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The Fort Gaines Sentinel
J'rilMSMKO KVKHY KIIIDAY.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLAV COUNTY,
JOSHUA JONES, Editor and Publisher.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 , IK*)'..
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
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with flit* copy for •‘lu ll advertNffiH'ltlff*
1 he Waycross Herald publishes a
report that .fudge Jim Guerry, of
Dawson, has been converted to the
sound money side of the financial
question. The Herald says:
“Judge Guerry is right in chang¬
ing his opinions. He doubtless wants
to be with a majority of sound money
men of his district.”
Whiskers Petfer, the Populist lend¬
er, and rampant silvt rite, has recant¬
ed. He now says that it is futile to
hope that free silver will permanently
relieve the terrible condition of the
people. He proposes now as the
best remedy the issue of money bas¬
ed upon our land, and more insane
vot wt the same sort.
There was a meeting of tlu* free
silverites at Washington, I). C, the
other day to adopt some more reso¬
lutions and effect a national organiz¬
ation. The attendance was small—
many states not being represented—
and the proceedings were very dry.
The Hon. Leonidas Livingston, of
the empire state of the jSouth, was
among the chief masters of ceremon¬
ies. 'Nough said.
Governor Atkinson has respited
tlu: death sentence of Mrs. Nobles,
the Twiggs county murderess, who
was to have been hung last Friday,
until the 1H1I1 of October in order to
give the attorneys of the woman an
opportunity to make an extraordinary
motion for a new trial in the courts.
In respiting the sentence of the wo¬
man, the governor also respited that
of the negro, Gus Fumbles, her ac¬
complice in crime. Such is the de¬
lay of the law. Both the woman and
the negro acknowledge their guilt ol
a most diabolical crime, and yet on
a plea of mere sentimentalism, their
deserved execution is respited.
What’s the use of a new trial, any¬
how, when the murderers themselves
confess the crime, describing the
manner in which it was done and
their reason for committing it ? Is
it any wonder that the people of
Twiggs county are incensed, or that
♦nir people so often appeal to Judge
Lynch that justice be done.
Mr. Hector D. Lane, of Montgom¬
ery, AU., president of the American
Cotton Growers' Protective Associa¬
tion, and Commissioner Agriculture
•rf Alabama, has just completed a
trip through the cotton regions ol
Texas for ,lie purpose o, um-stiga,
ing the reduction in the cotton crop,
As a result he asserts that the Texas
crop will n* exceed i.oooaxxr bales,
and gives it as his opinion that the
entire American cotton crop will
exceed 7,250,000 bales.. He advises
the planters that they stand a good
chance to get 8 cents for their cotton
crop this year, and gives his reasons
for ir. Mr. Lane’s advice to the cot
ton growers is to hold their cotton
until late in the season. He does not
expect that all will hold it, or that
every cotton grower will hold his en
tire crop. What he means is that
cotton farmers should not send their
cotton to market as fast as they
gather it, but they should so control
their shipments as to prevent the
glutting , . ot , the , market. , rm 1 he English T , ,
buyers are going to get the cotton
' ’ ’
for . , low . they can. In t
as a price as
pursuance of that policy their agents
are making predictions of a crop of
8,000,000 or 9,000,000 bales. They
would predict 10,000.000, in all prob
ability, if they thought such a predic
would have influence , the
Lon ;,nv on
cotton market.
'I HE SILVER STANDARD
Prosperity prevails In no country
which depends on silver for its stan- j
because silver is constantly
vacillating in value and can only be
the basis of a vacillating and cheap
paper money. Hence it is there is
not to be found one silver country on
: the globe which has as much ns five
dollars per capita of silver in circula
i tion, while our ow n country has more
than nine dollars. A comparison of
Mexico, the most prosperous silver
country, with our own, teaches a most !
I profitable lesson. We had on Au- \
j “ { , ()lh , 8 q, j n circulation $9.01
| in gold; $ 9.18 , silver; and $6.15 , j
in in
paper, making a total per capita cir
j cll l at j on of $24.34, whereas Mexico,
had 43 cents in gold, $4.31 in silver
and 17 cents in paper, making a total
per capita circulation of $4.91, and of
this the gold was not used as money.
An equally striking comparison
might he instituted between the
other gold and silver countries, dem¬
onstrating that gold is the standard
wherever commerce flourishes and
prosperity prevails.
