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“X havo used Simmons having Liver made Reg¬
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mother l efore me was very and reliable
!o it. It is a safe, good disorder of the
medicine for any
system, and if used in time is a
SllEAT rREVF.NTIVE OF SICKNESS. I
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and shall continue to do so.
“Rev. James M. Kollms,
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H OFESSIUNAL DIRECTORY
DR. JOHN L. STAPLETON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
(HUFFIN', : : : GEORGIA,
Office— Fron'i Room, up Stairs, News Build
jag Residence, at W. II. Baker given place on
Poplar street. Prompt attention janSld&wOm to
calls, <‘ay or night,
HENRY C. PEEP LES ,
attorney at law
HAMPTON, OEOBfilA.
Practices in all the State and Federal
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A TTORNE Y AT LAW,
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GRIFFIN, GA.
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Over George & Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
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TRAVELING IN SIBERIA
Miserable Horses „f the Yakoots—Tbs
Gentle Reindeer and Hls Driver.
Reindeer are much swifter and more
reliable than dogs or the miserable horses
of the ^ akoots. And yet these horses are
not to be despised, for they supply a need
that it would be difficult‘to reach with
other animals. They are very hardy and
require scarcely more attention than the
wilder animals in that country, It is not
necessary to provide food or’ shelter for
them. They thrive and do much hard
work upon dead grass, twigs and dried
leaves that in winter they find by pawing
off the snow from the ground. In sum¬
mer it would be impossible to keep up
communication with the Russian outposts
in Siberia without these horses of the Ya-
koots. Upon them is packed the mer¬
chandise for trade with the outlying tribes,
and they bring back the furs that have
been gathered during the winter season.
Upon the obscure trail through those wild
Siberian wastes the summer traveler often
meets long lines of these animals trudging
patiently along, sometimes twenty-five or
thirty in number, each one tied to the tail
of his file leader.
During the winter, however, the gentle
reindeer move gaily along at a swift and
easy trot, two attached to each s^ed, and
fastened by a line from the antlers of one
to the sled in front of him. There may
be but one driver for half a dozen or more
sleds, and he sits on the right side of the
leading sled, guiding his team with a line
attached to a halter around the antlers
and under the throat of the off leader.
A steady pull directs the team to the
right, and a series of jerks is a suggestion
to go to the left. If, however, the leader
neglects the signal, the driver jumps
from his seat and runs alongside of the
obstinate animal, which immediately
makes a rush toward the opposite direc¬
tion. An active and attentive driver oc¬
cupies himself incessantly in keeping his
team under full headway, and for that
purpose wields a long, thin stick or wand
with which he continually prods the poor
reindeer in the rear. Eventually he gets
a little sore place there by continued
prodding, and pi it*; his relentless rod
upon that tender spot with the best re¬
sults. The conscience that exists even in
a Yakoot or Tunguse yemshik has in¬
spired him to put a wooden or bone but¬
ton upon the end of his goad to keep it
from penetrating toq far.
When a reindeer is tired, it lies down,
and no amount of punishment will get it
on its feet again until another is brought
to replace it from a number of spare ani¬
mals that are always tied behind the rear
sled for that purpose. No mattc-r how
much exhausted the weary animal seems
when removed from harness, it recuper¬
ates very rapidly while running behind
the sleds, and is soon ready to take its
turn at pulling. The usual gait of a
reindeer team is a long, swinging trot;
but when in a great hurry, which is sel¬
dom the ease with those lazy people, the
driver urges his team into a gallop, and
under such circumstances it is not un¬
usual for them to make over twenty
versts (about fourteen or fifteen miles)
an hour.—William H. Gilder in Outing.
In Their First Hatties.
A young Bostonian has written to sev¬
eral prominent generals asking how they
felt in their first battles. Gen. Sherman
says that such questions are hard to an¬
swer. Admiral Porter says his first battle
occurred when he was 12 years of age,
and that he did not feel much afraid.
Gen. Pleasonton remarks that his first
battle was in Mexico in 1846, and that
he felt that the sooner the enemy was
thrashed the better it would be, while
Gen. Averell says the battle of Bull Run,
1801, was his first, and that when he saw
the enemy he thought that a great and
useless crime was about to be committed,
—Now York World.
Fountains in Trees.
