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ON JOURNA SUBSCRIPTION Si-00 A YEAR. j. L. Dennis,.... ....Proprietor. HAMILTON, GEORGIA, November 4,.................... 1887. EDITORIAL NOTES. The Atlanta prohibition fight grows in interest. It will hardly be as bit¬ ter as the fight two years ago, for that was as bitter as it could be. Elsewhere we publish a very inter¬ esting reminiscence of ex Governor Towns, a former resident of Talbot county. Many of our older readers will read the article with peculiar pleasure, as they were well acquaint¬ ed with the subject of the sketch. T his is the age of steam truly. A Cincinnati firm advertises a $7 00 steam pump. 'The steam is generat ed by the fire that cooks the break fast and while that meal is cooking water enough is pumped from the well to last all day. Now what next? THE REVISED PHONOGRAPH. 'The Scientific American has a very interesting article this week based upon an interview with James A. Ed ison, the wizard of Menlo Park, as he is aptly called. He has perfected his phonograph ar.d has entered upon the wholesale manufacture of them for popular use in business and social circles. For ten years he has devot¬ ed much of his time to the electric light, but having perfected that to his own satisfaction, he has for eight months given his attention to the phonograph which he invented along time since. He has now two phono¬ graphs that are so simple that anybody can operate them and yet so perfect that they will record the speech of twenty different persons and give it out so accurately that the tones of every speaker can be distin guished easily. He will have live hundred of these phonographs realy by the middle January and his factory will turn them out rapidly after that date. lie will issue with the phonograph different size “phonogram” plates that will hold i.ooo, 2,000 or 6, ; ooo wor.s. A merchant'using the pho nograph wiU set it in motion, insert the phonogram pLte and proceed to dictate his message in his usual tone, about as it he vveie talking to a tel iuw at the other end of a telephone line .M hen the message is finished.the •phonogram' is mailed to his corres nc ndent wiio starts his phonograph to work, inserts “phonogram” and it gives him the message, emphasizing ~-«*r the several parts just as the dictator did. If a first rendering is not clear enough, then the message or any part of it may be repeated at will. It is arranged so that it will repeat the phonograh four or five words at a time so that a compositor may set the matter as it is given out. All sounds are repeated by great accura¬ cy and musical sounds especially so. 'Thus when a great opera is given in New York, or a popular song sung, the whole country may listen to it within a week. A thousand and one uses to which it may be put will suggest themselves to the minds of our readers and Mr. Edison is truly a wizard if he has ac¬ complished in his revised phonograph the half of what he claims for it. BRER FOX OF ATLANTA. There were fpur in the party—two ladies and two gentlemen—and they were going to the Atlanta Exposition from down in Alabama. As the Georgia Midland train nulled out of the depot at Columbus at twelve o’clock Monday, the 17th, every seat was occupied in the several coaches and several were standing in the aislei. Our friends had seats oppo site and were feeling comfortable, but the full cars 100 miles from the Gate City suggested the thought of scant I accommodations in that city, so a few miles out the pater familias fished out , , • , ,, , r ot his luggage a well read copy ot the . Weekly Constitution anil turning to the tloubte leaded leader on modations and How to Get Them - proceeded to read it aloud to his in terested listeners. 'The reading allayed all apprehen¬ sion and conversation ran on pleas¬ antly until the aisle began to fill in the cai tiom additions at Ellerslie, Waveriy Hall, Shiloh and Warm Spungs. 1 hen the elder fished out Meekly and in a monotone : conned the sa.ient points of that ; leader again. He dwelt over it until J M oodbury was passed, when the pa ! per was folded and laid away care fully foi iuture leterence. - 1 At Concord an acquaintance of p& r ty boarded the train and one of his first questions was, “Have you got a place to stop.” The elder answered no, but they | apprehended no trouble in getting a place, as the Constitution said there were ample arrangements for all who would come. Then the Weekly was opened again and the leader read aloud. At Griffin we waited two hours lor a train delayed because it was overloaded with Atlanta bound folks. As we waited our friend op posite read to his party the lodgings article by sections and they discussed it. A train with twenty empty coach es down from Atlanta passed us and the reading began anew. At Hamp¬ ton, as we waited, four empty trains / passed us all having gone up the road duringthe dayloadsd so