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I An Ordinance.
I An ordinance to prevent the spreading
al dismasts through the keeping and ex-
■ posingSfor hale of second hand and cast off
clothingkto provide for the disinfection of
such clothing by the Board of Health of
| the City oi Griffin, to prescribe fees for
■ the disinfection and the proper registry
■ thereof, and for other purposes.
■ Sec. Ist. Be it ordained by the Mayor
■ and Connell of the City of Griffin, that
■ from and after the passage of this ordi-
I nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
I or persons, firm or corporation to keep
and expose for sale any second hand or
' cast off clothing within the corporate lim
its of the City of Griffin, unless thei said
clothing has been disinfected by theßoard
of Health of the C.ty of Griffin, and the
disinfected by them has been filed in the
office of the Clerk and Treasurer of the
City of Griffin; provided nothing herein
contained shall be construed as depriving
' individual citizens of the right to sell or
otherwise dispose of their own or their
family wearing apparel, unless the same
is known tn have been subject to conta
geous diseases, in which event this ordi
nance shall apply.
Sec. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That for each garment
disinfected by the Board of Health of
Griffin, there shall be paid in advance to
said board the actual cost of disinfecting
the said garments, and for the issuing of
the certificate required by this ordinance
the sum oi twenty-five cents, and to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin
for the registry of said certificate the sum 1
of fifty cents.
Sec. 3rd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That every person or
persons, firm or corporation convicted of
a violation of this ordinance, shall be fined
and sentenced not more than one hundred
dollars, or sixty days in the chain gang,
either or both, in the discretion of the
Judge of the Criminal Court, fjr each of
fense. It shall be the duty of the police
force to see that this ordinance is strictly
enforced and report all violations the
Board of Health.
Sec. 4th. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict here
with are hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage ot.this ordinance, the fol
owing rates will be charged for the use of
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One f-inch opening for subscribers'
use 0n1y...9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries.24.oo
Each additional opening. 6.00
2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of f 1.00 per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of |I.OO per month will be charged
for water while the meter is on the service.
The reading of the meters will be held
proof of use of water, but should meter
fail to wister, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
3. Meter rates will be as follows:
7,(D0 to 25,000 gals, month.. 15c 1,000
25,000 50,000 “ * 14c “
50,000 “ 100,000 “ “ 12c “
100,000 “ 500,000 « “ 10c “
500,000.“ 1,000,000 « “ 9c “
The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per
month, whether that amount of water has
been used or not
4. Notice to cut off water must be given
to the Superintendent of the Water De
partment, otherwise water will be charged
for full time.
5. Water will not be turned on to any
premises unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
an accessible position.
6. The Water Department shall have
the right to shut off water for necessary
repairs and work upon the system, and
they are not liable for any damages or re
bate by reason of the same.
7. Upon application to the Water De
partment, the city will tap mains and lay
pipes to the sidewalk for $2 50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
at the consumers’ expense.*
TAX ORDINANCE FOR 1898.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the city of Griffin and it is hereby
ordained by authority of the same, that
the sum of 25 cents be and the same is
hereby imposed on each and every one
hundred dollars of real estate within the
corporate limits of the city of Griffin and
on each and every one hundred dollars
valuation of all stocks in trade, horses,
mules, and other animals, musical instru
ments, furniture, watches, jewelry, wag
ons, drays and all pleasure vehicles of
every description, money and solvent
debts, (except bonds of the city of Griffin)
and upon all classes of personal property,
including bank stock and capital used for
banking purposes, in the city of Griffin on
April Ist, 1898, and a like tax upon all
species of property of every description
held by any one as guardian, agent, ex
ecutor or administrator or in any other
fiduciary relation including that held by
non-residents, to defray the current ex
penses of the city government.
Section 2nd.—That the sum of 65 cents
be and the same is hereby imposed upon
each and every one hundred dollars valu
ation of real estate and personal property
of every description as stated in section
First of this ordinance, within the corpo
rate limits of the city of Griffin for the
payment of the public debt of the city and
for the maintainance of a system of electric
lights and waterworks.
