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-------g little
for the- past
i opw-
. prove this
o teal statement and not a, hyper-
olical.’
i« it bos boBt and pnt into
i a 1100,000 cotton
i year started the wheels
norethan twk» that capital,
k large iron and brass foundry,
fee and bote
l blind factory a
> the finest granite
and now has
. ((||,„ For less advanced
stages of construction, with an aggregate au¬
thorised capital of over half a million dollars.
It is putting up the finest system of electric
ghting thnf ciin be procured, and has ap¬
plied for two arters for street railways. It
has secured another railroad ninety miles long,
and while located on the greatest system in
the! »South, the Central, has secured connec-
Hon n with its important rival, the East Ten-
■msec. Virginia and Georgia. It has obtatn-
d lire.;t iadepeudent connection with Chat
t anooga and the West, d will break groun
n a tew days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth independentsvatcm.
With its five white ami fourcoloi
.**.!*,! It has increased it*
pop-
ulatioa by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around Its borders fruit growers from nearly
every State in the Union, until it i* now sur¬
rounded oa nearly every side by orchards
and vineyards. It has put up the largest
rnit evaporators in the State. It is the home
of the grape and its wise making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in
uugurated 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 Show* the progress of an already
admirable cRy with the natural advantages
of having tbs Attest climate, summer and
• in tei, in tk# world.
Uriffln Is toe county seat of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated in west Middle Georgia, with a
healthy, fertile and roiling country, 1150 feet
shove sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at afow estimate between® 000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
sort—wideawake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any lew wel
comt if they bring money to help build up the
wu. There 1s about only one thing we
ssd badly justaow, and that is a big hotel
We have several small ones, but their accom
modatioxm are entirely too limited for our
usine s, pleasure and health seekig nguests
If you s«» anybody that wants a good locaj
tion for a hotel in the South, just mention
Orifito is toe place where the Gm rru Si sws
s published—daily and weekly—the best news¬
paper in toe Empire State of Georgia. Please
ariose stamps in sending for sample copies,
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.
This brief sketch is written Apriliath, 1889,
and will have to be ehanged in a few months
• embrace new enterprises commenced and
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business intrusted
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OS-CD i‘j ;ATH
Twelve K "e<! in .'., Th.ut.e at
Jobiurcwn, Pa.
THE AUDIEJ'Cl PAH 10 STHICm\
An Alnrm of Fire l» I lie Street Ter¬
rorise* »n Audience of 00* »t Peril’*
Oner* Hmm- They Kush lltromtl.
One Narrow Kelt, with Terrible He-
M.H.-rw.nt,-*,. Milt* rwent y-0 re Injured-.* Beport
Were rntblied to tlenth
u*m~
-.tt alarm of fir* was-------—
night at 10.80. It urns in Er. Wake-
field’s stable in Kernville. 1 he “Uncle
Tom’s Gatin" was playing in the Park’s
Opera House, and when the alarm was
sounded the whole audience of 600 peo¬
ple jumped ! to their feet and made a
dash for tit* stairway and a fearful jam
‘was the result.
The Killed.
The following were killed:
If Miss Bigler. Clara Burns. '
Nestor.
fifm rim **"■■ Hnmpr •**#* *WI< ,• «/f '.yf&r'V. '{
.(■ s ' ' : •.
Charles Friant. ■ ; “
George Stonaker. of Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
John Cart.
William Miller, colored.
A. FleisUour.
Isaac Folor.
Mrs. Lizzie Clay comb.
ITnknown woman.
Seriously Injured.
The seriously injured Albert are: Charles Owens,
Vaughn, John Mrs. Weymer, Matt and Richard
Mrs, Lister, mid about twenty
Worthington slightly injured, such sprains more and
as
bruises* “ .
How It Happened.
the panic 'occurred a large
the tiieatre, making another panic, and
toe hose on the crowd to get them away
The screams were terrible and it was
shocking to see small children knocked
down by big men and trampled upon.
trimth Trap.
This theatre has always been noted as
a death trap and the was other condemned theatre twelve
years ago, out was
washed away in the flood, and sine*
then this one has been used.
There was only one exit reached by
narrow stairs. the crowd,
The manager of tried to quiet
but it was no use.
many more would have jumped but for
a few cooler heads.
* Clubbed (a Death.
It is reported on good authority that
the police clubbed several to death.
