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VOL. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
A Columbus merchant heads an
advertisement “Three Stories.” An
Atlanta man would put it “One
Hundred Miraculous Truths.”
The editor of the Journal pur
poses accompanying “the first lady
in the land” to the Piedmont Expo
sition to meet President Cleveland
and wife.
Several new business cards appear
in our advertising columns today. As
soon as we can find time it will be
pleasure to write up some mter
esting facts to their credit.
The fall season is upon us and
can no more resist the demand upon
us to publish original poetry than the
authors can resist the force that im
pels them to express their thought sin
verse.
Marc Hamilton Iournal came to
the 3 / 2
amei vS week enlarged and in a hand
in tb new dress. The Journal is
add 0 f our favorite exchanges, and
Cf aie glad to note its prosperity.—
Leary Courier.
The Hamilton Journal has come
hut in an enlarged form, has put on
a new dress and new head gear and
is wonderfully improved in appear
ance. With the aS Iournal at its
present standard the people of Har¬
ris chunty should be proud of it.—
Buena Vesta Patriot.
We publish on another page a very
intering reminis^nce of Hon. Walter
T. Colquitt. i article is from the
pen of one of tWwb ost highly honor
ed citizens of this county, whose pen
has often enlivened the pages of the
Tournal. The article is o^f of the
best we havj published.
The “banting process,” we appre
hend is not such a flesh reducer as
President Cleveland will find the
jaunt to be that he is now taking.
If he can do nothing but shake
hands but two or three hours a day
and maiutain his flesh, it is useless
for him to try other processes.
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
The Piedmont Exposition opens
Monday and President Cleveland
and wife are expected to arrive Mon
day night of the following week. The
fare from Hamilton, Chipley and
Greenville over the Central will be
$4.00 including a ticket into the Ex
position grounds.
The Columbus Ledger issued last
Friday a twenty page number contain
ing an elegant map of Columbus, to¬
gether with much descriptive matter
showing up the industries of that
city. The paper was a credit to one
of the most progressive cities of the
south, as well as to its publishers.
ft?
Mr. H. C. Hanson, for some time
business manager ol the Macon
'Telegraph, negotiating for the En
Q^r. He would be a valuable ac
quisition to Columbus bustness cir
cles > « he is a gentleman of fine bus
incss tact and sagacity 0 J as his brilliant
management of the business affairs
of the Telegraph attests.
In securing the services of Nfy*. F.
H. Richardson as editor the Macon
Telegraph is to be congratulated.
Mr. Richardson has been for a num¬
ber of years the Washington corres¬
pondent of the Atlanta Constitution
and his letters have always been one
of the most interesting features of
that journal. He is a graceful wri¬
ter a faithful worker and a pleasant
gentleman. The Telegraph will
never lag behind with so gifted an
editor at the helm.
The opposition to any measure
should be based upon the measure
itself and its demerits, rather than
upon the source of the measure, To
oppose that which is good because it
is suggested by one whose motives
are sinister, is childish in the ex
treme The debate in the house of
representatives last Friday when the
bill to sell or lease the State road, as
may seem best to the next general
assembly, was under discussion show
ed a narrow-mindedness upon the
part of some of the speakers tnat is
tiuly deplorable. The measure is a
purely business measure, and- our
representatives should treat it in a
HAMILTON, GA., OCTOTBER 7,1887.
business way. It it will pay to stdl
the road, no sentiment will forbid the
people of the state pronouncing in
favor of the sale; upon the other
hand, if the rental will be more than
interest the state will have to pay to
carry the debt which the sale of the
road would cancel, then we appre¬
hend ihe verdict favoring a lease
would be clear and ce r tain. The
present assembly will fail in its duty
to the people if it does not provide
for submitting the matter to the peo¬
ple in such a wav that they may act
intelligently upon it.
THE SHORT COTTON CROP. |
There is no question but that on
some farms in Harris county the
cotton crop will not reach the half of j
1
an average crop. This is due to the j
summer freshets. But the proposi¬
tion that the crop of the county will
fall even twenty-five per cent short of
an average crop is entirely untenable.
It cannot be so. It is nearly all
gathered now, and while the product
is not half what was planted for or
even what was promised ten 'weeks
ago, the crop is nearly or quite up to
the average. It’s a short crop, tin
doubteiiiy, but the trouble is that it
is almost always so. Failure is the
rule; a good crop is the exception.
The crop of 1880, the census year,
wa$ an average crop, if not a good
one. That year the product was
12,600 bales. Last year the crop
could not have been any short of
this. The shipments from Chipley,
Hamilton and Cataula were about
10,000 bales, and it is well known
that several thousand Dales produced
in the county were hauled to West
Point, LaGrange and Columbus. At
Chipley and Hamilton, to date, the
receipts indicate at least a 12.000
bale dop— it may be more.
We are aware that many men dif
fer us whose opinions are worthy of
consideration, but they, we fear, lue
too many of our farmers place too
high an estimate upon the profitable
ness of cotton culture. It might be
profitable if “average” crops could
always be raised and “good” prices
always be obtained.
Com, oals, wheat, barley, rye, po
ONEDOLLAR A YEAR,
STRIOTLY IN ADVANCE.
tatoes, pease and sugar cane quae
often get up to an average, but if
cotton has ever attained to this point
tiie agricultural reports have never
noted the fact.
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For the Hunrlton Jocknai..
THE LICENSE QUESTION.
Mr. Editor: Has anybody the
legal right to sell spirituous liquors
in the town of Hamilton after the
6th day of October, 1887 ?
Did not a large number of respect
able citizens pe'ition the legislature
of Georgia to pass a law prohibiting
any one from selling spirituous liquors
without a petition from two thirds of
the citizen freeholders praying the
authorities to grant a lit ense lot the
same ? Dtd u not pass the legist >
ture and receive the Governor’s ng
nature about the 20th of September
and that day go into effect? Did
not the license of those engaged in
the businnss expire on the 6th, insi.,
except one house, and is not that
house doing business without the
bond which the law requires?
We ask these questions for the
benefit of the grand jury which meets
next week. Is not our town council
making itself liable to indictment for
granting license illegally? Is it law
tul for them to renew license before
it expires with the express purpose of
evading law ? Citizen.
COURT WEEK.
The fall term of Harris Superior
Court begins next Monday. Judge
Smith is expected to preside. Only
a few new cases have been returned
and none of these are of special in¬
terest. The civil dccket is lighter
than it has been in many years, and
but little criminal business that is
new is upon the docket. Several old
cases are on hand, but in some of the
most important of these judge Smith
» disqualified, while in others no ar
rests have be-n made. I t thought
that the business can be disposed ot
in on: week. I he Journal will ex
its good friends to drop m du
ring the week and renew their sub
‘■criptions.
If court holds two weeks it will in¬
terfere with the Piedmont Exposition.
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