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THE STORY ON APARTNER.
Star Route Episodes, in Which Brady
F.gores as William Smith,
REBDELL GIVES A HBT’P.Y <“F BOGUS PE
TIITONB, D SCTCBED BOOKS, AND DOB
BEY AS CHIP MANIPULATOR—THE MON
EY BRADY BECIEVED.
Washington, Feb. 16.—Rsrdell took
the stand agjin whet, the Star route
trial was resumed this morn
ning. The court room wt-.s crowded
An instance of the way in whieh pe
titions, after they had reached Wash
ington were altered by contractors
to suit their own purposes, he said
that at Miner’s request he inserted in
one peti'i m the words” three trips on
a schedule ot sixty hours A letter
was read from John W. Dursey to
his brother, in which he said that
the Tongue R ver route would pay
Vail# or some ouh else over SIOO,OOO
per annum. 8. W Dors y told Rer
deli to prepare an affidavit asking ex
pedition and increase on the Toque
ville-Adaireville route. R rdell had
no idea of the number of men and
horses required, but Dorsey told
him it was only necessary, in making
the estima e, to add 150 to 200 per
cent, to tne f inner expenses of the
route. He carried ou these instruc
tions.
Rerdell then said that he had had
in his office a number of tl esc bogus
affidavits and letters from Dorsey,
which were stolen at the close of the
last tri<l. No one except Dorsey and
himself had keys to the room. Io
May, 1879, Rerdell sued Vaile and
Miner for the balance due for ser
vices. Mr. Merrick read a letter
from Vaile to 8. W. Dorsey, asking
him to induce Rardell to stop the
suit. The letter said:
If it goes on it will expose your
private affairs, in which you are in
terested. It will draw out who are
the real partners of Vaile, Miner &
00. He cannot recover anything,
and will draw himself into serious
difflulty.
The suit was compromised before it
came to trial. Rerdell kept the books
for the concern, and Dorsey told him
to open an account with the names
on a list which he provided. Among
the names were William Smith and
John Smith, and Drrsey had Rerdell
change the name John Smith to Sam
Jones, for fear they would mix up
the Smith account. One day
Dorsey asked him it be bad
charged Brady with a certain
amount, Rerdell replied that
he had no account against Brady.
“Why, it I” said Dorsey, “he is
William Smith. I thought you knew
who William Smith was.” The sums
charged to William Smith at that
time were $5,000 $6,500 and $7,000.
One day R,rdell and Do’sey went
to the bank, where Dorsey drew
some money. They then went to the
postoffice department, and D rsey
went in to see Brady. That night
Dorsey told R>rdeil to look at the
check book, and on a etub he would
find the amount to be charged to
Smith. He also looked through the
various check books, and whenever
he found a check drawn to the ac
count of "mail,” be charged the
amount to William Smith.
When Rerdell was called before
the congressional investigating com
mittee be tore out of the 1< tter book a
iiumb r of letters relating to the mail
business. He saw Beady on that
day and told him the committee
wanted the account books and pa
pers. Brady said : “Dorsey is a
fool for keeping books.” He then
asked if they could not be copied.
Berdeli said it would rake a day or
two, atd Brady said it would be a
good idea. He then put a man at
work copying the books, designating
such entries as he desired left out. A
new set of books was thus prepared,
and tne amoun's set down agairs’
Smith and Jones were charged to
profit and lose. In order to grin
time for copying the books, he sent a
physician's certificate to the commit
tee, stating that be was sick. Dor
s Q y had the original books iaken to
New Yotk, and Rt rdell appeared be
fore the committee with the new
books.
In the petition on one route Dor
sey told R rdell t<> insert toe words
“and faster tim -;” in ano'her peti
tion the words “on quicker time;”
in another “on faster schedule.”
These phrases were introduced be
cause the petitions faded co ask for
expedition. Some letters in S. W.
Dorsey’y handwriting were presen
ted to Rerdell. O.ie letter requested
Reidell to get th- fullest inf?rma ion
relative to new Post Offices and to
the schemes oa foot in tne depart
ment. “Certain routes we want ad
vertised and others not.” wrote Dor
sey. A letter to Capt. Paddock of
Denver said: "Rsrdell is a man of
the highest character, and has largo
interests in y ur country. Anything
you do for him you do for me.” Rer
dell said he had no private interests
in the West.
Mr. Merrick says he will make the
remainder ot Rerdeli’s examination
very interesting. It was rumored to
day that Miner had resolved to take
the stand for the government.
Mrs. H. M Vaile, wifeof one of the
defendants in the S - a r route case,
died vesterday ar ludep ndance,
Mo., Death resulted from an over
dose of morphine taken the u’giic be
fore. A sealed letter was so ind ad
dressed to her husband, who will
reach home from Washington to
morrow.