The killed and injured were all taken
to Henderson’s morgue, where they
were identified. jury received the
Coroner Owens and
remains of the dead and rendered a de¬
cision that the victims came to their
death by being crushed and mangled in
Polk c’s 7 Opera house. ",
A PATRIOTIC PROJECT'
The Proposed Memorial to Washington
at-Philadelphia.
Washington, Dec. 12.— A meeting of
governors of various states was held at
the Ebbitt house to petition congress for
toe erection of a memorial monument
at Philadelphia to commemorate toe
declaration of independence and the
100th anniversary of constitutional gov¬
ernment in the United States.
Governor Green, of New Jersey, called
toe meeting to order, with A. P. Goles-
herry as secretary, There werepresent:
Governor Green. New Jersey; Governor
Buckley, Connecticut; Beaver, Governor Pennsyl¬ Biggs,
Delaware; Governor Maryland;
vania; Governor Jackson, Hampshire;
Governor Goddell, New
Governor Wpfley, Arizona.
Governor Green delivered an address
giving ment? a history skid of toe present started move¬ far
which he was as
back as 1853. After bill a general adopted discus¬ be
sion a draft of a #as to
presented to congress. It donates ten
acres in Fairmount park commission .for the monu¬
ment; provides for a com¬
prising one citizen from each State and
territory and thirteen citizens of Phila¬
Hh&wrttr"“ delphia, and asks congress for an t
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The Frit" « Deoem-
Washington, N, Deo. 12,—The
her returns of prices of of agriculture farm products
to lower the department before. The lowest are
than estimated ever value of
average com in
former years was 81.8 cents in 1875;
since that date. 32.8 in 1885.
The average of wheat estimates is
70.6 cents. This is nof the lowest
the average in December, 1884,
64.5 cents. of , is , , lower
The average before price reported. oats In 1878 it
than ever bushel; %t the
wag 24.6 cents per
present time 23 cents. buckwheat
Prices of barlev. rye W*
are also very low.
The average value of the potato crop
is 42.1 cents. The lowest averages re¬
ported were 40 cents in 1884. Present
averages are very much higher than last
year on the Atlantic coast and lower
throughout the west. „
Airs, root* Lord Hood.
Washington, Dec. 12.—Mr*. Scott
Lord, the elder sister of Mrs. Harrison,
died here yesterday. The funeral will
nmbablv take plaice to-morrow. The
probably not interfere with the official
$&sm social programme at toe executive man-
flje president usually “
Freight Trot as CollW*-
York, i’a.. Deer 18.—Two
on the Northern Central
<1 near Emigre file las
WK*.
GIUFF .....
MASSACHUSETTS ELI
Hanlclpel Content* in Mo*ton. Novrbury-
l»ort. Mm nml Worcester.
Boston, Doc. Muncipal elections
were held in Boston. Lowell, Salem,
Worcester, Newburyport and Lynn. In
Boston, although the total vote for
mayor was nearly 8,000 less than a year
Hart, Republican and citizen, .
ago,
elected by a larger majority than any ,y
mayor has received for thirteen years,
with the exception of that given to
O’Brien, Democrat, in 1888. The Re¬
publicans will also hare a majority in
both branches of Newburyport the city government. resulted
The contest in
in the election of E. P. JJodge, inde¬
pendent
.«*ea is Republican. Licens
government •ament >
Note: Yes, 1,164; no, defeated
In Salem Robert 8. Rantoul
Mayor Randall by 1*44 plurality. The
mayor and city government are Demo¬
cratic, although party lines are not
closely drawn. License vote: Yes, 3,348;
no, In 1,898. Worcester Francis H. • Harrington
was elected mayor Bullock, by a vote of 5,b65 to
5,019 for George Henry Independent
Democrat, ana 874 for city C. Graton, against
Prohibition. The votes
license were 5,193 to 5,125.
N«w Jersey Granger* Indignant,
Trenton, Dec. 12.—The New Jersey
State Grange met here. The members
are very officials indignant give at the them refusal toe of the of
state to use
the assembly chambers, as has been the
custom heretofore. They were offered
a room under the roof, but the women
delegates refused to climb up three
flights of stairs. The grange has hired
a hall in town. The executive commit¬
tee has prepared a resolution denounc¬
ing th* officials, and it will be adopted.
Fail Into n Flint Hopper.
Trenton, Dec. 18. -John R. Todd, and
the fireman at toe New Jersey with Flint
Spar works in this city, met afear-
ful accident that may prove fatal. In
some way he fell into the hopper where
toe hard flint goes down to be ground
into fine powder between the great re¬
volving stones. His left foot was drawn
into the mill and was terribly crushed.
