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VoL IX. No. 160.
Important Caae Againit the Central-
In 1895 Dr. H. A. Cannon, of Allans
ta. then in Camilla, purchased a round
trip ticket to Atlanta, to the exposi
tion then in full blast.
When the doctor purchased the
ticket he was required by the contract
on the back of the ticket to put his
name upon it for purposes of identifi
cation before a validating officer in
Atlanta, who had to stamp it before it
was good for a return.
The doctor, instead of writing his
name in ordinary script, printed bis
name with his pen in capital letters.
Tq this the agent at Camilla rem
onstrated, but seeing nothing against
it on that ticket sold it to him,but put
the doctor on notice that be might
have trouble with it.
It seems that the admonition was
prophetic, for the validating officer
refused to validate the ticket and when
the Doctor got on the Central train to
attempt to ride on it he was put off at
Giiffin. This is a suit for damages for
such ejectment.
The case was ably argued by Gov.
Boynton and Judge Seeks for the
ruilroad and Judge R. T. tfanieFfor
the plaintiff.
The case will be concluded this
morning with the charge of the court
—all argument having been completed.
*, Another Lock-
A. J. Burr, who was stopped from
putting up an iron building in rear of
Odd Fellows’ hall, made another peti
tion asking permission to put up a4-
inch thick brick building.
Council met yesterday to consider
this petition, and alter much discus
sion, it was rejected.
Mr, Burr being present, amended
his petition making the wall 8 inches
thick, which brought on more talk
and lobbying.
Finally Alderman Blakely moved
that that petition be not granted,
which was seconded by Aiderman
Davis and a vote was taken.
Aidermen Blakely and Davis voting
for the motion. Aidermen Oxford,
Reid and Mitchell declining to vote.
The' failure of a majority of the
council to vote naturally caused more
talk, during which Mr. Burr withdrew
bis petition, after expressing in very
plain terms, his feeling incident to the
treatment he had received.
J. J. Camp was unanimously elected
street overseer, when council adjourn
ed.
The Latest War News-
More activity was displayed yester
day in the preparations for war in the
United States than at any time since
the existence of the strained relations
with Spain.
The Spanish securities are rapidly
declining and the Madrid papers rec
ognize the existence of a financial
panic.
The Spanish torpedo squadron is
ready to leave for Cuba, if it has not
already done so.
Another reinforcement of Spanish
troops embark for Cuba, tho second
installment within a week
There is no longer any doubt as to
the determination of the president to
recognize Cuban independence and
that action will mean the Spanish
evacuation of Cuba or war with the
United States.
The naval board at Havana has piac
'tically finished its work and baa found
nothing to substantiate the tbeo rj»hat
the Maine was wrecked by an acci
dent.
The prospect of trouble between the
United States and Spain has caused
the rebellion in the Philippine Islands
to break out again.
Census Enumerator.
Capt. W. B. Hudson has been ap
pointed by the county board of educa
tion and a committee hom the city
council to take the census of Griffin.
The census will be taken in two
forms —to ascertain the number of
children within the city limits of school
ages, which is fcr the board of educg
tion, and then the names of all the
citizens of Griffin for the benefit of the
•Uy.
Toe captain will enter upon these
duties as soon as he is provided with
proper blanks
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Kwerybody Say. So.
Cascarets Gandy Cathartic, the most won
derful medic! J discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refn shing to the taste, act gently
Bnd positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the\entire system, dispel colds,
cure beadacbej fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a box
of C. C. C. to-day; l<h 25, so cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by oil druggists.
Mrs- Danbuy’s Patriotism.
“Os course we want war 1” exclaimed
Mrs. Danbury, according to the Cleve.
land Leader. “The idea of letting such
an outrage go unpunished! I don’t
care whether the Spaniards did it or
not They deserve to be whipped, any.
way. If they hadn’t oppressed those
poor Cubans our boat wouldn’t have
been ordered to go down, there, and
the terrible thing would probably not
have happened.
“People who want to wait until the
facts can be learned are cowards. They
have no right to live in a free country.
They should go back to Europe where
they or their ancestors came from and
be serfs. If liberty isn’t worth fighting
for it isn't worth having.
“I just wish I were a man! I can
tell you I would show some of these
cowards how to act at such a time as
this!”
“Bravo! Bravo!” exclaimed her hus
band. “Spoken like a regular little
patriot! Your sentiments are mine
exactly. I’m glad you take such a
noble view of it, for now I shall not
have to hesitate any longer There is
something I have wanted to tell you
for two days, but I have hesitated for
fear it might distress you. lam going
to join a military company so as to be
ready to go to the front at the first call
to serve my country. I am so glad
you ”
“John!” exclaimed Mrs. Danbury,
“are you crazy ? Do you mean to say
that you would go away to war and
leave me here alone? You will join
no military company 1 You will stay
right here, no matter what happens!
