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eCriFFin *A I VOLUME 17 Griffin, 6ra. Griilia is the liveliest, pluckiest, most pro- Kiessive town in Georgia. Tins is no hyper¬ bolical description, a* the record of the last tiv,- years ViBjfcoy. During-that time it has built aud put into m ,st successful operation a $100,000 cotton aotory «ad is now building another with nearly twice tlie capital. It has pntup a a gc iron and brass foundry, a fertilizer fac¬ tory, an immense iee and bottling works, a »a<th and blind factory, a broom factory opened up the finest granite quarry in the Ui.itod States, and has many other enter- prises in -ontemplation. It has secured another. ailroad ninety miles long, and while ocateq on the greatest system in the South, the Central, has secure^ Connection with its important rival, the East Tennessee, Virginia nd Georgia, It has just secured direct inde¬ pendent connection with Chattanooga and the W( at, and has the President of a fourth railroad residing here and working to Its ultimate completion. With to five white and three colored ohnrehea, it is now building a $10,000 new Presbyterian church. It has lnoreased its population by nearly one-fifth. It has at- rue.ua u.ound its borders fruit growers from nearly every State in the Union, until it is now sum unded on nearly every side by or¬ chards and vineyards. It is the home of the ■ ape and 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 aud 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,o()0 people, and they aro all of the right sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to welcome strangers and afcxioua to secure de. rirable 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 wc need badly just now, and that is a big hotel. We have several small ones, but their accom¬ modations arc entirely too limited for our business, pieasuie and health seeking guests. If you see anybody tiiat wants a good loea- lonfor a lidtc! in f 8<milr, jnst mention Griffin. Gbifpin Griffin is the place whera the News is published— daily and weekly— the uest newspaper in tlie Empire State of the Georgia, Please enclose stamps in sending for sample copies. This brief sketch will answer -July 1st 1888. By January 1st, 1889, it will have to tie changed to keep up with the times. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY D. L. PARMER, A TTORNE Y A T L A W WOODBURY, : . GEORGIA. , 1 inapt attention given to ail business Will practice in all the Courts, and where ever business calls. jSgr Collections a specialty. aprudly HEADQUARTERS and Protective Leak’s Collecting Georgia. Agency of GRIFFIN, ------- GEORGIA. S. G. LEAK, Manager. %gr Send your claims to 8. G. Leak and correspond only with him at headquarters. for Cleveland & Beck, Resident raay9d&w8m Attorneys Griffin. HENRY C. PEEPLE S, ATTORNEY AT LAW UAMPTOS, OEOBOIA. Practices in all the State and Federal Courts. oct9d&wly JNO, J. HUNT, ATTORNEY AT LAW GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J 11 White’s Clothing Store. mar22d&wl y H. bMMUKB. N. M. COLONS DISMUKE & COLLINS, LAWYERS, GRIFFIN, 0 A. udice,first room in Agricultural Building Stairs. marl-dAwtf THOS. R. MILLS, ttorney at law, GRIFFIN, GA. Will practice in the Stale and Federal Courts. Office, over George & Hartne.t a aimer. cov2-tf. OSD. STEWART. BOUT. X. D1XI K U STEWART & DANIEL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Over Gebrge A Hartnott’s, Griffin, Ga. Will practice in the State an i Federa Fedt wiurts. ianl. C. S. WRIGHT, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER griffin, ga. Hill Street, Up Stairs overJ. II. White r., Jt Co.’e. PARKER’S GINGER TOHII --...e*nd Bmoox # Co., kwneth Hawaiian to Me Street, *ari<l. N- eOe. V. ixt l‘r.ig- GRIFFIN GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2? 1888 ★ ANOTHER* :: FORWARD!! Road carefully the fallowing, a few of the good things spread before yon. If you cannot come, send your orders. MPSWEEPING MARKED DOWN SALE! ! The RRst 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 N'E W- YORK STORE. Why are we having such a rush for Dress Goods ? Colored Henriettas is a fabric that will lead this fall. We have it in all the newest shades and most fashionable colors DRESS ROODS. The assortment of all wool melange checks are at ouee pleasing and attractive. We have them in bo many effects and designs that it is impossible to describe [them. Oal! and soe for yourself, AT 30 CENTS. 