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GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, U S. A.
Griffin in tile beet and most pre mising 1 t
ity in the South. Ite record for the « pant
bolt decode, ite many new enterprise* in
atioo,banding mti eontoffi'piatdtf pro
o ie a bueineee statement anil not n
olical description.
Haring that time it has built and pat into
nioet eucceeeiul operation o *1 (>0,000 cotton
nctory and With this year started the wheels
ufa second of more than twice that capital.
It has put up a large iron and brass foundry,
a fertilizer factory, an immense ice and
quarry ip the United States, and now hae
our large oil mills in more or less advanced
stages of construction, with an aggregate au¬
thorized capital of over half a
has secured another railroad ninety miles long,
and while located on the greatest system in
the South, the Central, has secured connec-
ed direct independent connection with Chat
l anooga and the West, antf idShtetik grawhl
u a few days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth independent system.
VUitlz ite five white and fourcoiored church-
re, it hue recently completed a #10,000 new
Presbyterian church. It hoe increased its pop¬
ulation by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around its borders fruit growers from nearly
of the grape and ite wine makingcapaeity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in¬
augurated a system of public schools, with a
seven years curriculum, second to none.
This is part of the record of a half decade
and simply tkow* the progress of an already
admirable city with the natural advantages
ef having th* finest climate, summer and
. .. „ j.
corns if they bring money to help build up the
There is abont only on* thing
uned badly }n»t now, and that is a big hotel.
We have several small ones, but their second
modations are rntirely too limited lor onr
usiae s, pleasure and health seeking guests.
It yon see anybody that wants a good loca¬
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the ^biffin -News
g published—doily and wewdy—the best news-
enclose enclose stamps stamps ac& in in sending sending for for sample earn: copies,
i sg affi s^-uti
offi^whtiHn
HENRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
J0HN J. HUNT,
, ,
ATTORNEY At E A WI * *
osirns, ueomuu.
*1 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over 1 H.
White’s Oothinr Store. mar23d*wly
th’os. r. mills,
A TTMlfR
eorner. nov2tf
JOHN » STOW ART. ROUT. T. BANIRI*.
STEWART & DANIEL
. - iiin* *re*www*i* w i, w nc *—« u i '. . ***»
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
mor George* Mtetertfk, Griffin, Ga.
arte. firm proeties in tbs State and^Fed^al
CLEVELAND 4 GARLAND,
DENTISTS,
GRfrPiN, * ; !" t ! GEORGIA.
tup UlAflk flf*
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Pprompt woeu.r.v.^o^A.
attention given to aU Imeines
Will practice in all the Courts, and wher
HOTEL ,, I CURT 18
Jnder Hew Hznagement
t 6. DANIEL. fn»Fr.
s* I ‘ter* n,vet all tvete*. .
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Vliyjasdar. toad , a* . Ml h .re-.J?teS: BOMAR, sad we
l^$10Q * to $800 per month
IBO»I> PPBLI8HIN0 CO.
RICHMO >.
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pbell Chosen
Short Biographical Sketch
the Candidate.
mm Text at the Democratic Platform os
Unanimously Adopted by the
■ded to Its
feb Conven¬
tion Blent* Officers.
■<»* ail,
JAMES B. CAMPBEMj.