The advocates of the silver stan¬
dard are constantly dinning it into
the ears of laboeing men that gold
appreciated and the wages of labor
have declined. This attempt to mis¬
lead and dissatisfy the wage earners
whether ignorantly or intentionally
made, is wholly unjustified by the
truth of history. They fix the date
of the passage of the act of 1875 as
the beginning of all the ills which
they attribute to the gold standard
Now, I assert and challenge the in¬
vestigation of every thoughtful and
intelligent man into the subject, that
the wages of labor are as high to-day
as they were in 1873, while the prices
of food, clothing, fuel, lights, imple¬
ments, building material, drugs,
chemicals and house furnishing
goods are much lower. This impor¬
tant fact must be brought home to
every wage-earner and when it is the
country may rely on the working
man to maintain at the ballot box the
integrity ol our currency and to see
that every dollar they earn is equal
in purchasing power to any other
dollar. They will not be misled by
the sophistry of the demagogue w ho
would make them believe that silver
is the money of the poor and gold
the money ol the rich, but they will
hold fast to the doctrine that the
money of the rich and the money of
the poor, the money of the banker
and the money of the toiler, shall be
equal in exchangeable value and pur¬
chasing power at all times and in all
places.—From Speech of 1 Ion. Josiah
Patterson.
If you really want some cheap sil¬
ver dollars, says t he Houston (Tex.)
Post, just step or send over to Mexi¬
co and buy them. They are “two
fers.” They have more silver in
than our dollar, but Mexico be
mg on a silver basis they go at in
t r 'n^ic value only. 1OU will note,
too. that Mexico and all the other
hee coinage countries together have
not raised the value of silver, nor in
j How tact kept it it from be enormous expected that decline. the
j can
United States by free coinage legis
| Htion could increase that value one
j hundred per cent. When you have
j provided yourself with the Mexican
sdvcr dollar at two ot them ior one
o( ours, just proceed to pay your
debts with .them. Why not?
Tom Watson, with more brains
than any other populist in the coun- j
try, announces that in the future
* when the silver democrats of Geor
j gia want to hold a state convention, j
| like the late affair at Griffin, the pop
ulists will not again be on hand to
1 ! swell „ the , affair to state proportions .
in point of numbers: that it silver
democrats , want populist support ^ they .
j must get on the populist band wagon
and drive into the populist camp.
And those democrats who are acting
* independent ol their party will have
nothing ' to do but step r on board and
ride . , . the , populist ,. camp.—De- „
mto
K.db New Eva.
Neiv« Irnin 14 . 111 . 110 * 1 * 11*1 in’*. Hill.
Times are dull in Georgia,
Dull times for every one;
We guess (lie reason of it is -
The melons are ull gone.
Don’t ’Tis mourn departed melons, deserve,
worse than they precious riuds , |
For don’t 3 on know tin ir
Are made np in preserve?
M. M. and Mrs Qmttlebaum have of j
becn*visiting Mrs. Peter Day,
Dayville, this week. !
Prof. McKenzie and Mr. Lee Sut
live were up here a few days ago in j
the interest of the school.
News is uncommonly scarce up
here this week. We have had few
visitors, We presume the cotton
patch has something to do with it.
We wonder if those ladies had not
just learned the song “We Never
Speak as We Pass By” when they
passed the gentleman who doffed his
hat so politely,
We wish to correct a mistake the
editor made in setting the type last
week. It was T. H. Goodwyn who
died in Mississippi. The editor,
through mistake, spelled it Gerdray.
Mrs. Smith will leave us Friday
She expects to take a class at Mr. L.
J. Day’s. We wish her every suc¬
cess. M. M.
Gratitude.
I would be ungrateful if I did not tes¬
tily as to what your valuable preparation
lias done for me. For a long time I have
been rnu down iu health and hardly able
to attend to my household duties, suffer¬
ing from headaches and that tired, worn
out fading peculiar to my sex, I was
persuaded by a friend to try Dr. Sim¬
mons’ Jewel, and in one mouth's treat¬
ment 1 was completely resided to health.
I heartily recommend it to suffering
humanity. Mas. Jennie Pate.
For sale by Panllin & Wimberly.
i'rom Dayville, Jr.
Mr. Thad Stanley was here last
Tuesday.
Little Claudia Gates visited friends
here this week.
Mr. W. J. Greene was among our
visitors Tuesday.
Little Bertha Lee Peatce is on the
sick list this week.
Several bales of cotton have been
picked here this week,
Mr L. L. Sutlive spent last Tues¬
day here, the guest of Mr. Peter
Day.
