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A RICHLY CARVED
buffet
la antique oak does more towards making
an attractive dining room than anything
you could famish it with. We have
handsome buffets, hand carved, with fan
cy French plate mirrors. We have also
extension tables to match, pad rich dining
room chairs at low prices. We have also
an extensive stock of fine dining room
seta st exceptional bargaing.
L. W. GODDARD & SON.
TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE
I will be at the different places on the
days mentioned below for the purpose of
collecting state and county taxes for 1898.
Africa, October 17-31, November JA
Union, “18, * “ 1-15.
Line Creek, “ 19, “ 2-16. .
Mt Zion, “ 20, “ >l7.
Orrs, “ 21, “ 4-18.
Akin, “ 24, “ 'W.
Cabbins, »• j 25, “ 8-22. .
I will be at my office at H. W. Hassel
kus’ shoe store at all dates until December
20, when will close.
T.R.NUTT, T, C.
TAX ORDINANCE FOR 1898.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the city ofGriffin and it is hereby
ordained by authority oi the same, that
the sum of 25 cents be and the same is
hereby imposed on each and every one
hundred dollars ot 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
lightsand waterworks.
Section B.—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
of all descriptions, as stated in section
First of this ordinance, within the corpo
rate limits of the city of Griffin, for the
maintainance of a system of public schools
The Kinds 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 ot 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
(id*
Ari Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage ot this ordipance, the iol
owing rates will be charged for the use
water per year:
1. Dwellings : . •
One f-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 furnished 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 of the meters will be held
proorofuseof water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
3. Meter rates will be as follows r
7,000 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-
otherwise water will be charged
forYuh time. 1 , 1 * v-.
5. Water will not be turned on to any
premises unless provided withan 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 hy 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.
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to t ure Coastipation Forever.
Tu kc Cajsuarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
h C. C. C. fan to cure, druzglsts refund monei-
CORYDON’B COMPL/MNKXt
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The garlanda on my crook are
, p T“ a !/ ,Ttr \f B D r . n 1 oncc '
♦Q jatnGjrwWMik tn vt-r baths 1 wb4MK
Whom bloorna ill dewy wreatlu I
GOM. vatetat. white and rosy knag, ”
Now fle on love and all hia folly I
My toodly mien i* quite foregone;
My look*, tnat were 10 plump and jolly.
Are changed to meager, lean and wan;
In mournful slough of melancholy
Bight bogged and mired is Corydon.
Bwegt. dainty maid, for whose diadaining
I di> in acatti and sorrow tare, ,
Beauty onaa lost nor skill nor feigning
Ita lovely aspect may repair.
Behold these wretched blossoms waningl
, As you are now, so once they were.
EXPERT TOBACCO TESTING.
Caban Bayer* and Their Hichly De
veloped Sense of Smell. ~
The greater part—ii> fact, nearly all
—of the tobacco raised in Cuba and not
used by the Cuban cigar makers is
shipped to the United States. At certain
seasons of the year the Havana hotels
Are filled with tobacco buyers from the
United States. Some of them deal
through the brokers in Havana, but
some who know the country and the
language go out into the tobacco dfo
tribt and deal directly with the plant*)
era, often buying a promising crop be
fore it is picked. The tobacco buyer has
necessarily to be a good judge bftobac
oo. He goes down into the very center
of the bale of tobacco he is examining,
extracts some samples and tests them in
different ways.
The first test Is that of smell. - The
Cuban tobacco has a strong and pecul
iar odor. A little variation one way or
the other makes the tobacco good or
bad. After smelling it the buyer is like
ly to roll a rudely constructed oigar out
of the leaf and smoke it He will inhale
the smoke and endeavor to determine
exactly the flavor. He will alto examine
the ash carefully and test also the oom
bustion of the tobacco—that is, try to
find out how long it will hold fire. It is
a great annoyance to a smoker who is
talking or writing or otherwise engaged
to put his cigar into his mouth and find
that it has gone out No oigar ever
tastes so good after it has once gone out,
and a flue Havana cigar is positively
rank when it has met such a catas
trophe. So one quality sought for iif
that of holding fire. If a sample smoked
by the buyer will keep lighted four
minutes, it is considered very good.
Some will bum for five minutes ahd
even longer without being puffed.—
Ohio State Journal.
Schley'* Look Le<*.
