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” MEMORIAL ADDRESS.
DELIVERED BY KEV. S. P. CAL
UWAY, OF LAGRANGE.
Tb® following address was deliv
ered yesterday in the Opera House,
the Seventeenth Anniversary, by the
.Bev. S. P. Callaway of LaGrange:
MEMORIAL ORATION.
Ladies and Fellow Citizens: I stand
upon stored ground. Forever holy
is the birth spot of Memorial Day.
So long as the revolving seasons roll
and flowers bloom, so long as memo
ry performs her office and patriotism
lives In the hearts of men; so long as
Southrons cherish the eternal princi
ples enshrined in the * Lost Cause,”
and Confederate graves remind us of
our vanished armies, so long will
survive the name of the city which
numbered among her daughters the
noble matron whose htart and brain
first con .eived this unmatched custom
of annually bringing tributes of
fl >wers to deck the mounds of our
silent heroes. Is the grave of Mrs.
Mary Ann Williams with vou to-day?
Then let it share the floral adorn
ments which her living, loving hands
were the first to prepare for the
tombs of our defenders. It were
meet that this typical Southern city—
the very capital of the kingdom of
Flora should originate a memorial In
which the rose and myrtle and ivy
should twine their tendrils and min
gle their fragrance.
But your fair city dwells not in an
atmosphere of sentiment alone with
tropical climates inviting:
••To wile the length from languor on a hours.”
You have not surrendered yourselves
U> enervation and ease, you blend pa
triotic feeling with practical achieve
ment. Borrow for the dead does not
detract from the sinewy strength that
meets and conquors the ta-ks of the
living. You gloriously illustrate
the truth, that devotion to the past
of our section is not Inconsistent with
a perfect appreciation of the living
present and the unfolding future. In
this throbbing heart of industry, I
can feel to-day the gentle pulsa
tions of sacred grief for tbe dead.
The New, grand In its possibilities,
mighty tn Its restless energy of re
cuperation and progress, pays tribute
to the Old. from which it spruag,
as the Phoenix from its ashes. But
when every spindle has stopped,
every wheel ceased its revolution,
every furnace has become cold and
still, and every forge tireless; when
desolation and chaos shall brood
where there is now intenses'
life and your Etgle industries have
lost their power to soar, the fame of
men who died for
••Shall • natch from Time a greener bloom
And live renowned u accents jet unknown."
I see io this great ou pouring from
shop and school and factory, as well
as from peaceful homes, overwhelm
ing evidence that vou do not
intend it shall die—and this vast
throng is buta drop to the uncounted
multitudes who will rise up to do
|hem honoj In the coming time.
Where the sword failed you have
given the true sign—the two M’s—
whetrin the South may be true to
be s’if and still conquor—Memorial
of the Oil—Manufacturing of the
New!
The philosophy of nature teaches
that no material substance is ever
annihilated. Living forms are dis
solved by death, but the elements
which compose them enter into orj
other ends. Dea h
disintegrates all things, R destroys
nothing! The wood on the hearth
is reduced by the action of fire, but
the constituents of the wood are not
hereby extinguished. Tuese are re
produced in other combination, con
verted to other uses by the great al
ehemis—Nature.
What is affirmed of the material
world is true in tne higher realms of
mind and spirit. Thought is inde
structible, Michael Angelo saw in
tbe yet unsbaped block of marble tbe
future statue, and his skillful hand
wrought out tbe God-like conception
of bis gepius. But bad bis ideal
never been embodied in tbe divine
forms of sculpture, the influence of
the alone would have
moulded his character Into asymme
try and a majesty.
“As whole as some serine creation
minted in tbe golden words of Sov
ereign Artists.”
God carves his thoughts in the
towering magnificence and awful
outline of the granite mountains, im
pressing the beholder with the great
ness of the original. But yonder in
the glade beneath tbe mountains
God has also pain ed a chaste thought
in tho hue of the violet which
peeps into life but to be crushed by
the unheeding tread of tbe tourist
who has come from afar to view the
rugged grandeur. The mountain
remains throughout the generations
strong, enduring, eternal; but the
i flowers, too, fulfilled a mission in its
brief hour, sod the 'gentle thought
which it exhaled, lives in ten tbou
-1 sand other violets which hide so deep
in tbe wildwood that no profane eye
may gaze on their modesty, and no
rude hand pluck their beauty.
To-day the unbroken unity of these
American states is the admiration of
the whole earth. Demented with tbe
blood of the brave, it is to-day,
stronger, grander, more complete
than it has ever been since Wash
ington and his co-adjutators laid its
foundations, broad and deep, upon
tbe inalienable rights of man and
tbe affections of a grateful people.
The volcanic throes which threaten
ed to rend it have subsided, tbe fires
are extinct, and the mass has settled
again "as fixed as on the roots of
earth and base of all,” and
recognized as fundamental!
But. while we look upward, admiring
and wonder-struck at the magnitude
of our heritage, let us notigoorethe
Memorial flower that blooms in tbe
lovely vale of defeat hard by. No
more can the memory of our Confed
erate heroes petish than the Union
Itself can be dissolved. Ir. will emit,
its fragrance as long as tbe granite
flx-dness of tbe mountain endures.
