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The Fort Gaines Sentinel
1’l'TU.ISlIKl) EVERY FUltiAY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLAY COUNTY.
JOSHUA 4OXEN, Editor.
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1895.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Alt loirol fwlvertl»iimei!t* i>uhlli‘he«l In the Hnw
tini i muKt he jmlj for hereafter In aitvenec, The
offlerro, iin well mi the puhlmlirr, havltiK expcrl
i nrcd conrlderahle trouble In milking cnNeetlon*
for ofllrlRl notlrer, and In n number of inrlance*
have been ntuhlc tx> rollerl at all. Thl* rule .rill be
Hrlrlly adhered to. ami to avoid delay and trouble
nil In I ere*! ed ahotild, In the future, *end the ea*h
with the ropy for eachadvertl*einent*.
The Thomasville Times says that
the congress just adjourned would not
have passed the Lord’s prayer without
lacking on a few amendments.
One hundred and fifty negro Meth¬
odist preachers in conference assem¬
bled refused a few days ago to hold
memorial services in honor of the late
Frederick Douglass.
The Dublin Courier says that if you
want to get a controversy with the
fellow who knows all about govern¬
ment finances strike the one who whit¬
tles white nine on the street corner.
The Bethel Baptist Association will
meet with Mt. Gilead church, Clay
county, commencing Friday before the
5th Sunday in this month. The intro¬
ductory sermon will be preached by
Rev. B. H. Taylor.
The proposed alliance between the
South and West for the purpose of
lighting the Eastern goldbugs, cor¬
rectly remarks the Albany Herald,
must he made under the democratic
flag, else the best people of the two
sections will have nothing to do
with it.
The farmers within eighty miles,
Valdosta have contracted to furnish
the pork packing establishment of that
city .‘100 fat hogs within the next sea¬
son. The aggregate sum to be paid
will be about $21,000, and the average
price three and one-half cents gross
per pound.
The Louisiana sugar planters, hav¬
ing obtained their bounty, will come
back into the democratic party. They
are democrats for revenue only. Con¬
gressman Ben Russell’s vote against
further increasing the iclies of these
sugar leeches meets with the approval
of his constituents.—Dawson Yews.
The Valdosta Times thinks the
third party and the fourth party means,
tf they mean anything, that I ho repub¬
licans will walk into power again next
year. Such ; calamity would be lesser
evil than the success of eillurof these
thin witted one - idealed schemes.
They arc twin sisters and “own dear
cousins to socialism.” The party o '
Lincoln cud Grant .is to be preferred.
Tl» f 'c ilv t par'y which was re¬
cently organized by certain congress¬
men, will not be an independent polit¬
ical organization. Its members have
Wisely concluded that their purposes
hum be more nuick’y accomplished by
operating within the democratic ranks.
While it does not endorse the views of
the extremists on the subject, the
democratic party is committed to bime¬
tallism. and is in favor of free coinage
at a safe ratio, and the restoration of
silver will never be accomplished by
any deflection from its ra iks.
The fact that cotton brings It* ’-2
i pound in Mexico, says an exchange,
has been displayed as one of the gior
ies of a silver standard. To consider
this fact intelligently we must consid¬
er the conditions under which ii exists.
The 1(1 1-2 cents a pound which the
Mexican farmer receives for his cot¬
ton is equal in purchasing power io
8 1-4 cents of our money. The total
Mexican cotton crop is about Tf .OOO
oales. wo believe, and in order to pro¬
tect this infant industry the govern¬
ment lays a duty of 3 -4 cents on for¬
eign cotton. The duty is intended to
be prohibitory. I - will thus be seeu
that the difference in Mexican money
and ours and the Mexican tariff ac¬
counts for the apparent difference in
the value of cotton here and there.
Mexico has 16 1-2 cotton simply be¬
cause she has a 50 cent dollar and a
high protective tariff. God save us
from either I
THE MCALLISTER HYATT AFFAIR,
To satiate the public appetite for
sensation, or may be to prejudice the
public mind, some of the newspapers
of the state—particularly those of
Macon—have been guilty of the most
flagrant imposition upon their readers
concerning the killing of Judson Hyatt
iu our town last week. The account
published by these papers would have
as nearly lifted some occurrence in
Mexico, so far as the true facts are
concerned. In fact, the Macon papers
seem to have lost all regard for the re¬
quirements of reoectable and honorable
journalism, in this instance, and for
the sake of local approval, polluted
their columns with a fabrication of
facts which is a vile slander of the
good people of our community and a
disgrace to the high calling these
papers represent.
They have studiously discredited
statements sent from here (certainly
the most authentic source of the facts)
preferring apparently to build upon
such flouting fragments of rumor as is
most damaging to the defendant and
slanderous of the fair name of our
peo'de.
