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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Mayor.
At the solicitation ot many citizens I
hereby respectfully announce myself a
candidate for mayor, subject to the prim
mary of October 11th, promising if elected
to faithfully perform the duties of the of
fice in the interest of all concerned.
JNO. L. MOORE.
Having faithfully served the City of
Griffin as Mayor for one term, I announce
as a candidate for reflection and respect
folly solicit the votes of foe
For Aiderman.
I hereby announce myjelf a candidate
for Aiderman from the First Ward, and if
elected I promise to do what in my honest
judgment is to the good of the greatest
number of tax payers, regardless of friend
or foe. Yours, etc.,
C. HOMER WOLCOTT.
I respectfully announce myself as a can
didate for Aiderman from the first ward
and solicit the support of my friends.
J. H. SMITH.
At the solicitation of friends I respect
folly announce myself a candidate for Ai
derman from the Fourth Ward, and so
licit the support of the citizens.
Having a pride in the welfare of our
city and her institutions I promise, if
elected, to act for the best interest of the
city and citizens and perform conscien
tiously eyery duty assigned me.
DAVID J. BAILEY.
Having served the city as Alderman
from the 4th ward for the past two years,
and conscientiously discharged my duty,
I announce myself as a candidate for re
election and respectfully solicit the votes
and support of the citizens.
M. D. MITCHELL,
To the Voters of Griffin: lam a can
didate lor Aiderman from Second Ward,
and respectfully ask your support.
M. J, PATRICK.
TAX ORDIMANGE 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 ope 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 water works.
Section 3.—That the sum. of 20 cents
be and the same is hereby imposed upon
each and every one hundred dollars valu
ation of real estate and personal property
ofaH descriptions, as stated in section
First of this ordinance, within the corpo
rate limits of the city of Griffin, *Tor the
maintainance of a system of public schools
The funds raised under this section not to
be appropriated for any other purpose
whatever.
Section 4.—That persons failing to make
returns of taxable property as herein pro
vided in section First, Second and Third
of this ordinance shall be double taxed as
provided by the laws of the state and the
clerk and treasurer shall issue executions
accordingly.
Section s.—That all ordinances or parts
of ordinances militating against this ordi
nance be and the same are hereby repeal
ed.
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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
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One t-inch'opening for subscribers’
use only. $ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries 24.00
Each additional opening 6.00
2. Meters will be famished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of SI.OO per month will be charged
for water while the meter is on the service.
The reading pf the meters will be held
proof of use of water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months. v
3. Meter rates will be as follows:
7,000 to 25,000 gals, month. .15c 1,000
25,000 50,000 “ “ 14c “
60,000 “ 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 uses! 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 foil timev
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.
T«f Cure Con«U |m Uon Forevet.
TakeCuiuxirets Candy Cathartic. 13c orfSc.
k C C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money
No-To-Itac tor Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco haWt cure, makes weak
meu itrong, -'ood pure. 50c. tl All druggists
RACE WITH LOCOMOTIVES.
Maar Wild Animals Make a Trial at
S»eed nt Sight.
Running through the forest and swawp
lands ot Ohio and Indiana, thoinglneero
and firemen who watch ahead of the great
engines that haul the flying express trains
see many wild animals dashing along the
track, and frequently denizens of the for
ests are run down, and the trackmen find
their mangled remains in the morning.
Coons, wildcats, rabbits and sometimes
wolves are caught by the fast flying limit
ed trains, and even siy reynard, with all
ais cunning, is often ground up under tbs
wheels.
For many miles the Baltimore and
Ohio. Fort Wayne and Lake Shore roads
run through a wild, swampy woodland
country in western Ohio and Indiana.
These densely wooded swamps are almost
Impenetrable, and they harbor nearly all
kinds qf indigenous wild animals and
birds. In the moonlight or by the aid of
the headlight the animals can be seen
scampering across the tracks, and often
the foolish rabbit takes to the middle of
the track between the rails and races the
locomotive for miles until he plunges into
a culvert or a bridge.
