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kC lte record tor the. past
many new enterprises in oper¬
and contemplate improve this
i statement and notabyper-
ion.
ime it has built and put into
operation a 1100,000 cotton
h this year started the wheels
norethan twice that capital,
large iron and bras* foundry,
iry, an immense ice and bot-
sash ani blind factory, a
opened np the finest granite
United States, and now has
je* of construction, with an aggregate au-
rised capital ot over halt a million doHara.
g putting up the finest system of electric
itiog that ean be procured, and has ap-
d for tw o charters for street railways. It
secured another railroad ninety miles long,
[ while located on the greatest system in
South, the Central, has secured counec-
i With its important rival, the East Ten-
m, Virginia and Georgia. Ithasobtain-
lirect independent connection with Chat-
oogft and the West, and wiU break ground
lew days fora fourth road, connecting
i a fourth independentajstem.
ith its five White and four colored church-
l has recently completed a f10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It has increased its pop¬
ulation by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around its borders fruit growers from nearly
every State in the Union, until it is 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 the grape and its winemakingcapaeity has
. doubled M uumvw every J year. **" 1 It has successfully ------ j »n-
aUgurated a system of public schools, with a
p seven years curriculum, second to none.
This Is part of the record of.ahalf decade
I and simply shows the program of ah already
-
I admirable city, with the natural advantages
* of having the finest climate, summer and
; .
winter, in the worid.
!' Griffin is the county seat of Spalding coun-
f ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
; above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at alow estimate between6 000 Mid
7,00<J people, and they are all of the right
sort—wide-awake, np to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any tees wel¬
come if.they bring money to help bu£d np the
• There is about only thing we
w- wn. one
used badly Just now, and that Isa big hotel.
Wo have several small ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limit*! for our
business, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If yob see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion lor » hotel in tbs South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the Gwpfin Nkws
b published—daily and weekly-the beet news¬
paper in the Empire StateAif Georgia. Please
sndose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.)
This briri sketch is written April 12th, 1889,
and _ A will tot.n Imve In to be lvn changed aVinniwu! in in a n. few foil’ nifltlt.hfi months
» embrace new enterprises commenced and
completed.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
HENRY C. PEEPLES, •
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
RAMPTON, GEORGIA.
Practice* in aU the State and Fedei
►lirtK. , octftdiwlj
JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SUFFIX, GKOBGU.
Office, 81 Hill Street, UpStairs, over J
White’s Clothing Store. mar23d*w1
rHOS. R. MILLS,
attorney at law
WUl practice in the State and Fed.
Courts. Office over George * Hartnt
corner. * novS
.
JOSH » BTSWART. BOBT. T. DANIEL.
STEWART & DANIEL
attorneys at law,
Over George * Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga.
Will practice in the State and Federal
onrte. inlylVdtf
CLEVELAND A GARLAND,
DENTISTf,
GRIFFIN, : : : : GEORGIA.
D. L. PARMER, *7
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WOODBURY, GSOBGIA.
Pprompt attention given to all
ill oractice in all tha Courts, and where
"1Sti—.
1» * : : lot* : too : numerous :
House* and vacant
“EXm prowju
Engineering Experts Make a Com.
* plete Examination
.
And Declare It to Be a Very
Bad Piece of Work.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Of the Fishing Club Guilty of Gross,
If Not Criminal Negligence, .
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL ASSOCIA¬
TION OF THE RED CROSS
CLARA H. BARTON. *
ferior construction, and of a kind wholly
unwarranted by good engineering prao.
tines of thirty years ago.
*Both the original and reconstructed heart
dams were of earth only, with no
wall, but only rip-rapped on the slopes. ■
The original dam, however, was made in
The new one greatly added to its stabil¬
ity, but it was, to all appearance, sim¬
ply dumped rammed, in like shows an ordinary no.evidenee railroad of
fill, or effect if it Much of the old
good from
part is standing intact, while adjacent
parts of the new work are gwholly ear¬
ned off.
There was either no central in the wall of paddle old
or masonry new or
dam. It has been ‘the invariable prac¬
tice of engineers for thirty or forty other years in
to use one or the
building high dams of earth.
