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VOLUME 17
'rijffin, Ga.
Qriffln U the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro-
#*ive town in Georgia. This is no hjper-
J’ ^||r* holle»> description, as tlie record of the last
years willahow.. • f
During that tlmQ it fcaa built and put into
/ a08 t guceessful operation a 1100,000 cotton
JlWly || v utory and is the now capital. building It 1 another with
twice has pntupa
a ge iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac¬
te tory, •“ immense ice and bottling works, a
p: sash and blind the finest factory, granite a broom factory in the
W ' United opened States, op and has quarry other enter-
many
Jii prises in x>utemplation. It has secured
soother. ailrond ninety miles long, and while
P’ oeatca on the greatest system in the South,
Um Central, has secured connection with its
important rival, the East TennSssee, Virginia
111 B d Georgia, It has just secured direct inde-
pendent connection with Chattanooga and
the Wt st, and has the President of a fourth
I B railroad ultimate residing here and working
fs to its completion. - With
-to five white and three colored
Marches, it is now building a $10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased its
I population by nearly one-fifth. It has at-
§i W trsc'cil n-ound its borders fruit growers from
it nearly every 8tate in the Union, until it is
now surrounded on nearly every side by or-
shards an i vineyards. It is the home of the
rape an 1 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
simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
of haring 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 ro’Uag country, 1150
feet above sea level. By tlie census of 1890, it
will have at alow estimate between 6,000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
sort—Wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, whowill not be any less wel¬
come if they bring money to help buildup
the town. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
W* have several small ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limited for onr
tueiness, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin. G
Griffin is the place where the biffin
Sews is published—daily and weekly—the
best newspaper in the Empire State of the
Georgia, Please enclose stamps in sending
for sample copies.
This brief sketch will answer July 1st
1I8B. 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.
GRtFFIN, ------- GEORGIA.
S. G. LEAK, Manager.
Send your claims to 3. G. Leak and
oorrospond only with him at headquarters. for
Cleveland k Beck, Resident Attorneys
Griffin. may9d&w8m
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
HAMPTON, QKOBOIA.
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. oct9d&wly
JNO. J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Offlee, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. fl
White’s Clothing Store. mar22d&wly
* DUMUXB. N. M. COLLINS
DISMUKE A COLLINS,
LAWYERS,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Office,first room in Agricultural Building
stairs. marl-d&wtf
THOS. R. MILLS,
TTOBNEI AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GA. and Federal
Will practice in the State
C-iurts. Office, over George & Hartnett’s
w >rner. nov2-tf.
D. L. PARMER,”
ATTORNEY AT L A VI
WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA.
< >umpt attention given to all business
Will praotioe in all the Courts, and where
ever business calls. aprGdly
E*" Collections a specialty.
•a d. stawaar. BOBr. t. danibl
STEWART it DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George & Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State Federa
—■ tanl.
watchmaker C. S. WRIGHT, jeweler
and
GRIFFIN, GA.
Hill 8treet, Up Stairs overJ. H. White
r.,*Co.»a.
Pay Your City Taxes
„ Hen - ------------dy for _
of City Taxes. The City and Public
Schools need money, and those who can do
•o conveniently are requested to make pay-
«M*tatonce. dlw THOS. NALL,
GRIFFIN GEORGI A. WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 19 1888
★ ANOTHER*-
FORWARD! I
Reaa carefully the following, a few of the good things
spread before yon. If you cannot
come, send your orders.
^SWEEPING MARKED DOWN SALE! !
The past season in Colored Dress Goods has been the best in the history
of the house, notwithstanding an ordinary year, strong competition and
siderable wild advertising, con¬
which proves that the Ladies of Griffin and sur¬
rounding counties have learned that they can find correct styles and a large
assortment of Dress Goods and Trimmings to match, Low Prices and best
attention at the
NEW YORK STORE.
Why are we having such a rush for Dress Goods ?
Dress Goods.
AT 10 CENTS.