j town did
its eleotrio
lights flooded Ike entWiiasm the streets with bright¬
ness find of the dele-
gates and J visitors kept them walking
iitogb tip* *w$# itligbi : With Cantos, the
eomiug of daybreak a club from
O., inarched with a fine band from the
depot. It is undoubtedly the largest
convention held by the Democracy of
Ohio for a long time and the citizens of
Dayton regardless impression of party hate graceful made
a favorable by
rink, a
seat-
nary to carry_____
Ten o’clock was the time for the
opening of the convention. The > dele-
gates were sailed and the*hall
packed at 10:15 o’clock, when Dr. Nor¬
ton Rev. rapped Dr. McParlin, for order. Dr. After Norton prayer made by
a
brief the convention. address, outlining He made the purposes his speech of
... . ..... ...... !y of , Got. for
the Democratic party and its
Grover
eatest
long yliripg DemqM^te, t wos by
ed The no^itS^The Hou. M. D. Harter, rSvwa of Riohland
^tmty.Jwrtteemcdi ident ; Lewis G Btiruard, tot pennaijent of Hamilton pres¬
county, ner, $■«»»*$ They They duly ly elected elected aei" ’eter Weid- a] along
arms. were were
with a vice for president each congressional and assistant district. sec¬
retary Mr. Harter, taking toe chair, made
on
an extremely long ^ address, covering all
’ ’ ‘ ’ “ rfo great
flid ■y CJ||f
com-
business
and the announcement of the state oen-
tial oommittee, theHon. John A. McMa-
hob made tile report) of tile oommittee
on resolutions, prefacing it with the
statement but unanimously that it was not adopted, a compromise, 1 * v '*
was
the committee should be was baol fully
there no
matter of tariff reform.
imity The and platform applause. was adopted with unan¬ ____
V,n»pb«U the la«tey Man.
James E Campbell, of Butler county,
W08 liondiMitedfor governor.
He is a native of Middleton, and O. He
coming was a lively of and entered likely lad, the after be¬
low. age He first upon the light prac¬
tice iff saw on
•wurter the 7th day served of July. tw toe 1843. Yfrrion During the for
months, when he disabled. navy He
two Woe
became master’s Naiad. mote on toe gunboats
Elk and
He A A Cl was BiUt elected U1CUICU prosecuting jJl UOCU U lUUg attorney
of Butler county in 1875.oii 1875 and was re-
elected in 1877, and in 1882 882 he he suoceed-
votes in the con¬
i
1884, Campbell oMried the distri*
majority of 412, and again in 16
d®e* hall elected the following officers for the
ensuing veari President, Col. W. A. Tsy^
lor; first*vice president, F. K. Martin, of
Duckworth elub, Cincinnati; second vioe
president. James E. Neal, of the Miami
club. Hamilton; secretary, Chester A.
Stands, of the Jackson Inimik club, ' lHton Columbus; C. Pat-’
«wresponding of the seenstary, Jackson ckson club, Day
fterspu, Edward W., Donham,
teKsurer,
cinnati
* In*, i * Th* Tin norm.
Following is theptetionn of the Dem¬
ocratic state convention:
1. The Democracy of Ohio, m oon-
vention assembled, approva toe deolara-
SHSgxjrsx? ially that porfcof it demanding reduction
toe
KMS
*T“ , We denounce
jtowmwte too
( HIFFIN, GEOKGIA. FRII flNG. AUGUST 80 . 1 » 89 .
administration as the most partisan,
demoraliz ing and extravagant in our
gation history. of We all citizens invite the lntqour oareful
affairs us shown hown by the official
8. We protest . against the i .
enactment of of lawn vesting a®B the appoint- .
Ing power in the I governor,
to control the local boards of _________.
ing cities. While depriving them of
self-government It constructs a vast po¬
litical machine that is at ell times dan¬
gerous, and, in the hands of a partisan
ohief executive, has become a positive
menace 7. The to the nomination people at of the the state.
Ohio governor
of for a third term, in violation of
all precedent, by the notorious and dis¬
graceful use of patronage at his
mand is an outrage against th
and should be rebuked at the]
laws that will enable o«r
.
choose their own servants and
their own affairs.
STAR TLING ST ORY.
The Bodies of Two Selma Colored Editors
Sold to Be Dangling from Tree..
Birmingham, Ala., Aum 89. — TSh
conductor and baggagemaster -*
northbound Queen and Crown
day that night, when reaching they passed here
bodies say of colored
two me
dauglingf^m a beei
^ Bryant
pen
and to whieh the white
SWifi
against writing Selma an;
The two left one
in order to avoid ue,________
quences at the hands of the
people, ' since which time
been meats, made pnbliu y’y M to
y
A *3,000,000 Will.
citizen, tate is estimated was probate 1 Tuesday. worth $8,000,000. ,___ „.
to >e
Cincinnati. The Benton oounty lands,
which are tied up for twentir-flye yearn,
aggregate 80,00*) acres, wad are among
The his tutUo,
bequeaths to Eliza Fowler, wife,
the undivided one-third in value of all
the real estate, and also the sum of
$5,000. All toe residue children, of toe estate M.
goes to toe three James
Fowler, Annie E. Chase and Ophelia
Dl OOhUl DrOtl^Il teUw *r MtefisOte JreS
are named as executors.
