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THUBBHAY MABOH »» 18*6
Mahiett* ana Atlanta will B °ou be
connected by telephone. The posts
are being placed for the wire*.
It la aala now that General Grunt
cannot sleep at night. He stays
awake all night, nearly. Whether
from physical pain, or nervous or
brain troubles, It will wear him out
Bleep Is more necessary than tine
food, and ts he cannot sleep, he will
be wretched though he live. Our
sympathies go out to the mortal that
can’t sleep. Sancho Panza glorified
the man,who invented sleep. Weare
a Bancao Panza man In this particu
lar. We have lost much sleep our
self—not in • counting beads”—but
in being awake when we could not
help It. Ont beet wish for Grant Is
that he may "sleep. *’
Th« paragraph in the president’s
inaugural lu relation to Mormonism,
is said to have given the latter day
saints mora;une<Miness than all the
laws and orders heretofore issued
from Washington. And so it is with
his late proclamation to the Oklaho
ma bummers. He tells them ttiat
they shall keep out of this Indian
res rvation. and they believe him.
There 1s a power in earnestness that
frequently prevents trouble.
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TzxKZare many things In this life
that are disagreeable, but wo have
been fortunate enough to find but
few of them that upset our personal
comfort more than these spring bllz
sards do. They keep our wood piles
and coal boxes below zero, shut off
the heat of the snu, drive vegetation
back into its fountains, and play
havoc generally. After spending all
our little money with the northwest
for something to eat, we don’t think
they ought to send their vagabond
blizzards this way t > freeze us up.
SRI»T VIHK IM ATLANTA
<la*M»* Block In rlamea.
Constitution.
At 8 o’clock thia morning fire broke out
In J»aw block, containing Jumw' bunk
Mercer's European hotel, batik,
Thornton's book store.and a largenumber
otofllees of attorneys. The slimes are
spreading rapidly over the whole area,
and It oow looks as it the entire square,
bounded by the railroad, Whitehall, Ala
bama, and Pryor streets, would be de
stroyed. The loss, It th- fire continues Its
dreadful work, will be immense. Great
crowds are gathering around the locality.
While the fire la raging a light rain Is
falllug.
A report hasjuet reached the Constitu
tion that Oapt. Ed Mercer, who rooms lu
the building, has been fatally Injured by a
fall In trying to escape.
A sciiGKiN reports to Nature the
result of investigations as to the rea
sons why the tropical man is black.
He says the coloring pigment Is pro
vided by nature in order to protect
the body from the sun’s rays, just as
smoked glass defends the eye from
the sun, the pigment cells being
placed in front of the nerve termina
tions. It would, therefore, appear
that nature, at least, had no inten
tion of consigning the black man to
an inferior position when It made him
black.
WKST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS.
A correspondent of the New York
Bun is greatly dissatisfied with the
methode employed at Annapolis. He
asserts that the academic board is tan
upon the theory that no cadet shall
be graduated wbo can be dropped,
unless he has family or official influ
ence. He adds, among other things,
the following: "The workings of the
weeding out process are even
more amazingly Illustrated at
West Point than at Annapolis. At
West Point the cadets are put
threegti the treadmill of pure mathe
matics until a handful only of
each class is graduated not
enough to furnish officers for the
arjny. To meqt thia deficiency young
men, invariably selected by social or
political Influence, are appointed
from civil life. They go througg with
a flimsy examination, for which they
are broached, and, without merit or
fitness, are pltcbedforked into a ring,
while first, second, third and fourth
class cadets, with some military
training and considerable informa
tion are dropped from West Point for
not making a fancy average lu fancy
mathematics. The case of young
Wright, lately dropped from
the academy, then reappoint
ed from civil life, and of young Brew
•ter, beautifully illustrate the sys
tem. It is also a significant fact that
the engineer corps, which means
those wbo are graduated highest in
fancy mathematics, has actually fur
nished an argument against employ-
Ing engineer officers in high com
mands, on the ground that they are
likely to be too prudent; they are
always piepartag to fight, but never
ready to fight. O, for the plain,
practical and heroic training receiv
ed by Decatur and Perry and Bain
bridge! Could Lawrence have been
graduated from the Naval academy
he would have been bounced at the
first semi-annual examination.”