Section 3.—That the sum of 20 cents
be and the same is hereby imposed upon
each and every one hundred dollars valn
atlon of real estate and personal property
of ail Cesctiptiona, as stated /n section
r irst of this ordinance, within the corpo
rate limits of the city of Griffin, for the
“"ntainance of a system of public schools
the funds raised under this section not to
whatever Priated for other P ur P o9C
persons failing to make
of u * a ble property as herein pro
™First,Wmd and Third
nrnv 3^1 na .v Ceßhallbedouble Uled “
riTrl 'b® aws 01 the state “d lhe
k rd“lly reaßQrer Bhall ißßue executions
of ordin ances or parts
nSS militating against this ordi
nance be and the same are hereby repeal-
• C. fail to cure. refund
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A SCENE OF HORROR.
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SLAUGHTERING A CRIMINAL BY TH6
1 GUILLOTINE IN PARIS.
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A Woman'i Deacrlptioa of the Sheek
iig Spectacle That Always Attracts
the Outcasts of the French Capital.
After the Feartai Knife Haa Fallen.
In these rushing times we might take
for our motto “Something New, Al
ways Something New. ” Consequently,
I imagine that the impressions of a
woman at the foot of the guillotine
would not be comraonpfoceT I was pres- •
ent at one performance in the Place de
la Roquette, where M. de Paris and his
assistants officiated in the name of so
called justice. The horrible spectacle
haunts and racks the mind and tends
rather to re-enforce the partisans of the
abolition of capital punishment. The
horror of the punishment imposed ren
ders a guilty man almost worthy of
pity. The sight of a human being,
dragged like a beast to the slaughter
house, up even to the sinister seesaw,
is terrible.
I know many people may be astonish
ed that anybody could be moved to pity
for the ferocious brute, Carrara, who
transformed his mushroom establish
ment into a crematory and had no mer
cy for jhs unfortunate young man, La
marrs, whom he threw into the fire
after having murdered him for the pur
pose of robbery. I know all that, mid I
do not dispute the fact that the Italian
was a monster, but that is no reason
why we should not be disgusted at the
spectacle which was presented to our
eyes and which I will now endeavor to
describe with themnpartiality of a sim
ple spectator, without resentment dr
prejudice, but with a heart that revolts
against a scene that has neither the
grandeur nor the majesty of a punish
ment inflicted, but rather exhibits the
cowardice and baseness of a vengeance
which hidesitself from the light of day.
The execution was fixed for 4 o’clock
in the morning, but from the hour of
midnight the neighborhood of the
Grande Roquette was swarming with'
an undulating and mocking crowd.
Jailbirds, murderers, footpads and wom
en of the streets assepabled there to see,
as they said, “the Italian animal short
ened.’’
Journalists were admitted into the
narrow space so often described, with
its five sinister stones and its legendary
gas jet which is never lighted except on
the evening before an execution.
There in the rain we watched the set
ting up of that horrible machine which,
according to the legend, Oagliostro
showed in a glass of clear water to the
terrified Marie Antoinette. In the yel
low and spectral light of the gas jet
that flickered in the wind these prepa
rations Were hideous to witness. Al
most on a level with the ground stands
the scaffold with its two arms in the
air brandishing the sparkling knife.
And I, a woman, in the presence of
these preparations, could not help think
ing of the family of the wretch whose
head was soon to fall into the basket I
thought of his little children, who were
at that moment sleeping soundly some
where, and of his wife, equally guilty
with him, and Who, as it were, pushed
her husband into the arms of the execu
tioner as a last resort to save herself.
What remorse will be hers when they
tell her abruptly: ‘'Carrara has suffered
his punishment. You are a widow I”
But the day was dawning, and the
lamps were going out. At the windows
and even on the roofs numbers of spec
tators were gathered as if to witness
some carnival. The sight was heart
rending. Mounted gendarmes and sol
diers gradually came out of the dark
ness, and one might be inclined to rail
at such a display of force at the execu
tion of a wretch paralyzed by fear, who
in a few moments would appear upon
the scene tied hand and foot.