6-4 Suiting at 30 cents a yard; sold last season for40 cents. New goods, just open¬ ed, 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 ! 12 1-2 yds, 50 e.! <» 1.4 yds, 25 c! The edge slightly damaged, but the goods are worth twice the money. Call and see them. Clothing ^ Department f MEN’S SUITS.—We wish to hold your closest attention. These suits are tailor made trimmed in the finest manner, made np to sell for $10, have placed them on the table and marked them down to the extremely low price of SUITS $6.10. 17.50, former price $10 MEN’S at and $12. MEN’S SUITS—Genuine imported Scotch Suiting, genteel plaids and checks, suitable for dress or business wear, marked down to $10.00. - Men's Fine Suits Marked down to $15! These goods are some of the finest foreign and domestic makes and in handsome colors marked down from $20 and $31. Shoes! Shoes ! Shoes ! Have you seen them Yet? Strictly first-class, at the NEW YORK STORE. We have carefully gone over our large and varied stock of Shoes andmarked 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. Ladies Dongola Button Shoe, Common- sense heel, for $2, former price $3. will Our Ladies Kid Button Shoe at $1 25 beat any $175 shoe in the market. A test will convince any wearer thaW our Ladies Kid Button Shoes at $3 50 and $3 00 is the best sold for the money in the city. Ladies French Kid Commonsense Button Shoe, the best made, from $300 to $5 00. CARPETS! - CARPETS!! - CARPETS !! ! OUR r. XT It A ANNOUNCEMENT! Extra Super Wool Ingrains, Cottou and Wool Ingrains, Tapestry Brussels and Straw Mattings Carpets and Hugs. Now is your chance to secure a beautiful Carpet and Reg for your house. VYe have marked Carpets and Bugs at prices that will close them out with a Rush We carry the largest slock of Carpets and Bugs m tlio city. W e do not advertise fabulously low prices to humbug people—our purpose is to give every customer value for money received. Call on The Great Leader in Low Prices, WM. C. LYONS NEW YORK STORE. Dress Goods. AT 10 CENTS. j Will sell Jt 10 cts a yd, l,00f yds Cashmeres *“ a11 new shades. Call early and secure j <Ue cll0,ce s, * ,es and ooIors - AT 15 CENTS. 50 pcs doublo width Fancy Suiting at 15 c. a yard. All new goods and the latest color¬ ing. Well worth 25 cts n yard, AT 20 CENTS. 55 pcs double .width Cashmere in a l the new shades at 20 c. yard. ;Call rooh before they are all picked over. AT 25 CENTS. 45 pcs double width Fancy Snitirg, some¬ thing handsome, at 25 e. a yard. The as¬ sortment is complete. Delays are danger¬ ous, Cal! at once. BOY’S SUITS Age 4 to 12, knee pants, marked down to $3 .50, Boys suits, age 4 to 13, knee pants, mark¬ ed down to $3 50. Boyssnits, age 4 to 12, knee pants, marked down to $5.00. Boys suits, age 12 to 18, long pants, ed down to $6 50. BOY’S SUITS Age 12 to 18, long pants, marked down to $ 8.00 ! BOYS SHOES. A full line of Boys Veal Calf Button Shoes at prices that will astonish yon. MISSES SHOES—A handsome line of Mis sesKid Button Shoes at prices that will para lyze GENTS competition. SHOES—20 of Gents Shoes cases Lace and button, andonr pricesun-e with the times. Gents walk-fast button and lace Shoes, new line just received. |Willsell them for $2 75 ; regular price $3 50. farming in the south : V A NoFtliern Journal Tells Why *li« Southern Farmer is Behind, The jirosenca in the city of the car of Alabama products, and the genial gentleman in charge of if, suggests « little tak aixjtit. the Gulf South. The inquiry (bat comes first to tho Wes¬ terner wtjjo sees tho superb display of ajtlnefKTs, tlie grasses, grains and fmits, if these are fair samples of what Alabama has and can do, why is Alabama backward in farm devel opment? Wliy is real estate so low? Why is Sioux City scr.diug hog pro¬ ducts find dressed beef, and corn to Alabama markets? Why is the stream of farm immigratior so scanty? In a mining and manufacturing way Ala bama is not backward. The few blocks of superb coal in the Alabama car represent millions of tons mined. Tho iron ore— some of it ranking \Y£'IJ with Lake Superior ore in richness—and the specimens of pig iron, represent a furnace industry that ranks well up with Pennsylva nia. The specimens of manulactuied iron from