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rimn i VOLUME 17 Griffin, Ga. --1- 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. _ 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. _ osn.srcviar. bjbt. t. dinibo STEWART ft DANIEL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Over George «fc Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga, Will practice in the State and Federa ourts. ianl. c. s. wrightT WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER GRIFFIN, GA. Mill Btreet, Up Stairs over J. H. A Co.’s. __ D. L. PARMER, attorney at law WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA. WillpneUoe »lompt attention given to all in all the Courts, and "vrjJMlneas UT Collections calls. a specialty. aprGdly w J. r*. NICHOLS, AGKNT TH1 Northwestern Mutual Life Of Milwaukee, surance Company, Wls. The most reliable “tee Company in America, sugJSdly GRIFFIN GEORGIA, THURSDAY MC RN1NG, AUGUST 30 J888 I 1 1 * 4 KlM 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. j This Powder never varies. A marvel of low testjjshort weight, alum or Powder ota-d&wlr-top Co.^W^^T^tre^^ew column 1st 4th or sage. THE STAR. * A GREAT NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. Tub Star is the only New York newspaper possessing the fullest confidence of the Na¬ tional Administration and the United Dem¬ ocracy of New York, the political battle ground Jeffersonian of the Democracy, Republic. simple, pure and j 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 has beenunswerv 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 our national afiairs, and of continued national tranqnility 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 the demands of a government economically administered is essentially oppressive and dishonest. Tne 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 np in vaults to serve do purpose but invite waste fulness and dishonesty, it regards as a mon¬ strous crime against the right of American citizenship. Republican political jugglers may call it ‘‘protective taxation;” the Stab’s name for it is robbery. Through and through the Stab is a great newspaper. Its tone is l ure and wholesome, its news service unexceptionable. Each presents an epitome of what is best worth knowing of the world’s history of yesterday. Its stories are told in good, quick, piotur- eque Edglish, and mighty interesting read¬ ing they are. The Sunday Star is as good as the ciass magazine, and prints about the amount of matter. Besides the day’s it is rich in spesial descriptive articles, ries, snatches of current literature, reviews, art criticism, etc. Burdette’s inimatible mor sparkles in its columns; Will delightful letters are of its choice Many of the best known men and women literature and art are represented in its umns, The Weekly Star is a large paper the cream of the news the w )rld over, special features which make it the complete family newspaper published. farmer, the mechanic, the business man much occupied to read a daily paper, get more for .his dollar invested in Weekly Stab than from any other It will be especially alert daring the paign, and will print the freshest and reliable political news. Terms to Subscribers, Postage Free: Every day.................................$7 day for one year (including Sun Daily, without months.................3 Sunday, one year...... Every day, six Sunday, six months 3 Bunday Daily, without edition, — 1 one year............... Weekly Stab, one year................ 1 A free copy of The Weekly Stab to sender of a club of ten. \ST Special Campaign Weekly Stab in clubs of twenty-five of more wiil be sent for the remainder year for Forty cents for each Address, THE STAR, Broadway and Park Place. New York. ST.JOHN’S College enjoys the powers of a This Jesuit versity and is conducted by the beautiful ers. It is situated in a very the part of New York County between lem R. & L. I. Sound. Every facility is en for the best Classical, Scientific and mercial Education. Board and Tuition Year $300. Studies re-open September 5th, 1888. 8ehool St. John’s 10 Hall, 12, is a Preparatory under the same Boys from to apply to tion. Fer further J., particulars Pres. auglfid&wlm John Scullt, S. 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 m ....JUST IN.. . Mixed and Plain Pickles, in Bbla. Fresh Graham Flour, Breakfast Strips. • G‘ W. Clark & Son. 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 ‘ ’ . 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. GRIFFIN Jj T3EG1NS THE 41ST SESSION ON SEP- tember Jrd.JJFull course iu LANGUAGES, SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, and MUS1C Ample and convenient accommodations for Boarding Pupil*. Mrs. Waugh, instructor in Music, satiated by a ! lioroughiy competent musician. For circulars and full information, address K*v. C. V. WAUGH, President, P. O. Box 15* Griffin, Ga dAwtoept.1. PARKER’S GINCER TONIC U» Bat Cur* for (radon. _________«ahJjomo'uuiia*«r.i*«UMt*»e Inowrd Rtiaa, Mre power peer Elmow nnkuowa t ----- ■.......Sps