This country has never done anything
for you! Let others do its fighting if
it gets into trouble. Here, take a cup
of tea. It’ll be good for your head!”
Things Worth Knowing.
Do not mend a kid glove with sew
ing silk, for the silk cuts the kid and
shows the mend more plainly, while a
fine cotton thread gives a much more
satisfactory result. If a glove is torn,
put a piece of silk of corresponding
shade under ttWlOrn part, baste care
fully, bo as not to reveal the stitches
on the right side,and then draw up the
rent with cotton thread.
Chemists say that it takes more than
twice as much sugar to sweeten pre*,
serves and sauces if put in when they
begin to cook than it does if the sugar
is added after the cooking is done.
Always fold a dress skirt right side
out for packing, as it will not wrinkle
so much.
A few drops of tincture of benzoin
in a bowl of water is an admirable
tonic for the face. The benzoin whitens
the skin and prevents it from wrink
ling.
Do not put a coat or dress away with
dust in the folds or plaits. Shake the
garment well and brush with a soft
whisk broom, for dust is never so easi
ly removed as at first.
When there is danger of frost in the
cellar during cold weather, carry down
several pailsful of hot water and sprin
kle the contents over the floor. Even
if this should form into ice there will
be less danger of freezing fruit and veg
etables, for water in freezing takes the
frost out of the air.
New earthenware should be soaked
for 24 hours in cold water before using,
as it will then be less liable to crack.
The South Not Dependent.
It is undoubtedly true that this sec
tion needs more capital to fully develop
its industrial possibilities; but to bold
for a moment that there is not suffi
cient energy and mechanical skill in
the South to utilize fresh capital,
'without the infusion of Northern
brawn and brain, is to cast an unde
served slur upon our own people. It
is certainly not Northern enterprise
and energy that are taking the control
of the cotton goods trade from New
England, and transferring the center
of the iron industry from Pennsylva
nia to Alabama ; hence why should we
look to other than our own energy
and initiative to carry on the develop
ment which has been so well com
menced.—-New Orleans Picayune.
Best of All
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 |l. Buy the genuine. Manu
factured by the California Fig Syrup Com
pany only, and for sale by all druggists.
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9RIFFIN, GEOR&IA, SATURDAY MORNIN9, MARCH 12, 1898.
Before the Christian Era-
Some of cur most common vegeta
blea seem to have cotne to us from a
time that is immemorial. Asparagus
was in use 200 years before the birth
of Christ. According to Heroditua,
lettuce was in use even earlier than as
paragus, for it waa cultivated as early
as 550 B C. Not only was it grown,
but it was so grown as to be had at all
times of the year, and even blanched
to make it white and tender What
better does the gardener of today? T)/e
cucumber is one of the vegetables
named in early Bible history, though
some claim that melons were really
meant. As to the melon, the date of
its first cultivation is lost in antiquity,
but Pliny records its use, and, as he
died in A. D. 79, it is probably as old
as the cucumber. Carrots and turnips
were in use as garden vegetables be
fore the Christian era. No one seems
to have been able to traee the origin
of either the pumpkin or the squash,
but we read that pumpkin pies were
made more than 300 years ago after
this recipe: Cut a hole in the aide,
take out the seeds and filaments, stuff
with a mixture of apples and spices,
and then bake till done. The ancient
Greeks used to offer turnips, beets and
radishes in their obligations to Apollo.
The first they offered in dishes of lead,
and the second in silver, but the third
was offered in “vessels of beaten gold.”
Parsnips we find mentioned by Pliny
as being brought to Rome from the
banks of the Rhine at the command
of Emperor Tiberius, for use on his ta
ble—Waverly Magazine.
The Human Body.
In the human body there are about
two hundred and sixty-three bones.
The muscles are about five hundred in
number. The lenghtb of the alimen
tary canal is about thirtystwo feet.
The amount of blood in an adult aver
ages thirty pounds, or fully one-fifth
of the entire weight. The heart is six
inches in length and four inches in
diameter, and beats seventy times per
minute, 4,200 times an hour, 100,800
times per day, 36,792,000 times per
year, and 2,565,440,000 in three score
and ten, and at each beat two and a
half ounces of blood are thrown out of
it, one hundred and seventy-five
ounces per minute, sixty hundred and
fifty-six pounds per hour, seven and
three-quarter tons per day.
All the blood of the body passes
through the heart in three minutes.
This little organ, byJits ceaseless indus
try, pumps each day what is equal to
lifting one hundred twenty-two tons
one foot high, or one ton one hundred
and twenty-two feet high. The lunge
will contain about one gallon of air at
their average degree of inflation.
