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TheCriFFin N i u V a i Daily News.
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VOLUME 17
Griffin, (Ja.
Jt qj jflin is the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro-
t I »re»sive town in Georgia. This Is no hjrper-
description, as the record of the last
4 ve years will show.
I During that time it has built and put into
amst successful operation a 1100,000 cotton
actory and Is now building another with
I nearly twice the capital. It has pntup a
1 ge iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac-
» * ice and bottling works,
{ a,, immense a
sash and blind factory, a . broom factory
opened up the finest granite quarry
United prises State®, temptation. and has many It other hae secured enter¬
in on
aaotUe'. ail road ninety miles long, and while
“ocateu on the greatest system in the South,
the Central, has secured connection with its
important rival, the East Ten nsssee, Virginia
and Georgia. It has just scoured direct inde¬
pendent commotion with Chattanooga and
the Wi st, and has the President of a fourth
railroad residing here and working
its ultimate completion. With
five white and three colored
churches,it is now building a *10,000 new
Presbyterian ohuroh. It has increased its
population by nearly one-fifth. It has at-
j,.,,..;,. 1 C. round it# borders in the fruit Union, growers until from it is
nearly every State
now surrounded on nearly every side by or¬
chards and vineyards. It is the home of the
grape an 1 its wink making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully
inaugurated a system of publiosohools, with
a seven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half dfecadc
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.
Gridin is the county seat of Spalding
county, situated in west Middle Georgia, with
a healthy, fertile and roiling country, 1150
feet above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at a low estimate between 6,000 and
7 ^aX) people, and they are all of the right
sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
weleome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wcl-
oorae if they bring money 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-
laudations are entirely too limited for our
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wauts a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin is the place where the Griffin
Sews is published-daily and weekly—the
nest newspaper in the Empire State of the
Georgia, Please enclose stamps in sending
for sample copies.
This brief sketch will answer July 1st,
18*. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to he
changed to ke ep up with the times.
f-ROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
HEADQUARTERS and Protective
Leak’s Collecting Georgia.
Agency of
GRIFFIN, ------- GEORGIA.
s. G. LEAK, Manager.
Kff" Send your claims to 8. G. Leak and
correspond only witli him at headquarters. for
Cleveland & Beck, Resident may9d&w8m Attorneys
HENRY C. PEE PLE S,
A L'TO It N.E Y AT LAW
UAMPTON, GEORGIA.
Practices in all tbe State and Federal
Courts. oeOd&wly
JNO. J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. II
White’s Clothing Store. mnr22ditewly
I). DISMLXE. N. M. COLLINS
OISMUKE & COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, <JA.
u,lice,first room in Agricultural Building
Stairs. marl-d&wtf
THOS. R. MILLS,
TTTRNEI AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Will practice in the State and Federal
urte. Office, over George «fc Hartnetts
caer. nov2-tf.
o» a. AfiWAitr. gjnr. t. da niel
STEWART & DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW*.
Over George & Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federa
ourts. tanl.
C7s. WRIGHT,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
GRIFFIN, GA.
Hill Street, Up Stairs over J. H. White
r.. & Co.’g.
________ __
D. L. PARMER,
attorney at law
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
11 umpt attention given to all business,
win practice in all the Courts, and where-
•wrbuslness M* calls. apr6dly
Coll ections a special ty.
J. P. NICHOLS,
agent
Northwestern Mutual Life in¬
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GEORGIANS IN TEXAS.
THEY ARE ALL WELL AND “noiSU
WELL.”
A Concord Man’s Pleasure Trip
Through Texas--His Views
and Impressions.
Paris, Texas, Aug. 13th, 188b.
To the Gkitfin News:— My last
left me at W. A. Irvin’s, in Delta
county. On the 4th inst., vve went
to the convention, and there l found
a good many of my old Georgia
friends. There I saw W. H. Dingier
and family. Billie left Georgia about
11 years ago, without anything, Ho
has now about three or four thou¬
sand dollars worth of property, con¬
sisting of land, horses, cows, hogs,
Sea. I also met Wash Anderson,
colored, who is well known around
Hollonville. lie has a good homo
and it is paid for, so the county clerk
told me.
