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rimn V, Daily News
\GLUME 17
Griffin, Ga.
Griffin is the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro¬
gressive town in Georgia. This is no lijper-
bolieal description, as the record of the last
live years will show.
During that time It has built and pnt into
most successful operation a $100,000 cotton
actory and is now building another with
nearly twice the capital. It has pnt up a
a ge iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac-
ory, an immense ice and bottling works, a
sash and blind factory, a broom factory
opened np the finest granite -quarry^fc 'the
Uuited States, and has many other enter¬
prises in .ontemplation. It has secured
another. uilroad ninety miles long, and while
ocatca on the greatest system in the South,
the Central, has secured connection with its
important rival, the East Tennsssee, Virginia
and Georgia. It has just secured direct inde¬
pendent connection with Chattanooga and
the Wc st, and has the President of a fourth
railroad residing here and working
to its completion. With
its five white and three colored
ohurclies, it is now building a $10,000 new
Presbyterian ohnreb. It has increased its
opuiation by nearly onefifth. It has at-
racled around its borders fruit growers from
early every Hate in the Union, until it is
now surrounded on nearly every side by or-
hards am: rineyards. It is the home of the
rape an J its wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully
uaugurated a system of public schools, with
seven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
aud simply shows the progress of an already
mirable city, with the natural advantages
having the finest climate, summer and
nter, in the world.
Griffin is the county seat 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
i/OO people, and they are all of the right
oi l—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de-
irable settlers, who will not be any less wel-
ome if they bring money to help build up
the town. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and thut is 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 Griffin
News is published—daily and weekly—the
vest newspaper in the Empire State of the
G eorgia, Please enclose stamps in sending
for sample copies.
This brief sketch will answer July 1st,
18dB. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
changed to keep up with the times.
( I.GFtSSlONAL DIRECTORY
EAR’S COLLECTING AN1> PROTECTIVE AGENCY.
S. C. LEAK,
ATTORNEY AT Law,
Office, SIX Gill Street.
GRIFFIN, - - - - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to clerical work,
general law business and coilcclion of claims.
may9d&w8m
DR. JOHN L. STAPLETON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
GRIFFIN, ; : : : GEORGIA,
Office—FronY Room, up Stairs, News Build
ing. Residence, at W. H. Baker place on
calls, Poplar Street, Prompt attention ianSld&wthn given to
day or night.
D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LA W
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
Will Prompt attention given Courts, to all and business. when¬
praetice in all the
ever business calls.
J# Collections a specialty, aprGdly
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORN.EY AT LAW
UAMFTO.N, GEORGIA,
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. oct9d&wly
JNO. J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
WLite's Offioe, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, inar22d&wly over J. H
Clothing Store.
l< DISMUKU. N. SI. COLLINS
DISMUKE & COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
office,first room in Agricultural Building
•Stairs. marl-d&wtf
THOS. R. MILLS,
TTORNEY AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office, over George & Hartnett’s
a >rner. nov2-tf.
OH D. SrB WART. BOBr. T. DANIEL
STEWART & DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George & Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federa
ourts. ianl.
~
C. S. WRIGHT,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
Hill GRIFFIN, <3 Ay
Jr.. A Oo.v street, Up Stairs over J. H White
(JHIFFIN GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2 I8H8
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Elegantly furnished class rooms
new cottages for stndents.
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julyl2w4 President.
mTETTCI MUQ T* I ill A PET? Lt tb mer heronn-i on most G«*
I>. Rowell Co s Newspaper «S*8?
The Fariioos Traveler’s Tree.
One of tho greatest wonders of Mada¬
gascar, so famous for its luxuriant vege¬
tation, is the traveler’s tree (Ravenala
that Madagascariensis). Its stem resembles
of the plantain, with which it is
otherwise allied; but it sends out its wing
lik • leaves only on two opposite sides,
which resemble a largo expanded fan.
In an aged tree the lowest of these leaves
will bo from twenty to forty feet from
the ground, and on a vigorous trunk
there will generally be, at least, a score
of them with a bright emerald green
oblong blade from four to six feet iu
length.
The fruit grows irf bunches, containing
forty or fifty members, with three or four
such bunches to a tree. Each fruit mem¬
ber contains a quantity of the silkiest
fiber imaginable, of a purple tint enclos¬
ing thirty to thirty-five seeds. Tho leaves
aro used for roof thatching and tho leaf
stalks twirled together serve for the walls
of the islanders’ huts. But the most re-
markablo property of this tree, and the
one which gives it the distinctive appel¬
lation of Traveler’s treo, is its petioles,
which, even in the dryest seasons, always
contain water, and tho wayfarer, if ho be
thirsty, lias only to pierco the thick base
of a loaf stock, to obtain fully a quart of
a puro and refreshing liquid.—Hall’s
Journal of Health.
