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i News. *Ai VOLUME Griffin, Ga. - -*— /Grinin is the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro- grcssive town in Georgia. This is no hjper- bolieal description, ft3 tlie record of the last jre years will show. During that time it has built and pat into most successful operation a #100,0 00 cotton actory and is. now building another with nearly twice the capital. It has pnt up a arge iron and braes foundry, a fertilizer fac¬ tory, an immense ice and bottling works, a gash and blind factory, a broom factory opened up the finest granite quarry in the Uidted States, and has many other enter¬ prises in .outemplatiou. It has secured another. allroad ninety miles long, and while ocateu on the greatest system in the South, tho Central, ha9 secured eonneetion with its important rival, the East Tennsssee, Virginia gad Georgia, It has just secured direct inde¬ pendent connection with Chattanooga and the West, and has the President of a fourth railroad residing here and working to its ultimate completion. With ts live white and three colored churches, it is now building a §10,000 new Pre-byterian church. It ha3 increased its population by nearly one fifth. It has at- tracic ’ eround its borders fruitgrowers from nearly every State in tlie Union, until it is now surrounded on nearly every side by or¬ chards an 1 vineyards. II is the home of the grape an ! its wine making capacity has doubled every year. It has successfully inaugurated a system of public schools, with a seven years curriculum, second to none. This is part of the record of a half decade and simply shows the progress of an already admirable city, with the natural advantages of having the finest climate, summer and winter, in the world. Grifiin is the county seat of Spalding county, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a healthy, fertile and roiling 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 r.re all of the light, 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 tlieir accom¬ modations are entirely too limited for our business, pleasure and health seeking guests. Ifyouseeanybodyth.it wants a good loca¬ tion for a hotel in tlie South, just mention Griffin. Griffin is the place where the Gbiffin News is published— daily and weekly —the Best newspaper in the Empire State of the Georgia, Please enclose stamp- in sending tor 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 limes. 1 ! iOFESSIONAL DIRECTORY HEADQUARTERS Protective Leak's Collecting and Agency of Georgia. GRIFFIN, ------- GEORGIA. S. G. LEAK, Manr.ger. {3§T Send your claims to 9. G. Leak and correspond only with him at headquarters. for Cleveland & Beck, Resident Attorneys Gridin. may9d&w8m HENRY C. PEEPLE S, A [TOR N.E Y AT LA W HAMPTON, OKOllGIA. Practices in all the State and Federal Courts. oct9d&wly JNO. J. HUNT, A r TORNEY AT LA W arUFFXN, GEORGIA. Office, 81 Ilill Street, Up Stairs, over J. II White’s Clothing Store. rnar22d&wly l). DISMUKE. N. M. GOBLINS DISMUKE & COLLINS, LAWYERS, GRIFFIN, GA. office,first room in Agricultural Building Stairs. marl-d&wtf THOS. R. MILLS, T TORNEY AT LA W, GRIFFIN, GA. Will practice in the State and Federal Omrte. Office, over George & Hartnett’s a truer. nov2-tf. on d. srawaar. sour. i. dash:. STEWART & DANIEL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Over George & Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. Will practice in the Stale and Fedora ourts. ianl. D. L. PARMER, ATTORNEY AT LA W WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA. 11 umpt attention given to all business. Win practice,in all the Courts, and where- tver business calls. Collections a specialty. aprCd ly ~c. s. wrIghtT MATCHMAKER AND JEWELER GBIFFIN, GA. Hill Street, Up Stairs over J. II. White A Co.’s. JT P. NICHOEH, AGENT THE Northwestern Mutual Life In¬ Of Milwaukee, surance Company, Company Wis. The most reliable It nrsrce in America, ang28dly GRIFFIN GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7 1888 ftOYAi *4K|M c POWDER Absolutely Pure. This Powder never varies. A marvel of pqrity, strength and wholesomness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and can not be sold in oompetiton with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate Powders. Bold on'yin oans. RovaCBaking Powder Co., 106 Wall Street, New York ota-ditwlv-toD column 1st nr 4tt nave. THE STAR. A GREAT NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. The Stab is the only New York newspaper possessing tional Administration the fullest confidence of the Na¬ and the United Dem¬ ocracy of Now York, the political battle ground Jeffersonian of the Republic*. good enough Democracy, for Stab. pure and simple, is ed the metropolitan tue Single band¬ among press, it has stood by the men called by tho great Democ¬ racy to redeem the government from twenty-five and years of Republican wastefulness For these corruption four and despotism to the South. 