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i irascation; peregrination
M.0. Bowdoin returned from At¬
lanta yesterday.
Tom Battatt spent yesterday and
]a»t night In Atlanta.
Mrs. B. B. Blakely is visiting Mrs.
C.P.Beeks in Atlanta.
Mrs. H. Drake is visiting Mrs. W.
E. Loyd, at Concord.
Capt. H. H. Colquitt, of Atlanta,
spent yesterday in Griffin.
W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., is spending
several days in Atlanta.
Rev. C. V. Waugh has returned
.from a short trip to Florida.
Miss Sallie Gorman, of Talbotton,
is visiting Mrs. H. C. Brown in this
dty.
A. S. Murray, Charlie Walcott and
Allen Bates took in “Pompeii” last
night.
Jim Bennett went to Barnesville
Sunday. Some of the hoys can tell
you his mission there.
Mr. and Mrs.* A. M. Elledge, who
have been visiting relatives ia this
city, have returned to their home in
Columbus.
The immense rock crusher to be used
at the Central R. R. quarries arrived
yesterday and will be,,set up ready
for work this week.
W. A. Wright, of the Brush Elec¬
tric Co., is expected here to-day,
when the contract for lighting the
city with electricity will beclosed.
Mrs. A. J. Hinton and Miss Lorena
Hinton, of Greenville, who have been
visiting Col. W. T. Trammell and
family, returned home Sunday after-
arrived yesterday morning and are
visiting the mother of tbe former,
Mrs. A. M. Nelms and family.
Col. T. A. Hammond. Jr., of At¬
lanta, came down yesterday after¬
noon to arrange for the funeral of
Mr. Israel Putnam, which takes
place this afternoon. Mr. Putnam
died at his home in Atlanta yester¬
day. Notice of the funeral appears
elsewhere
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t, and very much debilitated.
m L. Babcock, the Chicagoan
. to receive over #500,000 of his
late uncle’s estate upon condition
that he marries within the next five
years, is in Savannah. He occupies
a modestly furnished room at the
Marshall House. The quantity of
mail that he receives daily aroused
the curiosity of chief clerk Theqs,
who put a Morning Nsws reporter
“on to” the stranger.
A few minutes’ talk with the modest ,
unassuming little man revealed the
fact that he is the personage to
whom girls and old maids all over
the country have been writing “bil¬
let deaux” and making all manner
of proposals to for marriage. Mr.
Babcock came to Savannah a few
days ago and registered from Mont¬
gomery, Ala. From his unostenta¬
tious manner, nobody would have
ever taken him for the person about
whom the newspapers have talked
almost unceasingly since last July,
when the death of his rich nncle oc¬
curred at Ann Arbor, Mich. The
nephew attended the funeral and be¬
fore be returned home the papers
were carrying the story of the curi¬
ous will under flaming headlines.
Mr. Babcock’s business here
told inthe letters of more than
dozen of Savannah’s girls, who have
made proposals to him. He is here
to hunt them up. The letters are
well written, and the plans sug-
startling. SSL? ^ the writers are
A good many people would like to
know who the Savannah girl is who
wrote the epistle which runs like
this:
“Dear Bab: You must know that
all those who write to you making
proposals cannot love you but for
your money. If you marry any of
them it should be not with any in¬
tention of love, but merely a business
venture.
“What do you think about it?
“Ill am right, whqt do you think of
this proposition: Say you come to
Savdnnah at tbe earliest possible
time, and in a quiet manner we will
will marry. Th« #500,000 is then
yours by will. Pay me a sum which
is to be agreed upon by us and I will
lehve immediately after the ceremony
is performed for Paris, where I am
very anxious to go this year. I will
remain long enough away for you to
sue for a divorce upon the pretext of
desertion. I want the money and it
will bean easy means ofcapturing the
#500,000 for yourself if yon prefer to
always, live an old bachelor. I am
anxious to go to Paris and I am
without enough money to do so.
Understand that a contract will be
entered into before our marriage is con
summated that I am not to be known
to you after the vow is taken, and
you to me. It will be purely a btisi-
ness transaction. Nothing more.
What do you think about it? An¬
swer. Yours, ete. M —
Mr. Babcock is especially anxious
to see the writer of the letter, and he
will makea tour of the town to find
her.
A box of Ayer’s Pill* has saved many a fit
of airiness. When a remedy does not happen
to be within reach, people are liable t o neglect
flight ailments and, of coarse, if serious fli¬
es follows they have to suffer the cosse-
quences. “A stiteh in time saves nine.”
Dr. W. H. McCurry has discovered
a bold mineral spring on his land in
the northern shburbs of Hartwell.
