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The Fort Gaines Sentinel
rum.ISlIKO KVKKY KIMHAY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLAY COUNTY.
JOSHUA JONES, Editor and Publisher.
FRIDA V, A I'M ST 9, 189.1.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
All 1'ifnl lulvcrllii’mcnti 1 pnl>ll»>h«l In tin
tinri. mnrt be put I for hrri-aftcr In iwlramv,
oflli iTc. a. well hm th<’ publluhw, having ex cri
rncod om.WnfahU' trouble in nmkintr rolluctlon*
for nfllrlal nnt|r<>«. and in n number of in.tani p.
have bem unable to ridlar) «l nil Thla rule will be
•trlelly adhered to, and to avoid delay and trouble
all IntercM**! wbnuld. in tin 1 future, le nd the eanli
with the eopy for mwh advertIwmenta.
Tokio, Japan, had the whole world
to bid in her contract to furnish the
city with its new water pipes, and
Anniston, /Ha., got it.
The estimate of papers in Georgia
that favor the free and unlimited
coinage of silver is fifty-five. Those
opposed to it number eighty nine.
Your Uhele Lon Livingston says
he is not tearing his hair and split¬
ting his lungs “shust for foon." He
thinks he ought to succeed Gordon
in the senate.
There is talk in London, so the
cable relates that Ambassador Bay¬
ard is Mr. Cleveland's candidate for
the nomination to the Presidency by
the Democratic jvirty next year.
The organist in an Ohio Methodist
church went to services in a pair of
red bloomers. .It is very likely that
she would have pulled them off in a
hurry had Dr. Hawthorne been the
-pastor.—Ex.
Congressman Livingston’s gall is
as big is a beef liver, his nerve as
large us a lull-grown balogna sau
sage, and his cheek as tough as the
lucle of a rhinoceros. That's why he
-Avas at Cordele.—Dalton Argus.
In Washington City, on Friday,
Miss Elizabeth Flager, daughter of
Brigadier General D. VV. Flager,
chief of ordinance, United States of
America, shot and killed a little ne¬
gro boy who was stealing fruit from
her lather’s garden.
And now it is said that a few of
the more progressive “new, women”
df this State will make an effort to
Have a bill introduced at the next
session of the legislature to give the
tight of ballot to women. "O,
mores. O, feinpores!”
Judge Hines delivered a speech
last week at Howard's School House
in Jones county on the currency
question. Judge Hines has made
several speeches recently and lor that
reason it is said he will make the race
for governor again this year.
The Barnesville Gazette thinks the
people should study the money ques¬
tion with deep concern. "Let them
take Senator Morgan’s speech favor¬
ing free silver," it says, "and put
Secretary Carlisle s speeches oppos¬
ing free silver by its side and con¬
sider thetrt’together, with an unprej¬
udiced desire to get at the truth.
This is the way to come nt a conclu¬
sion, and we are glad to think that
this is just what people :
many are
doing throughout the country.”
The negroes, mainly from Arkan
sas and Georgia, who were carried
to Liberia on the steamer Horsa last j
spring, have had the same experience
of deception and destitution as those ;
Ueorgia and Alabama who composed
ihe Mexican colony. Three of the
passengers on the Horsa have man
aged to get back to Philadelphia and
tell horrible tales of the disasters
which befell them and tneir com pan*
ions. Some died of starvation, and
some were glad to eat even the flesh
©f snakes to keep alive. They were
dumped ashore in Atrica and left to
shift for themselves. There are many
shiftless negroes in the South who
could be very easily spared, and
should be encouraged to go to Mex- j
ico, Africa, or anywhere else, but the
more worthy of the nee should be
warned , . colonization ...
against future ;
schemes by the result of the above,
A BASE SLANDER.
The nincompoop who presides
over the columns of the Fort Valley
Leader—in commenting on the r^-
1 hisal of an accident insurance com
‘piny to pay a policy held by the
IftteJ. L. Hyatt, whose tragic death
in Fort Gaines is fresh in the
ory of our people—makes a con
temptible assault on the honor
some of our best citizens and deals
them a cowardly stab in the back.
The killing of Hyatt seems to have
aroused the most bitter hatred in the
breast of the editor of that paper for
Clay county, and he has lost no oc
casion to heap upon our people the
tm*-st unwarranted slander and mean,
unreasonable abuse. Our attention
has just been called to his latest at
tack, and while it might be well
enough to pass him by with the si
lent contempt one deserves who
would be guilty of such littleness, for
the benefit of some who may not be
acquainted with the facts we are con
strained to give him this attention,
The Leader says:
As the jury at Fort Gaines acquit*
ted Turner McAllister, the insurance
company refused to pay the policy,
Judson Hyatt had been a member of
this organization for quite a long
while, and now when he is coldly
murdered while in the peace of the
state, this insurance company re*
fuses to pay the policy on his life
just because a jury composed of the
scum of creation, says the murderer
is innocent.
Now, everybody acquainted with the
gentlemen composing that jury know
that they were honorable, conscien*
tious men as much so as any afford*
ed by Houston, or any other county,
and their verdict was in strict accord*
ance with the evidence in the case,
which is also known by all who
heard the trial. Hyatt’s own attor*
neys and one of his own kinsmen,
who was here from Fort Valley to
watch the proceedings, acknowl
edged, , , . before t le verdict of the , jury ■
was announced, that the prosecution
had failed to make out a case,and fur
♦her declared that no case was ever
more fairly conducted, all the rulings j
of the judge being strictly impartial,
etc. Plow then could a conscientious
jury find other than the verdict ren¬
dered ? Would the editor of the
Leader have them convict an inno¬
cent man, simply because certain
provisions of an insurance policy
made the payment of the insurance
dependent upon such a verdict ?
