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• f \ •sft i r <-. fV J 'J ♦ 2 K ail f: . vg yp 1 '.# [ a* 4 v" •Jv i ■*> V 5 ^ 8 1* AX' 13 m 1 & a L ■S' •*: Q ' t ’ :i 5 ^ ■; * * ‘ U 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, ¥ ♦ 4 - 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 NO. K).