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VOLUME 19
SATURDAY. OCTOBER
Fresh Celery.
Finb Cabbage.
Pork Sausage. -i
-
Fiah and Oysters,
pine Northern Butter.
20 Crates Spanish Onions,
pigs Feet and New Pickles.
Turnips and Irish Potatoes. \
Fulton Market Corned Beef, '
Apples Oranges and Lemons,
r/) IF PRICES. FINE
So .tie Points About the Metropolis
Middle Georgia.
Griffin is the county sent ol Spuldiug Conn-
V, 1 *orgi% mU is * titatei in the centre o
tic best portion of the ^reat Empire State of
!:•• South, where aU of ite wonderful and
V .1 ii-l industries meet and are carried on
v;.. u qre.itcst aitcuoss, and is thus able to of
r , i.i m. neats to ail classes seeking a home
Bl( ,j „ profitable career. These are the rea-
us f a a growth that has about doubled
wjKijinlatipn since the last census.
it, Las ample and increasing railroad facili-
UiMVtfi* second point in importance on the
, „ railroad between the capital of the
fate, forty miles distant, and its principal
Kfiport,’ *250 miles away; an independent
„ . no 1utt iiu>qi mi the West by way of
I he Savannah, Griffin aud North Alabama
railroad; the principal city on the Georgia
Millsnd and Gulf railroad, one hundred
Bliies long, built largely through its own en¬
terprise, and soon to be extended to Athens
uuil the systems of the Northaest
dire. t connection with the great East Ten
nessec, Virginia and Georgia railroad system
mother road graded and soon to be built;
II bringing in trade and carrying out goods
ud manufactures.
Griffin's record for the past, half d cade
Droves it one of the most progressive cities in
South.
It has built two large cotton factories,
°presenting f 250,000, and shipping goods
over the world.
It has put up a large iron and brass foun-
y, a fertiliser factory, a cotton seed oi
uill, a sash and blind factory, an ice factory,
ot tling works, a broom factory, a mattress
actory, and various smaller enterprises.
it has put in an electric light plant by
which the streets are brilliantly lighted.
It has opened np the finest and largest
granite quarry in the State, for building,
ballasting and macadamising purposes.
It has secured a cotton compress with a
oil capacity for its large and increasing re
«ipt* of this Southern taple. ......-
It has established a system of graded pubj
schools, with a seven years curriculum,
scond to none.
it has organised two new banks, making a
total oi four, with combined resources of
half a million dollars.
It has built two handsome new churches,
Baking a total oi ten.
It has built several handsome
locks and many beautiful residences, the
gilding record of 1889 alone being over
150,000.
It has attracted around its borders fruit
lowers iroiS nearly every State in the Union
ml Canada, until it is surrounded on every
de by ochards and vineyards, and has bc-
ome the largest and best fruit section in the
tate, a single car load of its peaches netting
1,280 in the height of the season.
It has doubled its wine making capacity
aking by both French and German meth ods
It has been exempt from cyclones, floods
nd epidemicis, and by reason of its topo-
raphy will never be subject to them.
With all these and other evidences of a
ive aud growing town, with a healthful and
jleusuDt climate summer and winter, a
sospitable and cultured people and a soi
capable of producing any product of the tern
perate or semi-tropic rone, Griffin offers
every inducement and a hearty we me to
new citiiens.
Griffin has one pressing need, and that is a
new $100,000 hotel to accommodate tran¬
sient visitors and guests who would make it
resort summer and winter.
Send stamp for sample copy of the News
and Hus and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin
Administrator’s Sale.
ikwrt kj virtue ol an order from the honorable
of Ordinary of Bpalding County, Geor-
pe “Ws.it, . 1 will sell on the the first usual Monday hours in of Novem- sale, be¬
fore between
tiie court house door in Griffin. Georgia,
we “teeestate following described T. Bates, property, deceased, belonging -to-
of A.
ho^No. *S»lding twenty-four county, known in originally as the Fayette, home
?***»ti$eceased, the prior tolhis death, the south less side the
set ofl to widow, on
?[tetd lot, of eighty-two acres more or less.
