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VOLUME 17
Griffin, Ga.
Griffin is the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro¬
gressive town in Georgia. This is no hyper¬
bolical description, as the record of the last
tlye years will show.
During that time It has built and put into
most successful operation a $100,000 cotton
actory and is now building another with
nearly twioe the capital. It has pntup a
a ge iron and braes foundry, a fertiliser fac¬
tory, an immense ice and bottling works, a
sash and blind factory, a broom factory,
opened op the finest granite quarry in the
U 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,
the Central, has secured connection with Me
important rival, the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia. Ithae just seoured direct inde¬
pendent connection with Chattanooga and
the Wist/Snd has the President of a fourth
railroad "residing here and -working
to feyhre white , lta __completion. and three - colored With
its five
Pre»bytd|tan churehes, it is now building a $10,000 new
church. It has increased its
population by nearly one-fifth. It has at-
ti-ncfo" 0 -onnd its borders fruit growers from
nearly every f tatc in the Union, until It is
now surron .ded on nearly every side by or¬
chards an i tineyards. It Is the home of the
grape an ! its wine making capacity hae
doubled every year. It baa successfully
inaugurated a system of public schools, with
a seven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the rcoord 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 weet Middle Georgia, with
a healthy, fertile androi i.ig country, 1160
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 light,
sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, bringfhoney who will not be any less wel¬
come if they to help build up
the town. There Is about only one thing we
need badly just 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 sec anybody that wants a good loca-
tionfor a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
bGriffin is the place where the Griffin
N sws is published—daily and weekly—the
vest newspaper in the Empire State of the
Georgia, Please enclose stamps in sending
for sample copies.
This brief sketch will answer July 1st,
IMS. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
changed to keep up with tho times.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECT ORY
Divorces quietly. Advise free. Address
G. Cons, Atty. Box 031, Chicago, 111.
LEAK’S COIX.ECTIHO AUD PROTECTIVE AGEKOT.
ATTORNEY S. C. LEAK, LaW,
AT
Office, 31% Hill Street.
GRIFFIN, - - - - GEORGIA,
Prompt ompt attention and giveu to clerical of claims. work,
general ral la law business collection
may9d&w8m
D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all business.
Will praotloe In all the Courts, and where-
ever business calls.
13F* Collections a specialty. aprfidly
DR. JOHN L. 8TAPLETON,
PHYSICIAN AN0 SURGEON,
GRIFFIN, : : : : GEORGIA.
Office—Fron7 Room, up Stairs, News Build
ing. Residence, at w. H. Baker place on
calls, Poplar day street. night Prompt attention janSld&wOm given to
or
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTOEN.EI AT LAW
HAMPTON, GKOBGIA,
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. Oct9d&wly
JNO. J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
OBtmN, GEOBGIA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H
White’s Clothing Store. mar22d&wly
0. DISMUXE. N. It. COLLINS
DISMUKE At COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Oflloe.first room in Agricultural Building
Up-Stain, marl-ddbwtf
ITHOS. R. MILLS,
TTORNET AT LAW,
GB1FFIN, GA.
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office, over George & Hartnett’s
oraer. . nov2-tf.
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OH D. STSWASt . BOBT. *. DANIEL
STEWART It DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Will Over practice George A in Hartnett’s, the State Griflln, and Federa Ga.
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C. S. WRIGHT,
WATCHMAKER AMD JEWELER
Hill QIIWIK, GA.
Jr., A Co.’s. Street, Up Stairs over J. H. Whit®.
GRIFFIN GEORGIA, SUNDA Y MORNING. JULY • J88»
SOUTH BAY DUCK SHOOTING.
A Uuy in a "Bslltrj'," with Gun in Iiaaii,
Suspicion* Hlrtla.
There is a fascination to many sports¬
men in shooting ducks from a South bay
battery, comfortable though a more cramped and un¬
that position cannot be found
than required by the gunner. The
battery consists of a box about eighteen
inches deep and long enough to admit
the outstretched body of a man. A rub¬
ber coat is the substitute far a mattress
and a sandbag serves for the pillow.
From the box extends on each side a flat,
raftliko screen composed of wood and
and brown canvas, which serves to float
the box and break the force of the waves
as weights they dash up against it. By means of
the box is sunk in the water and
iron decoy ducks hold it in place. A
hundred decoys are scattered about the
box in a natural manner. The gunner
then lies down flat in the box, with bis
shells on one side and Ids gun on the
other. With a parting instruction to be
sure and keep the head well down the
battery man sails away, leaving the gun¬
ner alone on . the sea.
