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X m HAMILTON j V u v OURNAL.
VOL. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Snow fell in New York and Penn
sylvania yesterday morning, Our
disposition to growl at the beastly
weather we had here during the day
should not make us forgetful of the
great advantages our climate possess¬
es or ungrateful for them.
The special investigating commit
tee appointed by the general assem- They
bly met in Atlanta yesterday. the
will at once proceed to measure the convicts
troubles that environ
not yet reached by the leniency . of
our kind hearted Governor.
The southern town that has no
improvement company is now ac
knowledged to be benind the age.
It is not living up to the opportunity
of the times. Hamilton will not lag
behind the procession and our people
propose to organize as soon as they
can procure a charter.
The Valdosta Times says: “Some
of the papers are saying that Beecher
began life a barefooted boy. Since
we come rr think about it he also
began life bald headed.” Has our
friend any evidence of his assertion,
or does he make it because he thinks
all new born babies bawl.
Frank M. Fonda, superintendent division
of the Savannah & Atlanta
of the Central railroad, was accident¬
ally shot by a triend near Savannah
Sunday. A party of which he was a
member went down the river to
Tybee. They were shooting all ga¬
tors on the way down and upon their
airival at the destination the accident
occurred.
The Savannah News has donned a
new dress, Its old clothes were not
noticeably worn, but the News has
always been the handsomest member
of our Georgia press and her vanity
is to be excused if she appears often
in a new dress. Her worth and true
merit are matched only by her mod¬
esty and good taste, and these virtues
make a model newspaper that all
Georgia and the south regard with
great pride.
Does Charley Pendleton think his
horned snake story will keep Valdos
ta from overflowing with editors on
the 11th of May? If so he has mis¬
taken his men, for your country edi¬
tor is not afraid of mythical horned
snakes or any other mythical horned
animal. His only fear is of a here¬
after where his only associates will
be super critical delinquent subscrib¬
ers and very smart spring poets.
Rev. W. A. Huckabee has written
a letter in the Wesleyan Advocate in
which he says the town of Quitman
is not a dry town because it is dom¬
inated by the bar-rooms and negroes.
The Quitman Free Press comes to
the defense ot the town and calls the
writer of the letter a crank, an ass
and a liar. The detense is vigorous,
but we rise to remark that they have
a very queer kind of good people in
Quitman, if, in this enlightened day,
they favor the licensing of bar rooms
and rum sinks.
PUBLISHED SEMI - WEEKLY.
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
Everybody has heard of the gen¬
tleman who told his servant to thin
out a grove cutting out all the trees
that were not it rows. He was sur¬
prised upon examining the grove later
to find that no trees had been cut.
The servant accounted for the appa¬
rent dereliction of duty by saying
they were all in rows. This one and
tnat one formed a row and that one
and another one formed a row and
so on. The numb;r of places upon
air lines from Birmingham to deep
water call this anecdote forcibly to
mind. In our state there are fifty or
more towns between Birmingham
and the deep sea and Hamilton is
one of them. And our people have
twenty-five thousand dollars for the
railroad that will come by here.
A Talbot county jury has settled
it. At the court held in that county
two weeks ago a man was tried for
bigamy. He was separated from his
wife twenty years ago and a decree
of divorce was given him by friendly
neighbors who were called in to ad
just the trouble between him and his
spouse. A short while since he took
unto himself a second mate and for
this the grand jury pronounced him
guilty of bigamy. Upon the trial,
however, the traverse jury pronounc¬
ed him not guilty. Just whetiier
they think three arbitrators may
grant a divorce under the laws of
Talbot or whether they think twenty
years of separation give a prescriptive
title to divorce is not known, but
Judge Willis is said to have congrat
ulated them upon the fact that the
county had »o further use for their
judicial services.
The journals which advocate pro¬
tection try to leave the impression
that the journals which do not are
opposed to diversity of pursuits—
that they favor in the south only are
all cotton farming policy. Now the
Journal favors as near a free trade
policy as an economical administra
tration of the national government
will adn.it of, but it advocates diver¬
sity of crops to make farms prosper¬
ous and a diversity of manufactures
to make communities so. We do not
belive in taxing farming, as our pres¬
ent protective tariff does, to make
manufacturing profitable. At this
time every interest of the country is
more prosperous than than the farm¬
ing interest and it is not fair for it to
bear as it does the burden of a gov¬
ernment and at the same time be
taxed to support manufacturing in¬
terests that are greatly more profita
ble.
CHIPLEY CHIPS.
Yesterday Eoulius and his winds
reigned supreme.
A negro cabin was burned yester¬
day eve. Also a small negro child
seriously and no doubt fatally burned.
The mother of the child was off from
home as is usually the case.
Rev. Mr. Askew preached at the
Methodist church Sunday.
The steeple of the Methodist
church has been repainted and looks
“whiter than snow.”
Mr. T. B. Hardy and lady of this
place, are visiting her father
at LaFayette, Ala.
HAMILTON, GA., APRIL 19.1887.
Mr. E. H. Huguley went to La
Grange Saturday on business.
Spirits camphor ready made up is
always on at hand at Glass Bros,’
drug store 50 cts pint. We also call
attention to our fire proof oil 3oc.gal.
BLUE SPRING SPRAYS.
Farmers are needing rain.
We wish Mr. Hightower a pleas¬
ant trip to the land of flowers.
