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th street. 4 half
vacant lots ou 18th street and Broad laray.
Beautiful oak anil hickory grove. Pret ttiest
building lots in the city.'
For Sale or to Ren
Griffin FEMALE COLLEGE and lots, all
the apparatus, geological cabinets, school
Most
stables, fruits, fte. in screen. So. 1 place land,
A 1 every
Shelton Shelton house house and lot, HH acres.
5 room hones in centre of Poplar street.
One of the most desirable places in the city.
Titles perfect. Ill right in every particular.
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Adam Jones house and lot, 10 acres.
Blake house and lot, 7 rooms, 65 acres.
Vacant lots from Wi to 50 acres in various
poitions of the citv.
Don’t forget big sale of 75 lots at Auction
os 27th.
‘is A. CUNNINGHAM,
Beal Estate Agent.
G.H. JOHNSON, SR.
Still represents the old
Mem Mutual Insurance 63,
of Athens. 6a., the cheapest in Geor*
gia and as good as in the world;
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and others as good as can be found,
as he would not represent other than
good ones, and earnestly solicits the
patronage of he community. He also
represents the old
Washington Life Ins. Co.
of New Yoik, his choice of all the Life
Companies, because it embodies aft
ts promises in the po.icv. The Na¬
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ation, the best Savings Bank for Small
investments extant. Call at his office
Ns 16 Hill Street, and investigate.
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Heidelberg we went directly to May-
ence, ence, which which is is the the largest largest tow town of the
Grand-Dukedom of Hessia, and is
situated Main and opposite the Rhine, the with junction of the
tion of about 8,000 inhabitants. a popula¬
The trip down the Rhine from
Mayence Interesting to Cologne is one of taken. the
most that we have
On leaving Mayence oar steamer,
crowded with tourists irom every
part ofthe world, Castsl went and slowly stopped past
the town of
at Biebrich, which we admired very
much, chiefly on account of the pal¬
ace and park of the Duke of Nassau.
We then reached Schierstein, which
also boasts of the beautiful old cas¬
tle of Fraueusteiu and Eltville, and
at this place one changes for coacheB
to the lovely watering Schlangenbad. places Our of
Sehwaibaoh and
little steamer crawls lazily Johannes^
past the famous castle of
berg, which was built in 1106 as
Benedictine convent. It is now sur¬
rounded . by magnificent vineyards
and is world renowned for its fine
wines and owned by Prince Metter-
nich. its Nieder-Iogelheim remains of the comes palace next,
with few
the Emperor Charlemagne. Ruedes-
heim view of presents the whole a Rhine most magnificent valley, and
here we visited the national monu¬
ment “Germania,” which was begun
after the war with France and
restoration of the German Empire,
on the plateau of Niederwald, whidh
falls down-abruptly great to distance the Rhine,and of. it
can be seen a
was not only in consideration of the
beauty of the surrounding chosen countiy place
that this spot was as a
for this monument, but rather for
the great historical reminiscences
which just on this spot fill our miads,
and enhance the charms of the scen¬
ery. It was at this place the Ger
ing man from Emperors their passed corouation when to return¬ make
their circuit through electors the German
country. Here too the pass¬
ed when a new Emperor was to be
crowned. It was here also that the
long trains stopped to send forth
thousands of vigorous sons of Ger¬
many to protect their country from
invaders, or march into the country
of the enemy singing here the favorite
song of the people; and it was
they returned a year after crowned
with the laurels of victory. The ma¬
jestic white marble monument rises
proudly upon a grassy mound and
sweeps Johapnes the surrounding Schilling, of country. Dresden,
the Upon execution of this work rested,
and the foundation was laid in 1877
in the presence of the strode Emperor, he
having given the first of th#
hammer, followed by the Prince
Royal and Count Moltke. The deed
which was to contain the foundation Em¬
was signed by the Emperor and
press, and contained the motto
(translated) “Stand all united to the
Emperor *aud the above Empire everything.” and Ger¬
many, Germany of steady labor this
After nine years
gigantic work triumph was conveyed along
the Rhine in and set upon
this hill as a lasting testimony of
Germany's overpowering strength
and bravery.
