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TiieCriFfin 1 m wm VOLUME 17 Griffin, Get. -t- Gridin is the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro¬ gressive town in Georgia. This is no hyper¬ bolical description, as the record of the last live years will show. During that time it lias built and put into most successful operation a 1100,000 cotton factory and is now building another with nearly twice the capital. It has put up a’ a ge iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac¬ tory, an immense ice and bottling works, a sash and blind factory, a broom factory, opened up the finest granite quarry in the LI uited States, and has many other enter¬ prises in contemplation. It has secured another railroad ninety miles long, and while located on the greatest system in the South, tho Central, has secured connection with its important rival, the East Tennsssee, Virginia and Georgia, It has just secured direct inde¬ pendent connection with Chattanooga and the Wi st, and has the President of a four th railroad residing here and working to secure its completion. With its five white and three colored obnrehes, it is now building a $10,000 new Presbyterian ohurch. It has Increased its population by nearly one-fifth. It has at- trac .cvl a. our.dtts borders fruit growers from nearly ever.* state in the Union, until It is now surrcuuded on nearly every side by or¬ chards an 1 vineyards. It is the home of the grape an l Its wine making capacity has doubled every year. It has successfully inaugurated a system of publio schools, with a seven years curriculum, second to none. This is part of the record of a half decade and simply shows the progress of an already admirable city, with the natural advantages of having the finest climate, summer and winter, In the world. Griffin is the county seat of Spalding county, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a healthy, fertile and rowing country, H50 feet above sea level. By the census of 1890, it will have at a low estimate between 6,000 and 7,000 people, and they are all of the right sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬ sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel¬ come if they bring money to help build up the town. There is about only one thing we need badly jnst now, and that is a big hotel. We have several small ones, but their accom¬ modations are entirely too limited for onr business, pleasure and health seeking guests. If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬ tion for n hotel in the South, jnst shunt ion Griffin. Griffin is the place where the Geikfin News is published—daily and weekly—the iv est newspaper in the Empire State of the Georgia, Please enclose stomps in sending for sample ropiest. This brief sketch will answer July 1st, 1889. By January 1st, 1889, it ill hare to be changed to keep up with the times. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY LEAK’S COLLECTING ANO PBOTECT1VE AO ESC V. S. C. LEAK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office, 31% Hill Street. GRIFFIN, - - - - GEORGIA. Prompt attention given to clerioal work, general law business aud collection of claims. mayOdtfcwSm D. L. PARMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA. Will Prompt attention given to all business. where- practice in all the Courts, and ever 1 bn easiness calls. tST Collections a specialty. apr6dly DR. JOHN L. STAPLETON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, GRIFFIN, : : : GEORGIA. Office—Front Room, up Btairs, Nows Build ing. Poplar Residence, at W. H. Baker place on calls, street. night. Prompt attention jan21d&- i&wfim given to day or HENRY C. PEEPLES, ATTORNEY AT L AW HAMPTON, GEOBGIA. Practices in all the State and Federal Courts. . oct9d&wly JNO. J. HUNT, ATTORNEY AT LAW GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. White’s Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H Clothing Store. mar23d&wly l>. DISK UK*. N. 1C. OOLLINS OLSMUKE 4k COLLINS, LAWYERS, GRIFFIN, GA. Cp-Stalrs. Office,first room In Agricultural marl-dAwtf Building ITHOS. R. MILLS, TTDBNEX AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GA. Federal Will practice in the State and Courts. Office, over George & Hartnett’s c inter. nov2-tf. os o. srawARf . aoBr. t. danusg STEWART A