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MUffin ) '# « j'. , VOLUME 17 Griffin, Ga. Griffin U the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro¬ gressive town iu Georgia. This is no hyper¬ bolical description, as the record of the last five years will show. During that time it has built aa<l pat into most successful operation a $100,000 cotton actory and is now building another with nearly twioe the capital. It has pntup a a ge iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac¬ tory, an immense ice and bottling works, a •ash and blind factory, a broom factory opened op the finest granite quarry in the Halted States, and has many other enter¬ prises in .on temptation. It has secured another. ailroad ninety miles long, and while ooatea on the greatest system in the South, the Central, has secured connection with its important rival, the East Tennsssee, Virginia ad Georgia. It has just secured direct inde¬ pendent connection with Chattanooga and the Wt st, and has the President of a fourth railroad residing here and working to its ultimate completion. With U five white and three colored churches, it is now building a $10,000 new Presbyterian church. It has increased its population by nearly one-fifth. It has at- rsi-'evl around Its borders fruit growers from nearly every State in the Union, until it is uow surrounded on nearly every side by or¬ chards and vineyards. It is the home of the rape and its wine making capacity has doubled every year. It has successfully Inaugurated a system of public sohools, 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. Griffin is the county seat of Spalding county, situated in'west Middle Georgia, with a healthy, fertile and rolling 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 ail of the right sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to weleome strangers and anxious to secure de¬ sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel¬ eome if they bring money to help build np the town. There is about only one thing we need badly jnst 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 good loca- ionfor a hotel in the South, just mention Griffin. Griffin is the place whera the Gbiffin News is published—daily and weekly — the nest newspaper in the Empire State of the Georgia, Please enclose stamps in sending (or sample oopies. This brief sketch will answer July 1st 1MB. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to be changed to keep up with the times. i H0FESSI0NAL DIRECTORY Leak's HEADQUARTERS Collecting and Protective Agency of Georgia. GRIFFIN, ------- GEORGIA. S. G. LEAK, Manager. Bend vour claims to 8. U. Leak and correspond only with him at headquarters. for Cleveland A Beck, Resident may9d&w8m Attorneys Griffin. HENRY C. PEEPLE S, Al’TORNEY AT LAW HAMPTON, OKOBOIA. Practices in all the State and Federal Courts. octSd&wly JNO. J. HUNT, ATTORNEY AT LAW GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. Office, 31 Ilill Street, Up Stairs, over J. 11 It Lite’s Clothing Store. mar22d&wl y D. OIUtUBS. N. M. COLLINS DISMUKE A COLLINS, LAWYERS, QBIFFIN, GA. office,first room in Agricultural Building dtairs. marl-d&wtf THOS. R. MILLS, TTORNEI AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GA. Will practice in the State and Fedsial Courts. Office, over George A Hartnett’s sorner. nov2-tf. D. L. PARMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW WOODBURY, : : GEORGIA. t unapt attention given to all business Will practice in all the Courts, and where •ver business calls. f9“ Collections a specialty . aprCdl y •s D. STBWABT. BOBT. T. DANIEL 8TEWART A DANIEL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. , Will practice in the State gn 1 Federa -•>urts. ianl. ~C. S. WRIGHT,” WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER Hill GRIFFIN, GA. r.,* Co.’s. Street, Up Stairs over J. H. White Pay Your City Taxes — books are now ready for the collec- wM>«fCity school! Taxes. The City and Public need money, and those who can do »w«ro»ntently are requested to make XA LL. pay- once. THOS. ORIFF1N GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20 1888 ★ ANOTHER* PUSH:: FORWARD!! Read carefully the following, a few of the good things spread before you. If you cannot come, send your orders. WTSWEEPING MARKED DOWN SALE! i "WS The past season in Colored Dress Goods has been the best in the history of the house, notwithstanding an ordinary year, strong competition and con¬ siderable wild advertising, 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. mi Why are we having such a rush for Dress Goods ? I Colored Henriettas is a fabric that will lead this fall. We have it in ail the newest shades and most fashionable colors. DRESS GOODS. The assortment of all wool melange checks are at once pleasing and attractive. Wc have them in so many effects and designs that it is impossible to describe [them. Call and see for yourself, AT 30 CENTS. ii-4 Suiting at 30 cents a yaid; sold last season for 40 cents. New goods, just open¬ This is good news to the Ladies that have been waiting for these goods. FIVE THOUSAND YARDS OF SEA ISLAND ! 