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VOLUME 17
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“I have used Simmons Liver Reg¬
ulator for many Family years, Medicine. having made
it ray only before My
mother me was very and partial
(o it. It is for a safe, good disorder reliable
medicine any of the
system, and if used in time is a
great preventive or sickness. I
often recommend it to my friends
and shall continue to do so.
“Rev. James M. Rollins,
•Pastor M. E. Church, So. Fairfield, V
TIME AND DOCTORS’ BILLS SAV¬
ED byalwayskeeping in the house. Simmons Liver
Regulator
“I hav® found Simmon^ Liver
Regulator used the for best anything family that medicine
I ever may
happen, Diarrhoea, have used it in Indigestion, and
Colic, Biliousness,
found it to relieve immediately. Af¬
ter eating a hearty supper, if on go-
i,.u to bed, I take about a teaspoon-
fuT, I n ver feel the effects oi
iuppci eaten.
“OVID Q. SPARKS,
“Ex-Mayor of Macon, Ga.’’
OIUY 6KICINE
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GRIFFIN, : : : GEORGIA,
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A 1 TOltXEY A i L A VV
iiampton, okobcta.
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jno. j. tnniT,
A rTORNEY AT LAW,
GBIFFIN, GEOBjIA.
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GRIFFIN GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRU VRY
ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE.
The Collapse of the Angusta Daily*
»ette«-Xo Roomjfor It,
Commenting on tbo recent co
lapse of the Augusta Gazette, Up
C harleston News and Courier says
The suspension of the Augusta
Gazette adds one more to the long
list of unsuccessful newspapers in
the South. There was no room for
it. It did not create business—it
merely divided it. The collapse
came when the owners grew tired of
providing, week by week, for the
losses of the concern.
There are persons in Augusta who
dislike Mr. Walsh, the editor of the
Chronicle, who is the architect of his
own fortunes, and has labored un
selfishly for a generation for the
welfare of Augusta. But it suited
some persons to call him a boss and
to regard him as the centre of a
ring. So the Gazette was founded
on opposition to Mr. Walsh, for one
thing. But there was, in addition,
the idea that Angusta should have
two morning newspapers, and could
and would support them. The Ga
zette weakened itself from the start
by its attack upon Mr Walsh, and
worse still, the Gazette was not as
good a newspaper as tho Chronicle.
The only element of strength that
the Gazette had'was its low tariff
views, and this was not enough to
save it.
There is not room for two firstrate
newspapers in aDy of the Southern
cities, except New Orleans, There
is but one morning newspaper in
Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, At
lanla and Augusta. In order to sue
eeed in such cities, u new paper must
supplant thejexistirg paper. It must
iI ;ifj ft q© •-*> upap^v, t»n<J •»»»4
be prepared to keep ou losing money
Until it can draw from the rival paper
as much business as will briDg its
income to the level of expenditure.
Meanwhile, the existing paper is not
losing money. It has accumulated
capital and ample resources, and will
redouble its efiorts to retain business
and extend it. The end is alwnyB
the same. Down goes the new con
cern in course of time, a crowning m
stance of means wasted and energy
misapplied.
The Gazette is dead, ancl it was
longer in dying thau had been expect
ed. Mr. Walsh will wear bis laurels
modestly, and will work harder than
ever for the public, and for himself.
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Notice to Heirs
To the heirs of Shatteen C, Mitchell, of
Spalding County, deceased: John H. Mitch¬
ell, e * ecutor of the last will and testament of
Shatteen C. Mitchell, deceased, has made ap
plication to have a settlement made be¬
tween himself, ns executor, and the heirs of
said deceased Snch settlement wil bemad®
before the Court of Ordinary of Spalding
County, Georgia, on the first Monday in
March, 1*88. Let all persous interested in
said estate he present at that time and repre
aent their claims against said estate.
e. w. Hammond,
January 19th, 188S-&3.70. Ordinary.
ms rAPffa. Haagg&sSrTS
PRETTY BUT NOT PROUD.
Mrs. James Brown Potter’s Impressions
of Griffin.
The ouly sight to bo seen at tho-
statiou yestetday morning, as the re
porter meandered that way. was a
small negro boy eating a very large
pie.
But about twenty minute® aitei
eleven a locomotive and two palace
oars passed Blowly through.
In one of the cars, looking out bul
still eating her breakfast with evi
dent enjoyment, was Mrs. James
Brown Potter, the famous beauty
and actress of New York, passing
from Macon to Atlanta.
