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THE HAMILTON JObTiNAL.
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY.
VOL. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The coming fort is to be only a
hole in the ground, with an iron top
shaped like a chafing dish cover.
Henry Grady would have poultry
raising as respectable with the white
brother as it is with the brother in
black.
The man who goes about swin
dling only those who are in financial
stress, must indeed be a hard hearted
wretch.
This would be a dry world to live
in if shorn of its sentiment, and yet
not a type of heaven if wanting in
hard horse sense.
England will spend $66,000,000
on her navy this year. This would
form a right pretty nucleus alone for
a “Peace Insurance Company.”
War is becoming a luxury. Herr
Krupp, the big German gun maker,
returned for last year ari income of
$1,250,000.. The bankers and rail
road kings could not equal this.
A correspondent of the Atlanta !
Constitution writes that paper that a j
prospecting party sent out by a firm 1
of Cincinnati capitalists have made
a valuable discovery in Floyd county,
in a coal mine.
China has sent a liberal contribu¬
tion to te Charleston earthquake
sufferers. Her liberality entitles her
to more respect than the treatment
of her minister by the Washington
rabble last week, at his reception, in¬
dicates that she receives.
The mortgage left by senator Lo¬
gan upon his Washington home has
been raised by his Chicago friends
and his widow presented with sixty
five thousand dollars. This seems
to have been the most fortunate ven¬
ture the senator ever made in a bus¬
iness way.
Arkansas , legislature . , , has pe
The
titioned congress to return the tax on
cotton, collected in ’66, ’67 and 68
Long years ago the su P^ et \ ie court ot
United States decided , , is
the la
tax was illegal. Twenty years is
long enough for an honest govern
ment to keep in its vaults taxes ii
legally collected, even though they
wer collected almost wholly from a
in VJ 1
and at -mat time bei c -e-J •
southern <u , had a
f our
proper amount of backbone ana
would ask for what their constituents
ale honestly entitled to, this money
would be speedily refunded. I here
is no harm in asking for wha is non
estly ours, when the whole world can
see we need it and want it.
Gov. Gordon has appointed Hon.
Henry Persons as a delegate to rep- dis
resent the fourth congressional held
trict at a convention to be at
DeFuniak Springs, Fla., next Tues
dav to counsel as to the best method
of securing coast protection, ba$ed
upon modern requirements.
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
proprietor.
IS HE A FRAUD?
About days theie . to .
ten ago came
Hamilton a man of pleasing manners
and oily tongue, representing the
Globe Reserve Mutual Lite lnsur
ance Company of Baltimore. He
proposed to insure lives at a very low
rate and to secure loans at six per
cent annual interest for half the value
of each policy, the principal pa) able
at the death of the insured or at the
maturity of his policy. In the words
of one of his proposed beneficiaries
it was “money at 9 per cent per an
num, with the insurance thrown in.”
The scheme was presented in such a
plausible way tnat many policies were
secured. Friday morning the agent
left for Columbus to be back Mon¬
day afternoon. After he had left
some of the policy holders began to
feel a little uneasy, and Saturday
night the Macon Telegraph’s Talbot
ton letter added to this uneasy feel
ing. It seems I =r at an agent bearing
the same name, *—i . T. Whitehead, is
anxiously looked for there. r l he in¬
surance policies he promised there
have come, but there is no money
with them, nor do the policies read
as if there would be. Moreover, a
copy of the Baltimore Underwriter, a
journal devoted to insurance, says
that the Globe Mutual is a fraud.
t j iese things together, with the
cont j n ued absence of Mr. Whitehead
j ms arouse d suspicion here and the
gentlemanly agent would have »o ex
plain f u u y if fas friends here could lay
hands upon him now, ere they again
set him at liberty.
THE FOLLY OF DELAY
Mr. Editor:— Hundreds of capa¬
ble men have made shipwreck on the
sea of life by missing the golden op¬
portunity. No lack of capacity, in¬
telligence or purpose but hesitation
and delay does the fatal work.
This is well illustrated by Presi¬
dent Smith’s anecdote. A little boy
was running to meet the traia. As
he got in speaking distance the train
moved off and left him. A gentle
man ora the train said to him: “My
little son you did not run fast enough.”
“Yes I did,” said the little boy, “but
I did not start soon enoagh.” A
vo j ume 0 f w i s dom is couched in the
re p]y. Many a valuable
purpose wou jd a nd could be accom
plished if begun at the right time.
g^^gspeare says that there is a tide
* n the a % airs of men which taken at
j ea ^ s tQ f ortune> b u t if the
gs QU ^ as sa jj ors we p know
^ O pp 0rtun i t y for the present at
j eagt ^ ag g Qne an( j m2i y never return.
