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L. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
'The Legislature will adjourn on
e 20th of October.
[Interest in the two great Georgia
Is increases as their opening days
tw nearer.
The Piedmont Fair opens just
e week from next Monday. We
p all going.
The contract for building the At
Intic, Talbotton and Birmingham
>ad has been concluded.
I The railroad edition of the Griffin
pn reached us Tuesday. It was a
blendid issue of an always excellent
ewspaper.
I The American yacht, Volunteer,
pas successful Wednesday in the race
[gainst the English yacht, Thistle. It
I; no easy matter to beat the yankee
•n his own grounds.
■
Harris county will be dry after the
ir&t of next August, if not sooner,
rhe bill making it so was signed by
he Governor on the 20th. It will
jC published next week.
N. W. Ayer & Son’s American
Newspaper Annual for 1887 has
reached us. It is a handsome vol
me, replete with information about
newspapers and it must be
great help to every large advertiser.
rhe Journal insists that turnips,
wheat, oats, rye and barley, where
sown upon soil well prepared and
highly manured, will pay well this
Tfae farmer who rests from
until next February or March
be too tired then to make
'crop.
The Macon Telegraph has chan
-d hands. Col. J. F. Hanson has
his interest lo Mr. J. H. Camp
who succeeds him in the man
iigement. The editorial manage
pent of the paper has also been
[hanged, ancTit announces that here
Liter if. it will support President Cleve
[and and advocate a taiiff tor reve
|ue. As the representative organ of
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
the city of Macon, the Telegraph
occupies an important position,
it affords us pleasure to note its
alignment with the people of the
state in their highest interests.
♦
A PREMIUM FOR TRASH.
T he United States postal laws of
fer a premium for trashy literature,
Anything bound substantially cannot
be mailed as second class matter at
one cent per pound, hut must pay,
only because it is substantially bound,
one cent per ounce. T he ! aw forbids
muslin, sheep and morocco bound
periodicals being entered in the sec
ond class, and in this offers a premi-.
urn for trash. Nobody wants a val
uable work bound in paper. Yet a
senseless law says that if he will have
well bound bobks, he must pay, not
double, or ever, quadruple postage,
but sixteen times as much as the
charge is upon paper binding.
There lie before us two volumes.
The one in paper, the other in cloth.
The difference in the first cost of the
two books is the difference in the
cost of binding—a difference per¬
haps of twenty cents. Yet the re¬
tail price of the one is twenty cents;
the other $i. The difference is
caused by the postal laws. Period¬
ical publications, bound only in pa
per, are mailable at one cent a pound
—bound in cloth the postage is one
cent an ounce.
But for this senseless law many of
the better magazines would issue two
editions—one in cloth and one in pa¬
per. If a copy of the Century, the
Atlantic, Harper or Scribnei could
be purchased in cloih binding for ten
or twenty cents added to the present
price, these publications would find
a larger sale than they now have. A
doth bound volume is preserved upon
the library shelves and is a constant
source of pleasure, while the work in
paper backs gravitates to the waste
basket. The law that pronounces in
favor of the latter against the former
cannot be defended.
ENTERPRISING AND ENERGET1C.
Looking in upon the well filled
shelves and counters of Messrs J. K.
Harris & Co , of Columbus, one
think that less than a year
HAMILTON, GA., SEPTEMBER 30,1887.
ago their store was the scene
a devastating confia
gration. Such was the case,
however, but pluck and energy know
no such word as fail and upon the
ruins of their former store they have
now erected a more lasting and valu
able superstructure.They have now no
old stock to work off, but everything
j s new an( j stylish. They handle
grades of good such as the people
demand and they can fit you out in a
vvedding suit, a Sunday suit, a busi
ncss su j t) or a wor j c su j t> as y OU may
need and they cm give you goods at
pnees that will be truly astonishing,
Thcy keep a fuh jinc of 5oys an(1
youth’s clothing, hats and furnishing
goods and anything they have you
ma y be assured is to be had on the
lowest margin of profit,
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A Bofirwe ***** °' *
Chipley, Ga., Sept. 28.— Mr. Ed
itor : —The social people of our town
well remember Mr. Lanier, a so call¬
ed accomplished young gentleman
from Savannah, pretending to repre¬
sent a new syndicate of railroads that
had borrowed millions of dollars from
London to build a new road from
Birmingham to Savannah. Quite a
nice scheme he unfolded to some of
our citizens, and our people being
keen r or railroads caught on easily,
and Mr. Lanier was the constant and
popular topic of conversation in ev¬
ery crowd. A man of fascinating
address, having in a marked degree
some of the elements of a Chester
held, aud posiesed of fine musical
talent, our young people fell in line
with him and several musicals were
given in his honor. No suspicion
whatever presented itself to the mind
of our people, although he walked
from West Point here.
One night last week he had his
room at the hotel changed to the
office, from which he departed un¬
known in the deau hours of midnight,
skipping his board bill and for
saking the kind friends he had made
during his brilliant career.
A very tine map belonging to Judge
Allen is missing, also a fine valise,
which is credited to him. Nothing
has been said until in the Constitu
tion of a few days ago, the burgla-
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
ry in Seale, Ala., which brought forth
a rascal similarly featuied. Not being
well acquainted with the sharper we
are unable to give a clear description
of him. But as best we can remem
her his general appearance showed
up somewhat of a Frenchman, a bru
nette we think in complexion, spark
ling eyes, mustache only, long and
curies under his chin. This con
summate rascal shouldbe branded with
cow hide—raw. We expose these
facts because we think it a debt due
society to guard against such transient
burglars; also to guard other towns
from such misfortune in the line we
have experienced. m .
Au Old and True Friend.
Such is Thomas, the ‘No-Shoddy’
clothier of Columbus, to the well
dressed portion of the people of the
county of Harris. He has done as
much as any man to educate their
taste in dress and to teach them that
it pays to wear good clothes and to
always buy the best. He proves the
last proposition on every customer,
for every sale he makes establishes
its truth. A man cannot buy a suit
of Thomas without being pursuaded
before he needs another that it pays
to buy the best.
Mr. Thomas, at his store next to
the Rankin House, is constantly re
ceiving his fall and winter clothing.
He makes a specialty of wedding
outfits and he can suit you if you
contemplate matrimony. He also
carries a full line of samples and he
can suit any taste in his special order
department.
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<»o to Nee If tm«
It will pay you to call at the shoe
store of W. R. Bedell, in Columbus,
when you need shoes. He has an
entirely new stock, exhibited in an
entirely new store, that is arranged in
an entirely new fashion, and although
he i» no new man at the business, he
doesn’t propose to let his shoes get
old if low prices will move them.
In the line of school shoes, work
shoes and ladies shoes his stock is
replete with bargains and he can of¬
fer special inducements on any of
these goods. It will pay ^you to go
to see him before making your winter
purchases.
NO. 08.