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THE HAMILTON WEEKLY YIKITIIR. VOL. IL--NO. 38. J|e Hamilton Visitor |). BOULLY, Proprietor. casbTsubscription bates. Hn codv one year $2 00 me copy six months 100 me copy three months <5 Aav one furnishing five subscribers, with he money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers changed one post-office to another, must state he name of the post office from which they ,i.h it changed, as well as that to which hey 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- Tiotisly renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year, CASH ADVERTISING RATES. —1 mo 3 mos 6 mos 12 mos nrr ;$2 60 $4 50 $ 600 $lO 00 inches.. 450 725 11 00 18 00 inch”.. 500 900 15 00 22 00 I nebes . 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 lcolumn.. 650 14 00 25 00 35 00 1 column.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 60 00 column.. 22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths not exceeding six lines will be published free. Payments to be made quarterly in advance, according to schedule rates, unless otherwise agreed upon. Persons sending advertisements, will state the length of time they wish them published aad the space they want them to occupy. Parties advertising by contract will be re stricted to their legitimate business. Legal Advertisements. Sheriffs sales, per inch, four weeks. .$3 SO “ mortgage fi fa sales, per inch, eight weeks •• 5 00 Citation for letters of administration, guardianship, etc., thirty days. ...... 3 00 Notice, to debtors and creditors of an estate, forty days 5 00 Application for leave to sell land, four weeks 4 00 Sales of land, etc., per inch, forty days 5 00 “ “ perishable property, per inch, ten days ._ 2 00 Application for letters of dismission from guardianship, forty days 5 CO Application for letters of dismission from administration, three months 7 50 Establishing lost papers, the full 6pace of three months, per inch 7 00 Compelling titles from executors or ad ministrators, where hond has been given by the deceased, the full space •f three months, per inch 7 00 Estray notices, thirty days 3 00 Rule for foreclosure of mortgage, four mouths, monthly, per inch 6 00 Sale of insolvent papers, thirty days... 300 Homestead, two weeks 2 00 Business Cards W. T. POOL, D. S., Broad Street, COLUMBUS, GA., Will visit Hamilton and vicinity once a month during the summer. All calls prompt ly attended to. Plate work and filling done in the best and latest styles. Satisfaction guaranteed, or no charge. maj'B-Gm 2 A BUSSELL C R RUSSELL RUSSELL & RUSSELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Will practice In all the State Courts. J3r. T- Xj- JenXins, HAMILTON, GA. TIIOS. S. MITCHELL, M. D., Resident Physician and Surgeon, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention given to Operative Sur and treatment of Chronic Diseases., Terms Cash. . 'VV_ in. TIGt-INrEIJFL, DENTIST, ■ COLUMBUS, . . GEORGIA, Office over Chapman’s drug store, Ran dolph st, near city terminus of N. & S. R. R. uespecfully offers his services to the peo ple of Harris county. ju2oly CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE, Bf J. T. HIGGINBOTHEM. west point, ga HENRY G. CAMERON, Attorney at Law, Hamilton, ga Dk - J. w. CAMERON, HAMILTON, GA. Special attention to Midwifery. Charges Moderate. Sirios Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Hamilton, Georgia " ill practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit, ? r anv where else. . All kinds of collections pushed—either way. Rankin house COLUMBUS, GA. J. W. RYAN, Prop’r. Frank Golden,- Clerk. RUBY restaurant, Bar and Billiard Saloon, PA&ER THE RANKIN HOUSE. ‘DOMESTIC’ FASHIONS. All of the latest stylus in dresß 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 maeliine 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 50 a year—intended to make borne happy. Send for specimen number— price 25 cents. Address DOMESTIC S. M. CO., julo 6m 27 Marietta st, Atlanta, Ga. NEW GOODS. We have in store a full and well-selected stock of SDnnSTG GOODS, bought very low. Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Clothing. Crockery, Hardware, Drugs,etc., which we will nil at the Lowest Prices for CASH. A nice lot of Ladies’ and Misses’ Hats, which we will sell very low. Prints, best brands, 10c. Coats’ Thread, 80c. a dozen. Brown H imespun, 7 to 16c. Bleached “ 7 to 20c. Clothing.