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Daily News.
VOLUME 17
Griffin , Ga.
Griffin is the liveliest, pluckiest, most
gressive town in Georgia. This is no
bolical description, ns the record of the
five years will show.
During that time it has built and put
most successful operation a $100,000
actory and is now building another
nearly twice the capital. It has put up
u ge iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer
tory, aUtenlW*nsedife and bottling works,
sash and blind factory, a broom
opened up the finest granite quarry in
United States, and has many other
prises in .ontemplation. It has
another, ailrond ninety miles long, and
ocateu on the greatest system in the
the Central, has secured connection with
important rival, tlicEast
and Georgia. Ithdsjust secured direct
pendent connection with Chattanooga
the West, and has tire President of a
railroad residing here and
to its ultimate completion. ,
ts live white and three
churches, it is now building a $10, CXI
Presbyterian church. It has inoreased
population by nearly one-fifth. It has
tr icfc' 1 around its borders fruit growers
nearly every State in the Union, until it
now surrounded on nearly every side by
chards ar. 1 vineyards. It is the home of
grape an! its wine making capacity
doubled every year. It has
inaugurated a system of public schools,
a seven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply Bhowsthe progress of an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
of having the finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
Griffin is the county scat of Spalding
county, situated in west Middle Georgia, with
a healthy, fertile and rr'ling country, 1150
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 allot the right,
sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel¬
come 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 gooff loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the pluee where the Gbifpin
News 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 < >t,
18t&. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be
changed to keep up with the times.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
HEADQUARTERS Protective
Leak's Collecting and
Agency of Georgia.
G1UFFIN, ------- GEORGIA.
S. G. LEAK, Manager.
j3f"Sendyour claims to s . G. Leak and
correspond only witti him at headquarters. for
Cleveland & Beck, Resident may9d&w8m Attorneys
Griffin.
HENRY C. PEEPLE S,
ATTORNEY A T L AW
HAMPTON, oechgia.
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. oct9d&w 1 y
JNO. J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H
White’s Clothing Store. mar22d&wly
I). DISMUKE. N. M.
DISMUKE & COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Office, first room in Agricultural Building
Stairs. marl-d&wtf
THOS. R. MILLS,
TTOBNEI AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Will practice in the State and
Courts. Office, over George & Hartnett
sorrier. nov2-tf.
on o. srs waut*. aonr. t . dan isl
STEWART & DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George & Hartnett's, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federa
.ourts. ianl.
C. S. WRIGHT,
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
GRIFFIN, GA.
Hill Street, Up Stairs over J. H. White
r„ Jb Co.’a.
_
D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
i i umpt attention given to all
Will practice in all the Courts, and
everhnsiness calls.
HP 1 Collections a specialty. aprGdly
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THE STAR.
A GREAT NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
NEWSPAPER.
The Stab 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 Republic. ,
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 ithasbeenunswerv
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 aflairs,
and of continued national tranqnihty and
prosperity. For
people who like that sort of Democracy
he 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 economically
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 lockin; them np
in vaults to serve no 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 Star is a great
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its news service unexceptionable. Each issue
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it is rich in spesiai descriptive articles, sto
ries, snatches of current literature, reviews,
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mor sparkles in its columns; Will Carlcton’s
delightful letters are of its choice offerings.
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literature and art are represented in its col
umns,
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paign, and will print Die freshest and most
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ST.JOHN’S This College enjoys COLLEGERS the powers of a ,Um-
versitv and is conducted by the Jesuit r atn
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AFTER WEST VIRGINIA I
THE REPUBLICANS TRYING TO
STEAL ITS ELECTORAL VOTE;
Colonizing Negros From Virginia and
Oorth Carolina—A Timely
Warning.
Special to tho Daily News.
New York, Sept 4,— One of the
most sensational features of the cam
paign yet made public is the <’ : scoi
ery that the Republicans have at
tempted to colonize a State for the
purpose of winning its electoral
vote.
