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now to enable us to act with profit
another season.
Eot lh; Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
Mr. Reagan lias introduced into
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congress a bill To declare all trusts
void. It declares unlawful and void
all arrangements, contracts, agree¬
ments, trusts or combinations made
between persons or corporations,made
with a view or which tend to prevent
full and free competition in produc¬
tion, manufacturing or sale of any
article, home produced or imported
which tends to increase the cost to
the consumer.
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Mr. Blaine has taken position in
favor of “trusts” and the republicans
will follow. Lookout for the money
power.
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The Naval appropriation bill
amounts to $19,993,224. We will
surely have a navy after a while.
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Gov. Gordon lias issued Ill’s procla¬
mation submitting for ratification or
rejection the proposed amendment to
the Constitution increasing the num¬
ber of judges of the Supreme court
to five inste ad of three—to be voted
on at the at the general election to be
held October 3rd, 1888. ‘
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Hon. K. G. Turner, in the 2nd con¬
gressional district, lias been nominat¬
ed by acclamation.
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The public debt was reduced $4,-
137,235 during July. Cash in the
treasury $040,123,207. This amount
of money ought not to be there and
would not be there under the Mills’
bill of tariff reform.
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The “Confederate Veterans” will
have a re-union at LaGrange on Sept.
5th. Gov. Gordon and Gen. C. A.
Evans will make addresses.
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Montgomery has received over 400
bales of new cotton. Cotton is com¬
ing in more rapidly than usual and
this rush into market will seriously
affect the price.
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The public mind is much excited
over the bagging trust and a remedy
is seriously sought after.
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Yellew fever in Florida has been
terrible. The latest reports are more
favorable and the prospect is that it
will soon abate.
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In Habersham county the shingle
industry is rapidly increasing. There
are 41 shingle machines within* 10
miles of Tocon, making 250.000 shin¬
gles per day. Atlanta, Chattanooga
and other cities art* supplied by them.
Why is Pino mountain *iot utilized ?
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This is an age of improvement.
The pipe line from Lena, Ohio, to
Chicago is now nearly complete. It
will convey one thousand barrels of
oil per hour, The oil is intended for
fuel.
Reader.
Local and Personal.
Miss Genie West, of Columbus, is
in the city, the guest of Miss Emmie
Sparks.
Get a premium list of the county
fair and make the very best exhibit
you can.
Mrs. J. A. Hunter has been quite
sick the past week, but has about re¬
covered.
Miss Sallie Griggs, of Columbus, is
staying with Mrs. J. W. Gamble and
attending school here.
Mrs. Annie Sieger, of Gurleysville
Ala., is visiting the family of Mr. B.
C. Kimbrough this week.
Mrs. W. M. Middlebrooks and
family, of At’anta, are in the city vis
iting Miss Fletcher Turner.
Mr. Frank Teague, the clever rep
resentative of lohn R. Wilkerson &
Brother, of Atlanta, interviewed his
friends here yesterday morning.
The city has been without a mar¬
shal since Tuesday morning. If
everybody wopki behave himself there
would be but little need of one.
Misses Lula Mobley and Annie
Persons, escorted by M r . A. F. Cope¬
land, went up to Warm Springs yes¬
terday afternoon to spend a day or
two.
The heavy rains that have fallen
this week have not been very favora¬
ble for cotton, but a few days of sun¬
shine will prevent any serious injury
to the crop.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Livingston re¬
turned home Saturday, after nearly
two weeks spent in visiting the Cin¬
cinnati centennial, Niagara Falls, and
other places of note.
The inclement weather and the
illness of the pastor made it impracti¬
cable to continue protracted services
at the Baptist church and the meet¬
ing closed Wednesday morning.
Marshall Johnston, who is rusti¬
cating with his family at Oak moun¬
tain springs, sent in for an almanac
yesterday morning, The weather
suggested tfiat it was time to come
home. .
The premium list of the Harris
county fair is having many compli¬
ments. Its blue ink suggests that
blue ribbon for the best county dis¬
play at the Chattahoochee Valley
Exposition.
Mr. M. B. Parker and lady left last
Friday for their home in St. Louis.
He expects to return here about the
first of October and make Hamilton
his home, opening business in the cor
ner store of Hudson & Johaston’s
warehouse.