When these fair hands, which to
day bring floral offerings to deck tbe
graves of the soldiers of the B.>utb,
shall likewise moulder in the dust,
others will com« on the same br auti
ful and patriotic errand, and others
still, so long as Southrons shall ad
mire valor and honor patriotism and
love liberty. Instead of the thorn of
hatred, shall come up tbe myrtle of
reconciliation, and instead of the ,
briar discord, shall come up the fir
tree of contentment and peace, and
this Memorial cus'ome shall be to all
tbe genera’lons an immemorial one ,
—•‘an everlasting sign that shall not
be cut off.”
“Two dew drop* on the petal shake
To the sunt sweet air and tremble deeper •
down.
Aid Blip at once, all fragrant into one,"
So the hearts of the two great di
visions of our country vibrating to
common memories and form a more
periect and a more permanent un
ion.
Id true union lies
Nor equal nor unequal; each fulfills
Lofeota in each, and always thought lo
thought,
Purp ee n purpose, will in will, they grow
atwo-ceii’d heart beating with oue full
stroke.”
These flowers are exquisite types of 1
ever fresh, fragrant and pure 1
affection with which our whole '
people cherish the recollections of
tbe unrewarded champions of tnelr 1
esuae. Treat them as we may, these 1
time-honored hoary customs, as
sentimental fancies, antiquarian '
cuiioaiiies, abera lons of the bu- '
man mind, the tact remains, stultify 1
if we can, that from tne earliest and
most archaic times in all places and
countries, throughout tbe ups and
downs of civilization, eyen In this '
great century of scientiflo mlighten- '
ment, young and old, and rich and 1
poor, the simple and the lettered, the 1
sovereign and the subject have ever
sought to give expression to the deep '
rooted and most cherished 1
belief and aspirations of man- 1
Sind as well as to the
oys and sorrows that stir our dally 1
life through flames tbe frailest and
vet most fair of the things of earto. 1
“Tucy labor not, neither do they '
spin, but I say to you that not even 1
Solomon in all his glorv was arrayed -
as one of these.” The savages of 1
Florida offered fair gibs of flowers to 1
their divinity, the sun; the broken
hearted Tosega chief wreathed the '
head of bls dead child with tbe 1
brightest flowers, and, unselfish in I
bis sorrow, bade his people deck .
themselves gayly with blossoms and
rej nee that her spirit at rest;
tbe barbarous Mexicans, dlsorimlna- ‘
ting between their various beam lee, ‘
m.ki —amidst the most revolting ’
sacrifices of human life—oblations of
flowers to the God or Godde=s to
whose special worship appropriate 1
minds were dedicated; the followers '
of Biuddtia and Brahma outstripped
both the far-away savage and the 1
bloodthirsty barbarian in the lavish- 1
uess of similar gif's; the Egyptians 1
were little, If they were at all, behind
Brahmin and Buddhist; in the cere
monial of the chosen people we at 1
least, catch a glimpse of like prac
tices; then, turning tothe cultured
Greeks and warlike Romans, we see 1
tbe same rites upheld with all tbe '
intensity of which the keen sense of '
beauty of the one and the strong na- 1
tuie of tbe other made them capable, '
so that the very life of the peo- '
pie, in the temple, in the field, '
in the home, was bound '
up and interwoven with flowers,
and finally, coming tothe Christian
t-ra. often the first shrinking from
everything suggestive of idolatrv,
we see tbe ruler of the early Oourch
boldly incorporate these observances,
stripped of their heathen attributes,
with the ritual.” Beautifully and
delicately does the great dramatist
paint the custom:
‘■wbil.t lammor last. sad Ilves here. [Fidel.,
With Isin e- Sow-re,
I’ll eweetea thy red grave: thoa .halt not lack
The Viewers that’s like thy thee pale primruee,
nor
Tu* Beared hare-bell, like their vein*, no, nor
Tbe leal of Eglantine, whom not to Blinder,
OuUween’tt not tby breath. * * •
Yea, and farr’d moss besides, when flower* are
none.
To winter-ground thy corse.”
Would pillard monument speak as
effectively the deathless regard in
which we hold our dead as this aim
ole but unique observance? Would
memorial marble outlast the grati
tude oi Southern heart?, »nd as with
each returning year, the flowers ap
pear on tbe esytb, will not deft and
loving hands weave them into gar
lands for similar occasions? Oh, we
need no cold unspeaking statuary to
eternize that wblcn woman’s undy
ing love will each year embalm in
tbe fragrance of spring flowers. Let
that calculating spirit which
looks upon th© soldiers of
1 the Union as machines to
“crush out” a rebellion, not as tbe
instruments of a patriotic purpose,
. and whose selfish Intolerance is dis
, played in glorifying their achieve
ments at the expense of the feelings
■ of tnelr brave and honorable foe*
. who fought for an idea and from
convictions equallv as sincere—let
that unfraternal spirit raise its lofty
1 columns to commemorate a success
i won not by superior valor, but by
i greater numbers; but let no such
cold testimonial suffice for the heroic
' youth who, animated by love of
t country alone, went to the fore of tbe
) battle with the warm kiss of a South-
COLUMBUS, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 27.1882.
ern matron on bis chiek and the
blessings of the godly on bis bead.
Ob I for him let the flowers, tbe rich,
(variegated, significant flowers—the
poetry of nature fymbjT'zl ig
every refined sentiment, every stain
less affection, every holy aspiration—
let these, in their dying, breathe out
the redolence of his deeds while
“Sea-born galea their gilded wings expand
To waft th a fragrance round the amilh g land.”
