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1,000 P/UR SHOES
0 GOOD CONDITION -BOXES DAMAGED - AT
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Bass & Heard, of Rome, engaged our middle counters
for four weeks that they might sell part of their damaged
goods in Griffin. They ask us to receive the goods and
make prices that will induce the people to buy rapidly.
They want the money to buy another spring stock. -Last
week's sales were satisfaciory. so muclv so that Bass &
Heard have sent nearly a car loal for this week with in¬
structions to sell, if need be, at half their real worth. One
k a jf 0 f t heir spring stock had been received before the fire,
consequently the goods are newand in seasori> a great many
things not damaged by water or moke.
22 idozen Cotton, and Linen Towels, slight ly soiled,
t# g 0 on middle counters for this weeps'sale. One.lo
Ladies and Childrens Hose at joe, well worthy' and 2sc.
20 pieees Bleached and Unbleached Table Liaen; also 19
dozen Table Napkins for Bargain Hunifcrs. One loCfur
key Red Damask. in Black and 34 all pieces the pretty Simpson/sF^d pan^rn^Edt Hamii- dam-
mn.’s p Prints ' .•#' .[•
40 1 beautiful • 1 /1. Coudttrpanes, ______ s, ieces of
19 pie<
salt*; some is damaged, some is not. 30 pieces of Percal
at 5 3 4c. One lot uf Ticking as long as. it lasts at 5c yard
The prettiest line of Dimities, India Linen and Checked
Muslins for Children’s Dresses we have ever bad, will be
on sale for this week Fresh. and a great Don’t many fail pieces not damaged
at all. New and to see this counter.
About 20 pieces of Lace received. Limifed amount of
Hemberg Edging andlnsartion, if you ever will need a
Black Dress now -s your time to buy. Dress Goods worth
$1.76 marked 'in'Black down arid to 95c Blue, Serges, Ladies CashrReyres, Gossimers, and badly Hen¬
riettas 25
damaged, 25c up. Every one invited to attend the saie, at
BASS BROS.
reresrerew .
How This
For Low Prices?
We are the Cutters of Piieeis on Groceries. We
always give onr customeas somdioweir prices than other
houses' and if you wi.l notice oiir "ad” it vnl pay you.
8 pound keg Soda 25c Octagon Soap per cake 4c
4 pound Church Soda 25c 50 pounds Grits $1.00
40 bars Soap $1.00 Soda Crackers per lb 8c
Parched Ground Coffee 9c Washing Powders per
Oolong and Fomosa Tea 140c package 3c
3 pound can Tomatoes per Apple Vinegar per gal 30c
dozen £50
1 pound can Royal Baking Large size Mason Black¬
Powders 42c ing per box 5c
thing Lady Peas, Ruta Baga Turnips.’ Cabbage and
you need in the Grocery line
OVERSTOCKED!
We are overstocked on the followikg goods: %
Half ' *v, • -
barrel White Fish, $2.40 worth $3.00
Keg V\ hite Fish, 31c worth 50c.
Parched and Ground Coffee 9c. per pound.
3 pounds White Cherries 37c. worth 500,
Selected Pinolas, 50c. worth 75c.
Impoited Mushrooms, 25c. worth 30c. ^
Imported English Peas, 25c worth 30c.
Table Sauce, 15c. worth 20c.
Mustard Sardines, 7c worth 10c*
2 Jb can Blackberries, ^8c. worth 10c.
Birk Trout, per can igc. worth 20c.
Damson Plum Preserves roc. pound, worth 20c.
3 lb. cans Tomatoes, per dozen, $1.70. worth $2x10.
We have a small lot of Cuspidors left of our Crockery
Mock and will sell chem for 7c, worth 12. *
Some Glassware at less than cost.
G. W. Clark & Son,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers.
Be Cheapest Graters in Griffin.
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<UUFF 1 N, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 4 . I m.
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IDE OCEUENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skid with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the Cauvosnia Pig Sy uur
Co. only, and xve wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Fig* is manufactured
by the CaufonnIa Fte Syhpf Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par¬
ties. The high standing of the Cali¬
fornia F*0 Sr HUP Co. with the medi¬
cal profession. and ,, the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of' families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives.
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company —
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAX FRANCISCO, Cat. „
LODU«lLLK. KS, NEW YORK. 5. Y.
DR. E. L HAMfch,
DENTIST.
Office npst^n in building adjoining
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W. D. CARHART,
A 1 1 o r n e y - a t - L a w t
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
31^ Hill Street,
Commercial Law and Collections, s
-5pecial*v.