—Coats, Si to $lB. Pants, $1.25 to $9. All other goods as low as they 7 can he bought in any market South. All we ask is, Give us a call. COWSERT & KIMBROUGH. Hamilton, Ga., April 17, 1874—3 m TIEF- t- mo ode, At Van Riper’s old Stand, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Offers his services as a X*2iotosraplier to all wanting Pictnres 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 as any Gallery in the State. All work guaran teed to skit customers, or no charge, at rates as low as any. ju!3-6m GEORGIA— Harris 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, June 16, 1874. juniy-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 prrescribcd by law. jullO 6t THOMAS J. NEAL, Adm’r. DEBTORS & CREDITORS’ NOTICE. All persons indebted to the estate of John Fattillo, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment; and those having claims against said estate are requested to present them witldu the time prescribed by law. jullO-Gt R 8. PATTILLO, Ex’r. GEORGIA — Harris County. Thomas J. Neal, administrator upon the eslate of John McKay, late of said county, deceased, applies for leas e to stll the real es'ate belonging to said deceased — Ali persons conceined are hereby notified to show cause, If any they have, ty the first Monday in August next, why said app.ica tion should not he granted Given under my hand and official seal, July 6, 1874. jullO-td J. F. C. WILLIAMS, Ord’y. GEORGIA— Harris County. Whereas the estate of Philip Richardson, late of said county, dec’d, is unrepresented, ami not likely to he represented— All persons concerned are hereby notified to show cause, if any they have, by tbe first Monday in August next, why some suitable and proper person should not be appointed. , -A. -Aar^rV’ 1 ' Zzkv° HAMILTON, HARRIS 00., GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1874. How to Get Oat of Debt Ed. Visitor:— The above is the subject of a Grange in Harris county at its next meeting. None more im portant now, inside or outside of a Grange. The Bible says, “ Owe no man anything.” We are then au thorized to say it is sinful to get in debt. But, sin or no sin, we are in, we farmers are. The thing now is to get out. We sin and are under con demnation. The Scriptures tell us how to get from under it—by “re pentance and faith.” What is re pentance ? It is sorrow, and tufning away from the cause of that sorrow. What is faith ? It is simple belief, backed up by action, and without the latter is nothing worth. This action is “the substance of things hoped for.” Bringing the faith and action together produces “ substance. ” Di vide them, and the one will not carry to heaven, nor the other keep out of the other place. Faith is hut the in spiration of an act, whether good or bad: “As you believe, so he it unto you.” Now, what we need is repentance and faith—sorrow (most of us repent that far) for past sins and errors, and a turning away from them; and faith to inspire the act of turning to reach the end sought: liberty from debt, or “ owe no man.” Let us review a little, to see how we became sinners, and whether we be indeed; for men will hardly be lieve and move unless they find they are bad off and about to be damned— sold out or perish. When the war ended, we had about grounded all our arms—offensive, de fensive and support. Some had old land; some none at all. Some had stock; some none. Most of us hadn’t a cent of money worth a value, and not much of anything else—blankets, crockery, pottery, clothing, corn or cotton — and scant in everything. We began to feel want, and to purchase, and on credit, and on any demanded terms of 50 and 100 per cent. We took into partnership (God pardon the humiliation) the negroes, and for them took all risks and responsibility with the creditors, and plunged head long with “cotton on the brain.” Some went down soon. Some held up in staggering persistence, inching on by shifts from year to year, by liens and mortgages, from creditor to creditor, paying a per cent for credit double and quadruple what a reason able estimate would have allowed our incomes, leaving out the estimates we should have made on our capital em ployed, our implements of husbandry, our wagons, stock, land, fencing, buildings, to cover their waste, de cline and casualty. Our speed to ruin was checked