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u »j*"*** m m A ffi f A *4 . • %£ i. * W V (L i •*' > ' > • K ♦ i * *\y •» V 4 * VOL. XVI. PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. Monday, the 16th instant, *we will be prepared to issue our Garden Seed Premium to the 188 00*—I ournal’s we are going subscribers. to publish For the best and most readable paper we have ever published loj One LAJlar, and give in) aatiiciou, t ee to every sub-; sen Dei, a dozen papers of iresh garden seed. Come iri and gtt them. EDITORIAL NOTES. One cent a pound postage on all bound books would abolish ihe itin- i erant book agent. Could more be ; said in its favor. In ’84 it was Cleveland and re¬ form ; in '88 it’s to*be Cleveland and tariff reform. The result in both cases is to turn the rascals out. All seasons are alike to the earth quake. The cyclone comes between the seasons, usually, but the earth- j quake has an underground way of! coming when least expected. Earthquake shocks were distinctly felt in South Carolina last Thursday morning. At Columbia crockery, windows and other movables were rattled and for a while people were badly frightened. The Senate by a majority of three has confirmed the nomination of Judge Lamar. He will conduct himself in a manner that will wy , clearly demonstrate the wisdom ofi President Cleveland in placing him upon the Supreme bench. Wt have received two copies ol the Georgia Cracker, an Atlanta publication. Both numbers were good, but the last especially so. Its illustrations are original, amusing and typical of our section, and the pub¬ lication as a whol? deserves success. Mrs. E. T. Byington has purchase* JOSEPH L.DENNIS, PROPRIETOR. the interest of Col. Jones in the Col umbus Evening Ledger. Hei facile pen has contributed largely to the success of the Ledger, and we are glad to note her closer alliance with ! it. May the Ledger and its clever proprietors live long and prosper. 1 1 he Journal has fifty paying subscribers at Chipley and an even j hundred at Hamilton. The other 1 thiiteen posioffices in the county do: no1 average up to these, but our list ^ as a v ^g° rous tone a ^ along the line. Every man in the county ought to take his county paper. The serious illness of Speaker Car lis.e will prevent his trip south and his contemp ated speeches this week at Atlanta and Macon. His illness 15 11 matler of re 6 ret and we woM have gladly heard his speeches, but they were not needed to make the south soil'd for Cleveland and tariff reform. The "government revemies since 1866, derived from internal revenue taxes, have been diminished about two thirds, while the revenue from impost duties has increased since that time nearly fifty per cent. Only % ey are taxed now, 'nd HAMILTON, GA.JANUARY 20.1888. completed from Atlanta and arranged for the completion of the remainder of the road at once. Track laying will be pushed now until the road is finished. It is thought that trains will be running through from Atlanta to Williamson by the 20th of Febru ary. Williamson is the point where the road interests the Georgia Mid* land, and the completion of the road to this point will shorten the distance between Columbus and Atlanta con siderably. And now even the Atlanta Consti tution hedges and thinks that the government “should not collect un ncC essary taxc-s by which Us enor mous sur p| us j s ma d e continually to assume j ar g er proportions." Ilut the Constitution wants the reduction to come off of whiskey and tobacco, instead of off the necessaries of life. Why should the Consti. want cheap whiskey^.ijpstead of cheap coffee and -^Carrollton F ree Press. ftipsuyi$-fbtejrause the Consti. has reached the point where it is willing to dispense with the necessities of life if accorded it’s luxuries. Any railroad that shortens the dis¬ tance by rail from our section to the sea coast will be of benefit to us. The proposed 'Savannah, Dublin & Western road, now building from Sa annah to Macon will do this if it is never built farther than Macon. Much of this road is graded and the track is laid for thirty or forty miles. Last week an agent of the construction company which ls under contract to build the road was in Sa¬ vannah and is said to have been pay¬ ing off all the claims against the load which have stopped work for several weeks. The road if built to Birming ham would be one of great impor¬ tance and as it is to run by Green¬ ville would give us another outlet. We are glad to see it on its feet again. The Columbus Enquiier protests against the discrimination made by our postal laws against bound books. ; Some time since we called attention , to the same subject. The fact that a publication is substantially bouud ONEDOLLAR AYEAR, STRIOTLY IN ADVANCE. should not militate against it. It is really in its favor judged from any other standpoint than our postal laws, and these laws should be made to conform to the common sense in the case. We favor a one cent per pound rate for all publications, peri odical or not, except such as are is sued only for advertising purposes. Cheap books would prove a valuable help to cheap newspapers and free schools in educating the people, and the government could not do a bet ter thing than to give a one cent ! rate of postage on books, It would be very nice to have the whiskey and tobacco taxes flowing ! * ,Uo several state treasureries in steaf l ,n to the national treasury, as the Constitution proposes, but no ! wa y °f this has been suggest ec ^* * constitution provides for a ksolute free trade oetvveen the states, ’ so tf the national tax is taken off, n0 statc will have the right to impose a tax upon the products of any oth¬ er state brought within its limits. 1 hus the state having the lowest tax rate would supply all the other states. It is foolish to talk of any agreement between the states upon a unitorm tax. T he only way they ever agree is through their representatives in congress. Mr. Blaine has proposed to divide the internal revenue taxes between the several states, according to population and this must be done if we have no revision of the tariu laws. The seeds given away by the Journal have won their way into public favor. People looked upon them with suspicion at first, believing they were worthless. But every year we have given out the ver/ best, and now our readers know that the fresh¬ est seeds they can get are those we give to the Journal’s subscribers.This year we are giving Buist’s seeds. Pay up your subscription and you get a dozen packages free. Buying them in larger quantities than any seed dealer in the county buys, we get them cheaper. I he seeds we give would cost at retaii about half the price of the Journal, so that you get your county paper at about NO. 3.