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 onr national affairs, and of continued national tranqnility 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 locking them up in vaults to serve no purpose bat invite waste fulness and dis onesty, 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 nows 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- cque Edglish, and mighty interesting read¬ ing they Sunday are. Stab is good the best The as as class magazine, and prints about the same amount of matter. Besides the day’s nujvs it is rich in spesial descriptive articles, sto ries, snatches of cuvrent literature, reviews, *rt criticism, etc. Burdette’s inimatible hu¬ mor sparkles in its columns; Will Carleton’s delightful letters arc of its choice offerings. Many of the best known men and women in literature and art are represented in it3 col umns, Weekly Stab is iarge giving The a paper the cream of the news the w irld over, with special features which make it the mos complete family newspaper published. The too farmer, the mechanic, tlie business man much occupied to read a daily paper, will get more for his dollar invested in The Weekly Stab than from any other paper It will be especially alert daring and the most cam paign, and will print the freshest reliable political news. Postage Fbee: Terms to Sibscbibebs, Every day for one year (including Sun $ day, ........................ 1 ........ 6 00 Daily, without Sunday, one year...... o0 Every day, six months.......... ” Daily, without Sunday, six months.... J 00 Sunday edition, one year............... 1 Wsekly Stab, one year............. 1 w A free copy of The Weekly Stab to the sender of a club of ten. rjT ; -‘ Special Campaign Ofieb—The Weekly Stab in clubs remainder of twenty-five of this or more will be sent for the year for Forty cents for each subscription. Address, THE STAR, Broadway and Park Place. New Yorr,. ST. This JOHN'S College cojpys COLLEGE/;«*i:,S the powers of a Uni- versity and is conducted by the Jesuit s atn ers. It ia situated 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¬ mercial Education. Board and Tuition per Year *800. Studies re open Wednesday, September 5tli, 1888. School for . Sr. John’s Hall, a Preparatory under the direc¬ Boys from 10 to 12, is same tion. Eer fnrther particulars apply to Rev. John Scully, 8. J , Pres. ang*5dAwlm &W 0 'bfrefnxiawia TT*voyc*u Coujrh, Pronchitif, Asthma, Indigestion f Use II Ri* 5uS5many C1NCER o*tu« TONIC Without delay. worn ca*e« and istbe for all affections if t he t/iroat mad Jungs, IMESLEYAN Fsmaie INSTITUTE _STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.- , ;iun . .. r ______________ nineteen S« r rt nrfvantng:— -n one "rentIy reduced chare*. iP-.wa.» bakes, D.Pnotat, suhoi, Vi WOMEN IN ANCIENT ROME. Matron* Who Were Not to lie With—A Case of Wholesale Poisoning. Tlio Roman records show that it not safe to trifle with the feelings of man women. They were, like men, possessed of great decision character, and when provoked could the most daring deeds, reckless of consequences. If they were kindly and on equal terms, they were best of wives, and I am convinced their goodness and firmness were most effectual causes of the which they attained. But if put into force their traditional and claimed supreme domination them they were exactly the women resist. And the history of Romo a lurid light on tills aspect of their acter; for occasionally they took and wild vengeance when husbands too far in their despotic actions. I adduce one or two instances of this: In the year 831 B. C. many of Roman citizens, and especially many the Roman nobles, were attacked by unknown disease, which showed tho symptoms in all, and nearly all Tlie cause was wrapt in obscurity, at length a maid servant went to a ffidiio and said she could explain origin of tho disease, but would not so unless security were given her she would suffer no harm in Tlie curule nedile brought the matter fore the consuls, tho consuls the senate, and a resolution was guaranteeing safety to the maid Whereupon she declared that the arose from poison; that the matrons in tho habit of compounding drugs, she could take the officials to a house which they would come upon the while engaged in the operation. The officials accepted her offer, lowed her and found, as she had the matrons compounding drags. twenty of them w#re conveyed to Forum, and were subjected to an amination on their doings. Two of of noble family and with patrician Cornelia and Sergia, affirmed that drugs were perfectly wholesome. could easily be tested, and the matrons, were requested to prove truthfulness by drinking the ure. Tho two matrons beggod a few moments of private with tho rest of their associates, within sight of tho people. sion was granted, a few words were changed, and then back, all boldly of the matrons came quaffed liquor, and died in consequence, a search was made for all the who had been engaged In thla and 170 were found guilty. The explained the occurrence by that the women were infatuated; probably they knew