Bingen, one of mdst charming lit¬
tle places of the Middle Rhine, comes
next with the Elisenhoche, the Klopp. Chapel
of St. Roch and the castle of
Not far from Bingen, in the middle
of theriver and built upon a rock, is
the According Maeusethum to tradition (tower this of tower mice). is
a monument of the sordid avarice of
Archbishop Hatto, and at the same
time the scene of a dreadful catas-
thrope which is said to have ended
his life.
We pass many old castle ruins up¬
on the banks of the Rhine, some
built anew the and formiug a fitting
home for proud descendants of a
long and noble line of ancestry, while
others stand perched upon crumb¬
ling rocks dark from the ravages of
dark deeds that have rendered their
walls accursed, and disembodied
spirits frequent their terraces by
ght. Bacherach, interesting little
an
village, is especially remarkable for
St. Peter’s church, and thebeautiful
remains of the choir of the Gothic
Chapel of St. castle Werner, while above it
towers the of Staleck. On go¬
ing down the Rhine, in the middle of
the river and standing upon a ledge
of rock is that curious and enigma¬
tical ediflee Castle Pfalz, former resi¬
dence of the electors. A six cornered
building roofed with five and twenty
turrets, one would fancy it was palace. built
fora prison rather than a
Next comes Caub, where in the night
of New Year 1813 Bluecher crossed
the Rhine with his troops “To wash
out the disgrace of bondage in
proud stream.” It was here that
the castle of Gutenfels was destroyed
by Napoleon in the beginning Oberwessel, of
the 19th century.
the left side of the river, gives a fine
view of the Rock of Lorely, which
gives a beautiful echo by
the sound five different times.
are to be seen the celebrated
of “OurLady” and St. Martin.
At St. Goarshausen we see
castle Katz, which reaches out at
entrance of the beautiful Swiss
and paring at castle Maus behind
in the river bank ^
curve
rise to the saying
watching the Maus.” St. Goar,
next village, is celebrated for
beautiful churches, the one a
Catholic the other a pro test ant one,
Below the town on a grass
hill stand the ruins of the
Rbeinfem, which was surrendered
the French without a struggle
X&ttt stand the twin
s
1 , dA. regal splendour, E
German w^„ p «zr™ be s°o found, r . :
architecture to
while around this ancient castle le¬
gend has woven a web of many Won¬
derful tales of ghosts and witchcraft.
Just below is Oberiahastein, wherein
itrange contrast stands the ruins of
;he old castle in which king Wenfcrel
was dispossessed glides swiftly of a crown. under Our the
steamer
beautiful bridge with, three arches to
Coblentz. This is an ancient town
and fortress with abqut 40,000 in-
babitants. The picturesque church
of St. Castor, dating from the 12th
century, bridge of the royal which palace, stretches and the
boats, en¬
tirely approach across the river opening at the all
of every steamer, are
very interesting. One of the hand¬
somest belonging palaces the that Prince we pass Wied, is while that
to
on the opposite bank we see OJf b lit¬
tle hill the monument of the French
General Hoche, who crossed the
Rhine with his trooDB in 1795.
Audernach is surrounded by an an¬
cient wall with well preserved towers
and these gates times that seem a A mockery little dis¬ in
of peace.
tance below, where the Rhine breaks
through slope the rocky hill, channel, lie number and upon of
extensive a steep ruins, of the vestiges a of
a
most magnificent building. These
are the fragments of the wall and
castle of Hammerstein, to which are
attached the most dreadful reminis¬
cences of the German Empire, and
serve as a faithful reminder of the hi-
security of crowned heads; for it was
here when that 1105 Henry IV. fled rested from the uneasily
in he cap¬
tivity in which he was kept the byhisun- site of
natural son. Sinzig is
the splendid and picturesque St.