Honest and Liberal.
When the Hope In each bottle of Hop
Bitters (at the present price $1.25 per lb„)
cost more than a bottle is sold for, besides
the other costly medicines. &Ld the quall
bety and price are kept t same, we think
it Is honest and liberal In the proprietors,
and do one should complain, or buy or
use worthless stuff, or cheating bogus Irri
tations because the price Is ie
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE
IN TROUBLE.
THE EVERETT SCHOLARSHIPS TO GO IN
COURT.
Macon Graphic,
"The trustees of the Wesleyan Fe
male codege have engaged the able
legal services of Colonel Isaac Har
deman to assist them in having tne
court define the proper status of a
matter in which they are at present
greatly interested. Should the case
get regularly into the courts, it will
prove very interesting.
Let us take the wings of time and
flybicktothe days of the forties.
We do not know the exact date.
From reliable authority we tell the
story as ’twas told to us, and learn
that about 1842 the Wesleyan Female
College became very much involved,
and the management was required to
raise ten thousand dollars in order to
lift a mortgage held against the col
lege bv the late Elam Alexander,
E=q. Rev. Father Anthony, of pre
cious memory, was authoriz'd to so
licit the needed amount. When he
returned from his soliciting tour,
twelve hundred dollars was the sum
total of his collections. Wm. Scott
and other friends of the college,
among them the late James A. Ever
ett, ot Houston county, contributed
either one or two thousand dollars
apiece, and the needed ten thousand
dollars was raised and the mortgage
paid.
II In a few years later the college was
again embarrassed, and the board
of trusties were greatly worried as to
the fu.ute of the college, and while
they were floating about upon the
waves of anxiety in a sea ot doubt,
the aforesaid Everett camo as a bene
factor and announced to the trustees
that he would give them eight thou
sand dollais—the amount of their in
debtedness—if they would give him
in return four perpetual scholarships
in the college, entitling one to board
and all the branches ot study in the
college curriculum to use as he saw
tit. The trustees readily accepted
the proposition, the scholarships
we re given Mr. Everett, and he in re
turn made them a girt of ten thous
and dollars, which has ever since
been known in the history ot the
Wesleyan Female College as the
"Everett donation.” Mr. Everett,
was then wealthy, and worthy and
deserving girls who were too poor
to pay tor their college education
were given the benefit of the scholar
ships. In the course of a few years
Mr, Everett died and the scholarship
fell to the control of the heirs. Tne
war now came on, and after the mem
orable struggle was over, Georgia,
like the balance of the glo
rious Southern sisterhood, found
herself almost a barren waste and
tier noble people impoverished,
Everything was "stale, list and uu
p ofltable.” While this condition of
affiirswis prevailing, the manage
ment ot the college requested tne
Everett heirs not to send any one on
efie scholarships at present, as the
col’ege was too poor to sustain free
tuition. The Everett heirs waited
several years ere again allowing any
one the use or benefit of the schol
arship. This family, like hundreds
of others, found their riches swept
away by the hurricane ot war.
I’hey concluded finally, and
many think rightly, too, to
make the scholarships as-
sets of the estate and accordingly the
neirs began to sell the scholaiships
at a price reduced a hundred dollars
or more, below the regular tuition
and board price of the college, in
order to make it an inducement for
parties to buy the echolaiships. We
think the amount asked for a schol
ar.-hip is $250. while the terms of the
college including board and tuition is
$450 per annum. Hence, a very great
incentive is offered a person to buy
one of the Everett scholarships, and
as there are four of the scholarships
running perpetually, a yearly income
of SI,OOO is enjoyed by the Everett
heirs from this source.
The trustees of the Wesleyan Fe
male college have now grown weary
ot tne scholarships being sold, and,
while they do not repuiiate the gen
uineness of the scholarships, they
obj -ct to this competition being made
as regards ths tuition price of the
college—an undercut'ing of terms as
it ware, and on this point principal
ly they propose to iegallycontest the
matter, anl have tneCjurts deflee
what are the rights and priviegesof
the Everett* heirs io the use of the
scholarships. The college manage
ment makes the 185 U-, we are told
'hat tbescholarehips were given Mr.
Everett to be used solely for the ben
efl of those too poor topay their
tuition ; but our unders’andiug of the
matter is that no restrictions, one
way or another, were placed upon the
scholarships.
The ownership of the certificates
have passed exclusively, or almost
so, into the bauds of Mr. Ab Everett,
of Houston county, a son of Mr. J. A.
