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A V* < N. a I ¥ . - i . b t « cv r r * £ • V • : 1 V 4 j u . • t 1 f ▼ VOL. XV. EDITORIAL NOTES. Hon. Henry R. Harris has our thanks for a number of valuable public documents. The LaGrange Reporter esteems it a compliment to be called the best country paper in Georgia. We won¬ der if the city of LaGrange counts a, it so. The editor of the Columbus En quirer doesn’t seem to have lived in a city long enough to recognize the difference between town polish and real intelligence. Mr. Atkinson’s proposition to a part of Canada to get rid of fisheries question doesn’t strike favorably. There seems ta .be many of us now as are ourselves satisfactorily or with credit. If Holloway of the Big Dime of Columbus is the author of his vertisements he is chunking his time running a successful store. He would find it money in pocket to go north and grow up as humorist. Henry Grady’s speeches tor prohi bition are the poetry of the campaign. They bristle with but with facts as poeticaily and fe¬ licitously presented, as Homer logued the Grecian hosts who vested ancient Troy. Ex-United States Senator Jones of Florida, who has been in Detroit for two years past, is in a sad condi tion financially and mentally. He spent his money in a princely man ner until it was all gone, and would now be without shelter but for the kindness of a friend. It is a sad downfall for a once influential man and popular politician. The prohibition campaign in At doses to morrow. 'The anti have been active, ag i^ssive and bitter. They have had plenty of money and have used it without stint or scruple. All that can do for an evil cause—for for baj__ L --- • • * •» e rin JOSEPHL.DENNIS, PROPRIETOR. anything else—has been done. It remains to be seen if the vir¬ tue and intelligence of our grand metropolis can prevail against such a force. God grant that it may, but whatever the result, the prohibition¬ ists have made a gallant fight. At this writing it looks as if success was assured, but should defeat be theirs ic should not be forgotten that “Truth crushed to earth will rise The eternal years of God are her s; But Error wounded, writhes in pain And dies amidst her worshippers.” “That looks like business,” remark¬ ed one of Rome’s enterprising citizens to the' Bulletin man this morning while pointing to a fine drove mules. “Yes,” replied the Bulletin man, “but what about them ?” , °h“n<lred , mul , bel , ‘ w <* Eh * h * h and LoWe and the ? “* on their way to Cedartown where they will be used by four hundred convicts in grading the C., R. & C. railroad. The work will as soon as everything can be put in shape ? ‘ i in a short time the line will be in the hands of the tractors who will have hands at work on every mile of the road from to Columbus. Fifty mules were here to begin work just outside of city between here and but where they will begin work I not know.”—Rome Bulletin. CITY VS. COUNTRY. Sorry for Col. Fred Grant. But was an “off year” in the rural tricts.—Philadelphia News. While this remark was made morously it teaches a truth. common idea is that the republican voters of the north are more gent than the democrats. This is not true. The cities where the are generally posted are in the main democratic, while the rural districts, where the people do not read the papers, are generally republican.— Columbus Enquirer. The comment of the Enquirer-Sun voices a very popular error, in attrib¬ uting to the people of cities superior intelligence to the citizens of the ru¬ ral districts of this country. It is an HAMILTON, NOVEMBER 25,1887. city people and by a great many country folks. City people meet each other oftener, they talk more and wear belter clothes than the peo¬ ple of the country do, and they have better schools, better churches and better facilities for gaining knowledge than country people have. They seem casually to be more intelligent and that ti ey ought to be seems equally apparant. Thus it is com¬ monly believed that they really are more intelligent. But this is only in seeming. It is an incontrovertible fact th~t the com¬ mon sense and integrity of the coun. try people is the very mainstay of our republican institutions and the only hope of the final universal success democratic government. The leading men of Columbus and of every city of its size, are to a Urge degree men who were born and reared in the country Let the Enquirer make a list of fWenty lawyers, twenty doc¬ tors, twenty merchants and twenty leading men of any profession in the city where brain and pluck and ener¬ gy are neccessary 10 lead and it will be surprised at the large number that were born and reared in the country. The cities sap the country of its best brain and brawn, but notwithstanding this process which has been carried on from time immemorial the supply seems always equal to the demand. No large city has yet furnished this country with a President— if we are mistaken we hope the Enquirer will correct us as we don’t know of an encyclopedia nearer than Columbus —and unless the spirit of the age changes we believe it will be a long time before any city will. Interest usually draws party lines, not intelligence, and as to the attain¬ ments intellectually of the two great parties of this country we have noth¬ ing to say. The intelligence of the south is the democracy; there are many learned and good men north who vote with the republicans. For the Hamilton Journal. CURRENT EVENTS. A large amounr cf cotton has been burned this season. In a re cent fire in Memphis, six hundred ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. was consumed. Three thousauu bales of cotton and die compress at Greenville, Texas, were cornumed oy fire valued at $250,000. At Galves ton 1200 bales were burned. In Savannah fire has been disco*cacti in loaded vessels, and how it got there has not been discovered, and is a subject of earnest investigation. The report of mi linger in the newspapers continue to be ntimer ous. Look out for better times. Augusta and Columbus are both agitating the subject of a fair nex t fall. Augusta is moving in earnest and Columbus could nol do a wiser thing than to get up a fair a,.<l ex pc sitihn. It would illustrate Coiumbus ar.d make known her beauty of cation and her vast capabilities Wes¬ tern Georgia needs it and will do her part. The output of gold and silver in Montana the current year is estimat¬ ed at $35,000,000 and her mineral wealth is just being developed. George VVestinghojse, Jr., ths in ventor of the air brake on rail-roads,is said to be worth $9,000,000. This is perhaps the largest fortune ever made from a single invention in the same length of time. Present appearances indicate that the Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus railroad will come by Carrollton to Greenville aud thence by the C. & R. to Columbus. So mote it be. The grand jury of Bibb county has found nine “true bills” against Torn Woolfolk for the murder of his fath¬ er’s family. Tom had by some means got a sharp pointed hook and a two-bladed knife and was making an effort to escape whe.i discovered. One writer says that Georgia is $ 1 2 000,000 richer than she was one year ago. This is a big mistake. Georgia to-day is poorer than she was twenty j ears ago, if all debts were paid. The lax books show a ficti j tious prosperity. N 0. 76.