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* tx yfet I I -U ttMi ■%t'% 5i n I ' »>' - m 1X7*5, I i * 4 sA. . V.. A 4 p L.- *fv* ,Vt VOL. 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 * 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. # ** * Congress took a recess until Janu ary the 3rd. * * * The politicians are very much cerned! Harrison’s as to cahine who are I is to the wild . scramble after office and the best left out* * * The whiskey men carried county by a majority of 162 in recent election. Th^gi is a result third partyism and putting into politics. * x x A new enterprise is being in Americus, that of a Pottery manufacture all of that kind of * x X The recent fearful murders and homicides. “Under the influence whiskey” is genrally the explanation* * Stanley, the African explorer not dead as reported, but will the mysteries of the dark continent. # * # Millions of tiny mullet, not than a man’s little finger ® can be seen daily at Port Tampa, Fla* * * * Scott Allen & Co., of Orlando,Fla., ] have sold during the last sixty days ] cheese over 25000 pounds of butter * * * * 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 " * , j * ^ 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 i * 1C ?" 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\ lU' Y ■ 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 • ' perior Court »u fav r of tb« N-a* } bnd Mortgage Security CL n ; v \ i Ilont - BRITAIN WIUJAMS.Sh fi NO.