J. CHESTNBY SMITH,
Attorney and Connsellor-at-Law
Griffin, Ga.
Office over Griffin Banking Campany
WM. E. U. 8HABOT, JR. JOS. D. BOYD
SEARCY ft BOYD,
Attorneys-at-Law.
GENERAL PRACTICE.
Booms 1 and 2, Masonic Temple,
GRIFFIN, GA
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0. H. P. SLATON,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
' Griffin, Georgia.
Practice in all the courts. Office. in
News Building. 0 ,
BLAKELI & ELLb,
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Ins \
Funeral Directors
Ail gredea doth-oovered, Metallic si d
W xtd Coffins and Caskets. Prompt ai d
careful attention. Free Hoarse. Embalming Carriages
and all details attended to.
«t reasonable term* Calls answer *d day
or nl»ht* «
VICK 5
seeds
turners for half a cenwrjr, and to clvhratethe Wth f«<
la btuiaen we have ttwed a Golden Wedding edition or
Vick’s f'dnor.i Guide
Ul«t«tlon. of fIoEt,, Vegetable.. Plant,.
To tbVmrden,’«Htb authority tor the on____ and
pertaining totbegwd- can tune, a
deecrlpti ve ealalofM .
DUE SILL far He. wertfc mt seed /1
u talk hrw cntlt la (l«» fa r rail *--
’^aj.i!8rgg oondonaed. Snely , .gr III y,M
Guide
0«r a.w ,Iaa of amia* V.gataW* Saada |M r*«
Ur yaar —*T —7 —* S—— » S W a rt a a .
James Vicks Sons 9
Rocheter, N. Y»
JFo-To-Bat) tor fifty Omko.
COURT 8F INQUIRY
FOR GENERAL MILES
Settled That One
Will Be Ordered.
lTter before cabinet
the Meantime It Is Nat lVobubl*
at lie will It,- ftollrved of His
osltluu a« CumiUHiiiler of I he
sited States Ami)’.
Washixgtos. Feb. 8.—The cabins!
had the matter of General Miles'
aduct and utierauces under discus¬
aud while no formal action has
been taken, there is reason to believe
a court of inquiry will be ordered.
the uieautime it is not likely that he
be relieved o! his posuiou as gen¬
of the army.
war i« anx¬
for a conrtmanial and believes"
is ample ground for one .in the
the general bus criticised the sec¬
of war and the different bureaus
the alleged prejudice iff gOOdbrdSr
discipline, but as Miles denies hav
authorised any of the many inter¬
that have bequ printed, there
>t;kt
of inquiry will not be ordered un¬
the war investigating committee
its report, as tbs report itself will
the basis for the court of inquiry.
REPORT BY GENERAL 0T18.
American Commander Gives Health
Conditions at Muitile*
Washinuton. Fob. 8.—Responding to
resolution of inquiry, the secretary of
sent to the senate General Otis’
on tl^e health pouditious at Ma¬
il . The report was dsted yesterday
Bosde by cable, it
••jow. tus among troops in Fiiilippines
since ariivkl to Feb. 1, seveii «iout is,
220, of which 40 were due to wounds
sod acoidents. Of the remaining 180,
65 died of typhoid, 13 of smallpox, 22 of
dvsentery, 8 of malarial fever. The re-
owning deaths were due to many va¬
rious diseases. Smallpox causes appre¬
hension. The eutire command has been
vaccinated sev er al ttmes^Twelve p& y-
weeks vaccina (tug natives.
• The more March, sickly season April, May, is due when in
the months of
fevers, smallpox Nine and dysentery the are
more commend prevalent. reported per sick; oeut of
are now the slight s great ail*
majority of cases are
meaty." ........ ......—
Minneapolis Ulock Ahlst».
Minneapolis, Feb. *. — The Boston
Block, one of the principal offioe build¬
ings in the city, is on firs. 80 far the
flames have been confined to the two
upper floors, the seventh gad eighth.^
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.▼e know
of nothing line better better to i tesr the
lining of your throat and
lungs. It is better than wet
feet to cause bronchitis and
pneumonia. Only keep it
up long enough and, you
will succeed in reducing your
|\right sumption.
Stop coughing and you
Will get welt.
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pectoral
cures coughs of every kind.
An ordinary cough disap¬
pears in a single night. The
recking coughs of bronchitis
are soon completely mas¬ far
tered. And, if not too
along, the coughs of con¬
sumption »r* completely
cured.