Niiiiottrl Ei*Confe4e$»m WbimAA.
HiGGiNsviiiijE, Mo, Aug. 99.—Tito
ex confederate soldiers of Missouri met
in their seventh annual reunion Tues-
CWq.fta.TOlto l™ l* M*
__. he eulogized Linooln and Grant Jriwhcn
.. in in the the crowd crowd asked asked 1,1 '‘What's
some some one one
the matter with Jeff Davis. ” Gol Crisp
answered that he had no admiration for
the ex-confederate who president, when Gen.
Joseph Shelby, waa Col, Crisp's
superior _. r _____ officer officer during during toe toe war wsr speak- inter- inter¬
rupted him and rebuked hiu» for
dialogue comrades kept from resorting te to
were
blows only by the interference of their
friends.
Indiana C«nat*r/*lte« Snbb.A TTfidi
dianafoms, Aag. 29. — ited
States Wilh officers arrived David here Tuesday night Will¬
Brownlow and Davis,
iam MoReynolds, dames Harris and
Clifton Hendricks in charge, and
five counterfeiting, were placed all in having jail on been a charge arrested
in Pike county. They ore charged eonaterfeR with
onJ and several several dollars dollars of of the Hi. spurious sp edn
were oaptured with them. Whitman, Harris is Pike toe
deputy and postmaster his confederates at daim that
he oounty, made th molds
e
Proteat Against re Appointment.
Taiuadrga, Ga., Aug. Republicans 99.—A oom-
mitteeeof to Washington prominent to the presi¬ bos
gone see
against dent and the postmaster appointment general of S. and P. protest Burns
as postmaster here, mention of whieh
was made in a recent dispatch. In hi*
application fpt the appointment Burns
Stated that he was a protectionist Demo¬
crat, and expected tP remain one if ep-
pointed. _______________
The Tanneuee Disaster.
Ksoxvmut, Tenn., Aug. 29. suffer-
--now
i CaidSK^S
; d vholiM 'z leg
reported :er. dying. Editor Heame, ampu¬
tated, is Sentinel, Real Estate Dealer
of The
Wetoell and and toe Alderman end of J. death’s E. Barry work an is
worse, _im____
bbtyet,
(leads and Dare* Barer,
Charx-otpr, N, G, Rookinghsm Ang. 9$.—A and <
burst Monday destroyed over the dams and ' ’
the cinity machinery of the Peedee, '
the Great Falls, toe Mid'
Ledbetter mills. The loos is
at $100,000. Five hundred hands are
thrown ont of employment The rail¬
road track of the Carolina road for fif¬
teen miles is more or less torn up
laitlf* yield's Case DUOfli
Bar Fraroisco, Aug. 89,—The
States circuit ooart has
informed that the charge at
against Justice Field had been dis-
miseedby the Stockton court. J
Sawyer, accordingly proceedings dismissed in the of
rpus com
The Oldest Woman DRm.
Durham, N. O., Ang. 89.- 29.—The Globe
leams of the death ofGraan;
only fifty pounds,
Jeha Ward's WW* VrMadras
New Team, Aug. 29.
j i made as
w/lr MHH# and Wagonmea Wm
Coal Porters Join
Nearly Every Wharf in North
London Affected.
•—~r —,
The striker* Saw Mumber l*M>oo-Tt>*
Condon Chamber ef Cbatefer** Opeu
Arbitration — Beutangnu y^otestlog
Agate* the Ooviremeaff,, Action,
■asor Ltvos UothF *» Mmthggaho.
Ang. 99.—London’)
1 k located the
trade, is affieot-
inoreaneof
a wi
to the demands ads of of the the men, but the let-
te» tafw«c to > return to work until the
whole of the i t employers have given in.
