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Hamilton Journal.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
Passengers have arrived in New York
from Yokohoma in twenty days by the
Canadian Pacific route. Such dispatch
makes the new line, contrary to general
expectation, a very formidable competitor
for the business of China and Japan with
our own Pacific roads, and with the ex¬
tremely leisurely steamer service that
connects them with San Francisco.
The small boys of Sicily have a game
which they call “Killing the Tsar,”
which is very popular with the ragged
urchins of Messina in particular. Not
long ago a little fellow, whose father is a
miner, found a dynamite cartridge and
carried it off in high glee to his play¬
mates. One of the youngsters was then
selected to impersonate the Tsar; the
others, as ambushed Nihilists, lay in
wait for him in a clump of bushes, and
as he rode by on a goat, jumped out with
a yell and flung the cartridge at his feet.
It instantly exploded, and, to the horror
of the unthinking urchins, the poor little
Autocrat of the Itussias died from his
wounds a few hours later.
A long, lank West Virginian named
Brown presented himself at the Pension
Bureau one morning recently to furnish
evidence in a claim pending before the
office. It was learned upon inquiry that
his mother had born thirty-three chil¬
dren in all. Twenty of this number were
boys, sixteen of whom had served in the
Union army. Two were killed, The (
other fourteen survive. Each of them
draws a pension from the Government
for disabilities received while in the
service. The death of the two boys en¬
titles the mother to a pension also.
General Black says the files of the office
fail to show another record where the i
sixteen sons of one father and mother
served as soldiers in the late war.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office, in response to a call trom the Pa
cific Railroad Commissioners, has for
warded a voluminous report giving in
tabular form the amounts of land granted
to, selected b\, and patented to the
several companies whose affairs are under
investigation. The summary shows the
total amounted granted to the Union Pa
cilic ... was 11,319,344 onnon acics, of which 1
amount 3,14 q682 acres have been se
lectcd and 2,616,178 acres patented,
leaving 8,162,162 acres to be selected,
The Central Pacific has a grant of 8,000,
000 A( , A acrcs It T , . lias received . , patents , , fjr -
1,040,210, and has 6,413,712 acres yet
to be selected. The Kansas Pacific had
a grant of 6,000,000 acres. It has se
leeted 1>7 88.M 3 a,,,; of which amount
963,714 acres have bun patented. It has j
4,211,748 lected. The acres selections yet remaining made by to the be sc- j j
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maining companies have nearly all been I
patented, and cover nuout all the availn
hie lands in their grants. The selections
areas follows: Central branch, Union
Pacific, 222,500 acres; Western Pacific, | !
453,794 acres; Sioux City and Pacific,
48,886 acres.
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NEARLY ALL PERISHED. |
The sloop Bara, eighteen tons register,
owned and commanded by Abraham Ba
fc&ran, left Melcjo, Arizona, loaded with
tan bark, and having on board the cap
tain, his wife, her children and nieces,
Mr. Hall, superintendent of the Balti- j
more Cupper mines at Santa Rosalia and
and a crew of five men. Between San
Pedro and Martinez, in the Gulf of Cali
foraia the vessel was struck by a heavy
surf and capsized. All on board per
ished except the captain and two sailors.
throttle cc::trollers.
Convention of the Rrotlierhood of Locomo¬
tive Engineer* at the Gate City.
The union meeting of the Locomotive
Engineers was held at Atlanta, Ga., the
exercises commencing by a meeting at
the Opera House. Fred. Krogg intro¬
duced Gov. Gordon, who made an elo¬
quent address, and was followed by
Mayor Cooper, T. J. Shrivers, Dr. J. W.
Lee and Chief Engineer P. M. Arthur.
The latter’s address was a masterly one.
He said: “We call our local branches
divisions, just as there are lodges and
chapters in other organizations. The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was 24 years old last April. When it
was started in Chicago there were only
12 members. Then the railway men were
little thought of, because they did not
think much of themselves. There are
now 356 subdivisions in every state and
territory in the Union and in Canada.
These divisions extend over a territory
which stretches from ocean to oceqn.
The order now has a membership of 25,- all
000, and is constantly increasing; but
along our pathway we have encountered
opposition. We have at last been able
to convince the railway companies of the
great mistake they labored under. On
the 1st of January, 1867, a monthly mag¬
azine was undertaken. Since then it has
been published regularly, the and 3d now of has
22,000 subscribers. On De¬
cember, 1867, we established the insur¬
ance assessment plan—modeled metropolitan after the
system in vogue with the
police of New York city. From the very
first this was a success, and is now one of
the main features of the Brotherhood.
It has been our plan to exhaust all hon¬
orable means before resorting to a strike.
There ought never to be a strike. It is
bad for both parties. have During been the adjus¬ past
ten years all differences
ted without strikes, where the railway
officials recognized us and treated with
US. My motto is, ‘Come, let us reason
together,’ and to put this into practice If
never fails to produce aggrieved good and results. wants to
an engineer feels
stop work, he has a perfect right to do
so, but he has not right to put his hand
on the shoulder of a fellow-workman
and prevent him from working.”
Receptions, excursions, etc., followed
the meeting, and it was one of tli,e best
conventions ever held.
FARMERS’ CONVENTION.
Affecting Agriculture
IMseiiaecd by n Hotly of Practical Men.
The interstate convention of farmers
began its sessions in Atlanta, Ga.