We breathe oq an average twelve hun
dred times an hour, inhale 600 gallons
of air, or 24,000 per day. The aggre
gate surface of the air cells of the
lungs exceeds 20,000 square'inches, an
area nearly equal to the floor of a room
twelve feet square.
The average weight of the brain of
an adult is three pounds and eight
ounces ;of a female two pounds and
four ounces. The nerves are all con
nected with it, directly or by the spinal
marrow. These nerves, together wih
their branches and minute ramifica
tions, probably exceed 10,000,000 in
□ umber, forming a “body-guard” out
numbering by far the greatest army
ever marshalled!
The skin is composed of three layers
and varies from one-fourth to one
eighth of an inch in thickness. The
atmospheric pressure being about
fourteen pounds to the square inch, a
person of medium size is subject to a
pressure of 40,000 pound". Each
square inch of skin contains 3,500
sweating tubes, or perspiratory pores,
each of which may be likened to a
little drainpipe one-fourth of an inch
long, making an aggregate length of
the entire surface of the body of 201,-
166 feet, or a tile ditch for draining
the body almost forty miles long.
To Him Who Wait*.
What sudden changes can take
place. Less than two weeks ago the
widow Keys was working for a certain
gentleman in Dahlonega for 50 oents
per week. The last week sbe broke a
lamp chimney and only bad 40 cents
left after paying for the breakage. To
day she could buy everything that
man bad and have plenty of money
left. Such beneficial changes always
keeps ns in good heart, hoping tuat we
will be a second Jay Gould one of these
days Who knows?—Dahlonega Nug
get.
Rajral a»k«, the leeS pen,
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
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Farmers at Griffin.
Vice President Egan, of the Central
Railway, is helping the state to make
its agricultural experiment station at
Griffin of greater benefit to the people
of Georgia, by giving the farmers and
their families who live along the line
of the road an opportunity to visit the
experimental farm and see for them
selves what’ is being done there, and
how jt is dune. Day before yesterday
an excursion train carrying more than
six hpbdred people put into Griffin,
and Col. Redding, the director of the
experiment station, gave all an oppor
tunity to make a thorough investiga
tion of every department of the work.
There is mtrch to be seen at Experi
ment Col. Redding has secured the
services of an expert dairyman, and
under his direction one of the choicest
Jersey herds in Georgia has been col
lected- Mr. Wing thoroughly under
stands of butter and cheese
making, and it was chiefly to have the
farmers’ wives and daughters meet
him and learn something of his meth
ods that Mr. Egan arranged this ex
cursion.
IJ the Central Railway will only
continue ,the work which it baa so
auspiciously begun, the good results
will-««Ma ba manifoatad by tba im
proved methode adopted by the farmers
ail along its lines.—Columbus En
quirer.
New York Harbor All Bight.
If the president, through Mark
Hanna, is endeavoring to reach a set
tlement of the Maine issue on the
stock jobbing basis of “peace at any
price” he will find a patriotic Ameri
can congress standing firmly between
him and such a settlement. He will
find that public sentiment, fully
aroused, will not consent that the
American people shall be shamed be*
fore the world as cowards and willing
blood-money beneficiaries. He will
find that he has reached a point be
yond which he may not wisely go in
the direction of ignoring thosacredness
of the national honor and the sacred
duty of the president of lhe United
States in maintaining that honor.—
St. Louis Republic.
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 cores habitual
constipation. Syrup 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 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
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.
CMJFMHIA FK SIRUP CO.
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IT IS TRUE,
IF YOU SEE IT
IN MY ADVERTISEMENT! I
Every article of Winter Wear at absolute
cost for the next two weeks.
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I WILL BE ABSENT, VISITING THE WHOLESALE MARKETS AND
PURCHASING THE NOBBIEST LINE OF CLOTHING EVER SHOWN IN
GRU ?IN.
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In the Mean Time
IT WILL PAY YOH 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.
R. F. Strickland X Co.
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Lj/l PRICED
SHOES!
' Ladies Rubbe t s 35c - »nd 50c.
-i""; M ens Rubbers 50c.
Childrens Rubbers 35c.
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IWD fey Boys and Girls School Shoes 75c,,
M w-oo $1.25.
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Ladies beavy.buUon or lace Shoes
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Mens wet weather Shoes keep
THE savoy your feet dry. -
li. F. STRICKLAND & CO. 1
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BANKRUPT SALE
OF
HARDWARE!
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 days.
Such bargains in Hardware as
you will find in our store have never
before been offered in Griflfin.
W. D. Davis & Bro.
.
Ten Cents per Week