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VOL. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Hon. Henry R. Harris has our
thanks for a number of valuable
public documents.
The LaGrange Reporter esteems
it a compliment to be called the best
country paper in Georgia. We won¬
der if the city of LaGrange counts
a,
it so.
The editor of the Columbus En
quirer doesn’t seem to have lived in
a city long enough to recognize the
difference between town polish and
real intelligence.
Mr. Atkinson’s proposition to
a part of Canada to get rid of
fisheries question doesn’t strike
favorably. There seems ta .be
many of us now as are
ourselves satisfactorily or with credit.
If Holloway of the Big Dime
of Columbus is the author of his
vertisements he is chunking
his time running a successful
store. He would find it money in
pocket to go north and grow up as
humorist.
Henry Grady’s speeches tor prohi
bition are the poetry of the
campaign. They bristle with
but with facts as poeticaily and fe¬
licitously presented, as Homer
logued the Grecian hosts who
vested ancient Troy.
Ex-United States Senator Jones
of Florida, who has been in Detroit
for two years past, is in a sad condi
tion financially and mentally. He
spent his money in a princely man
ner until it was all gone, and would
now be without shelter but for the
kindness of a friend. It is a sad
downfall for a once influential man
and popular politician.
The prohibition campaign in At
doses to morrow. 'The anti
have been active, ag
i^ssive and bitter. They have had
plenty of money and have used it
without stint or scruple. All that
can do for an evil cause—for
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JOSEPHL.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
anything else—has been done. It
remains to be seen if the vir¬
tue and intelligence of our grand
metropolis can prevail against such a
force. God grant that it may, but
whatever the result, the prohibition¬
ists have made a gallant fight. At
this writing it looks as if success was
assured, but should defeat be theirs
ic should not be forgotten that
“Truth crushed to earth will rise
The eternal years of God are her s;
But Error wounded, writhes in pain
And dies amidst her worshippers.”
“That looks like business,” remark¬
ed one of Rome’s enterprising citizens
to the' Bulletin man this morning
while pointing to a fine drove
mules.
“Yes,” replied the Bulletin man,
“but what about them ?”
, °h“n<lred , mul , bel ,
‘ w <*
Eh * h * h and LoWe and the ? “*
on their way to Cedartown where
they will be used by four hundred
convicts in grading the C., R. & C.
railroad. The work will
as soon as everything can be put in
shape ? ‘ i in a short time the
line will be in the hands of the
tractors who will have hands at work
on every mile of the road from
to Columbus. Fifty mules were
here to begin work just outside of
city between here and
but where they will begin work I
not know.”—Rome Bulletin.
CITY VS. COUNTRY.
Sorry for Col. Fred Grant. But
was an “off year” in the rural
tricts.—Philadelphia News.
While this remark was made
morously it teaches a truth.
common idea is that the republican
voters of the north are more
gent than the democrats. This is not
true. The cities where the
are generally posted are in the main
democratic, while the rural districts,
where the people do not read the
papers, are generally republican.—
Columbus Enquirer.
The comment of the Enquirer-Sun
voices a very popular error, in attrib¬
uting to the people of cities superior
intelligence to the citizens of the ru¬
ral districts of this country. It is an
HAMILTON, NOVEMBER 25,1887.
city people and by a great many
country folks. City people meet
each other oftener, they talk more
and wear belter clothes than the peo¬
ple of the country do, and they have
better schools, better churches and
better facilities for gaining knowledge
than country people have. They
seem casually to be more intelligent
and that ti ey ought to be seems
equally apparant. Thus it is com¬
monly believed that they really are
more intelligent.
But this is only in seeming. It is
an incontrovertible fact th~t the com¬
mon sense and integrity of the coun.
try people is the very mainstay of our
republican institutions and the only
hope of the final universal success
democratic government. The leading
men of Columbus and of every
city of its size, are to a Urge degree
men who were born and reared in
the country Let the Enquirer make
a list of fWenty lawyers, twenty doc¬
tors, twenty merchants and twenty
leading men of any profession in the
city where brain and pluck and ener¬
gy are neccessary 10 lead and it will
be surprised at the large number that
were born and reared in the country.
The cities sap the country of its best
brain and brawn, but notwithstanding
this process which has been carried
on from time immemorial the supply
seems always equal to the demand.
No large city has yet furnished this
country with a President— if we are
mistaken we hope the Enquirer will
correct us as we don’t know of an
encyclopedia nearer than Columbus
—and unless the spirit of the age
changes we believe it will be a long
time before any city will.
Interest usually draws party lines,
not intelligence, and as to the attain¬
ments intellectually of the two great
parties of this country we have noth¬
ing to say. The intelligence of the
south is the democracy; there are
many learned and good men north
who vote with the republicans.
For the Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
A large amounr cf cotton has
been burned this season. In a re
cent fire in Memphis, six hundred
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
was consumed. Three thousauu
bales of cotton and die compress at
Greenville, Texas, were cornumed oy
fire valued at $250,000. At Galves
ton 1200 bales were burned. In
Savannah fire has been disco*cacti
in loaded vessels, and how it got
there has not been discovered, and
is a subject of earnest investigation.
The report of mi linger in the
newspapers continue to be ntimer
ous. Look out for better times.
Augusta and Columbus are both
agitating the subject of a fair nex t
fall. Augusta is moving in earnest
and Columbus could nol do a wiser
thing than to get up a fair a,.<l ex pc
sitihn. It would illustrate Coiumbus
ar.d make known her beauty of
cation and her vast capabilities Wes¬
tern Georgia needs it and will do her
part.
The output of gold and silver in
Montana the current year is estimat¬
ed at $35,000,000 and her mineral
wealth is just being developed.
George VVestinghojse, Jr., ths in
ventor of the air brake on rail-roads,is
said to be worth $9,000,000. This
is perhaps the largest fortune ever
made from a single invention in the
same length of time.
Present appearances indicate that
the Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus
railroad will come by Carrollton to
Greenville aud thence by the C. & R.
to Columbus. So mote it be.
The grand jury of Bibb county has
found nine “true bills” against Torn
Woolfolk for the murder of his fath¬
er’s family. Tom had by some
means got a sharp pointed hook and
a two-bladed knife and was making
an effort to escape whe.i discovered.
One writer says that Georgia is
$ 1 2 000,000 richer than she was one
year ago. This is a big mistake.
Georgia to-day is poorer than she was
twenty j ears ago, if all debts were
paid. The lax books show a ficti
j tious prosperity.
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