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Vol IX. No. 140.
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The Blowing Up of the United Statei
Battleship Maine-
The mysterious blowing up of the
battleship Maine, in Cuban waters
Tuesday night, may result in hostili
ties between this government and
Spain Io the near future.
The indications are that while the
captain and officers of the boat were
in Havana, some shrewd Spaniard did
the work of destruction, which may
be brought to the surface by the pend
ing investigation.
Gen. Lee sent tbe following dispatch
yesterday to the authorities nt Wash
ington, which has thrown the admin
istration and cabinet into a breeze of
excitement:
“Tbe Maine blew up at 8 :40. The
explosion occurred well forwardjunder
men’s quarters, consequently man'
were lost. It is believed all officers
saved, but Jenkins and Merritt not ac
counted for. Cause of explosion yet
to be investigated. Captain general
and army and navy officers rendered
every assistance, fiigsbee and most of
his officers on board steamer City of
Washington Others on Spanish gun
boat and in the city. Am with Sigs
bee, who has telegraphed navy depart
ment.
(Signed) “ Lee.”
Another cable from Lee received in
the afternoon states that there is little
excitement in Havana, and that every
thing possible is being done for the
dead and wounded marines. Consul
General Lee has not cabled that the
catastrophe was an accident, as re
ported, and has merely stated that the
cause of the explosion is “yet to be in
vestigated.”
A Sad Death-
We are pained to announce the
death of Miss Harriet Kelsey, aunt of
Mr. C. E, and Miss Carrie Macartby
and Mrs. E. M. Weems, former resi
dents of this county.
Miss Kelsey removed with her nieces
about sixty days since to Griffin, where
they have been residing.
On Sunday evening last at 7 o’clock
she passed from life into that mysteri
ous state known as death, like tbe
great tides drifting cut into tbe great
ocean to be lost to human ken.
Miss Kelsey’s remains were today
brought to this city, and quietly de
posited in Oakland cemetery, where
she will rest until the Arch-Angel
shall call her forth on tbe morn of the
resurrection.—Forsyth Chronicle.
Bishop Quintard’s Death.
In tbe death of Bishop Quintard,
which occurred at Darien, Georgia,
Tuesday, tbe Episcopal church loses
one of its most distinguished and use
ful ministers, and the south one of its
greatest men. Although born and
reared and educated in the east, when
he came south he became one of the
southern people—among whom he had
come to live, and when war was de
clared the young rector entered the
Confederate service and served as
chaplain to the end.
Bishop Quintard was greatly be
loved,not by the members of bis church
alone, but by all people with whom he
came in contact. News of his death
will cause much esdness in Georgia
and throughout tbe entire south.
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Training For Alaska.
A divorce suit is tbe result of L. A.
Russell’s attempt to accustom himself
to the hardships of Alaskan life.
His wife say# he resolved two months
ago to go to Klondike in tbe spring.
Since then he has permitted no fire in
his house, sleeps with his bedroom
window wide open and confines him
•elf and family to a diet of “salt horse,”
baked beaus and lime juice.
Mrs. Russell says her health and that
of her two minor children has suffered
seriously from this treatment, and that
her husband is financially well able to
•upport his family in good style.
She wants a divorce, SIO,OOO ali
mony and tbe custody of both children.
—New York World.
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Ths Modem Way.
Commands itself to tbe well-informed, to
do pleasantly and effectually what was
formerly done in the crudest manner and
disagreeably as well. To cleanse the
system and break up colds, headaches
and fevers without unpleasant after effects
use the delightfhl liquid laxative remedy
Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by Califor
nia Fig Syrup Company.
To Cure Constipation Forever,
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. C. tail to cure, druggists refund money.
GOOD FOB GEORGIA
ts Eastern Mills Have a Practical Dem
onstration of the South’s
Superiority-
e
8 Tbe annual meeting of the Massa-
* ohusetts cotton mills of Lowell was
hold Monday at tbe office of the treas
urer. The annual meeting of the
e Massachusetts mills in Georgia was al*
e so held. Reports on the year’s busi
ness of the two mills stated that the
V mills in Lowell had suffered from tbe
depressed condition of the cotton goods
market and low prices, which were be
-1 low what many classes of goods could
be produced for under the rate of wages
' obtaining in Massachusetts.
' On the other hand, the plants in
Georgia, making similar goods to
3 those made in Lowell and obtaining
r the same prices, owing to the lower
cost of manufacture, due to cheaper
3 wages, longer hours, lower taxation
' and lower cost of power. Influenced
t by these results the following vote was
I passed unanimously by the stockhold-
I era:
f “In view of the fact that certain
f products of the Massachusetts cotton
* mills at Lowell can be produced at tbe
" mill in Lindale, Ga , for a Lower cost
‘ than they can be produced at LoWell,
it is therefore voted that the directors
be instructed to consider the possibili-
1 ty of an extension of tbe business in
’ Georgia and report thereon at some
* future meeting of the corporation.”
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I Political Philosophy.
, They say politics makes strange
. bedfellows. But some politicians don’t
. ever have time to go to bed.
, The office never goes far to seek the
man, as he generally rents a room
next door to it.