Respirations ami False Beats*
The duty of a medical examination for
a secret society is, indeed, a responsible
one. It is observed that some examiners
have favorite numbers, which they al¬
most uniformly use in making known
the number of respirations and tho num¬
ber of pulse beats. Ono examiner al¬
most always represents the number of
respirations to be nineteen, while
anothf generally makes twenty as
the number; another still clings
with persistent tenacity to sixteen. Sim¬
ilar statements might truthfully bo made
concerning the number of pulse beats
per minute. Some examiners seem fond
of high and others of low figures. Some
delight in making the standing pulse beat
the same as the sitting pulse beat, while
others make a wide difference in the;
pulse beats of these two attitudes. There
seems to bo no way of accounting for
these uniformly favorite inclinations ex¬
cept that examiners do not in all cases,
as they should, carefully and accurately
count the respiratory movements and tho
pulse.—Physician in Globe-Democrat.
Causes of Infectious Diseases.
Inquiries issued to twenty-eight medi¬
cal colleges elicit tho common response
that “most, if not all, infectious diseases
are caused by the growth of microscopic
organisms.” Tit as to making bacteri¬
ology a subject of study in tho publio
schools, thare was a wide difference of
opinion. But most of the medical schools
aro giving more or less attention to the
subject. It is very evident that, as soon
as possible, our physiology and when hygiene,
as taught in our colleges, it is
taught at all, should include the subject
of infection and the dangers from this
class of microscopic foe.s to life.
The battle for life is to be fought out
hereafter, not so much with wild ani¬
mals and huge monsters, but with ene¬
mies so minute as to escape all ordinary
means of detection. Science says “quite
a number of special bacteriological labora¬
tories are already established in connec¬
tion with our larger medical schools.” It
is clear enough that medical education
should include this subject, and in the
not distant future we shall all lie students
of medicine. ’ ’—Globe-Democrat.
A Corner Iu Bagging.
St. Louis, August 1.—George Tav
lor, a prominent St. Louis factor, is
authority for the statement that ihe
jute bagging manufacturers have
formed a poo), cr trust, and advanced
the prices of jute bagging from 7 to
11 ceuts per yard while there has
been no advanae iu the n)w material.
Mr. Taylor cculd not purchase such
stock a3 he wanted in St. Louis, and
telegraphed orders to Eastern manu
facturers and received a reply that
he had better purchase from Sfc.
Louis makers. Mr. Taylor claims
that the St, Louis manufacturers
were apprised of bis efforts to place
orders in the East, as soon as he re
ceived a reply declining to fill his or
der. Fifty million yards of this bag
ging are consumed per annum, and
the advance means an additional ex
penditure of §2,000,000 to consum
ere. St. Louis mills produce nearly
one half the product of the United
States.
Like the Light weights
f t he profession active in puguilitic, state of the health. kidneys The a
small but a
secretion rheumatism, contains gout and impurities dropsy, productive if allowed o t
remain. When they are inactive, the bloo
becomes chocked with animal debris capablo
of destroying life. To promote their activity
when sluggish with Rostetter’s Stomach Bi
ters, is not only to guard against the diseases
mentioned, but to prevent the fatty’ degene r
ations and ultimate destruction of the organ
by those exceedingly dangerous diabetes. maladies—
Brtgbt’s disease and Activity of
the bladder also insues it against the forma¬
tion of gravel, which it sometimes require.?
one of the most dangerous and painful oper
ntions in surgerp agonizing to remove. Gravel, more The
over, is a most complaint.
Bitters further commend themselves by
remedying constipation, dyspepsia, liver
complaint and nervousness, and nulify in¬
fluences productive of malarial disease.
AT THE EXPO!
THE WHOLE WORLD RUNNING TO
EXPOSITIONS.
Marvelous Displays of Invention,
Art, Eenterprise and
Merchandise.
Spotlit Correspondence News.
Cincinnati, July 30.—With tho
wonderful lack of expedition of the
mails, Ibis lotter will reach you prob
ably about the time we start back
to Griffin, which will be a couple of
days beuce. I will thus have an op
portnnity to read the proof.
