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Vol IX No. 152.'
A HARD HUT.
The City Fatb«" Reacind Former Ac
tion and Pay Low.
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/tameetiug of the oity council
held in February, A. J. Burr preeent
ed a petition asking the privilege of
building a house on a vacant lot of bis
in rear of Odd Fellows hall. The pe
tition described the kind of a building
he proposed to build and size, and the
uses for which it was to be built.
The petition was granted and the
fire committee was instructed to see
that the building was erected in ac
cordance with the petition.
Work was commenced the first of
this week, and the frame is about up,
the iron for the walls and roof is also
on band.
Yesterday the trustees of the Odd
Fellows building called the attention
of the council to the building, and
said it must stop—that they oould not
allow aueh a proposed building to be
erected in such close proximity to
their own magnificent structure —the
increase in insurance incident thereto
would be unbearable.
This announcement caused a call
session of tbe city fathers yesterday
afternoon, when a full board was pres
ent, save Aiderman Reid.
The council soon realized tbe dilem
ma it was in, and to get out of it re
quired more time, talk and juggling
than any proposition they had en
countered for months.
Being confronted with Burr’s peti
tion which was gianted, and the de
claration of tbe Odd Fellows that Such
could not be done ringing in their
ears—that was a dilemma not to’be
laughed at. It was a pair of facts.
Wisdom and justice, however, pre
vailed, and the action of the council
granting the permission was rescinded
and they agreed to pay all of Burr’s
losses on material bought for and used
on the proposed building. The bills
for which are to go before the finance
committee.
Council then adjourned.
The Negro in the South
When John J. Ingalls was in this
city he remarked to a gentleman with
whom be was in conversation that be
had thought much about the negro
question of late years, and that tbe
more he thought of it the greater puz
zle it became to him. The reply was
made to him that the negro question
was not so momentous in the eyes of
the white people of the south, that they
bad no doubts of its being adjusted
without trouble provided the white
people cf tbe south and the negroes
were left without eastern or northern
interference to work out their future.
Mr. Ingalls in answer to thia, said that
he thought such interference would be
unwise, as be was convinced that tbe
negro’s best friends were tbe southern
white people.
Tbe opinion of all who study this
question fairly is very much the same
as that of Mr. Ingalls. The Washing
ton Post, a paper that is neither north
ern or southern, speaking along this
line, recently said :
"The degro has no real friends at tbe
north. We are willing to believe, for
we see something of it here, thi t the
negro does not show to advantage after
crossing the Potomac and the Obid It
seems to us that the'furtber be wan
ders from tbe south tbe more bump
tious and offensive be becomes. But
this is largely due to the fact that he
realizes tbe hostile environment in
which he is placed, and in bis foolish
way resents it. The fact remains, how
ever. The negro’s best and most gen
uine 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.”—Columbus
Enquirer-Sun.
There is more Catarrh in this section of
he country than all the other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurab e. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease, and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a consti
tutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney &
Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitu
tional cure on the market. ■lt is taken in
ternally in doses from JO drops to a tea
•poonful. It acta directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Bend for circulars and tes
timonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
ISJursto Your Bowels With Cascarets.
?. U1 ? coo ?‘ I l««on forever.
vc, 25c. If C. C- C. fall, druggists refund money.
RHODES’ MERRYMAKERS
They Will be The Olympic Tonight,
Friday and Saturday.
Frank B. Rhoda’s Merrymakers will
open tbeir engagement at tbe Olympic
tonight in "Tbe Greet Diamond Mys
tery,” New York’s latest comedy drama
success. During the evening up-to
date and refined specialties will be
introduced by the Alabama trio, John.
C. Robisch, Al Berger, Mayne Chil
dress, tbe Kentucky dancing and sing
ing sunbeam, and Merdello.the world’s
greatest contortionist.
Here is what the Durham (N. 0.)
Daily Sun says of the company :
"A large audience greeted tbe Merry
makers last evening at tbe opera bouse
and witnessed tbe performance of 'The
Factory Girl,’ a farce comedy, which is
cleverly constructed, containing many
touching scenes in tbe life of a factory
girl, and just enough good, pure
humor to give a hearty zest and pleas
ing relief to tbe pathetic parts. The
company last evening demonstrated
the fact that jt has talent of a high
order and cau portray the serious side
of life as well as the humorous and
ridiculous.
"Miss Willard as Martha Gibbs, por
trayed that character in a realistic
manner. The character of Toby Twin
kle, as represented by Al Berger, was
inimitable and afforded great merri
ment by bis comicalities. Frank B.
Rhodes and Nat Leffingwell, as Jasper
Plum’s sous, were excellent characters,
dissimilar in tbeir ways, and displayed
the real life, where one loves tbe honest
factory girl humble in life, and the
other sets his heart on riches. Mies
lone Toiler, who has become a favorite
in her bright and sprightly acting, was
very sedate and sympathetic on this
occasion as Lady Valeria Westerly.
