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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. All advertineitier.t* In the Hkn Tien, must hi* pul I for h>*r**nft<*r In mlvatn i*. The oBii'vr*. n* w<*ti n« th<* imtiit»H<*r. .iwvinu «*x >*h nlZu!'r omIIIu!™ hMvnhr-en unable t<> roiicri nt nil Thb rule win bn elrirtly arthennl to. mid ... avoid dulay ami treble nil liilcrmled should, In tin* fiilnrn, send the cash 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. M acliinerv. When you want any repairs done on >' our crimes, gins or other machinery call ou me. I w.U hx it cheap and „ ute < itiGuctio" 1 B. Wkst. t ■&t j&t jlk ifik *8k. it*. /V A jftr.afV ,A J*t A 4 k rfk A AAjSi A > < /■ DO YOU WANTh^ 4 PI,AIN AND FANCY > < ; <5 - 4 JOS • PRIDTIDG ?> Ir ______-- > SEND YOUR ORDERS TO . . . > 4 4 Sentinel, I 4 4 4 The ► 4 ! 4 prepared out all kinds of work < -O We arc always to turn » 4 in the best of style and at the lowest prices. 1 I On commercial stationery wejwill || !j| ► < Duplicate Atlanta Prices 4 N5ss Ir 4 % <p \ < 5 >\ I W E PRINT > > « ► 3 ► 4 LETTER HEADS, CARDS. < NOTE HEADS, POSTERS, 4 BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS, < SATEMENTS, LEGAL BLANKS < 1 ETC., ETC. 4 ENVELOPES. 1 4 4 (jn the best of material and at prices that can not 4 ! -I ^ 25ES 92 823 SBSSBK very -• 4 be equalled in tins section. « 4 > M > 4 % ./Address, 4 Patronize Office on 1 4 Home THE SENTINEL: > Washington St. t Industry, (Opposite 4 and Save Court House. * £ 4 .Honey Fort Goinrs, Ga. \ 4 * /sN i > 4 > $3* 5 ( 1 * W * 5 ? 5 »* ‘SF 1 W rl V K * 51 * W W V V* W 'VW 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 44 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