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About The Griffin daily news and sun. (Griffin, Ga.) 1889-1924 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1889)
VOLUME 18 . P’S II nil’s ! 8 Facilitates ■..... .. ......... ... s Horse .jub asaa e ^^...... GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. U S. A. Griffin In the best and most promising i t.f in th« tfc. Its record for the hall decide, it* many new enterprises in ation, building and contemplated, prove o le a business statement and not a olios) dflflcription During that time it has built and put most successful operation a 9109,000 actory and with this year started the of a second of more than twice that It has put np a large iron and brass :i fertiliser factory, an immense ice and tling worts, a sash and blind factory broom factory, opened np the finest quarry in the United States, and now onr large oil mills in more or leeg stages 6t construction, with an aggregate thorised capital of over half a million dollars. It is putting up thc finest system of ghtiag that can be procured, and has plied for tw o alters for street railways. hasseeumd’ssHtriMr railroad ninet y miles and while located on the greatest system in the South, the Central, hae secured tion with its important rival, the East nessee, Virginia and Georgia. It bos 4 ii rent independent. connection with Chat timooga and the West, d will break groan n a few days fora fourth road, with a fourth independent system. With its five white and fourcoloied church cs, it has recently completed A 910,000 new Presbyterian-ehureh. ulation by nearly one fifth. It has attracted aroUnd its borders fruit growers from nearly every State in the Union, nntil it is now sur¬ rounded on nearly every side by orchards and vineyards. It has put up tha largest ruit evaporators in the State. It is the home of the grape audits wiuemakingcapacity has doubled every year. It has successfully in uugurated a system of public schools, with seven years curriculum, second to none. owTrintfiy This is part of the record of a .half show* the progress of an already y with the natural i finest climate, summer and Griffin is the county seat of Spalding ty, , situated situated in in west west Middle Georgia, with a Healthy,tarSHs and roiling country, 1160 feet above sea level. By the census of 1890, wttl fiMg «t »low estina*te between6 000 7,000 people, and they are oil of the •orty wide-awake, up to the times, ready welcomestrongers and anxious to secure siruBl* settlers, who WiH not be any less wel eomt il they bring money to help build up the w*. There is about only one thing we eed badly justnow, and that ie a big hotel ffekave several smalt ones, but their accom modations are entirely too limited lor urine s, pleasnre and health seekig ngoeste If yon ass anybody that wants a good tion lor a hotel in the South, }ust mention Gri m* Griffin is the place where the Gmirrm Nkws t published—doily nud weekly—the best news¬ paper in the Empire State ol Georgia. Pleaee nclose stamps in sending for sample copies, and descriptive pamphlet ol Griffin. This brief sketchiswritten AprfllSth, 1889, and will have to'be changed in a few months otabrerenew enterprises commenced and MflW YURK ifl TflBTBMPLt VELVET AND PLUSH VelvetJRibbons, Caps. YelvetBaby new arrivals from New «H>f ft extra width @ “ •AMO,— —[OBDBHN.1— constantly on band a large and sk ol elegant ^ trimmingB tor promptly the se- — ' d o rdereare •lJiTbENSON’S Art Temple. No. 20 HILL STREET. Merchants and Planters ' Jill * * [fV _ _ __| v—' if &4k *.- 'A fS;ir ' n '*»«? ■ AU P 4 ik 1 ’ ■ 3 ST r '■■■* LIFE IS 1 m How I Shipped on a C V .Arnia Clipper in ' 56 . MW B * .{ OK PK! XT MlM.roItII Flint lloni' «n IIohwI - On the Vn»j*rf i freeman, <»n the Ihwh a Slave-fSly l ire* Essay la Na» lq »tlon -1 I Inn I My Super* visor Ovei-lM».m| ICopyrighted. ISSU. by the Author. I PRENTICE MILFORD. 1 . In 1836 I shipped ‘‘before the mast”on die A 1 first class clipper Wizard bound . from New York to San Francisco. When I made up my mind to becomes sailor, I had tried several of this world’s callings and seemed to find none suitable. 