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THE MORNING CALL.
Vol. X. No. 168.
oua STBEBTS NEED ATTENTION
The Continuous Rains Left Them in
a Very Bad Condition-
The Call has been naked by a num*
b er of citizens recently to call the
attention of 'be public to our streets
and aide walks, which are in a condi
tion to be lamented
The streets of Griffin are certainly
not a credit to the city, and it is but
just that we should have better ones.
If the City Council and County Com
missioners cannot come to terms on
the working of our s’reets by the
county chaingang, then other arrange
ments should bs made wi'bnt delay.
The extremely bad weather of the
last six months has left our most pop
ular thoroughfares full of ruts and
ditches, which render driving very
uncomfortable.
And, if possible, our sidewalks need
working worse than the roads. Grif
fin has never looked to her sidewalks
as she should, and the Call thinks it
is time some steps were taken to have
them properly cared for. The paved
sidewalks in the business portion are
such as to cause severe criticism from
visitors, and cculd be made better if
only the property owners were inclined
to do so.
Good streets and sidewalks is what
proud Iriffin wants, and must have,
and to the mayor and council is our
appeal made.
A Georgia Wedding-
The New York World of last Sun
day says that in a certain country
town down in Georgia there recently
took place a very surprising and amus
ing wedding. The World does not say
that the town referred to was Griffin,
but the reader may draw his own con
clusions. It did say that the happy
couple were from the country—very
far out in the country. They went to
the best hotel and wanted everything
done ic style. The father of the bride
was especially anxious that it should
be so. Everything was ready when
some one suggested a wedding march.
There stood a piano and inquiry reveal
ed the fact that a drummer somewhere
in the hotel could play the wedding
march for them.
He was found in the liquid sample
room, not as sober as he had been
some hours before, but bis fingers
nevertheless were in good playing
order. Oh, yes, certain y he would
play. He lumbered up the stairs and
waddled to the piano stool. He im
mediately began the march which
must have been regarded as ssmewhat
fast, but some people have a faculty
for adapting themselves to almost
anything.
The bridal party came in and the
music softened down with many extra
flourishes and runs while the nuptial
knot was being tied, then the party
marched out, while the minister smil
ed broadly, he being one of two people
present who understood the situation,
for the piauo rumbled and crashed
under the fingers of the drummer, who
bad played for the wedding march
“Hot time in the old town Tonight.”
Discovered. By a Woman.
Another great discovery has been
made, and that, too, by a lady in this
country. “Disease fastened itsclutcbes
upon her, and for seven years she
withstood its severest tests, but her
vital organs were undermined and
death seemed imminent. For three
months she coughed incessantly, and
could not sleep. She finally’ discover
ed away to recovery, by purchasing
of us a bottle of Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, and was so
much relieved on taking first dose,
that she slept all night; and with two
bottles, has been absolutely cured.
Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz ” Thus
writes W. C. Hamnick & Co., Shelby.
N. C. Trial bottles free at Harris &
Son’s and Carlisle & Ward’s Drug
Store. Regular siza 50c. and SIOO
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I JOHN SHERMAN DEAD-
t The Statesman Expires While Mak
ing a Pleasant Cruise-
• Washington, March 21—A dispatch
» from Cainmanera, Cuba, reports the
i death of ex-Secretary John Sherman
on board the Paris.
Ex-Secretary Sherman was with a
party of pleasure seekers making a
tour of the West Indian waters. He
contracted pneumonia ten days ago
and gradually grew worse. Every
medical attention available was given
him, but on account of his generally
weak physical condition and his ad
vanced age the physicians on board
the Paris could not arrest the prog r ess
of the disease.
The government was kept advised
of his condition, and a week ago the
cruiser Chicago was ordered by Sec
retary Long to meet the Paris at
Kingston and transfer Mr. Sherman
to that ship and bring him immedi
ately home in care of physicians and
nurses. Mr. Sherman realized his
weak condition and expressed a strong
desire to be taken home. The trans
fer could not be made, however, on
account of his condition being too
precarious to admit of being moved.
The war department has received
the following :
Manila, March 21—Adjutant Gen
eral, Washington : Transports Ohio
and Senator left 20th. Grant delayed
for necessary repairs, starts 25th. Car
ries all sick and wounded to ship.
Sherman expected tonight Cannot
commence shipment of volunteers at
present. Hope to do so soon. Ship
additional battalion California to
Negros this afternoon.
The Cotton Crop.
The prospects of the new cotton
crop are beginning to excite interest.
That the indications are towards a
smaller crop may be seen in a com
parison of quotations for future delive
ries, “A week ago," says the New-
Orleans Timet-Democrat, “Januaries
were selling five points below Mays;
two weeks ago the discount amounted
to as much as twelve points.” The
positions are coming more closely to
gether. The Timer-Democrat points
out that phenomenally wet weather
prevails to the eastward of the Missis
sippi, while there is a deficiency of
moisture throughout the greater part
of Texas. These facts “make a perfect
season a condition precedent to the
production of a crop that would make
a figure beginning with a 5 look right
to anybody outside of a mad house.”
