Brown County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 35, Nashville, Brown County, 23 October 1890 — Page 1

VOL. VIII. NASHVILLE. BROWN COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1890. NO 86.

duty, and in consequence has declined to 4 1/2 c for English and [illegible]c. for German.” The price in August for English was as high as 5c, and for German as high as 4c A reduction was made also on chloroform, but “chloroform prices have not been affected by the cut of one-half in the duty, the new rate being practically prohibitory.” McKinley goes about the country telling the people that the foreigner pays the tariff tax. Do these [illegible] confirm his words? Moreover, the Republican National Committee arc now sending out from Washington a campaign document in which the following remarkable assertions are made: “All the Democrat talk about 'Increased taxation to the people,' is downright falsehood. “The customer will appreciate the existence of the new tariff law only by its results in the reduction of his necessary household expenses." Do the above [illegible] confirm the brilliant promises of the Republican National Committee? or do they show that committee to be prophets of falsehood? Even John Wanamaker knows more about these matters than the committee. He has issued an advertisement warning his customers that they could do well to buy his tinware before the tariff price is put on. Even Wanamaker knows the tariff is a tax!

resolution, the county school superintendents notified the city school trustees that a number of city teachers had no authority to teach, their license in force when the law passed having expired, and that they had failed, while it existed, to procure from the superintendent an exemption certificate. As other teachers in their section outside of the city of Madison were also interested in the matter, they engaged the services of Hon. Marcus R. Sulzer to bring a test case in the Jeffer son Circuit Court, which he did, and which ended in the court deciding that the act of the oounty superintendent was not law—therefore, being void—and that all the teachers who came within the provisions of the act at the time it became a law -were forever legal teachers and forover exempt from further examination of being compelled to procure a new license so long as they continued teaching in the same county where the original license was granted, provided they taught during each school year.

M’KINLEY PRICES. THE FIRST FRUITS OF M'KINLEY'S TARIFF JOB. What the New York Market Reports Show—The “Beneficences” of Higher Prices as Seen by McKinley—The False Promises of the Republican Committee. Maj. McKinley, that curious specimen who believes that high prices are best for the country, should begin to wear a well-selected assortment of smiles. That statesman says that “It is only in order now to watch for the beneficence which the new tariff law is bound to work. ” If McKinley will look into the trade papers he will find that his Chinese-wall bill has already begun to work its “beneficence." He will find that those “beneficences” are already coming in the shape of higher prices, just what McKinley has aimed at, for he has said himself: “We want no return to cheap times in our own country.” Let us look into only two of these trade papers, both of them protectionists —the New York Dry Goods .Economist and the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter —which are the very highest authorities in their respective trades. If Mrs. McKinley will look into the Dry Goods Economist she will find a comment on her husband's tariff law which ought to be of special interest to her. It is as follows:

BURNED IN A HOTEL. Twenty-five People Perish in the Flames at Syracuse. N.Y. The Leland Hotel at Syracuse, N. Y., burned early in the morning on the 16th. It is believed twenty-five persons perished in the flames or lost their lives by jumping. One woman was being lowered from a window by a rope. When she had reached a point opposite the third story the flames burned the rope into. The woman fell to the pavement, her brains being dashed out and her body flattened into a shapeless mass. Many people crazed with fright lost their lives by jumping from the windows. One man says he saw six peo pie jump from one side of the building within a space of four minutes. The building, however, was amply provided with fire escapes and ropes, which were the means of saving many lives. One woman was discovered with a nursing babe in her arms crouched in a stairway, where she had been overcome by smoke. She did not regain consciousness for many hours after being rescued. Cora Tanner, the actress, was among the injured. Most of those killed were in the fourth and fifth stories. The crowds surrounding the burning building were simply overpowering. The scenes and incidents connected with the rescue of inmates were heartrending in the extreme. At 1:12 a, m. a man and woman were seen locked in each other’s arms, in a window on the fifth floor, at the northeast corner of the building. Below them was a perfect sea of flame. No possibility of escape except by the windows was open to them, and that seemed inevitable death. No assistance could reach them. The woman seemed to be anxious to jump, but her husband was earnestly entreating her to desist. The crowd below waited with bated breath. The woman made one last effort to jump, was re strained by her husband, and the cry of the crowd signaled the-awful end that must have befallen them as they fell backward into the room into a mass of flames. At a window on the fourth floor, almost directly under this a woman appeared at the window. She was surrounded on all sides from the interior of the room by fierce flames. She seemed irresolute as to whether to jump to the pavement or to face the fiery foe that was fast eneroaching on her liberty and life. She stepped upon the the window and placed her hands above her head. People in the street below shuddered and turned their faces to shut out the horrible sight that must meet their gaze should the woman jump to the ground. The woman did not jump, but seemed to be withheld either by fear or a feeling that escape would come from some other source. She stepped down from the sill into the room, but remained at the window but an instant, when the whole room became enveloped in flames, and the woman sank back from view.

