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HAMILTON, GEORGIA,
Oct on eh 28,....... 1887.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Legislature has adjourned
at last. The adjourned session cost
the State $140,000, and a member
of the Griffin bar suggests that it
would he a good thing for the State
to give the Legislature back its laws
and keep the money.—Griffin News.
Harris county objects. Two local
laws enacten for us are worth more
to the county than the session has
cost the State.
The Chattanooga, Rome & Col¬
umbus railroad is still heading this
way. it will run by Tallapoosa, on
the Georgia Pacific, the coming Bir¬
mingham of Georgia. South of that
place, which is in Haralson county,
the route has not been published.
That it will be through Harris county
we do not doubt, but whether on the
C. A R. roadbed, or through the
western part of the county nobody
can guess, President Williamson, of
the construction company, says that
his plans for the completion of the
road from Chattanooga to Columbus
by July, 1888, are complete. More
than this he will not say, but we hope
to hear more before the road is en¬
tirely finished.
The Atlanta Constitution may
smile at the reporter who walked the
streets of Atlanta Monday night of
last week in a vain effort to obtain
lodgings and finally compromised on
a half a trunk that rested on two
other trunks and rocked when he
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nodded so as to keep him always
awake; who spent an hour or more
in an effort to get a conveyance to
the exposition grounds and then un
dertook to walk to them under the
Constitution’s assurance that it was
but a twelve minute walk; who had
lady friends s upon the exposition
grounds until eleven o’clock at night
because they were unable earlier to
get on the cars to come into the city ;
it may smile at him if his reports of
the exposition are not all rose hued,
but a discriminating public will blame
the management for not providing
better for the comfort of visitors to
the big show.
THE PIEDMONT EXPOSITION,
Mr. Editor: Leaving Hamilton
with most agreeable company the
tri P to °P elika was ver y p |easant -
At that point the throng began and
when Atlanta was reached the train
carried 2000 people—standing room
was a privilege on that train. Here
the multitude increased. The car
was full, the streets were full, and the
seething, throbbing and surging mass
went in every direction, and he or
she was fortunate who found a lodg¬
ing place that night. Over 100,000
people of all ages, both sexes and of
all colors were congregated to see
President Cleveland and his lovely
wife and to witness the exposition in¬
cidents. No pen could put on paper
an adequate idea of the multitude
and incidents of the occasion. At¬
lanta was wholly incompetent to pro¬
vide for the vast crowd. The court
house and all the churches were
opened to supply sleeping places.
The police reported 5000 people
without a bed at night. A lady friend
rightly expressed it when she said,“I
did not know that there were so many
crazy people in the world, myself in
eluded.”
On the 18th there was estimated
to be ovei sixty-fiv e thousand people
within the enclosure of the fair grounds.
Early in the morning President and
Mrs. Cleveland with their civil and
military escort made a tour of the
city drawn by six white horses in a
new and elegant landeau beautifully
decorated with flowers and a parture
of roses and thence to the exposition
grounds. Their arrival was announc¬
ed by booming cannon and deafen¬
ing cheers as they entered the grand
stand. When quiet was obtained
Mr Trady introduced the President
in a characteristic speech. The
President made a short address, well
timed, fall of facts and with great
good sense. He spoke easily and
gracefully and closed with an earnest
wish for the health and happiness
the whole country. ' Gov. Gordon
followed with his accustomed elo¬
quence and the people were proud
of their Governor The party then
made a tour of the several halls, in¬
spected the exhibits and returned to
the grand stand and held an informal
reception. Thousands passed by
charmed spot where stood Mr.
Mrs. Cleveland. Cheer after
greeted the passing. After this the
party returned to the city and the
grand pageant disappeared.
This exposition is greater than
cotton exposition—greater in quality
and greater in multitude— and is an
event not to be forgotten by this gen
eration. The exhibits were first-class
and very instructive. Among them
stands prominent ‘ Mr. Seney’s collet:
. and _ the display. j - i
of . art
tion paintings
The Seney paintings are valued at
$300,000—one small painting at $15
000. The agricultural exhibit was
excellent and well illustrated the grand
old state of Georgia. The cattle and
poultry show was fine. One cow is
said to give 10 gallons of milk per
day, and wears the medal of the cat¬
tle tribe. The occasion furnished
many fine horses.
