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:c- I - VOLUME IS. I VUiisii, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, U. S. A. *, -»' | Griffin in the is South, the btot and its most record word promising for | or the th. little put city its enterprises toll decade, many new in oper- I atiou, building and contemplated, prove this to he a business statement and not a hyper- r (mlieal description. During that time it has built and put into most successful Operation a *100,000 cotton factory and with this year started the wheels oI a second oI more than twice that capital. It has put up a large iron and brass foundry, a fertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot¬ tling works, a sash and blind factory, a broom factory, opened up the finest granite quarry in the United States, and now has four large oil JtHJls in mrtr* or less advanced stage* of construction, with an aggregate au- thorUed capital of over half a million dollars. It is putting up the finest system of electric lighting that can bp Ptoffitob and^GP- pgad far twoekartersfor street, railways. It kassscarsd andfdmr railroad-ninety miles long, and white located on the greatest system in the Soutfc. the Central, has secured connec- tion vrith its important rival, the East Teh- nessee, Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain- od direct independent connection with Chat- tanooga and the West, and wifi break ground in a lew days for a fourtforoad. connecting with n fourth independentsystem. With its five white and four colored church- es, it has recently completed a *10,000 new around its borders fruit growers from nearly every State in the Union, until it is now sur¬ rounded on nearly every side by orchards and vineyards. It has put. up the largest fruit evaporators in the State. It is the horns of the grape and its wine makingcapacity has ikkStiM atery yiar. It. haasuseessfully in-; of public schools, with simply shows tl admirabls city, with the natural advantages of having the finest climate,., summer and winter, in the world. Griffin is the county seat of Spalding coun¬ ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a raffing ceunfr.v,l ISO iNt above sea level. By the 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, who wifi not be any less wel- come if they|bringmoney to help build up the town. There is about only one thing we need .badly jnst now* and that is a big hotel.’ We bave several small ones, bnt their accom¬ modations are entirely too limited for our business, pleasure and health seeking guests. If you sec anybody that wants a good loea- » paper p«lMMireu- in the Empire State e of (feorgia. enclose stamps in sending for sample copies, and descriptive pamphlet, of Griffin^ This brief sketch is written April 12tb, 1889, and will have to he changed in a few months to embrace new enterprises commenced and completed, PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. HENHY C. PEEPUES, attorney at law. HAMPTON, BBOHOlA. Practices in all the f State and Federal Courts. oct9d*wly ' JOHN j. HUNT, ATTORNEY AT L AW, Jflt j ' URtePIN, QKOWftA. Office, 81 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H. White's (nothing Store. mar22d*wl y THOS. R. MILLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will practice in the. State and Federal Courts. Office over George & Hartnett’s corner. pov2tf ' JOHN 1> STEWAftl. HOST. T. MMW . | STEWART & DANIEL ATTO|l;iNEYS AT LAW, Over George 4 Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. jnlylOdtf D. L. PARMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW WOODBVST, OEOBOIA. ______ Ba m*—* BSC Coltectious a specialty. HOTEL CURTIS GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Jnder Xcw Management, $. G. DANIEL, Prop'r. Fiteis meet all trains. or Rent! ftt JOSET HOUSE, Rooms, Kfove Room and Kilchen, rich ri spot and staqle. no block fro roin i centre Hill street. Well located for ling house. Also. SHELTON HOUSE, » Poplar Broom street, S rooms and one land acre. 6th x house and 12 acres on c ™« s& VI' 2 ev ftl'J -..itjk U A CRAZY Revolting Deed Committed by a Savannah Negro. ■ '. HIS MURDERED CHILD FUNERAL PYRE. Attempt to Slaughter Ala sick Wife— Believed that an Offering of. _ Should bo Made to the Struggle with the Police omver* a- Loaded Behind the Bare. Savannah, Ga., April 12.