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Vol IX. No. 104.
bubglabs abbested.
Five Young Men Held on Serious
• Charges-
Yesterday completed the arrest of
the five young man believed to have
committed the robberies here on New
Year’s morning.
Those under arrest are : Guy Owens,
Oscar McMahon, Ed Etheridge, Gray
Britt and Jim Willis—young men,
but of not very savory characters.
Jim Willis was arrested in Barnes*
ville Wednesday afternoon by officer
Phelps and,brought up Thursday and
placed behind the bars.' Gray Britt
was arrested in Macon yesterday and
officer Phelps went after him last night.
Oscar McMahon and Ed Ethridge
have told Chief Ison much of the bur*
glaries, and there is now no doubt but
the gang will be broken up, and it will
establish the fact that Griffin has in
Ison, Gordon and Phelps a trio of des
tectives that she should be proud of,
as it has been a tedious case to hunt
down.
As an evidence of the difficulties the
chief and bis co-wotkers had in mak«
ing the it is only necessary to
relate Barnesville’s attitude toward
them in the matter.
Early Wednesday m< ruing,a’ter the
arrest of three of the suspects, it was
learned that two of the gang—Britt
and Willis—had fled.
Mayor Davis called up the police of
Barnesville, and made enquiries after
the fugitives, and was informed they
were there The Barnesville authori
ties we;e asked to arrest and bold them
until the evening train went down and
an officer would go after them, as they
were wanted in Griffin on State war
rants.
The Barnesville officials refused to
make any arrests unless a specified re
ward was offered. They were assured
a liberal reward would be paid, but
they still declined to aid in capturing
the refugees, aud Mayor Davis was
forced to send an officer down by pri
vate conveyance to make the arrest.
When Policeman Phelps reached
Barnesville he soon arrested Willis.but
Britt could not be found.
But this is not all. Phelps was not
allowed the use of the town prison of
Barnesville, in which to confine his
prisoner through the night, and Phelps
was thus forced to sit up all night and
guard bis prisoner.
Britt escaped some time after his
arrest upon a state warrant had been
asked, and went to Macon, where the
police know him and knew he was
wanted in Griffin, and pulled him and
wired Mayor Davis they had his man
—send after him, which was done.
Thp-flifl'erence between Barnesville
and Macon in this transaction is
patent to all, and it may be said the
greatest difference is not in popula
tion.
Death of Mrs. Maddox-
Wednesday evening Mrs. A. J. Mad
dox, who has lived with her husband
and reared a family near Orchard Hill,
for years, ate her supper, as usual, but
before 10 o’clock she died.
The deceased was a stout, healthy
person, of a jovial temperament, the
light and life of her home and large
circle of friends Despite all this she
was, of late years, troubled with a heart
affection, but never regarded it serious
ly-
On Wednesday night soon after the
shades of darkness enveloped the outer
world she was stricken down with her
heart trouble, and expired before a
doctor could reach her bedside.
By this sad and sudden death not
only the family but the entire com
munity was thrown into tiro greatest
grief and sorrow.
Advertised Letters.
List of letters remaining in the Griffin,
F Ga., postoffice, week ending Jan. 1,1898.
Persons calling will pleae say “advertised'*
and give date. One cent must be paid on
each advertised letter.
MALE LIST.
Tom Alexander, W. M. Brown, Wash
ington Howard, Alex McLoed, George
Roberts, J. Q. Roark, Henry Wimbush
(col), G. W. Wise.
FEMALE LIST.
Mrs. Lucy Adikins, Mrs. Annie Bone,
Lousa Rogers, Mrs. Anna Scott
David J. Bailey, Jr., P. M.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the City National Bank wil
be held at the bank on Tuesday, Jan.
Utb, 1898, at noon. A full attendance
is requested. J. G. RHEA,
. ? Cashier.
THE QUESTION OF BATES.
Judge Speer Preparing an Important
Decision on the Griffin Case-
Judge Speer will probably have bis
decision in the Griffin rate case ready
by today or tomorrow. He has been
studying the question since the hear
ing was had in December, and has
about made up his mind. At least, he
has obtained a vast amount of data,
and has gone actively to work on
drawing up the decision.
This matter has been dtosely watch
ed by the public since tiro date of its
hearing, because it has a great deal to
do with the affairs of the towns and
cities in the state. Some of Macon’s
wholesale merchants have been beard
to say that if the ruling of the inter
state commerce commission is sustain
ed by the courts the big wholesale
houses in the cities will have to go out
of business. Os course, such an ex
treme view is not taken by all mer
chants, but it shows bow much im l *
portance is attached to the question
In February another case of even
greater importance, but involving
practically the same principles, will be
brought before Judge Speer in Savan
nah In that trial nearly all of the
towns and cities in the state are direct
ly interested It grows out of the
interstate commerce commission’s de
cision in regard to the long and short
haul clause which has been before the
public so long. Unless Griffin should
prove an exception to the other towns
of the state, the decision in her case,
naw under consideration, will have a
great deal to do with the determination
of the case at Savannah—Telegraph.
