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VOLUME 17
Griffin, Ga.
Gritlln is the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro¬
gressive town in Georgia. This is no hyper¬
bolical description, as the record of the last
five years will show.
During that time it has built and put into
most successful operation a $100,000 cotton
nctory and is now building another with
nearly twice the capital. It has put up a
a gc iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac-
ory, an immense ice and bottling works, a
sash and blind factory, a broom factory
opened up the finest granite quarry in the
Ci.ited States, and has many other enter¬
prises in .ouieinflation. It has secured
another. .ulroad ninety miles long, and while
ocatea on the greatest system in the
the Central, has secured connection with its
important rival, the East Tennsssee, Virginia
ami Georgia. It has just secured direct inde¬
pendent connection with Chattanooga and
lbs W<st, and has the President of a fourth
railroad residing here and working
to ita completion. With
its five white and three oolored
o r irehes, it is now building a $10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased Its
opulation by nearly one-fifth. It has at-
t nve'cd around Its borders fruit growers from
buiij every State in the Union, until It Is
now surrounded on nearly every side by or-
hards an 1 vineyards. It is the home of the
rape an i ita wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully
iiaugui ated a system of public schools, with
seven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record 6f a half decade
and simply shows the progress of an already
mirable city, with the natural advantages
having the finest climate, summer and
ntcr, in the world.
Griifin is the county seat of Spalding
ounty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with
healthy, fertile and r. Ding country, 1150
ect above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at a low estimate between 6,000 and
mO people, and they are all of the right,
m l—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
weleomc strangers and anxious to secure de-
irable settlers, who will not be any less
o me if they bring money to help build
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 arc entirely fbo limited for our
business, pleasure andhealth seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
GritHu.
Griffin is the place where the Gkikfin
N ews 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,
188b. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
changed to keep up with the limes.
PKuKESSiONAL DIRECTORY
L BAR’S COLLECTING AND PROTECTIVE AGENCY.
S. C. LEAK,
A TTOBNEY A T LaW,
Office, 31^ Hill Street.
GRIFFIN, - - - - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given ‘o clerical work,
general law business and collection of claims.
may9d&w8ra
DR. JOHN L. STAPLETON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
GRIFFIN, : : : : GEORGIA,
Office—Fron". Room, up Stairs, News Build
big. Residence, at W. II. Baker place given on
calls, Poplar street. Prompt attention jan21d&w0m to
day or night.
D. L. PARMER,
A T T OBNEY AT LAW
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all business.
Will practice in all the Courts, and
ever business calls.
Collections a specialty. aprCdly
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT
HAMPTON, OEOEOIA.
Practices in all the State and
Courts. oct9dAwly
JNO. J. HUNT,
A rTORNEY A T LA W
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Office, 31 Hill 8treot, Up Stairs, over J. H
White’s Clothing Store. uiar22d&wly
II- PISMUK.K. N. M.
DISMUKE & COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
O.lice.flrst room in Agricultural Building
Stairs. - marl-d&wtf
THQS. R. MILLS,
TTORNEY AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GA. and
Will practice in the, State
Courts. Office, over George A
•irner. nov2-tf.
ON D. ST* WART. BOBT. X. DANIEL
STEWART A DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George & Hartnett’s. Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federa
• tarts. tanl.
~c. s. wrightT
matchmaker and jeweler
Hill Street, GRIFFIN, GA.
Jr.. , A Co.’s. Up Stairs overJ. H. White
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LIGHTS UNDER BUSHELS.
Tlie Great Herd of Copyist*—Faith In
One’s Self—Persistence.
If your faith in your power, your con¬
fidence in yourself, or your idea or plan
are destroyed or weakened by the first
snei: or voice of opposition it meets, you
am hiding yourself and your light under
the bushel. You will remember that a
large proportion of the world are mere
copy ists. They do only what others have
done before them and only what they
have learned from others. They oppose
and sneer at every new idea, and after¬
ward applaud it and use it, when the
man or woman who will not allow their
light to be hid under the bushel force it
into notice and success. In days past
the great herd of copyists sneered and
ridiculed the Idea of steam as motive
power on land and sea. So they did
•with the electric telegraph and the tele¬
phone. So it will be with hundreds of
new ideas, new inventions and new pow¬
ers to bo developed in the near future.
These ultra conservative deadweights
in every business, art or profession, do
not like changes. They are wedded to
their ruL They don’t want to get out
of iL To do so makes them homesick.
