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VOL. XIII.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Columbus is threatened with an¬
other base ball association.
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To stay at home next W ednesday
is to halfway vote for whiskey. If
you have any love for God or man
don’t stay.
The elections Tuesday were a
grand triumph for the democracy,
both in New York and Virginia, It
is farewell Mahone.
‘•Every man for himself and the ,
devil take the hindmost.” Take this
for a motto and vote against pvohi- ,
bition next Wednesday.
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C. T. Lindsay, the colored lawyer
of LaGrange, is said to have left for
unknown parts, because of a true bill
accusing him of forgery.
The whiskey man preaches from
the text, “Am I my brother’s keeper.”
It was uttered before the de:a!ogue
and upon a memorable occasion.
The county will be better off with¬
out whiskey shops. There is no dis¬
puting this proposition, Their influ
ence is for evil and that continually.
Civil service reform, as it is taught,
is un-democratic. It teases us to see
our great and good president losing
flesh in a fruitless endeavor to piove
it otherwise.
Several colored whiskey advocates
have been on the streets to-day ma¬
king temperance speeches. They
were too full for coherent utterance,
but their actions spoke louder than
words.
Those in a position to know the
inner workings of railroad circles,still
profess confidence that the Midland
will be built. We still hope the
management will yet consider Ham¬
ilton’s $20,000 bid and let the road
come by us.
Prohibition appeals to the highest
motives controlling human action
the love of God and the love of our
fellow man. The liquor interest ap
peals to the basest agency of wrong
doing—the love of strong drink. On
which side will you poll your vote.
Prohibition is coming, Whether
it is successful or not next Wednes
day it is bound to prevail in
Harris county, The war now is
against but four shops. They will
be unable long to withstand the uni¬
ted efforts of the good people of the
county t© close their saloons. With
right cu our side, soon or late, we
must win.
Why is the retail liquor dealer’s
shop called a bar? Perhaps because
JOSEPH L. DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
it is a bar to the progress in virtue of
all his patrons. A bar to human
progress, A bar to social advance
ment. A bar to respectibility. A
bar to the spread of the gospel. A
to t ^ e propagation of knowledge.
^ k ar tQ no pj e thoughts and good
deeds. A bar to happiness. A bar
to heaven.
The surveying party from Green
ville to Puckett’s station is still a;
work, and have found a route with
no serious engineering difficulties.
The Vindicator says that many think
the extension will be made to Fair
burn, however. It might have added
that many think there will be no ex¬
tension at all.
Brother Revill ukes !ega i advcr .
tisements on time—and very long
we guess from his numerous pathetic
appeals. Our experience is that it is
easier to collect for this class of work
in advance, and far more satisfactory
to all concerned. We have many
men who act as if they owed us a
grudge as well as a balance for legal
advertising. And ii we ever gained
in the esteem of an administrator or
executor, or plaintiff in fi. fa. by ad¬
vertising for them on a credit, they
have invariably failed to show it.
I’he colored convention to be bekl
here to morrow will be an occasion
of much interest. No little interest
centres in the explanation expected
by his brethren of Curtis Beall. A
few of them will desire to know how
he failed to see the evils of prohibi¬
tion when advocating it in Troup, or
perhaps they will ask how he expects
his open advocacy of whiskey to dis¬
prove the assertion that he was paid
by the whiskey interest to be silent.
Curtis has a wonderful influence over
the negro vote, and it remains to be
seen if he has lost his grip.
Impatience and want of economy
cheat many a man out of a compe
tence. The following from tire Bir
mingham Age shows what an old
man can do. A young man with
proper energy can match it, and such
results annually, with proper econo¬
my, would insure wealth in a short
while:
“Mr. Calvary Williams, aged sev¬
enty five years, who lives at the mouth
of Villege creek, raised this year four
bales ol cotton averaging 500 pounds
each, and 350 bushels of corn; besides
worked his potato patch and garden
cut his stove wood himself. He is
living alone alone with his wife,whose
age is seventy years. He has been
on his place the past fifty-three years,
He owns 1100 acres of some of the
finest land in Alabama.
HAMILTON, GA„ NOVEMBER 6,1885.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVEN¬
TION.
The fall session of the Harris conn
ty Sunday School Association was
held Wednesday at Mountain Hill.
