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promising little
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fc lias built and pot into
tiou a $100,000 cotton
ir Btarteil tbo wheels
i twice that capital.
3 and lmus« foundry,
immense ice and bot-
li»g * nnl blind factory, a
broom 1 si up the finest, granite
quarry in tt and now has
our largo oil i or lose advanced
jjft b S -----“ an aggregate i dollars. an-
electric
has ap-
j lor tw o charters lor street raUways. It
bus secured anot her railroad ninety mifealong,
and while located on the greatest system in
x^dSaasisc Georgia. It has obtain-
uessee, Virginia and
#< 1 direct independent connection with Chat-
• mooga and the West, and will break ground
vp a lew days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth independent system.
With its five white and fourcolored church-
: n, it has recently completed a 110,000 new
■esbyterlanchurch. Ithas increased itspop-
ution by nearly one fifth. It has'u.ttractcd
ssgiSrtfiVyESS! It is the home
fruit evaporators in the State.
f the gratis and its wine making capacity has
..oubled every year. It has successfully in¬
augurated a system of public schools, with a
.even years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city, with the natural advantages
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healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above eea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at alow estimate between 6 000 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-
| sirable settlers, who will not help he any build less wel¬ the
come if they bring mopey to up
own. There is about only one thing we
used badly Just now, and that is a big hotel.
‘ We have several smsdl ones, but their accom¬
modations are entirely too limited for oar
usine ft, pleasure and health seeking guests.
If you see anybody that wants a good lora,
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin. *
Griffin is the place where the Griffin Nkws
s published—daily and weekly—theBest news¬
paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
.ados* stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.)
This brief skefcehis written April 12th, 1889,
and will have to be changed In a few months
o embrace new enterprises commenced and
ompleted.
Ete
PROFESSIONAL MIECTOKY.
HENHY Q. PEEPLES,
attorney at law
ourts. Practice! • > • a,, the Btate «d^ r
10HN J. HUM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
.obiffin, oconuu. .
Office, 81 Hill Street, Op Stairs, over J. H.
White’s Olothlim- Store. raor22dA wly
THUS. ft. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice in the State and Federal
Courts. Office ovor George & Hartnett’s
comer. nov2tf
JOHN 0 STEWART. BOBT. T, TIAN1EB,
STEvYAM & DANIEL
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Over Heor^rat ©riffir, Ga,
Will practice in the State and Federal
ourts. t,'. 3S * ■ julylOdtl
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C .hVELAND *, ? JjARLAND, .
DENTISTS,
QUIFF!*, • : : : GEORGIA.
D. L. PARMER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WOODBIRY, GEORGIA.
business
| business arts, and where
ver calls.
Collections a specialty.
NOW
loney Wanted for the
Stark Plantation.
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| ANECDOTE > .
; OF HANNIBAL HAMLIN.
1 .
’ * V,oe of the United State*
Served an a Private Soldier.
! “that J&taL&J&I Hanuibal lleman Ztt £Z
ft ueti Hamlin once
served this government in a dual ca¬
of pacity, the ladder holding a position near the top
bottom and another near the
at one and the same time?”
The reporter admitted that he had
a f^ueer private idea^ in the volunteer army.
wasn’t it? 111 tell you how
tteSa “Youaoe he wasan honorary member
call for troops it promptly responded
and
was ordered to the ie navy nHMI, yard I to do
guard duty, Mr. and Hamlin to the announced surprise his at
every HBSzamwtr-es one
a a Hamlin vice vice president president determined. under under them, them, Hi but but WI Mr- Mr-
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good “ ‘Why enough not!’ he asked. be honorary ‘If I'm a
man to an
member of the company I guess Pm
good “And enough he shouldered to be a private.” and
a gun went
with them. Well, at the navy yard
there were, of course, more complica¬
tions. The officers decided that it
pretty!’ “And the result that he marched
was
up and down as a sentinel in his reg¬
the ular vice turn. president Odd, wasn’t of the United it! Imagine States
receiving milita orders from a sergeant of a
“Then company. the
when company was mut¬
tered out he was offered the regular
pay at a private for the time he was at
the navy yard, but he declined to ao-
f* ‘^‘WdV*i^sahi, ‘Why!’ he was asked. ‘Yon served
Wl
‘I don’t think it’s
light from the for government, a man to draw and taking pay twice all
rather things draw into consideration, the vice president’s I believe sal¬ I’d
ary.’ ’’-—Chicago Tribune.
