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> . f 1 1 ■ I 1 t 1 •I I I I - \ +>*■ ■■ l mu fcs .a ' ; *'*7 !C e* '•>? .. \ : - —,— to i, th. test and met promWng little i the 8ontb. It. record lor the put *> u de, ite many new enterprises in op«r- building and contemplated, prove this 4 business etatement and not a hyper- sSHaiflsuia: ZSXSSSSSS - »„,i Oith thi* year started the wheel. as put OP a large iron and brow foundry, rtiltorr factory, an immense ice and bot- Ln f works, a ea»h and Wind factory, a factory, opened uptheflneet granite rry in the United States, and now has . large oil mills in more or lees, advanced «, of construction, with an aggregate au- rised capital qf over half amill.ondollaw. , putting up the finest system of electric ting that can be procured, and has ap- I tor two charter, lor street railways. It lecured another railroad ninety milee long, the South, the Central, ha. secured connec- tiou with it. important rival, the East Ten, a«Mce, Virginia and Oeorgto* 9 »t has obtain- direct independent connection with Chat- tmiooga and the West, and will break ground is a few days fora fourth road, connecting with a fourth independent system. With its five white and four colored ehttreh- it ha* recently completed a #10,000 new preebyterian church. Ithre increased its pop- alatios by nearly one fifth. It has attracted around its border* fruit growers from nearly every State in the Union, until it is now sur- rounded on nearly every side by orchards M d vineyards. It hae put up the largest evaporators in the State. It is thehome the grape and its wine makingcapacity has Ambled every year. It has successfully in¬ augurated a system of public schools, with a seven years curriculum, second to none. This is part of the record of a half decade . and simply show, the progress of an already u dmir ahle city, with the natural advantages .{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 healthy,fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet above sea level. By the eensus of 1890, it will have at uk>w estimate between 6 000 and f,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¬ settlers, who will not be any less wel- wme i! theybring money to help build up the town. There is about only one thing we seed badly just now, and that is a Mg hotel. We have several small ones, hut their accom- too limited for onr _ ness, pleasure and health seeking guests, lu re anybody that wants a good loca¬ tor a hotel to the Sonth, just mention •ifftu is the place where the Gbiffin News ose stamps in sending tor sample copies, descriptive pamphlet at Griffiu-l his brief .ketch is written Aprfi 12th, 1889, I will have to be changed in a few months PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. HENRY C. PEEPLES, attorney at law, I HAMPTON, OEOauI.V. Practice, in all the State and Federal octbd&wly JOHN J. HUNT, attorney at law, Hr GEOBGIA. GBIFFIN, tesa,’sr».“ ,, "£asfc I | TH0S. H. MILLS, Fattorney at law, lver tbe G^ rt£Z& ■y; . ' ’ : ' v-.novStf 6 JOHND STXWABT. BOBT. T. DANISL. STEWART & DANIEL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, | Otct George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. Wm practice in the State end Federal 0. L. PARMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, wOODBCBT, o bosom. Yif Pprompt attention gifts to all business. practice 1° ^ 1 the Court*, and where- 9»- Collections a specialty. OTfeL CURTIS GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Jnder Hew Management A. G. DANIEL, Prop’r. WI’teM meet all trains. JOSEY HOUSE, HOUSE, BOTHAM'S POLE WAR #*r Correspondent Tells ol Mayor Grant’s Tyranny. Happier Hard at Work on Some Cen¬ tennial Cartoons. New York, April 19.—Tyranny has spread its hated banners over America’s fair metropolis the past week. The teaoh- * which glare eternally from her pages are lost on Mayor Grant. Two courses were open to him, and he has elected to wield the vast power bequeathed him by the citizens in crushing the poor, long-suf¬ fering monopolist. It is in vain that the h s. m. has endeavored to rise in the world—presses, pulpit and people have unitedly grabbed him by the slack of his patient breeches and pitched him into the o- gutter. What .— though z ---------— this gutter ------ be a - 11 splendid ’ to >11.9 Hfth avenue in’’MR - A'iia ■ i'li : mansion ■ >i ■ *1 a. 1,1 ■ *' 1 replete —'l ln I 111 .1 with Occidental splendor—metaphoric¬ ally and for our purpose it is the dirtiest gutter in Gotham. Every class has ite champion—except his. Charge a public official with bring the poor monopolist’s friend and he will sue you for #50,000 damages. Hunted, pursued end foully attacked, has the meek monopolist no rights which the public are bound to re¬ spect? At least he is still a human be¬ ing. Admit that Mayor Grant. *** Little by little, after years of patient toil, the L s. m. succeeded in erecting hundreds of tall poles on our different thoroughfares. He did this noble work pro bono publico. Knowing the absence of verdure on these arid streets, he hu¬ manely Hie thoughtless pursued his task, might in order revelJn that tax payer the cooling shade. unselflsT Some philanthropists mean ingrptes say that those built the pries to sustain numerous death dealing wires of the electrical sort, and reap foul charges a profit of 20 per totheearsof emit. When the these came perse¬ cuted benefactors of the they hurled When them back told to toe face accusers. About toughed the heartlessly shade and business said the thfft public there Was too much blanked shadealready.and that some of their companions had de¬ parted for the blanked infernal They were warned, but to no purpose, fee merry chunk, chunk of the axe the it now heard on every street comer, as poles plunk, while plunk the tears on the of toe pavement. 