A Kansas City man who was a class
mate of Schley’s at Annapolis says that
the admiral was looked upon as the
best Spanish and French scholar in the
navy. His department at the academy
was modern languages. “I remember
one thing in particular about him, and
that is his long legs. He is not notice
ably tall, but his legs are of wondrous
length and he can run like a deer. In
the navy they never tire of telling about
Schley in Korea. During the trouble
there we sent a landing party ashore in
charge of Schley. The boat had not
more than reached the shore when out
jumped the marines to make a dash for
the parapets, possibly half a mile away.
In the lead was Schley. In a jiffy he
was far ahead of everybody, his legs
working vigorously, and when the em
bankments were reached he had prac
tically distanced all the others.”
Teo Coatjy.
The San Francisco Argonaut tells a
new story about Stephen Massett, so
well known years ago as “Jeems Pipes.”
When he was the editor of the Marys
ville (Cal.) Herald, Mr. Hittell, the
well known California pioneer and
author, engaged him in argument on re
ligion, which Mr. Hittell attacked,
finally winding up by saying, “See
here, Massett, you ought to get my book
on ‘Evidences Against Christianity
that will convince you.”
“Very well,” said Masset, “I will”
So the next time he entered a bookstore
he asked for it. The clerk showed him
the work in two volumes. “How much
is it?” said Massett ~ i .’t
“Three dollars,” replied the clerk.
“What!” exclaimed Massett. “Three
dollars! Take it back, sir, take it back;
I prefer to remain a Christian. ”
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Cmltn’t Fool Her.
“Nobody ban learn all there is worth
knowing in this lifetime,” said Mr.
Meekton wisely. . '‘Arid a man ought
never to assume that his education is
finished. I’m going to keep right ahead
with mine. I’m going to study astrono
my. ”
His wife looked at him Sharply and
then in a cold, hard tone exclaimed:
“Leonidas, you’ll have to think up
some better excuse than that for stay
ing out all night"—Washington Star.
Head Wheel* and Tailrace.
An answer recently filed by the
learned “council” for the defendant in
a New York court contains the follow
ing: “The defendant denyes that the
description of a contemplated tailrace
of about one rod and four inches across
defendant’s land is contained in aney
water right to run or flow water, but is
put in plaintiff’s complaint from wheels
in plaintiff’s head.’’—Case and Com
ment
I»<eaton*.
■ Servant (to artist returning from a
holiday)—There have been so many
callers since you left that I have been
obliged to wash the name from the slate
twice to make room for others.—Fear
son’s Weekly.
The British museum contains a very
full collection of clay pipes, dating back
as far as the sixteenth century. The
custom of waxing the pipe end, to pre
vent it sticking to the lips, was intro
duced by the Dutch about the year 1700.
£ I ■-
London has 18,564 policemen, or 19
to every one of its 688 square miles.
Sixty per cent of them fro night duty.
ratart*lata< sue tema
It was a bitfrr cold night, and a
going to the door, rapped.
“Is that you. policeman?” asked a
voice from within. .
“ Yes, ” was the reply.
"Come in and have a drink,” said
tbevoice.
The policeman stepped inside and on*
countered a dapper little fellow sitting
at a desk. *
"I’ve been detained tonight straight
ening up apepunta. • • j «OwTl
. The policeman warmed himself at
the rousing fire that blazed on the
hearth and went out again on hia beat.
An hour after the policeman came that
way and, still seeing the light through
the window, Fapped again.
“Is that you, policeman?”
“Yea” .
"Come in and warm yourself.”
The pclibejpan accepted the invita
tion.
"It’s a howling cold night,” said the
olerk. v
“You're right, air,** said the police
man.
, flo he got another drink and returned
to Ms heat He was rather surprised
next day to find rijaf his friend of the
ouo or the bank s funda— London- Duc
otes, ■ A " 1
Aa Attaek on Sevastopol.
From where I was stationed I could
see the dense masses of. the attacking
columns advance up the slope. Then
the torrents of grape which met them
would obscure their ranks for a mo
ment and hardly a man would be seen
to remain. lat one time saw a body of
men many hundreds strong ao complete
ly swept away by one discharge that
only a few of the rear rank remained
Wheh the iron Storm went past! The
dead and dying could be cflrerly distin
guished lying in piles bn the hillside,
and over their prostrate bodies fresh
troops crowded on to meet the same
fate. Many a manly heart and nervous
arm, went down in the deadly struggle
on that green hillside. No valor avail
ed. The oanhOn's force was greater than
the strength of man.
