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VOLUME 19
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GRIFFIN. GEORGIA, U & A.
Griffis is the best and most promising little
.■ pmaa toRbsiiBiaejto|»^to! net a hyper¬
, 1
.otto.
fgtory and with this year started the wheels
•ft second of more than twice that capital.
It to* pat up a large iron and brass foundry,
• fertiliser factory, on immense ice and bot¬
tling works, a sash aad blind factory a
broom factory, opened np the finest granite
q giirr7 fn the United States, and now has
oar large oil mills in more or less advanced
Md while located on the greatest systyro in
the South. tee Central, has secured connec¬
tion with it* Important f i • the Eaet Ten-
see nee. Virginia and Qeor i It has obtata-
d directjndependent coma r Uon with Chat
tnnooga and the West, -1 ». illbreak groun
na few days fora fourth >i»id, connecting
with a fourth independent system.
With it* five white and fooreolored church
ha. recently omnpistari m $*0090 new
MMiotf** nrerly one tttb. It has attracted
around it* borders fruit growers fronr nearly
every State in the Union, until it is now sur¬
rounded on nearly every side by orchards
end vineyards. It has put np the largest
relt evaporators in the State. It is the home
of thsgW* Stelito wine making capacity has in
doubled every year. It has successfully
asgorated a system of public schools, with a
Sresn years curriculum, second to none.
reewd of a half decade
Md amply shows tile progress of an already
•nSmlriblc city with the natural advantages
* hiring the fatet climate, summer aad
Water, in tifatworld. • f •
Griffin la the county seat of Spalding coun-
^■MIVNU ty, situated to Orest ovwnv Middle auuu.o Georgia, U w. e .», with - a
Mithy,fertile aad rolling country, 1150 feet
shove m* level. By the census of 1890, it
aiB hive at alow estimate between 0 000 and
7,600 people, and they are all ot the right
Mrt—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to
wrieosie strangers and anxious to secure de¬
sirable settlers, who will not be any lees wel
rim if they bring money to help bnild np the
HljilS Thou is abont only one thing we
Med badly just now, and that js a big hotel
Vs have several small ones, bnt their accom
aodstiona are entirely too limited for onr
•das t, pleasure and health seekig nguests
f yei sse anybody that wants a good Idea
tea tor a hotel in the South, just mention
Giifa.
Orifiais the place where the Gwrrnr News
» fa Mated dully and weekly—the' best ne ws-
Npfathe Empire State of Georgia- Please
■■4 d to eri ptiv* ^amphlto of Griffin.
This brief sketch U written kpril 12th, 1889,
•ad wfli have to be changed in a few month
•Stobramaew enterprises commenced and
PROFESSIONAL DIKECTOKI
HEHRY C. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Practice* in all the; 8tate. and Federal
®*r**- oet9dAwly
JOHN J. HUNT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
JP®**. y ts’s Clothier *1 HID Street, Up Stairs, over J. H.
S tore. mar23d*wly
fHQS. R. MILLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Practice in th# State and Federal
nov2tf
1 * *• STEWANT. BOBT. T. DANIEL.
STEWART ft DANIEL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Otw Georg* A Hartnett’s, Griffin, Go.
'J*- practice to the State and Federal
julyl9dtf
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CLEVELAND ft GARLAND,
DENTISTS,
OklFTIN, : ; GEORGIA.
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Pail Languishes in Jail and Limbo
Yawns for the Others.
0LAA8SEN MARES A STATEMENT.
The Kq*ltnhl« Hank Clnead «••»*»■
cited crowd—Aiixtooa Depositor* aad
Betrayed Sto'-kh»lders Sm-ronml the
Sixth Natlouu:—small Tradesmen Vle-
11 mixed by the Lenox Hill—Action ef
'the Clearing Hwne* — Claae.au hr-
re niter*.
toe deliberate plot of a baud o(^sonsunt-
mate swindlers vas the closing of the
Equitable bank at No. 8 West Twenty-
eighth street, which, like the Lenox,
was involved by the operations of toe
swindlers. On the door of the following Equit¬
able bank was placed toe
' ‘‘This bank is temporarily closed.”
