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SRIFFIN, GEORGIA. U. S. A.
* th* best and most promising little
Orifflu in
• dty in the Sooth. Its record tor the past
hsU decade, its many new enterprises in oper-
Ii #tion, bnilding and contemplated, prove this
ft *.heaviness statement and not a hyper-
|.ort Boring that ttlto It fcae boilt and pot into
successful operation a *100,000 cotton
;| factory second and with of this than year twice started that the capital, wheels
of a mow
f It has pat UP a largo iron and brass foundry,
a fertiliser factory? an immense ioe and bot-
“wSSssSr
four large oil mills in more or less advanced
It is putting up the finest system of electric
Imbt** ***«» Ss prdWWdi and has ap-
»ud while Ideated on the- greatest system In
f . aceeee, Virginia independent and Georgia. connection It has with obtain- Chat-
, «d direct
I tanooga and the West, and 1 will break ground
| tea hw day* fora fourth road, connecting
i' with a fourth independent system,
With its five white and four colored church-
| is, it has recently completed a $10,009 new
8 Presbyterianchurch. It has increased itapop-
tg. it; around niatioa its by borders nearly one fruit fifth. growers It has from attracted nearly
I, .every State In the Union, until it is now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchards
i; and vineyards. It has put up the largest
' fruit evaporators in the State. It is the home
■sastejsssssa of the grape and its wine making capacity has 1
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yearwfnriteulum, second to none.
This is part of the record of uhalf decade
B and simpiy ihows the progress of an already
. admirable city, with the natural advantages
;; ot having the' finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
8 idh*rtiiiLTiJtf*iaa*aftf Griffin is the county seat of Spalding conn-
7,600 people, and they are all of the right
sort-wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de-
.iraHe settlers, who wffi not be any less web
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tow?. There w about only one thing we
need badly just bow, and that is a big hotel.
VTa have several small oiws r but Ahairaccom-
toodations are entirely too limited for our
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
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endose”tam]Min sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.)
This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,'
and will have to be changed in a few months
: to embrace new enterprises commenced and
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HENKY C. PEEPLES,
attorney at law,
^ BAUITON, OEORQlA.
Practices in all the State and Federal
Courts. octOdAwly
JOHN J, HUNT,
attorney at law,
aafaris, oBoateA.
Office, 31 Hill Street, Up 8tairs, over J. H.
White’s Clothing Store. mar22d*wly
THOS. B. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office over George & Hartnett’s
comer. nov2tf
job*, » encWAtt. bobt. t. danikl.
STEWART & DANIEL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. julylOdtl
D. L PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WOOnBDBY, SEOBSU.
HOTEL CURTIS
Under iment.
4. G. DANIEL, Prep’r.
-*f Piter* meet ail trains.
J0SEY HOUSE,
Room*, Steve Room and Kitchen, rich
Uden spot and street. staqle. ne block from
tan centre Hill Well looted for
larding house. Also.
SHELTON HOUSE,
‘Poplar street, S reoaaa anione tote.
Rew 8 room house and l» acre* land on 6th
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ALREA DY OC CUPIED.
The Boomers Will Find Okla¬
homa Full of Natives.
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A PLOT TO' CAPTTTRB LOWER
f W CAIIFOREIA. - :
The Story is Said to be vr«U Autl.cn-
.. and has * Large Membership *5 the
'South. ’■ A
Washington, D. Q h April
Oklahoma boomers,” says a retired army
officer, "will find the whole country be-
session. The first and strongest tenant is
City,the radians used to kill them in sea¬
son and sell the pelts, which were thought
to Dodge City by the traders in hales by
the wagon-load. It will be years before
a chicken can be raised in OkJhhoriia.'
Next come the bedbugs. They area,
thousand times worse than the sand fleas
and are indigenous to the country. The
soil is full of them. Go into a corn field
and turn down the husks of the corn in
September the and I .pity they the will skurry who out by
score. women go
there. Some of the Oklahoma country
down toward Texas is very good land,
well watered and fertile, but up through
|geB-53S
The Woman Will Go Armed.
Chicago, April 16.— The Oklahoma
fever has takefi a strong hold upon the
people of Chicago and its vicinity. Sev¬
eral bogus colonies have sprung into 6x«
ising every comfort and advantage to
colonists at t $1 $1 entrance entrance fee. fee. One One colony colony
announces ___ that that it it will will land land its. its members
{ n the promised land one minute after
effect. the president’s There is proclamation bona fide colony, goes how- into
a
ever, which wdl send fully 300 settlers to
wir*
ttounc ©(i her intention of going alone t6
freesoiL Oklahoma She and will getting 160 around acres like of her the
male companions, prepared go to fight for
tlre covete d land, if necessary .