This correspondent appears to
know what he is talking about, and
it is to be hoped that among the
many serious matters which will
need the attention of the new admin
istration, the notorious demoraliza
tion of our national schools at West
Point and Annapolis will receive
early Investigation. They need over
hauling badly. For years they have
been allowed to degenerate until
their efficacy has been seriovUy im
paired. The fresh breeze of Demo
cratic reform must blow the cobwebs
out of these institutions.—Atlanta
Journal.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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Cut BtgniAt Correapondßiit.
Wa-uuhgton, March 16, 1886.
The situation in Washington is In
teresting. and even surprising. It is
plain that in the presidential chair,
.round It, or behind it, there Is a
mind and a will. I will not sav that
certain fiery reformers are happy in
the realization of their impatient
hope. And it must besatd that those
most in need of reformation have
taken new heart and bold; but let all
wait with patience and prayer, and
they will, I think, see the giory of the
new dispensation revealed with the
exaltation of the light men and prin
ciples—with the confusion of thieves
and money changers, who have so
long preyed upon the substance of
tne country.
There is an old Latin maxim”feßtl
na fente”—hasten slowly—and this
seems to be the rule of the new ad
luinistaation. Kotorm was very prop
erly begun at the white house. Four
clerks swept from office with one
swoop of the new broom. Five thous
and dollars per year and much desk
room eaved. !be example was taken
up in the treasury department, where
Secretary Manning has discharged
forty useless employes from one bu
reau.
Secretary Lunar has first applied
his broom to the stables adjoining
the interlord'partment. For years
of republican ascendancy carriages
and horaes have been kept at extrav
agant expense io ail the departments,
and have been used not for the pub
lic service, bur. for the convenience
of the families of public officials.
The Hue iquippage that has beenused
to convey ladies to receptions late at
night, has been ordered to be sold
and the seven persons who have been
carried on the pay roll ae drivers
will no longer have tne semblance of
a right to draw thoii unearned pay.
Os course this is only a beginning.
In ail the departments, and in ail
the bureaus, and subordinate offices
superfluous ch-rks are stumbling
over one another. Turn the loafers
out and then it will be 'easier to find
the rascals. Twenty t housand em
ployes can be discharged with result
of positive improvement, and expe
dition in government work. Get
your little pencil and multiply , 20.000
by $1,500, aud you will have an idea,
but not a lull one, of the amount that
will be saved; for you have not taken
into account the office room, and
furniture of this vast army.
Lt is not necessary to say that there
is much uneasiness, and alarm in all
the departments. The reduction of
thecleiloal force is an unexpected
11 auli movement, and it has set
thousands ol clerks quaking in their
luxurious sinecures. “Turn|the loafers
out” is a now and terrifying sound.
There are many straws indicative
of a new era. An order has been is
sued to all the employes in the
patent office that there shall be no
more reading or talkiug.duriug office
hours, and that those classes aud
divisions which are behind with their
work must work after office hours
until it is brought up to date. The
patent office has been conducted in a
lax and siattery way. In some
classes of invention, as textiles, bar
vest ere, printing, stoves and furnaces,
household furniture, builders, bard
ware, surgery, etc., the patent office
examiners are from threat) twelve
months behind with their work, and
applicants for patent have frequently
to wait, six montns or a year before
their oases are taken up. The recent
order indicates that the new admin
istration will introduce a new order
of things, not only io the patent
office, but in other branches of the
public service.
The rush of cffiei seekers has
abated, and the new a Iminiatration
has more time to address itself to
work. It Is a fact much commented
on here that very few office seekers
have come from the south, and that
many have come from the northern
aud northwestern republican states.