It gle is doubtful if there is a sin¬
dam or reservoir in any other part
of the United States this of central over wall. fifty The feet
high reconstructed which lacks dam also bears the mark*
of great ignorance or carelessness in
having been made nearly two feet lower
in the middle than at the ends.
It should rather have crowned in the
middle, which would, have oonsentrated
the Overflow, if it should occur, at the
ends instead of in the center. Had the
break begun at the ends the cut of the
water would harm have might been so have gradual resulted. that
little or no
Had the dam been at once out at the
ends when the the water sndden began break running of the
over the center
dam would have been at least greatly
diminished, little harm or would possibly have prolonged, resulted. so
that
The crest of the old dam had not been
raised in the reconstruction in 1881.
The old overflow channel but owing through the -the
rook still remains, to sag
carried away. A large amount of the old
rip-rapping and wall , still remains in¬
tact, and is of that excellent there quality. It great does
net appear was any
amount of leakage through the. dam be¬
fore it broke. Destruotion came from
water flowing over the top,
Mr. Wellington said that no engineer
of known and good have standing been engaged for such
work could possibly mentioned
on it violated since in the the most particulars elemenfery and
it understood requirements of
universally good practice. He did not Iflflieve that
any other constructed dam of in equal this height country had wholly ever
been kind of special
of earth, without some
t*xv™ta rr
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gross, if not
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^ 1ATlnN
The *Sm or Any National Orgaalaatioo to
diva Material Sanitary Aid.
Upon a pretty little-plateau 200 feet
above tile waters of Stony creek, and di-
reotly in front of a slender foot bridge
which leads into Kerrsville, stands a
group of tents which represents the first
effort of any Rational organization to
give material sanitary aid to the un¬
happy survivors of Johnstown. the American Na¬
It is the camp of
tional Association of the Bed Cross, and
is under the direction of that noble
woman, Mis*. Clara Barton, of Wash¬
ington, the president 'of The the organiza¬ is not
tion in this oountry. camp
more than a quarter of a mile from the
soene of operations in this place. Should
pestilence attend upon the horrors of
the flood this assembly of trained nurses
and veteran physicians will be known
all ofter the land. That an epidemic of
some sort will come there seems to be
no question. succession The only of thing oool thatoan days,
avert it is a a
possibility which is very remote.
Miss Barton dark oomplexioned, is a very plain and looking with
woman, a
face full of tenderness mingled with de¬
termination. She left wore a simple the grays red
gown. On the arm was
cross that is her the badge of the organiza¬ white
tion. Over gray gown was a
apron. Her bonnet was a little one,
partly a nurse’s cap and partly the hood
of a Sister of Chanty. She said:
“It seemed as if we were a long time
getting here. We started* on Sunday
morning and only got I think, here on by Tuesday the
evening, cial favor and df then, tire Baltimore and Ohio spe¬
railroad. I have hero mv staff, consist¬
ing of N. J. B. Hubbell, field agent;
Gustave Angenstein, messenger; Miss
U. S. White, stenographer and .type¬
writer, and a corps of fifteen physicians
under the direction of Dr. O’Neal, of
Philadelphia. six trained With We the have phpsicians complete are
nurses. a
quartermaster’s and kitchen depart¬
ment and have ail the stores necessary
for a long campaign in the field.
four small tents wliieh will hold twenty
persons each and four still smaller which
will hold ten Washington, each. We and expect then more
tents from hospitals we in
shall establish branoh
Johnstown primer and in Kerrville. On
the farm of Cot. Hamilton, at Kerrville,
so I am toM, have an epidemic organized of diptheria system of is
feared. We a rick
house to house canvassing for the
and injured. We have already ten Kerr¬ peo¬
ple sick on account of the ilooa at
ville, and fifteen sick people in Johns¬
town near one tent. None of these are
seriously ill; most of them they are have suffering suf¬
from shock from what
fered. until there £ is ab¬
“I shall remain here
solutely no need of my epidemio, remaining 3
longer, either through the
aSspssssss^saartSfflSie the stricken district Ohio stood ready to
do her share.
Wouldn’t Go Without Their Husband*.
It is not believed of that more population than fifty of
persons out the entire
who were at work.
An Extra Session.
It is announced that Governor Beaver
will probably soon call an extra session
Tile Pennsylvania's Doss.
