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Faris Letter.
from our regular Correspondent,
Paris, Feb. 4, 1883.
The proposed expulsion ot the
princes from the army is one ot those
fights with history in which France
is always so teady to indulge. Should
M. Floquet’t measure be passed, the
roll call ot the forces ot Fraics will
lose names that are pages ot her his
tory. Nemoure and D. Aumalk,
Chartres an 1 D. Alencon, Murat and
Bonaparte, will disappear and the
new France will seem dissevered
alike from antique and modern asso
ciati ns of chivalry and valor. Whan
the first, republic proclaimed the
banishment ot the ptinces and
nobles of old France the letaliation
was natural; this aristorcacy had
crossed the frontier, entered the
ranks of the enemy, and w.-re in
league with rhe invaders, But the
princes, tuw assailed only ask leave
to fight fortheir country; they are
innocent of plots, and have accepted
the republic. Their enemies, too.are
especially disqualified from attacking
them. No part of the monarch! d and
aristocratical system is more bitterly
assailed by the republicans than the
doctrine of heredity. They denounce
as monstrous one baby worshipped
or honored In bis cradle because be
is the son of a king or a duke, an
other doomed to political serfage and
disqualification because his father
was a peasant. Yet, while warring
to the knife against hereditary priv
elege, they contend with vigor for
hereditary disqualifications; They
deny that the son can inherit any
virtue from his father; yet ihey pun
ish him as the heir of his imputed
sire. The Due De Uhartres is the
grandson of a king—he must be ix
iled; Piinee Murau and Victor are
cousins to our emperor—the t.dnt
affects them. Thus all men are ' not
•'born equal.” Princes’ sons are
pariahs. It is not only in this way
that tne sinister recollections of the
first revolution are revived. M.
Clemenceau, who may be the coming
man, delivered on Monday in the
chamber, a long and elaborate bar
rangue in favor of the election ot
judges. He drew trom the annals of
the revolution long extracts to prove
that the elected tribunals of that time
failed only because the experiment
had not been sufficiently nied. He
quoted Condorcet to the effect that
when these tribunals most erred it
was in their leaning towards the ex
ecutive of that time; they were thus
false to the spirit ot their election.”
This gentleman, since the death o!
M. .Gambetta, is the one leader of
tne republicans who stands a herd
and shoulders above bis col
legues on the left. He has a cool
head ; a gitt of cairn strong oratory,
is an advanced democrat, a resolute
enemy to the church, and ready to
push the principles ot democracy to
their logical issue—the elec.ion otail
functionaries. He may be a minister
in a week, a mouth, a year, but if. at
that time.be has secured elective
magistrates, it will be curious to as
certain how far he will censure then
a judge, who condemns an insurrec
tionist as a magistral who, accord
ing to Cjndorset, by “leaning toward
the executive favor, is false to the
spirit of his election.”
—4—
An interesting historical event oc
curred in Madrid New Year’s Day,
viz: Tne first Jewish marriage which
has been solemnized in the capital of
Spain siuce the expulsion of the
Jews from that country, nearly four
centuries ago. Tne rarity t the
event attracted a large gathering of
Christians and about forty corelig
ionists, There being as yet no oi
gan ized Jewish community, and con
sequently no Jewish minister of
worship in Madrid, the marriage was
solemnized by the Rabbi of the con
gregation at Arcaction, a French
town situated near the Spanish fron
tier.
The Philadelphia courts have de
filed thrt the comptrr l.er is a coun
ty and not a city officer, and O. S.
Page. Gov, Prtt son’s app >it t-e, has
taken po«es-i ;n of ths office. Tag
gort, elected by the city council, will
appeal the case to the supreme court.
He has established an office and or
dered the deposition of Chief Clerk
Hirst. On the other hand, Page has
diemisse l Taggort from the position
of auditor. Hirst remains as
chief clerk, of course, not
withstanding Taggoit’s order.
> ree of Cost,
By calling at Robert Carter’s Drug
Store, you can get a sample b >ttle of Dr.
Boeanko'e Cough and Lung Syrup Free
ot Cost, which will relieve the inoet obsti
nate Cough, or Cold and show you what
the regular 50 cent size will do. When
troubled with Asthma, Bronchitis, Dry
Hacking Cough, Pains in the Chest and
all diseases of the Throat and Lungs, try
a sample bottle of thia medicine. daw
Colonel Tom Ochiltree's Salary.
