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rather retire edifirbet independent connection with Chat- *■ tauooga, and the West, and will break ground in a few days lor a fourth road, connecting witSra tOTfrthlndependent system. With its five white and four colored church¬ es, it ha« recently completed a #10,000 new Presbyterian church. It has increased itepop- ulatiom by nearly one fifth. It has attracted around its borders fruit grower* from nearly every State in the Union, until it is now siir- ronnded on nearly every aide by orchard* and vineyards. It ha* put up the largest frnit evaporators In the State. It is thehome of the grape and its wine making capacity has doubM%ver| augurated year, of It public has successfully schools, with in¬ a system a seven ^TW^part years curriculum, p# second to none. Hb$W«lfcho record of a half decade and progress of an already admirable city, with the natural advantages of having the finest climate, summer and winter, in the world. Griffin is the comity seat of Spalding coun¬ ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a healthy,fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet abov*W»v*]; 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- eome if they bring money to help build up the town. There is about only one thing we need badly just now, and that is a big hotel. W# have several sihoil ones, bat their accom¬ modations are entirely too limited for our business, pleasure and health seeking guests. If you see anybody that wants a good loca¬ tion for a hotel in the South, just mention Gu#n in.the place where the Griffin News pa^ttb^SreSthteOlQeorafa. nrOfiHw—f,hpImut npu-fi. enclose stamps in sending for sample copies, and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.; This brief sketchiswritten Aprillfith, 1889, and will have to be changed in a few months to embrace new enterprises commenced and completed, - PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. HENKY C. PEEPLES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMPTON, GEORGIA. Practices in all the State and Federal Courts. oct9d*wly JOHN J. HUNT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. Office, 81 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H. bite’s Clothing Store. mar22d&wly THOS. R. MILLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW Will practice in the State and Fed' Courts. Office over George A Hsrtnt corner. JOHN D STEWART. ROBT. T. DANIEL. STEWART & DANIEL. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Over George k Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. julylOdtf D. L PARMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW ' woonsrav, Georgia. Win Fprompt practice attention in all the given Courts, to a ever business calls. W Collections a specialty. HOTEL CURTIS GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Under New Management 6. DANIEL, Prop’r. i ii ii n.tet si! trains. •iOSKY HOUSE, 7 Rooms, Stove Room and Kitchen, rich garden spot and staqle. ne btook from from centre Hill street. Well located for SHELTON HOUSE, i Cto^lP^Ur New t room street, house 5 and It acres a nd . o ne land a on ( S. A. CUNNINGHAM, jV ■ I* M 1,- '"it. AMERICA'S VAUR ed veteran* were nursed, A happy thought tltat of Senator Morrill, now the Nestor of the Capitol, who, mw in 1864, -mtart moved m to set apart : this ' oM old hall hall for for a gallery of statuary. Bach state was invited to send two stat¬ ues, and what n gallery of greatness it will he when all of the forty-two states now existing or in immediate prospect shall have complied, to say nothing of the states of the* future. The smallest state was the first to accept the invita¬ tion, quickty followed by the largesfcgAa yet only ten states have sent here the marble or bronze figures of their well loved sons, being embarrassed, probably, by richness of material to select from; but the government has added several statues, so that as we enter from the ro¬ tunda of the Capitol’s majestic dome we are confronted by two dozen fall length figures of men who were great in their life, and who will never die in the hearts of their countrymen. Instinct¬ ively heads are uncovered as we enter. The present is forgotten and only the past seems real in this sacred presence. Who Is this at our left, standing erect and at the iS Sj BBffiflEr LEV® K li IsTj' & h ^KHEfi 4 W 4*1 WmjM Wjk n\ * rntk m 1H jH LJH'' I SAMUEL adams. ation expressed hi face and posture, we think we hear him saying to his majes¬ ty’s officer, who has consented to with- lead a regiment to bis death at BaiTs Bluff. He is here represent- X^ncUitVrief but glorious mili- tary career issug- geeted only by the military hat resting at his feet upon a book, in- dicative of his purpose to say farewell to the senate, throw off mount his horse. One almost wisli- j can toga had been *x>s7xbd d. bakkk dispensed with by fhe artist. Many other statues in this loom clearly show that he should first attract our attention, tar it was he—Samuel uel ths