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Hamilton®
VOL VII.—NO. 32.
To Newspaper Publishers.
The label os: the margin of this
paper was placeil there by means
of a simple mailer invented by my
self, four months since. It has
done its work well ever since it
lias been in use, addressing from
400 to 800 uapers an hour. It is
so simp'e that any ten year old boy
can work it. The machine can be
made for fifty cents.
It has been pronounced a success
by several newspaper men who
have seen it in operation, and we
are so well satisfied that those who
try it will be suited, that we will
return the money paid lor di
rections, it the machine does not
give entire saiisfaction.
Full directions for making this
mailer will be mailed for $2.
Address J. L Dennis,
Hamilton, Ga.
Prosperity Returning.
"While the crops in England and
France this year are 'a failure and
the people gloomy and despondent
over the future and. vainly seeking
for causes and enquiring for reme
dies, an era of prosperity seems to
have dawned upon this country. In
every section of the country every
kind of business appears to be re
covering and all classes are buoy
ant with hope of a bright future.
We believe that a decade or two
of general prosperity lies ahead of
us, in the blessings of which ail
classes will share. The flush times
of the war, caused by a flood of
depreciated currency, both North
and Sou: h, produced habits of ex
travagance that the high price of
cotton and all agricultural prod
ucts just after its close aggravated.
The pauic of "73 came like a cyclone
prostrating every kind of business,
leaving many a wreck everywhere.
Cotton, and iqjeed all other prod
ucts declined, business became dull
and all enterprise was checked.
While all this came suddenly
with a shock, the people could not
change the habits of years in a day.
True, they began *to economize,
but they were still comparatively
extravagant. But they have con
tinued from year to year to curtail
expenses, at the same time striving
to make a tew extra dollars in every
possible way. The savings accru
ing from this change of habits, tri
fling with individeals, becomes
enormous in the aggregate, so that
now there is a balance of tiade,
amounting to millions, in our favor
against Europe. Late telegrams
tell us that a large amount 'of gold
was drawn out of the bank of Eng
land a few days ago, to be shipped
to the United Slates to meet this
balance, and that the drain upon
the bank was expected to continue.
From every section of the West
comes the glad tidings of a large
increase of business, rapid restora
tion of confidence among all .class
es, abundant crops, and a bright
prospect of the future in all de
partments of trade.
From Pennsylvania comes the
news that her iron foundries, many
of which have been idle several
years, are now running on full time
with orders ahead. On the other
hand those of England are idle and
their owners fallen from affluence to
poverty. The condition of the
iron industries of a country are
HAMILTON, HARRIS COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUGUST 111,1879.
said to be a good guage by winch
to ascertain its prosperity. We
hope and believe that the South
will share hugely in the blessings of
this era of prosperity. Our polit
ical skies are cloudless, our agricul
tural interests on a good tooting,
our (section nearer self-sustaining
than ever before, our articles of
export more numerous, our manu*
facturing enterprises prosperous
and increasing rapid>y, and our
neople only discontented enough to
be enterprising. Let this belief
in anew era of prosperity become
general, and that of itself will do
much to bring the prosperity we
desire.
Success the Result of Persever
ance.
[An essay, read by Miss Tommie
Williams, at the Whitesville Sab
bath School Celebration, August 2,
1879.]
Whatever may be our natural
talents, industry and perseverance
alone assure us success. The his
tory ot the world is full of testimo
ny to prove how rauca depends
upon these combined virtues. The
pouting boy, who creeps so lazily
to school, finds at an early day that
there is no royal road to learning,
and that eacn reward of merit must
be obtained at the expense of appli
cation. and the repeated ueglect of
nlay hours. The mathematician,
who proudly boasts his skiil iu the
intricate science of numbers, burns
the midnight lamp, iu order to find
the profounder mysteries that lie
concealed beneath the surface.
The sculptor does not oouvert the
rough stone into a thing of beauty
by a single stroke of his chisel, but
by examining the detects, and grad
ually removing tnera by oft repeat
ed blows, at last liis beautiful con
ceptions appear to an admiring
world.