Toad* and Snake*.
Toads in the presence of snakes usu¬
ally remain perfectly still; in this is
their only safety, for did they males
the least movement ........fsb"" they would im-
mediately be caught ave known a
him up
this has been called “snake charm¬
ing,’’ the toad and is indeed the charmer, it looks the like snake it, but tbs
charm ec.
I remember one day I dropped a
toad in the midst of a pit of snakes I
had in my hack yard. He at once be¬
came ed by perfectly than soil, though dozen surround¬ hungry
more a
snakes. There was a circle of fierce
heads but he and would glaring eyes around-him, The circle
not move.
almost narrowed, touched until the him, protruding he tongues im¬
movable. Just then yet called was
I was away
for over half an hour, but on return
ing scolding found the the toad, fori in by grave mostnuMy dignity,
The erases of seeing, defective hearing and
smelling they ore very but few yards in at garters;
can see at short a distancesV but most,
ana even •
few inches they are often at fault.
A snake was seen pursuing a frog in
a saw mill yard. The sawdust and
open the snake space and were greatly the in frog. favor The of
frog made long against jumps and the snake
made a direct lino to the spot where he
alighted, frog had again but before jumped reaching in another it the dh
rection, and so the bunt went on few
about half a minute; the snake quite
unable to 'trace the frog in his serial
-----directed — 1 * ~ A ' -
jinalig frog,
than design, alighted more the oy flat
-on sur¬
face of a rough board,' which stood
leaning angle ofaboak against a 8Gde pile of lumber at an
ground. feotlyst
about he looked, for several listened, s
to the end of the board minutes,
sevc
the hunt was an utter failure,
Monk away and toward disgusted the brushwood, spcciiuou a
Terr • ~
Forest and Stream.
. neswunMU rairons.
Progressive in all tiling Chicago
conducted on a |icv.- and Kite plan.
One of its customers Uu.* other moan¬
ing was n man who oi-t!oml a plato of
cakes, some hot rolls uu4 a cup of cot-
feQ torsi 1 lm Oil rinnle ” euiil I im
fair
the
fingers. “Do
vance?" inquired do the rule#, nsl
tonjor. "Dat’s
‘ - (ho r .1
he his lius,...., change
she lilted ins order in tho kitchen.
When started tho visitor lie de-posed meUhe of his meal
and out stage ~—
ager of tho restaun nt and ask©
they required “Sneria,’ customers 1 tejay the laconic
vance. w»
Tlic Mmrvilo** SuoecM.
GIUF will A. SUN1 ,T 28.1889.
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OURiOStTlE8 FROM THE MAIL8.
:isa
heredaiiy.” ‘Twenty tb<
This was the information given by
toe presides bright and toe courteous curios lady who
over
“And nearly one half of
The inclosures are kept two yeo»;
and i a fireman’s ax. Improper
properly Wfeight protected a sharp instiument toe not
were reasons
for its detention. There were a{ num¬
ber ber of of revolvers rev vers Arranged arranged on on the
of the case. It is contrary to law to
send firearms through toe mails.
ja. token. here 1 wondering is a human at toe ear 1” singular one re¬
We “Yes, do that know came by in whom a newspaper. it
not was
sent Here is an asp and that is a
tarantula—both to find quite opening startling box. creat¬ They
ures upon a
both came through alive,” said the at¬
tendant, “and that is against the law,
you know. We always have live curi-
Mities chloroformed and preserved ip
liquor. We are careful in opening
of packages, for we going never know find. what son
nets we am to
! “Here are some homed toads. |
have had tree toads for pets for months
at a time.”
t*up&, “ft* “Did they come through
indeed."
