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r ANOY TOILET ARTICLES, LEADING PATENT MEDICINES, i'ASTEUB
REMEDIES. AND KVERVTHING KEPT IN A
HjH First-Class Drug store.
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At wholesale and Retail MTHvrup of F%» and Haaaeikaa' Wine. Preacrip-
tiooa filled at alt hoars of Day or Sight. Paiuta, Oil*, Etc., Etc.
DR. E. R. ANTHONY’S DRUC STORE.
R. J. DEANE,
PHOTOGRAPHER.
PICTURE FRAMES MADE TO ORDER.
CP*Old Picture*, Copied sad Enlarged.
ttrifli, Ga., AprU 15.
JACK H. POWELL,
-PROPRIETOR Of---
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★ STABLES,*
BROADWAT STREET.
Finest Turnouts and Best Horses
to be Had.
g0~ Tern* Mott Reasonable and
Strictly CASH to all!
sptSwed.fri.un Hm
Tbs Entire M of Goods
-OF-
STILWELL & KEITH,
Are being sold at a GREA SAC-
fllFICE. These goods v
MOST BE SOLD!
d^g.The Most of them are Fresh,
First-class Goods.
Genuine Bargains
May bo had. Come while you can
find what you want.
J. F. STILWELL, Receiver
23 Hill St., GRIFFIN. GA,
Jan. Blat. 1888. -d&w
The Biggest Thing on ice.
Scblitz Celebrated Bottled Beer.
Tbia justly world-renowned bever
age, ftH to excellency in quality and
taate. i* now for sale by
JtU£S CAMPBELL,
George Sc Hartnett,
and J. J. Ison.
Give them a call. m21sa wed. lw
House and Lot for Sale.
Tbe nine room bouse known as
tbe Nall place, corner o! Solomon
and Sixth streets. One Bquare from
boaine88 portion of city. Splendid
plane for day boarding honso. Ad
ply to C. P. or Tho*. Nall. tf
Situation Wanted.
A lady desires a situation as nurse,
or can do general housework iwd
cooking, it required. Will bo satis
fied with low wages, and cau give
good references. Address “0,“ care
News Office, Griffin, Ga. d&wtf.
Try Imported Olive Oil, --NEW LOT-
our Ai>ples l
Russett ★
Dnrkee’s Salad Dressing Lemons Still 20c. per doz.
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f GRO UlK nrn 111 IM THUfM lUITN f ' i
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JUST RECEIVED * BREADS★
Another Firkin OUT AT It A M.
-or I HAT- EVERY DAY!
FINE BUTTER ! ;
* ROUND ABOUT.
MaUfri ( .K.ralMf M* 1*mm
•r*I S«n e«Mlf,
a nor* HAiu*y.
I lc«l a so Ism n sanctity,
hwset reat of soul i* min*,
M v heart abide* in pious peacr
My bonnet net* divined
Grace, like a river, Site my soul
In chastened joy I ait,
I fe*l reUgton’a dkepeet po-wer.
My aacqoe'a a perfect fit.
A holy terror penetrate*
My «oul’* remotest nook*.
An earoesL chastened Joy-
How neat that ribbon looks !
Tbe food mu tell* of Christian neace,
The organ’s anthem swells,
I baths in stream of pore delight
My dress cost more than Nell's.
0 holy rest I O Sabbat h c alm '
O chastened peace serene ■
1 fret tby deep abiding Miss Green spell, !
How dowdy i#
I feel a part, religious plow,
O rapture undefined
I know my bonnet looks so nice
To those who sit behind !
Preaching at the Christian Church a; the
usual hours,
II. Padgett came down from Greensboro
yesterday evening.
* Mrs J. L. Patrick rettirnid from Atlanta
yesterday evening.
Jno. Cowan, the Columbus artist, left for
home yesterday.
Especial attention i* called to the attrac¬
tive advertisement of E J Flemister in this
issue.
Mr. Stone, of Cincinnati, a brother of Mr.
Stone, of Savannah, i* the guest of Mr. and
Mr* W. II. Lyon.
Mrs Minnie Merrill, of Ncwnan, arrived
in the city yesterday evening and i* visit¬
ing Mrs. E. W. Beck.
J. J. Farley fell off a step ladder on Friday
evening while painting at E. .1. Ficmister’s
res donee and burl himself severely.
If yon do not censure until you hsve heard
both sides, you will have much less to regret,
and your opinion will be worth more.
The recent reduction io freights saved the
News five dollar* freight ou a ton and a half
of jiajier received here yesterday. This is
quite an Item, even for the News.
If we ceuld read the secret hi»tory
of our enemies we should find in each
man's life scrrow and suffering enough to
disarm all hostility.
