Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

#5f ♦ i #1 cl /#V •V . * E •i I I j F c WiUiamB * - . - t "~ '**’ 1 £ -M y * * f * 1 * VOL. XVI. EDITORIAL NOTES. Is Senator Brown to be the Rid dieburger of the next senate, or is he too much of a republican for such aI? role ? Correspondent Gantt, of the Ath tns Banner has found and interview¬ ed Speaker Bacon. But Speaker Bacon has never been so much lost as his late alleged letter. Harris county’s democracy will be represented in the state democratic convention in May by Cleveland and Colquitt revenue reform delegates. The party contains no other sort of members now. Senator Colquitt doesn’t seem to be of the opinion that President Cleveland has been led into a trap. Or, in case he has been, the people of the country are in with him and the monopolists of the country are the trappers. Senator Colquitt has our thanks for a copy of his great tariff reform speech. It is a very elaborate, able and eloquent document supporting the message of President Cleveland, and will furnish material for the ap proaching political contest. It very succinctly states the facts in the case and clearly exposes the republican protective tariff fallacies. The Farmer's Alliance continues to grow with unprecedented rapidity. Eight months ago it was almost un¬ heard of here, while now it has hun reds of members in this county and a membership as large or larger in each of the adjoining counties. The " demonstration here to-morrow, when the President of the State Alliance will make an address, will indicate in a measure jts stiength here. It is needless to say that it, or any other organization Baving in view the bet- JOSEPH L.DENNIS, terment of the farming community, has our hearty sympathy. Nothing that tends to elevate the farmer and make his avocation pleasanter and more profitable, can hurt any other material interest of the country, draw upon the farm not only for food we eat, but for the blood that keeps healthy the body politic, and we bid God speed to any man or set of men in any honest effort to benefit the farming classs. For the Hamilton Journal. CURRENT EVENTS. Chief Justice Waite, of the U. S. Supreme court, died in Washington, on the 20th, full of years and honors. He had been Chief Justice for 14 years. Both houses of congress ad¬ journed and every token of respect was paid to his memory. ★ * -The committee investigating the sugar trust, is establishing the fact beyond doubt that this sugar trust has lowered the price of raw sugar and advanced the price of refined sugar. This huge combination ought to be abolished. * * * Chief Justice Waite was attended in his last illness by Dr. Caroline B. Winslow, who had been his family physici n for thirteen jears. * * * Eight hundred, bales of cotton were burned in Augusta on the 20th ; cov ere d by insurance, * --j; * Col. Smith, of Oglethorpe county, ^ as severa ^ of rye knee high, which he is cutting down with a mow in S machine and feeding.to his stock. He says that there is no finer feed for stock than green rye. HiSexam pie ought to be followed. * * * The lard investigation by the house committee on agriculture discloses an amqunt of iniquity unparalleled, One witness says diseased hogs and those smothered in crowded cars are converted into lard. Farmers, make your lard or you take the risk of be ing poisoned, * * This unique sign appears in Toe- HAMILTON. GA.. MARCH 30. mi coa: “Lamps fixed, razors honed, fresh oysters, Vienna bread, tomb¬ stones.” * * m Prof. Gray, of Illinois, claims to have invented an instrument by which a person in Chicago using a pencil and writing a message to a person in New York a “fac simile” is transmit ted to the office in New York. Won derful if true. * « The Georgia Teacher’s Conven¬ tion will be held in Macon in. May. The programme is exce lent and the occasion will be instructive and inter¬ esting. * * * Hydrophobia is prevailing in south west Georgia and elsewhere. It is a good time to kill the worthless dogs. * * * The fiist section of the railroad as cending Lookout mountain has been completed and pronounced first class in every particular. * * * A charter has been applied for to build a railroad from Savannah to Columbus direct. The right thing to do. Speed the cause. o The Columbus Southern railroad is progressing with commendabfe speed. Columbus is destined to be a great distributing point and a great future. T he Chattahoochee Valley Exposi* to be held in Columbus next tall will be a great success. Harris county can and will have a first class exhib¬ it. Let all help. Reader. For the Hamilton Journal. AN INCIDENT. In the long ago a young man whom we will call Tom Tatum who had some experience in travels was on his way to Miiledgeville, the then capitol of Georgia. From Macon to Gordon the train was crowded with people going as members or spec¬ tators of the the legislature to as semble the next day. On inspection it was evident that the crowd could ! not be transported by the stage coach S es from Gordon to Miiledgeville, 16 miles distant, and that somebody ONE DOLLAR A STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. would be left or must walk. Tom understood the rules of stage travel and when the train stopped he was the first to register and pay the fare, and was entitled to the first seat.The crowd seemed to take in the situa tion and laying aside all ru es filled the six coaches to overflowing and left Tom out. He appealed to Mr. Mott, the owner and agent of the stage. The good old man whispered to him softly; “You be quiet. I will send you to Miiledgeville.” The six coaches, after some delay, left with 16 to 18 passengers. Time being heavy and it began to appear that the old man had forgotten his promise. After some delay up came a fine family carriage. “Here is your conveyance,” Mr. Mott said, “and you can take any ti ree with you that you choose.” Tom replied: “I do not kno‘w any of these gentlemen. I will take the three who stand nearest to me.” * The three were soon dose up to Tom and without further delay* the four rode off delighted at the chance of going and the stylish conveyance. All of the parties were strangers to each other. The witty M— turned to Tom and said : “We would like to know to whom we are indebted for this pleasant ride?” “Wei 1 ,” says Tom, “I will give a history of myself on condition that each of you do the same.” “Agreed,” they aiJ exclaimed. Tom began: “My name is Tom Tatum. I live at B—, am a lawyer by profession, a mason, an odd fellow, a son of tem¬ perance, and a hard shell Methodist. Now, gentlemen, speak out in meet mg." M— replied: “I am ail you say except hard shell Methodist. I am only a half Methodist, as my wife is a Presbyterian.” B— and N— both replied that they filled the bill. Strange enough, here had met and traveled together four you.ig men, strangeis to each other, alt married, all lawyers, masons, odd fellows, sons of temperance and all Methodists and they were from NO. 13.