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I Soo'lh*the Central, h* secured connec-
» with its important rival, the East Tea¬
ts*, Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain-
Krect independent connection with Chat*
looga and the West, and will break ground
k few day* fora fourth road, connecting
h a fourth independent system,
nth its flre white and fourcolored chureh-
it has reoentiy completed a *10,000 new
igbyterian church. It has increased its pop-
tio» by nearly one ftil*. It has attracted
•ound its borders fruit growers from nearly
er y State Id the Union, until it is now sur-
Nuaded on nearly every side by orchards
d vineyards. It has pat up the largest
lit evaporators in the State. It is the home
the grape audits wine makingcapacity has
tabled every year. It hps suecessWly in-
ipirated a system ol public schools, with a
This is part of the record of a half decade
id simply shows the progress of an already
hnirablc city, with the natural advantages
having the finest climate, summer and
nter, in the world.
griffin is the county seat of Spalding eoun-
, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
aithy, fertile and rolling country, 1159 feet,
ove sea level. By the census of 1890, it
9 have at a low estimate between 6 000 and
900 people, and they are all of the right
rt—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
Icome strangers and anxious to secure do¬
able settlers, who will not be any less wel-
ne if they bring money to help build up thp
»n. There is abont only one thing we
id badly just now, and that is a big hotel.
i have several small ones, but their aceom-
•dationa are entirely too limited for our
liaese, pleasure and health seeking guests,
'oa aee anybody that wants a good loca-
» for a hotel in the South, just mention
*r in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
Me stamps in sending for sample copies,
descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.;
bis brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
will have to be changed in a few months
mbrace new enterprises commenced ond
SESSIONAL DIBECT0RY.
HENKY C. PEEPLES,
TTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMFfeON, GEOBuIa.
seticea In all the State and Federal
its.. octBdAwly
JOHN. J. HUNT,
ITTORN E Y AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Bee, 81 Hill Street, Up Stains, over J. H.
ite’e Clothing Store. mar22dAwly
TH0S. R. MILLS,
TTORNEY AT LAW,
B is. practice in the State and Federal
Office ’ George A Hartnett’s
over
»r. nov2tf
WND STEWART. ROBT. T. DANIEL.
STEWART & DANIEL
PTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over George A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
fill practice in the State and Federal
irta. jnlylSdtJ-
0. L. PARMER,
ft.p TTORNEY AT LAW,
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f - woonsvirr, Georgia.
rompt attention given to ah business!
practice in all the Conrte, and where
business calls,
f Collections a specialty.
)TEX CURTIS
3 RIFF IN, GEORGIA.
lor New Management.
A. 6. DANIEL, Prop’r,
J 08 EY HOUSE,
Notes on tho Washington Inangu-
ration Centennial.
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wuw and representations.
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Now VorkV Proudest D»j—Over B fl< U
Million People Come from Afar—An-
other Half Mfflhm from the Near Vteln-
Gy Battle Itellc, Woahlnstou Ploture.
and Other HemorlaU—The Military Pa*
nule. Industrial Show. Ba.Kjoet and
Dance.
Tho Washington centennial is a thing
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verdict is that ail went well. The pa*
vivified and now we .shall have no more
centennials—that is, none of such mo¬
mentous importance—till 1976. Out of
the bewildering variety of three days’
display only a fo>v points can be noted
in this brief report.
Aside from tlio main centennial dis¬
play, many interesting exhibits preceded
and followed the principal day, of which
the most interesting was tho centennial
loan exhibition at the Metropolitan Opera
house, to which articles were sent from
all sections of tho United States. It
gave opportunity to tens of thousands of
visitors to see the relics, which consisted
largely of busts, medallions, portraits,
specimens of the silverware of the period,
old letters, magazines and papers and. a
great many other objects illustrating the
art of the Eighteenth century and the
daily life of the great men of the revolu¬
tionary era. Of course portraits of
Washington were the chief attraction
and some were here exhibited to the
public for the first time.
The Peales, the Trumbulls, the Stuarts
and other portraits which have made the
features of Washington familiar to
Americans were, of course, numerous,
and by an arrangement according to the
ago at which they were taken, the ob¬
server gained a very accurate view of
tho changes. Though John Trumbull
painted him in military guise and Gil¬
bert Stuart in statesman’s attire, the dif¬
ference is very slight, but in the two
Peale portraits there is quite a variation,
especially in the lines about the mouth,
confirming the statement that as the
great hero grew older his mouth as¬
sumed a rigid or compressed appearance.
