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THE HAMILTON JO 1 '^NAL.
VOL. XIV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
We believe the farmers of this sec
tion of the state are unanimously in
favor of the re-appointment of Hon.
J. T. Henderson as commissioner of
agriculture.
The congressional convention of
this district is in session to day at
LaGrange. The correspondent of
the Columbus Enquirer says that the
nomination of Mr. Grimes is gener¬
ally conceded.
Not very good days are these for
hurry or worry or fret, or hard bodily
work or exhausting labor in a hot
room.—Buena Vista Patriot. Will
brother Christopher suggest the kind
of day that is suitable ?
The Augusta Chronicle says that
the summer of ’69 was very much
like the present season has been,
but that the rains ceased along in
July and one of the biggest cotton
crops known up to that time was
gathered.
The Atlanta artesian well is now
ready for business. Pipes have been
laid to various parts of the city and
pure water is now within the reach
of the humblest citizen. With wa¬
ter plentiful and whisky scarce, there
is no reason why the good people of
Atlanta should not be happy.
Cartersville was witness to a trag¬
edy Sunday morning such as is liable
to occur in any community as long as
the sale of rum is licensed within the
limits of the state. A man under
the influence of surreptitious whisky
attempted to shoot an officer and
was himself shot down.
The nomination of Hon. Thomas
M. Norwood for congress in the 1st
district, insures the continuance in
the halls of our fathers one of the
grandest men the state has ever hon¬
ored. He has proven himself the
peer of any man in a district which
numbers many justly distinguished
citizens.
Mr. James F. Little lias been
nominated for the legislature in Tal
bot county. In a county where we
know and admire many clever men,
there is none we esteem more highly
than we do Mr. Jim Little. There
will be few men of better parts in
the general assembly and none who
will more faithfully represent the best
interests of an enlightened constitu
ency.
Talbot county has pronounced Robins for in
favor of Mr. John W.
state senator, to represent the 25th
district which is composed of the
counties of Talbot, Upson and Har
ris. As Talbot, under the rotation
rule, is entitled to name the demo
cratic nominee, we suppose Mr. Rob
bins will be nominated, He is a
successful farmer, a clever gentle
man and was elected without opposi
tion by a handsome vote.
Work on the Georgia Midland is
progressing rapidly. The track lay
is under contract and will be
be^un in a few weeks. But little of
the roadbed from Waverly Hall to
Columbus remains to be graded and
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY.
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
this will be finished soon. Our friends
in the southern and eastern portions
of the county feel elated at the rail
road prospect and we rejoice with
them. Harris county, with two
railroads running entirely through it,
must become one of the foremost
counties in the state.
Marcellus E. Thornton, who ac¬
quired fame as a newspaper man by
eating thirty partridges in thirty days,
and later published a daily paper in
Atlanta which suspended for want ot
funds is said to be making a fortune
« coal mining m Tennessee. He is
president of a coal company and his
wife a member of the board of di
rectors. Their stock is said to be
worth $250,000. Col. Thornton is
an easy and graceful writer, has a
capacious maw that easily accommo¬
dates itself to thirty quails in thirty
days, and he has tact, industry and
capacity to run a coal mine success¬
fully, but his checkered experience
demonstrates that all this and more
is necessary to the successful news¬
paper manager.
FOR A NOMINATION.
The Journal is in favor of a nom¬
ination for county officers by a pri¬
mary election. We favor it not be¬
cause we object to any county official,
for we do not, but because we think
it right. We think it right and expe¬
dient for the following reasons: Harrh,
The democratic party of
county is more virtuous, more intelii
gent and therefore better fitted to
elect proper officers for the county
than the republican party. If we
mix that which is inferior with
that which is good, the result is to
make the average of less value than
the better mixture. So if we allow
the republicans to join with the dem¬
ocrats in the selection of officers, we
lower the measure of excellence to
which officeholders must come. If
ten good men can make a better se¬
lection than ten bad men, then the
ten good men ought to make a bet¬
ter selection than the twenty com¬
bined. The standard of one being
higher than the other, that standard
i s necessarily higher than the whole,
A party nomination would cut off
a long and dreary waste of canvass
ing that already has in it much that
is monotonous, to use the mildest
expression that occurs to us. Let a
ticket be put in the field by the dem
ocrats of the county, by district pri
maries, and the whole virtue of the
county is at once interested in the
success of that ticket, and the neces
sity for personal canvassing is meas
urably removed,
A party nomination would elimi
nate from the approaching controlled contest by
an ignorant element,
that office-seeker who stoops lowest
to get it. It would improve the
methods ot office-seeking if it gave
us no better officers.
MOUNTAIN HILL NOTES,
Mr. Scott was in town Monday,
selling gins. Moultrie’s little babe
Mrs. Epsie
died last week.
Watermelons and peaches are get
ting ripe, and they are plentiful, too.
Gabe Walker, colored, was shot by
some unknown person last week,
not dangerously hurt.
HAMILTON, GA., JULY 20,1886.
The colored people anticipate hav
ing a picnic at this place next Satur
day.