Mrs. S. T. Kingsbery and family,
of Savannah, left Thursday morning
for Carrollton where they will remain
until cold weather. Her mother,Mrs
Ann Smith, will stop in Shiloh and
spend some time with relatives.
Prof. H. A. Hayes is prepared to
take a number of pupils to board,
and parents who have to send their
children away from home to educate
them, cannot do better than to trust
them to his watchful care and in
struction.
The protracted meeting out at
Bethel church last week is said to
be the best meeting they have had
since the war. The Holy spirit was
present in great power, and Baptists
and Methodists rejoiced together.
The services were conducted by Rev.
W. D. McGregor.
Sugar cane is remarkably fine
j throughout the county, We hear of
some on the Mulberry bottoms that
has matured six feet already. As we
have remarked once a year or oftener
for ten years, there is no surer or
more profitable crop than sugar cane
on bottom lands.
Mr. W. M. Parker k building r a
rock wall on the sidewalk in front
his vacant lot in the upper part
tew.). It is one o t the prettiest build¬
ing lots in the town, and Mr. M. B.
Parker contemplates soon beginning
the erection of a handsome residence
thereon.
Revs. W. D. McGregor and W.
A. Farley were called to Cataula this
morning to assist in a revival meeting
at Clowers church. The pastor Rev.
Mr. Brewton has been summoned to
Macon to attend the bedside of his
brother-in-law, Rev. J. B. Culpepper,
who is extremely ill in that city.
But hasn’t this been good weather
on peas, potatoes and sugar cane
My, how they have grown and are
growing, and how they will splice out
cotton and corn if they should yet
be overtaken with some disaster. If
there is a man who does business on
sounder principles than the farmer
who grows all the crops his land is
adapted to, his wheieabouts is un¬
known to us.
The wet weather has suggested
the spell that did so much damage
to crops last August, and made some
of us mighty nervous, but yesterday
morning the sun rose to greet a clear
sky, the atmosphere was crisp and
the birds sang their happiest. All
day wagon after wagon rolled out of
town fieighted with bagging and ties,
(trust bagging and protected ties),
and all nature proclaimed the ap¬
proach of autumn and the time when
crop liens must be met.
Columbus Enquirer: The Enqui¬
rer-Sun has received a copy of the
premium list, rules and regulations of
the Harris county fair, which will be
held at Hamilton on September 27 th
and 28 th. The premium list is one
likely to attract widespread attention,
and the prizes offered guarantee at¬
tractions that will make the affair a
perfect success. The pamphlet was
printed by the Hamilton Journal,
and the work would do credit to any
job office.
The college opened Monday with
forty-five pupils, and notwithstanding
the rainy weather, five more have
been added to the roll. A large in¬
crease is expected Monday. Miss
Lily A. Stradley of Hiawassee, Ten¬
nessee, is assistant teacher. She is an
accomplished lady and experienced
teacher, and comes here highly recom
mended. Mrs. B. C. Kimbrough,who
is well known in the county as arr ex¬
cellent music teacher, again has
charge of the music department. Al¬
together, the college is well equipped,
and prepared to do satisfactory work,
and the prospects for a fine school
were never more encouraging.
Columbus Ledger: The Ledger is
in receipt of the premium list, rules
and regulations of the Harris county
fair, to be held at Hamilton on Sep¬
tember 27 th and 28 th. .Theprinting
and binding was done in the office of
the Hamilton Journal, and is partic¬
ularly neat and well done. It is a
credit both to the mechanical facili¬
ties and the typographical taste of the
printer, to say nothing of the excel¬
lence of the press work. The premi¬
um list contains a long list of premi¬
ums and the ptospect now is that the
Harris county fair will be a great suc¬
cess.
The executive committee of the
25 th senatorial district, through their
chairman, Judge J. M. Mathews,
have issued a call for a convention to
meet at Talbotton on the 18 th of
September to nominate a democratic
candidate for senator. Hon. B. H.
Williams, under resolutions of the
democracy of the county, will name
the delegates to represent Harris in
the convention. He will doubtless
be nominated without opposition. In
presenting him as her choice, Harris
county is glad to point to him as one
eminently worthy of the high trust.
He is a man of the people,, acquaint
ed with their needs. He is a very
successful farmer, master of' the
Hamilton Grange, and an officer of
the Farmers Alliance of Harris coun¬
ty. The district will find in him a
faithful senator.