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gjiqrald and ^dcyfey.
Newnan, Ga., Friday, May 25, 1888.
WEEKLY CIRCULATION, 1,750.
JAS. E. BROWN. Editor.
The Sort of Prosperity that Pros
pers.
Already there is talk of erecting a
third cotton factory in Griffin, the capi
tal to be furnished exclusively by
Xorthern men, and there is a strong
probability that the plan will be car
ried out. In addition to-this new enter
prise, (which is now reasonably assured,)
a broom factory has just been started
up in that thriving town, and a canning
factory will follow in a short time.
Griffin’s success in the manufacturing
line has excited admiration and aston
ishment, wherever the town is known,
and there seems to be really no limit to
her enterprise. With far less capital
than some of her neighboring towns,
she has outstripped them all, and is
still going bravely ahead. Though con
st rained to give due credit to her en
terprising people for bringing about
this prosperous state of affairs, it must
be admitted that the peculiar condi
tions by which the town was hedged
about had a great deal to do with it.
When the Columbus and Rome road
was completed to Greenville she virtu-
ally lost the trade of Meriwether,
which amounted to thousands of bales
of cotton annually. Some of her best
territory was also invaded by the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road.
Then came the Georgia Midland, which
she was not only forced by circum
stances to assist in building, but had to
give up a liberal slice of her territory
besides. The building of the Atlanta
and Florida road, which bisects the
scope of country west of town already
.divided by the Georgia Midland, made
still further inroads upon her trade
area, and left her high and dry in the
center of a small scope whose circle
seemed to be steadily narrowing—the
termini of a network of railroads, and
yet for this very reason, apparently, a
centre of commercial isolation. Small
towns sprang up all along the line of
the < Georgia Midland and Atlanta and
Florida roads, and trade that legiti
mately belonged to Griffin, and had
formerly gone there, was decoyed
away. Another demoralizing conse
quent was the falling off in her cotton
receipts, and the outlook for the future
of the town was undeniably dishearten
ing. In the face of these discourage
ment s, however, she set resolutely to
work to retrieve her losses, and very
sensibly turned her attention to manu
facturing. After months of persistent
effort and energetic canvassing on the
part of a few leading spirits, enough
money was raised finally to build and
equip a cotton factory. This has been
most fortunately managed, and is now T
one of the most profitable and success
ful enterprises of the kind in the South.
A few weeks ago it was decided to
erect another cotton factory, and the
money required for the purpose was
raised in ten days. Work on the new
factory has already commenced, and it
will be in operation by September 1st.
Now there is prospect of a third facto
ry, and we have no doubt the project
will be successful. The three factories
will represent an actual capital invest
ment of $350,000, and will pay out in
wages to the operatives not less than
$50,000 annually. The amount thus
expended for wages (and there are nu
merous items of expenditure not includ
ed in the foregoing estimate.) finds its
way directly into the local channels of
trade, and every department of busi
ness is benefited. Thus, the trade that
Griffin will derive from her three facto-
tories will more than compensate for
the loss of her Meriwether and Pike
trade, and insures a permanent pros
perity and independence that neither
competing towns nor wildcat railroads
can take away. And this is not all.
Within the past six years Griffin has
built a guano factory, an ice factory, a
sash and blind factory, a broom facto
ry, machine shops, and a cotton seed
oil mill, and is now figuring on a can
ning factory and a liundred-thousand-
dollar hotel. The new enterprises al
ready in operation represent a capital
investment of not less than $400,000,
most of which has been furnished by
home capitalists, and other enterprises
now in contemplation will run this
amount up to $500,000.
