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VOLUME 17
Griffin, Ga.
Griffin is the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro¬
gressive town in Georgia. This is no hyper 1 -
jK)lieai description, as the record of the last
foe years will show.
Paring that time It has built aud put into
most successful operation a $100,000 cotton
getory and Is now building another with
nearly twice the capital. It has put up a
l» gc iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac¬
tory, an immense ice and bottling works, a
atth’and blind factory, granite a broom factory in the
opened up the finest quarry
l/Tited State*, and has many It other has secured enter¬
prises in .ontemplation.
another. dilroad ninety miles long, and while
ooatca on the greatest system in the South,
the Central, has secured connection with its
important rival, the East Tennsssee, Virginia
and Georgia. Ithasjust secured direct inde¬
pendent connection with Chattanooga and
the Wi st, and has the Presidenfof a fourth
railroad residing here and working
to its ultimate completion. With
to five white and three colored
churches, it is now building a $10,000 new
Presbyterian chnroh. It has increased its
population by nearly one-fifth. It has at-
traeied around its borders fruit growers from
nearly every State in the Union, until it is
HOW surrounded on nearly every side by or¬
chards an 1 vineyards. It is the home of the
grape an l its wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully
inaugurated a system of public schools, with
a seven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the reoord of a half decade
and simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
of having the finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
Uritllnis the county seat of Spalding
county, situated in west Middle Georgia, with
* healthy, fertile and tu.'.'.ng country, 1150
Sect above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at a low estimate between 6,000 and
7,000 people, aud they are all of the right.
Bort—wide-awake, up to the tiinee, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de-
lirahle settlers, who will not be any less wel¬
come if they bring monsy to help build up
the town. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that 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 n hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin. where the Griffin
GrUfin is the place
Hews is published—daily and weekly—the
nest newspaper iri the Empire State of the
Georgia, Please enclose stamps in sending
for sample copies.
This brief sketch will answer July 1st,
1888. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
(hanged to keep up with the times.
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
HEADQUARTERS and Protective
Leak’s Collecting Georgia.
Agency of
GRIFFIN, ------- GEORGIA.
S. G. LEAK, Manager.
tif”Bend your claims to S. G. Leak and
correspond only with him at headquarters. for
Cleveland & Beck, Resident may9d&w8m Attorneys
Grinin. _
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
A 1TOR N.E Y AT LAW
UAMPTON, GEORGIA.
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. oct9d&wly
JNO. J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GRIFFIN, GEOBGIA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H
White's Clothing' Store. mar22d<fcwiy
l>. D1SMUKE. N. M. COLLINS
DISMUKE A COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
o.lice,first room in Agricultural Building
Stairs. marl-dJfcwtf
i.THOS. R. MILLS,
TTORNEY AT LAW.
GRIFFIN, GA. Federal
Will practice in the State and
Courts. Office, over George & Hartnett’s
jorner. nov2-tf.
os d. srswiur. ajar, t. da niel
STEWART & DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George <fc Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federa
ourts. ianl.
C. S. WRIGHT,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
GRIFFIN, GA.
Hill Street, Up Stairs over J. H. White
r., A Co.’s.
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D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
Will <) unapt attention given to all business.
practice in all the Courts, and where
e v*r b usiness calls.
HT Collections a specialty. apr6dl y
or. P. NICHOLS,
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twenty-five years of Republican wastefulness
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government a miser, wringing millions an
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ST.JOHN’S COLLEGE—. Fordhaw,
,Hcw York
This College enjoys the powers of a Uni¬
versity and is conducted by the Jesuit Fath
ers. ft is situated in a very beautiful part
part of New York County between thellar-
lem R. & L. I. Sound. Every facility Mid is Com¬ giv¬
en for the. best Classical, Scientific
mercial Education. Board and Tuition per
Year $300. Studies re-open Wednesday,
September 5th, IS8S.
8t. John’s IIall, a Preparatory Bebool for
Boys from 10 to 12, is under the same direc¬
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John Scully, S. J., Pres. aug\6d*wlm
OPIUM ns :
People Cnscepflblo to Hypnotism.
Persons of a nervous constitution, and
In particular those subject to hysteria,
are most apt to fall ifito artificial sleep.
There is t hen produced in them a j>ecu
liar neurosis, hypnotism, having psvchi
cal and physical characters of its own—a
genuine disease presenting a diversity of
symptoms. Hence hypnotic phenomena
ought not to be called forth rashly nor
without the precautions suggested by
medical science. Women are specially
susceptible to hypnotic manipulation, par¬
ticularly during the-period between the
18th and the -.'iOt’i.pwr, when the ner¬
vous system bo is in full activity. Young
men difficult may hypnotized, but it is very
to produce hypnotic sleep in old
men or in children. Persons who in early
life are subject to natural somnambulism
or sleep walking are later in life good
hypnotic subjects, just as they are also
likely to be victims of hysteria and other
nervous complaints.
