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England insists that their engines
shall take at least 9 horns rest be¬
tween a day's run as a preventative
ot accidents.
In Germany a chimney 54 feet high
has been built entirely of blocks of
paper joined with a special cement.
The chimney is now uninflamable
and by the nature of the material
quite secure against lightning.
Mr. Edison, the great electrician,
claims to have improved his phon
graph so that it nows talks, sings
and plays on the cornet. Will won¬
ders never cease ?
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The Columbus exposition is a big
thing and will grow as the time ap
proaches.
Reader.
Local and Personal.
Bedell Paiker is quite sick.
This is fine growing weather.
A young daughter of Mr. Dick
Goodman is very ill.
Mr. B. C Kimbrough is acting as
postmaster this week.
Dewberries are ripening and the
crop is said t.o be very fine. '
Mrs. C. H. Cook and children are
visiting relatives in Columbus.
Mrr. WtfiT. Barr, tof Columbus, was
with his friends here Tuesday.
Farmers who finished chopping
cotton last week were fortunate.
The rain has come and gone and
left a good season in the ground.
Mr. Benny Peed, of Waverly Hall,
was with his friends here yesterday.
People generally are afraid of that
St Louis weather projlhet and his
May cyclones.
Dr. I. P. Cheney is slowly conva¬
lescing. He has had a severe at¬
tack of the mumps.
Mr. Walter Lovelace spent two or
three days of this week with friends
in and near Greenville.
Mr. J. L. Blackmon, our model
postmaster, left Monday on a visit to
relatives in Taylor county.
Hail fell here last night about dusk
and a very dark and angry looking
cloud passed a little south of town.
The rainy season in May never
fails to come, although it was the
first of August before it got here last
year.
Dr. E. H. Williams and wife left
for Aberdeen, Miss., yesterday morn¬
ing on a visit to the relatives of
Mrs. Williams at that place.
Mr. Milo Parker returned to his
home at St. Louis this week. His
wife will remain here several weeks,
the guest of Mrs. E. A. Parker.
Dewberries will soon be
mented with blackberries and then
the blackberry brigade wili be fully
organized. The crop of each is very
fine.
Mr. J. T. Pearce and Mrs. J. A.
Hunter and family, who have spent
the winter at Leesburg, Fla , have re¬
turned to Hamilton to spend the
summer.
Mrs. M. E. Patrick, of Pleasant
Hill, is visiting Mrs. Dr. J. W. Mitch
ell. She is in bad healh and come
to be under treatment of Dr. J. W.
Mitchell.
Dr. Harold Williams was out to
see a patient last Monday when his
horse ran away and broke his buggy
into small fragments. The doctor
was not hurt nor was the horse.
Some of the boys thought there were
not shotes enough within six miles of
Hamilton to furnish meat for a big
barbecue but the canvass for the
Masonic picnic shows that they are
mistaken.
Mr. J. C. Floyd rode out to the
foot of the mountain on the Chipley
road Wednesday morning and walked
back. He says that one can see with
half an eye that there is more corn
planted than usual and that it is in
fine condition.
Rev. W. D. McGregor has placed
on our table a mess of the finest
nips arid Irish potatoes that We hav«
seen this season. The turnips were
nearly as large around as small sau
cers and the potatoes as large as
small tea cups. He has our thanks.
« Ben Walton says he hopes his
friends will riot infer from the article
in trie Journal last week that he saw
only one thing in Florida and that a
patch of cucumbers. 1 hose who
know him will be slow to believe
that anybody could see
more than Ben in Florida or else¬
where in a given length of time.
The Journal is winning golden
opinions now from all sources. Coun.
ty pride if nothing else should prompt
every man to take his county paper.
Compare this copy of the Journal
with any paper published in a town
of less than thiee times as many in
habitants as Hamilton and if you do
not say it is the best, we will enter
up your name for a life time subscrip
tion free. It affords us pleasure to
note a substantial growth in our sub
senption list in all parts of the coun
ty.
The weather has been very fine
upon upland corn that was planted
early and the number of brag corn
patches that one hears of on the street
corners gives a solid basis for the
hope that the procession of wagons
to be seen in town nearly every day,
all here for westeru corn, is soon to
become a thing of the past. Johnny
Mobley has a ten acre field that is
the best we have seen; A. F. Truett
has a larger field that is nearly if not
quite as good, and Curtis Beall says
that he has a field that is better than
either.
