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......f % m # •v V l f *- I \ , I { \ J ' \ i ; • 1 » -* * * - ‘ V # * m f * i 4 r 1 ? hV .'Jfn 2 f W ♦ 4 A 4 . /V j ^ * r f ■sz Hi:- . ■ .V IJ 5 ’ \ i / * * * 1/ r f 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. - ■***■ - 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. * * * 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. S- m m * -• r _ •-■r 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 , NO. 14.