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RGIA, U S. A.
Griffin is toe b«*t and most most promising promising little
ty In the th. Its record lor the past
all decade, its many new enterprises in oper-
tion, budding and contemplated, prove this
o be a business statement and not a hyper-
During that time it has built and pqt Into
most successful operation a #100,000 cotton
It has Rat up a large iron and brass fonndry.
ice and bot-
quarry to the United States, and now has
onr large oil mills to more or less advanced
stages t3ed of construction, with an aggregate au-
capital of over half amUUondollare.
It is putting np the finest system of electric
ghttog that can be procured, and has ap¬
plied for two artem tor street railways. It
has secured another railroad ninet y miles long,
and while located^on the greatest system in
the South, the Central, has secured connec¬
tion with its important rival, the East Ten¬
nessee. Virginia and Georgia. It has obtain-
d direct independent, connection with Chat
tauooga and the Went, d will break groun
na few days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth todependentsystem.
With its five white and fourcolored church
e», it has recently completed a #10,000 new
Presbyterian church. Ithos increased its pop¬
ulation by nearly one fifth. It has attracted
around its bordersfrait growers from nearly
every State to the Union, until it is now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchards
and vineyards. It has put up the largest
rn it evaporators in the State. It Is the horns
of the grape audits wine making capacity has
doubled every year. It has successfully in
angarated a system of public schools, with a
seven years curriculum, second to none.
This to part of the record of a halt decade
and-simply shows the progress of an already
admirable city With the natural advantages
of having tbs finest climate, summer and
winter, in the world.
Griffin to the county seat of Spalding coun¬
ty, situated to west Middle Georgia, with a
healthy, fertile and rolling country, 1150 feet
above sea level. By the census of 1890, it
will have at alow estimate between6 000 and
7,000 people, and they are all of the right
sort—wide-awake, np to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de-
s^abto settlers, who will not be any less wel
come if they bring money to help build np the
w». There to about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that is a big hotel
#• have several small ones, but their aceom
Hwlfttionn ar<> wfcirMy too iimited lor our
msine s, pleasure and health seekig ngueste
If yon see anybody that wants a good local
tto* for a hotel in the South, just mention
>at#l and upwards,
c. to 50c.
hand a large and
’innings for the so¬
I’JfjLrt rters are promptly
Temple,
Merchants and Planters
July 1,1889.
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of Flayer —>.o J’eo.in «ry Fcualtles for
New York. Dec. t&.-The promoters
of toe I layer.*’ league o/ B.nwbnll clubs
met at tlm Fifth Avenue hotel yesterday
cess was tit" eu r.ii i tfit i feer,>t:iry John
Montgomery ’Var .■>„ . a - -at what had
..-ecu lions'. .\«er t > • i;r.-dvntial.< were
presented and the <„.,uiw» read and
mlop'sitlv s ioption oi: the constitution
W»«s taken u,i.
Col. MeAlpin, chairman of the com¬
mit 1 . e ;n constitution r.nl by-laws,
read th report. It was discussed and
adopted .section by .return wit.i only a
few mino corrections.
The name agreed up n was the Flay¬
ers’ Nationa! i..eagae f Baseball clubs.
The object in organLing was to en¬
courage, faster and elevate baseball and
to protect the mutu d interests of pro¬
fessional base:.all players a’baseballchampion- and dubs, as
well as to establish
ship'of number the changes w orld. compared There are with quite a
of the
constitution of the National League.
liulm ami l.’egulatioi.t.
The yearly meetings be held of the board first of
directors are to on the
1 esdays after the second Mondays in
December and March, the December
meeting to take place* in New York and
the March m eeting elsewhere. The sec¬
retary’s salary to be $.1,200, with outsider. a bond
of $25,000. He must be an
New members must receive a three-
quarter vote and applications for mem¬
bership must be filed sixty days before a
meeting.
Ch,wen's Life Insurance.
Philadblfhia, Dec, 18.—Early this letter titoi
month Mr. Gowen forwarded
in reference to his life polices:
PnirADBLFBiA, Dec. 9,—L L, Register, **q.,
financial agent. Equitable Life tesuranos
company, Drexel building—Dear Sir: WiU
you please inform me what amount of paid
up policies in receive your company in exchange, I would for be (en¬ toe
titled to hold, to I prefer
«9J,0J ) of policies exchange I now and discontinue case the
to make the
payment of future annual premiums.