for three or four years by the high price of cotton; but now it is on us, and the wreck all around us, and a forced account would transfer property by the million—perhaps the half of Geor gia’s property value. We expected to get off of old, worn lands, bereft of their virgin strength, by the same methods of shallow culture and long intervals — by 20 acres per hand and 40 per mule, and by free and licentious la-, bor—what we used to do when, fresh from the shade, our land gave us its bounty, and Soudan Sam and Tim buctoo Bill went fishing, hunting, and to distracted meetings, as we per mitted. The hand declined i, the corn k and and, of course, the mule pro rata. We forgot, also, that we were out all tbe difference between the wages we pay now and the clothing, doctors’ bills and taxes we then paid only. We forget, also, that we are now paying $7.30 on $1,600 worth of property, when we used to pay only $1.25, and, I think, at one time, only $1.07. This was and is for State tax. Put on for county, and yon have it now just sls, and then Only $2.50, or s2.l4—and a proposal ahead for $3 per head for poll. We also pay the church as much, and more, than we used to, when we are not’ worth one-half what we then were. But we had the preacher at the starving point then, and we could not do less now. But, for all that, this is the showing. This last is vol untary, and conscience money be tween the giver and God; and I may not, dare not, class it with others, but, as I said, to make out the show ing. God has to do with this. The truth is, we have been quite foolish and sinful of ourselves, and been greatly pressed on. But I must quit of this, or Bonlly will cut mo Ju* Twite; "'f' 1 Now for the repentance and faith. Hold on, Boully, and let me tell it. The writer found himself in debt last Christmas. He told his wife. He has spent for clothing since but $2.55, and his wife about $5. That is one hint of repentance and faith. God gave the man a wife as a help meet. Yes, to help a fellow to meet difficulties; to make old clothes wear longer; darn, mend, patch, turn, shift; to make victuals go further; multiply dishes out of the same weight and measure. Some say I drink too much coffee, and smoke too much. But of that anon. economize. What is econo my ?' 2t is a knowledge of our moans ani* r %e best method of employing them. " Saving is only a branch of economy. The miser saves, but does not reproduce. Economy teaches to make one value produce another. The miser doesn’t lose anything, but doesn’t gain on his first earning. He merely stops value. The spendthrift is less of a hindrance to reproduction than the miser. Though he consumes his values obtained, those exchanged to others may fall, and do, more quickly, into more productive hands. Reproduction from the miser has to wait till he’s dead. We have been the spendthrifts. We have spent more than we have produced. Our values reproduced haven’t equaled the values invested. These values are not lost, but exist in the shape of debts transferred to other hands—to the Northwest and North, They have prospered, and we have impoverished. In other words, the difference between our incomes and pur outlays is just the amount of our indebtedness,—inter est added, and adding. The thing is, just to come back, or go back, inside of our income, and so far as to leave a large margin for profits. At the beginning of the year, let us and our wives, two and two, hold a meeting, and estimate our probabilities and possibilities— oiSP probabilities of 20 bales of cotton, and 500 bushels corn, and set down, to go by, 10 or 12 bales and 300 bush els corn; and, estimated price of cot ton 14c., put down at B£c. —exactly what it cost you to make it in Harris, at 600 lbs. seed per acre. Buy not for fancy, but for use; not on impulse or whim, but of weighed necessity. Not because cheap, but useful. Don’t buy finery. The rich may, but you cannot. Imi tation has ruined thousands. The rich can have China. You go gran ite. These are the times Solomon saw, when he “ saw princes walking and servants on horseback.” Come into your income. Reduce your acreage and stock. Reduce your laborers, or change their terms. Improve your acreage. Change your culture, and rent for stated amount of full weight, measure, or money. Aboiish the pro rata system. Break feast by sunrise, or sooner. Dine at ll£, rest one or two hours, as by the season. Sieep half hour; Work and he busy till dark. Keep away from depots, stores, towns, cities, and courts. Pray 1,460 times, at least, in a year. Go to church every Sun day, if possible, and behave decently. Love your wives, and tell the truth always. " Boully, I’m not half done. I have a notion of getting your entire sheet for a week. You see, I have been hurried in this, and had to crowd it. Old Farm hr. Time for Holding Elections. FOB THE LEGISLATURE. The election for members of the legislature will be held on the first Wednesday, the 7th of October. 