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nee, and giving the position of Third
Assistant Postmaster General to Mr.
Tom Crenshaw. This last involves
Mr. Cleveland. Now the Journal
has been forced to see the popularity
of Mr. Harris when it would rather
not, and forced against its will to
admit his ability, yet at this time we
know of no man in the district who has
more friends and but few who would
do it better service in congress. He
is no sort of a scarecrow and we do
not believe in the conspiracy.
I^ocal and Pergonal.
Col. George Traylor, of Atlanta,
was in the city Tuesday.
Several important communications
are unavoidably crowded out.
Mrs. H. C. Cameron, of Columbus,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. B. H. Wil¬
liams.
Mrs. J. W. Fogle, of Columbus, is
in the city canvassing for several
very valuable books.
Mrs. T. H. Martin, of Nashville,
Tenn., is in the city, visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. J. W. Mitchell.
Mr. M. S. Johnston and wife, after
a very pleasant visit to relatives in
Bainbridge, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. J. L. Dennis and children
are visiting relatives at Talbotton.
Filey are expected home next, week.
As we go to press the town loafers
are assembled in the court house to
witness the union of two colored hearts.
The minutes of the general meet¬
ing at Pin»y Grove church will bo
published next week. We regret our
inability to find room for them this
week.
Mrs. S. T. lvingsbery and family,
of Savannah, and Mrs. E. A. Smith,
of Rockledge, Fla., are expected to
arrive this afternoon for a visit of
several weeks to the family of Mrs.
V. V. Singleton.
Mrs. B. C. Kimbrough was called
to Columbus Sunday to see her sister,
Mrs. J. H. Hrmilton, who has been
extremely ill. There was some im
provement in her condition, and Mrs.
Kimbrough returned home Tuesday
afternoon.
Rev. W. D. McGregor will begin a
series of services at the Methodist
church next Wednesday evening. It
is a season when farmers and other
business men w ill have time to go to
church, and it is hoped that the ser¬
vices w ill be w ell attended.
Mrs. S. S. Williams opened a sum¬
mer school at Central Academy Mon
•/
day morning. She is a highly edu¬
cated and cultured lady and her abil¬
ity as a teacher is well known in Har¬
ris county. The patrons of the school
are very fortunate in securing her
services. We learn she has about 3.5
pupils.
If anybody sees anything of a
young spotted sow, straying around
loose, they will oblige the editor by
giving him notice. It’s our winter’s
meat prospect and there’ll be sorrow¬
ful countenances if our folks get
home and find the pig gone.
Col. James M. Mobley, of Hamil¬
ton, is spoken of as presidential elec¬
tor from this district. CoL Mobley
is an able lawyer, a good man and a
courteous gentleman. No better se¬
lection could be made for the posi¬
tion.—Columbus Enquirer. Colonel
Mobley is a devoted democrat and if
made elector for the 4 th district he
would do much to make it the banner
district for Cleveland and Tariff
Reform.
The stockholders of the Harris
county Fair Association met in the
court house Tuesday of last week
and organized by electing a board of
! directors. The board of directors is
j composed of Judge A. A. Allen, G.
j N. Murrah, Col. J. M. Mobley, Judge
! W. I. Hudson, Capt. T. H. Kim¬
brough, R. E. Fort, J. H. Booker,
J. H. Cline and J. T. McGehee. The
board met later and ele d Judge
W. I. Hudson, President, R. E.
Fort, Secretary, and J. L. Dennis,
Treasurer. Another meeting of the
board will be held next Tuesday, at
which all the members are urged to
be present.
At the democratic mass meeting
held in the court house on the firs l
Tuesday, it Resolved to vote fu
congressman at the primary to be
held in the several districts through¬
out the county on the 28 th, the suc¬
cessful candidate to name four gen¬
tlemen who shall represent Harris
county in the congressional conven¬
tion to be held in Columbus. It was
further resolved that the gentleman
nominated for senator, by the same
primaries, should name the delegates
to represent the county in the 25 th
senatorial district. Col. James M.
Mobley, Messrs S. M. Brannon, J.
M. Kimbrough and R. B. Traylor
were elected delegates to the state
convention to meet in Atlanta on the
second Wednesday in August.
The w eather is hot, the thermome
up in the nineties.
Crop Report*.
Judge W. C. Wisdom, who was re¬
turning home from a canvass of the
eastern portion of the county gave us
a pleasant call Wednesday evening.