Admittance was denied to all except
officers. Inside State Bank Examiners
Preston and Treuliolm were closeted
with the president and directors, mak¬
ing an investigation of the state of toe
bank’s affairs.
At the Sixth National.
The crowd of anxious depositors and
stockholders attheOKtoMrat of too Bix^h National bank,
Broadway and Thirty-
too, af lack of confidence on the part of
faffs. iiMJgsxPs would
comptroller of the ourreaoy,
nothing to, the statements of toe
itors. The depositors, generally, how¬
ever, do not accept so readily these as¬
surances of Leland given at second
hand. After President Leland’s suspi¬
cious action in which selling out has his stock failed at a
big satisfactorily premium, explain, he they as yet do not
to
easily take him at his word. If he oould
his •band fellow on the stockholders interest* of to depositors in whose and
men
financial of confidence responsibility by he depositing showed the his
want
money realized for his stock elsewhere
than with the bank, which had passed
into their hands, he to, they say, no
longer worthy of their confidence. all
If restitution is not made by or
any of the men who combined to wreck
the bank, or if Leland does not, as fa
oOO which to* premium he received on
his stock amounts to, it to conceded that
the stockholders’ The capital stock, interests 8800,000, are wiped
out sur¬
plus and bv remaining which assets, are confisca¬ far ex¬
ceeded the losses toe
tion of the 8500,000 bonds have entailed.
Claau.a*. statement.
President Claassen, of the Sixth Na¬
tional bank, made the following state¬
ment to the puhlic, over his signature:
It is not true that J was a member of the
syndicate that purchased the controlling in¬
terest In the Sixth National bank. It issot
true that I mad* any loan to myself to said
hank. On the contrary, I have shocked on
my other personal bank accounts in this city
■and have deposited to my credit la the Sixth
National hank, and have checked not one cent
scainst it.
The first time that I saw Mr. Leland, the
tote president of the Sixth National bank,
was on Jan. 2, at 11 a. m., when oertifled
checks were tendered to him and accepted by
him, amounting to $130,000, for which he
turned over the control of the stock of the
Sixth National bank. These checks were de¬
posited by him in the Union Trust company
and were paid. Hence I was not a member of
the purchasing syndicate—all the terms had
been arranged and agreed to before I ever met
him.
Afterwards, this payment being satisfac¬
tory to Mr. Leland, he procured the resigna¬
tion seriatim of the old board of directors,
and as they resigned the new board took their
places seriatim, one member at a time. There-
upon Mr. Leland tendered his re s ign a ti on as
president and I was elected as president
nnanimonsly in his place.
On the morning of the 23d, by arrangement
with Mr. Leland, I met him between 10 and
11 a m. at the National Park bank vault*,
whore he turned over to me the securities be¬
longing to the Sixth National bank, and L
finding them correct, as per statement fur¬
nished to me by the chief bookkeeper of the
bank, receipted therefor.
Either the same afternoon, or on the follow-
ing day, in conference with the cashier, Mr.
Colson, I learned that the bank lacked cash
means, and he suggested, and I concurred
with him. that it would be well to dispose of
eay from 8300.000 to *600,000 worth of the high
premium bonds and have the cash therefor
for the nee of customers of oar bank. I then
stated to the cashier that before I wonld sell
any of these securities I wonld hare to con¬
sult with the directors as well ae with the
gentlemen who owned at least 80 per cent, of
the controlling stock purchased.
I did so consult them. They also folly con¬
curred in the plan and I was requested to en¬
trust the sale of these bonds by these gentle¬
men to Pell, Wallack A Co., who received
thereupon $622,000 par value of these bonds to
be sold.
