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iy PURE DRUGS I Epf* .-•» . • 4HCT TOILET ABfWLBBl LEADING PATENT MEDICINES, BEMEDIES, AED EVEBITBZKO KEPT 0 A » First-Class - Drug - At vboUnb and BoteD. JMm® Night. ol Faints, fig« (Mia, Hiajrikm'WIa«. Eto., Etc. Praocrip tiooa Ailed at ail boom at Bap at PR.g. R. ANTHONY’S DRUCSTORE ,r< • R. J- DEANE, PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURE FRAMES MADE TO ORDER. StTOU FMbM, Copied and Ealarred. fiftMa* (faUi Haj 20. ’ JACK H. POWELL, ---PROPRIETOR Of- mm rasT-fuss unn ★ STABLES,★ J BROADWAY STREET. Finest Turnouts and Best Horses to be Had. fjf" Tarras Moat Reasonable and Strictly CASH to all! apaOift&M.M 3a JUST ARRIVED! --lot-- THE TESY LATEST STYLES NEW-:-UNO BEAUTIFUL Tips, Ribbons and Hats. MPDonOi fail to call and examine. MRS. M. L. WHITE, A Cor. Hill and Broadway. Spalding Superior Court. Special Session, May 24th, Ordered, That a special session of the 8u- narter Court of Bp&ldinK Thursday, county 5Ki.li is day hereby of esftad to convene on of hearing applications May, for the purpose forth* granting of charters to corporations in ail cases requliwmrobj^haa^cen^cwnpllcd where the law as to publication and other " ' * F.fc. wat.au.Awad Judge 8,0. Potato slips, ten cents a hundred Joa. Morris, East Griffin. tf It has been conceded by the housewives of Griffin that the “President’s Wife" is the best floor for all purposes ever sold in Grif fin. it contains no Injurious adulterations, but is a pare whojeeome goods. Every one who has not tried it up to date, should call oa either J. M. Win*, 8. H, Deane or M. F. Morris A Co., snd buy a sack to teats its merits. A Griffin gentleman who went to Colnra bus on the excursion Thursday was astonish m 1 by the amount of beer sold thers and overcome by Ita exocllence, so moch better, tie said, than Griffin be«.r. His ponderlags upon the subject made him weary, and he was fast asleep when the car stopped at Griffin At McDonough he awoke to inquire why the train stopped ao long, and was lofarraed that he was at the other end of the road. He went to a hotel and asked to be awaken ed for the morning train. In the morning he made a leisurely breakfast and got to the depot—farther off than be thought—in time to see the train leave for Griffin. He ae cured a horse and buggy and rode to llamp ton and then took the first freight to Gri ffln, and when he get here wss entirely satisfied with Griffin beer. Blowing lp 11«J1 Oat* has been a laborious and oostly work, tint the end justifies the effort. Obstruc tion in any important channel means die aster. Obstructions in the organs of the human They most body be bring cleared Inevitable away, or physical disease. wreck will follow, blood Keep the liver through in or der, and the pore coures the body, conveying health, strength and life: let it beoome disordered and the channels result are clogged disease with snd impuri death. ties, which in No other medicine equals Dr. Pierce's “Golden Medical Diaoovery” for acting upon the liver and purifying the blood. Removal I The MIDDLE GEORGIA JOB OFFICE has been removed up stairs, over Blakely's store. We return thanks for the almost universal patronage of the people of the city, as well as the towns adjacent, and repeat our eld motto, “25 percent, cheaper than anybody.” and first-class commercial work. Wg invite alt to visit our office, and give us a chance to bid on their work. BLAKELY A SON. ’ROUND ABOUT. ■aiwr. ( .M.ntar P..f l. aaS U*a ar»l law. dwilp. or nova asi> naans. What I bo’ the the green leaf grow ? TwiH last a month and day: is all a waa t flowers that blow Luxka Death Ms slave Decay But ut tf II i my lady smua There 1* so Death at all; The world is fair the while— What the’tbs red leaf fall? tVm. Jones, of Atlanta, was in the city yea lerday. Miles 0. Dobbins, J r n wee in the city yes- terday. ifim Mary Arlope returned to Macon yea tarday. Thera was a colored picnic at Lueils yes terday. i R. 8. Brawn, ef Maoon, will spend the day in Griffis. Mrs. Ruby Nieeli, of Savannah, is viaiting the Mimes Charlton. Cary Tewnsed, of Savannah, is spending the day in the city. Mias Emma Malaiar, of Bunny Side,waa in the city yesterday. Officer Bowden ran