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THE HAMILTON J-FC JOURNAL. WWVuvtns
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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY.
VOL. XIV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Hamilton to GreenviUe-Come to
see us again. Bring your knitting,
your monkey and your brass band,
and spend the night
Hon. T. J. Chappell has accepted
the invitation of the ladies of the Co
lumbus memorial association to de
liver the address on the memorial
day. He is a fine speaker and a
talented gentleman. °
Rome was the heaviest loser by
the floods of last week, her. loss be¬
ing estimated at upwards of $200 ,000.
West Point is "next with a loss o
about $100,000. Other cities were
large sufferers, but none anything
like these two.
The Georgia Press Association will
meet at Macon on the 29th and after
passing upon the elegibility of dele¬
gates, and squabbling as to annual
dues and free passes, will excurt to
Savannah. It is a great pity that the
members for a little enjoyment that
is short lived, neglect the golden associa¬ op¬
portunities afforded by the
tion to build up their business inter¬
ests.
NO PAPER FRIDAY.
The Journal skipped an issue last
week, because of the railroad wash
up on the Atlanta & West Point
road. Our weekly supply of paper
was shipped Saturday as usual and
ought to have reached us on Wednes¬
day morning. As the bill of lading
reached us Monday it did not occur
to us that there might be a delay on
account of the floods until Thursday
morning’s train failed to bring the
bundles, when it was too late to make
other arrangements, The omission
we regret, but it was unavoidable
without extraordinary foresight. If
our friends will come up handsomely
next week in the way of subscriptions
we will put in a new press and do all
our printing at home and forever
avoid further trouble of this kind.
We are modest to a degree, but
everybody admits that we give the
best country paper in the state for a
dollar a year. This shall not stand in
the way of making good all promises in¬
of improvement, however, and we
vite a test. Come up and settle, get
your neighbor to subscribe, and our
word for it we’lUive you such a paper
as will meet the requirements of the
whole family circle, be a blessing to
the county and a model for all other
county papers.
THE COTTON PICKER.
Two or three years ago we »ere
£££ jficking^machine. BiHArp^od
the Atlanta Constitution both said
so Bill saw it and told us all about
it but it has not yet b.en announced. perfected.
Now another machine is
It operated successfully in the New
York cotton exchange recently, but
how it will operate 1 in a Georgia cot
ton patch is nbt known, However a
stock company has been formed and
the machine will be perfected next in
season and put upon the inaricet
the fall of ’87. We do not believe a
machine of he character, d V -
scribed can be made th rS t
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
will do the work required. is When made
the successful cotton picker
** 10 lhe *! and P«; kin 8 l >r °“ ss
now in vogue,as the hand corn sheller
is to the burnt com cob. It will be
a small machine worked by hand,
that will pick the bolls as the opera
tor directs it to them. There is no
fi ' ld 50 “"ting for inventors as this.
I» 7 costs a cent and a half a pound to
gather a cotton crop after it is made,
°r $ 7 - 5 ° f ba e - A mach ' nf ; ‘ ha ‘
wou ‘ redu “ lhe ex P ense but half
would $25,000,000 ,
save a year in
gathering the cotton in the Southern
States alone, as it is now. But over
large areas the limit to the crop is
the capacity for gathering, that a suc¬
cessful cotton picking machine would
greatly increase the cotton pro¬
duction. How much this would
increase the value of the
crop as a whole cannot be estimated,
for the more we have of cotton the
less we get, but we know enough to
predict that when the successful pick¬
er is evolved, there’ll be “millions
in it.”
GREENVILLE IN HAMILTON.
The Gieenville Brass Band and
Concert Company came down Friday
afternoon in full force according to
appointment and in the evening gave
a delightful entertainment in the
college rhapel. The hall was well
filled and the audience attentive and
appreciative throughout
The entertainment opened with a
piano solo by Mrs. Hussey, that was
a triumph of skill.
The drama, “Ticklish Times,” was
well rendered and the individuality of
the characters well sustained through
out. Prof. Little, as Sir William
Ramsey, Mr. J. M. O’Neal, as Bod
kins, and Mr. Howard Harris as
Jansen did well, while Mr. W. B.
McLaughlin as Launcelot Griggs, the
principal character, sustained his
part in a manner that was exception
ally good. The ladies, Miss Flora
Floyd as Mrs. Launcelot Griggs, Miss
Tcssie fybivey as Winefred and Miss
Myrtis Freeman as Dot, sustained
their parts admirably. Miss Free
man was especially happy in her
rendition and from her first sneeze to
her last hearty laugh grew in popular
favor with the audience.
