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A few bushels Georgia
Raised Seed Rye,Corn,
I Oats. Hay a Bran.
Kits. Buck-
wheat Flour and
r I MapteSyrup
boMarket Cor- j I | La
n ed Beef. Our
breads and Cakes j j
a t ii o’clock, we l
receive fine Trout and
other kinds Fish and Oys¬
ters every morning.
GRIFFIN
ALLOWS 1 NT 181
Discounts paper. Long
or short time loans on
real estate. Buy and sell ex¬
change. Make collections
on all points. Real estate
loans on the monthly install¬ all
ment plan and loans on
good securities at low rates.
B. B. BLAKELY, It. II. DRAKE,
President. Cashier.
GRIFFIS
imo Points About the Metropolis of
Middle Georgla-I *
Griffin is the county seat of Spalding Conn-
f, Georgia, and is situated in the centra o
best portion of the great Empire State oi
Booth, where all of its wont’trial and
-M industries meet and are carried on
h greatest success, and is thus able to of
inducements to ail classes seeking a home
id a profitable career. These are the rea-
foi a growth that has about doubled
population since the last census.
It has ample and increasing railroad fadlt-
the second point in importance on the
ntral railroad between the capital of the
f*te, forty miles distant, and its principal
•-sport, 250 miles away: an independent
w to i hattanowga and the West by way of
V Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama
tilroad; the principal city on the Georgia
Midland and Cjulf railroad, one hundred
miles long, built largely through ite own en-
‘ej-prwe, and soon to be extended to Athens
ad the systems of the Nortbaest
direct connection with the gw it Fist Ten
aessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad system
mother road graded and soon to be built;
H bringing in trade and carrying out goods
■d manufactures.
Griffin's record for th® past half d cade
proves it one of the mest progressive cities in
Soutb.
It has built two large cotton factories
•presenting $250,000, and shipping goods
'over tbs world.
it has put up a large iron and b raes foun
y, a fertiliser factory, a cotton seed oi
•ill, a sash and Mind factory, an ioe factory,
ottling works, a broom factory, a mattress
actory, and various smaller enterprises.
It has pat in an electric light plant by
shk-h the streets are brilliantly lighted.
B has opened up the finest and largest
tranite quarry ia the State, for building,
tsllasttag It *nd macadamizing purposes.
has secured a cotton compress with a
*11 capacity for its large and increasing re
Mpts of this Southern tuple,
it has established a system of graded pub]
•ehoohl, with a seven year* curriculum,
*oad to none.
It hat organized two new banks, making a
otal of foar, with combined resources of
million dollars.
U has built two handsome new churches,
Baking a total of ten.
It has built several -hand 2 m >
locks and many beautiful residences, the
tiding record«rf 1882 alone bring over
150,000. • ,
It has attracted around its borders fruit
rawer* from nearly every State in the Union
*d Canada, until it is surrounded on every
kby oc hards and vineyards, and has be-
°ae the largest and best frait section in the
tete, a stegteear load of fte peaches rnttiag
UNO in the height of the season,
fa has doubled its wine making capacity
*hing by both French and German methods
it has beta exempt from ejetoaes, floods
** <*pidemiete, and by reaeon of He topo
raphy wifi never be eabfeet to them.
People Looking for an Outbreak
at Any Moment.
Settlers Gathering in Groups
'J{j for Their Safety.
Great ExeMeiut-nt Prevail* on Account of
the Indian Mmilak Dances—Troops Are
Beady for Action at Short Notice—Kefn-
fwist from the TbUdy Settled Olatrirta.
Preparing for the Worst.
Sioux City, la., Nov. ao. —The Indians
are now having their Messiah dance oil
in the Cheyenne river agency, South
Dakota.
The dancers are trying to induce the
parents of the Indian children at the
schools to withdraw them and have them
attend the dances.
At Pine Ridge, Rosebud and Standing
Bock reeervation3 they continue to have
their Messiah dunces.
ing Maj. Rock, McLaughlin, the agent at Stand¬
admits that for the first time
he has lost control of the Indians and
can do nothing with them.
There are two companies of infantry
near been Big withdrawn Foot’s camp. Fbrt The cayalry has
infantry to Meade, a*id The
Bennett companies closely at Forts Sully
movement are made by the watching Indians, and every
are
ready to move at a moment's notice.