To the man first trying tho sport the
situation is a peculiar one, and the sensa¬
tion the same. AH alone, surrounded by
the little flock of decoys, and the waves
pounding qp with a swash ag ainst the
guards to the box, he feels somewhat in¬
secure. As he lies flat in the box hit
body and head are below the level of the
water. Sometimes, if the wind is blow¬
ing pretty strong, a ritve will break over
into the box, tickling his face with briny
down drops and his back. sending If cold streams of liquid
* he is sportsman he
a
will only mly lai laugh at this and take a pull at
ids whisky flask to prevent catchint
cold. Sometimes the waves run so high
that the gunner is compelled to bail out
his box or it will become a fish pond in
the sea. The sun beating down on his
face will redden it in about ten minutes.
Meanwhile the sail boards tacking across
the bay to stir up the dueks. A bunch of
them is aroused, and as the the birds birds go
skimming along ing the the water water they they spy spy the
decoys, and, thinking feeding, they are a flock of
brethren peacefully shape their
course toward them. As they rail up to
the decoys they soon perceive ' they are
deceived and wheel away. Just as they
come about Is a good time to Are, and u
the gunner is expert while they are get¬
ting away he ha3 tifne to slip in another
shell and fill the back of the rear duck
with cold lead. If any of the ducks fall
the gunner stands up in the battery,
which is a signal for the sailboat men to
come up and gather in the fowls that
have been shot.
Them the gunner stretches himself out
again and waits for another flock. If
the ducks are thick and not in a suspi¬
cious mood he will not have to remain so
long before another set will be along and
more blazing away is in order. Some
favorable morning there is a constant
booming of guns on the bay, and big
boatloads of ducks are brought in. It
is not uncommon in the autumn for one
man to shoot fifty to eighty ducks from
a battery. The next day ho may not get
five.
In the season about five batteries a
day start out from Patchogue. The drip¬
per always has a man to help him sail
liis catboat, and it is a race to secure the
best ground. Often in making the best
run across the bay the "cap’n” only gets
in first to find the ground already seised
by the ambitious huntsman who has gone
out the night before, slept in the catboat
and at sunrise Is ready in his battery.
The eariy morning is the best time, as at
dawn the ducks begin to feed and are
out in great numbers. Every sailboat
man is a “cap’n” and must scrupulously
be addressed as such. His assistant is
the mate. There is no crew. Thc*3outh
bay boatmen arp honest, good hearted
men, always ready to get as much as
they can out of the sportsmen, but work¬
ing bard to drum up the game for him.
He will charge $10 a day for the use of
the battery, and will throw in the meals.
In the cabin of the catboat the mate
cooks ham and eggs, steak, potatoes and
coffee, and serves it hot. If the sports¬
man likes oysters, he will throw over his
rake and bring up half a bushel to open
on the spot If one is not having much
success with the ducks it is a good plan
to allow the “cap’n” to lie in the bat¬
tery for a time, for he is invariably a
crack shot and will fill up the quota
needed in short order.
Brant and broadbifls are the most
abundant of the family in the Great
South bay in spring. The broadbilla are
a plump duck, with short bills. They
are swift flyers, and it is like shooting at
a bumble bee to draw on one as he comes
by. In the fall black ducks and red¬
heads come in the bay. Shell ducks are
also plentiful. Shell ducks and coots are
shooting, but not worth eating,
broodbills are great divers, and
often, when wounded, will lead the skip¬
pers a long chase. On diving windward, they are
pretty sure to come up to the
and a good distance off. Often the ducks
come in the bay in great quantities, and
set up in the water like big rows of ten¬
pins. When started they rise with the
noise of a whirlwind in the forest. The
boobies ore a small species, of duck that
sometimes come In the bay. They get
their name from their aptness at losing
their heads. A shot into a flock of boo¬
bies will sometimes so disconcert them
that they will fly around in a circle and
allow the gunner to take hb time in
shooting them down, They noisy axe great with
chatterers, and keep York the bay
their cries.—New Times.
Distilled from the richest Malted Barley
Chase’s Barley Malt Whisky is full of nutr
ment, mild and excellent and absolutely
pure- George & Hartnett sole agents for
Griffin, Ga.
HEW YORK ALL RIGHT I
THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN CLEVE¬
LAND’S FAVOR.
Tammany Hall and County Democracy
at Peace and Solid for the
• National Ticket.
mi * Machinery af Maw
• Mark City Dtaacniu -Tk*
MitnatioB and Oatlaok.
Correspondence News.
New Yobk, July 38th.