1 had asked counsel of several elderly gentlemen in mv native tillage as to the best way of securing all things needful during my sojourn in this world. They said many wise and good things. They looked wise and good. But really the wordy help they offered was unsatisfac¬ tory. So I cut the knot myself and said I would be a sailor. I explained to my male and female friends that I felt my¬ self destined for a maritime career. I needed more excitement than could be got out of ashore humdrum life. The sea was the place for enterprising youth¬ ful Americans, The. American merchant marine needed American officers and sailors. All heard me and agreed. No arguments. How people will agree with you when it’s all one to them what yon do! I was eighteen and in most respects a fool, including this—that i did not know it. Tbe Wizard, on which I shipped with five other boys from my native town, was a first olass clipper. She was a fine thing to look at from a distance, either as she lay at anchor, the traoery of her spars and speeding rigging: in relief against the sky, or along under studding sails rigged out on both sides. Bat once on board and inside her symmetrical lines, things were not so beautfnl. Those white, cloud like sails tore men’s fingers as, hard and heavy with ice or snow, toe sailors tried to furl them. Those graceful, tapering yards, supportingthe studding sails, strained and half crushed men’s backs when lowered and tiffed • about tl>e deck. There were wooden be¬ laying pins, iron marline spikes and oth¬ er miscellaneous things to fling at men’s heads by those in authority. Those cob¬ web coiled like ropes bad to bard, lash thick men’s ei|ds ly- ing on deck We, the six boy#,’were obliged to leave our nativJ heaths because there wasn’t room for us on them to earn cur bread and clothes. We were Wet clearly aware of this at the time, tliough an Unspoken sentiment prevailed there, as it does in most of the older settled states, that the young man must move away to "seek his fortune.’’ ' Hie captain of the Wizard was from our native town. Therefore myself and tbe five other boys had shipped under him, expecting special favors. A mis¬ take. Never sail under a captain who knows your folks at home. You have no business to expect favoritism; he has no business to grant it. I was the last of the six young lubbers to leave the town for New fork- On the morning of my departnr* *he moth¬ ers, sisters and other female relatives of toe five who had gone before discovered many other things which they deemed necessary for the urchins tcrcarry on the voyage. 80 they bore down on me with them, an -1 1 bade most of these good people-lily farewell, loaded down, In addiu.M to my own traps, with an assorted cargo of cakes, sweetmeats, bed juilts, Bibles, tracts and 000 copy of ‘Young’s Night Thoughts" for the boys. I ate my last dinner os a free man at a Broadway restaurant, and then I went to the wharf where the ship lay. Al¬ ready the tug was alongside, preparatory to hauling her out in the stream. I went np the plank and over the ride. A gen¬ tleman in authority asked me, as I stepped on deck, if I belonged to the ship. I said I did. “Take off those togs, then, put on your working duds and turn to, then,” he remarked. The togs went off. I put on my canvas pants and flannel shirt, the garb of sea servitude. Henceforth I was a slave. The ship just then was not a Sunday school nor a so¬ ciety for ethical culture. It waa a howl¬ ing pandemonium of oath* and order* Fully one-third of toe able seamen had not recovered from their closing out berths or were sprawled on deck drunk. Cargo in cases, bale*, boxes and barrels was still rattled over the bulwarks and into tbe hold. Bsreyhody mrenjd to to n each on* on «* JSSn continued to turn up everywhere, 7vo*t. and u4 GRIFFIN GEORGIA SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER U. I«Si». each officer ordered me to some then. I wished there was some way of it. On shore the period between foremast hand and the position of cap¬ tain was only the duration of a thought Here it was an eternity. Day are short, real experience Is long. ail this is often in youth a difficult ter to realize. * j ’ with There deeper came voice along and a short, stout a mono bath than anybody else. This was fourtfi and last mate. It was a relief find at last the end of the motes and know tire exact number of men mately entitled to swear at me. gentleman for a season 1 % pen, which lie argued needed ing. This was my first well maritime duty. It was a lower round ‘ tiie ladder than i laid anticipated. seemed in its nature an occupation bucolic than nautical. 