Besides, it hurts their business. They
want to jog on in the “good old way”—
in the stagecoach instead of the railroad,
In the “sailing packet” instead of the
steamer. They oppose the new as
naturally a3 rats and earwigs oppose the
entrance of light to their underground
habitations, and for a similar reason.
The light annoys them. It drives them
off. It ruins their business. They “love
darkness better than light ” Hence,
they want your light “under a busbeL”
If you allow them to keep your light
under that bushel they will keep you
under it also. They will keep you al¬
ways in the background. If the first
Napoleon had not by force of will ridden
over the objections of the veteran marti¬
nets who opposed his new methods of
warfare, he would never have triumphed
at Marengo and Austerlitz. If Cyrus W.
Field had not persistently kept his mind
centered on the project of the ocean cable
despite Bneer, obstruction and failure
after failure, it might not have been laid
today. The glow of every new light
upon ths world is always the work of
osno man or a very few men against the
many. Three or four men in California,
years ago, built the Pacific railroad.
They first kindled their light in a dingy
Sacramento grocery. They kept it
lighted and also kept pushing it to the
front, while others were indifferent, or
dared not take hold of such an undertak-
You had no need to bluster or bully
your light to the fronL It Is not the
force of physical effort or speech that
will carry it there and keep it there. It
is the silent force of a persistent determi¬
nation, bent on one single aim. When
you are temporarily overcome and tired
out through the opposition of tbo dead¬
weights and earwigs who love darkness,
fall back on yourself and the power be¬
hind you. Leave the crowd, leave all
not in sympathy with you. Go to your
room, seclude yourself. Sleep, and be¬
fore you sleep, demand, pray, desire more
power to cope with opposition. It will
surely be given to you. How, we know
not, but you will enter on the contest to¬
morrow with renewed strength, and the
silent power you gain in this way will, of
itself, work results for you.
In the past thousands of “lights” have,
by this dead weight, run in a rut, live in
a rut and die in a rut sentiment and
crushing out force, been hidden under
bushels and died out under bushels.
Actors of genuine humor and talent are
today playing in third rate theatres or
accepting inferior parts in first class ones
because they have allowed sneer or op¬
position or a more or less failure to drag
their minds into that permanent dis¬
couraged, disheartened attitude which is
always saying: “What’s the use of try¬
ing? Luck’s against me—I’m bound to
fail, anywayl” On the heels of this
comes drink, to “drown care.”
So it is with thousands of other actors
in all the parts of life. Their own per¬
manent state of mind is the real and only
force which keeps their “light under the
bushel.” They use their own force
against themselves. They expend it in
talking and complaining to others. They
have no knowledge or faith in the fact
that a mind decided and determined on a
purpose at all times and in all places—a
mind that fights off the mood of despond¬
ency and discouragement as it would
fight off a mad dog—carries and uses the
greatest of all powers to keep its light
shining and keep it ever in the fronL —
Prentice M ulford in New York Star
Exclusiveness of “Society.”
The number of people who have real
merit and talent for society, who are kept
out by tho exclusiveness of self consti¬
tuted tyrants of society, must be very
large; but if they have tact and learn to
wait, they will find their way. The
most certain way to please is to show a
modest indifference to the smiles of the
great (They call it patronage in Eng¬
land. We have no such ugly word here,
nor have beany really “great people” so¬
cially.) They Bhould not “push. ” There
is, however, always an ideal exclusive¬
ness, a society which should only admit
the cultivated, the wise, and the good.
Every hostess should inquire into the
general characteristics of her guests,
their moral, social and political its standing.
We use the ward political in largest
sense. In spite or all we can do, objec¬
tionable men and women do get into the
most carefully guarded society; and we
have as yet no such inviolable insight
that we can rates Hives and Lazarus be¬
fore their death as they are said to be
rated afterward.—Mrs, M. E. W. Sher¬
wood. '
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HEARING FROM HARALSON.
How Cousin Dixie and His Neighbors
Are Getting Along.
Haralson, Ga., July 24.— Miss
Mamie Taylor after an absence of
several weeks visiting relatives in
Atlanta, Douglasville and Salt
Springs, returned home last Wed
nesday to the delight of her many
friends.
liev. li. W. Williams by special
request of Pastor Hamrick, filled the
Fair View Baptist pulpit, Line
Creek dist., Spalding county, third
Sunday and Saturday before. Ilis
daughter Miss Clara accompanied.