Dr. Matthews subjected the water to
tests, and it was shown to be strong¬
ly impregnated with alum and iron,
Dr. McCurry should have the water
analyzed by the state chemist.
18 . P. Wardwell, Extract Bos-
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EASTERS SEED POTATOES.
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And Farming Implements.
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THE COMMONWEALTH.
The Sbwb b> Leathered Over Georgia
Hal Rossman, of Greensboro, fell
from his bicycle Wednesday and
broke his arm.
Nathan Hofaha, the oldest man in
Greene county, died on Tuesday.
Mr. Hobbs was close to his hundrejh
anniversary.
Three convicts, two white and one
black, escaped from the penitentiary
at Cole City Thursday. The compa¬
ny offers #150 reward for each.
H. L. Hill & Co., of Montezuma,
started their brick works Wednesday
morning, and are grinding out -brick
at the rate of 12,OtO a day.
Hail fell pretty thick and fast at
Butler Thursday morning. The
stoneB were small afid did not con¬
tinue more than a minute. No ma¬
terial damage was done. m
The burning of the gin. saw-mill and
several outhouses belonging to Will
Peck, of Philmath, Green county, is
reported. It was a total &ss, there
being only a Small insurance.
A few days agb, daring the rain, a
negro bouse on B. D. Shumate’s
eupants senseless for a short tioas-
On« negro’s shoe was tom from her
foot.
- Tuesday morning a mad dog play¬
ed havoc generally at Spalding, Ma¬
con county. It succeeded in biting
all the dogs in the neighborhood, and
one hog, before It was killed. AH
that were bitten have been killed.
Three hundred and twenty acres o*
land, 9 Wned by John R. Lewis, was
sold under a mortage at public
cry at Madison last Tuesday for #1,-
930. The land is situated near Well¬
ington, and is ab 9 Ut twelve trifles
from Madison. Thomas F. Ward
was tferijtorcliaser.
Dirt was broken at Madison last
Monday morning for the building to
be erected by the Gate City CM1 Com¬
pany. The building will be very
large and fitted up for a first-class
mill. It will be run night and day
as soon as completed, and will be lit
by riectricity. )
While Dutch Collier and J ohn Frank¬
lin, both colored, of Mitchell county,
were engaged in a game of cards on
last Sunday, a difficulty took place
between the two, in which Collier was
struck on the head with a rake, break¬
ing the skull and causing a very bad
if not fatal, wound.
Can gather honey from a weed.”
Those who are wise, and who love
the truth, will believe what we saw
when we tell them thrt Dr. Pierce s
Favorite Prescription baa done more
to relieve, the sufferings of women,
than all other medicenes now known
to science. It cures all irregularities, ulceration,
internal ioflamation snd
displacements and kindred troubles.
It is the only medicine for women,
sold by druggist, from the under manufacturers, a positive
guarantee that it will give satisfaction in
every Tbii
case, or money will be refunded.
guarantee has been prinsed on the
bottle-wrapper, andfaithfully carried
out for many yean.
Dr. B. I. A. CuU, of Camilla, is some,
what of a mechanical genius when it
comes to making bird cages. He has
on exhibition at his office five bird
cages which display a great amount
of mechanical skill and taste. They
are of different sizes Mid styles and
are richly ornamented with carvings-
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Will You Bead ThU foe $500?
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L.\ A REGRET,
Oh could wa but have Been, white they were ours.
The grace of dsjrs forever passed away: y
Had we but felt the beauty of the flowers
That bloomed for us before they knew decay;
Could we hive known how w» should yesrn Id
Ykln ... ■,
For looks and smiles no more to greet our sight.
Or how the fruition teen would tali l&e rata
For boms ofNvreet communion, vanished quite;
Their w<wffli to us, ted we but better known,
Then ted we held them dearer while our own,
Had kept some salvage for the Joys o'erthrown.
And loneliness Itself ted found us lew rime!
—The Century
GOOD READERS,
Some Sensible Suggestions for the Instruc-
v tlon of Old and Yoon*.
Everybody has theories of education now¬
adays, dud the next generation or two ought
to grow into a highly cultivated race, but
the importance of making them good readers
is being forgotten We educate children for
their future good; we give them accomplish¬
ments to render them attractive and agreea¬
ble to the world of society; tiWevelop
minds for their own future enjoyment, and,
first of all things, we teach them to read and
spell. How many of them, grown into mem
and women, who would be ashamed to spell
badly, axe able to read one paragraph, se¬ bo
lected at random, so that every word shall
pronounced correctly, every sentence given
underttandingly, every inflection properly
marked, and the thought of the author In¬
stantly seined and perfectly expressed, white
the voice, meantime, is so pleasantly modu¬
lated that the fact of tbe sound itself te grati¬
fying to the sense of hearing!