’ROUND ABOUT.
AUTUMN MODE*.
The The autumn plug and approaches, the Dei by and ami soft ago Kossuth and youth
To wear will goon begin;
But the impecunious man looks bine.
Ami he sigha and wonders what he will do
When they call the straw hats in.
This life holds little for him but Woe,
And he feels that everything ’ here below
. _ .,—
Is profitless, -----, stale stale and and fit flat;
He -------thatsoou kni as he goes about
The streets, thesmullhoy after him shouts,
Hi I hi Kthera I shoot the hat 1
W. E. PoWeil, J of Zebulon, is in the
city.
v JudgeJZ. T. Daniel spent yesterday
ifi AtTuntn. wit
E. H. Bloodwortli, of Atlanta, was
here yesterday.
Burn out yonr chimneys for winter
use during this rainy spell,
J. C. Ellis, of this city, is spending
a day or so in Atlanta.
Dropped into poetry—The editor
who fell into the waste basket.
Col. E. W. Beck, of thfs city, went
to Columbus yesterday morning.
G. W. Speigie & Co. will have a
grand millinery opening on Monday.
Starkey Hand, a merchant of
Brooks Station, was here yesterday.
Fish of good baking size “go
around further” than the frying
size.
Stoves are being put up. The
weather is failieh toa eomfor table ex»
tent.
Mrs. A Randall left yesterday for
Union Springs, Ala., where she will
spend some time.
John Cole, of Rocky Mount, came
over yesterday and was around see¬
ing his friends in the afternoon.
Miss Susie Johnson, of this city,
who has been visiting relatives at
Macon, returned home yesterday.
Dr. T. W. Redwine, of Hampton,
sold a bale of cotton here yesterday
for 10% cents. It was the long staple
variety.
The city is profusely billed for Bar-
num & Bailey’s show, and the bill
boards are the great attraction of
the day.
Miss Mary Wooten, of Barnesville,
who has been visiting Miss Maude
Flynt near this city, returned home
yesterday.
Col. Robert Woodward, of Jenkins-
burg, and his sod, Prof. Charles H.
Woodward, of Barnesville, were here
yesterday.
Col. BrB. Methvin, of Atlanta, for¬
merly of Fayetteville, stopped in this
city last night and will visit his par¬
ents at Senoia to-day.
Malcolm McLean, of Savannah,
is spending a day or so in this city,
preparatory to moving his family
back home for the.wintec.
The Barnum & Bailey advertis¬
ing car attracted considerable at¬
tention with the steam calliope which
s carried along with it.
Joe Walcott, of Brooks Station,
was in the city yesterday. He will
move his saw mill down on the G. M.
& G. railroad in a few days.
Wilbur Brown, of New Orleans,
who has been here for a day or so,
left yesterday for Atlanta to the
regret of his numerous frieuds.
Miss Kate Thomas, of Savannah,
who has been spending the summer
in this city, the guest of Mrs. Dr.
Daniel, returned home yesterday.__
John E. Travis, of Fayette county,
after trying other cotton markets,
has-brought his cotton to Griffin.
He was iuL this city yesterday with
several bales.
Mrs. Susan Farmer and her little
grandBoo, Master DeFprest All¬
good, of Rome, who hare been
visiting friends in this city, returned
home yesterday.
Rev. J. B. Johnston, of Barnes¬
ville, is spending a few days in this
city, and during the time is assisting
in the protracted meeting which is
in progress at the Methodist church.
The demand for cotton pickers haB
been so great that cooks, nurses and
washerwomen have deserted many
of the towns and villages and are
engaged in picking cotton in the
country.
Ben Means, of Pike county, who
was adjudged a lunatic last spring
and sent to the asylum, made
his escape several days ago and re¬
turned to his home at Meansville.
His health seems much improved.