“It has occurred to mo several times in
my railroad experience,*’ said the old en
gineer, “that the American skunk can
make himself conspicuous longer and
louder than any other living thing. Fre
quently as we fly along 60 miles an hour
through the gloom of night a littlo wab
bling body, dark and gray, is seen by the
glare of the headlight running diagonally
across the track. The animal may possi
bly by quick action and a skillful maneu
ver escape the wheels, and distantly our
nostrils are saluted with an overpowering
scent which almost makes us faint. We
are 200 yards away from the cause of the
smell in an Instant, but it dings to us for
miles, and the passengers in the oars who
are awake wonder what kind of oil is
burning in the supposed hotboxes. If we
happen to kill the little animal, his mem
ory clings to us still for at least five miles. *’
One night a few weeks ago, as the flying
fast mail on the Lake Shore was making
up lost time across the Indiana swamps, a
big red fox dashed out ahead of the loco
motive and took the straight, level track
right ahead ot the train. In another in
stant a great black and tan hound, with
his tongue protruding and his long, lank
body stretched out at full speed, took the
roadbed just 50 feet behind the fox. More
steam was turned ou, and with their heads
out the engineer and fireman watched the
contest of speed. It was a grand race be
tween the two animals, with the mighty
engine coming close after them 65 miles
an hour and the headlight showing the
fleet fox straining every limb and muscle,
and his enemy slowly falling behind. The
old bound appeared to know that there
was danger in his rear and took to the
west bound track, and in another minute
the rushing train went past him, but the
fox, taking advantage of the complication,
disappeared in the woods again.
On the Pennsylvania railroad east of Al
toona a few weeks ago the track inspector
found tho remains of a wildcat on the
track, and on the Philadelphia and Erie
away up beyond Lock Haven last winter
a largo black bear ran out in front of a
freight train and wa« killed. Deer are
often seen crossing the Philadelphia and
Erie tracks in the Pennsylvania moun
tains, and in the wild, lonesome places
where tho trains stop to water, if the at
tentive passenger who is awake will put
his head out of the window and listen, he
will hear the scream of the panther and
the hooting of the owl.—Pittsburg Post.
New Selections.
The wise elocutionist is now laying in
her winter stock of selections. We say
“her” because the masculine elocutionist
has become rapidly extinct since the regu
lations against lynching were so easily
evaded. This has left the business largely
in the hands of a few professional women
and a large number of promising ama
teurs. In a community with as many
churches as ours it Is our proudest boast
that lovely woman is not amenable to re
straint in the same degree that ruder man
is; hence tho number of uninterrupted re
citers.
But the coming season offers a pleasing
diversion from the prevalent monotony of
the art. A brand new lot of selections,
all founded on the war, will be launched
upon a patient public. There will be,
among others:
“The Boy of El Caney.”
“The Dying Marine” (piano accompani
ment).
“The Child of Guantanamo.”
“The Tale of a Turret.”
“Tho Powder Monkey of the Bomba
zeen.”
“The Mule of Matanzas” (with imita
tions).
“What Captain Philip Said."
“The Bursting of the Dam” (dedicated
to Captain Bob Evans). —Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Wanted to Unload.
Captain Barnaby of tho .United States
coast survey steamer Blake tells a charac
teristic anecdote of Captain Robley D.
Evans of the United States battleship
lowa. While aboard the Blake at Key
West Lieutenant Commander Edward D.
Tausig, hydrographic inspector, went
alongside the lowa, which was lying eight
miles off the port. Hailing Captain
Evans, who was loaning against a rope
life line which had been substituted for
the rails removed in cose of action, Mr.
Tausig asked the doughty commander if
he had any message to send to the depart
ment at Washington, as he would leave
for there next day.
“Tell them for me, Tausig,” said the
captain, “that I have a cargo of ammuni
tion on board tho lowa that I am mighty
anxious to be allowed to discharge. ”
The reply produced a laugh, which was
heartily joined in by the bluejackets on
the lowa who were grouped neor the cap
tain. The message was subsequently de
livered, and it was not long after that the
cargo of ammunition was being vigorous
ly discharged from the lowa.
