Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 14 November 1874 — Page 3

THE F.LF.CT!OA'S.

nounce* in.favorof conservative purposes. Wo are weary of war ami its bloody in-r-tructions. The practical lessons to be learned can not fail to lie of the very gravest importance. The canvass closes the

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CommciitN ol' I In' Pri-KN. 1 Kroin this New Yuri HcraM.j This election is not merely a victory but Imt a revolution. The United Suit

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litical career of General Grant. Wc c:in understand that the time will always

in the history of Administrations when the people become restless and impAtient and crave, a change. We had indications of this even in the time of Washington, who was severely criticised before his retirement for what was regarded as the corruption of the party in power. lUit Grant has invited the senot merely lor what be

verert censure. has nc, but by what he has failed to jns(.rji„.,l with ti.'c legend," "'f -lo. I 1'lard Monev Home Llule."

The great loss pi" votes by Gov. Dix u.c Uosi,,,, .viv- rr,,,.!.] m,,co 1872 attests the wanmg popular.- ,, ,v of the 1'res.dent eye.. ...ore clear

than it does that of General Dix. In

18,2Iix was borne: to

of Grant's iopular.ty, and Ins mortyly- elucli(n

in« decline in the election yesterday 1- a '01.seque1.ee of bis standing for he Fed eral Administration. Dix would have made a much better show in the election had he stood on his personal merits and been in no way identified with Grant.

It is Grant who has killed Dix, and (irant rather than Dix is the person who should lay this defeat to heart. It .should teach the President that there is a limit even to public gratitude. The country has caressed him, praised him, rewarded

hiin, promoted him with lavish, unsti.u-,

ed generosity but the country has showered on him those abundant marks

:md desires no reward that would be inconsistent with their perpetuity. His third term aspirations have turned public, .'feeling against him, and we trust that lie demonstrated decline of his ropular strength may teach him the wisdom of renouncing "bis irregular hopes and devoting what remains of his second tern, to high and worthy objects. ['From the Nw York Sim.)

The indignation of the people as expressed through the bullotb ixes vesterday has shivered Grant's Administration to atoms. The overthrow is complete and teriflic.

We forbear further details of the great revolution. Suffice it to say it is an end of (irant and Grantistn. It gives the finishing blow to a third term for Grant. If lie is impeached by the new House of Representatives, as he certainly ought to lie, there will be far more probability that he will not serve out his seco.id term than that he will have a third. Ot course the unconstitutional features of the cag law will now be repealed.

When theresultsof this gr. at contest are fully ascertained, it will probably apjjear they arc duo not so much to Democratic gains as to Republican losses. We fancy thai it will turn out that the stay-at-home Republicans did the business lor Orant. If this proves to be so, it will afford an instructive lesson to Democrats, of which it will be wise for them to take heed. It will be their true policy to #o use the power with which the people have intrusted them as to bring these disgusted Republicans to their side. They will do well to remember that some things wore settled by the late war past recall. Among these are the Thirteenth,

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, which those Republicans who have enabled the Democracy to win this amazing victory will not permit to be disturbed. (From tin- New York Tunes.)

The great and signal dcfc-ts of yesterday virtually began last year. The panic did much to injure the Republican party, but the effects of that disaster might have been greatly lessened had a wise course been adopted by Congress in relation to the finances. All through last Winter we begged Republican Congressmen to do something, and to do it prickly, and we. pointed out the certa.n consequences of their mistakes and de-

In return for performing this un lays. pleasant duty, we were simply told that we we were "traitors" to the Republican party, and that we should be instantly pass any that it has won in the past .itamned out of existence. The mhman- the defeats which we fear we have

ageuieut at the Treasury, the Sanborn frauds, and the general series of blunders in nearly all of the public departments, were in the meantime causing incalculable mischief. The first two nominations for Chief .1 ustice.wcre shocking blunders, mid disgusted the whole people. The Administration was making enemies and losing friends every day. The party was handed over to the Platts and Butlers. And just when the disappointment and irritation of the people became most marked, the paper at Washington which has come to be known as a mere speaking tube for the While House, was set to work crying out for Gen. Grant for a third term." What could any sane man anticipate from such astounding lolly except the overwhelming defeat of yesterday? In this State a Republican majority of 55,000 has been turned to a

Republican defeat of 42,000, a change of '.'7,000 votes. The gentlemen who have had the Republican party in charge during the past two years will bo obliged to admit to-day that they have nearly strangled it.

