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1 tT in n m John »• H^rti A.TXOSNBIT aILA w , McUONOUGH, GEORGIA, %MTrn T t»«r la *lf tk ar- )|isKiii »Xt'* ? Wui &iut Sl&ttG C«ni«*ta w«PStwn»ia w«csw waste p»rt!e* dsslro. ' OR. J. T. BANKS bas remove ! hi* Office U, his res &s&3s£ «a.Ofllce S»rictly Prime■-«« Koiloe sign over door. >"»7 *. IWT-tf DR. M. J. DANIEL, OjEBLoo at Harris’ Drug Store, .' . BILL STREET, Q&1PF1N................ GEORGIA. april 30, 1867 Bankruptcy. TinIIB undersigned sr« prepared to at- A ten d to BANKRUPTCY CASES in tba Federal Cuurti, at reasonable rate* Gall and consuls. DOYAL A NUNNALLY. march 21, 1867-ts Dr L. 6. Brantley, ■JTtORMERLY of Henry county, Ua., * tenders nie Professional Services to the citisens of Griffin and surrounding country. «@w.COMBDLTATIONS and ADVICE STRICTLY PRIVATE. KtjrOffi.'e and rasideoce. at the late Medical College of Dr. E. F. Knott, near the Railroad Freight House, where he may be found at all times, when not professionally engaged. . J dee.. 5, 1867.. DENTISTRY. A. CLEVBT>A»r. 8t SOM, Resident Dentists, A. CUVftMS. 4. a. OLBVeLAND : d»c. i*, hoc. / - nun ut ifrum: €W. 0. WRIQIIT and CHARLIE • WRIGHT, respectfully inform the citizens of Griffin and adjacent country, that they arc now prepared to repair WATCHES, Clocks & Jewelry, at much lower rates than any shop in the city. Our experience is not only of a tew year's standing, but we have been educated to, the business from out youth —having enjoyed all the facilities ever produced by the trade. gfcjrEngagornent Rings manufactur ed to order, and ENGRAVED, at short notice. Give us a call, and you shall be eatisfied with our work. HguOffioe up stairs over USurd's Har ness Store, Util Street, Griffin, Ga. nov. 26, 1887. MISCELLANEOUS. . ———> • . ■- * a wtuciwo*. „ •• * miiNSQH & Ml, Cotton Factors AID EMSIM Kllffi. 90 Bay St., ah, geo, A OKJJT9 for lh« SKA-jrOWL GCANO, WAI AStUVIBUgKLB lltON TIB . t,tb*rul Advance. mod* on «in«tgnment» In o«, or our friends Is »«w Vork *r Liverpool. au2S-6m fieo. i Cui'troth & Cos., wrtWMttoir And WnoiWAi. dkactw If Tobacco, Snuffs, - ■ AKD O I Gh A- R S . ' SBO Baltimore St, 2d Dn .r Witt of Howard, BA.JL'X'IJSiKOmB, 8«p. 28, 1867. 3a Chicago Ale Depot ms E. KENNY has constantly on IYI. band.a lull supply of the cele brated OMoa*o AlGi and is prepared to supply dealers In any wuantitv. Ho fa a’o*o dealer in BRAN DIES. "WINES, WHISKIES and SE GAItS. gey*Sample rooms No. 14 Al abama Street, under the United States .Hotel, Atlanta. Georgia. marsh 14, 1868. 1 YOL. a. ■ i ; J*; -- • Sfatm Jficer was wild- -and as lar among his army comrade* its he wee '^SIbSSH osier iedts wbtjjh at last bright him so a citnm&Aik. ’ The 'ootrrt asaerftbled afßortrcrf Won fee, m fefloOf Wa* tfltd and the finding given, but not publuha ed—“guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.” Informed of the finding, and anticipating its approe val, the Captain, for such he was, went at once to Washington, called upon the Secretary of War, and made a frank statement of the case. He acknowledg ed his fault, but said that if ponished by the court in the manner he expected, he would be forever disgraced. In consul* station of his position as an officer, and the circumstances connected with bis family, he begged permission to resign. The Secretary of War informed him that such a thing as a resignation after charges had been preferred was unheard of in the annals of military law, and contrary to the rule and practice of the service. Bat the officer begged on, and finally the Secretary yielded ; the resig nation was allowed, and the soldier be came a oivilian and merobant. That officer was General Ulysses S. Grant and the Secretary of War ex*President Jefferson Davis. Those are the foots as they ware related to ur by an officer of the Uuited States army. —Charleston News. Dbatu From The Southern Recorder of the 19th inst., says: “Our lellow-citizen, Mr. Daniel Caraker, lost a daughter on Satu.day last, under rather painful circumstances. 11 is Daughter Amelia, about teu years old, with several other ohildren, were out plum and blackberry hunting, cod go. iog into the field of Mr. Browu, some oils from miSumel or a desire to Triga ten the chrildren, or to keep them from the plum trees, set the dogs after them. •They became frightened and ran for horned a distance of a mild; the day be* ing hot and the sun shining, Amelin reached home, but wit? so much soared, heated and exhausted, that she was un.