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nnTTTT' A II»Iw. ■ I T / JL ..JL A B j Ivl\. z1 \ I w JL.L w m 1 2 1 J* 17A1 nr "Wa Qji VOle JIXLu XlU* tlv. gnigiiiU;;.Ll■■ ■ - 1111 Hjli-I. ■. - V Why Cotton I* Low in Price. The Montgbmery Advertiser, io commenting on the low price of cot-1 ell quarters comes the seme report—unexpectedly large yield of cottony Io August there was every prospect of such damage m would in evitably cut the crop helow that of last .year, and a yield of not oyer 9,- was the general fall gave new ' Ert and the fields were foil of struck by frost. No * dW now counts on lees than 10 000,- 000 bales and there is very general concurrence of belief of the largest crop in the history of the country. A few days ago The Advertiser published a statement from Uniontown in this state showing that receipts there al ready were more than double those of the whole of last cotton year. Reports of as heavy receipts as for all of last year have been published from many plagper Mt pone where the increase wt Uniontown. Otr' gl6l a fair-idea of many WfottoU. points. For the year ending August 31,1897, the receipts here Were 129.747 b ales. Up to the end of last week of this cdlton year were 130,768 bales, which were IOjOOO greater-than ft>r Same period last year and 1,021 greater than for the whole 1 of Isstyeaa The receipts wilt be the ' largest Montgomery has known in years, as at least 30,000 more bales will be Marketed here. It is not hard to account for 5-cent cotton when men stop to coneider the amount raised.” _ . While this excessive production has -been the ease in Alabama, it has not shown up that way in Griffin and in C other points in Georgia. The crop here Was large, but not.aa great as U that indicated above by the Advertiser. The figures ale only another pointer farmers showing- the necessity! for reducing .the acreage. Gladstone to Young Men. What Mr. Gladstone has to say to young men about success in life ought to be worth reading and worth think- Mng about as the “Grand Old Man” is fully capable of giving good advice. “Be sure .that every one of you has his place and vocation -on this earth, and that it rests with himself to find it. “Do not believe those who too say, ‘nothing succeeds like success.’ Effort, honest, manful, bumble effort, sue-, ceeda by its reflected action 1 , especially in youth, better than success, which indeed too edoily and too early gained, not seldom serves, like winning the first throw of the dice, to blind and Stupefy. '■ . “Get knowledge all you can. “Be thorough in all you can do, and. * remember that, though ignorance may be innocence, pretension is always de spicable. Quit you like men ; bo strong uod exercise your strength. “Work onward and work upward.” Officers Elected. Ata regular meeting of Chickasaw Tribe, No. 14,1.0. R. M., held in their wigwam on Thursday night, the fol lowing officers were elected for the en suing term: * M. J. Daniel, Jr, Propbet. * J. M. Kimbrough, Jr., Sacbevn. L. Patterson, Senior Sagamore. L O. Niles, Junior Sagamore. J. S. Hunter, Chief of Records. 8. B. Sawteil, Keeper of Wampum. ■ j ‘ In Olden Times " People overlooked the importance of per manently beneficial effects and were satis fied with transient action; but now that it is generafly-known that Syrup ofFigs will permanently overcome habitual constipa tion, well-informed people will not buy other laxatives, which act for a time, but ‘— l • * ■ FOR RENT. A on Poplar street. Th ? MhHp l ? B ® roomsl > a cook room and®fiH|M|Boom. A good well of water and garden£*Adjoin3 Dr., McDonald’s home. Apply to * J. D. BOYD. At the Clow" of the Year, * , With the close of the year t£e soqgi finds Itself doing pretty well. Its iron I industries are all busy making' ship ments o.\ their product abroad. Itz r cotton faatories are running profitably, while those of New England complain .of the competition. Capital and im« migration both coolinu. to come io<o ibis section. The only thing that trodbles the south is thn »«rv I ** ma bvuvd ni u»e-. very low — - • .XQb or 1 > - - , .. Telephone* Hurt Railroads. I Who Would have supposed a few yeafs ffifebat railroads would be in- way by telephones ? a If anybody bad suggested before the day of long distance telephones, that the time would come when telephones would ent down the incomes of rail roads from passenger receipts be would have been thought lacking in common sense. - And yet it has come to pass that railroads complain that long dis tance telephones are injuring their passenger business. In our dispatches yesterday it was stated a railroad com paoy was puzzled by the falling off in its passenger receipts, when, owing to better times, the receipts