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THE HAMILTON JouRNAL.
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4 « PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY.
VOL. XIV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
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It will not be five years before Co¬
lumbus has railroad connection with
Lumpkin if her business men are as
wide awake as we think they are.
It will now be in -1 for the
Knights, of Labor to n use
of flour made from wheat harvested
with the McCormick machines. Let
the boycott proceed.
Grubb, the Darien Gazette, .
of is
advocating Bacon for Governor. \\ e
suppose OaLville he would want Ham, of the
press, to be private
tary to the Governor, while he would
be comptroller general.
Mr. Hewitt thinks the government
would be doing a risky business to
try to get ai c ng with a surplus inner
treasury of o nly one hundred million
dollars. In connection with a tax
burdened people, we would be happy
to see the experiment tried.
The „ Macon Telegraph ,,, , has found . ,
U.necessary to add a new printing
press to accommodate us growing
patronage. It is one of me always
readable papers, whether you cn
dorse its views or not and we
glat, to no.e its prosper, y.
A Chicago preacher ha, appointed
a committee of. hrs church
to pray for Messrs Jones and Small
that f hev may see the sinfulness of
he tobacco habit and turn from lire
error of it In the meantime he will
Ktve meetings™ them hi* hearty support in their
s
The McCormick reaper works,
closed some days ago because of a
difference with the hands, are still at
* standstill, one thousand laborers
being out of employment. Yesterday
the Chicago police with much
cultw protected the men in charge
the Idle machinery from the wrathy
strikers.
Mr. Eugene Speer, a well known
Georgia journalist, has received a
$2,100 department clerkship at
Washington.. He deserves this good
fortune and will serve the govern
ment with credit. We are glad to
know that his gossipy letters from the
national capitol, models of their kind,
are to be continued to the sprightly
Atlanta Capitol. '
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Our fnen l Revil speaks in Uie
kindliest terms of Hon. A. O. La
con and his laudab.e aspirations but
thinks the gen le ran from B bb is
the party who should step a^ide it he
thinks the gubernatorial race trac*t
too much crowded. Evidently cu.
esteemed friend would rather pan
with all his rheumatic pains than to
part with one political hope.
Eatonton is organizing a stock
company to build a $15,000 hotel.
T his is one of the needs of Hatnil
ton and there ought a to be enterprise
enough here to build and furnish a
possibility to accommodate the peo¬
ple who have desired to summer here
and it would take a large hotel to fill
the bill.
The present session of Congress
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
promises to lie the most expensive
ever assembled. There is a large
balance now in the public treasury,
i but this will hardly be the case when
1 our lav givers come home next sum
! mer and we fear not a very large
1 portion will be used in the payment
of the bonded debt ot the govern¬
ment.
J barrel of flour be shipped by
A can
boat from Columbus to Bainbrulge
for 5 cents and other freights at pro
portionate rates. Ought there not
be a law forbidding corporations inch- to
fight as there is one forbidding
V i dua i s ? Is this not an “assault
w ith intent to kill” made by the Cen
tral line of boats upon the People’s
line and ought not society to protect
itself against such " murders.”
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With our fat ms all terraced so as
, 0 s , 0 p a p leaching and washing, thc
farmers of this section cannot tail to
become wealthy. A bale of cotton
per acre exhausts the land less ol its
plant food, if the seed or the seed
nca) be returne(1 . ,b an five bushels
^ acre wouU A wagon load
f , c ves wou ld more than supply
^ Under suc h cucmslan
, must become richer and
ricHer eve ,y year. The land level is
the last, best hope of the country
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read , , before f •
In a paper a meeting
of the department of superrntendence
of national edneatton tn session in
Washington Wednesday, b. F. Huger
of North Carolina took the ground much
that the negro is not now as
interested m education as he was
immediately after the war I his has
not been noted in this state as the
school attendance of colored children
in Georgia has increased every year
in the last decade If the whites of
the south were willing to make half
the sacrifices to the cause of educa
tion that the blacks do, ours would in
a short while the best educated peo
pie on the globe.
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Columbus has received to date this
season 8o,i 23 bales of cotton,’ 14,404
G f w hich are credited to the Colum
b us & Rome railroad. At $40 a bale,
our }j u i e roat i it will be seen has con
t ,ibuted just $576,160 m one item to
swell the trade of tne Queen City of
the Chattahoochee. All the other
r o a <’ s running to into the city have
5rought t0 j t j U s t 10,000 bales more
tban tb is fifty mile narrow guage, be
causc t h ey a n have other outlets,
w bj c fi j s a f ac t that^hould teach Co
j ara bus a lesson, if she will build
b fty miles of the Georgia Midland
an( ^ stQ p j t w in benefit her more than
it WQuld {Q build an air line to New
York.
The Blair educational bill ought to
become a law. It should receive the
hearty support of every southern sen
ator or representative because it will
much needed
general government, which made full
fledged citizens of four millions of ig
norant slaves,should do something to¬
ward their education. The bill is
founded upon principles of equitv
HAMILTON, GA„ FEBRUARY
, and we can but think the southerner
, who opposes it is about as unpatriotic
I as we believe its northern opponent
to be, and both seem to us to be
seeking cheap notoriety at the ex
' pense of an honest reputation.
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THE TOBACCO HABIT.
