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For the Hamilton Journal.
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS.
The true philosophy of life is not
to mope, but to look on the bright
side ; 6 f things. No one’s condition
is so bad but what it might be worse.
The blessings of life greatly prepon¬
derate and if rightly appreciated
throw a beneficent light on the dark
places in life’s journey, In life’s
great battle the person who de
sponds is half whipped before the
battle begins. Victory belongs alone
to the true and the brave and in all
life’s conflicts look on the bright side
of things. To every cloud there is
a “silver lining” and if there were no
clouds there Would be no rain, the
earth would becomp parched, vegeta
tion would die, and utter desolation
would prevail. In the social and
moral as in the physical world, lights
and shadows will appear, and that
man is wise who walks in the light of
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a cheerful spirit and looks “on the
bright side of things.”
Life is too brief to be frittered
away iu querulous repinings. If your
surroundings and circumstances are
not what you would like them to be,
go to work and make them such as
you would have them. Repining
never accomplished any valuable pur
pose and never will. Mopish
choly is the bane of many
and talented minds. There is
clear conception of things when
mind is clouded and encumbered with
the thought of failure and disaster.
Be brave, be true. Let the consciness
of a good purpose and a will to do,
shed its beneficent light on lifes path
way and though the way be uneven,
there will be no stumbling, no falling,
and success is assured. There is a
peculiar pleasure in looking upon a
sunny face indicating a pure and
sunny soul within. It charms elevates
and cements the purest frienship of
earth and makes friends akin to
and David of sacred history.
It is unquestionably true that man
is . the architect . of his iortune. ,
own
Life to him is what he makes it. It
be bright, sunny, and happy, or
it may be morose, desponding, and
miserable. If he looks on the bright
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
side of things the first is true, but if
he allow himself to take a gloomy
view of things and is discouraged at
the prospect of failure and he looses
the good things of earth. Then with
the best phylosophy of life look “on
the bright side of things.”
Obsever.
[For The Journal.]
CURRENT EVENTS.
The legislature has taken a iecess
until the first Wednesday in July.
The body has acted wisely so far as
present events go.
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Congress took a recess until Janu
ary the 3rd.
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The politicians are very much
cerned! Harrison’s as to cahine who are I is to the wild
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scramble after office and the best left
out*
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The whiskey men carried
county by a majority of 162 in
recent election. Th^gi is a result
third partyism and putting
into politics.
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A new enterprise is being
in Americus, that of a Pottery
manufacture all of that kind of
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The recent fearful murders and
homicides. “Under the influence
whiskey” is genrally the explanation*
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Stanley, the African explorer
not dead as reported, but will
the mysteries of the dark continent.
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Millions of tiny mullet, not
than a man’s little finger ® can be seen
daily at Port Tampa, Fla*
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Scott Allen & Co., of Orlando,Fla.,
] have sold during the last sixty days
] cheese over 25000 pounds of butter
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On the afternoon of the 13th,
oavannan, a file broke out in the
Central railroad cotton warehouse,
adjoining the Ocean
HAMILTON, GA., JANUARY 4,1888.
wharves. Baldwin & Co. are the
heaviest losers. They had 1,800
bales stored, and Wood & Co. 1,680
bales. One warehouse was burned,
and with it between 8,700 and 3,800
hales of cotton, stored by Baldwin &
Co., Wood & Co. and Hammond,
Hull Co. Loss estimated at $200,
000 .
A full-blown sun flower, growing
in the yard of Mrs. J. R. Dillard, in
Union Springs, Ala., on December
w r as a floral curiosity,
Among the new industries to open
up at 96 SC is that of raising chikens
for the market. The eggs are
and hatched by a late patent incuba
tor.
G. W. Harris was arrested in
lanta Wednesday by the police
deliverd to Sheriff Anderson of
ton county. Mr. Harris is wanted
Newton to answer the charge of
ing mortgaged property.
Now that work on the
Midland has commenced Troy is
preparing for a boom.