The Cincinnati exposition, which
we have been doing pretty thorough
ly, is a big thing, covering, unlike
other affairs of tho kind, both land
and vfater. For the commissioners,
finding terra apace insufficient,
covered a portion of the canal run
ning through tho city with their
buildings. To describe the oxposit
ion would be not only impossible,
but what is more, nnintciesting.
For what is au exposition but an ex
position, and who by this time has
not seen expositions? Since the
great crystal palace world’s expo
sition of England, for twenty years
the world has been running to these
exhibitions of the varied and re
sourcefnl products of States and
nations. In 1876 it was argued that
a trip to the Centennial at Philadel
phia and a careful study of the ex
hibits there made would be equal iu
educational effect to several
years journeying among tho dif
ferent nations there represented.
It was a yery useful object lesson,
doubtless, aud tho kindergarten—
which. WO'saw in operation in Ciucin
nati—is a good system of education
for iufants—but it doen’t teach tho
higher mathematics. It is manners,
custorm, costumes, habits, soil,
thoughts and inhabitants that mark
the dffierencts between countries
and sections of countries. AU these
are not seen at expositions.
One of the main artcles of Arneri
can production and invention is uu
chinery iu all its varied, complicated
and perfect forme, from the apple
parer to the lithographic printing
press, atcl the great halls are there
fore always given to this department.
But there is nothing amusing
about machinery, though at one end
of machinery hall waa a Foss Scheni
der exhibit (bat did receive a full
and card i! investigation at our
hands,and indeed if seemed the center
of interest for alt who came inside
the gates.
Through all ibis array of the mar
vels of the adorn non of the nine
teenth century, a lone mule occas
sionally pursues his patient way,
towing after him the day dawn of
this progress in the way of a canal
boat.
Charles Dudley Warner gives a
very fair description of Cincinnati
in the last number of Harpers Mast
zine, probably portraying it as well
as any one could in tho time that
was at his command for investiga
tion and the space allowed for she
article. It is unnecessary to add
anything more to this at present
than to inf'.roi tho Ness readers
that Joe Fi id, as he stood upon the
heights of :h-3 Highland nr; . .;J
cast a wondering glance upon the
vast array i f houses upon which the
last rays of the Setting sun were
struggling to throw a faint light
through the curtailing smoko of the
myrids of manufactories, said it wa3
the b’ggest thing he ever saw.
I always thought it was a burlesque
on Cincinnati culture that jokes
should be perpetrated upon the
fondness for beer and sausage among
the “best society;” bat actually the
lasU thing that we heard was the
cry of ‘‘wiener wurst” by refresh
meat fiends among the audience at
a very good performance of the
“Mikado.” As this was up on one
JUST RECEIVED FINE ASSORTMENT
Of Teas of all Kinds!
Fresli Hummer Chesse just in.
Ice Cured Bellies, fresh aud line.
C-W. Clark & Son.
the hdl tops, of course it was
the highest classes. D. G.
FROM FLAT SHOALS,
C’oiidilioii of Cotton Jt’rop, anil Ollier
Local Items.
F.mt Shoals, Ga.. July 31. —
Farmers are now through laying by
are spending the time in cut
ing watermelons and fishing.
Messrs Hartnett and Freeman
their hands an old fashioned
barbecue on Saturday, which was en
by them. They killed and
cooked five carcases and prepared
them in the best style possible. I
will say I never saw anything of the
kind gotten up in such magnificent
style. The seasonings was all of
the best, and after all were through
eating there remained on the tables
enough for as many more. I don’t
remember ovrr seeing anything pass
off as quietly. They have the best
crop that has been on the place for
a number of years, and I doubt
whether there was ever as good a
crop on the same land at the same
time of year or not.
F. K. Underwood, has common
ced work oh his new house.
Jesse Brown will soon have his
magnificent residence completed.
The Presbyterians, of xrountville,
Troup county, meeting will com
menceon the 2d of August, and will
continue for several days. Every¬
body is invited.
Neal Station on the G. m. & G.
RE. will have two cotton buyers
this fall. It will be quite a con
venienoe to the farmers in east sreri
wether. The buyers will come from
and Atlanta. Now can’t
not buy all tho cotton that
to Neal?
There will be a great deal of cot
brought to Neal this fall. There
about 400 tons of guano sold
last spring, and 100 or 150
more could have been sold.
A. T. Copeland is making some
on his home, near
and also at his home near
Shoals.
Mrs. A T. Copeland and children
recovered.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Copeland re,
home today after a weeks
to their son, A. T. Copeland,
the Shoals.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Freeman re
home yesterday, after spend
a week at the Shoalp,the guests
Messrs. Hartnett and Freeman.