70S CONGRESS, The election for members of con gress will be held on Tuesday aftei the first Monday, the 3d day of No vember, FOR COUNTY OFFICERS. The election for county officers will be held on tbe first Wednesday, the 6lh of January. OPENING AND CLOSING OF POLLS. The polls will open at the court house at 7 in the morning, and close at oin the evening; and at the pre cincts at 8 in tbe morning, and close at 3 in the evening. GF* The Home Journal announces the discovery of an alligator’s nest in Houston county, and says nests have been found there with over 100 eggs. The negroes say each egg hatches two alligators. felT What is the key note of good *nr n j.r i *xmm i;j ,„ ~. . 4 Howto Discourage Your Minister. 1. Hear him, now and then. Drop in a little late. Do not sing; do not find the text in your Bibles. If you take a little sleep during the sermon so much the better. 2. Notice carefully any slip he makes while you are awake; poiqt out the dull portions to your chil dren and friends; it will come round to him. 3. Censure his efforts at usefulness; deplore his want of common sense; let him know that you won’t help him, because you did not stSrt the plan yourself. 4. Let him know the follies and sins of his hearers. Show him how much he overrates them, and tell him their adverse criticism on him self. 5. Tell him when he calls; wlittt a stranger he is; how his predecessor used to drop iu for half an hour’s chat, and how you liked him. 6. Never attend the prayer-meet ings; frequent no special service. Why should you be righteous over much ? 7. Occasionally got up a little gaiety for the young folks. This will be found very effectual about the common season, “ there is a time to dance.” 8. Give him no intimation when you are ili; of course he should know, and your offended dignity, when he comes to see you, will render his visit pleasant. On np account inti mate your recovery. 9. Require Lira to swell the pomp of every important occasion, unless, indeed, there are prudential reasons for passing him over. 10. If he is always in his own pul pit, clamor for a stranger; if he has public duties and sometimes goes abroad, complain that he ia never at home. 11. Keep down his income. Easy means are a sure temptation and fullness of bread is bad for every one but the laity. 12. As he will find it hard to be always running around, or among the people, and always well prepared for pulpit and platform, you will be sure to have just cause for complaint one way or the other. Tell it to every one and then lament that there is so general dissatisfaction with him. A Striking Illustration. A company of individuals united themselves together in a mutual ben efit society. The blacksmith conics and says— “ Gentlemen, I wish to become a member of your association.” “ Well, what can you do? ” “ Oh, I can shoe your horses, iron your carriages, and make all kinds of implements.” “Very well, come in, Mr. Black smith.” The mason applies for admission into the society. “ And what can yon do, sir ? ” “O, I can build your barns and houses, stables and bridges.” “ Very well, come in—we Can’t do without you.” Along comes the shoemaker, and says— “ I wish to become a member of your society.” “ Well, what can you do? " “ I can make boots and shoes for yon.” “ Como in, Mr. Shoemaker, wc must have you.” So, in turn, applied all the differ ent trades and professions, till lastly an individual comes and wants to be come a member. “ What are you ? ” “lama rumseller.” “ A rumseller! And what can you do?” “ I can build jails, and prisons and poor-houses.” “ Arid is that all ? ” “No; I can fill them; I can fill your jails with criminals, your pris ons with convicts, and your poor houses with paupers.” “And what else can you do ? ” “ I can bring the gray hairs of tbe aged