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r r ; 1 - ........ - ' ■ 0JU1TO GEORGIA, U. S. A. - 1 - Griffin is the beet Mid MO.t pramUir.if lit .V. Wnnth I In for fha »« atfoa a $100,000 cotton t year,started the wheels ^aSbr^lounSi Harta o charter*lor street, railways. with a fourth independent systsgi, With ite five white and four colored church- M , it ha. recently completed a $10,000 Ihi. new Presbyterian church. It has increased pop¬ ulation by neatly one fiffflt? If’fliu. attsacted around it. borders fruit growers from nearly every State in toe Union, until it is now sur¬ rounded on nearly every side by orchards Mid vineyards. It has pnt up the largest above sea level. . By the census of 1890, it will have at alow estimate between6 000 and 7,000 people, and they are all of the right sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬ sirable settlers, who will not be any less wel¬ come il.they bring money to help build up the town. There ^$«W$tsonly one-tiling we need just thatds a big hotel. We have several small ones, but their aocom- ttodations are entirely too limited for our business, pleasure and health seeking guests. If you see anybody that wants a good loca- j^r mention la published— daily and weekly—the best news¬ paper In the Empire State oi Georgia. Please enclose stamps in sending for sample copies, and descriptive pamphlet of Grifflnf This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889, and will have to be changed in a few months to embrace new enterprises commenced and completed, PB0FESSI0NAL DIRECTORY. HENKY C. PEEPLES, ATTORNEY .AT LAW , HAurroN, efeoaelA. Practices in all toe State and Federal onrt *- I O l"*T; v! 2 - : I GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. Office, 81 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. White’s Clothing Store. mar22diwl. TH0S. R. MILLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, cans.! corner. nov2tf kmh qAsjpflrAtr. . robt. t. »anibl. STEWART A DANIEL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. ■Will practice in the State and Federal Coarts. jnly!9dtf 0. L PARMER, • A rr4,ir AW '- Will Pprompt practice attention in all the given Courts, to all and business where- ever business calls. «r- Collections a specialty. HOTBt"’ tfUKTIS GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Under New Management. m***m***#- satan ■ JOSEY HOUSE, f Rooms, Steve Room and Kitchen, rich hoarding issaea qafc-ffiittfcpfe house. Also. SHELTON HOUSE, jgagawffiiaiRM cUt^H^ iier mm 0. A. CUSNISGHAM, b THE CRISIS IS OVER. No More Trouble is Anticipated From Oklahoma. INDIONAKT BOOMERS MEET AT ARKANSAS CITY. A Beta on the eherokee Strip Knpeeted In A Few »«y«—General Merritt Re¬ port* to His Chief—The Number of Settler* Exaggerated—The Lawless Ele¬ ment Making Headway. PURCELL, L T., April 85.—Advices from every part of the territory of Okla- U,e Umh of tto AW** railroad, «ik 1 on the stage trails which run from Guthrie to Klnjgflsher and from Oklahoma to Fort Reno. Occupants of the soil have taken possession of their claims by pitching tents, and in many cases in erectingrude tog cabins or frame structures. King¬ fisher land office was opened yesterday, and entries are than reported Guthrie. to have been The more numerous at look, country and is although beginning the to wear a settled of llungs is rude, it evidence appearance of the fact 8>at is the crisis is practically and strife over, and that out of the rush and bitter¬ ness of years, the country has been set¬ tled with less sacrifice than has always been feared indicated and in predicted. these dispatches, As there grown coming rapidly train. in They numbers from with all each parts in¬ come of toe west and southwest. Among them all there has been none to equal the Dodge City crowd, which made itself famous in toe dance house and gambling df Mb# “Little Trail, Dodge and City was considered at the end the was worst town on the earth. Since toe trail following left Dodge it, City and some others of them have been have drift¬ been ing. how The in crowd Purcell which before is the in territory Guthrie was was opened, and went up to Guthrie for toe purpose of running a dance house and gambling den, and making what hot they succeed could out in of getting the boom. lots in They tie heart did pf the city, a location necessary to toe success of their business, and yesterday toey began efforts to drive somebody off. They were unfortunate in toe selection gowned of their victim. and They occupied made by a claim ‘‘Wfth” to a DISGUSTED BOOMERS RETURNING. Trains Crowded With the Throng Who- Foiled to Get There. £4^948 City, Mo,, April 25.