The personal which appeared in
onr columns yesterday morning of
a young lady visitor to this city
preaching at the Methodist church
on the e vening before, was simply
the result of a typo’s carelessness in
mixing the notice of her arrival in
this city, with that of the talented
young divine who did preach at
time. i
GRIFFIN GEORGIA SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 4, I8W)
To Booome
which have I
become laws
oefrve the a
most imports
the relief ot
an the con tv
the Unitad ♦01,1 |
ing to
claim to tike
the court luj
The other
dent atfe M
the W aehifll
S2®
sentative* SW8M
recovery of cotton o tafki
for Sherman the relief at Jqi
<
bald, for work
mIs Wateroe,
over contract t
chell, reqjjiril
retired lief of
captain; Creary, adininisl tor th«
M. Hiatt, deceaf
.KAWOTiSS pension to Melvin
g a Jamei (bat (informa-
m was received tike claimant in
is case Hhd died); granting a pension
Louise this Balden (Information that the was re-
tly ease claimant granting
Benjamin remarried); T. and
iearned o claimant Baker this (it MM
at the in com
also bad
PUBLIC PEBT gfATBMENT.
The Condition of the United St
Washington, Oct. 8.—The pablip
debt statement issued from tht treasury
department Wedneeday, show a decrease
in the debt during th* past month
amounting to ft,583,901 The Interest
against 0080 red ,Wl
ago, or a
debtednese at
while on the
the treasury,
eluding subtrti
hold about 180,897,111 |100,(>00 <
or
Government rece
during the past n
other hand, 138.787 exp«
past 860 in were September,
000,000 of this col
penditures durini
those counted of Septeml for by
bond redemption] fl$,000,00i
nearly tod
to interest premium, against |
656,955 to Sept ember, 105 8.
International KleeSrUal Exhibition.
Waspinoton, Oct. Iky-The dew
ment of state hu been officially nouf
that an international he electrical exhj
tion will held at Frankfort-on-t
Main, under the approval of the 1
Boise Crrr, Idaho, Oct. A—The esti¬
mate of the vote of Botoe City and Idaho
county gives a Republican majority of
176 on the entire s tate ticket. Bingham
returns show the Republican ticket ho*
a majority of 800. In Botoe oounty re¬
turns from fo ur p recincts give
950 majority. the legislv
Meager returns thirty Indicate Republicans and
tore will stand
twenty-two Democrats.
The Republicans claim the state by
;,500 majority. The DemocJats con¬
cede the state to the Republicans by 800
majority. The return* show large
gains'for Republicans over the vote of
1888.
struction of toe ci
Athcneum warehouses club build
of large resisting
fiercely, beet efforts of the fire U
it nnder control. I
warehouses absolute! by
flames, a number o
or loss^ less it damaged expected, by fii
is w
!
THE FUTURE IRON SECTION.
Wat the Noted Statistician, Mr, Atkin.
»t, Think* of So ut hern Prospect*.
