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Fresh Garden Seed mid* SETS MO SEED POTITOES. tr¬ --AT- mth ■• | E. K. ANTHOWIf’S jj’M&vtf R. J. DEANE, PHOTOGRAPHER. PICTURE FRAMES MADE TO ORDER. |JP Old PkUm*, Copied w»d EaUrgnI. Jab* mm LarptT JbrtmetT Fire Works rv GRIFFIN ! Candy, Fruit* and Nuts, bought neforc the advance. J. M. MONEY To loan in small sum* on GOOD SE¬ CURITY. Apply to Tome Eves, Box 103,Gritlin, Ga For Sale. A bargain can be bad by a cash surchaser in the following panted troperty: One half acre lot on Tay or street near the Sam Bailey Insti tute, seven room dwelling with large kitchen attached and a well of water that cannot be excelled in the city, a very rich garden, also a lot and nice little barn and stable, all very conveniently arranged. Tina is a very desirable homo for any one wishing to be near one of the best schools in the State. Also 3 0 hundred acres of land in Pike county in one mile of Jolly on the Georgia Midland railrcad. About one third of this land is original tirp ber, the remainder in high stale o cultivation, of which about ‘JO acres is of the finest branch bottom. This is an admirable place for a sto.k farm and anv one wishing to engage in the busiuess would do weil to pur obaae, which can be done on very rea tenable terms, either cash or part and icmainder in 12 months. T. G. McAfee, at H. I’. Blantons, corner Meriwether and 8th streets, or ad dress through the mail, 1’. O. boa 210, Griffin, Ga. jan4<liwlt». Notice to Teachers! Hon. Jas. S. Hook, State School Commissioner, has ordered anexamin Ation of teachers to be held on either or all of the following days, to-wit: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, tbs 20tb, 27tb and 28tb days of Januaiy 1S88. In compliance with this new law, notice is hereby given to ail per sons who may desire to teach in any of the common schools of Spalding County during 1888, to present them selves for examination at the Court house, Griffin, Ga., at #10 O’clock a. m. on either of the days named above. Jas. O. A. Miller, County School Commissioner. Jan. 7th, 1888.—tues&wky!3t Seed Potatoes! Early Rose, Early Goodrich, * Peerless, • Beauty of Hebron, Setts, Garden Seeds. All Eastern stock. BLAKELY 'BOUND ABOUT. Balirr* ( M(*iala( F««» l. .Ml Am *n»l Ivin <i».l y4 KM AMSWIK, She »*k<xl (or time her choice to make; I gave e; Dcent for her sweet sake: For wrecks J wetted for her word To free ms from in y fears absurd. My quick heart heat I high with joy and hope, A* aeiied the envelope; Ala*, Her aiss, for my regard* wedding cards answer wa*—their Aleck Morrar went to Atlanta yesterday evening Mr George Steele, of Creavell, waa in the city yesterday. Mr#. Carrie Townsend arrived from Savan nab yesterday morning Mrs Jas L. Driver, of Zebulon, was shop ping in the city > esterday. Col W. E. II. Bean y went to Atlanta yes terday morning on railroad business. Miss RhcU Head, of High Fails, left yes terdaj morning for Anniston. Ala. Mrs. I) J. Bailey left yesterday aft#moo«i for a three weeks sojourn in Florida. The clear sky was visible again last night and looker! ae pretty and blue as ever. it\ H. Williamson, agent at Williamson, on tlx G. M , was in the rity yesterday. Charley Driver was in the city yesterday aod report# Zebulon as being solid, though muddy. Mis# Estelle Kirg ieft for Eastman jester afternoon, where she will teach a three term of school. Mr. Harry T. Jordan, a lire and successful <>f Jacksonville, was here on yesterday. Got. W I. Iverson was here yesterday on business. The Col is one of the best in Zebnlou. llon.John F. Madden, of Concord, was in city yesterday, prospecting with a view in vesting in real estate here Fair l.una looked much fairer than usual last night, inasmuch as it meant no car riagts for some of the boys tonight. Titues are so dull that toe |>oliee