Apollinaris style and ornamented church, built in the in interior gothic
with many handsome frescoes. Sie-
bengebirg takes its name from the
seven peaks rising near it like so
many crowns on the mountain.
Demolished by the storms of time,
stand many ruins of castles and
chaplets upon it, which mirrored in
the waves of the Rhine proclaim to
passers by the past magnificence of
by-gone times. One is called the
“Lion’s Castle,” another the “Mount
of Olives,” “The Castle in the Clouds”
and still another the Dragons Rock
or “Drackenfels” tower, which rises
majestically in front close to the
flowing, river, and is visited for the
fine view of the country and river,
together with the side deep which and according gloomy
cavern on its
to tradition was long of all the the den of a
dragon, It the terror from the country at
round. was quarry
the foot of this mount that the stone
for the building of the world famed
Cathedral of Cologne the railway-steam-fer- was taken. At
Obercassel is
ry which which crosses crosses the the Rhi Kinne. At
Bonn we saw the monument of .Bee-
thoven. thoven.
Cologne comes next, and here we
leave our little steamer after a
day’s voyagedown would well theRhinethrough paint¬
scenery that adorn a
er’s canvas, thus terminating one of
the most delightful trips, which we
felt was all too short; for from here
we must look no more for natural
beauties but trust to the artisan’s
skill to interest us in the great, busy, Bel¬
crowded cities of Germany and
gium. Cologne Our first visit after early a night’s service
rest in was to
Europe) adorning the The most foundation gigantic
of gothic edifices.
stone of this church was laid in 1248,
and the work was continued till 1437,
and then stopped until 1827, when it
was again resumed and in 1880 the
entire building was completed place in and the
the inauguration took
presence of the Emperor and all the
princes at the German Empire. Some
of the modern paintings, church on glass m
the interior of the are very
remarkable. In tbedhoir of the ehap-
el of the Virgin is a celebrated altar
ainting, and in the chapel of the
'hree Kings is the famous picture of
the cathedral dating from 1450. The
ancient stained glass windows and date
from the 16th century, upon one
window is St. painted Lawrence, the Passion, and the por¬ do¬
traits of
nators with coat of arms. Another
window represents scenes from the
life of St. Peter, the genealogical kneeling tree
of Christ, and auarchbishop fourth window
before St. Peter. The
represents the Queen of Sheba visit¬
ing King Solomon. The fifth the
crowning of the Virgin. After its en¬
tire completion the church will con¬
tain 728 stone figures. Above the
entrance of the north portal is the
great.organ. It has three sets of
keys, each containing 4X octaves,
and two octaves of pedals, with 42
stops and 5 couplers. The treasury
chamber contained treasures of im¬
mense value before it fell into the
hands of the French, but the number
of panels still remaining are of great
value. The cathedral is a work of
art, bolder than which none has ever
been designed, purer and more per¬
fect than which none has ever Deen
executed, and it meets the eye of the
beholder highly so magnificent light and airy by means its
of its oraments,
great number of small turrets, it makes gal¬
leries and.decorations, and decorations, that that it
the impression of something saddest mighty days
but not massive. The
for this magnificent and sacred edi¬
fice occurred when the French sol¬
diers entered the city. It was only
by the greatest exertions of the citi¬
zens that the church was preserved in spite
from t-otal destructon; and
of all their efforts they could not pre¬
vent their destroying many valuable
antiquities, and archbishops. melting the Thechureh bronze
tombs of the
was used for storing provisoes by
the French, and the prisoners of war
were kept within its sacred walls, but
a brighter day dawned for this splen¬
did temple, and all Germany took
her welfare to heart and funds pour-
architectural skill, and the entire
A
and makes a
1 beholder
It contains 1 * i SSS.S 5
paintings. I this church is a
museum whl Roman and
of middle the masters centur_ of i 5 StrfSs
centuries, togethei With fine modern
hall is of the
i, with a fine
portico in the Renaissance style. On
the Haymarket is the bronze monu¬
ment of Frederic William III., which
was founded by contributions from
all the inhabitants of the Rhenish
Provinces. It consists pf a hand¬
some pedestal upon which is mount¬
ed King, the while equestrian the four statue angles of the of
on
the pedestal are the statutes of
Bluecher, York, Kleist, and Bulow.
