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' ;tv^s4 VOUMKIS. i GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, U.~$. A. --*- ' (Jriffln ill the best and moat promising oily in W>« *>«*». !«* "*»*« ^ *be h half decade, it* many new enterprise* in ation, building and contemplated, prove »“ Bi tory and witli this year started the ofaseoaud of more the*, .twice that a fertiliser factory, an immense ice and st ages oi construction, with an aggregate au¬ thorised, capital Of over half a mUtoiiiiJqllni*. It is putting up the finest system of electric nrta be ^rocaretl, ^n<l ban up- nesses/ Virginia and Georgia. Itfateiobtuiu- . ed direct independent connection with Chat¬ tanooga and the West, and will break ground with a fourth independent system. With its five white and fonrcolored church¬ es, it ha# recently completed a f10,000 new Presbyterian church. It has increased#* ptm- around ulatioa its by borders nearly one fruit fl**. Mtiras from attract^ growers nearly every State 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 thehome of dotiMMyeiraBrif thagMpe ahdite itocinAkiug»ai«it.Y has ua*nrdP It *fl8. h^raMBrily in- a a mW » IJrhi^Jjj&art shows vmqgfbt */hnFt decade and simply the progress of an already admirable city, with the natural advantages of having the finest elimate, summer and winter, in the world. Griffin is the county seat of Bptiding conn- above sea level. By the census of 1800, it will have at alow estimate between 8 000 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¬ sirabie settlers, who will not be any less wel- some if.they bring money to help bnild up the We have several small ones, bnt their aceom- modations are entirely too limited for our business, pleasure and health seeking guest#. If you «ee anybody that wants a good loea- paper totbeEmpireState of Georgia. Please enclose stamps in sending for sample copies, and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.) This brief sketehie written Aprill2th, 1889, and will have to be changed to a few months to embrace new enterprise# commenced and completed, PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. HENRY C. PEEPLES* jM 4 ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMPtON, OEOnulA. Practice* in til the State and Federal TH0S. R. MILLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Will practice to the State and Federal Courts. Office over George t Hartnett’s corner. nov2tr iisJi^T.y, WNIEL. Urtr Geoi# iR«frtfiBtt’#f Griffin, Ga; Courts. ■Will practice to the State and Federal july!9dtf HOTEL CURTIS GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Under Ne|* Management. V 6. DANIEL, PrepV. - Piters meet all trains. ounVcr^d Greeks in “'milreofnenotof A.tr.m. 7 room house, 8 double tenant house, good mill and ginbouee. pres*, Ac. 300 Jteee. 850 acre#, part inside cHy limits. )?:: : ■«*» tad lo *" 400 ■«*«■ 40 ttim9G&t3taS2& Twenty-Fir® Acres of a Chicago I; Suburb in RuIuk. U 4 SEVENTY FAMILIES MADE HOMELESS IN CONSEQUENCE. The Eire I. Itekindled by an Incendiary, Who Itre^fra-Yjte About *,50,000. lJe-tv,M*tivo Forest Fires Ua*tog In Half oi *»*.- Counties of the Upper Peninsula or Vielil~nn. (’Hit vcc. May lO - Seventy families were reuder.si h i:ueiess by a Are which swept swept. the stores and many nsridmem. It is estimated that the ruins cover twenty-five acres of ground. - 1 -- . -The Larin -ia rict is that portion of the village lying out. oi Itorty-tigtath Btreet, ye- eontly •tly nuuexed iiuuexed to to Chicago, Chicago, The The Presby¬ Prosby- terian «.u church, .-U.V.I, s which ft , iii6h first first burned, burned, stood stood on on ti» SOKta; to gads,, avenue and Forty -eev- enth enth street. street. It It was was a a frame frame building, building, and and mad# u trend nl <u* bla#t, and the sparks wure tbr i s a i tong distance by the strong soutliivc... u i-nl Tuo first building ignited Sfcy waa the framfl resMflniw no. L. Arnold. A strong wind and the lack of water and fire extinguishing apparatus are mainly responsible for the catastrophe. The families 'nurned out were mostly to poor circumstances. Many will be forced to camp out all night on the prairie guarding the property which they saved, I,Aran—At the fire in Moreland Wednes¬ day evening, besides the Presbyterian church, Fisher’s hall and several store build- nigs, there were forty-seven houses burned, and the loss cannot be much less than $150,- 000. One-half of this amount will be re¬ covered through insurance companies. All but a very few of the poorer classes will lose everything. Not one in ten had their house- heddgood* and other personal effects in- Most of the homeless mb w*§ eared for ior to m Austin, Austin, and ana such suen bouses to Moreland as were not burned, but a number of ■ those having no friends or acquaintances spent ■dem-.