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THE HAMILTON JOURNAL.
VOL. XV.
For the ILmrlton Journal.
THE STATE ROAD.
To the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of
Georgia. Gentlemen:
• •
The great question now agitating
the public mind is the sale of the
railroad.
Sell it in such a way that every
man man and and woman om in the state -
Georgia may become a purchaser on
fair and equal terms. Have the
road commissioners of the siate
. , ...
some oner'gooi commi ‘
the road with all its rights ana ^
tenances at a fair valuation in
and divide it into shares of one
Arfd dollars ner share ’ aonoint a
al . of able to ,
C1 committee men
up and have passed a good and
stantial charter for the company
organized, then put a minimum
per share below which no share
shares 1 chaii shall be hp QnW sold. Ad Advertise emse a
sell in small lots to the highest
der. In that way the stock will
its value and every citizen will have
a a fVr fair rhinrp chance to to cr & P t stock if
.
want it, and if the business is
transacted no one will have a right
complain of stock jobbing.
Respectfully, &c.,
Henson S. Estes.
Columbus, Ga., August 24th.
HOW IT IS.
Much interest here centers in
Chattanooga, Rome &
railroad and the people of this
lion are all anxious to learn of
progress as well as the purpose of
management. Last week the
of representatives passed a bill
ing the name of the Rome &
ton road to that of the Chattanooga,
Rome & Columbus Railroad.
eral hundred hands broke dirt on
road at Chattanooga last week
several sections are under
between that city and Rome.
'The Central railroad is thought
be back of tbe enterprise and it
thought that the Columbus &
road will be extended from
ville to some point on the
Griffin & North Alabama road, a
soon to be sold to satisfy a
held by the Central. The
"•d] only be sixteen or twenty
and will be to Newnan or Turin in
Coweta county or to some point
tween these two places. The
will be widened, of course, and the
cpvpral lints * nKS nf u rnad will be
as one system, lOCYCiupim-uio Develonments are
awaited with much interest.
SELL IT.
The Journal has on many
sions advocated the sale of the state
road. Before the organization of
state railroad commission there were
reasons, perhaps, why the state should
own this property. Now we can see
none. The road can be sold just
now, in all probability, for its full
value. There is now a necessity
it as the link in a system that when
suDolied bv a new road as it will be.
should the state road not be offered
for sale will greatly cut into the traffic
JOSEPH L.DENNIS
PROPRIETOR.
of the state road, and decrease its
market value.
It is thought that the road can be
sold now for $8,000,000. This would
be an amount sufficient to cancel all
but a small fraction of the bonded
debt of the state. The inteiest on
th j s debt j s much larger or^ever than the
; d is has been,
renta | of the roa
The interest on the debt must be
paid; the income from the road has
at times been very uncertain. It
| m be s0 a(Ta in. The bill authoriz
; tbe sa ] e should protect, as well as
| ® be? \ he state » s interest. This
I done it should be made a law at once.
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HENRY Ry praqy TO FARMERS. •
Hon. H. \\. Grady ^ is a very
brilliant man and in nothing has lie
d j s P la > retl hls g enius more an m
his speech in Atlanta last week , before .
thefarmeis>congress> This xve think
the following extracts will fully attest:
Referring to the faimer he said he
* s a man vvh P h v es n ot by percentage
1 b ?, “‘by C ^Tweast°and b1 fills him Jf
b stands , stal- i
fr011 , her fountains He u , , a
VV art and independent in the sweat ot
his brow, looking the sunshine into
i the golden glory of his harvest and
1 s P reacbn g showers m the verdure of
his fields, conscious of the integrity of
j his , abor God.” that enrlc h es man, while he
honors
Of cotton he said :
“What a royal plant it is. 1 he
worldwaits in attendance on its growth.
The shower that falls whispering on
its leaves is heard around its earth.
tempered .
The sun that shines on it is
by the prayers of all the people. 1 he
{ ™ si thai chllIs f and tlie de "j 1 ia *
descends from the stars is noted ml
tbe tres P ass of the
green leaf is more to England ,h an ”
[ he advance of the Rl ’ ss ! an *T y °
her Asian outposts. k 1S g. old fr
the lt P Llts forth lts tin ? s f '
^ bbre » current m every bank,and
I ' vhen j 00Sln g its fleeces to the sun it
^ oa1 f lts snowy banner that glori es
; the fieId of tbe hurrib ' e farn J, er ’ If
man is marshalled under a flag that
shall compel the allegiance of t e
world and wring subsidy from every
nation on earth.”
* ~ .....
