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5 j F\ r aft'. | JFC Williams, X ^ <H V * > \ 4 ■ * jfr •*4 % ‘4 * 8 ; f>' k?.k Jfii a §3 -mm a * ycVf a s ,y i X A r ‘1 % V wOL. XV. l ATLANTA JAM. "he first lady in the land took us \tlanta Monday. Or at least as r there Monday as we could get ^er the circumstances. We went ’1 here to Columbus and boarded oon the Georgia Midland train, i he care of a clever conductor we ’• a very pleasant ride to Griffin, i re we arrived on schedule time. J herc troubies be our S ai1 ' * coaches when we st °l ) P ed were afortably filled, but in a few mln L were over crowded. The Geor ^Midland f Central authont.es . Slde . had track switched and on a • us to wait for the Atlanta bound n from Macon to take us on. lat train arrived two hours and a jf late and pursued its course leis dy Atlanta-ward until it landed us ’ v the Central deoot at o’clock r 2 nine hours late. c friends • j were to , have met t us •5 o’clock p. m. Tired of wailing had long retired at 2 a m. It a most unreasonable ,, , hour to . find r A Hgings or anything else. We couldn’t ;en find a city directory to look up r boarding house. The jam around was bewildering and the scene be¬ nd description. Sitting room was a premium and there were ladies to occupy all the seats. of trunks were piled up ider the car shed and hundreds of were sitting, lying and leaning 1 'V them asleep. The controlling Vy walked about looking with tv. n the happily seated minor e, like the poet’s bashful VO'S ^ man . ty Stood awhile on one foot fust XAn’ then awhile on t'other, a\i* on which foot I felt the wust Iycouldn’t ha’ tol* you nuther. he waiting was weary, but it ended Nfct. Day came, lamps were ex- 1 fished and the Atlanta folks be K to stir. A hack was procured Jr }vo minutes ride brought us to bearding house and a ’come. A tea minute nap, a hearty break a glance at the morning paper we were ready to see the sights. is usually dry but always full, morning she was wet and cidtdly fuller. A walk down to JOSEPH L.DENNIS, PROPRIETOR. the Kimball House and around it gave us a view of a mass of hurnani ty. For blocks and blocks the streets were jammed. Tens of thousands of people were waiting to git out to the Exposition grounds on the Air Line train. Twelve hundred people every nf *een minutes—4800 an hour—48,000 in ten hours. A calculation ot this sort ran through our head as we vie*. cd the mass of humanity to be seen at nine o’clock from the Broad Street bridge and that view seemed to cover a whole day . g work for the Air Line . The streets cars were loaded to their utmost capacUy and where nobo(Jy knew They aKvayl came in sight i oa ded Tuesday morning’s Constitution said that it was but a twelve-minute walk to the Exposition grounds and rather , than , stand . . the drizzle n wait . the railroau ing our turn on we de cided to walk. iVe walked out beau tiful , Peachtree „ street for forty min- 3 utes. Then we took a carriage . and a brisk ten minutes ride brought us to the Exposition. The Constitu¬ tion’s walking editor, who compasses five miles in twelve minutes is the champion pedestrian of the age. Of the Exposition we shall speak at another time. It was immense. Its equal in all the elements that go to make an exhibition of the kind valuable and helpful has never before been seen in the south. An exami nation of irtook up so much of our time that we failed to see President Cleveland when he arrived and the crowd was far too large for us to ven ture within seeing distance of him. After a day spent as pleasantly as our physical condition would admit of, we returned to the city, retired early, slept soundly, rose next morning boarded a Georgia Midland coach at 6 o’clock and after an hour of wait ing left busy, bustling, crowded, jam med, happy Atlanta behind us. Our ride home was without inci dent or accident, and at ten o’clock Wednesday night we reached home, happy that we had seen the Exposi tion and happier still that we were safely over it. HAMILTON, GA., OCTOTBER EDITORIAL NOTES. Ten thousand of Atlanta’s guests could find sleeping apartments Tues¬ day night only in the churches. Mrs. Cleveland was not the pretti¬ est woman at the Exposition, but she had as many admirers as all the others combined. Uncle Sam is no bigger man than the Atlanta Exposition. His mails have been delayed quite as badly as the Exposition’s females. ----^----- These talk back sort of women are not considered the best kind for wives. Emma Abbot may put this in her pipe and smoke it. The entire editorial and much the reportoriai staff of the Journal were at the Piedmont Exposition and every one will be given a showing next week. Harris Superior Court adjourned Thursday morning. Judge Smi.h made many friends by the faithful and diligent, yet pleasant manner in which he performed the duties of his office. It would be impossible to crowd Macon as Atlanta was crowded. It isn’t built to be crowded. So if you wish to see the great Confederate chieftain, don’t stay away from Ma con from fear of another Atlanta jam. The Piedmont Exposition was a wonderful exhibition, but more won derful was the good humor maintain¬ ed by her thousands of visitors. No amount of rain, and mud, and slash, and exposure could rob the multi¬ tude of its enjoyment. The fun we had was well worth all it cost. Emma Abbot may talk back at the preachers in Nashville, and b praised for her courage ia Chatta¬ nooga, but a Harris county grand jury would want but fifteen minutes to indite her for disturbing public worship, if she should repeat her ad¬ vertising scheme in Hamilton, and a ONE DOLLAR A YEAft, STRICTLY IN AOVANC*. traverse jury wouldn't want half the time named to convict her. Many Harris county folks will go to Macon next week. The fare h r the roun I trip from Hamilton will I e but $3, which includes admission to ^ ie ^ a ’ r g roii nds. You can leive a _ _ _ *» P* m *» an< ^ taking thij night train from Columbus reach Macon early the next morning, spend a whole day at the fair, return to Columbus at night and reach Hamilton at 8 o’clock a. m. Such a trip »ould be inex pensive and we opine many will make it. One thought impressed us at the Exposition. Harris county is the peer of any county in the state. Her resources ought to have been adver tised Everything is to be gained by such an advertisement, nothing to be lost. A few enterprising men can do much to bring us to the front. We have the men. They have only to be aroused to a sense of duty for them to take hold and push on to a grand success. The Journal pro poses to work from this time forward for a Hams county exhibit at both Macon and Atlanta r.ext year. Shall we have it. BUSY AS BEES. “Please say to the readers of the Journal that while we arc too busy to write an advertisement we are not too busy to give them careful atten¬ tion if they are in need of anything in the way of clothing, hats, farm's! - ing goods, &c. Our stock is fui’and complete and the great rush upon us is evidence that our prices are satis factory. Never before haue we been so well assured of the wisdom of our motto “Quick sales and small profits.” Thus spoke the senior of .1. K. Harris & Co., Clothiers, Columbus, to this scribe, as he hurried to at tend a waiting customer. j** For the Hamilton Jqvhxai., TO LUM D. From fact to fiction you descend And grasp the Utter as a friend; You hold it dearer by 2ll odds To hold the devil against The Gods. Now hear me, ray kind young friend, While a helping hand Hi try to lend. Stop Bu» stick writing things so aiiy forsooth, to that which contains the truth. W. N0.71.