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THE HAMILTON JOURNAL.
THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HARRIS COUNTY.
VOL. XIII.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The cotton factory near Perry has
suspended for repairs, and the opera¬
tives have been offered work in At¬
lanta.
The pickpockets brought here by
the state fair seem to be devoting
their attention to burglary throughout
the state.
The usual number ^of gin houses
are being burned this season, The
average is about six a week for the
entire state.
If every man in Atlanta who has
slyly pronounced the artesian well a
big bore votes (or prohibition the
county will go dry.
The Atlanta papers are heavily
laden with matter pertinent to being the
temperance campaign now
waged in that city.
Madison Davis, the colored post¬
master at Athens, advertises a note
for $1,000 that he found, that can be
had by applying to him.
The artesian fever still prevails in
Albany, although the deep hold it has
taken on Atlanta goes beyond that
of any other affected city.
The post-office clerk who default¬
ed recently at Americus has been
captured in California. He was
taking a roundabout way to Canada.
The Chinese in the Pacific states
are having a hard time. Negroes in
the south are treated with the respect
of aristocrats as compared with them.
Hancock county held an election
for prohibition Wednesday. The re¬
turns have not come in, but we hope
they are more satisfactory than those
of Harris.
The bankers of New York are try¬
ing to get the silver dollar equal to a
gold dollar in value. Let them come
to Hamilton and see if either will buy
more than ten pounds of sugar.
Atlanta policemen want a cart ad¬
ded to the city’s equipment lock for car¬
rying drunken men to the up.
Ought not the saloons be required to
remove their own signs when they
obstruct the streets and sidewalks ?
A mineral spring has been discov¬
ered near Summerville, for which a
party of Atlanta druggists are said to
have offeird $1,000 a year for a lease
of ten years. They must think the
next legislature would prefer it to
Ponce DeLeon.
A young lady in Atlanta received
a few days ago a $3,5°° necklace
from an attache of Carver’s wild
west show, He fell in love with the
lady when the show was in Atlanta
and the promise is of a wedding if
the jewelry is not pinchbeck.
A party of about fifty farmers from
western New York is now in the slate
and if they like the outlook they may
be induced to purchase lands and
settle here. Such settlers would form
a very desirable element and wou;d
meet with a cordial welcome. They
might teach our land owners how to
make farming pay.
JOSEPH L.DffNNIS,
RHOE W H FtOW.
THE SOLID SOUTH.
The Boston Herald has applied to
the Governors of the several south¬
ern states to know why the south is
solidly democratic. The true reason
is found in the solidity of the negro
vote. When the colored population
advances to a state of intelligence
sufficiently broad for its voters to be
controlled by reason rather than
prejudice, and its united ignorance
ceases to be a menace to our every
material interest, then the white peo¬
ple will quite naturally split upon
questions of minor importance. This
day is coming and there was a time
when the writer thought it was here,
but within ten days his eyes have
been opened. The white people of
the south are allied, not so much be¬
cause of their democracy, as because
of the ever constant menace of an¬
archy.
AGAINSl^RoTu BITKIN.
The election Wednesday passed
off very quietly. The colored vote
at this precinct was practically solid
for whiskey and a few whites voted
with them. The western part of the
county went practically solid against
while the southeastern districts went
as solid for prohibition. There were
no challengers here at Hamilton and
of the 515 voters, the names of 159
appear on the tax defaulters list. 1 he
prohibitionists in town are divided in
opinion as tb what the result ot a
contest would be. Some think that
there is about 100 majority of the
legal vote against prohibition, while
others think—and the writer is of the
number— that if the illegal vote were
thrown out, a majority would appear
for prohibition. But upon one senti
timent prohibitionists are a unit—
God will remove the liquor curse in
his own good time and He will not
hold them guiltless if they fail to use
any just means within their power to
hasten that day. precincts fol¬
The vote by was as
lows: -Prohibition.
Prohibition. Anti
Blue Springs 61 j 7 IOI
Cataula, 81 42
Chip’ey, 74
Cachran’s, 27 19
Davidson’s, 4 70
Eilerslie, 98 384 10
Hamilton, 132
Lower 19th, 36 7i
Milner's, 59 9
Upper 19th, 15
Valley Plains, 18 Ln
Waverly H’l, 40 7
Whittaker’s, 73
Whitesville, 56 00
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NO Ln 1036
A stranger came to Athens a cou
pie of weeks ago and engaged board
in a family where there wis a beauti¬
ful young girl, and the young people
at once fell desperately in love with
each other. An elopement was
planned and a marriage license pro¬
cured, but the girl’s parents heard of
the affair and entered an earnest pro
test 'f!Tdmf« r C k
' wouU te
up, and it seems “' inhc fth ' would be
groom would yet be defeated.
Hamilton is ahead of Cartersville
in cotton receipts.
HAMILTON, GA„ NOVEMBER
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PERSONAL.
Mr. L. Meyer was in town VYednes*
day.
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Mr. W. T. Barr, of Columbus, was
in town yesterday.
Mr. w ... .. days ,
:J )ent tnr °
this , . week Columbus.
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Major R. H. Bullock, of Chipley, i
was in town Wednesday.
Col. J. M. DeLacy, of White Sul
phar Springs, was in town the other
day.
