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THE HAMILTON MEEKLY VISITOR.
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Broad Street; COLUMBUS, GA.,
Will visit Hamilton and vicinity once a
month during the summer. Allcalls prompt
ly attended to Plate work and filling done
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E A BUSSELL C E RUSSELL
RUSSELL & RUSSELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Will practice in all the State Courts.
TDr. T- X_l- Jrenlt-ixis,
HAMILTON, GA.
THOS. S. MITCHELL, M. D.,
Resident Physician and Surgeon,
HAMILTON, GEORGIA
Special attention given to Operative Sut
gery and treatment of Chronic Diseases.
Terms Cash.
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DENTIST ;
COLUMBUS, - GEORGIA.
Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ran
dolph st, near city terminus of N. & 8.. R. R-
Respecfully offers his services to the peo
ple of Harris county. ju2oly
CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE ,
By J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM.
WEST POINT, GA
HENRY C. CAMERON,
Attorney at Lata,
HAMILTON i GA
DR. J. W. CAMERON,
HAMILTON. ; GA.
Special attention to Midwifery. Charges
moderate.
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Hamilton, Georgia
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*J. W. RYAN, Prop’r.
Fbaxk Golden, Clerk.J
RUBY RESTAURANT,
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UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE,
jan 10 J, W, RYAN, Prop’h.
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NEW GOODS.
We have in store a full and well-selected
stock of
SPRING GOODS,
BOUGHT VERY LOW.
Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes,
Ciothing, Crocker}', Hardware, Drugs, etc.,
which we will sell at the Lowest
Pbices kui CASH.
A nice lot of Ladies' and Misses’ Hats,
which we will sell vert jow.
Prints, best brands, 10c.
Coats’ Thread, 80c. a dozen.
Brown Homespun, 7 to 16c.
Bleached “ 7 to 20c.
Ckwßing.—Coats, $1 to $lB.
Pants, $1.25 to $9.
AM other goods as low as they can lie
bought in any market South.
All we ask is, Give ns a call;
COWSERT & KIMBROUGH.
Hamilton, Ga., April 17, 1874 —3m
TlTFir. T- MOORE,
At Van Ripei’s old Stand,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
Offers his services as a
Pliotograpiier
to all wanting Pictures from card to life size,
Old Pictures can be copied, enlarged and
colored in a satisfactory manner, in oil or
■water.
Long experience and unsurpassed facilities
enable me to offer as good inducements afe
any Gallery in the State. All work guaran
teed to suit customers, or no charge, at rates
as low as aDy. ju!3-6m
GEORGIA— Harms County.
Wm I Hudson, administrator of Lovick
Graddick, dec’d, makes application for leave
to sell the land belonging to said deceased —
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if any they have, by the first
Monday in August next, why said applica
tion should not be granted. Given under
my hand officially, done 16, 1874.
junl9-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y.
DEBTORS & CREDITORS’ NOTICE
All those indebted to the estate of John
McKay, deceased, are hereby notified to make
immediate payment; and those having claims
against said estate are requested to present
them duly authenticated within the time
prrescribed by law.
jullO 6t THOMAS J. NEAL, Adm’r.
DEBTORS & CREDITORS’ NOTICE.
All persons indebted to the estate of John
Pattilio, deceased, are hereby notified to
make payment; and those having claims
against said estate are requested to present
them within the time prescribed bylaw.
jullO-fit R. 8. PA'ITILLO, Ex r.
GEORGIA — Harris County.
Thomas J. Neal, administrator upon the
estate of John McKay, late of said county,
deceased, applies for leave to sell the real
estate belonging to said deceased—
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if any they have, by the fire*
Monday in August next, why said applica
tion should not be granted- Given under
my hand and official seal, July C, 18i4.
jullO-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord y.
GEORGIA— Harris County.
Whereas the estate of Philip Richardson,
late of said county, dcc'd, is unrepresented,
and not likely to be represented—
All persons concerned are hereby notified
to show cause, if aDy they have, by the first
Monday in August next, why some suitable
and proper person should not lie appointed.
