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THE HAMILTON JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY.
VOL. XIV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Whiskey is used for all the ills that
flesh is heir to, but from Raleigh to
“and tad
breath.
Mad negroes is one of the prod
nets of freedom, and mad dogs one
of its bi products. This is a truth
that while it may not teach a moral,
may adorn a tale.
Senator -----77— Logan dtdnt get to , be
Vice President, but his mansion m
Washington, bought on long time for
$20,000 is said to have doubled m
-"Value ' before the notes have become
due.
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The Atlanta Constitution has sixty .
patrons in the asylum at Milledgeville,
but it must not be inferred from this
that all the ctanks who read this esti
mable paper are under treatment
here
We hope it will give no two legged
canine the rabies to suggest that this
is an opportune time to agitate a dog
tax. It is the worthless half starved
cjr, not worth a dollar tax, that al¬
ways runs mad.
When a Montana-blizzard makes a
vigorous sweep for the sunny south
and is induced by our balmy south
winds to change its course and sweep
over into the Atlantic, by way of
Virginia, Pennsylvania and New
York we are disposed to believe the
backbone of the winter is broken.
Col. Thomas A. Edison—we dub
him colonel since he has* passed
through Georgia—spent Friday night
in Atlanta. He is the greatest in
ventor of the age and was on his
vvay to Florida with his bride, where
he will spend the winter. He is at
work on a cotton picker, which is the
greatest need o‘f the south.
A number of tobacco loving pro
hibitionists have suggested that our
article last we etc on the tobacco hab
it was untimely. If our people waste
an average of $12 per head annually
on tobacco, any effort to reduce this
average ought to be timely. But we
don’t expect encouragement at once
from all tobacco users, however just
the grounds for our crusade.
The placing of a line of steamers
to make regular trips from from Tam
pa Florida, to Havannah, Cuba,
will do much to encourage trade with
this wonderful island. It is possible
to go and return from here to Cuba
inside of a week and as soon as the
line of steamers becomes properly
advertised, excursions to Cuba must .
become the rage. What say the
members of the Georgia press to isle an |
excursion to the revolutionary
from Macon in May.
old geographies used to a ’ ls
The Cl.
that ait the people of the globe o
every thirty-three years, but this the¬
ory is entirely upset by the pension
bureau statistics of this government.
About twelve thousand bachelor and
monogamous soldiers engaged in the
war of 1S12, yet they have now, 74
Years after the fracas began, about
18 000 surviving widows. It is esti¬
mated that of the rail! on union sol
JOSEPH L. DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
diers mustered out of service about
about million ....
twenty one years ago, a
and a half are now clamoring for
pensions.
The writ, once know Two ^ negro
one room cab,n and were currently
reported to share jointly the w>Wy
attectmns of the same woman, who
acknowledged one of them as hits
band - In New York a tint now be
R re ll ; e courts has d ? v ' °b ed a C1SC
a,most „ the reverse of this, where a
man lived in a house dividing h.s
fections between h.s wife and a
younger woman, the wife making no
serious protest un it alter
years, when her husbands affections
became totally estranged. other Then she
brought suit again.-t the woman
for damages, estimating her loss at
$25,000. Verily this big world has
some curious folks living in it.
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pdward Atkinson "the in a recent
dress before teachers of Boston
a( ] vocat ed object 1 essons. He illus
^ ra j :e( j py taking the tablecloth before
assuming lhat it was not wholly
]i nen an d treating it as his favorite
cotton. r 1 ,v, hen , he went . tc , show t how 1
mth“lshion- be ma ' le faSCina “ nS
As T 1 tak * , h )It . ! of one ent , 0 , th< ..
nead of which composed I find :
I it is
that the ot * 1 f 1 cnci ls ^eld by an Arj an
historic ^°[ nan ’ time, m the perhaps ccntre °[. t.ie Abia one ’ m who V\ Q '
first gathered the fleecy cotton from
the boi1 ’ an< * twlstin h r 11 hngers,
discovered that she could make a
thread; then holding, biting it by
the middle with her teeth, and bring
bl g l ^ e two ends together, as you
a nd I can do to day with a.bit of cot
t° n > she made the hist twisted com
f ,nat ' vas ever s P un * ^nd as w p
low down the strand and untwist it
we binc ^ m M s convolutions the wno.e
of human history, and aunost all Lie
sciences. \\ hat is tne cotton . I he
wing of a seed. Here is a glimpse
botany. \\ here docs it grow? Chief
|y the southern states. Why does
it grow there ? Because the soil is
filled with minute shehs, yielding up
fertility in abundant measure. A
glimpse of geology. It grows them,
aFo, because the great backbone of
the Atlantic section, the Aheghany
drain, catches the moisture which
conies in with the gult stream, and j
sends it down in showers, seldom in ,
heavy rains, to nourish the plant.
Here is a bit of physical geogiap.iy.
VYhat has been its history? 1 he his
tory of slaveiy, now the history of
freedom. How can we observe its
progress? In a seven-days’ journey
f rom the place where I now stand,
down to the heart of the Alleghany
mountain, we can study the history
of the cotton manufacture way back
to pre historic t mes; for there, in the
centre of these mountain valleys,
the inhabitants are clad in
home spun and hand-woven goods
made on rude machines exact¬
ly like those pictured upon the walls
of Babylon and on the pyramids of
Egypt, and now also in use in China,
Africa and South America.
If you feel a fullness about your
stomach after dinner take a teaspoon¬
ful of Hood’s Eureka. It gives
mediate relief.
HAMILTON, GA„ MARCH 2,1886.
