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VOL XVI.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It was reported last week that
case of yellow fever had broken
in Valdosta, but the physicians of
city certify that the report is
and the Times asserts that the city
clean and healthy.
The Atlanta Constitution seems to
be fonder of the democratic ticket
than of the democratic platform.
whoops up Cleveland and Thurman
without one time approving the plat¬
form on which they are running.
The railroads in the United States
would make six lines around the
earth. All of this 150,000 miles has
been built in forty years, A people
who can do this need not be afraid of
competition of the pauper labor of
any country.
The Talbotton New Era says that
Talbot should have the thousand dol
lar prize offered by the Chattahoochee
Valley Exposition. If it gets it Har¬
ris county will be sadly disappointed.
Our folks have sorter set their hearts
on that prize.
We have been surprised at the
number of horses and mules, Harris
county raised, that are spoken of^as
contestants for prizes at the county
f a j r> The number and merit of the
horses and mules exhibited here will
be very gratifying.
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The columns of the Journal are
open to anybody who has a word to
say for the Harris county fair. Our
heart is set on the blue ribbon for
Harris at the Chattahoochee Valley
exposition, and we are willing to do
all we can to get it.
A discriminating public will place
the honors of the Harris County Fair
where they belong. Success will
bring glory enough for everybody i in
t he county to have a goodly share.
us get the honor however before
we begin to apportion it out.
The usually clean Savannah News
M* publishing one o mi Zola’s French
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novels. We do not know anything
of this particular story, but its author
JOSEPH L.DENNJS,
PROPRIETOR.
has not been in the habit of
decent books and his reputation is
enough to cause anything he writes
be avoided as we would a cess pool.
We are glad to renew an exchange
with the Griffin News. It is now
j edited by our esteemed friend, Harry
! C. Brown, than whom we do not
j know a cleverer gentleman. The News
j is bright and full of interest, well de¬
j
serving the success which has marked
its career under its present manage¬
ment.
The Central Railroad and Steam¬
ship line delivered at Philadelphia
last week a steamship load of iron
which it carried all the way from the
Birmingham furnaces. The cargo
consisted of 121 car loads or 2,072
tons of pig metal, ft is the first act
in a grand programme mapped out
by the management and marks a new
era in southern progress.
We publish, by request of the ex¬
ecutive committee of the Harris coun¬
ty Grange, the essay read at the July
meeting by Mrs. Mary E. Stevens.
It is a very fine paper and should be
read and preserved by every reader
of the Journal. Mrs. Stevens is a
thoughtful student and a ready writer,
and to call attention to her essay is to
insure for it a careful reading by her
many admirers.
The Chicago dress makers have
^ een interviewed upon the bustle
q lies ti 0 n and they all agree that it
mugt be a y ear before the bustle can
0 out Q f style, notwithstanding the
ac ti on 0 f Mrs. Grover Cleveland in
discarding Tiers. They are a very
silly institution, inconvenient to the
wearer and detrimental to her health,
but those who first wore them were
backed by some of the first newspa
pers of the land and their sway has
been undisputed for several years.
At the October election the people
of the state will be called upon to vote
on th. proposed constitutional amend
ment increasing the number of judges
upon the supreme coiirt from three to
five. The probability is that the
HAMILTON, GA., AUGUST 31,1888.
measure will be defeated unless the
many candidates for the prospective
j officers take the stump for it.
Until farming is generally more pros¬
perous we do not think the farmers
of the state, who constitute about eight
tenths of the voters, will see the econ.
omy of increasing the number of sal¬
aried officials.
The Charleston cotton buyers have
put the planters on notice that any
bagging on cotton more than is nec¬
essary to properly protect the cotton ?
will be deducted from the weight of
the bale. The spinner buys only the
net cotton, and in the Liverpool mar¬
ket the prices quoted are for the net
cotton, bagging and ties being de¬
ducted from the weight of the bale.
If buyers here will make the same
rule, much of the present crop of
cotton will be packed in cotton cloth.
It is conceded that the prices here
are regulated by the Liverpool mar¬
ket, and that the price there being
given the market value here is to be
ascertained by deducting the expense
,of freight and handling, tog etherwith
‘ he 22 pounds tare per bale for bag
ging and ties. - Thus the illusion that
the farmer gets a profit on his bag
g in g ar,( * ties * His cotton is bought
here at so much per pound, bagging
and ties counted in. In is sold in
Liverpool at so much per pound for
the cotton only. The dealer doesn’t
pay for the bagging and ties. He
couldn’t afford it. The spinner does
not. He has no use for them. The
1 08S then must be borne by the grow¬
e r. The loss is the difference be
tween the cost of these articles here
and their market value there in Liv
erpool. Bagging and ties are both
protected by tariff duties that prohibit
their importation. They are manu
factured by “trusts” that fix the sell
i n g price a little higher than the Liv
erpool price, the freight and the duty
combined. 1 hey are bought by the
farmer in the dearest market, to be
be transported and sold at his ex
pense in the cheapest market in the
world. Now if the American buyer
will buy upon the English plan, de
ducting five pounds per bale where
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
osnaburgs is used and twelve
per bale where jute bagging is
the crop will ultimately all be
in cotton bagging.
for the Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
President Cleveland has sent
congress a message on Canadian
ters, left in confusion by the
of the fisheries treaty.
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The republicans . in the senate
trying to avoid action on the
bill by an attempt to show that
will lie no surplus. Protectionists
hard.
The radical senate tariff
is resorting to every subterfuge
avoid action on the tariff
that they will report a substitute,
real|y do not intend to report at
The American people demand
reform.
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Vice-President Thurman has had
grand ovation in his tour
Ohio mid the utmost enthusiasm
vailed.
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Maj. McKinley has returned
Washington after making a
protection speech to a small
at the Piedmont Chautauqua.
needs no instruction on this
and the Constitution acts unwisely in
trying to throw a fire brand into the
democratic camp. Such efforts
wicked.
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It is understood in Washington
if President Cleveland is
that Speaker Carlisle will lie
ed attorney-general.
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Hon. Geo. Jones, Chairman,
called a National Greenback
tion to be held at Cincinnati Sept. 12
to nominate candidates for
an< ^ vice-president. 1 hey will
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* Mr. Randall’s health is rapidly
improving, but it is thought that he
will not be able to resume liis seat
P re » ent se “ ion of con S re9s -
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There ia another war of rates with
the steam boats on the Chattahoochee
river and freights are very low.
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