Mince the president has announced
that he will not hear applicants for
office personally, but will refer all
applications; to the proper cabinet
officers, he has been but little
troubled. There will doubtless be
important changes made, but policy
and good business management
would require that they should not
be made until after the most careful
deliberation, aud thorough study of
the needs, and abuses or the service.
Any person acquainted with affairs
will know that the work will be all
the better .done for the caution that
precedes its inception.
A national bank has the power to
purchase such realestate as shall be
mortgaged to it iu good faith byway
of security for debts previously con
tracted, aud it in order to secure the
same debt it purchases other real
estate not mortgaged to it that does
not effect the title to the land it was
authorized to purchase. Bi held by
the supreme court of the United
Bcates in the case of Reynolds ve.
First national bank of Crawfords
ville.—Bradstreet,
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At the reeent auction of wines of
the Marquis de Cass Fuente, which
was held at the hotel Drouot, six
bottles of Chateau Lafitte, ’65,
fetched seven hundred and seventy
francs, $24 the bottle; twelve bottles
Johannisoerg-r, 760, and tweotyflve
hotties of flue champagne brandy
realized sl7 per bottle. These prices
are not extraordinary for those who
remember the sale which took place
four years ego tn the same rooms,
when two bottles of ObateauMargaux
fetched $77 On that occasion the
chief purchaser was M. de Bavhesky,
whose magnificent art collection has
just been sold, and whose cellars
were noted as the richest privaet
cellars in Europe. The present pur
chaser is one of the best known res
taurateurs in Parts, and the same
wines now figure in his wine list at
the margin of profit of forty-five
francs a bottle. The bandy is priced
at $3.50 per glass.
DAILY TIMES: COLUMBUS. GFOBOIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 10, ! SSI S
TH»: V»”ANT MMfKM.
Oonstltiitlou Special:
Washington, March 17. -Thenom
In at ion of the district attorney at
Atlanta, postmaster at New
nan are dally expected, and will
almost certainly be scut in this week.
B-uatora Brown and Colquitt both
called at the department of juetioe
to-day iu reference to the former
office.
Congressman Henry R, Harris has
been in Washington weeks past, at
tending to the applications of hie
constituents. Congressman George
T. Barnes and bis bride are here to
day. They will visit several points
tn Virginia on their way back to Au
gusts.
Must of the congressman have ie’t
Washington, convinced that few ap
pointments are to be made soon.
Thousands oLappiieai.lomi are on file
in every department, aud tne list is
largely increased every day, but
action will be bad on very few of
them until the principal offices dl
rectly connected with the executive
departments are considered and
provided for.
Much anxiety is felt as to Cleve
land’s action In the impending va
cancy in the New York postoffice.
The Tammany delegation, which
has just been here, say the reap
pointment of Pearson will ruin the
democratic prospects for the nex
fall’s election in that state.
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Ths Illinois legislature Is hard to
please in a senator. Their work
shows little but devotion to parti
sans. Illinois has hundreds of good
men for any public duty, and the
legislature should make a selection
In the interest of he public, and not
fritter the session away without mak
ing a choice.
WESTERN H. R. OF ALABAMA.
The Quickest and Most Direct
Route to
New York, Philadelphia, Bal
ti more, and WashlnKleu.
Close ccDuecti'jUh made with Piedmont
Alt Line, Atlantic Ou ust Line, Kennesaw
or Cincinnati Southern.
Train. leave u follow..
TIME TABLE NG.