From ihu New York Tritium1.]

The verdict of the country against •rautism is delivered. There were only two great questions before the people at this election. One was whether the Administration deserves the public conti 'Icnce, and the other was whether it ought to be perpetuated. They have both been answered in the negative, so loudly that even the President must, hear the verdict.

It is not anywhere a mere Democratic victory. It is the protest of all classes •f citizens against the Administration which supported Jayne, which enriched •"-unborn, which lobbied the salary bill through Congress, which established its Kelloags in the."South by perjured judges and misused bayonets, and tried t« sustain them by sl.iudering an injured people, and which had just put it.self forward with the insolent claim lor a perpetuation of power. The public had

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Let the jubilant Democracy sis they "strike the loud timbrel" in lindissembled exultation over the splendor of their victory call upon all the people to rejoice with them in this "crowning mercy." For it is in the name ot the people, anil with devout prayers to Almighty trod for delivercnce from our chiefest national cnlxiniiics that the Democracy have set up in this contest their banners ree Trade

The vole for !State officers varies in mai.v ways from the vote for Congressmen, but was in general sympathy with t. The rebellion wan aggravated, however, by a mixguidrd attempt, to make the party in MawichmetU an ally of the State Tern perance Alliance. The Republican party is a party of temperance,, order, and law. The weight ot the liquor interest, so called, would be thrown against it in any event, no matter what the issues before the people might be. But this year our party leaders thought it necessary to add another turn on the screw, and make the voters swear that they were not only in favor of temperance, order and law, but of a patent scheme for enforcing all these virtues. The scheme has been tried, and it has failed disastrously and the voters thought the time had come to say that they did not care to continue the farce any longer llTom Hie Ifoston (ilolio.]

Thus we see that the Republicans have only themse.ve,s and their party leaders to thank for tl.is defeat. Had they put forward only their best men for Congress, the delegation would have probably been unbroken. The nomination of Mr. Talbot 0.1 the prohibitory issue was a grave mistake, as we repeatedly warued the party that it would be, and the result is only what we feared. Personally tie is a .nan worthy of confidence, with an uprightness ot intent, a force of character and a loyalty to his convictions which would command confidence if he were free from entangling alliance, but he was borne down by an issue which he no doubt regretted he had ever permitted himself to be saddled with. Had Republicans been wise enough to subordinate minor issues to the great objects of their party, they would not have had this defeat to lament. (From the Wellington Republican.]

However the November elections may have gone, however they may have affected the next Congress, it is not denied by any one that the Republican party has still the majority of the country, and that if it shall be led as it ought to be led, its victories in the future will stir-

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^UUUlWtU V^UlllUliy (VJUUIIUU. 1,1,1,^ for^i.othu.g lui blnndcruig und years ul Ins term, in accordance with I of affairs. In an ariicle published by us immediately after the Octjbcr elections,

Kreed lhe demand for an indefinite the new permptorv expressions of the extension of such misrule was too much popular will. Some such change as this for jiood nature. It needed the sharp -eeins necessary to save the President answer it has received, itis is the end from the result of a deliberate disobediof (iraiitism. It is not the revival of .nee of the country's orders. He dethe rebellion nor the definitive reha- clared in hisfirst inaugural that he would have no policy to urge against the will of the people he will find both his duty and safety in a faithful and obedient adherence to the altered aspects of this patriotic avowal. {Kroin the'St. "Louis Globe.]

bilitation of the Democratic party. It simply eliminates Grant ism front polities as an impertinent factor, and leaves the two parties confronted—so evenly m.itched thai both must herealier he careful to make no mistakes. The future belongs to the one who shall earn it.

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nit impression here nobody believed that the President could entertain an idi-a so at varience with all the traditions of the country.