—Price Law, a negro living on the Springfield plant a- tion, reversed the biblical precent of sac- riftwng children by slaying oftoofhmto appears the devil. Law is crazy on re¬ ligion. ‘ .; He said: “I became convinced that unless some human being should be sac¬ rificed to thd devil his majesty would let loose millions of evil spirits to destroy the whole world. The devil appeared to me in the shape of a' hungry lion and said he would devour the whole human race unless two sacrifices were made to him. He wanted cine from the blacks one from whites. I felt it my duty to offer up up Wle v t>f f mt my family to save my race. As my wife was very sick and not rifice likely her.” to recover, I concluded to sac¬ Law went on to say that when he told his wife of his intentions she jumped out of her sick bed with her 3-days-oId infant and fled before he could kill her. »e then enticed.his 7-year-ohl son into hopse and crushed in ite skull, with a burning. In the meantime, a messenger had has¬ tened two miles to the city and notified the police. Officer Prenbibb was sent out with - ambulance, an and all the negroes on the plantation were In «, group a hundred yards from the house. They did not warn the po¬ liceman, and he went up to Law and at¬ tempted fought savagely, to arrest and him. Prenbibb’s Law resisted, from him, but got aid chance pistol away not get a to use it. After a fifteen minutes’ strug¬ gle, and Prenbibb slipped handcuffs overpowered the maniac Him on him and then brought is holding to this city. Coroner Dixon Law's wife an inquest. fled from the and has been found. plantation not THE CEILING FELL. nEXettement In an Atlanta Court—-A Hasty Verdict. Given. scared jury in the superior court Friday afternoon. About half-past three the jury in the case of Joe Williams against the Richmond and Danville rail¬ road reach were verdict. in the jury room trying to a Suddenly those who were sitting in the court room heard a loud crash, and ing every tliat attorney fight jumped going to his feet, in the think¬ jury a was on room One juror's between head jurors almost who failed instantly to agree. peared the feet ap¬ gt transon, some ten from the floor, and announced that the ceiling had fallen. The door was opened, covered and the twelve men were foupd with dust and plastering. About nine feet of plastering had fallen directly square the bench and over table on which the jurors were lolling. They did hot appear to like ’mi—I the idea and** of • ------— GOV. GORDON’S APPOINTEES. To Represent Georgia at the Coming Great Constitutional Centennial. Atlanta, Ga., April 12.—Governor Gordon has appointed the committee to represent Georgia at the Washington In¬ augural centennial. Each state and territory will be repre¬ sented by a committee of three,and three alternates. Georgia’s ,’s committee cornr is as follows: Col, Charles ’ C. C. Jones, jr., of Augusta, chairman; ; J. a. C. 0. C. i Black, of Augusta, alternate. Hon. George A. Mercer, of Savannah; Mr. N. T. Mclntire, of Thomasville, al¬ ternate. Hon. Nat. J. Hammond, of Atlanta; and Mr. Pat. Calhoun, of Atlanta, alter¬ nate. The members of the committees must be decendants Anglo-Saxon of families of baker’s the original and famous dozen with General Washington in the disas¬ trous battle of Germantown, Mr. Pat Calhoun, Col. Jones and other members of the Georgia delegation, member although state was the youngest of great war syndicate,’” families. me descendants Id colonial In New York a grand dinner will be given, which and only the chairmen of of committees the governors states and territories represented will tend. FIRE !N IN BROOKLYN. flnitiBi Incidents and #400,000. Nsw York, April 12.—A fire started In the jute plant mills on President street, rieu Hoyt, Brooklyn. It was a Iwall LyaU, and several hundred men employed in it. There were two hundred men and employed there at day night, time. and about hundred in the girls The hair on the heads of three of the was tirely burned off, so narrow was escape. factory the ex- j setting fire i to the roofs ot time six the adjoining roof of the houses. About the same fell in, sending up a mass of flames scorched them but slightly. sS,^S Twelve enmnes were at work e $^Sr tiOB - -GKfFKIN, GEOEGU: How Fre»W*Bt Martinoeu Go* Bio laugh on the “Wlaard." | New Yoke, April 18.