Frightened, hopeless and despair
ing, the Republican leaders are
obliged to resort to the most unscru
pulous acts, one of which, now about
to be made public, contemplated
nothing lees thpn the theft of six
electoral votes in the State of West
Virginia by colonization.
The West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg Railway extends from
Piedmont to Davis in that State, a
distance of sixty miles. Ex Senator
Henry G Davis is now its president,
Stephen B Elkins vice president, and
among its stockholders is James G
Blaine. Elkins thought that Blaine
would be nominated by his party for
the Presidency in 1888, and early in
the year he began figuring upon tho
possibility of overcoming President
Cleveland's plurality of 1884, which
was 4,221 and carrying ibe State for
tho Republicans.
Deacon James P Foster was con
suited as president of the Republi
can League Clubs, and at once under
took the formation of clubB through
West Virginia. Daring the months
of January and February Mr Foster
was extremely busy with this work,
and wherever he could find three
men or two, or even one he organiz
ed a Republican political club, the
result being seen when at the meet
ing of the National League of Clubs
125 responded from the State of
West Virginia- a number totally dis
proportionate to its population and
political characteristics.
Quietly but steadily the member
ship there has been increasing
and the fine hand of the prac
ticed politician has been de
teded drafting negroes from the
hopelessly Democratic States of Vir
ginia and North Carolina, all along
the line of the railroad owned by
Messrs. Blaine and Elkins. Already
it is said over five thousand have
been colonized in this way and the
success of the Deraociatic ticket im
periled.
It was through Mr Jonathan Bar
rett, a constructing engineer identi¬
fied prominently with buildingof the
railroad, that attention was first di
rented to the underhand movemenis
of the Republicans. Mr Barrett is a
thorough Democrat, and some time
ago meeting a member of the Nation
al Democratic Committee he said to
him:
“Be careful about 'West Virginia,
or you run a chance of losing it.’ 1
Mr. Barrett then gave his reasons
for the statement, which were of such
a character as to leave no doubt that
the situation was indeed serious. In
quiry was quietly set on foot, facts
and figures gathered together, and
it is not unfair to presume that a rev
elation of Republican rascality and
underbandedness will shortly be
made which will shock many innocent
and confiding people who still pin
their faith to the “party of moral
i ideas."
THE COMMONWEAL!
The Yews as Gathered Over Geo la.
Work on the new barrel factory at
Canton will begin this week.
The outlook for the ..fall trade at
Greensboro is good. Fair crops will
be made.
Hereafter there will be no county
license on any kind of a show or ex
bibition in Brooks.
There were twenty-four accessions
to the Cookesbury church, in Hart
county, in the recent revival.
The Methodists of Canton will
probably make $800 or $1,000 im
provements on their church this
fall.
Twenty>.eight persons were bap
tized at Hopewell churcb, Hall coun
ty, by Rev. D. S. McCurry, last
Sabbath.
For several days a rovival has
been going on at Prospect church,
about seven miles from AtbeDS.
Over 100 new converts have been
added.
The meetings at the Baptist church
at Hartwell closed last Wednesday
morning. The church has been
greatly revived and the member
ship increased twentysfive,
TV. S. Langford, the new general
freight agent on the White Star
Steamboat Company, is said to be
the youngest man in the United
States bolding a similar position
Near Blakely, last Sunday, T. D,
Edgarton killed Reuben Lewis (col
ored. > Edgarton claims that be kil
led Lewis while the latter was ad
vancing to attack him to resist or
rest.
A negro man created considera
bio amusement at Greensboro on
Saturday last by riding through
town ou a monster ox. The animal
waB blinded and saddled, and moved
through the city a in rapid pace.
J. P. Echols of Belton has a pair
of spectacles that have been in con
stant use in bis family for over seven
ty five years. They are rough and
crude looking, the frames are heavy
and the glasses are small and thick.