We have been actuated by a twofold
purpose in writing the above—first, to
attest our admiration for the pluck and
perseverance exhibited by our sister
town; and, second, to show by compar
ison what Newnan has done and is
doing. Since January our people have
raised $100,000 for manufacturing pur
poses. Of this amount $75,000 has been
applied to the building of a cotton fac
tory, and the balance has gone into
smaller enterprises. A land company
has been organized with an actual cap
ital of $26,000, for the purpose of buy
ing, improving and selling city and su
burban property. A county stock and
fair association has been formed, with
ample capital to carry out the plans for
which it was organized, and officers
and members with the requisite en
terprise to do it. A buggy and car
riage factory and a wagon factory
have also been established since the
date mentioned, both of which are in
successful operation and paying hand
somely. The carriage factory furnish
es employment to eighteen hands, and
the wagon factory to about half as
In addition to the new enterprises re
ferred to, we have the R. D. Cole Man
ufacturing Company, one of the oldest,
largest and best known establishments
of the kind in the State, having been in
continuous and successful operation
since 1S54. One hundred and forty-
two hands are now employed in the
shops and at the company’s saw
mill, and machinery of their de
sign and manufacture is in use in every
Southern State. They are also heavy
contractors and builders.
Thompson Bros, employ several
bands and manufacture all kinds of fur
niture*.
T. G. Burpee employs two hands and
manufactures saddlery and harness.
He will increase his force soon and
manufacture for the wholesale trade,
which he has already found to be profit
able.
G. G. McNamara manufacturers
tombstones and monuments and em
ploys five or six hands.
T. E. Fell & Co. employ two hands
in their tin-working department and
manufacture all kinds of tinware, both
for the wholesale and retail trade.
M. Salbide manufactures cigars for
the wholesale trade, and his growing
business will necessitate the employ
ment of additional help soon.
Two government distilleries are in
operation here, each employing from
five to seven hands regularly. That own
ed by Mr. C. E. Smith lias a registered
capacity of one hundred and twenty gal
lons per day; the one belonging to Capt.
A. M. Wood has a capacity of sixty-
live gallons.
The Coweta Fertilizer Company em
ploys about twenty-five hands during
the fall and winter months, and sells
over $50,000 worth of fertilizers annu
ally.
From ten to twelve bands are em
ployed by McBride & Co. at their oil
mills during the working season, which
usually lasts from September until
May.
Every enterprise here mentioned is in
active and successful operation, except
the cotton factory, and that will be
ready early in the fall. The town lias
added more than one hundred to her
population within six months, and was
never in so prosperous a condition.
Property values are maintained at a
rate that would be impossible in a town
whose prosperity had less substantial
basis, and we are quite sure no town in
the State, of equal population, can
show a higher or more uniform proper
ty valuation. Nor can this be said to
be the resailt of a “boom.” We have
had no “boom”—not of the sort, at
least, that are so frequently expanding
and collapsing in other towns—and we
are just that much better off. New-
nan’s growth has been slow, steady and
sure; her improvement constant and
permanent. Our citizens are thorough
ly alive to the importance of encourag
ing manufacturing enterprises, and
what has been already accomplished
on this line may be accepted as an ear
nest of what they propose to do in the
future. Other enterprises willTollow in
due season, new population will flow
in, and the entire community be quick
ened into new life and activity.
The time is at hand, and the indica
tions are propitious and encouraging.
By reference to his announcement,
which appears in another column, it
will be observed that Col. Geo. A. Carter
lias announced himself a candidate for
the Legislature, and he may now be con
sidered actively in the race. He also
announces his platform, and affirms his
purpose of adhering strictly to the
principles, and aligning himself with
the issues, therein enunciated. He is
pronounced in his opposition to the
City Court, and if elected pledges him
self without reservation to secure a re
peal of the law creating it. Col. Car
ter is well known to the Democracy of
Coweta, and the announcement of his
candidacy will be favorably received
by his friends throughout the county.
It is his desire and intention to meet
the people as often as possible during
the campaign and discuss with them
the leading political issues of the day,
both privately and in public. He has re
ceived strong encouragement from dif
ferent sections of the county, and it is
scarcely necessary to add that he will
have the unanimous indorsement of his
district.
Of the 405,000 immigrants landing at
Castle Garden last year, the German
empire furnished more than any other
country, leading off with over 00,000,
while Ireland followed with 56,000.
England furnished 45,000 citizens to
this country, and Italy, the land of
blue skies, music and street peddlers,
furnished nearly the same number.