well why was had to such violent measures, that Roman matrons were not likely be subjected to tyranny without an effort in one way or another to an end to it. An occurrence of a similar nature place in 180 B. C. In this case there scarcely be a doubt that a real raged, for it lasted for three years decimated Italy. But the women enraged with the men for the measures wliich had been taken them in connection with tho nalian mysteries, and they seem to regarded the plague as affording a able opportunity for tho use of In 180 B. G. the praetor, tho consul many other illustrious men died. judge was appointed to inquire these deaths, and especially to examine poison had been employed. The ans do not relate the results of tills tigation, but we are told that the wife the consul was tried and condemned death. Thirty-six years after this two men consular rank were poisoned by wives. In subsequent times the use poison became frequent; and larly in the early days of the empire matrons about the court were accused having constant recourse to it to get of tho way men whom they did not husbands and sons and others with them, as well as strangers. one writer remarks that wherever were irregularities there were Some historians have rejected these of poisoning as the inventions of lous annalists, whether I think, without good son. But the stories are or false tho Romans believed them, they embody tho Roman belief in to what women could do. And it to me that we must regard them as cating that the Roman matrons sometimes that they were badly that they ought not to endure tho treatment, and that they ought to the only means that they possessed expressing their feelings and their vengeance by employing Principal Donaldson, LL. D., in porary Review. Th* Flbm of WooL VThy does not wool felt on tha back? The answer is simple. all the fibers are lying one way. eerraturcs always point in the away from the root of the fiber, thus they cannot fit into each other more than two saw edges pointing nmo way could interlock, or if than both fit cones could stick together In the same direction. But reverse of them and then try to draw it past oilier while touching it, and they will once become fastened together. In manner, during the various processes manufacture, the fibers of wool polled about in every direction, and their edges are placed with many of points facing each other and ready seize hold when the Chrookifc felting operation gin*.—IVy Goods THE GEORGIA CAR l HOW IT TAKES AT THE OHIO DIS¬ TRICT FAIRS. Georgia Products Admired —The Gril- fi n Chair—A Letter From Major Glessner. The following is the main portion of a tetter from Commissioner Glessner, dated at Mansfield, O., which will show how the car is being received and how Griffin's being advertised: Monday morning tlie secretary of the agri¬ cultural society and one of the directors drove mo out to the fair grounds and space was se¬ lected for our exhibit: They generously gave me all the space they could spaie in a most favorab!* location, and altheogh the exhibit occupied about 1,000 square feet, it was crowded so that it did not show its best. In fact, I was surprised myself to find that I had so large a variety of products, and al¬ though the exhibit is by no means a complete exposition of the resources of Georgia, it makes a showing of.which any state might well feel proud, and if onr people had heard the many compliment passed upon it they would fee! that they lived not only in the em¬ pire state of the South, bat of the onion. Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning were spent in transporting ou. goods to the grouhds and arrangiog them, and by Tues ¬ day noon we were piepared to receive visit, ors. Nor were we prepared a mom.'it too food, for they begi n flocking in, and from that time to Friday evening there was a constant throng of visitors, while on Thurs¬ day the crowd was so large that it was im¬ possible almost to move them through, and personal explanations were necessarily brief ; nd unsatisfactory. However, every article is not only plainly labeled as to name, but also as to its use. The receipts show there was an attendance of 15,01 peo¬ ple at the fair, and it is safe to say that there was not one of them that did not visit the Georgia exhibit, for it had been-exten¬ sively advortised as one of the chief features of the fair, and 1 never saw more interest manifested in any exhibit than in this. Many of them visited ii every day and would remain an hour at a time. Our register shows OV- * 1.50Q uamr.». and neither women nor children registered, and on Thursday the crowd was so great that I do not sup¬ pose one in ten registered. The chief point of a.truction wuo the cot- ’on group. Very few had ever seen a cotton plant, and it was an object of wonder and delight to them, and there was not a minuto in the day when it was not surrounded. This group was in the centre of the display so that all could pass around it. In the cen¬ tre of tlie group stood a 500-pound ba'c on end, and