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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. | v i 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 Ur E Van f J. ood , of , R |ti - - > . hlnk , f of ™ . ltm S h,s H „ “' iUon 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.