The exposition grounds 90 days
previous was a cotton field and all
these handsome buildings were erect¬
ed within that time. A remarkable
and most gratifying fact was the good
order preserved and was the result of
the banishment of King Alcohol from
Atlanta and furnishes more than
“three cheers” for prohibition. What
think you of the President ? He is a
man of great will-power, cool collect
ed, a good thinker and decided in all
his convictions, a safe man and is
sure to be his own successor. Mrs.
Cleveland is a beautiful woman with
elegant graces of person and manners,
and is a help meet indeed.
Altogether the occasion will be
remembered for its many discom¬
forts. Visitor.
For the Hanr'lton Journal.
NOTICE.
The Harris County Sunday School
Association meets at Bethlehem on
Wednesday, the 2nd day of Novem¬
ber, at 10 o’clock, a. m.
It is very desirable to have every
Sunday School in the county repre¬
sented. The Association is doing
much good and deserves the presence
and encouragement of all Sunday
School workers. The exercises wilt
be interesting and instructive and a
day cannot perhaps be more profita¬
bly spent. It is very encouraging to
be informed of the progress of the
work in other sections than our own
and very desirable to learn better
methods of instruction. The Sunday
School work can be improved, and
“in the multitude of council there is
wisdom,” for wisdom will preside and
shed light on the path of duty, peace
and prosperity.
S. S. Worker.
^ or L>avis, Henry Gra y
and Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
Sedentary Men and Stimulants. (u ^ *^
It is certain that sedentary men n
less their appetites are restricted) are
quite as heavy eaters as laborers. Soi 116
of the exceptions comprise th<>se
who, by the habitual use of the so
called paratripties, tea, coffee, tobacco,
wine, etc., daily lessen the waste of the
brain and thug diminish the amount or
necessar y food. Setting these aside,
every hospitable housekeeper knows and
exact experiment proves that sedentary
men are quite as large consumers as They an
equal number of daily laborers.
must eat largely or fail to obtain suffi
cient brain supply from food which con- *
tains but a small proportion of it. Even
then it is probable that the nervcus tis¬
sues often suffer from starvation. Else
why the frequent examples of collapse in
this class of the community? The only
really effective and feasible means of
palliation to this dilemma are to be found
in the judicious employment of those
substances which nature has placed
our hands, apparently for this very pur¬
pose, and which the blind instinct erf man
has always discovered and applied.
refer to the use of the so called para
of waste in the > ’
triptics, or preventers the and
body. Of these most common
best known are wine, tea, coffee and to
bacco. Other substances, such as the
South American coca, the betel nut and
all the narcotics, exhibit similar powers.
—North American Review.
The Oyster Superstition.
The old superstition that an oyster is
poisonous in the months of May, June,
J uly and August is now exploded. The
bivalves are for sale in all the large cities
of the country all the year round now.
In olden times the oyster was gathered
in the wild state, but nowadays the oys
ter crop is cultivated just as the com
crop is. You may have heard of “com
fed oysters.” That means that they are
really fed by cornmeal sprinkled upon
the surface of the water .and allowed to
gradually settle. I will say this about
the summer oyster, however, and that ia»
he is thin and weak, and by no means las
palatable as the spring, fall and winder
bird. When the old idea prevailed that
an oyster was poisonous in a month witih
out an “r,” except August,
spelled “Orgust,” the clam business ea
joyed a boom, which is now on the tbs:
eline, for somehow or another the cl&oi
does not catch on away from the sore
board cities.—Oyster Deafer in Glolin
Democrat. ;at
temational It is announced Mexican Steamship that by Sept. Line. 1 the a
have company, of Mexico,
established a line of new steamships
between and Central San Diego and twenty Mexican l
American ports, which
will ultimately be extended to Sout
America. Negotiations are now in
gress for the landing of the New
and Australian mails at San Diego, for
transportation across the continent by
Santa Fe trail. It is alsc said that
per ships are to ply between New Y>L
and San Diego.—Public Opinion.
Surgeon's Valuable Aid. id
Another valuable aid to the surge
the newly discovered addition to
laryngoscope. They place the hermfc 111
cally sealed insulated glass electric b*d *
tips or burners on the wire attachment! lit
the instrument, and are enabled to lar^p
up the cavities of the throat and e
so diseased as clearly to see the adopt condition the remiif* of f loj
organs,
treatment that pathology i
Demorest’s Monthly.
