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IB , ^ IBWr - UT M xjtju flLL BESOM) ON TUB FIRilT by «tb*r lands *i S. O. Hot ton. Levied on Scott,*d (J» SSHteasS's: deceased, baa applied ■;on * to estate for of Nanoy Boott: ' mo leave leave to to sell SStffiUSKttt trictin said county. Sttf Let nil persona ooncarnod Ovdkarv show cause ba¬ te™ to* Coovt ^ of said county, ft my office la^Griffl, an toe first Monday in " ...... “> maf* ““•Pf is #-toto tate of Wm. •test me for leave to of deceased,lytoj ■aid county. Let all persona iSsi fere the Court of BL 0»*B,,.why T’'! '• ^ rOND, Ordinary r~ 8. 0 and , S*fflS^K«LSB: S, W. Murray, aa executors of A. 0. wi&^wssMsa Murray, deceased, have applied to me for *■ Let a» persons concerned show oanse be¬ fore the Court of Ordinary of aaid county, at oly office in Or ltd a, on Urn tot Monday m.'wby in ■aeh Noromt»rr]%4 should .by tmo'clock, be su leava not granted. $8.00 E. W, HAMMOSu, Ordinary, O^I^ 0 oT^;'SK?tK: i 5 i tern of the commissioners to set apart a Kendall year’s support Henrietta out of Kendall the estate of Edmund to to ton made and filed in this office Let all persona show causa, within the time prescribed by law, if any they have, why same should not be set apart and made to judgment of the court. lame b. w. Hammond, ordinary. Administratrix’s Sale Will be sold before the oourt house door la Griffin, Georgia, on the tot Tuesday In Mo* SIS JJltS Site______________ Drawry Bowden and and 8.1>. Mrs. Tarbr.u^h, WilUomson, south by J. J. Drowder west by W, B. and J. L. Maynard, and north by O Morton. Terms cash, fold subject to a mortgage in favor of lbe Georgia Loan and Trust Compsny. Sold as the land of the es¬ tate of B. P. Crowder to pey the debts of the estate and for diatribntion. Bald land sold at the risk of R. C. Crowder, who formerly l «*«J?htsaid land and failed to pay the amount Harriet s. crowder. W.80. Administratrix of B. P- Crowder. THE GRIFFIN STREET RAILROAD CO. Application for Charter. Notice la hereby by given, that application will be made to the next legislature for charter Incorporating “The Griffin Street Railroad Company;” to give aaid company fall corporate powers, alleys permission to and grade the streets and of said city lay its tracks upon the same, ruu the said mil rood alleys, longitudinally to propell the or acros: by e.eleetriel- cars ty, sail and mob furl toS&££ operate a tract PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY D. L. P ATTORNEY AT LAW WOODBURY, f : GEORGIA. a i umpt attention given to all bailees s Will practice In all to Courts, and wher e ever business calif. BT Collection* a specialty. aprSdly Agency of Georgia. GRIFFIN,-------GEORGIA. 8.6. LEAK, Managtr. HT Send your claims to 8. headquarter*. G. Leek md correspond Cleveland only Is with him at for Griffin. Beck, Beaident majM£w8m Attorneys HENRY O. PEERLEf, A I TOBNEY AT L AW >■ HAjAjrrQa.ajtoaBu. . Fraction* in all to Btete end Federal Courts. octBd&wly JNO. J. HUNT, ATTORNEY AT LAW eamrci, oboboli. Offioe, SI Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H White’* Clothing Store. saariOdAwlr ». stucung. *. K. ooluj»» OlftMUKE a COLLINS, LAWYERS, omu, u. otowlad rooaniB 1 Office, over George A on n. srnwaav. aonv. t. oant «i» STEWART * DANIEL. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. to*. bnL, m-tot,SSS? wtm*. A. White ■ yu ■■ '■" —— m ★ W.- BAB GAINS ^itm *’ n* ★ . IT; UWMI -IN— RED - DRESS - GDI 1888, AT THE NEW TOME STORE. ft, : ArriTing daily for the past three weefas from leading BB Manufacturers of FINE DRESS GOODS Styles that cannot be found elsewhere plaids In and both huge fancy and plain material, large are considered very desirable ti for combination and en¬ tire costumes. The as¬ sortment is com- plete. You Can see the Handsomest and Most Extensive As¬ sortment of Foreign Novelty Dress Goods ever before exhibited in this city in single patterns that cannot he duplicated. Matte fit is PeoDle of Griln 100 pcs of English Serge and new ■ Shade at 8 cents per yard. Don't over.] until ■ they and are gat all first picked choice- double width Cashmeres, ks, at 12 1*2 cs par yard. 20 c. anywhere. 