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-i THE MOST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MONEY I -joj-- STORE, E. R. ANTHONY’S DRUC „ HEADQUARTERS FOE DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PAINTS, OILS. VABNISHES; ETC. R. J DEANE, PHOTOGRAPHER PICTURE FRAMES MADE TO ORDER. jjT Old Picture*, Copied and Enlarged. m wm m AT DREWKY’S DRUG STORE -you WILL FIND-- THE BEST TURNIP SEED At 25 and SO oesU a pound, from Eastern growers. riant them while there are good seasons. Remedy. Of- An infallible Chill and Liver Com- KST Drcwry’ii Peptic Cordial will care dyapcpgitf julyldAw-tf pUffit. New Music House. -}<o)t- Brawner, Deane & Go. 7 -- U o):— One floor of our Book and Music Store to be stocked with Pianos and Organs from a large number of leading maker*, REST INSRUMENTS! EASIEST TERMS! ___ GET OUR LOW PRICES BEFORE BUYING. 2<i and 26 1-2 Hill Street, : : GRIFFIN, GA. *og25d<tw Griffin, Ua,, August ill. ms Nvim Postell’s Elegant! Tbe finest flour in the world. Those who have UBed it never use any other, it never fails to pive tbe most perfect satisfaction. Gallon J. H. Keith & Co., S. H. Deane, J. Mills, McFarland, Boyles & Co., or G. W, Clark & Son. aug2Gd:iai BMOKE! Otm Junior Partner, the best Ci gar in tbe market. Sold by all l«ad iug dealers in Griffith L. Cohen Ac Co, Sole Agents, Macon, Gi, angfieffim ——--♦ • ♦-— Dr. Moffett's TEETHIMA (Teething Powders) Allan Irrltetinn. Aid. Dlire.tlou, Keg-aUtey the |l>w*!- '-treuRlhrii. the Child, aialt.s Teething K*>r Eruption, t ' and Cost. Sorea. «nlv and 15 Cenla nnihinir Teeth equals In* cure. It tor the Summer trouble* of Clilldrcu of any ope. It Utafe andaure. Try It and »uu will never be wltKmlt TEETHIN' A «s Ion* as there ere child- ttn In Use House. Aafevuui Orugg.su -- ----• • • ---— An exchange truly says: Newspa pers are worth more to a towD, more to the country than a railroad. They are the sourco of general information con Onrning the town and county in winch tboy are published, aud the source of reference as to what Uie businessmen of the town are doiDg. Tbe town derives more benefit from a newspaper thnu a newspaper derives from a town. T * * _ Jo ,_ Nelson tbe Atlanta Bank man worked his 'infilling customers foi “at! they were worth" aud the “Flashy Dressed Female” worked him for ail he was worth, aud the DEVIL will work both of them for ail they arc worth, and the “Way of the Transgressor is Hard ” and the ‘ MILL 00ES GRIND AGAIN” with the water that is past. Speaking of mills reminds us that we have instructed our miller to grind more carefully and we expect FINER AND BETTER MEAL hereafter. We have on band and on the way. Several Cars White COHN. One Cor O. R. Sides. “ “ Nice Hay. •: Choice Kettle Lard now in store in Tierces. Now is time to buy few all these things will be higher priced iu a days. SOAPS 1 SOAPS’! SOAPS } ^ ! 1 We have also a consignment of Laundry #oap and It will pay merchants to get our and prices. Remember duplicate we sell to dealers only, can alway Atlanta, Macon, or Colnmbos calf prices. Bo if yon want ANY. THING or write for prices, as we repre¬ sent manufacturers. _ BREWER 4 HANLEITER. june?7d&wtf -v Fresh Country Butter. Lemons still 20 Cents dozen. BLAKELY. ’ROUND ABOUT. I-- Muller* (.'•■csraiar People ee4 «»■ era! Hews doaalp. A PKMONSTBATBD FACT. Man is nothing but a fool, To Made for woman to humbug, go fishing in a pool And falla prey to the red bug. C, tt. Shattuc returned yestsrday from Tennessee. Will Davis left for Milner and Macon yesierday evening. Col, E. Womack took partin the min stret show last night. Miss Annie Scott, of Thomaston, is the guest of Mrs. M. Ii. Brown. Misses Mary Grattan and Rosa Lay Ion return'J yesterday from Staunton, Va. Prof. Graham, the new principal oi the pvblic school, has arrived in the city. The Alliance waiehouse will open on Saturday, with B. N. Barrow as ware¬ houseman. Mrs. W. J. Kincaid and Miss Addie arrived in Atlanta yesterday from Vir giuia and will be home today. A flue specimen of honey from Walter McWilliams’ Frnitland Apiaiies found its way lo this office yesterday. A little warm sunshine at the noon tide dosn’t hurt so much when the nights and mornings arepieasent. Rice bints have put in their appear¬ ance in Augusta. A few were offered for sale in the market at stiff prices. Wicker A Winant yesterday reeeiv id two immense meat blocks that are good samples of the gum trees on Flint river. The spell of delightful weather has put a new smile ou everybody’s face, and a livelier hum in all the business circles. , The country darkey is flush with change “en durin" cotton picking ami the catch penny trade is ou a j boom. j yisitiug Miss Carrie Dr. Collier, family who has for been 0 Collier’s some S;, , , , „ . 