Floral crowns and shiaiug stems
Nature'* fair and fragrant gems,
Kymb ‘l* oi the lasting fame
Wreath id with hia unfading name,
Strew hi* grave in blooming show, re
Tear-bedewed memorial fl were,
For hi* memory lives to-day,
Fresh and sweet, and will for aye."
A remarkable author of our day
unconsciously portrays tbe "Lost
Cause” with one stroke of her crea
ilve pen. “A pa'hetic inheritance in
which all the grandeur and the glorv
have become a sorrowing memory.”
The South is indeed the niche of
Nations, and
'‘Glowing round her dewy eves
The circled Iris of a night of tears,"
as she weeps her children slain in tbe
vain effort to repel her invaders. Tbe
only mementos of their patriotism—
the only monument of their valorous
deeds—is the beaped-up earth on
their noble breasts and the heaped
up flowers on tbetr mounds to day.
But each grave is a shrine—a holy
of holies—where woman ministers as
floral priestess and multitudes pre
sent their wreath, d offerings,
purest and choicest of niture’s
growth. And after awhile when the
passions of war have cooled and its
enmiiks have died, the mute of his
tory, as a faithful chronicler of the
deeds of men, following in their
wake to the sanes of our dead, win
ponder their rude inscriptions until,
in her heightening enthusiasm, she
will pluck the memory from woman’s
neart to blaz-n It to the world and
snatch the wr at.h from her hand to
lav it upon her own imperishable
tablets.
•‘Great deed* cannot die
Ttien with tho sun and moon renew their
youth.
Graves such as th**® sre pi’grini ahrln**
Uhrines to no code or crowd oonfiued;
The Delphian vales, the Palestine*,
The Meecss es the mind,"
Was this sacrifice in vain? Do we
m.urn them simply as victims oi
mistaken valor, of honest purpose,
but, unavailing rerolve? \vere only
iheir motives good, but their judg
m nt at fault? Did they follow an
ignis fatuus until engulphnd in tbe
si ugu of death? Aie they to be
judged by tbe i rtseut seeming fail
ure of their ifforts? filed not by
superior strategy, vanquished not by
gi eater con. age, but ctusbed by
sneer physical weight, do they de
serve less honor tnau those who
died In a winning ciuse? Heaven
forbid that I annul I se, It to pluck a
single leaf trom tbe l -urel crown ot
that victor m G ’neral wuose name
is "f ir g: uod"d sti o ig men of noble
deeds,” an,i who haa been honored
ot all people wtioseshores be baa vis
ited ; but, as I have read of tils public
entries into great cj: les. greeted by
the at'clamq' lons of the populace, my
thoughts have been raised to a graini
er scene of wbion the honors paid
General Grant were but tbe faintest
type —the entrance of the disen
thralled spirit of Lie—the Onrisdan
warrior—whose heart broke with the
woes of his people, but whose patient
lips gave no sign—welcome 1 of an
gels into the Jerusalem above. And
I have thought that the contrast 11
lustrated the difference between
Heaven’s judgment and that of men
concerning the transactions of this
earth—the commander of a success
ful army, receiving tbe unlimited
homage of tbe “base-born of time”—
the leaderof a Holy but "lost cause,”
remanded to obscurity und covered
with oblivion by tbe weakness of
men. but crowned by tbe King of
kings with an eternal "weight of
glory.”
And is such a cause indeed lost?
The cause sanctified by the sword of
Lee, the prayers of Jackson, tbe
cnivalry of Stuart, the unanimcui
support of a Christian people
and numbering Vs maityrs
by tbe hundred ihousand not
blind zealots, not ignorant dupes,
but an unequalled array of
intellect, of culture, of pa
triotism, and of pietv Is It
lost? Lost it may be to human per
ception, but not los' tothe all-seeing
eye and righteous judgment of him
who rules the nations. ’Twas not in
vain that our brothers bled on dis
tant fields of strife or pined in hos
pitals, consumed with disease and
home sickness; ’twas not in vain that
the beseeching eyes of the orphans
sought those of the devoted mother
in the anxious inquiry, "when will
father come home?,”—a question an
swered only by the opening afresh of
the floodgates of grief, as sue pressed
tbe babe to her bursting bremt. Her
cries have entered into tbe e <rs of tbe
Lord ot Srbaotb, and all her tears
have been bottled.
Our people contended for that
which is greater than mere powers ot
government or social institutions. It
was not secession, It was not slavery ;
for many who espoused our cause
entertained doubts as to the right
eousness of the one and the pro
priety of tbe other. We fought to
arrest the encroachments of Federal
power and to presetva human liberty
and Siate rights. Those of ns who
believed not in tbe right of secession
Hco<-pted the political doctrines of
Jrfferson enunciated in the Declara
tion of Independence that "where
any form of government becomes de
structive of th-se ends, (life, liberty
and tbe pursuit of happiness) it
is the right of the people * * *
to institute new Government, laying
its foundations on such principles
and organizing itg powers in such
form as to them shall teem most
likely to effect their safety and hap
piness.” Thosewho opposed African
slavery had oo desire to seethe white
master manacled. We could relin
quish slavery and abandon secession
as a constitutional mode of redress,
bu l never could we yield Magna
Chatta, and local Government; and,
therefore the conflict raged long af
ter the sword of Lee slept in its scab
bard, and until tbe last of the Con
federate sisterhood was relieved of
her fetters. Right surrendered to
might at Appomattox, but might ca
pitulated to right at Columbia, when
the President bowing to tbe potency
of public opinion, gave the order for
the retirement of tbe troops from the
last stronghold of despotism. Is it
without, significance that the heroes —
Hampton and G >rdon—who led the
last fruitless onset of the Confeder
acy, should have been chosen by
providence to lead tbe civic charge
whi-h overthrew the enemies of pub
lic liberty and effectually restored
the Union.