Hut a part of the falling ofl, and not a small part, was directly owing to causes lor whii'li the Administration is responsible. Outside of all considerations of the popularity fitness of candidates, Republicans would not vote in a way that couid be construed as au indorsement of

Administration

Uic me ulsbv whicb the

has made its power fell in Massachusetts.

Th(J lhe a

of grateful appreciation on the Mipposi- pui,!i(.ull vote for (Jongiessmen bv fortv tiou that he is true to our lustuuuons

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|thousand, and a loss of a majori-

tv of" the delegation, is the only answer it was in their power to make to what they have long looked upon as a grave misuse of tin Executive trouage. The defeat of some of our .Members to Congress is to be deeply regretted, but it is the price we have to pay for what we devoutly trust will result in the political regen ration of the Commonwealth.

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we sec the omen of future victory. The Republican party is still the party of the country, and it can not be defeated, and the Republic lives. {From the St. Louis Hepnhliertii.)

It might be said, without any great outrage upon propriety, that it is a wholesale repetition of the September rcvotvtion in Louisiana—a revolt of the whole country against that crucl and pitiless persecution of tho Southern whites, which the carpet-baggers have counseled, and the President and his Attorney General have so diligently executed It looks almost as though New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey had imitated the Penn rebellion in New Orleans, with the f.iMladcs left out.

No doubt President Grant and his dismayed humble advisers arc asking themselves what is to be done after so. t«rrible a reprimand from the people The duly before them is plain it is tor them to do it. ,The country has expressed its wish and will it is their duty to obey. The dragon ales in the South must be st ipped Maj. Merrill must be sent about his business the arm/ removed from Louisiana the Federal officials there ordered to confiue themselves to their proper duties, and the general working of the Government, both in the North and South, made to conform to the change in public opinion. Twenty-three of the thirty-seven States arc to-day arrayed against lhe Administration. It is not necessary to inquire, whether these States are strictly Democratic or not it is enough to kuow that they are nnti

Republicans. While, therefore., it might be too much to exact that President Grant shall dismiss his cabinet ministers and fill their places with eminent representative Democrats, it is not too much to asl that he shall abandon the narrow personal and partisan policy which for six years he has pursued, cast off the leaders and associates by whose, disastrous counsels he has been governed, and

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If, in getting rid of Butler, we can

get rid of Buttleris.n, and if the time servers and place hunters, who have used the organization of the Republican par ty tor their own stupid ends, can be made to learn that the people wili not endure them, even for the sake ot Republicanism and it we get rid of the notion that every local and transitory outbreak of fanaticism cm also use the Republican party as freely as the handle of the town pump, we shall not only be a better party, but a stronger party, purged not only of our sins, hut of the potent causes of all our blunders, which are lhe worst sins, after all, in politics jFrum the Si. Oemocrat.l

Faults or wrongs, against which the truest and purest Republicans, and the ablest and b-si Republican journals, have protested without due effect, have at hist pro uiced a decided influence t.|on public opinion. That this is the facl, none will question who candidly scan the returns Gen. Butler, for example, exceedingly tenacious as has been the hold which his ability and his pluck have given him upon public favor, has, nevertheless, come to distinctly represent in public estimation certain policies and methods of which the country is tired.

With 5.000 majority upon his back, ho is nevertheless beaten badly. Gen. Neuley, of Pennsylvania, had in like manner made himself a conspicuous representative of similar policies and methods Not even the 10,000 majority of Allegheny county in 1872 has saved him. O her instances too trequent and marked to escape notice, force upon the party a frank recognition of errors in which it has loo long persisted, and which its best members and friends liavo tried to correct, and have repeatedly predicted would expose the party to defeat if not soon corrected. rKrom the Courier Jm.rnnl.] '1 he President may send his stretcher to the rear he'll not need it. He will walk out of the front door, and if he behaves iuiself, as we thiuk he will, and as his natural good use ought to teach him lo behave, he will quit office with dignity to spend the remainder ot his "days in the blissful retirement of Rip

