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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. 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