You ask, if the Union is simply re
instated, what has been the gain of
the war? Troublesome issues, ques
tions affecting the very life ot the
govern ment have been buried beyond
resurrection, liberty is dear to us be
cause of her baptism of flte and
blood, and tbe Union mor sacred to
the Northern heart bee se of the
sacriuces made by the people to
sustain it. So that Webster's
sublime apocalypse is actually
verified: “Not liberty fleet and
Union, now and forever, one
and Inseparable.” The North
saved the Union, tbe South preserved
liberty, and has shown the powers
of a manly race. And both, reunited
in bonds indissoluble, felicitate them
selves that the “winter is past, the
rain over and gone, the memorial
flowers appear on the earth, the time
of the singing of tbe birds Is come,
and tne voice of the turtle is
heard in our land.” And entering
into the fruiifulness of an un
dividided inherit anoe, each ex
claims: The fig tree putteib forth
her green tigs, and the vines with the
tender grape give a good smell,
Arise my loving fair one come
away. There was one, a blind old
Italian astronomer, whose mental
gaze more obedient than her usual
organ pierced the mlstery of the
heavenly bodies and revealed the
true system of tho Universe. Rome
at once denounced the heretic and
summoning him to her bar,
presented the alternative ot a recan
tation or cruel torture. Bowing to
the mandate of ecclesiastical power
the old men publicly abjured his
theory but at the same time sollo
voce exclaimed: “Nevertheless It
moves.” The papal superstition pre
isned with the ignorance which
gave it birth while Galielo is im
mortal, For generations before tbe
war the southern people were trained
by their political loaders in a broad
school or statesmanship. No pent
up Utica controlled their principles,
whose vigor was demonstrated by
our remarkable growth as a na
tion so long as they dominated
the government. But fanaticism
lifted its hydra-front poisoning foun
tains of national life and these prin
ciples were brought down to the
physical test of war—Greek against
Greeks, and the m< st Greeks coquor
ed. Forced by tho repressive results
to forego their public assertions, our
convictions were unchanged and we
still avowed to oursehoa: “We be
lieve we were certainly honest.”
And as “all things serve th> ir time
toward that great year of equal
might and ngtits,” we can serve
our time and leave to history the
vindications of our conduct. If the
South “eired ’tv»as In her own grand
way,” and her mighty woes have
atoned tne error, if her crippled en
ergies have been unable to retrieve
the disaster. But while accepting '
in its fullness an 1 as a finality all
that the war settled, wo still pro. 1
claim our perfect confidence In the
eventual triumph ot tnat idea of gov
ernment which was the mainspring
of our revolution. The North made
tbe Union a fact—thv South will pre
serve it as a principle, R>me cm- ,
quered Greece but the latter com
pelled her masters to do homage to '
her genius and to borrow her Ideas. 1
Goth and Hun overun the fair 1
plains of Italy, but the subjugated '
people gave religion, and cub ure and ,
laws to their barbarian foes. Thi- ,
Norman conqueror swept alike tne ,
fields, tbe customs and even sought
to abolish tbe language of A bion. ,
but Anglo-Saxon vigor absorbed the i
poison and sprang furward to tho ex- <
sited position as the ruling race of ’
earth. We have be n—we are erill—
a stricken, impoverished people. 1
But our land of sacred memories are I
ilch in tne present possession of (
the bones of our hero s, fair and
noble women, luxuries flowers arid
unsullied honor. These we would
not exchange for the opulence of ,
kings or the treasure of rbe world.
Let us refrain our voices from weeps
lug and our eyes from tears, for these
shall come again from the land of
the enemy. This beautiful city con
tributed tbe flowers of her youth
and chivalry to the armies of the
Confederacy. Tbe greater part of
them returned no more, but sleep
where they fell. No memorial flow
ers will be laid to-day on the sod
that covers them, for the places are
inaccessible even to love. But while
we decorate only a small parrot the
hallowed soil that entombs
‘■The silent armies lying still,
In the valleys, on the kill,”
We will make our procedure typical
of a universal act.
Your Camak and Chilton and Col
quitt and Davis and Fontaine and
Harris and Hodges and Holland
and Holt and Jones and Lamar end
Nelson and O’Hara and Philips and
Rimsev and Ba lie bury and Seott. and
gemtnea and Stearnes and Tillman
and Williams and last, and perhaps
greatest, Benning, tbe “Old Boek”
against whom the waves of battle
dashed only io be broken—with a
long line of others less conspicuous
but not les? gallant here joined the
great divisions of the Confederacy,
which have crossed the river and rest
under the shade ot the trees. Their
dust is a sacred treasure ot your soil.
Their children snouli be the wards
of their countrymen. When we, too,
have “fought the good fight” and
overcome in the might of tne High
est. mav we s and tn tbe shining
ranks of conquerors when prize is
not tbe transparent trophies of earth,
but tbe grandeur and more enduring
spoils of heaven. And now we pro
ceed to decorate tbe graves. Let us
GovAt them oyer with beantifnl flowers.
