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New Garden Seeds. ■ ‘ All fresh from the best growers. Genuine Eastern Irish Potatoes. Prescriptions carefully compounded. J. N. HARRIS & SON COFFEE. WK HAVE SOME EXTRA FINE GRADES OF COFFEE. WE HAVE SEVERAL KINDS OF BLENDED GOODS, WHICH MAKE A VERY FINE DRINK. WE HAVE ALSO ROASTED AND GREEN RIOS. WHEN YOU WANT A GOOD COFFEE TRY US ONE TIME. G. W. CLARK & SON. Wholesale and Retail Grocers. BARGAINS IN FURNITURE, CROCKERY, LAMPS, CUTLERY, ETC., ETC., MANGHAM BROS. - Iwfer I .' ■ i •****’' '■■■* We Cany in CM Postells Elegant Flour, Royal Owl Flour, King of Patents Flour, Entire Wheat Flour, Schumachers Graham Flour, Water Ground Meal, Hudnutts Grits, Full head Rice, Quaker Oats, Scotch Oats, 'We also earry all kinds of stock food—Corn, Oats, Hay, Bran, Cotton *\... . Seed Hulls and Meal. J. M. SEARS. Telephone 48. In I tx-f J 1 / I L n ' LIGHT TOUCHES. • The construction of some Pianos and Organa is such as to require considerable force to produce sound. In those we are showing the mechanical parts are so nicely adjusted that they respond to the most delicate touch. But they can stand the heavier hand of a player made enthusiastic by the richness of tone, the volume, the parity of their notes. And the exteriors are fitting houses for such music. See them at J. H. HUFF, 24 HILL STREET. Still Leading. A. K. Hawkes received the gold medsl highest award from the great Exposition, superior lens-grinding and excellency n the manufacture of spectacles and eye glasses. This award was justly earned by Mr. Hawkes as the superiority of his glasses over all others has made them amona all over the country. They are now twing sold in over eight thousand cities and towns in the U. B. Prices are never reduced, same to all. J. N. Harris & Bon have> full assort ment of all the latest styles Qu /3/a.‘O JWA’A. » ; I . Morning Cail. GRIFFIN, GA., FEB. 24, 1898. Oiliceorer Davis' Hardware Store TELEPHONE NO. «. PERSONAL AND LOCAL DOTS- 8. B. Siwte 1 spent yesterday in Al lan's. J. Z. Gardner, ol Akin, was here yeslerday. Col. Geo. I Sones went up to New nan yesterday. A W. Hill, of Newnan, was in this city yesterday. W. H Boyles spent the day in Se noia yeslerday. Cy Wilson, of Hollonville, spent yes terday in this city. J J Walker made a business trip to Atlanta yesterday. Supt. A. G. Martin made a business trip to Macon yesterday Mayor W. B Smith, of Barnesville, spent yesterday in this city. Harry Johnson is spending a few days in Atlanta on business. J. G. Smith, of Barnesville, is spend ing a few days here on business. Dr. N B. Drewry spent yesterday in Hampton on professional business. Hon. WC. Be?ks spent the day in Atlanta yesterday on legal business. Will Jourdan, of Brrneaville, was the guest of Griffin friends yesterday. R. W. Lynch of Brooks Station, spent yesterday with his Griffin friends That dreaded disease, Consump tion, cured with Thrash’s Lung Re storer and Consumptive Cure. All druggists, 50c bottle. Mrs J C B ooks spent yesterday in Sunny Side the guest of Mrs. J. M. Kell. , Robert Mcßride, of Newnan, was here yesterday the guest of his many Gr ffin friends. Walter Stewart, of Atlanta, r> turned home last evening after spending sev eral days with Griffin friends Mts M. B. Fowler left yesterday for Atlanta, where she will be the guest of friends and lelatives for a few days. There is nothing better than Thrash’s Lung Restorer for Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe and all Lung Troubles. 50c bottle. More Tigers- Gary Cunningham, an old veteran in the tiger business, but it was thought be had permanently ab indon ed the trade, was arrested yesterday for selling liquor. He waived a pre liminary trial and gave bond for his appearance next Monday. Bjb Hammond, a country coon,who has been running a sharp scheme lor some time in the tiger business, was pulled yesterday. He plead guilty and was required to pay SSO and a'l costs or seive four months on the gang. He will pay out - CA-UTOI tIA. fie ?«- z? , rinila / r ~ ” Bjtatarez S' y ?