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THE HAMILTON JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY.
VOL. XIII JOSEPH L.DENNIS, HAMILTON, GA.. DECEMBER 11,1885. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, NO. 58.
PROPRIETOR. STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Mr. James C. Crowder died at his
residence near Stinson Monday.
Dear Grovei:—Your message is
respectfully declined for publication.
It’s too long. We haven’t room for
it, and none of our friends time to
read it.
Commenting on the message of
the President, tile Columbus Enqui¬
rer commends it as worthy of a care¬
ful perusal and then declines to pub¬
lish half of it.
The Meriwether Vindicator has
been greatly enlarged and improved,
but owing to an accident to its new~
press it has resumed temporarily its
former dimensions.
Atlanta is getting 150 gallons a
minute of pure, cold water out of her
artesian well, with a pump, This
settles the whiskey question, The
saloons will be closed.
The Talbotton Opera House is now
finished and ready for business. It is
a building that is a credit to the en¬
terprising city in which it is built, and
will prove to be one ot its greatest
attractions.
“ Lfe is short and time is fleeting,
and this message has no end,” sang
the weary printer Tuesday night, as
he worked on the first annual com
munication to congress of our woithy
President.
The house of representatives took
& recess trora Wednesday morning
until Monday. It is presumed Tuesday the
members who sat up all ot
night reading the President s message
favored the recess.
Describing a man of certain ideas
concerning to education and educa¬
tional training, the Talbotton School
Journal, an educational publication
exclaims “You old hog!” Now, ain t
this too Sam Jonesey for anything ?
The President’s first message has
in it much food for thought, T h *
utterances ol any man upon
depends the tenure ot a hundred
thousand offices—mostly fat ones—
must have. It can oe taken, as we
aivfe our comment on it, in broken
doses.
„ \e T agree w *.« 1 PrpcMpnt in his
.
rce P° Sltl °” - Ag ofSv:r Government buying y,n ®
s wmth to makc
dollar that “ won’t ” circulate, when
an eightieth part of the amount will
buy paper enough to make one that
will. Paper dollars are held at a
premium in this vicinity.
Queen Christina, in an interview
on Friday with Premier Sagasta, ex¬
pressed her desire that his ^policy be
one of moderation rather than of
repression, and said she wished to
appeal to the chivalry of the people
in defence of the crown of her
daughter. As soon as the new Minis
trv is sworn, the Cortes will be con
voked to proclaim Mercedes Queen
and ratify the regency of Christina.
Yesterday morning when the
through freight on the Atlanta and
West Point road was going down a
grade near Long Cane, the train be
came uncoupled. The engineer
stopped the first section when the
other section ran up with such force
that the tender was jumped up into
the engine. The engineer was killed
instantly and the fireman perhaps fa
tally injured.
A good one has been told on Gen.
Toombs. He met a young friend
who was going to move to Atlanta.
“ What business will you embark in?”
asked the General. “ I have not de¬
cided as yet, but I will try to make
an honest living at something,” was
the reply. “ My young friend,’’spoke
up General Toombs, “you are going
to the right place to succeed,for there
will be no opprsition in the line.”—
Athens Banner.
Plowman asks a number of ques¬
tions that we believe the people of
the county would be glad to have an¬
swered and we tender the use of the
columns of the Journal for that pur¬
pose to any one in a position to do
so. In nearly every county that we
know, except Harris, annual and in
some semi-annual publication is
made officially of the receipts and dis¬
bursements of the treasury, and if
there is no general law requiring this
there ought to be. We believe the
affairs of the a5uaty awr economically
managed am! if is with no spirit of
censure that we call the attention to
the communication of Plowman. We
believe that our commissioners do
themselves greater injustice than
their constituents by failing to make
publication of their actions. The tax
in Talbot is $1.05 on the $100, while
in Harris it is but 80 cents.
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.
That the first message of President
Cleveland to Congress is a very able
document is not to be questioned. It
is rather long, but a message covering
the ground it does, could hardly be
otherwise. That it affords consola
tion to both the free trade and the
protection wings of the democracy,
"; a y^ s ^ pr ^°’ bu " c h,s cl ^^
t-is is an able document n is a
noticable feature that in every partic
ular the writer is in harmony with his
cabinet and, while he does not use
the words of his counsellers, he
cibly emphasises their ideas. Alto
-ether the document strengthens the
claim of the democracy that our
president is a remarkably honest,
straight °he forward, industrious,able man
and is contributing much to per
Petuate his party in office and benefit
the whole people. Long may he live
prosper,
SUCCESS A TEST.
Success is one of the very best tests
of merit. People always applaud the
successful, and while in this they may
sometimes err, there is generally good
sense in so doing. It was less of
superstition and more of business
sense than is generally supposed
prompted Rothschild the rounder ot the
house of to a opt as a
business maxim, “Have nothing to
These thoushl have been suggested
by the success attending that most
enterprising of Columbus merchants,
Mr. I. L Pollard. There is a pleasure
in buying of him that one does not
have in trading with less successful
men. In the first place he has a
trade that demands honest goods and
he knows that to keep that trade he
mtist supply that demand. And filled no
one can look through his well
stock and deny that he does it. Why,v
of sugars he has a dozen different
kinds and fully as many kinds of coffee,
all ranging in price from the lowest
to the best, and each fully guaranteed
to be what it is represented to be.