Some Figures.
When the pension appropriation bill
was being railroaded through the
House the other day, Mr. Dingley, the
man who seems to be the official figur
er for the Republican party, threw out
a few figures that are a little startling.
The pension bill carrying an appro
priation of $140,000,000 went through
like it bad been greased, just as it
came from the committee. But the
New York World takes the Dingley
figures and summarizes as follows :
What is the meaning of this pension
appropriation of one hundred and
forty millions of the hard earned dol
lars of the people?
That greatest of figurers, Dingley*
showed one aspect of it—total cost of
running the government, $2.50 ; inter
est on the public debt, 50 cents; pen
sions, $2!
As there are 975,000 pensioners, one
family in every fourteen in the coun
try is largely supported by a collection
of $2 from each member of the other
thirteen families.
But a better way of realizing the
grab is by means of the table of the
probability of human life used by our
life insurance companies.
Double the chances of life as shown
by these tables.
Assume that everybody who took
part in the war was alive and well at
the end of it.
Assume that the average age of the
participants was only 32 years in 1865,
Assume that everybody was married
in 1865.
Still you get this result:
There ought to be now alive less
than 100,000 soldiers and widows of
soldiers who were wives at the end of
the war.
The pensioners outnumber the prob
able survivors nine to one!
A miracle! A miracles
In Olden Times
People overlooked the importance of per
manently beneficial effects and were satis
fied with transient action ; but now that it
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently overcome habitual constipa
tion, well-informed people will not buy
other laxatives, which act for a time, but
finally injure the system.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased, portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammatinn can be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out often are caused
by catarrh, which is -nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c,
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7,18#8. •
Why Leave Out Cotton I
The New York World, in an editori
al comparing the value of our gold
output last year with tbervalueof some
of our crops, says: “For example,
while our gold output is worth $61,«
500,000, our corn is worth $491,000,-
000, our wheat $310,600,000, and even
our lowly oats $132,500,000 ”
Has the World forgotten the south’s
great crop ? Is the cotton crop of so
little account jn the estimation of that
papier that it does &ot even thiuk of it
when calling other crops
of tfie country ? The value of the
cotton, which was harvested last year
is about $260,000,000. It may be more
than that, it will hardly |>e less. Not
more than half this crop is yet mar
keted, and a substantial advance in the
price would make a very considerable
difference in the value of this crop,
The price is low—remarkably low.
If the price this season had been 8
cents per pound instead of 5, the
money value of the crop would have
been greater than that of the wheat
crop, notwithstanding the high price
of wheat
But high as the price of wheat is, it
is doubtful if the value of the wheat
exports will be as great as that of the
cotton exports. Cotton exports are
depended upon to keep the balance of
trade in our favor, and cotton eventu
ally will unable us to greatly increase
our expprts of mauufactured goods.
Cotton was king once, and when the
south has mills enough of her own to
manaufacture her cotton crop, it will
be king again. The whole world then
will have to buy cotton manufactures
from the south. The World makes a
mistake in passing cotton by as if it
were no longer a crop of consequence.
—Savannah News.
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Should Women Swear?
A lew days ago in a trial in Alabama
two women were sworn in as witnesses.
It was in a federal court, and the pre
siding judge expressed some doubt as
to whether women should be sworn in
the courts.
The Ledger says this
brings up an old and interesting ques
tion of how much sworn testimony is
worth anyway. Judges and juries
bave'in all times had hard work to sift
out the truth of any case before it.
No witness is accepted without ques
tion in any case. It is, the Ledger
thinks, true that most men intend to
swear the truth, but is also true that
most swearing is inaccurate and un
certain.
But should women swear? In the
case in question each woman swore
right through the hour for her side,
and never wavered. One was wrong,
but which? Men who have to be about
a court very much do not place much
stress on a woman's testimony, but at
the same time they do not believe men
absolutely.
It seems difficult for tbe female
mind to discriminate between whatshe
believes and wbat she knows. This is
universally true of women.
But we are getting beyond what we
intended—merely to throw out a fede
ral judge’s thought, for conversational
uses.
Eat Plenty of Lemons-
An experienced and highly respected
physician gave a valuable hint the other
day, which all may find valuable. “I am
convinced,” said he, “not only from prac
tical personal experience, but on the theo
retically scientific grounds also, that a
safeguard against much prevalent summer
illness lies in the free use of lemon juice.”
—Athens Banner-Watchman.
MOZLEY’S LEMON ELIZIB.;
A PLEASANT LEMON DRINK.
Cures indigestion, headache, malaria,
kidney disease, fever, chills, loss of appe
tite, debility, nervous prostration and
heart failure, by regulating the Liver,
Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys and Blood.