Tammany Hall vir-
tnally controls the
vote of No w York 8tate-
Of course, there are
modifications to this
statement; but with
Tammany satisfied
-With, the ticket and at
peace with the othei
organizations, the out-
look in the light ol the
past political history
of the State and city
must appear unprom¬
ising to the Republicans.
Let us look at the situation before the
field is clouded over by the heavy firing of
the campaign already opened.
The second week of the great national
political campaign passes here, the chosen
battle-ground, withoutany incident of start¬
ling significance. The Democratic tide is
still running high and it looks as if nothing
could check it. Organized Labor’e first an¬
gry protest against the nomination of a man
whose public record—what there is of it—Is
avowedly hostile to their interests, has been
burned in by the bringing to light of other
events in keeping with the Chinese affair.
The Indianapolis strike episode of eleven
■ years ago, when Gen. Harrison as chairman
of a citizens’ committee talked blood and bnl-
lets to the ambassadors of the striking
brakemcn is being made the most of here.
People outside of New York are apt to qn-
der-ratethe strength of the Labor move¬
ment in polities. Bight or wrongs the so
called Labor leaders hare absolute control
of a great number of votes. It is not two
years since Henry George, the greatest of
them all, as Labor candidate for mayor,
drew 60,000 votes from the two parties,—
equal to the voting strength of a city of a
third of a million people. Last year at a
state election nearly 40,000 Labor votes
were east in the city alone. Now George,
the magnetic leader, and the best part of his
men are training with the Cleveland forces.
What is known as the “regular Labor ticket"
will not poll 5,000 votes in the city.
Astute politicians say the Democratic ticket
will cross the Harlem with at least 80,000
majority. It looks mightily that way.
In less than a week after the nomination
of the St. Louis ticket, the big and little
chiefs of Tammany pnt on their fighting
paint aad feathers and sent up a warwhoop
that shook the old wigwam to Its founds,
tion. When there is fighting ahead Tam
many is always np bright and early. It is
the best disciplined,' best captained, most
compact political organization under th*
sun. A soldier of the Legion would no
sooner think of disregarding the command
of his sspeyior than a setf respecting Tam¬
many brave.
In John Keljlcy’s days there was a sort of
a notion prevalent in some sections that he
was Tammany Hall, or the best part of it,
—that his iron will and splendid despotism
were the secrets of its Invincible unity. The
withdrawal from polities followed shortly
by the death of the old chieftain who made
things pretty lively hereabouts In his day,
dispelled that illusion. Tammany w«n is
moresplid and more powerful today than
ever before, and the secret of it is its wonder
ful system of organization.
Dividing the Democratic vote with Tamma
ny and having almost precisely the same
strength is the County Democracy,—Irving
Hall being only areminlscenae, with a tomb
stone at each end. “The Counties” as the
organization is popularly called, is also ad¬
mirably organized and officered.
Not in y&rs before have these two great
branches of the New York Democracy been
cordially united, in a presidential campaign.
Men who were boys in 1876 readily
recall the the gleam of the tomahawk when
the cry went up for Tilden. Two years
later the braves got lost completely in the
fog and wandered from the camp of »h t i r
fathers, defeating Robinson for Governor.
That was the reason perhaps why they goV-
credit for knifing Hancock in 1880, for the
troth of history does mot seeigAo have justi¬
fied that at the time very general imputation.
The Chicago incident of four years ago
with Big Chief Cockran reaching fiercely
for the forelock of the “Man of Destiny” is
fresh hr all minds. Bat today these two
great forces are absolutely one in their de¬
sire for the election of the Democratic ticket
and the promotion of the principles enoncia
ted in the platform.
It was the “Counties” turn to ratify later
on and great were the preparations therefor.
They hired the largest hall they coold get,
pnt Speaker Carlisle st the top of their bill,
mid set in to celebrate in a manner befitting
the occasion.
Everything was propitious except the
weathei. The wind blew s Hying gale and
rain fell in torrents, rmt New York Demo-
crate don’t permit such trifles to dampen
thefr enthusiasm when there is any fun on
hta<*. Twenty thousand votcia turned omi
in the storm,—so many that another great
hell had to be brought into requisition to ac¬
commodate the overflow. Speaker Carlisle
made a great speech as is his custom. Gov.
Hill, District Attorney Fellows, Congress¬
man McMillan, of Tennessee, contributed to
the ora,torioal menu. The latter took his
text from the tariff and got ab«ut as much
applause as Speaker Carlisle.