Cheyenne, Wy. Russell t Nov. 20.—The com¬
mandant at Fort has receive or¬
ders to have seven companies of infantry,
with lieutenant colonel, major and nine
most intense excitement prevails In the
country. 8ettlers are prepared to believe
anything their about actions the lately. Indians, Several because fam¬ of
ilies queer in foot, distance twen¬
came on a of
ty miles and over, too poor to own wag¬
ons. In town, somewhat less tension ex¬
ists, owing to the receipt of 300 guns
from the state government, and the fact
that a company of soldiers arrived yes¬
terday There morning from Fort Totten.
are 800 armed Indians in the
town, but the citizens are armed too,
and patrols will be out and people wm
sleep with their clothes on. Tim date
will be fixed by a committee of citizens,
and Indian agents will be notified that
after that date any Indian found iu this
county, without a pass from the agent,
will be killed on sight.
The population fa thoroughly aroused,
and ing their although best conservative quiet the men are do¬
to angry popu¬
lace, there is every reason to believe that
unless tiie government takes immediate
steps to increase the force of soldier*
here and at Fort Lincoln, every Indian
coming into the county will be killed.
and they are inclined to be ugly. White
residents of toe at the fort for object the to toe It depart¬
ure ported that troops 100 armed bucks west. is re¬
were seen
crossing kan, and the railroad track from at Minnewau- the Turtle
were ea route
mountains to join the Sioux at Standing
Rock, but said that they were going on
a hunt. ■- .
TO SUBDUE THE INDIANS.
Troffp* In SufHctont Numbers Netr the
Scene of Action*
Washington, Nov. 20.— Gen. Miles
has telegraphed from Chicago to the ad¬
jutant of general of threatening the army that reports
are the same tenor from
Pine Ridge.
Troops have been ordered to that and
Rosebud agency to give protection, ed-
courage ble, the turbulent. the loyal ana restrain, if possi¬
Thus far, no Indians
have been reported as having- left their
reservation with hostile intent. ==
Gen. Schofield telegraphed Gen. Miles
as follow*; - f. si. j
“I approve of tiie measures you hater
taken m sending troops to Rosebud and
Pine Ridge agencies, and also of your
proposed efforts the while agencies giving and necessary
protection to restrain¬
ing, as far as possible, the turbulent In-
dians, to avoid, if possible, an outbreak
of any active hostilities for the present
until the advancing season, and further
preparations shall make the operation of
troops more sorely effective, with less
Cavalry danger to Snd the artillery surrounding Fort settlement. and
all other available at will Riley placed
troops, be
under your orders, if the" emergency
should seem to require it.”
that A dispatch in day from Rosebud agency says
a or two the Indians of both
Rosebud and Pine Ridge will find them¬
selves conquered by tiie largest force of
troops that has ever been assembled in
the. United States since tiie general out¬
break in Arizona. This force embraces
eight companies of infantry and six com¬
Seven panies of cavalry, under Gen. infantry Broone.
companies of the Seventh
are in readiness to start from Fort Rus¬
sell at Cheyenne, Wy., at an hour’s no¬
tice. hours. They Pine can Ridge reach Pine and Rosebud Ridge in forty
agen¬
cies are only fifty miles apart.
IUFFIN GEOBGIAFRlDAT MORNING. NOVEMBER2' I8!»0
A HISTORIC SPOT.
TUo Ijutlm VUIt Indian Siting—***
.""■f ttaaanom- c-i yyj.vjy
Atlanta, Mot. 20. -An exclusion
train, consisting of ten coeohe*, left At¬
lanta for Indian Spring, in Battiooanty,
Ga,, about twenty-five miles from tote
city. The exeurekm w«« tendered toe
ladies of tiie W. G. T. U. end the*
friends, and about 1,000 excursionists
visited the historic spot, Wednesday,
where an old time, open «r feast was
had and enjoyed to the fullest extent
country. The virtues^ itsheaim^watera
discovered this wopdarfol natural foun¬
tain. It was known as the grand "Jfifali-
cine” spring, and the tribes used to go
jgjniner. there and It remain there for many the celebrated day* each
was th«
Sd tipaty Die wjei chiefs made of the by tribe* Governor who inhabit¬ Troup
ed that section. The spring, and ten
acres ot ground surrounding Georgia, it, were which re¬
served by the state of
1888 they were taken in bands of 1,000
each and taken to the reservation in
what is now Indian territory.
