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THE MOST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MOREY ! ; -J*? . W V, k ... . STORE, E. R. ANTHONY’S DRUC HEAIX*CABTE*S FOB DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PAINTS, OIZJS, TABXIiam ETC. •, Perfume* ui Toilet Ar- • 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. Iuoe27dAwtf 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. «► -♦ ■ --- The many remarkable cures Hood’s Sarsa parillo does accomplishes j.eculiac are sufficient curative proof that it powers pow¬ ers, . (4j '............. r ~-;-^”7^ 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 .. - .....~ J* ' --- 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 ! ---jo;- BILLS SAWED TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE GOOD BRICK FOR ALL BUILDING PURPOSES. -t»:- 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 -Jot- E. Jr REED «£ CO.’S Ladies" Fine Shoes! EXTENSION SOLES. LI X z c Li CO z o o 70 m 2 GO o o GUARANTEED It will cost you notiiing to try a pair of these Shoes, 1811 l )er * oe ^ satisfactory money will he refunded Scheuerman & White.