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0 i ? ,* ■ e m iS A V £ \ • 0 ■i '•> i*. - i : \ ' •t 7 1 u* ] •>■«*** I m i { ‘SSS J 1 » ¥ r ▼ * 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. - 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 _ 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. * * * 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. * Vice-President Thurman has had grand ovation in his tour Ohio mid the utmost enthusiasm vailed. # r.* * 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. * * # It is understood in Washington if President Cleveland is that Speaker Carlisle will lie ed attorney-general. . * * * 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 ^ a ° e * t toia vo * e ’ * 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 - , There ia another war of rates with the steam boats on the Chattahoochee river and freights are very low. ^ afe no ^ ^ m provi< ,_ e(1 tliat there 8houi(i ^ noue . A dark NO. 34.