The songs by Miss Nettie Banning,
“Venita” and “L’Ardita,” present’ were, to
the music lovers the events
of the evening. The proficiency preceded of
the lady as a songster had
her, and she came fully up to the
hicrh of our expectations. 1
measure
She has a sweet voice that is well
trained and many who heard her will
be triad of the opportunity of hearing
hpra.fra.in 0 *
. Neighbors kt * ki >» the ,1
“Borrowing vas ...
jiton, by Misses Flora Floyd and
Jessie J Spivey. As Miss Freshours
and Mrs. Green they were as life-like
as possible and their lively gossip
kept the audience in a roar of laugh- until!
ter from the rise of the curtain
its M. Betsy Hamilton herself
couk l not have given a more natural
delineation of these two well known
old ladies, whom the genius of her
pen has made familiar visitors in ev¬
ery household.
The closing play was a most laugh¬
able farce, entitled “A Night Spent
HAMILTON, GA., APRIL 6, 1886.
in a Strange Hotel.” The characters
laughably conspicuous.
ACKNOWLEDGING THE CORN.
Farmers ought to raise their own
corn. There is no crop that requires
so little attention after it is well plant¬
ed. A single plowing will insure a
fair crop, although two or three plow
ings may be given with profit, if done
properly and timely, The writer
gathered a good crop from a field last
season that was plowed out only once.
The corn was an early variety, the
ground was well broken and the crop
plowed once when three weeks old.
The whole labor expended by man
and horse, upon the crop, was 'ess
than would have been required
to go ten miles to market and haul
the product home.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Court convenes here next Monday.
The public square cistern was re¬
paired last week.
Farms are too wet for the plow and
be so f° r several days.
A fln ‘* crowd was a * the depot Sat ‘
ur day morning to sec the Greenville
^ o!ks
Sunday was rather a gloomy day
and but people ventured upon
die streets.
Ever y famil y ln Hams county
should have the Journal and few
ar « too poor to pay the small price of
subscription.
A Columbus gentleman who has a
farm down the river claims to have
now on it much of the guano recently
sold in Harris county and we guess
he
Mr. B. H. Williams brought , , - last ,
in
week a few sample stalks of barley
kom a three-quarter acre patch that
were three feet high. There is not a
finer patch in the county, perhaps,
The neighborhood correspondents
report farmers dropping corn and get
ting ready to plant cotton. It would
be better if some of them were drop
P'ng cotton and getting ready to
plant com.
Good printing and low prices will
tell. Our J OB Printing Depart
« EN J. is constantly growing and our
facilities for doing first class work are
unexcelled. Try us with an order for
cards, envelopes, letter heads, or bill
bea( 1 J he s * freight train the . Columbus ,, , ,
on
& Rome railroad was the only one to
leave the city of Columbus Wednes
day morning, the trains on the other
roads being delayed by washouts,
We have often remarked that the C.
& R - is about the best kept road m
the state, ; and this goes * to prove
corrcctn ss of our laim .
Dear fn„d, if your subscription to
cal1 theJ ournal k is and not paid.up, please
ncxt we ? W ll > or “ y°“
a re not coming to town to court send
it to us by a neighbor who is coming.
pan easily wait on you until fall
but if all our friends will come and
settlc up^now, we can easily |pvc a
P a P" fifty I*r cent better han the
Journal is now, and we will do it
the wherewith is forthcoming. Now,
friends, sliain a point to get fifty per
cent interest on your money for six
months. There can be no charge of
USUI T in an acceptance of this offer,
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
SPECIAL $ EARLY
OFFERINGS BY
HILL»LAW.
For the coming week we
propose to offer at least one
substantial and desirable bar¬
gain in every department of
our business. We cannot enu¬
merate all, but give a few.
HOSIERY!
Ladies’ Full Regular Made
Ilose, ingrain colors, all sizes
and shades, at 250, worth 35c.
Children’s do. all shades, 23c.
Ladies’ Black Brilliant Lisle
Hose, a beautiful quality, 48c.
IN KID GLOVES
Our special offering is our 7
Button Scolloped Top, all
shades, at 73c. These are a
splendid quality, arid are the
biggest bargain ever offered
here in Kids.
We received a job lot of
about 100 handsome
FAHS,
g oods Uldt -* rL wo Ul 110111 2 5
cents to $1.25 each; we offer
them at the unheard of price
choice IOC.
DRESS GOODS!
We have reduced our whole
l ,ne colored 1 $1 <r Surah c u cn. Silks
to 80c. We have all new
shades Pongee Silks at $ + .8 S)
$5.00, $7.95, $8.60 and $9.00,
in patterns * of 20 yards,
HILL & LAW.
NO. 135 BROAD STREET,
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