TAKING KPVKOT SONOAX. MAKOU. 8, !«CB,
KAHTW4KI- ■•< «:
l.v N-w brh'Buv... UMfiu ebl>». m
Lv. Moutgomary.. u.oo am 11:00 p m
Arr colutubun .... l.ujpm 6.46 i w
Lv OotUMibii# .. hms&ill 2:U >. m
A rr Wfcet I'clnt ... 12;1» «ni 12:27 a. il
Arr AH»uu tt.BupaJ 8;46». in
WLHTWAHV. NO, NO
l-iati Atißuta i aw pa>|llt4o pm
“ Waal Point 4:43 pui 3:b7 a m
Arr Coiutubuh. ... 7U/p wifi;* ■>. fc
Lv Oolambna . ...... 2.80 p no 9:o ■ p iu
Arr. Mtouigowery.. j 7 4pm o:dUam
arr Mobile, 2;u&bid J.oUp u
Arr \aw Orleans . | 7:UU a it 7:3' p m
Worth. Mouth*
NO. 61 NO. 6t NO. 60 NO. 13—
7;6C p m 10:26 < iu Waab’gt'n lUiiU a la' 9,10 p oi
18:0ft pm a nu Baltimoral9;o6 a u>'>’.6o p m
LiW a in 8;10piu Philadal'a tf.ul a m' 1:46 pm
6;BU a m 6:16 p m Naw fork' 3:40 anj Aj’.OO p o
I’ulluutu Nleepera on all train*
58 hetvvaeu Moulgtxua'ry and
tVashiugtou without < liangv.
Western Hailroad Bleeper* an
train* AD and 53 between
Montgomery and Atlanta.
Trains 60, 61, 62 and 58. mah«clo«e aonnectioEt
with trains to and irom Mobile and daw Urieaiiß.
Trslu (2 oouDoola *t with tralna lu
Selma and Kriftula. Oouueotlauß uiada »t
Opelika with East Alabama and Cincinnati, and
the (JolumbuM and Western Bailroads. AH traliia
exoept 62and 68 ounnt ol at Ohebaw with Tutka*
gee railroad.
Trains No. 6 aud 6 run dally except SwnAayi.
(IIAS.II. ( KOHWILL,
General Passenger Agtnl.
THE.
GREAT NEW YORK 10c. STORE,
No, 100 IIIIOA.O tHI’ltEJiaT.
Glassware, Tinware, Hardware,
Woodeuware, Notions, aud Every
thing else. •
Our Prices are from lo.to'lOc
Positively nothing sold higher
than 10 cents. Never before heard of
Bargtins. To give us a call is money
in your pocket.
J. K. HOLLOWAY & Bro.
mrl-wim
STOCK COMPLETE!
PIECE GOODS FOR
Spring 1885
INCLUDING THE
LEADING NOVELTIES.
AMERICAN AND FOREIoN GOODS
FOB MAKING
SUITS TO OKDER.
Stock Unrivaled I
Prices Right I
A FEW
BARGAIN SUITS
LEFT, AT
CALL AND SEE US.
G. J. PEACOCK.
Clothing Manufacturer,
6i & 66 Bmi St. Cetamhas. • - to.
P 8. All GOODS Strictly OA'H.
DR. W. L. BULLARD,
Columbus, Ga.
Physician and Operating Surgoer
Fov .11 Dl.ewe. ol tks
KYK. «AK, INOSH AKD.TBBOAT
Offlo. ov ar Brannon A Onrian'a drug .tor.,
No. I*l. Broad st. Telephone No. IX Will call
at realdeuae whaa rouueeted. datiO-lyr
NEW SPRING GOODS
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KIRVEN ,( S.
Wool Combination Suitings, Choice Colors in Cashmeres,
Good All-Wool Cashmere at 50 cents.
Choice f’tock Ginghams and L’H.icOß, Tn Ole Linens Towels
and Napkins. N< wis the time to buy these Goods,
Handkerchiefs, Handkerchiefs,
Good Handkerchiefs, Fast Colors, at 3c. up to the Best
Grades
10.000 Yards
More of those HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES at Astonishingly low prices.
Ladies* Underwear Dep irtnieir
Just opened. All tne Stock Freeh and at Popular Prices.
J. ALBERT KIRVEjN.
EMBROIDERIES I
AT S TR2:
rn*O A Til? DAT A P 1 !?
OVER 52.000.000 WORTHJF EMBROIDERIES
SEIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT FOR NON-PAYMENT
OF DUTY.
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Tha Entire Lot Thrown Into the Auction Rooms and Bought by the Know
ing Ones for 25 cents on the Dollar.