How many ardenf’ hopes were extin
guished! HoW many home circles de
stroyed and lives rendered miserable by
the havoc of that hour none can tell,
no more than they can imagine the
bodily agony or the grief for home and
friends which was there endured! What
would be the value of what is called
“glory” if weighed on the field of bat
tle among the dead?—Good Words
A Item* or Altamahaf
There can, I suppose, be no doubt
that in the lines in “The Deserted Vil
lage”—
To distant climes, a dreary scene,
Where half the convex wogd Intrudes between,
Through torrid tract* with fainting tap* they
Where wild Altam* murmttr* to theirwoa—
Goldsmith is alluding to the River Al
tamaha in Georgia, the colonization of
which had taken place not long before.
But his expressions are nofrvery apeu
rate. Bo for from being torrid in the
strict sense of the word, the latitude of
? the mouth of the Altamaha is more
than &1 degrees. No part indeed of the
present United States is located within
the tropics. Bat, besides this, although
there are Certainly rattUetoakes and, I
believe, scorpions of a ptertain species in
Georgia, there are tigers there to
“wait their hapless prey, ” which the
poet reckons among the nortors of the
region where some of the inhabitants of
Auburn have goneu <—Notes and Queries.
TT"?*? lut * S"» '’t.iSM' .tr ;
Snow Tfant 1* AUve.
A most curious phenomenon in the
northwest of Canada is the appearance
of millions of minute black insects
Whenever a thaw occurs.
During the winter the mow is dry
and crisp like sand, and nothing what
ever can be discovered of these insects,
betas Boonasa thaw comes they are
found everywhere in large patched
looking like a dusting of soot
They are generally known as mow
fleas or snow lice and have slight hop
ping powers, being able to leap some
three or four inches. They entirely dis
appear when it freezes again, and not
a trace of them cab be found.
They do not fall with the show as
there may have been no snow for a
month or more before their arrival and
are probably analogous to the “red
mow’’ of arctic regions.
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Stoond Time Is Out.
The hotel stood on a corner of a main
street arid a oomparattvely Unfrequent
ed sidb* Street. One evening I overheard
the little old black man talking very
savagely with aiidther around the cor
ner on the side street, and among other
things he eMd:
“Yes, suh, an es I hits yon dey
woan’ be but two licks struck. I’ll hit;
you an yori’ll hit de groun*.
, { “Von done heah whut l say.Den-'
ver'Bost.-' • „ ■ i ■ ‘
Her X4«eld Vviee.
s tour wife has such a liquid voice, ’’
I said Mr. F. admiringly to Mr. T.
“Yesj that’s a pretty good name for
it," replied Mr. T.
Mr. F. looked up Inquiringly, and.
Mr. T. added immediately: “Don’t you
understand?. Why, it never dries upt
you Mbdw. ” —London Fun.
Mot DteyoMd to Delay Him.
“I would go to the end of the world
for you,” he exclaimed passionately.
i “I’m sure I. wish you would,” she
answered ooldly, “and—then jump off. ”
—Somerville Journal
During the siege of Paris’no fewer
than 22,000,000 letters sailed out of the
1 oity in the 54 balloons dispatched be
tween the 19th of September, 1870, and
the 28th of January, 1871.
a riff i
St Louis has one church to 2,800 of
population, New York one to 2,468,
Chicago one* to 2,081, Boston one to
l,€oo and Minneapolis one to 1,054.
ALIVE IN THE GRAVE.
THE CHANCES FOR BUCH A FATE ARE
EXTREMELY REMOTE.
la *rtm*« Ptacn* sad PtottfmMs «h«
.Great*.. Dererer te FrereaSsre IBartol
txtata-Th« DmUk Twt That Sa Applited
la Vteaaa.
Most of us have a lingering love of
life, and the thought that there is just
the barest possibility of being buried
alive sends a shudder through ua
£dical men know that the human
in time of illness and at other
, too, is liable to assume all the
outward appearances of death without
the final separation having actually
taken place. There are the coma, cata
leptic and other forms of the uncon
scious state, each one bringing in ita
trend the very simulation of death itself.
"Happily, a medical mari nowadays, ”
said a physician to a reporter, “expe
riences no difficulty in dedaring Ms pa
tient to be dead, as a general rule, but
it may perhaps happen once in hia life
time that he may have a doubt, in
which case conviction either way fol
lows upon his findings, which are sim
ple and conclusive, and in which he
cannot be mistaken.
“It is unfortunately true that there
are thousands of nervous people now
walking about in fear of being buried
alive, this morbid conviction coming
about through reading of an isolated
case happening here and there, where
perhaps some one has had a narfow es
cape of being subjected to a living burial
“These ’escapes’ greatly outnumber
those of the actual occurrence itself.