The amendment to North
increasing the Judges from three
five was adopted i.y nearly joo.ooo
majority. A good thing well done.
A negro fireman, while asleep on
his engine in the round house of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad at
Birmingham, dreamed that he had
received a signal to back out, and
pulled the lever, blew the whistle,
rang the bell, and backed the engine
into the turn-table pit. The jar oc¬
casioned by the fall of the engine in¬
to the pit awakened him, and he im
mediately took to the woods. The
of
get it out of the hole.
Cartersville is to have one of the
finest iron furnaces in the South, and
the , >\ estern & o.t. Atlantic railway .. is .
laying a side track for its use. With
this enterprise Cartersville and Bar
x tow . will *n •
county commence a genuine
boom. Reader.
Hargett Happening*.
l888, has breathed its last and
^ppy ?Vew £ar!V .Uo be'loped
that every one spent a Merry Christ
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^ pLT but
New Year’s day is a time to make
one thoughtful, it is like beginning
a new chapter in the volume of life
ONEDOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
and one cannot help special,urn
to what the chapter is to he ah n\
To one and all we hope that it wilih •
a story full of hap piness.
The farmers around our \ ill > ■
have not finished picking cotton, but
all seem to he cheerful and happy,
Mr. James V. Dixon, of Salem,
grand Ala, is spending sometime at h
fathers Judge L. C. Hargett.
The Hargett millpond seems t >
be the center of attraction at this c
son of the year especially with th
sportsmen. Wild geese and tuik tvs
in abundance. Three cheers i r
Harris, Co. the monntains and Har¬
gett when our new railroad is com*
p’eted. Hurrah for Hargett!!!
Our charming and efficient hu !
Postmistress Miss Vic. Harg'tt !v
just returned home from an ex?ei
Sivc visit to friends am! relatives
Columbus and Salem, Ala. tu i
delight of her many friends.
Where art thou our beloved '
gallant Don reporter? let us he r
from theo once moic UC f, *rc
“shuffle off this mortal coil.”
Miss Exa Fitzpatrick will open her
school at Chattahoochee Mount'd ! I
| Hill, the 7 th, day of January 1889 .
; ^' ver ^ one niuSt nuikc up his mind
j P alron,ze her and send the c hit
I dren at once. (,nu< k .
Harris County Sheriff Sales
w ,II hoe,Id before .be court
j door in tu* iowu of II .mdton, Han .
eoumy, Gooi-yi*, wirbiu th<* < n r
| of public si le» t to tho bigh-Ht arid i -r
hinder, for 04Mb, o th J tir^t Tuesday
I February, rest, th f z lloum^ ( rop« r /,
v jz:
| One large LUml in the Chattabooal x e
river, known us I land No. 0 , cordon k .4
143 Herns more or n %m <ji
island, No. 0, <0 U oing seven nor 69 ,
wore or loss. also a hujiiII ls'and 61 W :C!l
No. <; and No. 9, upon which tho cost
i end of tho factory building rests, Cop
| JESSES^ G^i.' all f
Levied on th« property of Hie A
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j Tux Collector of Il^rri-* < !' oonty ", '‘"“t' for sthtn ,,p . •
ai d connty Uxea for 1888 , vh ibe Ah*
bama it Georgia Mannfaoturing Co.
^4*12 at the same lime and pine*, lot o
land No 306, containing 202acre-;foily g£ ib.w^tcrn
MTe0 , nDll oneb ».r v
j portion of lot No. 30f». and 14jj 1*2 acriH
! I oflF of the not lb portion of lot No 288. in
all 399 } acres, more or h**, and honud 1
^ eftH , hv ^ 8 w h j\
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II Spence, William Talley and J H c.
j lab ft n, all of amd lands Ivina in i :<
| district of Harris conniy. L» vi»d on •
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perior Court »u fav r of tb« N-a* }
bnd Mortgage Security CL n ; v \ i
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