can not get up even a respectable drunk. One was taken iu yesterday, but released before a oourt could be held. There will, in the near future, he a mar- riage in Griffin, when history repeats itself The fellow comes a long way to get wife n Griffin. Mr . T. W. t.innTof Oxford, AlaTwai mar ried to Miss Eli/.a A. Urquart, at Senoia, yes morning, and the happy couple took up train from here. The residents of Poplar street complain their sidewalks have been improved so much lately that it is almost impossible to walk upon them. Col J V. Brook-, the clever agent of the MAG., at Molena, was in the city eircu among his many friends yesterday says hi# town is on a boom. Incidental mention was made in jester issue of the sickness of Alderman k We regret to state that the illness Mr. Patrick is quite severe, consisting of serious uttnek of rheumatism J. 8. Boynton Fire Co No. 3 met at the hall last night to make arrangements pay old debt# and reorganize. It is a c ompany and should r ot be allowed to to piece- Mr - Martin, of Eatonton, was at the Nelms House yesterday. Martin represents Hill Bros, of New and has a host of friends here, who always be glad to see him. There will be u reunion of the Baptist am! congregation tonight. AH the have l>een requested to meet fully organize. It is hoped that all will and become acquainted with each better. Net being abie to work upon the streets in other way. Overseer Bridges was busy in cleaning oft the crossings and new posts around the trees on Hill Next week he expec ts to put In new in place of the dead ones. Col. Peter Martin having abandoned ibe Hot Blast after a short but bril career, it is now proposed to organize a company of the citizens of Woodbury. will find it cheaper to sell their press old iron and theirtype for old lead Neuralgic pain is usually of au intensely cutting or burning character. To ef¬ a speedy and permanent cure rub thor¬ with Salvation Oil. the greatest pain on earth 25 cents | | Marriage, both ns as art, and m on t&stlto lion D ou the decline. The statistic* show that the percentage of marriage* i* deem* iog rwpidiy This D a matter of exceeding !y greet regret. In view of this we earnest Ijr advise put maiden lady friends to take ad vantage of the present leap year, and make things bars Mr . C ha*. McFarland, of this place, was married to Mias Addle T Ballard, at the remleece of Mr. Henry Manley, at Hamp low, yesterday afternoon at three o’clock. Dr. Bradley officiating. Mr. McFarland is one of Griffis'* steadiest and !«st citizens, while the bride is possessed of many solid aUmrtioM, and we wish them both Enoch joy. A lively contention has lately sprung up as to who was the ‘only sweetheart" of the late President Buchan ac. An elderly maiden who died latelj in Minnesota was generally regarded to be the rightful claimant of that distinction, but now a lady is Peci»*ylTr- : i asserts that she herself was Buchans; » ool; ■ eetheart. Probably James bad more than < A great many men have been krsoa to > >e more than one. Broker J i. Newton was driving a load of leaves .nto town the other afternoon, when he met two young ladies, to whom be propoted that they should leap on, to which they replied that being as it was leap year they bad just a# leaf a*, not. They accord ingly jumped on and rode through town with their feet banging down behind, until Jim began to whistle " When the leaves te gin to turn," when they took leave, saying that they did not thin L they * ere riding on chestnut leave#. The following »;>«.». nuplimentary notice from the Newnan He raM and Advertiser we find copied in ibe Henry Conntj Weekly: "The Gncrvxs News is one of the few pro vincial dailies in the State that has sac ceeded in buffetting the tide of factious dis favor and indifference. in the various local conflicts that oecasioca’ly divide