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The Fort Gaines Sentinel
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLAV COUNTY.
JOSHUA JONES, Editor and
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1WW.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
All I'.’iral iirtvertNemi'iii mbll.lied in th*- Si:n
Tixn. must he puni for l>< ifier in advance, The
ofltrers, ai well n» tlie.iiulillsher. Imviug ex erl
diced emmtdernble tronlde In nuiUlni' collections
fur official noth i v, mill in n imniber of Itmtaiicc*
linve been nimble to collect nt all. This rule will be
strictly adhered to. nmt to avoid delay and trouble
all interested should. In the future, send the cash
with the copy for such advertisements.
Fort Valley shipped her first crate
of peaches Iasi week
It is estimated that Georgia will pro¬
duce 0,000 cars of melons this year.
Ice dealers in Dawson are waging
war in prices, and ice is retailed there
at 10 cents a hundred.
It is still snowing 111 portions of the
Northwest, and crop prospects out
there are very gloomy.
The sound money convention in
Memphis this week is attended by fully
a thousand delegates from all tin prin¬
cipal cities of the South.
Secretary Curlislse is making sound
money speeches in Kentucky, and is
acquainting the public with facts and
figures that are not relished by the
ultra free silverites.
It is said that this year's Georgia
fruit crop is worth over half a million
dollars, and the Albany Herald pre¬
dicts that in less than three years this
figure will he doubled.
An exchange says the free silverites
are about to run the Populists out of
business iii Georgia. Well, the Pops
will no doubt he glad of the opportun¬
ity to make an assignment and change
the firm name.
ll is a little funny how congression¬
al candidates who are “lyin’ low and
sayin' nothin’ ” can manage to make
the fact of their candidacy so notori¬
ous. Probably’they do theii talking
through their hats.
Yellow Jack has been waiting rath¬
er impatiently for one of the contend¬
ing fuel ions down in Culm to wind up
the tight. lie is taking a hand in it
now. himself, and it is not unlikely
that he will rout both sides.
The supreme court of the United
States has “knocked the tillin’ out” of
the income tax law, declaring the
measure unconstitutional in toto.
Country editors and others with big
incomes will he greatlv relieved.
The general and voluntary advance
in wages by the large manufactories
of the North, the increased earnings
of railroads and other healthy signs is
acknowledged by even the calamity
howlers to be indicative of the return
of prosperity.
A short time since a Florida editor
had his jaws slapped by an indignant
citizen. Commenting on the oceur
rence, the Way cross Herald says “the
editor was thoroughly digusted with
such familiarity and walked away,
leaving the citizen alone on the street.
A Selma editor is not amiss in this
declaration: “What Alabama needs
just now is the free and unlimited
erection of factories of every descrip¬
tion at the ratio of a sufficiency to
utilize the raw material of the state to
the highest profit. This will heat free
silver all to flinders.”
The statement conies from Wash¬
ington that the sentiment in favor of
the repeal of the state bank tax is
growing rapidly in tH^ North and
West. It is already W erwhelming
in the South, and with co-operation
from the other sections the repeal of
tax will be speedily accomplished.
The more^le learn from both sides
of the silver question the more thor
oughlv * wo bcemne convinced that with
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silver's present standing .... with the most
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powerful nations of the world ,, . honest
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hunetahsm , cannot , be maintained ....
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this government by tlie tree and un
limited coinage of silver at a ratio of
Id to 1. And honest bimetalism is the
only policy endorsed by the wisdom
;h»d integrity of the couutiy.
«US»atL! JSiT iQt
I ii ;i <• 011(1 ovci ■*y between Col. W.X.
Spence, of Camilla, aud t h<-
1I< raid on the financial question 1 last
sve.-k, there was a question raised as to
the position of lion. B. E. Russell on
t'lZnH
opinions, that ge ntleman has written a
letter defining his views as follows:
“First, I believe in the platform of
j | 1*112 the Chicago platform. If its
j plineiples had been maintained by the
I I congress and the administration the
1 democratic party would now show a
solid and unbroken front.
“Second, I have always been friend¬
ly lo silver. 1 am opposed to gold
| lnoiioinetalisiii or silver monometalism.
, mn f( „. tllL , frpe amJ unlimited coin
age of hot It metals—the spirit of the
Chicago platform—provided that they
call he kept on a purity with each oth
or, and I am not prepared to say that
it cannot be done.
“Third my vote in the Fifty-third
Congress will show that I have been
an honest bimetalist. I voted for the
seignorage bill and also to overidc the
president’s veto thereon, 1 voted
against the last financial scheme intro¬
duced in the House by Mr. Springer
because I was opposed to the issuing
of more bonds, which, of course,would
have had to be paid itt gold. I voted
against the Wilson bill, which embrac¬
ed the president’s request that the last
issue of bonds should express on their
face that they would he paid in gold.
This, in brief, is my record and posi¬
tion on the gold and financial ques¬
tion.”
From present indications it appears
that none of the indigent Confederate
soldiers of the state will get their pen¬
sion money until after the meeting of
the legislature next October, as the
number of this class of veterans has
far exceeded any calculations that the
legislature ever dreamed of when the
act to give them pensions was propos¬
ed. It was intended to begin paying
out these pensions about the loth of
May, and was so announced, but the
amount appropriated for this purpose
is far too small to pay all who are entit¬
led to pensions, and it is probable that
their payment will be deferred until
the legislature meets, when, it is sup¬
posed, the appropriation will he in¬
creased or the amount of the pension
will he reduced. The pension referred
is that providing $<i(l per annum to
Confederate soldiers who by reason of
age and poverty, infirmity and poverty
or blindness and poverty are unable to
support themselves.