> - C 7L. H.P.EADY&CO. • IN HILL BUILDING, Buggies, Wagons and Harness. We give good pricee for your old Buggy and Harness in exchange for new ones. All kind of repair work promptly done. H. P. EADY & CO. Why They Recommended Rim. A group of southerners in the lobby of the Ebbilt were laughing loud-and long last night over aa Incident that happened al the White House Mon day, says the Washington Post. The incident, wbieb really happened, was regarding a visit of a man who didn’t want office himself, but who called on the president to protest against the appointment of a man to a judge ship. ‘Mr. President,” said the protesting party, “I trust you will uot give this man a place on the bench. He is a carpet bagger, and has only lived in our state a little over a year. Worse \lill, he is ignorant of the law. Why, Mr. President, he doesn’t know the dis ference between ‘livery of seizure* and n livery stable. For heaven’s sake don’t inflict him upon us.” “But,” replied Maj. McKinley, “this gentleman is highly endorsed by Senator and bis colleague, Sen ator They say be is a good lawyer and would make a good judge.” “Yes, Mr. President, I knew they do but it is because he has moved out of their state. If he were still living there they wouldn’t endorse him for justice of the peace.” The president smiled at the earnest ness of the man who was not wanting a place for himself. Not far from where the president and the earnest man sat were two senators of the United States. They were the same who bad signed the papers of the car pet bagger. They had heard the whole conversation. Whether - it amused them or whether they were angry can not here be told, but they immediate ly got up and left the room, and the president continued to listen to rea sons why he ought not to make the appointment. J a tian Ralph on the Chinese. The Chinese are truly a fine people; asleep, but not worse off. I never met in Asia or anywhere a single man who knows the Chinese and the Japanese well who does not say that physically, mentally and morally the Chinese are' superior to the Japanese. We must not judge the huge agglomeration of differing Chinamen by those we see here. These are all Kwang tung coolies, except the occasional tall, large framed men of the more northerly provinces who come to us on diplomatic missions. The farther south you travel in China the smaller, weaker and less ad mirable do you find the people, so that in the far south, where the French were the first to begin the partitioning of China, they are no bigger than the Japanese and nothing like as able. Our Cantonese have not proved bad vis itors, yet they are not to be compared for physical merit, for shrewdness, commer cial ability, refinement or morality with their neighbors to the north, who in stat ure rise higher and higher, as if nature had planted them in terraces. The Chinese, as a whole, present better material for the magical manipulation of progress than the Japanese seemed to offer 40 years ago. They are a finer people than any other Asiatics, unless the people of India have to be exoepted.—Harper’s Weekly. Laying Railroads Vnder Difficulties. The prejudice of the Chinese against railroads has not yet been overcome. The latest mails bring a curious story about the experience of the surveyors who are laying out the line between Peking and Hankow. The route is very circuitous, in order to lift the track above the overflow of the rivers upon the plains, and was de cided upon after long study and many dif ficulties. Imagine the disgust of the sur veyors when, after an interval of three or four months, they attempted to go over the line a second time and discovered that ev cry one of the stakes they had driven had been carefully removed and every other landmark they had left to indicate the route had been obliterated. Nearly two thirds of the work had to be done over again, but it was not attempted until an edict was Issued by the governor of the province prohibiting the disturbance of any the surveyors’ marks under penalty of death.— Washington Letter in Chicago Record. MOZLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR Its Wonderful Effect on the Liver, Stom ach, Bowels and Kidneys. A pleasant lemon drink, that positively cures all biliousness, constipation, indi gestion, dyspepsia, headache, malaria, kid ney disease, dizziness, colds, loss of appe tite, fevers, chills, blotches, pimples, all impurities of the blood, pain in the chest or back, palpitation of the heart, and all other diseases caused by a disordered liver and kidneys, the first great cause of all fa tal diseases. 