Birmingham, Sheffield, An niston fml Dscatur stand for a rolling mill inttrrest that for prosperity and rapidity of growth has never been equaled. What is the matter with North Alabama as a coal mining and iron making section? It’s all right. But in farm and fruit development Alabama is not all right. And why? Not but what her soil and climate are capable of supportings farming and fruitgrowing population twenty times as numerous as now. Not but that the newcomer is welcome. Not but that lands are cheap and all that. Thpse are not the reasons. In fact, the reason for Alabama’s slowness in farm development, compared to the development of the prairie West, are not easy to understand to one who has not studied tlie matter in the South. One thing there was the war. Now during war time the North, and particularly the North west, was prosperous. Prices for farm products were high, real estate advanced. The country developed. But at the South it was just the re¬ verse. A larger portion of the able- bodied men were in (he army. ii larger portion than the North were killed cr wounded. The armies of both tl.e North and South lived off the Southern farmers. An army is a wasteful liver. Sherman and -Sheri¬ dan saw the necessity of weakening the South’s farms, and both did thor ough work. So did other Generals systematically, and did corporals and privates without system. The ne¬ gro was the right arm of the South cm farm at.d the t mancipation proc¬ lamation cut off this light arm. Then, when alter the war, tho Southern far mer found only his bare acres left, came the carpet bag rule. That did not help. These men South are all Americans, and so not given to use leS3 whining about fhn unhelpable, bat to the Southern farmer, tlie land owner, it was not a brilliant prospect. With a large majority of them life was to begin over again in a property way. Then there was, and is, anotii cr point which here in the Northwest is not s on*-y to comprehend, hut just the same .-.s greatly retarded the farm dew’ pmentof the South, 1 hat is the utter absence of money to loan cr. r il estate South. When Chicago was swept by the great fire Chicago was about as bare as tlie South after iht war. But capital came in on loan and changed the heaps ol Chicago cinders and ashes to great brick and stone blocks, mak ing Chicago the best built city in the world. So all through the West and Northwest the farmer, by the help of Eastern capital borrowed on real estate security, changed tho tvild prairie to productive farms. Just now it is the fashion to howl at the farm mortgnge system. But without Certainly it has great abuses. the "" .hi BSH NEW GOODS! New Codfish Spanish Onions Sf§? Pork Sausage Virginia Cabbage I)i led Beef Large Yellow Bananas Will have fresh llsh all kimls to-day, Fresh Oysters. Full line eatables to-day. Give us a trial. Pronipt delivery. C- W. Clark & Son. real estate mortgage the West and Northwest would be half a c-ntury behind what it is now. The older East has saved money, the young West borrows this money and makes the borrowing profitable. But the farming South does not borrow mon ey on real estate. In whol" coun ties not ti real estate mortgage is on the records. In the mining and iron milling South of course capital has been brought in by placing tho stock and bonds of the mining and miiling companies. But such devel¬ opments as the farming part has had has been without help from bor* rowed capital. Consequently devel¬ opment has been slow. There are other reasons, but these will do for for the present, why the farming South has lagged behind the North' west. But the farming Sonth hast sunny future before it. While the soil is not on the averago so fertile as the West, it is better than much of the farm land East, Land is very cheap. The climate is kindly. The coal and iron development will assist the farm development. The new South will come up beside the new West.