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VOL. XVI.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
It has heretofore been the custom
of the party in this county to hold its
firs mass meeting in political y V
on the first Tuesday in June. It will
be necessary to hold this year on the
first Tuesday in May, or before the
9th of that month at any rate. As
the chairman of the executive com
mittee of the county is dead, it has
been suggested that the committee
meet in the court house at noon on
Tuesday of next week. The follow¬
ing gentlemen compose the commit¬
tee :
Hamilton-----
Cataula—J. M. Kimbrough.
Whitaker's—J. H. Williams.
Whitesville—J. A. Maddox.
Davidson’s—I* D. Hutchinson.
Upper 19th—W. B. Smith.
Lower 19th—J. J. W. Biggers.
Eilerslie—R. F. Carter.
Waverly Hall—J. P. Sutton.
Valley Plains—R. B. Mobley.
Cochrans—C. Fuller.
Chipley—S. C. Goodman.
Blue Spring—W. A. Clark.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The New York Herald dubs ay
Gould “the Corsair.” And all lovers
of honest business methods rise to
thank it tor the word.
Colquitt’s great tariff speech ought
to make a democrat of the Atlanta
Constitution. In the hope of mak¬
ing a party convert we recommend it
to oui esieemed contemporary and
solicit a careful reading.
The Atlanta Journal has asked for
the city printing because it has a
larger circulation in the city limits
than the Constitution has. If Grier’s
Almanac is as popular m Atlanta as
it is here, it has a circulation large
enough to claim the printing over the
Journal, if circulation only is to be
counted in making the award. Let
the Journal claim the printing 00
higher grounds
The Gir to be heid in Harris coun
^ solefy
ty tbis 4 all is designed not to
resources of our farms,
but of the acquirements of our people
JOSEPH L.DENNIS *
PROPRIETOR.
as well. It may therefore lay claim
to the support of every individual as
well as every organization in the
county. i will be a
marvelous success and when we make
a county exhibit in the Columbus
Exposition, the State Fair, the Allan
ta or the Augusta Expositions it, will
advertise us in a way that will be of
incalculable benefit to the county in
its every interest.
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A proper appreciation of the nat¬
ural advantages of our soil and cli¬
mate would stay the current of em¬
igration from our county and bring
to us va riable settlers to cultivate
our waste lands or to manufacture
the products, of our farms or give us
a market for these products. A coun¬
ty exhibit, showing the possibilities of
every field of enterprise here, would
enlighten our ow^piuzens and cause
them to put forth greater efforts and
would advertise us to visitors. Every¬
body ought 10 take an interest in the
proposed county fair.
Everybody must condemn the
money-making methods of Jay Gould.
The man who meets you on the high¬
way and openly demands “your mon
eyor your life’* is entitled to more
respect than the man who secretly
plots to depreciate the value of your
property and inveigles you into spec¬
ulative schemes that you may become
embarrassed so that when forced to
sell he may become possessed of it
at less than its value. Mr. Gould
may paint the men who condemn his
methods as black as Erebus, but they
will always be esteemed whiter than
the property wrecking speculator.
The bill as reported to the house
ol representatives in congress for ap
probations for rivers and harbors
calls for the snu 8 lmle suin of near| y
twenty million dollars—say thirtythree
cents a head forevery oneofus—man,
won >* n and child white, black and
foreign. If Harris county pays her
P aj rt r °f it—and under ti e present high
tariff $he pays three times as much
as she would were the tax burden fair
ly distributed—her assessment alone is
$5,500 to meet this single item. In
other words to improve the rivers
HAMILTON, GA„ APRIL 6,1888.
and harbors we must be taxed within
a few hundred dollars of as much as
we are taxed to support the institu
ti county— bridges, coun y
j poor, court expenses and all—and
quite as much as we contribute to
the support of the state government,
This extravagant bill is only a natural
outgrowth of the enormous surplus in
the national treasury. Let us hope
that the bill will be liberally pruned
before it is approved by President
Cleveland.
Speaking of trusts, why don’t the
cotton planteis get up a trust and
hold their cotton for higher prices?
Does the detested tariff stand m the
way?—Atlanta Constitution. Op¬
pressed with a tax on everything he
buys, the cotton grower is forced to
sell as soon as he can get his crop
ready for market, else he would
doubtless form a trust to get remu¬
nerative prices for it. But he must
cultivate his crop with protected steel
plows, attached to protected wooden
stocks, drawn by highly protected
trace chains. He must chop it with
protected steel hoes on protected
wooden handles. He must drink
taxed coffee sweetened with protected
sugar, stirred with a protected spoon,
from a protected cup. He must wear
protected clothes, made with protect¬
ed thread, held together with protect¬
ed buttons. Finally he must gin his
crop in a protected machine, wrap it
j n protected bagging and bind itv/ilh
protected ties,to sell it in a fiee trade
j^rket. Under the circumstances
tk ere is no wonder that the crop is
before it is planted and that the
price is made by the buyer and not
the grower.
For the Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
The papers abound in recitals of
losff and damage by the late flood.
Montgomery, Selma and Troy, Ala.,
suffered most. The Fort Games
bridge was swept away and four lives
lost.
Rumor says that Speaker J. G.
Carlisle will be appointed Chief J as
tice of the Supreme court of the US.
in place of Judge Waite, deceased,
ONE DOLLAR A
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
and that Judge Crisp, of Georgia,will
succeed to the speakership.
*
The democratic state convention
will meet on lie 8th of May to elect
delegates to the democratic national
convention to be held in St. Louis to
nominate a candidate for President,
The convention to nominate a can
didate for Governor and state house
officers wi'l be held August 8th.
Vanderuilt pays his cook $10,000
a year and nobody has a right to ob¬
ject. Cooking has been reduced to
a science and all scientific luxuries
are costly.
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The lard makers deny indignantly
the charge of Bartle and others that
they make lard of cholera and smoth¬
ered bags. Where there is sa much
smoke there must be some fire.
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M. B. Smith, express agent at At¬
lanta, was bitten by a rattlesnake
concealed in a crate of cabbage
sent from Jacksonville, Fla.
Better raise your own cabbages and
not buy.
♦
Canada seems to be a favorite re
sort of late, especially of the ‘ baser
sort.” Tate, the Kentucky treasurer,
has defaulted for $240,000 anti skip¬
ped to Canada. The president and
cashier of the naiiona? bank of Ral¬
eigh have done likewise. There is no
extradition treaty between the domin¬
ion of Canada and the United States,
but ought to oe.
The Presbyterians of Georgia are
entertaining the proposition to build
and endow a Presbyterian college at
Atlanta with a good prospect of suc¬
cess.
Tnere is a crisis in French affairs.
The ministry has resigned on bein '
defeated by a vote of 268 to 237.
Bonapartists are coming to the front,
and trouble is expected. Can the
volatile French maintain a republic ?
The merchants and the alliance in
Heard county have disagreed, each
saving that the other had violated
the contract. Frankiu is not now
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NO. 14.