In very inournfnl con¬
trast was the Republican
ratification meeting held
night after. A scant
five thousand people sat
through it. The front
seats were pre-empted by
a select coterie of mil¬
lionaire potentates who BEPCBMCAX
been counted on to BATIFIEK.
such common-place citizens as might
to be present. It was a demonstra
of sympathy for Brother Moneybags
ton,—a sort of Leyi and Ben Wall street
with Col. Bob ingersoli as ringmaster
aad the ancient Horr, of Michigan, as the
trick-mule. The ancient Horr worked off
a number of Northwestern chestnuts and
msde himself generally agreeable after file
fashion. Curiously enough he began Ms re¬
marks with a quotation from the Bible.
Someone in the audience turned the meeting
into a beer-garden by challenging the cor¬
rectness of the quotation and appealed to In
gersoll to sustain him. The latter didn’t
believe in the Bible any more than he did
that the Democratic ticket would be elected.
Gonpling this with his late Burohardian ex¬
perience at Chicago, when he punched all
the wind out of the Gresham bladder, a reck
less newspaper scribbler has hinted that
Boss Platt is preparing a psyoho-politloal
brochure on “The Mistakes of It.gersoll”—
to be published early In November.
Fbahk E Vaughn.
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Methodist Nans.
New York 8an.
Methodist nuus are to be a novelty in
experience. They were created
the Methodist General Conference,
after a careful consideration of the sub
by the committee on Missions. Th®
committee reported favorably, and the
conference inserted in the Discipline of
church a section regulating them.
are to be called deaconedhes, and
willl be similar to the nuns of the
Boman Catholic Church, except that
are not to take vowh of life service
of oelibacy. Every annnal conference
which the deaconesses are established
will have a board of nine members to
this kind of work. Nothing
definite than this was done by the
but the impression is that
Methodist nuns will wear distinctive
and live in houses by them
They will minister to the poor
the sick, care for orphans, and do
work of charity. They will be re
to serve a probation of oontinnal
of two years before being
and they will have to be at
least twentyfive years of age. It has
long been a desire of Rev, Dr: Dix, of
Trinity, to have such duties performed
by regular orders o£ woman, and he sue
ceeded several years ago In forming an
of Episcopalian Nona, bot
they have not been formally indorsed by
denomiuatioo,and so the Methodists
the first Protestant Church in Amer
to attempt the recruiting and nni
forming of religious sisters. The first
of these deaconesses will be very likely
to be seen in Chicago. “And what eos
tames will the deaconesses wear?” was
asked of nearly every oommitteo respon
for their creation. No definite
answer conld be obtained. Naturally a
sober garb will be chosen.
Killed by Lightning,
Sznoia, Ga., July 6.—A heavy rain
and hail storm passed over here yea
terday. Darling Conch was standing
in his door daring the storm. Light
ning struck a peach tree near the
door and killed him instantly. H.*
wife and one child were in the house
but were not hurt. L R, Brantley's
house was struck by lightning, but
no one was hurt. There has been
so much raij here that what wheat
is not threshed is nearly all rained.
Nearly everybody is in the grass,
some have bad to turn part of the
crop work. out. The They can't get bands to
negroes won’t work.
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The Opening of the Campaign.
To open the campaign with any hopes of
speedy before it success, has chance attack to the entrench. enemy, malaria,
a An ob¬
stinate foe ’twill prove if you don’t ga right
Stomach medicinal ammunition
that yon require. Every form of malarial
fever yields to this fine preventive and re me
dy. For constipation, river complaint, dys-
notem
and WmtT^o^Sis& uersons soioorning in or bound
for the great jest West, should this the medi- fre-
cine as means of defense a . patent
qneat dotations of miasma. Those in deli-
cate should '4 health, in in the i instance aged and the enfeebled, this sigj
every every resort to
nal Invigorant Bose It for weak nerves.
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Honey! . ; HHI
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Fresh Fish, Shrimp, Crabs. ■ -w4
Try Gordon’s 4 A Tobacco. & fi Wmm
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RELIGIOUS MATTER?.
How Politics Are Running in The
Churches.
The subject of Dt. Bradley’s dis
course at the Methodist- church this
mormog will be “The Potter and
the Clay,” and it will doubtless be a
fine sermon.
The two Presbyterians who now
stand as representatives of the two
rival parties in the country are re
ported to be both firm adherents of
the Calvinistic dogma, with modern
improvements.
A Pennsylvania judge not long
since decided that “no legal mar
riage can be celebrated on Sunday,
marriage being a civil contract, and
therefore not lawful to be entered
into on that day.”