Given under my h *nd officially, July 0,
1874, i F. 0, WILLEMS. Ord y.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1874.
For thg ATsitor.
The Temperance Canse.
La Grange, Ga., July 27, 1874.
The good people of our city are
stirred up on the liquor question. It
is being discussed from all stand
points, and presented in all its differ
ent phases. The members of our
temperance organization, the United
Friends of Temperance, have taken
firm stand against it, and are mov
ing in a solid phalanx to have a stop
put to tlie trade in the vile stuff that
clouds and enervates the brains of
our fathers and brothers.
LiJjuor is the greatest of all curses;
worse than famine, fire or flood.
Tho fanilfie which has, to a great
extent, devastated India, does not
compare with it*, for it has been re
lieved by the munificence of a mag
nanimous government.
The great fire of Chicago, which,
in a few hours, laid low the magnifi
cent palaces of a proud city, and left
a large portion of her citizens with
out food or shelter, does not compare
with it; for as soon as the terrible
news could be flashed over the wires
which connect every portion of this
great country, the governments, cities,
towns, communities and individuals,
vied with each other in sending relief
to the stricken city, until she said,
“We have enough—send no more.”
Tho great flood which has swept a
large portion of the fertile Mississippi
valley with that most resistless besom
of destruction—a seething, surgHH
all-destroying waste of waters, dloes
not compare with it; for their pres
ent wants are being relieved by that
same Godlike attribute—that charity
which is better than faith or hope—
“ which extends beyond the grave,
into the boundless realms of eter
nity,” and which characterizes and
blesses our people. And their future
wants will be provided for by the
bounteous hand of Providence; for,
while Ho has sent destruction with
one hand, with the other He has scat
tered broadcast all over this stricken
country a fertilizing compound of in
estimable value, which, had it been
applied by the hands of man; wou-sl
have cost millions ofUoilars.
So, you see, in all this there is some
relief, some hope; but when wo see
the noble father, the devoted husband,
the loving brother, the promising son,
with their brains on fire, the lioble
usefulness of their hearts perverted,
and degraded to a level with the
beasts, we are thrillfid with horror;
we shrink back aghast; for we know
there is no hope—there is no mag
nanimous government to take charge
of them; no charity that can reach
them. We know their road is down
ward, even to the grave, and to per
dition.
This shows that something should
be done to protect us from this in
sidious enemy; for we, the females of
the land, are the sufferers. It is on
us that the heaviest blow falls. Tears,
though generally so potent in' bring
ing the sterner sex to their knees,
and making them anticipate our ©very
wish, and supply our every want, are
impotent in this matter; for if all thC
tears caused by liquor were collected
in one stream and added to the Mis
sissippi, the great flood of 1874 would
be nothing in comparison to it.
Our temperance friends say, pro
hibit the sale of it. But are they not
over-zealous in the cause ? Are we
ready for prohibition ? We say, pro
hibit it; but such a law, at present,
would be a dead letter on the statute
books. It would be like our present
laws against gambling and carrying
concealed weapons. You seldom hear
of a man being brought up for a vio
lation of either, and when you do,
where will you find the jury that will
convict ? Still, it is a notorious fact,
that we have gamblers, and almost
every fifteen-year old boy and freed
man has a pistol.
We say, when the moral sentiment
of the community supports prohibit
ory laws, then it will be time to enact
them, and not till then; for it is bet
ter not to have them at all, than to
have them, and not enforce thpm.
But so long as the churches —the ed
ucators, the custodians of the morals
of the people —allow their members
to manufacture, sell and drink liquor,
and remain in good standing; and as
long as we, the ladies, recognize the
retail liquor dealers as gentlemen,
and receive them and their families
in good society, so long will their
business be respectable, and all the
prohibitory laws in the land will not
be worth a cent.