From the way one of our young
ladies smiles somebody is “courting”
nearer home than Hamilton,
The sweet notes of the song birds
are wafted by the gentle breezes
from the shaded woodlands to our
ears from early dawn till duy declines.
.Some of our young people enjoyed
a moonlight ramble to the old mill
house just down the hill a few even
ings since, spending several hours
where no sound was heard except
th; rippling water falling o’er rocks J
and gushing rapidly by the moss clad
wheel whijh had been stopped at the
close of the day. The mill is situat¬
ed over a pretty stream, in a roman¬
tic and picturesque valley, almost
hid by the ivy mantled hills on each
side. The place was rendered dou
bly beautiful and picturesque by the I
enchantiug beams of the full moon.
The poetry and romance of youthful
natures are to be fully developed un
dersuch inspiring conditions, and
love’s young dream is never so prom
ising of the happiest fruition as when
indulged with the accompaniments of'
solitude, sequestered walks, trees and
flowerscented air, and under the
beneficent glamour which fair lunar
dispenses. “Lil.”
CATAULA CHAT.
The firm of Moore & Blow have
made an assignment.
Dr. T. F. Brewster attended Pres¬
bytery in Columbus last week.
Mrs. Mattie Floyd is visiting the
family of her father, Prof. J. B. Pate.
Mrs. !. H. Worrill, of Talbotton,
and Mrs. Howard Key, of Cuthbert,
are visiting their parents, Judge and
Mrs. J. J. W. Biggers.
Miss Bettie Norman, of Columbus,
is the guest of Mrs. Dr. Brewster.
Mr. Green Ware made a visit in
our community a few days ago, the
guest of Mr. J. H. Lynch.
A very light shower fell here this
morning. Doubling Thomases had
already predicted a real Texas
drouth.
Mrs. Dr. Brewster has a beautiful
clock of Parian marble, with grid¬
iron pendulum, over sixty years old.
It cost sora^here between fifty and
seventy-five dollars and was a pres¬
ent from Rev. R. T. Marks to Mrs.
Robertson, upon whose death it was
inherited by its present owner. It
has but little machinery and runs for
thirty days. It is certainly a thing
of beauty and we expect will prove
“a joy forever.” Can some of the
college students of Hamilton tell ui
why this pendulum is called gridiron?
Mr. Coleman Lynch, of Don,
made our community a pleasant visit
a few days ago. His wife, among a
thousand of others, is a great ad-
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
mirer of Miss Winnie Davis and
wishing to pay her all the honor in
her power, decided to name her little
babe for her. Mrs. Lynch wrote to
her stating her purpose and desiring
her real name. She replied to Mrs.
Lynch in a plain, sweet style thank¬
ing her for the honor and said her
nurse gave her the nickname of Win¬
nie. Her real name is Varina Ames
after a favorite aunt. She enclosed
a photograph of herself for her little
namesake.
Joe Howard’s “Life of Beech
ep/ f
Joseph Howard, Jr., the widely
known journalist and intimate friend
of Henry Ward Beecher for the past
fifty years, is engaged upon a life of
the great Preacher and Orator, which
will no doubt be the standard work,
as Mr. Howard’s intimate relations
with Mr. Beecher, and his justly won
popularity as a writer, are an assur¬
ance of a work of peculiar interest
and value. We learn that the work
is to be brought out by Hubbard
Bros., at an early day, and will no
doubt be sold by subscription.
Shiloh's Vjtalizer is what you
need for Constipotion, Loss of Ap
petite, Dizziness and all symptoms of
dyspepsia. Price 10 and 75 cents
P er bottle. Glass Bros, Chipley.
And S. G. Riley, Hamilton,
Will you suffer with Dyspepsia
an( j Liver Complaint? Shiloh’s Vi
tulizer is guaranteed to cure you. Sold
i y G i ass Br0St> chipley, Ga.
And S. G. Riley, Hamilton.
Sleepless nights, made miserable
by that terrible cough. Shiloh’sCure
is the remedy for you. For sale by
Glass Bros., Chipley, Ga.
And S. G. Riley, Hamilton.
Catarrh cured, health and sweet
breath secured by Shiloh's Catarrh
Remedy. Price 50 cents. Nasal
Injector free. Sold by Glass Bros.,
Chipley, Ga.
And S. G. Riley, Hamilton.
For lame back, side or chest, use
Shiloh’s Porous Plaster. Price 25
cents. Sold by Glass Bros., Chipley.
And S. G. Riley, Hamilton.
Shiloh’s cough and consumption
cure is sold by us un a guarantee.
It cures consumption. Glass Bros.,
Chipley, Ga.
And S. G. Riley, Hamilton.
Why- will you cough whenShilohs
Cure will give immediate relief. Price
ioc., 50c. and $/. Glass Bros.Chipley
Sold by S. G. Biley and Glass Bros
That Hacking Cough can be so
quickly cured by Shiloh’s Cure. We
guarantee it. Sold by Giass Bros.,
Chipley, Ga.
And S. G. Riley, Hamilton.
Tfaa proof thtt 8h*llenb«rg«n Pills are
a true antidote for Malaria ia fonod in the
fact that a ©are ia immediate. Qnicine
and other rtvadiea bring temporary r«
lief after tome time—often maoy day*.
One dobe of Antidote brings immediate
relief, ehifts are stopped, all nnpleaa*nt
•3 mptoses disappear, and after a few
more doses perfect health and strength
are secured.
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