Ev retr, he having bought the inter
ests of the other heirs. The college
management complained that the
selling of the scholarships was a con
siderable pecuniary loss yearly to
the college through the competition
in price. and under this view of the
matter Mr. Ab. Everett then offered
to surrender the sehlarships up to
the board of trustees and yield all
rights and privileges in the scholar
ships for the sum $6,500, but the trus
tees refused to accept this proposi
tion, and the matter will now resolve
into a legal settlement. Colonel Isaac
Hardeman, as bes ore stated, repre
sentiug the college. We have not
heard who Mr. Everett has engaged
for his counsel.
Since wri'iug tbe above we have
ascertained more exactly the status
of the above mention? d debts of the
college and the donation made by
diff-rent parties. An authority
says:
"In 1842 *be college became embar
rassed on account ot its original debt,
and tbe building was sold by the
creditors, who had a mortgage upon
it. At this time Gscrge W. Persons,
Wm. Bai ey, Johh Rawls, James
Dean, Wm. H. Ellison and Ambrose
took one share each a' SI,OOO per
snare, and Jam»s A. Everett and
■ Wm. Scott two shares each, making
|in all $16,000, and bought the claim
I and tendered it to the college for
| wbat it cost them.
"There were about SB,OCO still due,
which was advanced by James A.
Evere’t, with tbe condition that tbe
trustees would give him four perpet
ual scholaiships in the institution.
, In tnis manner the trustees obtained
a legal title to the building.”
Rice’s Surprise Party made a tre
mendrous hit in California,
COLUMBUS, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20. 1883.
PKI’SS COMM EXT?,
Capitalists and wire-pullers have
become so numerous and so power
ful in Congress that it is no wonder
its meeting is viewed with anxiety.—
Boston Herald, Ind.
One of the greatest evils of the day
is the going of surety—farmers being
responsible for the debts of their
tenants, almost invariably have those
debts to pay.— Macon Telegraph.
It is not a hopeful sign for this
country when men are selected to
tbe United State Senate who have
been thought of for the position ex
cept for this fact.—Aashrrifte Ameri
can. Dem,
The republicans in congress would
like to pass a gag law if they felt cer
tain that they wanted it. There is a
suspicion that what they want is to
have the democrats obstruct debate
and save them from the dread alter
native of passing the tariff bill.—Sf-
Louis Post-Dispatch, Dem.
The tariff commission made a con
siderable difference between raw
and refined sugar; the senate makes
very little. The senate rates; the re
finers are disappointed; consumers
have little to complain of.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, Bep.
The panic which the distilers said
would sweep the country to eternal
smash unless the bonded whisky bill
were passed immediately, appears
either to have petered out or got
switched off on a side track and de
layed. It will not arrive in time to
be of any great moment; panics are
perishable goods and of no conse
quence unless preserved in some
thing more lasting than whisky.—
Philadelphia Press, Rep.
It either the pending senate bill or
the pending house bill be passed the
president should veto it and convene
congress in an extra session. He
should prepare and submit to the
extra session tariff tables ot his own.
Let him hold the noses of the new
congress to the grindstone till a law
is ground out which simplifies the
tariff and reduces taxation. The
country has more confidence in the
republican president than in the re
publican congress,— New York
ll'orld, Dem.
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“In A Decline."
Dr. R. V, Fierce: Dear Sir—Last fall
my daughter was In a decline and every
body thought she was going into the con
sumption. I got her a bottleof your “Fa
vorite Prescription,” and it cured her. Os
all di uddlets. MRS. Mary Hinson,
tu&'rl Montrose, Kan,
# »
MASSACHUSETTS PRISONS.
Mr. Burnham Wardell Tells of the
Cruelties that He Saw in them.
"In my twenty-two years’ resi
dence in Virginia, a slave state, I
never saw anything mire cruel or
devilish * han what I saw in the pris
ons of Massachusetts,” said Burn
ham Wardell last evening in the
rooms of the Labor Lyceum, at 275
Bowery. Continuing, be said that
sixteen mt n had been driven incura
bly insane in one year by torture.
Prisoners had been strapped in their
cells for fourteen days at a stretch,
with insufficient food. Much of the
inhumanity practiced was attributa
ble to the contract system of labor.
Only last week a man had been
taken out of a penitentiary who had
cut off a hand with an axe to escape
work that was too hard for him.
"Tae year last passed,” continued
Mr. Wardell, “has been the happiest
of my lire, because I have visited
more prisons, penitentiaries, insane
asylums and almshouses than I have
in any five years. No cell can be
dug so deep as to separate a man or
woman from the love of God.”
Mr. Wardell thought that the
meanest thing in New England was
a poor house coffin, that required
two men to carry it in order to hold it
together. Referring to the Guber
natoiral election in Massachusetts,
he said it was the most religious one
of which he had any knowledge.
