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THE HAMILTON JOURNAL.
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PUBLISHED lY.
VOL. XIII.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Mr. Carlisle it is thought will be
elected speaker without opposition.
YVe hope this means tariff reform,
and a heap of it.
Logan and Sherman are the con
testants for the presidency of the
.senate, with the chances in favor ol
Edmunds as the dark horse.
The Central railroad directors at
their meeting in Savannah yesterday
declared a dividend of two per cent,
upon the earnings of the road for the
past six L.^.iths.
The Meriwether Vindicator has
not been received at this office for
two weeks. It takes brother Revill
a long while to recover from his
thanksgiving dinner.
The steamer Ellis, plying the river
between Columbus and Wednesday, Appalachi
cola, sank on an up trip The
at a point below Chattahoochee.
particulars have not been learned.
The Columbus & Rgme road is
the best feeder Columbus has. It has
carried 10,069 bales of cotton tc the
city this season—-just two thirds of
what all the other railroads running
into the city have done.
In Muscogee Superior Court Tues¬
day a verdict for $5,000 was render¬
ed against tire C. & R- railroad, m
favor of Fer&urson, the father of the
little girl who was hurt on the turn¬
table of the road some months ago.
Judge McCay, of the United States
district court has temporarily enjoined
the Ordinary ot Fulton from declar¬
ing the vote on the prohibition elec¬
tion and will hear final argument next
Tuesday for a perpetual injunction.
Julius L. Brown, Albert Cox, Hon.
Willis Hawkins and other prominent
lawyers appear for the bar keepers.
Col. Tom C. Howard, who during
the administration of Governor Col¬
quitt, was the secretary of the cliiet
executive, has resigned his agricultural position
in the office of the state
department, which he has held for
several years, for the purpose of ac¬
cepting the position of secretary to
Senator Colquitt, and will leave for
Washington in a few days. Capt.
John W. Murphey has been appoint¬
ed to succeed Colonel Howard.—At¬
lanta Constitution.
The appointment of Mr. James I.
Giddings to be postmaster at Tal¬
botton, is one of the best that could
have been made. He is a Christian
gentleman whom to know is to love,
with a fine business training that will
enable him to make a model officer.
Under the fine ability of Bose Be
thune the office has been brought up
to a very high standard of excellence
which will be maintained under the
new incumbent. Hon. H. R. Harris
pas done himself credit in this ap
v pointment.
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The Atlanta prohibitionists have
faith in Atlanta’s future and turned a
meeting last week into a citizen’s
meeting and made liberal subscrip
tionstothe Georgia Midland. A
call was made for anothet meeting
Monday night but it was postponed
JOSEPH L. DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
upon the receipt of information from
President Jordan stating that the
Midland directors were not now in a
position 10 consider a proposition terminus. to
make Atlanta the northern
The Constitution says that fifty thou*;,
and dollars was practically raised. It
is our opinion that if the road is built
A.lanta will be the terminus.
“The Journal is a better newspa
per than any ot these country papers
aroun( j here,” commented an admirer
at p 0St 0 ffi cc Tuesday evening as
he waited for the mail. “It’s better
t han the West Point, the LaGrange,
the Greenville or the Talbotton pa
pers, but I’m sorter by it like Alf.
Teel was by his old 'oman. There
was several gals m the Teel family—
Alf married a Teel—and he used to
say, when he was about half boozy:
* I married the flower of the flock,but
I didn’t do great shakes at that. t )}
no
And our friend quietly folded hjs re¬
ceipt for a year’s subscription to the
WeeklyConsitution,as the boys smiled.
At the recent session of the North
Georgia Conference the following ap¬
pointments were made for the La
Grange District: J. F. Mixon, pre¬
siding elder; LaGrange, George E.
Gardner; West Point, A.\V.Williams;
Troup circuit, W P. Sweet; Houston,
R. W. Rogers; Hogansviile, D. D.
Cox; Whitesville, W. T. Bell; Green¬
ville and Trinity,W. P. Rivers ;North
Meriwether circuit, W. J. Wood;
Meriwether, S. D. Clements; Grant
ville, H. S. Bradley; Franklin, W. D.
Heath ; Burden, J. N. Myers; Roop
ville, W. W. Braswell, to be supplied
by W. T< Davenport; missionary to
China, Y. G. Allen; LaGrange Fe¬
male College, P. A. Head, professor.
“ Half the men in the world,” says
the New York Herald, “are broken
down with dyspepsia and the other
half are broken up with rheumatism.
The women who are not supposed to
have any muscles, indulge in the lux¬
uries of sick headache and neuralgia.
A half hour’s vigorous exercise in the
morning before the business ot the day
begins, a brisk walk of a dozen miles,
would sweeten the temper and make
life worth living. Such is our physical
condition however, that if you should
turn the gentlemen of Wall Streetinto
a gymnasium for an hour’s torture
with the paralell bars and fifty pound
dumb bells and the inspiring trapeze,
you would have to pick them up from
the floor like chestnuts under a tree
after a gale of wind. Our clerks and
their employers also, after a three
hour’s trot on a hard road, with a leap
here and there over a fence or ditch,
would have to be brought home in
furniture wagons and a large propor
tion of them deposited at the under
taker’s.”
WAYSIDE MUSINGS.
