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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 < OO • ft » j VVhcn the advertising atmosphere i s heavily charged w it h exag- ft _ 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^ v vwvwwnwvir vvvv vvwv v 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.