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LA r m £*5 1 m r. sit * m si A 3? □ m / I • * ' * ^■i ? i 1 p 3SE Af L' m I i a\ ■ **iA s V I j?jL V .*»• • 53? I't V 1 h v V , * .* /• T t « * » as’’ v* ■ »• /* er ▼ VOL XVI. EDITORIAL NOTES. The republican plea is for protec¬ tion now, hut after November 6th it will probably be for self-protection. There is one trust the democracy of the country is banking on—the trust of the people in Grover Cleve¬ land. Mr. Blaine says that trusts are private affairs. So they are. Gen¬ erally gotten up for the purpose of defrauding the public. The counties that will make exhib¬ its at the Chattahoochee Valley Ex¬ position must get up in the morning if they get the blue ribbon over Harris county. The Journal will issue next week an exposition number, It will be the finest thing of the kind ever issued in the county and we invite everybody who has anything to say in favor of the Harris county fair to use its columns free to express themselves. We would like to have a twenty-line expression from every friend of the enterprise who can wield a pen. Both the Presidential candidates are out this week on their letters of acceptance. It will be necessary for you to read them both to get a correct estimate of them. The press of the country is divided and plenty of opin¬ ions have been published lauding the one and deriding the other, so that it is nol possible to get an accurate es¬ timate from these diverse utterances. Our opinion is lliat Candidate Harri son puts up a very strong plea for a very weak case but that the logic of President Cleveland is as irresistable as the republicans will find his can vass to he. A good deal of charity will have to be exercised in getting up our first county fair. We are all new hands at the business and don’t know exact ly what ought to be done, or how, or when and where. Then, if we did know, it must be borne in mind that all the work done so far hasbeen free. Nobody has been paid and—well, JOSEPH L.DENNIS, PROPRIETOR. you musn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, the old proverb says. If ev erything has not been done that ought to be done, suggest it to the officers and the suggestion will have due con sideration. Let every one resolve to do his whole duty in the matter, gardless of the action of others, and the fair will he a grand success. If we let the failure of others to act tem¬ per our interest the fair must he a failure. Remember that every officer of the association has his own private affairs to look after and if he does not devote as much time to the enter¬ prise as you think he should, let this be his excuse. These suggestions are thrown out not to prevent a failure, for the suc¬ cess of the fair is already assured, but to add to that success. HARRIS COUNTY.AHEAD, The “Weekly Bobtail,” as our very highly esteemed contemporary, *the Atlanta Constitution, would delight to say, seems very much disgruntled at the preparations being made by Harris county to win the pennant at the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition. Nov/ the Journal is free to confess that it believes Harris county is the best county within a radius of one hundred miles of Columbus and that it has fanners who cannot be excelled in Georgia or Alabama. Believing tliis we have asserted with some con¬ fidence that the Harris county display would get the blue ribbon and while we learn with pleasure that if we get it, it must be over the prostrate form, so to speak, of Russell, Alabama, or Talbot county, Georgia, the assurance uttered in paralyzing tones by the es¬ teemed representatives of our dear neighbors fails to paralyze us. Says the Seale Register, “Perhaps Brother Dennis is not aware of the fact that our own Russell has ed space at the exposition,” while the Talbotton New Era says the Journal “must remember that Talbot will be there.” We are aware that Russell is to be there and that she is a big county, with a large number of citl zens, and we do remember that 1 al hot will be there also, under the able HAMILTON, GA., SEPTEMBER 14.1888. management of Col. J. B. Gorman, who has successfully canvassed for adver tisements for a Georgia country week ly in seven different languages on the European continent, but we still as serf, that Harris is ahead and we hope to keep her there, - mm » • [For The Journal.] CURRENT EVENTS. --— President Cleveland’s letter of ac ceptance has been published. It is like everything that comes from him —good, very good. # * * Oats’ adjournment resolutions are discussed and would pass, but the senate must be heard from on tlio tariff before adjournment. # * * The Chinese hill (excluding Clo¬ nes® emigrants) has passed the senate and will become a law. ★ * * Judge Thurman swooned after speaking 3 minutes at Madison Square Garden, New York City and was ta¬ ken to Fifth Avenue Hotel, since which he is well again. ■m * Taking human probabilities Cleve¬ land and Thurman will be certainly elected. The “Rads” are defeated and stumped by tariff reform. # * # The aggregate taxable property in Georgia as returned from the 137 counties amounts to $357,803,331. * * * The cotton crop last year in Geor¬ gia was 800,000 bales. The present crop will be larger. * * * The aggregate amount of pensions paid the present year is $78,707,221, an increase of $5,380,280 over last year. Where is this td end? V * * * Barnesville sustained prohibition by die election of prohibition alder men. Good—very good. * Sr Burke county went for prohibition by 1282 majority and only by 17 majority two years ago. The good will appear. ONEDOLLAR A YEAR, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. * » * There is to he a ship canal across Florida, and work will begin in No v ember. * * One of the largest fish ever seen in Florida was a tarpon caught at Punta Gorda. It measured 9 feet 3 inches in length and woighed 380 pounds. * » “Georgia on wheels.” The exhibit car under control of Maj. Glessner has departed for the west. This will advertise Georgia products out the west and bring men and eapi tal to us. * # The earnings of the Central raii i* oa< l fur the past year is $ 1,872,960, an increase of $498,900 over the sauio period last year. The have been <S per cent The mileage of the road is 1037 miles. o # * * The rain-fall in LaGrange on 5th w as 31 inches in 3 hours, the heaviest for many years. * # # In a recent cotton “corner” John II. Inman and associates netted 500,000. A somewhat decent mode of gambling. * 0 * T here has been a terrible storm in Louisian, The velocity of the w ind was 00 miles an hour. The rain-fall in 24 hours 7} inches. Great age was done. t / Reader. K!ier»lle Rfoi«*. Mrs. S. M. Brannon returned from a pleasant trip to north Georgia week. Mrs. Ed. Williams, of made a visit to her daughter Mr i J. H Mooro> lagt Saturday, Mr. Fuller, of Macon, spent al days in our town last w'eek, guest of Mr. II. F. Carter. Misses Maggie and Lula Ellison returned from Shiloh last they bail been for some time relatives and friends. Mrs. Walton and her daughter, Miss Mollie, who have been spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Robert ter, left last week for Hamilton. NO. 30.