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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 i 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 p PERSONAL. Mr. L. Meyer was in town VYednes* day. - Mr. W. T. Barr, of Columbus, was in town yesterday. Mr. w ... .. days , :J )ent tnr ° this , . week Columbus. in i 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 3 M hjm ° ds Do t fajl to • them call n when , . the ., give a you 3 are m cuy - 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 q U i rfr 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.