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WASHINGTON LETTER.
from our Regular Carreiyondent,
Washington, D. 0., April 25,1880.
In spite at the grim tragedy that
hung like a pall over the opening of
the fashionable season at the Capitol,
vanity Fair has ntver shown with
more brilliancy than during the past
winter and present spring, and now
that the six months of mourning pre
scribed by our English imitating of
ficial etiquette is over, and the re
pressive days of Lent are passed all
semblance of restraint is laid aside
and Washington, from sage Sena
tor to sweet sixteen, is nightly mass
ed at a reception, a great dinner, a
ball, or the opera. At th s Presiden
tial receptions during the last two
weeks the dressing was unsurpassed
by anything I have ever seen, ex
cept perhaps the toilettis of
“Nana’* and those of her class
at the grandprix de Paris in 1878.
The gentlemen of the foreign lega
tions wore court dress witb great dis
play of golden lace and buttons, and
It was necessary for the ladies to
throw the utmost possible splender
Into their costumes in order to vie io
brilliancy with the trtnseled soldiers
and diplomats. The display of dia
monds was literally dazzling. Nosucb
display has been seen since Mrs.
Ashton appeared, during the last
administration, loaded with precious
stones and followed by hired detec
tives.
Among successful dinner givers
Senator Fair must be awardel the
first place. He lives in a large house
adjoining th i Arlington Hotel. The
building is superb in all its appoint
ments. The practically unlimited
wealth of the bachelor senator ena
bles him to dine everybody that is
worth dining. It was impossible, of
course, for congress, officers of the
army and of the navy, to sit down to
his table at one time, but he has fol
lowed the programme of the presi
dent’s state dinners, and by inviting
en group, has gotten pretty well
through the list. At a dinner given
by him, attended by the president,
cabinet, and their families, there
yere sixteen courses and eight varie
tias of wine.
President Arthur has not upheld
the banner of teetotallsm with very
great enthusiasm, and has incurred
the displeasure of those who lament
the end of the administration of Mrs.
Hayes. He has been accused of un
Deeming 1 debauchery and of making
£he While House a chapel of drunken
saturnalia. On the other hand it is
claimed that while not a total ab
stainer he has complete control of
his appetite, and that neither he nor
his companions ever go beyond the
bounds of decorum. One of his de
fenders goes so far as to say that his
cares and bisdev»tion to the business
of his epited office have caused him
to lose twenty pounds in weight. I
do not believe this last story. He Is
certainly stouter looking, and has
more • dor than he had when he pre
sided over the Senate one year ago,
or when be appeared at the inaugural
ball at the National Museum scarcely
noticed among the greater celebri
ties there.
I went one day last week to attend
the lectures of the Academy of
Sciences, now held in one of the
rooms of the National Museum. Mr.
Cushing was lecturing on the my
thology of the Zunl Indians, while
t|alf-a : dozea representatives of the
tribe, in native Qostume, sat on the
platform behind him, fast askep, I
could not help thinking of the last
time I bad been in the building,
lighted and heated to sufficasion,
crowded with the wealth and talent
and beauty and wickedness of the
country. About ten o’clock'here,
was a commotion in the crowd, and a
rush to the western door through
which entered the pale, care-worn
baret-looklng President with Mrs,
Airfield on his'arm.
The Griffin Sews does not believe
that the prosperity of the peo
ple of this country depends
upon the ascendency of any particu
lar polltipal party. We agree fully
With the News in its belief. The
prosperity of the country depends
upon the inteligence, energy and in
dustry of the same people who give
tshe, charapter and power to the
Cfove rn inept.
The New York JForld figures up
that the next House of Kepresenta
tives will consist of 325 merners, and
predicts that of those 193 will be
Pemoorats, 137 Republicans and five
Green backers or Independents. It
takescare, however, to add that 163
will constitute a majority, and that
“Democratic foolishness” may upset
the whole calculation.
The only pad guaranteed to cure dia
betes, gravel, dropsy, Bright's disease,
nervous debility, and all diseases of the
kidneys and bladder, is Prof. Gullmetta’s
French Kidney Pad. I
•VEINS A STATE.