manufacturer is already in a position to compete, and on an equal footing with his competitors in other lands, if it be true that the foreigner pays the duties on the raw materials which the manufacturer buys from him. McKinley goes on to explain how beautifully his drawback will work in the matter of smelting ores, showing that by allowing ores to be admitted free into certain establishments, which are also bonded warehouses, great good will result. Here are his words: “This, it is believed, will encourage smelting and refining of foreign materials in the United States and build up large industries upon the seacoast and elsewhere, which will make an increased demand for the labor of the country.” Certainly. By relieving the smelter of taxes which he says the foreigner pays. McKinley had a deep-laid scheme in all this, it was to rob the Democrats of the "free raw material” argument. See with what innocence he states the motive of his committee:

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Evansville proposes to establish a clearing house. Hanover College students are not allowed to smoke. Huntingburg ships 2,700,009 pounds of tobacco annually. The Crawfordsville Wire Works will put in nine nail mills. Gambling was notorious at the Seymour fair and Terre Haute races. Annie Rooney and Daniel McGinty are residents of Spencer county. Joseph Little, of Neiffin, has been warned by White Caps to mend his ways. It is predicted the Farmers’ Alliance will control the candidates elected in Harrison county. An engine exploded in the yards at Huntington on the 13th, killing the engineer and badly injuring the fireman. In filling a political appointment in Madison, Hon. Jos. E. McDonald was advertised as the “Gladstone of American Democracy.” Francis Sargent, a young Englishman working as a ditcher in White County, has fallen heir to $10,000 by the death of a relative in England. A team of horses driven by John Hay, plunged into the Ohio Falls, near Jeffersonville, Monday. After a determined struggle in the rapids the animals reached shore, with Hay clinging to a remnant of the wagon. Horace Fallis, Martinsville, aged twelve, died suddenly, and a postmortem held showed that his death was brought on by eating too many pawpaws. The seeds lodged in one of the small intestines and caused acute congestion. Mrs. A. R. Beardsley, of Elkhart, pre sented the city schools with flags, and the occasion was made one of public importance, the G. A. R. posts, societies, fire department and 3,000 school children joining in a parade of the streets and other exercises.

“It completely, if the provision be adopted, disposes of what has sometimes seemed to be an almost unanswerable argument that has been presented by our friends on the other side, that if we only had free raw material we could go out and capture the markets of the world. We give them now within one per cent, of free raw material, and invite them to go out and capture the markets of the world.” [Applause.] But there is another point in this remarkable speech which is equally fatal to McKinley’s claim that the foreigner pays the tax. He says: “We have increased the duty, as I have already said, upon carpet wools, and that has necessitated an increase of the duty upon carpets themselves. ” This is what is called a compensatory duty; that is to say, an increased duty on a finished article in order to compensate the manufacturer for the duty he paid on his raw material. Of course this is based upon the idea that the duty on the raw material has increased its cost precisely by the amount of that duty, which would be absurd if the foreigner paid the duty. The higher duty on carpet wool “necessitates,” as McKinley says, the increase of the duty on the carpets themselves. That was clearly one of his lucid moments when he recognized the simple fact that the foreigner does not pay tariff tax. Now, old friend, have I made good my case? Have I convicted him out of his own mouth? Either McKinley is an insincere man, or else he can crowd a greater number of inconsistent notions into his cranium than most men of his rank and station. But this is enough; the Lord High Tariff-maker himself admits over and over again that the American people pay their own tariff taxes, and it would be needless for me to waste further words to prove so obvious a fact. Yours truly, Richard Knox.