A high official of the that Pennsylvi thee
railroad company states
dead. This list was
LO—Sit Julian
®SS«
s Julian oeliv-
Another Dam . Danger.
S Cuba, this place N. Y., is leakini June ' daws*
ting drawn off tbiron i the outlet to
prpvent a break in t he da m.
Tile Subscription IJ»t.
Below is given a partial lb
■ New York, #294,000.
&&ht’S 3 ,000.
* &ofiiS-T Laporte, 35 3 . 75 . Ind.,
School children of
§800. §10,000.
Standard Oil company, 1
.Jay Logan Gould, county, $1,006. O., §1,000.
THROUGH A BURNING TRESTLE.
Engine, Melt and Baggage Cars go Down,
But the Fassengtn Saved.
Birmingham, Ala., June la—A fright¬
ful disaster and great loss of life was
averted Friday morning by' the pres¬
ence Of mind ot a brave engineer. The
Bonth bound fast express train qp the
A, G. S. road ran into a burning trestle
sixty-five miles (south of this city, at 2
o’clock. The engine, mail and baggage
oars went down with the burning trestle,
people, were saved.
The trestle was of wood, and about
highest 170 feet in point length The and trestle forty feet at only the
was
fifty feet south of asliarp oorve. As the
tram of speed, rounded the engineer this curve ot the a high trestle rate in
saw
the flames. air-brakes He reversed and his after engine, blowing applied
a
danger fireman, signal mail, leaped baggage for his and life. The
agents all leaped la and escaped express
time
with a few braises. As soon as the
engine. reached the thickest of the
flames the trestle gave way.
The engine and mail and baggage cars
txecutlon Postponed.
Y., June electricity 10.—William has
Kemmler’s ution by
been post® I without date by the
notice service of on I iot Lawyer Attorney Cochrane, Quinby of pf a
New York, ap wiU r — . --------- apply apply few writ of
soon a
habeas corpus on which i j to „ test — the —
power ---of of the the state sta to hold Kemmler sub-
jeet to suffering ; the electric death pen-
ally. District 1
that eral thousand the appeal dollars \-----------—. and will delay the
execution for several months. Kemmler
has no funds to paj
. —.............
this amount
living at
sals'
----*-
Made In
!
years, to say nothing of an ex
from various sources of or
million dollars in efforts to ]
the raoe was extinct, lias l
reek
Lieut Schwatka, the noted
and who has had charge of
much sp
spent in
dais." ’
Afraid of Whits Men.
Upon the apprpaoh of white men t!
fly sticks to their placed caves against or cliffs the face by note of
cliffs if too steep,.although they can
gfiTfiSaSTSS the cliff dwellings in Arizona and N«
the (flicks having rotted away
the buildings unapproachable t*
ooverere.
Thfey Worship the Sun.
The cliff dwellers now di
by Lieut Schwatka are sun wo:
throwing their new born childr
full rays of the sun on the daj
birth, and showing by many oti
their devotion to the great li
They with skin are unusually of blackish tall and red, weli
ve
nearer the color of the negro
copper colored Indian of> th
“
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Doable Murder and Anon.
rvmLK, Tenn., June 10.—E. R.
Ids and Thomas J. Lloyd, believ-
mSiister s Rev. Jacob Harness, a Baptist
3X of ot Scott Scott cftmty, county, had had a a lot Iot of of
money concealed concealed about about his his residence, residence,
went to the “ house ' last last Wednesday Wednesday night, night,
while Mr. Harness ss was was away, away, and and shot shot
his wife and beat his half-witted son to
death with a garden hoe. 'They then
ransacked the house and set fire to it
Report® from Soott county say the men
have been lynched.
A Strange Adventure.
Parkersburg, named W. Baldwin, Va,, Jane 1ft—A
young man while in a
state of somnambulance the other night,
walked laid to down a neighbor's the foot house of the and, bed enter¬
ing, cupied by on lady. She screamed oc¬
the a young lady's parents appeared,
and young
but with the young difficulty man aroused. slept on, Later and was he
arrested great charge of attempted
was on a
outrage. But when the facte were made
%fctby™re I
oooar at San I
f&raal June.
A
John Depositor
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rilte ted
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from Swsd
is a tall, br
man, who
avestrt