upon it stood Cliff Clay’s big cot¬ ton stalk, the bottom bolls fully opened. At ths four corners stood baskets of seed cotton, lint cotton, cotton seed and cotton aeed meal and cake. Many and varied wore the ques¬ tions asked as to tiie manner of cultivation and handling of the fi.ecy staple, and had I complied with all the requests for samples 1 would not have had a lock or a seed 1< ft. Tlie display of cotton goods, which is real¬ ly very fine, elicited equal admiration and surprise, for most of the people here have an idea timt the South i» ages behind tlie North in manufacturing and other enterprises, and this exhibit was an eye opener. All agreed that the geods were of a finer quulity and better made than those they were in the habit of buying, and expressed the wish that they could procure them. I could have sold every yard had 1 wished to. The blankets and bed spreads were especially admired and praised, while Peacock’s dutriny with $7.50 suit of eottonadee was a popular personage. The wood and mineral display also attract ed a great deal of attention, especially the woods, and the Griffin chair, made from the fourteen kinds of woods, was especially ad¬ mired. The palmetto log andth* boxed pine tree were attentively examined. Next to ihe cotton the fruit table wa* the center of attraction. Many could not at first believe that the large Keiffer pears, . ed pomegranates and senppernong grapes which were attractively displayed in a hand some little willow basket, were not made of wax. The apples were also greatly admired, and much surprise was expressed that such fine specimens could be grown in the South. No one idea in the exhibit did more to im press our visitors that Georgia is a healthy country than this display of apples. Al¬ though our fiv.it display was not large, and rea’Jy not ve: y creditable to our State, taking into consult etion our many varieties, yet it wa* by far the finest at the fate both iu quali¬ ty and variety. bat it was the coin, ilie wheat and the oats that tooktii* eyes of the farmers. They could scarcely believe iln\those big, long, solid white ears of corn were of this year’s growth, and were only fairly convinced when weshowed them the big stalks with three and four ears upon them. The corn fields here are daak gr*en and the ears have just begun to harden. There were but two sam. pies of corn shown from the county, and they were but barely past the roasting ear stage. The corn meal made from this year’s crop was also a great surprise. One dealer in meal came to me to know what such meal would cost by die ton, as he dectered it to be finer meal than any he could boy In the north. So it would s«em that the lime may not be far distant when the tables will bo turned and the South will be shipping corn to the North. While the county display of Irish potatoes Fine, Large WMte Head Calbep vjfl ....JUST IN., . Mixed and Plain Piekles, in Bbte. Fresh Graham Flour. Breakfast ^Strips. C- W. Clark & Son. wasve.y large aid fine as to varieties, onr Georgia potatoes compared favorably with them as to size and quulity. Our sweet pota toes, although not up to the Georgia average, were admired foi their size and were the only ones exhibited. » # * * While I expected much from thin exhibit in attracting attention to Ceorgir.ithas so far exceeded my expectation, and I look for¬ ward to a rich harvest in the future. Papers, pamphlets, maps, circulars, etc., have been freely circulated and gladly received. Many have expressed their intention to attend the State fair at Macon, and many o’hers say they will come dov i and look arotlnd. I talked with ayoung farmer who said he. wes glad he had seen the exhibit, as he had sold his farm and intended to go West, but now he should go to Georgia, and 1 hope there will be many others. One thing is certain, Georgia is being and will be more talked of in this section than ever before, and that talk is all favorable to her. “FROM THE FKOJfT *' Democratic Scouts Report the Euctnj In Full Retreat. Washington, Sept. 0.—(Special.) —There is good Democratic cheer all along the line. lien. Ben. I.e Fevre, chief assistant to Cfaaiiman Brice, of the National Committee, was in the city for a few hours today. He says that ihe situation in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut is splendid for the Democrats and is daily improving. Congressman W to. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, has returned to Wash ington looking very well, notwitb standing the strain of bis campaign services, supplementing that of his faithful discharge of his Congression «1 duties during this prolonged and trying session. Mr. Wilson’s recep tion was very gratifying personally and politically. He found the peo pie keenly alive to the issues present ed by the Democrats, and as intelli gently inquisitive as they are appre ciativa. Immense audiences greeted him at Chicago, Racine, Michigan City, Logansport and elsewhere. The one subject discussed and the one of apparently sole interest and import ance to those whom he spoke to and with, was the tariff. At Logansport tnere was being held a great agricul tural fair. The managers had arrang ed for a Republican day, Prohibition day and a Democratic day, Mr. Wil son addressed an immense concourse of people. He says at the timo he spoke at Ft. Wayne the Master Workman X>f the Knights of Labor made a «. very .w j ».