Some fellow workmen The pulled limb will him have out
and saved his life.
have to be amputated.
Mt. Holly*# Mnddy Streets.
MT. Holly, N. J., Dec. 12.—The
propriation exhausted, for street with improveim the
having been excep¬
tion ot a small balance of $250, ana the
main thoroughfares mud, led being many of still toe knee citi¬
deep to in form nave rs.ociation for the ex¬
zens an
press purpose of securing an increased
propriation. For weeks several of
> streets have been almost impassable
for vehicles, _______
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1 f#i SiodbutA
IfO
New Haven, Dec. 12.—At a meeting the
of toe Yale faculty 190 members of
freshman class in the Yale scientific
class were suspended on account of low
standing in Latin. If they do not pass
the examination before he January
term begins they will be dropped al¬
together.
_____ __
Imprisoned for Seeking to (Cm(grate.
London, Dec. 12, — The courts of
Alsace have sentenced 248 young Al¬
satians to terms of imprisonment of six
months each for seeking their desire to secretly leave em¬
igrate to America, to
the country being construed as an at¬
tempt to evade military duty.
Hid good Arrested.
firm of Fredericksen & Co,, was ar¬
rested on an indictment returned by the
grand jury against himself ana the
Fredericksens, charged with conspiracy.
A Congressman Resigns,
Washington, Dec. 12.—Representa¬
tive Cothran, of South Carolina, lias re¬
signed his seat in congress to accept a
position as one of the council of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad com¬
pany- _
Oliver Johnson Dead.
New Yore, Dec. 18.—Oliver Johnson,
the great Abolitionist editor and co-
laborer with Garrison and Horace Gree¬
ley, died at his home 80. in Brooklyn yes¬
terday afternoon aged
steaniev Kopertefi Wreaked*
‘ Portland, Ore., Dec. 12.—The steamer
Michigan, of the Union Paoific Line, is
reported wrecked on Enterprise Rook,
Puget Sound. No particulars are re¬
ceived. ______,
Salvation Booth Arrested.
Geneva, “ ' Dec. LTCV,. 12. — Col. Ciibbom
Booth, of the Salvation Army, was ar-
reefed heritor violatioq of the Swit^i- decree
expelling Salvationists from
land. '
A Mayor Unanimously Elected.
Bath, Me,, Dec. 12,-Herbert A. Keal
was unanimously elected mayor, head¬
ing both tickets. The city council is a
tie on joint ballot.
Manager MacDonald Dead.
London, Dec. 12.—Mr. MacDonald,
business manager of Hie Hu.es, died
last'night.__ .
’ Draw,ilng Seriously HI.
ROME, Dec. 13.—The poet Browing i
seriously ill at Venice with bronchitis.
The Weatksr,
Bain; easterly winds; warmer; clear¬
ing- - _______
NUGGETS of news
The United States cruiser Petrel was
placed in commission. She is now at
toe Norfolk navy yard.
Hie Jerome Park Jockey club has
given nice up it* lease, and the celebrated
course will be used for villa rites.
The interstate commerce commission
began _ ____ hearing the _ compfoiate dal* of of ® George
trans-
portation of oil.
STwelU «. Com ric pr»M«>t.
A WU providing for federal super-
sa'sswrw;
MIWP ODES.
». Fv»«-
*
lerl
miles south <
cur ml wh
^ oods Wag ° and ns ,t»r.
wagon. Iflov
i=
*down over the giyqec ^ t
rods away. A small t ,„.
trunk was taken from the < > of a tree,
da can of
toMedul, who was in the wagon T
great hole wa3 made in the ground
where the wagon stood.
MARYLAND FARMERS
Not Looking for Front-*, but Straggling
to Make Hulk Kn.ls Meet.
Baltimore, Dec. 12. - -The seventeenth
annual session of the Maryland State
Grange was begun here. Dr. Thomas
Welsh, of Anne Arundle county, lec¬
turer of the grange, read his report,
which said that thoughtful men were
convinced that in spite of the farmers' mere’
leagues, the efforts of clubs,
farmers’ alliances, etc, American
farmer of today is Ruse. He
said the shrinkage in farm
lands was as from from 25 25 to to 50 50 per cent, The
greatest advantage We of agriculturists lands is
in the far west. see in our
own section valueles > as a marketable
commodity. counties in Maryland The farmers not of the look- best
are now
; for profits, to make but both have ends been struggling and
years meet
living in hopes that a bettei day may
oome. Z
___
Dived from the Window.