INDIANA CHARITIES. Exchange of Views as to the Best Methods of Caring for Unfortunates. The first State Conference of Charities began at Indianapolis, Wednesday. The people in attendance consist of county commissioners, township trustees, superintendents of county poor asylums, superintendents of orphans’ homes, and others engaged in charitable work. Secretary Johnson, of the State Board, Rev. Oscar McCullough and John R. Elder were the moving spirits of the conference. The attendance was quite large. A permanent organization was effected by the election of John R. Elder, president and Alexander Johnson, secretary. The paper on the subject was read by S. K. Leatherman, superintendent of the Elkhart County Asylum. The Elkhart County Farm consists of 123 acres, with 100 acres under cultivation. Mr. Leatherman made the point that the poor could be more economically cared for where a large farm was connected with the institution. Mr. Leatherman thought the most important duty of a superintendent was the purchase of supplies; this is where there was frequently a great waste. He advised against buying cheap goods. He had experimented, he said, and had found it was more economic to always buy good goods. He followed the same plan in the kitchen and dining room; the inmates were always given the best. Superintendent Williams, of the Marion County Asylum, opened the discussion in a lengthy talk about his methods of management. There were, he said 235 inmates of the Marion [illegible] were but 220 acre [illegible] the institution, w [illegible] could be utilized to advantage. Mr. Williams belived the great waste came from the table. It was his plan to save everything that wasn't consumed at the table. For instance, if an inmate did not eat all the bread that was brought him at one meal it was saved and returned to him at the next. Mr. Wil liams also believed there was economy in buying a good article of clothing, but in an asylum like the one in this county where there were so many transient inmates it could not be done. The tax-payers, he said, were imposed on continually by people being sent to the poor farm who had no business there. The taxpayers of Marion county, he said, were constantly paying for the keeping of vags. The cost of running the Marion County Asylum, Mr. Williams said, was $82 or $83 per capita per year. Mr. McCarty, of the Henry county Orphans’ Home, followed Mr. Williams. He urged that children in orphans’ homes be taught to work. His plan was to instruct the boys in farming, and the girls how to sew and do all kinds of house and kitchen work.

There are now, in round numbers, 52,000 pensioners in Indiana, and the list grows by the addition of scores every day. The amount of money required to make the quarterly payment at the Indianapolis agency this month was $2,250,000. In four days, beginning, September 4, $1,850,000 was paid out. The Ohio agency is the largest in the country and the Indiana agency next largest. The necessity of paying a large number of pensioners over the counter on the quarterly pay-days retards the work of the agency. For instance, on September 4, about 2,000 pensioners received their money across the counter in the office of the agent. Had there been none of this to do, and instead had the office force been able to do all the work by mail, checks could have been sent to 6,000 pensioners. The Indiana Live Stock Sanitary Commission filed its annual report with the Governor, Tuesday. The amount paid for sixty-nine horses killed in the various counties by order of the commission aggregated $2,236, making an average allowance of $33.88. The salaries of the commission amounted to $2,114, and their expenses $1,044.14. Contagious glanders were reported, as existing among the horses, and tuberculosis and big-jaw among the cattle in many localities of the State. It has been the work of the commission to quarantine all known cases as far as practicable, and to save the State from paying an excessive amount for animals killed by order of the commission. The report of the State veterinarian. M. E. Knowles, was embodied in the commissioners’ report. He found glanders existing in fifteen of the twenty counties visited, directly traceable in most instances to Texas ponies. Influenza in a mild form prevailed over the eastern and northern portions of the State during the summer. The cattle have been exceptionally healthy, and tuberculosis, when found, and that to small degree, was usually among dairy cattle. The live stock of the State, generally, is reported as very healthy.

“It will be interesting to watch the effect of higher prices upon the popularity of the new tariff which has caused them. We shall soon hear from the consumer, and, in fact, already there are loud murmurs on every side. As a rule ladies are proverbially indifferent to politics, but when they find out, as they are now doing, that something has been done by the politicians which results in adding from 20 per cent, to 25 per cent, to their dressmaker’s and millinery bills, we fancy that we shall hear from the disenfranchised sex in tones that no judicious man will be likely to ignore. ” . The same paper prints a long article with the heading, “ The Tariff and Prices—A General Advance All Along the Line. ” This article gives in some detail the advances in prices which have already been caused by the tariff bill, as stated by the merchants themselves, A large number of merchants were spoken with, and every one reported advanced prices as already in effect or as soon to be made.