Benjamin F. Butler was taking a
step in the right direction, as his
inaugural showed. Three things
were, the speaker thought, necessary
to make a man of a convict —wash-
ing, feeding and praying. It was
impossible to make a hungry man
good.
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of Cost,, which will relieve the most obsti
nate Cough, or Cold and show you what
the regular 50 cent size will do. When
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Hacking Cough, Pains in the Chest and
all diseases ol the Throat and Lunge, try
a sample bottleof this medicine. d&w
Mr. Gladstone’s Library and Study.
Leisure Hours.
Within the house, in every room
you seem to be surrounded by
books/books, quantities of them, in
the breakfast room ; and in tbe great
and noble library, the lofty room
surrounded with books. Here a no
ble heirloom of the Glynn family, a
portrait by Vandyke, of Sir Kenelem
Digby, hangs over the fireplace.
Other interesting pictures light tbe
wav, conspicinusly an engraving of
Millais' portraits of Mr. Gladstone,
which, however, noble as an imita
; tion of the style of Valasquez, fails to
I give any suggestion of tne light and
play of life, which glowsand gleams
> from the face of the original in every
moment of conversation. You step
from tbe library into the study—it is
the ante-room of the library. At the
door ot the study Mr. Gladstone gra
| ciously received us, and made us at
borne at once in the great workshop
of the mind —this scene of so many
s'udies and cares, Hare, in order or
s disorder, where still bookeand books,
and books, papers, busts, portraits
I and every variety of furniture of cul
' ture and taste. We saw very few in-
I dications of any care for costly or el
egant bindings. Clearly the volumes
| were there not as the furniture of the
house, but the furniture of the inces
santly acquisitive mind. It is a ven
erable apartment. At different ta
bles —there are Severn 1 in the room
reserved and set apart for various oc
cupations—the visitor is instantly
impressed ss by the memories of a
variety of labor. This is the literary
table; here "Juventus Mundi.” was
written; here tbe Homeric studies
were pursued. "Ah!” sighs Mr.
Gladstone, "it is a longtime since I
sat there.” This is the political ta
ble ; here the Irish bills and the bud
gets were shaped and fashioned.
And here is Mrs. Gladstone’s table
here she probably planned her or
phanage and the hospi'al she fi r st
called into existence. This is the
room where the scholar and the
statesman spend the chief portion of
his time; there is the theological
portion of the library—an ample col
lection; separate compartments re
ceive the works of Homerand Shake
speare and Dante, and the busts of
Sydney Herbert, and Mr. Gladstone’s
old college friend, the Duke of New
castle, and Canning and Cobden and
Homer bend from tbe bookcases,
and Tennyson looks out from a large
bronze medallion.
“John.” said the cashier’s wife
dropping into the bank in the midst
of a shopping trip, “you forgot to
leave me that money this moning.”
“What name?” "N ime! name!” ex
claimed the lady; "I am your wife.”
"No doubt, no doubt,” answered the
cashier, mechanically, and going on
with bis writing, “but you will have
to bring some one to identify you..”
Sadie J. Wilson, S.ixaunab, says: “I
used Brown's Iron Bitters for dyspepsia
and urn delighted with the prompt relief
It afforded me.”
England howls over the wild liber
ality of Lrrd Hastings, one of the
richest men in that country, because,
when his hostler was married, he
honored the event by giving a bar
becued ox, 1,000 loaves of bread and
1,000 pints o'! beer. The St. Souis
Dispatch finds that the total expense
of this outburst of generosity was
nearly $150,1 but, as this was unex
ampled igenerority in an English
nobleman, it lets the ppplause go
on.
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It is seriously proposed to dupli
cate the Suez canal. It is 300 feet
wide on the surface, but the banks
slope so gradually that the channel
at the bottom is only ICO feet wide.
The earth taken out of this ditch was
left on the banks of course, so that
the removal of one of these banks to
widen the channel would be more ex
pensive than the opening of a new
channel parallel. The cost of this
would be considerably less than that
of the first, when terminal docks had
to be constructed and provision de
pots all along. The new canal would
be used for vessels passing in one di
rection, the old for those passing in
the opposite. The plan has not been
definitely adopted, but is under dis
cussion, owing to the fact that the
increase of traffic necessitates a con
stant outlay fur the extension of
sidings where vessels can piss.
There are 31 church of England
Bishops in England and Wales, of
whom 17 are Oxford men and 14 cam
bridge, while 17 are conservatives
and 11 liberals, though the Oxford
men and the conservatives are not,
as these figures might imply, corres
pondent to each other. Nine of tne
Oxford men, in fact, are liberals, and
nine of the Cambridge men are con
servatives. The oldest of the 31 is
Bishop Durnford, of Chichester, who
Is 81; the youngest, Bishop Wilber
force, of Newcastle, who is 41. Tire
highest salary is that of Dr. Benson,
the new Archbishop of Canterbury,
$75,000; the next are those of Arch
bishop Thompson, of York, and
Bishop Jackson, of London, each
$50,000; the next is that of Bishop
Lightfoot, of Durham, $49,000, and
the lowest is that of Bishop Winkiu
son, of Truro, the See from which Dr.