URAY ALWAYS GN THE ALERT FOR
B-A.RG--A.UNI S,
Takes the Inside Track and Scoops in the LION’S SHARE.
We will have these GOODS on Exhibition MON DAY aud all during the
WEEK and invite an Inspection of them; they are without Exception tbe
Finest Assortment ano the BEST VALUE that we have ever handled—aee
them and pass your Judgment.
THEY ARE JUST HALF PJ&ICE.
Oflft DOLLAKS WURTH OF LACES OF EVERY
STYLE, QUA! U Y AM) TEXTURE. FROM
5 Cent Torchon io the Finest Egypt ion al $2 50 ano
$2 75 Per Yard.
DOLIzAMSWORTH OJF
Paragols, Coachings and Sun-Umbrellas,
• These GOODS are Marvels of Beauty, Design and Workmanship.
300 Dozen Gents’ Hemstetched, Col- i 280 Dozen Genta’ Un la undried Shirts
orod B rdered II u dk. rehi fs a'2s a< 85 cents, WameUtta £) .ineettcaud
cents, Worth 40 cents. | 21 Linen Besoms and Cuffs.
The KING of the Southern DRY GOODS
Mar ket is Coining this Week.
Lookout foi a Slaughter, He Makjs Ihiogs Lively
FOR COMPETITORS.
C. P. GRAY & CO.
SPRING STOCK COMPLETE.
feyk Now is the time to buy elegant
Tailor-Made Garments at close prices.
ri * * 1/i O ur Furnishing and Piece Gocds De-
M . - Axl
I partmenis were never more complete.
IV W If you desire elegance, beauty, fit,
j I material and close prices combined,
M J call on
4jjLy_> J H. J. THORNTON,
Suits to Order a Specialty.
“IMMENSE STOCK
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Furniture, (Caruetings, Curtain-Goods,
Window-Shades, etc«,
REGARDLESS OF COST
1 000 Chairs, from 50 cents to $lO 00 I Moquet Carpets $1.50 pryd.bestqual
500 Bedsteads from $1 75 to 40 00 | Tapestry Carpets 65c to SI.OO pr. yd.
100 Imitation Wai. Suite,slß to 40 00 I Body Brussels " 85c to $1 35 pr. yd
.100 Walnut Suits,from $25 to S2OO 00 I Rugs 75a to SIO.OO
15 Parlor Suits from S4O to $l5O 00 [Straw Mattings 10c to 4*>c.
Oil Cloths, 40c to $1 25 per square yard.
ArtSquir’ (Druggetts) including best Kiddemuster, all wool $8.50 to sls
Will duplicate prices of any Market.
Upholstering Goods at your own Prices.
ROONEY.
Up Stairs, 83 and 85 Broad St., Columbus, Ga.
ELEVATOR ALWAYS KE4DY. felS-uSm, I
Uta Old airi B,Hable Qeorgta Ootnpaay oonUnuea to taka Fire risks ot aU kinds I
Charter perpetual. DIVIDEND No. 26 FOB 1884. 381, per cent.
The PHCENIX, of Hartford, Conn.,
ROCHESTER-GERMAN, of New York,
All solid tOompaniea, representedi'n this Ageaay. Hat h| low. L>3?»> prompt!
Adjusted,
R. B. MURDOCK.
TIWIES
JOB OFFICE
Can Supply Business Men W ith
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CARDS I
CARDS!
CARDS!
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BILL HEADS!
Bill Heads!
Bill Heads I
Bill Heads!
NOTE HEADS!
Note Heads!
Note Heads I
Letter Heads !
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Letter Heads!
STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNT!
STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNT 1
STATEMENTS OF ACCOUNT
PROGRAMMES!
PROGRAMMES !
PROGRAMMES !
POSTERS J
POSTERS!
POSTERS!
POSTERS and
HAND' BIL.’-S! HAND BILLS! HAND BILLS!
WOR NEATLY AND PROMTLY DONE
AND AT
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