—Jay Gould's plans to again obtain control of the Mis¬ souri, Kaunas and Texas raflway at the next annual meeting, which will be held “about the middle of next month, have, it Jis bud, asserted, and stockholders been adroitly who nipped have in been the fearful that their u^lgiip property was again neither vill have Gould place nor in any the directory. of his satellites a President Kudolph N. Martinson has eturned from a ten days’ visit among ^ stockholders in London, Amsterdam . Martinsen related a hummous fetmy of how his trip to Europe came to be made some days before he intended to soil. •I was coming home by the Hixtli ave¬ nue elevated road Hie evening of March 8, and got into conversation with a couple of strangers about Gould and his ways. One of them remarked: ‘He’s jaid a fine trap for tiiqse Missouri, Kansas and Texas fellows this year.’ j ‘“How’s that? Tasked. “ ‘Why. he got notice that Martinsen was going over on the 18th to get proxies from the foreign stockholders, and he has ordered a lawyer named Bennet to go ovcHy to-moiTow’s steamer to get 1 ‘ ‘That was enough for me. I got out bt the Twenty-eighth street station, rushed down town by the first train to the Cunard, and asked them sail if by a man named Bennett was going to the Aurania in the morning.” ’•“‘fete a lawyer?’ “ ‘AH steamer.’ ‘right. I’ll tako a cabin in the-’ same “I intended to sail by the German samcr on the 13th, but on hearing that went home and packed my trunk and nt it down to the Hotel Brunswick, whore I lodged that night, and bright and early next morning was on my was¬ te Mr. Europe. Bennett On opposite my first day the out table I found arid me at got into conversation with him. ‘My name is Bennett.* ‘Ah! A lawyer, I presume,’ said I. ‘How did you know?’ he exclaimed. ‘Oh, ■Yes, by the way you look and talk.’ from? I am a lawyer; and where are you ‘From Chicago. “ Ha! ha! He completely fooled, but I went on m; iv mission just the same, and everywhere the people were perfect- ly should willing, continue even anxious, in its present that the road ment.” manage¬ • BUSSEY’S LITTLE SCHEME. A Muu N.u»wt HamiltonU„U a Penal.n for Injuries at a Circa*. Washington, D. C., ; April 12.—Gen. Silas Bussey, assistant secretary of the interior, reversed another of Pension Commissioner Black’s decisions yester¬ day and perpetrated another of his own. marvelous feats of justice and jurispru¬ dence. The applicant in the case is named Z. Hamilton. Be was a private,- It appears from the testimony in tl that the claimant audience was injured witnessing while seat¬ Cir¬ ed among an a cus performance, by a fail of seats, but was at the place a was in progress as a member of a detail ordered to pro¬ tect and guard the circus, and was with¬ in the tent by permission of his superior officer. The' decision holds that his being in the circus tent looking incidental at the his perform¬ being ance, was merely the place place member to of on guard, duty Vat and and at that that the he he as simply a awaiting a was wa there the proper time to arrive when he would he again required to walk his post as sentinel, and was in a place where he had permission to be near his post of duty; in a position where he was ready ' in a moment to any call that made upon him, and, in the tt of the assistant secretary, was line of his duty as a soldier and a member of said guard at the time the ac¬ cident occurred. “Nor do I think,” continues reasonable the de¬ cision, “it is just or to hold that his pensionable status should be in any way affected by the circumstances circus that he was a spectator of a per¬ formance, which happened to be trans¬ piring at the time.” TCI EXCLUDE THE LOTTERY CO. A Rumored Movement to Induce Harrison to Accomplish This. Washington, D. ,C., April 12.