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K '-L: I * .• . * m i y S'- - f t* i •'-V t t **A ; ; ; > *• * i. r JzS A mi » i 2:7 I K: J| <k ■i 7/ ■; 7: -A :: <n JFO Williams m '-■Cite; L ' AX £1 k. 4 j , • v A’- r . ▼ w W c VOL XVI. v~ EDITORIAL NOTES The Harris county grange meets here next Tuesday to enjoy a grange fruit festival and to discuss grange matters. The body embraces some of the best farmers in the county and the grange meeting will be interesting and profitable. The Meriwether . Vindicator puts Harris county down as the pivotal county in the congressional race. It is entirely too soon to determine this. Grimes must get four and possibly six votes from above the mountain. This puts the pivot higher up than Harris we think. - Keep cool. Don’t get excited. The nomination Saturday is hut to .determine the popularity of a few men. You may he called upon to assist in electing the very man you most bitterly oppose. It behooves you therefore to avoid bitterness. Party interest must he above person al preference. The less you say, the less you may have to take hack. I he weather is warm, hut you must keep cool. If you can’t keep cool, keep as cool as you can. The tariff reform measure, gener ally known as the Mills hill, passed the house Saturday by a majority of thirteen. Three republicans voted for it and three democrats against it. It is a very mild measure, not radical in any of its features, but it puts the people on notice that the policy of the democratic party will he to take no more from the pockets of the tax payer than the government econom ically administered demands, and that this shall he raised by a tax on lux uries, rather than upon tne recessa _ ries of life, Such is not the policy of the republican party and it is op posed to the tariff hill because of its tendency to curtail the superfluous revenues. The river and harbor bill appro priates $22,000,000. A much less objectionable bill than this was ve toed by President Cleveland two » years ago and there is a feeble hope JOSEPH L.DENNIS PROPRIETOR. that he will do so again. Does any body suppose that a congress made up of first term men could concoct such an enormous steal ? If Harris county pays her share of the federal taxes—and unfortunately she pays more—then the levy for this item is just $5,000, and not one cent of it touches the county, It is time this foolishness about improvements by the general government was at an end. Leave the money with the peo pie and wherever work is needed pri¬ vate enterprize will meet the emer gency. The Mills bill places cotton ties on the free list. This is as it should he. The bulk of our cotton is marketed at Liverpool. The difference then between the cost of bagging and ties j iel . e and their market value in Liv erpool, represents the loss to the cot ton grower. It is an item in the cost 0 f production, just as planting, plow ing, 0 r ginning is. The demand for the staple fixes the price; the cost of production determines the profits of the grower. Hence to buy in a pro tected market an article that must he so ld in a free trade market, is mam festly unprofitable, and a law that ex¬ acts this of the agricultural class is unfair. Agriculture needs fostering by the government much more manufacturing does. The fallacy in the cotton tie and bagging question is that seemingly the producer gets as much per pound for these items as he Joes for his cotton and that there is a profit to him in the transaction. But the price paid him is for the amount of net cotton in his bale—the price per pound is reduced so as to ful y cover the loss on bagging and ti( s. Both items should he on the free list, together with all articles needed in making or marketing a crop. for lbs H imiltoi* Journal. CURRENT EVENTS. The Mills bill reducing the passed the house, after a heated test, by a vote of 167 to 143. done! The foreign mail subsidy hill failed to pass and the jobbers complain. m Hon. M. W\ Fuller has been HAMILTON, GA„ JULY 27,1888. j firmed Supreme as Court Chief by Justice 20 majority. of the U. S. * #: Judge John W. H. Underwood, of Rome, died on the 19th, aged 74. One of the bright lights of Georgia has gone out and one of the land¬ marks in history disappears. The oldest living graduate of West Point military academy is Gen. W. C. Butler, of St. Louis, who was in the class of 1820, and is now 89 years old. * A recent census gives Baltimore a population of 416,705, of which 65,569 are negroes. There are 100,000 chinamen in California. The “yellow invasion” is worse than the gold fever, with nine heathen temples. The Georgia State Agricultural so¬ ciety meets in Thomasville August 1st, 2nd and 3rd. # # Jay Gould lias purchased the Mc¬ Kay submarine telegraph for eleven million dollars. * * MitcheU county has voted proliihi {Jon by a large majority. Let the good work go on. The saloons must go. A correspondent of the New York Tribune is not complimentary in his notes of the northern watering pla¬ ces. He says that Newport is a pro longned dinner party, Saratoga a continued horse race, and Bar Har¬ bor a summer school of flirtation. None good. * Catterpillars have made their ap¬ pearance in great force in Mitchell county and in west Florida, and great damage is being done. * * Glynn county is the only place in Georgia where grows the olive from which is made pure olive oil. * * W r # At aldeck, Germany, a P ers ‘J u addicted . to intemperance . cannot ob; tam a license to marry, the law | bidding It. This ought to be the law everywhere. .-***“ ^ * * * It is believed that Mexico will be a large market for Alabama coal, with high prices. Large shipments are made there now\ The Chattahoochee______ J v jck i Compa- _ 4 ny has taken the contract to build ONEDOLLARA YEAR, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. the railroad from Buena Vista to Columbus, 33 miles. * I * The date palm at Fort Myers, Fla., planted by Gen. Hancock more than thirty years ago, bears this year for the first time. Reaper. THE DOUBTFUL DELEGATIONS That was a very manly letter from Congressman Grimes declining tu come home to fix up his fences. It was a short sighted friend who asked him to come yet, he declined in an ad¬ mirable way. It’s bad for him to be away now but it would be worse tor him to leave his post to come home. The letter was manly and we beleive he meant it. But all of Mr. Grimes’ friends are not as open and honest as he is. Some of them want to claim Talbot county for him, in thy face of the fact that the meeiing was admit¬ tedly three to one in favor of re con¬ sidering its action in appointing Grimes delegates when it was known that Mr. Gormon was a candidate. If Mr. Grimes thinks a majority of the voters of Talbot prefer him to Mr. Gorman let him or his friends ask that the question be re-opncd. It is not too late. Honest Tom Grimes we know would not accept the vote of 'i albot if given him upon a quibble. Then his friends, while admitting the informality of the appointment of delegates in Tayloi, object to elect ing them formally. Now informality is all right until somebody objects, but the humblest member of the democratic party has a right to ask that established precedents shall be followed in naming the candidates he shall be caMed upon to support, and this only is the price of his fealty. There are many who say the pe< i/ie of Traylor should say in pnmary next Wednesday who should represent the county in the convention. If twQ delega ,j ons come up f rorn T ay , one e | etted by . a convention cal ]e( , , Q do some ,hing else and called for that only, and another elected b) the party in district primaries, would Honest Tom Grimes accept ihe nomination if he could only get it by turning the latter delegation out and seating the former ? If so he is not the man we take him tu be or what his ft lends claim that he is. NO.