to the grave with sorrow, I can i break the heart of the wife, and blast the prospect of the friends of talent, and fill your land with more than tbe plagues of Egypt.” “ Is that all you can do ? ” “ Good heavens! ” cries the rnm seller, “ Is not that enough ? ” ■^i■ mm BST Leisure is sweet to those who have earned it, hut burdensome to those who get it for nothing, Wc open tho hearts of others $2.00 A YEAR. WIT and HUMOR; “ Death is a sad thing,” remarked a Schenectady Woman, as she stood beside an open grave. “Yes, poof thing,” replied another “how he did like to sit down to a good biled din ner where the pork was just right.” The only thing that it bothers a grasshopper to swallow is a four legged table. A well developed hop per can worry it down, but the legA tickle his throats A party of young men were out serenading a few nights since. They sat on the pavement, which had been recently paved with a tar solution. Next morning the rear of six pair of pants dotted the walk, and music is heard no more around that cottage; The editor of a country paper having received a bank-note detector, returns thanks, hd modestly asks for some bank-notes upon which t<s test its accuraoy. Some time ago a farmer in Vir ginia lost his wife and out of love for her memory called his estate “ Glcn mary.” A neighbor having met with the same affliction, and equally desirous of keeping before him the image of his dear departed, followed his example, and his farm is known by the name of “ Glenbetfiy.” A Wilksbarre rat met with a sin gular death the other day. He en tered a kitchen and went to a bas ket of clams. Selecting one be started to take it off. The clam shut down on him, and he sqnealed, whereupon the cook came and slew the unfortu nate rodent with a champagne bottle. The difference between persever ance and obstinacy, is that one often comes from a strong wjll, and the other from a strong won’t. It is nothing fdr Arizona girls to own 6,000 cattle and 10,000 sheep; but pause, young man. She stumps around bare-footed, Bpits throtigh her teeth, and plays a “lone” hand of euchre. A noted hunter of Sotith Beni fears that he has been the victim of a “ sell.” He has a gun that soatters shot badly, so that it is not of much account. A while ago, he saw an advertisement In a city paper offer ing to send information whereby such “scattering” of shot could be effec tually prevented, on receipt of fifty cents. He sent )he money, and in due time was informed that to pre vent his gun from “ scattering,” he should “ put in only one shot.” “What are you writing such tC big hand for/ Pat?” “Why, you see my grandmother is dafe, and I’M writing a loud letter to her.” A parting at a Chicago railroad depot: “Do not forget me or cease to love me,” murmured the husband. “Never, never,” sobbed the wife," and she pulled out her handkerchief and tied a knot in it, that she might remember. A country boy, having beard of sailors heaving up anchors, wanted to know if it was sea-sickness that made them do it. " O'* “Pat, do you understand French ? 11 “ Yiss, if it's spoke in Irish.” Advertising for a wife is about a# absurd as getting measured for an umbrella. Moses, of Carolina, having been spoken of as a gambler, the Providence Press says it always had a suspicion that, like Moses of old, he was brought up by one of the Far® family. . . At High Falls, Netf York, thd other day, a young lady, while cross ing a field, iknocked down by a ram, and the next time the damaged dartfsel saw her lover she informed that astonished youth that he might .go about about his business, as eh# was disgusted with the sex. Somebody advertises a preparation for keeping a lady’s hands free from ehaps. A report ihat sbri has' no money would do the same thing. A Kansas lady writing of a grass hopper visitation in Marshal county, says: “Next day the cornfields looked like plantations of bayonets. They ate tho tops of vegetables, then the root, leaving a hole in the ground. In the absence of other frnit, we had counting greatly on tho peaches i the trees are stripped, only tbe stone# left hanging on by tile stems. “Well, papa,” aa'd little Tommy, running into the house one day. “ I like to have sold my pig jhst now I ” “ Why, bow’s that, my son ? ” “Well, I asked a man if he didn’t want to buy him and he said “ No;” if he’d just said “Yes,” I would have' —i -j ajAi. „