*^Ask your druggist for one
Dr. Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral
Plaster.
It will sid the action of the
Cherry Pectoral. '
Wftta ua
Q Dii Y. T c. ATEB, toren. km®
i^rj s sss s
THE SUN, Established !»77
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Royal fOWDfS Bakinc
Makes the food more defidous and wbolesoiiie
NEGRO RACIST EXECUTED.
First f,.'gal If euging In Oldham
County, K)'„ In Fifty Years.
LaGranoe. Ky., Feb. 3. — William
Miller, the negro rapist, was hanged
here a* 7:M o'clock today. This is the
first legal hanging in Oldham county in
52 years The execution took plaoe in
the jail yard and. only about 50 persons
witnessed it Millar professed die. religion
and said that he was ready to
Very little interest was taken in Boi¬
ler’s case by the negroes of Old-
barn county and the only a egro Professor who
witnessed the execution was
Wat
school of Louis ville, who was Miller's
teacher in the public school. Miller
was not quite 17 years old.
The crime for which Miller was
hanged was committed about 2 o’clock
on tha afternoon of Sept * Mv* Ger<
trade Lett, wife of Frank Lent, a
farmer, residing 4 miles west of La-
Grange, bad visited her grandmother,
Mrs. George Head, near Pern station.
She left ou hprseback for home about %
intercepted har in a clump Sba of turned' bushes
and called to her to stop.
her horse so as to face him.
,He put his hand behind htm, as If in-
tsndiug to dismount. draw a pistol She and demanded and
her to screamed
the negro threatened to blow her braius
out if sba made another outcry. He
then palled her from her horse and
choked her until she was unable to re¬
sist him farther.
A SPEEDY TRIAL ^DEMANDED.
Legislature Wants Colombia to Give
5 Francis Kandolpli Justice.
Montgomery, Ala.. Ftk l —X join!
resolution has been introduced in the
Alabama legislature in reference to the
Randolph case in Oolombia. The fol¬
lowing is the preamble:
“Whereas, It appears that Francis O.
Randolph, a oitiaen of the stale the of Ala¬ of
bama, Medellin, is now imprisoned United in of city Go¬
in the States
lem Kia, under a charge of homicide, and
ha s b ee n depr&sd of hi# liberty since
Sept. 5, 1885, without being able to ob
taiu an impartial trial, according to the
forms and asages of law prevailing in
civilised countries; aad.
Whereas, and for tbit reason it fur¬
ther appears that the Mid Francis 0.
Randolph trial" is now, and has been, denied
a speedy The resolutions the presi¬
urge upon
dent and congress that all proper means
be need to have Colomb i grant Ran¬
dolph a speedy and impartial trial ac¬
cording to law in such cases.
There resolutions are to be sent to
senators and members of congress from
Alabama with the request that they use
their endeavors to have prompt action
taken.____ «*,■.
BLISS GOE8J3UT SHORTLY.
Hitchcock Will Take Charge of the
' Interior De partm ent.
Washington, Feb. 8. — The change
in the head of the interior department
is expected to occur in the middle of
this month, though no definite word
has been reoeived from Ambassador
Hitohoock, the newly appointed secre
tary.
The latter was expected to sail from
St. Petersburg about New Year’s day,
but was unable to arrange bis affairs
there departure by that time, Jan. and planned If to be make
bis on 2& got
away at that time he will reach here in
season to relieve Secretary Btise by Feb
15 or earlier.
Secretary Bliss is spending this week
in New York and for some weeks has
consistently avoided taking np any new
questions arrival. of polled, He pending hie succes¬
sor’s is anxious to be re¬
lieved at the earliest practicable mo¬
ment. _ y . ■. ■■
“CANNERB CANN OT CAN."
Banks Shut Down onvTwrenty'Rlghl
Firms In British Columbia.
Vancouver, B. O., Fbb. 8—It ii
stated that the banks have shat down
on 28 canneries in British Columbia,
owing to fbeir inability to carry on bu»
incss under the prireut Dominion Mgu>
lauous. Three bauk managers are
quoted as saying that with the present
regulations caUners cannot can and all
the smaller -concerns mast go to th«
wall. I* means a loss to the province
uf <4.000,000 and a loss to Vsnooavel
alone L of <500,OQtt
G. Wilson, the largest individual
eanaer eo the Fraser, said:
“I have sold two of my canneries is
Canada and tin looking for a s te lip the
United States. About 20 of the 50 can
ueries will move to the United States.