Of the several busts exhibited, that made
by Ceracchi at Philadelphia in 1793 is
the one most familiar to the people, being
used as the standard on account of its
WASHINGTON RELICS.
admitted close resemblance. The medal¬
lions and miniatures of Washington were
numerous, some of them exhibiting
strange variations from the accepted
portrait, due probably to the fact that
miniatures were not of the best in those
The real centennial began in the fore¬
noon of Monday, April 29, with the
grandest naval display ever witnessed in
American waters. Some 200 large ves¬
sels, besides many yachts and tugs, took
part, the steamers and sucli others as
could bo handled with perfect safety first
passing up the Brooklyn side of East
river to tho upper end of tho city, then
turning and passing down the New York
side and around to the Hudson, while
the great bridge, both shores and all the
convenient housetops on both shores were
crowded by a million observers. All the
fronts of both cities blazed in red, white
and blue, and the vast crowd of specta¬
tors often broko into enthusiastic ap¬
plause. The vessels in regular line ex¬
tended over a distance of fourteen miles,
and the admirable arrangement for the
parade was largely tho design of Fleet
Captain D. M. Hunger. In the first
squadron many of tho vessels carried the
flags of tho different states, as the of¬
ficials and commissioners of those states
were on board; but by direction of Ad¬
miral Porter, in general command, the
yachts wero moored in the harbor, as
there was not room for them to maneuver
in East river.
All this was merely incidental to the
formal reception of President Harrison
and thoso with him, which of qourse
could not be witnessed by She general
public. Governor Hill, with the com¬
missioners of the several states, the gen¬
eral committee on the centennial, and
others, went out to meet the president’s
steamer on its way from Elizabethport,
N. J. There the president and party
took the steamer prepared for him,
whicli moved into the upper bay and
passed through the fleets moored to re¬
ceive and salute him.
The scene was sublime beyond the
power of language to describe. All tho
lovely expanse stretching south, south¬
east and southwest from the Battery was
ablaze with brilliant colon, beautifully
softened and harmonized by the snowy
sails of the yachts and other sail vessels.
As tho president’s boot passed each
squadron the salute was given by dip¬
ping colors and blowing the steam whis-
fies for half a minute. When the all presi¬ the
dent had landed the fleets formed,
cuit and then pissing around the south
end of Manhattan Island and up the
Hudson to fiftieth street, made a like
circuit on both rides of that river,
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GEORGIA. SUN DA 1
Herald Building. Trinity Church.
VIEW OP PARADE ON BROA
Meanwhile the presidenthad river descended abarge
from the vessel in East into
trumped by a crew at shipmasters the of from New
the Marine Society of Port
York, with Capt. Ambrose Snow os cox¬
swain. The The crew crew of of the the barge barge that that rowed rowed
President Washington from Elizabeth-
port to the foot of Wall street were mem¬
bers of the same society. Arrivingat the
foot of Wall street the president was re¬
ceived by the governor of the state, the
mayor of the city and the committeemen
named for the purpose, and tho entire
Dio Duiuung, ino greas puuuc wtu» uu-
mitted, and for the two president, hours passed with in rapid
march before but no
shaking of hands. It was some consola¬
tion to the disappointed to know that
there was no handshaking at Washing¬
ton’s reception in 1789, and that at least
one in fifty of those who wanted to get
near the president succeeded in doing so.
All this time the crowd in the city was
rapidly growing and the enthusiasm
mounting upward. It is supposed that
half a million people entered the city for
the three days, filling every hotel and
lodging house, and through all the morn¬
ing hours of the three days the rapidly
succeeding trains coming with in on all the
roads were jammed people from a
circuit of a hundred miles or more
around—people who preferred to go
home each evening—and all overflowing
with the wildest enthusiasm. Sight¬ the
seers who visited the main depots at
early and late hours describe tho scenes
SEEING THE PARADE FROM A TRUCK,
there as a centennial in themselves. Here
and there, but not often, might be seen a
daily visitor "with a jag on," as the lat¬
est New York slang has it; but he was
always like an eager candidate, "In the
hands of his friends.” Indeed the dread
of being .robbed, with a preliminary
‘‘slugging,’’which is always prevalent
among rural visitors to the great city In
crowding times, proved a very whole¬
some fear indeed { the meet reckless
youth from about the village and took did care to keep “in¬
his wits him not
dulge,” unless perfectly certain of hav¬
ing sober friends about him.