The rock on which the chiefs stood in
the great conference, while addressing
their followers and the white commis¬
sioners. is still shown on the lull above
the spring. The spring itself fa a very
small lon affair, only running about a gal¬ is¬
a minute, in a small stream that
sues from the solid Such rock. The properties
of the water are as to be an almost
infallible remedy for alcoholic poison.
% most ante popular helium days it resorts was one in of thin the
summer
country, and tiie wealth and fashion of
(Georgia used to assemble there every
summer for recreation.
place, After the spending excursionists the day returned at this noted A*-
to
The .work, of the W, C. T, U. bavins re¬
been finished, the delegates will now
turn to their homes. Thus has ended
the most notable convention ever held
in this city.
3 TRUS TED EMPL OYES *
Have Been By»t«matlc»ny Bobbins Um
K ali road.
Houston, Tex., Nov. 20.—A very bad
state of affairs has been in existence on
#« fcr Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railway
borne time, and since the recent
changes of officials ail the discrepancies
have through come to light. the It appears railroad that, has
some means,
been defrauded out of $180,000 worth of
cotton, and that during the present cot¬
ton Season some eighty-five carloads of
compressed The officials will cotton only hsn that gone the astray. above
is will dirulge say evi¬
true, but not what
dence they collected against suspected
parties, ployes, who The are shrinkage in the main has been trusted em¬
atically going and the system¬ is in
on, all company
possession of the necessary facte*
whicn will be sprung when the time
comes.
_
The National G ran t*.
Atlanta, Nov. 20.— The National
Grange, which lias been ia tesaion in Ah-
attendance, has adjourned. The next
session will be held at Springfield, O.
was adopted:
two cotton ytg&ffc producers fiWHflijif of th« unjust «M S
imposed the leading product per
oeht tare on
ence of every one who desires justice.
the After a few the appropriate Grange adjourned.. remarks by
master,
Sw*pt-Aw*jr ia « 4viaWlo*.
M^tra^of hto
farm and stock, was seated by the fire
talking to his wife of their contemplated
lulled his money from his pool
\ was in large bills, and procee
New Y<
and Russell Sags were risoted
build ing,
wgphkwi
•
Judah Halpiu, a Russian, Cut
Almost to Ueees.
A Notable Surgical Operation
’.‘••V > »• ia New York.
Heesed by ■ Mob. ^--------
Corinth, Mias., Nov. 20.—News comes
from Savannah, Term., that Ned Ste¬
vens, who killed Sheriff Fraley several
months ago, has last been hung but by the a mob. jury
He was tried Friday,
failed to agree on a verdict, *ad he was
sent rounded back the to jail, jail, took At night Stevens a mob.sur¬ out and
lnmg him to a tree and riddled his body
with bullets._____
Tbs Governor Koftue* to lotertor*.
Atlanta, Nov. 80.—If nothing hap¬
pens hanging to prevent, Friday. Wayne county Moore, will have
a sentenced Henry for murder. a ne¬
mo, was to hang
Governor Northern in response to several
telegrams received by him asking him to
reprieve Moore, answered that be de¬
clined to interfere with the sentence ef
the Court evidence on a and petition unsupported know!- bv
any without an f
IMrnam Han Only a Severe Cold.
Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 20.—P. T.
Barnum’s illness has been greatly ex-
aggerat d. He has a severe cold, and by
advice of his physician, lias kept within
doom for a few days past, such but a* no time
has his condition been as to cause
alarm.
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normar*’ Alliance In Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg, Nov. 20.—The Farmers’
Alliance will hold a state convention on
Nov. 26 Alliance for the and purpose o|.organizing*# delegates
State National Alliance electing he to
the convention to
A CSSS et Supposed Leprosy. , '
Dus Moink, Ia., Nov, 20.—Eighty citi-
Mha the of Shelby at count;- have petitioned
state board health to investigate &
smith case of ia said supposed to be the leprosy. victim. John Gold-
The senatorial race in Georgia settled,
attention fa now directed to Alabama
and Soutb Carolina. In Alabama the
DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
Sxtwkmz GW, Nov, SO.—Tprp*sitlne firm at
rc. Haste, n»«* ot-te.
f.l Nov. *#.—Arrow *"* —»«*»*■ ties, $1.45. Banting
Atiakta l«f. me; *». me; 8c
Wb.
on, Nov. *8 -
■TimSiv No^i,
».«na
L.„.
...
f fc)pot cotton quiet and atesriy. HaleaYl^OO. Mid-
Liverpool Future*.