TARIFF LETTER TO FARMER BROWN. NO. 5. Who Pays the Tariff Tax? Dear Farmer Brown: The first thing in this letter is to beg your pardon for putting such a foolish question at the top of it. It does not seem possible that anybody could doubt at this late day that the consumer of any article pays all the costs which have accumulated upon it on on its way to him. But some men are doubting it; or, at least, are teaching people the contrary while knowing better themselves. One of these men [illegible] that “by putting our duties on foreign products, the like of which we can produce in the United States, we make these competing foreign producers bear the burden and supply the revenue to the public treasury. The man who said this has a name which is familiar to everybody just now. His name is McKinley. When a man of his prominence disseminates stuff like this it is not remarkable that many people of simple and honest minds are befuddled. As some of the readera of these letters have doubtless been led astray by such talk, I think it necessary to take up the subject here and expose the hollowness of Major McKinley’s pretense that the foreigner pays our taxes. McKinley, then, claims that the foreigner pays our tariff taxes. Before making my answer to him, let me call attention to the fact that McKinley makes this claim with no apparent sense of shame(?), which is quite remarkable for a man of his reputation for integrity. He seems to see nothing wrong in forcing foreigners to pay our taxes. One would expect to see an honest, self-re-specting nation not simply paying its own taxes but taking scrupulous care not to lay the burden of them upon other nations, for a decent nation must at least be an honest nation. Yet here is a leading American statesman, with prospects and ambitions to be President, actually praising his tariff bill because it forces the foreigner, as he says, “to bear the the burden and supply the revenue to the public treasury" - a smart Yankee trick, which let us hope, Major McKinley would be far too honorable to practice In dealing with his fellowtownsmen at Camden(?). Everybody says he is a most honorable man - how singular that he should be willing to place our Government in a situation which he himself would blush to occupy. But let us come now to his claim that “the foreigner pays the tax." What answer is to be made to it? I say emphatically that McKinley does not believe it himself. That may seem a rough speech and may shock you; hut listen a moment and I will convict him out of his own mouth. Let me call your attention to several passages in his speech in Congress last May in opening the tariff debate, In explaining the general provisions of the tariff bill, he said: "There has been for many years a provision in the law permitting the United States to import for its use any article free of duty." Then he explains what his committee did with that law: “This provision of law has been eliminated in the proposed revision, and if approved by the House and Senate and the President, the Government, its officers, agents, and contractors will hereafter have to pay the same duties which its citizens generally are required to pay.” In doing this the committee, he said, was actuated by the belief that “the laws which it imposes upon its own people and tax-payers should be binding upon the Government itself.” [Applause.] In other words he people pay tariff taxes —why should not Uncle Sam do the same? Accordingly, the McKinley bill makes Uncle Sam pay tariff duties from one of his breeches pockets over into the other! And this is done in order that Uncle Sam may bear his part of the burden. How delightfully amusing that McKinley did not see that the old gentleman loses nothing by paying the duties to himself! But, all the same, McKinley here “gives away" his case completely. The consumer pays the tax, and Uncle Sam must do the same, though he pay to himself. This is enough of itself to prove my point that McKinley does not believe that the foreigner pays the tax. But there is a still more fatal admission in that speech of the Buckeye statesman. It is in reference to rebates, or drawbacks. Here is his explanation of what the committee did: “By way of encouraging exportation to other countries and extending our markets, the committees have liberalized the drawbacks given upon articles or products imported from abroad and used in manufactures her for the export trade. Existing law refunds 90 per cent. of the duties collected upon foreign materials made into the finished product at home and exported abroad, while the proposed bill will refund 99 per. cent. of said duties, giving to our citizens engaged in this business 9 per cent, additional encouragement, the Government only retaining 1 per cent. for the expense of handling.” He has the Government, as you see, to pay back the duty on the raw material to the manufacturer in order to put him in a position to compete with foreign nations, by restoring him to the position where he would be if he had not paid the duty. But you see very clearly that the

While Mrs. Ferdinand Busse, of Fort Wayne, was walking along the pavement near the Pittsburg Railway shops, a spark set fire to the light wrap she was wearing, and the woman and her babe were enveloped in flame. Both were dangerously burned. The child was disfigured for life Mrs. Julia M. Bayless died at Charlestown on Sunday afternoon. She was a sister-in-law of Jonathan Jennings, first Governor of Indiana, and was identified with many stirring incidents of early days. She was in her eighty-fourth year, and was born in Georgetown, Ky., Dec. 17 1806. During a political quarrel at Corydon, Captain William L. Purcell struck Col. W. W. Kintner with a stick of wood, knocking him down and breaking one of his legs. The quarrel was kept quiet at first, the injured man reporting that his broken leg was due to an accidental fall but on the 12th he caused the arrest of his assailant for attempted murder.