T. J. Williamson thinks ho will
through threshing in 10 or 12
. Ho says wheat has been
i, ed by the rust till there is but
.ell matured grains in any crop
Tie only way a planter can get
belongs to him is to have the
grains taken up and put in
which makes a good cow food,
no good.
The negroes had a Sunday school
Saturday, and they
the time very quietly for so
a crowd. There were between
aud 10m > present.
On Sunday the funeral of the
negroes that were killed on the
& West Point RE , last
was preached at Bash ctapel,
cl arch at Neal, and there were i
’2,5' ) and 3,500 present
. :i i there was no disturbances
iLom. Everything passed
quietly,
J. A. McKnight, is having a hand
stairway built, which will add
his already magnificent residence.
Cotton has commenced to open
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NUMBER 1(1
and if the seasons are favorable,
th< r j will be a good deal picked in
the next 30 days. T, W,
Elder W, Z. Gardner’* Trip.
Orchard Hill, Ga., July 30, 188i.
Editor News— Having failed to write
yon every week while on my trip for the
want of time, for it was travel nn<l work
almost contiunausly, and now I say to
yon and your many readers that I arm
cd at home today and found atl well for
which I feel thankful to tho giver of
every blessing, that lie has so remem
bered my loved ones, as well as myself,
in so much mercy.
As to my trip, I was well all the time
that I was gone (24 days) and I feel
much improved.
In my last I stated about the fine tim
ber, hills and mountainBs in Clay *oouc
ty, Ala. I left that conn tv reluctantly
the 22nd inst,, going by v ? of the nar
row gnage road know Silaooga
and Aniston road wl t through
Talidaga Valey. Tlu m . saw some as
fine corn as I have over seen grow, al
though th a corn and cotton are both two J
or three weeks later than oars, the out
look bids fair for a good yield and while
it is trne that I fell in love with that
people, especially the Primitive Baptist,
I like old Georgia the best. I arrived
in Aniston on the same day and I here
state that I am satisfied chat no one
would regret paying that great manafa*
taring city a visit. I left there on the
23d 12:30 p.m., for Talipoosa, Ga., near
where my work commenced. The ‘24th I
traveled through Carroll county hi the
brethren had arranged and met with
many. I went np in Douglas county
one evening, by special request, and
met a good congregation, some of them
never having heard bat one Primitive
Baptist preacher preach before, so I was
told by an old citixen of- that section.
I thought they were the easiest people
pleased that I ever met with.
Tho crops of both corn aud cotton
promiee a fine yield in those counties,
though they aro later by two woeks than
ours.
In all my travel of near five hundred
miles I found no pjaco like home for the
following reasons: This section is more
level and tho crops are better and we
can and.do cultivate a crop with one
third less labor. I might give other
reasons, bnt tho above we think saf
ficicnt (for myself at least). I tract
that none of yonr readers will think me
partial, if so I will say to them to inves
tlgate for themselves os I have done and
they will find I am about correct.
I saw the longest potato rows while in
Alabama that I ever did see. I was to
struck with the lengto of them that X
concluded to step them, to see how long
potato rows grew in the State of Alt
bama. I found them to be 304 steps
long. They were of the yellow yam va
riety, such as I raise here; in fact I ship
ped the seed from Orchard Hill lost
spring was a year. So much for the
Gardner yam, as it is called in yonr city,
in Alabama a3 well as in Georgia,
wfiieq is the best yam in my opinion
anywhere.
Ever wishing success to tne News, I
remain yonr humble servant.
W- Z. Harder.
The Little Huckleberry
that grows alongside our hills aad moa
tains contains an active principle th
has a happy effect on the bowels, Hack
enters Cordial, largely in Dr. Biggera’
harry the great bowel remedy
Pure ami rich, possessing all the not) itiont
properties of Malt, Chase’s Barley Malt
Whisky is a perfect Tonic for building up
the system. George <k Harnett sole agent#
for Griffin.
Dutcher’s Fly Killer!
CERTAIN DEATH.
squirreig, No hunting with powder them. and gnn No as ling¬ for
only to to gtnpify
ering death on the death on the sticking plaa
ter. Flies seek it, drink aad are.
• KILLED OUTRICHT
humanely, freely. so quickly they reproduction, cannot get away.
Use it Prevent ask secure
serene ptace and qniet. Always fo
DUTCHER’S.
Per Sale Everywhere.
July* dAwlin