in two plain drunks yesterday afternoon. W. C. Lyons passed through the city yes terday on lys way north. Mrs. H. B. White has returned from a visit to relatives in Booth Georgia Quite an interesting revival is now in pro frees at the Christian ohurok Mrs. Billie Wilson and Misa Emma, of Hampton, were in the city yesterday. Mra. M. E. Dickenson returned to HoUen ville yesterday after a pleasant visit hers. James F, Bntton, a former citizen of Grif¬ fin, but now of Woodbury, was here yestcr day. There were two large picnics in thiB neigh borhood yesterday, one at Mt. Zion and one at Barrow’s pound. A depot and a poet office have been estab¬ lished at Edmond Leach’s place,in Mt. Zion, district, on the A. A F. K R. If the trees in heaven smell like the "Heaven tree" down here, there are many who will feel their sort-ow alleviated at not being able to get there. George Seymore celebrated bisj twenty fifth birthday yesterday. For so young a man George has many friends, who wish him many returns of the day. Tump Reed, slightly colored, last night shot Henry McGbeo more colored, lncon veniently but not seriously, in a quarrel about a quarter of a dollar. Reed escaped. Miss Mamie Howell, of Zebulon, and Miss Pinle Rucker, of Barnesvllle, attended tba Mt. Zion picnic yesterday and are ths guest of Mm. R. w. Champion, on Taylor street, today. B. L. Tisinger, Esq., of Thomas ton, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Tisinger is one of the moat brilliant young attorneys of that section, and we are glad to learn is enjoying a lucrative practice. Meridian Bun Lodge No. <St> F. A A. M. Of thia place, has acoeptted an invitation from Mt. Vernon lodge No. 304, of Colom bus, tobe present at the laying of the cor car stone of the new pnblio school bouse at the latter place on the 2toh Inst. Those ladies who visited Columbus oa Thursday are unanimous in saying that Mrs. M. R. Brows A Co., of this plane, have a much finer millinery store and larger and finer stock then any millinery store in Co¬ lumbus, though th< latter is three fines the size of this place. Usual services at the Christian Church to¬ day. Preaching at 11 o’clock by H. W. Bevlll. Subject: “Alone by ths roadside.” Preaching at 7^0 by J. A. Perdue. Subject, •‘The Action of .Baptism," after which the ordinance of baptism will be administered. Services will be continued through the week. A project is on foot to build by next sea son, at a suitable place on the hill, at Ma eon, a hotel to cost from $100,000 to $173,000, to catch northerners who stop at Macon go ing to and comics from Florida. The plan will be inaugurated by Messrs. Henry Horne and W. B. 8parks. Griffin may soon be known as the city surrounded by magnifi cent hotel*—in other cities. The hour for holding B&bbath schools having been changed from afternoon to fore noon, the pastors of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptists churches have de cidedto hoid a prayer and song serviee every Sunday afternoon at i o’clock, the services to alternate between the churches mentioned above. Tue first service will be held at the Preebyterian chnrch this after noon Let ail the people come out. Services will hold one hour only. mil MIX II IUIUL THE STRANGE BUT GLORIOUS EF¬ FECTS OF A LATE FREEZE. % - » . ■* .*■'^'1^, ■ „ How Neighbor Simmons Mail a Dis¬ covery and How He Eqjflyed It-Nick Willis’ Bran- fly Orehard. HACJUcmusiK, Ala., May bib, *88- Several years ago, in 1880,1 bought of W. A. Haler, Huron, Ala., 2500 peach trees, of which he coaid give mono uu.- “lion; he bad gotten the tret a mix i in his nursery and coaid nc.