The great cottonwood trees in the
swamps of Tennessee contain veins of
clear, sparkling water which tastes some¬
what like unsweetened soda water and
which spurts forth as if under gaseous
pressure when a vein is punctured. It and is
said to be deliciously refreshing,
hunters are in the habit of carrying gim¬
lets with which to pierce the veins when
they are thirsty. It is a point of honor
with them to plug up the orifice when
their thirst is satisfied, that the next
comer may not be disappointed.—New
York Evening World.
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A GRANITE QUARRY I
GKIFFIJf GRANITE TO BE
^LATELY UTILIZED.
The Beecher Quarry, Willi its Inex¬
haustible Beds, Leased to a
Foreign Company.
Near the west edge of town, ^just
beyond the Griffin Mills, is George
Beechers place, containing about
one hundred and fifty acres On
it is situated the “Beecher quarry,
and just beneath the whole surface
of the place, cropping out in every
direction, is a great and inexhaua
tible bed of the best kind of granite
for building and other purposes.
Capt. Grantland’a house, one of
the finest and neatest residences in
the State, was bnilt with granite
from these quarries.
The handsome little church on
the hill, St. George's Episcopal, is
built with material from the same
quarry and is the best looking church
in town.
When stone has been wanted on
the streets, for crossings or culverts;
or for any building purposes or
foundations, il has generally come
from Beecher's quarry.
It is a tine, hard stone, not too
difficult to quarry, but lasting for
ever and capable of being dressed to
a very smooth surface.
As a general thing, it has been
free for the hauling or on the pay
ment of merely a nominal turn.
The owner did not need it for farm
iDg purposes, and did not consider a
few pieces more or less as being of
any consequence. At the same time
be appreciated the value of the quar
ry if properly developed. Like
many of the natural resources of
Georgia, it has been lying doimant.
And now it is to be developed to
a very full extent. On Thursday,
Andrew Taylor, a shrewd and intelli
gent Scotchman, representing the
Southern Granite Company, whose
main quarries are at present at Litho
nia, Ga., was in the city and leased
the whole of the Beecher place except
the small part where the quarry is al
ready open, and excepting also the
house and gardens. Besides the
rent, the company is to pay Mr.
Beeolier a royally on all the stone
taken out.
Mr. Taylor expects to move down
at once, bringing a force ®f hands to
commence work, and the quarry will
soon be in full blast, adding another
to the rapidly incieasing industries
of Griffin.
As we have stated, the supply of
granite is almost inexhaustible, aud
there is no reason why this should
not be a very large quarry. The
company has plenty of money, and
are engaged in supplying orders for
arcbitectual, monumental and street
paving work, George Mecrlien, of
Cincinnati, is president, and if we
are not mistaken they have the con
tract for paving the stiects ofCincin
nati with Belgian blocks.
‘•Griffin Granite” is an euphonious
phrase and will do much to further
advertise the name and fame of Grif
fin, the enterprising metropolis of
Middle Georgia.
Is It Not Singular
that cousuruptives should be the least
apprehensive of their own condition,
while all their friends are urging and
beseeching them to be more careful
about exposure and overdoing. It may
well be considered one of the most alarm
iog symptoms of the disease, where the
patient is reck ess amt will not believe
that he is iu danger. Reader, if you are
in tLis condition, donut neglect the only
means of recovery. Avoid exposure and
fatigue, be regular in your habits, and
use faithfully of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden
Medical Discovery.’’ It has snved tlions
ands who were steadily failing.
Religious Notice.
Beginning with Ash VVednefdiy,
the loth insl., there will be Evening
Prayer in St. George’s church at 4:30
p. m., every day in Lent.
A HALF DOZEN ANEUDwTES.
“Heads Up”-.Belly Was Among ’Em
-The Plutocrat’* PI*.
The story goes that one Sunday
Russell Sage slumbered at the aisle
end of his own pew. A deacon cirae
along with the contribution plate
and nudged him lightly with it, as
he held it out. Sage confusedly
opened his eyes, saw a big round
silver dollar lying on the plate, and
was at onco leminded of the match
ing for dollars that is his daily sport
with fellow fanciers at his office.
Sage is a fair successor of the late
acior John T. Raymond in this di
version. Instinctively he drew a dol
lar from his pocket and tossed it
down on the plate. Both heads up !