Willie and Misses Laura and Ella
Herndon, 6on and daughters of
Mr. J. J, Herndon, have mumps;
also Mr, IPs little grand children
John II. and baby Callahan. 1 hope
they may seon be restored to health
again.
Several of our people took in the
Pearl Spring’s barbecue at Newnan
Saturday.
Last Thursday (19th) the remains
of sweet little Bess Sibley, the infant
darling of Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Sibley,
were interred at Mt. Pilgrim ceme
tary; funerri services at Dr. N. W.
Gobles, Brooks Station (Mrs. S.
father’s) Thursday morning by Rev,
E. Culpepper, pastor of Senoia and
Fairborn Baptist churches. Th* re~
mains were borne to their last rest¬
ing place accompanied by a large
concourse oi mourning friends from
Brooks Station. May the God of
peace comfort the young parents in
the sad loss of their first born. Dar¬
ing Bess was a sweet baby Whose
span of life lasted one shorfcyear.
Many thanks for the Griffin
Weekly News (the Middle Geor
gia Democratic organ, the solid
South organ, the united Demo
cratic orgrn) which is published in
Griffin Friday morning and reaches
us via Senoia mail Friday evening.
Hurrah for the sound, solid Demo
cracy ol the Griffin News ! Long
may she wave over a free people !
Several of our citizens took in the
soldiers reunion, but it being on tho
same day as the commencement of
the Baptist annual meeting at this
place, I donjt think a single one of
the members of the Baptist church
were absent from their seats last
Saturday save afflicted ones; which
doubtless made pastor Cousins feel
good on account of the faithfulness
of his flock.
Chandler M -r in and his charming
daughter, from Line Creek dist.,
Spalding County, were in attendance
at the Baptist church Saturday
night and Sunday, and were guests
of Rev. B. W. Williams.
Miss IUcila Powell, a highly ac
complrsked. charming young lady of
2d dist., was the guest of Misses
Missouri and Nannie Fowler, Satur¬
day and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Guinn, of
Oxford, Ala., are the guests of
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S.
Fowler.
Mr. and Mrs. Good Floyd, former
citizens now of Heard county, arc
guests of their mother Mrs. Gar
rison.
Lee Smith, a nice young gentle
man from Lines mill, is attending
the Baptist meeting and is z •; iously
escorting one of our most lovely and
charming young ladies to meeting
at night.
Miss Ida Baugbae, after an ab
sence of one week visiting her uncle
Joe Smith, at Jones mill, returned
home last Saturday accompanied by
tho lovely Miss Effie Lowe from
Warncraville.
I regret very much to learn of
my old friend A. Brandenburg's
accident disabling him from attend
ing the annual meeting on account
of a sprained ankle. His seat can’t
be filled in my estimation. Not
withstanding bis Providential ab
sence we i^iss him. May * kind
PresH
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C« W. dark & Son
Providence deal gently wirii it it; r<
his sore affiiotion.
The explanation of X. W. T. Wil
son, J. P., in reference to my com
munication of July Oth, 1888, is suis
factory, I presume; only ho insinua
ted that I had attempted to reflect
upon his neighborhood. Mr. W.
says in his reply that one Spencer
Bishop finding he had commenced
wrong “proposed” a compromise,
etc., and none of the fuss was at or
near the church but a quarter ol a
mile away. How doesMr. W. know?
Is it “hearsay’’or did he “see facts.”
Some one else ought to be cautious
how they report in public print “hear
says” and try to make them (that is
the “hear-says” appear facts. How
came a prosecutor of a criminal
case compromise by paying cost, and
demanding fines to repair a church
when said church (Bethel) ceased to
be. Should not the fines bo refund'
en? vV nat is Mr. Wilson’s (J. P.)
duty as a civil officer in the premises?
Through Spence Bishop’s aid to com¬
promise a civil case? In the Masonic
Hall, on the evening of the 21st insb,
Mr. Wilson told mo in presence of
H. J. Bauzan, J. P. of Haralson dis¬
trict, that Lewis Gaston, pastor of
Picey Grove church, seeing that as
soon as the first prisoner was put
upon trial, that three warrant* would
be issued for thearrestof him (Lewis
Gaston); that he (Gaston) set about
to effect a compromise, and accom¬
plished it. There is no hear-say
about the abeve conversation in Ma¬
sonic Hall. As to the blind tiger, he
hearing that Cousin Dixie had made
an exposure, from “hearsay,” has
skipped to parts unknown. I said
nothing about the “law-abiding citi¬
zenship,” (white); it was the law-
breaking citizenship that I was after.