Montezuma Record: Mr. II. H.
Story brings us a stalk of cui >us
cotton. The bolls are perfect and
open, showing nothing but the na
ked blacksecd and not a particle of
lint on any of them. Iu fact it is
Hotless cotton.
Among those who subscribed to
the fundbeing raised by the commit
tee from the Y. M. E. C. at Rome
was the Chinese laundryman, J. H.
secured the perscription from him.
“Wachee Washoe" put dowD $1 in
Chinese characters.
Dr. Kendrick of Crawfordville says
that there was a qumity of fodder at
his grandfather's at the time of bis
death that was made by slaves dor
ing the first year of the war, about
twenty seven years ago. He says it
looks as bright as this year's fodder.
Councilman J. D. Waddell of
Thomson is the proud owner of a
remarkable duck. Early iu the
spring she matured her plans and
commenced operation for the season,
and up to the middle of July she
laid 120 eggs, besides attending to
other domestic duties.
Some of the merchants of Buena
Vista have been circulating a petition
for signatures, asking the iuiiioad
commission to regulate the passenger
and freight rates on the Savannah
and Western road. They want
through rates of freight and p tssen
ger rates reduced to three cents a
mile.
Advice to Mothers.
M.s. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
for children teething, is the prescription
of one of the best female nurses and
failing success by Daring the
for their children. process
of teething its value is incalculable.
health to the child and rests the mother,
Price 26 cents a bottle, augeod&wly
...... —i
JUST IN.
Mixed and Plain Pickles, iu libls.
Fresh G rah am Flour.
Breakfast ‘Strips.
C- W. Clark Sc Son.
THE POLITICAL STENCHI
WHICH IS NOW PERVA0ING PIKE
COUNTY,
With Six Candidates in the Field-
Why the Negroes Put Out a Ticket
—The Result Uncertain.
Pike county will have the liveliest
political campaign that has ever been
known in its history. The Republi¬
can party had a meeting Saturday,the
1st inst. in Zebulon and nominated
two men of their own party, who are
W. J. Fincher (white,) of the 9th
District, and Jacob Maddux (colored)
of the Milner District. Two Repub¬
lican candidates and four Democrats,
making tix in the field. Such a con
glomerated mess when stirred up a
little, can not oBly be beard, felt and
seen, but even smelt and tasted, tak
ing in all the “senses of our nature.”
Solomon, with all his wisdom I don’t
think could prognosticate any opin
ion as to the result. The recorded
fact of the vote, between the white
and colored, stands only 209 in favor
of the whites. Then it is clear in an
even race, that if the “nigs” cling
together solid and don’t sell out, the
Democratic candidates could only be
elected by a mere scratch, or by the
skin ot their teeth; for if the nigs in
this election do as they did in the
last for Gardner and Madden—dig
up all the old apostles, ^Lazarus, and
they must have even disguised many
of their women in men’s clothing to
vote from the fact .that there were
50G more votes polled at that election
than is on the county records. I am
in hopes yet that tho four Democratic
candidates of our county will see the
and govern themselves as
wisdom dictates.
The colored Republicans gave as
their reason for nominating men of
their own party, that tho Democratic
party bad acted long enough as their
guardians, that they could have no
voice or choice in selecting candi¬
dates in their ranks. They are now
needing no further use of guaidians,
for they are of lawful ago and free
men, and wcu’d distinguish them¬
selves as such by selecting men of
their own party and choice to repre
sent them; that they had never want
a/l ed r\ or r iLstplwl desired social bmiblitv equality,but Lilt that tllttt
they would ever contend for their
legal, political and civil rights as
freemen; such as being represented
in the jury box, their equal and civil
rich’s on public carriers, and their
poii-ical rights at the ballot box.
Alto, the time had come when they
would no longer be serfs or stock in
trade for Democratic speculation.