Jo«s La la a Baafiy.
Jung Lu, the new viceroy of China, is
one-sis the most popular generals in tho
imperial army. Ho has always been a
dandy in dress and has tho reputation of
being the best dressed man in Peking,
while the glided youth of the Mantchoo
nobility always copy his dress and swear
by “Jung Lu’s style.” His horses and
mules also have ever been the finest in
Peking, not even excepting the emperor’s
stud, and he loves to mount tho most fiery
and restive cattle when riding out. This
has led to several picked horses sent as
tribute to the emperor from Kuldja and
Mongolia, but which no one could ride,
owing to their untamed and restive spirits,
being specially presented to Jung Lu by
the emperor's command. This is the man
who now holds the responsible post of
guardian of the dragon throne at Tien -tain.
—Tien tsin Times.
STERN DISCIPLINE.
It Is XeoMsary la War aad Uta Mdtar
Mast l««r» to Submit.
One of Detroit's retired offioen, who
fought in two wars and helped for years
to restrain the savage outbreaks of oar
Indians, thus delivered himself to tho
writer:
“The very hardest lesson a young
American has to learn when he enters
the army ia that of obodieuoa. For the
first tima, hie individual authority is de
throned. He is an fractfoubae a thor
oughbred colt that long rebels against
the whip and spur. It is hard for him
to understand that his freedom of action
must be subordinated to military neces
sity. He chafes, if he does not openly
rebel, but when once whipped into line
he makes the best soldier on earth.
“My first drillmaster had been my
friend and the friend of my family from
my boyhood up. We had hunted and
fished and courted together and ex
changed secrets with a freedom that
does not obtajp among brothers. One
day, early in my experience as a soldier,
and while every thing was being hurried
with a view to getting da into Mexico,
w< had been drilling till I felt ready to
drop. The repeated orders struck pain
to my ears and I would hate conscien
tiously sworn that my musket weighed
a tom At length, when Within easy ear
shot of him, I shouted, ‘For heaven's
sake, Bob, stop this tomfoolery and let's
go over to the tavern. *
“He never locked at me but roared,
'Corporal, take that man and drill him
like the devil,’
“The corporal did, and I thought I’d
die of exhaustion. I fully meant to
challenge the drillmaster and whip him
if he declined, but he succeeded in mak
ing me understand the imperative neces
sity of unquestioning obedience in the
soldier. It's tough with the raw re
cruit, but the quicker he learns his part
the better it is for all concerned. ”—De
troit Free Press.
WAYS OF THE BLUE CRAB.
Some of Its PaculiarXMss as Observed at
New YoVk’t Aquarium.
While the blue crab is-not commonly
thought of as a swimmer and does in
fact spend the greater part of its time
on thp bottom, yet it can very easily
sustain itself in the water and swim at
a very fair rate of speed. It swims end
wise, and when swimming it carries
one big claw thrown forward and bent
back at the middle joint, making a
point projecting at that end of the
body, while the other big claw trails
straight out astern. If it changes direc
tion, it crooks the claw it had been car
rying straight and lets the other go
free. If it sustains itself in the Water
without progressing, it carries its big
claws in front of itself as it would nat
urally do under ordinary circumstances
on the bottom, but it has to keep its
little claws in motion to sustain itself,
and in swimming the little claws are
kept actively at work. Besides making
a good degree of progress through the
water in swimming the blue. crab can
change its course or swim to a higher
or lower level with facility. When
frightened, the blue crab moves off side
ways, but when moving about at home
and undisturbed it may move straight
forward. Its body may be inclined at
any angle to the line of progress, but
its motion still be forward, the big
claws carried crooked around In front
It may be seen moving thus in one of
the larger tanks at the aquarium, in
which there are blue crabs, lobsters and
other things. The temperature of the
water now just suits the crustaceans,
and they are very lively. Blue crabs
may be seen swimming here, and also
walking about stepping down from
stones that are as high as they them
selves are wide with perfect dignity, if
not grace of manner, and walking or
carrying their claws before them.—
New York Sun.