Weather, however, is not the only
matter to be considered ; there aie the
questions of acreage and fertilizers.
On these latter poinis a circular is
sued by P. D. Daffin & Son of this city
says the firm has reliable information
indicating that the shipment of fertili
zers this season will not be over 75 per
cent, of the shipments of last season,
if indeed it reaches 60 per cent. The
sale of inspection tags from the state
agricultural department up to the
present time has been 50 per cent, lees
than for the corresponding period of
last year. This is conclusive evidence
of a large decrease in fertilizer sales, as
every bag of fertilizer sold in Georgia
must have an inspection tag on it to
i make the sale legal.
i “Again,” says the Daffin circular,
“the low price of cotton the past fall
has ruined that class of farmers
known as ‘renters,’ and, finding it im
possible to obtain actual necessities of
; life from the country merchant, he is
' compelled to hire himself to the larger
' planters, who are in a very little bet
, ter position The result of al! this will
, be the retiring of the ‘renter’ farmer
’ from raising cotton on his own ac-
• count, and, as they constitute a con
, siderable class in this section of the
South, the reduction in acreage from
this source alone will be considerable.
The larger planters will not be able to
increase their acreage, as most of
them are in debt from the past year,
and are in no position to obtain ne*
cessary additional supplies.’—Savan
nah News
CASTOR IA
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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1898.
THE KEYBOARD LOCATED
It Shows That Spanish Officers De
stroyed the Maine
i Cincinnati, 0.. March 21—A local
e paper prints today a story that the
1 location of the keyboard by which the
Maine was blown up in Havana har
a bor, had been found by an American
i engineer officer.
3 The story is that Captain T. L. Hus-
> ton, of the volunteers, who entered the
r service from Cincinnati!, and who had
i been assigned to the duty of cleaning
r out the fortifications of Havana, bad
• discovered in the gun room of the
I Caulel De Fuerste, a wooden box or
< hut, in which he found a gutta percha
tube containing one large wire and
I several smaller wires. He also found
■ evidences of a keyboard having been
■ torn away. Captain Huston had con
fided his discovery to Mr. Warren J.
Lynch, the newly appointed passen-
■ ger agent of the Big Four, who was
visiting Havana, and said he was
i about to trace the wins to prove his
: theory that the Maine was exploded
from that point.
The wreck of the ves-el can be seen
i from this gun room, not more than a
hundred yards distant. The room its
self was in part of the prison to which
access was only allowed a few of the
officers.
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satisfaction or money refunded. Price 35
cents per box. For sale by J. N.
Harris & Son and Carlisle & Ward.
An Opening For Trouble.
In commenting, the other day, upon
Mr. Bryan’s peculiar answei to the
invitation of the Democratic Club of
' New York to attend its dinner on
April 13, the anuiversary of the birth•
1 day of Thomas Jefferson, we were not
I aware that Mr. Bryan had an iuvita
l tiou from another Democratic organi
’ zation in New York city to a dinner
on the same date. The fact that he
1 had such an invitation was not very
generally known. It is said that he
has accepted an invitation from New
York city Democrats who supported
• the Chicago platform in 1896 The
dinner they propose to give will cost
1 only one silver dollar a plate, and,
' therefore, will be conspicuous for its
• Jeffersonian simplicity. The Demo
cratic Club dinner will cost ten dollars
a plate, but even that price will not
permit of a sumptuous feast. The in
teresting question in connection with
' these two dinners is, What effect will
Col. Bryan’s acceptance of the invita
-1 lion of the out-and-out silver Demo
crats have upon the Democratic party
r of New Y'ork?
> At the outset it was proposed that
} the dinner of the Democratic Club
5 should be a national affair—and it was
5 even hinted that an effort would be
9 made at the dinner to put silver in the
' background as an issue in 1900, and
3 push other issues to the front It now
8 looks as if the dinner, instead of being
1 the means of lifting Tammany to the
3 front in national affairs, would be a
failure. The refusal of Mr. Bryan to
' accept an invitation to attend it and
I the disposition of other prom’nenl
8 democrats to remain away from it
" have given it a black eye, and nothing
' that Mr Croker can say in its behalf
3 is sufficient to destroy the impression
r that the giving of the dinner was a
mistake.
’ 11 is expected that the labor element
r of the democratic party of New York
will be conspicuously in evidence at
the dollar dinner. That element col-
B trols a great many votes. It may turn
3 out that Tammany will not be able to
■ control the state convention, which
3 will nominate delegates to the n<x'
' democratic national convention There
’ appears to be ground far thinking that
• a great effort will be made to wrest
the control of the party in the state
from Tammany. If the silver Demo
crats get control < f it the Democratic
leaders will not care much whether
Tammany favors the 16 to 1 or no’
Savannah News
t Best of All
• To cleanse the system in a gentle and
■ truly beneficial manner, when the Spring
time comes, use the true and perfect
_ remedy, Syrup of Figs. Buy the genuine.
J Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, and for sale by all druggists, at
50 cents per bottle.
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menaces-! to health of the present day. I
i rovai baki-a rowors ca, ncw vook.
Finest Throne in the World.
After the death of Mouzaffer-ed-Din
his successor will take his seat upon
the most elaborately decorated throne
in the world It is a sort of couch in
solid, massive silver ; ornamented with
the delicately chiselled and artistic
figures representing many things,
but, above all, symbols of the art of
war, and heads of animals, in high re
lief. Al) the parts of the throne which
are not sculptured are incrusted thick
ly with precious stones. Around the
diamonds which blaze in this wonder
ful construction are little decorative
figures iu very preciously colored
stones. In the center of the dais is
set a phenomenal brilliant, the price
of which represents a for'une.
On the royal couch, which serves as
a throne during great ceremonies, the
father of Chox—el-Saltanet has placed
a covering for robe) and a large, soft
pillow, all embroidered with threads
of pure, fine gold and with sapphires,
pearls, rubies and emeralds. The
throne, its covering or robe and pil
low, together, represent, at the low
est estimate, sls 000.000 (75.000,000
franca).
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sign Excellent Combination.
The pleasant method ami beneficial
effects of the well known remedy.
Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa
tive principles of plants known to be
medicinally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening Inxa
five, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling om
to overcome habitual constipation per
manently. Its perfect freedom from
1 every objectionable quality anil sub
i stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid imitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
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J. H. HUFF,
24 HILL STREET.
City Tax Notice.
I Tax fi fas for city tax for the year
1898 have been turned over to me
1 for collection. Call and Bettie the
‘ game at once or levy and rale will be
t made. E. I. ISON,
Chief of Police.
R.F. Strickland & Go.
GRAND DISPLAY
iOf spring and summer styles of men’s and
women’s fine Shoes and Oxfords. See our
windows for new shapes, new toes, new
combinations.
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DEPARTMENT.
( urq Monday we will show another
shipment of black ( repons lor skirls.
■■ Also new line of white and col-
. • A \ \ ored Piques, Cord Dimities, India
/ yr. / / ) linens and Lawns.
12 / I \. / / e " over Embroideries and
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John T. Boyden has opened an
Uphumter Shop, and will do all
other General Furniture Repairs
ing, and Guarantees Satisfaction
on work and prices. Please call
and see me.
JOHN T. BOYDEN,
19 1-2 Hill st.
Guardian’s Sale.
QTATE OF GEORGIA,
'T? • Spalding County.
By virtue of an order granted by the
ordinary of Spalding county, Georgia, at
the March term of said court, bflit, I will
sell to the highest bidder, before the court
house door in Griffin, Georgia, between
the legal hours of sale, on the first Tues
day in April, W 99, the following proper
ty: Two-thirds (<) interest in twenty
three acres of land, more or less, bounded i
as follows: North by lands of J. T.
Beasley, east by lands of E. T. Kendall, I
south by lands of Mrs. Sarah Beasley and
B C. Head and west by lands of W. J.
Bridges. Sold for the purpose of encroach
ing on corpus of ward’s estate lor their
maintenance and education. Terms cash.
W. T. Beasley,
Guardian of his minor children.
March f>th, Dstfi).
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Ordinary’s Advertisements,;
OTATE OF GEORGIA,
i »-/ Spalding County.
To All Whom it Maj- Concern: J.
: Cbestney Smith, County Administrator,
I having, in proper form, applied to me for
! permanent letters of administration on the
estate of Mrs .).!>. Sherrel), late of said
county, this is to cite all and singular the
creditors and next of kin of Mrs. J. I).
Sherrel 1 to t>e and appear at my office in
Griffin, Ga., ■ n the first Monday in April,
by 10 o'clock a. m., 1899, and to show
cause, if any they can, why permanent
administration should not jl>e granted to
J. C'hcstney Smith, County Administrator,
■on Mrs..l. I). Sherrells estate. Witness
my hand and official signature, this 6th
day of March, 1899.
■I. A. DREWRY, Ordinary.
g? TATE OF GEORGIA,
I O Spalding County.
Whereas, A. J. Walker, Administrator
| of Miss Lavonia Walker, represents to the
J Court in his petition, duly filed and en
tered on re< ord, that he has fully admin
istered Mis- Lavonia Walker's estate.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
terne’, kindred and creditors, to show
cause, if any they can, why said Adminis
i trator should not lie discharged from his
administration, and receive letters of dis
mi- non t e first M nday in May, 1*99.
•L A. I >RE WRY, Ordinary.
February 6th, 1899.
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to the editor I have an absolute
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permanently cured. So proof-positive am I
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who hive G msumpti- n, Throat, Bronchial or
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