The relief represents the progress of
commerce, art and science. The en¬
tire monument is cast in bronze and
is the largest of its kind in existence.
In front of the Casino are the
bronze statues of Bismarck and Von
Moltke. St. Peters church boaBts of
a beautiful “Cruelflxioanf altar-piece by St. Rubens, Peter.”
called the
St. Cecelia, a very old church, of
which very little remain* at present,
had its origin in the the 1st relids century.
The sculpturing of over
the St. Cecelia arch of and the door, other saints, representing iB
a
most remarkable piece of workman¬
ship. Not far from ‘ this church
we find the house in which Marie de
Medicis died and in which the great
painter Rubens was born. In the
house are two memorial tablets re¬
ferring to these two events. It was
here when banished by Cardinal
Richelieu that the Queen of of Februar February, came on
the night of the 28th ith
1642, and found peace from the ;he
storms that swept over France In
that year. To visit all the most re¬
markable places of Interest in
Cologne would take several days,
for during the middle agtes it was a
fortified town of great crowned importance. thJ
Its archbishops once
Emperors of Germany, and filled
high offices of state. In the 15th
century the city had reached the sum¬
mit of its glory, wealth and power,
but not until after the fall of Napo¬
leon did she become what she is.
With 171,000 inhabitants she stands
the Empire. sixth city of the mighty German
Leaving Cologne with regret, we
arrived after a few and hours prepared travel by
rail at Brussels, to see
this city in as short a space of time
as possible, and spend as the few heat days was at very the
great, lovely little seaside a of Ostend.
resort
Brussels is a great lace manufactur¬
ing centre, and presents many inter¬
esting features to the visitors, as
well us many pleasant of which excursions is to the to
the country, one
battle narue nt field of Waterloo. Taking a
gujde out to at us the _______ p<
armies. Duke The Wellington English army allied under to the the
of
Prussians French uniter under Marshal their Bluecher,
and the idol Na¬
poleon. This guide, a descendant of
one of the old soldiers who fought
thuiastic here, painted terms in each glowing and of the en-
move
armies, each attack and defeat, in
such a realistic manner that as we
stood there seventy four years after
we could recall toour mind’s eye,that
glorious soldiers struggle in which down so like . many ripe
brave went
wheat before the sickle, and we lived
in imagination that never tq be for¬
gotten battle white standing upon
the green mound of England surmounted with by tail the
bronze lion
erect, and gleaming teeth;! facing watchdog to¬
wards France as a silent
that never ceases to warn her never
again to trespass. In the museum
at the foot of the monument and
built upon the graves of thousands
of brave dead, are
number of relics
eluding arms of all kinds, caps,
mets, uniforms, military gold, ornaments,
decorations of crosses ofthe
Legion of Honor, a pair of Napo¬
leon’s silver ba ttle spurs, and several
kitchen utensilB marked with the im¬
perial crown and portraits the letter “N,” to¬
gether with and auto¬
graphs of severed of the officers who
raught in the battle. little Her? with
Major Cotton’s excellent work
“A voice from Waterloo,” white
seated under the shadow ofAhis glor-
ious monument with an extended
view of the plain below, the whole
scene passes mind’s like a grand leaving panorama
before the eye, an
indelible impression that the reading
of history atone could never make.