Opening tod dosing quotation rot cotton fu¬
ture* In Liverpool I,i Nov, ».
v tarotn,
Opeate*. Ootag.
I 1
REGULAR JESSE JAMES GANG.
Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 20.-About
ayeer — ama a train ■ * - ' aMiA' was wrecked U)#,u.l;A,l
Valley railroad, in
Jefferson county, and two of the train¬
men killed. Tnree men charged named Frey.
Allen causing and the Qidinger wreck, were and oouvicted,' with
Owing to the fact that ail the evidence
was circumstantial they only get two
years. Monday Frey, who to only 19
rears oid, made a full confession. im¬
plicating also' two yeung men named
Strother and Wyridr. Frey and hla two
follow-convicts and two other* were
taken from the penitentiary at Mounda-
ville to Charieatoa. to testify in five
criminal cases. They all say there was
• regular Jeaae James gang of young
outlaw* in the county, who burned
barns, poisoned stock, eortiiuitted bur¬
glaries end other grave crime*, more for
fun than any otiuir idea, families. as all belonged
to wealthy the and track leading at the time of They the
fahai wreck to catch an express train,
has not been such a sensation in the East¬
ern Pan-Handle for years as the caused, appear¬
ance of these five witnesses m
nobody there yet knew of their confes-
MARRIED FOR MONEY.
After Two Months She Horn for s Diverse
end nlso Alimony.
sensational Franklin, divorce Ky., Nor. lias 20.—A iust highly
suit been
filed in the clerk’s office ot the Simpson
county the ciiild court wife of Mrs. Green Frances Bracken, Bracken, wolf
a
known and wealthy farmer living in
east titioned Simpson, through her divorce attorneys, f9,> pe¬
the court for a and
000 alimony.
The document that the defend-
ant, immediate! their marriage,
about two men! , began a course
. . intiff of the meet
cruel and inhuman character ; that he
refused to provide her with the com-
monest^eceaeariee of life, she being
compelled She further to go alleges to her that parents defendant for food. is
guilty of the most infamous crimes
against plaint nature. This part of the com¬
fa unfit few publication.
The petition closes as follows: She
prays for divorce and for maintenance
during alimony the in pending the of this $5,000, sutt, sufficient and for
sum of
to support her during life, white defend¬
ant lias degraded plaintiff beyond the
power of any court to measure or com¬
pensate. The petitioner •• : yfaa'jT-'i- is about 17 "■ #, old,
and the defendant 70. years
is quite
DECEIVED AND DESERTED.
Thn Yonnc Woman Profer* Drain to a
Life of DUpua
Memphis, Tonn., Nov. 20.— At a Late
hour in the night, Dela Stewart, a beau¬
tiful young woman stopping at tbs
Pacific hotel, committed suicide by tak
hotel ing rat only poison. day She had been at the
a or two, having come tt
tiie city a short time ago from Sheffield,
Ala., where her mother and sister hive.
Three letters written by her were found
HteliMte rm>n or the suicide. One waa
‘To him who first finds,” r«-
anal questing Sheffield, that Floy< ■d Gothard. city mar-
of
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death. Another was addressed to Goth¬
ard, asking him to tell her mother and
sister of her eml fate, and take care ot
them. The third letter gives a clue to
the cause of her taking off. It is ad¬
dressed to Dan O’Mara, an artisan of this
city. - Ip this she tells O’Mara tliat since
' , * deserted her, she has
i no resource
hut a life of shame, and she prefers
death. O’Mara is in Arkansas at pres¬
ent, and could not be found. It ia pre¬
sumed that he seduced the girl, brought
her to this city and deserted her. Tire
toune intelligence woman was well evidently possessed a person of
as as of rare
personal charms.
/ STRANGE INFATUATION.
A Girl *fl# Ran* Away wltfi Her Brother-
In-Law.
Corinth, daughter Ky., George Nor. 20.—Dora, aged
16, of Hale, a farmer of
Owen county, walked eight miles in a
hard rain, to this place, and took the
southbound train, claiming that she waa
to meet a young man named Hughes at
the next station and be married.
She went on to Winfield, Term., alone,
according to toe conductor’s story, and
the next morning her brother-in-law,
Noah Beard, a young farmer of Grant
county, and of most respectable family,
came to Corinth inquiring for her.
