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VOLUME 17
Gh'iffin,
Grittiu 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 has built and pat into
most successful operation a $100,000 cotton
sctory and is now building another with
nearly twice the capital. It has pnt up a
a gc iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac-
ory, an immense fee and bottling works, a
sash and blind factory, a broom factory
opened up the finest granite quarry in the
LU.ited State", and has many other enter¬
prises in ontemplation. It has secured
another . uilroad ninety miles long, and while
ocateu on the greatest system in the Sonth,
the Central, has secured connection with Its
important rival, the East Tennessee, Virginia
aud Georgia, ithasjust secureiTdirect inde¬
pendent connection with Chattanooga and
the W< st, and has the President of a fourth
railroad residing here and working
to its completion. With
its live white and three colored
eh arches, it is now building a $10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased its
opulationby nearly one-fifth. It has at-
raried a round its borders fruit growers from
early every State in the Union, until it is
bow surrounded on nearly every side by or-
hurds and vineyards. It is the home of the
rape an 1 its wine making capacity has
doubled every j'ear, It has sncoessfnlly
naugurated a system of public schools, with
seven years curriculum, second to none.
This, is part of the record of a half decade
a ml simply shows the progress of an already
utirable city, with the natural advantages
having the woiHf climate, summer and
i.ter, in the
Griffin is the sfmty scat of Spalding
ounty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with
healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150
eet above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at a low estimate between 6,000 and
uoj people, and they are all of the right
ort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
weleome strangers and anxious to secure de-
irable settlers, who will not be any less wel-
ome if they bring money to help bnild up
the town. Therg is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and thaWs a big hotel.
We have several small ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limited for our
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the G biffin
Nkws 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,
IStK By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
changed to keep up with the times.
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
raw’s collecting and protective agency.
S. C. LEAK,
ATTORNEY AT LaW,
Office, 31K Hill Street.
GRIFFIN, - - - - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given lo clerical work,
general law business and collection of claims.
may9d&w8m
DR. JOHN L. STAPLETON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
GRIFFIN, : : : GEORGIA,
Office—Froni Room, up Stairs, News Build
ing. Residence, at W. II. Baker place on
calls, Poplar street. Prompt attention jan21d&w6m given to
day or night.
D. L. PARMER,
ATTOENEY AT LA W
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
Will Prompt attention given to all and business. whom¬
practice in all the Courts,
ever business calls.
I®” Collections a specialty. aprOdly
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
HAMPTON, GKOBGIA,
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. oct9d&wly
JNO. J. HUNT,
attorney at la w
OBIFFIN, GEORGIA.
White’s Office, Clothing 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H
Store. mar22d&wly
I). DISMUKE. N. M. COLLINS
DISMUKE & COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Office,first room in Agricultural Building
Stairs. marl-d&wtf
thosT rTmills,
TTTRNEY AT LAW,
v\iil GRIFFIN, GA.
Courts. practice in the State and Fedeml
Office, over George & Hartnett’s
earner. nov2-tf.
OH D. STB WABT. BOBT. T. DANIEL
STEWART St DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George & Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federa
. courts.
ianl.
C. S. WRIGHT,
WATOHMAKEB AND JEWELER
Hill 8treat, GRIFFIN, GA.
Jr., * Co.’s. Up Stairs over J. Q. White
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GRIFFIN GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 31 188»
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THIS ? AF iSB.
Haunt* oZ the While Goats.
White goats have been known to hunt-
era ever since Lewis and Clarke crossed
the continent, but they have always
ranked as the very rarest and most diffi¬
cult to get of all American garnet This
reputation rather they owe to the nature of their
haunts, than to their own wariness,'
for they have been so little disturbed that
they are less shy than either deer or
sheep. They are found here and there
on the highest, moat inaccessible moun¬
tain peaks down even to Arizona and
New Mexico; but being fitted for cold
climates, they ni% extremely scarce every¬
where south of Montana and northern
Idaho, and the great majority even of
the most experienced hunters have hardly
so much as heard of their existence. In
Washington territory, northern Idaho
and northwestern Montana they are not
uncommon, and are plentiful British in parts of
the mountain ranges of America
and Alaska. Tlieir preference for the
highest peaks is duo mainly to their dis¬
like of warmth, and in the-north—even
south of the Canadian line—they are
found much lower down the mountains
than is the case farther south.