1. And yet, dust a m. are toying citizen the is heard on Broadway, a prominent to say: - “Make toe chips fly, Mayor Grant It is a long time since New Yorkers have seen a public oflfoer teach insolent pri¬ vate corporations that they wires can and be kept pull Within bounds. Cut toe down the poles. Hie streets of New York belong to toe people, and boodle is not yet supreme, although think otherwise. there are some folks who seem to “We have no tears for the companies that have fought toe authorities and the tow by every means in thrir power, cringing and groaning one day ana snarl- Big Bke dogs the next. They have lied livery again lever and again. public They opinion have within their of reach. They have exhausted the sources besmirched of the legal officials profession. who They have the to enforce toe tow, “The people are with you, It is next to impossible to get into seph Keppler’s studio in the Puck ing. A bearded German at toe door aU comment It that is Mr. only Keppleris card too out to be seen. one inside door. ten that he will even take the To the rest he Bays: “Call in two weeks.” Mr. KepplerV for the rush gigantic is caused display by parations the Germans going to make to are civic centennial parade. There will about thirty-five and his great work tableaux is make on wagons, to signs for each of these. The cover all military, fields, mythological, mechanical, artistic, Mr. Keppler sketches mid trade. design roughly, and expiring the to some other artist, who fills in the A-*1___1____ 2. ..J if.. r says he bcliev ?ar* there will be the globe, via A IMF FIN-, ■ GEORGIA. ! SUNJD. --I l iyir w\ TROU8LE IN AFRICA. The British Government Hu Another UtU. Squabble ea It* Hands. London, April 80,—The government i» soon likely to have another tribal war upon its hands, although it Is not likely to reach such dimensions as that Which led to the permanent incorporation of Burmah with the British empire. Owing to the representations of the* British con- i some of the members of the ministry to¬ day, bqt ho one is permitted to see the empress. F.tal Explosion in a Colliery. VUSNNA, April 20.—An explosion oc¬ curred Austria, in the Rothschilds colliery Five at Tief- blan, Saturday. persons were killed and two dangerously wund- ed. Six Others are niissing. ^ Foreign N»t«. * , J The condition of Louis Kossuth baa improved. The Bank of England rate of discount is announced to be 2$ per cent. Bordeaux The archbishops will of be made Paris, cardinals. Lyons and soon day. that the czar contemplates a visit to coming exhi- hition. Archbishop Goosens, iop of Mach- Up and primate of Be m, has been created cardinal. Massachusetts’ Queer liquor Law. Taunton, Maas., April 20.—I* a liquor case which lias oome before the First Bristol district court to this city, it was discovered that there was no saving clause m the act hi the act In relation to the punishment for violation of the liquor tow which and was pawed by the present legislature, «eht effect on the 17th inst. The present act Operates as a re¬ peal of the former law on the subject, and as a man "unishs^rithas^ Cahnot bo punished ^1^2- for an Stag the* 6 Raleigh, N". C., April 20.—At a mass meeting of citizens of FayetteriMb it was resolved by acclamation to celebrate, in handsome the style, the centennial of tod federal anniver¬ sary of ratification con¬ stitution by North Carolina, which the event took pita in that town, then state capital, November 21, 1789. The follow¬ ing was unanimously adopted, with much cheering: Resolved, That it is our earnest wish, as we believe it Will he of the over¬ whelming mass of toe people of the state, that the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Confederate the ven¬ erated states, ex-president and the unswerving of the friend and life long champion of constitutional lib¬ erty, may be induced to officiate as chief ordtor on the occasion. Rank Michigan Rascal. Hillside, Mich., April 20.- C. W. Wal¬ dron left Hillsdale last August with toe wife of a man named Bid well, and car¬ ried the a large Waldron amount rank of of money this belonging place. A to fvm- ...... ' l ' )r " ril, '."' : ' ' >' '* iTER^fDE.- 1 eh jwbilcjvrmoilMiN^ &S live \?iole1J breAtt\, / E&f Je?, 0 pK <£ tl/e over de&ttv. * Mb' OCEAN’S MYSTERY. %>• ' ’* :-*Hi What Has Become of the Dan¬ mark’s Human Freight ? NEARLY TWO WEE*’* SINCE FIRST SIGHTED. Azores—No News Received—The Hel- . . > •••riVi •• • •• New York, April 20.-The one ques¬ tion now being reported by everybody is: “Wlrnt has become of the passengers and crew of the steamship Danmark?’ It is now ten days since the City of Chester sighted the vessel, a derelict, in mid-ocean. Her stem was under water, and it was supposed that she was sink¬ ing. Her boats were gone, and a broken chain hanging over her bow indicated that she had been taken in town. The conclusion that the 700 and more people known to have sailed on her were andnoneremainodon the wreck. Sev¬ eral steamships which, it was hoped, had effected toe rescue have reached their The telegraph destinations with no tidings. around the globe and now the speaks arrivals at Europe every have port in America and been anxiously watched. be heard There from is bat one steamer yet to that is reported to have sailed at a time and tea direction which might bring her in the track of the Danmark, and •YSsar^'MH that is the Helvetia, now several days of humanity the strengthened that taken on board of one or more sa vessels, and that news will come e horn the Azores or some other lo< easily accessible to sailing craft, sertemly not yet time to despair, tl every day will iSTS? i situation, s and relatives still flock around Bees ofFunch, which Edye& Edye & brings Co., Co., and ar >n f hope any syllable to their THE”SOLDIERS’ COLONY • Hold > Stirring Campfire—Gsneral Advice* j Arkansas City, Kas., April 20.—Last night toe old soldiers’colony, of tola city, held its test altering before go¬ ing into Oklahoma. A1 Mowery is presi¬ dent. The colony consist* of 150 old sol¬ diers. Of these 120 wiU leave Monday to look up a homestead, each under toe sol¬ dier clause. The locatiou has been selected, but they will not fostrefo. reveri it. The members will go by They have started a wagon train with supplies of 3Sgfe« tenta and provisions, and a raft suffl- slst- New*—World’s Now. Abridged. It is said smallpox that there Nanticoke, are twenty-five Pa. cases of at The Bell Telephone company #10$)0,000. wants to increase its capital stock George Black wa* arrested at Portland, Maine, on the charge of poisoning his father. Wat H. Dunbar was arrested at L*- porte, Ind,, for obtaining money under false pretenses. Sydney Watters, who suicided married With Malvina Benner, the actress, taer- Geo. W. Kidd, a New York wholesale scheme to break the whisky trust. It has been derided that the First Na¬ tional bank, of Anoka, Minn., which was recently cleaned out by Cashier Pratt, dial] go into the hands of a receiver. Dr. Neal Mitchell, board president of the Du¬ val county of health, authoritar tively contradicts a report of the exist¬ ence of yellow fever. In JacksonviUe, Florida. “Young man, let this be a lesson to you. Keep do out of saloons and had com¬ pany, and as your mother Barnes tell- you,” was the advice of Juror to young Daglish, at Indianapolis, who had ju* been acquitted of the murder of Tom Downie. the churches, .massmeetlngs exercising and in the fireworks. schools, monster Two hundred and fifty thousand souve¬ nir medals will be disposed of to school children and others. Lackawanna Hands employed at toe coal Delaware, docks, and Western at Hoboken, N. J., quit work Saturday. Their grievance is that the timekeeper has not been crediting them with their proper hours. One hundred men are out* The president has directed Gen. Mer¬ ritt, commanding general of toe division of the Missouri, to conjunction use the troops with under the his command, in United States marshals, in executing warrants, making arrests and preserving toe peace in Oklahoma. Professor Frank A. Fitzpatrick, public super¬ intendent of the Leavenworth schools, has returned from Oklahoma. He was over much of the territory and believes not more than one-third of it is available. colonists He thinks the there are territory. already too many for new At a meeting of toe directors of the NShriS? MdSr&tS wa: Herd Time of It. -**--- PLANS roll TH* PRESIDENT'S MW TORN TRIP. H i » s Th* Speaherehlp*. Chance* te.okln* Hath. er Ulum tor the Doughty Major Me- Klatey-Oueeli, on General Topic- »«'“”•* Health to »• Danger-Tha Newspaper Rumor* Without Truth. WASH!NOTON, D. a, April SO.—The president is still “pokey” in making ap- » pointments. He is. ’ in fact, having ’V a — sentimental man. He gore on in the even tenor of his way. He is not moved to J of those? who get ih, and is not boweddowa oaaceount 4*5*5 ’ ■BMJBnl"I D. a, April 20.—The tion. The train will make no stops ex¬ cept a brief and necessary one at Trenton. At Elizabeth the president’s car will fee detached from the train. Hie rest of toe party will go on to Elizabeto- port. Meanwhile toe presdential party will be met at Elizabeth by Governor Green of New Jewey, and a small num¬ ber ofthe most distinguished officials in the state, and the entire company win temporarily remain as the governor’s guests. The special engine, after it has taken the rest of the train to Elizabeth- port wiUgo back to F^brth fortoe presidential car, and the president, toe be STltMr escorted across the hay to New York, tH “ t FO* CONGRESSIONAL ^8PEAKERSMIP. McKinley’s Chances Weake»l»g-Wl»» will QotTMa PrixeT Atlanta, Ga., April 20. -The Consti- tution’s Washington special says: “Maj. 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