Before the English Newspaper So¬
ciety Mr. Balfour said, a short time
ago, that the newspaper “in its capac¬
ity as an advertising agency is, after all
of the first importance to any civilized
society, inasmuch as it brings together
those who have something to buy and
those who have something to sell.”
The general news and comment and
“all the other machinery of communi¬
cating information to the public,” he
added, “really are not of more import¬
to the community at large than
power of communication by adver
”
A young lady who heard Sam
| prvsuili, Before beginning recently, tells his the following: he
sermon
ceodcd to rebuke his late comers.
“Now, what makes you women so late?
I’ll tell you—primpin'. All tlie late
comers who didn't stay at home
pin' stand up.” No one rose except a
very uglv woman. Sam looked at her
a moment and remarked: “Well, God
k .ows, sister, you need primpin’, and
J ! it makes no difference how late
come lierafter: I’ll make no fuss.”
The Dawson News is publishing the
petition for a charter of a company to
be known as the Southwest Georgia
Telephone Company. Its offices and
factory will bo located at Dawson and
it will extend lines in various diree
tious. A line from Dawson to Cole
man will be built at once, and a little
later Americus, Lumpkin, Richland
and other places will connected.
The Dawson News has never for
given . Ben , Russell ... for going . to . r Con- ,
and leaving . the . A News • . candidate , ,
gross '
at home, and it never misses an opnor
tunity to »ve * him a sidewise ., ..
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However, the public understands the
animus actuating the News, and its
lack of magnanimity will not have any
very disastrous effect on Mr. Russell's
future.
THE
T},, ‘ oh, the ]>»].* is; oh, iiow they
wears 1 one.
j * ,t>m *'*. Wry 8mallost l' 5 » to1 to th * bi *&*
j j gatthng gun.
Tbpy a „ lou<lwl to fhe ninJBle and never
fail to shoot,
Sometime* they load with bombshells; again
' v ' t *‘ ^bot;
liut when they hit the target it is not soon
forgot.
From the old man in his dotage to the ten¬
der sweet sixteen
The bullsuye's always centereil and smashed
to smithereens.
Then free tilver and the tariff, in tlie twink¬
ling of an eye,
Are kicked about and tossed about and
then knocked into pi.
Like a million crazy demons the editors all
rant:
They don’t understand their writings, and
I'm sure their readers can’t.
And thus the thing continues, and grows
from bad to wors<‘.
Till the man who reads the papers looks on
j Jnd them he fain as would a curse. take a journey to die
j regions of the blest.
Where the pnp< rs cease from troubling and
t he raiders are at rest.
E. P. L.
An especially noticeable provision
of the proposed new constitution of
l’tali is the one relating to the petit
j ur y* First, the member is limited to
eight; and, second, the rule of unan
'unity required for a verdict is done
away with, except in criminal actions.
In all other eases a three-fourths vote
is sufficient. This is an innovation
which lias often been urged. The
experiment, when it shall be tried,
will be observed with wide interest.
The record of the frustrations of all
justice incident to the “hung jury”
would make a big chapter of wrongs
and sorrows, for which there was 110
legal redress. Will a jury of eight
and a three-fourths verdict prevent
such miscarriage of justice.
H liul All l-’loritlialiM .Should Know.
Jacksonville, Fla.
I have been troubled a long time with
billions attacks and sick headache. Hav
iug tried almost everything that could
be obtained from druggists without any
permanent benefit, I concluded to give
Simmons’ Hepatine a trial, aud I hud
that it did for me all that yon claimed it
would do. Y’onrs truly,
W. B. Young.
For sale by Paullin & Wimberly.
William Hope Harvey, the author of
“Coin's School,” budded a national
reputation in a day and a fortune in a
night. He lives in Denver, but had
his book published in Chicago, the
sales of which in Jess than a year have
netted lnm over $250,000. Ho was
born in West Virginia in 1851.
It is estimated that Spaulding coun¬
ty will ship this year, between the
middle of June and tlie middle of
August, one hundred ear loads of fruit.
There will probably be fifty cars of
grapes, forty-five cars of peaches, and
live ears of plums. Tlie cash returns
will be about .$40,000.
The Philadelphia Record has discov¬
ered that Georgia has a watermelon
king, and says his crop this year should
make him a wafermillioiiaire. This
reference is to Hon. J. L. Hand, of
Pelham, who is said to be rapidly
mounting the millionaire ladder.
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And get well sawed Lumber, Laths and Shingles. Competition defied We
are now prepared to fill all orders for Lumber, Laths and Shingles at the
following Low Prices at the Mill:
Good Square-edge Lumber at $5 per thousannd feet.
Rough-edge at $2 per thousand feet
Laths at $1 per thousand.
Shingles, No. 1, at $2 per thousand,
Shingles, No. 2, at 90c per thousand.
-fWE i GUARANTEE I OUR | LUMBER**
To be well sawed. Our Me. Quatelebaum has twenty years EXPERI
ence in the business and gives ii his personal attention.
GIVE US YOUB ORDEKS AND BE CONVINCED.
DAY & QUATTLEBAUM.
NEW MAflKBT!
We have opened up a First Class Market in the Masonic
Building, where we will keep constantly on hand a snpply or
Choice Beef, Pork and Sansage.
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.