Some time since the Legislature of
New Hampshire passed a law author
izing its citizens, holding claims
'against another State, to transfer
them to the State for suit in the Uni
ted States Supreme Court. The ob
ject of this action was to evade the
United States Constitution, which, in
the Xlth amendment, declared in
force January Bth, 1798, distinctly
states that “ The judicial power of
the United States shall not be con
strued to extend to any suit in law or
tend to any suit in law or equity,
commenced or prosecuted against
one of the United States by the citi
zens of another State, or by the citi
zens orsubjects of any foreign State.”
To avoid this plain provision of our
organic law, which effectually pre
vents a state from being sued by the
citizens of any other state in the
Union—adopted In recognition of the
principle of sovereignty, and founded
upon the old common law maxim
that “the king can do no wrong”—
the New Hampshire legislature pass
ed the above mentioned act so that
certain of its citizens, holders of
Louisiana bonds might bring suit in
the name of New Hampshire against
Louisiana. In accordance with said
law a suit is now pending in the
United States supreme court by New
Hampshire against Louisiana, to re
cover claims for debt, which the lat
ter state has virtually repudiated and
refused to recognize.
The result of this suit will be
watched with great interest, as it in
volves several very important ques
tions. The constitmional amend
ment above allude I to was adopted,
as we have stated, to main
tain the dignity and sovereignty of a
State. It will be a matter of no little
interest, therefore, to note whether
the United States Supreme Court—
that presumable great bulwark of
the principles of the Republic—will
thus count nance such open evasion
of our organic law. If a State has
the right thus to transfer the claims
of its citizens against a sister com
monwealth to itself for the purpose
of bringing action against that
commonwealth, then the aforemen
tioned clause in the Constitution
might as well be wholly expunged,
since it virtually becomes, at once,
of no force. The action of New
Hampshire in this matter certainly
has the appearance of being but a
shrewd piece of sharp practice.—
Savannah News:
Shaving the Face.
New Yor k Journal of Commerce
Tbiity years ago a few persons of
foreign birth appeared in the streets
wiih hair on the upper lip, and were
objects of public ridicule In 1850
some of the youog swells of the me
tropolis began to wear moustaches,
but for some time no clerk would
venture to imitate them. In one case
a merchant on Pine street, who had
engaged a clerk for twelve months,
or during good behavior, discharged
him for wearing a full beard, claim
ing that the adoption of the fashion
laid the clerk open to dismissal un
der the good behavior clause of the
contract. About the same time a
number of leading merchants gave
no,ice they would employ nobodv
who wore hair on the upper l>p. As
late as 1851 the senior proprietor of
this pap -r made his cashier shave off
an incipient mustatche, and soon
after brought his own son under the
razor. In the church of Dr. Bethune
of Brooklyn Heights who was suffer
ing tr im a lame wrist allowed bis
beard to grow rather than submit to
a barber. The habit beginning in
necessity, continued on account of
the increase of comfort which it af
forded, and the elder flaunted his
beard before tne congregation con
stantly, The result was laughable.
Many of the brethern called upon
the pastor to insist upon doing away
with such a scandal as a full-bearded
elder, He led them to his libra
ry and showed them how some of
the etrly fathers had pleaded against
out'ing off the beard, “He turned to
Lactantius, Theodore. Bt. Augustine
and Bt. Caprican, who had strongly
contended for the growth of th* whole
beard. He quoted from Clement of
Alexander the assertion: 'Nature
adorned men, like a lion, with a
beard, as a mark of strength and
power. When one of the visitors
asked him bow he would like it if
t he clergy as-umed the mustache, Dr.
Bethune referred him to a decision of
the fourth council of Carthage
(A. D. 252, can. 41), in which it
was positively enacte 1 that a cleric
shall not shave bis beard, and to a
statement made by Lu her in dis
cussing the subj ct. that 'all the
Protes'ant martyrs were burned in
their full b-ards.’” This did not
settle the matter, for, consequently,
rhe ladies of th« congregation put io
their protest. But in a few months
a venturesome lawyer let bis beard
grow after the manner of the elder,
and in a little wbile smooth shaven
faces were no longer the rule, but
were the exception.
Alligator Esthesties.