There was some little commotion
among the crowd when people began to
point at a thin, old man who hobbled
about with the gestures of a dancing
jack to see if the knife in the brass run
ners was in good working order. This
was Deibler, the executioner, a ghost
with a white beard, who adjusted the
instrument with the indifference of a
grocer weighing his goods. Suddenly
there was profound silence; the rain
was over, heads were uncovered and
motionless. Breathless and almost in
agony the crowd followed with staring
eyes the movement of the doors of the
prison, which at last opened wide.
A suppressed “Ahl’’ came from many
contracted chests, while with pale faces
all gazed upon the assassin, whose
crime the mountebanks of the fairs pop
ularized. He was simply frightful to
look at, bowed down as he was with
terror. He did not look like a human
being. He looked like a beast. His in
telligence was already dead and his
heart had lost all feeling. The instinct
of the animal still remained. The sight
was dreadfully sad.
What followed beggars description.
The executioner and his aids seemed no
longer to be'men employed to carry out
the ends of justice; they looked like
butchers. They seized the condemned
man, some by the ears, some by the
legs, while others held down the center
of the body and kept holding him up to
the very moment when, with a sudden
rumble, the knife fell, the head re
bounded into the basket and the abomi
nation was at an end.
But one should be present and see the
pavements covered with blood, the gory
knife, the blood spurting from the de
capitated trunk, the ignominious wash
ing at the nearby fountain and the gut
ters rolling to the sewer a purple color
ed mud, in order to be able to compre
hend all the horrors pf an execution in
Paris. —Exchange.
Buried With Eyeglasses.
Margery—Papa, why did they bury
Mr. Goodman with his eyeglasses on?
Papa—Well, my pet, he was near
: sighted, and his widow framed he might
miss the pearly gates and come back.—-
Jewelers' Weekly.
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GRAVE OF PATRICK HENRY.
Not in Rt.hmoud, bat In Charlotte
Where He Lived.
Every now and then we see in some
newspaper the query, “ Where is Pat
rick Henry buried?” and tourists in
Richmond constantly ask to be shown
his grave, with the mistaken idea that
it is in that city, where much as his
public career was passed. Few people
comparatively know that the man who
acquired the title of “The Tongue of
the Revolution” lies in a quiet grave
on the estate in Charlotte county where
he formerly lived. Over It is a marble
slab inscribed with one line, “His fame
his best epitaph. ”
The estate lies on Staunton river, 38
miles from the town of Lynchburg, near
the border line which separates Char
lotto and Campbell counties. It derived
its name of Red Hill from the peculiar
color of the soil in that vicinity. When
Patrick Henry bought the place, it com
prised about 8,500 acres. The land is
rich—there was a saying in the neigh
borhood that poor land and Henry could
never be mentioned together—corn
grows there as high as a man on horse
back ; there is a general air of smiling
fields and abundant prosperity. Its sit
uation in early times was very remote.
Neighbors were few, one of the nearest
being the celebrated John Randolph of
Boanoke, who lived in his chosen soli
tude 15 miles away.
Red Hill is now owned by Henry's
grandson, William Wirt Henry, a
clever, cultivated gentleman of the
“old school. *’ He has in his possession
some relics of his cele
brated grandfather, including the desk
he always used, which still contains his
letters from Lafayette, Washington,
Madison and other great men of early
days; the large, round backed chair in
which Patrick Henry died and a portrait
of him by the elder Sully, under which
hangs a yellowed slip of paper, signed
by Chief Justice John Marshall and
several others of his friends, testifying
to the faithfulness of the likeness.—
Philadelphia Press.
READING SEALED LETTERS.
_2_
A German Scientist Shows How This May
Be Accomplished.
It is not generally known that sealed
letters may in many cases be read with
out opening the envelopes or doing them
the least injury. It was discovered by a
German physiologist by the use of an
embryoscope, or egg glass, that the
shells of eggs were of very unequal
thickness.
It occurred to him to make experi
ments in order to ascertain how many
leaves of ordinary letter or official pa
per must be laid above and below a
written leaf in order to make it illegible
to a highly sensitive eye in the direct
sunlight. He found that after he had
rested his eye in a dark room for 10 or
15 minutes he cold read a piece of writ
ing over the mirror of the embryoscope
that had been covered with eight layers
of paper.
