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t rm I jJfcC nr do A w* yt, m yr 1 . ] 1 4 F 1 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, 4 * m* 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. >» <»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.