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Vol IX. No. 153.
the clouds thicken.
The War Dogs Bayinr and Great
Activity Manifested
The news from Havana, Washing*
ton and other pointe show that all
were not asleep during the calm of the
past few days, but that the greatest
activity prevails in every department
of the army and navy of this country.
The secretary of war is arming and
equipping every vessel of the navy
and making them ready for going to
sea on short notice.
The investigation of the wrecked
man of war, Maine, have given out
enough to remove all doubt ns to the
cause of the destruction, and that it
wm the work of the Spaniards and
that all plana for said explosion were
in possession of the Spanish officials
in Havana several days before the ex*
plosion.
There is evidently no #ay open now
to avert a conflict.
Epworth League Reception-
All members of the First Methodist
church and congregation are cordially
invited to attend the reception at the
church tonight from 8 to 10:30
The League have spared no pains in
providing for the pleasure of thdse who
may be present and regardless of the
weather will expect a good attendance.
Among other good things the pro*
gram calls for:
. Address—Social Life of the Church,
Rev. H B. Maye.
Address—Work of the Stewards, W.
R. Hanleiter.
Address—What the Church Needs
Most, J. M. Kimbrough.
Instrumental Quartette, Messrs.
Drukenmiller and Sons.
Address—On Methodist History,
Rev. T. J. Christian.
Address—History of the Epworth
League, W. J. Harris.
Recitation—Miss Willie Hasselkus.
The speakers will be limited to five
minutes each and music both vocal
and instrumental will be interspersed
between the different features. After
the completion of the program which
will require 60 minutes, refreshments
will be served.
The decorations consisting of bunt*
ing, flowers, etc., will be tastefully ar*
ranged and every, effort will be put
faith to make the occasion one of
pleasure and profit
All members of the league are re
quested to be present at 7:45 with
badges on and to occupy the seats re*
. served for them.
Eugene Ragland,
President.
Not Their Exact Words.
The general tendency to look at the
actions of others through one’s own
particular spectacles is frequently’ ob*
served, says the Youth’s Companion.
Perhaps not so often noticed, however,
is the habit of unconsciously’ rendering
another’s speech into one’s own lan*
guage.
A Boston girl who had been faking
her first lesson in bicycle riding ex
pressed her satisfaction at home at the
result of the experiment.
“The man said,” she repeated, “that
I bad made most satisfactory progress
for a novice.”
“Well, did be really say that?” was
the surprised query.
“Well, no,” answered the Boston
young woman, after a moment’s reflec
tion, “wbat he did say was, ‘You’ll do
fust .ate for a new biginner!”
A friend of the poet Bryant chanced
to be alone in his study when a cabi*
net-maker brought home a chair that
bad been altered. When Mr. Bryant
returned, he asked :
“Miss Robins, what did the man say
about my chair?”
“He said,” answered the visitor,
“that the equilibrium is now admirably '
adjusted.”
“What a fine fellow!” said Mr.
Bryant, laughing. “I never heard him
talk like that. Were those his exact
words?”
“Well, he said,‘lt joggles just right 1”
repeated Miss Robbins
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Lake Mont in Switzerland has a queer
habit of turning red about two or three
times every ten years. The coloring Is due
to the presence in large quantities of little
j. aquatic plants called by naturalists Osoil
latrola rubescens.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
Jf C. C. C. fall to rare, druggists refund money.
RHODES MERRYMAKERS.
At The Olympic Leet Night in ‘‘The
Greet Diamond Mystery.’’
Owing Io the inclement weather, a
fair sized audience greeted the Frank
B. Rhode’s Merrymakers Company
last night at the Olympic. “The Great
Diamond Mystery” was presented io a
masterly manner and this company is
one of the few that comes up to the
advance notices.
Mr. Rhodes has gathered aronnd
him a company of first class actors
and actresses who possess rare talent
and it was indeed a very rich treat to
see ths grace and ease with which the
various difficult roles were handled by
the reejteclive members ot the coonpa*
uy.
“The Great Diamond Mystery 'is a
comedy dfama filled with just enough
good, pure, clean humor to make it a
pronounced success, and with such a
competent company as the Merry*
makers to produce it, it can not fail to
be a winnfli.
During the evening quite a’lot gs
up-to-date and refined specialties were
introduced by the Alabama trio, Byers,
Childress and Robish; Mayne Chil
dress, the Kentucky singing and danc*
ing sunbeam; John C. Robiscb, the
new old hose, and Mardello, the world's
peerless contortionist.
The specialties were of the most
chaste and highest order and made
decided bits with the audience; in fact,
the entire performance was first class
in every particular, and with favorable
weather the engagement of the Mer
rymakers will be a financial success.