Subsequently 201 of these bonds were re¬
turned, $30,000 in cash was paid and for tha
balance Pell, Wallack A Co. gave cheeks,
mostly utuBuy OTfuuou, certified, to tu the me bank uaiit on uu last imi> Tuesday, i uesuay,
Jan. 28. Bnt the bank examiner, ae wall as
the clearing house committee, declined to ac¬
cept these checks as payment. Abont $300,000
of these ohecks were certified by the banks
upon which they were drawn. It subeeqnently
developed that had they been sent to the
clearing house in the usual course and order
of business they would have been paid.
It win, therefore, really appear that I had
no proceeds from these bonds that I did not
aeconnt for, and the checks thus far not cov¬
ered by Messrs. Pell, Wallack A Go. are still
due to the Sixth National bank. It will, there¬
fore, also be seen, that the bank's assets were
not used to purchase the stock.
I farther desire to say that I am not a di¬
rector nor vice president of the Equitable
bank, nor am I such in the Lenox Hill bank.
At the Lenox Bill.
The following two notices appeared on
the glass pane of the strain door of the
Lenox Hill bank, at Third avenue and
Seventy-second street:
This bank is temporarily closed. All de¬
mands we trust to make good Within* day or
two.
Immediately below tills notice was
tbs following:
This bank Is now boing o x m min e d by th*
mperintendent of the banking department, early
and th* result will be mad* known at na
day. GmaxukK. Prjmton,
Superintendent of Banking.
The doors (rf the bank are ctosed. aad
GIUFFIN, GEORGIA, TCJESDAT MORNING, FEBRUARY 4 1890
bank by passing the unanimously from a resolu¬
tion expelling bank the asso¬
ciation.
_
High Brian far Foflba a*4 Me,
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 8.— C. H. J.
Taylor, a colored politician who was re¬
cently appointed minister to' Liberia
and resigned, asked went into a restaurant
here and for coffee and pie. The
proprietor told him the pie and coffee
would cost him 81- Taylor replied that
the price was ail right and toe articles
were placed before him. Afterward he
walked up to the counter, took a hand¬
ful of tooth picks, said: threw “Now, 10 oente on tha
counter ana - you,
sue me for the rest” He walked out of
the place before the astonished pro¬
prietor will could the reply. other The letter says Tay¬ he
sue for 80 cento, as
lor accepted the price before he began
eating.___
Hanses Drop Out of H(M.
Wilkesbahek, Pa., Feb. 8.—Three
■ingle bouses and a double block in toe
town of Plains, about four miles from
here, dropped nearly out of sight, the
cave in being caused by toe “robbing"
of pillars in toe old coal mines under
the town. The cavern to likely to ex¬
of tend the to the cemetorv Then had and other been warning portions
town.
of trouble and the people had taken
precaution, so that no one was injured.
Miss Farrell's Usi b AH R%M,
Bklvidkrk, N. J., Feb. 8.—There is
no truth In the rumor set afloat re¬
cently that Miss Emma Purcell, who is
suspected of complicity in the murder
of Mrs. Myra 8. Kniffin at Trenton, was
fast losing her mind under tbs strain
she had undergone during toe fast few
weeks. Mias Purcell stiU retains her
self control and easy confidence.
Kilted la a Jersey city TaaaeL
Jersey City, Feb. 2.— William Haiti-
day, brakeman of Franklin, the Erie N. J„ railroad, employed fell m a
on from
the top of a car at the west cod tunnel
and pasting was horribly him. mangled, Death three Install- care
over was
assembly Taylor’s of anttaUen Knights ot bill Taber shui
American labor. DiaasHafst
express e d with Powderly’s n
Canadian interests.
lief president ot the Woman’s Veil
Union, was arrested here
with stealing a charter of the:
auxiliary. _
New York, Feb. 2.—Tamo
knocked for the bantam out “Chappie” weight Moran chami 1
falling in the tenth round
head struck a post.