Van Winkie, with his pipes, his dogs, his horses, his friends, ".lie strange story of his life,'' and his occasional glass. He may indeed become stronger with his party by adapting himself to iis altered toruues. Its coming man is Sherman. We predict ihat, from tl.is time forward, St. Louis will be the point of attraction tor the Republicans. The lost Republican press those of the lost Republican leaders who are worth conciliating ant! recalling —can be gathered together under the exiled General ol the Armv. But the other day we said, "It is Grant we shall have to defeat in '76"—in case of a Radical Congress. With a Democratic Congress, with agigantic Radical reverse, Grant is out ot the question. Washburne is too honest and wary a man to suit the managers. Blaine loses his deal with the loss ot the Speakership: his time is postponed to 1880. Nolhiug is more natural than that the Republican party should stick to its traditions, and being a war party, that, as its last hopes of reviving war passions, it should tack itself on to a simple minded, erratic soldier like Sherman, and take its chances with him just as it originally took its chances with Grant. The Garfields and the Fosters, men like John Sherman,

Edmonds, ot Vermont, Ferry, of Conn., Boutwell, Dawes and Blaine, will come to the front and rule the roost in lieu of Butler and Morton, Coukling and Cameron, who will have to sing small.

From 'he Ohicngo Tribune.]

The November elections are the heavy rainstorm which the October gust presaged and foreshadowed. Both together are merely a postponement of what would have happened in 1872, but for the misfortune of the opposition ot having a candidate wh^se eccentricities alarmed the business men of the eoun try. With either Adams or Davis, or Trumbull, as a candidate lor the Presidency, the same kind of a thunder gust which swept over the political field last Tuesday would have been felt two years sooner. The people did not vote for Grant in 1872 ho much as they voted against Greeley. 'Having voted against Greeley, they have embraced the earliest opportunity to vote against Grant and Grantis.n now. What does it signify? What will be the outcome of this tremendous victory of the opposition? Will the Republican party lash its dogs back into the kennel, and put its men in command once more? Will the worst elements of the

Democracy now come to the front and take the lead? Will its Fernando Woods, San. Randalls, Tom Florences, Voorheeses, and Eld ridges, not to mention the unsatisfied Rebel element of the South, lead it in the next Presidential campaign If so, it has achieved a barren victory. The Republicans are still a majority of the country, as they arc of' Massachusetts, and they can only be dislodged from the Executive branch of the Government by extreme folly on their owr. part, combined with extreme prudence on the part of their adversaries.' [Frimi tliei l»iiMKO Inter-Ocmi.]

Of coursc the issues of temperance and ami temperance and the effects for good or evil growing outof the late'temperance crusades cut no insignificant figure, taking over to the enemy thousands of Germans who had formerly acted with the Republicans. Of course dissatisfaction with sjiecific acts of legislation, State or National, or of executive Administration, State or National, might have culminated at last iu local expression of local disconlen'. But, in our judgment, the almost universal avalanche of popular insanity in behalf of the Democracy manifested in the late elecion was precipitated largely by the industrial and financial stagnation and embarrnssnicnts of the people. Rightfully

iillow the iKlniiiiistration ot public ud'uir* or ivroiiL'fullv, ilie dominant party has

remaining two I been hold responsible for this condition

we showed^ that in the" grain growing States of Nebraska and Iowa, where the! people had rctdized good crops and haudfeoinc prices, and were financially

These important reverses to ReptibliCanisin, and especially the loss to the party and the country of the next Mouse of Representatives are calamities beyond estimate. They will serve to e.nbolde.i the rebel outlaws of the South to fresh acts of barbarity upon Union blacks and whites alike. They will en-. courage the craven Northern allies of treason to newefi'irts to nullify the guaranties of the Amended Constitution. They will have the effect to strike a staggering blow at the National credit at home and abroad. But if these, immeasurable evils shall ultimately result in rousing the Republican party to the dangers which threaten the government through Democratic domination iu the Executive as well as Legislative De- I partments if in brief, the loss of the Na-

It must get rid of the political leeches, Of every name. The amazing_rest.lt in Massacl.iisets is plain indication ot a kind of politics and of politiciHn? that the country has grown tired of. The Washington Administration has carried these men and their political schemes as long as it can.

