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Kor the Hamilton Journal. CURRENT EVENTS. Memorial day was observed throughout the south with a unanimi ty highly commendable. Love for the dead heroes here and the" lost cause will ever burn brightly on the altar of patriot ism. V# Prof. J. Harris Chappell's address at Columbus was a model of its kind. * * • The discussion of ihe lariff contin ues in congress and will continue lor some time. The Mills bill will pass and the surplus reduced. Justice is slow but will surely come. * A Investigation of the oil trusts con¬ tinue and discloses a huge combina¬ tion to make money by pure specu¬ lation. In many counties democratic meet¬ ings have been held and so far they are a unit, for the reduction of the tariff and support President Cleve¬ land for the nomination at St. Louis. *■ Phosphate deposits have been dis¬ covered in Florida on Peace river of large extent and very valuable. Suit¬ able machinery has been bought and wiU soon be at work. Success will be of immense advantage to the coun¬ try. Mr. John H. Newton, of Athens, is thinking of doubling the capacity of his bobbing factory, This is the only one of the kind in the state. These small industries have proved to be very profitble and build up towns. Try it. * * * A lady in Athens rises at 5 o’clock in the morning and walks 3 miles be¬ fore oreikfast. A good example,but if you do not care to walk, milk the cow and feed the pigs and chickens. Just before water was reached in the new artesian web at Montezuma, some strange articles came from it, consisting of lumps of coal, fish scales, and bone, clear amber rosin and bits of soft wood. Yellow fever is reported at Plant City, Fla. The matter is being care¬ j fully investigated. It is said to have come from Tampa last summer. The Regalia at Pensacola. Fla., was a grand success. Several corres¬ pondents are really eloquent in de¬ scribing it. ; Mr. D. C. Hill, of Wilkes county, j has sold this season over fifty thous-1 and pounds of ha . Hay is more profitable than cotton, Will the ! farmers take a hint. Washington, Wilkes county, has received this season 3300 tons of fer tilizers, much more than ever receiv e d in one season before, * * * ! ! • By an act of the last legislature an enumeration of the of the public school population will be made during the present year. Hou. M. W. Fuller, of Illinois, has been appointed by the President i Chief ... . . fustice _ . of e the . 0 | . upreme court of the Lnited States in place of Judge Waite, deceased. Reader. T.ocal and Personal. Mr. John L. Riley visited Colum¬ bus Thursday. Col. J. W. Murphey, of Columbus, is in the city. Miss Lula Mobley went down to Columbus Wednesday. Miss Mollie Walton is in the city on a visit to her brother’s family. Mr. J. M. Pitts, of Waverly Hail, is on a visit to homefolks and friends. Miss Mary Johnston is at home from Chappell’s Seminary on a short vacation. Miss Carrie May Cowsert returned from a visit to relatives at Cataula Thursday. Miss Ella Hightower.of Kingsboro is the guest of the Misses Lovelace this week. Mrs. Dr. Mitchell returned from a weeks visit To her sister at Birming¬ ham Monday eve. Mr.Marshall Kimbrough has a field of wheat on the Whitesville road that is worth going six miles to see. Hamilton was well but not fairly represented at Whitesville Wednes¬ day, as none of our ladies went. Mrs. C. H. Cook left for Fortson yesterday morning to spend some time with her sister at that place. Dr. J. W. Mitchell visited La Grange, returning home, Monday afternoon with a nice new buggy. Items of personal mention are al¬ ways cheerfully inserted in the Jour¬ nal if handed to any of our reporters. Mr. M. Wolfson, of Columbus was in town yesterday. He says he may send his family up here to spend the summer months. Mrs. Mattie Williams came up from Fortson Saturday afternoon and spent last Sabbath with her sister, Mrs. C. H. Cook. Hon H. C. Cameron, of Colum bus, was in our town Tuesday. His host of friends here are always glad to welcome him to his old home. More wheat has been sown in the county—a little more—than usual. It is looking well and promises a very remunerative crop if the seasons are not unfavorable lrom now until maturity, One of the prettiest farms in Har¬ ris county is that $>f Mr. L. P. Hop k j ns j ust 0 ff the/road from here to vVhitesville. His dwelling is located i j n lhe m jd st G f waving