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ring thtetlme it has built and put into
, successful operation a #100,000 cotton
it has put up a large iron and brass foundry,
n fertiliser factory, an immense ice andbot-
tiling works, a sash an I blind factory a
broom factory, opened up the finest granite
quarry in the United States, and now has
ourtoi^e« «iB» in mors or less ad vanced
tnuooga and the West, d will break groun
•a few days fora fourth road, connecting
with a fourth independent system.
With its five white and fourcolored church
alatiom by nearly one filth. It has attracted
This b part of the record of a half decade
and simply atom the progress of an already
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Griffin is the county seat of Spalding coun¬
ty, situatsd in 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 ail of the right
sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable, settlers, who wifi not be any less wel
some ifthey bring money to help build up the
wn. There is about only one thing we
need badly just now, and that> a big hotel
*fe have several email ones, but their aecom
modatione are entirely too limited for our
Mine a, pleasure and health seekig nguests
If you Ike anybody that wants a good locaj
Griffin.
Griffin is the place where the Griffin N*ws
s published—daily and weekly—the best news¬
paper in the Empire State of Georgia. Please
nclose stamps th sending for sample copies
and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.
!%» MW.WAiorilton letch is written April 12th, 1889, 18H9.
to be changed in a few month
w enterprises commenced ted
^sthsjew arrivals from New
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vet, Baby Caps at $1 and upwards.
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to His Eternal Resting PIm&
10VES A SHINING MARK,
D HISGRiM SICKLE STRIKES DOWN
A MATCHLESS MAN.
With Stephens, Toombs and Hill
His Name Will Live. ~
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THE SOUTH MOURNS FOR
HER CHAMPION,
And Sustains an Irreparable Loss in
the Sudden Closing of a Nnfj|i Life.
The Magnetic Orator nod Editor of the
log—Sorrow in Atlanta when the Sad
Mews was Told—Arrangements for the
Funeral.
Atlanta, Ga., Pec. 88.—Henry W.
Grady died at 8:40 Monday morning.
His death had been feared by those who
had watched the case closest, but nobody
expected it so soon.
The scenes at the home during the last
hours were most pathetic. It was shortly
after eleven o’clock that Dr. Everett an¬
nounced that Mr. Grady was sinking
rapidly, and that the end whs near. Then
it was that all the members of the family
and relatives gathered about the sick bed,
hoping against hope, yet praying that
the cup might be taken from them.
Friends who had, at the doctor’s sugges¬
tion, left the house a few hours ago,
were hastily summoned. Among those
who came were Capt. E. P. Howell, Mr.
W. A. Hemphill, Mr. 8. M. Inman, Mayor
Glenn, Judge Newman, Major Kiser,
Capt. J. R. Wylie, Mr. W. 8. Lowe, Mr.
W. L. Peel, Mr. T. D. Meador, Mr. Don¬
ald Bain and others. It was Mrs. Grady's
wish that' those who loved him be per¬
mitted to take a last look upon hie face
while yet life remained ; and one after
another—those who had loved him with
a love that was exceeded only by that of
the nearest and dearest—stepped into the
rick room which was so soon to be the
chamber of death.
Gradually his condition grew worse
until death came. Upon the scene at
that death bed—the scene in the house—
we let the curtain fa». The grief of the
wife, of the orphaned children, of the
ously ill. As one of hia nearest friends
said : “He is the last man with whom I
would ever associate death," and that
seemed to be the almost universal opinion.
Saturday he was known to be very ill,
but it was not until general yesterday began morning real¬
that that the his people illness in might fatal. to All
ize prove family willed
day long friends of the at
the home to inquire sfteb the sick man’s
were there, ur. wuns w esimoreiana, Grady, or.,
a life-long friend of Mr. was one
of the earliest, and he and Dr. Orme
talked overthe patient’s condition. There
were hundreds of others—men, women
and children—and there was sorrow in
the heart of each when it was learned
that there was little hope of his recovery.
This was made known as the day ad-
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ger would have known that some great
sorrow Scarcely hung over the city.
a person or party that did not
discuss the condition of the sick man,
and and everywhere expressions of sympathy
sorrow were heard.