30 pcs Fancy Suiting double width, at 15 e. per yd: cannot be matched in the citg for less than 20 c. yd. 50 pcs blade and colored Cash¬ meres, double width, which we offer tor a short time at 25 o. per yard, they are worth 35 c. per yd. Dress Trimmings ! ^ - ^ Dress Trimmings 1 Immense new black and colored silk gimps and naments. Colored Silk galloons, tinsel braid. and fancy silk velvets. A full line of fancy metal Crochet buttons. CLOTHING! :: CLOTHING! Special Sale of Children’s and Boy’s Suits. Just Begun. Children’s Suit-*, regular price, $2 50, now $1 50. Children’s Baits, regular price $3 50 and $3 75 now $2 50. Children’s Baits, regular price $5 00 and $5 50 now $4 00. prioe Boy* $6 Suits, 00 age 12 to 15, regular now $4 00. IMS* Boys Baits, age 8 to 15, regalar price $10 00, now $5 00. regalar Young prioe raen $12 i all wool $15, worsted Suits, to now $8. Shoes! Shoes! The great trade we had on Shoes last week leads to expect a rash next week. We advise yon to soon and get some of the bargains. ■MBIT’S THE NECK OF TIME FOR YOU TO SAVE MONEY,“N WILL SELL FOR THIS WEEK 1000 EVENTS TAROS OF WAMSUTTA ONE YARD WIDE. SHORT ENDS, AT PER YARD- ★ ALL WOOL MO YARD WIOE BARGAINS. TEN THOUSAND YARDS OF SEA ISLAND. WILL SELL FOR THIS 30 YARDS FOR ONE DOLLAR. EDGE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED,BUT IT'S DOUBLE THE MONEY. CARPETS I CARPETS! CARPETS AND Rags l m Rugs! English Brussels, Tape stry, T hree Flys extra to per cotton and n wool Tfawfai small price. ?ff2effcwtojrarcK* for the purchase and of a t or Rug at a very an* Bugs will not last long at the prices we sell Tbs Great Leader in Low Prices, WM. 0. LYONS’ 40 inch Plaid Suiting, latest style, in all new and popular shades, 35 C- per yd. Come and see for yourself. 42 inch ail weal English Serge, spe cial bargain, anything at 35 c. yd. These goods down in the way of Dress Goods ever offered in Griffin. Also {He niosr complete line of colorings alt qualities in Plain Goods, Henriettas, and widths, Flannels, Serges, BO Perlines cloths. 50 c. to $1 per yard. MLSpecial Sale Gents of Suits Just Begun. Men’s Suits for coat pants and $5 00—business or working suit. one. Mens suits, strictly all wool, ban come mixtures in all desirable colors marked down to $8—former price Mens ;Suits, genuine imported tiab Cassimere. in plaids, checks ed plain down goods, for $15 business or dress, from to $10. tSTA handsome line of Overcoats received from $3 to $25. Call and them. . Cel. Storey Kffiffifiaatl j 1 Ed. IKMPjtW. *L Brew*. Thn folio* .i - appeared in ye terday’a Son When J « ut u» my office Monday my pQbhabtr juried to the New nan Her aid,containing an article in regard u* i. e and my business enterprises. 1 - .Wed if it bsd been reproduced in the Nows. “No,” aakrtre. Hurrah for the Nkw», then, said L Well my fcorseji «M pre mature, yesterday morning here itc^uv in the News under two flaming dirpiay Read lines, i* , Now what's the matter with these good friends that they parade me aronud ss they have t dost a word or so in reply to this nn expeoted attack: 1. I was invited by tho minefi^ stockholders committep to pnwhase the stock and help them defend their right*. Stookhoidera sold to me instead of the Central, showing their preference in to matter. &U who desire are admitted to the salt and nobody is complaining, that I have heard of; except these edito rial friends'. - v ’£• Jfr' . 