Miss Mayne Childress, as Lady Leath
erbridge, was another good character.
The costumes were beautiful—some
gorgeous The specialties by Miss
Childress, Mewr. Berger, Robish and
Mardellu were veryjpaichy and warmly
applauded.”
Fire in Rome.
Tbe composing room and press room
of tbe Rome Tribunc were damaged by
water at Tuesday morning fire. The
business office and editorial, storage
and job rooms were burned out. Tbe
files of the paper for several years and
over five hundred cuts of prominent
Romans and other Georgians were de
stroyed. Stores underneath tbe Trib
une were badly damaged from water.
The firemen did good work in subdu
ing tbe blaze. Tbe total loss is about
SIO,OOO, mostly coverefi by insurance-
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Cotton Seed and the Hog.
Some of the friends of tbe Western
bog complain that cotton seed is
knocking him out and that the bog'
raising industry has fallen off 33 per
cent within ten years in consequence
of tbe large amount of cotton seed oil
used as a substitute for lard. We have
no disposition to bog it, but we may
incidentally remark that tbe cotton
heed has not yet fairly begun to assert
itself.—Wilmington (N. C.) Star.
The Modern Way.
Commands itself to the 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 delightful liquid laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs. Manufactured by Califor
nia Fig Syrup Company.
The Blue Bird.
The memorable freeze of March 26,
1895, virtually annihilated the b’u
birds from Georgia, if not the greater
portion of the South.
The farmers and many others will
rejoice to learn that reports show they
are again appearing in different sec
tions of the state, and tbeir early
spring notes would be refreshing in
every section.
Attention Veterans.
Every confederate veteran in Spalding
county is earnestly requested to meet in
Griffin, in the city council chamber, Kin
caid block, at 10 o’clock, Wednesday
morning the 23d inst, to discuss and ar
range preliminaries for attending the re
union of the United Confederate veterans
of the South soon to be held in Atlanta.
It is desired that every veteran in
Spalding county so arrange to attend this
grand reunion, and we should endeavor
to go in a body.
By order of W. R. Hanlkiter,
J. P. Sawtull, Commander.
Secretary.
9RIFFIN, 9KOR&IA, THURSDAY MORNIN6, MARCH 3, 1898.
mmtOBHTS VICTOBIOVB
Three of the Largest Battlto Since
the War Began
Official reports from American con
suls in Cuba received on the Ist state
that Ute insurgents have been victori
ous in three out of four/of tbe biggest
engagements since the war began. In
one engagement the Spanish lost 300
killed and wounded. Tbe Spanish
column was attacked on Feb. 18, near
Holquin. The Spaniards fought lying
on the ground, suffering great lose.
An official who has bandied reports
from consuls regarding the condition
of reconcentrados said Tuesday : "These
reporfe ehow far worse situation among
the wretched people than any news
paper reports yet published. About
225,000 old men, women and children
are now starving to death. Between
450,000 and 500,000 are suffering from
disease and lack of proper fuod. Mors
than 350 000 have died of disease, and
starvation since Weyler’e order of con
centration. Mothers by the hundred,
with unborn babes, are included among
tbe victims. The publication of these
spalling facts will be followed imme
diately by congreesional action. No
congiessman with a spark of feeling
could remain uumoved at the recital
of tbe terrible story these reports tell.”
The South Would Suffer.
In the event of war with Spain tbe
brunt of the burden, which such a
conflict would entail, would fall upon
tbe South. A war with Spain would
be in tbe nature of a naval conflict,
and it would occur in Southern waters.
Our Southern ports are poorly fortified
and every one of them would be ex
posed to the guns of tbe enemy. It
would be impossible for tbe American
navy to prevent tbe Spaniards from
doing more or less damage along our
Southern coasts, even though the war
were brief and terminated in American
victory, as it surely would. The South’s
commercial and material interests
Would suffer very heart); at all events.
This is a phase of the situation whlcffi
those at home who are clamoring for
war should seriously consjder.—Birm
ingham News.
RYE IN PLACE OF WHEAT.
Another Element In the Boom For Amer
ican Cereals.
The shortage this year in the European
orop of rye, the cereal largely used abroad
for bread and at home for whisky, is esti
mated as 300,000,000 bushels, and there is
already a considerable demand for Ameri
can rye for export. Fortunately for Amer
ican farmers this year’s rye crop is consid
erably In advance of what it has been, and
the crop will exceed, it is computed, 30,-
000,000 bushels, thereby breaking the rec
ord, which was 29,960,000 bushels in 1882.
