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VOLUME 17
Griffin, Ga.
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Grifflu 1» Hie liveliest, pluckiest, most
gressive town in Georgia. This is iio
Igtical description, as the record of the
live years will show.
Ouriog that time it has built and pat into
most successful operation a $100,000 cotton
notary and is now building another
nearly twice the capital. It has pntup
I „ g C iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac¬
tory, an immense ice and bottling works,
( «£h and blind factory, a broom
opened up the finest granite quarry in the
United State* 1 , and has many other
prises in ontemplation. It has
another. ailroad ninety miles long, and
oeatca on the greatest system in the
the Central, has secured connection with
important rival, the East Tennsssee, Virginia
and Georgia, It has just secured direct inde¬
pendent connection with Chattanooga and
the Wi st, and has the President of a fourth
railroad residing here and working
to its ultimate completion. With
ta dve white and three oolored
oharches, it is now building a (10,000 new
Presbyterian ohnroh. It has increased its
popu lation by nearly one-fifth. It has at-
traded around Its borders fruit growers from
nearly every State in the Union, until it is
now surrounded on nearly every side by or-
shards aud vineyards. It a the home of
grape ani its wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has sncoessfally
Inaugurated a system of publiosohools, 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
•f having the finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
Griffin is the county seat of Spalding
coaaty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with
a healthy, fertile and rolling country,
feet above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at a low estimate between 6,000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
sort— wide-awake, up to the tiiuee, ready to
weleome strangers and anxious to secure de-
tirable settlers, who will not be any less wei-
seme 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-
modations are entirely too limited for our
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin. place where the Gwrrnv
Qriffiu is the
Saws is published—daily and weekly—the
s t newspaper in the Empire State of the
Georgia, Please enclose Btumps in sending
for sample copies.
This brief sketch .will answer July 1st,
1888. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
changed 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.
’J* Send your claims to S. G. Leak, and
correspond only with him at headquarters. for
Cleveland & Beck, Resident may9d<fcw8m Attorneys
Griffin.
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
AL'TORNEY at
hamptox, GEoaoiA.
Practices in all the State and
Courts. oetSd&wly
JNO. J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Office, 81 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H
* kite’s Clothing Store. mar22d&wly
D. DISMUKE. N. M.
DISMUKE * COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
office,first room in Agricultural Building
Stairs. marl-d<fcwtf
THOS. R. MILLS,
TTOBNEY AT LAW,
GRTFFIN, GA.
Will practice in the State and
Courts. Office, over George A
aoraer. nov2-tf.
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STEWART ft DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George «fc Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga,
Will practice in the State and Federa
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WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
GRIFFIN, GA.
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A Co.’s.
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WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
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ST.JOHN’S College enjoys the powers of a
This Jesuit
versity and is conducted by the beautiful
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lem R. & L. I. Sound. Every facility is
en for the best Classical, Scientific and
mercial Education. Board and Tuition
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tion. Fer further J., particulars Pres. auglfid&wlm
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ADIIIM- m
IN THE ALLEGHANIES.
“Mi BELLE” TAKES AA TRIP TO
THE MOUNTAINS,
Attracted by me Beauties of Scenery
and the Cheapness of Beard*-The
Life of the Natives,
Staunton, Va., Aug. 27, 1888.
Dear News:—I am like the good little
boy, in the story, who divided his plum cake
among all his school-fellows, for whenever
I go anywhere and enjoy the trip, I want the
News to share the pleasure with me. Now,
as it was impossible to take the large nmn-
berof subscribers with me on my little trip
through the Alleghanies last week, I’ll try
to give them some idea of the fun we had.
We had been casting about in our minds
for some time for a place which should com
bine the qualities of mountain air, good wa¬
ter, absence from the common herd and
cheapness, and we finally settled on McDow¬
ell, Highland county, as the most desirable
locality in all those respects, as the landlord
to wbcm we wrote! said he would take four
of us for three dollars a week each.
We started on a cool, fresh morning, aud
the roads were in perfeet order owing to a
shower the night before whieh laid the dust.
The roads from Staunton to the western
counties of Virginia are the turnpikes which
used to be the only thoroughfares between
the east aud the numerous watering places
in west ‘rn and west Virginia, and at inter¬
vals the traveller passes a forlorn looking
woo (lea structure with upper and lower
porches, and he kuows tint this must have
been a tavern in the good old days of coach¬
ing. You can’t look on one of these old
pla.eg without a feeling of sadness, they look
so much like ghosts in their present state of
dilapidation, compared with their former
state of prosperity and liveliness; for they
were always filled with people in the sum¬
mertime, stopping for the night or for
meals.
