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THE HAMILTON JOURNAL.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF COUNTY.
VOL. XIII.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Supreme Court is now engag
ed upon cases frem the Chattahoochee
circuit.
Rev. Robert Harris has been call¬
ed to the pastorate of the First Bap¬
tist church of Columbus, at a salary
of $2,000 and he has decided to ac¬
cept.
The Macon Telegraph alludes to
the two eminent Georgia preachers
as the ‘‘Double Sam Combination.”
Why not call them the Princes Sam
Sam or the Psalms of Georgia.
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The Atlanta correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph, an avowed anti
prohibitionist, says the question of
prohibition about equally divides the
whites, and that the prohibitionists
have the best organized forces.
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The public debt statement shows
a decrease of $i3> 2 7^774- I S for the
month of October. This is a good
showing for our Grover s administra¬
tion, and is a very substantial basis
in itself for a thanksgiving procla¬
mation.
Virginia determines to-day who is
to succeed Mahone in the United
States senate, and whether Lee or
Wise will be Governor. In New
York an election is being held for
Governor and other state officers.
Great interest centres on both states,
and a democratic victory is confident¬
ly predicted in each.
Gen. George B. McClellan was
buried at Trenton yesterday with ap- j
propriate ceremonies. He was an ;
elder in the Presbyterian church and
was held in the highest esteem by ■
every good citizen in this country. 1
As# soldier, a statesman and a citi
zen he challenged the admiration of
all who knew him.
A gun has been invented which
throws a cartridge containing too
pounds of nitro glycerine two miles.
It is a ponderous p air gun and is pro
nounced a success. Any one who
has seen the explosive force of a 6 oz
dynamite cartridge can well imagine
the destruction that can be wrought
bv the explosion of one of a hundred
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Mrs A] T. Stewart is credited with
ingenious charity in employing a
number of poor women to clean her
marble palace daily. They work
fouiLhours-jdaily and receive $2.50
each. Other women are employed
if at $3 a day, and men
to
who brush the statuary get $5 a day.
'T (W* are said to be old sculp
tor ts> pist"other S means of earning a
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JOSEPH L. DENNIS
PROPRIETOR.
It now transpires that President
Lincoln proposed to offer to the
Southern Stales $300,000,000 as in
demnity for their slaves, but upon
finding his cabinet unanimously op
posed to the measure he did not
submit the proposition to congress,
There was not a day after the war
opened when the confederate leaders
wouli have listened to any proposi
tion of peace that did not look to the
independence of the Confederacy,
So, had Mr. Lincoln secured the
sanction of Congress to his measure
it would hav:e come to naught.
Somebody has suggested that the
Journal is published semi-weekly
because of the prohibition contest
and that it will only be issued weekly
after the election. Such is not the
case. The Journal is a paper with
a purpose. That purpose is to do
good. It can best accomplish this
purpose by a semi-weekly publication
and just as long as we find it profita¬
ble to do so the Journal will be is
sued twice a week, If Harris coun
ty goes for prohibition we shall feel
like making a daily.
A writer in the Scientific American
proposes by building a dam at a cost
of forty millions of dollars to change
the direction of the Gulf Stream so
materially as to make the British Isles
as cold as New Foundland and to
make the climate of the eastern states
as equable as that of Georgia. He
proposes a dam across the Strait of
Belle Isle, on the upper edge of New
Foundland. The distance is ten
m il cs and the average depth 150 feet,
jt is said that a cold stream comes
through this strait directly from the
nor th pole and in a volume
to greatly effect the climate of all the
-astern states.
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whet” “A man avtn who erhan is not religious Tnot every
where, say an exenange, e is not re e
ligtous anywhere, and he who is not a
Christian in everything is not a Christ
ian in anything. Professing and pray
ing at church and cheating and de
faulting in business are altogether too
common. Men cannot be zealous in
religion and dishonest in their busi
ness. Religion is not a candle to be
lighted and blown out at pleasure. It
i s not a garment to be put on and off
mi, iu onmrvmv we an* in Tt is
not a flaming torch on the Sabbath
and a dark lantern during the week.
It is a shining light that giveth light
to all that are in dark places.”