The alligator’s mode of obtaining
a living is thus discribed: He is
a lazy dog. and instead of hunting
for something to eat he lets his vic
tuals bunt him. That is. he lies with
bis mouth oppn, and apparently
dead like the possum, Soon a bug
crawls into it, then a fly, then sev
eral gnats and a colony of mosqui
toes. Tne alligator don’t close bls
mouth yet. He is waiting for a whole
drore of things. He does his
eating by whole sale. A little
later a lizard will cool himself un
der the shade of 'he upper jaw.
Then a few frogs will hop up to catch
the mosquitoes. Then more mosqui
toes and gnats light on the frogs.
Finally a whole village of insects and
reptiles settle down for an afternoon
picnic. Then all at once there is an
earthquake. The big jaw falls, the
alligator slyly blinks one eye, gulps
down the whole managerie, and
opens his great front door again for
I more visitors,
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 28,1882.
Drew and Vanderbilt.
GoM.
"Oh, yes. I was a boy of his. a
kind of a juvenile pet. Ooe day he
asked me to go to Delmonico’e and
have dinner with him. and his dinner
consisted of an order for one. There
being two mutton chops, he took
one and I the other. That was the
way he ate when be had to pay his
his own food bill, living on the poor
stuff and setting up colossal jobs. He
then wanted me to sell him one
thousand shares of Erie. It was at
the time when there was a great con
test for the Erie property. He told
me to sell it for 142, but to get rid of
it at as low a price as 137. The old
man repudiated the contract, threw
me on the brokers, and flnuliy man
aged by squatting and begging to
get rid of his stock at over 240. On
another occasion, years afterward, I
had learned a point on Like Shore,
and went into his office and asked
him to buy me a thousand shares.
He looked at me a minute and gave
the order. I gave away the point and
they began to buy all around the
street, aud the first thing we
knew that stock gave way and I was
out $7,5tM). I found that old Drew had
set the trap for us all, and I said to
him, ‘Mr. Drew, you ougbn’t to have
done that to me, considering that I
was brought up to regard vou as my
father.’ 'My son,’ said he, ‘you lay
low now; let me get away with these
other fellows, and I will make it up
to you.’ He never made up one cent
to me. He had not th* least con
science. Alter he had failed he would
sit by me in the St. James Hotel,
with his eyes all full of tears, saying;
‘Gussie, I ought to have made you
rich; I wronged you, Gussie.’ He
spent his whale life scheming to get
nob, cheating his body of good
victuals. Religion was bis recreation.
After one of his big rakes, when he
had carried combustion and death to
people he would softly murmur over,
'Glory to my soul: happy day?’ ”
“Was Vanderbilt any better than
Daniel Drew?”
“Not a bit better. Drew was afraid
of Vanderbilt, and rather looKed up
to him. Vanderbilt rather liked
Drew because he would toady. One
day Vanderbilt was looking out of
the front window of an office on Wall
street, and be said to Drew : 'Do you
see that young man by that lamp
post across the street?’ 'Yes, Com
modore, who be’s h*?’ ‘That is my
son, Cornelius, said Vanderbilt; ‘now,
iMr. Dtew, if you will take him down
to the Battery and tie a tops around
his neck and a stone to the end of
ihe rope end throw him overboard
and sink him well so that I shall
never see him agin, I will give you
$5,000.’ ‘Why,Commodore,’said old
Drew, ‘what am m vou be’s; what a
man you be’s.’ Vanderbilt hated
every child be had ” continued my
informant. “He put Bill Vanderbilt
on an old farm on Staten Island,
wh*re he could hardly make a living,
designing <o keep himself there for
life, and Bill used to go to a tavern
in the neighborhood and play a little
game of poker, and had to mortgage
the farm for $6,000 to pay his d--bts.
He had several children brn
there, and one day the mort
gage was foreclosed and execution
was to be done next day. A man
named Thorn went to Vanderbilt and
said: ‘Your son is to be put out to
morrow morning.’ ‘All right,’ said
Vanderbilt, ‘that’s what I want him
to be.’ ‘Well,’said the man, ‘his
little children will have nothing to
eat.’ ‘I don’t care anything about
it,’ said Vanderbilt, he is a sucker,
and I repudiate hin.’ ‘Well, sail
the man,‘it will be public scandal
that you have allowed your grand
children to s'arve.’ Tills rather
affected Vanderbilt, and he said:
‘You go and send my son here.’ ‘He
is afraid to com«,’ said the man, ‘you
abuse him so when he does come to
see you. ‘Theo you come with him,’
gild the Commodore. He finally
paid the mortgage. Ata later period
a gentleman said to Vanderbilt:
"Commodore, do you ever think what
you are going to do with your money?
