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lie Griffin V t J 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. mmatmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmm mmsmaaa m ■— i——s—— i innnr—ii 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 ^ GRIFFIN GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 31 188» &4KIN c POWDER Absolutely. Pure. This Powder never varies. A mar economical PHrity, strength and ordinary wholesomness. than the kinds, and can not be sold in competiton with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate Powders. Bold only In cans. RoyaaJBakino Powder ot2-d<fewlv-ton Co., 106 Wall Street, New York column 1st or 4th nape. 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, puiys and simple, is good enough for the Star. Single bund¬ 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 Republican 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 Thurman—for four years more of Democratic honesty in onr 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 the National Democratic platform. It believes that any tribute exacted from the people in excess of the demands of a government economic ally administered is essentially oppressive and dishonest. The scheme fostered and cham¬ pioned by t he 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. Republican political jugglers may call it ‘-protective taxation;” the 8tak’s name for it is robbery. Through and through the Star is a great newspaper. Its tone is i ore and wholesome, its news service unexceptionable. Each issue presents an epitome of what is best worth knowing of the world’s history of yesterday. Its stories are told in good, quick, pictur- equet Edglish, and mighty 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 rics, snatches of current literature, reviews, art criticism, etc. Burdette’s iiiimatible 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 arc represented in its col umns, The Weekly Star is a large paper giving the cream of the news thew o ld over, with special features which make it the most complete family newspaper published. The farmer, the mechanic, the business man too much occupied to read a daily paper, will get more for .liis 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.................................$7 day for one year (iueluding Sun 00 Daily, without Sunday, one year...... 6 00 Every day, six months.................3 50 Daily, without Sunday, six months____3 00 Sunday edition, one year............... 1 50 Weekly Star, oue year................ 1 00 A free copy of The Weekly Stab to the sender of a elub of ten. l^T Special Campaign Offer—The Weekly Stab in clubs of twenty-fiye or more will l>e sent for the remainder of this year for Forty cents for eaeh subscription. Address, THE STAR, Broadway and Park Place, New York. MACON. GEORGIA. --Jot- -(TUFTY-FIFTH ANNUAL SESSION ope ens l’ September 20th and closeaJune28th. Elegantly furnished class rooms and neat, now cottages for students. Centrally located. Good board at reasona¬ ble rates. For catalogues and other information ap¬ ply to REV. J. A. BATTLE, july!2w4 President. 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. - 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. y.r Isis Ivsrywlsw. jnlj T.dJfcwliu