Deck thorn wiUg*rla< fls, tho*i brotherßof ourr,
Lying so silent, • y night and by day
Sleeping the years of iheir manhood away,
cover the face* that mottontesa He,
Shut from tho blu» of th. glorioua iky.
Oovar tbelr hand, that an lying untied
Oroaaed on tbe bo.om and low by the aide,
Clover the feet that ail weary and torn
Hither by comradea tenderly borne
Feet that have trodden tne Bowery waya
Close b> your own In th. old happy days.
Cover the hearta that hav. beaten ao high
Beaten with hopea that doomed but to die,
Hearta that have yearned for their bomea for
away,
Caver tbe thousanda who aleep far away
Sleep where tbelr frknda sannot And them to
day
They who in mountain and hlllaide and deli
Beat wne,e the? wearied ana Ila where they fell
When the long yeara have rolled alowly away.
B’e n to the da v> i of earth’s funeral day
When at tbe arohangei’a'rumpet and tread
Ria- up the tacea and forma ot the dead
when tie great world 1U laat judgment awaits.
When the b us aky eball open ita gatea
and our long columa march ailently through
Paet the Great aaptani for Boat review
When from tbe Mood that ban Bowed for the
right
Crown, ahalt aprlng upward, uutarnl.hed and
bright
When tho glad ear. of each war-martyred eon
P> o idly ehall hoar the glad tiding, "well done'’
BleMlnge for gerlendo obeli cover tbeiq over
Ood will reward thoae haroea of our.
And cover them over with beautiful 4,were,
. Special to Post-Appeal.
Mr. Stephens Willßuu.
Washington, D. 0., April 26.—1 f
the mass meeting of Georgia Indg-
I pendents should unanimously en
. dotse Ab xander H. Stephens for In
d-pendent canoidate for Governor he
will certainly run.
J. T, B.
Special to Pont-Appeal.
Arnold’s Confirmation.
Washington, April 26.—The early
confirmation of Arnold for tho Co
lumbus office is urged by tbe‘depart
ment. as It is anxious to relieve the
bondsmen of the la'e postmaster.
Washington. Apt it 26.—Locke will
undoubtedly be provided for, and will
get something as good as the Colum
bus posioffice. Mr. James Atkins,
Os Savannah, Georgia, will cer
tainly be tbe new United States
Judge in Georgia. Col. Marcellus E,
Thornton leaves for home this after
noon.
Flies and Mo quitoes.
A 15c. box ot “Bough on Ruts,” will keed
a house fre.< trom Illes, mosquitoes, rate
and mine, the entire season. Druggist.
CITY TAX OhbINANCE, 1882
Ordinance to levy and assess taxes and
raise Revenue for tho city of Columbus,
Ga.. for tho year A. D, 1882:
Section 1. Beit ordained by the Mayor
and Oouna'l of the City of Columbus, and
It Is hereby ordained by virtue of authori
ty vested .n the same, that for the pur
pose ot defraying the necessary expenses
of the city, and sustaining the credit
thereof, for paying tbe interest on the
bonds issued under authority of ordl
nunoe adopted May 1, 1876, and amended
June 5, 1876, and on the bonds issued
under authority of an ordinance adopted
Julyl, 1878, and amended December 2,
1878, tor the puiposeol redeeming allout
etaiidmg bonds or the city, and tor the
purchase or bonds authorized in said or
dinance; tor supporting and maintaining
cue public Svnools, anti lor other purposes,
ordinary and contingent, the tuxes and
revenue hereinafter mentioned ehall be
levied und collected tor the year 1882.
1. Ou all taxable real estate within the
coiporate limits of tbe city, upon the
assessed value thereof, there shall be
levied and collected for the ordinary cur
rent expenses ot said city, a tax ot one
half per cent,; and tor the purchase of
bonds and payment ot the said coupons
tolling due during the year, one-halt oi
on per-cent, payable ou and after the
first day of April: and upon the whole,
or any other portion ot such tux pula
before the Ist ot Muy, proximo, there
siiitll be allowed » discount ot 4 per cent..
und upon the amount paid between the
Ist ot May and Ist or July, 2 per cent.,
and for till taxes unpaid on the Ist 01
July.
2. On all household und kitchen turnl
ture, and 011 jewelry, silver plate, musi
cal Instruments, horses, mules and other
animals, and on all vehicles kept for use
or pleasure, by physicians or others, on
the market value thereof, one per cent.,
to be apportioned and applied us the tax
upon reul estate, to-wit: one-halt pei
cent, for ordinary current expenses, and
one-halt per cent, for purchase ot bonds
nn,l payment of coupons falling due as
above.
3. On all gross sales, credit and cash, of
all goods, wares, merchandise and pro
duce sold, except at public outcry, Inclu
ding nil cammeetou sales, except ot
cotton >4-10 of one per cent.
4. Ou all gross sales by manufacturers
ot articles <>l their own manufacture,X
p r sent., bat when retailed, txoept to
tnelr own operatives or sold to others
than merchants, 4-10 of one per cent.
5 On gross receipts ot warehousemen
tor storage and delivery ot cotton and
other merchandise, 4 per cent; and on all
sales of merchandise, 4-10 of one per cent.
0 On gross receipts for premiums In
1882of Insurance companies or agents, 2
per cent.