8 * J " I -. 1118 . predicted , , , by who , ought „ , to : some t know that we are going to have an early f^i this time. By others that we will not have cold weather before the mid die of October. You can take your choice. (|Tbe democratic executive committee of this county has been called by Chair man Malaier to meet on Saturday, Ssp tember 15th. Every member is re quested to remember the date and be present. A handsome and convenient new file has been placed in the Ordinary’s office. q 0 i Hammond has the best arranged office in the state, while putting very little expense upon the county for fur nitureor other conveniences. Butts coauty is improving from Spalding’s example aud going into ,the fruit business. Mr. Mallett has arrang ed to get 20,000 cuttings from Spalding county growers aud will aUo get rooted vines enough to set out two or three acres. There is uo reason why Jackson should not be made a good fruit centre, it enough go into the business. Bev, W. P. Hemphill, of Pike, and Rev. Dozier, of Troup, passed through yesterday on their way to the former’s home. They had been to Stone Moan tain, where they had eight accessions to the church, and leave today for a three service at Fellowship church, in Butts county. Mr, Hemphill has made thirty seven additions to chinches dur ing the last three weeks. Mr, Justice Lamar is as much at home in saying complimentary things as he is in discussing legal problems or great political questions. At Mount Washington (lie other day he awarded the prizes won i > the coaching parade. He was greatl; ; ’.eased with ,the pretty ladies in the pi cession, and as tbe tal ly^hos, ft ijhkd with feminine loveh ness, passed by, his admiration was un bounded. He said, amid rounds of hearty applause: If you bad sent these pretty ladies dowu south about thirty years ago you would have saved a great deal of ammunition, for they would have converted every man in that section from a supporter of the doc trine of secession into a warm advocate of an indissolub! i . j. We have seen going the ruuuds sever al compositions wrttten by boys on the subject of girls. Here is a little girl’s composition on boys, in which she shows that her sex, no matter bow young, can get ahead of the boys every time: “Boys are men that have not got os big os their papas, and giiL are young women that will be young ies by and by. Man was made bef, , . woman. When God looked at Adau: iio said to bimself, “Well I guess 1 can do better if I try again,” and then he made Eve. God liked Eve so much better than Adam that there has been more women than men every since. Boys ara a trouble. They are wearing on eyerything but soap. If I had my way half the boys iu the world would be little girls, and the rest wonld be dolls. My papa is so nice that l guess he must have been a girl when be was a bay.” October Sheriff's Sales. \I7ILL Yf BE SOLI) ON THE FIRST TUES- day in October next, before the door of the Court House, in the city of Griffin, Spalding scribed property, County, Georgia, the following de¬ to-wit: The following described property, to-wit: That tract or parcel of land lying and being in the third district <«f originally Monroe, then Pike, now Spalding county,and known and distinguished in the plan of said district as No's. 47, TO, 78 and 51, each containing 20% acres, and also 7b acres in Hie north¬ west comer of lot No. 77, also 50 acres in the southeast of h>t No. 48, all in the -same dis¬ trict, containing in the aggregate V*H5 acres mere or less in tile entire tract; bounded north by land then known as tire John G, Lindsay lafid land Dr. and Pritchard others, cast by lands known as of and others, on hie south by Buck creek and west -by lands of Squire Gossett PhilipE. and others, being premises ednveyed February by McDaniel to said de¬ fendants 4th, 1868, as described. Levied on and sold as the property of Adol¬ phus Schae'fer, surviving partner of A. C. Schaefer & Co., to satisfy a mortgage"fi fa is¬ sued of Waiter from T, bpalding Miller Superior Court In favor surviving partner of vs. Adolphus C. Schaefer Schaefer, <fc Co. A. Tenaftts, John Gossett and others, in posses- sion legally notitied. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold all that tract or paroel of land situated lying and being in the second district of or¬ iginally Georgia, Monroe, to-wit, then Pike now Spalding ail county, No. lot No. 80, and that part of lot 79 which lies north of Mt, Zion road, containing 278 1-10 acres, bound¬ ed north by J. T. Ellis and the Corbin place, and east by Geo, C. Stewart, south by Mt. Zion road,and lands west,by,lands of F.A.Freea-an place, said formerly known as the Du¬ pree place,but lately purchased by J. C. King from J. H. Barnes, situated about 2t£ mites west of Griffin, in Spalding county, Georgia. Levied on and sold as the property of J. C, King, Spalding to satisfy Superior two mortgage ii fas issued from Court, one in favor of J. D. Boyd vs. J. C. King, and one is favor of Edwin Bates & Co. vs. J. C. King, W. L Ison, tenant in possession, tegally notified. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold a dwelling house, two story frame build¬ ing and the land on which the same is locat¬ ed, being about 30 acres of land in Orr’s dis¬ trict, Spalding county, Georgia, said proper ty bouuded on the north by Mt. Zion road, west by Wm. Waddell, east by Culpepper, south by lands formerly owned by Capt. H. P, Hill. Levied on and seld as the property of J, C. KiDg, to satisfy one special lien fi fa issued from Spalding Superior Court in fav¬ or of N. B. Drewry vs. J. C. King. Malcolm McLean, tenant in possession, legally noti¬ fied. Also, at the same time aud place, will be sold 25 acres of land off of southwest corner of iet No. 25, said land beisg in Spalding county, Georgia Leried on and sold as the property of T. W. B.nkston, to satisfy one mortgage fi fa issued from Spalding Superior Court in favor of Grubbs A Camp and J. A. Cook, transferee, vs. T. W. Bankston. T. W. Bankston, tenant in possession, legally notified. Also, at the same time and phiee, vfill be sold thirty acres of land, being part of lot No. 1J5 in the fourth district of Spalding Jack Comity, Crawley, Georgia, south bounded on the east by by P. L. Starr, by P. Chanlbera, north west by lands of W. T. H. Taylor. Levied on and sold as the property ot W. T. H. Taylor, to satisfy oae mortgage fi fa issued from Scalding Superior Court in favor of Dunoan, Martin <fc Perdne vs, W. T. H.Taylor, legally Martin Gray, tenant in posses¬ sion, notfied. Also, at the same time and plait, will be sold fifty acres of land in the first district of originally northeast Pike, now Spalding county, being the eoroer of lot No. 38 in said and county, bounded north by land J, F. Davis, east by land at J. O. Norton south by land of J. O. Norton and west other lands of J. O. Norton. Levied on sold as the property of J. O. Norton, to a fi fa issued from Spalding County in favor of A. A. Snidervs. J. O. Nor- J. O. Norton, tenant in possession, le¬ notitied. Also, at the same time and place, will he one-third interest ia one house and vises in the city of Griffin,containing one acre more or less, bounded on the east Ninth or New Orleans street, west by an north and by vacant lot claimed by Henry south running ti a point be Ninthor New Orleans 8t. and the alley mentioned Levied on and sold a* the of W. E. George, to satisfy a fi fa from the Justice Court of the 1001st G. M. of 8pa!ding County in favor Benjamin E. Brothers &Oo vs. W.E. George. George, tenant in possession, legally R. A COWELL. Rber flP, 8 f. Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a quarter of a cen tury. It isnsed by the United States Gov¬ ernment. Endorsed by t he heads of the Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most Healthful. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia, lame, or Alum. Sold only in Cans. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. NSW TOKK. CHICAGO. 9T. LOUIS. d4thw8thp,top col.nrm INCREASE IN NUMBER —!OF!~ Supreine Court Judges. A PROCLAMATION By JOHN B. GORDON, Governor of Georgia. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, 1888. Atlanta, July 26tli, of TYTTIEREAS, V V The General Assembly in 1886-1887 passed the following Act, Con accordance with the requirements of the stitution. in reference to amendments of that instrument : An Act ta amend Par. ef Sec. II of Article VI of the Constitution of this State, of so the as to increase the number of Judges Supreme Court of this State from three te five, to consist of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices. C Section I. Bo it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority ol the same. That the Constitution of this State be amend ed by adding after the words “Chief Jus¬ tice, ’ in the 2nd line VI, of the 1st paragraph words, “end of section II, article Justices,” thereof lieu the of the words four Associate in in said line, “and two Associate Justices,” so that said paragraph when amended shall read: Chief The Supreme Court shall consist of a Justice and four Associate Justices. A ma jority of the court shall constitute a quorum. Sec. II. Beit further enacted, that when ever the above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two Houses of tbe General Assembly, the Govern or shall, and he is hereby authorized and in struated, to cause said amendment to be published in at least two newspapers in each Congressional District in this State for the period