1 would preferred, also, that compliance with order had not been exacted until the had left the wharf, liecause there several shore visitors on board, among them two of my intimate friends, who liad come to see me off. There stood, in all the bravery of silk hats fashionably-cut attire, conversing terms of equality witii the first mate. They could-talk with him on the or any subject. I, by virtue of my ferior position, was not at liberty speak to this potentate at all. I jumped into the pig pea. Thus tiny, despite our inclinations, down our throats these bitter pills. fourth mate was not more than a my senior. He stood over me during entire process and scolded, cursed commanded. My shore friends looked on from afar and grinned. Already they saw the great social chasm which yawned between me and them, and governed ready did their they actions involuntarily accordingly. Al¬ patronize me. It requires a wise man to detect the wickedness and deceit in his own nature. Probably I should have simi¬ larly acted had our positions been re¬ versed. The mate was very particular. He made me sweep and scrape every corner with an elaborate and painful accuracy. He sent me into the pig’s house to further perfect the work. I obliged to enter it in an almost recum¬ bent position. The pig ran out disgust¬ ed. I scraped his floor in a similar mood. Thus commenced life on the ocean wave. But I got even with the mate. Destiny made me my own involuntary of the indignity put upon me. By in- pig pen. That was an honorable menial occupation—at least, in theory. Cincinnatus on his farm may have the same thing. But I do mean the rility and abuse the young officer be¬ stowed on me, while I did my best execute his bidding. I hauled the young man overboard about three minutes afterward, but he never knew I did it, and I never allowed myself to think of the occurrence on air shipboard, might ventilate for fear the the powers It of matter. came about In this way: A line was passed through a hawse hole forward to the tug, which was puffing, fretting, fuming, and churning with floating her screw the mud and garbage, in the slip into a closer fusion. My friend the mate stood on the forechains with the end of heavy rope in both bands, trying to pass it to those on the tug. This line running through the hawse hole aft was near where I stood. Some one called out: “Haul in on that line!” I supposed that the order referred to mo and the hawser lying at my side. So I hauled with all my might. I felt at first some resistance —something like a tugging at the other end. I hauled all the harder. Then something seemed to give ufcy. It hauled easier. 1 heard, coincident with these sensations, a splash, loud cries, much swearing and the yell of “Man overboard!’ !” I raised my head over the bulwarks and there was my mate, floundering amid dock ooze, rotten or¬ anges and salt water. It was he who held the other end o« the line, and my hauling had caused toe center of gravity in his short body to shift beyond the base, and in accordance with a natural law he had gone overboard. He the general cynosure of all eyea They fished him out, wet aud swearing, Ifur the line. a the spot and kept 1 *: Blaster went m? XVeZere towed into clothes. the 1 stream anchored for too night To look at York city, with its many lights and ways, from the ship’s deck, without possibility of joining them, was to for tbe fiist time the slavery of life. Emerging very early next from the “boys’ house,” I found thing in the bustle and confusion of ting under way. A long file of men tramping aft with a very wet hawser. As I stood looking at them my ear seized by onr Dutch third mate, who ac¬ companied the action with the remark, “Cooins, I put you to work.” He con¬ ducted me in this manner to the rope and bade me lay hold of it. I did so. I could have done so with a