Sweden eame next, with nearly 38,000,
followed by Russia, with 33,000, Hun
gary with 17,000, Scotland with 14,000,
Norway with 13,000, and Austria with
11,000. Other nationalities contribut
ed to our population in numbers rang
ing from 8,000 down to 1, Java, Moroc
co and Peru having contributed one
citizen each. The entire number of
immigrants go to the North and West,
fifty-four nationalities are represented.
The greater portion of these immigrants
and it is noticed that in those sections
strikes are more common and anarchy
more rampant.
As will be seen from the published
correspondence elsewhere in this paper,
Col. John F. Methvin.of Senoia, has con
sented to the use of his name as a candi
date for the Legislature. It has been
understood for some time that he would
enter the race, hut until this week he
has refrained from making any formal
announcement of his candidacy. The
lower end of the county has not had a
Representative in the Legislature since
1871 or 1872, and the good people of
that section feel that they have been
neglected. It is claimed that the Se
ll f la .list net is ?• -ond only in impor
tance to the Newnan district, and un
der the rotation plan is entitled to
more frequent representation. Col.
Methvin’s friends will doubtless urge
this claim in his behalf, and endeavor
to secure such recognition of his candi
dacy as his merits deserve.
The visible supply of cotton at pres
ent is still in arrears, as will be seen
from the following figures: 1885, 2,-
236,410; 1886, 2,272,478; 1887, 2,266,779;
1888, 2,090,112. The.above figures indi
cate a decrease of cotton in sight May
18 of 176,667 bales as compared with
the same date of 1887; a decrease of
182,366 bales as compared with the cor
responding date of 1S86, and a decrease
of 146,298 bales as compared with 1885.
Rome Tribune: “The Democrats of
Coweta county propose to send Col.
W. Y. Atkinson back to the State Leg
islature. This is well. Col. Atkinson
is a young man of undoubted ability,
intellectual, logical, able, and incorrup
tible. He is a credit to the section
which sends him, and useful to the
State as an honest and capable law
maker.” _____________
Communicated.
“A Correction” Corrected.
As a number of things, both true and
false, have been written and said about
“the fracas” in Senoia, and as I am
known to a great many who read your
estimable paper, and as it is well-known
all through this section that I am the
one who did the “beard-pulling,” I de
sire to reply to “Veritas” over my own
signature. I do not wish to shadow my
communication with a nom de plume,
and if I did, would not, like “Veritas,”
choose one at variance with my state
ments.
I am accused by “Veritas,” of saying
many things “up and down the street”
—i. e., “going about seeking whom I
might devour”—and abusing the ser
mon all over town. I state most em
phatically that, such are not the facts. I
had spoken to but one other person on
the subject prior to “the fracas.” Af
terwards I did say many earnest words,
which I thought were fully justified by
the sermon.
As to Mr. Stipe’s sermon, I will say
that as good and true men as “Veritas”
heard the whole discourse, and they
assert that “lust” was the basis of his
entire remarks; that his very illustra
tions were instances of that kind. He
even went so far as to say that he could
“tell them things about the dance that
would make their cheeks crimson with
shame.” Now, where did he witness
these disgraceful scenes? I have at
tended dancing parties and balls for the
last twenty-five years, and have never
seen anything that would cause the
blush of shame to mantle the cheek of
the gentlest maiden in all this land ;
but, then, my dancing has been done
among decent people. Now, sir, as I
had but just had a dance at my house,
attended by some of the best people of
both town and country—Presbyterians,
Baptists and Methodists—and as the
sermon’s unwarranted attack upon all
dancing(tbat “lust prompted the dance,
and take that away and the dance
would cease,”) was fresh in my mind,
I was naturally and justifiably mad, as
who would not be who had heard that
such charges had been brought, not
only against the men, but all the fair
women in the land who dance? 1 was
mad, and had a right to be, and was
discussing “the sermon,” or comment
ing on it, not on the street but in a
store, with my back on the other party
to “the fracas,” not addressing him at
all, when I said, “I’ll bet Mr. Stipe
never was in a decent dancing room in
his life.” The aforesaid much abused
citizen remarked emphatically: “No,
nor no other man.” That was as much
as to say my rooms were not decent,
and no one who has brains enough to
outweigh a hair could interpret it
otherwise; and any man or boy with
the resentment of a worm would have
responded as I did. “Veritas’” Mun
chausen tale, that I jumped on to a
man (who is quite six feet high and
weighs at least thirty-five or forty
pounds more than I do) and pulled his
beard, merely because he said a certain
sermon was a good sermon, has about
about as much truth in it as that “the
good people of all denominations thank
him (Mr. Stipe) for his timely sermon.”