Messrs Joe and Frank Hadley
made a brief visit to Columbus this
week.
Mrs. H. C. Cameron returned
Tuesoay from a visit to relatives in
Columbus.
Judge J. M. Mathews, a prominent
lawyer of Talbotton, was in the city
Wednesday.
Mr. T. W. Ligon, of Columbus,was
in town yesterday drumming for the
popular house of J. Kyle & Co.
Jordan’s Joyous Julep, the only
infallible cure for Neuralgia and Ner
vous Headache. Sold by all druggists,
Mrs Mrs. W w. I i. Hudson Hudson attended attended tne the
convention of the Woman s roreign
Missionary Society m Columbus last .
week. i
Services will be held at Baptist
church in this place Saturday and
Sunday by the pastoi, Rev. J. W.
Wilson.
ML-s Fannie Scott, of Salem, Ala.,
who has been visiting her brother,
Mr. W. O. Scott, returned home this
monvn'*.
Mr. E. C. Leonard, a popular drum
mer of Maaon, spent Tuesday here
in the interest of the house of Single
ton, Hunt & Co.
Rev. R. H. Bulloch, of Chipley, a
most popular Baptist divine, has been
called to the pastorate of the Baptist
church near Mulberry Grove.
Miss Hennie Sherman, one of
Cuthbert’s most lovely and cultured
young ladies, spent several days in
town this week,the guest of Miss Lula
Mobley. I
Rev. Crawford Jackson,of Cataula,
spent Wednesday with friends m
town, and preached a very good ser
mon at the Methodist church Wed¬
nesday night.
Mr. B. H. Walton has invented a
cradle sleep. attachment There to such rock the universal baby j
to is a j
demand for such a machine that his
friends think there is millions in it.
When not in operation for the baby’s
use it can be hitched to the churn. It
needs only an attachment to milk the
cow, sweep off the front steps, and
wash the dishes to make one of the
greatest blessings of the age.
K party of young ladies and |en
tlemen enjoyed a musicale last night
at the residence of CoL J. M. Mob¬
ley. The music was furnished by
Prof. Dozier, Mr. Herbert McAfee,
Misses May Candler and Berta Dozier,
a combination of musical talent not
easily excelled in producing the har¬
mony of sweet sounds. The enter¬
tainment was given complimentary to
Miss Heanie Sherman, of Cuthbert,
who left this morning for home.
We regret to learn that Mrs. J. T.
" il! for several
wiI |; ams has been very
with typhoid fever. She left
here in September for Raleigh, . N. C.
with the intention ot becoming a
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
V STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
teacher in the schools of that city.
Immediately after standing her ex¬
amination she was prostrated by fe
ver and since been very ill. We are
glad to state that Mrs. B. II. Walton
received a day or two since very fa
vorable reports of her condition, and
that she will probably soon recover.
AT YOUR SERVICE.
There is a pleasure in trading at a
P lac « where one receives courteous
attention and always a pleasant wel¬
come. Such a place is the Clothing
Emporium of G. E. Thomas, next
door to the Rankin House. Although
this is one of the most magnificent
houses j n the c j t y G f Columbus, a
Happy welcome awaits every patron
of t H e house when he visits the city.
The clever Thomas sets an example
for his worthy co-laborers and his
corps of salesman is not excelled for
cleverness anywhere. They have a
magnificent line of clothing for their
friends to select from, the goods they
know are honest and the prices rea
s °riable, so that they can meet every
man upon a square fooling, knowing
that they do hlm S ood serv,ce when
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THE COLUMBUS A ROME EX¬
TENSION.
Chief Engineer McDonald has
completed the estimates of the cost
of the two routes surveyed from
Greenville fer the extension of theCo
lumbus & Rome railroad. The route
lrom Greenville to Fairburn is 45 7-10
miles, or 64^ miles to Atlanta. The
estimated cost of this route is $447,
95 I -7^ The route from Greenville
to Puckett’s station is 20 6-10 miles
to Atlanta. The estimated cost is
$206,111. > The cost of both routes
. estimated . the , , broad f
15 upon guage
standard of four feet and nine inches.
The estin.ates will be submitted to
the authorities and they will decide
upon the route. It is quite likely
that the route to Fairburn will be se
lected, as it runs through a much
better country and would yield more
re venue to the road.—Columbus En
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THE GEORGIA MIDLAND.
Major W. S. Green, chief engineer
of this railroad, arrived in the city
yesterday. engineer He comes in the to put the This sec
on d corps field.
corps will leave here Monday the 16th
will run a line by Eilerslie, Waver
\ y Hall and Shiloh to Blackwood’s
Gap. The other corps, under Mr.
Harris, will push rapidly on to Griffin
and wiil be there in two weeks or less
time,
Messrs Goetchius, Rankin and
Hulbert meet the people of Spalding
at an immense meeting in Griffin to¬
night. They will push the canvass
thiough the whole line. The sub¬
scriptions along the line will deter¬
mine the location of the road. The
stock we believe will pay and we
hope our Waverly and Eilerslie
friends will get the road.
Jordan’s Joyous Julep, the only
infallible cure for Neuralgia and ner¬
vous headache. For sale by ail
druggists.
Hood’s Eureka is a perfect fault¬
less family medicine. Try a bottle.
NO. 50.