One of the most remarkable re
sults of the voting in Nov, mber was
the election of Colonel Thomas P.
Ochiltree to Congress from the Sev
enth district of Texas. Although this
eminent citizen once held office un
der the republican administration of
his friend General Grant, be will go
into the forty-eighth congress as sn
independent. In all accurately com
piled lists of the members of the next
bouse, Colonel Tom Ochiltree’s name
stands large and bold in capital let
ters, as befits his national reputation.
He will be untrammelled by party
’obligations: he will be able to serve
country fiist of all; and his vigorous
and interesting oratory, his great
practical experience, and bis wieid
imagination will be under the con
trol of no caucus.
It is unfortunate that a cloud
should overhang the othet wise bright
future of Colonel Tom Ochiltree in
his new career as a legislator. Yet
such is the case.
Col. Tom Ochiltree was United
States Marshal for the Eastern
district of Texas under Grant,
and, we regret to add, was short in
his accounts with the government to
the extent of about SIO,OOO, The gov
ernment has never been able to re
cover this sum from Col. Tom Ochil
tree. It sued him, however, and ob
tained judgment against him, two or
three years ago, for the full amount
with interest. The chronic state of
Col. Tom Ochiltree’s finances has up
to the present time rendered the
judgment worthless. He still owes
the United States about $13,000.
Now, Col. Tom Ochiltree’s salary
of $5,000 a year will begin on March
4. His annual allowance for mileage
will amount to a considerable sum,
in view of the distance between
Washington and bis nominal home
in Texts. Besides salary and mile
age, Col. Ochiltree will be entitl <1 to
$125 a year for stationery and m ws
pipers. In the two years ot his term
tlol. Ochiltree will draw from the
United States Treasury, through the
S rgeant-at arms of the hous ’, about
$12,000 in all, provided he is allowed
to uraw it.
There is a section of the revised
tatute which says:
"No money shall be paid to any
person for comnem-ation who is in
arrears to the Unitel States until he
has accounted for and paid into the
treasury all sums tor which he may
be liable.”
And an act approved March 3, 1875,
explicitly piovidesthat
"When any claim, duly allowed by
legal authority, shall he presented
to the secretary of the treasury for
pajment, and the plaintiff or claim
ant be indebted totheUnited S ates
in any manner, it shall be the duty
of the secretary to withhold pay
ment.”
Here, it will be perceived, is ample
reason for anxiety, and even for ex
citement, on the part of a nature so
i mpossible as Col. Tom Ochiltree’s.
We are not surprised to learn that
ue has already gone to the So
licitor of the treasury and offered to
compromise with the government
bv the payment of SSOO in cash,
Will the United Slates government
sell its judgment against Colonel
Tom Ochiltree for $500? That is less
than four cents on the dollar. Or
will it attach his salaiy and allow
ances as representative as fast us
they become due? Iu the two years
during which Colonel Tom Ochiltree
will adorn the south wing of the
cipitol his salary and allowances
would pay nearly the whole of his
debt.
The question is one of great im
portance to the eloquent gentleman
from Texas, and of considerable in
terest to the public generality, — New
York Sun.
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Kate Baker, Savannah, Ga., says:
‘•Brown’s Iron Bitters has kept my chil
dren In robust health." lebl3-lw
Some Interesting Statistics.
Washington, Feb. 12 —Mr. Joseph
Nimmo, chief of the bureau of sta
tistics, has prepared some very in
teresting figures concerning the for
eign commerce of the United States,
and also concerning the increase in
the cotton, wheat and corn crops of
1882 over those of 1881. In 1881 the
cotton cron was 5,456,048 bales,in 1882
it was 6 700,000 bales, in 1881 tne
wheat crop was 380,280,090 bushels,
in 1882 it was 502 780,600 bushels. In
1881 the corn crop was 1,194,916 000
bushels, in 1882 it was 1,624.917,700
bushels.
For the year ending June 30, 1881,
the valne of the exports of cotton
was $347,695 749; for the same period,
ending June 30, 1882, the value of the
cotton exported was $199,812,641.
