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OiUME 17
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BARSASn COUNTER
Scheuerman White
Have piled up on every side, bargains in just
such goods as you buy every day, Seasona¬
ble goods. This Slaughter is to last until
pm! of season.
GENTLEMEN’S FINE STRAW HATS !
Absolutely sold at your own price in order
to close them out. Too many on liand.
★ LIGHT WEIGHT, SUMMER CLOTHING ! *
Will be sold at Slaughter prices. Our object
is to sell; pi*ofits a secondary consideration.
iMTLADiES AND MISSES HOSE!
GENTLEMEN'S WHITE AND COLORED HOSE I
Kg* A lot of drummer’s [sample Hose, worth
anywhere 40 to 00 c. per pair. We will give
you your
if Choice for 25 cents per Pair! ★
Ladies and Misses Opera Slippers 50 c.
per pair, worth anywhere from 75 c. to $100.
if 3 1-2 c., 8 c., 10 c.. 15 c.—These figures
represent the Prices on a ‘line of Remnants o
White Lawns and Linen D'lnde, ★
Such lovely goods were never seen anywhere else for
anything like those prices.
it
Low Quartered Shoes!
A FEW PAIR LEFT AND OFFEREL AT A BARGAIN !
TWO PAPERS OF PINS FOR 5 CENTS!
BEAUTIFUL “CHALLIES” FOR 12 1-2 C.
‘This is the prettiest line of wash goods ever
shown In Griffin. Woolen effects and wash beautifully.
Come quickly before they are- all gone.
heuerman & White’s
GRIFFIN GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 26 1888
HARRISON’S GRANDSON!
the HOOS 1 ER STATESMAN CAPTUR*
.....the NOMINATION.
Sing a soDg of sixpence,
A bottle full of rye,
Four and twenty candidates
Knocked into pi;
When the pi was opened
The birds began to oroak.
Because a little dickey bird
Carried oil the poke.
Special to the News.
Chicago, June 25, 3.23 p. in.—
Harrison nominated.
Chicago, June 25, 4.51 p. m.
Convention adjourned until 6. p. m
THE COMMONWEALTH.
News as Oahered Over Georgia.
In 187G the Knights of Honor
grand lodgo of Georgia was organized
and has since paid to families of mom
bors in tbls state §600,000.
On Tuesday morning, probably the
oldest white lady m Troup county,
Mrs, Ann Newton, the widow of the
late Ebernezsr Newton, died in her
91st year.
The pear crop about Camilla is by
no means a failure. Now that the
fine fruit is shining'among the rich
green leaves the older trees are found
to be full, and the youngest one have
a pretty fair crop.
Ben Adams, while playing with a
pistol near Waynesville on Wednes
day night, discharged it accidentally.
The ball went entirely through his
body above the chest aud was cut out
beneath his shoulder blade,
The first carload of the govern*
ment consular exhibit arrived at Au
gusta on Friday. This is early four
exhibits for the exhibition, but Maj.
C. S. Hill is arranging for a display
from all consular bureans covering
100 feet square.
The blackberry crops arround Me
Donough is immense, outstripping
that of any year in a decade. The
blackberry brigade soon will be ont
in force, and the house wives will
soon be busy canning, preserving,
drying and making jam aud wine.
In Appling county superior court
Horace Bee, a negro, was on Tues
day found guilty of murder, without
recommendation, for the killing of
Lucius Grant, another negro, on last
Christmas eve night. He was sen
fenced to be hanged at Baxley, July
2G.
The school census of Montezuma
shows 51 wbith males and 43 whito
females, total 94. There are 53 color
ed males and 46 colored females, to
tal 99. The males outnumber the
females, white and black, and the
blacks outnumber the whites five.
The races are pretty equally divided.
The Govnor’s Horse Guard of At
lanta are preparing for a ten day’s
encampment. They will leave Atlan
ta on the morning of July 13 at sun
rise and ride to Newnan, where tents
will be pitched and they will go into
encampment. Thu Gu .rl will all be
under military rules whiie is camp.
Hon. H. Clay Foster of augusta
has entered the race for the supreme
court at the earnest petition of the
bars of Richmond, Burks, Columbia,
and McDuffie counties. Nearly every
lawyer's name in the circait is down
on the list, Judge Claiborne Snead
is also mentioned as in tie race, but
he has made no public declaration.
Col. Marcellas Eugene Thornton,
formerly proprietor of the Atlanta
Post-Appeal, but now of Jellico,
Tenn., met his bjother-inslaw, Lon
McLendon, on the street in Atlanta
on Friday, and they had a livery set
to. Col. Thronton used seme very
emphatic adjectives of a vulgar vine
to Mr. McLendon and the latter
bounced him and got him down. Me
Lendon bad Thornton put under a
$250 peace bond.