common! ties and we are glad to know is now more strongly tDttt -bod in the affections of its constituency tl -er- No editor in Georgia hai done more “■ material advancement and upbuilding icommnnity than has been accomplished by Col. Giessner since he located in Griffin, and tlft- people owe him a debt of gratitude that cannot be discounted by mere words of praise. He i* entitled to their substantial and undivided support, and it should be given unstintedly Hood's Sarsaparilla cures cartarrh by expel ling impurity from the blood, which i* the cause of the complaint Give it a trial. (5) .1 -aictj 1-amj> Needed. Three thousand dollars is offered by Mr. Ellis Lever of England as a prize to the inventor of a miner's safety lamp, and it has set to work the wits of the in¬ genious. Sir Frederick Abel will lecture on the subject during the present month in England, and probably will exhibit specimens of lamps which the Swan & Edison company aro manufacturing for a largo colliery in England. Electricity, it is said, is most likely to solve the ques¬ tion and take the money prize first and lots <•{ profit after.—New York Sun. A I’leuliar Locomotive. A peculiar locomotive has just will been manufactured in Boston, and be tested on the Boston and Lowell railroad. It has but one driving wheel on each side, and tl»es« , instead of being perfectly round, have a periphery composed of a series of plain facets connected with each other by very obtuse angles. It is claimed that the flat surfaces will give greater ad¬ hesion to the track and make the engine more powerful than any heretofore con¬ structed.— New York Press. A Misleading Premonition. A negro woman of Pulaski, Tenn., told her friends that she would surely die at 7 o'clock on a certain evening. So about fifty of them gathered around her bed and shouted and prayed and sung in an ecstasy of religious fervor as the hour drew near for the soul to take its flight. But it didn't do it. On the contrary, the woman went into an apparent trance, from which site arouses occasionally to eat a square meal.—New York Sud. - When a man is ill he should send for a uoctor at once : but when he has u cough or a sore throat he needs only Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. 35 cents. ---- --- ♦- -♦ -- Think twice before you swallow once—in medicine. But remember that Laxador is pre-eminently the liver regulator of the day. Price 2d cents. Advice to Mothers. Mas. Winslow's Soothing Strip, for cbildreu teething, female is the prescription and of one of the best nurses physicians iu the United States, and has been used for forty years with never failing success by millions of mothers for their children. During the process of teething its value is incalculable. It relieves the child from pain, cures dys entery and diarrhcea, griping in the bowels, and wind colic. By giving health to the child. Price 25 cents'a bottle. augeod.twly To Rout. j|A six room Cottage, in good re pair. Apply to J. A. Stewart. janl’Jdtf Removal. Wo have removed from our j Firmer location over Stiiweil & j Keith's, to the store room No- 18 Hill street, McKee’s old stand. We invite all our friends and the public generally, to call or. us at our new quarters on first floor. Respeclfuliy, Mrs. M. Ii. Brown a Co jst«lMd2w& .v4t Good as the Best! Ctrisp as tlieehenpest ! All kd )l Frnit Trees, V ines and Small Fruits. All the new varieties right tthome Will exchange for a good cow. Call and fxamice or address S. M. Wavuan, Dec.isn &-\v3m Pomona. Ga. How Tennyson Talks. ; Tennvson is now in his ?8th year, j locks are thinning fast and there I fewer dark ones than there were j three years ago, but his [ noble eye has not lost its luster. ’ hkdv he shifts a day pipe into Ins hand that he may grip you with j right. This pipe is his calumet of i*eace, his secret ebarra for