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VOL. XVI. JOSEPH PROPRIETOR. L.DENNIS, HAMILTON, GA., NOVEMBER 23,1888. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, NO. 46.
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Talbot’s some pumpkins, but
not a match for Harris. Talbot needs
to be as big before can idmit
as good.
It is to be hoped Hancock’s big hams
will not walk off with the blue ribbon
at the Chattahoochee Valley
tion as they did at the State Fair.
One of the articles in the Talbot
display oltenest asked for is
man’s wedding breeches made before
those in the Harris County display.
The question comes from a
standing of the facts, because people
read so carelessly.
The agricultural display at the
prize winner at the state fair, if not
second at Columbus, must share the
first place with Harris, while Talbot
and Russell are about equally match¬
ed for the second prize. This fea¬
ture of the exposition will long make
it famous among expositions.
Hamilton has five hundred citizens,
including men, women and children.
Twenty per cent, of these are' under
six years of age and don’t have to
pay any railroad fares. Up to this
morning the railroad ticket agent here
had sold nearly 400 tickets to the
Columbus Exposition. We told you
all the folks were going, and this
seems to prove it. Especially so,
when you remember the seven best
days of the exposition are yet to come.
Mr. M. F. Hood, formerly one of
the publishers of the Journal, is
again in the newspaper harness. This
time he is editor and proprietor of
the organ of the Florida Baptists.
His talented wife, Mrs. Annie Hood,
will be assoc ated w 1 »— • th h m in its edi
torial management and her well writ
ten letter of introduction shows that
her pen is one that will wield an in
for great good. Mr. Hood
' has friends here who wish him
many
-great success.
» Harris county always perspires,
hot.
are taught that if they are good
they may go there when they live,
and to a place like it when they die.
This be our excuse if anybody thinks
we have too much expositon talk
this week. We feel that it is as
much our show as it is anybody’s.
Another year we are going to have a
special, Harris county building, as we
wanted to have and ought to have
had this year.
Next Tuesday is farmer’s day at
the Exposition. A letter from Hon.
T. H. Kimbrough, master of the
Georgia State Grange, who is now at
Denver, Col., attending a meeting of
National Grange, informs us that
Col. J. H. Bingham, member of the
Executive Committee of the National
Grange, and Col. Hawkins, Master of
the Alabama State Grange, will ad¬
dress the farmers on that day. These
are farmers of national reputation,
and what they have to say will be
fraught with much interest to farm¬
ers of this section.
The Columbus Ledger celebrated
its second anniversary Sunday by
publishing an illustrated double num¬
ber, full to the brim of pithy points.
The Ledger has quietly worked its
way up from a very modest begin¬
ning two years ago until it now has
a circulation and influence that are
doing much for the development of
Columbus. Its large advertising pat¬
ronage gives evidence as well of its
home appreciation as of the industry
and intelligence of its management
We note its prosperity with much
pleasure.
Much interest is felt in the policy
to be adopted by the new federal ad
ministration with regard to the south,
This is quite natural. The war hurt
us less than the radical administra¬
tions that followed it. Republican
legislation had it stopped with freeing
the negroes, would have let as off at
small cost had it stopped here. Our
interest in the policy of the new ad¬
ministration is therefore but. natural.
That it should have a very depressing
effect upon oilr business, however, is
wrong. We can gain nothing by the
sulks. Victory is upon the other
and it becomes us to make the
of it. The people of this great
try are too intelligent to have
ed . the .. history of past , republican ... ,
ministrations. Parties are run
make votes, and a policy
ful to t le south will no
make votes where the republican
ty needs them most. President
Harrison has talked much, but he
said nothing that goes to show
he will not be led by the best men
his party. If he is advised by
he will not do as much to
the solid south’s democracy as
years of democratic spoils has
So long as the south remains
democratic, nb republican
tion can hurt us.
[For The Journal.]
CURRENT EVENTS.
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Numerous bills have been
duced in the Georgia legislature
a summer session may be necessary.
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Gov. Gordon’s message to the
eral Assembly is a very able state
per and ought to be read and
by every citizen.
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Hon. James Hunt, member from
Catoosa, was killed by H. S. Moore,
postal clerk on the W. & A.
the night of the 15th.
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Dr. Felton, of Bartow, has
duced a bill to lease the State
for a term of fifty years at a
rental of $45,000, payable monthly.
Also a bill to appropriate the entire
rental of the State road to the
mon school fund of the state.
a bill to suppress combinations, trusts
and monopolies.
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Mr. Candler, of DeKalb,
ed a bill to authorize graduates of the
Law Department of Emory college to
practice law in the courts of this
state.
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Rev. J. C. Davis, of Athens, is at
work on his tricycle. It is said to be
the best of its kind and lias been off¬
ered $30,000 for the patent. South¬
ern inventive genius is fast coining to
the front.
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The receipts of cotton at the port
of Savannah is 1 00.000 bales less
than the corresponding period last
! year.
^ monument has been erected to
^ Pierce, memory but the of day Bishop for unveiling George has W.
not j )een nailled .
Messrs Mills and Daniels, of Or¬
lando, 1 la., has made the first ship
' j ment of 25 car-loads of oranges to
i Europe. Mr. Daniels accompanies
the shipment.
“Florida on Wheels,” was at Char¬
lotte, N. C., on the 1st, and the “Ob¬
server speaks of it thusly:
“It is a State Fair on wheels—a
tenth wonder of the world. It is the
most remarkable car on either conti¬
nent, and has been entered by more
people on the inside and gazed at by
more people on the outside, than anv
car ever built in the history of rail¬
roading.”
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It is said that one thousand Italians
are now employed on the phosphate
rocks near Charleston. Perhaps
phosphate will be cheaper,
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The State School Commissioner, in
report, urges a larger appropria
ti° n *° ^ ie school fund and this is
sustained by general expression of
approval. The schools ought to be
held at least six months of the y ear.
”
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There are many applications to the
legislature for a stock law in many
sections. So it ought to be.
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Gov. Gordon failed to reach the
the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition
on account of illness,
Large crowds are at the exposition
and still increasing,
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Next week is the last of the expo¬
sition. Let everybody go. It stands
at the head of the expositions. .
Rf.adkr.
EXPOSITION OBSERVATIONS.
The attendance at the Chattahoo
chee Valley Exposition is daily
growing larger, and the queen city
is receiving and entertaining her
gue sts in a royal manner. There is
much crowding and scrambling for
places upon the street cars but all
can usually be accommodated and
there is nothing of an unplea“»ant
nature to remind one of the expert
ence in Atlanta a year ago.