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Columbia Sentinel. I PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT HARLEM, GEORGIA. entered as second-class matter at the POST OFFICE IN HARLEM. GA. THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 18SG. WRed Is to inform you that your subscrip tion is due, and as we need the money, kindly ask all in arrears to come up and give us a helping hand bv paying up their subscription. CITY AND COUNTY DIRECTORY CITY COUNCIL. .1. W. BELL, Mavor. C. W. ARNOLD.’ W. E. HATCHER. AV. 7. HOLLIDAY. M. FULLER. COUNTY OFFICERS. G.D. DARSEY, Ordinary. G W GRAY, Clerk and Treasurer. B : IVEY. Sheriff. O. HARDY. Tax Collector. J. A. GREEN. Tax Receiver. J. C. GOETCHIUS, Coroner. MASONIC. Harlem Lodge, No. 276 F. A. M-, meets 2d and 4th Saturdays. CHURCHES. Baptist—Services 4th Sunday, Dr. E. R. Cara •well Sunday School every Sunday. Superin tendent—Re v. J. W. Ellington. Methodist— Every 3rd Sunday. Rev. M E. Shackleford, pastor. Sabbath School every Sunday, H. A. Merry, Snpt. Magistrate’s Court, 12Stli District, G. M., 4th Saturday. Beturn day 15 days before. W. B. Roebuck, J. P. Some Sharp Practice. Dow Eastern Shippers are Beating the Bailroads—Turnips Shipped as Potatoes. Atlanta Constitution: Eastern shippers are perpetrating any amount of sharp practice upon the railroads in making shipments to southern points. There is a special rate on eastern potatoes to Atlanta of 33 cents per barrel, and the rate on turnips is 44 cents per barrel. In consequence of this difference in rates, all shipments of turnips are made under the head of potatoes. The barrels are branded potatoes and the bills of landing are MADE TO CORRESPOND. Yesterday a gentleman called at a wholesale store for the purpose of . purchasing a barrel of Irish potatoes for planting. On the sidewalk he saw twenty or more barrels branded “eary rose” and asked the price of them. “We have no potatoes,” answered the clerk. “The barrels that you see there contain turnips.” “How is that ?” “Well, it is just this way. You see the freight upon a barrel of potatoes from Boston to Atlanta is 33 cents This is a special rate made on eastern potatoes, which ere largely used in the South for planting purposes, and in fact they are the only potatoes used in this section for seed, and on turnips the rate is 44 cents per bar rel. TO GET THE AVANTAGE of this difference in the all eastern turnips are billed as potatoes. The barrels are well headed up, and no ventilation holes are cut in them, as that would give the snap away. We always have to open a barrel before ws sell it, to see what it contains, as from the brand and the appearance of the barrel we can’t tell anything about the contents,” “Is this deception practiced in other goods ?” “Oh yes. For instance, we get all our smoked beef, whether in boxes or casks, branded as bacon. The rate of beef is 73 cents, and on bacon 48. Now to get advantage of this difference all beef is billed and branded bacon.” “What would you do in making out a claim against a railroad in the event that you lost a number of barrels of turnips that had been shipped and billed under the head of potatoes ?” “That I can’t tell, as we have never had to make out a claim of this character. I imagine though that the railroad would pay accord ing te the reading of the bill of lead ing and we would have to stand THE CONSEQUENCES. what ever they were. I could tell you of other dodges that the shippers play on the railroad, but the two instances already given ate sufficient to show you how such things are worked. Os course we are in do way to blame fer the deception that is practiced. We order turnips *Dd potatoes as we want them, and pay for them accordingly. We haye nothing to do with the way that they are packed, branded and billed. That is a matter for the railroads to settle with their shippers.” Perilous Adventure. Hanging to the Outside of a Locomotive doing Forty Hiles an Hour. [Staunton Vindicator.] Last week at Crozet station, on the Chesapeake and Ohio road, Captain C. T. Morton, general agent of the Staunton Life, was invited by the en gineer of ths fast express to ride on the engine thirteen miles, to Char lottesville, and see how the fast train went over a smooth track. Before the train had gone a mile, however, the blast of the engine got out of fix and a great volume of flame and smoke burst out of the fire-box enveloping everything. The clothing of the engineer and fireman took tire, and they were driven out of the cab back on to the tender. The engineer’s, being oily, was burning fiercely, and he snatched off the top of the manhole of the tank and jumped down into the water. Capt. Morton climbed out of the cab window and clung on to the outside of the engine, which was flying along at the rate of forty miles an hour. The situation all around was most perilous, but the engineer after quenching his burning clothing scrambled out of the water, rushed into the flame and held there until he could get hold of the lever and reverse his engine. This soon slackened the speed, the train was stopped and the fire was extinguished with water from the tank. The interior of the cab was badly burned and the cushion on which Capt. Mor ton had been sitting was burned up. The face and hands of the engineer and fireman wur badly scorched, as were Capt. Morton’s. Talking to New York. The Successful Test of a New Telephone in Washingtoi. [Washington Post.] Gentleman in a room at Willard’s Hotel yesterday conversed quite freely with gentlemen in the office of the United Telegraph Lines at 287 Broad way, New York city. Washington has rarely before been able to ex change ideas with New York by tele