.ast Sunday a Telegraph contained
a so-called special correspondence from
Fort Gaines, out it was made up of so
many glaring misstatements that it
was evident it had not oeen sent from
here, ana come of the Telegraph’s
readers hr.v. expressed the opiuion
that the rticie was written in Macon,
possibly in the office of the Telegraph,
specials sent from here are too
“highly colored,” from their p. mt of
view, to satisfy those who will accept
no statement save that Hyatt was mur¬
in cold blood.
The News among other “little”
thrusts at our town attempts to
parage the commercial standing of our
merchants. Macon need not become
alarmed, however, whatever their con¬
dition may be. n is sufficiently
to get a" (he goods they want in the
i.i.vr ei in ;t supply the great ‘ u antr l
City.” Such criticism is in bad ta to
coming from a newspaper di.it, unless
it lias been recently relieved, is in the
hands of a receiver.
If it were possible for the people
Clay county to become so incensed as
to close their eyes to their duty as
good citizens and prejudice their mint s
against a just envestigation of this
fortunate affair, they have certainly
had more than sufficient provocation
at the hands of the hot-headed authors
«f the unjust, criticism which has
been heaped upon them. But our
people are law-abiding (certainly as
much so as those of Bibb, whose
record in this rr peel is notoikus) and
they have never been dlsn-racd to let
the matter pass without a proper in
ves ‘gation. Even Sheriff McAllister’s
friends, who b.disvc him innocent of
murder, would insist upon an invusti
gat ion for his aore complete vindica
tion. The sheriff himself has made no
attempt to evade such an investigation,
Nor has li , .ucu . to evade . any proceo.
of law. Ne - withstanding tho llacon
News characterizes the statement as
one “highly colored,” it is a feci that
a short time after Hyatt was shot the
sheriff sent his own buggy for the cor¬
oner, told him of whrt he had done,
and remained in liis custody until efter
the inquest when the coroner’s ury
relieved him (the coroner) of further
responsibility.
Judge Scott’s refusal to issue a war¬
rant involves points of law which wo
are not competent to argue. Howev¬
er, we regard Judge Scott as a con¬
scientious officer, and believe he would
have issued the warrant if he had
thought it his duty to do so.
If there were just grounds for
charges made against our people the;
might very properly come from am
other source than through the columns
of a Macon paper. Giay county can
very well afford to compare recqrtv
with Bibb county and give her the ad¬
vantage of double the difference in
population. The public has not for¬
gotten the lynching otMoore in die very
streets of Macon, and that, too, upon
charges made by a prostitute, and
even when the mob were assured that
evidence was en route from Savanna!
that would establish the innocence of
the accused. It is also remembered
that it was a prominent Macouite who
addressed the mob and urged it on to
its lawless deed. And this same prom¬
inent citizen perpetrates a travesty
upon justice akl tty offering a liberal con¬
tribution to in the prosecutiou of
■
j Sheriff McAllister—or probably we
<*lioul<l have said conviction and we
have no doubt, judging from the tout
of the Macon papers, that nothing
short of that will be according to their
views of justice. There are numerous
other crimes that stain the pages of
the history of Bibb county apd make
it ten times more deserving of the
stigma of outlawry than is Clay. Nota¬
bly among these isthc deeds of one Gib¬
son, some years ago, who killed one or
two men, cut several others almost to
death, put to flight the police, ter¬
rorized everybody,and went unpunish¬
ed. While we have been atr loss to
account for such lawlessness in a city
like Macon, we would not have been
had her papers always been engaged
in the dissemination of such iuflatua
toiy stuff as has been issued from her
press during the i ast ten days.
In conclusion, we desire to say that
we are convinced that if : thorough in¬
vestigation of the killing of Hyatt re¬
veals “beyond a doubt” that it was
not justifiable, our people desire tha"
justice take the proper course. While
on the other hand, if there is not con¬
clusive evidence that the act was mur¬
der, the mere fact of the two men be¬
ing alone at the time the shooting took
place, does not made it murder, and all
the money at the command of the T.
1\ A. will not make it such before any
honest, unbiased tribunal.
Whi e Mi. Me A Ulster is being held
up to 'lie wo'Id by these papers as a
uide vous despe'auo, it is due him io
state ili a such a.-.e-tio s spring from
the imagi 1 . cion of the f-enzied minds
oi his calumniators. He does not bear
that repu a;ion at home, and during
the eight yeers he has served the
con ity as sheriff, the fact he lias never
attempted ,o .dioo. or even j . the any
p rson in ma Jiigan arrest belies the
above mentioned slander and proves
him a m; 11 of .. ore ihau av srage con
sideratencss. We have no doubt that,
every prisoner who has been in his
custody will tesiif, to his kindness of
heart and his consideration of their
in - U
The reports of the affair which have
appear, in the daily papers have all
been so differe it from .lie true facts
that it is hardly necessary to point out
any pa .ticular inaccuracies. But there
is one charge brought ag: inst ourpeople
io vh eh we e-peo: y desire to call
t entio i, and (hat is ihaf; the authori¬
ties of ibis county have shown a dis
nosi.ion to c oak a criminal and disre
ga d the' • responsibility a j officers and
citizens by delaying. le r rest of Mr.