Further, that the game of deceptive
democratic legislation had played
out with them; that the last four
years legislation of the Pike oounty
representatives on the local liquor
question had left it right where it
started, ou the two thirds rule of free
holders vote, which cuts off quite all
their race of voting on the question,
thus discriminating in favor of the
rich and against the poor, and tb>. s' —
by disfranchising their race upon the
qualifu ition of son freeholders or of
being to poor to own land. If such
be the law, it should be abolished.
They further demand a modification
of the chain gang law, so as not
make it a place of bell torture as
now is, but a placed pleasant
=S5
NTJMBER1C3
ishment, yea, a criminal palace, where
all of them would want to go and
slack their theivish thirst for tbeif
crime, and it would certainly be with
such modification a negro heaven. I
have pictured to you the political ait
nation of Pike county. Should you
ever ride over its borders in the moon
be sure you plug up your nasal or
gans, that you may not be strangula
ted to death with its stench.
A. H. R,
W( jtllirrj Waifs.
Wooaturiw, Ga., Sept. 4. —We are
glad to note that Mrs. J. F. Sutton,
who has been confined to her bed tot
two or three weeks past, h improv
in K- ‘ T
There was rather r- unexpected
marriage at the Wat ingsCamp
ground yesterday e \ .. u , t 4 o’clock.
The contracting parties were Mr Ben
F. Powell and MiBS Leonora Carroll
The ceremony was performed by Ret |
B. II. Sassnet, of Greenville. May
happiness and prosperity accompany
the young couple through life,
Mrs. Dr. J. 1). Sutton, who has
been confined to her bed for several
days, is convalescing.
Col. A. S. Owen, one of Talbot
county’s mos: prosperous young far
mors, spent a few hours in the city
on bis return home from the camf
uieeting.
Miss Clara Brooks, a charming
young lady of Talbot county, is visit
ing the family of W. S. Williams on
Greenville street.
The farmers around are beginning
to complain a little from the contin¬
ued rains. They report boll worm
in some parts.
Fred Sutton, of FlatSbeals, spent
yesterday iu tho city. He is very
cheerful, says be has a fine crop. IP
V. B. Loyett, after two weeks vis
it to relatives in Henry county, re¬
turned home ta-day. “Jat.”
Sunny Hide Sclntllatiens,
Sunny Side, Ga., Sept 4- -Rain
and mud are plentiful
Bad weather on farmers.
Willie N. Miller, of West Point,
is. spending some time with borne
folks near this place.
A. D. Reeves, of Williamson, was
in Sunny Side Sunday.
Prof T- J. Williamson, of Albany,
assisted in|tbo singing af Tirzah San
day.
Misacs Kate and Fannie Elder,
4 two 1\n,n4i/nl beautiful .riMlnf, young lajiafl ladies of rwf tf.MAn Macon
were at Tirzah Sunday.
Y, S. Gray and Chas. G. Morris
were among the Griffin crowd at the
singing Sunday.
Prof. Ddidm, of Lovejoy, was in
Sunny Side Sunday.
Joe Leach, Tom Horne and Judge
Kendall, of Mt. Zion, were at the
siogiog Sir. Iay in spite of the rain.
Miss Mtggie Aiison, a very win
seme young lady, of Car!owviUe,Ali
who has leen visiting Miss
Richter, Las returned home, much
to the regret of her many Sonny
fjiendr,especially the ‘‘Georgia raised
chicken Miller eater,” .'sited his W. B. |1|
Prof. \ son,
Miller, of West Point, Friday.
We had a very good singing Son
day if we did have a bad day.
F. Hu Dorsey went to Ch<anoo
ga, Tenn., Friday on business of ira
portanc#. Das*.
U J Weaderfr’,
Yes. Mrs, 8ir‘tb. it is reallf fin
ful, the effect Dr. Bigger*’ little child 1
f’onlial has had on my
was suffering so with that bowel 1
I advise to get a bottle at one**,
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