7. Ou gross receipts ot gas companies, 1
per cent.
8. On gross receipts ot any business not
mentioned In the above, including bar
rooms, billiard saloons, bakeries, livery
stables, wagon yards, maible yards, lum
ber dealers, restaurants, printing offices,
sewing machine agents, wood and coal
dealers, and butchers 4-10 ot 1 per cent.
9. On the gross sales of all goods, wares,
merchandise, or produce sold In tne city,
by transient or Itinerant traders or specu
lators, not Including those who bring pro
duce tor sale In wagons Hom the country,
but Including such transient or Itinerant
traders or speculators as deposit their
goods, wares, produce, or other articles
tor sale in the oaoe, depots, warehouses,
stores or other places in the city, whether
sold by licensed auctioneers 01 other per
sons, 2 per cent. One-halt of the net t»x
so collected from such parties shall be
paid to any person who shall give notice
to the Treasurer of any s„le by such par
ties upon which they have not paid tax as
herein prescribed. All pei sone, resident
or otherwise, doing business of any kind
without a permanent place of business In
tbe city, and who have not registered and
paid such special tax as is provided In
this ordinance, shall be held and deemed
Itinerant traders. The above tax does not
apply to sales to merchants by samples.
10. Horse or cattle drovers or dealers
shall pay a tex ot % per cent, on all sales
made by them.
All transient or Itinerant traders Id
stock, bringing the same to the city t r
sale, shall be required to report to the
City Treasurer «>n arrival the number of
stock on hand, and make a deposit ot one
dollar per hsad, or give ot her satistoetory
security tor the payment ot tbe tax on all
sales made by them.
Any person or persons violating this or
dluauce shall be fined tor each day’s de
fault, In tbe discretion of the Mayor.
11, On each and every male Inhabitant
of the city, between Ihe ages of 21 and 60
years, excepting active firemen, as re
ported bv tbe secretary of each company
by the ist of April, the sum ot $2 as a
commutation tor street tax: provided,
however, that such persons may be re
lieved or eaid tax by laboring three con
secutive days upon the streets ot the city,
under the direction of the Street Commit
tee, between the present aate and the Ist
of July.
Section 12. If any person, firm or corpo
ration shall fall or retuse to make a return
ot their sales, esrnlngs or receipts, as re
qulred above, within 10 days after the Ist
day ot January, April, July and October,
they shall be summoned before the May
or’s Court and shall be Hable to a fine of
$lO for each day’s default there
after In the discretion ot the
Mayor: and If any person, firm, or
corporation shall make a return that in
the Judgment ot the Finance Committee is
considerably less than should be returned,
th« Committee shall assess such amount
as they may deem juat, and It the party
so assessed shall object to said assess
ment, they may produce their books, and
the whole matter be referred to Council
tor their determination.
SECTION 3—SPECIAL OB BUSINESS TAX.
Auctioneers, and 1 per cent, on all
gross sales, to be given In and
paid quarterly 60
Apothecaries as merchants.
Agencies, (not specially mentioned)... 25
Bunks or hankers, or any corporation
or individuals doing a banking
business 250
Brokers 75
Billiard tables 20
Pool tables 50
Bagatelle tables.... • 10
Bowllug saloon 30
Blacksmith ship, (one forge) 2y,
“ “ if more than one
forge 5
Barber shops, each oualr 5
Bakeries 25
Ogar manufacturers 20
Commission merchants, cotton fac
tors and shippers 40
Cabinet shops io
Merchants whose annual sales exceed
JIO.OOO 40
Merchants whose annual sales exceed
$3,000 and do not exceed $10,000,, 30
Merchants whose annual sales do not
exceed $3,000 20
Manufacturers ot soda water and
other drinks 20
Marble yards or marble merchants.. 25
Coal yards 25
Carriage buggy and wagon reposito
ries. 25
Cotton or produce exchange or buck
et shop 200
Clothing or underwear, persons tak
ing orders for 25
Cotton or woolen factories or flouring
mills 40
Circuses, per day 25
“ each sideshow 100
Dancing masters, per quarter 150
Dye houses 25
Express companies 10
Eating bouses, restaurants, or sa- 10
loons of any kind—Bret emss.... 200
do. second Claes
Foundaries and machine shops 12
alone 6
Machine shops or planing mills alone 60
Factories, sash and blind and planing 30
mills 30
Furniture manufacturers
Gas companies 100
Gun and locksmith 10
Gin agents, or persons selling gins on 1
commission—ln addition to all
other taxes 10
Gift enterprise, with any game of
chance connected therewith 1,000
Hotels, first class 50
• second “ 25 I
Hucksters, subject to market toll ad -
ditlonal, per quarter 1 .
Ice and fish dealers 0g I
“or “ - 95 ,
Inte.fgence offices 12 !
Fertilizers, on each guano or fertill-
zer company doing business In
the city, whether by agent or
otherwise.
Insurance companies, local or for- 50
elgn
But li receipts of premiums tor the
year shall be less than SSOO, a re
bate ot $25 will be allowed.