2, In rcgard to my^ailrnad entorpri ses there are two thiagsl wish to aky; (1) I did everything I oonvenanted with my railroad friends to do: no pait of my work was undone. (2) The people Along the ^proposed lines have not paid oat or lost one cent, or been anywise inconvenienced. If ail other enterprises could say as amok, verily there would be rf joiciog is '‘the land. I will not be driven to say aught of my enterprises now, nor of our snif, farther than that ‘to who laughs last has to best lough.” *‘W. E. H. 8 ’* Tho Sun also aays: "The S. G. and N. Ala. B. B. suit oomea up ia Atlanta on the 12th of October. 411 desiring to join the suit most do so by the 12tfa, Remember, any one can be made a par ty who owns any stock. IJobody is ex eluded. ’* TBIE COMMONWEALTH, The News as Gathered Over Geergla. The sugar cane crop in Worth county is the finest for years. There is demand for skilled carpenters In Albany. Work now under way is making slow progress for want of a sufficient num¬ ber to rash it. A few days ago Dr. George Little of Craw¬ ford cut from a negro boy’s eye ball a splin¬ ter onc-fourth of an it ch long without any Injury to the ejre. The death of Trea-urir C. R. Tondee and the refusal of Tax Collector T Lorn ton to be¬ come a candidate will insure two new offi¬ cials in Schley oounty. The lew students at Athens have about given up the idea of forming a military oom- pony, as it might ronffict with the more im¬ portant study of Blackstone. Two or three enterprising parties are fig- uring upon putting up a general store near the Ameiicus, Preston and Lnmpkia ware¬ house and compress at Americas. John Brown, one of the contractors now building the Brunswick and Western docks, wai fired at by L. Meyers, but not hit, in a saloon row at Brunswick Friday night. An effigy of a man hanging near the depot at Toccoa Friday morning led to reporte that e lynching had occurred. A thousand peo pie rushed to the scene to see the corpse. Cloud’s Creek chureh, Oglethorpe county, on Tuesday*,and Wednesday of tills week cele bra ted its centennial. The occasion was of the most p’easant;natnre, and draw im¬ mense crowds each day. Shellman Baptist church starts out with e favorable promise of success. Itwasoigan ized last Friday with s membership of twelve zealous workers, and it Is thought others will unite with it st an early day. A few mornings ago George ChnrcHmau, a large lumber dealer, arrived In Eastman with an order for 300,030 feet of lumber. In two days’ time the lumber was sawed and shipped, notwithstanding the dlfflutties In securing cars. W. B. Lester’s residence at Lexington was totally destroyed by fire a few days ago Mr. liestcrhadthe house Insured tor $300 in the Phoenix of Brooklyn, which very mate rially lessens the loss of $1,300. It had been twenty years or more since Lexington had had a fire before this one, Tuesday night last the wife of Hon. Jo¬ seph McWhorter breathed her last at bis home in Antioeh. Mrs. McWhorter had been in bad health for several months, hot it wss hoped she was improving, until a few days ago she canght eold which developed Into pneumonia, and her weakened oonstitu tion qniekly succumbed. The little raffle in Oglethorpe county poll tics tor the past two weeks stirred up things considerably, and the result is the largest registration list the county ever had. A hon dred or more were registered a week ago Saturday, and a count shows 3,083 names on the Hat, whereas 1,700 names to toe large t number ever heretofore registered. { Henry Tiller, of Sbnston district, Ogle¬ thorpe county, came near having the inder finger on his right hand sawed off by a circu lar sew. He was working at M ailer 4 Fool’s saw mill, and while cleaning the dust from nnder the taw let his hand get too near toe saw with the above result. Dr. Faust dress¬ ed toe wound, and hopes to save the fin¬ ger. The managers of the East Tennessee, Vlr ginla and Georgia Railroad Company are cut ting