Eh passant, it is very amusing to
and the “indeed” sliding along as
though the expression of life. were one of
the measures
“There i “Yes, indeed,” sixteen toe of them, answered. sent
were
from Texas en ronto for Heidelburg,
perforated for scientific tin purposes. weredetected They were and w
sent here. A cans, boy brought toe
cans
3SST& fe£*«K?iv /
after felt something at it her her feet feet Look-
ing had down, there was i toe the snake snake He He
been in one of the ie drawers dm of the
chiefs tieffs desk desk for for those three days. Was
Xgiigi.. she ie ings frightened! fri that Well, ladies there dislike am few
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than “Here snakes, is scalp.” you know."
a
SasM- 'Here balls wito care opium. to be You
1 are some of
notice they were disguised In a cover¬
ing of candy. And here is a beautiful
huge etching, pity it should exquisitely have dona reached It
seems a not
its destination, but we could not
help Sne ii" stepped to the desk and took
from it for one of toe inspection. drawers a In book, ft open-
our were
placed Some of the those addressed addresses sides of indicated envelbpes.
a
dose acquaintance with Ga,* phonographic
spelling, ‘^ght L as Ga.,” “Ti T1 and “Springerville, was spelled
Arizona,” Arizona.”—Detroit was spelled Free “Spengel IW Bill,
"a 4*nUk Story.
I read, or rather had fead to me, the
other night a very horrible story of
Griffiths book Wainewnght written % It Australian was out of
a an
clergyman, not and, mentioned, though too there poisoner’s could
name was
be no doubt of his identity. When
Wainewnght prison, it was that released from time
appears for some
he acted ns a kind of assistant surgeon
at a hospital. To this institution a man,
hated in dying by Wainewnght, condition. was before brought
a Just he
yielded place, which, up toe ghost example a scene of took
as an un¬
abated rovengefulnesa, surpasses any-
thing I ever heard before.
toe Wainewright man’s bedside, gained and, in admission piercing to
a
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have one word to say to you
you diet” The dying patienl
eyes suddenly ana stared magnetized, at the lifted bis who weary ad¬
dressed him. “In five person minutes,” said
his will malignant be in hell, tormentor, and before “your body soul
is cold, dissecting knife yonr will be in
entrails.” my Those who
your ent could forget toe were horrified pres¬
never
expression dying caught of the the man’s frightful face words, as his
ear
bending over ms death bJd.-London
Globe. »_ .
New York’* nm towrth.
Knowledge of the act and a copy of the
Declaration York of Independence July. Orders readied givw Hew
on the 9th of were
to have the brigades termed co the pared*
ground* et 0 o’clock in the afternoon. With¬
in a hollow square, which Occupied what hi
now the city hall perk, between the eity hall
a yf aA tho pc*toffice building, Washington sat
on horseback, while one of hH aids read the
document fr* 1 ** the eolontei free
Independent stetes The soldier* welco me d
- ^ - «- e%,and prison
the poor debtors were released from to
Join in the festivities.
change, Be said:
W «U IP
MM vicUms.
i honor .......■ me by ; Inquiry f
terest /our readers, I will spe
man and buysvnore for the than he
use
speculation, danger and there
of failure in any business
-----‘'‘■“•■'■'jjjl mete Qian ho has
speculator. ««« „
prospective dear Then, outcome if ' .theven-
tore is to become pros! what
suc< , was
mnvv
actual or prospective, I
care are increased. All
tolls on too nervous
great enough to cause mm., fe
wears fast But if toe 'erer t2 has
eusttaAK
tog time and id de defy drinking, he can whether tor a it long 6
chronic acute. acute. anxiety, Now, the only dif¬
c or or
the ference exchange between and stock speculation country store on
a
npon invoice of general merchandise
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profits, while constant fluctuations,
all of which he notices, keep him a
and constant pendulum If between a smile into
a tear. a merchant goes
business on $10,000 he can buy from
merchant can buy $100,000 wants worth two to of four stocks. months The
before he con estimate his profiteer
loss. The stock speculator finds that
the profit is all gone, the next he sees
a loss of $1,500, full and at night he quits
the market of anxiety with prob¬
ably next a day’s loss of watch $500 to of commence fluctuations. toe
But added to these daily and normal
fluctuations there is the effect of
panics, ot protracted which usually occur of prosperity, at too rad
a season
swept and the profits in of weeks hour. are Now hopelessly I think
if I away medical an 1 should
were a man not
be afraid to express toe belief that
quick hath to transition Dakota from blizzard a Panama would have sun
a
a victim tendency had to weak produce colds might and if the
ally end in phthisis lungs pulmonaiis, it natur¬ unless
death’ occurred from shock and gave a
more speedy exit priori, In I the would same always way,
reasoning that a would
guess of series a nervous of panics man with shattered come
ont a
nerves. This reasoning is well backed
speculations up by too record whom of I men have in known active
within too last twenty-five years.
