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SIX ECLIPSES.
The First One Occurred Yesterday and
Was Visible Here.
In this year there will be six eclipses,
three of the sun and three of the
moon. The first was a partial eclipse
of the moon on January 7, which was
yesterday. It was visible more or less
to North and South America, Europe,
Asia, Africa and the Atlantic ocean.
In eclipse/began about
6:30 p. m., and ended about 8 o’clock,
and ik was seen by many in Griffin
The second will be a total eclipse of
the sun on January 22. It will be in
visible in North America, but visible
to Central and Eastern Africa, Eastern
Europe and Asia. Tbe path of totality
will run through Central Africa, India
and the Chinese Empire.
The third will be a partial eclipse of
the moon on July 3d. It will be in
visible to North America, but visible
more or less to Europe, Asia, Africa
and Australia, and to the eastern por
tion of South America.
An annual eclipse of the sun, which
will be the fourth, will occur on July
IBtb. It will also be invisible to North
America It will ooly be seen in tbe
South Pacific ocean and the southern
extremity of South America. '
Tbe fifth eclipse will be a partial one
of tbe sun, on December 13th. It will
be a small and unimportant occurrence,
only visible in the Southern ocean.
The sixth and last of tbe year will
be a total eclipse of the moon, on De-,
cember 27th. It will be visible more
or less to all the continents of tbe
worM, except Australia and to the
Atlantic ocean.
The Sinful Oyster-
It has always been known that there
is something wicked in the apple.
That discovery was made in the far
away time “when Adam was a baby.”
But it was reserved for a Chicago
evangelist, Rev. Mr. Lindfield, to dis
cover the sinfulness of the oyster, and
even he had to go away from home to
make the discovery, says the Chicago
Inter-dcean.
Upon a critical examination of the
indictment drawn against the oyster,
it appears that circumstances alter
character, as well as cases. It is only
when the oyster forms the chief factor
in a 25-ceut church supper that the
sin comes in. Such a meal is classed
by this evangelistic gentleman with
the saloon and the gambling den, “It
is,” he says, “a form of -robbery, and
the church which accepts money from
such a source is full of tbe works of
the devil.”
No Boom, Just Better Times-
There is every indication, as convey
ed in the signs of the past six months
and the auspicious opening of the new
year, that 1898 will be a period of sub
stantial commercial and industrial
revival. There will scarcely be a boom
in any line. A boom is not wanted,
bicause the after effects are generally
disastrous. But conditions have work
ed around to the point where it would
seem almost impossible to prevent a
continuation on a constantly enlarging
scale of the solid growth of business
which set io last summer after cor
gress ceased to tinker with the tariff.
—Birmingham News.
Secretary Hunter Resigns.
Yesterday J. Scott Hunter, for some
time Secretary of tbe Y. M. C. A., at
this place, tendered his resignation, to
take effect March Ist.
This announcement will be read
with sincere regrets by many of our
citizens, who have labored with Mr.
Hunter and watched him in his labors
in the interest of the young’ men of
Griffin.
The association- has done remarka
bly well under bis guidance, and he
has labored incessantly for its advance
ment, and will leave this field with re
grets.
By his general deportment and con
secrated Christian life while among us
Mr, Hunter has won many warm, true
friends.
Pointer Dog Lost.
A libsral reward will be paid for the
finding of my pointer bitch, or any infor
mation that will lead to her recovery.
She answers to the name of “Belle,” is
small, white, with liver colored ears.
H. W. Nbal,
at Garland & Neals.
House For Rent Cheap.
Close to busibess and schools. Best
water in Griffin. Apply to Mrs. L. R.
West, Milledgeville, Ga, or W. M.
Thomas at court bouse.
THE TEXTILE SCHOOL
First Trade School in the South to Be
Established -
A textile school for Atlanta is an as
sured fact It will be the first trade
school established in the south, says
tbe Atlanta Commercial.
The establishment of this school is
on tbe line of tbe advanced age, and in
keeping with tbe higher training that
is now in vogue.
It is gratifying to note that the
south intends to keep step with tbe
progress of the times, and tbe Atlanta
textile school marks a bright begin
ning
The school is a certainty, being in
the hands of live men, and will open
at an early date. Georgia gives $lO,-
000, the city SIO,OOO, and tbe cotton
manufacturers of tbe south will equip
the plant, which will cost another $lO,-
The great,*)rota and coal trades draw
their practical scientific men from the
north and east. If a southern boy de
sires to learn mining, engineering, the
technology and practice of iron and
steel manufacture, scientifically, he
goes to the Sheffield school, at Yale;
the Carlisle school, an appendage of
Pennsylvania University, or to some
other of the northern special colleges,
or he goes to Europe ; he cannot get
tbe facilities of such an education in
the south.
Many bright young fellows have
gone to those schools and to eastern
textile schools, and mostly they have
been kept in the north or east, by al
luring offers of employment, made by
manufacturers in these sections.