The value 6f ths export of oread
stuffs for the year ending June 30,
1781, was $270,332,519; for the same
period ending June 39, 1882, it was
$182,670,528. From these figures it
app-ars that the value of the exports
in 1881 was much greater than those
in 1882. For the last six months of
1881 the value of the exports of cot
ton was $99,437,155; the value of the
exports ot cotton for the last six
months of 1882 was $124,265 702. It
appears, therefore, that the value of
the exports of c itton during the six
mourns ending December 31,1882, ex
ceeded the value of such experts dur
ing the corresponding mouths of the
preceding year by $24 827,447. It is
noticeable that the value or the ex
ports of breadstuff’s during tne six
months ending December 31, 1882, ex
ceeded the value of such exports
during the corresponding months
of the preceding year by only $5,-
059,909. «
•Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound strengthens the stomach and kid
n -ya and aids digestion.
A Belgian statistician has just pub
lished some interenting facts about
the comparative sums paid bv each
citizen in the v rbus countries of
Europe for war purp ses and for edu
cation. la Eogisnd, war tax-s pet
capita amount to $4 45, educational
to 75 cents, in France the respective
are $5 18 and 38 cents, in
Piussia $0 83 and 58 cents, in Russia
$2 45 and 8 cents, in Italy $1 85 and
16 c-nta in Austria $1 60and 39 cents,
in Bwi z-rland $1 16 and sl. Ot all
thes- countries, toe las’ is the only
one that makes a decent comparative
showing for the instruction of youth.
The Russian figures are peculiarly
significant.
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Brown’s Bronchial Troches
will relieve Bioncbltle, Asthma, Catarrh,
Consumptive and Tnroat Diseases. They
are used always with good success.
feblStiiao
COLUMBUS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16. 1883.
Silk Culture in the South.
The Courier-Journal has discover
ed signs among some of its readers
of an interest in the subject of silk
culture in the South. F. W. McKit
trick, Memphis. Tenn., has we learn,
made himself practically acquainted
with this silk business. The proof on
hand to this effect is a communica
tion ot his, which was read at a meet
ing of the National Cotton Planters’
Association ot America. Mr. McKit
trick is ot the opinion that “silk
growing is essentially a Southern in
dustry.” In the Boutb there are
"whole forests ot the wild mulberry
and t be osage-orange trees, the leaves
of whicu are the natural food” of
this insect. The white mulberry,
the wild mulberry, and the
csige-orauge can be "propagated to
any extent desired, by seed,
grafts, layer, cuttings, or
lly transplanting the trees in the
tall, winter and spring. The fall and
winter are the best seasons for trans
planting. The spring is rhe time for
grafting, budding or setting out cut
tings.” Mr. McKittrick insists that
iu the South in one season there is
uo difficulty about producing “three
full crops of silk.” This is a point
that should be well maiked, inas
much as in contrast with it is the
state of the case for France and Italy
where only two crops per year can be
raised; indeed there are seasons in
which the yield is only one crop of
silk cocoons. It is not generally
known that we of these states "ship
annually millions of silk worm eggs
to Fiance and Italy, to be batched
and raised to produce silk cocoons.
The silk culturists of those countries
porter American silk eggs.” The
ground of this preference are that
the eggs of American silk worms
are fiee from disease. They are also
said to be unusually hardy, produc
ing a very large amount of silk of ex
treme fineness. In the South no ar
tificial beat is needed in hatching;
“all we have to do is to spread tne
eggs out on the feeding trays, and in
a tew hours they commence hatch
ing vigorously. In the short spice
of four or five days you can hatch
millions, when it would take ten and
twelve days to do the same work in
foreign silk-growing countries.” A
still rurtber advantage claimed for
the South in connection with
this undertaking is “that while
it takes twenty-five to fifty-live
days for the silk worm to attain
its full growth before commenc
ing to spin its cocoon, in
the North and in the old world,
we of the South have only to feed
the worms from twenty-one to thir
ty days for them to attain their full
size and commence spinning.”
L’uen, too, the yield here “will ba at
least one-third more,especially when
the silk worms spin their silk in this
short space ot time, for it is a well
known tact that the sooner the silk
worms begin to spin their cocoons
the finer the quality end the greater
the yield.” Mr. McKittrick gives in
creased force to bis plea for an in
crease of silk culture iu the South by
introducing a sample from his silk
farm near Memphis. It is that "one
acre of ordinary land planted iu
white mulberry, wild mulberry, or
osage-orange trees, will produce the
first vear silk to the value of $250;
tne second year, S3OO worth; the
third year, $350 worth, and will in
crease proportionately year after
year, as the trees grow very rapid
ly.”
•That wonderful catholioon known as
Mrs. Lydia E Plukhaiu’s Vegetable Com
pound has given the lady a world-wide
reputation for doing good. It is like a
living spring to the vital constitution.