— [Sioux City (Iowa) Daily Journal. Hu him Sentiment In Connecticut; Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler, president of a largo manufacturing company at Willimaniic, expresses confidence that Cleveland is much stronger with the people of Connecticut now than he was four years ago. He regard* the free trade bugaboo ns emphatto. ally a “dead issue” which only ex¬ cites the derision of the workmen, whoso opinion regarding Democratic tariff policy he summarizrs as fol¬ lows : “They can see that whatever will cheapen our raw materials will make our finished goods cost less. Cost¬ ing less, wo can sell them cheaper, and with cheaper prices more will be sold and more constant demand for labor in making them will arise. Wc now Lave some sale for them in Eu¬ rope, for, in spite of their cheaper ia- ber and much cheaper raw materials, our machines are so much better in finish and woikmansbit) that there are many who prefer to pay us for the genuine article rather than have the counterfeit at any price. But if we had our raw materials free of du¬ __ ~ ty we could drive the foreign manu - faclurer completely out of the mar kets of J.Mexico, the West Indies, Central arid South America, India an l Australia, and thus very largely i,i< ase and extend our business. Wi.itevcr will enable us to do that must tend to the increase of wealth and the general prosperity of the entire community.” Mr. Wheeler adds that the indus trial masses realize that the reform tariff will leave to them a [wider margin between the cost of the ac tual necessaries of life and their in (•.•me. Mr. I.-.n i ■ H'.Uen, of the & Wilson works, Mr. Hincks, great carriage manufacturer ; Patterson, of the Bridgeport. Co apatiy, the Lead of the firm < E u.on, Cole A Burnham, Mr. P. H. Skidtuure, the iron founder, and Hor*vi< Wiimot, of the White ufacturing Company are among number of Connecticut ers who are cited by the New Times as endorsing tho views Mr.Whoeler. The n» a rut f#e turers of Con pec A i C- •:* < ■ • -iidv \ , NUMBER OJ i cut, proverbially quick to decide business advantages and opportuni ty to open new trade, will for tho must part support Cleveland and Thurman and taxation reform. The stories about Republican confidence of carrying Connecticut are either i sheer invention# or based on th« superficial observation of person* | with whom leading business msn will not talk with freedom or confi~ donee. Impurities of the blood often ecu*# annoj lh mee at thtewavon; Hocd5> Samparit purifies tlie blood, and cires all mb af¬ fection*. * l »R. TASKER ON*lllBKKN \TI0K. He Is SlodjtRg the Question and Thinks Many People Are Bu* Jed Ally*. Chicago, Sept. 15 H. S. Tan ner, who became f... ,, ome year* ago by fasting forty days in tiiarea don Hall, New York city, arrived in Chicago yesterday from New Mexico. He is apparently in perfect health, and his girth is Bucb as to suggest anything except abstinence from food. About, the last i.ows fr<„ the doctor, previous to hia *rny*3 here, was that he was in New Mexico, diet. liying there oa a purely vegetable At present he eats two meals a day in summer and one meaiUt day in wihtor. He says that he bad been in into co four tho years, subject ptu-saiogiatutfUgaiic ofsuspended e rnation, or counterfeit death. He i convinced that large numbers Ot pie are annually buried alive all over ol various the world, aud and from the records bis study cases, of - societies, and elsewhere, on the ho subject in Holland believe# that so Bubtle is the principle of life, no one can tict undertake until decomposition—the to say that it is only ex f f sure sign—has set in. He declare* that the dead in this country are bur ied with indecent, with criminal haste, and that burials of persons who are not absolutely dead aro mnr ders. Tho doctor is also pursuing anoth branch of semi suspended animation, viz.: hibernation. He declare* that boars and other hibernating animal* do bernating not use their lungs and he during is convine the hi season, He cd that man can hibernate. re fors to tho long trance* of the Hia da adepts, accomplished through long seasons of fasting, and declares, it tu be his belief that these trances are merely seasons of hibernation. The view doctor to makiog says be is studying experiments with a some - in this lino, and that tho time may come when he may permit bimself to < ' bo sealed in tight coffin and up an atr j ' laid designate awvy for until it to such be time opened. a* be shall i PI j j j , POWDER Absolutely Pure. This Bowder merer vane*. A max ’ purity, strength and wholeeoBweofc economical tluui the ordinary kinds, r not be sold in competitor! with the l of ’.orr t»?1, short weight, otaaCr j ieri. .-xkdwdfiaetjM. Stress,., Jpr rowum Co., m wtll • oti-dAwtr-tou eetam 1st •-