There are few outside of his church
that have not criticised the sermon,
and I have heard several of his
own church severely censure his re-
! marks. The other citizen, to whom
I “Veritas” refers as a quiet, peaceable
! man, who was simply defending that
! mild and gentle admonition to all in-
| famous dancers, had been “round on
1 the streets” making use of his insulting
j language about dancing, and was
warned by the Mayor that he would
get into trouble if he repeated it; and
his perambulations, with abusive
“the
tongue, had been made prior to
fracas.”
The head and front of my offending
is, that I don’t belong to “Veritas’ ”
church, and the other man does.
S. O. Smith.
Senoia, Ga., May 23d.
FARMERS’
SUPPLY
STORE!
We have received a large
and elegant assortment of
Spring Clothing, comprising
all the new styles and patterns,
which we are selling at aston
ishingly low prices. Can fit
anybody, and suit all tastes.
Call early and make your se
lection, before the stock is
picked over.
One hundred and fifty bar
rels of Flour just arrived. We
bought this lot at a bargain,
and will let our customers
have it the same way.
|W° Burpee’s Fresh Water-
Ground Meal always on hand.
Best Meal in the market for
table use.
J. I. & G. O. SCROGGIN,
West Side Public Square,
Newnan, Ga.
Petition for Charter.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Coweta County:
To the Superior Court of said county:
The petition ot'H. C. Arnall, J. A. Hunter,
R. H. Hardaway, W. H. Gearreld, J.T. Reese,
It. D. Cole, Sr.,' Lula M. Fisher, R. W. Free
man, H. W. Camp, J. P. Brewster, P. F. Cnt-
tino, LucyJ. Pinson, Orlando McClendon,
T. M. Jones, P. B. Murpliey, S. AV. Murray,
B. T. Thompson, Jos. T. Kirby, J. P. Leverett-,
N. B. Glover, T. W. Powel, W. Y. Atkinson
and C. B. Simonton, shows that they
have associated themselves into a com
pany for the purpose of purchasing, hold
ing, improving and selling real estate for the
object of gain ; and to purchase such
personal property and to execute such ac
quittances aDd conveyances, and to receive
such evidences of debt and securities, and do
such other acts as are necessary to carry on
said business; also to negotiate any loans,
and sell, pledge or dispose of any securities
which may be used in said business.
The principal place of business shall be at
Newnan. in said county, and the capital
to be employed by them shall be twenty-dye
thousand dollars, ten per cent of which will
be paid in before the company exercises any
of the privileges under its charter, with the
privilege of increasing the capital stock to
not over one hundred thousand dollars.
Petitioners pray that an order may be pass
ed incorporating them, their associates and
successors, as a body corporate, for the space
of twenty years with the privilege of renew
al, under the name of
“NEWNAN LAND COMPANY,”
for the objects and purposes aforesaid, the af
fairs of which company are to be managed
by a Board of Directors, consisting of not less
than live nor more than nine$$embers of the
company. That the capital stock of said
company shall divided into shares of one
hundred" dollars each, and that at the corpor
ate meetings of shareholders each share
holder shall be entitled to as many votes as
he owns shares appearing on the books of the
company in his name.
MCCLENDON <fc FREEMAN,
Petitioners’ Attorneys.
Filed in office May 15, 18. 8
Daniel Swint,
Clerk Superior Court.
A true extract from the minutes of Coweta
Superior Court. This May hi, 1888.
Daniel Swint,
Clerk Superior Court.
