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THE HAMILTON JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY.
~”$61,. XIV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The esteemed , Atlanta . , Capitol •, ,
reaches this office about semi-weekly,
We wish their mailing clerk would
tri-daily tP send it.
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Georgia . congressional
The first
candidate and the first Georgia P®* c “
bloom came out last week.
aspirations may be nipped m the bud
by an untimely frost.
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The New York Star is one of the
most readable of the great New \ ork
dailies, is an earnest supporter of the
administration and is about the liven
est democratic paper we know. It
looks contented, happy and prosper
ous, and is a good thing to have
about the house.
The franchise of the Cambridge ,
Cuthbert & Columbus railroad was s
sold at public sale at Cuthbert on
the first Tuesday in this month and
was bought by Thomasville, Bain
bridge, Albany and Cuthbert parries,
for $27,500. It is thought the road
will be built if the Georgia Midland
is ever finished.
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It is given out that the state de
partment of agriculture has given out
100 bushels of goobers, to farmers
throughout the state. We have no
ticed a number of persons earing
them around the post-office, but up
to this writing havt found none in
our box. Has the Journal no friend
in the department.
President Cleveland appointed last
week to be Register of Deeds for the
District of Columbia, an office worth
$10,000 a year, a negro named Mat¬
thews, said to be a democrat. Our
great and good President has a head
of his own, although the democracy
just at this time seems to be without
this adjunct so necessary to a life of
usefulness.
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were added to the original biU by an
amendment by Senator Logan, for
,he purpose of erecting school bu,ld
ings in districts sparsely settled. If (
Georgia gets her full share, should
the bill become a law, our public
schools will be continued sir or eight
months m the year. We hope the
bouse will approve the bill.
THE LABOR STRIKES
The Knights of Labor is a grand
monopoly that is just beginning all to
show its strength and. may force
the capital of the country into an or
ganization besides which ail the other
organizations pale into insignficance.
Nothing is so prudent and wary as
capital, and it requires no prophet’s
eye to see that this almost universal
labor organization that seems to be
hardly less grasping than the corpo¬
rations it fights will force capital to
organize throughout the land for pro¬
tection. methods of
To illustrate the war¬
fare proposed by this giant labor or
cranization. we cite the trouble with
line in Texas. This
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
railroad has been boycotted to force
its compliance with terms proposed
by its employes. Connecting roads
hayc bceQ notificd nol t0 handle
heights consigned to the Mallory line
^ Knights of Labor in the employ
Q f these connecting lines decline to
handle all such freight. The effect
vcr y naturally be to bring the
roJl d t G terms, but such a forced set
tiement cannot be lasting. The offi
cerg an y corporation have a duty
to perform to their stock holders—
their masters—which must forever
t h e i r being dictated to by their
employes. The tail cannot wag the
head. So soon as the means can be
(j ev ised. to restore the natural order
things, to make the stock holders
instead of the employes piasters of
t } ie situation, just that soon must the
officers in charge rescind such arbi
trary settlement.
The very motto under which this
organization has grown so rapidly,
“the injury of one is the confcern of
all," must be the rallying cry of the
capitalists of the country. The in
centive of self protection will force
them to organize. As capital is scarcer
than labor, so its organization must
he stronger and more lasting than any
labor organization can possibly be.
Capital can await a settlement; labor
must be fed and clothed as it waits.
We favor a strike by the farmers,
If they will strike for higher wages
and boycott King Cotton, we see their no
reason why they cannot better
tondiiion smarthy. Will cbici Mas
ter Corn order the strike?
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BOYS AT COLLEGE.
Sam Jones, in a late sermon, spoke
some very plain truths in regard to
sending boys to college. He said he
would rather for his son to learn his
a b c’s in heaven than to read Latin
and Greek in the nether world. Real¬
ly every parent would prefer this, but
few act as if they would. If a parent
has an unruly child, usually he
sends him off to be trained, keeping
the less unruly children at home, so
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”. C omnanion»hip P P. KMfoat many J
^‘^ns’and f| , M daugS .
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YOUTH AND AGE.
The young man, allowed to think
and act for himself is generally a rad
ical. The old men with whom the
world has not gone radically wrong,
is a conservati ve. The one advo
cates change and is a devotee of the
new ; the other thinks the tendency
of the times is to evil, opposes all
change and when the dark river is
crossed, expects to rest in a world
that strikingly resembles the one he
lived in the good old time when
he was a boy. Youth believes in
nothing old; age believes in nothing
new. Youth pushes forward; age pulls
back. Youth would right the world
by making everything new; age would
right it by restoring old. Youth
tries new plans; age matures old pur
purposes.
HAMILTON, GA„ MARCH 9.1886.
CATAULA CHAT.
Another store is talked of in our
town.
Mr. Ed. Williams lost a fine mare
a few days ago.
Mr. Wm. Beers contemplates put
ting a new saw mill in motion a few
miles west of this soon.