This is a white man’s country, and
to prove my assertion I saw at the
singing convention only seven ne¬
groes out of about 50(k>r 000 people.
We spent the night at J. (J. Bai-
lej’s. Here I met one of iny old
Georgia neighbors, T. J. Crawford’s
wife. She looks natural to me. J.
C. Bailey has a good home and is do¬
ing well.
On the morning of the 5th we
went up into Hunt county to John
Brows, who is well known around
Flat Shoals. John is doing well.
Here we enjoyed ourselves very
much. We spent the night with J.
II, McGullough, who married Mary
Hollon. They are doing well.
Next morning, 6tb, we went
to Fariee on the railroad to see
lie Hollon, the son of Sampson
lon. He is considered to be the
boss trader of North Texas. I think
it is so, as I saw six or seven persons
after him for the purpose of trading
with him.- He weighs 232 pounds
and has a brother living with
who weighs 180 pounds. Mr.
imagine mysuppriseon seeing a man
come pacing into town on a
horse with a scantling 4x(5 at.d
feet Jong tied to his horses
something I had never seen
We eat dinner with John Heath,
married one of the Hollon girls.
is doing well. We spent 2 or 3
hours with Charlie Durham,
married Samps Hollon’s
daughter. He has a good home.
Then we went down to Samps
lon’s and spent the night and half
the 7th. Samps is a whopper,
pounds; has a good black land
of 152 acres, with 100 acres in
vation. Samps and myself went
bis crop. His corn will make,
satisfied, 50 bushels per acre.
cotton and oats are short—too
rain at first, and no rain at last is
cause. Five weeks ago today
12th) is the last rain of any
ance that fell here, though the
looks well, showing Low well
land is adapted by nature to
droughts. I think Samps’ cotton
make a half bale per aere.
The evening of the 7th we
back to Delta county and spent
night with Thomas Early,
maraied the Widow
They are doing well, and the
fixed of any of the folks that I
ed. They have a good farm,
barn, good dwelling, good
and as good land as there is in
world. Here T saw the first
clover growing that I ever saw.
cut it twice this year. Mrs.
told me it was very fine for
cows, it makes them give rich
Mr. Editor, did you ever see a
mule eared rabbit? I saw four or
running around in Early’s
patch. A good crowd of the
Georgia folks gathered in to see
and they made somegood music,
after that we shook hands.
Next morning, the Cth, we
back to Paris. I saw several
of Alfaha clover on. the load. It
grows well out here and I think it
would do well in Georgia We came
back to Paris on a different road to
the one we went out on. On this
trip 1 sjw thousands of acres of
meadow in the natural g-ass (er
prairie grass). They are outting and
bailing this g.acs and it is selling for
22£ to 25 cents per bale, or about
$4.50 to $6.00 per ton. These
meadows are fenced up with post
and barbed wire. It makes about
1.J to 2$ tons per acre and forms one
of the staples of the count!y. They
never do anything to these meadows,
only cut and bale tho grass. The
people cut nearly all of their grain
with the self binders, cutting and
binding from 10 to 15 acres per day
for each machine. The prices of
these lands is from five dollars to
sixty dollars per acre.
I will start to Arkansas today,
the 13th, and will stop over with my
t ter a few days, and by the 25th I
want to be at hotne.
Mr.Editor, this is a grand country.
I see a good many things I like and
some I do not like. I will close for
present, but you will hear about my
trip over into Arkansas.
J. J. Johnston.
Aii Old Citizen of Meriwether Dead.
Meriwether Vind’crtr;.
Mr. Ben Garrett lied at his homo
at SouthJjBer J m Flint river in the
first district last Friday morning at
II o’clock and was buried at Antioch
church, Woodbu-y, Saturday mor
trig.
Uncle Ben, as he was generally
known, was 80 years of ejn and was
one of.ibe old settlers of our county.
He was well kuown, was an bon
est man, harmless and kindhearted.
For several yoars he has been
feeble aud has become nearly blind.
