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1,1 « ,jr J i m * ssa .1 >1 ■ - V -v., ' iu>v> v \. j • > v 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. - Numerous bills have been duced in the Georgia legislature a summer session may be necessary. * * Gov. Gordon’s message to the eral Assembly is a very able state per and ought to be read and by every citizen. * Hon. James Hunt, member from Catoosa, was killed by H. S. Moore, postal clerk on the W. & A. the night of the 15th. * * 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. * 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. * 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. * 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.” # It is said that one thousand Italians are now employed on the phosphate rocks near Charleston. Perhaps phosphate will be cheaper, # * 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. ” * There are many applications to the legislature for a stock law in many sections. So it ought to be. ♦ Gov. Gordon failed to reach the the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition on account of illness, Large crowds are at the exposition and still increasing, * * » 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.