Out of the four nominees on the
Democratic and Rapublioangtickets,
three of them—Cleveland, Thurman
and Morton—are preachers’ sons.
This is a boom for preaohers’ sons
that they do not often receive.
Rev. Simon Peter Riehardson has
been visiting Augusta the past week.
From there he goes with a fishing
party to St Catharine's island. This
is about the time of year, we believe,
that Simon Peter was wont to go
fishing.
Elder E. R. Carswell, Jr., will dis
cuss the following topics of absorb
ing interest today at the Baptist
chnrcfa: At 11 a. m„ "The Second
Coming of Oar Lord;’’ at 5 p. m.,
"Row to Believe,” and at 8:15 p. m„
“Tne Unpardonable Sin.” A cordial
invitation to all.
In the list of republican presidents
there has not yet been a Presbyter!
an. General Arthur was an Episco
palian, General Garfield a Campbell
ite, General Grant a Methodist, the
Fraudulent Hayes a Methodist, An
dy Johnson a Methodist, and Abra
ham Lincoln a devout son sectarian.
Preaching at Christian etrarch this
eve at 7.30 by Elder T. M. Harris, of
Atlanta. Mr. Harris is an eloquent
speaker and thorough scholar. Pub
lie cordially invited. Also, preach
ing tomorrow evening at 7.30 and
after services a business meeting to
which all the members are expected
to be present.
ExMayer Seth Low having signi
fied bis determination not to support
the republican presidential ticket,
crush the New him York Tribune endeavors to j
with the charge that
is a Sunday school politician. Yet
the republican party used to be
proud to claim morality and Chris
tiscity on its side..
0. ing to the fact that repairs are
beir .; made iu tbe interior of tbe
Methodist ebureb, services today, in
eluding Sunday school, will be held
in the lecture room, tbe entrance to
which is in the rear of the church.
This room, by the way, has also re
cently been put in order, and will
fnrnish a pleasant retreat for tbote
inclined to worship at tbe Methodist
cbwib today. Class meeting as
usual, commencing at 8.'45 o’clock.
Tbe proverb says: “Misery so
quaints us with strange bedfellows.”
This is far more true of vice. How
strangely vice draws people togetbrr
in character, in guilt, in destiny--
drawing Uu in across the widest in
tervait which part them in Society
—drawing infidel and Christian, Bo
manist and Protestant, priest and
heretic, .into cloaest partnership of
wrong end infamy! "Extremes
meet,”—moat opposite and remote
extremes of social position, of wealth
N1
—
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and poverty, of culture
aoeo—in l hese confederacies of via
BOTH FSR«BTTXRUS8.
New York Sun: We have never
before had two Presbyterians
ning against each other at
tore .for the office of preetdent c
the United States. President Clev
land is a Presbyterian, the eon of t
Presbyterian minister, and Genera
Harrison, who wants to be preside*
in his place, Is another
who has risen to the rank of
in tho Presbyterian church,
dent Cleveland does not tako the
craments of his faith. General
rison Is in full communion of
saints, according to the
of the Presbyterian confession. ”
HE BOYCOTTED TOT fcXDAJCA.
Last Sunday, chi” ‘ < >era hi ’ d*.
small town in the >• • *» P*rt
Minnesota were not a.....*
when they had settled in their pewsf
to see staring at them from the
back of the preacher’s desk the
lowing card,written with charcoal
a piece of white cotton doth: n
"Members of this church
frain from wiping their
with red bandanas daring
until after the presidential
as such an act would o
democrats present to cheer for
ver Cleveland, and prove a aer__
interruption Georoe to the divine service.
Squires, Pastor.”
CAR’t STAND FREE W SSBUT.
New York Pori: No more im
pressive evidence of the transforms
tion of parties now in progress could
be furnished than is afforded b j the
comments upon the republican {fist
form elsewhere reprinted from the
Christian Union of this city, and the
Advance and Standard, of Chicago,
—three of the most prominent and
influential among the religions news
papers of the country. The Chris
tian Union, although by andenomhtfi
tional, is edited Congregational -
ists, while the Advance is tbe chief
western organ of the Congregation
alists, and tbe Standard the chief
western organ of the Baptists. AH
three papers are edited by men of
republican antecedents, and would
naturally side with a “party of moral
ideas,” but all three find it impossi
ble to support the republiosa plat
form of extravagance and free wMs
key. Tbe Standard, expressing, as it
believes, “the general sentiment of
Christian people, heartily toed of
whiskey of Chicago rule,” indorses the V^lliiUtl
the Tribune Tribune that that the free
plank will lose the repobli
cans hundreds of thousands of votes.
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