MEXICO’S POSSESSIONS.
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LO, X.O.™, April ,.,-TW.I.
» weU authenticated scheme on foot to
found »Ptu™ two lower gentlemen California. who A had reporter been
ssked to jain in the undertaking. They
we Grand Army men, well known and
reliable. At their request their names
are not given, but if it becomes necessary
their identity can become established.
One of them occupies an official position
In this city, and the other fa a well known
capitalist. Both are reliable. To a re¬
porter he said:
“Yea, air; I lower think peninsula, there fa a and scheme if the to
oapture the
liUBs'AS
In and was offered suitable rank and
,y. Of course I would have nothing to
i with such a vile scheme, and did not
want inf Ia to 1rnf»w know fnn too much trnir>h fthnnf about it.” if. ”
The second Federal officer then inter-
SSS.TS?aSYi 5 SfjSfi! 2
fa being worked through a secret ordnr
which has a large membership through
the south. He stud: “They are well Or-
sanized, and number 1,000 men in the
military department, out of which the
civil department takes in many promi-
nent and influential men. 1 refused to
have anything to do with the scheme,
but expect to hear from it before long.
Any one who has watched the progress
tetence b-Mikltt of this society can easily see that
b brswinr
It Will Probably be Beeommended—Ad¬
vantages of the Redaction.
Washington, D. C., April 16.— It fa
probable that in the first report ri the
postmaster general a one-cent postage
law will be advocated.
Great Britain boasts of her penny port-
S-CaSS'SS from three cents, mm! the
to two cents
nnlt to one ounce,this country GreatBrit- was riven
literally the penny postage of
fetters may be conveyed at the same
chargee as in Great Britain. The
reduction ri postage has always re-;
suited in three things, letters namely mailed, : An
increase in the number ri
the substitution of sealed letters for poet-
assn failed arrived in
ave never to be at a
'r^deoreass the rate of postage would,
BisffssbtKAasa people urged another reduction upon
Lager Beer at the FaneraL
New Haven, Cornu, April id.—Just
before he died F. B. Pioeger, ex-Lieuten-
auMitw w»r“«eafii§
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TRIED TO KILiTtHE SHERIFF.
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Ubbana, HI., April 16.—A deepet
attempt to murder the sheriff and ^
SaTremtJn
Inm him .until by the they throat,
with Ids suj lia
tongue
t)r. White drove sapidly aouthtiur
tig? stranger from pitchfork Danville, advanc
-Trith- Ac and caj
thorn. In the meantime the fire be
ringing and a great crowd gatiu
many of them had ready proved to take that veng
on Ford if it S
Berkewmi^ofjstih -
KILLED HER OWN CHILD. - -ft .rv, .
Besultuf teavtafi- Where Chll-
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entered The ball the penetrated right the Death brain, resulted having
, hour eye. after the shot
within half an was
fired. .
HE IS NOT FRIGHTENED.
What Russell Harrison Says of thsTrorffile
With Crosby.
Washington, D. C., April 16.—The
president's son, who strayed away to
Gotham and fell among the Philistines,
was restored to hfa father’s arms yester¬
day morning.
‘T arn now a rival of the Ohicfteo edi-
started in for a criminal libel action suit, «Kf for
now it resolves itself into an
damages. He wdl pkBo retraction from
me, for i have donaril that I considered
the fact that he was
ri our territory, and j
' axvwxn Inna! (nfnvmri 5
ErKT.—rfr’jtrwKctta:
me at all.
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; Governor ForaOter Not In Danger,
Columbus, Ohio, April 16.—A report
was sent out that Governor Wonka was
in a oritical condition, and that he was
threatened with lockjaw from the effects
of sn injury to Ids left big toe while
taking a bath. As amatterof fact the
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» Birmingham
teti of John A-
of the central
but Gladstoneism will be swept away as
pmr ery hanrl Thopofnivi Thor.,ore fhA th. ' ^lafluirtnianB OU.Wor.i™
- ore ---- not -* at all dfahearted rted at at the the intelli- intellb
Home rule is bn the upward and on-
ward march.
The succession to the leadership of the
house of commons has suddenly become
tSu&g&ZSg
on this issue.
*ph fed Churchill bad been
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►en by a great
to lead the house of comings; hence the
whole with sufficient good has sense much and fair
success. That city dinner an-
lay until the
n thauany-
ell intervened
the distressed
ffie Irish lead-
etna* wu
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have whoUy failed. Americans who
com© here hoping ;^nonaic-
much as to which this of
quarter in hi r to raise
arts
bourg quarter people are being obliged to
who hope to do
cheap scale.