You have kicked out Cornelius, and
your son George is dead, and Bill is
the only one you have left. It is no
place for him on Staten Is'and.
Bring him up and give him a chance.’
This was tbe beginning of William
Vanderbi|t. He sent his old
wife to the lunatic asylum
because she fed her son Cor
nelius, who, notwithstanding his
fits, was a man of more ablilily than
Bill. That boy was kicked out of
the bouse because he had these fits,
and was therefore repulsive to his
father. Consequently he had to bor
row money to get a living, and that
habit once begun, clung to him,
Vanderbilt was cruel to all bis chil
dren, and to bis wife also. The be
ginning of his fortune was bis wife,
who kept »n eatingttouse at N*w
Brunswick, where be ran a steamer
and saved every penny, her two
daughters waited on the table. One
day Vanderhudteaid to her. ‘I be
lieve I could get rich if I could get
another steamer and run it myself.
It will cost s3o'ooo. He did not know
how much the old woman had, and
she bad been afraid to tell him. She
went and drew out of the savings
bank the money she and her girls
had put there, and let him have it,
and there began bis career. He b»4
no gratitude to her, and while she
was ill he was visiting a woman at a
clairvoyant’s nearby his house, with
whom he used to go rifling, and
the wife had hardly been dead when
the other woman’s effects, bag and
baggage, were moved Into the
house.”
A Pittsburg Jury on “Futures.”
AJ?ittsburg special to the Chicago
Tribune says: A case of considerable
interest to brokers in grain was de
cided in the Quarter Sessions Court
here to-day. Tne defendants—Bryan,
McMullen and Gurfen, grain bro
kers—were indicted for keeping and
maintaining u gambling house, un
der the act of 1860, which refers to
games of chance, such as faro and
keno, and the methods adopted by
common gamblers. The testimony
for the prosecution showed that the
business in which they were engaged
was about the same as putting up
margins on oil and stocks.
They deal in options, “futures,”
and “puts” and “calls.” Considera
ble int-rest was manifested in the
case, from the fact that it involved
the very importrnt question whether
tbe grain brokerage business, or any
other similar business of a specula
tive character, is legitimate. The
Judge, in charging the jury, merely
reviewed the testimony, and left the
question of speculation in stocks of
any kind, or options, before the jury.
The verdict as delivered decided that
the defendants were not common
gamblers.
GENERAL CONFERENCE
O ? THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH, SOUTH.
TO TAKE PLACE AT NASHVILLF V WERE
FRUM TO-DAY—A SKETCH OF 1 E HIS
TORY AND PROGRESS OF THE SEV
ERAL GENERAL CONFERENCE—
THR LINE OF DIVISION—
THE PETERSBURG
MEETING.
Constitution,
The ninth quadrennial session of
the general c inference of the Metho
dist Episcopal church south will con
vene in Nashville, Tennessee. May 3,
being tue first Wednesday in May,
1881. At the general conference field
in the city of New York, May, 1814,
then representing the whole Metho
dist Episcopal church in the United
States, the church was divided into
two separate ecclesiastical bodies on
a “plan of separation” agreed upon
by the general conference. The oc
casion of the separation grew out
of the dposltion of Bishop
James O. Andrews, D.D., from the
episcopal office on account of his
connection with slavery. A line of
division was agreed on, and the great
Methodist family parted north aud
south. The southern division held a
convention in tbe city of Louisville,
Ky.. in 1845 and proceeded to or
ganized an independent ecclesiastical
body, under tbe name and title of
“The Methodist Episcopal Church
South.”
THE FIBST CONFERENCE.
The first general conference of the
Southern church was held in tbe city
of Petersburg, Va., May, 1846, The
session was held in the old Union
street Methodist church, near Jar
ratt’s hotel, now occupied by a con
gregation of colored Methodists. At
that first gsaeral conference Bishops
Boule and Andrew—tbe two bishop
who adhered to southern Methodism
—presided. The conference was
composed of 97 clerical delegates
from fifteen annual conferences in
tbe southern states.