Little Heaton Grantland was lying very
low all day yesterday from a combination of
brain fever and meningitis. Dr. Westmore¬
land, of Atlanta, has been iu attendanc e.
Preaching at the Baptist church thia
morning at eleven o’clock, and aUo at
eight in the evening, by the pastor. Com
inunion at the close of the morning sermon.
It i* about time to open the annual ugita
tion of the street sprinkling question
There i», we hope, no harm iu t ailing atten
tion to the desirability of a street sprinkler,
although there is the usual unlikelihood of
ever seeing one on the streets of Griffin .
The richest child in America i* a little
Miss May fiharpless, who is nine years oid
and has a fortune of ,000,000. 8h* ia a
daughter of a late member of the firm of
Arnold. Constable A Co., of New York.
The child millionaire lias a remarkably in
terestmg colla tion of dolls of *11 sires, *ev
eral of which cost fl.000 a piece.
A great deal of our space is devoted today
to a sketc h of the ou** famous jay bird
farm, located not far from this city. The
accurate and truthful narative is interspers
ed with some very wise observations by that
veteran and philosphical observer Judge E.
W. Hammond, aud tli* whole conveys a
moral that is mod worthy of thought on
ttus quiet Sabbath day. Published in an
agricultural community and largely read by
farmers, the News spares neither pains nor
expense to write up and develope the varied
and wonderful industries of this country; the
unsuccessful a* well as the suc cessful, be
cause in this way only can the avenue* of
profit and prosperity clearly '■* shown. With
the possible exception of the editor of tbe
New *, we co not believe there is a more ex
porienced and practical farmer in tbe whole
country than Coi. Hammond, whose c ontribu
tions are forming from time to time such
valuable addittion* to agricultural literature,
and are copied aud rend all over tbs United
States
If you feci that everything is going wrong
if you do not feel like getting up in the
morning, if yon havepain ia the stomach,
take a doso of Laxador, tbe golden remedy
Price only % c ents.
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THE JAY BIRD FARM.
TIE STORY OF A FOOLISH ASH
rSFORTlNATE FARMER.
The UfTiuWf Resalt of Net Leaving
Well Eaeifh Alaae--Judge Haas-
mead’* I’hileaepfaleal Oheer-
» atl >—.
News reporter
stepped into
tbe Ordinary’s
office sod ask¬
ed Judge Ham
mond it be bad
anything to re-
otrk. Tbe
Judge turned
his benignant
count e nance
and said:
Yes, young man, I hare. It is
this:
Since tbe world began, man has
suffered from a deposition to be die
satisfied and r e king out in the
dark and trust..>g <j luck and chan
ces, rather than to arrive at a proper
conclusion, which he might well do
by reasoning from cause to effect;
forgetting that it is better to “bear
those ills we have than fly to others
we know not of.” How many times
in your or ■ experience have you
known men 1 would not be satis
fisd with whu. ey had, and made
matters worse by attempting nnad
visably to mend their affairs, and find
that they had made a mistake and
were in a worse condition than at
first? It seems that we are all prone
to fall into the common error of not
“letting weli enough alone.” Tbe
•id woman is constantly met with
who had the ben that laid a golden
egg every day, and killed the hes
to get all th© eggs at once, and dis
coveted that she bad committed a
sad mistake in destroying the foan
tain and source of her wealth. Men
who are controlled by an unhealthy
ambition frequently rush on to a goal
high above that to which their fel
lows have attained, and when they
have reached the highest peak in
sight must at last pause, panting ou
its summit; wretched to find that
there is nothing but a barren waste
beyond and dizzy when they look
back to the fertile plains which they
have left far be'ow—unable to go
forward and ashamed to go back.
Then they keenly regret that they
did not “let well enough alone.”
These remarks have been suggest
ed by rny acquaintance with a gentle
man not many miles away. He re
sided on a beautiful larm, which
was fertile and productive, elegant
ly located, well timbered,
and well watered, with proper
porportions of bottom and upland,
meadow and woodland, orchards and
vineyards; so that his crib, barns,
cellar and smokehouse were always
wall tilled. Providence bad indeed
smiled upon him and surrounded
bim with peace and plenty. Hie
sons were intelligent and manly, his
daughters lovely and fair- A few
years ago he had been watching the
habits of the jay birds, which seemed
to take a peculiar fancy to a grove of
origiual foreat oaka iu front of hi?
handsomo residence They eongre
gated there in large numbers, they
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KILLING VM' BCRYING THE J\Y BIRDS.
