Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-11
COLUMBUS, MISS.
The SsLazy, Meier DO-WelI ONCE
seeker'-The Folly of a, Little
ToW1 Substdizing.
Great Railroad CsrporatiOn-Compe
iitiOn with BirmiuxhAm-CIosed
Stores, Crops aud Trade.
Special Correspondence OF the Appeal

Great Railroad Csrporstion-Compe.
iitfOu with Birmiuxham-CIosed
Stores, Crops aud Trade.
Special Correspondence of the Appeal
COLUMBUS, MISS, March 8.-A glance at
the first column of the local side of our Town
papers discloses the fact that many of our
citizens are too willing 10 sacrifice them
selves for the public good-and their ewn
Candidates for the various county ofices,
though the election is near nine months of,
are looming up
"Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks
In Nallambrosa,"
and though some are VIGOROUSLY unqualified
in every requisite for the Office to which
they aspire, our papers unhesitatiugly eulo-
gize each as he lie announced, and so rounded,
chssie and honeyed is the erlogium of the
candidates extraordinary fitness for the
position, that a stranger, seeing the papers,
must believe he has learned the whereabouts
of that class of men Charles Dickens discov-
cred in America, namely: Remarkable
men," Though there is no especial reason
why 50 fee 1.-THE price OF a candidates an.
nouncemeut) should not cause flow Of sweet
words from the pens of our newspaper men,
yet when they tell Us that men are qualified.
that is, possess integrity, energy, capacity
and fitness for the Offices, whom we know
want the offices merely because an election
to them gives a lazy living, aud whose
past careers do not TEEN with enviable deeds
proving beyond any reasonable doubt msg.
nanimity and brillisncy of mind, say that
such course of treatment of the public by the
press Is impertinent, unsavory, and demands
resentment. All the candidates submit their
chances OF election to the will of the Demo-
cratic party in convention assembled, or
otherwise, and wheI the day for (convecing)
the convention comes every candidate, once
so anxious to immolSte himself for public
good, now rants and tells nervously aud
snxiously how much the public owes him,
aud how eminently necessary il is that the
responsibilities OF Office should fall on him
alone.
Before the nominating convention con-
vened every candidate was humble, pleading,
and "hsle fellow well met" with all; shook
your hand cordially thirteen times a day;
insisted on tire siing to a drink OF very bad
whisky; forced you to smoke an sbominably
''ehesp but GOOD" cigar, and his song always
was,
Howdy, howdy, how do you do,
HOw's your family and neighbors too7i
But nov that the great anxious laden day
has arrived, and some modest, deserving N an
gets the position, The office seeking man is
squslched, sadly disappointed, mentions the
base ingratitude of his fellow-men, retires to
his old trade OF accomplishing nothing, but
at the next election "bobs up serenely" with
oper, toad like mouth to catch the petty
offices the people have at their disposal.
THE FOLLY OF MUNICIPAL AID To RAIL.
ROADS.
The roar Of approaching trains and the
repeated whistles daily wildly recalls to
the taxpayers mind what a burden the
Georgia Pacific railway is. The Board of
Mayor and Aldermen two aldermen except
ed) before the present board, and the present
board Zone alderman excepted J, without COM
psnsstion to the city in any way, donsted to
the Georgia Paci ic railway 100000 ak per
cent bonds Of the city. To pay taxes on
these bonds has Increased the rate of tax alton
about thirty per cent. This Increase in taxa
tiou, though large, only pays interest; so
the taxes must be further increased to create
sinking or reserved fund with which to
pay of some of the bords. The holders of
he bonds, getting promptly six per centum
on their investment, wish nothing bet.
ter, 30 will not insist on payment
Of the bonds. The result il plain
that the issue OF 100000 will cost the
city full quarter of million before they
are paid. The Georgia Pacific promises no
good beyond next winter, and that is acct
dental, 10 Columbus. With Birmingham on
the east connected with all Important mar
kets, using large capital in her business, get
ting low rates Of freight, aud supplying the
merchants of the email towns that will
spring up betweea Birmingham and Colum-
bus; with Greenvile west Of us with river
freight supplying the merchants between that
city and Columbus, there il no known way
in which Columbus will be benefited. Btr-
miughsm will get all our Eastern cotton,
store il, compress it, and manufacture it.
Greenyille and New Orleans will drain the
western country contiguous TO Columbus,
apd'Columbus will BE- what Emerson called
New York City, sucked orange" The
bobby OF some that we will have cheap coal
is very lane. Suppose we do have coal
mines within City miles of Columbus, every
body knows the new coal company will sell
coal al low rates ju=t long enough TO drive
our present dealers out Of the market and
then put 40 prices. Such a course is the
history oil all monopoles.
CAN'T COMPETE WITH BIRMINGHAM.
There is no. capital enough usso in bust
meas here TO compete with Birmingham on
tbs esst and the use of New Orleans money
On the west, 80 / cannot see any reason why,
after next fall, our business and cotton will
not decrease. The Board of Mayor and
Aldermen, which first Issued bonds to the
Georgia Pacific railway, may never expect
tue present generation 10 bless them. Had
they dem snded a discrimination, east and
vest, for sixty miles, in freight, in favo- Of
Columbus, and the Immediate establishing
here Of mzehine shops, employing all the
time fair number Of hsuds, there nigh be
some show of reason in their act, but ay-
ing failed to dem md anything in return for
lhe bonds they will, assurediy, never have
their deeds recalled with Joy. And while
the city gives these 100000 10 3 railroad,
and our merchants murmur not, they allow
the public roads which lead into Column rus
to become impassable.
GOOD PUBLIC ROADS WANTED.
Tbsse country roads have done, and will
do Colunhus more substantial good than
any railroad yel projected through here, and
Is j. a shameful p.ece Of short-sighteduess
thai the roads are allowed to get 20 bad.
Much d, the trade We get comes from long
dlstsncea. but eees not seek Columbus on
account Of any ESPECIAL inducement offered
buyeTs.
STORES. oEoss AND BUsIsEss.
There are fourteen empty brick stores
here, and ss one or more new stores will be
erec.ed this spring, ] expect 10 zee, twelve
months Beuce, a. many a. twenty snoecu-
pied. While the rs-ldsnt portions Of the
town are neat, beauliiui ard unsqusled by
sny 10 this State, he fact glsres All Of rs in
the face that Columbus is not on boom
Preparations for crops, very varied and 10
be made by improved farm machinery, are
progressing fairly
Receipts of cotton 70. dsis about 39coo
bales. JaN-
SafIsfacIOry Evidence.
J. W. Graham, wholesale druggist, of
Austin. Tex, writes: have been handling Dr..
VIA Halls Bslsz- Ter the Luugs for the Iast
vear and hsEe found il one Of the most ssls bic
medicines have ever had in my house FOR cOGe hz
colds Aud even consumption. Always glviug enLire
satisfaction. easc send me another gross