The first mountain you cross on your
way to Highland is North Mt, but the gap
where we went through is so low that wo
were only conscious of making a gentle as¬
cent for several miles and a descent of about
the same distance; so when we looked back
and saw an immense mountain, towering
between us and home, we felt as if it must
be the work of an enchanter. Bat when we
arrived at the top of the next one (the Shen¬
andoah), we fully reallized that'we had as
cended every step of the way, because the
road goes right over the top, and the grade
was quite steep for about three miles. We
felt fully repaid, however, for any amount
of climbing when we looked upon the glori¬
ous panorama at oar feet. The little valley
between North and Shenandoah looked like
a light green ribbon against the darker
green of the mountain, while away in the
distanoe could be seen the Blue Ridge (on
the other side of the valley, yon know),
looking like a piece of sky a little bluer
than the rest. This was the view from the
cast—when we turn to the west, the scene
that meets the eyes is beyond my power of
description—one mountain lifting its head
above the next, until the eye can take in no
more—and ranging iu color from the dark
green of the one nearest us to the grayish
blue of the sky. But it is useless for me to
try to put into words tbe glories of that end¬
less panorama, of which only those who
have seen fer themselves can form an idea.
We will skip over thejinterestlng mountains
and find ourselves, after a forty mile drive,
in the sleepy little town of McDowell, quite
ready to do ample justice to the supper of
fried chicken, maple molasses, honey, milk
and numerous* other good things which
awaited us,
I couldn’t find out for the life of me, how
many inhabitants McDowell can boast, so
that important fact must remain a mystery;
but the situation is beautiful. The town
seems to be in a bowl, the rim of which is
mountains. The only thing the people can
show you, is the breast works whioh our
men threw up on one mountain and tnose of
the Yankees on another, and they speak ex-
ultingly of what a cute trick Jackson played
on Milroy, for these people are Confederates
to the backbone. It was incomprenensible
to our dull minds, why the two armies
should have to be dragged to the tope of
these immense elevations, for the pleasure o 1
shooting at each other, when they could
have done it quite &3 well on the low ground,
but when we sought information with regard
to this matter, our questions were met with
such withering glances of contempt that our
thirst for Aowledge died a violent death.
The pretty mountain streams abound in
trout, and make such delightful noise rip¬
pling over the stones that it would be a pleas
ure to fish ail day even if yon oanghtnothing.
Every family in the “neighborhood” has a
mineral spring of its own; and this fact ex¬
plains the apparent incongruity existing be¬
tween the bright eyes and rosy cheeks of the
children and the sad bread aud fried meat
which are their principal articles of diet, for
the water that they drink would make a sup¬
per of nails and thistles digestible.
The people, that is those who do not have
the refining influences which even a small
town seems to exert, are a curious mixture of
refinement and savagery. The men spend
their time looking after their cattle, (and
some of them have them “en a thousand
hills”—one man owning as many as three
thousand acres of grazing land), “breaking”
and riding blooded colts, banting, fishing,
smoking and lounging. The women, who
marry very early, are nothing but boose-
hold drudges. They very seldom have a serv¬
ant, soot course one woman does all the
scrubbing, washing, ironing and cooking
fora as^11 family of a dozen or two children, as
well the sewing for the family. By
the time the poor crealurc is thirty years of
age,{she has lost all her life and comeliness,
bat sti'l she thinks her sister extremely un¬
fortunate if she reaches the mature age of
twenty without entering the blissful state of
matrimony. These people are, however, the
most hospitable in the world—they really
feel hnrt if yon oome to their house and
don’t stay to a meal, (and you feel hurt if
you do), and their integrity and sense of lion
or would do credit to people wlios3 lots are
cast in a broader sphere.
This country is better adapted to grazing
than an^ other pursuit, owing to the rugged
surface of the land. When the trees are
deadened, by “belting" f cutting the bark off
all around in a broad belt) and the sun can
shine upon the ground,! a thick growth of
blue grass springs up, and jou know cattle
just dote on this
The prettiest tree I saw iu this country was
the sugar maple. It grows in a beautiful
shape and it is as good as it is beautiful, for
it famishes the mountaineers with sugar and
molasses. Every man has a “sugar orchard’’
of his own—an immense grove of these trees
-and in Febrnrary, when the sap runs np,
they bor« a number of holes through the
bark and insert a piece of alder twig, which,
yon know, is hollow, and the sap trickles,
drop by drop, through this tube into reoepta
cies made by hollowing out a log of wood-
very mnoh like the canoes of the Indians.