25 yds for $1.00 t 12 1-2 yds, 50 c.! « 1-4 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 yonr BOY’S SUITS closest attention. These suits are tailor made trimmed in the finest manner, trade np to Age 4 to 13, knee pants, marked down to sell for $10, have placed them on the table $2 50, and marked them down to the extremely low price of SUITS $6.( 0. $10 Boys suits, age 4 to 13,.knee pants, mark¬ MEN’S at $7.50, former price ed down to #3 50. and $12. MEN’S SUITS—Genuine imported Scotch Boys suits, age 4 to 13, knee pants, marked Suiting, genteel plaids and checks, suitable down to $5.00. for dress or business wear, marked down lo $ 10 . 00 . Boys suits, age 13 to 18, long pants, 'marj Men’s Fine Suits Marked ed down to $0 59. BOY’S SUITS down to $15! Ago 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 ! S'/wes! Shoes ! Shoes ! Have you seen them Yet? Strictly first-class, at the NEW YOBK STORE. We have carefully "one over our largo and varied stock of Shoes and marked them down from the former low prices at which they wore offered and invite ali who want Shoes to call on us. Ah, There. - 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 $3, former price $3. MISSES SHOES—A handsome line of Mis Our Ladies Kid Button Shoe at $1 25 will sea Kid Button Shoes at prices that, will para beat any $175 shoe in the market. lyze competition. of Gents Shoes A test will convince any wearer that our GENTS SHOES—20 cases Ladies Kid Button Shoes at $3 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 Commonsense Button Shoes, new line jnstrcce ved. JWillaell them Shoe, the best made, from $3 00 to $5 00. for $2 75 ; regular price $3 50. CARPETS ! - CARPETS!! - CARPETS !! ! OUR EXTRA ANNOUNCEMENT! Extra Super Wool Ingrains, Cotton and Wool Ingrains, Tapestry Brusse’s and Straw Mattings house. Carpets We have and Rugs. marked Now Carpets is yonr and chance Rugs at to prices secure that a ^autifnl n ill close Garland them out fWgl with a your We the largest stock of Carpets and Rugs in the city. M e do not J^vcrtiae Rush. carry humbng people^-our is to give every customer value or fabulously low nricee to purpose money received. Call on The Great Leader in Low Prices, WM. C. LYONS’ NEW YORK STORE. Dress Goods. AT 10 CENTS. Will soli at lOcts a yd, 1,000 yds Cashmeres in all the new shades. Cal! early and secure tlie choice stylos and colors. AT 15 CENTS. 50 pcs double width P'ancy Suiting at 15 c. a yard. AH new goods and the latest color¬ ing. Well worth 35 cts « yard, AT 20 CENTS. 55 pcs double .width Cnshmcro in all the new shades at 20c. yard. [Call soon before they are all picked over. AT 25 CENTS. 45 pcs double width Fancy Sniticg, some¬ thing handsome, at 3.5 c. a yard. The as¬ sortment is complete. Delays are danger¬ ous. Call at once. Fine Lot Teas Just In lOO lbs. French Candy. Free and Easy Tobacco. Nearly new Heating Stove for sale cheap C- W. Clark & Son. h BLUE ABOUT INDIANA. IT IS PRACTICALLY GIVEN UP BY THE REPUBLICANS. A Futile Appeal to Morton to Open His Barrel-All Efforts to be Concentrated On New York. New Yokk, Kept. 19.—“Have the Kepabli- cancampaign directors given up Indiana!’’ This query was put yesterday to not a few politicians who visited the headquarters of the national committees. The guarded re¬ plies elicited from the Republican campaign directors induced many to believe that they proposed soon, if they had not already done so, to abmdon all hope of carrying Chinese Harrison’s bailiwick and concentrate their boodle and other sinews of war upon this State. The truth is Republican reports from Hoosierdoui during the past few weeks have not been roseate iu hue. Perhaps the ab¬ sence from their camp in Indianapolis of such organizers as Generalissimo JohnC. New and Colonel W.IV. Dudley may partial¬ ly explain this. The latest intelligence from Indiana has been such as to create the utmost alarm iu the Republican ranks. Levi P. Morton, whose purse is brought into nse on the slight¬ est provocation nowadays, is said to have been begged to open it again for the purpose of preventing the workingmen’s stampede- If reports be trustworthy, bis reply was not satisfactory. At the outset, he pleaded, he had contributed $100,000 to the campaign fund. Latter on, when the stingy Republi¬ can club refused to settle obligations incur rod in parading the Blaine show, he again went deep into bis pocket and handed out $10,006 more. Harrison, he thought, ought to be able to take care of his own State. Now that he (Morton) had contributed liberally to the general fund, it was his opinion that whatever surplus he possessed should ho placed in Connecticut and New Jersey. In case Indiana, Connecticut and New Jer¬ sey were to be abandoned altogether, Mr. Morton professed his intention to hang oa to his dollars until a few days before the elec tion. With the three States named