Rev. this Mr. Page preaches for Reho
both year. His appointments
are for the first Sabbaths.
The weather continues variable,
being chiefly cloudy, cold and raw,
all out-door work is backward, as a
consequence.
The new pastor in charge of this
circuit, Rev. Dr. Leonard, is winning
golden opinions for himself, as an
able, earnest and zealous Christian
worker.
Mr. James D. Ely his a good
school one mile north of this. The
house was put up since Christmas.
Not having heard any name for the
new house we will call it for the pres
ent New Whetstone.
Our neighbors of Waverly Hall
district are about ready for the stock
law. The cotton *nd corn that will
be produced where the old jences
formerly stood would be a good crop
for a first-class farm, and it will be
dear profit.
Measles are quite plentiful west of
this—all the young members of sev
eial families are down with it In
ty cases in a radius of one mile. We
get measles where we get our rations
—from Columbus.
We miss the genial and kindly face
of our old doctor who, with “yaller
Betsy," has for so many years passed
up and down and over and across
the country on errands of relief and
comfort to the sick and ailing. The
mercury had to be away down in the
neighborhood ready with of zero genial when anecdote he with was
not a
whkh to “point a moral or adorn a
tale.” May he find in his new home
more fertile fields, and greener pas¬
tures.
Jpzs&sxsiz s
hiTe 4 set of iabor ' rs who would do
faithful and efficient work while he is
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but he will hardly be able to find suen.
E «?/ P—*?
would not meet his requirements. He
^ ^ ^ ^ be surpri5ed or chj .
grinfd if he finds them playing base
baft f* otherwise idle when he visit*
theui only occasionally. If he will
stay with them, direct their labors
and encourage them in their work he
and they can have a base ball match,
a Fourth of July dinner and other
seasons of recreation and be none
the looser by it Yeoman.
MOUNTAIN HILL NOTES.
The recent rains have delayed
farm work.
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•*£. ® akm 8 othcr ltn P r ? vc '
men t* 00 “ ls house,
School at Antioch church has be
gun with a fair attendance. Miss
Liffian Ridcnbour is principal
ONE DOLLAR A YEAfl,
STRIOTLY IN AOVAHCE.
I he mulberry bridge it in a dan
gerons condition and should be at
tended to by our commissioners.
which fhe log rollings end are killing about over,
puts an to chickens
unt ^ ano ^ cr generation increases,
The domino party" birthday
supper at Mr. Amos Smith's the
°. t ier WAS the pleasantest of
season,
Mountain Hill is partly in three
districts—Upper and Whitakers. 19th, Blue Springs
The latter hm stock
law in force. The other two are
likely to never have it. Will.
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. S. Murphey left for Atlanta
yesterday.
Dr. T. S. Mitchell visited Colum
bus Saturday,
Mr. T. W. Ligon, of Columbus,
spent last night in our city.
Miss Maggie Cook, of Columbus,
is visiting her brother, Mr C. H.Cook.
Mrs. A. B. Copeland is spending a
few days out at Mr. Wm. Copeland's,
Miss Mollie Brewer, of Cataula, is
in , the eJt o( Mrs E r fUr .
r ; s
Mr. Ellis Miller and wife, of West
Point, are visiting the family of Mr.
Ed. O'Neal.
“Fear brings d sgrace, bravery
brings honor, cowardice saves no
man from his fate," says the Caliph
Omar; but Dr. Bull’s cough syrup h*s
saved millions from an awful fate.
Mr. Terril Brooks, whose illness
we mentioned last week ii still quite
sick. He has a severe attack of
pneumonia, but is much better. We
hope soon to report his convalesence.
The burning of the public school
building at West Point Friday night
was a great loss to the city. Over
three hundred children attended the
school. It was insured for about
$5,000.
Talbot Superior Court convened
yesterday, Judge 1. T. Wil’is presid¬
ing. Cases will come up the second
week in which he is disqualified,when
Judge Simmons will take his place.
The criminal docket is said to be
large.
Our statement in the last issue that
Mr. Jas. Lovelace was selling in the
several different states mentioned
was not very clear. The question
will naturally arise, what did he sell?
He sold shoes if our compositor wil 1
kindly insert the word.
The charity that thinketh no evil
is a rare virtue. The best evidence
of a pure and noble nature is to dis¬
cern only good in addicted the character of
others. Those to evil
speaking are seldom clear of the
faults they condemn. It takes a
rogue to catch a rogue.
The Baptist Nickel Club in La¬
grange held a “mum" meeting last
week at the* residence of Judge Long
ley. Every one who spoke in a given
time had to pay five cents a line. If
many ladies were present, the meet¬
ing was probably a success. The
dear erratmres could net hold the
little unruly ■temben five minutes,
and it is probably better for the hu¬
man race that they cannot What
would the world be anyhow without
the music of woman’s voice.
NO. 19.