After the sap ceases to flow,Jt is all coliect-
ed in a big kettle and boiled down the con¬
sistency of sugar and poured into moulds—
the molasses isn’t boiled so mnoh, of course.
Now, I must beg your pardon for boring
you with sucli a very long letter, and I’ll ex¬
tend a hearty invitation in the name of Mr.
Bradshaw, proprietor of Mansion Honse,
McDowell, to all who would like to take
this trip next summer, assuring you that you
will obtain the very best entertainment for
the very lowest prices imaginable.
Tours, Ma Belle,
A Remarkable Breakfast.
New York Sun.
One of the most remarkable breakfasts in
the history of Delmonico’a was eaten yester¬
day by a fragment of the original party. A
clever literary woman, who is also capri¬
cious and headstrong, was the hostess. She
invited a German baron to meet an English¬
man who is visiting here, and who had let-
tow tfjmtrodoctiwn to her. Hhc wrote both
of them, appointed noon as the hoar, and
promptly on time the baron and the En¬
glishman walked into Delmonico's, sat down
among the hat boys and stared at each other
covertly. Each suspected the identity of
the other. They waited for ono hour, but
not a traoc of a hostess tamed up. At 1
o’clock the husband of the lady bustled in,
looked around eagerly, made some inqui¬
ries, glance 1 in an inquiring way at the two
hungry and astonished guests, jumped into a
cab and drove home. Then the baron pre¬
sented his card to the Englishman, and the
two men went in together to breakfast.
Shortly after this the husband returned and
sat down in a forsaken way at a distant ta¬
ble. When he had finished his hasty meal
he hung around for awhile, and then, walk¬
ing over to the table where the others were,
he announced his nrme and said:
“My wife doesn’t seem to be here, does
she?’’
“I hope she is not ill," said the baron,
courteously.
“So do I,” said the husband anxiously,
“she has been stopping in*; the country for a
few days, visiting about, yon know. I’ve
rather lost track of her. She wired me this
morning to meet me here.”
He drifted aimlessly out. Oa the corner
a cab passed, returned and overtook him.
Within was the wife in a towering rage.
She had waited two hours at the Holman
house, and nothing could convince her that
the meeting had not been arranged for that
place instead of Deluonico's.
Senola Items.
Senoia, Ga., August 29.—There is a
great ileal of sickness in tliojcountry and
a great many deaths. Mr. M. ! R. Shields,
little tioy, Frank, died last Saturday
night after a long spell of sickness.
Mr. Thomas Drake is very low and is
expected to die at any time.
The Baptists are having a protracted
meeting at this place, with good pros
pects of a g reat revival.
The seven days adventists are here
and I reckon they are going to put up
their tents. The city authorities object
to them patting upjhere.as they cause a
great deal of controversy among the peo
pie*
The Road Healhward Made Easier.
You have been ill, we will suppose, and
are convalescing slowly. That is, you are
tryiug to pick up a little flesh, to regain
some of your wonted color, to aocustom
your stomach to more solid nutriment than
its recently enfeebled oondition permitted
you to take. How can you accelerate your
snail’s pace health ward? Wo are warranted
by concurrent will testimony in affirming, day H tet¬
if you use twice or thriee a os
ter's Stomach Bitters, an enabling medicine
of long ascertained purity and tonic virtues,
that you will be materially aided. It pro¬
motes a flow of the gastric juices, and helps
tbe system to assimilate the nourishment
which;it stands so much in need. It
dies a tendency to constipation without
vulsing the bowels. The liver it
to renewed activity, safely promote* the
tion of the kidneys and bladder, and
lates malaria ana rheumatism at die
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Fresh Graham Flour,
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THE COMSO N'WEALTH.
1 lie News as Gathered Over Georgia,
Darien is to have two banks i.ext
fall.
Darien will soon have another and
bettor artesian well.
The price paid for the site for the
Chautauqua at Albany is $1,750.
It is estimated nearly 100 persons
in Atlanta are engaged.in the insur¬
ance business.
Jonesboro has a new paper. It is
named the Democrat, and is edited
by J L Doyal.
Col T L Gantt of Athens will prob
ably establish a newspaper at Elber
ton at an early day.