Mr. John Claflin, who is a member of the great Republican firm of Claflins, reported that “woolens will advance about 10 per cent, on an average.” Linens, said another merchant, had advanced on an average about 5 per cent., and buyers were more eager to purchase at this figure than dealers to sell. Still another merchant reported that dress goods for women were 10 to 15 per cent, higher. “The advance on velvets,” he said, “is all the way up to 25 per cent., and so it is on the lowest grades of plushes.” While there is this sharp advance on grades which only are in the [illegible] of the [illegible] buyers, how is it when the rich come[illegible] y? [illegible] however, no advance on the finest qualities of velvets. ” Another merchant said, “Dress goods have all gone up. Among the articles which have been most affected are ginghams which contain some silk. The price of these goods has gone up fully 50 per cent., the old duty being only 35 per cent, ad valorem, while under the new law they will have to pay 35 per cent. ad valorem and 10 cents per square yard. ”

A Domestic World’s Fair. It seems to be growing more and more certain that the Chicago World’s Fair will be a United States Fair instead of a World’s Fair. It was reported some time since by the London correspondent of the New York Times that “the McKinley bill had already made it certain that Europe would take no interest in the Chicago exhibition and would be practically unrepresented there. ” Now the New York Tribune, the leading high-tariff organ of this country, prints a dispatch from Rome to the following effect; “The committee appointed to arrange for a proper representation of Italian art and industry at the international exhibition in Chicago in 1893 has dissolved, having decided that any further efforts to accomplish the work for which it was formed would be useless. It is stated the committee found that in view of the new United States tariff law few manufacturers or others were willing to send exhibits to Chicago. ” This is only natural. Protection puts up barriers in the way of trade between nations, and the McKinley bill erects the highest barrier of this kind that the world has ever seen, except in the case of China before that country opened its ports to the world and modern civilization. Merchants and manufacturers do not exhibit their goods at fairs merely to instruct and amuse the people. It is a simple business transaction; they want their wares to be seen by those who may become buyers. In other words, a World’s Fair is meant to extend foreign trade —just the opposite purpose to that had in view by McKinley and his followers in passing their “domestic bill.” Accordingly we are to have a “domestic” fair, which does not mean that it cannot be a great and interesting exhibitoin, only it will not be a World’s Fair

The frightful shrieks of the guests and crackle of the flames could be heard for blocks away. The building burned so rapidly that most of the people on the upper floors were obliged to use the fire escape or jump for their lives. One woman. appeared at the window in a room on the north side of the building with a baby in her arms. Her pitiful cries for help were heard until the flames gathered around her. The firemen tried in vain to raise a ladder on this side of the building. The woman was told to throw out the rope or jump from the window. She threw out

OBITUARY. Death at Washington of Ex-Secretary of War Belknap. Ex-Secretary of War W. W. Belknap, was found dead on the 13th, in a room adjoining his office, 1430 New York avenue, Washington. It is thought his death was due to paralysis. William Worth Belknap was born at Newburg, N. Y., September 23,1829. His father had been a military man, partici pating in the War of 1813, and later establishing Fort Leavenworth, and in the Mexican War was made a Brevet Brigadier General. William Worth was graduated at Princeton In 1848, studied law and practiced at Keokuk, where he settled in 1851. At the beginning of the civil war he joined the army as Major of the Fifteenth Iowa Volunteers. He was engaged at Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg, became prominent in Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, receiving promotions to be Brigadier General July 30,1864, and Brevet Major General, March 13, 1865. After the war he was collector of internal revenue in Iowa from 1865 until October 18,1869, when he was appointed Secretary of War by President Grant, succeeding General Rawlins, who had been given that office, and who died September 6, 1869. General Belknap continued as Secretary of War until March 7,1876,when, in consequence of charges of official cor ruptlon, he resigned. He was impeached and tried before the Senate for receiving bribes for the appointment of post traders, and was acquitted on the technical ground of want of jurisdiction.

