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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 •J. P. NICHOLS, AGENT THE Northwestern Mutual Life surance Company, tirai (if Milwaukee, Company Wis. America. The most angUSdlr reliable ee in rRIFFIN SEPTEMBER 5 1888 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 oompetitonwlth the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate Powders. Sold only in oans. RotaVBakin'o Powder Co., 106 Wall Street, New York ot2-difcwly-top columnist or 4th page. 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 newspaper. Its tone is l ure 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- eque Edglish, and mighty interesting read¬ ing they are. The Sunday Star is as good as the best class magazine, and prints about the same amount of matter. Besides the day's news it is rich in spesiai descriptive articles, sto ries, snatches of current literature, reviews, art criticism, eto. Burdette’s inimatible hu¬ mor sparkles in its columns; Will Carlcton’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 umns, The Weekly Star is a large paper giving the cream of the news the w irid 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 .his dollar invested in The Weekly Star thau from any other paper It will be especially alert during the cam paign, and will print Die freshest and most reliable political news. Terms to Subscribers, Postage Free: Every day for ODe year (iueluding Snn day,.................. $7 00 Daily, without Sunday, one year...... 6 00 Every day, six months.................3 50 Daily, without Sunday, six months— 3 00 Sunday edition, one year............... 1 ™ Weekly Star, one year............... 1 09 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 eash subscription. Address, THE STAR, Broadway and Park Place, New York. ST.JOHN’S This College enjoys COLLEGERS the powers of a ,Um- versitv and is conducted by the Jesuit r atn trs. It is situat'd in a very beautiful part part of New York County between the Har¬ lem R. & L. I. Sound. Every facility is giv¬ en for the best Classical, Scientific and Com- mercia! Education. Board and Tuition per Year $300. Studies re-open Wednesday, 'e rteneber 5tli, IS8S. School for St. John’s Hall, a Preparatory direc¬ Boys irora 10 to 12, is under the same tion. Fer further particulars aogl5d*wlm apply to Rev. John Scully, S. J., Pres. OM 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&ltanoo 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**, Isl