Dr. T. F. Brewster, President of the
Association. In the morning an in
teresting address was delivered by
Rev. C. D. Adams, of Cataula. It
was appropriate to the occasion, en
’ived with apt illustrations and up to
the usual high mark attained by the
talented speaker in his addresses.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read by the Corresponding Sec
retary, * c' C. n II. Cook, i alter c wmch - • i a re
cess was taken . , r for refreshments. r , . , r I , he
dinner r was ample i r for the crowd and
only , such , ,, the good , . housewives . of ,
as ?.
this . neighborhood • ,, , know how i
. to serve.
It was not the least enjoyable feature
of a very pleasant day.
In the afternoon pleasant and time¬
ly addresses were made by Maj.Flynn
Hargett and Capt. T. H. Kimbrough.
The music was led by Miss Fannie
Meadows and was good.
The Sunday School here is in a
prosperous condition and is conduct¬
ed by Mr. John Cline, Superintend¬
ent.
The next meeting o r the Associa¬
tion will be held in February with
the Hamilton Baptist church.
HE GETS THE TRADE.
Thomas, the No Shoddy clothier,
in his new home next to the Rankin
House is enjoying just now a fine J
run of custom. His store is always
thronged with the seekers of good
clothes and in the fall their name is
legion. The reasons Thomas enjoys
such a good patronage are very plain. 1
In the first place he is a man of fine
judgment, of excellent taste, of large
,
experience and unswervering integrity, J
His judgment, taste and experience
enable him to know what he is hand- j
ling and his reputation for integrity j
gives the people confidence in his
,
goods. They know he knows what a .
piece of goods is when he puts his
hand on it, and that they know what
it is when he pronounces judgement, j
The reputation he has for honest ,
sales and fair dealing is the result of
years of unremitting labor in his bus
ness and fully explains why he gets
the trade he so largely enjoys. His
prices are fair, his goods honest, his
treatment courteous.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Judge W. I. Hudson visited Col
umbus Wednesday.
Mayor B. H. Walton is visiting
Columbus this week.
Mrs Q. T. Purnell, of Chipley.wns I
in town the past week.
Miss Emma Robinson of this coun¬
ty, is visiting relatives in Columbus.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
Miss Louie Sparks is spending a
few days with friends in Columbus.
Madam Rumor has it that several
weddings are on the tapis in Hamil¬
ton.
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eor g ia -
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n lavc an y inc °
done untl, / ou S et our P nces andsec
0Ur saai I^ es *
r ^‘ Hooten came down
fr0 ™' Ch, P ,c * Wednesday on a visit
l ur cnts.
Elder. * Henry J Cameron is to make
speech for prohibition . . Ellershe
a 1 at
to-morrow night, .
Mr. „ F. ®L 1 the , last
A. ruett, of the
Harris delegation . the , State
county to
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TlissEYLovelace has returned
from a pleasant visit to the family of
Mr. Ab. Howard at Ellerslie.
Mr. A. P. Thomas, of M. D. Hood
& Co., the enterprising druggist of
Columbus, was in the city this week.
We suppose all our correspondents
are busy making prohibition speech¬
es, but we hope to hear from them
regularly—when this cruel war is
over.
In publishing the roll of honor of
the West Georgia A. & *M. College
last week the names of Rufus Barnes
and Willie Webster were accidentally
omitted.
The new engine on the Columbus
& Rome is said to be wearing the
badly. The road was never in
better conlition and is most adaiira
bly managed.
Gentis Mobley thinks more of his
new wagon scales than ever, now that
their maker, Jones of Binghamton,
has been elected Lieutenant Govern
or of New York.
Oil Uncle Sarnmie McCmts is in
feeble health He has twice recently
had vertigo and fallen to the floor,
He cannot walk about as formerly
without assistance,
The editorial table has been weight
ed this week vvithfine turnips and bell
pepper from the garden of Mr. Hal
Bryant. These vegetables are highly
appreciated and the gentleman has
our thanks,
Messrs H. C. Cameron, IT. C.
Jones, M. Wolfson, C. H. Cook, W.
N. Hames and Bartow Brcoks and
Misses Genie and Evie West repre
sen ted Hamilton at the Sunday School
Convention at Mountain Hill U ed
nesday.
The Woman’s Foreign Missionary
Society of the South Georgia Con
he from the Hamilton
Auxiliary are Misses Lula Mobley
and Lula Barnes. Mr. T. J. Brooks
has been elected to represent the
juvenile society.
NO. 48.