John King, a colored carpenter of
this place, had his leg broken last
week in a very singular manner. He
was in a wa g° n > ridi ”g wlth h, s hack
t0 the hoTse and his feet hanging
down near the ground. The horse
was in a trot, when John, in catching
a little child to keep U from falling,
had one foot to suddenly strike the
ground. In restoring his balance on
the wagon, he was surprised to find
his leg broken above the kn'*e. lie
has been an invalid for several years
and his physicians say his bones are
nearly as brittle as chalk, a fact the
accident seems clearly to establish.
The committee of arrangements
for the Masonic barbecue to be held
on the 23rd of June held a meeting
Wednesday afternoon that became
enthusiastic as the reports of sub
scriptions came in from the several
members. Upon adding up the list
it was ascertained that thirty-five car¬
casses had been subscribed, with
twelve or fifteen more in prospect.
This will furnish barbecue enough
for two thousand people and it is
tj 10U ght that fully, that many will be
heie. An interesting program is be¬
ing prepared and the barbecue will
supplemented with food for the
reason as W ell as that for the body,
Golden Era Lodge, No. 2292, of
colored 0 dd Fellows, of Hamilton,
celebrated last Saturday the 7th an
n j versar y 0 f its organization, Master
of s M V ) R N j ackson) G f C o
] umk , USj was rhe guest of the lodge,
and participated in the ceremonies.
The speech of welcome was delivered
by Master of W. N. G., James Crook,
of Golden Era Lodge, and the orators
G f the occasion were Rev. J. J. Hollis
and J. C. Beall. The committee of
arrangements was N. G., Henry
Robinson, N. T., P. C. Culpepper,
y. q., Jacob Blackmon. The lodge
paraded the streets clothed in the
beautiful regalia ot the order,
Hamilton has several candidates
an d they are active in their efforts to
w in votes. Last Monday morning
a young man with his wife and baby
in the buggy drove up in front of the
drugstore and went in, leaving his
wife and the baby J in the buggy. In
of digm- y .
less than a minute one our
fied segniors, whose senatorial aspi
rations meet the approval of hundreds
of warm admirers, had the baby in
his arms and was making the mother
proud by fondling the little cherub
and commenting upon its fine looks,
Just ten steps away stood his compet
not less nod the indif
ference he endeavored to show as 1
took in the situation at a glanc
made of the whole scene a piciu
that the bystanders were not slow t?
catch and enjoy with pleasure 2 hi?
world is the better for the candidate
The who nothing % bad
man wants is a
citizen and a foe to his kind.
Nature has done much for Hami!
ton. Here we have an air that i
pure and balmy, a soil that repays
well the agriculturist, seasons that arc
regular to a rematkable degree, pure
water, and scener) that is inspiring
to every lover of nature. The coun¬
try around us is broken and the town
can never become acommercialcentre.
Indeed vre are too near to ColumbtL
for our commerce evei to be greatly
larger than it is. But viewed aright
this is no disadvantage to the future
growth cf the place in many other
ways. We are close enough to that
city for its prestige as a manufacturing
centre to be of advantage to us in
any manufacturing enterprise in which
we may engage; near enough its rail
road facilities to help 11s in finding a
market; and yet remote enough to
have the advantage of lower wages
than are paid in the city and the ben¬
efit of cheaper living. All these ad
vantages count for nothing at present
because we do not utilize them.There
is sufficient idle capital here, if the
many mites were combined to stall a
cotton factory,an oil mill,a guano fac¬
tory or a furniture factory, and it only
needs a leader in whom the people
have confidence to start something
of the kind. What say you? The
Journal would be glad to hear from
its readers on the subject. What
shall we have and how shall we have
it? The south is the home of the
cotton plant and Harris county cot
ton is’ the best short staple cotton
grown. Our cotton has a fine repu
tation on the market of the state and
if we enter into its manufacture
this will be to our advantage.
No country ever became
rich and powerful that relied only
upon agriculture and none perhaps
ever will. Let us build a factory and
start it on such a firm basis that otb
ers will be sure to follow.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Wb ^ n
g H WILLIAMS as a candidate for &>?.
ator from the 25th Sen.,tonal district,
©object to the datoocrafio party of Ham
county, and to roiioit for the hearty co ¬
operation of hia hiendH throogbont th
FOR REPRESENTATIVE t
We are authorized to announce n*r n
candidate for Representative in tbe n» xt
General As«emblv of Georgia, CapLtin
JOHN F. JENKINS, subject to ih*
democratic nomiration July 28its, and
to solicit in his bth «*f tbe active support
of his friends throogbont tbe county.