Do not the above facts brand as a
base slanderer one who would char¬
acterize as the “scum of creation”
men who can be justly charged with
nothing more than the discharge of a
duty as honorable jurors that was
disappointing to the prejudiced mind
of their traducer ? We think it does,
and the editor of the Leader may
think so to ° when lie is called upon
and fails to substantiate the charge.
WOULD MEAN ANOTHER BANK!
I am for gold in prelerence to the 1
silver standard, because the experi
envc through which the country pass
ed during the recent panic teaches
that the establishment of the latter
would be an aggravation of all the j
distress and hardship which the
American people then endured. It
is not necessary to discuss w bether
it was wise or unwise to pass the act
of 1873 suspending the coinage of i
the standard silver dollar. If I had ,
been there I should have voted
against it on the ground that this
country might, by uniting with the!
Latin Union, have prevented the de
dine of silver, and arrested the move
ment which resulted in the destruc
tion of the bimetallic standard
throughout the world. However, it
was done, and the Latin Union fol
lowed this country, and suspended
the free coinage of silver. In recent
years the production of silver has
been greater than ever before in the
world’s history. It is now worth less
than halt it was worth in 1873, and
all the commercial powers have sus
pended its coinage. We cannot re-; I
trace our steps. However much we
may * disapprove the policy or the
methods , . by winch , . existing . . condi
tions were brought about, we cannot *
independently undo that which all
the commercial powers have accom
plished. No note of the act ol 1873
j was taken until 1878, when silver de-
1''lined in price. I hen it was that a
, movement was set on foot to repeal
the act of 1873, and restore the act
of 1834 . As a substitute for free
coinage, the Bland-Allison Act was
passed in 1878, whereby the govern
ment was required to purchase and
; coin not less than two nor more than
four million dollars worth of silver
1 each month.
Let us pause for a moment at this
point and look back for a period of
ninety years to the formation of our
government. During ail that period
we coined just 8,031,090 silver dol
lars. Then look forward to the pe
riod of fifteen years folio Aring 1878,
1 and you will find that we coined over
400,000,000. People talk about the
j dollar is of their fathers, when than the fifty fact
- we have coined more
times as many silver dollars in fif
teen years as our fathers coined in
ninety. Nay more! I call the at¬
tention of the farmers to the fact that
from 1850 to 1861 when the war
broke out, we did not coin the so
j caHed dol i ar of the fatherS| but, as
declared by the statesmen of that
d a y> we were absolutely at the gold
standard; and yet, that was the period
! 0 f their greatest prosperity, whereas
j ^ last sixteen years, when we
coined over 400,000,000 silver dol¬
lars, was the period of their greatest
distress. The truth about the matter
is, the affection for the so-called dol¬
lar of the fathers sprung upon the
breasts of our free silver Iriends of
the Rocky mountains, and our fiat
money triends of the South, after it
became a cheap and depreciated dol¬
lar.—From Speech ol lion. Josiah
Patterson.
A M « ch Traveled Man.
Jacksonville, Fla.. July 9 , 1894 .
For tlie last forty years I have been
troubled with a torpid liver on account
of travels through different tropical eli
Li that space of jinm of all the
medicines 1 have ever taken as liver
cures none lias given such positive, ben
oticial and happy results as Simmons’
Sll permtendeut Pauitiu Clyde Steamship Docks,
For sale by «v Wimberly.
.Yew* from lelmiims .Hill.
Como ♦et ns driuk ut the melon spring,
Wlmro Hows the melon juice—
As free us dew on the mountain brow,
Come Jussie, und come, youth.
Come let us eat in the banquet hall,
Iu the shade of the orchard trees—
Where peaches, apples, figs and pears
The most dainty taste can phase.
Come while tiie spring is flowing free
And the hall is open wide—
For soon the spring will cease to How,
And the hall be closed beside.
Capt. S. E. Lewis was here a few
days ago.
The saw mill business is oiVa boom
now. W. J.Greene & Co. are crowd¬
ed with orders for lumber.
We guess meal will be cheap up
this way in the fall, as there is a large
corn crop and we will have two grist
nl jH s ,
IFe guess we will have to take in
the wonders and beauties of the sea j
and skies, as there seems to be no j
room for us on the land,
We sa*.v a man the other day car- f
rying a large turtle . He said it was
like the Populist party. Don’t know
why he thought so, unless it was be- j
cause it was dead,
A. A. was all smiles when she
passed us the othe day. Guess she
smiled in the anticipation of including
our little Camp Ground in her items
in the near future,
Meeting was not continued at ISa
lem church this week as was ex
pected. The majority seemed to
think that religion and fodder pull
ing could uot be carried on at the
same time.
$50 reward for a lost boy—carry
ing on his back an empty bag, con
tabling three railroad tunnels, an
auger hole and a monkey wrench.
When List seen he was in a balloon,:
shoveling wind orf the courthouse |
steeple. M. M.
So Will Yon.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 10, 1894.
i have been using Dr. Siumious’ Hep
in my family for some time, uadi
wuat is claimed for it.
j.- ^ ^, uvu Kohn. Furchgott k Co.
For by Paullia «.v Wimberly.
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