There was a large attendance, and judging
by the programme presented, the ses
sions will result in much practical
S 00 '^ ^ 8t to l )lcs to
j Defects in the Agricultural System
0 f the Cotton States—Assigned to North
Carolina: L. L. Polk, Raleigh. 2. Gen
cra ^ ^ * evv °* the Cause of Depression and
the Remedies—Assigned to Tennessee:
Col B F Cockerell, Nashville. 3. The
Exact Objects a Farmer Should Seek to
Accomplish, and the Best Means of Afc
complishing These Objects—Assigned to
Alabama: Prof. J. S. Newman, Auburn.
4. Government m its Relations to Sen&or Asm
cultm . e _ A6sigued t0 Geori Cotton;” , iil;
a. H. Colquitt. 5. “All Its
Relation to the Present Condition of Ag
riculture—Assigned to Mississippi. 6.
riculture—Assigned to South Carolina:
Col. Charles C. Law, Coronaca. 7. La
bor; Its Relation to the Present Condi
tion of Agriculture—Assigned to Arkan- ;
xis *Relatioi?tVthJpresent Condition of
Agriculture—Assigned to Louisiana:
Hon. 11. C * Stringfellow. 9. Exten
sive and Iut C nsive Farming—Assigned Pro- to
Florida. 10. Diversity Prosperity—As- of Crops as
motive of Agricultural Capt. Sam Evans, Fort
signed to Texas: Industrial Education—
Worth. 11.
Charles W. Dabney, President Agricul¬
tural College, University of Tennessee.
Mrs. Matilda Yose of Hyde Park,
Mass., has just c ele^jg^®P*4^z• ninety
ninth birthday. Trite is the mother of
ten children, four of whom are living,
and she has twelve grand children and
nine great-grandchildren. She retains
her faculties in a remarkable degree,
reads the newspapers, and takes a lively
interest in daily events,
THE MODE IN UTAH.
Fred Hopt, alias “Welcome,” a noto¬
rious criminal, was shot to death in the
yard of the penitentiary, near Balt Lake
City, Utah. The firing party consisted
of five men with rifles. Dr., Hamilton
pinned a rosette over Hopt’s heart, told
him to be firm and look straight quickly. at the
guns, and death would come
He would not be mutilated, but would
be if he flinched. Hopt was very cool.
He came out of his cell smoking a cigar,
which he retained to the last. He was
seated upon a chair on a blanket, and sat
up firm and erect. The crack of five
rifles rank out as one, and the rigid body
of the dead man retained its pose, the
body falling forward and the chair falling
over backward, and his stiff limbs resting
on the rung as when he sat upright. Two
bullets pierced the small rosette pinned
over his heart.
CHATTANOOGA'S INVITATION.
At a citizens’ meeting in Chattanooga,
Tenn., it was resolved to send a big del¬
egation to St. Louis, September 26th, to
invite the grand encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic to meet in
Chattanooga in 1888.
AT GIBSON’S
DP-TOWN FURNITURE STORE,
Nos. 1306, 1308 and 1310, Broad Street.
COLUMBUS. - - GEORGIA.
May Always Be Found A Large Stock Of
COTTAGE
FURNITURE,
BED-ROOM
FURNITURE,
PARLOR SETTS, MATTRESSES, ETC., ETC.
in U AVING THREE LARGE, WELL ARRANGED STORES, so constructed a 8
to present a real commodious furniture emporium, I can assure my customers
that they need not go elsewhere to find cheap and durable Furniture. I keep every¬
thing usually kept in first-class Furniture Stores.
FMb Furniture on Instalment Finn or demise,
BSP WINDOW SHADES A SPECIALTY. Give me a call.
EE. A.. GIBSON.
nov-6-ly
WEAK CLOTHES?
Don’t Buy until
you call on
Oliancellor & Pearce,
NO. 1135 BROAD ST.
L,TIMI3TJS 9 GA.
JtJ8 IS Closing ^ Ollt
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"K-Jo c HffiGUSS StOCK
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Overcoats,
SUIT PANTS
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UNDERW EAR,
At Prices that will Make Them Move,
jje is the Cheapest Merchant in Georgia.
SEW l,Ai*OIt ORGANIZATION.
A new secret organization known as
“The Brotherho :cl,” in many respects
similar to the Kniglits of Labor, has
been formed and has already grown tc
considerable proportions m Boston,
Mass., and through New England. Its
organization principles is kept the a prol'o nd se cret.
The of organization are
contained in a printed circular, which
begins with announcements that the or¬
ganization does not believe in strikes,
but uses the ballot and co-operative in¬
stitutions as weapons of warfare. It a!sc
asks that the government obtain posses¬
sion by purchase of all telegraphs, tele¬
phones and railroads.
NO SODA ON SUNDAY.
In the suit of the Law and Order So¬
ciety against a number of druggists, at
Pittsburg, Sunday, Judge Pa., for selling soda water on
Collier affirmed the con¬
victions of the defendants on the ground
that the sale of soda was not an over¬
powering sold necessity medicine, and that it was not
as a but as a beverage.
The defendants claimed that it was a
necessity, and endeavored to prove by
the testimony of several physicians that
it was medicine.
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Three hundred and sixty-five times each
year every mother's son of us has a strrg
gle getting into his shirt.
If a shirt is worth getting into, if it is strong
and well made, sure not to rip or tear,
perfect fitting, then there is some compen¬
sation for spending so much of our exist¬
ence in such a struggle. You may wrestle
with the Diamond, but with its everlasting,
stay-attachment and reinforced bosom, you
will come out head first every time, covered
withfilory and with the best shirt in the land
FURNITURE
SOLD
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INSTALMENT
PLAN.
TERMS EASY.