better heart and will bad it not bees for the needless and de¬ grading maimer in which he enforced his command. Most men dotbedr work just ss well for being treated with a certain courtesy of command das from the superior to toe inferior. JftrUTORP. PRRKTKf '-4- What Would 0 mm Noxt. Short righted gentleman choc#es a . r of spectacle*. to says, “are not • ! NOT tm} HORSE. Forrest Argues tbe Identity of the Famous Qubdrstped THAT BOBU OSONU TO HIS DOOM. Th. Attorney BlaRs, « BoM Hoa for ’ ! and trmtvwv*. *M Evidence * Against Hint—II* Asserts That Noth¬ in* Him licen Pififri Against HU • -------- * Mills Next. Chicago, Dee., At the opening of the Cronin ain trial trial Mr* Forrest i resumed his address to the jury l-slon lni«-hai Kdialf of the de- •«**** Me begun w long argument hi use which drew I)r. to his death was not hoew. At the a teruoou s.-sstuo Mr. Forrest gave hto attenti n to the case of Martin Burke. There was nothing suspicious m Burke’s movements stihse iueht to May been introduced 4. Net a word vldence show had at the to that Burke was in the Car’- * on the night fication of May Burke 4. The in identi- said, of , .us was unfair and showed the state had no hopes of his man that hired Ms furniture, or the even that 1 was Burke who rented rented the cottage. O'Sullivan's I-enumLitluu of Cronin. O’Sullivan’a report ‘ * ’’ * Cronin was a Briti be killed might have torney continue 1 V not every trtw Irish patriot a man to be a spy make such a remark? He might not commit murder, but he would very freely give utterance to such a declaration and, therefore, declaration there Was nothing O'Sullivan significant made it. is th* l|u if Mr. Forrest closed his Speech with an appeal because to nothing the jury had to been aoquit proved his against clients them Tbs beyond adjourned a reaaonablfe till doubt. Friday, . „ T court when Luther Laftin Mills will begin. New Jersey Trotting Korea BreeUers. Trenton, Dec, 18.—Tire New Jersey Trotting Horse Breeders’ association met here. There were about 100 mem¬ bers present. A motion to change the place Trenton of holding Newark the anilual lost meetings Re¬ from to fvas solutions ot condolence! Hon. E. were passed upon the death of A. Wilkin¬ son. It was decided to hold the next trotting meeting at the interstate fair grounds, which were offered free of charge. The admission will bo free. A coinm ttee consisting Hon. Jacob Klotz, of Iseilo Meade; Ira Kilibourne, of New-J ark, and A. G. Sargeant. of Somerville the was association appointed to present incoming a request fron to the legisla¬ ture be added to npiwap-nwtep to the premium .%1 purse of the association.___ An English Iron and Steel Combination. London, Dec. 18.— The enormous col¬ lieries and furnaces in Staffordshire, employing bining with thousands the Shelton of men, Iron and are com¬ Steel companv, in employing many thousands more, to control a the comtnon trade enterprise in iron, steel designed and coal, and have invited the co-operation of several other firms and companies to join blow them. at the As existing the movement is small also a they the wages, of the as are, announcement en¬ terprise has spread consternation among the employes. Warns,1 Against Government Scheme*. Dublin, Dec. 18.—Archbishop Walsh addressed a large meeting of toe Ten- wits’ Defense League. He warned his hearers against acceptance of the pro¬ posed extension government land purchase scheme or of the Ashbourne act, which, he said, gives tenants absolutely no The security he against wholesale extortion. landlords; state, said, would take care of the the league mast attend to the interests of the tenants. ItruziliHH Crown Diamonds Stolen. Lisbon, Dec. 18,—The ex-empress ot Brazil has received a cablegram from Rio els, Janeiro which composed stating that the all finest of her known jew¬ Brazilian gems, have been stolen from their place of deposit. This loss would be a heavy blow to the imperial refu¬ gees if the Brazilian congress should vote to discontinue Dom Pedro’s income. It is said that Dom Pedro and the Comte D’Eu have had frequent disputes of late. Lost *00,000 in Gambling. New York, Deo. 18.