DANIEL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, * Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. Will practice in the State and Federt . ourts. ianl. C.S. WRIGHT, watchmaker and jeweler mil griffin, sa, Jr.. , * Co.’s. Street, Up Stairs over J. H. White GRIFFIN GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 3 1888 GROOMING THE IRON 3TEEOS. rite Routine Work That li Uouo In a Railroad Roundhouse. A locomotive roundhoftse, with fct? grim, steel armored giants resting from their labor, is an object of irresistible at¬ traction to Sunday strollers along the river front near the Union station. If a visitor happens to be accompanied by an inquisitive small boy,' be will find that there are many things about a round- house wldcb are not comprehended in a youth’s definition in school tho other day, “a place where they keep engines.” Instead of being dreary as a car¬ riage house, R is as lively as a race horse stable. It is 8 o’clock in the evening, and that the New York express has just departed on its way to Boston. Soon the big express locomotive No. 129 will slowly back down the yard, and switch off down a side allay, as it were, toward the great roundhouse. Rumbling slowly down the grade, it will stop at a gigantic coal heap, where a half dozen dusky figures aro ready with shovels, and at once they begin to send the coal in showers into the tender. Meanwhile tho fireman and engineer have climbed down from the cab, their ’day’s work done, and have started homeward. In their place has climbed a Short, burly man, whose professional name is “hos¬ tler,” and the big machine is in his charge from this time till the next morn¬ ing. After the weight of the tender has been increased to several tons by the efforts of the shovelers, the “hostler” slowly and the runs his charge to the turntable, steed is prepared to go to bed for the night “Waiting on the table” is not the most inviting occupation, to be judged by the back straining and “leg achy” process of turning a thirty ton looomotive half round, and the “waiters,” instead of having dapper white aprons and clean napkins, are equipped with oily overalls, greasy caps and big boots. Indeed, they are the same set who were seen viciously shoveling at the coal pile a moment ago, and have followed the engine into the house to continue their attention. They bear the name of “wipers” and the occu¬ pation from which the term is derived will soon be seen. When the engine has “pulled in” to its stall, two bulkheads in tho front of the boiler are unscrewed, and two men, sticking long probes Into the hole, begin to ram up and down with might and main. This is to get the “sparks out of bee, ” and the torturing process lasts fully fifteen minutes, the bright showers falling from the box Into the pit Meanwhile the “wipers” are not idle. Armed with big bunches of waste soaked with black oil to prevent rust, the they effect rub of and their scrub work vigorously, begins and be soon to seen, for the big looomotive looks as shining and sleek as a racer fresh from the stable. Tho “ hostler ” meanwhile has “banked” the fire, and, after pouring nine buckets of fine sand into the sand box on the boiler, the traveler is left to slumber on a warm bed—warm, for in the pit underneath runs a network of steam pipes, which giving a temperate by heat, dripping the effect of is shown the of the melting ice, if the weather is cola. No. 129 rests peacefully! a smoth¬ ered snore now and then is the only indi¬ cation that a spark of life remains in the machine. Early in the morning the locomotive is awakened by the “hostler,” who vigorously pokes the fire, and soon the steam is sizzling at a lively rate. About an horn: before the train time the “hostler” pul’s the engine out, and after making up the train, the engineer and fireman reappear and No. 129 starts out for its day’s run of 2T6 miles. Like every big barn, a roundhouse has its annexes in the^front yard. Near the entrance to the establishment there is a woodshed, a sand house, and an oil cubby. The latter is part of the old round¬ house and the inside arrangements re¬ semble a well regulated kitchen. Near a sink in one corner are seen three brass handled pumps, which connect with three big tanks underneath the floor, which have a capacity of several barrels of oil each. Ih one of these tanks is the lard oil for