The Cave Spring Baptist Associa
tion, composed of about all the Bap
tist churches in Floyd county, and
several in Polk, recently convened at
Cedar Creek church, four miles from
Cave Spring, in Floyd county. They
took high S roun d in favor of temper-
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HAMILTON, GA., NOVEMBER 3,1885.
ance and prohibition. The report of
of the committee on temperance de
dared, among other things, that they
recognized in the Baptist church one
of the strongest temperance societies
to be found anywhere; and that a
profession in Christ, and uuion with
a Baptist church, brought each mem
ber under obligation to abstain from
[ the use of spirituous liquors, and to
further in every possible way, all
measures looking to the prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of intox
icating beverages. Not a speech was
made against the report, while sever
al strong ones were in its favor, and
it was adopted without a dissenting
voice. It will be remembered that
the whiskey men carried the
county against prohibition last spring
by over 400 majority. From .this
report it appears that the Baptists
have by no means given up the fight.
President Cleveland has issued a
proclamation setting apart Thursday,
November 26th, as a day of thanks¬
giving. He says, “On that day let
all secular business be suspended
and let the people assemble in their
usual places of worship and with
prayer and songs of praise devoutly
testify their gratitude to the given, of
every good and perfect gift for all
that He has done for us in the year
that has just passed; for our preser¬
vation as a united nation, and our
deliverance from the shock and dan
ger of political convulsions ; for the
blessings of peace, and for our safety
and quiet while wars and .rumors of
wars have agitated and afflicted other
nations of the earth ; for our securi
ty against the scourge of pestilence
which in other lands has claimed its '
deaths by thousands and fdled the i
streets with mourners; for the plen-1
teous crops which have rewarded the
labor of the husbandman and in
Crease our nation’s wealth, ’ and for
the contentment throughout our bor
ders, which follows in the train oi
fUTallo there also on on thfdav the day tTT thus 1 set t apart ! j
a reunion of families, sanctified an ^
chastened by tender memories and
associations, and let the social inter
course of friends abound with pleas¬
ant reminiscences and ties of affec
tion and strengthen bonds of kindly
feeling; and let us by no means r
get while we give thanks for the com
forts that crown our lives, that truly
grateful hearts are inclined to deeds
of charity, and that a kind and
thoughtful remembrance of the poor
will double the pleasures of our con
dition and render our praise and !
thanksgiving more acceptable in the
eyes of the Lord.”
Let us hope that to the many cau-|
ses tor gratitude, the freedom of the
county from the curse of the liquor
trafic be added, and this end ‘
may to
let all good people work and pray. ]
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Dr. T. R. Ashford, of Ellerslie’
was in the city yesterday.
Sunday treated us to several vari¬
eties of weather—mostly bad.
Hood’s Eureka is a perfect fault¬
less family medicine. Try a bottle.
Johnny Mobley was registered at
the Central Hotel, Columbus, yester
day.
Those who rose early yesterday
morning report a heavy frost in low
places.
Hood’s Eureka is far superior to
all other Liver medicines now in the
market.
The Hamiltonians who attended
the state fair last week were delight¬
ed with the trip.
Elsewhere will be found the ap¬
pointments of the tax collector for
his last round.
A gentleman in this county owns a
bale of cotton that was once worth
$250. It was grown thirty years
ago.
Docs Capt. Johnston register from
Atlanta when he goes Columbus, and
if so, why ? If he does not he seems
to have a double.
The Columbus & Rome railroad
has carried to date this season 5,758
bales of cotton to Columbus, besides
several hundred bales of through cot¬
ton consigned to Savannaii.
The liquor market is easy just now
and the increase of drunkenness is
notable. Saturday evening there
were many more drunken negroes on
the streets than usual.
Notmths ..... d the inclement
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weather Sunday mormn & many w " e
out at the Ba P t,st clu,rch to hear the
lecture of Mr ' l ' E ' A P? Icr ' 11 was
lnterestln S and lnstfuctlve throughout
and aU wh ° heard k fclt amply re ‘
i )a ^ ^°’ atlcn ln &‘
The Columbus Enquirer ,s disposed
to pride itself on the good effects of
high *> license. If closing a dozen sa
effect for good as
- t no(es an enquiring mind wilt wish
to know why ^ the closing 8 of two dor
^ ^ ^ faj . ^ g00()
j L"' ; made less hurtful by X gild- S
Mr. J. E. Appier and family and
H. J. I hornton s family left for
^ e * r ^ orae at Columbus yesterday.
They have spent the summer in our
town and dunn S the,r s *f y J’ ave
ma ^ e maR y friends here. W e hope
tJie y hav e formed an estimate of the
town sufficiently high to cause them
to spen d the next and SUCC eeding
summers with us
We guarantee every bottle of
Hood’s Eureka to give entire sat is
faction,
To steal an umbrella is at last a
crime, But if a man steals a bottle
of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup to cure
his cough, can it be called a crime ?
NO. 47.