He called in other observers to con
firm this. The letters, however, that
could thus be deciphered were written
in dark ink on one side of the paper
only. If four written sides were folded
together, and especially if there had
been crossing, it was hard to make out
the drift of the writing, and there are
some kinds of writing which, when
folded twice or thrice, admit too little
light for the purpose of decipherment.
In this way possibly many of the per
formances of “clairvoyants" maybe ex
plained. By means of the egg glass it
is, as a rule, easier to make out the con-1
tents of letter or telegram without the
slightest tampering with the envelope
than it is to detect the movements of
the embryo in the egg.
Suppose the writer of a billet, the
contents of which are known only to
himself, lets it out of his hand and loses
sight of it for five minutes. It may be
readily carried either into the direct
sunlight or into electric or magnesium
light and be read by the aid of the egg
glass. The placing of a piece of car
tridge paper in the envelope or the col
oring of it black is a means of defense
at hand.
A Burmese School.
The uproar was like that of a run
away engine tearing through a tunnel.
The floor was littered with youngsters
lying on their stomachs, and all bawl
ing with an energy indicative that
somebody was hurting them. Long,
slim, scratched upon slips of palm leaf,
tha equivalent of books in Burma,
were spread before the scholars. Making
- the lads shout is the approved method
of elementary instruction. When the
master discovers any lagging in Imig
' exercise, a long switch begins to sing
through the air. Quiet, serious study is
exploded. The Burmese educationists
argue that so long as a boy is shouting
his mind is occupied. When he is silent,
he is certain to be scheming mischief.
Therefoi the best shouters are the best
pupils.—Travel.
Cruel Spaniards.
Spanish officers as well as men gener
ally incline to cruelty and treachery.
Here is a story in point, told by an ex
cellent authority:
“In Alcala, the Guardia Civil—that
is, one of the crack troops—was after a
| robber band. One of the robbers was
caught. Being promised a full pardon,
he gave away his comrades. This man
had no sooner signed the paper that
served as his death warrant for his late
friends when the officer in charge said,
‘We will begin with him. ’ The robber
was immediately shot in the back of his
head. ’’ - 1 ' v
In 1870 Japan was visited by a terri
ble epidemic of smallpox, which almost
decimated Yokohama. Vaccination was
made compulsory in 1896. The Japanese
are said to have been struck with the
fact that pockmarked foreigners were
rarely seen in Japan.
In the Bank of England there are
many silver ingots which have lain un
touched for nearly 200 years
BALLOONS IN WAR.
A Novel Hettle In CloedUud Naarly Thfe
ty Years Ago.
The announcement that the balloon is
destined to play a rote tn the present war
with Spain recalls tho aeronautic experi
ments made by the French during the
great war in 1870 and 1871. As early aS
1792 balloons were used for military sig
naling in France. But in our times dur
ing tho siege of Parte by the Gorman
troops frequent attempts were made by
Frenchmen to communicate with those
inside tha beleaguered city and to dis
patch men and matter from tha capital by
means of balloons. In Paris itself, under
the direction of Postmaster Ramport, a
balloon post and transport service was
established for carrying persons and gov
ernmental as well as private mail matter
from the• besieged capital. Among the
public men leaving tho city to this way
M. Gambctta will ever bo nmiembered.
Homing pigoors wore also sent by this
route to carry news buck to Paris. A total
of 66 balloons, according to Tlssandler's
“En Ballon Pendant le Siege de Paris,’’
left the besieged city, and 168 persons, 10,-
194 kilograms of postal matter, including
8,000,000 letters, 863 homers, five dogs and
two boxes of dynamite, were dispatched
by the aerial route. Os tho balloons 52
descended In France, five in Belgium, four*
in Holland, two in Germany and one in
Norway. Only five of them were captured
by tha Germans, and two were never heard
of, having been lost In the ocean.