In little groups people gathered at the
corners, as usual on a Sabbath, but
among them there was uot that spirit of
liveliness that is common on Sunday
afternoons, where friends congregate to
have an hour in pleasant conversation
and observation. Instead of this, on
ment received.
On Peachtree street, as those who were
supposed to have liad access to the sick
at room were recognized by people they of were stopped
every turn all classes.
Old and distinguished citizens, in anx¬
iety, awaited and grasped each fresh ru¬
mor. If for worse, their sorrowful coun¬
tenances told it to all with whom they
met; willing if for impart better, the they good were only too
who cared to to inquire. tidings Young to any
those of whom Mr. Grady men,
was the idol
and leader, forgot their accustomed Sab¬
bath partners and talked of naught but
the danger of the brilliant sufferer, ex¬
pressing and sincere, sympathy and hoping and love, genuine hope
that he would the against dire
Even the little overcome children, in their malady. childish
tones, asked if it was true that Mr. Grady
was sick, and if he would die.
In the Bunday schools the sick cham¬
ber entered. Teachers and scholars join¬
ed in a prayer that the sufferer might be
relieved and finally saved. Nowhere
was he forgotten, and when the later
rumors of the relinquishing of almost all
hope,the news spread throughout the city
with incredible swiftness. Some were
inclined to discredit the rumors of ap¬
proaching believe. It death and almost others beyond would belief uot
was
and for the first time see ms to have real¬
ized that his health was in a critical con¬
dition. Dr.
In New York he was treated by started
Goldthwa’te. Before the party
homeward, Mr. Grady was a-aired that
all danger of pneumonia was past, ted
that it would be enfirely safe to return
home at once.
“He isn’t going to be sick,” said the
physician to a number of the party, as
the‘train was moving. “He don’t look
like a rick man. I think the best thing this
you can do for him is to get out of
ctimate.”
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the points stationed where his fat&r, regime) C
was with Ms
peace oame it found the lad
Young Grady fov** that I
time to lose in equipping hirne
career. After graduating at
Virginia, He where during he took his a post graduate each
course. was term at
of these institutions the youngest Btudent
in attendance. He studied diligently
what suited-his intellect best, and paid
little attention to branches in which he
felt Anglo no Saxon interest. and History, Greek attracted belles-letters, him,
and his standing was very high in all of
these. From the first his command of
language was remarkable. His pen trans¬
ferred his thoughts to the paper in
graphic and glowing phrases with almost
lightning-like and ringing rapidity, style and of his speaking ready,
magnetic for him the of the “silver
soon won name
tongued orator.” In the literary societies
of the two universities he carried off the
highest honors as a speaker.
While a student he wrote a letter to
The Atlanta Constitution, It was printed,
and the editor was so much struck with
the sparkle and dash of the communica¬
tion that he signified his desire to hear
from the writer again. When the first
press excursion after the war was ten¬
dered a ride over the State road the editor
telegraphed then his returned boyish correspondent, his home in
who had to
Athens, that he wished to have him repre¬
sent the Constitution on that trip and
write up the country and its resources
along the line of the road. Mr. Grady ac¬
cepted the commission, and of the hun¬
dreds of letters written on the occasion
his, hie nvnr over the the fdormtlire signature of of “Kimr “King Hans.”
were the most popular and most
°°fi is quite likely that this pleaa
perience caused this precocious
Seventeen to all turn his thoughts he t.
nalistn. At events, was, a;
naL Home, however, was at th:
too small to support Mr. a daily Grady run <
a scale, and in 1878 Herald, pui
an interest in the Atlanta
he found a of field wide enough for
his
ber of his staff, incumbent ted each *
feel that it was-
be at his beet, notonlyo Th
sions, but at all times.
from Home, who had eetat
in Atlanta to who compete i
Constitution, journalists started were out cc
v
pluck, and proved himself
in resources and expedier
teemed contemporary reco
Herald’s^Su n day editions
sues were the marvels at tl
Even then Mr. Grady si
about $8,000. No lives were tost.
capt. J. M. Hanon, a prominent citizen of
Wheeling, lies at his home UMOas'iou* and
with what is likely to prove a death wound
in bit head, inflicted by highwaymen on the
principal street of the town Friday night.
Alice Jack^in, the 18-year-old girl who
was abducted from St. Louis by Charles 0.