drilling in the shops, In another the valve oil for the engines, and in an¬ other still is the “engine oil’' proper. Besides these substances is the kerosene or headlight oil in a tank by itself. In a little back room is the big pile of waste, and the whole establishment is in charge of a responsible servant of the road, who parcels out the material to the foreman of the roundhouse as he requires. The sand house is also a modest brick struct¬ ure in which a pile of sand perfectly is heaped about a large stove, to be dried before being sifted, and right opposite is the gigantic woodshed whose pile is re¬ plenished every day with a car load. There are, of course, two gangs of hand* who have charge night and day reepe tively, and, taken all together, a jdiU healthier, and more hard working set of men it would be hard to find the whole road over.—Springfield Republican. Bad Practices ol Confectioner*. The British confectioners have Invited all “sugar workers, licorice refiners, chocolateers, fruit bakers” preservers, Join pastry their cooks and ‘ fancy _ to „ association and enter upon a comb _ i ne d crusade against “immoral- onrie ci practices” patting The immoral practices c t short measure sasure and and bad .butter into con- “illegal ___. trading and _ _ Im¬ fectionery, and moral manufactures,” such as conceal¬ ing small coins in candy drops aa a temptation to the youthful called buyer- The They Con¬ have started a journal and the fectioners’ Union, Uni ization is known as the Confectioners’ association.—New York Sun. FROM HARALSON. The Trial of the Rioters—Personal and llth.M. M.wU am / : T4-: Haralson, Ga., June 30.—The se quul of Tuesday “special” to the News, was a compromise at justice court, by the guilty parties paying cost, and from five to ten dollars each, according to the measure of their crime. By what authority or legal precess a justice court has a right to settle criminal offences is beyond my conception, but it was done and the howling rioters turned loose and thrown back upon an outraged people. It is said that a blind tiger is run {every 4th Saturday night at or near Piaey Grove church for tho benefit of the “brethren.” Dept. Ringer might visit that portion of the devil’s vine yard and chain the tiger. The rains and wind this week have been very damaging to both corn and cot too. Farmers are brought to a standstill and grass continues to grow. That fellow that said “I sang too much is the reason I have so much grass,” might tell us why he has 90 acres of gras. I guess he don’t sing enoagh. I am one of those kind of men who never taketimo to view the dark side of the picture. Everything with me is bright and fair on the earth. Messrs. Strickland and Hobkins, from tenth of Meriwether, are thresh ing out wheat and oats this season. Dr. J. P. Taylor and Oscar Gray took in Newnan last Tuesday. Many thanks to Mrs, Dr. Taylor for a sack of nice apples. Dr. N. W. Gable, of Brooks Sta tion, passed through our town last week returning from Lutherville, where he was called to visit bis sister in law, Mrs Dr, Taylor. Prof. Turner returned Wednesday and will open his scbQol Monday. Col. Walt Ector, of Greenville, was smiling among friends last Sun day. He must be heart struck some where about here. Lafayette Gordy, in the “Belt,” died last Wednesday evening, and was buried at Fair View cemetery, Line Creek district, Spalding county, Thursday evening. Faneral by Rev. E. Culpepper, of Senoia. Mr. G. leaves a wife and several little chil dreD, who I understand are depend ant.upon the charities of a cold world. Here, missionaries, the Lord has a work for you. As oft as ye did it unto one of these little ones ye did it unto me. Remember who said this, and also remember what St. James says about faith and works. Thanks (Miss) “Sorrel Top’ f for your bright cheerful, newsy letter from-Waverly to the News. Can’t you come weekly? The “little” wid ower is tho recipient of some very fine June apples of late. He woald like very much to receive another box of nice flowers. Haralson's daily mail commences next Monday, July 2nd. After three days ruin and rest the grass killing commenc, d again in goed earnest- Last meeting, which was last Sat urday, all tho officers of Haralson F. A.