Standing once on the most beauti ul
bay in the Gulf, a vessel loaded with
cedar had her cargQ Qn and ready to
depart j| ie niate urged the cap'ain
tQ hoist sail and move out, the cap
ta j n not appreciating the si ggestion
de j ayedj and when the vessel was put
under way t h e high tide had well
gQne and ere t ^ e vesse i had
reached the light house struck bot¬
tom and stuck fast and was many
days in getting off with much damage
to the vessel.
dangerous and bring .
Delays are and
inevitable failure if persisted in,
mo st of the failures in life come from
this cause. There is a right time to
do everything and that time is when
the duty first arises.
HAMILTON, GA., FEBRUARY 1,1887.
ginning Promptness may extinguish the be
of a fire in a building, but if
delayed w hol e blocks may be con
sume( j The great fire in Charleston
j n 1836 which burned up nearly all
0 f ]£j n g street commenced in a pea
nut stan( j ? an d could have been ex
(anguished by the woman in charge,
but w j-jij e s ] ie ran 0 ff f or h e jp the fire
cayght the adjoining building and be
came one of the greatest conflagra
t ions on record. Delay not in all
t be p] a j n? but geek safety and success
- | discharge of duty,
n t ie p rorr) pt
Caution.
rv
WHAT IS IT?
Last week Mr. B. H. Walton dug
a well in his backyard. (—r
7T a ledge
rock heaw tha he Drocced- .
ruuilU rnund lULti,su SO ucavj iwa m. ihuv-eeu
pd CU to IU invest iiivcau^atg l/rfltp them ***'- the rock
when broken open presented a very
dark grey appearance. Submitting
one of these pieces to a very sprinkled great
heat, it melted, and when
with water gave out a sulphurous
odor. Another piece weighing less
than a pound was heated and twenty
or thirty minutes after it was taken
out of the fire was too hot to be held
in the hand. Ben has an idea tilt P
has made lucky find, and all his •
h O a
friends ' who have seen his specimen
rocks hope so.
LOCAL AND SPECIAL.
Seeds have been going out freely
tl-iic tills lliOming. ninrnimr
Ml. Dr J. T W vt . iVlllLllUi Mitchell Visited ViolLCLi Colum- L/U u ii
bus Saturday.
Yesterday many people about town
commenced gardening.
. Mr. R. _ S. _ Sparks , returned , yester
dav J from a Visit to Marvyn, J ’ Ala.
Miss T Lula Mobley ,, returned , , home
J
Sunday from pleasant . friends f ■ ,
a 1 Visit to
*
in Columbus.
, • • •
Miss Alollie Singleton IS
her friend, ’ Miss Nora Knight, at
lank, , , . Meriwether. .. .
Grangers o’ in
Mr. Georce „ ... W. t,, Ely, ot r Montgom
o °
„ Friday . . evening and ,
erv, came up \ ' °
the . night . With . , Ills . mother. ,
spent * ®
A million dollars might be loaned
in Harris county, at six per cent on
the very best security our laws allow.
Gov. Gordon last week pardoned
Herschel V. Hargett, thus restoring
t o him the privilege 1 of voting and
holding office.
Rev. W. W. Arnold filled the Bap
list pulpit Sunday and preached two
fine sermons. He grows in favor
with our church goers.
Columbus Enquirer: Mr. James
Layfield, who recently moved from
Harris county to this city, is 109
years old. He was married when
quite young and his wife is still living.
Attention is called to the card of
Mr. Flynn Hargett. He proposes to
COllCCt pensions at as little cost as if
Washington ... | - lawyer employed
a .____________ were
and if he is unsuccessful he makes no
charge.
, It is . well „ to . begin . gardening , . early, ,
If you don’t succeed at first keep
trying. It’s a very lazy man who, in
a whole year, doesn t raise at least
one vegetable m his garden that will
do to brag on.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
A very heavy rain fell here this
morning between eleven and
twelve o ? clock. The sun came out
warm directly afterwards and shone
so warm as to raise a vapor heavier
than we have ever before noticed.
Rev. W. M. Hayes, Presiding El¬
der of the Columbus district, held the
first quarterly conference for Cataula
circuit at Glowers church Saturday
and Sunday. He came up Sunday
afternoon and spent the night with
Captain H. W. Pitts, returning to
Talbotton Monday morning.
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