Among probably the too so wealth called successful which others men
covet ma y have been bought at too
i if corroding <
overpaid for w kw by money.'”-—Brook- wmnATfR_
O* T
Tin women of Connemara or* pic¬
turesque in attire and sha^y_in fonn
which ail
shrouded, them, t
about
ttises at all seasons, you smarts l not infrequently
while TT the most voluptuous types of
languorous, perfect tropi-
> more ax-
The broad, The huge faces
ly oval. chin has
theregui^teet^’aSffi ill, shapely mouth is
topreri
i dear, large
nature's or blue; the eyebrows asntu
wide and
crown all that were
Connemara woman chtoto
lustrous blade torn
ing her sloe black
thread is on them be
mara flannel. It is .
wool of the mountain
Letter to Pittsburg
jsttZttrjst ** m
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tbroah.
Whan a bores comet in tnm » jam-
flsJNtiNii to walk Jktei
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MIDNIGHT DUEL.
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There is no doubt that many singu
through r. tilings life, occur and bo looked as od we« journey though
as
ed as lie continued : I remember as
•day toe march
Shenandoah up to the famous Im ray
gap. Who could ever forget that
march! Tho road winding with the
beautiful river, and overhung with a
toe magnificent valley,' with its
in flowers. But the most ra-
and lovely objects paled into
men - of fiance this blessed country, the pwlem and you wo¬
may well believe that when toe camp
was struck the soldiers lost no time in
.....” ■' ■ to the su*r.....‘
BBT o music off
lin was heard and shuffling f
time to the ... music, while, tor
the soldier’s fare was lit with old time
of joy. the At .valley one of reigned these cottages the white bdle
several .southern soldiers supreme, vied with
each other to paying homage to the
queen. Among others were two
Eaas'tira&s: specially energetic in their attentions,
constantly * " viug that increasing both exhibited interest, fully of
a case
at first sight This surmise on
i part of of these present was only too
o event which follow-
take their places, he led toe belle of
toe valley to a jflaee in the set At
Qua point tho Missiasippian was men
to approach toe couple and heard to
Claim the lady’s hand for the dance.
An altercation ensued, but both were
cool, brave soldiers—two of toe best
shots in the army—who did not believe
to a war of words. So ft was ended by
toe Georgian da
toe significant
ttopian, when “I toe will dance see you fibs Geor-
was over
was seen to seek toe Mississip-
and together they called each a
from the crowd claimed and departed, that
outside both an
insult had been passed which could
only be wiped out in the blood of the
other, and that duel to tho *
a
should bo arranged at. once.
lence of the night was anything but
pleasant would avail No with argument, these however, it ft
men, ten, so so was war
arranged that the duel should si " ’ ' * ‘
place on top of of the Blue Blue Ri Ridge, near
toe center of the road road that t passes
through the gap; pip; f‘ that * tin '
should be pistols ols at at fifteen paces, end
to to fire fire at at or or between between the words, “one.
two, h»A tViMO three,” M firing flnrwv to irt continue UHtll
bne or both were dead.
I measured The point off. was and reached, the the took ground their
men
Shed positions without a tremor. Tho moon
be forgotten. its pale light A moment on a scene never and to
the silence broken by or tho two, signal:
was
.“One, two, three.” At the word ‘tone’’
toe report of two pistols rang out on
toe midnight air, but the principals
Maintained their respective positions.
The Georgian’s left arm was seen to
drop sissippiau closer to immovable, his side, but and toe Mis- still
was
held his pistol to the fronL Again a
Georgian, shot was and heard, the coming Mississippian from
still held his position, but t did did not nre.