They are very conspicuous animals,
with their snow white coats and polished
black horns, but their pursuit necessitates
so much toll and hardship that not onein
ten of the professional hunters lias ever
killed one; and I know of but ono or two
eastern sportsmen who can boast a goat’s
bead as a trophy. But this will soon
cease to be the case, for the Canadian
Pacific railway has opened the haunts of
where the goats are most plentiful, hardy and
any moderately adventurous and
rifleman can be sure of getting one by
taking a little time, and that, too,
whether he is a skilled hunter or not,
since at present the game is not difficult
to approach. The white goat will be
common long after the elk has vanished,
and it has already outlasted the buffalo.
—Theodore Roosevelt in The Century.
A Beetle In Harness.
Not long since many about newspaper para¬
graphs were current a pretty beetle
which the southern ladies were in the
habit of wearing on the corsage, where
it crawled at will, held by a tiny gold
chain. This beetle is the maqueche. It
is perfectly inoffensive, has no odor and
does not deface or stain the most delicate
fiber. The adjusting of the golden har¬
ness is a nice operation, the metal being
soldered on it The harness consists of
a girdle about the insect’s waist—-between
the thorax and the abdomen—to which
above and below is joined a slender band
passing over the posterior portion of the
body, longitudinally, while a small chain
is attached to this harness by a little
staple, which chain terminates fn a hook
or pin to fasten in the bodice.
By many Mexicans the insect is re¬
garded as an amulet or mascot, and is
usually highly prized by foreigners when
obtainable. Parties who have owned in¬
sects of this kind have often attempted to
maintain them on sugar and water, but
the beetles always perished in a short
time. But if fed on decayed wood, which
is their natural food, they may be kept
alive and thriving for more than a year.
The wing covers or shell of the beetle
is exceedingly hard. Its color is a light
chocolate shade, and when full grown it
is about an inch and a half long. It has
been stated that this beetle can cut
through soft metal, and this fact i3 one
of the most Interesting about it. When
placed in a glass jar covered by a thin
pewter lid it has been known after a few
hours of chipping and cutting to make a
hole sufficiently largo to allow it to pass
through. Specimens of this insect and
the cut metal were shown, at a recent
meeting of the Microscopical society.—
New York Evening Sim.
Indians and Spanish Frlara
The aborigiaes never showed any zeal¬
ous faith in Christianity. Unlike the
negroes in the southern states, they took
no delight in singing hymns among them¬
selves; unlike the Polynesian Christians,
they never went out to convert the neigh¬
boring heathen. When they escaped
from the missions, as they frequently did,
they always left their new religion behind
them. In the course of three-quarters of
a century thousands of such fugitives fled
to the San Joaquin and Sacramento val¬
leys, and to the Sierra Nevada, and
mingled with the wild tribes, without
leaving the least trace there of permanent
Christian influence.
The friars did not teach the abori¬
gines to be great mechanics. Among its
Spanish settlers, the territory did not
possess one blacksmith, carpenter, wheel¬
wright, shipwright, or position turner competent bis
to take a respectable in among London,
fellow craftsmen at the time
Paris or New York. No good plow,
good wagon, good boat or good rifle was
ever made in a mission workshop. Tbe
Indians did not have an opportunity trade, to
learn thoroughly any mechanical
or any of the finer branches of horti¬
culture. There was no skillful nursery
man among them.—John S. Hittel in
Overland Monthly.
Like the Light weights
Of the profession active in puguilitie, state of the health. kidneys Their are
small but a productive
secretion contains impurities of
rheumatism, gout and dropsy, if allowed to
remain. When they are inactive, the blood
becomes chocked with animal debris capable
of destroying life. Topromote their activity
when sluggish only with to guard Hoetetter’s against Stomach the diseases Bit
ters, is not
mentioned, but to prevent the fatty degener
ations and ultimate destruction of the organs
by those exceedingly and dangerous maladies— Activity
Bitght’s disease diabetes.
the bladder also insues it against the forma¬
tion of gravel, which it sometimes requires
one of the most dangerous and painful oper
ations in surgerp to remove. complaint. Gravel, more j
over, is a most agonizing The
Bitters farther commend themselves by
remedying congtipation, dyspepsia, and nnlify liver in¬
complaint and nervousness,
fluences productive of malarial disease.
PROPING UP HARRISON.
REPUBLICAN PLANS TO
EN THE CANDIDATE IN INDIANA.
The Greenback and Labor
Solid Agalust Harrison— A Dan¬
gerous Gresbam Defection.