Shoald the blundering Canadian gov¬
ernment insist upon enforcing the regu
hit tons with the idea of barriug Ameri¬
can fish and fishermen the reet will ge
out of business."
PostuIBce Contest Settled.
Omuki, Ala., Feb. 8.—After a long
and bitter fipbt of over two years’ dura¬
tion, the contest for the Opelika post-
office has been ended by tbe full senate
committee reporting for the confirma¬
tion of D. B. Smith. There has been
no end to the charges filed and work
done la this caw and the patrons of the
offioe are p irere d to gee the matter ret-
tied-
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HALF DOZEN PEOPLE.
RON DOWN BY TRAIN
B. ft 0. Freight Strike* Party
Near Pittsburg,
FOUR INSTANTLY KILLED
The 0<h*r Vws Are la an Ifa O e a Se l a t ta
Condition, Being Unable to Otve an
Aooouat of the Accident, aad Caa-
act Possibly Live. \
Pittsburg, Feb. A—A I-horse vrafoe
loaded with forniture aad on which si*
paraswt*-five men and a you** w a aae a.
wan riding was struck today by a fuel
Baltimore and Ohio freight uaiu «U
the crossing at Riverton st at ion, jaM
above McKeesport Four of thi B«»
that they will probably dla.
The names of the dead are
Hndaoa Eldar,
Vest Wilson.
Georg* Dawson. t
An unknown man.
Mrs. Edna Lawson is su ppo se d to lit be
the name of the injured whore
sixth viotim is a one-legged
name is not known. Both the injured
were taken to the McKebsport hoepitei
in au unconscious condition.
All effort# to revive there have been
unavailing, and therefore nothing defi¬
nite (ah be learned aa to bow the acci¬
dent occurred. It is believed till the
victims were moving from some part of
McKeesport to Duquesae. making time and
The train was fast
struck the wagon with fearfai force.
Hudson Elder’s body waa threw* » die*
tanee of 50 feet and waa found on ths
Pittsburg aad Lake Erie track. Which
at this point runs parallel with that of
the Baltimore and Ohio.
The wagon waa f ' * ~ \ ?S £-
aud ita contents ^h5
around. The men who w ere hd
were att aged probably betv
25 ysars. : '
DANGKK 8 OF THE
la of it* resulting in p»
reason tble care is used, however,end
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy taken,
all danger wiit be avoided. Among
the tens of ttoos mds who have need
tMe remedy for lagrippe we have
vet to learn of a single esse having
resulted in pneumonia which shows
c inclusively that this that
certain preventive of <
disease. It will sure'
time than any
is pleasant and safe
sals by N . B. Drewry
Alleged KFortTe P eoWwd.
Brhun, Out, Feb, t — Ooamtere vre
Webeneau and her nephew, Hel l—
Bolderhansen, have been anwref v
charged with 1 conspiracy Insurance to
Merchants Fire
Tbe prisoners put in a claim for
for their luggage, which they ;
wdestroyed on Tuesday memt
the house _
a fire which destroyed in
which they lived. It now turns eat
they had lfl large case* of goods at th*
Waterloo station, add ress e d te Boffalo,
the day before the fire. The prisons**
were remande d.
It is said that the soldiers who had
ta'cen Hood’s 8si a .pari 11a stood the long
m irehes la Cuba much better than the
others.
For Separate (elections. QP
Little Rock, Feb. 8. —The hoare
has defeated by a vote o i 50 to <8 a MU
to cousohdata atate and federal alaa-
lions.
Kivn.Harbor Ifiti "estad.
Washington. Feb. 8.—The river and
harbor bill, carrying elightly more than
<80.0u0.000, paa;sd the bemae by a vere
»f I# to 7.
SHE9SKIN
20 TIMES
M? IhUe boy brokeoot with On IMUog aA.
three dec lor* and medical college but
he trpt E5:*.iag worse. Vtert «u »~J on*
tq-jr.rt r .nek cfshtjmi Ml wkete body mnajieied.
lie vra.-i one mass Of sores, and the stench vn»
tr:ja;fal. In ronoring with them, the h a ar.il Wsgy thej
vro- M u^e the sh!u tue poo
<Z» ZJ’3 (yrosms owe h*m:-hresJc.'ne- Afhi
the second application cf Cnnxu fatal
meat) I saw of i^prortwMmt, and ths
. sorts to (hynp^*B*#b%--peried o»-tweaty
tirj -J. b-.t now I* t* mt.'rrfjF mrtd,
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