The military chieftain, who stems
the crimson tide of death, deter
mines never to give up the field,
but press on with Spartan courage
till nations fall prostrate at his feet>
The paintings of Michael Angelo
would never htve pleased the eye,
or delighted the fancy of the world
had not appleation been comb_
ined with natural talent. The pa
ges of history and biography, in ev
ery department ofbusiness, in every
field of enterprise and in every art
and science are luminous with
great achievements performed and
high renown won, by unceas
ing application and uutireing ener
gy. Nature, the great teacher of us
all, has clearly indicated the necess
lty of continued effort, in the fact
thdt her gifts though many are scat
tered, and can only be gathered by
diligence. Much coveted gold, is
only found deep down in the earth’s
bosom, and shakes off the sleep of
ages and emerges in the light to
become at times the servant but too
often the master and tyrant of man,
only when sunbrowned Labor
swings his brawny arms. The brill
iant coral that adds a charm to
beauty would have remained rock
ed by the billows of old ocean were
it not torn from its home by indus
trious hands. Mines are opened,
mountains tunneled, oceans crossed,
continents joined in social and com
mercial intercourse, buried cities
uncovered, that for ages have been
hidden from sight, only when inge
nuity has been supported by toil
and labor.
The call to labor is not confined
to one place, department or period;
but from the moment we croBS the
threshold of infancy until we sink
into the grave, duties are every-
where urging their claims upon us.
Yes, there is a work for us all to
do/ a work for woman as well as
man. And wo are here to-day,
my friends, to attest our cheerful
willingness to engage in that great
work, the intellectual and spiritual
training of our race.
We are here, a united Christian
band, eager to do all that we can to
raise the fallen, to cheer those east
down, and to point each one to a
loving Savior.
We are here as co-workers with
the different churches, to aid them
in their efforts to spread the teach
ings ol our Master; and having
put our hands to the plow, let us
never turn back. The humblest of
us can do something. If wo can
not expound the scriptures, wo can
breathe the silent prayer, or sing
that sweetest of all little songs :
“I want to be an angel.
And with the angels stand.”
There are some in our corotnnnl
ty who cannot read the language
they speak, because poverty has
claimed them for his own. Shall
we not bring them in from the
highways and hedges, and so in
struct them that they may read the
revealed will of that God who
made them ? Shall we not hunt
them up ? Will you and I not
seaich for them ? The divine com
mission, “go and preach,” is not
confined to the ministry. You and
I are embraced in the call. Duty
points her finger at us and says go.
Let us theD press on in the work
we havo begun, until our Sabbath
School is crowded to overflowing
with pnpils, from the little prattler
of three or four summers, to the
grey haired sire whose footsteps are
tottering on the brink ot the grave.
If we are but faithful and true,
persevering all the while, amid the
snows of winter as well as the sun
shine of summer, not only will the
little village of Whitesville be
blessed by our labors, but Harris
county will realize from .border to
border, the power ot our Sunday
School army, whose battle cry is,
“In God alone we trust.”
STRAY ELBOJV SUOTS,
As Caught on the Fly.
—The good Harris county citi
zens go to Columbus when they
die.
—Quite a number ot Columbus
youths were up here Sunday to see
their mothers. Such devotion pre
sages a brilliant future for our sister
city.
—Horace Greeley said ‘Go West,
young man,’ but the Talbotton girls
say ‘Pierce Weston, a nice young
man !’
—Hamilton is to have at least
three new business houses this fall.
—lf the parties who so skilfully
and tastily decorated our streets
Saturday night will hand in their
names to our vigilant Marshal, he
will see that they are rewarded ac
cording to tdeir just deserts. [So
our politic editor pro tern writes.
We think that if the sneaking
scamps who placed obstructions on
the side walks and streets, Satur
day night, tarring and feathering
would be the lightest punishment
the indignation of our people could
suggest.]
—The party of nocturnal bur
glars who entered our office the
other night, must have had gome
crooked whiskey with them, or
they would never have thought of
finding anything in such a place
that anybody else except an editor,
a printer, or the devil would have.
Every condition, in life has its ad-
vantages and even an editor’s pos
sesses some. lie can sleep without
dreaming of assasius, and go a
courting without any apprehension
of burglars breaking through and
stealing in his absence.
—Hamilton demonstrates tlie
advantages of a railroad, even
though it be a narrow guage, ‘with
only one end to it. Prior to this
year there had not been a store or
dwelling erected iu tho place in
fivo years, and carpenters were as
seldom seen as honest men in office
or honest lawyers. Now, tho sound
of the hammer {and 3aw is daily
heard, above all others. Wo are
more frequently visited by those
heralds of trade and prosperity, the
ever gay and buoyant drummer
and the persevering and untiring
tramp. The peopto come to town
oftener, the merchants are doing a
better business and have lively
hoDcs of the future. The blood ot
the grape flows more freely and
tho bacchanalian swagger, and song
and oath are oftener Been and
heard upon our aforetime quiet
streets. Wo have more and faster
girls, and our boys wear more
citified airs, go serenading oftener,
and make things livelier when they
do go. Though this is not a good
fruit year, there is more brought to
town than was ever seen before,
while the beef, mutton and chicken
market—heretofore unknown—is
abundantly supplied. In addition
to all the above advantages, for
the first time in many years, we
baye the whooping-cough in town,
and by another year will probably
have the mumps and measles.