preyed upon his cherries and berries,
his beans and peas. They would
break up the nests of other birds in-
ai8CrirainRt * 1 J b ? eatin 8 tUeir e ^>
and would even attack and devour
the young of other birds. One day
while he was much fretted at ’.be
wicked depredations of these peslif
erous jay birds, an old superstitions
negro fortune teller told him to
“beware of them jay birds," that
that they war fi emissnmt of the I
devil and every Friday they carried
light wood knots to hell. Tbe farm
er «w doing well at this time, bat
without counting tbe cost or cslca
laliog tbe conseqaenoes h« resolved
that be woald exterminate tbia miss
cbtevon? jay bird family, and made
it bis daily business and pleasure to
shoot these pests: and it seemed that
the more he • killed the more they
increased. From tbe first he bad an
eye to business and concluded that hs
would nave some remuneration and
perhaps profit for bis ammunition
and trouble, aod for the damage tbe
jsy birds bad dont; so he dec.ded
that be would fertilize his garden
with the dead birds. He had four
trenches dug. each one hnndred
yards long. E tch day tbe farmer
would plant bis dead jay birds and
sever them, leaving their tails stick
ing out like eo many bead stones to
tkeir graves: and when he had filled
his four trenches it was a unique
•pectaele 1o look at those long,
straight liDes of blue feathers slash
ed with black and white sticking out
of the ground-
The farmer’s idea was for the birds
to decay and thus fertilize the
ground so he could plant seed in
the same rows tbe next spring. So
he kept tbe rows clear of weeds
and gras*. Early next spring be
was surprised to see a strange growth
spring up from these rows, and con
eluded to allow tbe growth to remain
and develop into what ii would.
Tbe plants grew rapidly and assum
ed the colors of the jay bird plumage.
At last the bloom came in the flash
ing colors of the jay bird, making a
beautiful flower. Tho farmer, as he
thought, now saw the road to for
tune and to lame thrown wide open,
and he advertised extensively that
be bad originated a new and beauti
fu! acquisition to the floral world and
named it “Blue Jay Plant.” Tbe
floriculturists and nursery men and
THE SEED HALLS BURST,
lovers of the marvelous and beauti
ful flocked from all parts ot the coun
try to examine and admire this new
wonder, and invested thousands of
dollars in cuttings from tbe “Blue
Jay Plant.” Tho farmer believed he
had found the etui of the rainbow,
where he might fill his bag with
gold. He was offered enormous
sums lor his farm, but no amount of
money could induce him to sell his
bonanza. At last seed balls began
to form like balls on our cotton
stalks. When the visiters saw these
their eagerness to purchase was un
controllable and they offered fabu
lous prices for the farm; but the
farmer said. “Why, 1 will keep my
farm and s- 11 my seed;” and he took
thousands i f orders cash in advance
for seeds when gathered. So from
his cutting- and seed he had become
the wealthiest man in his county.
But alas! for the uncertainty cf all
human affairs and expectations based
upon human calculations! The seed
balls grew to about the size of cocoa
nuts, and began to ripen and mature,
and the fanner made extensive prep
ar&tions to gather and preserve his
golden harvest. But alas! alas! one
bright (lay in August the farmer’s
garden was changed into
a tumultuous pandemoni
um. The seed pods had
barsted and the new fledged jay
birds bad poured out in swarms
thicker than the locusts in Egypt,
Tbe farmer robbed out and stood
aghast, and in the agony of conater
nation he exclaimed, “This is hell!"
Day by day the trouble increased:
the jay birds in retaliation for the j
farmer’s war of txtermiuation com i
menced to bring light wood knots
and sand and drop them ot. the
land, and the last time I was in the
neighborhood tbe plantation was j
covered with ught wood kno.s aud
sand several feet deep, aud the cc j
cupaats bad fled as from a pestilence j
and no one will live on if. I j
climbed a hill near and saw some
thing like a dark cloud suspended
over the land, and then I saw a
shower of light wood knots and
sand defend, and then tbe crowd of
jay birds fl^w away for another |
trrn. Theory cf a jsy bird always,
throws the farmer into spasms of!
tenor, and in his lucid intervals he
is heard to repeat ogam and again,
‘Ob, if 1 had jast ie. well enough
alone.”
‘•Liy tby sweet hands in mine,“ he said,
but she only remarked that she had neural¬
gia and must hold her head. He gave her
Salvation Oil and now he holds her sweet
hand by the hour
From almost every section of the State
come rtports of a general improvement of
the health of our people due no doubt to th#
influence of Dr. Bull’s Conch Syrup which
only 25 vents.
Central Railroad Time Tabic.
SOUTHWARD.
Barnesville Special (Sunday only
7:45 a. m. Barnesville Accommoda
tion (daily except Sunday) 5:57 a. m.
Passenger No. 3, 5:41 a. m.
Passenger No. 11, 11:31 a. nr
Passenger aud Mail No. 1, 4:01
p. m
Passenger No. 13, 9:05 p. m.
SOUTHWARD.
Passenger and Mail No. 2, 8:20
a. m.
Passenger No. 14, 11:20 p. m.
Passenger No. 12, 4:05 p. m.
Barnesville Special (Sunday only)
4:58 p. m. Barnesville Accommoda
tion (daily except Sunday) 7:10 p. m.
Passenger No. 4, 8:43 p. m.
.Boils, Pimples, hives, ringworm, of tetter, blood
and all other manifestations impvre
are enred by Hood's Sarsaparilla. 3
400 Pairs of Shoes.
I have just received 400 pairs of
Drummers’ Sample Shoes, which I
will sell at less than New York cost.
Call early Monday morning before
the assortment is broken.
apr8d&wlwj K. F. Strickland
^ You
PURE m
1'. uperior for excellence than proven in millions
o, ' nea more a quarter of
isused by United a cen
tui). It the State* Go».
ernment. Endorsed by the beads of the
Great Universities as the Strongest, Pure**
and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s Cream
Baking Powder does not contain Ammoni*
Lime, or Alum. Sold only in Cans.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
SEW TOBK. CHICAGO. ST. LOUS.
d4ihw8thp,top col.nnn
Notice to Cebtors and Creditors.
All i
Mangfc
deceased, uv»,ucu w v an uu me
undersigned and make settlement cf such in
debtedness at once; and all person* having
demands against said estate are notified to
present their claims properly proven.
J. J. MANGHAM, Act j’inistrator.
apr4w6
THE-:- VERYLATEST
STYLES IN
SPRING MILLINERY!
Hats, Oth> Bonnets, Ribbons, Feathers and all
r Trimmings received have just been
at
Mrs. M. L. WHITE’S,
The Fashionable Milliner and Dressmike’',
corner Hill and Broadway streets.
Would be pleased to have everybody cal!
and examine my stoek. L-gT" Prices the
oweri.
A GOOD MULE!
Cheap for CASH or 2;ood NOTE! If you want a
good load of wood send us one dollar and your or¬
der. J. H. KEITH & CO.
J. FLEMISTER’S
- SPECIAL BARGAINS -
1OR THIS WEEK!
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All Wool Nun's Veilings, in desirable colors. 19c. well worth 30c.
Wool Cashmer . S inches wide, in all new shades at 25c.
Crepe Carreai ! wool, 40 inches wide, at 50c.—value 80c.
Grand redur jnc i Silk Warp and Wool Henriettas. Blacks and Colors.
Best quality St rah Silks at 75c.. sold everywhere at $1 per yard.
Great Got io Prices on all Other Dress Goods ia Stock!
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Few Piet. - , lack Silks at Your own Price!
Later* fiimmings to Watch all Dress Goods!
‘‘Belford" 4 T ilioi Kids, Silk Embroidered, 65c.
“Alexander - j •• “ “ •* $1.00
Splendid Black “ “ “ 1.00.
“Mather" Kids in Greys. Blacks and Tans, at $1.00 that retail the world
over at $1.50.
New Silk Gloves in biacks and Colors. New Collars and Cuffs.
One lot Ladies Hoes in Blacks and Assorted Colors, at 25c. on bargain
counter, well worth from 40c. to 75c.
Misses Silk Lisle Hose at 25c.—Grand Bargain.
Dozens upon dozens Gents.' Black and Colored Half Hose in Lisle, Silk
Clocked at 25c., well worth double the money.
—Lo:{-
Nev Ginghams, Satteens, Prints, Lawns and White Goods
- RECEIVED EVERY WEEK. -
B'atk Silk Spanish Lace Flouncing. Best value in city for money.
Fine Line Torchon Laces Cheap.
Will have in a few days 500 6UTTERICK FASHION SHEETS for May, to
be GIVEN AWAY. Call and get one.
i -X-o-.X-
! SHOE DEPARTMENT !
y Shoe Stock will be found the Largest and Most Gomplete in the city.
New Slippers, for Ladies, Misses and Children. Special bargains
in Men’s Hand Sewed goods, in such celebrated Makes as
Hanan’s, Emerson's and Sweet & Sherwood's.
VbT Examine my CLOTHING SAMPLES from Jacob Reed's Sons. Will
guarantee FIT and WORKMANSHIP, for less money than you pay for first-
class ready-made work.
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BE HAVE OTHER BARGAIN’S AND SPECIALTIES
.. . . ... ... ... is examination and comparison
0 f p r j ce8 0 f our g 0(M j s with others
~ Trade of all mv former patrons solicited either for cash or on time,
E. J. FLEMISTER. 51 and 53 Hill St.