last, overwhelming defeat was inevitable unless the electoral vote of the Empire State could be gobbled. Though Boss Quay fought liard to convince Mr. Morton what an everlasting disgrace it would be should Harrison fail to carry his own State, the banker candidate continnred obdurate and finally it has been practically decided to adopt the Vice-Presi¬ dent nominee’s advice. The outlines of this proposed change of front were recited to a Star reporter yester¬ day. They came from no less art authority than a Republican Senator of this State, who has during the past weeks been stumping New York for the national ticket. IS INDIANA, How the Boosters Flocked to see the Georgia Exhibit. Commissioner Glessner thus wrote from Fort V,\.jne, Ind., under date Sept. 8tli; IVe left Mansfield on Saturday at 1:54 o’clock p m., and arrived in this city about 7 o’clock the same evening. The news of our car seemed to iiave traveled ahead of us, and , at all principal stations we were boarded by a crowd of people, ali anxious to see the products of Georgia, and even the passengers on the train had to satisfy their curiosity. We showed them all we could, and distributed our papers among then ,thuskcc;'>:: up a miming advertise ineut of Georgia. At all ttic smaller towus wc distributed circulars and papers, and for the 160 miles between Mansfield aud Fort Wayne the Empire State is pretty well known, so far as a description of her re¬ sources is concerned. At [one stand I had my visitors’ register and a big pile of papers and pamphlets. This stand was in charge of a young man, a resident of Fort Wayne, and he allowed none to pass through wjthout presenting them with Jsomc Georgia literature, which was generally thankfully received. I walked over the grounds the last day of the fair and I did uot see half a dozen of our papers ly¬ ing npon the ground, while it was strown with other advertising matter. This shows that the people generally carried our paper home to read. Another evidence of the in terest taken !-y the people ia the Georgia ex liibit is found in the fact that during the ra ces and ball oa ascension there was no diminution in tlie crowd. On Thursday, the big day of the fair, the hall was so thronged that it became necessary to place a police man at each door and make ail gome in at one door and pass out of the oilier. If our exhibit was a success in Mansfield, it was still greater iu Fort Wayne- We had a favorable location, plenty of room, and made a fine display. It was, as many re¬ marked‘a whole state fair in itself.” Ev¬ erything was arranged in group?, cotton, minerals, woods, vegetables, grains, forage, fruits, wines and canned good*, while oor banners were hrngupon the outer-walls. PRINtIr WANTED, A steady young man who has bad one or two years experience in a prii.fi ing office as compositor can get a per roanent situation and fair wages by applying at once to this office, tf THE COMMON WEALTH. The Newt as Gathered Over Georgia. Lively times in the timber line are expeet ed in Darien next winter. Tlvo National bank of Darien will com¬ mence operation next month. Capt. J. H. Rucker will establish an ice works back of his compress in Athens. The Con)era Oil and Fertilizer Company will put in some now and necessary machin ry right away. In Taylor county very little damage has been done to corn by the overflow, but cot¬ ton is materially injured. Another steamship will he put on the route between Darien and New York next winter. Blie will be used in the timber trade. The Princeton factory at Athens has con¬ sented to buy eotton from fart* ers and turn ish them second-hand bagging free to do it up in. The latest from Madison county Is by a reliable gentleman who says that passing a house he saw thirteen girl children, all of the same size, sitting on one stump. A Jersey ojw owned by Capt. Hobbs of Albany is giving three and a half gallons of rniik and yielding more tha t a pound of but ter daily, besides what the calf takes. At Cedartown, Messrs. Mason and Clay are preparing the foundation for two spa¬ cious one-story brick stores on West Main street, below Harrison A Nixon’s stable. Mr. Mason’s will be built with a large oven for a bukery. The Mineral Post,* bright seven-column four-page paper, at Acworth, is edited and published by a youth who has Just passed his fifteenth hit Unlay. No one woul^ have known it, however, if the young man had not given away the secret himself. 8. 