In her hand was a good sized slice
of pie and her month was open in
the healthy way that indicates the
opening of a large cavern, painted a
bright carmine red on the inside.
Such is the true democracy of the
South, palely indicated iD the North
that seeks the negro vote but looks
down upon the colored individual.
The negro ate pie; Mif. Janies
Brown Potter ate pie. Both ate pie,
and the woi^d stood stdl in silent
CODteut.
Slowly swallowing a great gob, as
the train went by the station on
leadeD feet, Mrs. Potter looked out
and saw Emmett King and wiping
the crust off her lips she smiled a I
sweet CV. smile. OLLI liV. Our V/Ul UUIOLU.D artisthas taught OIU^U, her UV*
as she , looked , , , out ... the window . , at . „ Em
mett, drawing the window curtains
back of her to form an artistic back
ground and kido the remnants of pie.
People down heie eat pie for din
ner aid for supper, but our eyes
were suffused with to..;a to know
that Mrs. Potter eats [ ie for break
fast also, like a true American, and
to think that a recent bereavemnt
has deprived the News of the only
editor in Griffin who could have
gone into tho car marked “private”
and asked whether that pie was
mince or apple.
As if loth to do so, the train mov
ed slowly out and in order to do so,
Mrs- Potter glided to the opposite
window to see what else she could
see of Griffin, the world renowned
metropolis of Middle Georgia. Ou
Hill street, facing the railroad
she Lad the pleasure of gazing upon
the artistic exhibit of H. H, Jones k
Go., whose monuments and tomb
stones are the admiration of the liv
ing arid the solace of the dead. Her
ruby , lips moved , and , almost ,
one
coaid hear her say, “Well, this is the
liveliest graveyard I ever saw, and I
had rather be buried in Griffin than
liv® elsewhere.”
How true the words ! Never was
a more artistic display shown nor at
cheaper prices than H. H. Jones &
Co., are prepared to give. Mat hies
and granite are purchased by them
at the lowest price and sold simply
at the additional cost of the words
inscribed.
Tho Macon Telegraph criticised
Mrs Potter’s acting with the frequent
intnrRnftrfiinn nf ilio fnot Ihot- “elm
is pretty,” and tho Nests hns only to
add that she baB sense.
Gardening.
During the beautiful and spring
like weather in the earlier part of last
week, we noticed a number of our cit
izens moving in the direction of their
garden interest. This is well. For
there is no attachment to a home that
is greater source of economy
the way of family support than an
early and good garden. The bead of
a family seldom, if ever, makes a bet
ter investment of little sums of mon
oy than when he judiciously expends
them on a good vegetable garden.
For there is no other investment of
tho same that yields a better interest.
And the earlier gardens are planted
and good .lands ot vegetables obtain
ed, the mne profitable they are as a
source of food supply. Usually in
this climate, a garden under prudent
and timely management and proper
attention, can be made a vc-ry great
aid in feeding a family during the
And .it those who aie ready 1
entire year. J
. tiie assertion that the , , la
to gainsay
bor necessary to be expended on
good garden is more remunerative
than the same amount of labor expend
ed on agricultural products, Hence have
made a miscalculat'd'. we
would urge upon the head of every
family who can do so, to look after
their garden interests and have a
good garden,
Persons living in unhealthy localities
may avoid bilious attacks by au occa
sionnl dose of Laxador to kc < p the liver
in action. ‘l~r cents.
It is the o iy medicine L would give
my baby, sn.d a mother speaki"..- of Dr
Bull's Baby Syrup. At alldn ^ , *.
25 cents.
Parents and Children.
Rev. M. McN. McKay wil. preach j
tonight at the Pies! ytemn cbm -h i
0 n the duty of parents to children,
As it is a subject of importance, it
j 8 hoped the congregation will !>*.* a
hrge one. The public are coni; illy
invited to be present,
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Scarlet <tpi.
Darius Prophylactic Fluid is unequalled
ia the treatment of Scarlet Fever. Used as a
gargle it prevents prevents the the throat throat from from becomius becoming
diptheritic, dues allays Used tho inttainruition the an<i body sab it
the pain. to sponge
allays the itching inflammation of the skin
and destroys infection.
Exposed in the sick room it will prevent
the spread of contagion, and keep the at
mostphere wholesome.
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At LOWES 1 FRICKS, for . AMI or ou TIME. JAS. BRAWN EE.