The communication is an open letter,
and so is this one. With the above
explanation, which I feel in justice to
myself, as your humble corresponds
ent, Cousin Dixie.
ALI. AT SEA.
The Senate Republicans All Torn Up
Over the Passage of the Mills Bill.
Washington, July 24. — (Special.)
—Senator Beck who is ono of tha
members of tho Sub'-Committec of
the Finance Committee, to which the
duty of preparing a subitoto for the
Mills Bill has been deputed, said to¬
night that he did not kuow what the
majority of members of the Sub-Com
mittee are doing, as they keep him
very ably uninformed. The Sub*.
Committee might, he said, have some
tbi-ig ready to report to the full com
rail c in a week or ten days, but
thfi i was no certainty on that point.
Your correspondent to day bad talks
with a couple of tho'House Commit
tee on Ways and Means, who are in
close conference with the leaders of
the Republican side of the Senate.
From what they said, it was learned
that the Republican Senators are bad
ly torn up on the subject of the tariff
as ivcio the House Republicans. They
have not V . -u able to agree upon
any sort of a bill, and- it is very
doubtful if they can bring iu a meas
urc satisfactory to them all. o-iao of
the Honse leaders are urging npot,
them the advisability of practical';,
doin ' l:>;L : sg this session. They
tell tb iv. • hat tbo best way is to sira
ply attack the House bill. Tho Demo
crats have made their rcecord, they
hold, and it is the proper policy for
the Republicans to content them
selves with assaulting it, aud not
bring fmih a bill which would nt any
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rate teas vulnerable as the Mil!
Bill. Bat they do not go so far as
nrgo llint the Republican Senators
ignore the question of tho tariff en
tirely. Whfit they suggest is that tl
Finance Committee bring in a re ",
tion authorizing it to sit during the I
cess and tako testimony upon the i
ject,frame n bill and report it next 1
comber. That shows how badly toil
the Republicans are, though what
the Haase leaders on that side re
commend may not be adopted, ;|||
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Cinder la the Eye.
Nine persons oat of ten with a cinder
or any foreign substance in the eye 1
instantly begin to rob the eye with one
hand while hunting for their Uandker
chief with the other. They uiay, au<f
sometimes do remove the r trending mem
her, but more frequently ■? rub 1
the eye becomes inflan ' da]
chief aronndthehead *•* ’ • <> bed. TM»
is all wroDg, The benu .vay i# not <
rub tho eye with a cinder in at all, but
rub the other eye as vigorously as you
like, A few years ago I was riding on an
engine The engineer threw open the
front window, aud I caught a cinder
that gave me tho most excruciating
pain,
I began to rub wiih both hands.-
“Let your eye alone and rub the other
eye," (this from the engineer). “I know ;
you doctors think you kuow it
all, but if you will let that eye
alone and rfip the other one the cinder
will bo out in two minutes,’’persisted the
engineer. I began to mb the eye, and
soon I felt the cinder down near the in
ner can thus, and made ready to take it
out. • ‘Let it alone and keep at the well
eye,” shouted the doctor pro tem. I did
so for a miuute longer, and looking in a
small glass he gave me I found the of
fender on my check. Since then I have
tried it many times, and have advised
many others, and I have never known it
to fail in one instance unless it was as
sharp as a piece of steel or something
that cat into the ball aud required an
operation to remove it.
When They Leave U«,
The exodus of our bodily troubles is doubly
welcome if their departure is unaccompanied
by pain. It cathartios, is the fault which of the best of com-
mendable act solely upon
the bowels, that in operating they gripe and
weaken these organs. Hostetter’s effect, .Stomach
Bitters prodnoe a laxative but neither
causes pain nor weaken the abdominal region
or the stomach. This Is pre-eminently tho
alterative which a constipated, billions or dys
peptic person bodily should use, since a resort to it
involves no discomfort nor produces
a violent reaction. The liver is aroused, til ^
stomach and benefitted, and the habit of body
speedily Fever and permanently improved by it.
ague, rheuinetistfirjnd kidney
troubles are among the maladies for which
recorded experience has proved It to be effi¬
cacious. It is a wholesome ap)»etizer,and a far
more reliable tranquillizer of the nerves than
stomach-disturbing narcotics and sedatives
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