—The statement is made that the $90,000 which Charles B. Wigton, Iron late treasurer of toe Glamorgan recently phia, ziing, was lost 1 wua houses iff this city, will bring suits against the proprietors of these houses to recover the money. Mlctt May Hava Sailed. New York, May. 18.—The bark An¬ toinette, on which it is rumored Silcott sailed hence but for Valparaiso, carried no passengers, her agents say that it would have been easy for Silcott to get aboard the vessel at quarantine, as the bark lay there all night before putting to sea. — Pittsburg Players* Club. Pittsburg, Deo. 13.—The organization of the Players’ National formally League completed club last of Pittsburg, The was following officers elected. night. President, Mayor William were Mc- Callin; vice president, Henry B. Rea; secretary, W. P. Potter and treasurer, W. W. SDrr._____ , Federation of Labrijp: FederatjJlP „„„ v Boston, Dec. 13.—In the of Labor convention Builders’ Secretary Savward, of the Master association*, de¬ livered of an organization address approving both by employers the prin¬ ciple and employed. Survivor* of til* War. Washington, Dec. 18.—The co-opera- surviving veterans of tiie late war, T# Succeed Silcott. Des Moines, la., Deo. ia,-W. E, Shurtleff, of Waterloo, la., has been ap- , Th* Weather. THE JOHNSTOWN PANIC. *■ “cSJSSSJ'JS Johnstown, Pa., Wit Dee, l#.—The opera house horror Irere fully as shocking as first reported. The number of dead is positively krib^to le ten, and five of the injured areTeportfd dying and to liave died at their homes in various parts of the town. The number of in¬ jured is about thirty. Most of those sur¬ viving are not serioudy hurt, but are merely braised and shocked. The doctors say the most remarkable feature of tin- accident is licit not a single bone Was I woken, either of the killed or injured. F ol lo wing is the corrected list of ^ iota Miller; eotoro.U t%a mh«M »hw r« . WBT employe! at Kwh’s saloon. GSorge Monicker. Sit. Pleasant, Pa., teamster. Little Clay coin b, aged 19. domestic, from Bedford county , 4M|lgi Mrs. Westey Kerns,48 years old, this ettjr. $ - Burns, 11 yearn old. (laughter of above. Isaac Folcr, »J years, ti ( oiicmaugb borough. George Horner, aged years. Dark place. Mrs. John Nee ter. aged SS, Veiioleon street. Eddie Bigler, aged N, son of John Bigler. Conemaugh borangh. „ George Frisehhorn, Brit more, M4. The cause oi death in every instance was the crush at the door leading to the street in the frantic efforts of the people to The get out. street door leading (PPM the stair¬ : to way is only -4 feet 7 inches wide in the clear. This is three or four feet from the foot of the stairway. On the seoond step is a double swinging door. This opening is exactly 4 feet 7 inches. The stairway leading to the first gailerv gallery is 8 feet wide; til at to the second is 8 feet wide at toe foot and 2 feet 9 Inches wide at toe first landing above. A REMARKABLE CONSPIRACY. A Scheme to Uepreaent a Woman Dead aud Claim Imuranee Money. Philadelphia, Dec. 18.—Annie Mc¬ Intosh is aHve. The effort to prove her dead was the scheme of Dr. F. M. Murray, of No. 1053 North Tenth street, to secure an insurance of 8625 on her life from Fidelity, No. 0 , Order of the Fra¬ ternal Guardians. Hie woman was insured in the order, and the papers were made out in favor of Dr. Murray. The case was and investi¬ gated Murray by Coroner the Ashbridge, first Dr. was very witness called. His testimony and when waa he altogether retired fence, stand it was no doubt with that his guilt would not Unfortunately for him, Ellen Behm, of 19J2 Uber street, at whose house Annie McIntosh was repre- rented to have died, made a clean breast of toe matter and admitted under ” that no one had died at her house iV n S 1 , 8 , y«wn»<) i> 4 hw an offer of $25 to allow him to men her house in the published notice of Annie McIntosh’s death. Then Dr, Mur¬ ray broke down and confessed all. National Trotting Horse breeder*. New York, Dec. 18.—The National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders Breeders held its annual meeting at the Fifth Avenue hotel. The following officers fornia; second vice president, J. V. Baker, Jr.; third vice president. A. J. Caton; secretary, L. D. Packer; treasur¬ er, J. W. Grey. Tiie committee ad¬ journed to meet at the Fifth qvenue hotel Jan. 17. A Iteiirmvlvunla Cyclone. Pittsburg, Dec. 18.