of two months next proceeding the time of holding the next general election. Bex. III. Be it further enacted, That the above proposed amendment shall be submit¬ ted, for ratification or rejection to the elec¬ tors of this Stole at the next general elec- tion to be second held after publication this as provided for in the section of Act, in sev¬ eral election districts of this State, at which election every person shall be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly. All persons voting at said election in favor of adopting the proposed amendment to the their Constitution ballots sbadl the words, have written “For or ratication printed on of the amendment of Paragraph 1, Section II, of Article VI of the Constitution,” and all persons opposed to the adoption printed of said amendment shall have written or on thei t ballots the words, “Against ratifica¬ tion of the amendment of Paragraph I, of Section II, of Article VI of the Constitu¬ tion.” Sec. IV- Be it further euacted, That the Governor be, aud hereby authorized and di- rected to provide for the] submission of the amendment proposed in the first section of this act to a vote of the people, as required by the Constitution of this State, in Par. I, Sec. ratified, I, of Article XIII, and by this Act, and if theGovernor shall, when he ascer¬ tains sueh ratification from the Secretary of State, to whom the returns shall be referred, in the same manner as in case of elections for members of the General Assembly, to count and ascertain the result, Issue his proc¬ lamation for the period of thirty days an¬ nouncing such result and declaring the amendment ratified. Sxc. V. If the amendment to the Con|titu- tion, provided by this Act, shall be agreed to by the General Assembly, and ratified by the people, as provided by the Constitution and by this Act, then it shall be the duty of the General Assembly of this State, eonven ing next after sueh ratification, to proceed to elect (after the proclamation of the Govern¬ or, provided in section four of this Act,)two additional Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, who shall hold said office for six years from the first day of January, 1889, and nn til their successors are elected and qualified. Sec. VI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed, Approved Now, October I, 22d, 18S7. therefore, John B. Gordon, Gov¬ ernor of said State, do issuo this my Procla¬ mation hereby delaring that tbe foregoing proposed amendment to tbe Constitution is submitted for ratification or rejection to the voters of tbe State qualified to vote for mem¬ bers of the General Aasembly at the general election to be held on Wednesday, October 3d, 1888, as provided in said Act. JOHN B. GORDON, James T. Nisbet, Governor. Secretary Executive Department. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. To the Voters of Spalding County. At the solicitation of friends I offer for the position of Tax Collector of Spalding subject to a nomination of the Dem¬ party if one is held. B. D. BRFWSTER. CONSUMPTIVE dtooruer. of stomach Juki bowels. 60a. at OruttUta Its curedat b«M with out pain Boot of Pi*- >bir« sent FKF.E. HAVE MOVED BACK TO Our: Old: Place! With full line new goods. Come to see us. Fresh melons from the farm every Uay J. H. Keith & Co W. M. Holman & Co. -HAVE FRESH-- Magnolia Hams, Cooked Corned Beef 12£ c. per lb. Blue Fish, better than fresh Mackerel 1 Sweet Water Flour. Water Ground Meat. All grades Sullivan's Tobaccos ? And the BEST LINE OF CIGARS IN THE CITY, 1 W. O. WILKINSON ___ J, DEALER IN )■ t DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS. —tol- DRESSED AND MATCHED LUMBER A SPECIALTY 1 BILLS SAWED TO ORDER ON SHORT NOTICE -to' --- GOOD L.ioK FOR ALL BUILDING PURPOSES. —;oi- Yard and Office on West Side of Hill street, along Central Railroad, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. jnlylld&w?m 1. ff. Hasseltis, MANUFACTURER S— —AND— - J, DEALER IN )~ LEATHER AND FINDINGS. as Hill street, - GRIFFIN, GA I ofier at and BELOW COST an excellent lot of LOW CUT Gents’ and Ladle* Shoes. _ il. W. HA38ELKU3. J If Yon Are Wise “CATCH ON” TO THIS. Scheosrman & White For 30 Days Only, Will Sell Carpets, Ris &Mattiip At Actual Cost! To make room for tlie new goods in this line. Many homes in Griffin are living wit¬ nesses of our last August Carpet sale. Dur¬ ing which sale, we sold more Carpets than was ever put down in Griffin before, or since, in the same length of time. Brussels, Three Ply, Extra Super, Ingrains, Hemps, all will he sold at cost, WHEN WE SAY COST, WE MEAN NOTHING MORE NOR LESS. When we say 30 days Ave mean no long¬ er than that, hut it may be for a shorter This sale is to continue until our Carpets arri\e, which are now being & White.