—Bulle- tins in front of the telegraph office at the Union depot this morning indicated that the early morning trains from Oklahoma were over twq hours late. The cause of the delay was apparent when a train of fourteen coachee, crowded with return¬ ing boomers, came in. A **I went to Leadville,” said one, “to jnrife pointed, a fortune, but I knew and there Came that back I had disap¬ to fun my chances. I really thought there busi- Was something to this Oklahoma toes, but PH tell you there ain’t anything ihere ( were over 300 boomers in a train and that left Kansas City last night, But nearly 200 more wanted to go, were obliged to wait for the next train. A number of returning boomers Kansas. dropped Ed¬ out at various stations in ward Glover was at toe head of thirty- back five Illinois settlere, leading them home. He said: “We were on the first train that ar¬ rived at Guthrie looking on Monthly for afternoon, sites, but we were net town farm lands. We found pretty fair lands to toe river bottoms, but not near as rich as the is farms and that we ware brick leaving. The soil red olose like dust. In fact, the greater part of the country looks ljke an immense briek kiln. Look at there shoes,” and he displayed fine red a dust. pair of shoes covered with “That’s toe kind of land toey call good soil.” Most of toe boomers who returned this morning had staked claims, but had re¬ fused to settle on them disappointed and bring on of their families. The most toe returning boomers were toe Iowans. GEN. CROOK’S TELEGRAM. He Says There Are Not More Than Twelve Thousand In Oklahoma. WashijrcHPGN, April 25.—The following telegram was received at the war depart¬ ment: Chicago, April 25.—To Adjutant Gen¬ eral United States Army, Washington: — The following - - • telegram, • * dated dated Oklaho- Oklaho- p^ted-^Reporte 5L from Sat Ktegishmv^tte ev^thitm p pro- ance of any kind. ^Jf^girts indk-ate that ___ at Guthrie, report* '•Stf.l&aa about 3,000 there, and there are from 3,000 to 4,000 to this vicinity Mid between here and Purcell. Lieutenant Dodge, of my staff ,whom I ordered to Puspell on duty, and returned last night about 9 o’clock Still, Reno, and eleev Uu^eri^Ste^ there to reteote may, individual antry, be 8AN FRANCISCO PRIZE FIGHT. Pr < > 1 1 1 •; ... The City Thronged with VUltor* to Wit- n«» the Card iff-Jackson Mill. San Francisco, April 85.—There ha* been a considerable influx of well-known and wfll decide his standing one way or mirers among the jrting fraternity here sums have aggreg been ig quite a large amount Kilraih J that Jake $ came out contest far from vifl , MODEL. CHICAGO JU3TICE. The Court Discharge* a Prisoner tor a Very • • Remarkable Season. Chicago, April 25. — Mrs. Hubert James is a pretty blonde with a mole on her cheek. Three hairs grew from the nude. When Mrs. James put on her new bonnet alleged, on Easter said: Sunday her husband, it is those “You whiskers look like out a myself," hiily goat. I’ll pull Then he seised her,and with one sweep of his fingers yanked the hairs from toe mole. Mrs. James hit Mr. James over the head with a Carpet sweeper. Poltaanan Other policemen came, and the belliger¬ ent husband was taken to, a station- He appeared before Ji morning- The court °^I Un mend vouracti iderstand wh; TIOKLES THE TIME8a One of ‘■EacK**” Cartoons an the Irish As¬ cendancy in America. London, April 25.—An || eloquent ool- umn and a half in i ' The Times, from Smith, with Pucks rica lertef Cringing is filled to wil I’ the lash of the L and toe whole of it is one long I an ion over Irish as- cendancy in the »d States, coupled t, deep and ehame- tiXwtooTKS tie bravest thing he American press. Bell on Sire. Langtry’s TraU. Chicago, April 25.-A little man with with spectacles, who said his name was Benjamin W, Goldberg, mitered toe ro¬ tunda of the GrOrid Pacific hotel, and, SstSSig France. Here letters from Col. or are Fred Grant and Senator John Sherman. They all know the great me as actress, the father who of Nad- too age Doree, Langtry, and was. whom, prominent for Mrs. of. I will Make overthrow me a consul toe Lily.” in England, He is insane. and Arrival of Immigrant*. New Yobk, April $5.