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" ' 1 ■ • 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. ____ 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. — 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 3 °” 3 P / A 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 \ 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. ~ 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- / 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 ‘ a " ‘"S 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.