With the cry of hard times that
comes from every quarter of the globe
almost, the man who finds himself in
«!"» \ sl « h, 'y bet,er conduion finan
cially than he was last Christmas
ought to be content. The trouble is
few are in as good a condition, and it
arises from the fact that few were con
tent to work for small gams. All want
ed to do something big, because they
felt as everybody said that the era of
trade depression was about over and
HAMILTON, GA„ DECEMBER 4,1885.
prices of farm produce, ’specially cot¬
ton, would be high this winter. But
too much was done, the crops are too
big, and the consequence is profits
are meagre, where there are profits.
N f ow, I hold that any man may bet
ter his condition and grow rich if he
wilPwork and wait. Proper economy
on the farm, diligent attention to its
demands an 5 patient prosperity perseverance are
just as sure to bring to the
farmer, as that he has rain and sun
shine. In no place does haste make
waste as it does on a farm. But for
his haste the average farmer would
grow more of the necessaries and
luxuries of life on his farm and less
of cotton.
All editors write against cotton and
all farmers admit that less cotton
would be better, but the farmer gener
ally urges that owing to the peculiar
circumstances in which he is placed
he is obliged to plant largely of a 1
money crop, as he calls cotton, Ad
raitting that he must plant more
largely of cotton now than he would
wish, let us insist that he work always
with a view toward bringing circum¬
stances under his control. |
Individual prosperity prosperity. is the prime
factor of general If all
the units of society are but modeHte
ly prosperous, the general prosperity cleari
must be very great. That was a
city when every man kept his own
premises free from filth and that will
be an eminently prosperous commu
•.riiy when every man meets ms own
obligations. —-
The man who starts out at twenty,
saves one hundred dollars a year and
keeps it safely invested in substantial
paying property, will have more than
the average citizen ot this county
when he is 22, will be in comfortable
circumstances at 30, will be able to
support a family from the income of
his property at 40, and will be one of
the most substantial citizens of the
county at 50. The hurry to do some
thing big keeps us all with our noses
at the grindstone. !
Cotton at 8£ cents is higher com- 1
paratively than almost anything else ,
that we buy. A pound buys now one
and a half pounds of meat, nearly a
peck of corn or potatoes, a pound of ;
good sugar, or three quarters of a
pound of coffee. It buys more of {
dry goods, shoes or hardware than
ever before and the profit, if there is
one, goes farther as a purchasing
agent than ever before. Still it takes
nearly a cent and a half a pound to
get it picked and half a cent a pound
to gin and pack and market it. It is a
very good crop to represent the net
profits of a farm,but only good for this
when economically grown,
Interestinsr to ^ ot a ____ e
.
Any man or woman making less
than $40 weekly should try our easy
money-making business. We want
Agents for our celebrated Madame
Dean’s Spinal Supporting Corsets;
also, our Spinal Supporter, Shoulder
Brace, and Abdominal Protector
Combined (for men and Boys). No
experience required. Four orders
per day give the Agents report four
to twenty sales daily. $3 outfit free.
Send at once for full particulars.
State sex. Lewis Schiele & Co., 390
Broadway, New York.
* ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
If it is in your mind to make your
wife a present in the shape of a suit
of furniture or anything in the way of
furniture you will find just what you
want at the furniture rooms of H. A.
Gibson, on Upper Broad Street, Col¬
umbus, Ga. He has an immense
variety to suit all tastes and the prices
he puts on his goods are just suited
to the hard times. To accommodate
his large display three large store
rooms are required, besides a base
ment and upper story. You will find
in the stock anything from a baby
carriage to a the stylish parlor suit, ana
you will find terms as good a*
you can make anywhere. A large
buyer, as Mr. Gibson is, gets the low
est rates, so that nobody is able to
undersell* him. Remember the place
and call on him.
CHIPLEY NOTES.
Prof. S. W. Rogers went to Ham*
ilton Tuesday.
Dr. J. M. Glass went to Columbus
Monday on business.
Major R. H. Bulloch spent Satur¬
day and Sunday in Columbus.
Miss Minnie Jackson, quite an *c
complished lady, of West Point, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. L. L. Hardy,
We are proud to inform the public
that there will be no opposition to
the dry ticket for councilmen at this
place.
Miss p e ttie Hardy, who has been
v i s iti n g friends in West Point, has re
turned home, much to the delight of
the community.
Mr. J. H. Hogan has been in bed
all the week. We are glad to know
that he is not serious and he will be
down town in a few days.
The Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation . . met Sunday „ eve at the , church,
Owing to the very bad weather, but
m attendance. We want it
generally understood that not only
y®“ n g men wanted but everybody
is invited. The doors are open to
all We would be proud indeed to
have the ladies attend. It would
make us work better.
Messrs G. A. I Joe McGee _
ierce,
and Miss h anme McKigney, our pop
ular hotel mistress,are visiting Mr.G. s
father. They will witness on Thurs
day eve the marriage of Miss Anna
Peaice. Mis.* Anna made Chipley a
visit a short time ago, and made hosts
of friends while here who wish that
her pathway might be strewn with
flowers of rarest fragrance,
The reading club met at Dr. Pur
se ll's Monday night and we had the
largest crowd yet. A great many old
people were present. Major Bullock
gave us an interesting talk. The club
has now about ninety members. We
are glad to see the enthusiasm that
the young people have in regard to it.
it promises a grand success. And in
a f cw mon ths we will have a club of
which any town would do wcll tQ
boast. We are few in number at
(Ripley, but we have some good
workers.
m*
If you feel a fullness about your
stomach after dinner take a teaspoon¬
ful of Hood’s Eureka. It gives im¬
mediate relief.
Jordan’s Joyous Julep will cure the
worst case of Neuralgia and nervous
Headache.
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