Benson was promoted to Canter
bury. The number of livings posses
sed,by some of the bishops is as fol
lows: Canterbury, 185; York, 163;
London, 175; Manchester, 124; Ox
ford, 112; St. David’s, 136; Durham,
114; Linchfield, 128; Lincoln, 119, and
Winchester, 111. Tne value of these
livings for each of the diocese named
is as follows: £82,261, £52,100, £81,718,
£39,110. £33,514, £32.795- £19,682, £37,-
476, £36,796 and £37,772.
DIVIDEND NOTICE
OFFICE GtOBHA HOME INS , CO., I
Columbia, Ga . January 20th, 1833. I
AT a m?etlrg of tbe Directors of this Company
held on tbe 18tb inat., dividend of six (CJ per
cent, was d’dared out of the earnings of the
oast six months, payable on demand.
Wm. C. co-bt,
Jan2ltf Sacretary.
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Monuments ot the best
Italian and Am* ricaa j n
Marble on hand and made to or-
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We are also agents for a su
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Wrought Iron Raising,
For fences and cemetery en
j closures,
DIFFERENT STYLES AND PAT-
TERNS.
Informationertvan anl estimates furnished on
ything in our line.
A. M. F&CBntiK.
OPIUM "
A. A W AIX Reliable evidence giv
a >’ n * reference to
11A OIL 'cured patients and
rTTnr physicians. Bend for
CUxLaSf imy boot on the Habit
i Free
ClT¥ TAX ORDINANCE.
TO LEVY AND ASSESS TAXES AND RAISE
REVENUE Fuß THE CITY OF COLUMBUS,
GEORGIA, FOB THE YEAB A. D. 1883.
Section 1. Be It ordained by the Mayor
and Uouueii ot the city ot Columbus, aud
it is hereby ordained by virtue or author
ity vested in the same, that tor the pur
uose ot defraying the necessary expenses
ot the city, and sustainm# the credit
thereof; lor paying the interest on tne
bonds issued under authority ot oidl
uauce adopted May 1.1876, and amended
Junes, 1876, and on the bonds issued
under aut horlty ot an ordinance adopted
June 1, 1878, and amended December 2,
1878, tor me purpose ot redeeming allout
bliiu nog b.juus o: the city, aud tor the
purchase ot bonds authorized In said or
dinance; tor supporting aud maintaining
the public schools, aud tor other pur
poses, ordinary and contingent, the taxes
aud revenue hereinatter mentioned shall
be levied and collected for the year 1883.
1. On all tax ible real estate within the
corporate limits ot the cuy, upon tne as
sessed value thereof, there shall be levied
and collected tor theoidioary current ex
penses of said city, a tax ot one halt per
cent; aod for the purchase of bonds and
payment of the said coupons lading duo
during the year, one-half of one per
cent, payable on aud atter tne first day
of April; and upon the whole or any other
pjrrion of such tux paid before the first of
May, proximo, there shall be allowed a
a discountol 4 par cent; and upon ths
amount paid between the first of May and
first of July, 2 percent; and tor all taxes
unpaid ou the first of July, executions
shall be issued.
2. Ou all household and kitchen furni
ture, and ou watches, jewelry, silver plate,
musical instruments, horses, mules aud
other animals, money, bonds, notes, secu
i files aud solvent debts, and on all vehic
les kept, lor use or pleasure, by physicians
or others, on the market value thereof,
one per cent; to be apportioned
and applied as the tux upon real estate,
to-wit: one-half per cent, for ordinary
current txpenses, and % per cent, for
purchase ot bonds aud payment or cou
pons tailing due as above.
3. Un ail gross sales, credit and cash, of
all goods, wares, merchandise and pro
duce sold, except at public outcry, inclu
ding all commission sales, (except ol cot
ton) 4-10 ot one per cent.
4. O i all gross sales by manufacturers
of articles of their own manufacture, %
par cent, but when retailed, (except to
their own operatives,) or sold to others
than merchants 4 10 ot one percent.
5. On gross receipts of warehousemen
for storage and delivery of cotton and
other merchandise. 1 per cent; and on all
sales ot merchandise, goods, produce aud
fertilizers, 4-10 of one per cent.
6. Ou gross receipts tor premiums in
1883 ot insurance corupiules or ageute, 2
per eent.
7. On gross receipts of gas companies, 1
per cent.