Berlin, Dietz, Feb. Prussia, 8.— At Kalberg, wheel a suburb
the fly of a
machine burst while in rapid
killing five men.
Fablle Debt EMnsHsa
Washington, Vhb. A—It fa estimated
th* treasury department that the
debt redaction for January will
$11,800,000.
Feb. 2.—Francis Giroux,
? agent abd wine im-
td. Liabilities, $50,000;
The Partisan Contest Results in
Republican Victory.
THE ELIXmOH CASE TAKE! UP
After Mem Kx#lte«neat wd Filibuster¬
ing—Mr. 4 rUp la ttehalf ef
Order Md Qs:>( l-<| *|tw It.ntorn.l—fa Ceu-
eu she u.eo«r*l» to Conttaee
Ik. Dilatory Tnatlte.
Washington, Feb. 8.—The partisan
contest in the house began again imme¬
diately on the eompMtton of the reading
of the journal. Mr .McKinley was on his
feet and moved it* approved as read,
and demamfod the previous question.
This shut the off debate, and the Democrats
resumed tactics of yesterday, Mr,
Ids motion to adjourn heard, but the
speaker his refused to length. entertain Mr. it, Springer giving
reasons at
persisted cision of qnd the appealed chair. Mr. from McKinley the de¬
moved that the ^appeal be laid on the
speak table, in while defense Mr. Springer rights, continued the to
or his amid
greatest excitement all over the floor
and in the galleries. The speaker put
the motion and the yets and nays Do¬
ing demanded, the the clerk proceeded Mr.
with roll call, drowning out
iKrs;,
feature elections of committee the proceedings of toe before house the
was
the appearance of Mr. Randall’s son-in-
law, Mr. C. F. Lancaster, colored as counsel for
F, H. Threet, the man who to
contesting the seat of Mr. Clark, the
member from toe Motel* district. Mr.
Lancaster’s speech for his client largely
consisted of denunciation* of Demo¬
cratic election methods in the south.
_—&
Mr. Blaine’s Daughter Hatter.
attending Washington, Feb. Coppenrar 2.— The physicians
Mrs. (Secretary
Blaine’s eldest daughter) sad report a
marked improvement ax ameliora¬
tion of toe dangerous symptoms noticed
yesterday. While still in a very criti¬
cal condition more encouragement fa
felt by her physicians, who cannot as
yet my what toe result may be.
FARMER8 A ND T HE TARIFF.
A Uwljr DImwIm In tk« MMy a««WI
•f ifrlnltm
Trenton, Feb. 8.—A lively politic*)
dieouMion was aroused in the meeting
of the state board of agriculture over a
resolution offered by George W. Jessup,
of Burlington. It entered the protest
of the board against the proposed in¬
creased wboocu duty uuiy on uu tin uu plate, which wuiuii mat- luov*
tor committee is now being considered and before of the
on ways means con¬
gress. The resolution expressed it as
the opinion of the b >ard that such ait
increase would work directly to the Ms*,
advantage in the of a great who number interested of farm¬ to
ers statu were
the business of canning tomatoes.
The dMcnasiou waxed warm for some
time, and the resolution was finally
voted down—24 to 2(. ! ? 1
The following are the new officers for
the year to come: President, l?dward
Burroughs, Morris Bacon, of Caindeu; Cumberland; vice president,
of treasurer,
steamship Dracona arriving presented at this a sorry port
appearance Capt. Tait tells upon of
“It Jan. 17,” a thrilling said the experience.
“that was on trouble* began. The captain, Storm
our
turned into a perfect hurricane. Moun¬
tains of water washed over the deck
until the vessel became unmanageable
and the men driven below. The cabin
ried was flooded, the lifeboats iron gang planks car¬ The
away, the stove in.
bridges smashed into matchwood and
the huge ventilators earned away. The
bridge tion of deck toe was started washed and a large Every¬ por¬
stores away.
decks thing movable smashed in the and cabins only and on lot the of
was a
debris remains to tell of tne fury ot
the storm.’* <
j To Sneeaod Castle Garden.