■ strong anti-protectfon speech in which Gen. Harrison was criticised in most forcible language. Mr. Wilson was informed that the campaign iu Indiana was never so early and vigorously opened by the D mocrats, that the enthusiasm and en rgy displayed were more than pro ph jtic of fi ial results, hi respect to to the situation in West Virginia, he said that the Democrats appreciated necessity for harmony and hard work; that the consciousness of difficulties in the party's path was the best as surance of its united efforts to com¬ mand and secure success. I he Road Healhvrard Made Easier. You haY« been ill, we will suppose, and are convalescing slowly. That is, you ace trylug to pick up a little fleeb, to regain some of your wonted color, to accustom your stomach to more solid nutriment than its recently enfeebled condition permitted you to take. How can you accelerate yoir 9n»il’space healtliward? We are wai r- . d by co-current testimony is affirming. < ..t if j'on vi ill use tw.ee or tkriee enabling a day Hu let¬ ter’, J-' mutch Bitters, on medicine of loo.' -eertained purity and tonic virtues, that yu- v. ill be materially aided. It pro¬ the motes system a tlow to of assimilate the gastric the juices, nourishment and helps of which it stands so orach in need. It reme¬ dies a tendency to constipation without con¬ vulsing the bowels. The liver it stimulates to renewed activity, safely promotes the ac¬ tion of the kidneys and bladder, and annihi¬ lates malaria ar.d rheumatism at ,he outset. NUMBER (’OTTOY COVERS FOR LOTTOY. Tke Advice of Lifer poo I Merabaiila to ihe Planter* Charleston, Sept. 5.—A Washing ton special to the News and Courier today saya Congressman Elliott yes terday received a comunication from Acting Secretary of State Bites, stating that be bad just received a cablegram from Mr. Hassell, onr Con sal at Liverpool, in reply to the in qniry of Monday on the subject of bagging, set forth in these d»* patches. Mr. he Iinssell states that inter viewed leading merchants, and they appear prejudiced in favor of jute bagging as a covering for cotton, law fa! and acceptable- The merchants, however, suggest e n sheeting as a substitute. Mr. Rives, in hit* t. o .j Col. E'l iott, adds that it appears that there is no rule of the trade iu Liverpool which prohibits the covering of cot ton bales with material other than the ordinary jate baggiDg. Col. Elliott says that the informa iff tion received by tho dt partment in very encouraging to the friends of the planter, for if cotton sheeting is adopted as a substitute it will in creaso the home consumption to a great extent. It is roughly eatima ted today that it wonid require at ' least 100,000 bales to snppiy tho ordi nary baggiDg. subject freely discussed This was today by tbe Congressmen from cot, ton growing States, and they are ql tho opinion that a material can be manufactured out of refuse, or yel low cotton, that will do for bailing purposes, which need not cost more than three or four cents per yard. The opportunity ia at band and it re mains for the .Southern people to ex ercise their own ingenuity in thjs matter and work out tbeir own sal vation. They may be subject to a little inconvenience daring the delay in establishing the necessary plant, but in the end they witl be independ ent of tbe Bagging Trnst, and at tbe same time improve their fortunes- Central RR. Exposition Rates. • The Central Railroad of Georgia will make the low rate ol one cent per mile for the following occasions: Chattahoochee Valley Exposition, opens at Columbus, Ga., Oct. 4th, closes Oc.‘. latch. Tickets will be sold from all points on the Central RR. system- Georgia State Agricultural Fair, opens at Macon, Ga., Oct. 10th and closes Oct. 14th. Tickets will be sold from all points in Georgia on Ihe Central 11R. system. Augusta National Exposition opens at Augusta, Ga., Oot 10th and closes Nov. 7tb. Tickets will be soM from all p > nts on the Central RR. system. State Fair Mont Alabama opens at gomery, A’a„ Oct. 22nd and contin^ ues one week. Tickets will be {sold from all points in Alabama on Gen tral RR. system. % East Alabama Fair, opens at Op*~ lika, Ala., Oct. 29tb a«d continue* one week, Tickets will be sold from all pointfi in Alabama on the Savan nah A Western and Mobile & Girard RUs. including Columbus, Ga. Visitors for pleasure will have their tastes gratified by the magnifi cent displays, whi le those seeking fa formation as to the resources of Ala¬ bama and Georgia wil fiud revel* tious that will astonish them. This low rate should enable verybodj to attend these fairs at small expense. Make up a party and go via tbe Ceo traL