Of the many methods of witnessing
the parades, columns might be written.
The long rows of seats rising one above
another in all the vacant places were of
course filled early. Housetops were in
demand, and convenient windows com¬
manded abacs* fabulous prices. Every the
commanding point was covered, and
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Western Onion Building. St- Fted'* Church.
VWAY FROM POSTOFFICE.
starch of April SO may be set in round
numbers at 60,000. The cadets from
West Point and Annapolis, the regular
army and navy (all those under the
direct command of Maj. Gen. John M.
Schofield, chief marshal of tire day), the
‘ militia sent by each state, ranged in the
order In which the states ratified the
constitution or were admitted to the
Union, tho military order of the Loyal
Legion and many posts of the Grand
Amy of the Republic. Now, as this
army began its march up Broadway
the sub-treasury (the site of old Federal
hall) began, there occurred the first hitch
in the proceedings. Tho president and
all his official retainers, the orator of the
day, Hon. Chauncey Depew, and per¬
haps a hundred others, had to finish
their work there and then make the race
through the back streets to get to tho by re¬
viewing stand at Madison square the
thus the head of the column reached it.
This they did through the immense
crowds that thronged the eastern part
of the city.
And as to tho literary exercises, the
great event of the day, the oration of
Depew, the invocation of Storrs, the
benediction of Archbishop Corrigan and
the short address of the president, it is
not easy now to find any who wit¬
nessed them. The streets contiguous to
the place would hold, perhaps, one in
fifty of the sightseers then In the city,
and the people preferred to take their
chance of seeing the great procession
anyhow. Its route waa up Broadway to
Waverley place, through Wbveriey place
to Fifth avenue, and up that to Fifty-
seventh street, the grand reviewing
stand being on the east side of Fifth
avenue, on Madison square.
and Equally interesting the student to all the of history, people,
far more so to
was the great industrial and civic parade
on Wednesday under command of Maj.
Gen. Daniel Butterfield. Tills moved
down Broadway from Fifty-seventh
street It were vain to attempt to give
even the slightest outline of the many de¬
scriptive and historical floats and barges,
the groups representing Seventeenth the arrival of the
Dutch early in the century,
the aborigines of New York, the early
pioneer days, the scenes all and heroes of
the revolution and the dramatic feat¬
ures of progress from the day when Man¬
hattan Island was the hunting ground of
Tamanenda’s Indians to this age of steel
and steam and continent girdling lines of
wire and rail.
Tho rest of the nation was equally
well represented, and beside* the indices
of national progress, the corn, the coal,
the iron and the native precious ores,
there were fitting emblems of tho na¬
tion’s higher glory: Statues and living
flguresro Fraternity,Columbia, presenting Liberty, Justice and
Victory, Education,
Religion and all the virtues that make a
nation truly great. In the line of purely
emblematic or mythologic display, how¬
ever, the Germans seemed to take the
lead; their representations of Germany’s
contribution to the intellectual wealth of
.
wards distint
and Princefe
army under
and was act
cent courage and against heavy <
Guilford court house and Hobkiri
near Camden, 8. C. It was at 1
surrender as a prisoner.
K was during the battle at Cowpcns
KJS.1AfJa.3Xmz pursuit of that officer, Washington had
him. An officer on Tarleton’s right was
about to strike Washington when a ser¬
geant Interposed. Tarieton, then who made was in
the midst of the melee, a
thrust at Washington which the latter
parried, wounding bis antagonist in the
hand. Tarieton then wheeled and dis¬
charged a pistol, by which Washington
was wounded in the knee.
the British army, who was present, gal*
lantly remarked, "Say what you please,
Mrs. Ashe, Col. Tarieton knows better
than to insult a lady In my presence.”
(The foregoing Incidents are recorded In
Mrs. EUet’s “Women of the Revolution.”)
During the Revolutionary and war Col
Washington met became enamored
of Miss Jane Elliott, of Charleston, a rel¬
ative of that Gen. Stephen Elliott who
defended the debris of Fort Sumpter af¬
ter It was reduced to ruins. In their love
making she cavalry proposed regiment, to furnish him a
flag for his and hav-
room chair the crimson brocade adorn¬
ing the back of it, which had the merit
of being distinct in color as well as handy
in rise. To Washington It was a gift
without price, and- thereafter until the
close of tho war, it waved In the fore¬
front of every battle in which his com*
husband’s tfra^Wakhtagtonpresented battle flag her
to the Washington
light infantry,' of Charleston, and the
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