Is i>l am a polls, July
will IffiLihe battle ground of the com
ing campaign, am? Indianopolis
course will be its center.
here of all ciasess know no
ence cjp political subjects. With the
HoosiOr politician organization is
ruling passion, and the
for the approaching fight will put
the shade any former efforts in
history of party war in this State.
Hostilities have not begun
There has been some
bat the might and intellect of
sides d»e bent on the labor of
ing tbe lines.
Not until Aug. 8. will the
can State Convention have given
word go to the combatants.
time, manifold are the
which vex General Harrison and
scheming brains of his lieutenants.
Tbe Republicans base their hopes
less on Harrison’s personal strength
than on the safeguards and
with which they propose to
him in making up the State ticket.
In Indiana every point must
covered, and in the present case the
situation is fall of perplexing
mas. It is the practice here by
parties to canvass every voter
know how he stands, and why
where he looks for his inspiration
political advic . This, with a
ious use of boodle, is tbe way
State is carried by the
So far as basis of reckoning goes
on this fail’s result, the situation was
rather clearly set fourth by ex-Sena
tor McDonald.
The total vote of the State,
the increase since 1884, will be
000—240,000 straight Democratic,
235.000 straight Republican,
floating, composed of Labor,
back and Prohibition. “Now,”
Senator McDonald, “to win the
publicans must get 5,000 more
that floating vote than we do, and
don’t believe they can.”
An element upon which
cans are quietly banking and
Democrats are inclined to ignore,
the addition to the State of
votes in what is known as natural
belt. As natural gas is cheap
and the large majority of these
in manufacturers interests, they
it is assumed, vote the
ticket.
In this election old scores
vest pocket votes are to do the
ness for Harrson. That he called
Greenbackers idiots, and cried
for more asylums to imprison
no one has essayed to deny, and
must be remembered that there
10.000 Greenback voters in
State. He is trying, as all his
are, to dissipate the notion that
ever was disdainful to the
men or unsparing toward
Bat there is no question that General
Harrison has been looked on as
of all sympathy with the hard
ed stratum in society. He is
ed and penned by Republican
as the workingman’s friend and
champion of labor.
Tbe multiplied traditions of
haughtiness and contempt are
denee that however well he
have guarded his tongue or
from record, tbe workingmen
him hostile.
The Labor Signal,
the representative journai of
ized labor throughout Indiana
the West, is by no means of
blatherskite stripe, and it voices
strong labor sentiment against
son. Tts editor said yesterday:
CANTALOUP
EVERY MORNING.
C- W. Clark * Son. -
of our 200 labor exchanges only one
is pronounced in its indorsement of
Harrison, Ivs* than a dozen are non
committal, the rest outspoken
against him.”
Porter has now—1 b answer to the
clamor of the Harrison managers,
who will listen to no refusal—con¬
sented to run at the head of the
State ticket. It was fixed when El
kins was here, and in case Harrison
is elected, Porter, who is ponfessedly
too big for a governorship, is to re
sign, leave a vacancy for some use
ful lieutenant governor, and step in
to a Cabinet position. It is, as the
Sentinal terms it, “a contract on
Governor Porter’s part to deliver tbe
ndependent and labor vote to Ben
Harrison.”
The Repnblican coterie is cudgel
ing its brains to provide against s
Gresham defection in Evansville,
Fort Wayne and tha South. Judge
Gresham, slrangly enough, has sailed
for Europe, but the Harrison Ring's
usage of him is far from forgotten in
Indiana. Harrison’s friends have said
with assurance that all bitterness in
the hearts of Gresham people ended
with tbe nomination of Harrison at
Chicago. Significant however, as
proof that the wound is still open,
is the pity remark let fall by Harison
himself that he thought all tbe Re -
publicans at Fort Wains would “be
in lino by November.’*
On question of temperance the
Republicans are in a pickle indeed.
Temperance in Indiana are cryig
“Fie!‘‘ as they are everywhere, upon
the Chicago platform, and pressure
is being brought to bear upon Gener
al Harrison to appease them in some
way in bis letter of acceptance. They
want, too, the insertion in the State
platform of a plank for the submis
eion of a prohibitory amendment. It
was npon a previous issue of this
sort that General Harrison stamp
ed the State in 1883, but tbe election
of a Democratic Legislature defeated
the submission paoject. To resurrect
this plan would be to cast away au
enormous Gresham vote to the
Democrats. Day by day things look
brighter for Cleveland.
Sunny Side Scintillations.
Sunny Sidk, Ga., July 30.—
Crops doing well. Watermelons
and peaches plentiful.