—Within toe Met thirty-six hours 5,000 immigrants have landed at Castle Garden. The tide of SSSS?S?3!SS quarters of there immigrant western and northwestern pc United States. The Castle cials attribute the great “1 migration partly to toe fact new states have been adi ___l>3tW to toe Union. Said one of the ofl 6 the excellent iV® m toe defense will be a great surprise The legal battle over the testimony is the keenest ever fought here. A GALE ON THE LAKES. Many Million* of Fret of Camber Scat¬ tered to the Wind. Ashland, Wis., April m-A heavy gale, which swept Lake Superior last night, was disastrous to the lumber men, whose booms of logs were in exposed po¬ sitions 20,000,000 along toe Chequamagon bay. Over feet of logs are now scat¬ tered among Apostle islands, furious toe booms having been broken by the storm. Many of the logs were- driven out into the lake. - , It. is now believed that only a small portion can be saved when the storm subsides. A rough esitomte of toe toss placed it at over $100,000. 12,000,000 Pike & Drake, whose the boom contained feet, are Yosterday 2 snow accompanied ^ the aba® gale but night came the storm AN ELECTION TRAGEDY. Blood at the Falls at an Election on the Liquor Question. Lynchburg, Va., April 25,-The re¬ port comes from Bick ley’s mills, Russell county, that at Grigby’s precinct in Cas- received was shot three times— arm, in the left side and ad tring expired wounded in a few while min¬ were AL A Y -- i&rfs&i'f nounced dead by a a believer in cremai had her body tat the day. wr- Now, therefore, I, John B. governor of the state of Ooorgh give thank ULSTi' w>enj°y.i me a* them toe author to «ur sm *S$sa adtim seal of Memorial Bay. Executive Department, Atlanta. Ga., April 84, 1889.—The 20th day of April statute, being it a ordered legal holiday that all the under offices toe is By James toe T, governor. Ntobu Ex. D t, flee. ept. n ITS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY. American Odd Fellowship Foam* Into the Philadelphia, April 25.—The arrange¬ ments for toe celebration of the seven¬ tieth,anniversary Odd of toe birth of Ameri¬ can Fellowship have been completed and are on a scale surpassing In magnifi¬ cence anything of too kind in the history of the order. mJKiholna Ik rj V ZS JUT Sr K«rf «f *b« this will city bring by the toe special exercises which when the various proceedings lodges, to a close, fSffSSHsS encampment*, the pastors will preach sermons relating to the order. „__^ L^,_____, THE LITERARY EXERCISES Programme at the Georgo Washington C*n- tennlal at Now York. , New York, April 25.—The programme for toe literary exercises of the centenni¬ al celebration of Washington’s inaugural was revised and completed to-day. The exercises will be: Prayer, by Rev. Dr. Stores. A poem, by John Green leaf Whittier. Hie oration, by Cliauncey Harriets. M. Depew. The An address, benediction, by President Archbishop Corri¬ by gan. The presidential and other cial guests will be party received by the spe¬ after com¬ mittee on literary exercises the ser¬ vices at St. Paul’s, at the Pine street front, and escorted The to the sub-treasury building. . suit-treasurer's private of¬ fice will be used as a retiring room for toe president and suite, and three other rooms will be used for toe general pur¬ poses of the committee. Afier the conclusion of the exercises the viewing president stand, will the be military driven to toe re¬ he presenting arms The as banquet passes. will be the brilliant most event of its kind yet chronicled in toe history of the republic. Michigan'* Sheep-Sheaving. OOTEMO, Mich., April 25.—The annual sheep-shearing commenced here to-day, made and unusually the favorable general prediction* are as to average results. The fleeces are reported to be not only heavier than those clipped sfeix during toe ment which i« attributed in at wll measure to the educational work of the Southwestern Michigan Sheep Breeders’ And Dwell* Among tha WUjT W Utopia —H* Am.ru that the «ov «»"•»' I* «»* Oppored in a Contin- 1 Ope ration*—l>oo* W» Regard Nteauragu. a. a Btral. 0!.i' ■ -.i ft,-,i S' ■'>•’ :■ Oie terms of hia concession, trary, the veteran engineer the (kiloinhiangovernmentl ty manifested a < to every way in tlie suceeesf lion of the work, and tuning now about being concluded u operation* will Very shortly l ttotttoefctttfMrof tlie pre sen*, the Nicaragua titor IMPOSING NAVAL TACTICS. , ---— ■ i -i ZrZzrZfZ ROMANTK^ .....~" w r 1 A come entitled hotel to N«jH lover’s solicitor to New Tort, that under Tfce "WIM W*»f » a Franc*. New York, April 25.-A part of Buffa¬ lo Bill’s New Wild West show was ship¬ ped for transportation to Europe to-day, and the remainder 6t the appurtenances and troupe are shortly to follow. The new features to the exhibition which toe intrepid and adventure** showman will offer to the Parisians this year-he liavtog to decided the French to begin his Eu¬ ropean include season representative band capital—will iff Mexican a SUCCORS. MAGGIE MITCHELL DENIES. She Says There bos Been no Reconciliation With Her Late Hn.tmnd. -f-......... r . - ,