‘ tel 1 me kind from another, wherefo he sold them very cheap, and as I had an old red clay bill which had never been worth caltivat ing, I concluded to plant it id peach ee. Knowing that they suited (he clay soil, I was certain I bad made a good investment I planted the trees about the middle of October, took great pains in cultimring them, and hoped for ti > • *r, not knowing what variety i nuJ purchased, In the spring I was greatly surprised, on walking over my orchard, to find that out of the 2500 tiees there were odIj a very few had died daring the the severs winter we had in 1881. They pot on’ and grew very rapidly the followir,. ..mgier: some of the largest havii. Tew blooms on them, which I noticed were much larger than any peach bloom I bad ever seen, and were shaped long like a sweet potato bloom. I watched them closely to see what would come next, and to my disappointment they all dropped off without producing fruit of any kind; but I consoled my self, knowing that the trees were en tirely too young to bear fruit- In the spring of ‘83 the trees budded ont very early, about the middle of February. Just as the buds were cracking, but not quite open, we bad a very cold snap and heavy froBt, but as the buds were not open good I still had hopes of a very good crop of peaches, or something else, for the buds were very long, as they had been the y»ar before. The cold weather was soon over and spring had about come, but strange to say none of the buds had opened. I be gan to wonder, and on examining the trees I found to my surprise that the buds had closed up perfectly tight. They didn’t drop off. What could be the matter? There was not a bloom that spring, but the trees kept on growing vigorously all the sum mer, and seemed to do well until the next spring (1884), Instead o' bud ding out as usual there was not a bad and qo indication of any. I began to think the trouble was in the soil, or the red clay, I should have said; it was too pcor, I thought, but this was not all the matter- The old red clay hill was actually becoming moist- I could not understand it. In the fall you would bog up almost to your knees in mud. The neighbors all came over and pbilosophied each one dif¬ ferently, and got me in a very good notion to dig the blasted trees up and burn them. Neighbor Sim* inons enquired if I had planted the tree« merely for someihing to do— and some one else said that I was trying to make a swamp on top of a red clay hill. It did seem as if that was my intention, for every fall the ground would become very wet and boggy. Things went on in a very myste rious manner until last year, when the trouble leaked out. During a wet spell last fall I noticed several streams spring forth from the hill sfcle among the peachtrees. One of the boldeet, I was glad to see, ran down through my pasture, whore I had never been able to get a stream or spring that would run in dry weather. It was such a bold strearq that I thought it would be a good idea to catch the water, for my cat tie suffered a great deal in dry wenth er for the want of water. I had a good dam built and in a few days the poud was full. The next thing that came into my notice the hogs bad stepped coining up at night for their com—this was yery unusual and I couldn’t imag ine what bad come over them. So I walked down through the pasture to see if I could fiud out the trouble. I had not gone far before I walked up on a shoat of 200 lbs lying over in a gnllv. He only looked as if he was taking A tSrfddajr trap, to I kick ed him iu order to wake him up, but he eoly responded with a grunt and did not move. I walked an a little farther down to the pond, and what should I see—piga and hogs of all sixes lying aboct all over the ground come as if they were dead, and oth era trying to walk with their feet turned op toward the son. I had nev«.r seeo socb a sight before in my life. I looked up into tbe woods and what should meet my gaza but tbe old gray mare leaning up against a tree nodding her bead and tbe colt catlingcepera that it would be hard to Dame. I thought at once tb&t it must be colic, grubs, blind atapgers, or something of tbe kind. So I went back to tbe house, and sent right over [for Neighbor SimmoDB. who professed to be and wbb a very good horse doctor, or at least I had greet faith in him. Before many minutes Simmons came puffing up with bis shirt bosom open and sleeves rolled up, “Hello, Willis, what is the matter with you and your set? Jack come er r murin' alike tbar was fire m the woods, and come to find out thar was nothin’ the matter but perhaps a lit tie cwlic amongst the ponies. Let’s go down and ace them.” We walked down and SimmOna first spied the bogs. “Why, Willis, have the hogs got the grubs, too? The good Lord must er sent a cuss on you and your ranch. Willis, I be lieve that thar mare’s