Many are the processes employed for
producing hypnosis. One that is very
frequently used consists in fixing the gaze
■upon above some bright object placed a little
the eyes and.iu front of the median
line of the forehead, so that visual fatigue
directed may ensue quickly, tho eyeballs being
upward and inward. This pro¬
cess, or others of a like kind, may lie em¬
ployed in the case of persons who have
never before been hypnotized. But after
awhile, when the subject has, so to speak,
been educated, various more expeditious
methods may be employed. Thus a jet
of electric light or a violent blow struck
en a gong near the ear of the subject will
quickly induce sleep. Again, in hypno-
tizablo persons, tho surface of the body
often presents special-points, “hypnogenio
zones, ” as they are called, analagous to
the ‘‘hysterogenic zones.”. Simple pres¬
sure upon these produces hypnosis.
Even in tho case of the most susceptible
individuals rarely does sleep appear when
they, for the first time, undergo the hyp¬
notizing manipulations, however skilled
tho operator may be. There is needed a
complete surrender of one’s will and ab¬
sence of all mental preoccupation, and
on the part of the company present abso¬
lute silence. In m 9 st cases exhibitions
of hypnotization develop, at first, only
vague phenomena not easily classified,
foreshadowing, so to speak, what will
follow later.—North American Review.
A Flunky Frontier ‘Woman.
On the plains, in Assiniboin, I found a
little lady in the larger of the only two
stores in the place, who told me that the
Indians on a reservation close by had
begun to grow restless, and were mani¬
festing tho fact by unusual insolence.
Only the day before a dozen of the bravos
had come into the store, when she was
stark alone in it, and had demanded
whisky, a commodity they were not al¬
lowed to touch and no one was permitted
to sell. She told them she had none,
and they sat, as Indians will, for a long
time, us if to show her they would not
go away until they got it. Curiously
enough, no one came to the store from
the settlement. By and by the Ir dians
proposed to search for the whisky. She
laughed at them and told them they
Could search. They did so, peeping and
poking everywhere that they could think
of. When they offered to go up stairs
to her living apartments, she stood in the
doorway and told them they must not
venture there. She flattened her back
against the door and defied them. height,
She was less than the ordinary
and did not weigh over 100 pounds, but
she quailed them with the eye of a brave
and determined woman, and when, pres¬
ently, some white men came to make
purchases the Indians took themselves
off. Only a few nights before that this
same woman had seen a wolf in her
back yard, and had gone out and
“shooed’’ it away with her apron and
scolding, just as one of our girls might I
do to a cat. I never saw a man that
thought more plucky than she. Per¬
haps, though, what no Indian or woll
could do might 1?e done by a mouse. But
it is beyond all reason to expect the
bravest not to fear a mouse.—Albany
Fair Journal.
Swiss and French Soldiers.
There is very little contrast between
the Swiss and French soldier. Both wre
below the stature of the German, Eng¬
lish and American soldier; inferior intel¬
lectually and physically. The which Swiss war*
rior wears a cap helmet, makes
him look at once lijie a member of a
rural band in America. It is of black
cloth, with deep blue trimmings and
with black silk braid about the edges.
The front is cocked and the rear slopes
and has the helmet brim. He wears a
navy blue cutaway coat, dark gray pan¬
taloons, and each is decked with a very
narrow red cord. At his side is a short,
heavy sword always. His side arms are
completed by a five-shot 42-calibre re¬
volver, heavy enough to bo used as a
bludgeon in close quarters. Also, like the
French soldier, the Swiss is armed with a
magazine needle gun, and i8 given so
much active training that he is invariably
* fair marksman. In this, as nearly all
continental armies, there is by govern¬
ment authority an inducement for sol¬
diers to become fine marksmen. But
the pay of the continental soldier is so
low and generally his service so nearly
menial that he takes little interest in what
he does. The pay is about one-fourth
that of the American soldier and less than
half of that paid the English.—Cor. Phila-
adelphiA Times.
Admiral Iloroby says that F.ngland
would require at least 180 cruisers to
protect her merchant vessels from the
enemy’s cruisers, and that she has but
forty-two.
Meteorites are said to sometimes at¬
tain a velocity of 180.000 fee. jar sec¬
ond.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS!
tiie -Most improved plan for
LIGHTING tiie cm.
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A Charter Applied for and Steps Taken
to Make Griffin the Best Light¬
ed Town In tteergla.
Iq another column will be found
the petition of W. J. Kincaid, J. M.
Browner, S. Grantland, A. Randall
and others, asking that a charter be
granted them under the name of
the ‘‘Griffin Light and Water Com
pany.”