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FLORID V POLITICS.
Republican* Preparing to
a Big Fight For tho Slate.
Ja< ksanvillb, Fla, Fell. b.— i
Wm. A. le d .v i:i», chairman of
Republican State Central Com
has called a meeting of that
for the 22nd inst., icr the pur
of calling a State convention to
delegates to the National Con
which meets in Chicago in
This is tho oeginning of the
fire, and it shows that the
are wide awake and real
fully what an important Never year before this
will be ior thorn. in
ihe history of Florida political par
ties, since the adoption of the old con
in 1868, ha- the popular
vote of the peopie determined whom
county officials should be. Before
the Constitutional Convention of
1885, all county officers were appoint
by the Governor, thus giving to
all the different counties officials
whose opinions were in hearty accord
and sympathy with the State adminis
tration, whether the county was Ho
publican or Democratic. The consti
tution ol 1885, though distinctively
a Democratic measure, proved to be
boomerang and changed all tins,
and will turn over to the Republicans
many of the counties heretofore man
aged by Democratic officials. Since
the inauguration of Governor Drew
the Republican party hero has been
demoralized and wholly disorganized,
private feuds and dissensions among
the leaders preventing 1 " any ] concerted
action. , But the prospects now » r <?
brighter, and the party will make
great eff orts to re-establish its old su
premacy in this State. Of the dele
r
who will Chicago . . it .
gates go to
yef too early to speak fuily, but in
dicatiotis point to two or three very
plainly who are “original” Blaine
the opinion is expressed
free y by party leaders that Florida’s
deb atiou will be instructed
Blaise. The Democrats realize
nec> ssity fer prompt actum, and are
work.ng silently but eueogetically,
Senator I’a-eo, who is in Washing
ton, is chairman of the
committee, and no call for the Stale
convention ean l»e issued until he
can leave duties an! return here.
ProbahK jaeksonvile or St.
u ■ will o . 1 c * >1 for the State
convention bom parties.
A Western Gas Find.
Th. lisrnmry of natnrsl hm
dev oped some highly emtfrtainin"
and nstiuc.live stories m
prodigm;.* • :ur. Ou - of tho t- »t
of tin I . ii“r is that related of a Mr.
Oliver b. iiiggits and the gaa cornpa
nyofWagonia, nlbeli is somewhere
out west- Mr. Higgets had a disa
greement with the gas company of
the town in regard tu the verucity of
his meter and decided to borp for na
MMNRB
to nil gaa on his owd prom i f which
were fortnriat< ly mrronndtd by a
high board feme: wiiicb cenled hi®
operation f. Hebe,' drill for
the rock which coi ‘ ■* gas *ij<J
struck it even soon- s ,i. *u he “tyieet
ed, and it was a great deal I ardor
rock than he anticipated. But bo
persevered and was shortly rewarded
with a flow equal to his best hopes-
He put in a tube, lighkJ tho gaa,
built u shed over the j» t a .d waited
for two weeks to are ii ihe flow woo
permanent. At the end of that time
ho was smith ! ho had a gcod thing,
and let afiicnd into the secret undor
? 0 6 8)f sm Aft, "pWflAqf'oV u^iti
company knew all about it and call
ed an emergency meeting of tho rU
rectors. They decided to buy tbo
Higgits well at any prico and tho
privilege of boring on every lot in
town so as to retain the monopoly
of gas supply. Higgits was paid
$20,000 for his lot, with a proviso
that he should have all th® gas bo
wanted at half price. When tho
news got abroad there was a good who
deal of a row among citizens
bad sold the right to drill ou their
premises, not knowing of Higgits*
discovery, and a contest in the courts
would have been tried if another dis
covery, equal in importance to that
of the lucky Higgits, bad not been
made. The gas company made the
discovery this time. They found
that in drilling for gas Higgits bad
struck an old gas main that ran
across the corner of bis premises, and
had been drawing his supply from
tho company’s works. Then the ex
citement quieted dowu and Mr. Hig
I gits went <nto the wholesale liquor
j business- 0 have assurance of the
j Detroit Free Press that this story is
! substantially true, and it ought to be
a warning to all monopolistic gaa
companies that the Providence whicb
1 permits them to exist also piovides
resources whereby oppressed and in
‘ dignant ^ patrons ^ may circumvent toe
uu acioH9 and nD8 crnpuloa8
meters.
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