Washington, Feb. 3. — Governor’s
Island will replace Castle Garden, New
York, as the landing place of immi¬
grants arriving in this country several at toe
port of New York. It may take
ms*2. at;
Fears for Orerdne Vessels.
London, Feb. 2.—Fears for the safety
of overdue, steamers and sailing vessels
are on the increase, fed by the reports
of the great quantity of wreckage
all sighted of the by wreckage incoming ships. reported For a time
was as¬
sumed volume to and be character that of the Erin, but the
of the mass of
of floating their longitudinal debris met with and toe variety
and latitudinal posi¬
tions when seen, forces the conviction
that the Erin to by no means the only
vessel that went to the bottom in the re¬
cent storm._
Ultimate Annexation Inevitable.
New Yoke, Feb. 2.— Professor GoJd-
win Smith, of Canada, delivered an ad¬
dress last night before the Nineteenth
Century club on the political relations
of Canada to Great Britain and the
United States. He believes that ulti¬
mate annexation to inevitable and
meinwhile he urged the adoption of
commercial union. Erastus Wiman,
who also favored commercial union,
George L. Rives, and others, discussed
, Tnn Y«ars fur Murder.
discarded Baltimore, Feb. 2.-John Frieze, the
lover who shot and killed Miss
Georgia Sept. V. Stone near Hampden, on
29, was convicted of manslaughter
ana sentenced to ten years in the peni¬
tentiary. Frieze to about 22 old. years of
age. Miss Stone was 17 years
To I’.ny Bali in Florida.
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 2.—A. G.
closed Spalding, lease of the of Chicago the Baseball baseball club,
a new
in St Augustine from Feb. 10 to April
League 16. It is club expected will lease that the the Philadelphia
grounds for the seme period.
▼tell** of tten Owsgw Accident.
Binghamton. N. Y.. FeB. 2.—E. A.
Latham, who had both of East legs broken Bridgewater, in the Mass.,
smash
up on the Erie railroad at Owego Thurs¬
day morning, died last evening. is
colored critical porter, condition. Honeysuckle, in
a
Tha land Laagua Account*.
Detroit, Feb. 2. —The auditing com¬
mittee of the Irish Land League finished
the mechanical portion of its labors and
retired to consider its report
To Succeed Johnnie O'Brien.
New York, Feb. 2.— The police board
appointed Gen. E. 8. Rodenbough chief
of the bureau of elections, as successes'
to John J. O'Brien.
Washington, Feb. 8.—The treasury
department braids purchased i04f. $14,000 per
cent, at
The Weather.
Clearing; winds shifting to north
westerly; colder.
NUGGETS OF NEWS.
The Operations of New York Bank
Jugglers.
PUBLIC 009FIDEB0E IMPAIRED
dosing of one conMderabte bank aad
two smaller onus to oonse quono e of a
bold conspiracy to abstract their as¬
sets does not appear to threaten any
financial disturbance. But «St toa ds to
impair public confidence, and coming
after several recent defalcations and
performances of questionable propriety
in the Reading and other corporations
it weakens faith to toe soundness of
corporate In other management respect__L_. the situation — - *- is *— lass
to
favorable _______ this _ week. The financial
JMWWkWflJP® pressure at L. Loaaoa mm* vw —m does WWW— not oww w abate a, " " And -
there there are are reports reports that that heavy heavy withdrawal withdrawal
of gold for South America or France
will soon be necessary. Foreign ex¬
change hare grows stronger, Sales having of
risen from 84.86! to 81.87*.
bonds have been small and the treasury
has taken in nearly 81,800,000 more
cash than it has paid out.
.Still Complaining of the Weathor.
Tardiness of collections at various in-
tenor points cause s roora complaint and
the unseasonably mild weather once
more depresses many lines of trade.