abstraction, his cense to the gods. At morn, at noon, night, alone or accompanied, the pipe his half way bouse between meals the sure precursor of a night's repose. The Tennvsonian costume is,_ seen at best in here and does not seem so an affectation. He thaws but slowly, in his own room, hut the magic of third pipeful sets wagging that tongue and nether jawbone, and if topic stirs him he will pour forth idling jieriods in the sturdy old accents which modern superfine achooling is polishing out of existence. As the conversation warms his come fast and thick and the sound of pities waxes more and more warlike. the bagpipes nor the pipes of Pan, the • -church wardens,’’ as we call long clays, for Tennyson has a whim never to smoke the exhausted same twice. When the charge is breaks the shank, drops it into a like vase and fills a clean one from box supplied by his wholesale St. L uis Republican. OoocI Alt vice fur Scribblers. Disabuse yourself especially of the be¬ lief that any grace or flow of style can come from writing rapidly. Haste make you slipshod, I but it hardly can think make you graceful. autograph can the that there is any in so precious ot instructive as that scrap paper, still preserved at Ferrara, on which Ariosto wrote in sixteen revisions one of his meat famous stanzas. And then Balzac: do you know how used to compose? The story is toe- for repetition here, but his men give some idea of his great patience ar.d carefulness: "I work ten hours out of the twenty-four over the elaboration mv unhappy style, and I am never satis¬ fied myself when ali is done.” "Spare no wealth that you can put in, and tolerate no superfluity tliat can be struck out.’’ Remember the Lace¬ daemonian who was fined for saying that in three words which might as well been expressed in two. Do not throw a dozen vague epithets at a thing in the hope that some one of them will fit, hut study each phrase eo carefully tliat the most ingenious critic cannot alter it with¬ out spoiling the whole j>assage for every¬ body hut himself. — Domestic Monthly fULL WE IOHT PUR E Its superior for excellence proven in of ef homes more than a quarter a cen tury. It iaused by the United States Got- eminent. Endorsed by the heads of Great Universities as the Strongest, and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s Baking Powder-doesno* contain Ammonia, I.ime, or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. MW VOBK. CHICAGO. -T I.Ofl? dtlhwStlip.top col.nrm I*now MICROBE the rage in Austin, Tex. KILLER Mr. Kadam, Nurseryman, Austin. Texa^, is the Inventor. H# Curia Every Disease that doctor, have failed to cure. Over 500 persons in and around Austin arc-now using it. Send for circular of his treatment showing sworn statement- and testimonials of cures made. Adres- LOOK AT THIS ? One Hundred and Fifty Vacant Lots For Sale from One-fourth to Five Acres I In the thriving City of Griffin, of a popula tion of 6,000, and increasing every day. Three railroads completed, atidj two more will be in a short time. It is the centre of Middle Georgia, only 43 miles from Atlanta and 60from Macon, on the Central railroad IT trains daily. Fruits of all kind can be grown, except of free tropical. Spring and running streams stous water. The healthiest and best climate in the world' Property of ail kind for saleat reasonable prices. Houses in good demand and rents pay a good per cent, on investments. AH that is needed is a f40,000 or $50,- 000 Hotel, and (10,000 guaranteed and sub scribed to any capitalist who will build it. Conic and see for yourself, or address G. A. CUNNINGHAM. Heal EMaie Agent, Griffin,Ga. auglOilAw dm A PERFECT FOUNTAIN PEN That is within the means of a!!. nulin's New Amsterdam Fountain Pen (Fine, Medium an 1 Coarse. }|AIways ready, writes Warranted freely, and never gets out of order 14-Karat