But few of the men are now living
who were members of the general
conference of 1846. The great pulpit
orator. Rev. Henry Bascom, of
Kentucky, and that wonderiul Iman
tne Rev. Lovio Pierce, D. D., of
Georgia, together with such men as
'he Rev, \Vm. Gapers, D. D, of
South Carolina; Rev. A. L. P. Green,
D. D,, of Tennessee; Rev. HtZikiah
G. L igb, D.D., of North Carolina,
aud many others of kindred ability,
now no more were members of that
body. At that conference the Rev,
R >bert Paine, D. D., then president
of the LaGrange college,
in west Tennessee, and tbe
Rev. William Capers. D. D.,
of the South Carolina conference,
were elected additional bishops in
th* southern church. Bishop Paine is
still living. Bishop Capers is dead.
There has been a wonderful growth
of southern Methodism since that
day, now thirtp-six years ago. Then
thete were but fifteen antjuall con
ference In southern Methodism; now
there are thirty-nine conferences.
Then less than 2.oootraveling preach
ers or regular pastors; now 6,804
Then but 355,000 church members,
150,000 of whom were negroes; now
about 900,000 white members,
BINOE 1850,
The general conferences since that
session have been successively held
as follows: In 1850 the conference
was held in St. Louis, Mo , at which
Rev. Henry Bascom. D. D , was
elected bishop. He lived but, a few
months after his election. May 1854
the general conference was held in
Columbus, Georgia, at which the
Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, D. D. of Geor
gia, Rev. John Early, of Virginia,
and the Rev. H. H. Kavanaugh, of
Kentucky, were elected hisuops.
Bishops Pierce and Kavanaugh are
still living. The conference of 1858
was held in Nashville Tennessee. No
bishop elected. In 1862t.be conference
failed to hold a regular session on
account of the war. The conference
of 1866 was held in the city of New
Orleans, at which E*v. Wm. M.
Wightman. D. D. LL. D., of South
Carolina. Rev. D ivid S. Doggett, D,
U., of Virginia, Rev. Enoch Marvin,
nt Missouri, and the Rev. Holland N.
McTyetre, D. D., of Louisana. were
elected bishops. Bisnops Marvin,
Duggett and Wihtman are dead.
Bishop McTyelre is still living. Mav,
1870, tbe conference was held in
Memphis, Tenn-ssee, at which Rev.
J. C K*ener, D. D , of Louisiana, was
elected bishop. The Rsv. James A.
Duncan, D D, of Virginia, came
near being elected, and would have
been elected but for the teas m that a
part of th* delegates from Virginia
were unwilling to part with him as
president of the Randolph-Macon
college, and on that account
only did not vote for him,
in 1870.
Tne conference of 1870 was the first
at which there was an equal number
of clerical and lay delegates. The
venerable D’Arcby Paul, of Peters
burg, Va., was a member of that con
ference, and, as one of Dr. Duncan’s
warmest friends, would not vote for
him as bishop, bscause, as trustee of
Randolph-Macon college, he did not
see bow ne could be spared from the
presidency of the college without
irreparable damage to tbe fortunes,
just then, of the institution. Oihers
of Dr. Duncan’s best friends, clerical
and lay, took the same ground, and
barely defeated his • lection to the
episcopacy. In 1875 the general
conference was held in Louisville,
Kv. No bishop elected. Io 1878 the
conference was held in Atlanta, Ga.
No Bishop elected, lijow the confer
ence of 1882 will meef io a few days
in Nashville, Tenn., at which, by
common consent, not less than four,
probably five or six, bishops will be
elected.
A CURIOUS FEATURE,
A curious feature in the election of
bishops is that no nominations are
made. The conference spends ashort
season in prayer and then proceeds
to ballot. The drift of the vote points
to the man. Probably two or three
will be elected on the first ballot.
The ordination of the bishops elect
takes place on Sunday following ths
election. It is not improbable that
Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, Mis
souri and Louisiana or Kentucky,
possibly both, will be represented in
the new bishops. This is conjecture
from current opinion.