- able to speak and died in'flve hours. - Let her sad douth be a warning to all never to frighten children, especially when a way from home. Perhaps uo harm was intended, but ohildren never stop to reason when they see a dog com ing towards them, no matter the size.” Tug Mammoth Trss of California. —About ciuetys even miles from Sacra mento City, in a gently sloping, heavy timbered valley, are the largest and tal lest trees in the world. It is rightly called the Mammoth Tree Grove. One of these giants ;.f the forest was felled, not by chopping it down, but by boring it off with pump augers, anil it employ/ ed five men for twenty two days con stantl v at Work to effect it. lis height was 320 feet, and its circumference at the ground was ninetysseveu feet, fUp on the stump, on the 4th of July, thirty two persons were engaged in dancing four sets of cotillons at one time. The bark was eighteen inches in thickness, whioh gave it a diameter of over thirty feet. But monstrous as were the dimensions of this tree, at a short distance from it lies the prostrate and- majestic body of a still larger one., This is-known as the Father of the For* cat. It-is now half buried in the soil. It measures in circumference one hun dred and teu feet; Tt was four hundred and thirty-five feet in height; it is- two hundred feet to the'first branch; the centre of it is dow’. hollow,- and a person can walk erect through as if it were u large tunnel. . 'V A short distance from these . immense trees is a double tree. The Siamese Twins, which, ns their name "indicates, has one large stem at the ground, thus forming a double tree forty-oiia feet- in diumerter. The height is about - throe hundred foct. .; “JusTtc*.”—While at Rushford a few days ago, we heard an item of “Justice”. as administered in that city. There is at each end of the line bridge at that place, a painted sign—warning pas sengers over, the 3ame not to go out of a walk witi. their horses, under a penalty ,of $lO, A few days ago a “Norsk.” well charged with his favorite “beverage,” “Alcohol elar,” violated this bridge law, and ibr so doing was arrested and' taken before a Norwegian Justice of the Peace. The charge of fast driving over the bridge Was read to ye innocent aL cobolio picle, and the question of •’gnil ty or not guilty” propounded. To which he eloquently, “O, vaw. me go' faster as a walk.” “Well” said the Justice, “did’nt you see the sign an the bridge warning you of the penalty for so do ings” “O Yaw," said the defendant, "me seen sigh, but me tlnk he was for Store, Saloon, or some ting like det.” “That's good eaough defence,” said the Justice, "go your way, my sweet ben sine blossom—your ignorance of the English language makes you innocent. The costa will be taxed to the county.” - Chetfield Democrat. GRIFFIN, -ffoNB 24, 1868, - :•!,}. 1! I ■ 4- Shortly before the usual tune forv^py^bSSjoJle negro, who had eaagnt the repute asleep, of excSAn-ing a veil worn blanket coat and two dimes princi pally An cash, for as fine a speci- j men of the rattlesnake as over do-' lighted the eye # of a naturalist ;; nine f«rt -Ms * length, eyes like* lighujiitig, colors fts gaudy as an Arkansas gal’s apron, ty-tfiree rattles and a great pro pensity to make them heard, were the strong points of my purchase. Designing him as a propitiatory offering to one of the professors, my next care was to furnish him with a fitting habitation. Noth ing better presenting itself, I made him one out of a pine box, origi nally designed for shoes, by nail ing thin slats traversely, so as neither to exclude the air nor the vision, but sufficiently close, I thought, to prevent him from es oaping. The day for my depar ture arrived, and I had bis snake ship carried on board the boat des tined to take me to Vicksburg, where I wbuld take an Ohio river steamer. Unfortunately for the quietude of my pet, on the Yazoo boat was a young lady, who hearing that there was a live rattlosrmko on board allowed her cariosity to overcome her maiden diffidence sufficient to prefer a request that tho young doctor “frould make his “-hannitnal oiler !” a j process 1 tUo pfVWlbi*l „VofcoU»M»W?