Corduroys are a kind of goods in which nearly all country people are interested. One of these merchants said, “Low-priced corduroys will cost 40 per cent. more. The actual advance on corduroys and on velveteens this week has been 35 per cent.” Another merchant said that worsteds had already gone up from 13 to 15 per cent, as the result of the increased duty. These were all wholesale merchants. The retail trade, however, was also feeling the effect of higher prices. The article says: “Linen goods of every kind have careered upward, also hosiery, underwear, etc. Ribbons are a cent or two higher on the standard goods. ” The same paper reports that pearl buttons had advanced in price 35 per cent., and that an equal advance would be made later, all owing to the higher duty. The New York Commercial Bulletin shows that the price of these buttons had already been doubled before this 50 per cent, advance was decided upon. The full advance in price is therefore 150 per cent. In other words, a dollar’s worth of pearl buttons will hereafter be sold for $3.50. Buyers who object to these prices must remember that the good Maj. McKinley assures us that “when merchandise is cheapest men are poorest.” It is well to remember here, too, that our President has said that “a cheap coat usually covers a cheap man.” Of course cheap pearl buttons would go on cheap shirts, which would naturally be worn by poor men—or, as the President says, “cheap men. ” The Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter is devoted to the trade indicated by its name, and is a defender of the protective system. In its first number after the tariff bill went into operation it printed the following items in its market reports: “Phosphorus is 10 cents per pound higher, that being the extent of the increase of duty by the new tariff. “Cod-liver oil, now that the new duty has gone into effect, is held for higher prices. ” The lowest price in August was $16.50; it is here quoted at $17.75 to $18 as the lowest figures. Sugar of milk, which is used to make food for very young children, has felt the touch of the 8 cents per pound duty. Early in August the price was 18 to 23 cents per pound; the price has now jumped to 28 cents, while some dealers quote 30 to 35 cents. “Bay rum is firm, $2.25 being the inside price, while some dealers want $2.35. The increased duty is the cause of the recent change in prices.” The August price was $1.90 to $2. Window glass, which has been made dutiable by McKinley, at a much higher figure on the largest sizes, and which has just come under the sway of the new window glass trust, is about to rise to a higher price. The paper here quoted says: “It is reported that all the large Western jobbers have been in Pittsburg the past week, anxious to place contracts in anticipation of an early rise in values. ”

The Jackson County Assembly Farmer’s Mutual Benefit Association has elected the following officers: President, W. W. Winkler; Vice President, J. G. Offutt; Secretary. Oliver M. Foster; Treasurer, James Smith; Delegates to State Assembly, J. G. Offutt, W. W. Winkler, James T. Russell, J. A. Foster, James Marsh, John Thomas, Andrew Spry, W. L. Wright. When Governor Hovey and staff reached Petersburg last week, on the occasion of the soldiers’ reunion, be was met by a committee and escorted to a vehicle which was attached to a straw-stacker; the stacker to a grain separator, and the latter to a water tank wagon, while the whole was drawn by a traction engine. The Otwell Brass Band, seated on top of the seperator, whiled away the time with “Marchin’ Thro’ Georgia.” John Welcher, of Monroe City, has filed an affidavit against Dr. Hunt, charging him with having poisoned complainant. They went to Vincennes together, and en route home Welcher drank of whisky provided by Hunt, and was taken violently ill, and after arrival home it was with difficulty his life was saved. He also alleges that when he left Vincennes he had $110, but when he recovered consciousness only $5.30 remained. The liquor dealers of Morgantown are in a state of siege. Saturday night a dynamite bomb was placed under M. T. Hancock’s drug store and the explosion which followed scattered his “red eye” promis cuously, damaging stock and building to the amount of $1,500. A notice was placed on Joseph Norman’s drug store, saying his place was next in line, William Mussels man, a saloonist, was notified to leave within twenty days or suffer more serious consequences.

"YOU CAN'T DOWN A CHRISTIAN" Four white men and ten negroes of Eppstone, (town) N. C., on the 15th, had a “little affair.” The negroes were too many for the white men, and while the scrap was at its height a white stranger rode up on a black horse, looked around for a moment, sprang from his horse and said: “You can’t down a Christian.” In less than ten seconds he had laid out five of the negroes and ended the fight. After quiet was restored he was asked his name. He said he was from Virginia, and for want of a better name was sometimes called “Uncle Hannah.” He inquired the way to Coinjock Bridge, sprang into the saddle, and was off like a flash, “Young Sullivan’ was never seen in those parts before. He is of medium size, and is evidently a fighter from “way back.” An old darkey standing by said he “don’t know what dat man woulder did e£ he had ar got mad, for he licked five an never stopped smilin’ ner tuk his cigar out of his mouth.” Oren Munger, the Anderson tailor, has left the city and no one knows where he is. He is under $600 bonds for kidnapping his own child, $300 for abducting Miss Mollie Moore, $50 for carrying concealed weapons and is defendant in a $10,000 damage suit brought by the mother of Miss Moore. Munger is a married man and is said to possess considerable wealth. A special from Cleveland, O., says : The Cleveland, Canton & Southern railroad has been indicted for violating the interstate commerce law. It is charged that the railroad has failed to file with the Interstate Commerce Commission a schedule of its joint tariffs and rates. Also that the road has not posted in conspicuous places notices of its increased or reduced rates. The Erie road is also indicted for not posting its schedule of rates. The offense is punishable with a fine not exceeding $5,000. A Few Truths Tellingly Put. Votes should not be counted, but weighed. To be content with littleness is already a stride toward greatness. The small writer gives his readers what they wish, the great writer what they want. The mischief of opinions formed under irritation is that men feel obliged to maintain them even after the irritation is gone. Men are equally misunderstood, from their speech as well as from their silence; but with this difference: Their silence does not represent them; then speech misrepresents them. —Century.