In the general conference all the
great connectional interests of the
church pass in review, such as the
missionary work.Uhe Sunday-school
cause, publishing interests, educa
tion, the administration of the bish-:
I ops. conferences, etc. The general
conference is tbe only legislative
I body in the Methodist church, and is
> at the same time the highest appel
late court of the church. The ses
sions usually last for about three
weeks, sometimes longer.
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An Answer for Brother Baxter.
The Rev, Whangdoodle Baxter has
the most fl mrlshing Sunday School
in Austin. A tew Sundays ago he
asked one of his pupils:
“Who is dat ar mysterious bein’
from whom nuffiu’ am bid, who sees
and knows eberyting wbat happens?
I ax-d you dat queshun las’ Sunday,
and I now want* de answer.”
“I know hit. My fodder told me
the right answer,” said one boy.
“Woll, den, woo does yer fodder
say am dat mysterious bein’ who
knows all things what happens?”
“Do foaman of de grau’ jury.”—
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CITY TAX’ “ORDINANCE, 1882
Ordinance to levy and assess taxes aud
raise Revenue for the city of Columbus,
Ga.;for the year A. D, 1882:
Section 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor
aud Council of the City of Columbus, and
it is hereby ordained by virtue of authori
ty vested In the same, that for the pur
poM of defraying the necessary expenses
of tee city, and sustaining the credit
thereof; for paying the interest on the
bonds Issued under authority of ordi
nance 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, lor tne purpose ot redeeming all out
standing bouile of the city, and for the
purchase of bolide authorized in said or
dinance; for supporting aud maintaining
the public schools, and tor other purposes,
ordinary and contingent, the taxes and
revenue hereinafter mentioned shall be
levied and collected for the year 1882.
1. On all taxable real estate within the
corporate lii'ilts of the city, upon the
assessed value thereof, there shall be
levied and collected for the ordinary cur
rent expenses of said city, a tux of one
half per cent; and lor the purchase of
bonds and prymeutof the said coupons
falling due during the year, one-half of
on per-cent, payable on and afier the
first day of April: and upon the whole,
or any other portion of such tax paid
before the lac of May, proximo, there
shall be allowed a discount of 4 per cent.,
aud upon the amount paid between the
Ist of May and Ist of July, 2 per cent.,
and for all taxes unpaid ou the Ist ol
July.
2. On all household and kitchen furni
ture. and on jewelry, silver plate, musi
cal instruments, horses, mules aud other
animals, ami ou 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 real estate, to-wit: one-half per j
cent, for ordinary current expenses, and :
one-half per cent, for purchase of bonds
and payment of coupons falling due as ,
above.
3. On all groes sales, credit and cash, of
all goeds, wares, merchandise and pro- .
duce sold, except at public outcry, Inclu- ;
ding nil eemmssiou sales, except of
cotton! 4-10 of one per cent.
4. On all gross sales by manufacturers
of articles ol their own manufacture, X
per cent., but when retailed, except to
their own operatives or sold to others
than merchants, 4-10 of one per cent.
8 On gross receipts of warehousemen
tor storage and delivery of cotton and
other merchandise, 4 per cent; and on all
sales of merchandise, 4-10 of one ner cent.
0 On gross receipts for premiums in
1882 of Insurance companies or agents, 2
per cent.
7. On gross receipts of gas companies, 1
per cent.
8. Ou gross receipts of any business not
mentioned in the above, including bar
rooms, billiard saloons, bakeries, livery
stables, wagon yards, marble yarde, 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 ot 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 from the country,
but including such transient or Itinerant
traders or speculators us deposit their
goods, wares, produce, or other articles
tor sale In the oaos, depots, warehouses,
stores or other places In tbe city, whether
sold by licensed auctioneers oi other per
sons, 2 per cent. One-halt of the net tsx
so collected from such parties shall be
paid to any person who etiull give notice
to the Treasurer ot any sale t y such par
ties upon which they have not paid tax as
herein prescribed. All persons, resident
or otherwise, doing business of any kind
without a permanent place of business In
the 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 sample’.
10. Horse or cattle drovers or dealers
shall pay a tax ot % per cent, on all sales
made by them.
