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.. • » Q • J' • » n ! fc | while located on the greatest 8 y 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, ; i 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. ■ -....... i — wuw and representations. " 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 ® t t o vuo W 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, - .. .. jfc - -.*4 , , \ l 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 Jg ff B k 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 ■is j* ft pri