He declared his intentions of going
after euadttd aud the bringing her hock, teU and jier-
she agent aatto he would her,fatiier kill
where was, as her if
be found her. When her father came
ing with the girthiroself, , and thus ctev-
■■■■■■■■■■■I erly considerable covered lus tracks, of Ho withdrew from a
sum money ioney the
bank last week, and leaves a wife and
five little okildren destitute.
been invited,
come* off here Friday night, toe 2I*t.
When the genera] was "The apprised of the
meeting, lie said; good people of
Augusta and Richmond stuck bv me and
I’ll stick by them. You may say,” he
added to the Richmond county represen¬
tatives I will who be presented with tile Friday.” invitation,
“that them on
S'oat hero ladle* Honored.
Chicago, Nov, 20,—The board of lady
managers of the World's Columbian ex¬
position, mot in this city Wednesday af¬
ternoon. They were (-tiled to order and
welcomed to nartkijiiiti»ii in the work
by President Painter _________ of tiie . National ________
commission. Then the body proceeded
to the formation of temporary organiza¬
tion, which resulted in the detection of
!|rs. William H. Felton of Georgia, «m
Payne temporary Kentucky, president, and Miss Cora
of as temporary sec re¬
Minimum and Maximum Duties
are Provided For.
Limit of Cocessions by Each
Industry.
Hum Tmo Tariffs Ks IM-O s* Which Wag
be Knifed dgainst Any Mtllw* lileerintl-
Mtlt| tplwl French Go o d *—The Other
the Unit to Which rnnecnetona Can ha
Made—Other Late New*.
Condom, Nov. 90.-.The new tariff, to
favor of which the French chamber of
deputies ha* decided, is exphuued a*
follows:
It provide* for maximum and mini¬
mum duties, which moan* two tariff*—
a general tariff which may ba rawed to a
fixed maximum in the rase of nation*
imposing differential or manifestly ex¬
aggerated duties on French goods, and a
minimum tariff representing * limit of
the concession* which can he made by
each industry.
The general tariff will not have the
against character ot particular an exceptional while measure the
any state,
minimum tariff will apply to countries
duties so nigh as to be an insurmount¬
able obstacle to French enact*.
The complaints of the unen and hemp
spinners Sod weaver*, have been met
taken by amendment* of the tariff, which had bean
mande of away the by industry trearia*. The also de-
cotton have
been Ia woolens, met by an only increase few of i tariff rats*. in¬
creased, a being tense am
and silks considered,
owing to the perfection ofFrench manu¬
facture, to be aide to take cam of tbem-
Btuddnts of the state craft have been
the nafa, establishment composed of the of nobility provincial with tribu-
extensive authority, very
as courts of original village
jurisdiction ^Fo^nturiesj and appeal from the
Peter the Great, the indejd, policy long of the before czars
has been to break down toe nobility, as
an olstecle to their own autocracy; and
the nobility has of into been pretty well
subdued. Now, the czar is taking step*
to from partially them. restore the powers wrested
The new tribunals, so far as their meth¬
ods are known, have begun in an arbi-
trary way, and show contempt toe tbs
ancient authority of the village courts,
while at the same time reviving the use
ot hibited the knout, in which tor has been legally pro¬
Russia a number of years.
How tar the new system will avail
It has progressed far enough to show
that one of Its primary effects, whether
so intended or not, will be to utterly de¬
prive local the peasants of the benefit of the
village judicial functions of their beloved
commune, or “Mr.”
PARNEL L AND TH E IRISH.
He Will OmHas* t* Be Thwtr Leader,
Despite Ik* O'Shea Afifislr.
Dublin, Nov, 20.—United Inland, in
discussing the position created by the re¬
sult ofthc O’Hhe* suit, sn Parnell is
affected thereby, sayethat Ireland’s char¬
acter for for morality canting hypocrites can but intensify think het
scorn who
that in publicity i* found the essence of
ha* the for local s long time been dissatisfied
management of the league, hat
uttered in public language strongly do
?minting O’Shea the conduct of Parnell ia
case, aud advising hit flock
abandon the movement white Mr.
nell fa connected with it.
MrsivHtrastr EmSmwL
Park, Nov. 20,-Gen. Sdiverikoff,
Rpzsian tbs effects agent of in France, has died
a bullet wounjl in his
Inflicted in a manner which ia at present
a myatery. Conflicting reporta are cur¬
rent as to bow he was shot. One report
says that a stranger called on him at
residence, at the Hotel Bade, and that
half an hour after (he visitor departed
Gen. SMiverikoff was found by his valet
lying unconscious in his room, shot
toygr-s-v Oats, com and (
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