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VOL. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Free trade is not a more alarming
possibility than free whiskey,
Hon. Daniel Manning is not ex¬
pected to live through to day.
0 ^Vith
Blaine and Cleveland for the
jty leaders fbrx’88, s much of the
literature of ’84 will only
have to be dusted off a little to make
live reading matter.
We have received the trade issue
j of the Augusta Sentinel, a paper
published in the interest of the negro
race, and edited by R. R. Wright. It
is a very creditable number, ably
edited and handsomely printed.
Our Hargett correspondent grows
this week. The man who
write.! porin' in December, with the
changing every fifteen min
g from bad to worse all
* s **observes an audience and
li 4 accord it him.
ke to
A fwty ists, already in¬
terested in several iron furnaces in
: Alabama, met in Pittsburg, Pa., last
w Wednesday and resolved to start
^another town in Alabama, which may
grow into a city. This doesn’t look
as if the president’s message had
paralyzed the southern boom.
Some very hard things have been
said of the south—many very unjust
ly—but that we, as a people, are not
as just as we ought to be, is shown
when it is deemed necessary to move
a prisoner from the county jail in
one of our best cities, in this,
state of the south, to a jail
another city, to project him from
mob violence.
Mr. W. W. Randall, the very able
business manager of the Griffin Sun,
announces that he will begin the
.publication of a weekly
at LaGiange on the first of January.
The Reporter is one of the best
our exchanges, but we hope that Mr.
Vanda.ll will find the field Urge
enough for another just as good.
* This is the dc y of alliances. Just
JOSEPH
PROPRIETOR.
what the country will be when all the
labor unions, farm unions, mercantile
associations, evangelical alliances and
the like associations fully perfect their
organizations and all get in good
working trim, it will be hard to guess,
There is strength m union, but that
strength is not exerted to the best
end a ! ways.
It is thought that the tax on to¬
bacco will be removed, and some say
the tax on fruit distilleries and fruit
brandy. We cannot believe either
will be done in the face of President
Cleveland’s message. That message
is a safe chart for congress in a reduc¬
tion of the surplus .revenues. As
WfH bankrupt the country^ debauch
it with free brandy.
Charles H: Knox a cSember of the
republican committee of New York
city has sent to its chairman a letter
resigning his place on the committee
He says that the issues growing out
of the war have now been settled,
and that on the tariff, the main is¬
sues now, he finds himself opposed to
the republican party, and will now
support President Cleveland, whom
he opposed in 1884.
The sentiment of the better class
of the whole country approves the
message of President Cleveland. The
methods of collecting the internal
revenue tax upon spirituous liquors
.may seem harsh, but the violator
law ought to be punished. The num¬
ber of violations of this law,
the stringent federal laws and
Stringent execution, serve to
how ineffectual the regulations of
state would be.
The demonstration in the
room at Macon last week,
Solicitor Hardeman* was making
cl ° slI1 S s P eech in the.Woolfolk
wi " 8 aln for Woolfolk a new trial,
° u 8 ht to ‘ ™ e bo,sterous
who atten f ed to «cHe the
tors to v.olence, should be. dealt
«°' he «tent ot.he law. They
underjhe influence of whiskey
drunkenness adds to the turpitude
an offense. It should never
it.
HAMILTON, GA, DECEMBER 23,1887.
A Florida newspaper says that the
paper fractional currency was with
drawn from circulation because it
circulated freely through all sorts of
hands, absorbing germs of infectious
diseases, and that it was liable to
spread these as it circulated. This
danger should not prevent the resto
ration of this very convenient form
of currency. The “shin plaster” has
helped to heal more diseases than it
has ever helped to spread.
The Atlanta Capitol says that the
order of Commissioner Henderson, 1
issued from the Agricultural Depart
ment is calculated to shut off en
tirely all chances to impose on farm
ers with bogus fertilizers. The in
specior may now be called to any
point at any time and the guano sub
jected to as successful tests in the
field as it would be in the laboratory.
T his order will not cause special
inconvenience to the inspector while
it will certainly be a source of great
advantage to the planter.
The city press may very well sit
upon its dignity and allow the Blair
educational bill to take care of itself,
for the cities have wealth and are
provided with public schools. But
thr rural districts, supplied only with
three months’ schools, taught by
teachers who get only twenty to thir¬
ty dollars per month for their services
—and where it’s poor pay, it’s gener
ally poor teach—need the help this
bill proposes to give, and the Jour¬
nal is glad to note as among the
friends of the measure .our two able
senators.
We commend to the Atlant’ Con¬
stitution and the Augusta Chronicle
the very able editorial in the Butler
Herald the current week, upon “The
Opportunity of the Republican Par
ty.” It shows the diift of pro¬
tective tariff journals, and we urge
our distinguished and able contem
poraries to stop and consider before
they too are offering to go orer to
the euemy. We can assure them a
distinguished seat in the front row, if
they will advocate democratic prin¬
ciples. There is more rejoicing over
the one that w*s lost, than over the
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
ninety and nine that went not astrjy.
For the Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
Our able, talented and watchful
representative in congress, Hon. T.
W. Grimes, has introduced two bills
in the house. One to make Colum.
bus a port of entry, and the other
for public buildings—custom house
and post-office. These are wise
measures and will surely pass. All
Western Georgia is interested in their
success. If any of the Georgia del
egation have any aspiration towards
the Governor’s office, they should aid
these measures with all their might,
Tom Wuolfolk has been convicted
and sentenced to hang on February
the 10th. The case will probably
go to the supreme court. Col. John
C. Rutherford made the ablest de
fense that could have been made,
but it could not prevail against law
and evidence. There is a divinity
in justice, which.sooner or later will
overtake the guilty.
An unusually large number of bills
has been introduced in Congress. An
effort is being made to estab ish a
postal telegraph, to amrnd the inter
state commerce law and define Sec.
4 of that act. The Blair education¬
al bill has been favorably reported to
the senate by the committee cn ed¬
ucation. This bill ought to pa
anti probably will. T he West Vir¬
ginia senator has * been sealed, and
Riddleburger holds the balance of
power in the senate.
A small war cloud is rising in F.u
rope, between Austria, Germany ami
Russia. It looks a little threatening,
but surely the good sense of the age
will prevent such a calamity. Such
a war would involve many nations
and prove a calamity to mankind.
The Buena Vista anti Ellaviile
railroau will be speedily extended to
Columbus and open up a new wqy
to south west Georgia and to Flori
<Ja.
The Columbus Southern railroad is
satisfactorily and will be
NO. 80.