Tbe needs of the south demand tbe
education of her own practical scien
tists so that success in the higher
walks as manufacturers of steel mate
rials, textiles of the finer and more
profitable grades; and in other lines
where there is great need of tecbically
trained managers and foremen may be
assured.
Tbe cotton and woolen goods trades
need several of these schools, not to
speak of the needs of means for train
ing young men for the handling of our
vast and growing business and devel
oping them into higher lines.
A Mascot-
4 The many friends of Pete Stewart
here in Griffin will be delighted to
learn of bis good fortune in being thor
oughly armed and equipped for the ah
fairs of life, whether of love or busi
ness.
The Monroe Advertiser thus speaks
of Pete's mascot:
“You can’t touch our genial fellow
townsman Pete Stewart. He possesses
the latest fad in tbe shape of a mascot.
It consi sos the left hind foot of a
graveyard rabbit, around which is tied
a dainty blue ribbon, all of which, to
possess any merit, must be tbe gift of
some fair friend. This rabbit foot
with its dainty ribbon is kept con
stantly attached to the silk covered
elastic’tbat keeps Pete’s hose from
falling over his shoes. Tbh combina
tion of rabbit foot and blue ribbon,
properly adjusted, is said to possess a
charm of the powers of which even tbe
magicians of the east are ignorant.
You can’t down Pete, he’s got his rab
bit foot with him.”
Za 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.
A Black Hen’s Eggs-
Pearson's Weekly says: They ate
telling a good story ol a certain grocer,
The other day a woman came in and
said : “I want two dozen hen’s eggs.
They must all be laid by black
The grocer said: “Madam, I am
willing to accommodate you, but you
have got the best of me this time. I
don’t know bow to tell the eggs of a
black hen from those of a speckled or
white one.”
Said she : “I can tell the difference
very easily.”
“If that is so, madam, will you kind
ly pick out tbe eggs for yourself?”
She did so, and when the two dozen
were counted into her basket, the gro
cer looked at them, and said suggest
ively : “Well, madam, it seems as
though the black bene laid tbe big
eggs." :
“Yes,” said she. “That’s tbe way you
tell them.”
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8,1888.
Borne curious figures have lately
been made public by a celebrated Ber
lin physician, which seems to point to
the fact that if a man wants to live
long and preserve bis health and
strength he ought to marry. These
figures may, perhaps, serve to make
up tbe undecided minds of young men
who are hesitating about taking the
plunge into matrimony.
Among unmarried men between the
ages of thirty and forty-five the death
rate is 27 per cent. Among married
men between tbe same ages it is only
18 yer cent. For forty-one bachelors
who live to be forty years of age, sev
enty-eight married men triumphantly
arrive at the same period. The differ
ence gets all the more marked as time
goes on.
At sixty years of age there are only
twenty-two bachelors to forty-eight
married men; at seventy there are
eleven bachelors to twenty-seven who
are married, and by the time they
reach ninety, tbe married men are
three to one, for there are nine of them
to every three bachelors. And yet, in
the face ot facts like these, we still find
men daring to remain single.
It really is as much as their lives are
worth, if they only came to think of it.
Men may talk of their lives being
shortened by domestic worries and
anxieties and cares. That is all rub
bish. Statistics must tell tbe truth,
and these statistics of the Berlin doc
tor say that tbe man who is a bachelor
stands in far greater risk of a shorten
ed span.
Men who have-somebody to look
after them, to feed them propeily, and
see that they change their wet boots,
and come home at night at reasonable
hours—these are the men who keep
easily well and live long.
The miserable bachelor who has no
one to care whether he liv’es on burn
ed mutton chops and sleeps in damp
sheets, whether he leaves bis top coat
at home when he has had influenza,
or gets overheated at cricket and then
lies full length on the wet grass—thia
is the man the insurance
offices and gees down to an untimely
grave.—Ex.
Where the Negro’s Friends Are-
The negro has no real friends in tbe
north. We are willing to believe, for
we see something of it here, that the
negro does not show to advantage
after crossing tbe Potomac and the
Ohio. It seems to us that the further
he wanders from the south the more
bumptious and offensive be becomes.
But this is largely due to the fact that
ho realizes tbe hostile environments in
which be is placed, and in bis foolish
way resents it. The fact remains,
however. The negro’s best and most
genuine friends are at the south, and
it is among the former slave-holding
classes that he finds the truest esteem
and the most helpful friendship.
Southerners know how to handle their
colored nuisances without including
tbe whole race in their scheme of re
pression and rebuke.—Washington
Post.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
At 30 marriage is the wine of life; at
40 it’s the morning after.
A man is quiet when he is dead ; a
woman is dead when she’s quiet.
Every woman is a mirror of her bos
om friend to her husband and a mirror
of-her husband to het bosom friend.
The first sign that a woman is be
ginning to feel her age is when she
hunts up all the baby pictures of her
children.
Half a woman’s pleasure in buying
a pretty pair of stockings cheap is
spoiled because she can never be per
fectly sure they won’t crock.