The First Teacups.
Even after tea was introduced into
Europe and had come into general use
teacups were scarce. At the same time
coffee was introduced; but, apart from
Constantinople, the first coffee cups in
Europe date back only as far as 1645 in
Venice, 1059 in Paris, 1652 in London
and 1094 in Leipsic. From the first,
however, the conventional oriental oof
fee cup, without stem or handle, was
little used, and in Germany not at aIL
The Chinese teacup was used for tea,
coffee and chocolate as welL Specimens
of porcelain were undoubtedly intro
duced into Europe in the middle ages,
yet not till the sixteenth century were
cups imported from China in any great
quantities, and even then it was as arti
cles of vertu. Most of those found their
way back into China again, as collect
ing porcelain is a lasting fad there, and
high prices are paid for good specimens.
The collection of Chinese porcelain, If
only the genuine specimens are desired,
requires immense study and knowledge,
as the Chinese are skillful imitators
and put numerous falsifications on the
market.
Individual Odon.
Every human being has a specific
odor of his own, according to A. Bethe
in the Arehiv der Gesammten Physiolo
gic, by which he can be recognized not
merely by dogs but by persons with sen
sitive organs of smell The case is men
tioned of a man who blindfolded could
pick out each individual in a company
of 20 by his odor.
The smell is not born with us, but
develops gradually till the age of puber
ty, after which it remains unchanged.
Members of a family have a kind of
common odor, which persists even when
they have lived apart for a long time.
The entire area of the United States
is placed at 1,885,017,692 acres, of
which 741,702,365 acres are now owned
by individuals or by corporations or
states or have passed out of the control
of the general government
Savages, on the whole, live longer
than civilized people.
SAVED BY A POCKETKNIFE.
■urvtTw Um VHU <te II Talto M a
By the sinking of La Bourgogne and
foe awful loss of life is recalled the acci
dent to the Ville do Havre ot foe same
line in 1879, whan foe latter named ship
was struck al night and went down at
once, carrying almoat aU eg beard. Piti
fully few were thoae who ware saved from
the Havre, but among them was foe
prominent New Ywft lawyer Witthaus,
and the way In which ho eeosped is so ex
traordinary that it sounds like a well con
eooted tale instead at the plain fact that
Mr. Witthaus vouches It to be.
The afternoon preceding the accident to
foe Havre Mr. Witthaus, with another
man, was on dock, and Mr. Witthaus was
leaning against foetaffmll under foe flag
staff In the stern. As the two men stood
there talking the friend put his hand c
the large life buoy that was hanging over
the side and called Mr. Witthaus' atten
tion to it.
“Look,” bo said, “these life buoys are
simply screaming farces. This one out
here is so stiff and hard with ooataof paint
that you couldn’t get It tree except by
cutting It with a knife.”
Mr. Witthaus attempted to move it, but
found It glued hard and fast. The friend
took ent his knife and began idly sticking
it into tho soft pine of the flagstaff and
amused himself so the rest of the time that
they talked before they went interrupted
by the dinner gong. They both went Iv
low.
Early the next morning while the pas
sengers were still asleep the collision oc
curred, and In the mad panto that at once
followed Mr. Witthaus did what he oould
to get the women and children Into the
lifeboats. From the first be regarded him
self as doomed, for there were not nearly
boats enough for all the passengers, and it
was evident that the ship would float only
a few minutes. Several women whom lie
know on board ha found places for at onto
only to see the boat overturn as soon as it
was launched and all go down, one of
them with her two little children in her
arms.
Horrified and sickened by the sight, he
went back to the stern of the ship, which
was higher out of tho water than the bow,
to wait until he, too, went down, and
stood leaning again on the taffrail. As ho
did so In a flash he recollected the conversa
tion of the afternoon before and looked
over the rail. There still hung the life
buoy stiff and immovable, and the in
stinct ot self preservation sprang to life
onoe more. A knife to free the buoy and
he might be saved, but he had none with
him, and to find one was impossible with
the ship liable to go down at any second.
