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Oaring that time It Jins built and put Into
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a second, of mow than twice that capital,
has put up a large iron and brass foundry,
ertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot-
ug works, a sash and Wind factory, a
KSrJSW;K$kl3 aom factory, opened up the finest granite
tgeeofeonstruction. with an aggregate an-
anted,capital of over hali oittillion dollars.
with a fourth independent system.
With its fivs white and foureolored church¬
es, It hat recently completed a #10,000 new
Presbyterian church. Xthaa increased its pop¬
ulate* by nearly one fltth., ||hfts attractil
around its borders trait growers from nearly
every Stats in the Union, until it to 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
augur# a piMfe school*, with a
paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
enclose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.!
This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1SH9,
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,
■AMPtON, ORORgIa.
Practice* in all tbs State and Federal
'ourts. oct9d*wly
JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
#8*aawL*•»«Sr ,, •
TH0S. R. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the State and Federal
ourta. Office aver George A Hartnett’s
arnito. nov2tf
JOHN D STEWART. HOST. T. T. DANIEL. DANIEL.
STEWART A DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
■Will IP___ practice r to the State and Federat
’ rutf
0. L. PARMER,
attorney at law,
WOOBBUST, GEORGIA.
Fprompt attention given to all and burinee#! where
ill practice to all the Conrte,
HOTEL GUJEtTTS
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Under Hew Management.
A. 6. DANIEL, Prop’r.
i >tei* meet all trains.
J0SEY HOUSE,
as, Steve Boom and Kitchen, rich
spot and staqle. One block from
BITS OF CDK10US HISTORY.
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HOW THe CITY OF WASHINGTON
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tfeman and Washington the oik is weM
told in history and yet not well known
to the people It to a story worth
telling again and again, and of espe¬
cial timeliness just now when the great
accomplishments of the first president
years ago Washington was busy with Ids
plans for the creation of a great national
city on the shores of his beloved Poto¬
mac. - Washington was in this as in
Ynanyother matters a long ways ahead of
his times. The site of the present capi¬
tal city had been seen by him and had
won hto admiration, many years before.
When a mere boy be saw it while riding
the country on horseback, and spoke of
it when as a-young officer be camped
government The site of this city he
often passed on his way to and from
Georgetown, and later, when occupied
with public eares. while en route from
Philadelphia and New York to his home
at Mount Vernon. It is a curious fact
that for generations the Indians used the
site of this city as a meeting place, hold¬
ing here many council fires. Of these
great “talks” traditions survived all
through Washington’s life, and this
legislative and governmental use of the
ground by the aborigines may have sug¬
gested to -Washington a similar use by
the new possessors of the soil
However this may have been, it to cer¬
tain that Washington was the first and
foremost champion of the location of
the national capital on the Bhores of the
Potomac. For eight or ten years a bitter
contest was waged in congress over the
selection of a site for the capital of the
young republic. There were many rival
aspirants for the honor, and even at
that early day sectional, jealousies York were
strong. New England and New
were afraid the south might gain undue
advantage over them. The judgment
of congress often changed, and as ft#
favor shifted from site to site—now the
Susquehanna, then the falls of the Dela¬
ware, again the Potomac, and later Ger¬
mantown—the country was thrown into
a turmoil of conflicting opinion and in¬
terests. Atone time a bill passed both
houses of congress- locating the capital Phila¬
at Germantown, uow a suburb of
delphia, but some had and delay Germantown ensuing, recon¬ lost
sideration was
her golden opportunity. So bitter be¬
came the contest that It was feared the
republic, as yet none too strongly welded,
would be shattered ere a settlement was
reached. All this time Washington fa¬
vored the Potomac, as hto correspondence
shows, and was loth to abandon the
project which hod occupied hto attention
for many years, but he modestly re-
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the belief that the center of population
“may even extend beyond the Potomac.”
If Madison had been so fortunate as to.
five to be as old as Cbevreul, who died
the other day, he would have seen the
center of population a good Ways on the
other side of the Alleghenies. t **■■■
It must have been with genuine,pleas¬
ure that President Washington came
down to Georgetown and issued, March
30,1791, hto orders to the commissioners
who had been chosen to survey the Fed¬
eral city. Maryland ceded her part of
tho ten miles square, according to her
agreement, but the land owners were
not so easily disposed of. There were
only three or four of them, but they
proved to be very stubborn and greedy.