Baltimore, O ;L 8.^-In a very able
and convincing article in the Manufact¬
urers’ Record. Mr. Edward Atkiusou,
probably the the thus most astute statistician the promises of
of the country, in sums up
fature epnnectlon In with iron
and cool production the south:
“ Neither in Eurawii that the nor America, weld’s but
it is in the south steel
and canter.” iron production will probably
In a latter, which Mr. Atkinson pub¬
lishes, from CoL Oowian, of Knoxville,
Tenn., that gentleman says: ing, this south-
lachian coal field contains forty
amount of coal accessible to
*1 production and distribution
1 m th« seal fields of Great
■efore a *-j pick was stuck in the
* # Its bracing and dry
fevers ___„ . lonary diseases, and its
mt summer rains, soil brought from about
elevation, save its natural suin-
_ routh. All the conditions
are favorable for economical mining.and
cheap and comfortable living. * * *
The quantity and quality of the Besse¬
mer ores of beyond the southern all question Appalachian sufficient
region ore prospective de¬
to meet present and
mands for many generations. It is a
question line*.and of of the accessibility construction to the of railways railway
to permit their development, and not a
question One of quantity not or quality.” yet the
may venture to name
place duction or of places iron where be the carried cheapest on,thinks pro¬
Mr. Atkinson, “but,” may he, “suffice it
says
to say, that highest if one should stand upon the
top of the peak among Hie great
Smoky mountains, |n the heart of the
southern Appalachian chain, and could
bring within his vision all that would
come within a radius of seventy-live to
100 miles, he might be able to establish
the center of an lronnnd stool produc¬
tion which would not be far away from
what has been called the ‘center of
try. gravity* If he of could the population then bring of within this coun¬ his
vision enclosed the whole within configuration cirdle of of about the
trea a
150 miles in diameter, centering he on the
Great Smoky mountains, by might trace riv¬
the lines made the erosion of the
ers and the gaps in the ranges on which
the rails may be laid to the northwest
at the southern border of Ohio, and to
the southeast on the way toward the At¬
lantic the ports of South Carolina, over
which metal produced at the possi¬
ble this future center of the be Iron production
of country may distributed on
consumption the easiest grades, for cither the supply fbr of domestic foreign
or
THE NATIOI
of the Chickamauga in Chattanooga Park commission
will and meet from there to the next park, Monday, to
go for of the ground, ar¬
range preliminary- a survey and
make work. The land—about arrangements to be-
gin condemned 8,000 acres—
will be and purchased out-
right by the govi r er»ment. The present
occupants will is be allowed to remain hid
disturbed.
the While lands, the; tl
r ___________
they shall remain just where they are,
and continue to ptint their lands. In¬
deed, tl ey are decidedly paid in luck, for
they will not only get for what
they own, but will still practically own
it, and will further have the best roads
that can be built around their farms,and
leading to the prineij a! towns in the vi¬
cinity. The secretary -of war and the
general of the army will go down to the
park about November 10th.
NEGRO LABOR FOR COT TON FIELDS.
A Large Kxodns Looked for by North Car¬
olina Farmers.
Raleigh, N, C,, Oct. 8.—Parties who
have just returned from Louisiana, Ala¬
bama, Arkansas and Mississippi, learned
from demand cotton planters in those states that
the for negro laborers from
North Carolina will this year be much
greater than last. Last year the agents
got to work too late, could and the result was
that many negroes not be secured,
as they had made contracts for the new
year. Not only will many labor agents
and work, representatives planters of railways be at
wit will come here them¬
selves in search of what they ^nt. —
It is believed that arrangements for
the exodus of many negroes will be
made this month.
A Jury Awards a Boltlnsere Man Damages
for the Lee* of His Wife.
Baltimore, Oct. C—The jury in the
com of John Screbrecht against William
H. Evans, alienation for I - . 5,000 damages aiteqtiona for the
alleged Mrs. Wilhelinina H. of C. the Screbrecht, of
which now
Mrs. Evans, have made a verdict,
was read in court. It gives the plaintiff
$10,000 damages.
How Many Would Win Her Now ?
Piedmont, Ala., Oct. 3.—Miss Sallie
Poole, a servant in the. family of Rev.
T. R. McCarty, has /alien heir to a for¬
tune of $l,000,f00, recently whiclfWas died left her by
a rich uncle, who in New
York city. Miss Poole was not aware
that she had any relatives, and this be¬
quest comes in the nature of a great sur¬
prise to her. She is a young girl yet in
her teens, and is hright and intelligent,
and has always endeared herself to fam¬
ilies with whom she lias lived.
Happened to Meet tlie Wrong Man.
Vienna, Ga.. Oct, 3 —John Tom Trippe
shot and instantly killed W. More¬
land, at Drayton, Both this county, Thursday
afternoon. were prominent young
white men.
Moreland was a large and powerful
young who has man, lately of magnificent leading physique,
been a Jesse
Janies sort of life, attacking people in
the rood, and using them up generally.
The coroner's verdict exonerates Trippe.
LltU# Cfcarlio Blariuteefc Holeaeod.