McA ia.er in con emot >f orders f-ora
bo.h le governor i id Judge Griggs.
No v. v'r. i truth i.3, hat Governor At
kuison Va been in a position to weigh
; M. Io : n l ie ».aso mo . calmly .and
| u,h teas •u*sjtid*cs ban .he people of
- Valley and Maeou, and the fact
■ hat he ha , no been swayed by their
mad clamor, and has seen f’n to let the
aw • nke i s bourse wither interfer
i f nce 0,1 ^’ s Pp** jl lU b appreciated
i bv on eop’e. There have been no
ui"i uet’o'.s wlie ever received here
from the governor. The wa iv it is¬
sued bv Jrde G.‘. ,gs was received
he re Vi*e3day alght. it was pro.np’.ly
•oi'ved and M . M -A1 ister pat under
and he spent Wednesday night
i'i jail. Yes,e day morning, accompa¬
nied by Iris ad a leys^and ,.ie witnesses
in the c. e, 1 e to Dawson for a
comnii iniers tr! ’. A telegram re¬
ceived from Ihrae yesteid-y' aGe noon
stared hat h hau waived commit ment
and vr i aenu nde l to jail here.
The party expected to have returned
home last evening, but owing a “wash¬
out ’ near Macon the train on the
main line failed to make connection
ai i umbert.
THE P, PULIST PARTY'S MISTAKE.
The Washington Star gives expres¬
sion to a great political truth when it
says that where the leaders of the Pop¬
ulist party made their first great blun¬
der was in lighting the Democratic
party instead of co-operating with it
for the destruction of the Republican
party. Had they done this and not
spent iheir efforts in fighting the
•Democratic party the Republican
party would not have recovered from
the disasters that came upon it in 1890
and 1892, and would not to-day be
forming its lines for the tight of 1890
with renewed confidence and a renew¬
ed spirit of aggressiveness. It would
not have recaptured the states wrested
from it in the West, and seized the
populist strongholds as it did last fall.
It was the bungling, visionary and
impracticable leadership of men who
essayed to lead without knowing how,
which made that possible and lost the
territory which better management
had won. !
A A A A Jk.AJkL.AjA.A
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j VVhcn the advertising atmosphere i s heavily charged w it h exag- ft
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geration, it is well to remember who the ho nest ad vertisers are.
Windy assertions about t he G REAT reductions—advertising
J goods at impossible prices, find no lod g ing plac e in the minds of l
i intellige nt peopieTPuiT trade throughout the legitimate business
i sea son may make necessary wild statements from our Liquor
^ Dealers to attract tra de, but the schemers will have to sheme ft W
^ harder and find new disguised for their lame exc uses before they
« can stop the people from coming to this store for honest valu es.
The triumph of this store is the tri um ph of intellige nce, and yo u
^ have made it so. Trade has been up to the mark here, yet there
^ is a touch of attractiveness in the brandsjtnd assort ments I am ft
^ still leading with the best line of Fine Liquors, Wines, Beers Ci
i ,
_gars and Tobacco, to be found in Fort Gaines. Besides ottyer
well-know and reliable brands of Whiskies, I have added to my
4 stock the celebrated and world-renowned HAR VES T HOME,
4 $3 Rye. Prices on everything below the reach ol competion. ft ft
«J. L. HURST, The Leader^
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THE Ofc,E> REIilflSEE
f gandreth’s Seed Potatoes^
ONION SETS, GOLDEN DENT CORN, ETC.
Being overstocked with
TOBACCO 7
will sell BELOW COST. Call and examine my line before
purchasing. Just received a fresh lot of the
Celebrated Dove Hams,
W. M. SPEIGHT.
NEW MARKET!
We have opened up a First Class Market in the Masonic
Building, where we will keep constantly on hand a snpply of
Choice Beef, Pork and Sausage.
We will be pleased to serve our friends and the public
generally, when in need of anything in our line Cive us a
trial.
BURNETT & MOORE.
Neatness and Elegance i
Ape Attractions, and
Xj S OOZEQEHN"
Has J0oth at His Tony Bap.
THE - VEST - BEST
kiquors, Cigars, Tobaccos, etc.,
and Qutie, Polite Attention
LoHg Experience in the Business
Warrants it, and he asks for a Continuance of their
Liberal Patronage from his many friends.