Rye Is used extensively in many Euro
pean countries, particularly in Russia,
about half the total rye used In Europe
and America being raised in Russia. An
enormous quantity of rye, too, is raised in
Germany, and a considerable though
smaller amount in Hungary. Sweden
and Franco are two other European coun
tries which produce a considerable amount
of rye, it behig used for bread more exten
sively there then- Tn the United States. A
computation made a year ago as to the ex
tent to which rye is utilized in the manu
facture of whisky showed that the ma
terial used for distillery purposes waa
8,750,000 bushels of rye, 2,000,000 busheli
of malt and 11,500,000 bushels of oorn In
a year. The fame of Amerocn rye whisky
is as broad and as great as tbo fame of any
other distilled beverage perhaps, but
American made rye bread has never taken
a very high rank in popularity, and tbit
country has generally bad rye to export
In 1894 some 230,000 bushels of American
rye were exported to foreign countries, and
the exportations of American rye this
year, to meet the shortage abroad, will be
largely In excess of that total. Nebraska
alone has this year a rye crop of 2,000,000
bushels, and the selling price on tbe farm
in tbe Blackwater State has risen from 17
to 87 cents a bushel and Is still rising. In
the Chicago market December rye, • stand
ard grade for delivery, has been selling at
56 cents and touched 60. Last year barley
was selling in the Chicago market for 48
to 48 oents, and with an increased supply
from the large crop it might be inferred
that the prioe would decline Instead of in
crease. The Increase is to be ascribed to
the shortage abroad.
In France the amount of wheat used per
capita is more than double the amount of
rye. In Germany, on the other band,
twice as much rye as wheat is used—B,ooo,-
000 tons of rye and 8,000,000 tons of wheat.
In Norway, Sweden and Denmark twice
as much rye is used as wheat, but Great
Britain imports very little rye, though the
value of the importations of wheat aver
ages more than 8900,000,000 a year. The
shortage of the European rye crop, espe
cially in Russia and Germany, furnishes a
market for the American surplus which
was not expected or counted upon at tbe
beginning of the present season.—New
York Sun.
O-A. SZI.’O JFt.£>Jh,
CA»Toiiik.
ITe Cure Constipation Forovei\
Take Cascareta Candy Cathartic. 10c or We.
If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
Royal makes the food pare.
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Prof. Sanarelli, the yellow fever ex
pert of Montevideo, who went to Bra
zil some lime ago fur the purpose of
making experiments with a curative
serum, is reported to have met with
gratifying success. There is an epi
demic of tbe fever at Sao Paulo. Prof.
Sanarelli, according to the advices, se
cured ten patients whose cases had
been given up as hopeless by tbe at
tending physicians. These patients
he inoculated with his serum. Os the
ten, six recovered. None of these cases
was treated by him until the ordinary
treatment had been tried without
avail. The particulars with regard to
Sanarelli’s treatment and serum will
je awaited with eagerness by Amerin
can physicians and health officers.
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rbctoihb
Both the method ana results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Sjnrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste ana ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial m 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 drug
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 FKAHCIKO, CAL.
LOUMILII. KT. HEW YOM. IL
Fresh Garden Seed!
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Buists,, Landreth’s, Mays. We are
selling them cheap.
Eastern grown Seed Irish Potatoes.
N. B. DREWRY & SON.
Don't Tobacco knit and Smoke Your J-lfe Away.
To quit tobaoco eoolly and forever. b« ms
neUo. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bae. thq wonder- vroiker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, tOc or tl. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling iiemedy Ca. Chicago or New York.
IT IS TRUE,
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IF YOU SEE IT
IN MY ADVERTISEMENT!
Every article of Wintefr Wear at absolute
cost for the next two weeks.
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I WILL BE ABSENT, VISITING THE WHOLESALE MARKETS AMD
PURCHASING THE NOBBIEST LINE OF CLOTHING EVER SHOWN IN
GRIFFIN.
In the Mean Time 1
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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.
THOS.J.WHITE
Clothier, Furnisher and Hatter. |
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R.F. StricklandX Co.
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New Spring Goods. ■
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
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NOVELTY DRESS GOODS.
40-inch Novelty Suiting only 25c., worth 40c.
cnntinga in broken plaids, very new, 50c. ■
40-mch ah wool Suiting in braid effects, 50c.
Printed Duck Suitings, 10c. and 12fc.
SILKS, RIBBONS AND CHIFFONS.
£i e Ti Tass . eta guaranteed not to split, 75c.
Plaid and striped Bilks for shirt waists.
«, U ?°R ul r Bfiadee of Satiu only 50c.
PJ 27>inch wide, 75c. to $1.50.
44-inch Mousehn, all shades, 75c.
New stock of Satin Bibbons. New stock of Sache Ribbons.
NOTIONS AND WHITE GOODS.
It is impossible to enumerate the many things in this line, but our
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R. F. STRICKLAND & CO.
BANKRUPT SALE
OF
HARDWARE!
Having bought at Sheriff’s sale
the entire stock Hardware, Stoves,
Tinware, Farming Implements, etc.,
of C. H. JOHNSON ft SONS, we
are determined to close it out with
in 60 days.
Such bargains in Hardware as
you will find in our store have never
before been offered in Griffin
W. D. Davis X Bro.
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Ten Cents per Week