J “W e have a land unsurpassed in
richness and fertility, a climate en
riched, winter is but a passing breath,
and spring and autumn meet in the
heart of summer. Corn, cotton, clo
ver, ‘“bacco, 'wheat a, ’ d gr “ 8es
in one >™Uure. 1 each an PP
ripen in tnesame orcnaro,ano wc v
every fruit from the pineapple to the
Siberian crab. Our foresta are ^ x *
haustless our mines rich, our quarries
untouched, our lands perfect. Are
our men - lacking . • ? \ijl Why? n In
ness and courage our fotLprc fathers cravp gave us
j a richer heritage than in the broad
1 acres they bequeathed. The blood
of the old South is as tender as ever,
fed bv heart of , ardent , as
woman, ’ as
f blazed , . . m veins . of f soldier, ,r ct-u .he -
ever
pncr qcrinfr tenderness of the cavalier
, t • . tb stur d v Anglo-Saxon cur
rent the ncb re d blood of strong men
ran as water at honors call, and
never stained where it touched.”
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<<nvA/F NO MAN ANYTHING”
-
; Mr. Editor :—The Inter-State
Farmers’Association in session at
] Atlanta last week presented many m-
HAMILTON, GA„ AUGUST 26.1887.
teresting facts. The reports and ad
dresses were well considered, often
eloquent and contained much instruc
tive reading. But they failed to as
sign the true cause “for the depressed
condition of agriculture.” there
In no age of the world was
ever a greater demand for agricultur
al products and in the main at fair.re
numerating prices. The yield of sta
pie products has been reasonably
good. No train of disasters has pro
duced crop failures. A beneficent
Providence has sent the sunshine and
the showers, and earth in all her glad
ness has held the rain-bow of promise
and the smile of encouragement,
Why, then, is agriculture the founda
tioiv stone of all real prosperity been
“depressed?” Why does the farmer
more than all others “work hard and
get little pay?” Simply because they
reblse obe y divine injunction:
“ 0 we no man anything.”
*p be divine mind scanning with
unerr j n g certainty human wants and
human happiness pronounced this
cattti ° n 38 lastin § as , * me and as be ‘
nevolent as truth itself. .
Jhe wise man said that “the bor
rower j s servant | 0 the lender,” and
bbman experience abundantly verifies
it§ t ^ th rhe per ii s and disasters
i nc id en t to and flowing from debt can
not be enumerated and ought to be
avoided as the deadly Upas tree,
q*| ie syren song of adventure and
gain may for a time conceal the pois
one( j fang, but sooner or later the
wound w il\ appear and destroy every
prospect of real success.
Jf the real condition of the farmers
j n re g ard to t ] ebt CO uld be put upon
er and scrutin i ze a the most Intel
ligent would be surprised and amaz
ed Nominally the farmers own the
land and cro P’ but in most cases the
crop is spent before it is made and
money lender holds the mortgage.
is impossible in the nature of
that a farm can be prosperous
dene(] with a load 0 f debt. The man
wbo ls j n debt does not wor k for
sdf but f or his creditor and too often
finds a task-master worse than
tian 5ondage . Avoid debt as you
wou j d lbe c ] ea( ]]y Upas tree.
Observer.
Hargett i>ot*.
j wounder hoo thflt is ^ pening the dots
f roI11 (Joq j reckon its that shoit Laired
cleaa nhave friend of ourH.
Mr Sprouga that keepa the mill if it
i< come np to Tinkers vili son. court day
“ ^.“fuMhe om 8 i“d prerarei/mn'y hea-‘
T} . t t of , be boy. lets cara
Wor( j 8 fly in a hurry when they get mad.
We CSDt do ^ no „ bat m9[|d np
wa , er a „p 8 f or it raioa most al tba tune,
We have been to tee »»r. fought and
bleed had the measeles come np mining
several tiiiifcfi times but dui deliver aenver iiiB me from irom wnt^r water
R [ a P F 3 thls 18 a remarkable year first to dry
hfc n to wet the crop semes to bee hurt
f rom w j n d the worst cotton got tb«
rus t fodder is rotting on the stalk.
Wei we aire A hard set to please any
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Thi.e i h.» . bm . . .ne.k , seen in ... the organ
at M C Lay fields. Reckon he is taken
mnsic tesons miss umia aont sem to
at tJ 0 * cIock>
p ^ R 0 ]es <^flfiisbanated on friday anti
ock ip. an exertation on the first plasm.
J W Wilson fill his regelar pointiment
Saturday an Sunday an preach to a large
congregation, was thought best not to
protract the meting the cause cold church
ham eat up all tbe chickens.
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with sallow complexion, thin blood .
loss of appetite, great weakness and
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Hisface was bloated,puffed andwatery
looking (dropsical) his complexion be
ing very pale and yellow. He had no
regular appetite and was too weak to
work, not having worked six months,
all told, in two years. I had tried 6
or 7 doctors and spent $300 to cure
him,but all failed. 1 had offered one
doctor $150 to cure him, but he re
fused to take the case. I had heard
so much about your Nunbetter Tonic
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them to him. He is now entirely well
and has worked for 3 months in the
field steadily,and I consider him finally
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Yours resp., W H Cooper.
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