that theWeek ly Constitution’s on“Accommodations and How to Get Them” again became a matter of deep concern. But here the aisle became so jammed and the light so poor that we lost sight ot our acquaintances and we saw no more of them that night. We occupied a precarious seat that night on a rickety trunk four feet above the floor of the car shed and we rose early, \bout six o’clock as we were on the eve of hunting better quarters, the elder of our party en tered the ladies waiting room and was accosted by his Concord friend, “Where did you lodge at?” asked the Concord friend.' “Well, the girls staid in here on the baggage and I walked out on the streets to get a breath of fresh air. I come across a barbei shop that lighted up and I gave the man a quarter to let me sit in one of his chairs ’til mornin’. Pretty soon Bill come along an’ I let him set in the chair an’ I laid down under it on my shawl and slept until day. Do you know where I can find Di. Tox? For the Hanr lton Journal. GOV. GEO. W. TOWNS. What an empty bubble fame is how brief and evanescent. It is the . that disappers morning 0 vapour ere “ 1e SU " aSCe " dS l ° men f an he, g ht lhlSthougbtlSSUg§ " Stedbyt ,efaCt tbat ,n conver.atton a short time ago with an intelligent gentleman of lal bot county, he scarcely remembered that such a man as George W Towns ever lived in 'Talbot county. Gov. Towns, in his day, filled as large a space in the public eye as any man j n Georgia, was gifted with talents of a rare order and was essentially “sui g en ifs,” very original, witty and a ^ ne conversationalist and genial and en tertaining. Gov. Towns was never a stu(lent> never fead much lavv , but seeme( j [ 0 know law by intuition. A rem arkable memory enabled him to en j Q y t j ie f ru i[ S of other men’s labor, and he always appeared to advantage in the court house. He was a fine advocate, always ready and usually successful. In the superior court of S- county a suit was pending between twin brothers who wonderfully resem¬ bled each other— so much so that few could tell them apart. Thsy had lived together and had all things in common. Cupid passed that way an( ] one G f ihe brothers married, to which the other was violently oppos ec j an( j j n division of the property a w jq e difference occurred and a big lawsuit. Gov. Towns was called to p iie ca se at a late hour. He repre sented the married brother and mis- took his client and uttered a wither ing tirade against the unfeeling broth er who had brought this useless lit! gation into court and sharply rebuld ed the avarice of the brother. H the midst of his eloquent denuncil lion his client pulled him down anc whispered the mistake he was mak ing. Quick as thought and not at all disconcerted said, “Now, gentlemen, I have presented the defendent’s side j of this case, and as my honorable j friend, Judge T will undertake j to pursuade you, but you are too sen sible to be misled by it.” r l hen with a rare burst of eloquence he portray ed the noble character and good heait of his client who had obeyed the di vine command, “took to himself a help-mate and he is to be abused be cause he obeyed the further law of providing for the wife he had taken. Who forced this litigation ? 1 hat sour old baehellor.” He then por trayed in glowing colors the worth Icssness of old bacbellors generally and this one in particular, and ere he concluded all forgot his or believed he designed it in his plan of argument. Judge replied, but his ammunition had been exploded and Gov. Towns gained the case. | The Gov. had a very refined and inoffensive wit. On one occasion Col. J. was telling some wonderful stories about the size of chestnut trees in north Georgia. Gov. Towns was sitting quietly by and said: “Col. J., if you had not seen those big chestnut trees would you have be lieved it?” “No,” says the Col. ; “Then please excuse me,” said the ; Governor. Memento. For the Hamilton Journal. GRAIN. It may be thought that it is an act of superfluity to remind farmers that this is the time to sow grain. The good book says “line upon line and precept upon precept,” £nd if is any class in the . community needs this wholesome that class is the farmers. 'They so wedded to the one idea of cot ton that although they admit the impor tance and the value of a good grain crop they fail to sow in season. ante-bellum days Harris county made her supply of wheat, but now a wheat fielu is a rare sight, and they excuse themselues by replying that wheat u an uncertain crop. Well, is not anl ton crop so? Yes, and much of t|l uncertainty comes from the careless way the wheat is sown. It ■ surely true that if the same care wV taken in putting in wheat as is us in putting in cotton that wheat w ? o be the most certain crop of the tvi Well, if wheat is uncertain, rye, crjj oj and barley are not and a large of these cereals ought to be plant There can be no real prosperity u