-faj. the night on the prairie. Some, in fact, a a diabolical effort during the morning to burn down the balance of the little stricken town of Moreland. About 8:45 o’clock a m. the cottage at 4720 Ohio street, which barely escaped de¬ struction by yesterday’s fire, was found to be ablaze. Filled with a horrible fear of a repetition of Wednesday's catastrophe fully'800 men and boys rushed to the build¬ ing and nearly tore it to pieces in their-ef¬ forts to stitiue the games. The city was asked for help and engines were tent, but before they arrived the fire was out. The house,was vacated to the midst of the conflagration Wednesday, and there had •been no flreln the butlding sittee, and, that it was set afire by some fiend who desired further destruction of the place, the citt- #e»s are certain. Should the incedi ary be dis¬ covered ho will be hanged without ceremony. The damage to the cottage was about *1,000. . , ; - > u -IN M ICHIGA N. Forest Fires Raging In Half the Counties of the Upper Peninsula. Ishpemixg, Mich., May 10.—Forest fires have destroyed the villages of Bruce’s Cross¬ ing and O’Brien, to Onfamogan county, burned half of the village of Spaulding, about twenty buildings, and twelve houses in Stambaugh, Menominee county. Fires are burning to half of tb# counties of the northern penisula. The damage to standing pine in Otonogan county will be enormous unless more rain comes. Dni|otr> Mich., May IflA-Aspe^d'to'lh# News from Marquette, Mich., says: Terri- bie foi-est fires prevail about here. The vil- lagoqf Norway burned is surrounded, the Vulcan fwq bqild- ingshavebeeu at mine. There are mUes of flames to the homestead district. Bnrce Crossing and Matchwood are wiped out. The refugees sought safety to ditches and cellars. Many are missing. Telegraph Communication S! f ut Off Nkgauneb, Mich., May 10.—The destruc¬ tive forest, fires of Tuesday were partially extinguished by the rain of Tneeday night and Wednesday. All telegraph communica¬ tion was cut off for twenty-four hours by the burning of poles, wWe Twenty houses to the town of Vulcan burned, and minor fires .ore reported at Doggett, Stanbougb 1 SSgK^JStSJSS to Madison, Tuesday, on his premises was overcome and died of suffocation before assistance r eached him. Terrific Bolter Explosion, Racine, Wto, May 10.— A forty-hors# The engine room and part of the main build¬ ing were Mown to atoms, and several hun¬ dred windows in the Racine basket factory ad jolting wOTeatefcteri*)-, George Wheeler, that are regarded as likely to be fatal. The damage to the building* will amount to about *10,000._ Z'zsz'aH? iSzzzr.'S which «g«l 2, ate some arsenic and sugar they found in s field Wednesday and are to a CIEVXLAND, O.. May 10.—George J?. Good- ORN 1 NO. MAY 12 . 18 »P. FmUMHMiA, May 1<* -The Farra»nt Association of Naval Veterans met Wednes¬ day and adopted resolutions condemning Gen. Butler for his attach upon Admiral Porter and strongly upholding the integ¬ rity of the admiral This association is KK t*T 1 £ mainly on the"recommendation and at the: 8400,000 for tbs National Gourds. Washington, MaylO.—The apportion¬ ment of the $400,000 appropriated by tire last congress for distribution among the National guards of -$&» several states, has been made by the war department. Under it the states and territories wifi receive the following amounts: . . < 1 Alabama, $9,492; Arkansas, $D,&M; Cali¬ fornia. $7,504; Colorado, *9,847; Connecti¬ cut, $5,605; Delaware, *2,847; Florida, $3,797; Georgia, *11,301; Illinois, *20,883; Indhma, *14,239; Iowa, *12,349; Kansas, AWa$»™oton, May 10.-It ispratty w*n of the army. In this event, Bswret Brig. Gen. Robert Williams, who married Stephen A. Douglas’ widow, will be ordered from Chicago to take Keltou’s place to the war department as assistant adjutant general, Williams and Kelton were Classmates. They entered West Point the some day, July 1, 1847. Kelton’s promotion will end n very hard fight. . presidential poetmaatew to give personal and strict attention to th* business of their offices. He says nearly all defalcations in these offices are the result osf ignorance on ■ the part of pastmssfrrs about tee detaUs of ESHTSEs der win, of come, hot be abteto eottsmss No Fsilnrs i* tifarrla**, DTOVOi, MtoU., MteB»aw&A May 10,-A. ^rmnrly ti to>w big : broom factory here, disposed a ] ■ ' Wt Allend aitlon. The efforts of the Utitrf litotes to nmte the event an occasion for displaying tfae teepw* of it. cheapness, anti not exported at all which may be reassuring on the con- One of the rocks upon which the Monarch¬ ist* hope the republic of France will split, is the new military bill whereby theological student* and young priests will bs to future liable to military duty. Many Royalists will vote forth, measure in the belief that its attempted enforcement will further in¬ tensify the ill feeling held toward th# pres¬ ent form of government to tee departments where The the religious element prevails. supporters of the blU, however, trust to ImciwkklRo th&t thouswids of IiRb sous mate* every Frenchman to look with envious hatred upon ■ (teas exempt from toils and dangers to which he himself is subjected. Evictions tu be Resumed. Dublin, May 10.