‘s, No. 129, were reselected by ac clamation, which speaks well of tneir admininiotratioD, The Farmers Friend Alliance has removed their lodge to Seuoia and are receiving some of the finest mate rial about Seuoia into their ranks. They bold a special meeting July 20tn to attend to important business. An the members are especially re quested to be present. Also, all the F. A‘s convenient from Coweta, Pike, Fayette, Spalding and Camp bell counties. Cousin Dixie. The shipment of pears from Thom asville has commenced in earnest. Distilled from tee richest Matted Barley Chase’s Barley Malt Whisky is full of nutr ment, mild and excellent and absolutely pure. George & Hartnett sole agents for Griffin, Ga THE COMMONWEALTH. News as Gathered Orer Georgia. A r reunion of the Forty third Georgia volunteers will be held at ?once DeLeon spring near Atlanta, on Wednesday, July 27, 1888. The Third Georgia regiment re union, at Madison, on Aug. 8 and 9, is an assured success, $800 having already been subscribed, besides quite a number of carcasses for the barbe cue, Complaint is made by tho Musco¬ gee grand jury of the growing prac tice of violating the Sabbath by sell- itigjand trading on thattlay, and the ioj» is expressed that this evil will be abated. The Augusts, Gibson and Sanders ville railroad notifies its bondholders that the coupons which mature July 1 will be paid at the Georgia railroad bank, in Augusta, or at the American Exchange national bank, New York. Ffert Gaines is troubled with thieves. Last week a light fingered quartette were sent out to the Gordon pottery works to do penance oh the chain gang for doing that which they should not have done—appropriating other people’s property to their own use*. Judge Speer, during his absence in Washington, has been unanimous ly elected Jaw professor by the trus tees pi Mercer university. It is pur posed by the trustees to completely reorganize the law department, with an able faculty and a large num ber of students. Madison Advertiser: It certainly looks now like Madison wilt soon have her cotton compress. We learn from a perfectly reliable source that parties, with a view of erecting a com press here, have purchased a site near the depot, and will begin work at once. Who the parties are-we have been urable to learn. Henry Jackson, Jr., son of Capt. Henry Jackson, is lying dangerously ill, at the residence of his father, in Atlanta, with typhoid, fever. He was brought home from Athens, where he has been attending the uni versity. about a week ago. He was a member of the junior class at the university and stood well in his studies. Members of tho Georgia state bench and poultry association me in Macon Friday, to elect delegates to the annual meeting of the Geor ia state agricultural society, which will convene at Newnan, Ga., on Aug. 14 and 15. The following three delegates were elected: J. L. Hardeman, W. T. Shineholster and J, L. Board in .-ip, all of this city. The colored Baptists of LaGrange aro to have a grand rally on the third Sunday in July, when they will make a supreme effort to lift their church debt, Rev. C. T. Wal¬ ker, of Augusta, will be the orator of the day. It is to be known as dollar day. Circulars have been issued calling upon all to give. The First church is the one that asks for this help. A Macon policeman had quite a lively tussle with & negro burglar Friday morning, but with assistance finally run .lie fellow in. He proved to be the* burly driver of Carstarphen & Tillman, in whom the firm had im pliot confidence. His home was searched and numeroas packages were found. There is no telling how long the scamp has been carry ing on bis pilfering. Col. A. T. Mclntire of Thomas ville has been elected vice president of tho interstate convention of farm •rs for the state of Georgia. The next meeting of the association be held at Bateigb, N. C., on 21 next. It will be composed of de legates appointed by the vice delegates demtsof their and respective their alternates each congressional district. - -■ Honey! Honey! Wehaye line lot Pure Country Honey- 100 Fresh Melons. Fresh Fish, Shrimp, Crabs. Try Gordon’s 4 A Tobacco. MM: C. W. CLARK SON '« L'U.ll'WS. Nanny Side Sci»!l!aU<m». ■ Sunny Side, Ga., July 2.