He says that crops in the county are
very fine. The corn stalk is not large
generally but the color is good and
the promise is for a large crop. Cot
ton is growing rapidly and fruiting
heavily. He says that the best field
of corn be has seen is on Oak Moun¬
tain and on the farm of Mr. Jesse
Meadows.
For the Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
The house of representatives is
still discussing the tariff. It is gen¬
erally conceded that it will pass and
the fight then will be in the Senate.
A worthy example : A majority of
the graduating class at the West Point
Military Academy decided not to have
wine at their graduating dinner.
At Independence, Mo., the prohi¬
bitionists carried the election by 2000
majority in a hotly contested election.
Local option is the proper way to re¬
move the saloons.
In a mile of railroad there are 351
rails, each 30 feet long and weigh 94
tons, spikes tons, plates used in
securing rails 330, ties 2640, one be¬
laid every two feet.
Emory College has determined to
abandon the technological depart¬
ment. The state supplies this through
the technological school at Atlanta,
ot which Dr. Hopkins is president.
*
* *
Dr. Paulinus records that diptheria
was introduced in the Grecian Isles
by a flock of wild turkeys, some of
which were diseased. Such a disease
was unknown there before.
At the meeting of the Alumni, Wes¬
leyan Female College, Mrs. C. E.
Jenson presented to the trustee* to
be deposited in the archieves of the
college, her diploma (she being the
first graduate) received fort)-eight
years ago, signed by Bishop Pierce.
Catterpillars are reported in great
force in Arkansas,- and the general
opion seems to be that they will be
as destructive as in 1876 when the
crop was so badly hurt, yet the acre¬
age in cotton is 2000,000 acres more
than last year.
*
England manufactures 47,000,000
pins dailyf France 20,000,000 daily;
Holland and Germany 38,000,000
daily. What becomes of all the pins?
The largest ship now afloat is the
Palgrove, built at Glasscovv, Scot¬
land, in 1884. Her length is 322
feet, breadth 49 feet and her tonage
3187 tons burden.
Cincinnati has subscribed $2,000,
000 dollars to her exposition and ex¬
pects to make $2,000,000 out of it.
Columbus, Ga., has wisely added a
$10,000 appropriation to her exposi¬
tion.
On July 5th the first bale of new
cotton was marketed at Albany by
P. W. Jones and sold at 21^ cents.
The first daily newspaper publish'
ed in the world was by a woman—
Elizabeth Mallet—in London in 1762.
There is no sex in mind.
Reader.
THOUGHT IT WOULD KILL
HIM.
Coffeevjlle, Miss., Feb. 20,1888.
Gentlemen: I suffered with ecze
ma for nearly two years, and was
treated by three physicians, but they
cold do me no good. I spoke of try¬
ing S. S. S. and they told me it would
kill me, but I tried it any way, and
after raking six or eight bottles, I was
completely cured, and have never
been bothered since with it, and I
feel it a duty to you and suffering hn
manity lo make this statement.
H. S. Davis.
Monport House, Wills Point,
Texas, April 5, 1888.
To the Swilt’s Specific Co., Atlanta.
Ga. Gentlemen: Our baby when
but two weeks old was attacked with
a scrofulous affection that for a time
destroyed her eyesight entirely, and
caused us to despair of her life. She
was treated by the best physicians
without benefit. We finally gave her
Swift’s Specific, which soon relieved
her completely, and she is now as
hale and hearty a child ot three as
can be found anywhere.
E. Y. Delk.
Waco, Texas, M*y 9, 1888.
Gentlemen: The wife of one of
my customers was terribly afflicted
with a loathsome skin disease, that
covered her whole body. She was
confined to her bed for several years
by this affliction, and could not help
herself at all. She could r ot sleep
from a violent itching and stinging of
the skin. The disease baffled the
skill of the physicians who treated it.
Her husband began finally giving his
wife Swift’s Specific, and she com¬
menced to improve almost immediate¬
ly, and in a few weeks she apparent¬
ly well. She is. now a hearty, fine
looking lady, with no trace of the af¬
fliction left. Fours, very truly,
J. E. Sears,
Wholesale Druggist, Austin Avenue.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis.
eases mailed free.
The Swift’s Specific Co.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
Ex Senator John H. Traylor is an
honorable, reputable and capable
citizen of Troup county. He repre¬
sented this district in the Georgia
senate one term, with credit to him
self and benefit to his constituents.
True to its local and to the propie
ties, the Reporter, while neither his
champion nor his organ, will not op
pose his candidacy. He is now be¬
fore the people on his merits. They
are of a high Older.—LaGrange Re¬
porter.