8. On gross receipts ot any business not
mentioned in the above, including bar
loome, billiard ealoons, bakeries, livery
stables, wagon yards, marble 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 ot all goods,wares,
merchandise, ot produce sold in the city,
by transient or itinerant traders tor spec
ulators, not including those who bring
produce tor safe in wagons from the
country, but including such transient or
Itinerant traders or speculate! s as deposit
their goods, wares, produce, or other ar
ticles for sale In Hie cuts, depots, ware
houses, stores or other places in the city,
whether sold by licensed auctioneers or
other parsons, 2 per cent. One hall of the
net tax so collected from such parties
shall be paid to any person who shall give
notice to the treasurer, of any sale by such
parties 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 deem ’d itinerant traders. The above
tax does not apply to saiee to merchants
by samples.
10. Horee or cattle drovers or dealers
shall pay a tux 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 rtport to the
elty 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 fined for each day’s de
fault, in the discretion of the mayor.
11. On each and every male inhabitant
of the city, between iheagesof2l aud 60
years, excepting active firemen, as report
ed by the secretary of each company by
the Ist of April, the sum of $2, as a com
mutation for street tax; provided,
however, that such person may be re
lieved ot said tax by laboring three con
secutive days upon the streets ot the city,
under the direction of thestieet commit
tee, between the present date and the Ist
of Julv. This tax shall be paid at or be
fore time or registering and the clerk ot
council shall not publish the name of any
one on registry fist who has Lot 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
u.ay of January, April, July and October,
they shall be summoned before the may
or’s court and shall be liable to a tine of
$lO tor each day’s default thereafter, in
the discretion ot the mayor; and if any
person, firm er corporation shall make a
return that, in the judgment of t he finance
committee is considerably lees than
stioud b" returned, the committee shall
aesess such am mot as they may deem
just, and if tbe 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 determlua
tl n.
SP.' CIALOB BUSINESS TAX.
S c. 3. Aii persons, firms or corpora
tions engaged in any business, tra-ie or
occupation specifi’d below, shall be r?--
quired to register, by the first day of
jlar, h, t',etc various business trade or
occupation, anti sh ell pay tbe tax pre
scribed bv Ist day ot April, and falling to
do so shall, on conviction before the May
or, b- lii.b.e to a tine oi $29 for each day’s
default thereafter, and in default ot pay
ment ot fine, such other punishment as
the Mayor may m his discretion impose.
All pers »us commencing business after
the Ist day ot January shall register
the! names and business as soon as they
shall commence the same. Upon the
failure ot persons to register as aforesaid,
the eletk of Council shall, from the best
information in his reach, register tbe
same, and the police shall report all omis
sions known to them:
Auctioneers, (and one per cent, on all
gross sales, to be given In and
paid quarterly) $ 50
Apothecaiiee as merchants
Agencies, (not specially mentioned).. 25
Banks or >ahkers,or any corporation
or individuals doing a banking
business 250
Brokers 75
Billiard tables 2U
Pool tables 50
Bagatelle tables 10
Bowling saloon 30
Blacksmith ehop, (one forge) 2%
•• •• if more than one
forge 5
Barber shops, each chair 5
Bakeries 25
Cigar manufacturers 20
Commission merchants, cotton sac-
tors and shippers 40
Cabinet shops 1°
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 tor 25
And no license shall be issued for
less than 25
Cotton or Woolen factories or flour-
ing mill 100
Cotton seed oil mill 60
Circus, per day 150
“ each side show 25
Civil engineer or surveyor 10
Dancing masters, per quarter 10
Dye houses 10
Express companies 200
Eating houses, restaurants, or sa
loons of any kind—first class 12
do. second class 6
Foundries and machine shops 69
“ alone 30
Machine ehops or planing mills alone 30
Factories, sash and blind, and plan
Ing mills 40
Furniture manufacturers 25
Flying jenny (per day) 5
Fertilizes, on each guano or fertili
z r company doing business in
the city, whether by agent or
otherwise 25
Gas company 100
Gun ana locksmith 10
Gin agents, or persons selling gins
on commission—in addition to all
other taxes 10
Gift entei prise, with any game of
chance connected therewith 1,000
Hotels, first class 50
“ second “ 25
Hucksters, subject to market toll ad-
ditional, per quarter 5
And no license shad be issued for less
than 5
lee and fish dealers 25
“ or " “ 15
Intelligence offices » 10
Insurance companies, tire or lite, lo-
cal or foreign 50
But if receipts of premiums for the
year shall be less than SSOO, a re
bate of $25 will be allowed.