The cataleptic usually show signs of
life just in the nick of time to disap
point the undertakers and to relieve sor
rowing frienda
“Os course, much of the evidence on
which the allegation of premature
burial is on the tact that
bodies on exhumation have been occa
sionally found distorted, thereby foster
ing the notion that this or that occu
pant of theooffin has died from suffo
cation, a theory which is supported by
the favorable condition of other ex
humed bodies.
“But the idea is altogether wrong, in
fact and in principle. It is well known
among those who have made it a study
that the apparent distortions, instead
of demonstrating a living burial, pure
: ly depend upon natural causes brought
. about by decomposition, the influence
of which is sufficiently strong enough
to bulge out, and even burst, leaden
coffins. This phenomenon does not hap
pen in every case, but it does in a great
many.
“No, no! I shall not go so for as to
say that a premature burial has never
taken place, but it has not occurred so
often as is thought. I dare say it may
occur- in times of plagues and pesti
lences, where the presumed dead are
buried within a few hours of death.
That is where much mischief lies. But
when panic prevails where does thought
oomein?
“In plagues, such as cholera, the
state of collapse is so profound that it
! may perfectly simulate death itself, but
, the custom of burying the dead on the
day of death is fortunately on the wane,
even during advanced epidemics. It is
• probable that in the absence of medical
aid in panic times in country places
, abroad it has led to living burial—in
, deed it must have done. But the last
, end of all under such conditions is mer
' ciful, for it must not be forgotten that
if you are ‘unconscious’ only while be
ing hermetically sealed in your coffin
you will never again experience volun
, tary motion or sensation.
“However, where the doctor can be
! consulted, living burial is impossible
even in v - cholera panic, for there are
certain bodily movements which gener
ally occur after death from cholera, in
the absence ot Which a medical man
, yrauld hesitate to certify for burial.
“In ages gone by and in uncivilized
countries still it is possible that uncon
scious os tai ep tics, or persons drugged to
appa, *nt death”, may hare been and
perha,« still are occasionally buried
alive, but I do not believe that in our
. own country or in any civilized land
such events are possible,
“In Vienna the custom prevails of
taking a body to the mortuary on the
eve of burial, where it is ’tested.’
Thimbles are placed on the fingers of
'Mfodtad, to which are attached wires
connected with the mortuary belli
“Have the bells ev« rung? Yes, onoe.
“It is impossible for a doctor to mis
take unconsciousness in its varied forms
for death.
• “Some time ago it was suggested that
a law should be irnwed making itoom
pnlsory for a medtaal man to test bodies
before giving a certificate of death.
Ttattagbyeltotricity was thought of,
but it to an open question yet whether
ielectridtykills or only stuns. Atal!
; events, we in this country are notoon
, tvfcoed that such a test would bo satis
, 4Mtcryer afford sufikrient evidence of
duakh, although it has ita value. On the
other hand, I don’t think legislation of
this kind is necessary. It would cer
• tainly reflect upon the medical profes
* Viennese custom to a wise one,
and X should like to see it more gener
ally adopted. ’’—Pearson’s Weekly.
*k. Mwr MMter.
Bill—Did you read about that fellow
writtag a &m on a SSO bUD
t; ; Jill—No. The editor kept it, of
. No. Ho returned it. ”
“ What, an editor return a SSO bill?”
“Yea Ho didn’t know what it was”
—■Yonkers Statesman. .
One of the tallest stacks in Great
Britain is situated at Llanelly. From
the bare of the foundation to the ex
treme summit is 400 feet high. The
cap of the top wbighs 27 tons, and 720,-
000 bricks were used in its construc
tion. it is circular tomtom, and in a
gale bends extremely. *
ICASTORIAI
The Kind You Have Alwaya Bought, and which kM been
in use for over 30 years, hha borne the signature of
and. has been made under hie per*
» suidfi ttoliwi since'taifetafhney.
Al tow n O tn deceive yew fhfa.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Subetitutea are but Ex
periments that trifle with and endsuuger the health off
Infimts and Children—Experlenee against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
>7 . o ■ix.
Castoria is a substitute for Castor 00, Paregorle, Drop*
and Soothing Syrups. It to Harmleaa and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is Its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It enree XMarriuna and Wind
Colie. It relieves Teething Troubles* cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulate* the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Punncea The Mother's Friend.
CXNIHNX CASTORIA AKWAYS
yZ? Bears the Signature of
/ // V// * /7
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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