Adulterations of any kind Pollard
detests and he will not handle adulter¬
ated goods, but he recognizes his
demand for honest goods of different
grades, and this he tiies to meet,
His prices are always guaranteed to
be as low, quality.considered, as any
house in the city.
In making your Christmas purcha
ses you should not forget that his
stock comprises fresh candies, nuts,
raisins, dried fruits, and other fancy
groceries, which he handles in large
quantities, insuring the freshest goods
at the lowest price. Buy ot him and
will be disappointed. (
you not ,
But fancy groceries are with Mr.
Pollard a side issue. His store 1 & al
ways filled with staple grocery tfl up
plies for the farmer and to these he
calls especial attention. The best ar¬
ticle at the lowest price is his motto. |
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
The Temperance 1 Union meets to
. ,
nl k r 1 ‘
Last night was the coldest night
we have had this winter.
Oranges the show windows indi- .
in
cate the approach of Christmas.
Messrs B. C. Kimbrough and S.
R. Murphey visited Columbus yes
terday.
Ben Kimbrough and Ben Walton
went ducking shooting on the river
Tuesday.
The entertainments at the college
next week now form the topic ol
town talk.
()ak wood is $1.25 a cord at. Bu
e na Vista. In Hamilton it sells at
$ 2 a cord.
Nance's district in Muscogee is to
hold an electron on the fence ques
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frlends next s P r,n &
The Journal returns uncondition
al thanks for the conditional promise
ol a Christmas turkey.
Mrs. J. B. Mobley returned home
Wednesday from an extended visit to
her parents at Perote, Ala.
Dr. H. K. Stanford, of Waverly
Hall, was in town Tuesday night on
his way home from Augusta.
Capt J. B. Hastey, Rev. R. H.
Bullock and Mr. R. A. vVhite, of
Chipley, were in the city Wednesday.
„ 1. he of . lhe , _ 1
meeting emperance
Union at the residence ot Dr. Larnes
this evening should be largely at
tended.
The thermometer fell Wednesday
n jght from 70 to 30, which is about
^ i G f t y a tumble as we ever witness
about here.
A ve ry he avv rain fell throughout
^ couvty Wednesday morning about
The farmer whose store account is
still unpaid—and his name is legion
—is generally believed to be more
able than willing to pay.
The Texas pony seems to be gain¬
ing in popular favor. If you suc¬
ceed in breaking one without killing
him, he makes a very good worker.
Mr. Wallace Houston, of La
Grange, and Miss Genie Patillo,
were married at the residence of the
bride’s father in Whitesville district
yesterday.
There were several apple wagons
in town Wednesday, from “Georgia,
Carroll county,” as the young driver
put it. Ap ples were sold from them
at $1.00 a bushel.
Mr. R. A. White, of Chipley, has
killed this season 12 hogs that netted
about 2,600 lbs ol pork and says they
cost him almost nothing. He is a
good farmer.
Our inside pages have a fuller ac
count of the death of the vice pres
ident than we were able to give on
our home side. Although late, it will
bear reading.
The Talbotton School Journal is
q ie latest journalistic venture. It is
published by Messrs McLaughlin and
Ryd er) G f LeVert college, is devoted
to educational interests, and is a very
cre ditabie enterprise,
It is no unusual thing to see cot¬
ton wagons passing our window go
ing to Columbus, while others pass
S°mg >n opposite direction. It
5 / e ras “ 11 ”>• , !en ‘ lme "‘, was d,y '
ded , as to whether it is cheaper to
haul through than to pay the prevail
ing ra ji roac i rale .
We learn that after the first of
j anuar y the Southern Express Com
pany will have charge of the express
business on the Columbus & Rome
railroad. This will insure a consid¬
erable reduction in the charges on
small packages from or to points be
yond Columbus, and greater expedi
tion.
Hamilton, we venture to say, is
ahead of any town of its size in the
state in the magnitude of its trade in
bark horse collars. Thousands are
ty .
ma( e ln vicinity
which are brought here and sold to
cenls-in trade-bu! many
sel , for tifteen cenl s each. They are
shipped to wholesale dealers by our
merchants, sometimes m car load
lots, The material in them costs
the manufacturer nothing and their
manufacture turns into money much
time that might otherwise be wasted.
The bark horse collar industry should
be encouraged.
An ex Hamiltonian, in remitting
his subscription to the Journal takes
occasion to say the following encou r
aging words: “l see that prohibi
tion has been shaking the very ground
in Georgia, and am proud that the
organ ot Harris county added all
that it could to the convulsion. Har
ris county is a little behind : she still
Guilds f enccs i n a p art Q f the county.
'p ne j OURNAL was on the right side
in this also.
“ The Journal is made much more
valuable by its semi-weekly edition
an( j while you are taking more work
upon yourself at present, it must ul
timately increase yoor suhscnptioa
list.”
Hood's Eureka is a perfect fault
less family me licine, Try a bottle.