The Georgian protested that he bad
hot come there to murder him, but
no answer was returned. The Mia-
sissippian'ssecond cipal aud found approached nim dead, his prin¬ toot
of through the toe eye on Death, the first ft discharge had
been weapon. much seems, not
instantaneous, disturb his equilibrium. so so as I
even to may
forget duel some the top things, of but spar the ef midnight the Blue
on a
Ridge, with is its attendant of them.—Detroit circum¬
stances, not one
fTW rress.
A Man Win* m Htatory.
Private W. G. Mervin, stationed at
Fort Leavenworth, is a man with a
history. and lie is His ofsix right name children, is Geriock, heirs to
one Milwaukee,
to the Geriock brewery,
which returns a princely income. In
1885, after recovering from a serious
illness, ing he dropped behind out of sight, him. leav¬ All
effort* a young wife
to ascertain his whereabouts
were fruitless. His mind had been
impaired, he realized and whit when, had in happened San Francisco, he de¬
termined to enlist In the army and
work out his own salvation. A notice
in a paper sometime ago informed
him that a Mrs. Geriock, of Mil¬
waukee, his wife was he ' ’ ’
was
the truth and '
purpose. An answer came in the per¬
son o t toe wife herself ami the re¬
union was a happy one.—New York
World. , *■
The U*a of Goeate*.
Cocaine has been in use in toe medi¬
cine of the this country about fivo years.
I was first—or at least among the
fin*—in this city to use it, and my
first patient was a dog. The first ap¬
plication of cocaine was in ophthal¬
mic subject surgery. I read a long article on
toe in The New York Medical
Journal. Soon about after that a gentleman fine hunt¬
came to see me a very
ing dog, who had got a thorn in his
eye. I looked at the dog. and, re¬
membering what I had read about co¬
caine for eye fixed surgery, I went to a drug
store up >drochlorate i decoction of ^ix^u
5 per cent of oo-
trouble.
ft %
is
■a Bwrj.aml shoes that
riemood the skillful mani] *;
and mm
no known in every port of the
was niw,-e
on mt
beer, his
told his quaint v
GSE&JBpM* first acquaintiuico with any j
tuists to back him.
checks were things he fti
easioti to use, and had about as touch
idea^of their valuo as the man in the
“Edison had finally sold his patent
on the gold and Mock indicator to the
- {(STtirBrt Be bwl hear! of Wall .treetMd to
"
would fleece a man
he made-up his
street was* a very
aud that if ever be
go there without he would losing be his htckly overcoat
away
1 At that time Gen. Lefferts
president morning- of Edison toe Western into Union. the
1 came
pony’s general offices to close
sale of his patenL After a few pre¬
liminaries lie was given a check for
rfe looked at it curiously for, a mo-
ment or two, and appeared to be puz-
sled what to do with iL Hokum He knew ho
told him
SP tor
1 HmT Id give him
..
l gethte i
braced ahead and half
shoved hischeck out to tb
The latter scrutinized
gave Edison a pierein;
said something which
not understand, as he
hearing. That wasenough. Ho
was now more
than ever convinced that his “chock"
wasn’t worth $40,000, and again
thought as he rushed out of the bank
with it that any man who would give
him $ 2,000 could walk away with the
He hurried back to tho Western Un¬
ion and m Tt gat any mon-
ey. with Gen. him ar ■tt.MMi
“This man is Mr. Ti
to whoso order the che
shaper would^you like your^O.000—in what
long os fiaifcieBuai I get my money.
»
wads of $20,000 each, he stuffed one
intoeach trousers jnocket, buttoned
his coot as tightly as powible,
made a break to get out of Wall i
as quick as he could. Tho next day
Edison began work on his first labora¬
tory » n Now York. -F. D. Musaeyin
Ckncnnmti Comin ereiaL
rt Englandrto relat^to°a
Gately, 1708, following
publication of that time, the
singular story of toe supernatural:
“Mr. Grose went to see Mr. Shaw
years). When I saw him I was not
rtli.
‘No’ (at which I was very
alarmed), ‘but Mr. Orchaid
with me very
after.’ As he was
hinwf he wouW^
three days’ leave of absence, and ha
ha.] other business.’
“Mr Orehard died soon af
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