the rope, and as she was climbing out of the window the flames enveloped her, and she fell back into the building and perished. Seven or eight men and children jumped from the upper stories on to a shed in the rear of the building. At one time seven persons were struggling together on the shed, which had already caught fire from the flying sparks. The victims were half naked. Several of them were seen to tear off their undergarments that had caught fire. One woman lay on the ground where she had fallen tearing the hair from her head. Her hair had caught fire and it was with difficulty that the flames were quenched. She, together with the others who had jumped from the rear windows, was picked up and carried on a stretcher to a saloon in the neighborhood. In this saloon several persons lay on the pool-tables in all positions. One of the women was Annie Schwartz, a laundry girl employed in the hotel. She was rescued from the rear of the fourth floor by a colored man who had already saved several others of the help. The doors of Gray Bros., shoe manufacturers, across the street, were smashed in and several persons carried there on stretchers. The police office was turned into a hospital and the patrol wagons into ambulances. One of the most frightful incidents of the fire was the terrible death of a woman who jumped from the fifth story of the building. Several policemen stood on the sidewalk holding nets ready to catch the guests as they jumped. Two persons, a man and a woman, jumped into one of the nets almost at the same moment and escaped with broken limbs. The next to jump was a woman who appeared in a window on the fifth story in her night clothes. She leaped out of the window and, missing the net, was dashed to pieces on the stone sidewalk. She was picked up and removed to the morgue. The building will be a total loss. It was built two years ago at a cost of $150,000. It is six stories high, and contained 400 rooms, lt is impossible to learn how many guests were in the hotel at the time the fire broke out. The total loss will not fall short of half a million dollars. The building is partly covered by insurance, but it is impossible to learn how much insurance was carried on the hotel furniture, or what the private and individual losses will be.

Tlia Tariff Booty. Pennsylvania was happy when the McKinley bill was passed. At Harrisburg cannon were fired in celebration of the event. The next thing in order was a visit to the State from the fat-fryers, to get money to elect McKinley. But the “fryers” struck a snag when they called on James B. Oliver, one of the rich “tariff barons” of Pittsburgh, and a prominent iron man. Oliver refused to be “fried. ” “Why should we give anything toward McKinley? His bill didn’t do us any good, but has injured us.” The “baron” was in a spiteful mood because Carnegie was helped by the bill. “Carnegie will reap more benefit from the passage of the McKinley bill than any other manufacturer, ” said Mr. Oliver. Carnegie came home recently from his coaching tour in Scotland. On the ship with him were many European delegates to the recent Iron and Steel Institute in New York. Mr. Frederick Starr, one of these delegates, says: “Andrew Carnegie came over with us in the Servia, and there was a current report on board that he had said he expected to make threequarters of a million dollars during the next year by the increase in duties on imports. ” Ivory buttons now pay a duty of 50 cents on the dollar, instead of 25 cents under the old law; and already the domestic manufacturers have raised their prices to within a fraction of the price of foreign buttons with the new duty added. Yet we are told that the tariff is not a tax. Cheap pocket-knives pay a McKinley duty of about 90 cents on the dollar, while the finest qualities, such as cost $30 a dozen, pay only 50 cents on the dollar. McKinley encourages the poor man to buy expensive knives. In the universal rise in prices it would be only reasonable that laborers, for whose benefit the high duties were said to be imposed, should get an increase in wages. Have they got it?

E. M. Baldwin, a prominent scenic artist of Martinsville, while standing before a glass Monday morning arranging his toilet, was stricken with a species of paralysis, rendering him deaf, dumb and blind. He recovered sufficiently that afternoon to scrawl on a piece of paper, “I can not see, hear or talk.” His condition is serious. Patents were issued Tuesday to Indianians as follows: C. A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, shearing machine; B. S. Boydston, Clunette, stethoscope; E.Brettney, Indianapolis, dust collector: E F Clemens, Albion, music notation; C Comstock, Indianapolis, road cart; M Garwood, South Bend, wheel plow; M C Henley, Richmond, lawn mower; G P Pearson and J A Foster, Attica, barrel stand: W S Ralya, Indianapolis, saw tool and device for jointing and dressing saws; N H Roberts, Indianapolis, devise for jointing and dressing saws; EF Saverer, Land, combined mower and hay tedder; B C Wickers, Westfield, brick and tile kiln; B B Wright Evansville, bracket or shelf. Judge W. T, Friedley, of Madison, has just decided a case of great importance to the teachers of Indiana. In 1889 the General Assembly passed an act forever exempting from further examination for license all teachers who had taught six consecutive school years and been successful in securing two or three-year licenses, and one of which licenses was in force. The county school superintendents afterwards held a meeting and decided that the law would not exempt teachers unless they secured an exemption certificate from the county superintendent at some period during the time for which the license was originally granted. Acting upon this