Atlanta, Oct. 3.—After a rigid and
careful investigation by the coroner’s
IS A BOYC OTT T HE LAOICot
Tlie Negro Oapoa . , i .la lu-f...»• I«
Work far «hll.- I itmllle*.
Atlanta, Oct. 8.—Fut w»v>-r«l week*
boa PO*t quit* a lot of truuiiiit an*l VMalesi
beau experienced by m 1,1 -
m thru- ufforUt to 01.JL11 tto;<
women to cook. It seem* that t hey U .
entered into a romped to boycott i:r
ladies of Atlanta,. ^
The secret hen just been glv> ; t
usual by an old negress, who went to ;*t t«> •»•
allowance of cold' victuals, who,
in her simple way, said : "I* yim wot i
oookyetr don't The reply vn<, “No." "Wvlt,
I s'pose youse ravine terglteuy,
fur I hear det de cooks ia all gwute ter
tiycott do white people, De tails mo tint
trotwof dent is g\,vme tut cook dk win¬
ter, an* box’ year d. v aint gwine U r
different negro
women promised to gd to work at one
house, where they went iu answer to on
advertisement for a cook, but not on© of
them returned to go pi work. In many
tered instances, $10 a month, with a good plas¬
If the room to sleep in, has act been offered. foolish,
negro women can so
the ladies of Atlanta can be equally as
independent of them. In fact, a great
many ladies have been doing their own
cooking tinue <jook, for several if need weeks, be. Poor, and Will deluded con¬
to
negroes will only learn i.r <nd experience.
HI8 BRAINS DASHED OUT.
A Man Commits Suicide by Jumping from
a Bridge.
Louisville, Ky.,Oct. 8.—A sensation¬
al suicide has been committed here, by
Harrison Newman, who jumped from
the bridge that spans the Ohio river into
the falls.
His trains were dashed out on the
rocks I allow. Hs was a brother of Scott
Newman, a leading politician and con¬
tractor, who was indicted on Monday
last on the charge of robbing the city on
a big The granite contract.
deceased wan a middle-aged tuan.
No reason lias been assigned mf the
deed.
iieriuiuu llorrlbl., iimchsred.
Zanzibar, Oct. 8.—Details of the mas¬
sacre sacre reached by by this the the natives, natives, Their of ot Germans, Germans, have have
death city. just outside victims were
put to the gates of
Hitu. Kuntzel was the last man to meet
death. Jfenscliel, who Wbs wounded,
managed to escape by concealing him¬
self natives in the tlwn high went grass. to Kuntzei’s The murderous
and completed their bloody work comp by
killing the camp guards and a planter
named Dehnke, and de.; roved German
plantation s. _
Unsettled State el A,..*. - . iu Mexico.
Herald New from York, the Oct. City 3.—A of Mexico special to The Dr.
Benegoeche, son-in-law of the late says Gov¬
ernor Barrundia, night with leaves good for Washington
Monday news Guatemala to pre-
among the mawe8 ftg ( i‘" st President Bar-
rilas, and predicts war within four
months. ^
_
An Important Decision. BHU
Grand Rapids, Wis., Oct. 8.—A decis¬
ion has ix'on made in the United States
court wiiioit is important to the entire
country, as it affects the rights of the
Western Union Telegraph company to
use opinion highways of the for court their that wires. the act It of is the
con¬
gress all permitting the Western postal Union to
use government routes to
staring their wires is permissive only, and
does not give and the territories company and power to go
into states use high¬
ways without start” i- • *v.
Stream nf E,,vugons.
Arkansas City, Kan., Oct. 3.— For
the last two days of there lias been a con¬
tinuous through stream this city emigrant south, wagons and pass¬
ing coining in from along the state line parties last
night report that hundreds of boomers
are crossing the the line, and prewiring to
settle in Cherokee strip. MB
DAILY MARK!
Naval ..tji-BH.'
Savavsab. Ga . Oct. J. -Turpentine steady at
UHc. Rosin steady at J1.*S.