8. Monk of Carsonviile, Tayior county, lost a fine ronle and a valuable colt a few days ago. They were playiug iu the pas¬ ture, when the colt was running, the inula afler it, and they plnngcd headfomost into an old well and were instantly killed. The Morgan comity grand jury last week made a contribution of $8,63 to the yellow fever sufferers of Jacksonville,the money be¬ ing the amount collected by lines for viola¬ tion of private rules of the body, supplement¬ ed by voluntary contribut ions from the in dividual members. William F. B&ine, a contractor, sues the government for $10,00) damages which he says he sustained on aocouut of the “offlei- oos, meddlesome, arbitrary and arrogant conduct” of Capt. J. W. Jacobs, the gotemt mentis agent ia the construction of the new barracks near Atlanta. J. C. Butts, 8r., who iives in Morgan coun¬ ty, owns a porker of rather singular tastes. He is as fond of tobacco as any old tobacco, tliewer in the county, and he will readily chew every place of tobacco thrown to him, and actualy loves it. He is fat porker, weigh ing over 290 pounds. The politics of Warren county has assurn ed a new phase this year. The Republicans hr vu organized and and placed candidates in the field to oppose the Dcmocrati^nominee* O. T.Gonder (col- for the house and senate. ored) Is the republican candidate for the sen- ate, and J. II. Lee (colored) appears in the field for the house. it is said hy a close friend of Dr. White, of A then* that under no circumstances will he t Slow the use of his name for the chan¬ ce!!, ship of che state university at the meeting of the board on Oct. 5. This being the care, it is more than probable that Gen Stephen I), Lee of Misdsddpi wtll t>e elect¬ ed. Pure and rich, possessing all the nutiitiou properties of Malt, Chase’s Barley Malt Whisky is a perfect Tonic for building up the system. George & Harnett sole agents or Griffin. Advice to Mothers. M. a. WinsijOw’s Hoothiko Stbuf for childrei vetliiug, is the prescription of one of the best female nurses and physicians in the United States, and has been used for forty years with never failing success by millions of mot hors for their children. value Doting incalculr.l the process ’«. of t. ething its ia It relieves the child from pain, cures > enter; aud diarrhoea, griping By in ino bow. !s, and wind ooha. giving health •<> the child and rest* the mother, Price 26 oe nta a bottle. ang eodAwly No Belief for Me. Yon may fesl this when under the i hire relief. NUMBER m Flat Shoals Flashes. Flat Shoals, Ga„ 3cpt, 19 Farmer* *11 have long faces and look Mu* on account of m damages done their crops by Ute rains, and the damages cannot be estima- . ted. Com has been damaged bo litUe, for all that was on the ground has toured and ml ted tnd there Is always a great deal ou the ground after fodd#r ft pulled, as a great many stalks break down. There has been but little hay saved up to this time, a* there has been no dry weather to save it and farm ers that had standing wages hands have been forced to let them go many day* 1 ing anything, and paying them just the same, nDd when the weather opens np two or three days they then have to Mrs their cotton picked. The rains will eaoae many a man uot to be able to meet his blits by tbs first of Octjber, it It was to clear off now, for the hand* cannot be got to pick the cat- ton out, a» everybody U behind. And the far mcr cannot help It; ho baa done all he could. So to say the least of It the t ttlDg Interest in this section u at leasM • > to 85 days liehiud, much less the < The river has risen ,t below the Shoal* and on the Shoal* about 81 1-J }»• ehes ; and when it rises that amount on '.the Shoals it looks very angry and doe* coast* erabla damage to bottom land. There is but very little sickness In this see tion. T: J. Williamson is still Improving. The primary election comes oft Saturday and everybody from West Pike will vote for J. F. Madden and J. E. Gardner tad they will represent the grand old county of Pik* . in the next Legislature, and the citteenflof Pike may be proud to know that ti)*y hat* such honorable gentlemen lo represent them. f*-41*5 T,W. Mobile Prize*. How—Where-*Wit#*. Mr. Frank Me K eon, a clever gentleman, of McKeon A Menken, who operate a restMU rant, *ald that It was a tact that ha and Mr, __________ _________ good _______ tin*, _Ml I needed “The prize came in as the money badly, M you know I have bed plenty of bad luck. We ware burned out last fall. Another misfortune wastarin* fiBO in a recent bank failure. The Bontbera ex¬ press Company collected it for Meaara. Me- iteon and Beyle.—IMobile (Ala.) July 16, Why Senator Plumb Frowned!. Washington Special, Sept. 14, It is only a little telegram —a very little telegram, in fact—but the frown on Senator Plumb's faee dark cned repeatedly as be sal ou bis seat today and read and reread it- It appears that the Senator and Repre sentative Peters agreed to adrese a political gathering at Wiebta, Kan., on the issues of the day,. It was their intention to leave to-morrow, bat the telegram caased them to chaugo their plans. Hits is what the telegram contained: J .;j "Dont come. Barnnm's circus is billed for same day. Yon can book againBt the Democrats successfully, bnt onr people would rather go to t jj an to m j 8 , * c j rc0 g. Better fax U n anotber date , . , P° - *AKlH c P0WD Absolutely Pure. This Powder never varies. A mm r purity, strength and whokao min a t. , economical than the ordinary kinds, t not be sold in competitor! wKh tha t Powniat «*9-d*w!