Junkshops 100
Lotternes, or any game ot chance. ..1,400
Lottery agents, or sellers ot lottery
tickets
Labor brokers or emigration agents 25
Lightning rod agents, or dealers.... 5
Livery, sale and teed stables 25
Lumber dealers, whether delivering
from yards or depots 25
Organ grinders or stieet musicians
per month 40
Oyster dealers 20
Printing, (publishing, or job) offices . 50
“ offices (Job and Binding). . 45
“ “ (“ alone 50
Public halls, tlrst-clase ;2
“ “ second class 2
Pawnbrokers 15
Produce brokers, selling by orders to
merchants or others 20
Peddlers of patent medicines, <fco., per
day, or at the discretion of tbe
Mayor
Pistol gallery 25
Paint shops 10
Beal estate agents 25
Repairers ot watches and jewelery... 10
Boda fount or ice eream saloons. 10
Skating rink or dancing halls 25
Telegraph companies 200
Telephone companies 75
Tailors 5
Warehouses 200
Wagon yards 25
street peddlers, per quarter 15
Hewing machine agents 40
Wagon yards with livery stabelpiivi
leges, <0
Wood yards 10
Wheelwrights ... .5
Merchants or manufacturers not
turned in above list 50
Each and every contractor or build-25
er, master mechanic or architect,
taking contracts amounting to SIOO
or mors, or civil engineer 10
Each person exercising the vocation ot
street drummer tor the sale of mer
chandise, (the party to be eon fined
In his operations to the sidewalk
Immediately io front of the store
employing him) 160
Transient traders In goods, wares and
merchandise of any dessrlptlon,
who sell to merchants, on actual
delivery, not by sample or order,
also such as sell to consumers
whether by sample, on order,
or actual delivery 40
Any special tax or business mer Honed
in section 3 shall be paid annually
tn advance, unless otherwise speci
fied
Fereign peddlers with 4-10 of 1 per
cent on all sales 40
Section 4. The Mayor shall have full
authority to impose such taxes as he may
deem just aud equitable npon all local
or Itinerant traders or agents not spe
cially mentioned In these ordinances.
Section 5. Transient traders In goods,
wares and merchandise of any descrip
tion or any article whatsoever, before ex
posing the same, shall each pay such
special tax as Is fixed In these ordinances,
or by the Mayor—also agents for the sale
ot any article whatever, ilinerent physi
cians or sellers ot proprietary articles.
Section 6. Arty person or persons sub
ject or liable to pay a special tax above
prescribed, and tailing to do so before the
let day ot April, shall on conviction be)
fore the Mayor, be Hable to a line ot S2O
tor each day's default thereafter, and lo
default of payment of fine, such other
nuniebmeht as the Mayor may In hie
discretion, Impose.
Section 7. This ordinance shall be sub
ject to alteration and repeal, in whole or
In part, at any time during the year 1882,
should It be deemed advisable; and no
such amendment or repeal In any part
ticular shall be construed to Impair the
right of Council to assess and levy a tax
tor tbewbole of said year 1882, wbeneve
made.
DRAY AND BBTAIL LIQUOR LIOENBE.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil ot the city or Oolumbus, that the fol
lowing rates of license for the year 1882,
shall be charged, vix:
One-horse dray, express or back.. S2O
Two-horse dray, express or hack 30
Nhree-horse dray 35
Four-horse dray 40
Two-horse omnibus 39
Four-borse omnibus 40
License shall be payable semi-annually
In advance, from January Ist and July Is
respectively.
Section 2. Dray" or other wagons run
by any person or firm In their own busi
ness or otherwise, and hauling any article
whatever(as lumber, wood, coal, dirt, etc
and charge drayage therefor, ehall pay
the same Hoarse as ie charged other
drays.
sections. Be itiurther ordained that
the rates of retail liquor license for 1882,
ehall be
For first-class license $l5O
For seoond-claea license. 100
Payably quarterly In advance.
Second 4 Any person or firm who shall
sell any spirituous or malt liquors In any
quantity, and allow the same to be drank
on their premises, shall be required to
take out second-class license in addition
to such special tax as may be otherwise
liable for.
Adopted In Council Feb. 1, 1882.
CLIFF B. GBIMES, Mayor.
1 M. M. Moors, Clerk Council.
: STKAWBERMBS
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; The Finest of the Season.
Received Daily.
' Place your orders early in tbe morn
ing, that I may deliver them
in time for dinner.
I will keep the Finest Strawberries
during the season and will supply
them in any quantity.
PARTIES AND FESTIVALS SUP.
PLIED ON SHORT NOTICE.
Prices Reasonable and Satisfactory.
J. J. WOOD.
153 Braod Street,
Directly opposite.!. 8. Jones’ Dry
Goods House.
THE COLUMBUS PUBLIC PRODUCE
-AND-
Cotton Exchange !
42 Broad St., Columbus, Ga.
o
CUMMINGS BROS. & CO.,
MANAGERS.
rpBANBAOTIONS IN
COTTON, GRAIN and PROVISION FUTURES,
In l*rq>.) *nd > mail lot*. Bend for copy of
Rale* lor trading. Correspondence coltoitod
•ud daily market report* furnished to friend*
and patron* in and out of the city, without
charge, api'Jl lw
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
meh -jtMw
GOLD MEDAL AWARDED THE AUjilUh.