* ness, when in confinement, of the “hannitnal,” wa9 accomplishing rapidly without any intervention on iny part. Politeness would npt allow me to refuse, and as it was a considerable of a novelty to the passengers his snakeship was kept considerably stirred up, and his rattles had very little rest that trip. The steamer at length swung along side the wliarf at V., and transferring ray baggage, I lorftg ed about until the arrival ot a boat would give me an opportune* ty of proceeding. The contents of the box was quickly discovered, and the snake had to undergo the same inflictions as the day previ ous, until thoroughly vexed I made them desist; and resolved thenceforth I would concea) his presence, and allow him to travel as common baggage. The shades of night were falling fast, as the steamer Congress came booming along, and after a stay of t a few minutes for passengers,,pro ceeded on her way, obtaining nono, however, except myself. The snake box was placed with other baggage on the deck, in front of the social hall, jam up, as luck would have it, againist one of chimneys, making the location un pleasantly warm. It was one of those clear, lu mfncnra nights in autumn, when not a cloud dims the azure and the heavens so “beautifully blue” (alas! poor Neal,) are gleaming with their myriad stars, and i the laughing breeze lifts the hair off thto brow and presses the cheek ‘•tilth-as soft a touch as the pulp lips of a maiden in her first essay at kissing. The clear, croupy cough of the steamer was echoed back in clear asthmatic strains from the the woods lining the river, likp ( an army of cowled gigantic monks come from their cells to see a steamboat. Supper was over and the beauty of the night enticed the majority of IS. paUogM.to .So open decks. goati'number, myself among JSgfijist, seated in front of the social ball, smoking our cigars and WWaiping yarws, of all oiirrvi>}tso-; . ;tions and colors. 'i Sitting a few yards from the personage of the •group, smoking his regalia and re .galtng the crowd with the manner Which he choked a “Cobra do to death, that crawled in -to-Sy hammock in -India, was an aattbr, who 'from ljtis own account, 'had sailed all, over the world, and through Some parts of it. -V . .i" •'' Weighing the words down with a heavy ballVst of oaths, he said he wasn’t of anything iu the snake line, from the sea ser pent down to \he original snake that teraptod EVe. I asked him if ho had ever met the rattlesnake since be had been in America, thinking I would but his courage to the test on the liiorrow. “Seen a rattlesnake ? Yes— onough to sink a lovonty-four ! Went to Georgia! on purpose to kill them ! Pshaw 1 To think a man who had killed a boa con> stricter, fair fight, should bo afraid of a little noisy girt of a snake that never grew than a mar lin spike !” At this moment the boat was running a bend neat in shore, aqd the glare of a huge fire at a wood yard was thrown directly under the chair of the braggart, when to my utter astonishment, I saw there, snugly coiled up, the huge pro portions of my snake! I was so-horrified and astonish ed, that I could neither speak nor move. I had left him securely fasted in his cage, and yet there he was ut liberty in his deadly coil —his eyes gloaming like living OUate. - j The light was intercepted, and the fool of a sailor moving closer to the reptile, it commenced its warning rattle, but slowly and ir regularly, showing it was not fully aroused, “What is this ?” exclaimed a dozen voices* The foot being withdrawn, the rattling ceased before its nature of source could be clearly traced. “Twas the steam ’scapin,” said one. "» ■«• : “A goose hissing,” said anoth er. , “!rhe wind.” “A trick to sdare the sailors,” thought a good many, but I knew it liras ar rattle snake in its dead» ly coil. * ■\'Zv’n t The horrors of that moment I shall not attempt to describe, liv ery second I expected to hear the shriek of the sailor, as the .deadly fangs would penetrate his flesh, and I knew if a vela were strict-, en, no powers on earth could avail him, and I was powerless to warn him of hi3 danger. “It sounds monstrous lilko a rattlesnake!” observed a passen ger, “but there are no doctors or fool students on board, and no body but cusses like these would be taking snakes about. I was gwine up the river wunst when a rattlesnake, belonging to a medi cal student on board got oat and bit one of the passengers; the poor critter didn’t live ten min utes, and sawbone's 'prentice not much longer I reckon!” , * My hair stood on end, for there was earnestness about the toon that told me he was not jesting. “You didn’t kill him surely,” asked some one. f, “Ob no! we didn’t exactly kill him, such as cuttin’ his throat, Or pnttin’ lead in his holler cllmlEnn, NO. S%. Jot that would hava heou tskiu’' the law into our own h an^9 j hut we gave Him five hundred Tastes, treated hiut to a «oat of tar and a clean crop of one ear, and swallow-fork slit under bit, and putbim cut on a little is land up to his mouth in water, and the river a pin* a plum foot an hoar!” ■ ; T.