Insurance companies, plate glass or
accident 25
Junkshops, tor the purchase of rags,
swap iro’i, etc 40
Lotteries or any game of chance l,ouo
Lottery agents, or sellers ot lottery
tickets 50
Labor brokers or emigration agents. 25
Lightning rod agents, or dealers 20
Livery, sale or feed stables 25
Lumber dealers, whether delivering
from yards or depots 25
Merchants whose annual sales exceed
SIO,OOO 40
Merchants whoee annual sales exceed
$3,000 and do notexc 'ed $10,000... 30
Merchants whose annual sales do not
exceed $3,000 20
The tax paid by merchants ehall not
ba construed to include fresh
meats or any other article upon
the sale of which a special tax la
ri quired.
Manufacturers of soda water and
other drinks 20
Mathie yards or marble merchants.. 25
Organ grinders aud street, musicians
per month ... 5
Oyster dealers 5
Paper box factory. 15
Fruiting (publishing or job) offices... 40
“ officer (job and binding) 40
“ “ (job alone) 25
Public halls, first-class 200
“ “ second-class 25
Pawnbrokers 159
Produce, provision or merchandise
brokers, selling by orders or oth
erwl-H to registered merchants... 60
Do. Seiling to others than registered
merchants 100
And shall register and pay by Ist ot
April proximo, or In default
tnereot be lined not exceeding $5
for each day’s default
Peddlers ot patent medicines. Ac., per
diy, or at the discretion ot the
mayor 5
Pistol gallery 25
Paint shops 1°
Plumbers or gas Utters 25
Real estate agents 25
And all persons collecting rente, or
renting property for compensa
tion shall bs classed as real estate
agents
Repairers of watches and jewelry.... 10
street p u ddlere, per quarter 15
Sewing machine agents 40
Soda fount or icecream saloons 10
Hand cart peddling ice cream 5
Skating rink or dancing ha 115..,,.... 25
Telegraph companies 20U
Telephone companies 100
Tailors 5
Trunk factory "5
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.OO > or more, 30
“ taking e nta icts amounting to
bel ween $3,( 00 and SIO,OOO 20
“ taking contracts amounting to
le stiian $3,000 10
Each person ex’rcislng the vocation
ot street di iirnmer for the sale of
nierchan<lise.(the party to be con
fined tn bis operations to the side
walk immediately In front of the
store employing htm) 100
Transient traders in goods, wares and
merchandise of any description,
■who sell to merchants on actual
delivery, (not by sample or order,)
also such as sell to consumers,
(whether by sample, or order, or
actual delivery); also canvassers
selling hooks, maps, pictures, &e,
by enbscrlption 40
And no license shall be issued for less
than 40
Foreign peddlers (with 4-10 ot 1 per
cent on all sales.) '.... 40
Any special or business tax mention
ed in section 3 shall be paid an
nnally in advance, unless other
wise specified.
Sec. 4. The Mayor shall have full au
thority to impose such taxes as he may
deem just and equitable upon all local or
itinerant traders or agents not specially
mentioned In these ordinances.
Sec, 5 Transient traders In goods,wares
and merchandise of any description or
any article whatsoever; also agents for
the sale of any article wnatever, itinerant
physicians or “ellers of proprietary arti
cles, before exoosingthe same, shall each
pay such special tax as is fixed in these
ordinances, or by the Mavor.
Sec. 6 This ordinance shall be subject to
alteration and repeal, in whole or in part,
at any time during the year 1883 should it
be d’-emed advisable; and no such amend
ment or repeal in any particular shall be
construed to impal’ - the right of Oonncll
to assess and levy a tax for the whois of
said year 1883 whenever made.
DBAY 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-horse dray, express or hack S2O
Two-horse dray, txpress or hack 30
Three-horse dray 35
Four-horse dray 40
Two-horse omnibus 30
Four-hor-e omnibus 40
License shall be payable semi-annu
ally in advance, from January let
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
of retail liquor license for 1883
shall be
For tirst-claes license S2OO
For second-class license 150
1 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
liable tor.
Adopted in Council Feb. 14, 1883
Cliff B. Gbimes, Mayor.
M. M. Moobe, Clerk Council.
OZIEa SILK COTTON.
J HAVE a few bushels of this Seed Warranted
Pure $1 50 per bu-hol or Are bushels for 15 93
B. J. MOSES,
febf3twawdAwtf Columbus, Ga.
STRAYED OR STOLEN
FROM WILLIS MORGAN’S residence
near Marvyn, in Russell County,
Alabama, on Monday night February
12th, a small young bay Horse-Mule,
about three or four years old, has a scar irom
collar on tbe joint of right shoulder, has
brand of an ‘*O” on left jaw, had one shoe on
lett hind foot. Went In direction of Youngsboro.