LABOR QUESTION.
Since the world began, or as far
back as history reaches, there has
always been a cry for better farm la
£ T p£
J o" £ h ™"» theTast^re ** *P 1
as C labir seq uence liable
Skilled neaHya'ways { comman,Is
“ d ‘ rfce and j f
era]1 ' arc unal ,, e t0 [
Tben in n0 bllsiness s t s0
to climb as in farming especially ;/ at
(he sout|) The | aborerwho ’ nol
afraid of work who bo sses himsc]f
an d is not an eye 3 senrer when work
; B for ' who has fo, judgme ° , n
-
e h to a hcad wkh work
, 1 ■ °" • fot <•
“ ,’ S a / ran S*ng
ln ,u; cs TTrT. , c0 ur ? l ,n g
... er po |v i ica a at is, . is no going to
work long for wages. If he has am-
1 ,0 .? aiu e nlan W1 s ls
P°‘ ‘be one who , works , without . boss
"' s ' he 1S not ,on S ,n fi ndingan open
lhat . b thai astaad
!"S P rom,s es e “ <r ’ -
ing wages contract. , t Land , is too
cheap and supply merchants too sus¬
ceptible for a man willing and able
to work, long to remain without a
farm of his own. The promises*of ‘
, r . , r .
but geneVally™a.ed wages ate'soTow
that the young man concludes quite
naturally that “nothing venture,noth
lng gain,” and assumes the risk.
The cry against the inefficiency of
negro labor, so loudly voieed by Gov
Smith and Professor White at the
Ute agricultural convention, is quite
natura j f rom ex-slave owners and the
negro> j t j s admitted on all sides,does
not work now as ne was made to
wor k w h e n a s’ave. But there are
nian y successful farmers throughout
this section who contend that there is
now more money in working freed
men than there was in working slaves,
vv |,j| c there are many others, who,
w hile they do not go this far, hold
t j iat ne g ro help is far cheaper than
an y A ,hite help they can get. If there
was that dissatisfaction with the negro
that these gentlemen indicate,
W ggtern emigrant agent would meet
w j t h a heirty reception here, but on
j_h e contrary he is much more tlior
oug hly hated than the Mormon mis
s j onar y j and in many rural districts
wou ;j he lynched by the men who
WO uld be perfectly content with a
coa ^ Q p ^ ar an( ] feathers for the mis
s i onar y
-|>[ ie w j 1Q ] c truth is that the negro
j s a more desirable farm laborer than
Chinese or foreigners,and where
j le j s treated honorably and fairly he
p roves himself so.
CHIPLEY NOTES.
Mr. Willard Harmon was in town
Sunday.
Miss Ruth Allen went to Colum¬
bus to-day.
Messrs George and Eddie Pearce
visited their father last week.
Mr. W. D. Wisdom has gone into
the country to spend a few days with
home folks.
Mr. Hutch Hutchinson, of La
Grange, was in Chipley Sunday visit¬
ing relatives.
Mr. T. P. Hutchinson has just re¬
turned from a short visit to his sister
^ uskegee, Ala.
The Y. M. C. A. met promptly at
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
3 o’clock Sunday evening. Quite a
large crowd was present.
Judge A. A. Allen of this place
will deliver a temperance lecture at
“ »"»*«> “>'
** «. Gillespie, an accon,
ffil w'^sL° Tce Hournoy, 'f’ 1 of '?
this pla«t
Mr. Hill of this place was married
to Miss Cannon, of Salem Ala., at
lhe reslden “ of tl,e b " de s father ' a !
loa ; m ,- lu « da , y- 'bey returned
to he Chipley on the five o'clock tram
sat « eda y- our best wishes
be with them.
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MOUNTAIN HILL MENTION.
School is in progress with a full
attendance.
Rev. Mr. Bell preached at Smyrna
church last Sunday.
A shoe and a blacksmith shop will
be added to our burg soon.
The bird season is drawing to a
close and with it the inimitable sport
of many bird hunters.
An alarming number of tons of
guano was hauled from Cataula and
other points last week.
The negro Baptists have founded
a church north of Mountain Hill. It
is called Rocky Mount.
The bicycle wave has reached this
part of the country. Several of the
boys anticipate having one before
spring.
Farmers are busy preparing their
lands for another crop. A larger area
of fresh land than heretofore will be
planted.
The “masked party” is booked for
Monday night at Mr. Amos Smith’s,
The young folks anticipate a pleas¬
ant evening. W ILL.
A doctor in Nashville gave the fol¬
lowing prescription for sick lady, suf¬
fering from neuralgia: “A new bon¬
net, a cashmere shawl, a pair of gait
er boots, and a bottle of Salvation
Oil.” 'l he lady recovered immediate¬
ly, and earnestly recommends the
Salvation Oil to every one. It is
sold at all drug stores for 25 cents a
bottle.
Jordan’s Joyous Julep will cure the
worst case of Neuralgia and nervous
Headache.
Hood’s Eureka ought to be in ev
ery household in the land, It is par
excellence.
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Jordan’s Joyous Julep has no equal
on earth for the immediate relief of
pam.
Jordan’s Joyous Julep, the only
infallible cure for Neuralgia and Ner¬
vous Headache. Sold by all druggists.
Hood’s Eureka is far superior ot
all other Liver medicines now in the
market.
Jordan’s Joyous Julep, the only
infallible cure for Neuralgia and ner¬
vous headache, P’or sale by all
druggists.
We guarantee every bottle of
Hood’s Eureka to give entire satis¬
faction.
NO. 17.