-; », . Not kpowin but a similar fato would soqn be mine, in agony, with the cold sweat strearaidg over mo, I listened to the infernal recital of an instance of tho sum* mary punishment termed “Dyncl Law,” which the unavailability o the proper law so often drove th< the early settlers to, and which, unfortunately, is not yet entirely, abolished. The sailor must have again moved his feet closer to the snake than agreeable, for his infernal rattling rccomenced, and this time clear, loud and continuous, to the tutored ear indicating great dan ger, the prelude to a spring. I shook off my lethargy and shrieked out, “Don’t move foryoUr life ! A light, for God’s sake bring a, light ! quick!” “Mister,” spoke the sailor, it’s a trick, to scare me, you’ll miss the figure with your child’s rattlfe; just bring one of your real rattle snakes along, and I’ll show you whether he cau frighten an Eng lish sailor or not” Hearing mo call so loudly for a light, the mate, a stalwart Irish man, came running up with a large torch, but hardly had he reached the deck when he discovered tba monster, hui head drawn back ready for striking. “Snake! snake!” yelled he, punching at him with his glaring torch. “Whereabouts, you lubber still suspecting ft trick, the light blinding us all. * “Under you feet !” The sailor looked down and be* held the hideous reptile, right un der the chair! With a loud yell, he made bat one spring over the guards into the river. “Rattlesnake !” “Man over board !” “Stop hes 1” “Out with the yall!” “Fire!” “Shake!” “She is sinking !” “Shoot him!” “Who is it ?” “Lynch him “Kill the rascal!” swelled on tho air, mingled with the crushing of broken doors and cltuirs, the oaths and r u3 fllbg of terrified men, and the soreaming of still more terrw fied womeh, who knew not what to fear, while clear and distinct above the infernal melee, arose the pierc ing rattle of the snake, who writh ing his huge proportions abou ; t, and striking at everything near him, seemed to glory in the confu , sion he had created. • A shot Vras heard and then the coil collapsed and the rattling slowly ceased. The snake was dead ? * “Who brought him on board ?” “Let’s, lynch the scoundrel !” “Arethere any more of them?” “EfeTe’s the box he got out qf !” My name was on it in large cap itals. *' i ti “Throw it overboard !” 1 yelled out, “it may have more mit ! Throw it evarJ” • '.t’4 - No sooner said than done, and as the only evidence of my partic . ipation floated away over tho Wave, no one was louder in bis denunci ation, no one wanted to be shown (in order that he might whip him) the rascal thatbroughtiton board, more tfian I did, except, perhaps, it was the sailor, who now thor oughly humbled, stood shivering in Sb wet clothes by the-furnace, ready to acknowledge that Ameri can shakes were “some snakes" oertain. „. /• • Tbe Griffin Tri-My Start Trim ot mam ;«X » fcr»lxuiou!h«; 4i SOi-ir mouui-t»*i!»»aea. IVuts ro» ro*»»i*inr AnvntnuOT.- SOT*. HOTELS. % Mlntosh flense, INDIAN SPRINGS, GEO., Till SUItSCRIBaa, II«lw tak«n ch.r«* u>* A «W* **ll known oAtiitsll.hmoot, ukrt pteas «r* In annonnelnt 10 tho public sMfcwi of tMalth, pkMun. UHt rvcreation, tkM THE HOIJBE-1S NOW OPEN, In tho r-c-ptlon of vl«ltor«. At thlt p’AC* cun b* f**tnrt ss Alt* MAtiKOAi. WATKRostitscotttuths OUV* uid bountiful wcuorr Tht-ro win b« In uttomlsaco otrorr oronlnf, » -atobli.'bmoot for tbs lost tw.oi.v-hoir »«uo will be in Ata-adAsce. . »u.l oupoue lour tuoal kla jnoss. oon-oblir to the InviOWls COSAI'KIEiiI'FUatUUASS IK ATIXNDAHCB. tt booohrs and Uaski Alwsjvs la roadUtou «■ tbs arrival nt tbo oar* s’. For a) tb. Map -8, loSS-tf a A. COLLLKB £ 8 SArSBEN,. .B W VOBK,. . 8 T JOOBS*M SASSEEN’S UNITED STATES HOTEL Sasseen, York A Jourdax, Pro’s. B@uW;thin one hundred yards of the General Passenger ner Alabama and Pryor Streets, Atlan ta, Georg’*- J. W. F. BnvsoN, I .... R. T. Joukhan, | dec. 24, 1867., Brown (loose, OPPOSITE “PASSENGER DEPOT, 1 * 2sjILA.GO2Xr„ GA. RHPITTBD AMD REFURNISHED* FROM BASEMENT TO ATTIC, COMFORT,CONVENIENCE St LUXUftY COMBINED, My faithful Porters WILLIAM, MOTT and DARRAII HILL, will be in at tendance, and transfer baggage fine on tho arrival of every tea in. E, E. BROWN, May 17, 1888.6 w Proprietor. 1868. 1868 t American Hotel. 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