I’m winner! and he reached for the
two coins. But the alert deacon
covered the money with his disen
gnged hand, anil whispered: What's
the matter Russell? That complct
ed the awakening of Sage, and it is
asserted, to give a color of truth to
the fiction, that he blushed in bis
confusion,—[New York San.
They tell down East of a poor fel
low who owned a remarkably fat
hog, and who also owed a rich man,
The hog was about all the property
the poor debtor bad worth levying
on, aud the law exempted a man’s
•n]y pig. One day the creditor,
meeting the debtor, said: You need
another pig, let me send you a nice
little one. The poor man was as
tonished. Why, I owe for the hog
I’ve got now, be stammered. Never
mind: you need another one, and
I’ll send it, and he did, and the lit
tie pig was pot in the pen by the
side of the fat one. Id less than an
hour the constable came and attach
ed the fat hog and took it away, and
thus the law and the rich man
satisfied,—[Boston Traveler.
One of the best stories I have
heard of late comes from no less a
reliable source than Rev. Theodore
L. Cuyler, D. D., of Brooklyn, and
relates to the habit of being late at
church. Ho says: A plain-spoken
Methodist pastor in Ohio had quite
lost his patience under the interrap
tion of late comers. So one Sab
bath wbeu at the close of his prayer
he observed the usual pioeeesion
moving up the aisles, he stopped
short and exclaimed: Here comes
the tardy troop agair, and this time
my BeUy >s at the head of them!
That shot did not have to be repeat
ed, and the pastor’s wife became an
example to ihe flock.—[New York
letter in Boston Times.
How delusive is faint! General
Phil Sherid sn attended the play of
Faust at the Boston on Thursday
evening. After the play was over
twoladiis at ttie Mason street eu
trance asktd Hi a Boston cab. The
man in charge of the cabs replied
that it would be necessiry to wait a
few minutes until oue came back
In explanation ha said: You know
General McClellan was here tonight.
His party came in three
bat took five when tLty went
—[Boston Times.
A well known undertaker on
West Side is also a preacher. He
fond of a joke, c-ven at Ins swu
pense. Some time ago be was
to take charge of a funeral, rot
as an and.. laker, but as r. minister.
Being eom vt bat annoyed at a
delay, he n ked the servant ,o if
the family were ready They
waitin’ fo: he clergyman, ixclaimed
Bridget. OJ I am the
Bedad, I thought you vvas the
boy.—[New Yoil Tiibttui
Advice to Mothers.
Mbs. Winslow’s Soot ins o
for children teetbiDg, is the prescription
of one of the best female rnirses
physicians in the United States, and
has been used for forty years with
failing success by millions of
for their children. Daring the
of teething its value is incalculable.
It relieves the child frdm pain, cures
eatery and diarrhoea, griping in
bowels, and wind colic. By
health to the ihild. Price 25 cents
bottle. augeodAwlv
ISM A LUCKY YEAH.
Nat Only Good in Poker, bat it Good in
Astrology Ala*.
St. Paul Globe
If you hove t he bl .tea cheer np
Perhaps it has never occurred to you
that years with three eights in th*m
are lucky yean. They don't come
often, only once in n thousand years,
but it is a lucky ptison who livea to
see one of them. Tbete ib on old
Chaldean superstition that a year
with three e ghls is one of unlimited
blossiugs. None but lucky stars are
io the a*cendan?y, fields blossom
with abundant harvests, tho cattle
are lowing on a thousand hills,
shepherds leadtluir flocks through
green pastures and by still waters
and business enterprises prosper,
everything you touch turns to gold,
want and fumino skulk into their
hiding places until these days of
universal prospeiity aro over.
Pestilence seals his lips and no
foul breath poisons the atmosphere,
mirth holds high carnival and for
twelve moonB sorrow and sighing
shall flee away. Those who have
faith in this ancient superstition will
derive additional comf t. from the
construction of the s in thin
year. There are t' * kind and
one spot. It is iw. the beat ar
rangement of the figurative gymboli
zation that could be made, yet it ia
better than will be done in the next
thousand years.
Beautiful Hi m u
are madepailid and uLatlractive by fun
tional irregularities which Dr. Pierce
‘‘Favorite Prescription” tesUntouials. will infallibly By
cure. Thousands of
druggists.