In those days the method of condemna¬
tion of private property for public use
was not as well understood as it now to,
and when the commissioners got into
trouble with the famous Davy Bums
they asked the president to come and
help them out Even Washington was
at first unable to do anything with
the obstinate Scotchman, who did not
want a capital at his front door, and
didn’t care whether the seat of govern¬
ment came to the Potomac or went to
the Assiniboine. Washington wrestled
with him for several days, and it to raid
that on one occasion Borns turned on the
father of hto country and said to him:
“You talk .very fine, Mr. Washington,
and probably expect people to believe all
you say, but what would you have been
if you hadn’t married the Widow CuattoT
poor capital, on the same terms that had
been made with the other owners of the
site—the government to have one lot
and tire original owner one alternately.
Bums stipulated that his cottage must
not be interfered with it» the laying out
of the city, and as this condition was
agreed to by Washington, Davy Bums’
cottage still stands, one of the historical
curiosities of the capital Nearly all of
these negotiations were carried on by
Washington in person. Among the
estates thus broken up and merged
in the Federal city, as Washing¬
ton which always called the plaoe, was one
had come down to the heirs of
Francis Pope, who settled herein 1088.,
Among the older residents of the city
one often hears a tradition spoken of
that Pope designed the starting of a
small town on his property, which he
called Home, and spoke of himself as
the Pope his of Borne. The high ground be called on
which residence was built
Capitoline bill; in true Roman fashion,
and it was an odd coincidence that the
Capitoline hill of this pioneer’s fancy
should become the Capitol hill of actual¬
ity more than a century after his death.
Another local tradition is that two other
cities were spread over this ground long
before congress adopted it as a seat of
government, one being called Carrolla-
burgandthe other Hamburg, but nei¬
ther making progress beyond the first
paper Throughout survey. hto eight in the
years
presidential chair Washington continued
to evince a lively interest in the Federal
city. The new capital was named Wash¬
ington by the commissioners without the
president’s knowledge, but wltii theoom-
mon consent of congress who and people. Maj. It
was Washington employed
L’Enfant, the French genius who planned
the city not foe (me century, but for thou¬
sands of years, and who ptamted wiser
and better willing than give anybody him credit in hto for. lifetime The
was to
chief men of that day were provincial,
colonial and narrow in their ideas of art
and expenditure. They had been reared
for the moat part in the practice of tho
strictest private economy, and ail
through the revolution and afterward
had not known what it was to manage
the affairs of a government with a sur-
.plus pf millions la its vault#. Indeed,
®g/§9fernment had to borrow money
from the state of Maryland to cany on
its building operations, end so low was
the republic’s credit tost Maryland de¬
clined commissionera to make pledged the loan their till the capital for¬
private
tunes to its repayment L’Enfant, on
the other hand, waa metropolitan, grand
in his ideas, and of course the commis¬
sioners and everybody else ware unable
to appreciate him and his work, and
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an *waa the only
blio life who had
lultMre, and who
i of extensive for-
»rson wanted the
llarity of square#
ersecting at right
da, and, unfortu-
American cities.
L’Enfant made S»lar chess board
squares as Jeff# phed, but he also
Mfcmous effect was
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at the time, and he also supported him
lams, who insisted
that tho Capi-
)d bo surround-
ftp* buildings In a
Wash-
. for this, as lie
to interesting
to note that his reason as that if con-
gress and the executive ffllcers were io-
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president and hto minteters, if tho com¬
fort of the latter to to be considered.
Washington did not live long enough
to see hto favorite city occupied as a cap¬
ital He died in 1799, and government
was not removed here till the next year.
When Washington last beheld the city
it was a mud hole in the woods, almost
wholly devoid of streets, with thirty or
forty residences, only two or three of
them spacious and comfortable, an un¬
finished president’s house, congress house
and treasury. The government was in¬
volved in financial difficulties and had to
resort to lotteries for the raising of funds
—a method sanctioned by Washington
himself, but afterward regretted. A
wretched place it remained for more than
half a century, or until it had become
endeared to the people of the whole coun¬
try by the civil war and its associations,
and until Shepherd recreated it. Now
it is magnificent, and the judgment of
the first president and the genius of Its
designer have been amply vindicated. If
the spirit of the immortal George now
occasionally visits this mundane sphere,
it more
WOMAN’S WEAR
London sends out some new widows' caps
with a long crape veil at the back.
New ginghams and chambray* come to
colors that faithfully reproduce the effects of
French china.
Though steels are faintly tolerated in the
back of walking drawee, house and carriage
gowns must fall flat.
The Smyrna sfik frocks hloe flounces almost imported beautiful to trim and
China are
wonderfully durable.
Violet with dull green and deep yellow is
one of toe startling combinations seen upon
Small black bound cloth jacket* are sent
home with India *ilk frocks, and the widest
and richest of black sashes.