New York, Dec. 18.—For mind two months
Jeremiah Fitzgibbons has been
unsettled. Drink was the principal
cause. He became so bad of late that
hta uncle, with whom he lived on the
third floor of 332 Avenue A, had one of
wmwmmmu his while. sons The watch bov relaxed Fitzgibbons his vigilance all the
for a moment In the interval toe
young man—he was blit 22—dove head
first out of the front window. His body
shot down until it struck the swinging
sign over floor. a little The sign candy store on from the
around ifo was torn '-am
* —
Couldn’t l’nmp the President.
Pittsburg, Dec. 12.-Tu« special
train arrived bearing in President this city Harrison and
party from Chicago
via fhe Pittsburg, Cincinnati last evening^ ami St.
Eouis 7:15 the railway train at left 6|55 for " Washington T ’' ' via
HHL he Pennsylvania _ railroad. While at
the depot President ident Harrison conversed
had with enjoyed reporters his on visit general to Chicago. topics. With He
regard to his choice for the location of
the world’s fair he was mum, and with
reference of ‘ “1 Republic to toe flic propriety partiei participating of the Grand the
Army BpfeflpiW at
fftnei eral of Jefferson Davis the ihe. president
remarked larked “You “You must must excuse excuse me. The The
Grand Army of Republic must regulate
their own conduct,
Quarreled Over a Woman.
Connewubville, sensational Pq., sequel Dec. 12,—There the cold
is » to
blooded murder of Joseph H. Porter by
Marion Crowell at Dunbar. The young
men quarreled over a young lady named
Miss Ada McCoy. Porter was the pre¬
ferred suitor, which fact greatly in¬
censed Crowell, and after filling himself
with liquor he called upon Miss McCoy,
'jo oweU had told previously Mia-i Mouoy rejected that unless him. she
..
reconsidered her answer Porter would
be dead before the sunset. house Being again o’clock re¬
fused he left and at 4
killed Porter. Porter's remains were
sent to his home in Chattanooga.
T.,u Math F muster-.
Bradeord, Pa., Deo. i2.—At Carrol-
toa, N. Y., Pat Halftown, an five Indian,
aged 27, with his wife and other
Indians—three women and two men—
after drinking three bottles of whisky
and a keg of beer started home on the
outskirts of town. ----
town was struck
toe Rochester
fie was dragged fils wife fell into
id ditch ground the to side atoms, of the track and
on was
nearly drowned. She was pulled from
the water by an Indian who happened
to be passing by.
Robbed of the Fair Receipts.
Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 12.—There
was a fair and at the the proceeds, Third Presbyterian $500,
church keep until were
given to diaries Bryson to
work, tore* masxed men entered the
house, held revolvers to, Mrs. Bryson’s
head and compelled her to give up the
Federation of Labor,
Boston, Deo. 18 .—The American Fed-
oration of Lsibor met in the common
council chamber, city halL Governor
Ames addressed the convention, ex¬
tending a cordial welcome to the dele¬
gates. The report of the committee on
credentials representing gives seventy-one organizations delegate* in
present, part of the country.
every
A Western Bank Failure.
strongest in the city, closed its doors.
The liabilities are nominally given at
The assets are
Me extent and it is believed
the crisis,_____
Mr. Clavclond * Fishing Fond.
Sandwich, Mass., Dsc. i3.—It is re¬
ported that ex-President Cleveland and
Joseph Jefferson have bought
fo Wakeiy lake near here, -
turesque spot ttfsn and onq na
Conghlln
from B\ piece _ of liver. ....
a
A New.paper
Mr. Forrest continued
this bloody cotton ba
ssaw
In fact, when the cottage
on found May to 18 be the quite paint fresh. on Ii tl
he said, take eight days f
Mr. Forrest then retui
pert testimony and
ting faith in it.
Forrest Irrita
Of the many links
evidence nco bindi binding Dr. the si
to the s murder murder of C
ful if there is one m
strong. ?, as the one that
of ilariy evidence assailed, equally and h.
strued the evidence
sprang to his feet i
rest, unless vou era
truth you will meet ■
falsehood should meet w
Mr. Forrest excused 1
ceeded, but again
cried: FinSlyMr “Since Forrest the coroner's with a
liaa not Iteen a circum dance
In mlier^onls'The^ra attorney 1 i
his only assistants in formulating bad teen engaged
jury, but huge conspire a hug tortrMgle
a
the five prisoners trial. . The
on
attorney tion. made no reply to the accusa¬
O'Solllvai’* Alibi.