Will sell atlOcts a yd, 1,000 yds Uashmeres
Colored Henriettas is a fabric that will in all the new shades. Cali early and secure
lead this fall. We have it in all the newest (be choice styles and colors.
shades and most fashionable colors. AT 15 CENTS.
DRESS GOODS. 50 pcs double width Fancy Suiting at 15 e,
a yard. All new goods and the latest color¬
The assortment of all wool melange cheeks ing. Well worth 25 cts a yard,
are at once pleasing and attractive. We AT 20 CENTS.
have them ia so many effects and dosigHs
that it is impossible to describe [them. Call 55 pcs double .width Cashmere ia all the
and see for yourself, newshadG8at20e. yard. [Call soon before
AT 30 they are all picked OFer.
CENTS. AT 25 CENTS.
6-4 Suiting at 30 cents a yaH; sold last 45 pcs double width Fancy Suiting, some¬
season for 40 cents. New goods, just open¬ thing handsome, at 25 c. a yard. The as¬
ed, This is good news to the Ladies that sortment is complete. Delays are danger¬
have been waiting for these goods. ous. Call at once.
FIVE THOUSAND YARDS OF SEA ISLAND I
25 yds for $1.00 ! 12 1-2 yds, 50 c.! 61-4 yds, 25 c!
The edge slightly damaged, but the goods are worth twice the money.
Call and see them.
Clothing ^Department!
MEN'S SUITS.—We wish to hold your BOY’S SUITS
closest attention. These suits are tailor made
trimmed in the finest manner, made np to Age 4 to 12, knee pants, marked down to
sell for $10, have placed them on the table $2 50,
and marked them down to the extremely
low prioe of $6X0. former price $10 Boys suits, age 4 to 12, knee pants, mark-
MEN’S SUITS at $7.50, od down to $3 50.
and $12.
MEN’S SUITS—Genuine imported Scotch Boys suits, age 4 to 12, knee pants, marked
Suiting, genteel plaids and checks, suitable down to $5.00.
for dress or business wear, marked down to
$ 10 . 00 . Boys suits, age 12 to IS, long pants, GnarJi
Fine Suits Marked ed down to $6 50.
Men’s BOY’S SUITS
down to $15! Age. 12 to 18, long pants, marked down to
and marked These domestic down goods makes from are some .$20 and and of in the handsome $33. finest foreign colors $ 8.00 !
Shoes ! Shoes ! Shoes !
Have you seen them Yet? Strictly first-class, a
the NEW YORK STORE.
We have carefully "-one over our large and varied stock of Shoes and marked them down
from the former low prices at which they were offered and invite all who want Shoes to call
on us.
Ah, There. - Ah, There.
LADIES’ SHOES. BOYS SHOES.
A full line of Boys Veal Calf Button Shoes
Ladies Dongola Button Shoe, Common- at prices that will astonish you.
sense heel, for $2, former price $3. MI88ES SHOES— A handsome line of Mis
Our Ladies Kid Button Shoe at $1 25 w ill ses Kid Button Shoes at prices that will para
beat any $1 76 shoe in the market. lyze competition. SHOES—20 of Gents Shoes
A test will convince any wearer that our GENTS cases
Ladies Kid Button Shoes at $2 50 and $3 00 Lace and button, and our prices are with the
is the best sold for the money in the city. times. Gents walk-fast button and lace
Ladies French Kid Cominonsense Button Shoes, new line jnstrcceived. $3 50. (Willsell them
Shoe, the best made, from $300 to $500. for $2 75 ; regular price
CARPETS ! • CARPETS !! • CARPETS !! I
OUR EXTRA ANNOUNCEMENT J
Extra Super Wool Ingrains, Cotton and Wool Ingrains Tapestry Brussels and Straw
money received. Call on
The Great Leader in Low Prices.
WM. C. LYONS'
NEW VORK STORE.
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
IT COMES LATE. BUT IT GETS
THERE.
A Better and More Generally Inter¬
esting Letter than that of Cleve¬
land or Harrison.