—-Rain rain, rain ! Grass, grass, grass! The farmers are getting behind on of bo much wet weather. Our sick people are slowly mu proving. We trust they will continue 80 . Judge Jno. I. Hall was in our neighborhood last Friday. Mr. and Mrs, H. I. Starr, of Orchard nil!, wero in Sunny Side Thursday. Col. Peebles, of Hampton, was in town Saturday. Jno. Hunt, of Round Oak, Ga., it ;, visiting his son E. P. Hunt, who h quite sick at this place. Miss S. T. Keil has returned hone after spending some time in SHKOnton Female Cellege, Stan •», Va. G. H. Willian resenting Frazier & Lewis, c . ianta, was hero Saturday. B. D. Brewster has one of the greatest curiosities we have seen in the way of an egg, it is about 4J inches long, half an inchin diameter and shaped something similar to a rainbow. Dasm. - -------- Ordinary** C**rt. - ? - The following proceeding* we** had in Ordinary Hammond’s court yesterday. In the ease of Alice Cliffiwd vs. John H. Milos, guardian,* judge raent was rendered for the plaintiff of $474.43. In the case of the heir of-- Woodward vs. Mary E, Woodward, administrataix, proceeding* were had to require now security. In lien of this, the administration was revoked and N. M. Collens appointed aduinis trator, and applied for leave to sell land of said estate. Mrs. H. S, Crowder, adminiatra trix, was allowed time to make re turns. N. M. Collens was appointed ad ministr&tor of Nathan Holey. BURGLARY AT HAMPTON. The Burglars Get Boodle, Checks and Clothing. Special to tho NT kwh. Hampton, Ga. , July 2.—The burglars got in their work in fine style at this placo on Saturday night, operating it is thought, about mid- tught. From W. B. Price, a merchant, they secured $85, which he had taken home from the store, and a silver watch. From F. Goodson they got eight dollars and a coat. T. D. Carson lost a $300 check on an Atlanta bank, nine dollars in cash and a pair of pants. It is thought that there is a clue ta the perpetrators of these bold and successful burglaries. If caught it should bo soon to that the limb is stout and the rope strong. AN OHIO FARMER. What He Has Done and Is Doing in Georgia, Two years ago Paul Halier r of But Ier county, Ohio, romoved with his family to Bronwood, Terrell county, Ga. He brought with him $150 aud a few household goods. The first year he rented a farm and invested his money in a mule and necessary farming implements. He made a livingfor himself and family the first year and saved $200. With this money he made the first payment on a farm of one hundred and fifty acres two miles from Bronwood, which he bought for $1100. He has fine pros pects for a big crop and has no fears but that he can make his payments ou his farm, aud in the course of a couple of years be fre from debt and have a good farm. He might have staid in Ohio until he died and never have any prospect of owning such a farm. Mr. Haller’s experience is proof of what we have so often assert ed— that a poer man who is willing to work and oconomizo, can in a few years become an independent farm er in Georgia. Concord Cuttings. Concord, Ga., July 2.—Miris Essie McLendon, a charming young lady of this place, boarded the train today for Madison, on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Robert Priors. Miss Mollie V. Irvin is gone to Flo villa on a month’s visit to friends. Rumor says we are to have a mar riageatan early dato in this town. A nie: chant is to marry a tall young lady of fascinating manners. Mrs. J. J. Lee is qnite sick; I fear dap genius. The Farmers Alliance is on a boom in au-J about this town. I hope it will do the farmers good though I have failed to see the point so far. I urn glad that yon have R. H. A. as yoor Pike connty editor. Bob is all right and will make the fur fly. No man in Pike will do more for yc,a; We Pikers woaiu like to see Jadge Hall in the Senate of Georgia. While he was our Judge be made us stand around and wo now think 4m was bet 1 judge we ever had. Th*n hr- *■ < right on tho State road lease, bt r mente. &c. In 1’ ke we will have fun. The Antis having the majority can do as they please. The Pros are power less. The alliance men are turning things up aide down and may come in, We shall see. J. A. W. Si • . NUMBER I8C _ ■ nnuiriED rUWtfBI Absolutely Pure. This Powder never varies. A marvel More « parity, strength mid whoiesomneae. economical tii ;ti the ordinary kinds, and c*B not be sold in ompetiton with the xaaltitade _______________ Mmt, Mew Vtorfc eta-d&wlv-top column lot or 4tt safe. PAftl HAIR HIN1 re. Uceat* at DraaWM. ---- : •*