Her Blood Purifier will do more to cleanse
the channels of the circulation and puri
fy the life of the body than all the sani
tary devices of the Board of Health.
Many Opossums.
All the Year R und.
When Lsfayette paid a visit to the
United States he intimated bis desire
to become master of an opossum, and
a Baltimore editor gladly undertook
to see that the general had one to
take home witn him. Anxious to
make the most of the occasion, he
proclaimed his want in a highiy
spiced appeal to his countrymen,
urging them to prove that republics
were not always ungrateful. They
responded cheerlully—too cheerful
ly—to the aopeal. Opossums came
from North and South, Eist and
West, until the overwhelmed jour
nalist found himself possessed of 2,-
190 too many. He could notaff ord
them separate accommodation; he
dared not lodge them together; so, at
night, he turned them all loose in
Monument Square to quarter them
selves as tney listed. Next day
’possums were here, there and every
where in Baltimore, to the delight of
the black and the disgust of the white
citizens, who fervently wished that
Latayette had never heard of an
opossum, or that the editor had ex
ecuted bis commission with more
discretion.
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•wFeatbere, ribbons, velvet can all be
colored to maten that new hat by using
tne Diamond Dyes. Druggists sell any
color for 10 cts.
Was a Failu e.
The newspaper business in Arkan
saw is exciting. "Look here, Bigles
by,” said a managing editor to are
porter, "the next time I’m drunk and
an important thing occurs, sober me
up and let me see your copy. You
did’t make but a column and a half
of that murder yesterday when there
should have been at least five col
umns.” •
"I gave all the facts.”
“i’nat’s not It you know. It you
can’t make a r hing of that kind worse
'han it is you’d bettor let it alone.
On account of your negligence that
last murder was a failure.—Arkan
saw Traveler'
Are Yon Exposed
TomilarUl ii.ttaeoca-? then protect your
system by using Paik r’s Ginger Tonic
It strengthens the liver and kidneys to
throw off m lariai poisons, and Is good
or general debility aud nervous exhaus
tion. jan23-lmo
The Marquis of Lorne, upon the
occision of the opening ot tne Do
minion Parliament at Ottawa, on
Friday last, in his speech from the
throne, said : “While pus-ungthrough
the United States I was rejoiced to
observe many evidences of regard
for the empire of which this country
forms so large a portion. May this
friendship, which is so fully returned
by us, be as enduring as it is natural
and advantageous to the na’ural in
terests of both great nations.”
ALL SORTS.
Love Put to Flight,
While iu the dark on thy soft hand I hung,
And heard the tempting sir tn iu thy tongue,
What flsines, what darts, whatanguisu I en
dured!
But when the candle entered I was cured.
—Martial.
Circumstancial evidence: An otter
was killed by a milkman on the bank
of Maple river, near Ida Grove, the
other day. The finding of an otter is
something remarkable, but the fact
that a milkman was at the liver in
order to make the capture is still
more strange—yes, passing strange,
A strict constructionist: "I say,
there,” exclaimed a policeman, point
ing to a placard on the wail, “don’t
you see that notice. "No loafin about
this station I” "Yes,” replied the
itinerant, "and as soon as I found
out you didn’t al low a fellow to loaf
about the place I came inside to do
my loafing here.”
Ones native town : In the studio of
a successful ariist. Visitors observing
a picture framed and turned ag-dnsi
the wail—"Ha! what’s that? Borne
thing I havn’t seen yet.” Artist -
"Oh, that? nevermind that. It’s a
daub —one of those things that a fel
low presents to the native town, you
know.”
If you want to find a logician, go
to your tailor, The other day one ot
these fractions of the human family
was overheard to remark: "I never
asked a gentleman for money.” “But
suppose he doesn’t pay you, what
then?” “Weil, if he doesn’t pay me
within a reasonable time, I conclude
he is not a gentleman—and then I
ask him.”— Hie Judge.
An inexperienced reporter rebuke
ed:“This will never do,” said tne
local editor to the new reporter.
"Yousay that‘The man was killed.’
That is too tame. You should have
said that he was ‘crushed into a
shapeless mass,’ or, his ‘recking
corpse presented a ghastly sight.’
Then you make the bald statement
that ‘the doctor was not needed.’
