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VOL. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
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An enterprising showman has off
ered $10,000 for Lingg’s body. Such
4? fame.
Some of the newspapers are pub
Hshing tariff articles from the columns
of the Atlanta Constitution two or
three years ago. This is unfair. The
was not as old then as
is now and had not learned so well
as it now knows that there are two
sides—sometimes both profitable—to
ver y public issue.
Work on the Chattanooga & Rome
railroad is being rapidly pushed. This
road is located to Tallapoosa, Haral¬
son county, on its way to Columbus.
If the. road runs from there to Car
lf>oliton it will take the Newnan and
ICarrollton road to Newnan and build
from Newnan to Greenville and
{broaden the guage of the Greenville
and Columbus road to Columbus.
This will place Greenville in direct
communication with Chattanooga,—
Aleriwether Vindicator.
The four condemned anarchists
hanged on time at Chicago Fn
The fall did not break their
and they were choked to death
thirteen minutes. They were
courageous to the end, but it is not
the first time great courage has been
in a bad cause. Anarchism
reached its climax in this coun
try and must wane henceforward, de
spite its so called martyrs. The wilds
gf Africa seem to be the most inviting
field for the gospel against property
rights and the anarchists should by
all means go there to find congenial
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It is announced that Mr. A. P.
will be in charge of the Tal¬
ton New Era after the first ofjan
He is a talented young man,
of Hon. Henry Persons and he
add, much to the standing of the
Era, We wish him much suc
^is new field and feel that we
no risk in prophesying it for
pleu Editor Mumford is now a full
member of the South Geor
money* rcncc anc * has served the
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JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
present year a pastorate in Talbot
county very acceptably. He will
rank well in the high calling which
he has assumed.
Our correspondent, “Reader;” in
his notes last week was slightly in
error regarding the projected road
from Savannah to Birmingham. Later
particular* indicate that the com
m ' ttee of experts appointed to ex
amine the construction of the Sa
vannah, Dublin & Western railway
were very much pleased with the
work done by the company between
Savannah and Dublin, but objected
to the grading done between Dublin
and Macon by the Macon & Dublin
R. R. Co., which it was proposed to
consolidate with that done by the
Savannah, Dublin & Western.
The two editors of the Constitu¬
tion addressed wet and dry meetings
in Atlanta last night. Col. Grady
spoke to 8,000 people in the great
warehouse and Col. Howell to nearly
half as many in the opera house, the
audience of each being limited only
by the capacity of the hall in which
he spoke. The prohibitionists are
making a good fight and ought to
succeed, but the antie’s have plenty
of money and they will use it without
scruple. It is a very powerful factor
in any sort of a fight, and we fear its
effect upon the brother in black when
supported by the cravings of his ap¬
petite. However, the prohibitionists
have means for ail legitmate cam¬
paign purposes, they have the intelli
gence and morality of the great city
on the right side, and news we have
from private sources is that they are
sure to win.
Harris county feels a deep interest
in whatever affects the business or
even social interests of Columbus.
We are very close to her and our
business arteries, the Georgia Mid
land and the Columbus & Rome, re¬
ceive the life blood from her heart
which goes to build up our bone and
muscle. In discussing, therefore,any
question affecting her interest we feel
that we are no intruders if we put in
a word. The question of a fair by
our section’s metropolis is especially
HAMILTON, GA., NOVEMBER 18 . 1887 .
of interest to us. Our county would
be on hand with an exhibition of her
resources, and the success that we
would inevitably achieve would lead
us to larger endeavor and the bound¬
less resources we have would thereby
become advertised as they should be
to make the county rich and prosper¬
ous. Let Columbus take the initia¬
tive and we promise Harris will come
to the rescue with an exhibition sup¬
plemented with an attendance that
will insure success.
Taken all in all we doubt if there
is in the state an agricultural county
superior to Harris- That our people
are generally prosperous we cannot
claim, but that their want of pros¬
perity is attributable to any fault of
soil or climate nobody dares assert *
Seasons are frequently not as we
would have them, but in a residence
here, covering a decade the writer has
every season chronicled some remar
kably good crops. The mountains
that run through the county nearly
parallel to - each other, dividing
the county into two nearly equal
parts, are the guardians of our gener
al prosperity and insure for our peo¬
ple renumerative crops in one place
or another that are sure to bring the
general average up to the same fig¬
ure. . Many counties in the state
have such a sameness of soil that a
failure on one farm is a failure on all,
but it is not so in Harris. Here
there is hardly one farm that is a
type of any other and the result is
that, unpropitious seasons for some
are sure to be propitious for others,
so that if we can never all get very
rich we are just as certain that we
will never all fail at once.
For the Hanvlton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
The prohibition election in Atlan
ta waxes hot and much excitement
prevails. No more important election
ever occurred in Georgia, and every
good man and woman in the slate
ought to make the result a subject of
prayer,
The anarchists at Chicago have
suffered the penalty of the law and
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justice is vindicated, Let others
take warning.
By proclamation of the Governor
Nov. 22nd is Arboi-dny in Georgia
and it is to be hoped that tree-plant
ing will go into general use that day.
No wiser measure could be adopted.
Beautify home and restore the forest
and great good will be done.
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A spirit of enterprise is pervading
the south. A chair factory in Griffin
expects to make and sell fifty thous
and chairs this year. Let the good
work go on. These home industries
will build up towns and cities and
^ring permanent prosperity,
Chipley is to have a cotton seed
oil mill and guano factor}'. Thenr.n
essary capital will be forthcoming in
time for the next crop.
Macon ba(] (hjrty . five thousan(1
Co(lfedenUe Vet eran badges printed.
hundred still remain and can I e
had by wri ting to G. XI. Davis, Ma
con, Ga., enclosing stamp.
Artesian wells have done wonders
for south-western Georgia in the way
of health. Albany has eight now
and is engaged in boring the ninth
and exacts an abundant supply at
800 leet.
Seven thousand four hundred bush
els of chestnuts were handled at Bed¬
ford Pa., by the American Express
Co., last week. This beats Pine
mountain and Hamilton.
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Mr. Carlisle, prospective Speaker
of the next House, will not visit At¬
lanta and make a speech, but goes
back to his district to look after
Theobe and his contested election.
It may be that it needs looking after.
It seems now that the Ccntial rail
road will build a railroad from Eden,
C. R. R-, 40 miles from Savannah.to
Fort Valley and thus secure an air¬
line to Birmingham, or it may be a
bluff.
Nothing further from the Macon &
Opelika railroad.
Reader,
NO. 75.