Will pay a small reward for his recovery if
stray* d or twenty-five dollars reward for thief
and mule with evidence to convict. Address,
J. M DeIAOY.
Hatchechubbee, Ala,
Februw 17th, 1883. d4t&w2t
8. B. ENGLAND,
(SUCCESSOR TO CHAMPAYNE & ENGLAND;
Contractor ?, Builder
Having fitted up Machinery, is prepared to
Plane and Match Flooring
and Ceiling,
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Window Frames
Door Frames, Moulding, Brack
ets, Fence Pickets, Fence
Belting ITurned Coumns.
Turned Ballusters,
Newel Posts, &c„
Plane Weatherboards ••nd Timbers of any
dimensions. Also do
Ripping and Schroll Sawing
Jobbing Promptly Attended to
R. 11. England
AH. FRAZER, B- E.
CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR.
A REGENT graduate of the University of
Georgia offers his services to the public.
Equipped with tho very FINEST INSTRUMENTS
he is prepared to do work in any branch of but
eeyiug with dispatch and accuracy. Office at J.
A. Fabzeb's Hardware Store. Orders by mail will
VAioecj prompt attention. oatHtf.
A PKOCJLAMATION
BY THE
GOVERNOR
A CALL FOR SPECIMENS OF
GEORGIA PRODUCTS. AGRI
CULTURAL, HORTICUL
TURAL. FORESTRY,
MINERALS. AND
MANUFAC
TURES.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,)
STATE OF GEORGIA,}
Atlanta, Ga., January 4 1883.)
WHEREAS, HERETOFORE TO-WIT, IN THE
month of November last, the following
communication was received by me, as Gover
nor of the State, from the Secretary of the New
England Manufacturers and Mechanics* Insti
tute, of Boston, Mass., to wit:
“New England Manufacturers and Mechanics*
Institute, Treasurer’s Office 88 Hawley s;.,
“Boston, Mass., October 80,1882.
"To His Excellency, the Governor of Georgia:
“Dear Sir—ln behalf of the New England Man
ufacturers and Mechanics 1 Institute, and by the
authority of its official board, I hereby extend
to the State of Georgias cordial invitation to
make an exibit of its agricultual products and
resourci s at the third annual fair of the Insti
tute, which will be open the first week ?f Sep
tember. 1883, and will continue until a nay in
November to be determined hereafter.
“An invitation of like tenor has been sent to
the Governor of every one of the Southern
8 ates. The pourpose of the proposed exhibi
tion is to afford an opportunity to all those
htates and Territories which wi-h or settlers
irom the North to present, in practical shape,
examples of the products of the soil illustrative
of its adaptability to the various branches of
planting. farmitg and horticulture. The new
railway system ox the great West will be invited
to make a similar exhibition at the Institute,that
the North may thus become for the time being
the areta in which the South and West may
compete with each other for that surplus popu
lation which yearly leaves New England in
search of homes elsewhere.
“Tne invitation is forwarded at this early day
that your Excellency may have ample time to
consider the subject and make such suggestions
there on to the Legislature of your State as you
way deem appropriate, With high considera
tion, I am sir, yours most respecuully.
“FREDERICK D. GRIFFIN, Secretary.”
Ar d whereas, the abuve communication was
submitted by me to the General Assembly of
the state at the last session for their considera
tion and such action as they might deem proper
iu the premises, whereupon the General assem
bly passed the following Resolution, to wjt;
“Resolved, by the General Assembly of Geor
gia. That HU Excellency, the Governor, be and
he is hereby authorized to invite and receive
specimens of the agricultural, horticultural,min
eral and manufactured products, and of tho
forestry of this State, that may be famished
him by tne citizens of that State forgtho
purpose of forwarding the same to the Exposi
tion to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, in
beptember, 1883.
“Approved December 9th. 1882.”
Now, therefore, in the discharge of the duty
assigned to me by the resolution of the Legisla
ture, I hereby in this Proclamation give general
notice to the citizens of Georgia that I have put
this business in the hands of Hon. J.T* Hender
son, Commissioner of Agriculture of this State,
with directions that he take charge of all cor
respondence on this subject, and that all citi
zens of the State be and they are hereby re.
quested to send to him such specimens of the
agricultural, horticultural, mineral and manu
iactured products, and of the forsety of this
State, as they maybe able and feel disposed to
contribute to the exposition aforesaid.
I moreover hereby give a cordial invitatirn to
all citizens to make such contrioutions as they
may be able to make, that Georgia, in her vast
and varied resorces, may be well represented
among her sister States in this Exposition,
The collection thus made by the Commission
er of Agriculture to be held by him subject to
the disposition of the Legislature at its adjourn
ed session in Julynext.
ALEXANDER H, STEPHENS.
By the Governor, Governor.
I. W. AVERY, Sect..Ex Dept.
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