‘ L’be services of the physician were
not called into requisition—that’s
how you should have put it. That's
journalism, that is,”
He was seeing the girl he liked best
home from the threatre, and as they
walked slowly along the beauty of
the night inspired him to say: ‘Of
all the handiworks of nature, none
are more varied and beautiful than
the frost works on —” At that mo
ment his feet flew from under him
and he went down with a cold, calm
thud on the frost y sidewalk, “How
came you to fall?” she asked in sym
pathetic tones. "Oh, I wanted to,”
he answered carelessly; "I was just
yearning to go down.” — Detroit Post
and Tribune
"Do you know of your own knowl
edge that the hocus id threatened to
beat Henry E. Abbey the first time
he eaugnt him out?” "Ob course I
know it on my own knowledge, My
wile’s brudder Jim was ober at de
bar room on Austin avenue, and
while he was dar he heard Blyford
Smith tell Bob Ferguson dat his wife
had it straight from Sam Macy dat
de prisoner had promised to ’sault.
Harry Abbey de fust time he cotched
him out. I knows hit ob my own
knowledge, because I heard dat from
Sam Adams or Bill Perkins—l diere
member which—wid my own ears.”
—Texas Siftings.
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You Can Seo
At H. J. Thornton’s a handsome line of
Foreign and Domestic suiting, Coatings,
Vestings and Pantloons patterns just re
ceived for the spring trade. It is a well
known fact that there Is not a Clothing
House in the South that turns out better
work than the Southern Clothier. He em
ployee the largest force of skilled artists
in his line of any house In Columbus, and
guarantees every article he makes un
suipassed in workmanship, quality and
tit. Be sure and consult the ‘‘Arbiter ot
Fashions" should you need anything in
the clothing line. feblOtf
In Time.
Time and again, without any gain
to himseif, however, has a Austin
tailor, Mr. Pinkney French, dunned
Dr. R. W Rhodes. The latter has
been owing the former a tailor’s bill
for the last four years.
“Doctor, I am losing a great deal
of time trying to collect that bill,”
said French.
•‘You will get all your time back.
I am going to pay you in time.”
—Texas Siftings.
Dr. Pierce’s ‘Favorite Prescription” is
everywhere acknowledged to be the
standard remedy lor female complaints
and weakness. It is sold by druggists.
tuAfri
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Why isi t?
The Toronto Mail asks the ques
tion,“Why is it that iu placing a
house or laying out a town or eity the
street lines or house walls are us
ually made to conform to the cardi
nal points of the compass?” It is,
perhaps, more than from any other
cause, the force of habit. At first,
men probably adopted the habit as a
convenience for arrival at the points
ot the compass, without regard to
sanitary results, and like manyother
habits of long standing, it remained
unquestioned. Toe new method pro
posed of changing this order to a di
rection northwest, southeast, etc.,
from a sanitary point of view, would
seem to possess considerable merit.
The sun would then shine on two
sides of the house all day, says the
Mail, instead of blistering thesouih
side, while the corresponding wail to
'he north remains in the shade and
pamauently damp. At noun accord
ing to the new plan, a corner ot tne
house would be presented towards
thesu i instead of a side, so that the
violence of ihe heat would strike in a
slanting direction on two sides at
once, and therefore with diminished
force. The diagonal plan of arrange
ment would lessen the force of the
prevailing north winds in the same
way, so that extremes ot heat and
cold would be felt less, while the
sunlight would reach every duarter
of the house during the day. A new
town planned according to the diag
onal method would possess a novel
advantage, having one side of every
steet shady during the heat of the
day.
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Thomas Alien, Savannah, Ga., says: “I
was cured of a long standing case of dys
pepsia by the use ot Brown’s Iron Bit
ters." febl3-lw
CITY TAX ORDINANCE.
TO LEVY AND ASSESS TAXES AND BAISE
REVENUE FOB THE CITY OF COLUMBUS,
GEOBGIA, FOB THE YEAB A. D. 1883.
Section 1. Be it ordirlued by the Mayor
and Uounell ot the city of Columbus, and
it Is hereby ordained by virtue of author
ity vested in the same, that for the pur
pose of defraying the necessary expenses
ot the city, and sustaining the credit
thereof; tor paying the interest on tne
bonds reeued under authority ot oidi
nanee adopted May 1.1876, aud amended
JimeS, 1876, aud ou the bonds issued
under authority of an ordinance adopted
June 1, 1878, and amended December 2,
1878, tor tne purpose or redeeming all out
standing bonds oi tne city, aud lor the
purchase of bonds authorized in said or
dinance; lor supporting and maintaining
the public schools, and tor other pur
poses, ordinary aud contingent, the taxes
aud revenue Hereinafter mentioned shall
be levied and collected for the year 1883.