At the same moment bls eye caught the
flagstaff, and there, where his friend had
evidently forgotten it the afternoon before,
stuck the knife. With the haste of life and
death Mr. Witthaus pulled it out and be
gan to saw away at the buoy, and he freed
It and threw himself off the deck Into the
sea just In time to get beyond the vortex
that came as the great ship went down,
sucking hundreds of victims with It. Mr.
Witthaus floated about for some time, and
was at last picked up by a small boat that
was waiting about for chance survivors
and was brought back to New York to tell
of one of the most awful catastrophic! that
ever happened at sea.—-New York Press.
A New Explosive.
French chemists have for some time
past been experimenting with a new ex
plosive called promethee, invented by T.
Jowler, which, according to the Revue
Technique, possesses some remarkable
properties peculiarly its own. The solid
portion is made up of 56 per cent potash,
20 per cent manganese dioxide and 24 per
cent ferric oxide. This is triturated, mixed
In a mill and filled into cartridges, a per
meable cartridge being employed to facili
tate the penetration of the oil, the latter
consisting of 50 per cent of petroleum and
10 per cent oil of bitter almonds.
This prepared liquid, which is not ap
plied to the cartridges until just before
use, is stored in metal flasks holding about
one-tenth of a gallon; 2.2 pounds of the
explosive contains 1.65 pounds of cartridge
contents and .55 pounds of the oil, this
quantity being sufficient to Impregnate
the cartridge. Before being steeped in tho
oil the cartridges are nonlnflammablo and
npnexplosive, even by shock from steel
plates, are unaffected by frost, moisture or
sudden changes in the surrounding me
dium and do not undergo any change dur
ing storage. The oil is not readily inflam
mable.
It Is claimed that the disruptive force
exerted is at least as great as that of dyna
mite; also that it is directed in the line of
greatest resistance and acta with equal ef
ficiency in dense rock, light fissured rook
and in water.
Balletin Board Fun.
The boy who gets up the war bulletins
was working with a speed which showed
that he realized an eager public was wait
ing on his efforts. The characters went
upon the paper with swiftness under his
practiced hands, and now and then he
drew buck and contemplated his work
with the pride of an artist. Presently the
man of carping tendencies passed, A sneer
came upon his countenance, and the boy
anticipated his criticism with thr inquiry:
‘[Well, what’s the matter with it?”
“Look at the spelling I”
“It’s according to coot.”
“But the word’Spain!* See how you
have divided it! ‘Spa’ at the end of one
line and then on the next ‘in. ’ ”
The boy gazed at his work for a moment
or two and then proceeded with his stamp
ing.
“Aren’t you going to change its”
“No, I’m not.”
“But it’s palpably wrong.”
“Not these days. The way things are
going now you’re liable to find pieces of
Spain scattered around anywhere.”—
Washington Star.
Sytah Leek of “Gumption.**
Closely akin to the Spaniard’s mediaeval
and aristocratic attitude toward life, says
Irving Babbitt in The Atlantic, is his
curious lack of practical sense and me
chanical skill. “The good qualities of the
Spaniards,” writes Mr. Butler, “alike
with their defects, have an old work! flavor
that renders their possessors unfit to excel
in an inartistic, commercial, democratic
and skeptical age.” Juan Valera admits
this practical awkwardness and ineffi
ciency of the Spaniard, but exclaims,
“Sublime incapacity 1” and sees in it a
proof of his “mystic, ecstatic and trans
cendental nature.” Tho Spaniard, then,
finds it hard to light a kerosene lamp
without breaking the chimney, in much
the same way as Emerson made his friends
uneasy when ho began to handle a gun.
Unfortunately natnre knows how to re
venge herself cruelly on those who affect
to treat her with seraphic disdain or on
those who, like the Spaniards, sec in a
lack of prudence and economy a proof ot
aristocratic detachment.
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