AM transient or Itinerant traders In
steak, bringing the same to the city f r
sale, shall be required to report to the
City Treasurer on arrival the number of
stock on hand, and make a deposit of one
dollar per head, or give other satisfactory
security for the payment of the tax on all
sales made by them.
Any person or persons violating this or
dlnance shall be fined for each day’s de
fault, lu tbe discretion of the Mayor.
11. Ou each and every male Inhabitant
of the city, between she ages of 21 and 60
years, excepting active firemen, as re
ported by tbe secretary of each company
by the Ist of April, the sum of $2 as a
commutation for street tax: provided,
however, that such persons may be re
lieved ol said tax by laboring three con
secutive days upon the streets ot the city,
under the direction ot the Street Commit
tee, between the present date and the Ist
<>f July.
Section 12. If any person, linn or corpo
ration shall fall or refuse to make a return
ot their sales, earnings or receipts, as re
qulreri 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 liable to a fine of
$lO for »ach day's default there
after in the discretion of the
Mayor: and If any person, flrm, or
corporation shall make a return that in
the judgment of the Finance Committee is
considerably less than should be returned,
the Committee shall assess such amount
as they may deem just, and if the party
so assessed shall object to said assess
ment., they may produce their books, and
the whole matter be referred to Council
for their determination.
SECTION 3—SPECIAL OB BUSINESS TAX.
Auctioneers, and 1 per cent, on all
gross sales, to be given in and
paid quarterly 50
Apothecariesas merchants.
Agencies,(uotspeclally mentioned)... 25
Banka or bankers, or any corporation
or Individuals doing a banking
business 250
Brokers 75
Billiard tables 20
Pool tubles 50
Bagatelle tables 10
Bowling saloon 30
Blacksmith ship, (one forge) 2)4
•‘ “ It more than one
forge 5
Berber shops, each oaalr 5
Bakeries 25
Cigar manufacturers 20
Commission merchants, cotton sac-
tors and shippers 40
Cabinet shops io
Merchants whose annual sales exceed
SIO,OOO 40
Merchants whose annual sales exceed
$3,000 aud do not exceed $10,000.. 30
Merchants whose annual sales do not
exceed $3,000 20
Manufacturers of soda water and
other drinks 20
Marble yards or marble merchants.. 25
Coal yards 25
Carriage buggy aud 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 side show low
Dancing masters, per quarter 150
Dye houses 25
Exorese companies 10
Eating houses, restaurants, or sa- 10
loons of any kind—first mass.... 200
do. second class
Boundaries and machine shops 12
■' alone 6
Machine shops or planing mills alone 60
Factories, sash and blind and planing 30
mills 30
Furniture manufacturers
Gasoompanles 100
Gun and locksmithlo
Gin agents, or persons selling gins on
commission—ln addition to all
other taxes 10
Gift enterprise, with any game of
chance connected therewithl,ooo
Hotels, first class 50
• second “ 25
Hucksters, subject to market toll ad -
ditional, per quarter 1
Ice and fish dealers og
“or “ ■* g 5
Inteligence offices 12
Fertilizers, on each guano or fertili
zer company doing business in
the city, whether by agent or
otherwise
Insurance companies, local or for- 50
eign
But b receipts of premiums for the
year shall be less than SSOO, a re
bate of $25 will be allowed.
Junkshops 100
Lotternes, or any game of chance. ~1,4q0
Lottery agents, or sellers of lottery
tickets
Labor brokers or emigration agents 25
Lightning rod agents, or dealers.... 5
Livery, sale and feed etablas 25
Lumber dealers, whether delivering
from yards or depots 25
Organ grinders or street musicians
per month 40
Oyster dealers 2o
Printing, (publishing, or job) offices.. 50
“ offices (Job and Binding). . 45
“ “ ('• alone 50
Public halls, Urst-claes |2
*‘ “ second class 2
Pawnbrokers 15
Produce brokers, selling by orders to
merchants or others 20
Peddlers of patent medicines, <fcc., per
day, or at the discretion of the
Mayor
Pistol gallery 25
Paint shops 10
Real estate agents 25
Repairers of watches and Jewelery... in
Boda fount or lee cream saloons 10
Skating rluk or dancing balls 25
Telegraph companies 200
Telephone companies 75
. Tailors 5
Warehouses 200
Wagon yards2s
street peddlers, per quarter 15
Sewing machine agents.. 40
Wagon yards with livery stabal privi-
leges,4o
Wood yardslo
Wheelwrightss
Merchants or manufacturers not
ntmed In above listso
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 tbe vocation of
street drummer for the sale of mer
chandise, (the party to be confined
in his operations to the sidewalk
Immediately In front of the store
employing him)100
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 met tloned
in section 3 shall be paid annually
In advance, unless otherwise speol
-11 ed
Foreign peddlers with 4-10 ot 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 upon ail 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 sueh
special tax as Is fixed In these ordinances,
or by the Mayor—also agents for the Bale
of any article whatever, itinerant physi
cians or sellers of proprietary articles.
