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over hall a:
s«ee, Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain-
direct independent connection with Chat-
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in a lew days fora fourth'road, connecting
with a fourth independent system.
With ita fire white and four colored church¬
es, it has recently complet^a
station by nearly one. fifth. It has attracted
i 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 home
I np) port pf me igfftffl 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.
GrifSn if the county Middle seat of. Georgia Spalding coun-
ty.sitnkfodfi, west with a
healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above sea level. By the census of 180q, it
will have at alow estimate between 6 OOO bhd'
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 will not be any lees wel¬
come if theyjbring money to help build up the
town. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
We have several small ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limited for onr
is published—daily and weekly—the best news-
paper in the EmpireState of Georgia. Please
enclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffln.j
This briefsketch is written April 12th, 1889,
and will have to be changed in a few months
to embrace new enterprises commenced and
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HENRY C.
ATTORNE Y AT LAW,
BAWProx, geokgIa.
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. ■ ; oct#d*ply
JOHN J. HUNT,
UtTORNET At LAW,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H.
White’* Clothing Store. mar22dAwly
THOS. R. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in th# State and Federal
>arte. Office over George A Hartnett *
tser. novStf
JOHN D STEWART. ROBT. T. DANIEL, *
STEWART & DANIEL
iTTOFNEYS AT LAW,
Over George k Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federal
onrte. jnlylOdt!
D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WOODBCBV, GEORGIA.
Pprompt attention given to aU bnsiness.
fill practice in all the Court*, and where-
rer business calls. »
Collections a specialty.
OTE JRTIS
ler Hew Management
%. 6. DANIEL, Prop’r.
J08EY HOUSE,
ns, Stove Boom and Kitchen, rich
E/TON HOUSE,
I~i1..
that tile
McAllister is a quiet, fat, dignified eldei
ly gentleman, who never should hav
undertaken the responsibility.
He,in the popular language of the da]
proposed to boss the ball according t
his own notions. To this there was
murmur of dissent, but the heart c
Ward was as stony as that of Fharoal
and he refused to listen. One day th
chairman of tire committee put it v<
This surprising request was most ex-;
traordinary, and after a few minutes of
bewildered consideration die wily Ward
declined to hand to the chairman of dip
committee his resignation, but would
submit it to the committee at its smeet-
the manager, and reduced the office to
an honorary rather than an executive
one. By the engagement of Mr. Stanton
to be the executive of the committee the
public can see that the committee on en¬
tertainment is determined to act quietly
but steadily in doing.all that will tend to
make the centennial ball a remarkable
event of the century.
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And that it will be a remarkable event
in the history of the century who doubts.
National Guards of the states which has
ever occurred in our history. this Practically, will;
the whole of thetroop* of state
the regular army and the , navy, will be
second day of the celebration, April 80,
and the head of the procession will move
from Wall street The forces and Broadway of the states at 10 will in
morning. order which the
be put in line in the
original thirteen states ratified the Con¬
stitution and in which the remainder
were admitted to the Union. It will
probably take seven point, or eight and hours they will for
them to pass a riven
be the greatest body this of soldiery by which the
has been seen in country
generation who have come up since the
*
war. . ,
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On the previous day, the first of the
celebration, display, will and take the place third an imposing and last
naval on
day the ceremonies will end with the
largest civic and industrial United parade States. ever
before witnessed in the..
Our foreign-born especiallv, ritkew, the Germans making
and Inah more are
great preparations for this feature of the
celebration, and representation. every art and The industry Roman
will have its
Catholic societies will swell the numbers
in line with many thousands, and the
whole town will make holiday. There
will be vocal and instrumental music,
and along the lihe of nuttch houses and
public buildings will be illuminated, so
that it will be a scene to be long remem¬
bered. The money and pains expended
w ill bring fin in fllliok*
creeds and colors, In a common fellow¬
ship as American citizens,
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“Those will be three memorable days la
you can’t belittle it; you can’t lessen its
importance by ridicule of any committee
of amateurs. It is going to be a wonder-
” C.-G.