When the Confederate war broke
oat Uncle Ben, then 57 years old
was among the first voluntoers and
left Greenville on the 18th day of
May, 1861, with the Echols Guards;
tho first company that left Meri
wether. The Guards formed com
pauy D of the famou* 8th Georgia
regiment. The company participa
ted in tho first great fight at Mt.nas
sis Junction, Uncle Ben going all
through that bloody day’s engage
nent. He used to dccribe the balls
as flying round bis head thick as
gnats. The-hardship and exposures
of camp life and his extreme age in
duced Dr. H. V. M. Miller, surgeon
of the brigade, to send Uncle Ben
home after a term of honorable ser
vice. The old man was always at bis
Dost and never shirked any duty.
He was a general favorite and his
quaint expressions were quoted all
through the army of Virginia. In
deed his saj'rg that the campaign
wou'd only be a ‘ Hat killing’’ found
its way into the Northern army.
A few weeks age the old man start
ed to Newnan to the old soldier
union, but was compelled to
back on account of extreme
ness. Ho took his bed on reach*-
ing home,frora which he never
I his later years he became a mem
ber of the Methodist church at Con
cord and died in hope of a blessed
immortality.
Really Wonderful.
Yes. Mrs, .Smith, it is really
ful, the effect Dr. Biggers’
f’ordial has aad on my little child
was suffering so with that bowel
I advise to get a bottle at once,
From Birth to the Crave
We carry with us certain physical traits,
we do certain mental ebaraeteriatios.
much that psychologists have striven to
ignate by generic titles certain
ments—a* the bilious, the nervous, the
phatic. The individual with a sallow
plexion is set down as bilious, often
so. If the saffron in the hue of his skin
traceable to bile in the blood, the its presence
the wrong place instead of liver, will
be ev .need by fer on the tongue, the pain be
neath -he right ribs and through
shoulder-blade, ________ . headache,
sick
flatulence and indigestion. For the relief
this very common, but not essentially
ous aomplaint, there is no Hostetler's more genial
thorough which remedy is also than beneficent tonic
strength, Bitters, and a widely
remedy for yromotter, and preventive a of fever and
-umailsm, kidney and bladder troubles.
Down They Go!
Lemons only 20c. per dozen.
New Irish Potatoes,
New Bbl. Cabbage, Fresh
Boss Crackers, just in.
Plenty of Fresli Fish to-day.
Nice Smoked Sausage.
C- W. Clark & Son.
THE GEORGIA EXHIBIT.
What the Central’s Immigration
Contains.
The Contral’s immigration car
passed through here yesterday morn
ing on its way to perform its mission
in the North. Owing to a failure to
receive notice of its passage, several
additional Spalding county exbibts
failed to be put on, including tho
handsome specimen of ganite; but
the Walcott chair, with its sixtean
kinds of Spalding woods, got there
and will prove one of the handsom
est articles of the exhibit. The in
terior of the car looks quite different
f om what it did when passing
through here before, being pretty
well filled with the following articles,
which will bo displayed in gronps :
In cotton thoro will be tho plant
with us open bolls, seed cotton, lint
cottoD, cotton seed,cotton seed halls,
cotton seed oil (crude aud refined),
cotton yam, sheeting, shirting, cot
toDades, checks, ginghams, blankets,
quilts, towels, hosiery and othor
goods manufactured from cotton, the
exhibit being capped with a suit of
clothes woven from Georgia cotton
and mado by Georgia tailors.
In the way of grain will be shown
a number of varieties of corn, wheat,
oats, rye, barley, buckwheat and rice.
Cano will bo shown which was plant
ed after rye aud oats were cut
from tho umo ground- Corn meal
and flour made from this year’s corn
a >d wheat will also be shown.
Iu the way of forage will be shown
clover, timothy, crab and crawford,
bermnda, blue grass, Johnson grass,
Munro grass, swamp grass, lucerne,
corn fodder, Kaffir corn, ivory corn.
German and cat-tail millet,
cane, swamp cane. Spanish ground
pea and other plants.