Section 6. Any person or persons sub
ject or liable to pay a special tax above
prescribed, and falling to do so before the
Ist day of April, shall on conviction be)
fore the Mayor, be liable to a tine of S2S
for each day’s default thereafter, and in
default of payment of tine, such other
nunishment as tbe Mayor may in bls
discration, Impose.
Section 7. This ordinance shall be sub
ject to alteration and repeal, in whole or
in part, at any time during tbe year 1882,
should it be deemed advisable; and no
snoh amendment or repeal In any part
tlcular shall be construed to Impair tbe
right of Council to assess and levy a tax
for tbewhole of said year 1882, wheneve
made.
DRAY AND RETAIL LIQUOB LICENSE.
Belt ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the city ot. .Uolumbus, that the fol
lowing rates of license for the year 1882,
shall be charged, viz:
One-horse dray, express or hacks2o
Two-horse dray, express or hack 30
Nhree-horse dray 85
Four-horse dray 40
Two-horso omnibus 30
Four-horee omnibus 40
License shall be payable semi-annually
In advance, from January Ist and July Is
respectively.
Section 2. Drays or other wagons run
by any person or firm in their own busi
ness or otherwise, and hauling any article
wbatever(ae lumber, wood, coal, dirt, etc.
and charge drayage therefor, shall pay
the same license as Is charged other
drays.
section 3. Be it inrttier ordained that
the rates of retail liquor license for 1882,
m h all Do
For .first-class licenseslso
For second-class license 106
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
Hable for.
Adopted In Council Feb. 1,1882.
CLIFF B. GRIMES, Mayor.
M. M. Moore, Clerk Council.
NO. 100
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PARTIES AND FESTIVALS SUP
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Prices Reasonable and Satisfactory,
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Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons having claims against the estate
of the late P. H. Alston, are notified to pre
sent them as the law prescribes, and psrtiee in.
debted to tbe said estate will make immediate
payment to tbe undersigned.
MRS. A. A. OTT,
MRS. W. T, DUBOSE, Administratrix
apr6-dlt-w4t
Sherift’s Sales.
Georgia, Chattahoochee county
Will be sold before tbe court-house door ot
geld county in Cueeet., GeorgU, on the first
Tuesday In May next within the legal hour, ot
sale the tollowing property to wit; One hundred
and twenty acres of lot ol land number two
hundred and six, seven acres ol lot number two
hundred and ssven, lot number two hundred
aud ten, and lot number two hundred, and elev
en. all in tbe Sixth District ot originally Musco.
gee, now Chattahoochee county, bounded on tb.
east bv Mrs. M. H. Sapp’s dower, on the south
by lands ot W, A. Sapp W, W. Shipp, on the west
by Mr.. T- Weenies and on the north by by A. D.
Harp, levied on under and by vlrtaoota fi. fit.
in my bands. Issued from the Superior Court ot
Chattahoochee county, in favor ot James Castle
berry, Ordtnary, tor use of Jm M, Davis, trus
tee. H. R. Hasting, vs Abb Wooldridgs and Hel
en M. Vlgal. executors Henry C. Vlgal; also a
fl. fa. In favor of James Castleberry, Ordinary,
for use of James M. Davis, trustee for Mrs. Julia
E. Holcomb vs. Abb Wooldridge aud Helen M.
Vlgal, executors Henry 0. Vlgal,Tenant In poa
sesslon notified In writing,
gpriljflflw P. 0. Howni.' Sheriff.