The exports in January from New Ton
have been smaller than last year by 8*
per cent. The prospect of the de cr e as e,
in produce exports, which is to be ex¬
pected at this season renders exports of
gold The at later no distant indications day a of possibility. business
ac¬
tivity are not quitoso satisfactory. The
bank clearings continue to show an in¬
crease over last year of nearly 8 fee
cent, but these represent transaction*. largely Tha set¬
tlements on [Mat ac¬
counts from other cities show the effect
of unseasonable weather. From the re¬
ports telegraphed it may be inferred
that trade since the new year began has
not answered expectations and then
are soma signs tluit the mild weather is
rcu. s.—uovenun
Thayer issued a letter replying to the
dispatches from Chicago in regard to
the action ot the Trans-Missouri associa¬
tion to ignoring bis request for a reduc¬
tion in com rate#. He insists that the
demand for a reduction in rates to uni¬
versal, both the press and the people de¬
manding it He concludes as follows:
“The bread—to farmers are keep burning themselves corn—burn¬
ing warm,
thereby because they the cannot sell with their com and
get means which to
buy reasonable corn, all because reduction.” you will not make
a
community, occurred at this place at
4:30 O’clock yesterday afternoon. Frank
B. Wilson and of Benjamin Townsend, the
latter a son Congressman C. C. Town¬
send caliber here, revolver engaged the in handling Townsend a 88
at resi¬
dence when it exploded in the hands oi
the last mentioned young man, and the
bullet entered the forehead of Wilson,
instantly 16 of killing and him. their The parents boys were
years of age the time. were
out town at
Crashed and Scalded to Peat*.
Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 2.—On the Kil¬
kenny Lumber Company railroad, six
miles east of here, a lumber train broke
in two on speeding a steep grade and the en¬
gineer into by was the portion to avoid when being the run
rear en¬
gine was derailed at a curve and the
train was wrecked. Engineer L. F.
Crouch, of-Haverhill, was crushed and
scalded to death. The fireman and
br&kemen jumped and had a narrow es¬
cape.
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A Scheme to Frighten Stockholder*.
London, Feb. 2.— The Star declares
that the report of the joint docks com¬
mittee made by Chairman Norwood ia
false and issued solely for the purpose
of depreciating the value of the various
dock comjwmics in order to enable the
chief shareholders to increase their
holdings ■hares through frightened the purchase ot the
that investors may be
induced to part with.
(Math af a Create Trial Witness,
Chicago, Feb. 2. —Patrick Gibbons,
the north side politician and witness m
tits Cronin trial, who was shot on Tues¬
day night brawl, by Police dead. Capt. Schue trier in
a saloon to Police Gant.
Schuettter was detained by order of
Superintendent of Police Marali, by re¬
quest at the coroner, pending rite result
of the inquest to be held qn-Gibbons’
sg&ssg ss
who some Unto ago mad
iamoupby walking into tho
ifsti^sar
. The Tulip man M
tot i off fflffffc* bv B
jiff V ' tl®
miners assembled to
awaiting death, to
whole party a
Mr. Meetna Mb
region and his
Philadelphia, Feb.
ander, who tried to at
pleaded guilty, in toe old
before a. > .as a Judge a a. Arnold. * a
.. .. « , •<
Stszv
Philadelphia,
at toe Reading mi
tpfax&tigfi 1 .......Uu.ll
t
Tho l -.tma.ter Bilal ■ j
••as* Are Henry and Mi
groat UmoNTOWN, rejoicing Pa., here Feb.
amo;
of P. I. Patterson over his
to the postofficeship. O. C
his friend* are very much
P&t tel puu * b Weft uftlfttft
and H. a
did the business.
fiatariiSa,
cancer of two yean’ standii
eral physicians had failed
cure.
Taisnag* «■ *tw Kdlterfe
London, Feb, l.-tt if
while in this city recently Y., deck! B
of Brooklyn, editorial N. chair erf Th
the
Herald, published in New
1 literature and vri
as editor exchiai
Herald.
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