Though dead white will be a good deal worn
tiiis summer it to sot *o Stylish w so becoming
as the cream and ivory tints.
Tron-trou I* the term applied to lace* and
trimmings woven with hole* through which
narrow ribbons are to be run.
Some of the new, big buttons have Watteau
figure*, male and female, delicately painted
upon china, and set in a metal rim.
House waists of silk or wool In any of a
hundred stuffs and pattern* are now worn
with different skirt* at any hour of the day.
The polonaise gown mast have a Louis
Quatorze vest, flaring cuffs and wide would revets
of the richest embroidery, (f yon he to
the height of fashion.
The favorite bridesmaid* gown for after-
Easter weddings is of white silk muslin over
white er light silk, made up with short full
sktot and empire bofiice-
The empire scarf of rich antique brocade,
three-quarters of a yard wide and two and
one-half yards long, is worn to differently a* a
sash or shoulder drapery.
Many chip hats and bonnets will be worn
this season, and metre of the old fashioned
crinolines, either blade or white, with gilt or
silver oord between the plaits.
Just now the capote toque 1* the reigning
shape far headgear. In bleak lace It 1* espe¬
cially stylish when mate with a draped crown
and trimmed with vary narrow ribbon or deli-
flower a.
The unexpected happens in millinery as
otherwhere. Velvet and velvet ribbon, here¬
tofore confined to winter, will almost divide
honorsasa trimming stuff with lace gauze
and silk ribbon.
Worth and H
jacket* of fine 11
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HER CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION IS
THE MARVEL OF THE NATIONS.
Before the Show U Om It U I>rojK.*>’<>
to Celebrate the Doing* of ITSO-Some
Note* Regarding Great Expositions «l
Previous Year*.
jkaaexgaas.'t’sz their revolution all
tenntol of the beginning of
and sssjKs.sssrsrase the invitation bos been and will bo very
generally accepted. Erery month of the
coming season will bring one or more noted
It may be said that
revolution were ptoi
reign of Louis XIV, %
tents out of France ai
-by long wars and exoc
their mouths, which they had gnawed in the
rage of hunger. In the reign of LouisXV
toe John Law bank and Mississippi scheme though
ruined the mercantile Masses, and
there was a lightening of burdens under
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, it came
too late to appease toe popular rage. In
February, 1787, was convened the assembly
of the notables—144 officials and noblemen.
They declined to tax their estates and local
insurrections began. Then tho king convened
the states general or ancient parliament,
which had not come together dues 1614 It
met in Paris on toe 6th Of May, 17», and
this is regarded as toe beginning of the
French revolution—five days altar the loan-
gantoed into the noted national assembly. On
the 20th the -king Sent soldiers to to prevent tennis
their meeting; they gathered a
court, took a »lamn oath to change constitut^pal the gov¬
ernment and organized as the
timed toe Bnstile. On tho 4tb of August the
convention by one sweeping act abolished all
feudal forms the and all of special September rights the and privi¬
leges; On 81st conven¬
tion completed Ms work On of providing 6th October for a
limited monarchy. toe of
the people steamed the palace, killed many
of the king’s guards and virtually compelled
him to accept the new order, Including uni-
venal suffrage and equality before the law.
Thus ended the first stage of toe revolution,
and the notable dates of which tho centennial
occurs this year were; May 5, June 17 and
20, July l? and^Au^itoU July to popular 81 and French Oct.
& Of these, 14 the
holiday or “Independence revolution Day." As to well
known, the went on to much
greater changes, but there were the main
events of 1789. -
Not long after the general pacification of
f8l5 the nations of Europe began to extend
the scope of those great fair* which have been
held for centuries at noted {dace*. Among
the* teat of Novgorod obtained a wonderful
celebrity, and “Donnybrook fair” in Ireland,
thong really this occasion reputation of is rather commercial comical, and was
an great
todustrial.importance. Previous to the Na¬
poleonic wars the fairs at which many na¬
tions ware represented were eblefiydn the
eastern border of Europe or to Asia, a* was
natural to the days of great caravans; and
tbs Englto were the first to make a briUton*
circle, all
and ernt.
ur» from t
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phia to 1878, and now the French promise to
outdo all that have gone before to their
to the Champ de Mars, is flanked on all side*
by tho pavilions and model villages of all
S^^^^natlv^wortoTO, Md’tTbe
occupied by natives and native workman-
ship. A beautiful building to the Tunis pa-
rilkm, with the lofty minaret of SidiW
Arons rising from it, the whole designed by
Henri Saladin, a Franco-Arab of Tunis. It
unites all the most beautiful potato to Orient-
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