The protracted meeting at Tirzah
is in session.
Capt. Slaton, of Griffin, was in
town yesterday.
Prof. Seals, of Atlanta, visited c.
W. Richter’s family Saturday.
Harold Griffin visited relatives in
Monroe, last week.
Miss Mattie Patterson, a charming
you'g lady of Newnan, spent sever
al d.iys with Miss Heonie Patterson,
of Sunny Side, last week.
Miss Bessie Gilmore, one of Ten
nille’s sweetest young ladies, visited
Miss Lillie Hoderson, cf Sunny
Side, last week.
Miss Leila Maddox, of Orr’s dis
trict, attended church at Tirzah Sun¬
day.
Jli»s Bessie McGougb, of Fayette¬
ville, spent Saturday and Sunday
with Miss Effie Richter.
Miss Cora Malaier spent last week
wite Hampton relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Kffimk Ward are spt i* .
ing the w. ek with Mrs, J, Patter
son, „
Miss Annie Tomlinson, of Atlanta,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. J. O. A.
Miller. Dash.
The many remarkable cures Hood’s
parillo accomplishes peculiar are sufficient curative
that.lt doee possess pow
ere. It)
NUMBER 159
V
J ml .on Mathews Deal.
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Our whole community was sad If
dimed over the Ben* of the death
Judson Mathews, which occurred
shortly after noon Sunday. ———
Fur seven long weeks he has been
patient sufferer from the results
the accident, that at last, in spite of
the best of medical skill, cut him off
in the very prime of noble young
manhood, - -----------------------
A host of loving friends did all in
their power to cheer, and make peaoe
ful, his last days on esrtta.
Judson was a young man of ex
ceptional worth of character—an
earnest Christian—firm to the pur
suit of the good and right a* tie un¬
derstood them. _____
Who shall estimate the loss of such
young man from on- *> .5 Lt 1 Long
may the memory » r '■'* upright
walk be cherished o 3 our boys,
as an example worthy of their imita¬
tion.
The remains were enterred in tbe
the family burying ground, yester¬
day afternoon a ( 4 o’clock.
To the family, we extend our moat
sincere sympathy in this great be¬
reavement.
Griffin Gun Club,
Yesterday afternoon at the grounds
of the Gun Club the following soor*
was made which is good for Mil
tares:
E. J, Flemister.................17
J. B. Mills,.......... 18
— Tarnipseed,. ..............9
R. J. Edwards, ............. «... 14
J. N. Hunton,......... 12
R. J, Andrews,.................15
— Manley,.....................ID
J. M. Bishop,..................17
D. J. Bailey, Jr.,................17
J, B. Mills,....................18
Mr. Mills having made tbe beet
score, 18 oat of 20, will wear the
badge for one week,
D. J. Bailey, Jr., previous to leav
ing fot Thomaaville to attend tbe
State Horticlutural Society meeting,
borrowed the Gun Olab Badge from
tbe successful contestant, for what
purpose we are nnable to state, bat
before leaving be showed an enre
lope post marked Thomasville, ad
dressed to himself in a female band
writing.
List ef Letters.
Advertised letter! remaining in
postoffice at Griffin, Ga., Ja)y
30d, 1888, 'which will be sent to the
Dead Letter office if not called for
n 30 days:
Mary Dickenson, Sallie £ wards,
re. Tol Graiees, Lafayette Harris.
Mrs. Anna Jackson, Mrs. Mattie
Maddox, Deby Powell, Virginia
Pierce (col), John Rudime, Thomas
Sutton, EUeu Wolea, Perry Wil
liamy, Miss E. W. Warfield.
M. O. Bowdoin, P. M-
Tbe Little Haekieberrj
that grows alongside onr hills and mou
tains contains an active principle th
has a happy effect on the bowel*,
enters largely in Dr. Biggen* Hock
harry Cordial, the great bowel remedy
Pure and rich, possessing all tbe nutritious
properties of Malt, Chase’s Barley Matt
Whisky is a perfect Tonic for building up
the system. George & Harnett sole agents
for Griffin.
j Butcher’s Fly Killer!
CERTAIN DEATH.
squirrels, No hunting only with to powder stnpify them, and and sUckiag^plM gan^ta^for gi
to oh
erinz e ring death death on on the the death death on the the stlc
ter. Flies seek it, drink and are.
KILLED OUTRICHT
humanely,so quickly Prevent they reproduction, cannot g*t away.
Use lt freely. Always ask secure to
serene peace and quiet.
JTCHJER’S.
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