got the blind staggers, and that tbar pony, I—I don’t know what he’s got, unless he’s got the fools, jest to keep up with bis mammy. He looks like he furst wants ter stand on one end, and then on tother, I think we will have to bleed that thar animal (speaking oi the mare). Is thar plenty of runnin’ water whar they can drink?” I told him yes, and discussed the pond I had made. Says he; “Let’s go down and see that bit of a mud hole er yourn. I cau’t but think that the matter lies right thar.” vVe walked down to the pond, which had now settled and was clear and beautiful. Simmons shook his bead and folded up his big white hat and said: “This looks fit fur any beast.” He brought up a hat full and before gettmg it to his mouth smelled a delioious odor. H# drank the hat full without stopping. Drop pnig down to his knees I heard him say: “Bless your life, Willis, if this aint reverent old”— the rest was cut short by a gurgling sound which told that a hydraulic pnmpwas working at a lively rate in Simmons’throat. I got down on my all fours to see if I could tell what was the matter. Not to say anything of myself, who have a special liking for high flavor ing, Simmons got up with the blind staggers or something else, and some of the bovs had to show him the way home. When things got straight with us, which was next day, we called in some of the neighbors afid made a thorough examination of the pool, which was found to be pure peach brandy of finest quality. And upon further investigation the ether springs about in the orchard proved the same. The mystery had at last explained itself, and we can only ac¬ count for it in thie way: Just as the fruit sap w:;s rising that cold spell forced it back into the roots, where it came forth in the form of under ground peaches. They must have been very thick all over the roots, and after maturing they rotted and by some chemical action of the earth, on the clay soil, the juice was changed into a clear and delicious brandy, which is now running out in several bold streams in the orchard. I have had large cisterns built at each spring so that it may not be lost, and I am putting it up as fast as I can obtain barrels. The seed of the peaches that rotted last year are com ing up all over the ground sad before many years, I have no doubt but that the orchard will be a dense for est of brandy producing trees, that will each year increase the number of springs. Neighbor Simmons is a constant visitor, and though he has not had the blind staggers hard since w were both sick, he says: “Let the good work go on, I like to see it if it does run out of the ground.” And before going home, he always samples each Very spring to see which is the best. Respectfully, Witj.is. Nick j [ NEWTON j GRIFFIN. <• 1IORGIA, Atlanta Seer and Ice! UNEAQUALLED! UNSURPASSlL; Defy Competition in PRICES or QUALITY ( This Beer is brewed from the finest grades of imported Hops and prepared according to the most improved methods. Perfectly free from ary injurious ingredients or adulterations. My ICE is of Superior quality purchasing perfectly, either. Clear and Solid. Write for my prices before fl©“ Ice delivered to any part of city. A GOOD MULE! ---E—--- Cheap for CASH or good NOTE! If you want a good load of wood send us one dollar and your or¬ der. J. H. KEITH & CO. Strawberries Every Morning, -AT---- HOLMAN A CO.’S. E. J. FLEMISTER RECEIVED THE PAST WEEK New India Lawns, Checked Muslins, White Lawns, Fans, Silk Mils, Ladies Lisle Undervests, SWISS AND HAMBURG FLOUNCINCS + :o:t- 25 pieces “Renfrew” best Ginghams at 7 1-2 cents. Well worth 12 1-2 cents. --- My Same Low Prices -ON— SURA ILKS, BLACK SILKS, -AND- ALL WOOL NUNS VEILINGS, Will lx maintained until they are all closed out. -+:o:J— My Shirt Department Will be fonnd the most complete in the city. Boys Shirt Waists at COST to close out. NEW SHOES ADDED T O MY ALREADY LARGE STOCK. EVERY W r £K! Will save you money on your purchases in this line. --- 1 : 0 :{- ★ LARRCE ★ ASSORTMENT ★ FUR, WOOL AND STRAW HATS! New lot straw Hats to arrive this week! —{:o:t- 500 May Fashion Sheets to be Given Away ! Patterns for Sale, in stock ! •-(Jot)* YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED! E. J. FLEMISTER,