1. On all taxable real estate within the
corporate limits of the city, upon tne as
sessed value thereof, there shall be levied
aud collected tor the ordinary current ex
penses of said city, a tax of one half per
cent; aud for the purchase of bonds and
payment of the said coupons falling due
during the year, one-halt ot one per
cent, payable on aud alter tne first day
of April; una upon the whole or any other
portion of such (axpaid before the first of
May, proximo, there shall be allowed a
a discounter! per cent; and upon the
amount paid between the first ot May aud
first ot July, 2 percent; and tor ail taxes
unpaid on the first ot July, executions
shall be issued.
2. Ou all household and kitchen furni
ture, and on watches, jewelry, silver plate,
musical instruments, horses, mules and
other animals, money, bonds, notes, secu
rities and solvent debts, and on ah vehic
les kept, for use or pleasure, by physicians
or others, ou the market value thereof,
one per cent; to be apportioned
ami applied as the tax upon realestate,
to-wlr: one-half per cent, for ordinary
current expenses, and y, per cent, tor
purchase of bonds aud payment ot cou
pons falling due as above.
3. On ad gross sales, credit and cash, of
all goods, wares, merchandise and pro
duce sold, except at public outcry, inclu
ding all commission sales, (except ot cot
ton) 4-10 of one per cent.
4. On ah gross sales by manufacturers
ot articles ot their own manufacture, X
percent, but when retailed, (except to
their own operatives or sold toothers
than merchants, 4-10 of one per cent.
5. On gross receipts of warehousemen
for storage ami delivery- of cotton and
other merchandise, 1 per cent; and on all
sales ot merchandise, goods, produce and
fertilizers, 4-10 ot one per cent.
6. Ou gross receipts for premiums in
1883 of insurance companies or agents, 2
per cent.
7. On gross receipts of gas companies, 1
per cent.
8. On gross receipts of any business not
mentioned In the above, including bar
rooms, billiard saloons, bakeries, livery
stables, wagon yards, marble yards, lum
ber dealers, restaurants, printing offices,
sewing machine agents, wood and coal
dealers, aud butchers 4-10 ot 1 per cent.
9. On the gross sales ot ail goods,wares,
merchandise, or produce sold In the city,
by transient or itinerant traders lor spec
ulators, not Including those who bring
produce for sale in wagons from the
country, but Including such transient or
itinerant traders or speculators as deposit
their goods, wares, produce, or other ar
ticles for sale in the cars, depots, ware
houses, stores or other places lu the eity,
whether sold by licensed auctioneers or
other persons, 2 par cent. One half of the
net tax so collected from such parties
shall he paid to any person who shall give
notice to the treasurer, ot any sale by such
parties upon which they have not paid
tax as herein prescribed. All persons,
resident or otherwise, doing business ol
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, ahull be held
ami 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 tax ot % per cent on all sales
made by them.
All transient or itinerant traders in
stock, bringing the same to the city for
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
dinance shall be lined for each day's de
fault, In the discretion of the mayor.
11. On each and every male inhabitant
of the city, between the ages of 21 and 60
years, excepting active firemen, as report
ed by the secretary of each company by
the Ist of April, the sum ot $2, as a com
mutation for street tax; provided,
however, that such person maybe re
lieved of said tax by laboring three con
secutive days upon the streets of the city,
under the direction of the street commit
tee, between the present date and the let
of July. This tax shall be paid at or be
fore time of registering and the clerk of
council shall not publish the name of any
one on registry list who has not so paid.
Seo. 2. If any person, firm or corpora
tion shall fail or retuse to make a return
of their sales, earnings or receipts as re
quired above, within ten days after the Ist
day of January, April, July and October,
they ehall be summoned before the may
or’s court and shall be Hable to a tine of
$lO for each day’s default thereatter. In
the discretion of the mayor; and If any
person, firm cr corporation shall make a
return that In the judgment of the finance
committee 18 considerably less than
stioud be returned, the committee shall
psgese such amount as they may deem
just, and if the party so assessed shall ob
ject to said assessment, they may pro
duce their books and the whole matter
be referred to council for their determina
tion.
SPECIAL OB BUSINESS TAX.