Therefore we say, start the ball to
rolling. Let the churches say to their
members, “You shill not manufac
ture, sell; or drink as a beverage, this
vilest of poisons; ” and if this rule is
broken, cut off the recreant rhembor
at once. It will not clo to try to re
form him within the sacred precincts
that he has desecrated.
This is a terrible monster you have
to overcome, and to handle it success
fully, you must do so without gloves.
The world has its eyes on you; and
so Iqng as it sees that you allow your
members to scatter broadcast over
this beautiful country the seed which,
when brought into full fruition, like
the fatal upas tree, casts its blighting
hand on whomsoever it touches, car
rying poverty and death into every
home in the laud, and where was once
peace and happiness, can now be heard
tWwail of widows and cry of orph
ans, it. will take it for granted that
do not condemn it; and when the
church dees not condemn, it should
expect nothing else but for the world
te approve.
Let the ladies pass unnoticed on
the street young men engaged in the
calling, and refuse to receive them in
their parlors. Proscribe the families
of those who are married. Let them
understand that the business of their
husbands and fathers is disreputable,
and that they will not be received in
good society so long as they are en
gaged in it.
* Do this, and our word for it, it will
mot be long before the people will
be ready for prohibition in its fullest
sense.
I did not intend writing so much
on this subject when I took up my
pen, but it is so fraught with our in
terests for weal or woo, that tho more
that is said or written, the more it
grows.
Trusting, ere another year rolls
around, that tho moral sentiment of
this community may be educated up
to a point where all good people will
shrink from contact with the retailer
or his family, I will permit the sub
for the present, to requiescat in
pace . - A- Friend or Temperance,
My Platform.
Ei>. Visitor —l see in a lato issue,
that no aspirant for office can get
himself “ puffed ” in your paper with
out paying for it. That’s right. If
you work for them, make them pay
you for it.
I am a candidate for the Legisla
ture—why not?—not at the ensuing
election, though—too many ahead of
me. I must bide my time, but I will
give you my platform now.
When elected, I shall go to the
capital impressed with my import
ance, and feel in duty bound to do
something for my unfortunate con
stituents. To this end, I shall favor
internal improvements, and recom
mend a liberal use of Mr. Epsom’s
salts and Mr. Castor’s oil. I will en
force this bill by appropriate legis
lation.
I will also favor external improve
ments, and shall recommend an ap
plication of Mr. Colgate’s or Mr.
Lye’s soßp, with plenty of warm wa
ter. This I shall enforce by appro
priate legislation.
Thus, with a clean and healthy
constituency to back me, I shall
broach delicately such questions as
finance, taxes, school laws, etc.
Then 1 shall recommend a set of
plain r.nd equitable laws that all the
farmers can understand, appoint a
committee to teach them to the law
yers, and move an adjournment.
Now you have my platform.
1 hear of one candidate who is ri
ding the tax hobby. His plan is
about this: Exempt all property to
tho amount of $500; over this, and
up to SI,OOO, tax one-tenth of one
per cent; over this, and up to $2,000,
tax two tenths of one per cent, and
so on. Suppose you double on until
you get to ten-tenths of one per cent.
Then yon take it all. And when you
go over this, then what ? Why, you
must go back and begin &tf the first
SSOO, previously exempted, to get
money to pay tax on property that
won’t pay its own tax. This theory
reminds me of the blacksmith who
shod the horse at one cent for the first
nail, and doubled from that on np.
Such ideas are the outcroppings of
a diseased brain, and originate with
men who once ordered negroes to
black their boots, but who now ask
the same negroes to send them to the
Legislature. It is some consolation
to know that each aspirants do not
expect the intelligence of the county
to support them. Old Harris can’t
yet appreciate such talent.
A Fakmkb.
Written for the Visitor.
“Laying-by Time.”
Yes, it is laying-by time. Hunt
up your powder and shot, rub up
your old crazy shot-guns, call your
old mangy curs, and pot nosed, eel
tailed hounds, and now for a month’s'
loafed ng.