The American patriot of the present
i day coffees high. He demands $5 per
day, and rations.
Every candidate promises to “save
tbe state,” but not one believes in free
salvation.
i Even a man with the rheumatism
i will run if he sees an office in sight.
God made the country and man
made the offices. That’s why the
> Lord has very little to do with the lat
i ter.
■ Few politicians want the earth.
Many have been known to be satisfied
with a fourth of it.
1 As a rule, the higher the office, tbe
1 smaller the man looks.
I When a candidate can’t run very
> fast be can always get a voter to pull
his leg.
Some men run for office as if all
their creditors were at their heels.
1 A man may have a platform to stand
1 on, but frequently it isn’t strong
1 enough to hold his friends—F. L.
1 Stanton in Constitution.
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Fairly Stated.
If every .nan who has rendered snap
1 judgment upon Mr. Candler’s letter to
I Mr. Meyerhardt were to read that let-
* ter through carefully he would see
! that he by no means arraigns every
! man who voted for and supported Mr.
Atkinson, but it attacks those “who,by
’ methods peculiar to themselves, de
-1 prived General Evans of the nomina
’ tion after he had fairly won it.”
> Does that strike at every man who
i voted for Mr. Atkinson either in 1894
or in 1896? By no means. Tbe letter
does not hit at the voters at all, it only
strikes at those who pulled the wires
’ after the votes were cast.
No fair minded man will condemn
3 Mr. Candler for his utterances in the
matter. He recognizes the honesty of
* the democratic people, and their de*
j sire for clean methods, and only warns
them to be on their guard against
, those who, under one pretense or an*
other, would keep the state officers
under ring rule—Americus Herald.
Sudden Death in Senoia.
1 The citizens of Senoia were greatly
J shocked yesterday morning over the
sudden death ol Mrs. W. B. Edwards,
Sr, of that place.
’ Mrs. Edwards retired the night be
fore in her usual health,and was awake
at 2 o’clock yesterday morning and
was well, but about 6 o’clock was
8 found dead in bed.
3 Mr. Edwards was a most prominent
e and estimable lady, aod ber death will
s, fall heavily upon tbe entire communi
b. ty.
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- Educate i’o.ir Bowels With Cssscarets.
Candy Catliartie, cure constipation forever.
Wc, 25c. It C. G-C. fail, druggistsrefund money.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
X Take Cascarets Candy 10corac.
r. If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
•GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1888.
The Divorce Lawyer.
In a recent issue of a New Englanc
- law magazine, that individual known
as the divorce lawyer was thoroughly
discussed and severely criticised. He
is the most contemptible of beings,ank
under the guise of a legal counselor he
' pursues his unprofessional business,
3 that thrives upon ruptured maritial
relations, that banishes happiness from
5 thousands of homes, that destroys tbe
• usefulness of men and women,, and
that easts a shadow over the lives of
1 their children by murdering the repu
’ tation of parents. “Case and Ccm
-1 meat” in un editorial upon the divorce
' lawyer and his questionable ways of
doing business, terms him a “disgrace
1 to the bar,” and in the following words
makes a plea for his extinction :
“As the family is the nucleus of all
civilization,reverence for marriage and
fidelity to its obligations are the very
soil and root of good citizenship. To
encourage laxity of marri ige and to
propagate divorce will lower that mor
ality without which men are degraded
and nations decadent. The patriotism
on which every great nation must be
builded will not live divorced from oth
er virtues. The man who would die
before he would betray his country is
he that would die to protect home,
wife and child. The pride that feels a
stain like a wound, the honesty that
cannot be bribed, tbe honor that will
keep a pledged word, tbe justice that
not even freindsbip or fear can swerve,
the fidelity that stands at tbe post of
duty in tbe face of danger and death—
all these grow in the same bundle of
life with loyalty to friend, family and
country. None of these can be weak
ened without harm to the state.
“Most lawyers have too high a sense
of their professional obligations and a
manhood too honorable to permit them
to encourage a needless and foolish di
vorce Many a lawyer has calmed in
stead of fanning tbe fury of some fam
ily tempest, and has had tbe priceless
satisfaction of knowing years afterward
that he saved the family and kept both
hueband and wife from wreck. A law
yer to whom such consideration are
less than tbe fees of a divorce suit is
unfit for his profession. An attorney
who stirs up litigation of any sort for
the sake of getting business is a public
nuisance. One who tries to stimulate
the tendency to divorce is like a phy
sician who would purposely spread
contagion in order to enlarge his own
business. Such a social parasite is not
only disgusting, but pestilential. He
poisons the body of society as he feeds
upon it. The bar associations cannot
be too vigorous in freeing the profes
sion of such vermin.”
OTO® ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
1 Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
i constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
' only remedy of its kind ever pro
. duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
, ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
' many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all leading drug
i gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
MH FRANCISCO, CAL.
I UUmiU£. KT. KN TOM, *l.
‘ Educate Tour Bowels With Caacaretg.
| Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
City Tax Notice.
; The city tax books will positively close
■ on Feb. 15th, and executions will be
promptly issued against all defaulters,
Thos-Nall,
Clerk and Treasurer.