ought to.be increasing. After a good .deal opih quiry the company discovered Jha? in its rdbeipts was due to the falling off of its local passenger traffic, and Mikt fewer people than for merly traveled from one station to an other along its line, because of the quickness with which they could com municate Jjith' business men and friends in the nearby towns by means of the telephone- They saved ? and money by using the telephotft, and the result of that means ot trans acting their business or talking with their friends was just as satisfactory as a visit to tfie town where their busi ness was to be done or their friends re sided. The use of the telephone is being steadily extended. No one can foretell the future of that remarkable inven tion. The time may not be distant when it will bring the people of the principal commercial nations into much closer communication than the telegraph has brought them- Indeed, we may have only begun to realize the possibilities of eledtribity.' Tl te aw agent which now renders us great and varied services, but the probabilities are that the field ot its usefulness will be so greatly extended that the ser vices which it wjll. render ns in the near future will be far greater than those it now renders us.—Savannah News. No-To-B*c for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak ,;men strong, blood pure. 60c, SI. AU druggists. House For Rent Cheap. Close to business and schools. Best water in Griffin. Apply to-Mrs. L. R. West, Milledgeville, Ga, or W. MJ Thomas at court bouse. Vo Cure Constipation Forever. Cand J ftthaj-tic. 10c or 2Se. It a C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. PEKIN BANTAMS Are a very beautiful* breed of small IfowL They are tame and quiet, making the very finest of pets. lam ready to book your orders for eggs from choice stock to be delivered after Feb. Ist LEWIS D. CLARK, Breeder of Fancy Poultry and Pigeons. Office 30 Hill street. Poultry Yards East Broad street, Griffin, Ga. AT COST! AT COSTI ♦ • • z - r' \ ■' From Monday morning, Dec. 13th, until Christmas day, we will offer our entire stock of Wool Dress Goods, Capes and Jackets M cost. This is an opportunity for you to save money. » Come and See What Cost Means! Will also give cut prices on" our entire stock of Notions, Underwear, Gloves, Table Linens, Towels, Shoes, etb. < . r for all $1 and $1.25 Ktd Glov<*«. Zephyr 4c. ounce. | Flemister & Bridges. ■ ... - ■ r '""fiM --11 1 - , 'J ' - 7-- —-- — l -- ■■ .--r. . . ,-r - drui GRIFFIN. GEORGIA. BATORDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1. 1898. - - 1 11 —h The Wit of the Oeurt, r In a certain case, sayylhe San Fran-' • cisco Argonaut, Mr. Babson was a f young lawyer of a western town, while r the opposing counseLML Carter, was b a much better knoilf attorney of a i neighboring nicy. Mr- Babeon was - addeesing the jnry, and having ex -1 plained a point of law to the jariMl i turned to Mr. Carter with the word*,I s “Isn’t that righlF’ Mr: Carter thought he bad afteM r verdant subject on hishands,and with j i a smile of conscious*superiority, re* I - plied: “I have an office in C, and if’ > you have any legal problems that you * desire to have solved, Lahall be pleased > to enlighten you for a financial con-j rleratlon. Not in the' least abashed, Mr. Babson > drew from his pocket a 10-cent piece r and held it out toward Mr. Carter, > with the words: “Here; tell u« what - you know and band back the change.” i In the roar of laughter which fols] • lowed the court joined. 1 A Bright Uttle Page. A bright little boy—one of the pages of th* senate —sat at one of the senate entrances the other day, when a lady ■ approached him with a visiting card in her band. “Will you band this to Senator Blank T.” she said. “I cannot,*' replied the imy, “foi all cards must be taken to east lob by.” • The woman was inclined to be an gry and went away muttering. Then a thought struck her, and (eking out her ppckeffeßbk she found a twenty fl ve-cent piece. With it in her hand she went back to the boy. “Here, my lad,” she said, in a coax ing tone, “here is a quarter to take my card in.” e “Madame,” said the boy, without a moment’s hesitation, “1 am paid a 1 larger salary than that to keep cards out ” -. —-m—• • ' i castoriZA i “ Een lnfaata and Childsms. . ami. '"f* 1 - km An Ordinance. An Ordinance to Amend the Ordinances, Etc., ofthe City o(jpriffln. , t Be it ordained, That from and after the passage of this ordinance, that each and every ordinance, rule, order, minutes or * proceedings of the City of Griffin, or the Mayor ana Council of the Oity of Griffin, be amended by striking* therefrom the words “City Court of Griffin” wherever ’ they may be found, and