Tie* and Magging.
Atlanta, Oct. J—Arrow tlea, $1.18. Bagging,
!X*>, «Kc; h4'j; 6f4«; fa.
Grain . ay.
' '..
—hm ii
Atlanta Oct. J.-Cnrn-choice whRo.70 c.
No. 1 mixed, ta%c. Oats-No. * mirrrt,
Hay—Timothy No. 1, large tales, sec; small bolre
July. .............iiv.vvm. ey 9
August ............... .............. .....
Spot cotton dull. MM Ilia,.' upland* 10)£e.
Liverpool Futures.
Opening and closing quotation* of cotton fu-
turea In Liverpool.
Livkscool, October A
O.MUiiog. Lining
October......... 6 . 8 * 5 *4
October and Notember....... 5.41 5.42
Norember and December...... 5 41 5.41
December and January........ 5.49 5.41
January and and February......... Harcb 5 41 5.41
February ...-------- 5 4J 5.44
March aud April .............. 5 44 5 44
April and May...............5.4* 5 4«
May and Juno. ..............5.4S 5.4S
dosed lO.ttti; quiet. J.WO. mUhlllnj uplands, &>AL
Sales, rrc upu,
: Chicago ii irlut
♦*r'.**•*•
Adams Express Car Broken
Into
On tho Cincinnati, Sandusky
and Oiovaland Road.
ikeil the kef* rifled the safe of ite
abed |1,09% readied West Liberty
M. and the robbers left the
ok a position upon Mm plat-
udder succeeded iu calling
loo of the local agent to We
wm not
blame attache* to him. intimation His doors were Bad
locked ana the end first ha
was ths cold of a revolver held at
his head with ths blood-curdling de-
A BOLD fTANp TAKEN.
The Central Ball road Will Kraplojr Re
. Nora Kaighu of Labor.
New York, Oct. E—The New York
Central officials have decided that no
mare Knight# of Labor thali be as-
ployed on tiie road and Yfoe President
Webb baa issued a circular directing the
heads of the various departments to
moke addressed their decision known. general The airoo-
iar in to the manager,
general and superintendent, chief engineer
and rolling superintendent stock and of motive power
sots:
“The recent strike ana acts of lewises-
new committed in connection there¬
tween with, the the leader* published of correspondence the organisation be¬
men that ordered how seeking it, and re-employment the fact that many Mato
that sonal tn*y violence, quit work and did from fear dare of offer per¬
not to
to mums the Work for the seme reason,
compel to management that ft objects of the to com¬ Its
employee pany announce being members of the
known Knights organi¬
sation os *the of Labor.'
“The monagamant to satisfied tint
membership to this particular organi-
liable at any time to prevent it from
properly public. Yon discharging will at its duties taka such to the
emee ac¬
tion as will bring tbto circular to the
attention of fbe employee in yonr re¬
spective General departments.’’
said that: the Superintendent circular Voorbeee precisely
means
what it rays, knights must either give
up their roembeiship in the order or
leave the road.
FANAT ICAL IN DIANS.
Incantations and -liglons Orgies Over
the Coming of Their Messiah.
Pierre, 8. Dak., Oct. A— Report*
from the Sioux camps along the Chey¬
enne river just received state that the
fanatical fever of the Indians over the
camming of their Messiah to increasing
daily. Incantations and religions orgies
a; e Kept called going, Bed and htrt, an whose aged medicine to sold
man v age
to be over 100, leads the program with
new and startling features of worship.
It is expected he will soon develop
himself Into the l'.oked-for savior, as his
prestige term to U‘ great. But this to
as yet or-ly r; eetibtfwn. Tbs civilized
trit e* will ha\« m ibing -to do with the
net- fad. and fmmectiy go and urge
thtk wilder neighbors to desist from
their prac tices, hat wi thout a vail.
HAVES ON THE M’K INLEV BILL.
Ite Kx-Preslden! Begret* the Paanga at
Rby Mr.
s hurrsh.