JUnust begin and carry into effect an honest and determined reform in the civil service and revenue two reforms of which the. Administration politicians are probably as incapable as the Old Bourbon politicians are.

And, finally, it must take pr.-itive grounds in favor of hard money, and inaugurate by legislation the coming Winter, a definite plan of early resumption of irold payment, at a day fixed in away to :ive the country assurance that it will not be postponed. Such a step, taken Ly the Administration party with unaimity next Winter, would "take the wind out of the sails" of the Eastern hard money oppositionists, while it would of course t»nd to unify and consolidate the-various! rag money and repudiation elements in' one body, and to bring honest men of all political labels into a united opposition to that monster villainy.

That the Administration politicians will prove equal to the emergencywl.ich requires these radical reforms in its policy is extremely doubtful. Rut as things now appear, it is their only political salvation.: -y

The tyrant man has treated contemptuously tl.e woman suffrage proposition in Michigan, and Susan swears thai if any voter ever lets her sit in his lap again she'll pinch him, so help her gracious.— Chicago Times.

JLECAL.

SHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue nil oxei'iitio". to me directed from the Clerk of the Ciiunit Court of Montgomery county, Sinte of Indiana, in favor of .loll 11 Utile", ifeiied to me MM Sheriff of said county, I will expose to sale ftt public auction and outcry, on Saturday, the 21# day of November, 1874,

between the hours ol'.O (/clock A.M.and 4 o'clock 1'. of said duv, at the Court House door, in the City of Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, Indiana, the rents and profits lor a term not exceeding seven years, of the following deaorii ed real estate in Montgomery county, Indiana, towit:

The east half of the southwest quarter of section 21, in township 18 north, of range 5 west, containing Wi acres, more or less.

To be sold to satisfy'.said execution, intorests and costs, and if the same will not bring sum snlHi'ienl to satisfy said execution, I will on the vnnie dav at the same place, otter the fee simple of said real estate to satisfy a judgment for together with interest and costs, with relief from valuation and appraisement laws.

Said real estate, taken HS tne property of John

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content, as was proven liy the increased: Republican majorities over the preceding year while in the States more largely devoted to manufacturing, like Indiana and Ohio, where capital and labor were idle and discontented, there was discontent and revolution. The November election seems to confirm this theory, for in New York, New Jersey, Pennsvlvania and Massachusetts Republican candidates have been overwhelmed, remorselessly, while in Michigan, Wisconsin ami Illinois Republican nominees have more nearly received their party strength.

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tional House ot Representatives in 1X7-1, shall serve to save the election of President and both Houses of Congress in 187fi, through that patriotism in presence of peril which has so many times during the last fourteen years saved the republic, the loyal masses of the North and South can afford to bear the humiliation and mortification of tl.e present visitation of adversity. [From the Chicn^o Times.]

The political revolution plainly implies, among its consequences, either the overthrow of the Administration party

in 1870, or a speedy and complete change in the policies and purposes which the representatives of that party have heretofore either pursued or encouraged. Whether it will be possible for the Administration to set its house in order, to the satisfaction of the country, within the next two years, is, to say the least, extremely doubtful. To do so, it must solve the "Southern problem" by withdrawing its meddlesome agencies, of every kind, from the political afliiirs of the Southern States, remitting them wholly to the management of their own people.

Ot.li.

I. M. KE1»SEY, Sh'ff M. C.

Uy W. Wilhite, Ueputy. 44w3pf$8.25

£jHKltIFF'S SALE.

Hy virtue of an execution, to me directed Irom the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Montgomery count-., State of Indiana, in favor of John. 8. liray,"issued to me as Sherilf ol said county, I will*expose to sale at public auction and outcry,

Saturday, the 2\d day of November, lST^ between the boni of 111 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M. of said day, nt the Court House door, in thceisy ot Crawfordsville, Montgomery comity. Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding sev 'n years, of the following described real esiat, in Montgomery county, Indiana, lo-wit l'arl of the. northwest quarter of section .1, ill

township in north, of range ft west, boundorl follows Hcjiinning'.!5 rods and 21 links south ol the. northwest corner of sald.scction .'11, and runnin" thence south 4:s rods and 22 links, thence eas? ti« rods and lli links, thence north 4:1 rods niul 1« links, thence west Wrods to the place of

