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r ■AI / M l/ATI r —l rl \/l I lie iXJ I V ■ -»• I ZX j ▼ v f x. ■ x V A j/> i * -M. 11 df JL. ▼ -AL. 1 T X T A ■-. JOE Vol IX. No. 140. asotheb wab cloto. 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. - ♦- ♦ ♦ — . 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. I 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.” ! •- - 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. I * « 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. f, - 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 I * r Kpvx] ph SOYAI BAKIHQ FOWOES CO., HtW VOWK. 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. The fu- _ . tinlle *• * signature/ s aJ-Jzz eT,r T tl vr»P»» 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, r ?• -27 5 . _ _ —, - _ __ __ 4 ; ■ IF YOU SEE IT IN MY ADVERTISEMENT! Every article of Winter Wear at absolute cost for the next two weeks. ■ &'- 1 v • ~ -a! 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, I • ■ ,: r' ■' • THOS.J.WHITE Clothier, Furnisher and Hatter. ■.■■ . : ; 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. CXTT- ZPEtZCirES A.T SCHEUERMAN STORE. We will continue to sell everything* in the WILLIAMS STOCK at the marked cost until Feb. 15th. . ft Call and price our goods before making a purchase. 3KT. HOBITE, 21 HUI Street—at Scheuerman Store. , ■' ■ . ■ J. H, HOFFS BOOK AND MUSIC STORE HAS OPENED UP A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF LACE VALENTINES* Full Finders and Hit-Mid Comics. T TT “ej i r 1 |ii"i W■■ mlmLm JLnLi ' - ■ Ten Cento per