Petition for Charter.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Coweta County:
To the Superior Court of said county:
The petition of W. A. Dent. T. G. Burpee,
B. H. Dial, W. H. Gearreld, N. B. Glover, .T.
J. Goodrura, R. M. Hackney, R. H. Harda
way, M. G. Keith, J. J. Keith, Jos. T. Kirby,
I. N. Orr, J. A. Perks, G. W. Peddy, J. T.
Keese, J. I. Scroggin, C. E. Smith and J. H.
Widner shows that they have formed them
selves into a company for the purpose of pro
moting the raising and developing of fine
horses, constructing a race track and driving
park, holding fairs and races, and offering
premiums, for gain; and to afford pleasure,
driving and recreation to themselves and
families. They desire the power to purchase
and own such property, real and personal, as
may be necessary to carry out the purposes
and objects of the company, and to exercise
all the powers that are usually conferred on
corporations of like character.
The principal place of business shall be at
or near Newnan, in said county, and the cap
ital stock to be employed by them shall he
five thousand dollars, which shall be divided
into shares of one hundred dollars each,
which said capital stock they desire the priv
ilege of increasing to not over twenty-five
thousand dollars. Ten per cent of the capital
stock is actually paid in.
Petitioners pray that an order be passed in
corporating them, their associates and suc
cessors, as a body corporate, for the space of
twenty years, with the privilege of renewal,
under the name of the
“NEWNAN DRIVING ASSOCIATION,”
for the objects and purposes aforesaid; the af
fairs of which Association shall be managed
by a Board of Directors, consisting of not less
than five members of the Association, and
with the power of making all such by-laws,
rules, and regulations by the shareholders for
the government of the Association, and as
are not inconsistent with their charter or
the laws of said State. Each shareholder
shall be entitled to as many votes at the cor
porate meetings as he may have shares ap
pearing in his name on the hooks of the com
pany. MCCLENDON & FREEMAN,
* Petitioners’ Attorneys.
Filed in office May 15th, 1888
Daniel Swint,
Clerk Superior Court.
A true extract from the minutes of Coweta
Superior Court. May 15th, 1888.
Daniel Swint,
Clerk Superior Court.
E. S. BUCHANAN,
DRY GOODS,
DRESS GOODS,
CHEAP
SPRIN G
Line Cassimere Suits, $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00.
Alapaca Coats—all sizes.
We also have a few suits of the Anderson stock that we
will close out at a very low price. And if you want a
fjo 7 pairofgood txTO 7
VSKJ. / MEN’S SHOES. ^ L/. /
don’t fail to call on us; for we have a full line of that num
ber, and will sell them below
NEW YORK COST!
STRAW HATS to suit all—regardless of race, color or
previous condition.
And as for the following articles we will sell at Atlanta
prices—
SUGAR, COFFEE,
TOBBACCO, MEAT,
FLOUR AND LARD,
(Choice Leaf is the grade we handle,) guaranteed to suit the
most fastidious.
SOAP! SOAP!! SOAP!!!
All kinds of Laundry and Toilet Soap, with safety-pin in
each wrapper.
ARNALL & FARMER.
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MERCHANT TAILORING.
We desire to call the attention of our lady friends and
customers to our large and carefully selected stock of Spring
Goods, and respectfully invite an inspection of the same.
We are showing the correct styles of the season, in all
new colors and designs, of every fabric and material. We
have received this week—
200 PIECES SPRING PRINTS,
100 PIECES GINGHAMS,
100 PIECES LAWN,
50 PIECES SATINE,
25 PIECES CHAMBRAY,
And a beautiful assortment of—
CHEVIOTS, DRESS LINENS,
CHECK MUSLINS, PIOUES, SOUDAN CLOTH,
PERCALES, WHITE GOODS, Etc.
These goods are bargains, viewed in any light, and noth
ing better can be had. We get them at wholesale jobber’s
prices (not in Atlanta,) and can save our customers the mid
dle man’s profit. This we propose to do.
Remember, the BAY STATE SHOE is always the
best. A large lot just received, embracing all the late styles.
15-FINGER JOSH BERRY GRAIN CRADLE.
The best Cra'dle made for harvesting small grain. Price,
$3 25. For sale only by
HARDAWAY & HUNTER.