Little Miss Laura and Master GiF
bel t Quattlebaum entered school here
this week.
Prof. McKenzie was here last
Wednesday looking after the inter¬
est of his school.
Mrs. Lena Hartley and Miss Eva
Owens visited the family of Mr. John
Sanderlin Monday.
Mr. Tommie Woolsey is putting
his gin in order to be ready for the
coming cotton crop.
A good many from here attended
protracted meeting at New Hope
church last Sunday and Monday.
The many friends ol Mrs. Martha
Pearce will be sorry to learn that she
is sick with fever We hope she will
soon be restored to health.
A Climatic Objection Removed,
headaches f Sffu and other atff^fwmbUtoas disorders r arising
g. .
{i , ct 1 only took one bottle of Dr. Sim
wons' Hepatiue and I have received
iu recommending ul l”s£cy
it to others,
r assc nger h ‘ \ ^ t G T
77 West Bay Street,
There have recently been made
various attempts to organize free
silver leagues in this state which,
for the lack of that enthusiastic sup¬
port ot which the silver organs so
confidently boast, were quietly aban
doned. {Such discouraging results
probably account for the inaction of
the Clay county contingent on that
line,
The Opinion of an Eminent Man.
Dr. Roche, recently retired surgeon ©f
the British navy, says Dr. Simmouo
Jewel for diseases of females has no
^. for the diseases for which it is
r ummeu d b d
For Sale by Panllin A* Wimberly.
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When you want any repairs done on
>' our crimes, gins or other machinery
call ou me. I w.U hx it cheap and
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE (
BANK of FORT GAINES,
Located at Fort Gaines, Ga,, on the 17th day of July, 1895.
RESOURCES.
Notes and bills discounted... ■ $ 69,259 50
Demand loans secured,........ 268 07
Over drafts, secured.......... 822 58
Furniture and fixtures........ 1.784 79
Due from bank and bankers (iu 725 62
Due lathis from state),............... and bankers(in •
banks
other states),............... 2,988 17
Cash on hand :
Currency..........$5,805.00
Gold...:.......... 1,510.00
Silver ( including
nickels and pen¬
nies ............ 1,072 26
L'ncollected checks
and cash items,.. 65 70 6,452 96
Current expenses..... 1,488 78
Profits and loss...... 70 00
$ 88,255 42
CLASSIFICATION OF NOTES AND BILLS DISCOUNTED AND OTHER DEBT''’'
In judgment $ 8,16 50 Good............ $ 68,933 50*
In suit..... 1,400 71 Doubtful........ 326 OO
Not iu suit. 58,828 85
$ 69 “59 50 $ 69,259 56
STATE OF GEORGIA , CLAY COUNTY—Before me came J. E, Panllin, Cashier of
the Bank of Fort Gaines, who being duly sworn says the above statement is a true condi¬
tion of said Bank as shown by the books of tile in said bank, and he further swears that
since hist returns made to the State Bank Examiner of the condition of said, bank, to the*
best ot affiants’ knowledge and belief, that the said bank, through its officers, has not vio¬
lated or evaded anv obligation imposed by law. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
21st day of August, lS9o. J- B. PAULLiN, Cashier.
K. E. PETERSON. Notary Public Clay County Ga.
£&)m. c.
‘SncctMor to Carter 4k Iradfey.i
Cotton Factor and Commission Mercliant.
Warehouse. Fountain COLUMBUS, GA.
The cotton milk of Columbus use more than one-balf of all other the cotton shipped to
this market, consepuentlv our prices are high as compared to points, especially all on
the lower grades. I shall be pleased to have at least a trial I shipment make from it to their tbo*er
cnauts and farmers in the Fort Gaines territory, and believe can inter¬
est to give me a liberal share of their patronage. I aur afway»
(Prepared to Make Liberal Advances;
Upon (Arties'te consignments of cotton, and hr extend such other accommodations to good and sol¬
vent are necessary for tire success of a ©bodi*nt well a&tablished cotton factorage and
commission business. I am Your servant,
Wm. C. BRADLEY.
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock vs id up........£ 50,000 00
Surplus Exchange................... fund................. 5.000 577 00
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Interest ...................... 6.462 10
Profit and loss .............. 665 51
Due depositors, viz:
Time Subject to check.... $9,700.28 28,
certificates.... 8,50.00 10,550
Notes and bills- rediscounted.. 10,000 0>
$ 83,255 42