Gold and to give entire satisfaction. Pi‘lcc81.25 l»j mull, prepaid’ Liberal discount to agents. Send for Cir of our specialties JOHN S. HULI.V, No. 411 Broxdwat, N. Y. Manufacturing Stationer. jiodAwl m im PAPER at tsonfielarhilaJrlphlt the A^encr ^fewftpaper of Xeasrffi Aaver SOM. out authorised CALL ON US FOR YOUR j j ! j Christmas Goods! • • j Full Line Fresh (roods! Lots of TURKEYL AND CRANBERRY SAUCE And Everything Tliat Is Good ! J. H. KEITH & CO. ag‘23dly H. W. HASsELKU S, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Boots and Shoes, LEATHER AND FINDINGS. Hill Street, ... GKIFFIN, Gj I again offer my stock of Winter Boots and Shoes at Lowest posihle prices. Best Home-made Farm Shoes in the State. H: W. HASSELKUS. j PIANOS ! J OP GIA ! CASH. OR ON TIME. AT DEANE’S ART GALLERY WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED! A fresh lot of preserves. Jellies. Apples, Oranges. Panamas. Cocoanuts, AND IN FACT EVERYTHING A HOUSKEEPPER WILL NEED: Fox* Xmas. Live Turkeys. Dressed Turkeys. Cranberries. Cranberry Sauce. Jelly Preserves. Apple Butter. Citron. Currants. Rasins. Prunes. Nuts. Apples. Oranges. Dried Figs. Pickles. THE FINEST LINE OF [FANCY AND STICK CANDY. Choice Selection of Toys, Vases, &e. Will have Saturday. Oy-ters. Sh^d and Snappers. HOLMAN & CO. ms. FOR MEN ONLY. ?ASr) VIGOROUS H EALTH Maniiu uk uuiwwuu ox pmnunnu itauj* ■■■K. _ of -„DI* whom a large took [’rorcrtiorif fall I ind i restored restored health he________ a treat otl cent were were to to by use IVenkneayuidEkmier. ’ in Yoan.1 or Bid Wlfeieo^ thTSt ofiESi________ thousand die Aged Men. Test* Oat f zai Years ______ in _____ me anna ! and and cades cases broken broken they they & d >the / ___ the rwtor* reetom fu fnii Vte&aEtiS. pretnatur&l: wasted animating elements of life are giren back, the patieoj f ... . ^ ■ * * becomes cheerful and rapidly both strength eM beajA f erfetetand full Mr 6t.. .h and \ igu>ou »xxduuui To those who enlfrr f- .mthe many obfearediwasae TBEATHEMT.—Cw Hcxth, (3. Tvo KsttS. Tin - Drought about by Indiscretion, JLrr<*ore,OYer-Bra:a ■Work, or too free Indulgence, we a^k that you tend na HARRIS HEMEDY CO., MroOKlt».. TSIAL Tou r name PACKAGE with statement of your trouble, and secure FEEE, wit hrlllust’d Pamphletdo. DllBTiiDrrt ocorertur' _ a. —____ rnrr WHIPi, WAGONS ................ BUGCIES AND IIAP NESS. —M- - Studebakc. V.’agon! White Hickory^Wagon! Jackson G. Smith Wagon! Jackson G. Smith Buggy! Ar.d the COLUMBUS BUGGY at the Lowest Prices possible. Repairs on old Buggies a Specialty. W. II. SPENCE, augibdJrwCiTi For. Hiii A Taylor Streets, GRIFFIN, GA. j j NEW : Garden Seeds, j j Arriving: daily from the Loading throwers. j S W. MANBHAM k SONS, For County Commissioner. Editqr News— Please announce tbe name of T. J. Brooks as a candi date for County Couiumtiout r. to fill tbe vacancy* caused by tbe death j of S. W Mangbam, and oblige .iiANT * otfr j . j Election Notice. Office County Commissioners, * Scalding Coi nty, Jan. 12th, 1S8S. 1 Death having deprived the people of this county of the able and zealous services of our late distinguised and esteemed associate and a vacancy having thus occurred m this board, by authority of law we do hereby or¬ der that an election to fill said vacancy be , held in the city of Griffin, and at the various election pree nts of the county of Spalding on the Third (3) day of February 1888. It is further ordered that this uoice be pub fished daily until the date of election in the city papers and that the legal number of notices of same be posted as required by¬ law. Done special meeting of said board, this 12th January 18*8 T. B. MILLS. C.C. janl4tde M. PATRICK, C. C. EDUCATE YOUR BOYS, Cive Them a Printing Press. AI1 ... c S,zes . from . „ $2 U P Complete with Type, 8end for illustrated Price List, KM.ST jan25d*wwlm