' Tonight the patriotic comedy drama
“The Heart of Cuba,” will be present
ed and an olio of refined specialties, in
which the company’s beautiful $5,000
transformation scene will, be intro
duced with calcium effect, will close
the performance.
Tber prices of admission will remain
as advertised, 25, 35 and 50 cts.
Hoodooed by a Black Hen.
“There goes my Aon ah,” said Capt.
Cardwell, the Louisville and Nashville
conductor, one day as the O. and N.
passenger train was entering the yards
at Central City, says the Louisville
Post. When asked what he referred
to, the popular old railroader said :
“I mean that old black ben you saw
fly across the track in front of the
engine back in the edge of town. She
is a bird of ill omen if ever there was
one, and every lime she flies across
this track in front of my train I have
bad luck before I finish the trip.
“I first noticed the ben about three
years ago on the trip over from Rus
sellville to Owensboro, and we stuck in
a snowdrift before we got back, and
were held out nearly all night. The
next time the evil portent worked its
bad effect on me was when the large
tunnel at Twin Tunnels caved in, com
polling us to transfer passengers and
baggage, and stay out all night. Again
she appeared, and I fell from the train
later on, spraining my ankle. So it
was on every occasion when‘old black
ey,’ as I used to call her, appeared up*
on the scene She belongs tn an old
negro woman, and after trying in vain
to kill her I tried to buy her, but the
hen’s owner said, ‘Naw, suh ; dut’s a
pet jin’ she wuldn’t babm nobuddy.*
But I always felt strange fear seize me
when my train approached Central,
after I found wbat a bad luck bringer
‘old blackey’ was.”
Best of AU
To cleanse the system in a gentle and truly
beneficial manner, when the springtime
comes, use the true and perfect remedy,
Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for
all the family and costs only 50 cents; the
large size fl. Buy the genuine. Manu
factured by the California Fig Syrup Com
•pany only, and for sale by all druggists.
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Seed Corn.
Genuine Tennessee Heed Corn for sale.
Apply to C. A. Jones, at R. F. Strickland
& Co.’s.
Milch Cow Wanted.
Will pay a liberal monthly rent for a
good Milch Cow. Apply at Call office.
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Relocate Tour BoweU With Caaeareta.
Caqdy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
Me. 25c. ircac. fall, drratfnta refund money.
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MUFFIN, OKOBtUA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1888.
No Excuse-
The President has no excuse for ap
pointing black officials in the South,
except the purpose of rewarding them
for helping him to get Im nomination
for Piesident, and of securing their
help in getting a re-nomiuatkn in
1900. There are thousands of negro
republicans in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
In neither of the foregoing states nor
aqy other Northern state are negroes
appointed postmasters, nr to any other
official position. And, why? Because
the people of the Northern states would
not submit to having negro officials at
the bead of prominent federal offices.
Why then should the President expect
the white people in the South to tame**
!y acquiesce in the appointment of
negroes to federal offices? He does not
expect it. He knows what the feelings
of the Southern people are in regard
to this matter, but he prefers to pay
bis political debts rather than respect
their wishes and And be
cause he takes that position bo is
partly responsible for such crimes as
that at Lake City. For weeks the
people at Hogansville, in this state,
have been without a postmaster, prac
tically, because they refusp to patron
ize their postoffice as loog as a negro
is postmaster. Does the President pay
any regard to their wishes in the mat
ter? Not at all He virtually says that
the Hogansville people must accept a
negro postmaster or go without poat«
office facilities For the wishes of the
people he has no consideration what
ever. There is a prejudice against
the Chinese and Congress shut them
out of the country. Thers is a preju
dice against negro office holders; why
not keep them out of office? Why let
prejudice control in one case and not
in the other? is the way the Savannah
Hews puls it. McKinley is practically
responsible for the crimes that grow
out of such appointments.
To Search for Andree-
An expedition is now being organ
ized to start at the beginning of the
coming summer in* search of Andree,
the balloonist, who on July last set out
on an aerial voyage to the North pole.
Dr. Nansen believes that Andree is
safe, although there are few persons
who agree with him. He said recently
that it is not reasonable to expect any
news of the balloon expedition before
August, because the daring balloonist
may be in Franz Josef Land, in North
or East Greenland, in Siberia or even
in the Spitzberzen. Dr. Nansen says:
“It must be remembered that Andree
has plenty of*guns and ammunition)
so that his prospects of the
winter as good as ours were.
If he is in Franz Josef Land be will be
all right, and will be able to come
home next summer by one of the
whalers.”
