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. . jfi ifa * 'l % i ■ * 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 GRIFFIN GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 25 i888 POWDER Absolutely Pure. This Powder never varies. A mar economical parity, strength than the and ordinary wholesomness. kinds, Mor and can not be sold in oompetiton with the multitude of Powders. low test, Sold short only weight, In alum Rotat/Baking or phosphate cans. Powder ot2-d<fewlv-t.op Co., 106 Wall Street, New York column 1st or 4th Dare. THE STAR. A GREAT NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. The Stab is the only New York newspaper possessing the fullest confidence of the Na¬ tional Administration and the United Dem¬ ocracy of New York, the political battle ground of the Republic. Jeffersonian Democracy, pure and simple, is good enough for the Star. Single hand¬ ed among the metropolitan press, it has stood by the men called by the great Democ¬ racy to redeem the government from twenty-five years of Repnblioan wastefulness and corruption and despotism to the South. For these four years past ithasbeenunswerv ing in its fidelity the administration of Grov¬ er Cleveland. It is for him now—for Cleve¬ land and Thnrman—for four years more of Democratic honesty in our national affairs, and of continued national tranqnility and prosperity. For people who like that sort of Democracy the Stab is the paper to read. The Stab stands squarely on fhe Rational Democratic platform. It believes that any tribute exacted from the people in excess of the demands of a government economically administered is essentially oppressive and dishonest. Tnc scheme fostered and cham¬ pioned by the Republican part-of making the government a miser, wringing millions an nually from the people and locking them up in vaults to serve no purpose but invite waste fulness and dishonesty, it regards as a mon¬ strous crime against the right of American citizenship. Repnblioan political jugglers may call it ‘'protective taxation;” the Stab’s name for it is robbery. Through and through the Star is a great newspaper. Its tone is i are and wholesome, its news service unexceptionable. Each iesne presents an epitome of what is best worth knowing of the world’s history of yesterday. Its stories are told in good, quick, pictur- eque Edglish, and rniirhty interesting read¬ ing they are. The Sunday Star is as good as the best class magazine, and prints about the same amount of matter. Besides the day’s news it is rich in spesial descriptive articles, sto ries, snatches of current literature, reviews, art criticism, etc. Burdette’s inimatible hu¬ mor sparkles in its columns; Will Carleton’s delightful letters are of its choice offerings. Many of the best known men and women in literature and art are represented in its col umns, The Weekly Star is a large paper giving the cream of the news tbewirld over, with special features which make it the most complete family newspaper published. The farmer, the mechanic, the business man too much occupied to rend a daily paper, will get more for 4 his dollar invested in The Weekly Stab than from any other paper It will be especially alert during the cam paign, and will print the freshest and most reliable political news. Terms to Subscribers, Postage Free: Every day,................................00 day for one year (including Sun Dally, without Sunday, one year...... 0 00 Every day, six months................. 3 50 Daily, without Sunday, six months— 3 00 Sunday edition, one year............... 1 50 Weekly Star, one year................ 1 00 A free copy of The Weeklv Stab to the sender of a club of ten. jgtiT Special Campaign Oifeb—The Weekly Stab in clubs of twenty-five or more will be sent for the remainder of this year for Forty cents for ea -h subscription. Address, THE STAR, Broadway and Park Place, New York. MERCER UNIVERSITY, MACON. GEORGIA. ITUFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL SESSION open3 Jj September 26th and closes Juno 28th. Elegantly furnished class rooms and neat, new cottages for students. Centrally located. Good "board at reasons ble rates. For catalogues and other information ap¬ ply to REV. J. A. BATTLE, President julyl2w4 at l* on the file Newspaper In Philadelphia Advez *&iSS2&£S2 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. ' —— ; ■ . *- <- For milk shakes, ices and mineral wa ters go to Drewry’s, «v| 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 n vAJN A TVTm A ALUUrJcib A T ATTDPO EVERY MORNING. 111 % ■ 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 NUMBER li mm m mm mrnmm * m ........ i w wwwwjiMffiMy 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, ;||| — ■ ...... .. ...... ..... ■■ ■ ■- « ■■ 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 JUST ARRIVED! --Mt-- THE VERY LATEST STYLES NEW -.--AND -:-BEAUTIFUL Ksf’SUMMER HATS , Lowest Prices! —»:- tST Do not fail to call and examine. MRS. M. L. WHITE, Cor. Hill and Broadway, Butcher’s Fly Killer! CERTAIN DEATH No hunting with powder and gffn as for squirrels, death only toto stnpify them. No ling- < riny on the death on the sticking plas ter. Flies seek it, drink aud are. KILLED OUTRICHT humanely, Use so quickly they cannot get sway. it freely. Prevent reproduction, secure sarene peace and quiet. Always a*k to BUTCHER’S. for Male Everywhere. julyT-d&wln: