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THE MOST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MOREY !
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E. R. ANTHONY’S DRUC
HEAIX*CABTE*S FOB
DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PAINTS,
OIZJS, TABXIiam ETC.
•, Perfume* ui Toilet Ar-
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R. Jr DEANE,
PHOTOGRAPHER.
PICTURE FRAMES MADE TO ORDER.
BE” Old Pktare*, Copied *od MtaJar&ed.
AT DREWRY’S DRUG STORE
-YOU WILL FIND--
THE BEST TURNIP SEED
At 25 and 30 cent# • pound, from Eastern Jtrower*. Plant theta
•
while there arc good Chill Nmom Remedy .
(ST An infallible Cordial djr*pep*u end Lirer Com-
’ Vrewrf’t Peptic will cure JaiyldAw-tf
WrlBn, U*., Aligns! 12.
ICE CREAM SALOON.
On Tneaday morning I willojtn up the
•oom* over SUlwcIl A Keith'*, where furnwrly will oc-
•qpied by Mr*. M. R. Brown, I
>e prepared to furnish to all
ICE CREAM AM) CAKE,
of the best quality by the dish or quantity,
end Invite the patronage of ail my friends.
Open from 10 a. m, te 7p. m. every day,
arid a* night* to be atmunnoed later.
Ice Cream, Sherbet and Cake of all kind*
made to order in any qantlty oa short notice.
Julyl.VJJ Beapee MRS. Molly, IDA JUDKINS.
wlrn
SMOKE!
Ocr Jtrspja Paktxkk, the best Ci
gar in tbe market. Bol<l by nil lead
iog dealers in Qriffia- L. Cohen &
Co , Sole Ageots. Macon, Ga,
augftJ.Trn
So. 51 Hill for Rent.
Possession given September 1-
Apply lo
ang8-2w W. H. DISMUKK.
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA.
Notice to the Traveling Public.
The best and cheapest passenger
route to New York and Boston is
ria Savannah and elegant Steamers
thence. Passengers before purclias
iog tickets via other routes would do
well to inquire first of the merits of
the route via Savannah, by which
they will avoid dnst and a tedious
all-rai! ride, Ilate3 inclade meals
and stateroom on Steamer.
Round trip tickets will be placed
on sale June 1st, good to return un
til Oct. 31 B t, New York Steamer
■ails trUweekly. Boston Steamer
weekly from Savannah'
For farther information apply to
any agent of this Company, or to
E. T. Charlton, Q. P. A.
C. G. Anderson, Savannah, Ga:
Ag't Steamer,
Savannah, Ga.
DOG EAT DOG !
-lot-
Nelson the Atlanta Rank man worked his
•onlldlug the customer* for'fiill they were worth”
and
“Flashy Dressed Female”
worked him for nil he waa worth, and the
DEVIL will work both of them for nil they
arc worth, and the
“Way of the Transgressor is Hard”
and the
“MILL DOES GRIND AGAIN”
with the water that i* past. Speaking of
mill* reminds us that we have instructed our
miller to grind more carefully and we expect
FINER AND BETTER MEAL
hereafter. We have on hand and on the w»y.
Several Cars White CORN.
One Car C. R. Sides.
** “ Nice Hay.
«i Clioino ICettlo Lard :-
now in atore in Tierces. Now is time to
buy few all these things will be higher priced in
a days.
SOAPS! SOAPS 1! SOAPS!1
We have also a consignment, of Laundry
So.-.p and it will pay merchants to get our
price*. Remember we sell to dealer* only,
and esu alway duplicate Atlanta, Macon, or
Colombo* price*. No if you want ANY¬
THING call or wr.te'for price-*, ns we repre -
sent manufacturer*.
BREWER & HANLEITER.
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A SHIPMENT FINEST IMPORTED
Que Placer” Cigars!
GRAND REPUBLIC CIGAROS.
And Buffos. Full Dress Cigarettes. Fine Cream Cheese. Lemons still 25
etots- White Head Cabbage. Breads and Cakes every day.
BLAKELY
’ROOD ABOUT.
Mutter. ( .BMnUas r##pl* »•<
mr»l Itwt
THE mw« S! lot Ek.
The rapturous .spirit which did cheer the
earth passed
With springtime revelry hath away.
And Nature's harp, that knew the touch of
mirth— song-loving , .
Who liketh well the young,
Hath found a grave musician that doth play and
With languid hand, half mournfully
The music of the Summer’s waning day* flow,
Beside the streams, wherein no waters
The soft refrain, disconsolate and low.
doe* wandering idly, like some soul astray—
That sighs for rest and know s not where
to go.
1 he w eary spirit of the Summer turn*
To ieck the dim land of lorgetlnlaeaa:
Too deep within her breast the fever bums.
Too late the cooling rains shall come to
bless.
The mercury stood at 88 yesterday.
night Geo. L. Cope, Jr , leaves for Savannah to- j
A. C.Dunbar, of Biooks Station, wa* here
yesterday.
Capt, S. Grat!Hand ha- returned from a
visit to New York,
Mi#B Rallle Kinard. of Tovraiiga^waa shop-
ping in Griffin yeiterdsy.
Col. D. J, Bailey, 8r s family left last
nigh' for the Uhautanqua.
Capt. J. 11. and Robert Mitchell, of Zebu-
Ion, were in the city yesterday.
J. W. Dur bar, of Hollonviile, spent jester
day iu the city and reports crops needing
rain-
Dr. Beecher returned borne yesterday
from North Georgia, much improved in
health.
Mr*. E. W. Hammond, Mrs. M. R Brown
and Col Womack will spend the day at Salt
Springs.
Mr. and Mr*. B. C. Randall went over to
Indian Spring* yesterday for a week’s rest
and recreation.
Col. 8. W, Blood worth leaves this morning
to attend the agricultural convention at >'ew
nau on Tuesday,
Mrs. Lizzie V. Dance, of Richmond, Tex.,
i* visiting here, the guest of Mrs. A. J. Clark
and Miss Fannie Allen.
At a meeting of the Spalding Coouty Ag¬
ricultural Society yesterday evening H. C.
Brown was elected a member.
Mrs. Lizzie Winsliip and children, who
have been visiting Mrs. Cha*. Mills, return
»J to Macon yesterdny evening.
Miss FalUe Burke, of Liberty Hill, who
says a single number of the Weekly News is
worth fifty cents, was in the city yesterday.
Miss Neva Alexander, vrho lias been visit¬
ing relatives in McDonough, passed through
Griffin yesterday enroute to her home in
Thomaston.
At the negro mass meeting yesterday Luke
Evans was nominated for the legislature.
Luke is almost too dark complected to suit
this county
Captain Pierce Horne, of Dalton, is spend
ing a few days wish his father Major J. U.
Horne. He will attend the convention at
Newnnn on Tuesday.
“I dou’t know what makes some folk* call
some days in August Dog Days,"said apreeo
cious.small boy the other morning, “unless
it is because the day* are so doggone long
*ud hot.’’
Mrs D, W. Armstrong, of Richmond,
Texas, and Mrs. G. IV. Mattox, of Ogle¬
thorpe Co., Ga., hare been on a visit to Mrs.
T, 8. Allen and Miss M. A. Tarver near the
city—a pleasant reunion of four sisters for
the first time in Do years.
The tweet potato -rop at the present bids
fair to make a large yield. It is strange that
farmers do not pay more attention to this
crop as it yields largely, and nothing raised
on the farm is more toothsome than a Gedr
gia yam
Thr comer stone of the new cotton factory
building at New nan will be laid next Tues¬
day afternoon, with imposing, ceremonies,
Masonic and otherwise. Grand Master Da-
vidson, of Augusta, is expected to be present
and will conduct the Masonic ceremonies.
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The many remarkable cures Hood’s Sarsa
parillo does accomplishes j.eculiac are sufficient curative proof
that it powers pow¬
ers, . (4j
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CONCERNING SUDDEN DEATH
iu 2 « * Creview rw»»ew*y Att*tfc«t*d «® **•
CittlMKM o* Mni v r v Life.
pci bap* sodden death may be «* <rf
the penal ties which we have to p" r for
a highly advanced dvIBzatioo. The
feverish excitement, the inwiwant effort
necessary to support existence, which is
to many men a sea that haa no haven, a
tlial know* no lafl, must inevit¬
tell, one may reasonably suppose, the on
heart's action, if a man escapes
forms at nervous derangement result of
Sudden death, whether the
agencies so subtle that they evade
pwii or so iiisklXMa that they an*
pajo prognosis by suddenly and unex¬
terminating life, is becoming so
that it forms one of the distinct¬
features of modem pathology. The
in which it commonly appears chscore now
be said to he the result of
affections, and it was compara¬
more rare, both in ancient times
amt i - forefathers, compared
its f reser.; -qaaocy.
Doric- he r er and even the me¬
oc si of the Christian era, sud¬
deou. .va* regarded with especial
an.: in tie litany of the Anglican
is represented as beading the list
the most terrible calamities incident to
In pagan antaqmtr, on the
hand, a sudden death was held
be the crown of the blessings that
could bestow on man. The
represented Death as a pleasing, of
being, while their conceptions
after life were giocany. indiffer¬
Socrates regarded death as "an
accident.” !'•:-! depends on the
u: .eh death presents
as well as the state of man's con¬
and the condition, erf his worldly
As years roll on death becomes
and less dreaded. Aged people Julius gen¬
leave life without regret
is eaid to have wished for sudden
but be said eo jbst before he was
and when the mission of ti3 life
been accomplished, Charles II could
to h. - courtiers tat being such,
“unconscic i . ?time in dying.” Vol¬
and Hut . nd Rousseau weighed
and con* .-. t sudden death, and
to sum up in its favor, but such
subject is sorry matter either for epi¬
or rhetoric.
In nine cases out of ten death Is a
— -—- - ,
the'tSeriS^hkh
the summons of many of its terrors;
often entails embarrassment and mis¬
by cutting off ail opportunity of
testatory arrangements, thereby
a direful legacy of feud and
to families who might have
in harmony. practical it
The moral, and a very one
is that the increasing frequency of
deaths is to be regarded with
softened by a hope that med¬
science may bo able to arrest it3
and that a proper regard for
domestic responsibilities will induce
men not to continue to defer the
arrangement of theiraffairs which
seconds may make too late.
The three men whose lives, tempera¬
and habits were peculiarly typical
the times in which we live were un¬
Lord Macaulay, William Make¬
Thackeray and Charles Dickens.
three men, renowned writers, and
a master of his art, all died com¬
young, and all died suddenly,
the first two of heart disease. Death
upon them, not with slow and
steps, but without note of
Apparently there was a pain¬
passing from time into eternity.
Look at the -work these men did. Ma¬
had already won high reputation
prose and poetry at the age of 23, and
famous article on Milton, which at
won him a reputation as a essayist,
his subsequent performances in that
merely confirmed, was published be¬
ho was 25 years old.
Macaulay for over thirty years had
lives, a3 it were. He was a politi¬
lie was a man of letters, he was a
of society; a great debater and a
working official; a distinguished
voluminous author; a diner out
company was sought for his con¬
by all who could obtain it
brain work in parliament and in a
library is scarcely compatible with
dinners and breakfasts which,
delicacies of food and wine, were al¬
as bad as the dinners.
Thackeray and Dickens suffered greatly
the same cause. They were free
they loved society. These two
an immense quantity of literary
Thackeray scarcely fell off in
of execution, hardly in construc¬
to the last “Denis Duval,” a
which he left incomplete, promised
be as good as any of its predecessors
“Vanity Fair,” which is its au¬
best work. Dickens was far more
in his latter work. “Our Mu¬
Friend” is a performance more am¬
than able, with a heavy, involved
and the half of “Edwin Drood”
has been published is not good
to make any reader wish for
of it Dickens overworked himself
paralysis gavo him warning, un¬
not heeded, and the end came
A very elegant writer, in a beautifully
essay entitled “Erroneous No¬
of Death Reproved," observes; “In
it is thought that this final
passes with some dreadful visita¬
of unknown agony over the depart¬
sufferer 11 is imagined that there is
strange and mysterious reluctance
the spirit to leave the body; that it
long to retain its hold, and is at
torn with violence from its mortal
and, in flue, that this conflict
the soul and the liody greatly
to the pangs of tiie dissolution. But
may be justly presumed from what
apjx .rrs that there is no particu¬
nor acute suffering, not more than js
experienced during life, nay, rather
there is less, l*cauae tiie very powers
suffering are enfeebled, the very capa¬
of pain are nearly exhausted.”
Death is to be regarded rather as a
than a conflict of our faculties; it is
body's repose after the busy
toilsome day of life. —Cor. Troy
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I»o£Ti* Old Masters.
It is estimated that nt least 500 coun¬
of the old masters, each of which
been purebased at a big price, are
in the galleries of the United
^TouTweTohj^',
j of Its homes superior for excellence than proven quarter in ef millions a cen
more a
tury. It isnsed by the United States Gov¬
ernment. Endorsed by the beads of the
Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest
and most Healthful. Dr. Price's Cream
Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia,
Lime, or .Alum. Sold only in Cans.
PRICE BAKING POWDER CO.
SEW TOBK, CHICAGO. ST. nOUIS.
d4ffaw8tbp,top eol.nrm
INCREASE IN NUMBER
—, OF y—
Supreme Conrt Judges.
A PROCLAMATION
By 10HN B. GORDON, Governor of
Georgia.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Atlanta. July 28th, 188s. of
W/HEREAS, f f 1SSB-1887 passed The General the following Assembly Act, in
accordance with the requirements of the Con
stitution. in reference to amendments of
that instrument:
An Act to amend Far. I of Sec. II of Article
VI of the Constitution of this State, so as
to increase the number of Judge* three of the
Supreme Court of this State from to
five, to consist of a Chief Justice and four
Associate Justices.
Section I. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is
hereby enacted by authority of the same.
That the Constitution of this State be amend
ed by 5 adding after the words “Chief Jus¬
tice, ’ in II, the 2nd line VI, cf the 1st paragraph “and of
section article thereof the words,
four Associate Justices,'’ in lieu of the words
in said line, “and two Associate Justices,”
so that said paragraph when amended shall
read:
Justice The Supreme and four Court shall consist Justices. of a A Chief
Associate tea
jority of II. the Be court shall constitute enacted, a quorum. when
Sec. it further that
ever the above proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall 'elected be agreed to by two-thirds
of the members to each of the two
llonses of the General Assembly, the Govern
or shall, and he is hereby said' authorized and in
struated, to cause amendment to be
Congressional published in at District least two newspapers this in each
in State for the
period of two months next preeeeding the
time of holding the next general election.
Sek. III. Be it further enacted. That the
above proposed amendment aliall be submit¬
ted, for ratification or rejection to the elec¬
tors of this Stote at the next general elec¬
tion to be held after publication as provided
for in the second section of this Act, in sev¬
eral election districts of this State, at which
election every person shall be entitled to
vote for members of the General Assembly.
AH persons voting at said election in favor
of adopting the proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall have written or printed on
their ballots the words, “For ratication of
the amendment of Paragraph 1, Section II,
of Article VI of the Constitution,” and all
persons opposed to the adoption of said
amendment shall have written or printed on
their ballots the words, “Against ratifica¬
tion of the amendment of Paragraph 1# of
Section II, of Article VI of the Constitn-
tion.''
Sec. IV- Be it further enacted, That the
Governor be, and hereby authorized and di¬
rected to provide for the submission of the
amendment proposed in the first section of
this act to a vote of the people, as required
by the I, Constitution of this State, in Par. I,
Sec. of Article XIII, and by this Act, and
V ratified, the Governor shall, when he ascer¬
tains sneli ratification from the Secretary of
State, to whom the returns shall be referred,
in the same manner as in case of elections
for members of the General Assembly, to
count and ascertain the result, issue his proc¬
lamation for the period of thirty days an¬
nouncing such result and declaring the
amendment ratified.
Sec. V. If the amendment to the Constitu¬
tion, provided by this Act, shall be agreed
to by the General Assembly, and ratified by
the people, as provided by the Constitution
and by this Act, then it shall be the duty of
the General Assembly of this State, eonven
ing next after such ratification, to proceed to
elect (after the proclamation of the Govern¬
or, provided in section four of this Act,)two
additional Associate Justices of the Supremo
Court, who shall ho.d said office for six years
from the first day of January, 1889, and un
til their successors are elected and qualified.
Sec. VI. Be it further enacted, That all
laws and parts of laws in eontlict with this
Act be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Now, Approved October 22d, 1887.
of therefore, said I, John B. Gordon, Gov¬
ernor hereby State, do isstio this my Procla¬
mation delaring that tire foregoing
submitted proposed amendment to the Constitution is
for ratification or rejection to the
voters of the State qualified to vote for mem¬
bers of the General Aasembiy at tlia general
election to be held on Wednesday, October
3d, 18SS, as provided in said Act.
JOHN B. GORDON,
James T. Nisbet, Governor.
Secretary Executive Department.
S K. SANGIAM i SONS
hum igsiicj,
CRIFFIN , CEORCIA
Strongest Companies,
Lowest Rates,
Prompt Settlements
L, C. AY COCK,
-Practical Gunsmith,-
Clark Building, Near Osborn’s Shops,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
All work attended to promptly ahdexecu
ed in thorough and worKmanlike manner.
jnlySdAw-tt
HAVE MOVED BACK TO
Our: Old : Place!
With full line new goods. the farm Come to
us. Fresh melons from eveiy
J. H. Keith ft Co
W. O. WILKINSOtJ
---^ DEALER IN }■
Lumber, Ms and Lat
DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS.
---to*-
DRESSED AND MATCHED LUMBER
A SPECIALTY !
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BILLS SAWED TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE
GOOD BRICK FOR ALL BUILDING PURPOSES.
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Yard and Office on West Side of Hill street, along Central Railroad,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
jnlyllddiwZm
W. M. Holman & Co.
-HAVE FRESH--
Mpriiolia -> Hams,
Cooked Corned Beef 12^ c. per ib. Blue Fish, better fhan fresh Mackerel
Sweet Water Flour. Water Ground Meat. All grades Sullivan's Tobaecos
And the
BEST LINE OF CIGARS IN THE CITY.
H. w. Hassiis, -j MANUFACTURER >-
—ASP—
DEALER IN 5—
LEATHER AND FINDINGS.
SJS Hill Street, ... GRIFFIN, GA
I oiler at and BELOW COST an excellent lot of LOW CUT Gents’ and Ladies
Shoes II. W. HASSELKC3.
X: S. ADLER & CO.’S
MEN’S FINE SHOES!
Positively
Guaranteed
OR KOiVEY REFUNDED!
We have just received a full line ol ADLER’S”
line Shoes f or nen, in many noby styles. These shoes
need no m: ’ f praise. We have sold them for the
past four i i rs under a guarantee that no one else
gives and they have given entire satisfaction.
I
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Ladies" Fine Shoes!
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It will cost you notiiing to try a pair of these Shoes,
1811 l )er * oe ^ satisfactory money will
he refunded
Scheuerman & White.