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VOL. XVI.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Senator Steeped Ingalls should re¬
ceive the republican presidential
nomination, with Boutelle, of Maine,
for vice.
on many railroads, We felt
the effects of it here yesterday morn
The LaGrange Reporter is now
published semi-weekly. It bears ev
idence of prosperity in its old age,
and is in every respect a credit to
the journalism of the state.
* Col. Jesse J. Bull will probably be
a candidate for the house in Talbot
this faH. Talbot up to the appor¬
tionment under the last census had
two representatives, and as Jesse is
big enough and big hearted enough
for two, we would be glad to see him
elected.
ft is Harris county’s time to nom-
4nate a senator from the 25th sena
torial district, composed of Harris,
Talbot and Upson. Several names
been mentioned and it is diffi
to tell who will succeed Hon. J.
W. Robins the pesent senator. A
mong the probable candidates are
lions. W I Hudson, T J Neal, S M
Brannon, B H Williams and J M
Mobley, all of Harris. These are all
food men and any one nf them will
likely be acceptable to the people of
the district.—Talbotton New Bra.
#
An Atlanta cotton speculator who
is said to have made between $300.
000 and $400,000 by the rise in the
Mice of cotton last summer, happen
ed to be on the losing side of the
market last Saturday when the staple
price. His loss is nearly a
quajter of a million of dollars in a
single day. Some of the newspapers
the state tender him their sympa
but we are not acquainted with
he man who lost so much or the
nan who won it from him, so that
fjjfr sympathy for the one is about
fc anced by the disposition to con
atulate the other party. But while
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
the fact that they were gambling He
ters us from jeying or sorrowing at
the results of the game of Saturday,
we do regret that gambling of any
kinrican be done in this enlightened
age under the forms of laws, and that
stock gamblers are considered any
more respective than professional
black-legs.
Every power of the democratic
party should be .invoked to secure
the passage of the Mill’s reform tariff
bill. The interests of the whole
people demand a reduction of the
government revenues, now constant¬
ly enlarging the enormous surplus
in the national treasury, that is at
once a threat to our commercial
prosperity and a temptation to ex¬
travagance in governmental expend¬
itures, and the proposed law offers a
I ceitain, safe and speedy remedy. Jt
die paity is to succeed at the polls
next November, with President
Cleveland as its standard bearer, it
must show now that be is approved
Decause of his policy, and not just
because we think he can win. The
measure proposed embodys his views
| as expressed in his message to con
j gress, with concessions to those who
favor internal revenue leduction, and
it shornd be endorsed by all good
democrats.
j
There were ively times at the
capitol in Washington Tuesday, over
^ ie war > but fortunately no
blood was spilled. Senator Ingalls
:
-and he’s truly steeped in galls of
bitterness against the south and not
altogether free from the bonds of
iniquity—he left his seat as president
of the senate to arraign the south
i and President Cleveland for offering
I to protect the national treasury from
the most devastating pension iniquity
ever devised. The senator shows a
deeper depravity than we had thought
it possible for even a senator to at
tain, but his assault was brilliantly
met by senator Blackburn, of Ken
tucky, who very eloquently answered
every charge preferred. About the
same time in the house, as if under
h. preconcerted plan, the bloody
shirt was waved aloft, but here it met
with another rout as signal as tha
HAMILTON, GA., MARCH 9,1888.
rx? -t
in the senate, If the policy of
republicans is. by shaking this re.l
rag, to draw public attention so as
to avoid the threatened tariff reform,
so far their work has been barren of
results,
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EVENTS IN OLD HARRIS.
ri:itso\s aid tiiinus aoti:i> i*i
out ri:i»ohti;k*.
Kllcrijlir Hotr».
Mrs. Davis returned to her home
in Columbia, Ala., last Friday.
Mr. A. S. Ellisen has gone over to
Hamilton to-day on buisness.
Mr. and Mrs. Hammond left this
morning for their liomeat Williamson.
after spending a few days with Mr. T.
J. Stripling and family.
Mrs. Walton and her Mer
4 a
Mice Mollie, are on a visit to Mrs.
R. F. Carter.
Dr. Bussey, of Talbot county, was
here last Saturday prospecting with a
view of locating at this place. We
will welcome the young doctor to our
midst, but sincerely hope that we
may never need him in his profess¬
ional capacity.
Oat crops are looking fine and
pjondse to yield a good harvest, and
on jy iegret is that more were not
sown Inst fdl.
It is 1 cd that L’e fruit crop was
j bauly liijuied, 11 not destroyed, by liie
cold last week.
j The “Western Union” opened
a
telegraph office here yesterday which
will be a great convenience to our
community and a reduction on the
j cost of sending messages, especially
beyond tne terminal points of the
( Georgia Midland wires.
The pastor, Rev. C. A. Martin,
Poached an interesting and highly
instructive sennon to a large congre
gation at Bethesda last Sunday, this
being the first appointment he has
^ een a ^ e ^ here since Christmas
° w ' n g to the bad weather.
We learn that Rev. Mr. McGreg-.
or, of Hamilton, will preach at Bl
Jerslie academy next 3rd Sunday af
ternoo’.i and that Rev. Mr. Brewton,
of Caiaula, will probably be with
him. We hope they will not disap.
ONEDOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
’*j * r 1 we will promise
L.. , PaI (| a tive amhenl e.
U e.Bar 1y think it tune f<
poets and‘poison oak to bs
yet, as the north winds are
coin and bleak to-day, 'yet w<
refrain from raying:
Come, fair spring, with flu* e 111
hand;
Welcome back to our happy lam;
Make all the hills and valievsgie
Bedeck the woods and fields . a)
With flowers where the fro:
been.
Mrs Hi:nr',
41iij>l<-y 4'lli|>N.
Rev. VV. T Bell, our popular n u
ister, Alien his appointment
^ fin^svifle Sunday. He will pre
*"< gularappoint mnet here Sun
of TMOoi f. A
I I wa< - town this week exhit
,n
| his cotton chopper. 1 die mat ii
| is one of ingenuity.
Mr. A. 1 *. T homas, of Cob *
was smiling among his friends lu
Wednesday.
Dr. J. I). Danforth, a popnlai ; '•
siciun of Whitesville, has moved
our community for the purport
following his profession.
Greenville, Chipley, West Po
PaFayette, Ala., Whitesville, T n
f actory md Mountain 1 1 ill ar a
! claiming the C., If. A C. raiiroa...
j Mrs. J.. 1 .. Hardy is quite ^ *
Hope her illness will be short a
Miss Sallie Huguley, of
Pine neighbornood, is visitu
Pffie ami Bettie Haidy.
Col. Broom, of LaGrange,
vassing this section in the interest
Ins race for ordinary.
Mr. T. 1 ’. Hutchinson wa: i v «
Iambus Sunday and Monday, hum
has the toothache, he says, and goes
to Columbus for the extraction, (at
tract,on), but we venture jo assert it
is something more pleasant than
toothache lorn has. He is a mune
fehow and we wish him much sue
cess -
The old country homestead of Mr.
R. M. Moss was burned Sunday
mghL The fire originated in an out
Louse nem' Ly and caught iLe mam
building and had rapid headway when
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