Sec. 3. All persons, firms or corpora
tions engaged in any business, trade or
occupation specified below, shall be re
quited to register, by the first day ot
March, tneir various business, trade or
occupation, and shall pay the tax pre
scribed by Ist day ot April, and falling to
do so shall, ou conviction before the May
or, bs Hable to a fine of S2O for eacn day’s
default t hereafter, and in default of pay
ment of tine, such other punishment as
the Mayor may tn his discretion Impose.
All persons commencing business after
the Ist day of January shall register
their names and business as soon as they
shall commence the same. Upon the
failure ot persons to register as aforesaid,
the clerk of Council shall, f rom the beet
information In his reach, register the
same, and the police shall rep At all omis
sions known to them:
Auctioneers, (and one per cent, on all
gross sales, to be given in and
paid quarterly) $ 50
Apothecaiies as merchants
Agencies, (not specially mentioned).. 25
Banks or rankers,or any corporation
or individuals doing a banking
business 250
Brokers 75
Billiard tables 20
Pool tables 50
Bagatelle tables 10
Bow'lng saio >n 30
Blacksmith shop, (one forge) 2>{
“ “ If more than one
forge ; fi
Barber shops, each ehair 5
Bakeries 25
Cigar manufacturers 20
Commission merchants, cotton sac-
tors and shippers 40
Cabinet shops 10
Coal yards 25
Carriage, buggy and wagon reposi
tories 25
Cotton or produce exchange or buck-
et shop 200
Clothing or underwear, persons tak-
ing orders for 25
And no license shall be issued for
less than 25
Cotton or Woolen factories or flour-
lug mill 100
Cotton seed oil mill 60
Circus, per day 150
“ each side show 25
Civil engineer or surveyor 10
nancing masters, per quarter 10
Dye houses 10
Express companies 200
Eating houses, restaurants, or sa-
loons ot any kind- first class 12
do. second class 6
Foundries and machine shops 60
“ alone 30
Alachine shops or planing mills alone 30
Factories, Hash and blind, and plan
Ing mills. 40
Furniture manufacturers 25
'Flying jenny (per day) 5
Fertilizers, on each guano or fertili
zer company doing business in
the eity. whether by agent or
otherwise 25
Gas company 100
Gun ana locksmith 10
Gin agents, or persons selling gins
ou commission—ln addition to all
other taxes 10
Gift entei prise, with any game ot
chance connected tderewltn 1,000
Hotels, first class 50
“ second ‘‘ 25
Hucksters, subject to market toll ad
ditional, per quarter 5
And no license shall be Issued for less
than 5
Ice and fish dealers 25
“or “ " 15
Intelligence offices 10
Insurance companies, tire or Hie, lo-
cal or foreign 50
But if receipts of premiums tor the
year Shull be less than SSOO, a re
bate ot $25 will be allowed.
Insurance companies, plate glass or
accident 25
Junkshops, lor the purchase of rags,
swap iron, etc 40
Lotteries or any game of chance 1,000
Lottery agents, or sellers of lottery
tickets 50
Labor brokers or emigration agents. 25
Lightning rod agents, or dealets 20
Livery, sale or teed stables 25
Lumber dealers, whether delivering
h orn yards or depots 25
Merchants whose annual sales exceed
SIO,OOO 40
Merchants whose annual Ba les ex teed
$3,000 and do notexceed $10,000... 30
Merchants wiiose annual sales do not
exceed $3,000 20
The tax paid by merchants shall not
be construed to include fresh
meats or any other article upon
the sale ot which a special tax is
required.
