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TheCriFFin N i u V a i Daily News. ”§£----T"-------- I 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¬ Of Milwaukee, surance Company, Wto. The most reliable It *»nee Company in America. angtSdly GRIFFIN GEORGIA, FRIDA? MORNING, AUGUST 24 1888 ^ WET 3M POWDER Absolutely Pure. This Powder never varies. A marvel of economical parity, strength and wholesomness. More than the ordinary kinds, and can not be sold in oompetiton with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate Powders. Bold onlMn oans. - RoyaxJBakino Powder Co., 106 Wall Street, New York cta-d&wly-toD columnist or 4th owe. THE STAR. A GREAT NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. The Stab is the only New York newspaper possessing the tallest confidence of the Na¬ tional Administration and the United Dem¬ ocracy of New York, the political battle ground of the Republic. Jeffersonian Democracy, pure and simple, is good enough for the Star. Single hand¬ ed among the metropolitan press, it has stood by the men called by the great Democ¬ racy to redeem the government from twenty-five years of Republican wastefulness and corruption and despotism to the South. For these four years past it hasbeentmswerv ing in its fidelity the administration of Grov¬ er Cleveland. It is for him now—for Cleve¬ land and Thurman—for four years more of Democratic honesty in onr national affairs, and of continued national tranquility and prosperity. For people who like that sort of Democracy the Stab Is the paper to read. The Stab stands squarely on the National Democratic platform. It believes that any tribute exacted from the people in excess of the demands of a government economic ally administered is essentially oppressive and dishonest. The scheme fostered and cham¬ pioned by the Republican part-of making the government a miser, wringing millions an nually from the people and locking them up in vaults to serve no purpose but invite waste fulness aud dishonesty, it regards as a mon- strouscrime against the right of American citizenship. Republican political jugglers may call it ‘'protective taxationthe Star’s name for it is robbery. Through and through the Star is a great newspaper. Its tone is 1 ore and wholesome, its news service unexceptionable. Each issue presents an epitome of what is best worth knowing of the world’s history of yesterday. Its stories are told in good, quick, pictur- eqne Edglish, and mighty interesting read¬ ing they are. The Sunday Star is as good as the best class magazine, and prints about the sam# amount of matter. Besides the day’s news it 13 rich in spesial descriptive articles, sto ries, snatches of current literature, reviews, art criticism, etc. Burdette’s iriimatible hu¬ mor sparkles in its columns; Will Carleton’s delightful letters are of its choice offerings. Many of the best known men and women in literature and art are represented in its col nmns, The Weekly Star is a large paper giving the cream of the news the w >rld over, with special features which make it the mos complete family newspaper published. The farmer, the mechanic, the business man too much occupied to read a daily paper, will get more for k his dollar invested in The Weekly Star than from any other paper It will be especially alert during the cam paign, and will print the freshest and most reliable political news. Terms to Subscribers, Postage Free: Every day for one year (including Sun day,................................ $1 b0 Daily, without Sunday, one year...... COO Every day, six months.................3 50 Daily, without Sunday, six months — 3 00 Sunday edition, one year............... 1 50 Weekly Star, one year................ 1 00 A free copy of The Weekly Stab to the sender of a club of ten. Special Campaign Offer—The Weekly Stab in clubs of twenty-five this or more will be sent for the remainder of year for Forty cents for ea;h subscription Address, THE STAR, Broadway and Bark Place, New York. ST.JOHN'S This College enjoys COLLEGE/.’ffiS the powers of a Uni¬ versity and is conducted by the Jesuit Fath ers. It is situated in a very beautiful part part of New York County between the Har¬ lem R. & h. I. Sound. Every facility is giv¬ en for the best Classical, Scientific and Com¬ mercial Education. Board and Tuition per Year 4300. Studies re-open Wednesday, DOY8 iruiu 1UW particulars apply ----- to n Bet. tion. Fer further auglM&wlra John Scully, S. J., Pres. m 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.