—A special despatch from Falcarrogh saya that evictions will begin at Glastircboo on Monday. Much indignation is created by the announcement of the land¬ lord of estate from which the evictions will be made, that he will burn #11 toe houses from whioh the tenants shall be ejected to prevent their regaining possession. / o i ; Bessy Doohao, aged 80 years, who was evicted from the of Oaptert estate, has died from the shock her removal, The persons arrested fen participating to the Gweedore riot to which Police Inspector Martin was killed hare been charged with complicity to his murder by the quern's county special jury. London, MaylO.—The French govern¬ ment has gained the lasting hatred of the Radicals abroad as well as at home fay its treatment of Henri Rochefort The de¬ layed ex p la n ati on s of the matter hare sat¬ isfied no one, and tbs government s tands to ttte tnmiTtaw attitude w having pwwatod a S£ father 7 from myfw % i*«*i resnects to the of hfe request for Algeria, papers where allowing his hoy him lay tq dead, goto Bona, tacitly to was MffinUwedged, bqt the permit has foiled tq reach oSunbito England and ftoohefort taken mains to on account oi the affai r through¬ out Europe. . * A Bride Ballad to a Kettle. Paris, May 10.—The correspondence de FKtf states that it has reliable information that w^tog^rty a band of Kurds recent!? a fraftfr M a to tte Montii district, rol> btog the guests and tadeoentiy themssires outraging the bride. After gorging kpsd with the wedding weanmg feast ieaw they mey Kinea tea sew bride onae and *'kSI*-d boiled her ^ t.^$ body — to the tetto which -—A r.-e tee a .*- - . - ». . e tin* metilwi b een oaokod, - 'AUtpnnt, B. *. W., May 10,-Tbe moDdar of tee British cruiser Rap* hoisted th« British flag qver the Suwa = = WAHTS DAMAGES. war Jay tu the harbor, but its oomtnander made no attempt to protect American dti- tens, although his interference was often •shed;- » * The revolution was very brief, and ini* few waste the regular Columbian suteori- tiee w«eln posnr again, Mr. Isaacs then presentedsclatoi for til the property the insurgents destroyed. HU claim was d»- nwlyfou^ywa '"** ° OMlderaUon for even the mildest sort of request for theset- tiement of the thin it would be settled to short order. So far the only evidence of interest the state department has shown In tbenmttsr b to vague totter* and aoknowl- 8, I*. Isaacs, the claimant’# father, said « 5 SSSH??£=S heard of any complaints about the Chirri- qui prison at the isthmus, nor of any other sfanilar place. If there were any other com¬ plaints and they were well founded it is iikeiy l should Imre heard of them. If the Colombian government ootid only heto- duoed to let tome of itt citizens support it and not charge all its expenses upon foreign- are, Americana who live or do business there would have no fault to find. There are, aa yon know, a great many Americans attbehtiunito If tb«y bad oanae for com- plaint they would lie itkoiy to make them- ■fikni Hff|H 1f Consul Corrlrleo says there is nothing in the case. Pasteur Did Not gave Him. Cincinnati, May 10,—Adam Prises, the Fifth street grocer, who was bitten by « need dog to the winter, end who went to- Pari* to nonsuit Pasteur, is deed. Wednes¬ day a cablegram to his wife announced tits t pniee, yet both were powerless tq either as- toghouse. The ease is one involving the use of what is known as the. multiple wire ^ sys¬ tem of etec. ricti d w-i ib utton. ' ' < HJ« Residence Ilereafrer'te’Uaaalla. MnniNA. N. ¥.. May 10.-Curtice R Bent- mousy at various points to northern Ohio, where be bought stock tor a man named Rogers, of Dayton. Rogers myt that Bent- lay took several cars of stock to New Tort, sold the cattle and never rendered an ac¬ count Debts to the amount of *2,800 have S^bTSST 1 B “ tl * T A frasstsMss «* O— e ra l Boyswe, Chattanooga, Tenn., MaylO .—Forrest tetetetedfiteL B. V. l^ton, of^Ctatiu! nati, with a relic from tee battle field ot Chictemaago, in which there wore fowteen ‘grape-shot and pieces of Confederate tert, spprectititonto il '4:^-.; yfu ji A ^ webooi At Iwyrt vw ^V9 b1qi r *'“’ s r ss ss r ...... —■«* 4 catastrophe was trvsr. dead in the cattis near by, two cat ' h- d T!»* THtA ^ i ^'//v £•-r-. r , --" r