insert in lieu there of the words “Crimiftal'Court of Griffin,” and by striking from the same the words ‘‘Judge of the City Court of Griffin” . wherever they may be found, and insert r in lieu thereof the words “Judge of the r Criminal Court of Griffin,” and by striking 5 from the same the words “City Court” wherever they may be found and insert in lieu thereof the-words “Criminal Court.” All ordinances and parts of ordinances t in conflict with the above arh hereby re pealed. ’ ' ‘ g|i 11 m 11 >ll " il IhßSfl I ■ I RmSTZiu I i OmLfIMP I ' II BfMAfnVCB || rllWilUl ' ■ ■ MVAL BAKING POWMR CO., HVW VMK. — • Reflections of a Bachelor. I Women like a womanly woman, but [ they hate a feminine one. J Misery runs the biggest road-house lou the turnpike to happiness. T Every poor girl believes it is wrong |for a man to marry for money. I- Next to a moequito, a girl io the hmost aggravating thing in the world. In life’s race a man runs better if he has a woman to set the pace. If the average woman could be born a widow she wouldn’t get married. If a mao i* thirty, he suffers less from love than he does from rheuma ' <| - ■<’ V ' leMwuJa Woman never feels so important M when *he goes to buy her first baby ‘ Urriage. A naan always boasts about what c ± n r o ""• l ” ao '“• h,, The-main reason why women don’t like flats io because there's no garret fo.aave up old trash in. When a woman has fully made up i her mind about a thing, she goes and asks a man’s advice. The'woman who will aprimp for a Iponth to wear a sluffed bluebird on , her bat, cries her eyes out when the .. - - ■■ • • Come up Ladies. I am goiujf to make a change and for a few days will give elegant bar gains in millinery goods of all kinds ' Mibb M. E. Confer LOST ( Yesterday morning I lost a bunch of keys on Solomon or 10th streets. ‘ The finder will be liberally rewarded • by returning same to me at the Y. M. 1 0. A. J. 8. Huntes. i ■ t ■ —... COMPARE I I . These Prices With Those You Jre Paying. * i gallon bottle Queen Olives 50c. 1 quart “ “ “ 25c. 1 pint “ “ “16c. Durkees Salad Diesing, 25c. Lee and Perrins Sauce, 25 and 40c. tomato Catsup, 10c. Large Bottle Prepared Mustard, 6c. Heinz Preserves in glass jars, 20c. Heinz Pickles In glass, aix below cost. 3 lb, can White Heath Peaches, 16c. 8 lb. can White Cherries, 25c. 8 lb. can California Apricots, 15c. - Beat Can Com, 10c. Best Cai Peas, 9c. Canned Tomatoes, 7c. Columbia Itiver Salmon, 10c. 1 lb. Royal taking Powders, 43c. ilb. “ “ a “ . 23c. Kit Mackerel, 50c Large fat No. 2 Mackerel, 5c each. Best Cream Cheese, 12R. lb. Axbuckles Coffee, 11c. lb. « Moca and Java Coffee, 25c. Ib. Best quality Green and Black Tea, 40c. lb. A good Tea, 25c. lb. California Evaporated Peaches, 10c lb. Raisins, 10c. lb. Prunes, Bc. lb. . It will pay you to buy » now. You mt ill poy fhoro tAfhofi our stoolc han bfiM fIIdMIMtML 'j. J-. a r ONE FOURTH OFF XX A 1 AaJ X. A. VA.A A. A K ‘ 7 , ” "a • ' ’ < ’ " ‘ FOR SPOT CASH. ■ w-'-o- ..V" w . You can bay any OVERCOAT, SUIT or WOOLEN UNDERWEAR in our ; store for TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT off of market prices. Hard times make it dlfflculflor people who actually need a nit or overcoat to buy. But at these prices, ONE FOURTH OFF, any body can buy: $ 4.00 SUITS OR $ 3.00. 5.00 « “ * « 3.75. 6.50 “ « 4.88. 7.50 « “ - « 5.83. 8.50 “ “ 647. M 10.00 « « m 750 ’ ‘ 12.50 “ “ “ a « f 1.38. 15.60 “ “ “ “ 1L25. 18-00 « 13.50. THESE PRICES ARE ABSOLUTELY FOR THE CASH. ANY ONE HAVING AN ACCOUNT’WITH US CAN'HAVE THESE GOODS CHARGED AT REGULAR MARKET PRICES. J / . t A * / J A a £ j) jJ * / J £ // /f IL //rll J ' . A .■> ■ . R. F. Strickland & Co. - , Co) Useful and Ornamental *-’. - - I ■ * *WU /NT* WU A* j-m IwXljlUo vlULvlo XTruß« V . • ~ . .. .. . ... -. . ■ ■■ GENTLEMENS TAN AND RUSSIA HOUSE SLIPPERS. ♦ . - ‘y. ’ OLACK AND TAN ROMEO ELASTIC SIDES. , GENTLEMENS FINE PATENT LEATHER SHOES. « RPOWN WTT T ftW FATP LADIES FELT LINED HOUSE SLIPPERS. “ FUR TOP ROMEO. FINE SHOES AND OXFORDS. w EMBROIDERED AND HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS “ FINE HOSIERY AND GLOVES. 1 INFANTS SOFT SOLE SHOES IN COLORS. Low Prices to Everybody. w w 1 R. F. STRICKLAND & (XU . ■ • • ■' '■ ■ ■ '■ -id Edwards & Power’s RACKET STORE ! ’ rEyyvj IN¥ ITE > TH® PUBUC TO CALL | AND BEE OCR LINE 0F H ® *"™y 1 oys. iiave a yarded lini J t PRICIB TO bUIT THKTIMES. ONLY 1 A lu A- FEW CENTS WILL MAKE TiHifi -t r .a JirTiSr*- LITTLE ONES HAPPY AND NO ~ (JJ U- CHILD SHOULD BE NEGLECTED. IE I B WE PLEASURE IN ■*-*'*' (J- SHOWING YOU WHAT WE HAVE. EDWARDS & POWER, j i 1 ■ ■~-- igawß!g lßS*Kl i ß A XTOTICE I XTOTICE X OWING TO THE LOW PRICE OEjfIUR CUSTOMER* IM nPETVWRV 5b KON ion v6nt>B D6r w®6k