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% V * Kf & i A 9 v - O 4. * I * rA 4 - mm m <0 lx m a •A* % MEL A # r - r • a if.ap. **•* 4 V, r • # 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. » A 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. no. m .