BA new <t arro.vt Medical W at k.
warrant ed tha butt and cheap
wt, indispensable to every
man, entitled “the Science ot
life,” bound in finest French
m ualin. emboa wd, t□ 11 gi It, 300
pagea, contains beautiful steel
engravings, 125 prescriptions,
price only f 1.25 sent by mail:
illustrated sample, 6 c.: sand
now. Address Poabndy Medi
cal insfitutenr Dr. W lI.PAB*
fU‘!it,No.4 IJuliinchbL Houten.
mrh 2R-4W
AAA HKW*BD! for any esse of
3) A Vr VF Blind Bleeding, itching. Uloer
sled. or Protruding Pile* lh-»a DeBING’B PILIi
REMEDY fall* to cure. Prepared by J. P. MIL
LER. M.D.,915 Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
None genuine without his signature. Send tor
circular* Sold by druggist* and country store*,
>l. meh 28 4w
Pflrkor , c t3kl:Krca ' 351X1
raIMJI 0 TOHiTIO.
Best Health and Strength Restorer Used’
Cure* cemplaints es Wowen and di*ea*e*o*
he St omach, Bowe'*. Lungs, Liver and Kidneyr
nd i* entirely different from Bitters, Ginger
ssence p and other Tonic*, a* it never int oxg
ate*. 6i*c. and fll ■z *. Large saving buiin
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BIDCC IMPBOVKD ROOT BEFtt 25c.
IRLU pacNago, make* S gallon* of * dsli
clous, who eeome, sparkling temperance
beverawo. Ask your druggist, or sent by
mail for 2Sc. O. E HIKES, 48 N- Dsl*. Ave..
Philadelphia. mrh
I AND PATENT
AWP PENSION ATTORNEYS.
Land Patent* obtained, and special attention
given to contest d Pre-*mpti-u t Hcunes'ead,
Miner* 1 ana Timber Oultnre Entries. Highest
price paid for Land Warrants and Scrip of all
kinds. Pensions Procured for teoidisr* and
Sailors disabled in line of duty. Pensions in
or rased if rated too low. Bounty, beck pay
and new disc-arge* obtained Send two 3c,
stamp* for blank* and “Circular of Inf or mo
tion." Address BTODDART A CO.,
413 ft St., N. W.. WaahlngtOD. D. C.
meh 28-4 w
F 0 T business now before the public. You
Kr \ I can make money faster at work for
UL>V I ns at anything els*. Capital not
needed. W* will start you. »12aday and up
ward made at home by the industrious. Mui,
women, boys and sirl* wanted everywhere to
work for us. Now in the time. Ycu can work
in spare time only or give your whole time to
the business. You can live at home and do the
work. No other business will pay you nearly as
well. No one ean fail to make enormous pay by
Dgsging onoe. Costly outfit and term* free
Money made fast, easily and honorably. Ad
drea* Tn k Co.. Awust Maine.
ft ft I ft Great chance to make money. Tho*
111 II li who always take advanUge °f tha
LU (good chances for makine money that
are offered, generally beecme wealthy, while
those who do not improve such ehsDce* remain
in poverty. We w*nt men, women, boy* and
girl* to work for na > ight Id iheir own localities.
Any one ean do the work properly from tbe first
•tart. Th« business will pay more than ten
times ordinary wage*. Expensive outfit fur
nished free. N > one who engages tail* to make
money rapidly. You ean devote year whole
time te tbe work, or only your spare momaate
For information and all that i* needed.
Address Huvson k Co. Portland.
Fac-Bimiles of U. 8. Treasury
AND NATIONAL BANK BILL’S,
Oonalatiuc oi nine r»ct imitation* of ttai'od
Treaa< ry Notea, and nine of National
Bank Bli a, IS tn all of variona denomluitona.
As a r.re m.ana ot detecting conntarl.it money
tbry are Invaluable. Poatal aard. not awarad.
A. B. T.tNV,
104 w«l street. Nov lock City.
marebl dttfcwnt
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons having claim* against the estate
of the late P. H. Alston, are notified to pre
sent them as the law prescribes, and parties in
debted to ths said estate will make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
MRS. A. A.OTT,
MRS.W.T DUBOSE, Administratrix
apH-dlt-wtt
Sherift’s Sales.
GEOBGIA, CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY
Will bo >old baler, tho court-bonao door of
■aid county In Cnaaola. Georgia, on tbe drat
Tuesday In May u,it witbin the legal boar, es
•ale tbe following property te wit: Ona hundred
and twenty acr,a of lot of land number two
hundred and alx, oev.n tare, of lot number two
hundred and isvrn, lot number two handrod
and ten, .nd lot number two handrod and elev
on, oil in tbe Sixth Bl.trlet ot originally Mnoeo.
' geo, now Cbattoboocuee county, bounded on the
, e.ot by Mr«. M. H. Sapp’, dower, on the tooth
' by Undo ot W. A. Sapp W. W. Shipp, on the weat
1 by Mro. T- Weemea and on the north by by A. D.
Ha> p, levied on under and by virtue of a t. O.
I in my band*, leaned from the Superior Court W
' Cbtttaboooboe county, io favor of Jamoa Oaatle
berry. Ordinary, for u.e of Jaa M. Davie, traa
, too. H. R. Haotiog. va Abb Wooldridge and Hel
. en M. Vlgal. executor. Henry C. Vlgal; alee a
fl. fa. tn lover of Jamea Caatlebom, Ordinary.
■ tor «• of June. X. Davie, trnatoa for Mn. Julia
E. Holcomb va. Abb Wooldridge and Helen M.
Vlgal, exeoutora Henry 0. Vlgal,Tenant la poa
aeaalon notiaod In writing.
aprtlSwtw r. 0. Hownx* Sheriff.
NO. 99