One of our most interesting after¬
noons in Brussels was that spent in
the Wiertz museum. To many the
name of Wfertz is an empty
sound telling nothing, and yet he
gave his whole life for fame
which shed upon him but a fitful lus¬
tre. His pictures are his such that only
those educated in science can
appreciate them and of Rubens perhaps he bad would he
lived in the days
have had the fame of a Rubens; he lives hut
he fell upon evil times and
only in Brussels, to which be has left
as a legacy consecrated every specimen himself of his
Art. He to art
with an absolute self devotion in
which the world steeped saw only insanity,
for though in poverty poverty he
never sola sold a a picture, picture, but out steadily steadily re-
fused large sums for sake them; and this yet
this ascetism for the of art,
self negation which repulsed has all singular pleas¬
ures and all profits, a
beauty, and though all the world
does not find it so, yet those who go
to his great pictures fresh from the
Cathedral where Rubens master
piece “The Crucifixion” fills the whole
temple with its glory, will not find
Wiertz, master piece “Fatrocles”
j.’ wanting in either ule or color. From
first to last the existence of Rubens
was a superb triumph, from first to
last the existence of Wiertz was
it
heav<
Sea.
still, eights quiet evenings the interesting
of the day. Pike County.
“This Comes Hopping.”
“This comes ‘hopping’ to find you
well as it leaves me at this present,”
was the quaint finish to many a let¬
ter in days gone by. The “hopping”
was odd spelling for hoping. This
comes honmg the victim to point of functional some weary de¬
woman,
rangements or uterine troubles, in¬
ternal inflam&tion and ulceration or
any other ailments peculiar to the
sex, the way of hope, health and hap-
inees. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite woman's Prescrip¬
tion, is the only medicine for
sold peculiar by weaknesses and ailments, positive
druggists, from the under manufacturers, a
guarantee of satisfactions being
refunded. given in every
case, or money See guar¬
antee printed on bottle-wrapper.
Leftover!
Our competitors are - left all over
when we show the handsome rera-
nents of Worsted Dress Goods left
over from selling our large stock, which
we are at New any price you Sto want.
York
Big reduction in priees.oa Newmar¬
kets, Short Wraps and Modjeskas to
•lose out, at E. J. Flemisteb’b.
Contagious Blood Diseases.
TJlows, sores, pimples, ltd),salt rheum, etc,,
sre evidences oj contagoiua blood disease. It
is manifestly a duty to eradicate blood pois
on from the system by a nee of B. B. B. (Bo
tanic Blood Balm,) time enabling the sore
places to heal, - and ‘ * ■■ ‘
ibility ‘
9.1 JH Atlanta, Outlaw, uo-i Mt. tut Olive, uuu* S bun, C., mu ewimtira. “1 bad
writes:
running One bottle sores B. on B. my shoulders i and and
L B. eured etir&lv.”
B. Johnson, B. has Belmont Station, like buss, char
worked on me a
head d and body wae covered with sor
my hair came ont, but B. B. B. healed me
quickly.” VT J Kfunin, Hutches, Texas, “B B
ulcer writes:
B has cured my wife of a large ou her teg
that doctors and all other medicine could not
cure.”
M J Koesntan, a prominent merchant of
Greensboro* Ga., writes: “I know of several
eases B. Two of Wood bottles disease cured speedily lady of owed uguly by srofu- B B
a
lous skin bom*.”
W C Birehmoie & Co., Maxey, Ga., writes:
‘B B B in curing Mr Bobert Ward of blood
poison effected oheof knswledgrr.” most wonder cures nn»0mi that
ever came to onr
Received the past week new stock
of in plain Misses and Childrens fine shoes,
and cap toes, at
E. J. Flemister’s
What Fur ?
Simply to keep warm and stylish,
go to the N«w York Store ana buy
Ladies and Childrens Furs at price*
that will warm your heart toward
the proprietors.
Spalding County Agricultural 1,1889.-1 Society
Griffin, December ntiw
call a meeting of the. Spalding
County Agricultural Society to meet
ou the second Saturday in this
month at three o’clock p. m. on that
day, and for the convenience of our
secretary we will meet at his store
hopse on that day, and as there is
business of importance to be trans¬
acted that day I hope there will be
a full attendance of. the members.