Seriously, are you done working
your crop for this year? Is your
crop clean?—your cotton, corn and
potatoes, all clear of weeds ?
No - ; but it is laying-by time. Bill
Mudbead, ou the ridge, got through
a week ago. He went hunting yes
terday, and killed one squirrel, a jay
bird and a bull-frog; and I and Sam
Buybaeon are going to-day. Next
week we are going to have a general
hunt. We expect the company of
Sam Buybaeon,' Jim Buyoorn, Tom
Dowitliontpotatoes, Ephraim Nopeas,
Job Huntahomceveryyear, and several
of their near relations. '
Yes, it is laying by time; or, rather,
it is loafering time. Some of your
corn needs ploughing again; all your
cotton needs the same attention;
your whole crop needs lioeing. Just
as the time arrives for you to mako
some of your reward for months of
toil, you throw aside your plow and
hoe, and shoulder your old shot-gun.
On the very eve of victory you suffer
yourselves defeated.
Only the other day I heard a man
arguing that grass was an advantage
to corn at this season of tho year.
My reply to him was, that I never
knew any but a lazy man argue in
favor of a grassy crop in my life.
Well, suppose your crop is clean,
arc you able to loafer ?—to hunt and
fish wliero there is no game ? Most
of you have bought your provisions
at credit prices. Are yon now going
to loafer and consume your crops,
and do the same thing again next
year ? You can get plenty of work
to do. There is always work for
him that will do it. But it is laying
by time. Yes, I know it; but I
must enter a protest against this pre
vailing, wretched plan of making a
crop and then loafering until it is
eat up. Why, sir, your employer
wants rails split; boards and shingles
got; fence corners cleaned out;
ditches cleaned out, and some new
ones cut; cribs, barns and stables
either built or old one9 repaired.
Why not go at it? Your pay is
sure, and you can offer no excuse.
If you fail to do so, you are entitled
to no sympathy from any quarter.
Very true, it is laying-by time. I
don’t care for that. lam a renter
myself, and I am going to talk plain.
Yes, you want to go to town and
hear the candidates gas upon the
merits and tho demerits of their com
petitors: you want to be winked at
by these oily-tongiied gents and asked
to take a glass of whisky as a “ per
suader.” Then you like to be told
that you have more influence than
any man in your district. Oh 1 VhSt
a pleasure 1 You must electioneer,
pull, heave, tug, whoop, and make a
fool of yourself generally, for a man
that cares no more for you, your
wife and children, than a bull does
for Noah’s ark. These gents are try
ing to fix easy places for themselves
and their families at your expense.
While you plow and hoe, sweat and
toil, and drink pot-liquor with very
little grease in it, they ride on cars,
in phaetons, lounge on sofas in fash
ionable hotels, drink champagno
and lemonade, and smoke fine cigars.
While your wife cooks and washes,
their wives dress and sing; while
your children stay at home, half
naked, theirs dress, go to college,
fish and hunt, and you pay your pro
rata share of the expense.
It is time the laboring man had
begun to form some estimate of him
self and the work he must dtf.
But. I beg your pardon: it is laying
by time. Yes, loaferhig time for
men with families to care for; with
out a horse, or, in many instances, a
cow or pig—not one foot of land,
no wagon, or cart, no provision*—
children to educate, or let them grow
up in ignorance.
Yes, it is laying-by time--time to
lay by money to buy a home—time
to lay by motiey to buy a horse, a
cow, and a pig; time to lay byltaoney
to educate your children; time to
lay by a stock of common sense for
the future, that will supplant and ut
terly root out the shameful ignorance
of the present and past; time to profit
by sad experience, and do belter in
tho future.
Oh 1 ye Grangers, np and make
a united raid on tins old-time hero,
laying-by time. Hit him with pitch
forks instead of picnic*.
A Rkntek.
$1.50 A YEAR.
WIT and HUMOR.