—There is a rumored movement to exclude the Louisiana Lottery company from the mails; also, the four New Orleans banks interested in it. head A prominent the Louisiana man is at the of movement, and when he approached Harrison and Wan- amaker, who are well knov&i church members, on the subject, it is said they at found once agreed which to to base It, if action. a law could Attor¬ be ou ney General Miller, another religious member supply of the cabinet, is expected to or find a suitable law. Sttyrng arguments have been made to Wan am a- all ker on the subject, in and his he has promised the assistance power. Russell Harrison Arrested. New York, April 12. — Russell Harrison was arrestedj yesterday afternoon on the charge of hav. ing published in his paper. The Mon¬ tana Live Stock Exchange, paperT an article talfen from a Buffalo accusing ejf- | Goven)or John Schuyler Crosby, tewefry of Mon- tana w ith having stolen from a Washington lady, Mr. Harrison went on from Washington for the purpose of having The papers in the suit served on him Warrant was issued by Judge Beach, of the supreme court, who fixed bail at ! $5,000. Stephen B. bank, Elkins, and Vioe W. i. Presi. dent Rice, or Park Ax- keU. keU. of of Judge, 1 became Mr. ~ Harrison’s * bondsmen. To Beicaae Editor O'Brien. London, April 19,-Friend* of William O’Brien, whose health is reported very poor, are trying toe to of gain release his consent of —’ “ to accepting the Parnell commission. terms It is 1 t ont to i . ■ DENMARK WRECKED. Seven 1 Souls Probably “ iJ Ocean. FOURD FLOATING WITHOUT A HUMAN BBIHOON BOARD Who win Ever T«M Hu* M«*lory?-nre Awful Story «* •" Ww « k **» HWomrr— DM the ruMen**** »M Crew Escape or did Hi* Wave* Swallow |Tlie«u Up? Note*. London, April 12.— The steamer City oFChester, from Now York, which ar¬ rived lmvtngppred qtQneenstown lari night, reports <* April 8 th. in mid-ocean, the Danish steamer Denmark, from Copenhagen to New York. The vss9d ?5bad bemiatia- doped and was in a sinking condition She had apparently been in a collision. Her bows stood high out of the water, while her stern was sunken almost below the level of the sea. New York, April 19.—News of the loss of the steamship Denmark of the ThSsgvalla line lias created a great sen¬ sation here, Her agents says: “We have a cable dispatch left .to the, effect that the Denmark Christiaasand on March 2ti o» her first voyage under her flag and name. 8he had been thought completely by all over¬ that hauled, and it was fleet. There she was tne best of our were on board of people, her at the these time 630 of departure at least 710 of were pas¬ sengers. To manage and to look after the comfort there of this largo have number been of passengers must at least sixty ill the crew, and probably the number may have readied 100 or 125. There the are, therefore, to 77S b® accounted people. for lives of from 710 to “The Geiser was sunk,and a fearful loss of life resulted. “The Denmark was of 8,414 gross ton- She was a three-master and had one fun¬ nel. “The Denmark is commanded by Capt. Knudsen, an old seaman, well known for his courage and presence of mind. We do not believe that lie lias abandoned her. She may have been disahled, but we are sighted abandoned is rifle in wlv’ csh^t iru;. hi very easily have been at the time, Apru Stff. She had at that time been out from Christiaasand thirteen days. I do not think it at all improbable that some fearful calamity might have befell her; but please allow us to state to the numbers of friends of the Denmark’s The Denmark is one of the line to which the steamships Thingvalla and Geiser belonged. It Will be remembered these two steamships collided off New¬ foundland banks almost a year ago. A later the Durian, report Hiuu confirming ■ - the story at .. hieh arrived at Queei sighted tha Denmark. A PITIABLE FREAK. H Body Resemble* «jl«—. Hetal, and 1* Totally HU Without Senuttlon. New York, April 18.—Another victim of ossification arrived in this city yester¬ day and is now staying at the Intema- ■. He is a col- , who was born in Prince Wil- on ’ ‘ January ’ by the 28, 1847. disease when , he eight , HP utterly old, helpless and his was years right knee became gradually stiffened. He suffered an intermittent stinging pain in the part affected, which decreased as the disease extended. awiip'>« All hisextremi- ties 1870, were only his gradual!; head read attacked unaffected. until, Since in - was that time no alf has taken place in his condition has suffered no pain. Monroe has intelligent looking face, an with rather scanty hair and beard. He appears to have been fairlv well educated and greatly of good shrunken. mental.eapacity. His body His is limbs are per¬ fectly rigid, however, and without sen¬ sation. - -■ —---------— A Cheeky Scoundrel. Denver, Col., April 12.