» apply to them..
train and ride to file claimthey have
mWm * PSO‘ i : fafWM i%
"”**■ and wagon jaaravafts
the WW DWWKMJUUUU Btreets bound AV for
Ai*A*Y,,Texas, Ap
business ■fhfacompany on th^2Sd wlllfee at mwol <lfelabo5 the
begin composed operations of the in substantial Oklahoma,
most
this county.
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A CHICAGO INCIDENT.
4»4m.,!££3S. »»&*&.
Enthusiastic—Opinion* of Politic.
'
Chicago, April 18.—If a stranger had-
undered out to the towns of Palos and
rtanA tca aighfc te would have woodsr-
it was the matter. Tie two towns
tongrailations. for not a onebSieved
hin*gi|i%* As for McCkugbr^Jhhnsttf .« 4 sfso&’o be tf- ,«Wl saidihs
waagladtogeto home, but sore an in¬
justice bad been done him. Said he: .
my being pardoned a.'Vi* sooner. D-a V pol- v
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ATTEMPTED MAIL ROBBERY.
A Wisconsin. Sjtsg* jDrlvsr. Held up by a
Masked Bobber.
Milwaukee, Wis., April 18.-A spp-
cial to The Evening Wisconsin frop
Sbawno says that news has reached that
place of a bold attempt to rob the mail
carrier between Pulcifer and Lenwood,
late in tiie afternoon. The affair occur¬
red about eighteen miles from there.
The mail carrier was proceeding to Lea¬
wood by team, as is customary. He was
driving along masked » lonely part of the road
when place of a concealment man by jumped the roadside. from a
the A
demand to hand over mail sack was
ignored, when the robber opened fire,
killing one of the horses, T}ie mail car-
rier showed took fight, the whereupon Efforts the high¬
wayman to woods. to
arrest him have been unsuccessful up to
to this time.
Cat HI* Mom Off Smooth.
Chicago, April 18.— Joseph Rhodes got
into a fight the Other night with Edward
Martin, m a saloon in this city, and tho
latter, being much larger than the for¬
mer, mer, picked picked plate hins him glass up l, P window- and and heaved I him
through ing a bis feet Rhodes discovered Upon be-
set upon
being severed. This wound was bleeding
search was then made for the missing
nose, which was. found in a puddle by
the sidewalk. It was sent outtothehes-
pital with its owner, and the doctors
cleaned it and sewed it on, and believe it
will stick. Martin was held in f 1,000
bonds.
Bala of Hot Metal.
Yopmgstpwn, O., April 18.-WW1*
pouring a heat to make a 4,000-pound
casting last night,in the foundry of Wm,
Tod ft Co., it exploded, hurling the mol¬
ten metal in every direction. George R,
Bryant, foreman, time, Wm and received leaning over the full the
flask at the
force of the explosion, literally roasting
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ft will be »
|«r*tethc Y<
Frisco have been notified to watch the
FEMALE-FANATICS.
The Bj.n.arkaw. Caafo.t B.iu» W„.d
Indianapolis, t .Ind., April 18.— T^e
ffit five would
women in sqm or
go in and take the bar, keep-
who bought a
until they bad act
pose. One fainted
iJpSIS she was true blue,
'jj, To rarUm* Am
SBaisamu., #U,
H. Nwbe; wbo- to ^
pardonfq^^^pthi undergoing..i
who is
teittim^fok hte ooni
deed to
President Garfield was shot.
SI. Children -t a Birth.
Fergus Fells, Minn., April It.—A
port reaches here from Perham that M
Mills, this county, has given birth to i
were horn two yearn ago, 1
lived several days, but
from want of proper, care.
She Followed Her
Bccyrub, O., April H
about 11 o’clock, Retta Obi
meatic living in the family
Twitehel, dropped dead
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