fields of grain ; and w hite walls contrasting with the green fields, makes a picture that ; j ; is as beautiful as it is refreshing. The . dry weather . has enabled .. , farm- - : catch up witil their crops and if _ it will ... rain . now so that , they . can go on the prospect is lovely. The seas¬ ons, however, are so like last year’s seasons that the people who have botton lands, or uplands not planted early, are really nervous about it. Many of our reporters request us to conceal their names. This is car rying their modesty too far we think. To report for your county paper the information you can get about your neighborhood, thus keeping your people before the public and protect¬ ing your neighborhood’s interests, is an honoiable avocation, and if it is generally known that you are en gaged in doing this you will receive material assistance from every good citizen in the community when he can give it. As we have often said we are proud of our correspondents and if their names are not generally known it is because of their modesty and nojt that we are ashamed of any of them. In the work by his deed, one will know the artism. Use Warner’s Log Cabin Scalpine, and by your new rnd thick growing hair everybody will know that you have used it. Harris County Grange. Representatives met here Tuesday ,morning from the several granges of Harris county for the purpose of .or¬ ganizing a county grange. The or¬ ganization was effected and the fol lowing officers were elected : R. E. Fort, Master. Dr. J. E. Sappington, Overseer. G. A. B. Dozier, Lecturer. J. S. Smith, Steward, W. H. McCullohs, Ass’t Steward. Rev. I. P. Cheney, Chaplain. J. A. Holland, Treas. J. L. Dennis, Secretary. S. J. Webster Gatekeeper. Mrs, W. P. Bridges, Pomona. Mrs. J. H. Mobley, Flora. Mrs. T. H. Kimbrough, Ceres. Miss Sallie Kimbrough, L. A. S. The session of the Grange was se C ret, but it was determined to hold a grange fair this tall and to invite eve rybody in the county to participate in 1 r-r . The exhibit will in all probabili- j ty be made at Hamilton and after- ! wards taken as a whole to the Co lumbus exposition. It was also determined to hold a fruit and melon festival here on the first Tuesday in August, that being the day on which the next meeting of the county grange will be held. Ax' that time plans for the county fair will be perfected. THE S. S. WORKERS. The Second Quarterly Meeting of the Harris County Sunday School Association. The second quarterly meeting of the Harris County Sunday School Association for 1888, was held at the Whitesville Baptist church on Wed¬ nesday, May 2nd. Judge A. A. Al¬ len, 1st Vice-President, at the re¬ quest of President Wisdom, presided. Prayer was offered by Rev. R. H. Bullock. An address of welceme was then delivered by J. T. Gore. In beauti¬ ful woras he earnestly expressed the welcome which his community ex¬ tended the honored association. Mr. J. W. Clines, in behalf of the associatiation responded. In his unique way, that is as pleasant as it is original, he spoke of the results of Sunday School work and urged the members of the association to renew ed effort if they would do the work ! they ought to do and can do. ! * Reports from the schools in the county were then called for and twen j ty-six schools responded to the call. Hamilton Baptist school was repre by C. H. Cook. It has upwards of 75 names on the roll with an average attendance of 65. The conditions Q f ,h e school is good and its prospect 1S brightem.ing. i Hamilton Methodist school was represented by Judge W. I. Hudson and O. S. Barnes. It has about 80 names on roll with an average at¬ tendance of upwards of 60. Bethany school represented by W. E. Goodman, W. E. Jenkinn, J. A. Jenk ins, Abner Culpepper and Flem Durham. It has 60 names on roll two thirds of whom are church members. Chipley Methodist—represented by U. H. Layfield. Has 75 pupils and 8 teachers, average attendance of pu¬ pils about 60. Teachers attend very regularly. Chipley Baptist school reported by J. T. Jenkins. It has 81 scholars on the roll and a regular attendance of 50. Delegates to convention were Dr. J. D. Danforth, B. F. Hill, R. L. Burkes, Misses Kate Huthinson, Carrie Crawford and Lilia Surles. Central Academy, reported by Dr. J. W. Williams 80 on roll, with an average attendance of 70. School is full of interest and accomplishing a good work. Delegates are Miss [continued on page 11.]