Vllisr UN H. Onns.
Lawrence Barrett's Swollen Neck.
NEW York, Dee. 18,-Arthur B,
I’hasA manager for Lawrence decided Barrett,
srid that ML Barrett had to
have recommended bis throat by operated the physician upon, as under was
nainder tit
all his en-
&& attenti
present Hvrfj me
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deLoumc
their new
ggjgy corporatioi
way. The
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of Champlain, place was he ’ skating roke through on the the river ice.
near that
His fourteen-year-old sister wgs on the
bank, his assistance. and seeing his The peril, boy, in she his hurried strug¬
to
gles, drew the girl into the .water and
both were drowned. Their bodies have
wooAuowofl
A Faith Cqrlst Conylpteil.
Brooklyn, DnUvfi-LtPi) Dec. L/vv, til.—Ole Iu« ylv Larsen, uai'BCUj the nils?
faith const who wan arrested for vio¬
lating medicine the health law by refusing to al¬
low of wife medical treatment child to
be given to his and when
convicted they were and sick will with be sentenced diphtheria, Friday. was
The penalty is one both. year's imprisonment
or #500 fine or
Held foe Embesjhement.
Chicago, Dec. 18.—Charles T. Eck-
ley. arrested on the charge firm, of embezzling
#3,000 from an Omaha was ar¬
raigned granted for preliminary continuance hearing, in bonds but of
was a
#2,500. Officers from Omaha are now
on their way to this city with requisi-
tionpapers . __
Declined to Bo Fooltah.
Rochester. N. Y., Dec. 18.—D. C.
Feely was asked his by opinion a United Press the re¬
porter to state on ver¬
dict in the Qronin case- Mf. foolish' Feely re¬
plied that it wobld be ‘'very for
him to declined say anything talk further. for publication
and he to
A Tennessee Bank Failure.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 18.—The bank
of Gallatin, to Gallatin, Sumner county,
assigned. The assets are about $60,00C Nearly
and the liabilities about officials $40,000. and
all the Sumner county many
business men were depositors.
For the Welter Weight Championship.
New Bedeo&d, Mass., Dec .a 18.—
Tommy McManus, of this city, has been
matched to fight Charlie White, of
Providence, at Washington, D. C., for
the welter weight championship within
three week s, _
A Philadelphia Culprit In Boston.
Boston, Das. 18. —Frederick C. Nor-
sSssfW&sWSsa decker, wanted to Philadelphia for a
over to Philadelphia offioers.
light rai ns; warmer} south erly winds
NUGGETS OF NEWS.
jtion The senate providing passed tor a concurrent from reso- Dec.
a recess
D, N, Washington, Wolford, who keeps a sold cutlery F.
ore to says ne to
ing that the ,
Sli S 2 L
issued that no one but representatives
of the press and counsel engaged in the
cast* should be given admittance, and to
the fifty or more reporters that occupied
senger his was arrival dispatched Judge for him, McCon¬ and
upon at 3;2o
nell took his seat upon tho benoli and
the court was declared to be in session.
Appearance Q f tl>e Prisoner*
One moment later the live prisoners
were ushered in over the iron bridge
leading Beggs, with from the deathly jail. pallor Lawyer John F.
a on his face
and his blue eyes staring as though pro¬
truding from the bleached bones of a
skeleton, Dan headed the line. Behind him
came half cynical Coughlin, smile with a half his ner¬
vous, upon face.
It was apparent to every observer that
he had nerved himself for the ordeal.
Then next came O’Sullivan, his jaws
hand compressed tugging and the lingers of his right
Martin Burke, nervously close behind at his mustache. him, had
the same look of stolid indifference that
he had worn throughout the trial. Lit¬
tle Kunze, the last m line, was as usual
the comedian of the prisoners, and
smiled and waved his hands at the of¬
ficers and newspaper men as he entered
the room.
The Jury Fites In.