— Jeannette was visited by a terrific wind storm. Two large longing new occupied and O’HnUivan irame buildings de¬ be¬ to Cort were molished and a smaller two story build¬ ing, blown the property dqwn. of Several Mr. Watson, build¬ was also other ings were moved from their foundations and badly damaged. The total loss will not be less than ;? 10 . 000 . No loss of life ' is reported. ^ v .: ■ rV- A Suit far Libel. president Washington, Washington Dec. 18.—E. W. Pub¬ Fox, of the Press lishing the charge company, of criminal wa* arrested libel preferred hero on by Mrs. Stone, a clerk in the war depart¬ ment. The Press published an article to the effect that Mrs. Stone, while drawing toe a salary besides of $lo 0 a month from mitted government, her aged father a become pension, per¬ in¬ to an mate of tli# poor house. A ,-f l-rliic® FcnUuanit. London, Dec. 18.— The Navoe Vremya, of St. Petersburg, one of the official journals of the empire, regards the quo¬ tation of the new Bulgarian loan on the Vienna bourse as a recognition of Prince Ferdinand as the legitimate ruler of Bulgaria, and declares it to be the duty of Russia to demand an explanation of the apparent odieial countenance of Ferdinand’s usurpation by Austria. llclnf ic.iufut* <fiir Mij. W Unman. Berlin. Dec. 13.—A strong detach¬ ment cd soidia s, uit’rt a full complement of officers, has been dispatched from "Wiseman's Berlin tor Command yaazil.wr to suitoeieutiy augment Maj. to en¬ able him to casry o t the new work to which he has been assigned in the inter¬ est of German progress in Africa, Andrew Cxvuexle** lii* rurehaae. drew Conn Carnegie ells ville. Pa., Dec. 13.—An¬ has purchased 1,500 acres of coal land in the Connells ville coke region, lies paying for it $>00,000. and The Union- land m midway and iwtween bought hero from Henry G. waa Cbariw. F. Mayer and Osman A A K!h 0 fa t mi vailing London, strikes Dec, in 18.—Owing the coiuery districts to the pre¬ of Austri* J-he pri^of coal has risen enor- ; the NUGGETS OF NEWS. ■fi *t Th. tart, wi* COUMW coltap»d, 1 uHsr am ' Oe r einoni 8 B Crlfbrating Washing- 4 ton n,, 1 a s inauguration. Tnn vt fi mw m. - - DISTINGUISHED M^N PARTICIPATE — The Official Ml* «I Ws.SU.te. r.lt, xzrzzxtSBXZ T,,. VI,. ........... Justice tattler’. Or. Washington Dec. 13. —1 nics in minm momtkm The house took a men after the chaplain tickets s prayer, admitted possess^ ; were floor. gas.*. Walker S’scs Blaine appeared fir t»i Postmaster General Dickinson. made by a collection of selves in it on^tawfre imi Gre<> came in first, an In ton eatUrlM. Postmaster wU_'_... Hire in the diplomatic ( garet Blame, in a the the opened Tbebi 1 but the 1 not remain 1 officers in o again and Mr. I centennial lution to a 1 1 toe supreme t egates to the < Mr. . , , i the house committee on the Cbl.f Jus tie* Fuller's AU4r«w The chief justice then read his ad¬ dress, beginning as follows: By the terms of that section of the act of congress under which we have assembled In further commemoration of tbe augu ration of the first president 332 g 2 SS»«*.£* centennial annivenu Smltltudfnow with speech and song, ot so- military and civic die- ‘IB*** went into an view of the constitution mepts thereto and cited____ a teg searching quality of test of the wisdom of ----- our form government. In a brilliant peroration the chief jus- tire said; ■•V'. Awl so the hew e upon in the spirit of c. suit, perhaps, of a self lost nothing in subsume though it has gained to the Impetuosity; >et an optimist accomplishment of grea perils, but bold in th* u n»traveled world of a still grander future. No ship can soil for ever over summer seas. The storms that it has weathered teat and demonstrate Its ahllity to earvlve the storms to come, hut storms there must be until there sba’l ha no more sea. iic* Fuller Congratulate,!. \v hen the chief justice had concluded Jib address, which he took one hour and a quarter to deliver, he was greeted £ken *g>. ,lui;UT eral minute befwe those evk “rrf -innrohatiAn 5 ■*” rfftaftH i-tjaDoij ana «*,,• it •*. oro*c again when the president, riri the , j £>