romorffiRbat; down their thei foroee along |tos line. It is a heavy ent will be made m toe Eastman office. Reports have It that both day end night operators win be dispensed with and toe offioe closed at night— lhe agent will be expected to do toe work of agent and operator, with to assistance of only one hand and no messenger. A movement Is on foot to urgsnix* a house of commons among the students at Athens' The idea is to make It identical with that of the Baglish parliament. There Win be two political parties who will contend for victo¬ ry ia questions submitted to to* body, cad toe leader of to «acccea*fal party wUl be come the premier. Quite • number of boys arc enthusiastically la favor of the plan, and It will, M all probability bs adopted wish ia the next few weeks. I v * to , Great AretrtcaJ. ere*. W» <X<ru. «r malse. to tiw great Aweriflatt tillage crop Wfintt There has nearly U jw other half and of half its area. rotten a quarter of Its breadth. It H sufficient to cover Ohio, tnffiaim sim! IllHioU, with A slice of Iowa In addition Its area last year, though reduced of by all drought, v.*a» 51 per and cent, prod of that 53 cereals u*ff*tho*v It is Its net wr.a per cent. wnv vgrown In every state and territory In the Union, though sparingly RR la those vt high region. h olevatkms, elavatkmc, The supply l« the liiwky population Morestoto effiorajpd a.r - to- crease* is water than .liuun- tehed. It was ’-’3.5 I-cTand per bend hi 1830. £00fc. ITX) .SS.rh* $s m 1880. Ihi-crep, largess Ouljr it Is, is exported to V*' preportlori. 4 per cent, of to piodijctlon of seventoeu^yrere has gone iia horns market in all, sad Its relative abundance or decline If scarce, the price low is high, end with foreign to bay feeding ; if atnBs enough larger to a quan¬ tity is exported. Neither Liverpool are Chicago *nd makes feeder*, the price, who but the five-sixths farmers of all. country It Is of which use railways but small a crop Less than carry a pert. one- fifth crosses-stato lint's. Half ia used for feeding for milk or flesh, ono-tenth for human taojf and four truths for the food of working anSmab For spirits scarcely 1 per cent. Is used. The peofqiect for the present year is for the largest area ever grown of this dis¬ tinctively American crop Aside from 1 ho ere* intended for grain there are millions the of acres drilled for fprage, *.b other tho silo and produce pumujcr dairy plant will so much nutritious feed on a given area. No other is, worth eo much fior American tillage- Hew method of engraving. Pyrogravure black, is reddish a new method brown, of bister, m graving in the of redhot metallic etc., by use a point. The engraving is done as easily as is drawing with a pen re pencil A scraper and some gam serve to s up press or lighten the lines Upon wood, just as upon paper. obtained first Mr. Perier hie prro- engraved drawings with redhot poker* and the conical cauteries asod in surgery. These burners, which it was necessary to keep continually heating, heated were by replaced by platinum burners then by on elec- trio current, and Instruments hosed apod the principle at gas soldering irons. Art deoorntkm ornamentation on a large have scale and industrial In pyro- gravure a new means of utilising the talent of the artist and the skill of the workman. By means of it we can just as well draw a portrait or a landscape as decorate a room, piece of furniture} or any other object, or mark the handle of a tool. The Hues made by pyrogravure have not the sharpness of three given on wood by the graver or gouge. It in¬ creases the decorative effect of mar quo¬ te rie and of objects of wood or leather inlaid with metals, Ivory, mother of pearl, etc.— Annales Industrielies. A Good Appetite Is essential to good health; but at this season it ia often lost, owing to toe poverty or Impu¬ rity of toe blood, derangement of the digestive organs, and toe weakening effect of toe changing season. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is A wonderful medicine for creating an appetite, toning the digestion, and giving strength to toe whole system. Mow is to time to take it. Be sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla. A Life oa the Ocean Wcvs Indurates single toe stomach occasional against transit sea sickness, but a or across toe “illimitable wetness” is productive of griev¬ ous qualms, travelers, especially yatchmen, when ship it is stormy. Ocean surgeon*, commercial buyers sent abroad, voyagers by steamboat, and all who are occasionally “biUowa or frequently called upon to be where are buffettsd,” should take along Hosttetter’s Stomach Outers, toe finest known antidote for sickness, malaria, biliousness, and dis¬ orders of the stomach and bowels. Many travelers by railroad, with suffer delicate stomachs and nervers, likewise Bitters surely severely helpful en route and These will find toe consolatory. Traveling, steamships even and ia swift, steady and commodious sumptuous palace ears, in not always * the source Bitters of does un- mixedloy and del'ght, and muck to counteract toe discomforts attend¬ ing it, aggravated by delicate health. Rheu¬ matism, brought and on debility, by damp weather, egectually kid¬ ney troubles are re- lieved by the Bitters. Advice to Mothers. M. j. Wdislow’s Hoothiko Sybpp for children teething, ia the preemption of one of the best female nurses and physicians in tho United States, and has been used for forty years with never failing success by millions of mothers for their children. value Daring ia incalculable. the process of teething its health to the tbildand rests the mother. Price 25 cents * bottle. aogeodAwly sa«ess —i- , to , Waabi: tb*t be the very best ran Itt regular corrt*v warn* Oatote advance. Addnaa If You use Pates'* Ostwy < te rash of too* to < overwork, anxiety, I'fff d of which i* to w« rcMitttng tnonu of torn < mate with teMgm* tore Tends; rad to will dlsappesz. Paine's yaafi K mm J SPENCE & SMIT BBIOK WARE1 W H, Spruce vt W the helm cannot ., ... fair dealing, .ffito. tarCslleanetM* iarSbir you SPENCE & Sj Solomon Street, Griffin, f f • M. Holma -HAVE FRE8H- Ceokod Comwl Botf 12* e. per lb. Bis* Fteh, i Water Floor. Water Ovum! Moot All pi the BEST LINE : F CIGARS IN New Music Hd -Hon- Brawner, Beam r ——i. ■ j(o)|-- One floor of not- Book and Music Store to be stocked with Piano* ( large number of leading makers. BEST INSRUMENTS! EASIEST i «W GET OUR LOW PRICES BEFORE I 26 and 26 1-2 Hill Street, : : 6 IT.Mb H 3K K Bona LEATHER AMD FINDINGS. tt« Hill Street, - - - GBIFPIN, »" ' — ■-■■■ ■ ■ 5 I offer at and BELOW COST an excellent tot of LOW COT Shoes. ^ Shipment Finest ^8fl* . SORTS, lb. CRACKERS, ALL 15c. l HAMS, BONELESS SHOULDERS. ETC 7 FLOUR ON ON THE THE MARKET. MARI & McFarland, Boyles k Co’s, M 6. A. CUMEfQHAM, GRIFFIN,::: GEORGIA, Has Been Appointed Land Agent f« Spalding County, is s-sssiSf,* •*-byplaiiig the hands. solo their yttpily oabto Full land* pariknlnss n this in oounty regard can to the be | m by by addressing addressing him him •* st above. above, A A i fu houses and lands and lot* of all dete TO ADVERTISERS A list of 1000 newspapers divided Into SiATES AMD SECTIONS will bo seat on To those who want torir we can offer no better mod _ and effeatU* work than toe various eecttoma of onr Select Loral List. GEO. F. ROWELL A CO, Newspaper lOBproeestreet, Advertising Mew Boreaa, Tor | WAMTS BUT LTTTLB Here below, but be Want* tba’ little MigMy guiek* A Uffll WAi . r tl CWiPPIN, : Strongest Coi Prompt Bt CENTRAL RAILROAD The beat and ebenpeet route to New Yotk end ingt iAic^ well to inquire firet of tin the route vie Savannah k- they will avoid dost ail-rail ride, and zbsasroota oa j |y|p & taoct