phone. It was done over the Postal Telegraph Company’s wires by the use of new telephone instruments invented and patented by Mr. W. C. Turnbull, a wealthy merchant of Bal timore, Maryland and owned by Count Eugenede Mitkiewicz There were a number of prominent gentlemen present, among them Representative Warner, who declared that he had never been able to speak or hear as distinctly between the capitol and any of the department buildings as he did between Washington and New York. The transmitter is a simple but effective instrument. The speaker, instead of addressing himself to a metal diaphragm in front of a com plication of delicate machinery, talks to a little panel of any kind of wood at the brek of which are attached an even number —almost any even num ber—of little sticks of carbon sus pended on a pivot of carbon, in ap pearance resembling the core of a lead pencil with the lower ends lean ing against another little transverse rod of carbon. The wires are attach ed to the ends of the little rod. Mr. Turnbull has patented a receiver, too; but the strength and merit of the invention lie in the tansmitter, I which can be used with any receiver. ' Experiments have shown that the I further the speech is transmitted the more distinctly it is delivered, and the owners of the invention look for ward to a time when it will be possi ble to talk from Washington to London. The company, when or ganized, will make its headquarters in Washington. In the souteasteni part of Houston county, on J. A. Coffee’s place, Jerry Holt, colored, killed Adam Johnson, solorcd, with a pocket knife, ia dispute about Johnson’s wife. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was self defense. Danger! A neglected cold or cough may lead ioFneumonla.Consumptlon-or other fatal disease. Strong s Pectoral Pills will cure a cold as hv magic. Best thing for dyspepsia In digestion', sick headache as thousands testify. —Don’t fail to tiy Pitts’ Carmina tive when your child is sick and ■ fretful, something is always the matter when it is so, and Carmina tive will correct all improper acids, promote digestion and make the I child fat and healthy. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Slaughter of The Innocents AT No. 1, Railroad Street, HARLEM, GA. ;e : R. L. LAMKIN Still in Front With the biggest announcement of the sea son. He is going to make things lively for the citizens of Columbia. Realizing’the power of that commodity generally known as ‘cash,” he has determined to sell Goods as Cheap As Augusta or Anywhere Else. Will keep constantly on hand the following goods, which he guarantees to give satisfac tion : FLOUR, HAMS, SUGAR, MEAL, D. S. SIDES, COFFE, GRITS, LARD, TEA, RICE, SALT, CRACKERS, STARCH, SOAP, SODA, TOBACCO, SEGARS, SNUFF, SYRUP, MOLASSES, CHEESE, HARDWARE, TINWARE, WOODEN WARE, CANNED GOODS Dry Goods. Boots, Shoes and Domestics Warning ! I In eoanecjuonce of the great atcoese < BARRY’S • MALARIAL ■ “ ANTI DOTI IX PERMANENTLY CURING and Fever W General Malarial DebUity, Spurious Preparation! -Z Have been recently introduced, put porting to supplant all others. Remember that BARRY’S MALARIAL ANTIDOTE Has been in active demand for the post thirty years, and during the providence of Epidemics of Malignant Chills, has saved thousands of valuable lives. REMEMBER! That its extraordinary curative and antidotal value has been vouched fer by men not living in the Moon or the Sandwich Islands, but by gentlemen known to you all as Representative Citizens of the highest character. REMEMBER THAT BARRY’S MALARIAL ANTIDOTE llhr nothing illnsivc or uncertain about it. It in a positive euro for Chill* and Fever, and an unfailing Tonic for Gener*! Debility. Ask for it and take nothing <•!««. Each bottle has my Hgnaturo on tho label and outaide uuhc, and without must bo Hpunoua. Remember, Barry's Malm) Antidote. Prepared only by EDW. BARRY, M. D., Chemist, 827 Broad St., Augusta, Cn,_ W. D. BOWEN, Manufacturer and Dealer In Guns, Pistols, Powder, Shot, Caps, Catridges, Fishing Tackle, Etc. 1028 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. All work and repair done with neatness and dispatch. OTTO W. MARSHALL, Merchant Tailor, 217 7TII STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. Keeps constantly on hand a fine lino of 2 Foreign and Domestic 'Woolens, SUCH AS Wordsteds, Cassimeres, Tweeds, Chevoits, Etc., Which he will make up in the latest styles. Will guarantee a fit or no pay. Will call on or about February 20, 188 G, at Harlem, with a full line of my Spring and Summer Styles. Those wishing a fashionable suit will do well to wait for Otto W. Marshall. AHU .II BAKER, Brexidint I< iKEI’HBBEAM, CuM.r AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK, 811 BROAD STREIT, AORTA, GEORGIA Cash Assets, 5300.000.0 t Surplus. 60,000 00- TRANSACTS A GENERAL DEPOSIT AND DISCOUNT BUSINIM INTERESTON DIPOSITH OF FIVE TO TWO THOUSAND DOLLAM. , :o: ' Accounts of Banks, Bankers and Merchants Received on Favorable Terne. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO COLLECTIONS .. . ;o:, ,- —Directors— -i ALFRED BAKER, > W. B YOUNG, K. R. DF.RRT, EDWABD O’DONNELL, EDGARIR. BCHNRJDER. JAMES A. LOFLTN, WM. SCHWEIGF.RT, JULEB RIVAL, M.llv EUGHNE J. O’CONNOR JOSEPH 8. BEAN. " A. F. TISCHER, DRUGGIST. 940 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. OFFERS special inducements to purchaecrH of HOLIDAY GOODS. The largest and ben lected Stock ever brought South. Globe Hotel, AUGUSTA, GA. J. W. Gray, Proprietor. In ckw Proximity to Op< r;t lloiis< 3ch graph Ofti< <s, ExpreHH Office, PoatOffiee. On Urn Principal IteUiil ot the City. Jutes according to location of rwm. Care pasu the Hotel every ten minute*.