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THE HAMILTON MEEKLY VISITOR. ~ ' ' *■ ■ '.i' i- ' ' . - ' ! . ■ - . • VOL n.-NO. 3L C|c|)amiltoit Visitor pj, jj. BOULLY, Proprietor. CASH~SUINSCRIPTION BATES. One copy one year $1 50 One copy Bix monlh._ I W One copy three months 75 Any one furnishing five subscribers, with tke money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one po.-t-ofliee to another, must state Ih name of the post office from which they wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it sent. All subscriptions must be paid in advance. The paper will be stopped at the end of the time paid for, unless subscriptions are pre yionsly renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year. cash advertising bates. ■ n rlC t 1 mo 3 mos 6 mos 12 mos 5 inches . 450 725 11 00 18 00 2 ”ches 500 90015 00 22 00 ! ‘che! 5501100 18 00 27 00 1 colmn.. 650 14 00 25 00 35 00 icoumu.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 60 00 Icoumn.. 22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. Payment* to be made quarterly in advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise **PeTSons°sending advertisements, will state the length of time they wish them published and the space they - want them to occupy. Parties advertising by contract will be re stricted to their legitimate business. IiEUAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff’s sales, per inch, four weeks.. .$3 50 ** mortgage fi fa Bales, per mcli, eightweeks ............... 5 50 Citation for letters of administration, guardianship, etc., thirty day 5...... 3 00 Notice to debtois and creditors of an estate, forty days 5 00 Application for leave to sell land, four weeks..••••••*••••••••** ********* ' gales of iand, etc., per inch, forty days 6 00 “ “ perishable property, per inch, ten days.. •■ •; •y • •• • 200 Application for letters of dismission from guardianship, forty days 5 00 Application for letters of dismission from administration, three months. 7 oO Establishing lost papers, the full space of three months, per inch 7 OO Compelling titles from executors or ad- W ministrators, where bond has been I given by the deceased, the full space 1 of three months, per inch 7 00 Estray notices, thirty days 3 00 Rule for foreclosure of mortgage, four months, monthly, per inch.. 6 00 ! gale of insolvent papers, thirty days... 000 Homestead, two weeks... ■ 200 •Ruslness Oarcis W. T. POOL, D. S., 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 In the best and latest styles. Satisfaction guaranteed, or no charge. * mayS-6in 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. ■W- IF 1 - TIC3-3STEII=L, 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. Hines Dozier, ATTORN EY-AT-LA W Hamilton, Georgia Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit, or Anywhere else. All kinds of collections rusHKD— either way. RANKIN' HOUSE COLUMBUS, GA. *J. W. RYAN, Prop’r. Fbaxk Golden, Clerk.J RUBY RESTAURANT, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE, jan 10 J, W, RYAN, Prop’h. ‘DOMESTIC’ FASHIONS.. All of the latest styles in drees furnished in patterns cut to any measure—price from ten to thirty cents each. Send for Catalogue, which is free to all. ‘DOMESTIC’ SEWING MACHINE. The most perfect and reliable machine in the world, and capable of doing work that no other machine can. Send for prices and directions how to choose. ‘DOMESTIC’ MAGAZINE. A beautiful Family Journal, published monthly at $1 60 a year—untended to make home happy. Send for specimen number— price 25 cents. Address DOMESTIC S. M. CO., . jul3 6m 27 Marietta st, Atlanta, Ga. 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,”