Lemon Elixir is prepared from the
fresh juice of lemons, combined with other
vegetable liver tonics, carthartics, aromatic
stimulants and blood purifiers.
W. A. James, Bell Station, Ala., writes:
I have suffered greatly from indigestion or
dyspepsia. One bottle of Lemon Elixir
done me more good than all the niedicine
I ever taken.- ' s ~
A GARD.
For nervous and sick headaches, indi
gestion, biliousness and constipation (from
which I have been a great sufferer),! have
never found a medicine that would give
such a pleasant, prompt and permanent
relief as Dr. H. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir. I
have used it in my family for years—it
has never failed in a single case.
J. P. Sawtell, Griffin, Ga.
MOZLEY’S LEMON .HOT DEOPS.
Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness,
Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Hemorrhage ana
all throat and lung diseases. Elegant, re
liable.
Twenty-five cents at druggists. Pre
pared only by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga.
L lucatc ionr Howell With Cascareta.
Candy Cathartic; cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C- C. fail, druggists ref und money.
Royal makes the food pare,
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., HEW YORK.
How a Prophet Fell Down-
There is a prophet abroad in Colum*
bia who may be known by his beard.
About Christmas, 1895, when at Bruns
wick, Ga, a certain present of whisky
Which had been made to him fell into
the keeping pf Mabry, the express
agent, and disappeared It could not
be recovered, and he believed that
Mabry bad appropriated it. Where
upon he lifted up bis hands and pro
phesied, saying to Mabry : “You’ll be
in the penitentiary within two years.’’
As he remarked yesterday, but two
years and one week had expired when
Mabry found bimself in jail for rob
bing the “x press company. A decid
edly dangerous prophet to monkey
with! Yet a prophet with a little of
the Mabdi in him, for the state of
Georgia has no penitentiary for Mabry
to enter. —Columbia State.
Wants to See Big War.
Wbat we want to see is a big war
over China. There is not a power in
Europe that doesn’t need a first class
licking. The principle governments
have been taxing their people outrag
eously for years in order to enable the
diplomats to make faces at one an
other aud the soldiers to insult
and bully civilians. It is time the sol
diers did something to earn their liv
ing. A general war between the pow
ers will show the folly and tbe danger
of vast war establishments, and it is
the only thing that will bring about
disarmament—Topeka Capital.
The Great Salt Lake of Utah, the
Galilee of tbe Mormon, is
seventy miles long and fifty miles wide
in its widest part, with a preaent*max~
imum depth of forty feet, though
much of its area does not exceed from
twelve to twenty, says the New York
Tribune. Fifty years ago, when the
Mormon first fared thitber, it was
much deeper, exceeding 100 feet in
places, and its average being much
greater than present measurements
show. Just now it is two feet lower
than has ever been known, and the lo
cal savant conjectures that it is grad
ually turning into a body of fresh wa
ler, The theory is supported by an
examination of tbe waters of number
less springs which used to pour pure
brine into the Jake, the outflow of
many of them being now quite fresh,
as if they had exaueted the under
ground deposits of salt of which they
were formerly the solvent and carry
ing vehicle. Still, of the lake in gen
era), it may be safely asserted that its
salt will long outlast that of the doc
trines which its pioneer apostle pro
mulgated along its shores, and though
it occasionally shows, as at present, a
particularly low water mark it is not
going to dry up altogether for a long
time to come.
Electric Eight Blindness.
Several cases of blindness from electrio
lights have been reported. Ono was a
stoker on ship board, who suffered great
agony. He walked the floor, holding his
hands to his eyes and moaning. The tears
literally poured from his eyes. Under
treatment ho soon recovered, when ho
gave his physician the following facts:
One afternoon he stood for the space of
about three minutes looking at an electrio
drill, which was being used to drill holes
In a steel plate. Ho was standing about
85 or 40 feet from the drill. At the mo
ment he observed nothing unusual, but
when he returned to his own work he had
peculiar sensations In his eyes and every
thing looked as though covered with gold.
This state of things continued for some
time, when he turned in and went to sleep.
Three hours later he woke up in great
pain, which did not subside until cocaine
was applied. Another case was also a
stoker, who looked at a drill and experi
enced the same peculiar conditions as to
color, alhthlngs being a clear golden yel
low. The surgeon declared the condition
to be akin to snow blindness, but said
that the intense irritation of the nerves
brought this state of affairs about. It is
claimed that a number of casea of this
kind have occurred in dockyards wberf
electric drills were first introduced, the
men standing about and looking on as a
matter of curiosity.—New York Ledger.
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COTTON—WE HAVE DETERMINED TO LOWER THE PRICE OF GOODS,
WHICH MEANS LESS PROFIT. NOW WE WILL SELL CHEAPER THAN
EVER. FOR CASH ONLY. WE URGE OUR FRIENDS WHO OWE PAST
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