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eC^ifFin fa j J .&.f : 1 I 1 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 ot3 <i&wlrUm column 1st or S ia m NUMBER t7.-.