Royal Makes the food paro,
wholesome sad dsttciWMv
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Pointed Paragraphs.
When spring comes the trees will
leave.
A tough beefsteak is a sure cure for
its own consumption.
Evil spirits freqently appear io the
guise of 5-cent whisky.
The man with tbe trained bear is al
ways working the growler. „
' The volume of a man’s laugh may
not contain a single page of happiness.
The practices of a lawyer often bring
him more coin than bis practice.
A good deal of behaving hurts no
body and a little of it goes a long way.
A wife never bates to ask her hus
band for money any worse than he
hates to have her.—Chicago News.
Blood Poison- Cured-
There is no doubt, according to the
many remarkable cures performed by
Botanic Blood Balm (“B. B. B.”) that it is
far the best Tonic and Blood Purifier ever
manufactured. All others pale into insig
nificance, when compared with it. It cures
pimples, ulcers, skin diseases, and all man
ner of blood and skin ailments. Buy the
best, and don’t throw your money away
on substitutes. Try the long tested and
old reliable B. B. B. per large bottle.
For sale by Druggists.
A BAD CASE CURED.
Three Tears ago I contracted a blood
poison. I applied to a physician at once,
and his treatment came near killing me.
I emplcMKl an old physician and then
went tenfentucky. I then went to Hot
Springs and remained two months. Noth
ing seemed to cure me permanently, Al
though temporary relief was given me. I
returned home a ruined man physically,
with but little prospect of ever getting well
I was persuaded to try Botanic Blood
Balm (B, B. B.) and to my utter astonish
ment it quickly healed every ulcer.
Z. T. Hallekton, Macon, Ga.
Everybody Says So.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won
derful medical discovery of tbe age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a box
of C. C. C. to-day; 10,25,50 cents. Bold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
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REGISTRATION NOTICE.
The county registration books are now
open at my office in Hasselkus’ Shoe Store
and-all qualified to do so should call and
register.
They will close twenty days before next
election. T. R. NUTT, T. C.
Don’t Tobacco Spit and Siuoho Your life A«ny.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Dae. the wonder- worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, tOc or 81. Cureguaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York.
Hama per pound .... 10c.
10 bars Laundry Soap ... 25c.
Salmon per can - - - - -10 c.
Peas per can 10c.
Prunes per pound .... 10c.
Dried Applea per pound - -06 c.
Evaporated Peaches per pound 10c.
lib. package Scotch Oats - -10 c.
Asparagus per can ... - 3Cc.
Imported Olive Oil - - -25 c.
Imported Macaroni - - -10 c.
Macha and Java Coffee - -25 c.
; Beet Mixed Tea ----50 c.
Pure Fruit Jams per can - -10 c.
11b. can Baking Powder - -10 c.
J. 1 SEARS.
Telephone 48*
IT IS TRUE,
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IF YOU SEE IT
IN MY ADVERTISEMENT!
Every article of Winter Wear at absolute
cost for the next two weeks.
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I WILL BE ABSENT, VISITING THE WHOLESALE MARB3ETB ANT)
PURCHASING THE NOBBIEST LINE OF CLOTHING EVER SHOWN IN
GRIFFIN.
In the Mean Time
IT WILL PAY YOU TO BUY ANY THING YOU MAY NEED
IN WINTER GOODS, AS YOU WILL GET IT AT ABSOLUTE
NEW YORK COST, FOR THE CASH,
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THOS.J.WHITE
Clothier, Furnisher and Hatter.
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R.F.Stricldand&Co.
NEW DRY GOODS,
NEW NOTIONS,
NEW SHOES.
It pays to buy here. Special
values for this week on
CABOTS SHEETING, H-4 UTICA SHEETING
LONSDAt'e CAMmiW’ 0, I<M ECKWOOD BHEIfrING,
Tnw D m?Tn AMB IC ’ 104 PBPPBRILL SHEETING,
LONG CLOTH, PILLOW CASING. - .
We received last week:
P?£™ N t^A?t.^ MESTIC FOR FANCY work.
LINEN PILLOW CASING FOR FANCY WORK.
36-INCH LINEN LAWN FOR FANCY WORK.
OUR NEW LINE OF EMBROIDERIES IS THE MOST COMPLETE
EVER SHOWN HERE—-PRICES VERY LOW.
SHOES AND OXFORDS.
NEW LINE OF MEN AND BOYS SHOES,
NEW LINE LADIES OXFORDS FROM KRIPPENDORF, DITTMAN & CO.
J? CHILDRENS SHOES.
SMTUS TORLCW B raioßs!? D WINTER BTOOK TO CLOBE OOT CHEAP '
R. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
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SCHEUERMAN STORE.
We will continue to sell everything* in the
WILLIAMS STOCK at the marked cost until
Feb. 15th.
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Call and price our goods before making a
purchase.
3KT. HOBITE,
21 HUI Street—at Scheuerman Store.
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J. H, HOFFS BOOK AND MUSIC STORE
HAS OPENED UP A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF
LACE VALENTINES*
Full Finders and Hit-Mid Comics.
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Ten Cento per