A Chicago woman has pitched into
Sam Small in a most lively manner
an j s0 far as vve arc able to judge
has thc best of our Sam ]f ourotli
; er Sam t j 0 es not j uirry l0 his help we
fear the harvest at Chicago will not
match the Cincinnati harvest. Sam
Small is addicted to the use of tobac
co, a useless .filthy and pernicious
habit, upon which his assailant says
the United States spend annually
$6o0)000 ,ooo. Sam says in defence
that he will give up the habit if it can
be shown that tobacco has kept one
soul out of heaven. Sam ought nev
er to take up another collection lor
missions, or for orphans homes, or lor
church purposes if he admits that
this vast sum wasted annually on to
bacco would not serve to convert
souls if issailant put to a better use.
His shows, and her fig.
»res approximate the truth, that our
people Ihey spend more for tobacco than
do for bread, Thkt or meat, or shoes,
or clothing. whiskey is the
only single Hem upon which more
Sachas
^ lhree times as much a.
all the ’ cotton 6 goods, nearly L four
tto.es as much , as t , he sugar and m mo
lasses, and more than seven t nes a
much as all the public schools and
colleges of the 'and. ... Mr
W hile the letter written by
Smalls lady gallant bristles with
facts stated in a Sam Jonesy sly e, t
contains much food for though
Preachers can gam nothing by
sermonizing on the evils dancing and
card playing, while they roll uu er
their tongue the sweet tobacco or
scl. II dancing rs an evH, n is not a
greater one tnan the tobacco evil,add
the money-wasted on tobacco in a
year would supply the means to make
progressive euchre interesting lor a
century. «
1,1 us,n g tooacco ^ our two * anas
set a baa example which we iope
they will give up. 11 ma es lem
110 i u adlls nolhin ^ r t0 tne S °*
r y of God.
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THE MASS-MEETING.
The temperance mass-meeting next
p U p S( ] a y a t the court house promises
to be an interesting occasion. Kve
ryb x ly i s cordially invited, and asked
^ manifest an interest in the temper
ance ca ., se by being present. The
exerc ; ses be opened promptly at
JQ q’cJqcJj w -;th prayer, ind will pro
cee( j j n tbe order laid down in the
f 0 ^ ow i ng program:
Address of welcome-Cordia Brooks
Song— “Shun the Broad Road.”
Speech—Mr. A. A. Allen.
Song—“Where & is My Wandering
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Boy To-night? .....
Essay— V yw n.
Song-“J 1— ”
Speech—Mr. Robert Carter.
Song—“On to the Conquest.”
Speech—Rev. W. D. McGregor.
Song—“Sign the Pledge Now.”
Hood’s Eureka is a perfect faaU-
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
RESOLUTIONS
Passed by the Hamilton Baptist Church
on the Death of Deacon Sam’l McCants
Our merciful Father has, in his in
finite wisdom, moved from our midst
our esteemed brother and deacon,
-Samuel McCants, who died Decern
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McCants born . . ,, hair- .
roUer was m
! 4 - ield March 13th 1813,
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^ 01, ic<i a Co , ncord Bap ,s,t c l 1,m:h h (
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,n . 1!s 20th . year, ami w as baptised bv
Kk !? r Johnathan Davis. I le moved
to (, eoigia in 1833, and settled a
one tittle from Hamilton in
Hams county on which he was He¬
,n S «'me of his Death. He
un " ei1 " 1,h 118 A
)ear °J? aln '- f‘ ‘I’, 0 ?n "' , °" tC " Vf 5 L* . Cr r ,' e ."’V
0 2 ,r ° '.' A lers L'L 1IS WtW .' u °
, . vvas
mem er ° otu 1 lim u ', u v
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a fi °9 , m-™* a ) s a us pus lines
P' ovu ^ n u Y unieiei. c w.vs
plain and exem ? ary m deport
ment leaving a bright examp.e fo
lls
most useful members, which is prop
church sl ' ow record. " He “"S wx- foremost 1 in in
the most important• »ness of the
convictions,'' but gentle and
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mspec.ful to all, char.Uble
?' u le , T[’ .l "f’ 1 ?
husband kind father r and neighbor,
, a , name , which is
riches-an example wor
imitation. Jirother Me
Cams reared a large b family, -/ers all of
wh afc B „ an ( , mciu of the
B .J is( chu rcll
heref Resolved, That the
clu , rdl extend their Christian sympa
th y / to the bereaved family, and that
( ; fea1 Kl||er of (|ie UnlV crre and
(;iver of a „ good B sooth e and strength
them in , he , r hour of affliction,
and lhat s a church strive to
his exam , )Ie Ulc
rhat ,| le church has lost one of
tl)eir bes t members, but our loss is
bjs elerna | gaij) family be
We recommend that the
furn j s hed with a copy of these reso
j ut j ons> lba t the Christian Index and
am,Journal be requested to
p U bhsh them, and tliat they be spread
uJ)on |ljc m i nu . est) f the church.
Burt Cook, )
S. G. Riley, Com.
Willis Jokes, )
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and clever novel by Lily Curry,whom
Klla Wheeler Wilcox styles “the pret
tiest literary woman in New York. ’
deals in a trenchant, t,;risp, and spicy
way with life among New York’s lit*
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are well known personages, whose ec
vividly forth. . A .
centricities are set
rather peculiar love affair forms the
werful plot. The gift
ed O knows whereof she
writes, and her revelations cannot
fail to cause a deep sensation, and we
anticipate a large sale for it.
Iordan’s Joyous Julep will cure the
wars* case of Neuralgia and nervous
NO. 10.