As to O'Sullivan’s alibi the speaker
-had to say that it must be true because
the fered witnesses in in testifying of details. to On it the had main dif¬
matters
point, that O’Sullivan was m the house
on In details the night they of differed. May they But all Matthew, agreed.
Mark, Luke and John, according to
great theologians, differed as to details,
but agreed on the main point. There¬
fore O’Sullivan’s alibi was well founded.
Coughlin’s alibi, .in the speaker's
mind, if it was equally not it didn’t nubstantiat. matter. The But
even were
unless burden the of proof lay proved on the that state, Couglin and
state
was at the cfttteqo-overwhelmingly
proved supposed it—it that canid ha not be there, for an the instant evi¬
was
dence of Mertes and Nieman being un¬
worthy of consideration.
Knivfifl.
Coughlin’s alibi satisfactorily estab¬
lished m toe mind of the attorney, tb*
knives were tq en up. “Oh, yes,” he
exclaimed, been lb. Cronin's, “these knives Dan must have
would have been likely keep Coughlin
so to them.
But where have had was Coughlins Where knife? He it?
must one. was
Why, he threw he probably the threw key it away the Cftrl*°n when
away to
cottage. “The
attorney for the state said that
the chance of Coughlin having two
knives identical to tho.« of Dr. Cronin
was one in two million,” being continued Mr.
Forrest. “That so, the chance of
Dr. Cronin having knives identical with
those lion. of T. Coughlin T. Conklin was one in the two knives mil¬
but says
were Cronin’s, Conklin is a liar qnd
a perjurer, as you must all know,”
!’ 1(1 <•’
1 As th^ prisoner* left tire court room
Coughlins little dm .liter, evidently
prompted by her moth r, cried: “Papa!
Papar If the suaix- t Imard it he gave
no rign. This child's cry is now a regu¬
lar thing. Were it a new idea it might
be effective, but the trick's age is con¬
sidered by the state to be an itnpretmable
armor about the jury.
IlaUlmoye ami i hlladrlpliia Kallroml.
Wilmington, of Del., the Dec. 12.—The am
nual meeting stockholders of the
Baltimore and held. PhiladeipUia Officer* Railroad
company was and direc¬
tors for the President ensuing Thomas year were elected
as follow*: M. King,
of Philadelphia; general John manager, J. T.
Odell: secretary. ijaois; C. Farm; treas¬
urer, W. H. auditor. W. T.
Tbetto; directors, William Canby. Wil-
H i " ~ M py -ifo-Bto
M. King.
ham and J. Vansant Smith, of Philadel¬
phia; J. B. Washington and J. V. Pat¬
ton, of Pittshiug. Pa. J, B. Washing¬
ton, tlie retiring president, has filled toe
office since the organization of tire com¬
pany in 1S83.
■Icnsst vrn'* New 1’uhllc School.
Jonestown, Pa., Dec. i2.—'
public dedicated school under building the in auspice* this of
was
Patriotic Order Fobs of America. , The
school directors of the ■ orough as well
as the clergy parti-i; ated. Addresses
--delivered by James R. Kenney,
iiag, ■ZvSzLsUf'tx, g, state state president president ot of toe the
•, and Henry
deputy instruction. state
A Driver Boy CrasbeA to DoS:
Hazleton. Pa,, P-a. 18.
t , . M <_
Johnstown, 1
Kremev, t.f the state
after a week's absence, i
place. He says there will !
distribution of relief «
serious errors that may !
will be rectified. 7 he
SsrML______ will be
tion which published in ]
form..
Iron and Eton I-WI
Pittsburg, Dec. 12. -H .
iron and steel manufacturers 1
States oil of the prominent assembling mills in f
gaSSiL^ scale of are ju-ices is to be revised
probably advanced.
Crushed to Death.
^Pittsburg, Dec. 12.-
fell upon the men.
f utotde In a C emetery.
Trenton Dec. 18.—A
nan named Robert D. C
Hitting in a chair
iruni car iu car. ill
SKSS3.
wife and two children.
ful machinist, m t iuu been out of work
S’SSSP
-uvunnah Jxin(.b«rein*B Strike.
strike ym i.
termination
by tot- of
owners
custody offices. last It is not believed that
the strike will longer than a day or
two.
11m Ik* Fireman Fli-oaum Kilted.
Chav
A few
Vandal ia
work tram
Martin Bicker,
killed
Bov. Dr.
mm
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