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K- w m ft I P0$j —-.................... mrn ssssLr'^as.tr ton, bonding and eontenudutol, prove title be a business statement, and not a hyper- .lieftldescriptioB,''^’®^'-'''' Oaring that time It Jins built and put Into SSSSZB& 8 BZSZ a second, of mow than twice that capital, has put up a large iron and brass foundry, ertiliser factory, an immense ice and bot- ug works, a sash and Wind factory, a KSrJSW;K$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. ’ 4 " 1 ' -f J .«'■ «,:y ■ ... S*- T ' *' • " *, - HOW THe CITY OF WASHINGTON ' <-'V WAS FOUNDED. 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- GKOKlii A. WKI.M 7~nzr • ......T- J ^ ML ‘T!™ T’f’r a : UWe I 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 2 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 &SS23 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- XXWX gSTORS _H||i EfXS ..... streets „ and rapid ... and cheap _|»day of good of means X ‘xrtxxxs 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 ,A» * M. .»«. 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 ' *J Sizz- ase&u&'ssus 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- SH/HSSa < , : , | ! , ,