As soon as the defendants had taken
their seats three deputy sheriffs took up
a position behind each chair and at the
same moment about fifty officers entered
the room by the main door and formed
riser his hat in his hand, nna this was at
once that accepted had as conclusive last evidence
a verdict at been reached.
The twelve good men and true were es¬
corted to their seats and the roll was
called.
"oppressed Excitement.
Perfect ’
silence prevailed. Even the
judge ously mopped usually calm the and collected nerv¬
brow. The prisoners perspiration maintained from the his
same demeanor which they had worn
When that Burke entering chewed the court with room, except
iedoubled
energy at his quid of tobacco, while
O’Sullivan ran his fingers into his hair,
with a desperation that threatened to
tear it out by the roots.
The voice of Foreman Clarke came
out clear and distinct and with a
triumphant ring in it, when he an¬
swered “We have,” in response to the
question of the clerk of the court as to
whether he and colleagues had agreed
on a verdict. Rising in his seat he
handed a folded paper to the clerk.
The stillness at this moment was not
merely oppressive but painful.
Begs* Out of HI* Misery.
Every whose eye was fate turned another upon the five
men, in morpeut
would be determined. Forpest cast a
a clients, glance of much encouragement towards be his
as as to say “ brave.”
Foster from his chair, a couple Qf feet
distant, threw In a few words in a whisper
to Beggs. another moment the voice
of the clerk, clear “We and distinct, rang out
on the air, find the defendant,
John F. Beggs, not guilty as charged in
the indictment.”
There was a buzz in the court room as
though been a loose. thousand The bated blood breaths had
let rushed into
the second face it of the of lawyer carmine prisoner, hue. His and right in a
was
arm, which had been resting on the
railing, fell like to his side, and his entire
frame shook that of a man afflicted
. it t.»
sss
to obtain. Finally five men wen
for the crime and after a ton* <
was chosen. It seems that a n»
srsK^sriSSar,
View. On May 11 Woodruff was
confessed to hauling the trank,
tho body was found. In June
were Indicted and on Aug. *S the
Since then the case has been
slow length along and the pro
fresh in the memory of the new
ers.
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London, Dec. 18.-The !
commenting on the verdict.
m the Cronin trial, says: T
vilest wretches ever left u
received substantial justice.
Washington, Dec. J8.
troduced in the house by
dues is a compound^ of se
trative bills which have
past congresses. The ba
Hewitt administration b:
the last senate tariff bill and the draft
Fan- American* In New Turk.
NEW York, Dec. 18.-The pan-
8:30 Americans o’clock arrived and in Jersey by City about
were met a recep¬
tion committee, of which C. N. Bliss is
chairman, and escorted across the river
and to the the other city city hall, officials where formally Mayor Grant wel¬
and
comed them. Senor Segara, of Peru, re¬
sponded to the mayor’s addre s of wel-
come. The party were then escorted to
the Fifth Avenue hotel, where Secretary
Blaine had gone direct from the depot.
Sorrow for Mr. Gowen** Death.
Philadelphia, Dec. 18.—The board
of managers of the Reading railroad
adopted resolutions expressing sorrow
for Mr. Gowen’s death. The general
Jan offices i, will be draped in mourning until
PeWsviLLE. Pa., Dec. 17.—The
Schuylkill County Bar association
adopted resolutions of sorrow for toe
death of F. B. Gowen, who was once
district attorney of to*« county,
the Color Line In New Fork,
New York, Dec. 18.-—The 250 white
longshoremen employed at the National
steamship line pier demanded the dis¬
charge of the seventy-five there. The demand colored men
also refused employed and the wltites left work, was but
hung around and made threats against
the negroes. called out A to reserve guard against force of violence, police
was
but no unlawful act was attempted.
Both the whites and the Macks em¬
ployed on the pier were non-union men.
GaUaghe^both well known in sporting
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A Cottage Burned nt Atbnry Fork.
&&&£&!& Asbcky Park, N. J., Dec. 18,—At 8
and family, was destroyed by fire, The
I* 3 obulai^the
b^ifpo with a vtew of
eg to the ultimate improvement
Death la th. Lmulo
>ox. Doe. 18,—Duri
repeatedly favor of. declared themselves to be in
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Revolt In Lombardy.
Rome, Dec. 18,—The Italian govern-
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