Oertlag Agsuete* Threatened.
London’s threatened, greet carting agencies are
also the van drivers ex-
messing a determination to go out be¬
fore the end of toe week. There ap¬
pears to be a universal demand for an
increase of wages, end almost every
anted, still remain firm, and have ra
oeived many additions to their ranks.
pickets They have who also perfected duty a system, at the of
me on
docks, railway stations, on toe river and
ft ,***1re*dln ^
qarf It, g -fopq
Th* X4k* M«r*r Known Before.
Never before has the great
London been in such *
nfie
h
Monday Mid between employers, j ..... aS^S ive«of toe
n
settiemen* iment was ‘ ‘ t
cy mails are ex-
«teW and clerks frmn'tim owner’ll office.
The prices of coal pud foreign meat
have pimped up from 28 to 40 pte cent
Hom« S$emt»ijrMfttthewi*
In ihe home at •*-
•‘StSi ___________ __ . . .tokiands
jWfamrol .tlush »1» »g«»* pi™-
i on being unteaded at Ondham
SXisT&xlS )n wKuoui x
xxk6B and thnir
duties.
The
mm of in itYfaw
A^m mona axx
dook directors Sunday
them to concede the me
has not yet extended.
Va 0 ”i C
b L Mni
ing meals the strikers and lodging. with cheap or gratuit¬
ous
0aty a Stepping Stun*,
A keynote showing the importance of
the movement was struck by Mr. Burns
at a meeting Tuesday night. He pro¬
nounced the strike toe stepping stone to
a greater and nobler movement of work*
union. When concluded, East he End. would oom-
menoe his work in the
. The Commercial Dook company has
declined the proposal of delegates from
the leading booses of twelve different
trades to submit to arbitration toe griev¬
ances of the workmen.
The directors of the Commercial Dook
company have declined sn offer of toe
services at 3,000 Belgian laborers at four
and one-half pence per hour.
A COMPROMISE j :
Th* Doth Compantei Said te HR** Ore*
ceded te th* Strikre*.
Later A rumor prevails {toot the
dock companies have conceded the de¬
mands of the strikers
The dook companies show signs of
yielding. The difference* between toe
companies and strikers have been re¬
ferred to a conference of offieisls of the
coal companies and a deputation of
strikers will report to directors of toe
cool companies any decision that may
bo ifw oh ^i _
BoaUngUt Mooting.
Paris. Aag held »k~A Tuesday huge evening Boulsngist
meeting was to
protest against the government’s srtion
Sw 0
chiefly
fuftnmmliniTi were
tSS Of tosJ^^^^^TmeBt. declared to favor of
A mob jmtinde the
'■si'EZsriffi oar to dear the streeto A la^e num-
as a onndi-
Thibaudin
jsrsi!*?
IdoubtfuL ISvSgg g
'
' Tbit Orooh Rarthqnoko.
»»te‘°d Athens, Aug. 29,—The iu Q earthquake 3 !s
, ra
The cable is broken. A number of
So*uatlonni Koporl.
Pamm, Aug. 20.—It is reported from
he czarevitch will
t to Paris if the in¬
take place between
is not harmonious.
Earth(|u»kn Htrrar in RumIil
*****1 Kn 9- !***£***!**
189 person s were buried^live.
8ERIOU8 CATTUE DI8EA&C.
They or* Dying by Thonoand* m
'
Oklahoma Kongo*.
Kansas Cm, Mo., Ang. 89.—BeUable
news, of toe greatest importance to oat-
tie men in all sections of the United
States, oomos from the southern line of
IjioM r°V vwami were amiatea flflj { wf .8 wijn fg.fi, fW*,, xexna m-nzm fawns, lever,
but notolng deflMte ooald he learned
A man named William Johnson has
just J ymqoAil returned ilis from #wBa a trip to Oklahoma,
41. « A^hT^L , n _d rj■# *
thfl
trip oughly on horseback investigate he waa trouble. able to_
the
in tne wianas sou
the aty. JrlxZZlew?* 1
same os „___
Texans haw ve never never been ki
Conners’ they are o
“
Montana DibMMU.