In the matter of pronunciation alone, few
grown persons ran do this. I do not speak
whereof J know not The thing wae tried at
paragraph, ......MIH|L
the president of the
mistakes, which only about the _
thirteen was
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Make the attempt, each one for htrosrif,
and we how many of the following Worces¬ word*
you pronounce, either a* Webster or
ter directs: Acclimated, cement, pronuncia¬
tion, plebeian, precedence, finance, concave,
concentrate, phial, fuchsia, vase, interest, etc.
The pronunciation classes which have been
the rage in the east have been a publio bene¬
fit and a matter of pleasant interest A few
have been recently organized in Chicago
with much success, and arrangement* have
been effected far many more in the fall
Everybody knows there are two ways of
reading to one’s seif, and that one of these ia
______a as much selfish benefit as aloud.
This This is te with w tilth eye* and Ups ups; in lm
tion, although no sound is produced, the for-
Station at each word on the lips te made Hod
the attention, therefore, for tbe instant, so
fixed upon tethat it* meaning tefully grasped,
hi tbe other way, there te such breathless in¬
terest in the facts narrated that there seems
to bean overwhelming neoemity to hurry on
for information's sate, and the eyes alone
turned automatically over tbe page, and an
outline of meaning is grasped fwithout an
idea of the wards batik and phraseology reading, used to
expremit The of to skim¬
ming over things, produces When ins very short
time a poor memory. everything te
poured into jumble the mind at such a rate that only
a confused is produced no wonder tiie
memory breaks down.
There is but one way to read seriously, im-
provingly and not for tbe sole purpose of pass¬
ing away the hours. Read and think at the
same time. As each page te finished close the
book car turn over the paper, concentrate the
attention and think over what has just bool
•read. If you can put the thougfts into
words and speak them aloud, two things are
bound to result; Improvement at mind and
improvement of memory. Pleasure thus be¬
come# Intellectually profitable. This should
for Mrionsly, ofttimes the style itself renders
the exquisite thought obscure. The practice
of memorizing pofsageeof poetry will soon
the body to our win unless we give It exer¬
cise; nor can we expect different results ia
yndiwi or memory.
The power of concentrated attention, it te
claimed,!* more apparent ia man than in wo¬
man, .and it cannot be dented that this is the
case. But the average man trains his mind
to tills end by hourly practice; the average
woman, perhaps once a month, attempts to
concentrate her thoughts on one sabject.
If In theee days of culture we could all
team the definition of reading and know ex¬
actly what tbe phrase means when the word
“wading" te qualified by the adverb “well,"
it wouldbe of untold worth to us, A good
memory te such a help to self confidence, a
good understanding to self improvement; a
good mind, well cultivated, all such a te treasure. delight
An individual poasssring three a
unto and to the world.—Chicago Her-
Abbott’s East Indian Corn Paint
removes all Corns, Bunions and, Warts
speedily without pain.. For gale bv
HOTEL CURTIS
afUFFIN, GEORGIA,
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500 Pairsi
AT 25 <
GLOVES ARE ALL SR
75 CENTS AND 41 C
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Kid Glove,
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Ladies' Slippers el « Cents Pe. ft
W We have a few sizes of these goods left at this price.
We are Headqu;
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Embroideries, White floods and l
We have received during the past week our fourth assortmeir
stitched Embroidered Flouncing^, and our prices are just a little li
any one else will make you on the same the goods. prettiest in the city, anti
Our Plaid and Striped Lawns are
the most Treasonable.
1000 YARDS OF REMNANTS OF OLE)
FOR FIVE CENTS PER Yj —i.
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J. II. White, Jr.,
CLOTHIERS,
31 Hill Street.
GRIFFIN, GA., June 8th, . _
J. H. WHITE, .J JR., & CO.
Again propose to ■
Take - The - /><
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BEST GOODS SOLD IN THE CITY FOR TBE
Coals and Vests from 75c. to ....
Full Suite “ $2.00 “ $80
Come. See the Goods and be Convii
That they are all right and just what we represent. Splendid 1c
Young Men’s Hand Sewed Shoep from the best works in the country.
Thauks to all.
J. H. WHITE, JR., <B t
Attention, Puli
This is to certify that John Ison, Esq., of Griffin, Ga., is the only
ized and exclusive agent for the sale of our celebrated brand of
“did Gum Spring” Kentucky W
in the city of Griffin from this date, and no other parties have
brand of whiskey to offer to the trade. will Those wishing inthe a I pure a
terated whiskey for all purposes, find it only and old
Try it and be convinced. The ladies, babies, m
Kentucky,” and wherever known, for years. TI
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