Not having the space to print iho
letters of acceptance of the two pres¬
idential candidates, and feeling sure,
moreover, they would refuse to pay
the uiual rates of teii cents a line for
political communications, wo now
take pleasure in presenting our
readers with the following fao simile
of the letter which Bill Nye wrote
and offered first to Cleveland and
then to Harrison, hut which was re¬
spectfully but firmly declined by
those short-sighted statesmen. We
can print this without charge, being
the usual courtesy between two gen.,
tlemon, who are mutually engaged
in furnishing first-class mental pab¬
ulum to the multitude; but this
publication does not necessarily sup
pose a full endorsement of all the
views herein set forth :
Mr, Chairman and gentlemen of
ot the Committee : I have just
learned by the merest accident that
I was nominated some ten weeks ago
as a candidate for the Presidency at
the regular National Convention,
Being out of town at the time, and
•ur local postmaster refusing to for¬
ward newspapers without the pay¬
ment of the additional postage, I
did not know about it, though I re¬
member of telling a man last spring
that if no other man in the party
seemed really fitted to be its stand¬
ard-bearer, I would run. That was
the end of it so Far as 1 was concern¬
ed. What he said to me I have for¬
gotten now. It went in at one ear,
and finding no obstruction to speak
of, came out the other. (This sen¬
tence has been erased by both Mr,
Harrison and Mr. Cleveland and
characterized as flippant.) I do not
even remember the name of this
man, but I remember of saying to
him, that if folks generally thought
was the best man I would mn, and
so now what can I do? I can not
honorably get out of it.
When I made the promise I had
an idea that possibly a better man
would be found somewhere, and in
that way I would be enabled to get
out of it. Acting upon that suppo¬
sition I have made other arrange¬
ments which, of course, 1 will now
have to cancel. We bad purchased
and put in our coals for the winter,
and also agreed to board the teacher
at our nouse. 1 might name other
plans we had made for the future,
which will now have to be entirely
changed, but the above will show
you that in going into this thing I
am making sacrifices which are not
generally taken into consideration
during the heat and acerbity of a
pol't :ca! e »mpaign.
If elected 1 weuld favor a higher
price for the manufacturer and lower
prices for the consumer.
That is my platform. Elaboration
and funny business in a platform
I know n.>thing at all about. I
strike righ at the root of the mat¬
ter and talk trade right ori the start.
I also favor the annexation of Hes¬
ter street to the United States. It
can be brought about peacrably, I
believe, and would be highly advan¬
tageous both to the people of that
country aud ourselves.
I am also in favor of more friendly
commercial relations with Chatham
street and the appointment of a MicV
istcr to Mott street. I believe in
submitting a tariff question to a pop¬
ular vote of this country and Europe,
after which I would reserve the right
to do what I thought best about
it.
I hate to feel hampered while I
SS
Fm Lot Teas Just li! 'A
100 lbs. French Candy.
Free and Easy Tobacco.
Nearly new Heating Stove for sale cheafr
C- W. Clark & Son.
am President. •
I have not yet decided whether!
I would favor putting tbfl host man ■
into office, or whether I would let
them remain where they are, in the
newspaper business.
I favor some more things, but out
of respect for the convention which
nominated me, T shall not embody
them in this letter, but wait till I am
elected and then jar tfte baek teeth
of those whose votes I now desire,
but whose opinions I despise.
My latch-string will be out during
the day, and I shall aim to keep open
all night. Oi Sundays visiting
statesmen will please enter at the
side of the house, and X shall ask one
and all to refratn from loud and bois¬
terous language in the hall as they
go away, even though there should
be annoying complications in identi¬
fying umbrellas left in the ball-rack
and quids of tobacco left on the stair
rail. Let each take such umbrella
and tobacco as shall be allotted to
him witboat repining, and thus cle«.
vate and ennoble the etiquette and
tout ensemble of our national politi¬
cal system—a system of which we
are all so justly proud.
I trust that one and all will feel
free to come and bring their dinners
until November, for after that I
shall, if elected, admit only respec¬
table [ eopic, nd very few of those.
Prior to election I shall maintain a
general social sink of iniquity, and I
hope and trust that the various moral
festers who claim that they knew mo
when I was poor and when my wife
did her own work, and who now
claim that they made inc all I am,
will call early, refrain from tying
their teams to the oleander, and turn
off their breaths on retiring instead
of trying to blow it out.