Manutacturers of soda water and
oilier drinks 20
Mat ble yards or marble merchants.. 25
Organ grinders and street musicians
per month ... 5
Oyster dealers 5
Paper box factory 15
Printing (publishing or job) offices... 40
“ cilices (job and binding) 40
“ “ (job alone) 25
Public halls, firsc-class 200
“ “ second-class. 25
Pawnbrokers 150
Produce, provision or merchandise
brokers, selling by orders or oth
erwise io registered merchants,.. 60
Do. Seiling to others than registered
luerchante 100
And siiaif register aud pay by Ist of
Apiil proximo, or In default
tn. ieot be fined not exceeding $5
tor each day's default
Peddlers ol patent medicines. <tc., per
d ry, or at the discretion of the
may or 5
Pistol gallery 25
Paint shops 10
Plumbers or gas fitters 25
Reul estate agents 25
Aud all persons collecting rents, or
renting property for compensa
tl >n sbali be classed as real estate
agents
Repairers of watches and jewelry.... 10
Street peddlers, per quarter 15
Sewing machine agents 40
Soda fount or ice cream saloons 10
Hand cart peddling Ice cream 5
Skating rink or dancing halls 25
lelegraph companies 200
Telephone companies 100
Tailors 5
Trunk factory 25
Warehouses 200
Wagon yards 25
Wagon yards with livery stable privi
leges 40
Wood yards, or persons dealing In
wood by car load 10
Wheelwrights 5
Merchants or manufacturers not
named In above list 25
Each and every contractor or build
er, master mechanic or architect,
taking contracts amounting to
SIO,OOO or more, 30
“ taking contracts amounting to
between $3,000 and SIO,OOO 20
“ taking contracts amountion to
less than $3,000 10
Each person exercising the vocation
of street drummer for the sale ot
merchandlse,(tbe party to be con
fined In his operations to the side
walk Immediately In front of the
store employing him) 100
Transient traders In goods, wares and
merchandise of any description,
who sell to merchants on actual
delivery, (not by sample on order,)
also such as sell to consumers,
(whether by sample, or order, or
actual delivery); also canvassers
selling books, maps, pictures, Ac,
by subscription 40
And no license shall be issued for less
than 40
Foreign peddlers (with 4-10 of 1 per
cent, on all sales.) '.... 40
Any special or business tax mention
ed in section 3 shall be paid an
nually In advance, unless other
wise specified.
Sec. 4. The Mayor shall have full au
thority to impose such taxes as he may
deem junt and equitable upon all local or
itinerant traders or agents not specially
mentioned in these ordinances.
Seo. 5 Transient traders in goods,wares
and merchandise of any description or
any article whatsoever; also agents for
the sale of any article whatever, itinerant
physicians or sellers ot proprietary arti
cles, belore exooelngthe same, shall each
pay such special tax as is fixed in these
ordinances, or by the Mayor.
Seo. 6 This ordinance shall be subject to
alteration and repeal, In whole or lu part,
at any time during the year 1883 should it
be deemed advisable; and no such amend
ment or repeal in any particular shall be
construed to impair the right of Connell
to assess and levy a tax for the whole of
said year 1883 whenever made.
DRAY AND BETAIL LIQUOB LICENSE.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil ot the city of Columbus, that the fol
lowing rates of license for the year 1883,
shall be charged, viz:
One-hotse dray, express or hack S2O
Twc-horse dray, < xpress or hack 30
Tht ee-horse dray 35
Fout-horse dray 40
Two-m>rse omnibus 30
Fout-horse omnibus 40
License shall be payab.e semi-annu
ally in advance, from January Ist
and July Ist respectively.
Drays 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 Charg
ing drayage therefor, shall pay
the same license as is charged
other drays.
Be it further ordained that the rates
ot retail liquor license for 1883
shall be
For first-class license »aOO
For second-class license A. • • 150
Payable quarterly in anvace. •
Any person or firm who shall sell any
spirituous or malt liquors In any quanti-
ty 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 they may be otherwise
Hable tor.
Adopted in Council Feb. 14,1883
Cliff B. Gbimes, Mayor.
M. M. Mqqbe, Clerk Council.
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ED. COLLINS I IN EQUITY
vb. ! In Muscoge Bupefrier
Ann MariA Habbis ard Court.
Daniel HAbbis, Trustee. J
WHEREAS it has been made to appear to
the Court that Ann Maria Harris ana Daniel
Harris, Trustee, reside out of the State of Geor
gia and whose residence is unknown; and it
further appearing that the defendants are
not to be found in Muscogee county: where
upon it is ordered and decreed by the court
tnat each of said defendants do appear at the
next May Term of this Court and plead, answer
or demur to to the Bill filed in the above cause;
and that service be perfected on each of said
defendants by bublicat on of this order in the
Columbus Tibks. a public gazette of this state,
once a month for four months preceding the
next term of thia court, and that such other
proceedings be had as is usual in Equity.
T. W. OttIMES.
Solicitor for Complainants.
Approved January 8, 1883,
J. T. WILLIS, Judge,
8. O. C. 0.
A True extract from the minutes of Muscogee
Superior Court at its November Adjourned
Term, 1882, on the Bth day of January 1888.
GEO. Y. POND, Clerk.
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