U John Successful.
London, April 16.—John A. £
the Liberal Unionists,
S&J* to succeed hfa father,
reprerentettyi
j whare rite will give ■
Last year the comi
take up
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m to trade, there was no way of
icped fling them. for their good they
own
sea the propriety ri ceding than
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, * tote a trade
I ,"ri
j
. bad increaasri the valttb
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pie would not < their lands for
|l.8B: that they rather run the
risk of congress i
SSisSES would do anything to make
they for the having confidence a case
court, supreme
lands fiedly belonged absolutely. to the Cherokees unquali¬
and
HE STOLE $10,000.
SI ’ J
Clerk Between two Fires. ,
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Newark, N. J., April 16.—Bernard
Schroeder, aged 23, head salesman at the
factory of R. G. Solomon .dealer in hides,
fa under arrest, charged with having
robbed ids employer of goods to the value
^0 0Q0 Scbrocdcr h conf cc tiod his
til© stolen property.
THE PRESIDENT’S TRIP.
The Entire Family, with Messes. Blaine
and Wloclom, on Board. ,-i.
Washington, D. 0., April 18.— The
long-anticipated presidential excursion
down the Potomac became a reality.
Notwithstanding tile sky the and threatening keen wintry ap¬
pearance of a
wind that was blowing, the president
and Mrs. Harrison decided to take the
wharf «. HSU the £ Ed foot sSFahifwS of Seventh street,
near
where they boarded a small steam vessel
g MgaS y
SHREWD POUTICAL MOVE.
Why a Party of Illinois Republicans are
Journeying to Oklahoma.
Springfield, m., April ll,—Davfe T,
Dittlec,: ex-secretary, oHh a .lt eiMtbIican
«-..i M f wW ' s $
Winnipkg, Mam, April 10.—The Ever¬
est exploring party left for the Arctic
Circle yesterday, f The party consists of
teoend the MacKenzie river until
retie ocean is reached, and at the
tri that river they intend to build
5 h Behring strait Mid sea, ant!
ig Alaska, reach Victoria in about
’s time.
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fetusum Ann . y.iLjt vlfali ,_S!kl_i__ £
COOL VILLAIWT OP A COLO-
RADO COWBOY
He Puts a Pistol to the Mosul of the
Cashier awl Orders Him to tthell
Out—T(»s tletlm Acquiesce* - Mhots
Ft rest but. to »« Avail - A
Buffalo. K. Y., April
terrible tragedy, even more
bloody atrocity than the Ke
blood. In
lay prone
A COOL COWBOY.
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1‘nrnllel to the Itanver Bank Bobbery—Me
Gels *SOO.
(aanrmem, W, t„ April ; 1«.—A upm
dressfid in cowboy garb rode into the vil¬
lage of Grover, Colorado, yesterday.
^Brent
the time of (lie robbery, but the oowliov
did tioualy his that work he so attracted quietly and attention. so expedi-
no
DESTITUTE IN DAKOTA
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The Fire Sufferers Short of Provision* and
Many Other Things. ,
Yankton, Dak., April le.-The relief
committee has been working steadily to
relieve sufferers ever since the great
-T.fJ’M: tt
needed greatly. The farmer* hi Hand
hay forks and stoves. All goods shipp’d
should be sent to the committee, ot auy
one of them—R. R. Howell, C. E. Smith,
out. and six deaths followed. Twelve
homes lias are nothing entirely these gone. points. Minneapolis Chicago
sent to
has sent nothing definite, but Pierre has
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Three Months Bader the Waves,
New York, April 10.—The remains of
Adolph Licbenrotb, of College Print, L.
I., lay all day y©*terday wknd in an ice chest
In the morgue at Long City. Ue-,!
benroth, who was well kbown in down
town business circles, committea suicide
on the night Sto the of January East River 24, but, by
jumping from the
ferryboat ■Search for Kocxaway the body neacn. unavailing.
was
The other night, while a workman in the
employ ri Affred Pickett. of Bowery
Bay, Biker's was Island, digging ha for sand _ worms on
came across the re¬
mains, and Coroner notified. Robinson, of Long
carffed Island iMiuiu City, v.ivj, the body was wss uumiip nearly i. three The lueuuenau mite* tide tori
be¬
fore carting it ashore.
arrested the Jefferson Monday 1
in
tag individuals, who
Artus refused to give
Sullivan gave him a
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