A teacher in Nevada, after telling;
her pupils that a lavgc waterfall was
a cataract, asked what a little water
fall was. “ lvittyract! ” blurted out
a tow-headed youngster, who sgf
chewing the corner of his primer on
the front seat.
“ Mother, you mnsu’t whip me any
more for running away from school.”
“Why nut?” “’Cause my school
book .says that ants are tho most in?
dustrious things in the world, and
ain’t Ia tru-ant ? ”
The editor of tho Star
apologizes ior tho non-appearance of
his paper by saying, that had to
haul off to dig buckshot out of his
Ie S B - , • , -
“ I’m glad this coffee don’t owe raa
anything,” snid Brown, a boarder, at
the breakfast table, “Why?” sauj
Smith. “ Because I don’t believe it
would ever Settle.”
The further west you go, the more
interesting the stories become: “In
Gervais, Oregon, during a storm, a
large tree was struck by lightning
and cut completely off, as with a
sharp instrument, about four feet
from the ground. In falling, the tree
was thrown forward ten feet, raised
high in the air, and the butt driven
in the ground—the shock shivering
the branches, and leaving tlfe trunk
standing upright.”
“Hi 1 where did ye got them trow
sers?” asked an Irishman of a man
who happened to be passing with a
pair of remarkably short trowsers on.
“ I got them where they grow,” was
the indignant reply. “Then, by my
conscience,” said Paddy, “ you pulled
them a year too soon.”
The late Elder Knapp once des
cribed the terrible heat of hell by say
ing that it was so hot, that if a map
were takon out of it and plunged into
tho hottest fire of an earthly furnace,
ho would freeze to death from the
transition.
A little girl asked a visitor, who
was cordially received by her mama i
“ Is your next-door neighbor a fool ?”
“ No, my dear; he is a very sensible
man. Why do you ask?” “Be
cause mama said you were next door
to a fool.”.
“ Washington,” exclaimed a mem
ber of a Nashville debating club, iu
stentorian tones —“Washington was
a great man; he was a good man; he
was a noble man: his mind had a
powerful grasp of tho future. If ever
a man was non compos mentis, Wash
ington was that man.”
“Are there any fools in this town ?”
risked a stranger of a newsboy. “ I
dunno,” replied the boy. “ Why;'
are you lonesome ? ”
Said Young America to his papa:
“ Pa, be you a Britisher ? ” “ Yes,
my son; I was born in England.”
“ Well, we whipt you,” retorted the
youngster.
“Do bats ever fly in the daytime?”
asked a teacher of his class in natural
history. “Yes, sir,” said the boys,
confidently. “ What kind of bate ? ”
exclaimed the astonished teacher,'
“Brickbats!” yelled the triumphant
boys.
An Irishman having accidentally
broken a pane of glass in the window,
of a house, was making the best of
his way to get ont of sight; but, un
fortunately for Pat, the propiietor
stole a march on him, and having
seized him by the collar, exclaimed,,
“ Didn’t you break that window ?”,
“To bo sure I did,” replied Pat; “an*
didn’t ye see me runnin* hoine afther
the money to' pay for it ? ”
4 ‘ I have not loved lightly,” as tho
man said when hb married a .widow
weighing three hundred pounds. |
A little fellow, five or six years*
old, who hod been wearing. under
shirts much too small for him, was,
one day, put into a garment as mubff
too large as the other had been tod'
small. Ho shrugged his shoulders,
shook himself, walked around, and
finally burst out: “Ma, I do flfel aw
ful lonesome ia this shirt.”
Anew game, called “ Granger Sev
en-up,” is announced. Three persons
play for a can of oysters. The first
man out gets tho oysters, the last the
can, and the “ middle-man ” don’t get
anything.
The Meridian (Miss.) Gazette says:
“Thirteen years ago John Kendall;'
of Alabama, called Arthur Spooner a
liar. Spooner reflected, got mad,'
and the other day decided to shoot
Kendall for the insult, and did shoot
him; and now his honor shines like a
.new tin pan on a gate-post,”