Mr. Myres and Mr. W. A. Smith
and .... bycicle together , last Sunday,
run
which created much excitement.
One of our candidates was defeat
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politics.
General meeting at Antioch will
commence Friday before the first
Sunday in August. Rev. J. E. Holt
will preach the introductory sermon.
Hal.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Mr A. F. Copeland visited Colum¬
bus Friday.
Mr. H. R. Goetchius, of Colum¬
bus, was in town yesterday.
Mrs. R. O. Pitts, of Atlanta, is
visiting the family of Capt. H. W.
Pitts.
. Mrs. W. West, of West Point, is
visiting the family of her son, Mr. W.
H. West.
Miss Emma Ivey, of Perote, Ala.,
came Saturday on a visit to hiraunt
Mrs. Emma Parker.
Master Clifton Webster made us a
present of some fine pears the other
day. He has our thanks.
Mrs. B. C. Kimbrough returned
last week from a pleasant visit to rel¬
atives in WhitesviHe and Chipley.
Capt. T. J. Neal and Mr. Wm. H.
Luttrell were in town Sunday on tbeir
way to the LaGrange convention.
Judge W. I. Hudson, Messrs H.
C. Cameron and IJ. H. Walton left
yesterday for the LaGrange conven¬
tion.
The largest beet we have seen this
year was sent us recently by Mr. J.
S. Irvin. It measured eighteen inch¬
es around.
The meeting of the Temperance
Union which was to have taken place
next Friday evening will be postpon¬
ed until next week on account of the
protracted meeting.
Misses Berta and Fannie Henry
anf j Miss Leila Ivey are spending a
p ar t 0 f this week out of town with
the families of Judge J. F. C. Wil
ij ams and Mr. B. H. Williams.
desire . all the of
^ e to give news
personal or local interest, and would
thank our friends to assist us by giv
mg us any information that would
serve to accomplish our purpose.
Our subscription list is rapidly in
creasing, and we are much encour
aged. This increase of patronage
maxes us hopeful that the time will
soon arrive when we can have a new
press and enlarge our paper
Encouraging reports come from all
sources of the crop prospect. A gen
tie man who attended the picnic in
Davidson’s district Saturday says that
the corn and cotton look fifty per
cent better than they did a week or
two since *
A great many farmers were in town
Saturday, and the merchants had a
busy day. We are led to hope that
business prospects will continue to
brighten, and next fall every merchant
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
in town will consider it to his interest
to advertise in the Journal.
Mrs. A. M. Sanford, of Macon, is
in town, and will spend some time
with hcr daughter, Mrs. J. W. Dozier,
Mr. E. R. Sauford, after a brief
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Cliipley promises a most hearty
welcome to all the Sunday 4th schools in
the county on the of August.
Sunday school workers should unite
and make the meeting of the County
Sunday School Association a pleasant
and profitable occasion. F.xcursion
rates have been obtained on the Co¬
lumbus and Rome railroad.
Wanted.—A number of honest,
thrifty, moral young men to come to
Hamilton, where girls are numerous
^nd beaux scarce. A boy who can
not talk to two girls at once and leave
each under the impression that she is
nis favorite, had better remain at
home.
Protracted services are in progress
a * the Methodist church, and we hope
that great good may be accomplished
in the name of the Master before the
close of the meeting. Rev. , W. D.
McGregoi is laboring faithftilly, with
the earnest purpose of winning souls
to Christ. May his labdfs be crown¬
ed with abundant success.
Catalogues of the West Ga. A. &
M. College can be procured at this
office. Every man in the county
should fee 1 an interest and pride in
this college and use his influence in
support of the institution. There is
no danger in saying more in its favor
than it justly merits, while it remains
under its present management.
One of our girls recently worked a
hat mark, which must have had a fine
effect, as the following extract from
the Franklin News:—“We have seen
the waving evergreen forests wd love¬
ly levels of Savannah, strolled along
the snowy beach of Tybee, and bowed
to the surging waves of the Atlantic,
but for sublime nature and beauty
beautified give us the rugged moun¬
tains of north Georgia, the rocky
heights of Tallulah.”
A grand picnic came off at Mr. G.
A. Myhand’s fish ponds, Davidson’s
district, last Saturday which was at
tended by large numbers of people
from the surrounding country. Sev
eral gentlemen from this place were
present. Speeches were made by
Dr. Brewster, Col. Mobley, Captain
Stanford, Messrs B. H. Williams, H.
C. Cameron, B. H. Walton and G.
A. Myhand. All the orators were in
a happy mood, and the speechs were
ao amusing character, that pro¬
v °l ce< ^ muc " ^ un and laughter. One
of ‘he s reakers quite won the hearts
of the people of that vicinity by de
c i ar i ng that he “was raised there, was
there w hen the Indians sported over
t h e hills.” It was suggested by an
other that he was working up evi
^ence t Q apply for a pension as a
Revolutionary soldier. Our infortn
a ”t stated that Mr Myhand made
the grand annihilated speech of his the occasion, predecessors, and
utterly
The picnic was a success and promo
ted much good will among those who
attended.
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