The turpentine and rosin exhibit
fall consist of a section of piDe
bored and scored for turpentine,
tools for doing the same, sample*
different gr.-des of rosin,
and pilch pine. The window glass
or virgin rosin is shown in small
es with pictures and reading at
bottom, which can be seen as
as through a glass.
In ores there ore samples of gold
silver, iron, lead, graphites,
ochre, kaoliD, talc, manganese
severul others.
Tbo matble exhibit, furnished
theAmericen Marble Co., will
a number of the finest specimens of
marble on tbo American
while there will be specimens of
pbrth- luck, granite, lime stone, etc.
AH the principal
woo Is will be shown in such
as to show their grain, susceptibility
to polish and adaptability for manu
facturing.
In fruits there will be pears,
ler. poaches, Japanese
grapes, Jujubes, wild
and other varieties. There will
We a fine display of wines and
dials.
In vegetables there will be
and 8tree, potatoo*, egg plantr,
squashes, onions, field peas, okra,
matoes and other varieties.
There will be a curious and
display of gourds of all shapes a
sizes, ?. ,ra* of them bronzed c.
pair f cd.
Pea;, ip. fie aud mulberry trees
be shown so as to trhibit the
made in in one year.
Sugar cane,palmetto, sea
grey moss, magnolia l eaves and
will give a semi-tropical
NUMBER 180
to the exhibit
A handsome display of ozier wil¬
low twigs and baskets will be an at
tractive feature.
A scooter plow and harness, with
bark collar will show our Northern
farmers with what primitive imp)*
monts big crops can be made.
One group will exhibit various
grades of leather shoes.
A number of small articals go to
fill up the spacos between.
There are thousands of pamphlsli -
papers and circulars decriptive of
Georgia, which will be freely distrib
Uted.
Tho articles in the car will all be
taken out and attractively displayed
at State and district fairs throughout
the States of Ohio, MiF 'an sod la
diano, the route bein Hows}
Mansfield, O.—D Dir— Aug.
28-31.
Fort Wayne, Iud.—Inter State
fair—Sept. 4-7.
Jackson, Mich.—State fair—Sept,
10,17.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Stalo fair—
Sept- 17-22,
Sidney, O.—District fair—Sept. 25
28.
Newark, O—District fair— Oct.
2-G.
The car wiil return to Georgia Oo*
taber 10 or II and roll into the State
Fair grounds at Maoen.
The many remarkable cures Hood’s Sarsa
pariilo mcomplisbes are. sufficient proof
tliat it * does possess peculiar cnratiTe pow (4)
ers.
Nast in the Campaign•
New York Graphic.
The Graphic gives today its first
cartoon from the bold pencil ofThos.
Nast. It has a double significance
as the work of perhaps tbo most con¬
scientious artist in tho city of cities,
and as the first cartoon he has ever
made for the Democratic Bide of the
political establishment.
Mr. Nast for several years drew a
large salary from the Harpers—un.
doubtedly $10,000 a year—for bis
work as the best satirist in pictures
that the world knew. During some¬
thing of this period his pictures were
not published because of his political
differences with Mr. Curtis, who was
as pronounced in his opinions as Mr.
Nast was in his. The strong, intelli¬
gent, conscientious opposition of
these gentlemen finally tookMr.Nast
out of the Harper establisment of his
own choice, and there remains the
amiable but earnest opposition of
opinion which belongs by right to
men who have the ability of thought
and argument. Mr. Nast comes to
the Democratic Bide on the tariff
issue. He is not a Democrat, ex¬
cept as to the matters of this cam¬
paign. lie is, of course, not a free
trader—no man can be that outside
of his prayers—but be certainly fav¬
ors such a reform of the tariff as will
make the working man to some ex¬
tent the competitor of the man to
whom he ^.i vss tho value of his work.
There will be some mighty good car¬
toons f;om Thomas Nast daring this
campiign- He has the conscience as
well as tbc art of work, and he has
enlisted for the entire fight.
Clean Up.
If the citizens of Griffin wiil put their
watermelon rinds, trash, etc., In bar rata
or other receptacles, the street carts will go
around twice a week and carry them off.
Let u» keep our city clean and our p re mice*
free from garbage. H. C. Buna.
CU’n Street Con.