Mid to satisfy s»id execution, interests and costs, and if the same will not bring a sum sufl'ictent to satisfy said execution, 1 will on the same day, at the same place, otter file foe simplo of Miiil real estate, to satisfy a judgment for 82:12.111, together with interest and costs, without uiivVelief from valuation or appraisement laws. &nd real estate taken as the property of Hicli-

nrd \!iinnd. KELSEY.Sh'flM.C. I'.v \V. Wilhitc, licputy. llwi'.pf 1MXJ

GROCERIES.

Wilson & Allen,

DEAI.KKS IX

STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES,

lii.isfiHtKK MTO.VF.WAKI:

Ami a Large Variety

OmII •"Wa!S,"fc

l»n't

PAINTS, OILS, PUTTY, WINDOW GLASS,

I. F. WADE,

or

spoinl .vour mone^ lor «'omc! to the

NoUoun.

Buy hu1 soils oountrv product' of nil nnd hereby cxu*mi a Kpecml invitation to the furmera chII on us wiili what they may hxve to sell, and ^i the higheht price in cai*h or exchRti^e for goods ni pi-M-c.H below competition. \Y»* intend kc^p'n^ our ntoek full in nil it* branches*

on I Jet ibr Barg-aiiim.

DRY COODS.

Cheap Store,

•••"Whei*e .you lu.v hi'h colored comfoi't l^i-intN 1 Vom 5 to 7c. All best 12 l^rintx l'or 9c.

Side band, Cochico, Spragne, Merrimack and sill the best standard brands at 9c canton l^lunnels as low sis 1® to lOc.

JErie checlc Sliirt iny, worth 20, fov 15c. Pacilic I^ustre, 25c. Good all wool Flannels, 22c. Oood .leans, 14 to 25,117 and 50c. Best yard wide Sheeting, lO to 12c. Cottage Carpets, bright colors, 25c. Ingrain and H-ply in proportion. lilsvck Mohair Lustre, worth 60, for 44) to 50c.

Good twilled shirting Flannel, 35 to 40c. Besides the above, we have

1,000 OTHER ARTICLES,

TO XdnGROVS TO flENTIOST,

AT THE SAME LOW RATES.

Don't fail to bring .your money. It is that that enables vis to sell so cheap.

It' you tuik how we can sell itoods no oheup, wc reply

1st. Wc know.lust whore to buy tliem (ilieaji. Urt. We buy at liisitle litfurew (orcuhH unl sell.tlie name way, for viinIi.

3*1. We have no runt to pay, and ciin afford to give that to our customer**.

.ltti. We do a laritc proportion of lire disposed to work very chcap.

nth. Wc would rather slow shllllnit."

to makis It lively Is to sell our tion.

SMITH & HAMRICK,

DEALERS IIV PURE

Drugs and Chemicals

VARNISHES, BRUSHES,

PERFUMERY, SOAPS, COMBS,

LAMPS, SPONGES,

gfooclm till ,vou

our own work: and

ha vc a. "nimble mlxpcnoc than a

Competition Is the life of trade, and the best way ifoods below all oompetr

P. S. Any person coming by railroad, and buying $25 worth, will be furnished a return ticket free by

CAMPBELL & HARTER.

NEW DRUQ STORE

NEW DRUG STORE.

RUBBER UOODS, Etc., El*.

ESHEBELDA, the BEST SCENT *'1U4H la the City.

NO. 5, NATIONAL BLOCK, Crawfordsville, Ind.

MARBLE WORKS.

W .4.

MARBLE WORKS,

NO.l3GREEN«?TBEET,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.

American and Italian Marble Monuments, Tombs, Headstones, Tablets# &c., Of latest Designs. Also Scotch Granite Direct from the Quarries in Scotland.

When ncddlorf tell you that tlipy hare finer Marole, do bottor work, or nt lower jirices, jr.nt ra 111 ember^hat tlicy nrc rechllern Jd are paid for their tnlU. Come and see.

II. II. WADE.

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