Dr E S Lyndon of Athens is ma¬
turing plans for a large furnace to
be placed near his planing mills. It
is to oosf nbc ut $20,000.
The crops from Tennille to Dnbliu
are very fine. Col Thomas, presi¬
dent of the Wrightsville and Tens
nillo road, expects to haul much cot
ton.
It is stated that there are fifteen
lodges of the Farmers’ Alliance in
Greene county; and that the average
membership of the lodges is about
forty.
At tbe convention of the twenty
eighth senatorial district, held at
Shadydale Saturday, Dr T Preston
Gibbs, of Morgan, was tmnimously
nominated.
The Brunswick Y M C A is rapid
ly baildiog up in numbers. The
gymnasium is regularly aud profita
bly attended by a large number of
young men.
A Brunswick druggist jokingly re
marked Sunday that he was afraid to
lay in a new stock of Florida water,
as he was expecting daily that a quar
antine resolution against it would be
passed by the board of Bbaltb.
a citizens meeting was held in the
court bouse at Elberton Friday for
the purpose of pressing forward the
educational interests of tbe town.
The people resolved to pull together
and build up fine schools in the
place.
Z H Broughton, a yoang man of
pluck and enterprise, built the first
brick store at Dublin last spring.
Others have followed suit, and now
five new brick stores are about ready
for occupancy, and contracts are let
for several others.
At Hawkinsville, Friday, Norman
McGriff, a young man, and a nephew
of Judge McGriff, was struck on the
hea i by a^negro, and is in a critical
coa lition. He is dangerously hurt,
being yet unconscious from the
wound, which is said to have . broken
his skull.
It ia.not thought that the young
wife of James Malone, who was the
first to be killed in tbe Jasper coua»
ty feud, will survive the great shock.
The last report was that she was dy
ing. The grand jury, it is said, will
give the m. :or the fullest investiga
tion.
Tbe colored republicans of Mein
tosh county held a meeting a few
days ago and ratified the nominate
of Lectured Crawford for represent,
live. I‘ is said that ex Represents
tive Hlicu js Wilson will be an inde
pendent republican candidate for
the legislature in McIntosh county.
The many remarkable cures Hood’s Sara
parillo accomplishes are sufficient proo
that it does posses* peculiar curative pow
ers. «)
NUMBER*
Took At!van'age of lit* Absence,
New York Telegram.
It is u fact wofl kown in Wall street that
( Sage is of an economical tarn of
Although ho has millions of dot
at his command, he seldom expends
dime that can by any bookor crook be
As a matter of economy Mr. Sage for
years declined to replace the shab
carpets, desks and other furniture in
business office.
“ These old things are good enough
me,*’he said, “and there ain't aoy
of getting new rones."
A few days ago the famous profess#*
puts aud calls went oat of towa oa *
trip. His employes took advan
oi his absence and had hig office
and refurnished in handsome
When Mr. Sage roturu l ho waa so
that it was acr ! minutes be
ho oould recover ! to say:
“Well, boys,this i« i ‘tie waste of
money, bat now that these things *a»
for, I guess wo might as well keep
‘ ’
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A Long Felt Want.
Chicago Tribnne.
* You think you need a wife young
do you?" said Mr. Kaj mas. as he
at the agitated youth who waa
on the edge of a chair and ner
twirl >g a hat, “ and my daugh
wonld fill the bill, would she?.’
“ She would, indeed sir?,“ replied
youDg man, with a ghastly attempt
to appear at ease. “As the men who
newspapers sometimes say in their
she would fill along went
-I mean, of course, a weng lout
—or rather a frong knt wait—no a
welt—indeed she should. Mr. Ka
persistsd the bewildered youth,
■though I should have said, of course,
feng—"
“George, “ interposed Mr. Kajones,
coming to his relief, "have you said
anything to Lanra yet?"
"No, air; I thought I ought to speak
to you first."
"Well. George," said the yoang ladya
father, kindly, "take my advice—
if you can't get that proapedfos untan
gled before you see her again, you’d bet
ter send a more experienced canvasser."
Really Wonderful,
Yes, Mrs, Smith. it is really wonder
ful, the efiset Dr. Biggers* Huckleberry child
Cordial has had on my little that
waa suffering so with that bowel trouble
I advise to get a bottle at once,
Pure and rich, possessing all the nutii tion
properties of Malt, Chase’s Barley Matt
Whisky is a perfect Tonic for building up
the system. George A Harnett sole agents
•r Griffin.
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Mrs. Waugh, instructor in Music, satiated
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