The main object of the company is
to introduce the latest improved in
candescent Edison electric light lor
the lighting of the city of Griffin, in
eluding sireets, stores and residences.
The provisions for allowing the com
pany to erect water or gas works is
simply to cover future contingencies
and doeB not apply to any present
project.
The incandesent light is the same
as that used tn the Griffin Cotton
Facto.y, with the latest improve
to opts jthat have been secured for the
kinoaia Manufacturing Company’s
works. But the plant will have to
be entirely separate and
of these, and will reqaire a building
somewhere near the centre of town.
This light is the very best that has
yet been invented and so fully an
vwers all purposes that it is destined
not only to supplant the other
ties of electric lights and gas, but it
is difficult to'imagine bow.it could be
improved upoa. The light is steady,
constant, safe, of a good nator col
or, and as strong as may be
The smallest lamp is sixteen
power and running thence up to six
ty four and above.
As we gather from the talk of one
of the projectors, the idea is not to
confine the lights to a few squares in
the centre of town, but to light to a
great extent the whole city. Lamps
are to be put up from one end of Hill
street to the other, and the whole
length of every other important cross
street, so that every boose might be
reached at night by a well lighted
route. In the business centre the lights
to be of snob power as ’nlmost to
equal the light of day.
Business houses and residences
can bo lighted by this p'oceBS at
less cost than with oil. The
mentioned for the sixteen candle
er burner for a store is one
per month and for residence seventy
five cents—and you would be
sure that the light for which you
is not illuminating some negro cabin,
an assurance impossible at
The lowest price at which it is
nted the city could be given this
vice is $2,000 per year. Albany
agree to pay over this amount for
service.
To be able to say that Griffin
lighted by the most improved
lights is one of the biggest
ment ihecity could have, and it will
be a monument of pride to every
izeu when this is true. The
of Griffin is at present only a
ble and almost disreputable
Kerosene mast go,and the sooner
bettei; gas is going, and we fully
lieve that the system now
is really tin only one worth
iDg, If it can be secureJ at a
price, let us accept it a8 speedily
possible.
From Birth to the Grave
We carry certain with us certain physical traits,
we do mental characteristics.
much that psychologists have striven to
ignate by the generic titles certain
ments—a* The bilious, the nervous, the
phatic. individual witli a sallow
plexion is set down as bilious, often
so. If the saffron in the hue of his skin
traceable to place bile in the blood, of the its presence will
the wrong instead liver,
be evinced by far on the tongue, pain be
neath -he tight ribs and through toe
shoulder-blade, flatulence and indigestion. sick headache, For the relief
this very common, bat not essentially genial
ous thorough om plaint, remedy there is no Hostetler's more
than
Bitters, which is also a beneficent tonic
strength for yromotter. and a widely and
remedy and preventive of fever
rheumatism, kidney and bladder troubles.
Down They Go!
Lemons New only Irish 20c. per dozen.
Potatoes,
New Cabbage,
Bbl. Fresh Boss Crackers, Fish to-day. justjn.
Plenty Nice of Smoked Fresh Sausage.
C- W. Clark A Son.
THE SECOND COON CAMPAIGN
Harrison’s Lament Over the Advent
Blaine.
There’s a gentle breeze in the Western wastes
And a Fpirit mild whangrtoodle Hard try—
(Tho’ Brings a to the Cider bulging oould eve). never give
gore full >
And he raises himself five feet four,
With his band ’neath the tail of his coat,
And pitches his wail to the waiting gale
In a low B flattened-note:
“Am I a Bfejum or Bnark ?
Am I the Queen of the May ?
A A fiery rocket, or playea-cut ? Hey ! stick,
plug or a raoer bones,
By By my the great skin ancestor’s of th’ immortal
Tears shall flow for this Goon,
and the world
see Blood
On the face ef the silver moon!
“This Oasabianca dodge
With Blaine in the chief part's fine,
But, if any must cling to the burning deek,
I think that the place is mfne.
The question is not, and not like to be,
‘M were is he ? when things go sky high,
Bnt will be then, as it's surely now,
‘Greatheavens! where am I?”
Then he took his grand-dad’s Life
And read how the redskin turns
And skewers the foe for whose vital juice
Hia inward spirit ye*.rns,
And all that night in a distant barn,
Till the gray-eyed dawn arrives.
There’s a busy whirr and sound of steel,
As if someone sharpened knives.
Don’t Sell Yonr Seed !
Our esteemed correspondent A.