. ont., Aug. 28.—The Dem-
* 11 | *arqu* II
i H. Conrad, of
e XS^SS”*" govemor; 4
NE WS tN BR IEF.
A Condenaatlou .if IntnrreUaf Itenu a*
Varlou, gnbjeete.
Boston street car drivor has faltei heir to
$900,000.
Lsporte, InA, U clamoring tor free postal
it SwXfCfncf 0 ^
Petroleum was discovered August 98,
I860, Just thirty years ago.
National Editorial association began its
session at Detroit Tuesday.
Parker Malt works burned at Norwich
Falls, Conn. Loss, $28,000.
Mrs. D. M. Shephard, of Oxford, O., oon-
fessesAhat she fired her bouse.
Charles Cones fouu.1 dead th Lewis
oonnty Ky. Supposed murder.
Fourbofs wore klUei by ligbtaing tea
KPiSi. City.
Ray Hamilton was held wit
ont bait to await vait the result of to* nui
woman's wounds.
Holliday, the Mt. Oitead bank defaulter,
is beUeved to be ta Canada. His shortage
Is now placed at $85,000.
Sherman Alien, age 98, waa arrested at
Hayden vilie, O., for attempting to nape hit
cousin, Gertruda Alien, aged 10.
At Madtem.Ind., Frank Xpp, aged W, an
employe of Dow fit Brown's lumber yard,
dropped dead from heart disease.
The house of Robert King, residing three
miles northwest of Mercer; Pa, was burned,
and Mrs, JCing perished in tin flames.
David E. Enoch, aged 13 years, son of a
wealthy stock shipper while of Lexington, Ilk,
was accidentally shot visiting friends
in Chicago,
Oils Parson, a youth killed at Bristol, Toon,,
shot and instantly Steve Bonham,
depot agent at Seven Milo Ford, Va. Cause,
S horse trade.
In Niagara county, fifteen N. Y., farms sold at
|100 per acre year* ago. Now they
oan ha bought at from 940 to *61, and al¬
most every one in the county is for sale.
Patrick Dttignan, of Sandusky, a, at¬
tacked his wife with an ax and inflicted sev¬
ered serious wound* on her person. He was
arrested and Jailed in default of 9YX) bail.
Meager reports have reached Denver of
the nreaffitnattou at Julcsburg, Col, of two
motion men by tramp-, They were toot
from under cover for purposes of robbery.
William Woff, a wredthy and highly re¬
spected farmer of Hancock oounty, lad.,
wm probably fatally hurt in a runaway ac¬
cident while returning home from charab
with hie family.
IncL, Mrs. William Randolph, of,Hartford aty,
took a daw of morphine with intent to
suicide. The doctors gat action with
remedies, and she is now out of danger,
Family troubles " ’
At (Joodland, Ind T., Oapfc Joseph Ever-
tdge find kffied Ms brothtr-la-law,
William Luther, He attempted to kill Ever-
idgo, who it a detective on the ’Frisoo road,
hut was hot as he drew his pistol
The ship William MeGilvery, of Scare-
port, Me., is reported as having beret
burned at sea on the 1,700 voyage from Piragua
for New York, with tons of nitrate of
soda for Hainan way & Brown, of Boston.
While hewing a log, James Harris, of
Montgomery oounty, Ky., struck hjs foot
with the ax severing the main *rt*ry, Re
lived a few hours, when ha suddenly ex¬
pired, bis heart fading from lore of blood.
Fire at the Ohio state penitentiary de¬
stroyed the buildings occupied by the Co-
Iambus Chair company, Cohunbna bolt
works and a huge Low, ware bouaa occupied as a
cooper shop. 8100,00a Three men
were injured by a falling oornice.
The official report on the Botooa raeeived
at the navy department have shows the aeetdent
to that vaffiet to been even more seri¬
ous than wu at fir st su pposed. At bast
twelve and probably fourteen of tor large
Wstesl, W, Va, stem 1875, ’is at
te a fair way to be brokaa up.
itofoBesr.