The house will be open for visitors
immediately after prayers and con
tinue so until breakfast time on the
following day. Guests and friends
are requested to pass through the
folding doors leading out of the
front parlor, view the remains and
then continue out through the dining
room, kitchen and barn.
Memento picket* for making
canes, may be found in the hay mow
marked as follows :
*.................* • • *
; TAKE ONE. !
The apples on the large trees near
the well are cooking apples and not
good yet, anyway.
If elected, I shall favor intemper
ance only in case of sickness.
Looking back over our history as
a n .:ion, I am gratified to see that
it i, so much so as it is. As time in
its never ceasing round goes ever
on and on, let us so live that we
may from time to time, as I may say,
add to that history. One serious
objection to a new country, I think,
is its noticeable paucity of history.
Ob. let us, Jben, look out for that
before it is everlastingly too late.
Let us fc< e to it, so that in the fu¬
ture, when nations yet unborn shall
desire to look back over onr history,
there will be as mueh of it as possi¬
ble.
My wife joins me in the kind ,~t
regards to your committee, a.d
hopes you will always come to se*.
when y ou are in town. We are
a few miles from the station, and
can easily find our house if yoa
follow the crowd. We think
of having a pink tea at our bouse
Thursday, we woxild both
!§i
glad to see the National Convention
and friends here before we take op
the carpets. Yours truly,
Sign here •SP’ —-- ----------- —
l\ S.—I accept the nomination
with pleasnro.
I am also prepared to famish, at
short notice, proclamations, mea
sages, both peaceful ami retaliatory,
as well as earnest thoughts * and
pieces to speak white you wait. My
book of pieces to speak will appear
just before Thanksgiving and will be
a good book. Bill Nt*.
Advice to Mothers.
M.a, Winslow’s Bootuiko Syscf
for of children of the teething, best ia tl,. nrotcriptiott and
one fer*- mines
physicians has been nsed in for the for El- dates, with and
:» never
failing for their success children. by milUv^a During of the motheas
of teething value ia incalculable. process
ite
It relieves the child from pain, cures tin
entcry bowels, and diarrheas, griping in fas
and wind colic. By giving
health to the child and rests the mother.
Price 25 cents a bottle. angcodAwly
PRINTER WANTED,
A-steady young man who has bad
one ing office or two years compositor experience get in a {mat
as can a per
manent situation and fair wages by
applying at once to this office; tf
Pure ami rich, ;>o«*«Mlnx all the noth Uea
properties ot Melt, Cfcase’a Baxley Malt
Whisky is a perfect Tonic for building op
the syste m. George <t Harnett sole ageakr \
or Griffin.■
Georgia in Michigan.
The exhibit of Georgia, Us grain a,
fruits, minerals and genera! products
under the supervision of Commie
sioner of Immigration W, L. Ql ess
ner, is one of great interest. It com
prises over 700 articles on exhibition
including cotton in all its glory, froa
seed to wearing apparel, even to suit
ing for men, aud is so cleverly done
that without the touch do oft* can
tel! if it be wooieu or the product of
the soil. The ‘‘genuine woolen”
blankets are ou exhibition, made of
cotton, of course, but a buyer’s
sight would not be cheated much
he made the purchase for the tot
mer. Taken all in all the Georgia
exhibit is the best one that ha* yet
come to the Michigan State Fair.
Another exhibitor who . deserves
praise for the excellence of his ex.
hibition of grain and vegetables is
A. J. Jewett, of Mason, His exhibit,
j including grain in small sheaves, and
glass jars is % model Oils.-—
[Jackson (Mich.) Cornier,
-'W, ^ *
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Thk Fowfier never vanes, A muni »
parity, economical etaengUi than sad vholesomoMa. kinds, ead« _
the ordinary
not be sold in oompstiton with the naolUt*
ot low tost, short weight, alum or
Powders. Powpm Co., Roidcniyia t(»'Weil Street, Mew
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