H. R. utters the following timely
warning;
At every hamlet along the lines
the Georgia Midland & Gulf and the
Atlanta & Florida railroads they are
building cotton seed houses and put
ting in large balance scales for
gross weighing wagon and
Now, can it be possible that our
ers ar8 so short sighted and
pressed as to sell their cotton seed
for 15 or 18 cents per bushel, then
bay them hack, in the way of
for 50 or 75 cents per pound when
they know that cotton seed alone
m compost is far superior to
fertilizer used by them? Ido
they will consider the fact and
sell a pound of tbeirseed, or if
are foroed to do so, qnit the
of farming, or else next, they
sell their wives and children, as
heathen do, into slavery. These are
stu born facts, which are
very serious and ought to be
by the stubborn will of every
otherwise their hopes for the
are in the hands of the
watch for them, as their prey,
the hawk does for a chicken or
The farmers in their coarse
expect less, than to be hewers
wood and drawers of water, for
task masters.
LTbe many remarkable cures Hood’s
parillo accomplishes are sufficient
that it does possess peculiar curative
•ra. (4)
A Lucky Man "*t $15,000 fer $1.
This moi uiitg we interviewed A. G.
der, No. w Ho Held a one-tweaticih part of
#0,4»3’ Lwai»Una which drew the first capital
in the State Lottery on the
of Jane. Mr. Schneider keep the
Tell hotel in this city. He informs as
he purchesed jnst one fractional ticket
ing New on* dollar therefor to M. A. Dauphin
the drawin Orleans, La-, and within five days
he collected through the
Bonk of Texas $15,000, the giving him a
Jane mluu 36. of$4.—{Texarkana/Ark.)
NUMBER 179
A BUILDING BOOM-
Other Items in tnd Around .1
Shoal*.
—
Flat Shoal*, Ga~ Aog 22 ,— Picking
cotton ia now in order, and the sound
of the gin will soon be benrd and the liv*
ly chuckle of the cotton pickers will Mho.
The recent rains will help ont th* An
gnat crop of cotton. Tnrnipa that wn
■
■owed, are all dead from dry weather
and hot sun.
The new chmoh at Monafrille bet
bad to atop work until next Monday on
account of drawing nod apeafloationa net
being completed np to thi* writing he -
cause of preee of bnaineaa, bnt will b*
completed by Thursday next, and week
will commeaoe end be poshed forward
so as to dose the chnroh in before sold
weather. The church is ft, Sy 50 fee*.
The presbytery will l* ' in It on or
about the 15 of Ootob- r » . T, Bawl*
ia getting np the plans, aud they will
be a nice set of drawings, and if built
according to drawings will be a beanti
lul building.
H. B. Neal ia preparing to build n
six room honae, which promises to be 0
nice structure. He will let the eon
tract some time this week, and th*
building will be completed by Oct. 10,
Jerry Brown’s bona* ia just about
completed. |5i
J. A. McKnight’a stairway has been
completed, and his piazza finished with
nice brackets and inch other trimmings
as takes to complote the asms.
I understand that Mr. Jf, K. Under
wood waa taken with n lazy sp*U nod »
st ipped work on hia honae to wait till
the weather got warm* Ho it ia to b*
hoped that it is warn enough and that
he has resumed work again.
Hartnett k Co have commenced to
put in a fish trap of 60 feet in length
and 8 feet wide, and of snob depth ae
will take a rise in river from 6 to > feet
in height to drown it eat. No doohi
such a trap will pay well.
Capt. W. H. Hartnett ran np to Grif
fin on Sunday.
Mrs t, A. McKuight is visiting her
Uthe.’a family at Senoia,
Dick Crawley haa moved hia taw mitt
to Crawfort county, Ga. Sa has Mr.
Yarbrough.
Dixie Ison, BAbo Pickering, Emmet*
Prichard and Lawence Bridges have all
been camped at Shoals since Saturday
last.
S. A Hughes, of Columbus, spent Ban
day at the Shoals. T, W,
Pure and rich, possessing all the noth tiott
properties of Malt, Chase’s Barley Matt
Whisky is a perfect Tonic tor building np
the system. George A Harnett sole agents
er Griffin.
GRIFFIN
TJRGIN8 TUB 418T SESSION ON SEP¬
AL* tember :Srd.2Fnti course in
LANGUAGES, SCIENCE,
MATHEMATICS, HISTORY,
PHILOSOPHY, ami MUSIC
Ample and convenient accommodations tor
Boarding Pupils.
Mrs. Waagb, instructor in Musie, assisted
by a thoroughly competent musician.
For circulars and fall information, s ddr e—
R«v. C. V. WAUGH. Pnridmt,
P. O, Box 1H Griffin, Ga-
dAwUcpU.
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Clean Up.
If the citizens of Griffis will pet their
watermelon rinds, tr**h, ete., la barrels
or other receptacle*, tbs street carta Witt go
around twice a week and carry them o*.
Let ns keep oar city desm sad our premiem
free from garbage. H. C. Bias,
Ch’e Street Com.