THE veterans.
Farther Proceedings of the Grand
Army Encampment.
Two EnthunlMtic Campfires
Hold Tuesday Night*
:
■muter War Com,! la Jmmu Pork At*
t*nd*d hy Tlv* Thousand Old Svldtere
•nd Others—Who Will a* the Best
Commander-in-Chief T - Boston, Week*
MlhWAt
flowing
Wert
h»U and
Howe
armory, besidM s
goypfl iMwa nnu
It WM expected
timt Gem “
f *
.man would
both tha TtWa w
Wth
. ... ^
ftl eithar
At fte Bid.
Brown
on od-
mA Commi ssioner
Mr S£ responded.
t>Htmander-in- 3 :
-Jtef Warner
presided and ad-
made a brief
£L^ presided ftt the]
otner camp lire,
A monster war
soncr concert,
tended bj
vets and others,
woe given in
»>
the .. court , was given and a. _
Sffirfi" House, was
iuinofade P wtm ** to<a >-
The Next Commander.
JSSAZSt asass ii:
:S vote 8meti
( .port
WUA 1 AM WAl
•* >» ■ww jjg i I ™** **®55J
oat Tania n clung id not a oommil conch
ttpattststi me^ngliMljer _
IStSi-uA
Between 700 end I
when the first Marion at toe twenty~
third order Nationrii encamgment was crified
to by Commander-in-chief Wm-
nar.
The usual formal ceremonies took
but a little while, hilA when _ the committee
on credentials s reported reported S*a tint tost all a pr*$ent
were entitled to to seats. seats. Then____ the eon-
mander-in-chief presented a lengthy
port reviewing the progress of tbs ow..„
during the peat year and oomparing it
with previous administrations.
The routine reports of the adjutant
cate general, general surgeon next general, submitted, judge and advo¬
were a
to special consider oommittee the recommendations of five was appointed
con¬
tained in toe venous reports and report
*° T^npb«r,oi
majority A lyg relating to changes resolutions, in the toe
pension laws and others to Steal repte-
Bfinifttlon in tiha onoRuinnuinl. iiffnTj watvi
handad in bv j rI rra fmi fmiL uA
jaw*. vu(K*iupui6uw ia id i n u i >» nl) J . fi^uRiRre i-in#iii^tore n‘ l WlvflOHw uulll_ j__±8 ■ u6*
Weehington The claims citizen’s of Saratoga oommittee. which be*
delegates, and if Ws^nrim^^^to^ win
ed, toe encampment be held in
May, when the weather is very pleee-
Wis., vioe
first
ode
of toe
Ul6
the tiononf brigade,
titled to i it and that ha does not propose
to be used as s lash for the old veteran's
hook.
Ouraviuffi. Team, Ang. 99.—Noah
Miller, while blasting a large ratoon
his farm, found, when the rock use re¬
moved, toe entrance to a cavern which
p ro saia e a to rival the famous Mammoth
oave wJHMBlfii of Kentucky. Mr. Millar explored
a Indian skeleton, chief; supposed weed to he that of an
as frown
HUUtDuicuw w "•* WW* aOStWuuU
around. By the side of the skeleton
was found a gold watch of a strange and
curious pa ttern.
__
trek *8, WO.OOC In th* Bear'* Kart.
Ottawa, (tot,* Aug. 99. -The tori
from Atoeka^tmgf B ' G '’
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NewTorm, /iii™ Ang. r “ “
ciRftmthin ^Jt
Sandy Hook at 4
j n „ too
hours and 18;
tr* city *r i
a&ersass
atialhe - TaaoL— _
the time.
_________
"DumwIHi
tor’s , Kurara, school W.Yu, bouse, Aug.
Cole went to a dance
He asked a ywog 1
him, volrm but she
and to_________
zmA. *'Dnnoe or die’
instant fly & von Tiff in/
Jam e s J l t% at| GyR nii as
d^d
y-—.
l^wSle ptoyZjB 5-yaar-old sou a
ai