Publican" —who first pro- tested against England’s op- presetve stamp t be 8*0*8 Adams who as early as 1769 de¬ dared: “Inde- pendent and independent we are we will be.” As ho stan<ls before us in semi-heroic marble, with folded arms, curled hair, firm- ness, self confi- rtT\7/^k V /4^ Wif!jf Fifli Hr ill iff' / If ffl vjff r /(jB il\|l / I Ji MX BtUttK' r t the Declaration of Independence. Tram- Council and House of Representatives **» in ywwol General Court WU1 * W«*VUCU Convened”--* w re- minder of his election twenty-two successive times to the speakership of # P&SSa JW fi fit If WS& ESHlinn hand held in front with fist doubled bel¬ ligerently, head up, ©yes shooting defi¬ ance, the whole pose one vigor and victory, and demanding the sur¬ render of Tieonderoga in the name of Jehovah and the Continental congress, Ethan Allen is the hero of the young, known above most of his greater con¬ temporaries, and the artist has properly preserved all the spirit of the hero and his ms deeds, ueeus, though uiuugu of ui the WO man man himself uuuwu no uu portrait is known to posterity. A truly ivMvr Hal figure this, with its epaulets, cockade wlfh rosette, broad sash with heavy gold tassels, rising three feet taller than its life size neighbor, Trumbull,and with a great marble boot fourteen inches long and six broad. His Is the only covered head in the august assemblage. In his neighbor, Lewis Casa, the Latest comer in the gallery, we find our first swallow taiL His is a portly figure, obsti¬ with a strong, fine face, a drawn, nate mouth. This sculptor shows us that neither toga nor uniform is neces¬ sary in the making of an heroic figure. At the feet is a strong box full of papers and books. Could thasirtist have meant tins os a suggestion of bonds and money, denoting Cass as the only rich man In tbs Pantheon, made a millionaire by his lucky purchase for #9,000 of 500 acres of land on the rite of Detroit? Garfield is next, and a fine, statesman¬ like figure it is, with the modem Prince all buttoned down before, and eschewing cloak, 8 word, scroll and all oth- sr devices of dig- that tells the story of his unhappy boy is this with clothes of the co- smooth, young liair’ pompadour and tied behind, grasping his cloak with right hand wWt tbo safssrpaapsttt whom Pennsylvania has delighted to then resigned. » a In this bold old face Q QQQ |>^Q IXl iltrTl who refused to take oath in sup- P° rt of the Btamp act in 1765, and whose counsel waa 80 highly able is the next figure, Ethan AI- Ian in full milt- tary uniform, the v&eJa jKwfc HI 1 1./0H L I UW H:JL Jr??* ^** , J I < . ’ ure, with gold cane an in left hand, powdered ' and raffled waistbands is the Georgs Clinton York’s first governor, ( Hi abraham LINCOLN, statue of Lincoln by Vlnnle Ream is not happy; its toga held in the left hand like a woman’s skirt, the melancholy, almost peevish, better. face are His not Lincoln’s. Hamilton fares marble face shines with intelligence; his pose is one of dignity; no toga the encum¬ deli- bers him. One con almost see rosy cheek* For these men, the one next to Washington, the creator of the re¬ public, and the other its preserv¬ er, drop a tear. One fell in a duel which he entered against his prin¬ ciples, but to “protect his fut¬ ure usefulness as . a publio man;” i the other by the hand of an as- flnnftln Another figure and the circle has been completed. Last, but not least interesting, is old John the Declaration of Independence, and was so inhu¬ manly treated by the British In prison as ulti¬ mately to die of the effects; and gallant Phil Kearny,the fight¬ er, who tett eit Chantilly in the I civil war. Ica’a Two of Ameri- great men— (indeed, [good in some judgment, America’s two men — Lincoln and town of any kb They propose them that wine to love and frim wife that no o if he should i that wine until l the cellar, not thinking them wort tian burial. Happ of fa looking about almost to a state despair at the the %'tS^s^tsx old Burgundy, ditoov«red tbe I and delivered them to hi* guest* fa THE BONOS THAT HJUBK They soon had the bottheopen, wine pretty freely, were It highly fin* pi. its flavor, pronounced a elai It had now become time to teet the a gU&, 5 S£nSe. szzxzizis.'ssz oar boys to Virginia that “Dixie” always de¬ moralized the Yankees, and was sore Stonewall to ore ate a stampede, especially when Jackson led the muste-but to play some oi thoee old tunes that will please the Yankees, such as “Yankee Doodle." The young ladies wsot into the parlor and played the “Bonny Blue Flag,” and several other old Yankee airs, which closed pleased their guests very much, and finally the con cert with “Sweet Home, there is noplacelifcs home.” With “Sweet Home” the finale wa« reached, the enemy surrendered at discretion, and called a guard and placed over Happ’i cotton, with strict instructions to allow no one to approach within lass than titty yards of that puo of cotton. Whether it waa the sweet musto or tbs blackberry wine that calmed the savage breast LI. _„_ A M .A Ah* —. ' »t