Domain, immediately cause
to be promulgated s reduced tariff of fores, for
the benefit of all loyal subjects who may desire
to visit tho Royal Capital on that day.
11. That in order to testify their loyalty and
to properly honor His Most Gracious Majesty, on
the occasion of Hla triumphal entry into the
Capital, all loyal subjects resident therein are
hereby commanded to forthwith form themselves
into organized bodies, reporting promptly to the
DEPARTMENT OF WAR, for assignment to sta
tion and service.
111. That, in consideration of ready and im
plicit obedience to this, our Royal Mandate, each
and every loyal subject is hereby absolved from
all service or allegiance to any other power tban
that of His Most Blessed Majesty, and all public
buildings and places of business in the Royal
Capital are hereby ordered to be closed through
out the day.
GOD SAVE THE KING
Given under our hand and Seal, this 16th day of
January, 1877, and 878th year of his
reign.
BY THE KING HIMSELF,
REX.
Montgomery, Ala. feb6 tf
Boots and Shoes*
Wells & Curtis,
AllE HE LUX G
Boots, Shoes & Leather
THIS YEAR
FOR CASH;
And notwithstanding
f|] great advance in Tnß \
L = R
GOOD WORK AT REASONABLE PRICES.
WE HAVE A HEAVY SAOCK OF
PLANTATION BOOTS, BROGANS ANI)
PLOW SHOES,
V FULL LINE OF FINE GOODS IN ALL THE
popular styles,aud are constantly replenish
ing our stock with
SUCH GOODS AS THU PEOPLE WANT.
All purchases must be considered as lor
CASH ON CALL.
unless by special agreement.
Wells <fc Curtis,
73 BROAD STREET.
Sign of the Big Boot.
DISSOLUTION.
rpilE firm ofWm. 11. ROBARTS (fc CO., ns here-
JL toforo existing, has been dissolved, by the
withdrawal of Mr. Wm. H. Robarts, from the
concern.
WM. H. ROBARTS,
MADISON L. PATTERSON,
L. T. DOWNING.
Columbus, Ga., Feb’y 6, 1877.
We, the undersigned, continne the business un
der the firm name of Wm. H. Robarts & Cos.: Mr.
Wm. H. Robarts thereto consenting.
MADISON L. PATTERSON,
LEMUEL T. DOWNING.
febß d&wflt
Safe For Sale.
V STEAM FIRE PROOF SAFE, COMBINATION
LOCK—nearly new. and as good as new.
Will be sold cheap. Apply to
febHtf JNO. MEHAFFEY.
MAR ABLE HOTEL,
NORTH-EAST CORNER OF SQUARE
LA FAYETTE, ALA.
Mrs. S. W. Williams, Proprietress.
Board by the Day, Week or Month, at the most
reasonable rates.
Livery Stable connected with the House,
wStdGt
Milch Cow for Sale
T HAVE A FINE COW—A FOUR
gallon Oow, with a five weeks old
Heifer Calf, for sale.
tebßlw .TNO. MEHAFtKY.
NOTICE.
A LL PERSONS are hereby warned against
iTL buying Certificate No. 168 for four Shares of
stock in Columbus Manufacturing Company,
said certificate has been lost aud I have applied
for a duplicate.
R. r. LINDSAY.
_JalB 2w
EXCELSIOR
Printing Ink Cos.
BEST AH) CHEAPEST
PRINTING INK IN THE MARKET.
IS BARCLAY ST., IV. V.
(tecSO d&w2m
lime, Lime, Lime.
I will deliver
CAUSTIC SHELL LPIE
on cars at No. 7 M. & G. R. R., Ala , in barrels of
250 pounds each at $,8.00 (eight do.lars) per ton,
CASH. Address JNO. H. LEITNER,
JalO tf Flora, Ala.
DRY GOODS.
GREAT REDUCTION
IN PRICES -A.T
“The New York Store.”
J N OBDEK to prepare for the eprtng trede, we li.ve marked down our entire etock. We now offer
■muss coons at half puice.
600 Pieces Hamburg Trimming at sc. and upwards.
10,000 Yards Curtain Lace at 20c. and upwards.
Cloths, Cassimeres and Gents’Furnishing Goods reduced
26 per cent.
Kid Gloves reduced from 25 to 50 per cent, to close stock.
Anew lot of Ladies’ City-Made Shoes just received.
Cheapest line of Hosiery and Corsets in the city.
500 Pieces New Prints just received.
bought out the entire atock of WOLFSON k MOSES at a sacrifice, we are pre
pared to offer great bargains in TABLE DAMASK, PAPKINB and ALPACAS.
GORDON & CARGILL.
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Dry Goods! Dry Goods!
CHEAPER THAN EVER,
M. JOSEPH,
HUCCF.SSOH TOJOSEPH & BRO.,
HAS JUST RECEIVED:
500 PIECES BEST STANDARD PRINTS @6 1-2.
LARGE LOT OF CORSETS @soc.. each.
SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS, CHECKS, OSNABURGS and FACTORY JEANS
of all makes at FACTORY PRICES.
CARPETING from 20c. a yard and upwards.
SHOES, HATS, SEA ISLAND BLEACHINOS, in large quantities at BOT
TOM PRICES.
per J BUY A XT) SELL FOIi CASH AND AM FREPARED TO
OFFER BARGAIN’S.
M. JOSEPH.
BANKING HOUSE.
THE
NATIONAL BANK
OF COLUMBUS.
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A BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT
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Deals in Exchange.
Collections Made on all Points.
Accounts and Correspondence Solicited.
GEO, W, DILLINGHAM, J, RHODES BROWNE,
Cashier. President.
WAREHOUSEMEN.
ALSTOM WAREHOUSE.
FLOURNOY & EPPING
(SUCCESSORS TO FLOURNOY, IIATCIIER & C 0.,)
Having purchased the interest or MS. B. T HATCHER, in the business of
Flournoy, Hatcher & Cos., wo shall continue the
WAREHOUSE and COMMISSION
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as heretofore in all of its branches. We solicit a continuance of tho liberal custom so long bestow
ed upon the house.
We are Agents for
Zoll’s Gruano and the Cotton Food;
both well-known and highly endorsed.
J. F FLOURNOY,
H. H. EPPING, Jr.
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NEW WAREHOUSE FIRM.
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McGehee & Hatcher,
(LATE OF FL&UR&OY, SfcGEIIEE <t CO.)
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants.
FOUJTAINE WAREHOUSE,
Columbus, Ga.
HAVING leased the above well-known and commodious Warehouse, (formerly occupied by
Messrs. Allen, Freer & Illges), and made ample arrangements for accommodating eur custom
ers we respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage.
We are Agents tor tbe Bale of Fertilizers; me tiding the celebrated PATAPSC© GUANO;
whlcn we offer on reasonable tsrms— v one ton fur 600 pounds of Cotton.)
Jilt. WM. II- J %rK*ON. who so long served as SCALESMAN with Meesrs. Allen, Preer k
Illges, will occupy the same position with us. where he wi.l be glad to meet hia friends.
C- C. MeGEHEE,
BEN. T. HATCHER.
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The Great Fertilizer
FOR COTTON, FOR CORK AND AIL CROPS I!
NVIIANN’S
Raw Bone Super-Phosphate!
FOR SALE FOR CASH OR COTTON OPTION
BY
W. A. SWIFT,
Centennial Wagon Yard, Columbus, Ga.
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