When you see a girl’s eyes look as if
she bad been crying she has generally
mot with some great grief, or else she
has just had her bath and couldn’t
find starching bag.—New
York Press/’
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 inflammation mn, be
taken out and this tube restored to its
normal condition, hearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine cases out of ten- are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfaces
We will rive 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-Chenky & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s FamilyPllls are the best.
Facts for Bachelors.
Royal makes the toed pare,
wholesome and delicious.
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ROYAL RAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Pointed Paragraphs-
There is nothing so uncertain as a
sure thing.
Tbe man who invests in watered
stock is apt to get soaked.
The voice of the average man spoils
what little music he bae iq his soul.
Love draws more plans for air-cas
tles than all the other, architects com
bined.
The woman who runs after a hus
band until she gets one never brags of
her catch.
It is useless for a self-made man to
waste money in taking out a patent
on his creation.
A decided is a fair haired
woman who always insist?, upon hav
ing her own way.
A mother who will deliberately ad.
mit that some other baby is as smart
as hers is not to be trusted.
A woman usually goes to her grave
remembering what girl gave her that
cheapest wedding present she received.
Church fairs, amateur theatricals,
home talent concerts and similar af
fairs are called entertainments, but
nobody knows why. .
People Sometimes weep witnessing
a death scene upon the stage, but it is
usually because they realize that it is
only a ebam and that the actors still
live.—Chicago News.
Practical Points-
Boys, don’t join a club. Remember
it was a club that killed poor AbeL
Whatever mystery there may be
about gas, it is sure to come to light.
A bad bookkeeper: The one who
borrows books and never returns them.
So far as ease and comfort of mind
are concerned, it is better to run from
than for office.
To make time pass quickly give
sixty day note, with uncertain provis
ion for meeting it.
Young man, when the girls flatter
you just remember that it is natural
for 'lasses to make taffy.
Tbe greatest real estate encumbrance
is the tower of pisa. It has a perpetual
lean on the earth.
The shirker should bear in mind
that it is just as bad in a moral sense
to pass counterfeit labor as counterfeit
money,
“Praise God from whom all blessings
flow,” after you have demonstrated
your sincerity by distributing some
blessings among His needy creatures.
Some genius has invented a kind ol
paper that cannot be destroyed by fire.
Think of the terrible consequences in
after years of writing a love letter on
that kind of paper.
Some gallant person suggests that
postage stamps should be adorned with
ladies’heads. Artistically this" might
be a success, but practically it would
never.do, for what man worthy the
name would be guilty of licking a
lady?
Young man, perhaps you “cap drink
or let it alone,” but perhaps some per
son over whom you have a strong in
fluence cannot do thia Whether you
intend to be or not, you are to a cer
tain extent, your brother’s keeper.
Educate Vour Bowel. With CascareU.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c. 4ac. If C. C. C. fad, druggists refund money.
H.P.EADY&CO.
IN HILL BUILDING,
Buggies, Wagons and Hamess.
We give good prices for your old
Buggy and Harness in exchange for
new ones. All kind of repair work
promptly done.
H. P. EADY & CO.
ONE FOURTH OFF |
FOR SPOT CASH.
You can buj any OVERCOAT, SUIT or WOOLEN UNDERWEAR in OW
store for TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT off of market prices.
Hard times make it difficult tor people who actually need a suit or overcoat to
buy. But at these prices, ONE FOURTH OFF, any body can buy: -
$ 4.00 SUITS OR OVERCOATB. JOR $ 3.00. .
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10.00 “ “ “ “ 7.50.
12.50 • “ “ - M 8 '
15.60 “ “ " “ 11.25.
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THESE PRICES ARE ABSOLUTELY FOR THE CASH.
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Christinas Presents. I
GENTLEMENS TAN AND RUSSIA HOUSE SLIPPERS.
BLACK AND TAN ROMEO ELASTIC SIDES. |
GENTLEMENS FINE PATENT LEATHER SHOES.
“ BROWN WILLOW CALF SHOES.
LADIES FELT LINED HOUSE SLIPPERS.
“ FUR TOP ROMEO.
“ FINE SHOES AND OXFORDS.
f ‘ EMBROIDERED AND HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS
“ FINE HOSIERY AND GLOVES.’
INFANTS SOFT SOLE SHOES IN COLORS.
, Low Prices to Everybody.
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RACKET STORE
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WE HAVE A VARIED LINE AT -
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OWING TO THE LOW PRICE OF r OUR CUSTOMERS’ PRODUCT
COTTON—WE HAVE DETERMINED TO LOWER THE PRICE OF GOODS,
WHICH MEANS LESS PROFIT. NOW WE WILL BELL CHEAPER THAN
EVER, FOR CASH ONLY. WE URGE OUR FRIENDS WHO OWE PAST
DUE BILLS TO COME AT ONCE AND SETTLE. I
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Ten Cent, per Week