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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.