—Frank H. Cushman, wanted in Providence, R. L, for stealing $3,000 from Ira N. Goff, of that city, was arrested here last night. Ten years ago, while he was a teller in the Merchants’ National bank of Provi¬ dence, he disappeared, leaving his ac¬ counts $22,000 short. Detectives chased him through the smith, New Mexico, years’ term ended he went from toe prison into the employ of Ira N. Goff, a wholesale music dealer, and a big-hearted philanthropist. befor 6off Nearly two years passed Mr. had his aroused, then Cushman fugitive disappeared again. No trpee of the was found until about a week ago, when-he wrote to Iris former pastor in Providence requesting “ a letter of recommendation. The ~ police answered it last night. A Millionaire Want* a Divorce. Buffalo, N. Y., April 12.—Allegany county is stirred to its very depths by a sensational divorce case which involves sartreass of and years banker of age Belmont some woman in the correspondent is Lawyer 3 is Siflriofme engaged to Miss fieauty.1 charges that u..... to his house Florence 1 J*a»H Off »he CTNcTNi n, Aiwil 12.- teaFr-^fet high bvfoge on f*&“ the ’ f ' iea AbrMffOd. ^ of*T;000,000. a ^p&ttoS Germany the Samoan affair. The jute mills of Buchanan & Lyell, be subject to quarantine at New Orleans. On the appearanoe of Boulanger at a departure. 1 noon. Ex-President Grover Cleveland was, t Friday night, elected a life honorary member of the Manhattan "dub, at a I 1 meeting of the board of governors. Three children of a German fanner near St Cloud, Mkh were killed by eating the toots of wild parsnips te a field m which their father was plowing. Hubert Kell, doing business os Kell & Co., importers of woolens and plushee, at 480 Broom street, New York, and Brad¬ ford, England, has failed for a large amount. ‘ • ';x lishes The archbishop ih of Philadelphia ' a statement answer to about his views on the amendment. He is against! , a ual remedy, conscience and says the an true appeal remedy. is on the Chicago, Santa Fe and California railroad, near Juliet, .Mil day i the other wounded are doing well and will probably recover. * , Counsel for the New York Evening Post moved Friday to dismiss W. W. his signature. The ground meeting of the motion toe was that Dudley avoids is¬ sue, and declines to answer the interrog¬ atories sent him. Judge Beach reserves his decision on toe motion. Jerome B. Burke, chief of the Gazette division in the patent office, has been no¬ tified by the commissioner of patents that, if tendered, his resignation would be accepted. Mr. and Burke, declares however, de¬ clines to resign, his inten¬ tion to allow the commissioner to dismiss him if he so desires. Mr. Burke is a army man, and was at one time com¬ mander nf the department of the Poto¬ mac, G. A, R . Lieutenant Parker, of the navy, will accompany the Samoan commission, which sails ffUtimEatesr***' from New York Saturday, in the Samoan affairs, acquired during the siatance stay of the to the Adams commisslan. at Apia, will Lieut. be Buck¬ of ae- ingham, now naval attache of toe United tached States legation <!ie Berlin at London, mission but lately similar at¬ to in a capacity, Berlin, and will join the in toe commission at also act capacity of sw'rptftry. The United States consul general at Rio de Janeiro has reported to the secre¬ tary alarming of state that yellow there. fever Charles prevails to an American extent died Roon Leslie, an citizen, at of fe- 129 deaths reported on March ........ J ‘ " "— tover, l ■rs. an supposed tu be wused by emisriontfrom the sewers, which, owing to the scarcity of water, caused by the dryness of the season, have not been properly cleansed. Wednesday night President Lowrey.of the Minneapolis issued and St. order Paul reducing street car company, an the wages of all employes. The order goes into effect Monday on all horse, cable and motor lines, and is confidently ex¬ bonds with which to build new cable lines. The men are sullen and uncom¬ municative, but no serious trouble is feared. All the rest of the drivers and conductors in the dty are expected to follow suit. The settlers on the Des Moines river lands are still defiant, resisting with arms the attempts of the United States mar¬ shal and his posse to evict them In ac¬ cordance with a decree of a United States court. But it is announced that in view of the fact that the secretary of the inte¬ rior has officially requested the attorney general of the United and States to examine into the toe past past history history disputed and titles present present eondi- eondi- to .the river Mads, for the purpose of determining whether it may not be expedient to bring proceedings in the name of the United States, he deemed it advisable to await toe report of the attorney general, and commands Marshal Desmond to suspend the execution Of processes until further orders from court. This puts an end. for the present at least, to all proceedings ag«nst the settlers. Classical Welcome to a Payillst. Boston, Mass., April 12—Paddy Duffy, straight from San Francisco and his fight with Meadows, received a rousing wel¬ come last night from three hundred or more of his friends of the North End. They the depot met the with victorious brass wind, prize-fighter fireworks at a stood waved in his toe hat and carriage bowed and the gracefully ing multitudes, while the hand to applaud¬ whooped Wea ther Indication* for April IS. _ Washington, D. C. f April I cations for Georgia, ■ utb Carolina and Florid. ! Fair, and warmer, souther 1 value to SAUO*» so. ro * “ V “ P001 - Each of toe Dl«.!ema», 8Hei.ee <MMl will *H»4 eU—-A Umoo Iu the » - The HewlU* ami Mra. wr i. * -4 Iavebpool, April IS.—Sir J cefote, K. C. B., U. G. M, who h 1 He was escorted to the . _ litical and personal friends, rooms iverc hi* recejrtiou, and there was anoe of rare wines and choiee wines. Although Sir Julian has not tinctionasadipfomat.lt la tlwughttlmt his -—— tact, ——. c—-— gained by » experience . :e will. with |m , officers, will aid him to throw oil on the troubled waters at Washington. Sir was taken fwisoner by the ^ir Julian Pauncefote waa bom * nfoh educated just sixty-one at Paris ((■ s first adopted I appointed SrsIflpS.. chief justice of the 1 Wands. After, preridiag_<Ht tiv fo r son n sistcit to the colonial office. ill qf j t, !|, (yf l e g$l assiwtant 1 ESS’&dSS' him. ' ‘ “ ~ to a manner to mark -r further flw- ; ?* THE COMM ISSIONER S EMBARK. ' ' ' «nd New York, AprU 12,-William 1 Phelps, of New Jersey; John A. K of Iowa, and George H. Bates,, ware, the United States < the Samoan conference, Berlin, sailed to-^ymtoeCmiaKl* Maine, who is clerk of the Count Herbert Bismarck and Bachin will feronce, an?Sir Edward Malet, ) talk Phelps, about Mr. Samoan Kasaon nor affaire, Mr. Bates * a action to be adopted. Their aim and. termination,Mr. “ * * be to reach reeu __ interests of the powers out interfering with the independence. thought, might The lie re© was i dueing ed adopt tho various such natio to an agreement as s render it unnecessary to keep any. siderable force at the islands. til* Hewitt# Iette A New York, April 12,-Mre. Abram Hewitt and her daughters sailed d forEu- rope to-day. the fa3. They They will will not return tum until late in be joined ' ' in Switzerland by Mr. Hewitt, Mr*. R» vc*-Chanler Sail*. She will remain abroad for an in period, visiting toe places of hi interest ; on ou the toe continent, continent, Foreign Hole*. sign Lord post Londonderry of Irish viceroy has decided to re¬ to in August. Emperor Francis Joeeph has decided to !ffi V r b« promised visit to BerUn on the h of next August. The proprietor of the Volks Zeitung has received permission from the gov¬ ernment to resume the publication of that paper. Sir Charles Russell has consented to act as arbitrator between the Vandekmr and Four Russian officers have mode a »- The demise of the Gerhard Rohlfs, the . ' SrjKSBnS - r aBaipli apra ' ‘v ' - * * i ‘ iwdfelSi■ - %■' Z' » 'f - ai £ l wsilf 11 "“sSte'WC‘ * ** 1 ■ -gmi OP Anderson* i wtmm '*3..%$. *#3 t* w. ■■■ is n the ill stout < and listen to alf' We. w” W