Unfortunate AccMeaY.
Mr. J. J. Spivey, from near Rooky
Mount, fell from the court boose
window up stairs carley last Wed
nesday morning striking the stone
steps at the south door and received
very severe injuries. One ankle was
crushed almost to a jelly while he re
ceived other severe braises.
Messrs. Strickland and Whitten who
were ih an other room up stairs at
the time, beard the unfortunate mans
groans and were soon at his side
ministering to his wants. The suf
ter was removed to ‘.he Bryan House
where his injuries received prompt
medical attention. Measures were
taken to carry him home as soon as
possible.
Mr. 8p!vey had been drinking on
Taeeday and slept in one of the jnry
rooms Tuesday night. It is supposed
that waking up before it '.vas fully
light and not knowing whete be was,
he] went to the window and raising
it stepped out. The accident is deep
ly regretted by b<s friends as be is a
good and industrious citizen.—[Meri
wether Vindicator.
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BUSTED HER BOILER.
AfClden , on the s, G. 1 S. A. K R,
Freight Yesterday.
Y'esterday morning the S. G. A N.
A. R R. freight started out early
though not bright, ho th«* mo n w s
dark and rainy: jt i iutle did she
think that she would bu»i her . u
while yet the rain was on the „< >s
and he brought buck nil lvUi* 1 «nd
torn- Nevertheless, su b ^ - .te
case.
A little beyond Creswell and lie
fore reaching the A & F. R R cross
iug, a passenger had got on and Con
ductor Littleton was just collecting
his fare when an explosion in front
determined the passenger to walk.
The whoie front end of the boiler
of the locomotive blew out and left
the internal arrangements exposed
in a very shocking way, while the
thingumbob broke and hit the do
fUDny a whack that busted its herd.
The bell flew off about forty yards
imo a field, where it fell with a clang
that called all the hired laborers to din
ner for miles around. It was only
after a half hour's digging that tha
bell was finally extracted. The
driving rods came off the wheels
about the same time that the fire
man, engineer and brakeman jumped
into Clayton couuty, and altogether
there was snch a terrifying com
motion that even the sand box
lost its sand and looked pale
and haggard as it faced the
wreck with a piece of boiler iron
buried in its immobile countenance.
Nobody was hurt except the fire
man, Jas. S. Caraway, who was
scratched in the faoe by a piece of
glass from tho cab window, and Con
dector Littleton, whose feelings were
hurt by the abrupt departure of his
passenger. The engine run about a
hundred yards further to catch the
man, but it was too badly bora de
combat and decollete to make a sue
cessful pursuit.
You see, it was all & joke. Tho
Central had put the old engine upon
the S.G. AN. A. RR. because it
was not worth anything and they
didn’t want it to blow upon their
own road, ot course, though it didn’t
matter on this road—as long as the
mortgage was not foreclosed. Not
only was it one of the oldest engine*
on the road, but it is said to have
been run into once or twice by the
West Point trains, and broke in ex
aetly the same place where it had
been cracked in the collision. The
steam pressure was only 120 pounds.
The locomotive will be repaired in
Macon and sent up again to amuse
the boys some more.
Until its return, Capt. Littleton
proposes to take editor Brown’s ad
vice and hitch his hundred dollar
horse to the freight, and will adopt
a faster schedule.
Don’t hawk, hawk, blow, spit, and dis
gust everybody with your offensive
breath, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Uem
edy and end it.
luke Yuur Couuty Paper.
Meriwether Vindicator,
i . show how much a man may
lor- by not taking his county paper
we may stale that one of the county
teachers not being a subscribsr to
the Vindicator failed to be iuformed
as to tin- day nil teseheis were re
, qnited io lepoit for examination
! and obtaining license to teach pub
Stic s.si j >N. This gentleman and
tin- patrons f b:a school have thus
lost a I sir 'y hi the public school
fund for this year. In dollars aud
cents the community los<s from one
bundl'd and fifty to two 1 r mired
doii *ti. t his is quite an item and
may amount to five, t. n r r .
| dollars I- ih family, lit.I iue
teaci.t: m en a render of the Vicdi
cator tue one dollar paid for sub
| scriptiou would have netted bis pa
trous two or three hundred. Moral:
Let every family and every school
master in the county take the county
paper.
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