Are you weak and weary, overworked and
tired? Hood’s Sarsaparilla it just the medi¬
cine to purify your blood an i jive you
strength. (8)
cousin dixie on bill arf.
With All the Local Happening* of Har¬
alson.
Habalsom, Ga., Jane 25.—B. VV.
Edwards. Jr., and Mias Lizzie Garri
Son spent Sunday and Monday in in
Fayetteville,
Last Sunday Rev. Mr, Nolan, from
Senoia, preached at the Methodist
church. He'came with a message of
love from the giver of all good things.
Tlys hoUefisc.w-as ©diSedoad comfort
«d,
Miss Mattie Hutchinson left last
Sunday evening for Hollonville,
where she is visiting relatives.
Uncle Bobbie and Aunt Martha
Haucock spent last Sunday with
their bod and daughter Mr. and Mrs.-
Jim Uouch.
With the addition of Capt. Jack
H. Strickland and two chaining
young ladies from Lutherville, Misses
Jessie Albright and Jennie Sewell,
the picnic at Sullivan's mills was a
success. They returned home Sun
day evening accompanied by Mr.
Thos. Fambro, who by the way is
muchly smitten with Miss Jessie.
Last Sunday the madam and I
spent the day after meeting, with
Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Smith and auoth
er gcod dinner was in waiting. Ev
erything that heart oould wish for
was on that table. Along in the
“shank” of the evening Mrs. S.
eprank a leak in a bottle of old grape
wine she had kept, for our special ap
petite. Mr. S. has already put up 30
gallons of blackberry and buckleber
ry wine.
Our town was full of people last
Saturday. The E. A. degree was
conferred upon two worthy candi
dates.
^Smother big ram a regular ‘‘trash
lifter” fell in our midst last Wedues
day at 2 o’clock.
Mrs. T. F. Hodnett spent Foes
day with Mrs. W. L, Taylor.
The next legislature should pass
strenuious laws protecting landlords
against tenants who contract,to make
a crop, receive supplies and then
quit before the crop is made and
gathered. Several such cases have
transpired recently in this and ad
joining neighborhood. If there is
not a law there should be one and it
should be strictly adhered to,
The landlord should be protected as
well as the tenant.
Miss Anna Brakefield returned
home last Sunday evening from Har
ris county. Miss Clara Williams re
turned home last Wednesday from
Concord.
Miss Matia HarrisoD, of Line
Creek Gist., was the guest of Mrs. B.
W. Wiliams last week.
Miss N muio Harrison is the guest
of Mrs B. AY- Williams this week.
Mrs. J. W. Frank returned borne
from Lutherville Wednesday, where
sho had gone to visit her sick sister,
Mrs. Dr. Taylor.
Dr, Henry Urquhard, 2nd district,
was the guest of Alex BrnnueBdurg
Wednesday night-
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stewart were
gueBts of their father, J. W. Brake
field Wednesday night.
About the tenth of July Haralson
angling club, Maj. Nixon in com¬
mand, will take a fish at Flat Sboais,
Meriwether county. Nearly all of
them are readers of the News.
The 4th < f Jnly singing at County
Lino, Spal iiug conncy, is expecting
to have a grand time. The occasion
is, time honored. The siDgers meet
there on that day to keep in i cmem
brance an appointment made by one
of their presided s now deceased and
in honor of their once leader, a good
ly number of the finest singers in
Gaorgia are expected to be there*
No worship is more sacred than sing
ing if rightly appreciated. Why
docs most of chnrch members re
gard singing so lightly? They should
not forget that the angelic hosts
around the eternal throne engage in
singing.
Mrs. C. F. Sasser and children,
from Senoie, were guests of Mrs, G.
FRESH KOLB GEM MELONS I
Fresh Fish. Shrimps, Crabs,
Fresh Summer Cheese.
,
Fresh Country Butter, • im
■ 'ft
Fresh Vegetables. . 1 Mi
QUICK DELIVERY.
G. W. CLARK 6 l SON.
Hodnett last Teusday. . - V.
A Mr. Westbrooks, from Fayette,
was st Eureka Mills last Friday look
ing after Messrs. Rawls dull gios,
I notice the Farmers Aiiianoe in
some sections are opposing the State
agricultural bureau, and are adopting
resolutions requesting the neat legis
lature to abolish it. Take care F.