—lt is inspiring to see the iron
horse howling along through the
streets every day and puts some of
the “git up and git” feeling in a
man. Kip Van Winkle never could
have slept for twenty years even in
Sleepy Hollow, if he had been in
hearing of a railroad train. The
sight and sound of one would have
so filled him with vim and energy
that he would have gone back home
even though he would have had to
face a termagant wife, with a not
tongue-tied mother-in-law thiown
in.
—We regret that we will soon
lose Alonzo Truett, from town. He
has rented the Centennial stores
and wagon yard in Columbus, and
will remove thither and go into
business the fiist of October. He
has made many friends here during
his sojourn among us, who will al
ways give him a call when they
visit the city. We commend him
to the citizens of Columbus as an
upright and reliable business man.
—Mr. M. Wolfson was up a few
days ago. He will open a store in
the new house Col. Mobley is
building and says that when he
gets here it will no longer be neces
sary for any one to go to Columbus
or West Point for bargains—that
he can and will sell goods at the
lowest Columbus prices. Ho will
also buy all kinds ot country pro
duce, from a bundle of rags to a
bale of cotton.
—We continue to have abundant
rains and the weather is all that
any one could desire for health,
comfort and crops. Cottou is grow
ing and fruiting well and the pros
pects at present are flattering.
Itain is a fertilizer to our red, roll
ing lands, and they can stand a
much greater quantity without in
jury than the grey, flat lands of
other sections.
—Wc learn with pleasure that
Messrs Johnmo and Burt Cook con
template opening a store in Ham-
ilton this winter. They are both
young men of sterling business
qualities, popular wherever known,
and known thuoughout all sections
that trade at this point. Wo give
them our best wishes and cor.g-at
ulate our community upon its good
fortune in securing their citiziandiip.
—Prof. W L Palmer will open
his school at tho college, Monday
morning next. He requests us to
state that the first three months
will constitute the public
session.
—Wo learn tMt Mr. Reuben
Moblov has the steam
saw mill M A McAfee, and
that he wßnnovo it to his place
north.jjfirof town,
—lfKny Columbus pooplo spent
last Sabbath in Hamilton.
—We publish elsewhere a beau
tiful tribute to tho memory of one
of tho fairest and.noblest types of
Southern womanhood we have ever
known—“a perfect woman, nobly
planned.”
One of tho Hamilton boys, who
attended tho camp-meeting last
Sunday, received a Little stroke,
from one of Columbus’ most beau
tiful belles. He has come to tho
conclusion that He was not Cooking
to suit her.
—Curtis Beall has a school ot a
hundred pupils. He is assisted in
teaching by his wife.
—Prof. Palmer returned last
Saturday from Oxford, where he
has been enjoying the benefits of
the Emory Normal School.
—Nearly fifteen hundred people
attended the pionio at Talbotton
last Saturday. Our elaborate arti
cle on the subject is crowded out
and we have only room to stato
that Corporal Mumiord was not
foundered up to six o’clock, p. m.
—Our Mountain Hill letter is
crow ded out, but will appear uexl
week.
—Tlie Atlanta Pnonograph comes
to us this week with a beautiful
heading. We hail with pleasure
this evidence of the continued suc
cess of one of the brightest and
best of our Ceorgia newspapers.
—Johnnie Vaughn, a son of Mr.
Henry Vaughn, fell the other day
and broke his arm while chasing a
squirrel.
Yenard dc St. Anne, originator ot
the project of tunneling the English
Chanuel, promises to begin opera
tions without delay. He estimates
that it will resquire several months
for the experiment, and that a mill
ion francs will suffice to pay tho
preliminary expenses. To raise
funds he has laid the project before
the French and Belgian Chambers
of Commerce, and 84 of these have
expressed themselves in favor of tho
project. 110 will visit England
shortly to lay the matter before the
English Government. To span the
deep water he has recourse to the
tubular system.
The preliminary examination of
Mr. Warren P, Lovett, for the
killing of Mr. J, K. Reynolds, in
Meriwether county, was begun on
Wednesday last at Sandtown. It
was discontinued, however, for the
reason that the Superior Court
convenes two weeks hence, and
counsel for the prosecution submit
ted a proposition to postpone the
matter until that time. Mr.
Lovett’s counsel consented, and the
prisoner was released on bail, the
penalty of his bond being fixed at
only SSOO.
Memphis continues her tnonopu
oly of yellow fever.
SI A YEAR.