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1 (3 r \ % m * ml i7 V*-«M A H i- p*^ j p c Williams Xa m *»****•■ ■ *2*7 m 1 f m V as pf S m & J. Vj . .V a C-.j rk-l 4 m ?l S ®rj It V j?f* m ♦ . •w7 m m •• i- .**y r • ■ 4 VOL. XVI. EDITORIAL NOTES. The postponement of the Chatta¬ hoochee Valley Exposition will only insure a better exhibition at a time when people have more leisure to see it. It was well to put it off. The State Fair will he held atMa con from the 5th to the 10th of No vember. The citizens of Macon have subscribed twenty-five hundred dollars in addition to what they have already given, to insure its success, lt will be a splendid exhibition and will be very largely attended. After defraying all expenses of their fair r . and , paying the premium . to. list m - u full, a -i. the ,, Harris tt • county , j* tail* • • associa tion ,. found t its capital ,' stock , - intact . . , and -i surplus , enough ivii to declare a dividend t i of more than ten per cent. Finan¬ cially the fair has been well managed and everybody who subscribes to the capitol stock can rest assured, under this record, that his money will he used so as to make the largest re turns. A toper in North Carolina last week killed himself with whiskey in a very peculiar way. He obtained an entrance into a distillery and mak¬ ing a syphon, one end of which he placed in a barrell of whiskey, he laid down on the floor on his back and sucked the other end. As soon as the flow* w r as started he allowed the stuff to literally fill him up and next morning he w as found dead, the liquor still running into his mouth from the barrel above. He present¬ ed a horrible sight. Col. J. M. Mobley, democratic presidential elector for the fourth congressional district will deliver an address in . the court house here next Tuesday at noon, upon the issues in¬ volved in the present campaign. Col. Mobley has waited at the request of Hon, Thomas TV. Grimes, democratic nominee for Congress, until now he fore beginning a canvass of the dis trict, that that gentleman might he with him. Congress has held longer than was expected and Mr. Grimes has been detained in Washington, so JOSEPH L.DENNIS, PROPRIETOR. that Col. Mobley will canvass the district alone. At the Harris county fair last week there were on exhibition pair of pants worn by a bridegroom m this county about sixty years ago. r ** hev were white, of a kind of drill mg, and were made up after the ancient style that one re¬ members seeing occasionally worn by a few old gentlemen ten or twenty years ago. Now we have insisted ' that Harris is ahead of Talbot in her natural resources and we desire to allude to these breeches as a case in point. We have seen Talbot with displays 1 J and the best antiquity 1 J of this kind within her borders is a pair 1 of pants 1 worn in > the long ago hy Col. John 11. Gorman, when a little . boy. • Fliey are up to ours, perhaps, in point of age, but everybody from here to China knows that they are not w ed¬ ding breeches. » # 4 ( For Thu Journal.] CURRENT EVENTS. T he present session of congress is the longest in American history. T lu; next longest session was in 1850 when the Missouri compromise was consid ered and adopted. * * The mayor and council of Macon insist that the State Fair be held in November. They know a good thing when they see it. The Fair is worth thousands of dollars to Macon and they %} are loth to lose it. * * * The Chattahoochee Valley Exposi¬ tion begins November 15th and ends Dec. 1st. Harris county will make a county exhibit at it, and let every citizen of Harris belt) and success is certain. * * * Many of the papers of Georgia earnestly urge that the salary of the Governor he increased from $3000 to $5000 per annum, # * Hon. J. L. M'Curry, who recently resigned the office of Minister to Spain, and lias returned home, has been suggested for Chancellor of the HAMILTON, GA„ OCTOBER 5,1888. State University, The appointment would be a good one. * * * rl,c 1,,ss " f Augusta by tbe flood 1 i.s estimated over sl.OOO.OOO ami yel she sends over a thousand dollars to Jaeksonv ille. * * * President Alexander has negotiat ed 10,000,000 of bonds due 10 years hence on good terms to he used as wanted in extensions and new roads. *- * IH Mr. W. M. Girardo, at Monticcllo, Fla., has saved 25,000 pounds of watermellon seed. This industry is rapidly increasing. * -% The Florida orange crop is ripen ing rapidly and is being marketed. * * * T be capitol commissioners refused to receive the new fY*Tfffc capitol as unsafe. It is said to he the finest capitol in the United States. •* T he Atlanta A Florida railroad has been completed to Fort Valley tone! proves to he valuable property. Ukapkh. • # « ^ * K - W() Ld may be seal died from pole to pole and no remedy found equal to R. Ik Ik (Botanic Blood Balm) for the cure of blood poison. It is a remedy founded on scientific medical knowledge, audits reputation as a curative established by such true and unsolicited testimony as are found in our columns from time to time. • • THE HARRIS COUNTY FAIR. Mr. Editor : A couple of days in your mountain city during your fair was really entertaining C? and in V structive. Judging from the exhibits at your fair Harris county has grt •at capabilities. The display of corn in tlie ear and on the stalk,cotton on the stalk and in hale, sugar cane, pota toes, pumpkins, peas, wheat, rye,oats, beets, cabbages, colwerts. turnips, syrup, (sorghum and sugar earn*) su gar. Ac., <&<*.. was very line. The display of quilts, counterpanes, coverlids, pillow shams, tidies and other articles of woman’s work w a splendid, and other specinmns of wo- ONE DOLLAR A YEAR STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. man's handiwork shows taste and el eganee. The counterpane made L. Mrs. Hall, nee Miss Manning, in USUI, the cotton picltod I.v liand(fins ] 1;u l uot t |, eil ,. omc „„ sl , mi then - en, ami with a common needl the Eagle and 17 stars representing tin* then 17 states, was beautiful and in structive and was “observed of ; H observers. * i I he wedding dress made ** 50 years ago. <lie old fashioned pan * . 100 years old, were curious. Tin turkey dish of Coy. Kahim, presented by Lowe, is a precious relic. A ipiiif made by Mis. Emory, 75 years <>f * * age, was beautiful and useful. T'n merchants' display was fine, Th display of jellies, preserves, pickh Ac., by Mrs. T. II. Kimbrough and Mrs. Copeland was excellent, Alt gethor the woman s department w , the jewel of tin* occasion, and w h tv so much merit appeared it, would b • invidious to distinguish, The art gallery was beautiful beyond descrip¬ tion and would have to he seen to i>< lully appreciated. Nothing like it was ever seen at a eotinty fair. T he display of stock, horses, mub . colts, cows, calves, with the biggv ox in western Georgia, o T weighing r> 1 ELS ry l ,oun(,H * was good and creditable, an 8 ^ ovvs to raise stock at home. Taken as a whole Harris countv ,nj L v justly proud of her lair, ami too much praise cannot lx* awardsi the ladies for tin* beautiful am art] tic arrangement of the exhibits. The attendance was good and tin universal verdict was that the fair was a grand success. Hi port says that Harris county will make a county exhibit at the m Chattahoochee \ alloy Exposition at Columbus in Nnvombcr. Surely all will unite in this grand enterprU and make it a success. Visitor. Neglect kill injuries; reveng • creases them. A neglected en d creases i»s injurious effects on th ■ system til! consumption fin illy fc . unless Cured by Varner’s I o ,r in Cough and Consumption Rem (ft I It is reliable remedy of ye o ! > ye time. NO. 30.