50 cents and $1 per bottle. Bo.d by druggists generally. Prepared by H. Mozley, M. D., Atlanta, Ga. A CARD. From a number of St. Louis’s prominent citizens, as to the merits of Dr. Mozley’s Lemon Elixir, the following named gentle men pronounce it the only pleasant, thor oughly reliable, and economical remedy the}' have ever used for the diseases for which it is recommended : Judge Alex Davis, Fourth and Chestnut streets. Judge John P. Hughens, 102 N. Fourth street. Hon. J. I. Martin, office opposite Four Courts. T. P. Grasty, law office, 1107 Clark ave nue. Capt. J. A. K. Stotts, of the St. Louis Beef Canning Company. GRATITUDE. Dr. H. Mozley—Dear Sir : Since using your Lemon Elixir, I have never had an other attack of those fearful sick head aches, and thank God that I have at last found a medicine that will cure those aw ful spells. Mas. Etta W. Jones, Parkersburg, West Va. Mozley’s Lemos Hot Drops.' Cures all coughs, colds, hoarseness, sore throat, bronchitis, hemorrhage, and all throat and lung diseases. Elegant, relia ble. Twenty-five cents at druggists. Pre-, pared only by Dr. H. Mozley, Atlanta, Ga. | A DEAD CARNATION. Leonard Contemplate* the Contents of <, Desk Drawer. Tbo desk drawer, opened, exhaled an odor of faded flowers. “Let us plunge into the atmosphere of sweet memories,*’ said Leonard. Wife absent, Leonard, addressing Bayard, his most intimate friend, indi cated withered blossoms. Faded and grown musty in the lapse of years, they reposed at the l ottom of the desk drawer. “This lily," said Leonard, sighing, “was the flower given me by Blanche, my first love, when I took from her lips a timid kiss. She was as white as its impeccable petals, fragrant as its pure corolla, graceful as its drooping stem, and who knows what might have happened had she not died in the bloom of youth?” “And the rose?” asked Bayard. “Ah, that was later 1” said Leonard, with a burst of laughter. “Rosette gave me that when she first brushed my lips with her own. The petals were once rosy as her warm being, and the flower’s beauty was radiant and amorous as her young womanhood. If she had not been fickle, she might now be my wife. ” - “And the orchid?” queried Bayard. “Hippolyta presented me with that. ” said Leonard, thoughtfully, “when she saw me trembling in adoration at her feet Time was when it had the mystio charm of her own perverse personality, and if a Russian nobleman had not eloped with her I should still be her de voted slave.” Bayard discovered a bunch of faded violets. “And these?” he interrogated. “They were the flowers,” murmured Leonard sadly, “which Etienette sent me when I had treated her brutally, be lieving that she had deceived me. She was demure and tender as the blooms, and, after the storm of my passions, she came like a peaceful sprite to peur beauty and love into my life. Had she forgiven me, it might have been”— At this point Leonard interrupted himself, seizing angrily a dead carna tion. “Why is this flower here?” he cried. “It has no place among the precious memories. Away with it at once!” In a moment the unresisting carna tion was reduced to dust under his piti less foot. “Why do you destroy it?” questioned Bayard. “Because it is the carnation Emilia gave me when she said she would be my wife, ’ ’ said Leonard, cynically, “and I married her.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. Hard to Beat a Boy. A cigar dealer in the west end said to a reporter for the Cincinnati Com mercial Tribune: “It takes a mighty sharp man to get ahead of a boy, for a fact. One of them came in here not long ago, and he was old enough to buy cigarettes and wanted a package. I sold them and got the money. In a minute a neighbor came in and wanted to know what the boy bought. I told him. “‘Well,’ said he, ‘that beats the devil! Do you know what that boy did? He was in my store about five minutes ago and asked me to buy a pamphlet that is issued by the Anticigarette league, whatever that is. He told me that the boys in the public schools were trying to sell them everywhere to do away with the bad habit of cigarette smoking among the schoolboys. I thought it was a good thing, and I bought one from him. He sold some others in the same neighborhood. Now that little rascal comes in here and spends my money for cigarettes, and I’ll bet a dollar that you’ll find him around here somewhere near smoking for all that’s out. I’m going to look him up. ’ “The next day I asked him if he had caught the kid, and he said: having a good time of it, and, more than that, all of them were in the same business. They thought it was a good joke, and I suppose it was—on me—but if they come around my store again they’ll get booted out.’ “But,” said the cigar dealer, “they are too sharp to get caught. They only work one man at a time, and none of the gang ever goes back again. They keep a list, and I expect an examination will show that they have been to every store in that whole neighborhood. Where they get the pamphlets I do not know, but I imagine some of the good people of the league had them printed for gra tuitous circulation, and the boys con cluded to sell them. They’re pretty slick. ” Felt Acquainted. A Boston lady of the most reserved and exclusive type was waiting for her change at the glove counter in one of the large stores when she was ap proached by a very large, gaudily dressed and loud looking woman, who held out a pudgy hand in a bright green kid glove and said: “Why, how do you do, Mrs. Blank?” Mrs. Blank ignored the proffered hand and, drawing herself up stiffly, said frigidly: “I do not think that I know you, madam. ” “No, I s’pose not,” replied the wom an, in nowise embarrassed ay the cold ness of her reception, “but I’ve knowed you by sight for a long time, and now I’ve got a hired girl who worked at your house once a year or two ago, and she’s told me so much about you that I feel real well acquainted with you. Pleas ant day, ain’t it? Well, if she ain’t po lite to sail off without to much as a word! Shows her raisin, anyhow 1” Harper’s Bazar. Modern Method*. Diggs—l just finished reading an ac count of how they burned heretics at the stake in ancient times. Such bar barism would not be tolerated in this enlightened age. Biggs—No, indeed! The modern heretic is let off with a roast in the re ligious journals.—Chicago News WAR DECLARED I I 0 On AU FaU and Winter Goods. BASS BROTHERS HAVE ISSUED THIS PROCLAMATION—THAT ALL WINTER GOODS MUST GO AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICKS IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR NOW AND SOON TO BE ARRIVING NEW SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. Few more pair of those 50c. Blankets lelt. Come early if you want a pair. All wool Blankets worth $6, will go for $3.25. Cloaks and Capes at leas than half their value. We do not want to carry these goods over and will save you big money in this line. FLOOR COVERINGS.—If you want anything in Carpets, Mattinge, Rugs, etc., you will find it to your interest to see us this week. Clothing, Clothing! All winter suite and odd pants will be sacrificed to make room for new spring and summer purchases that will soon arrive. If you want a fine suit cheap, very cheap, come to see us. New spring and summer samples for Clothing have arrived. It you want a new stylish suit, made to fit you, at hand-me-down] prices, see our new samples and get our prices. New Spring Goods. You are invited to call Monday and every day this week at our store and ask to see the new Percals, new Sateens, new Embroideries, new Laces, new full line of Embroidery Silk, new Braids, new Crochet Silk at sc. spool, new Ch ambry, new black brocade Dress Goods. These are beauties ana you should see them. . * Just received new black Satins, handsome quality. SHOES, SHOES. First invoice of new spring and summer Shoes just received from Drew Selby & Co., also H. C. Godman. Ask to see these when you visit our store. For style, quality and price we arq sure to please the most fastidious. A HINT TO YOU. WATCH OUR REMNANT COUNTER. WATCH OUR SAMPLE SHOE COUNTER. WATCH OUR SAMPLE HAT COUNTER. LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST AND WE WILL MAKE FT IO YOUR INTEREST BY GIVING YOU GOOD VALUES THE COMING WEEK. BASS BROS. ■■■■raw————■ * A Gold Watch Free. WE ARE GIVING EACH CUSTOMER WHO MAKES A CASH PUR CHASE OF 25 CENTS A GUESS AT THE NUMBER OF BEANS CONTAINED IN A GLASS JAR NOW IN OUR SHOW WINDOW. THE NEAREST GUESSER TO GET WATCH. CONTEST ENDS MAY 1, 1898. TRY YOUR LUCK. ZE 5 . HOBITE, 21 Hill Street—at Scheuerman Store. N. B—WE WILL BUY THE WATCH FROM THE LUCKY GUESSER AT $15.00. RACKET STORE PRICES! EDWARDS BROS. Are determined to reduce their stock of goods before buying spring stock. EVERYTHING MARKED DOWN. These pi ices will appeal to the purse of every one needing these goods. A. C. A Feather Ticking, per yard, 10c. Lonsdale fine Bleaching, yard wide, 6c. Silver Spring “ “ “ 3 7-Bc. Fancy Dress Percals, “ “ Calicoes 31-20,4 c. and sc. Come early and get your share of these good thing. EDWARDS BROS.