Os all voyages of that time, however,
none could compare for exciting and peril
ous incidents with that of tho well known
aeronaut, M. Nadar, who left Tours for
Paris with important government dis
patches at 6 o’clock one fine December
morning. At 11 he was in view of the
capital on the Seine, While floating about
8,000 meters above Fort Charenton, Nadar
suddenly observed a second balloon on the
horizon. Thinking it to be one leaving
Paris, tha French aeronaut at once dis
played the tricolor of his country, and the
other balloon responded by exhibiting the
name flag. Gradually the two balloons
approached one another, being drawn in
the same direction by the same currents
of air. When they were separated by only
a short distance, several explosions wore
heard. The stranger had commenced to
flro shots at Nadar’s balloon, tho Intre
pide, which regan to descend rapidly. The
French flag had by this time been replaced
in the other balloon by the Prussian col
ors. The Parisians, who were watching
tho affair from the forts below, and who
now realized the true character and object
of the last arrival, cried out that their
plucky compatriot was lost, but they were
mistaken.
Nadar had scrambled from the car up
the network of his airship after the first
shot from the enemy to stop a hole made
in the tissue. Presently he descended to
the car as the balloon righted itself, and,
throwing out a quantity of ballast, caused
it to rise higher and higher. Then, seiz
ing his rifle, he fired shots with rapid suc
cession into the Prussian, which suddenly
split and sank to the earth. On reaching
the ground a detachment of uhlans, who
had been watching the combat from the
plain, picked up the German aeronauts
and rode off to the Prussian outposts.
Nadar then alighted in safety within the
girdle of tho Paris forts, meeting with an
enthusiastic ovation for his victory in tho
first balloon duel.—Baltimore Sun.
Approved by His Son.
In a certain west end family there is a
youngster who has original ideas as to
who should be tho virtual head of the fam
ily. The mother has been talking about
visiting the Omaha exposition and began
discussing the subject in the family cir
cle the other evening. With a knowing
wink at his wife (which escaped the boy’s
notice) the father firmly said:
“I don’t see how we can afford to have
you go. ’’
Promptly entering upon the spirit of
the play, the wife responded:
“I’vedetermined to go, and I’m going!”
“You are not going," affirmed the hus
band. “I’ve made up my mind to that.
And when I set my foot down, that set
tles it!”
Tho discussion ended and the wife left
tho room. The boy had been an interested
witness, but he had said nothing. When
his mother had withdrawn, he approached
his father’s chair, patted him on tho back
and in patronizing tones sold:
“That’s right, papa! I’m glad to see
you’ve got grit!”—Pittsburg Chronicle-
Telegraph.
An Indian Cradle.
E. E. Miller, who through his long
years of residence in this region and his
ability to talk to the Indians in their own
language is counted as their chief friend,
has collected many valuable relics and
curiosities/one of which he displays in his
show window this week. In an Indian
tent is a doll papoose, strapped in a rude
Indian cradle which is nearly 100 years
old and which rooked the little Indian ba
bies to sleep among tho pines many years
before white men settled in the region.
He obtained the cradle from an aged
squaw, who said her mother had carried
her in it when she was a papoose, and it
was old at that time. It is rudely out from
pine wood and made in the shape of a
shallow bog with pieces on the back to al
low of its being slung from the mother’s
back or hung from the branch of a tree,
to be rocked by the wind. Over the front
is an arch of wood from which the babies’
playthings were suspended.—Traverse
City (Mleh.) Herald,
Born In Modern Times.
This boy was born in modern times and
comprehends modern history. Ho pre
sented himself for admission to one of tho
schoolships at which sailors are trained
for the navy and was asked the usual
questions at the examinations:
“Where were you born?"
“In Modern Times."
“The question is not when, but where
you were born.”
* * Aboard the brig Modern Times of Port
land, Me., bound for Havre with a cargo
of phosphates.”
“How old are you?”
“Sixteen last March.”
“Whois the ruler pf England? 0
“Queen Victoria.” ‘ ’
’’ Who is the ruler of the United States?”
‘President McKinley."
“How do queens and presidents acquire
power?”
“Queen* are boro so, and presidents git
there because they’re smart.”—Christian
Work.
Hamler aad Woodbury.
The death of Charles Levi Woodbury of
Boston recalls the old story in which hie
father and Hassler, the great coast survey
or, figured. Hassler applied to President
Jackson for such an increase of salary that
the latter pointed out that it would exceed
the remuneration of tho secretary of the
treasury. Hassler, drawing himself up
proudly, said: “Mr. President, you can get
50 W oodburya. There is but one Hassler. ”
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