THE MARKETS, Indianapolis, October 17, 1890. GRAIN. Wheat. | Corn. | Oats. | Rye. Indianapolis..| 2 r'd 97 | 1 w 49 1/2| 2 w 40 1/2 | ............ 8 r'd 92 | 2ye 48 Chicago.......... | 2 r’d 96 1/2 | 48 | 38 1/2 | ....... 67 Cincinnati.... | 2 r’d 89 | 53 | 42 66 St.Louis.........| 2 r’d 98 | 48 | 37 71 New York...... | 2 r’d l01 1/2 | 55 | 41 77 Baltimore...... | 96 1/2 | 55 | 42 Philadelphia. | 2 r'd 96 1/2 | 55 1/2 | 44 | Clover Seed Toledo........ | 98 | 50 | 39 1/2 | 415 Detroit.... | 1 wh 97 | 50 | 40 | ........ Minneapolis : | 99 | ..... | ..... | ....... Louisville..... | ......| .....|.......| ...... LIVE STOCK. CATTLE —Export grades ......... [email protected] Good to choice shippers......... 4.00 @4.30 Common to medium shippers.... [email protected] Stockers, 500 to 850 lb ...... [email protected] Good to choice heifers ...... [email protected] Common to medium heifers ....... [email protected] Good to choice cows ...... [email protected] Fair to medium cows ....... [email protected] HOGS—Heavy ....... [email protected] Light ...... [email protected] Mixed ...... [email protected] Heavy roughs ........ [email protected] SHEEP-Good to choice ...... [email protected] Fair to medium [email protected] MISCELLANEOUS. Eggs 16c. Butter, Creamery 2 @23; Dairy 18, Good Country 9c. Feathers, 35c. Beeswax, [email protected]; Wool 30@35, Unwashed 28; Poultry, Hens 7 1/2 c. Turkeys 10c toms 6c Clover seed [email protected]

At the wedding of Mary Grabowisky to John Levindowski at Iron Mountain, Mich, on the 15th, one Dombrowsky started trouble by making a sneering remark about the bride. Tom Kosobosky resented it, and in the fight that followed Tom was killed. If the sneering remark had any reference to Miss Grabowisky’s name we want to assert that in that respect Mr. Dombrosky has little to brag about.

The McKinley bill reduces the duty on some articles, and it is interesting to note the immediate effect of such reduction. The paper just quoted says in its market reports: “Hemp seed being advertised at a lower rate of duty, market prices have been reduced.” “Rope seed also pays a lower rate of

THE DEMOCRAT. BY ALONZO ALLISON. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY One Dollar a Year In Advance. Six months....... ............... 50c Three months.................... 25c When sent out of the county a year....... $1.25 Entered at the Nashville, Indiana Postoffice at [illegible]

Mr. Breckenridge, Trustee of Allen township, Allen county, objected to calling poor asylums “poor farms.” The latter name, ho said, grated harshly upon the ears of many people. Mr. Breckinridge called attention to the mistake made in many counties of letting the position of medical attendant to the lowest bidder. He thought physicians should be employed on account of their fitness, and not because they were able to underbid some one else. Mrs. Franklin, of Bedford, asked a question that none of the Superintendents present seemed anxious to answer. She said she had understood that sametimes when inmates refused to work they were whipped. She wanted to know if many Superintendents did resort to whipping. One Superintendent replied that he found Bible authority for shutting off the rations of a man who wouldn’t work; that always brought a lazy man to time. The economic question was discussed by quite a number of other delegates. Joshua M. Hull, Superintendent of the Vigo county asylum, read a paper on “Care of Insane and Idiots in County Poor Asylums,” and Otto Williams, of the Marion county asylum, one on “Care of Helpless and Sick Inmates.” Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch delivered an address on the “Value of Conferences of Charities.” The speaker said there are 15,000 recipients of charity in Indiana, requiring an annual expenditure of $2,000,000. The conference, he believed, had an opportunity to accomplish much good. Short addresses were made by Commissioner Winderly, of Vanderburg county; Superintendent Charlton, of the Reform School, Lieutenant Governor Chase and others.

Brown County Democrat.