The Bright Side of Life in Siberia-
Thomas G. Allen, Jr., who traveled
across Asia on a bicycle, shows, la the
March Ladies’ Home Journal, that we
hold many erroneous ideas regarding
Siberia and her people. There are fash*
ions and fashionable people even in
Siberia, and according to Mr. Allen
one meets as well dressed women in
Siberia as are to be found in any Eu
ropean city. The social forms that ex
ist in the large cities of Russia are ob
served in Siberia, and the fashionable
people of that vast province enjoy life
to the full. Mr > lien’s pictorial arti
cle on “In Fashionable Siberia” will
present a really attractive picture of a
land which the public mind has al
ways associated with sterility, perpet
ual cold and unrelieved human suh
feting.
1100 Beward, SIOO. •
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dread
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stages and that is C taj-rh. Hall’s
Catarrh Cure is the only positiare cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous snrfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the founda
tion of the disease, and giving. the patient
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
F. J. CHENEY A CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
Don’t Tobacco Spit »4 Smoke Twnr Life Awey.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be ma<
netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-TO’
.Bac, the wonder-woikcr, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, Wo or 11. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Ca. Chicago or New York.
So-To-ftw for Fifty Cents..
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, Mood pure. SQc,H. All druggists. I
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Easter Hats Are Rich
To describe the coming Easter bate
and bonnets must sorely try the pen
of so capable a writer as Isabel A.
Mallon. In the March Ladies* Home
Journal she pictures the feminine
headdress that will have its first airing
on fashion’s great show day—Easter.
The united effort of pen and pencil
bring the conviction that the vogue
gives the widest range an to shape of
headdress, and that the plumage of al
most every known bird will be brought
into requisition, beside artistic dapli
cates of every flower of. the hothouse,
garden and field will be called upon to
■apply the ornamentation* The vel
vets and ribbons may be as rich as the
purse can buy, and the woman cause»
lect almost anything in the way of col
ors or combinations and yet be entire
ly within the bounds of vogue.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
n«fu-
Where Are the Privates?
Several patriotic persons have pub-
U<dy offered their sqfvices as captains,
colonels and general in case of war
with Spain, or without regard to
whether there will be any war, but if
any man has offered his services to the
country, through any Governor or the
President, as a private, his name has
not been made public. All these vol
unteers want to be officers. .If we fight
Spain it’will be with an army of offi
cers.—Knoxville Tribune.
OITO BKJOYS
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. 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 ot Figs is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all leading 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 acceptany
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG STROP CO,
«ur AMMnaco, cal
uomau. a. k* tom.
Still. Leading.
A. K. Hawkes received the gold medal
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
amousall over the country. They are
now being sold in over eight thousand
cities and towns in the U. 8. Prices are
never reduced, same to all.
J. & Son have a still assort
ment of all the latest styles
IT IS TRUE,
IF YOU SEE IT
I
IN MY ADVERTISEMENT! i
Every article of Winter Wear at absolute
cost for the next two weeks.
I WILL BE ABSENT, VIBITING THE WHOLESALE MARKETS AND
PURCHASING THE NOBBIEST LINE OF CIXXTHING EVER SHOWN TN
GRIFFIN.
In the Mean Time
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IT WILL PAY YOU TO BUY ANY THING YOU MAY NEED j
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.
R-F. Strickland & Co.
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New Spring Goods.
VISIT OUR STORE THIS WEEK AND WE WILL SHOW YOU MANY
NEW AND ATTRACTIVE THINGS THAT WE CAN NOT TELL YOU
ABOUT HlfißK,
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
u>. « 7 ‘ ““ 7 pi ~“ JMt r ' oeiv " l ,Bd pricM •“
NOVELTY DRESS GOODS.
40-inch Novelty Suiting only 25c., worth 40c.
f oaiting ß in broken plaids, very new, 50c.
40-inch all wool Suiting in braid effects, 50c.
Printed Duck Suitings, 10c. and 12ic.
SILKS, RIBBONS AND CHIFFONS.
New Taffeta Bilka, guaranteed not to split, 75c.
Plaid and striped Silks for shirt waists.
All popular shades of Satin only 50c.
Black Batin, 27-inch wide, 75c. to $1.50.
44-inch Mousehn, all ahadra, 75c.
New stock of Satin Bibbons. New stock of Sachs Ribbons.
NOTIONS AND WHITE GOODS.
It is impossible to enumerate the many things in this line, but our
reputation for correct styles, good qualities and low prices makes this the
best shopping place in Griffin.
B. F. STRICKLAND & Cft
BANKHUPT SALE
OF
HARDWARE I
Having bought at Sheriff’s sale
the entire stock Hardware, Stoves,
Tinware, Farming Implements, etc.,
of C. H. JOHNSON & SONS, we
are determined to close it out with
in 60 daysr—
Such bargains in Hardware as
you will find in dur store have never
before been offered in Griffin.
W. D. Davis $ Bro.
59
Ten Cento per Week