That will be the time to elect dele¬
gates to the next February conven
vention of the State Agricultural
convention, and the memfaere elected
to the February convention of 1890
will hold over and be members of
the August convention. I hope the
society will turn out and manifest a
suitable interest in the matter.
I now announce to the society that
I shall offer my resignation as presi¬
dent at your next meeting and as I
have tried to serve you faithfully for
many years I hope you will accept
my resignation and oblige,
Respectfully and truly youre,
S. W. Bloodworth, President.
A Sound Legal Opinion.
er al«o wan very low
Jaondice.bnt medicine. Am wa* satisfied cored Electric by timely Bi Inters ase of »ar- this
Do You Want a Cloak?
If so, go to the New York
and select one from their large
Ladies, Misses and Childrens
and Wraps at prices that will
ish you.
Good farming /Vsiswu a* nftteb- h.
overcoming ad verse cireumaianceH as
improving fully favorable
Paycash if you have to borrow
to do it The banker will charge
less than the merchant for credit.
There is some sentiment about
an ice house on the farm, but there is
least as much financial wisdom.
The moon Is never right while the
bed is cloddy.
Beforeyoawdwqte production
its cost
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in th*
Bruises, Sores,
ted funded. to gives Price perieet J&eente satisaction, box. or For money sale
per
E. R. Anthoov.
' Rap ! Rap! Rap!
We don’t care three rape
•dealers say, if you want
ASK
as any one. T ' '
grades Sullivu
Fruits, Fancy i
rs-
DO YOU WANT /
NOVEL 1 1
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A C H A HT
DO YOB WANT’
G fct p ices on Silverware, China,
J. 1
MT All stylesnw goods arriving
PRK
We alter this
We Ginghams have just at 7c. te 9c,
received
Drummer’s __
AT WHOU2SA
to $3.5b per pair. Give us a calf and we
WILL SAVE ^
Griffin, Nov. 28rd. -. 1
FARMERS’ CO-OPERAlivt Mi <
HAVtttQ MADE MONEYED ..........
We W * “
AT HIGHEST MARKET PR)
WT2 WANT EMPTY ^-‘ * * m * -** ^
WE WANT CHOKEBANO:
We Want to Sell the Best Cow . _ «
W Call a« OIL MILL.
W.’
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PURE
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Mnl Mirmk]
JEWELRY, (
Special attention given to Repairing.
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BOOTS,
2 2 llllvVWMXUO UACCn LIICJ
-HILL ST.- i
Home-made Shoes and
«r We warrant ail w ork and shall
m large shipment ol Gant*’ and Ladies.---
(•arm tor Sale.
One of the finest faims in Middle
health Georgia te for such sate. that The he wishes proprietor’s te
re*
tire from the fatigue of business.
This farm te about three-fpurths of the of
a mite east from the centre
city of Griffin, Ga.,adioinin^the containing200acres, sub¬
urbs ofthe city,
25 acres in an enclosed permam
pasture with large branch runni
branch through ;ii h is is centre sph splendid of pasture. place place f for mt:#
a a i a
or gin; plenty of water and wat
fall. Balance of tend te in the bi|
est state of cultivation of any fai
in the state, having had thousands
of dollars' wo#h of cotton seed and
stable manure and composts of .all
kinds put on it in the last few
It is also one of the best terraced
and ditched places in Georgia.
Ditches all scientifically washing run the sc ft -
to prevent any of
ditching of the /dace cost $o00. The
owner has made specialty the improvement since he
the owned place It, a thinking ever that he would
not
ever sell it; consequently it te a rare
bargain, such as scarcely ever te of
Also on the place is a fine young
orchard of fruits of different kinds,
nice convenient dwelling, barn and
all necessary out building
place is only to lie seen to
mired.-
e. W. CLARK.
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