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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
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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.