A.’s, you are killing the goose that
lays the goiden egg. There may be
crookedness practiced, if so let a com
mittee be appointed from the legula
ture to look into and correot it, but
don't abolish it, Instead impower
Judge Henderson that a falter de
velopment of Georgia’s resources may
be reached.
What has got the matter with
cle Billy Arp? Please ask kim
President Cleveland is a
Democrat or Republican and if
ern Democrats didn’t help elect
I am afraid Uncle “Billy” has
the sore bead. Perhaps be
too much of Grover. Maybe
“bosses” (Howell and Grady) have
paid old Uncle Billy to abuse
Northern brethren and if it
well, they will fire in.
chestnut, fire, you know. If the
front Boldiers of the South are
fied with Cleveland and
the “retregraders” and •‘boom
ers M and bull carters ought to
So let the old man down easy. Hu
rah for Cleveland and Thurman,
best team the American
ever produced.
Mr. G. W. Perdue, of
spent last night with Mr. 1). E.
Smith.
Mr. J. J. Herndon’s grand
has been very sick for several
is better now.
Judge A. was at the “china” last
Sunday evening. Cousin Dm*.
JAMEg U. BLAINE—HIS DAIRY:
He Bevels in Royal Reveries hat Re¬
viles the California Defcyatlea.
“There is something exclusive and
diletanliah, not to say semi-royal, in
being (or being likely to be)
ed for the highest office in the gift,
and ail that sort of thing,while abroad
in foreign countries for to aee. It is
out of the common and much worn
rut of past old fogy Americans from
Washington way up to myself, jt
makes me almost a ruler traveling
abroad. Ha, ba! Ho, ho! In a few
days I may be able to as good as
shake scepters with the Queen. I
am going to put a little royality into
the White House when I get there.
I’ll have a kind of a throne in the
Eat ! Room and a chamberlain in
blai-k tights, and if l would only
make Depew an earl and Reid a
lord! Lord Reid, with the order of
the Tall Tower on his right breast,
and the gout or some other disorder
inside of bin that moat
lords do have. Oh, lordy!
I’ll stop this ‘Jim Blaine’ bnaineas
when I get there, too, *nd as for be¬
ing pumpbandled by the popualce
for hours on reception day, I won’t.
They may pass before me slowly in a
line, like as if they were at a funeral
looking at the corpse in its coffin,
and as they come right Into the glare
of the corpse—1 mean me-I will bv
a quarter of »n inch rOJffii bows to
each one and no more. A Congress
man shall have a two inch bow, a
Senator three inches, a Governor five
and a first clue capitalists ten. I
haven’t spent my time for nothing
about these courts.”
Later on: “Dam ’em! They are
NUMBER 131
, aefekvt-piifg-things quite -oaoegh at - ■
Chicago. Those blatant, whooping,
howling Californian idiots have near
ly spoiled my plana. My ttroog
suit is silence. Keep under cover,
keep shady, and kaep in your sand
bole till the docks are right over,
bead and then let fly st em. Ant
California gang have used ap nearly
all their powder before they eaw a
duck. And Estee! Dura him, tool
I ordered that old blcody shirt to bo
sold for old rags or gives to aoma
poor and to be tariff rained Ameri
can workingmaarmonths ago. Don’t
they know it’s played out and won’t
wash? Of course not. ’Tian’t to be
expected of *aoh a one idesed, pig
iron headed gang as that California
delegation. They've g .t jut that
(me notion, and they*. iw oa k
for the rest of their1 - - , Vhy didn’t
one oi my two sons tafce ’em in hand
and mold ’em and revet ’em and
trip hammer some sense into their
heads.
“The committee did have sense
eneugb to take his little composition
away from him before be got oa the
platform, and make Mm speak n
bread pill piece that oould work
both ways on my catbarto emetic sya
tem, and if it did no good coaid do
no barm.
“But I’d like to trip hammer bias
anyway, and if Mi gets anything bet
ter than a consulship in Timboetoo
may I be cast into a Mast furnace
and run ioto protected pigs of Ameri
can iron.
“Dear me! Carnegie talks so
much foundry and iron, and iron pro
tection, that it is running in mj bead
ail the time and makes all my com¬
parisons ferruginous. Gai)» hand ace
that bottle—no, that koumiaa—Dark
Mara mash! The other one. The
portly one with the east iron in it.
I)mean that old eye stinger that burns
like a blast furuaoe but never in
ebrstea. Dorn’em!
“ Well, Gail— All Hail, Colombia!
You may, if I am not counted eat, be
a Conn teas yet. The Countess Gail!”
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