Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1891 — Page 4

hfWS P' Baling Powder A Pure Cream of 1 artar Fowdc.’. Superior to every other known. Used in Millions of iloir.es—.4o Wars the Standard. Delicious Cjke .it'd, t'.oliy, l.ilfit Flaky JJiscuiUM '.riddle ( ;ikv.', Palatable j y and VLau -- me. NoX>th<r baktng.pov.de; .toes stieli work. nnr. iuue>. sen v, ••r 7 .reridj r, marcii A' the council is doing the work that-the Democrat advocated f< r some two years past nt th<- wiy of paving the streets and gutters along some of the leiuliiW thoroughfares now, and will in the near future do the balance of them, or they will all that will be asked dor, and we believe onr people aie public spirited and have enterpi'e enough l.> have all the sire* is put in good shape m .the next t'.vo years. 1' it before going too far w iti: the ret t>. why not have water works? . Ac:’.' of the size of ours can. and will support water works if we just 1 ad them, and all that is necessary to dto is to go ahead and build them. If our own people do not want to, then let .gome foreign capitalists cyme m and put in the plant. There are SQme of them whb are ready to make the investment, ail they want is the franchise of the city with the assurance that a lair portion of our people will patronize the same, and if our city wants to do the work, there can be no doubt that in a few years they will not only ; - ■ self-sustaining, but m di be a Sviiive of revenue to the city, that will pay a fair'pel* cut <•!’ the. .io .ing expenses of tlie.city, if :;m .of them, bwsjdes haying the pre’., io from tire that a good sj stt water works ailviffs then il'wli. :< • , duce the rate cl t.ix., . * The necc■>: .. ff-r • t . ee i>. : pohe.e system ix;-.- .it ■ tiy. i- = pi oil ci .eg ii ’ii" <■ not tb it we l.avc .1 y ainoino ♦'>!’ tramps ci xii.g . i.ffe hit ti'itt ladies, may ifr i the as-a:;;i- vj v-.iu . .. • .1 citizens. Only a : cx-ni' t»- ; when a con; k- ■ ’’ y | ’ i nd. >■' were returning honic I: • 1 10. ;.,.t a o villains who ought;’.;: ’ < lilt '. , |..1-'-'.ed by the young i ?ii< s three limes, each time using Hcuncng laugmigc. Hi illy as the la nes c)’g. . the G. R. A 1. railroad they e..;me of the drive wav of Niblick’s. warehouse', in *ucli cases a load of shot sent alter such cusses will have a good effect, and will be air example for . some that may follow in their foot steps. r > . j , -’The new provisions of the asses* tn'ent law creates a cpun|y assessor who shall hold his office for four years and tJmH not be eligible for re-election, lie will be elected at The general election hi U 92. but on the first Monday in April, UM, the board of county commissioners will till the vacancy, lie must be a resident freeholder of the county’ for not.less than five years before the date of such election and his compensation will be 83 per, day for all time actually employer . Candidate* are in the field already hustling for the place. . . As the time for our city election is drawing near, the ccminitt.ee having the matter in' tliaige should make the necessary ai iaiTgenients, it they intend having a zony entioii or a primary,»or if they think best give them a tree for all, any "way so that the candidates may understand what kind of a tight they have to make. T here will be three ccuilmhnen, the mayor, clerk, marshal and ttea. nrer to elect. ■ The state legislature has just re--Wpealed the teattire of the' state law which has exempted from city taxes all five acre tracts in cities where those tracts are used for agi icultnra! purposes. Instead bl paying cu’y township taxes .these tracts must now also have city taxes paid upon , them.

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j While the Republican papers are ! shouting themselves hoarse about the things the late legislature d’.u not do alii what thev would have done had they been in power, bin lai! to s-how anything good ai I ’ great that a Republic.in legmlataie i ever, did for the state of in liana, bii'. knowing that the people down very hard on them at the.last election', they realise that with the McKinley tariff crowding on to the farmer and laboring men more than I * they can stand, ami with the recol--1 lections of the attempt to take.lrom I . t ;.e people and pul it into the hanos of a lot ot thugs and bums of the I S>:. . ■ 1 Republican party the election machinc’rc of this country, they teei as though they nuts', do sonu tiling to keep the party toget: er. So tney have emnnienced the howl about ' the working of the late legislature. Wilde the legislature might have ■ d me more than jliey d ; l d'o, they ; have given ns s. me of tnc most meded reform coi’r.'.cllag oi some ot eu.' siatuivs licit' a'e.y u-gi-j- --. lai-ire the state’’ever I:.’.'!. ti;e piv- .' g of certain salaries ; ■ the state and county officers, i* < lie of the 1 laws that is worth to the people ail i that this session of the iegi.*!atiire cost- tiie people. ’A idle it doe- not c ine ftp to what a great many men expected yet m a fe'w yedrs with the law in force, ti e people can see ' whew it eau be corrected, am! it will be made so that all w ill be satisfied. unless it she.’il 1 be some crank or someone that lias-been left Gut in tie* cold in some- ot their political ■' As the time for tbv ass. -smeiit of propi rty for tax-.t’on is near at ■ hand, and as the seme w li be under the new law, when all personal f property will he rc.iiirol to be ! listed at its fair cash value, tlie ! same to be affixed hv the assessor, th us the office of a'-'.‘*sor becomes of more importance t-’mi’i heretofore. One that requires a'nia'i well versed in business, for the luisiness portion of the'eity, a man that will be . abfe to judge what a stock ot .dry goods, is worth, a stock of hardware. a stock of drugs, m-J so on through the eht'ire business portion the city. The -e->or slimib.l' secure the smAuv:?- m one or two of tiie best b-jsi '.ess 1;■ of lie. city to dp that portion, oi du .woik for him. at I t!'e>e.smmid : • : mid. r- te.ndii:c a’*ciiit how bu -s o t diiTer o kinds-\Wi rated. *. . ; ia ; we do not g- t higher ‘bait onr nvbr’a'l><»•• counties or any other w enty in the - ae I y-.'' i’.i\e a fair c.i'li a ,; - iU CI it. v/uu’. th. >up|x , iuu court may deilaie *o;m of the licit' us the late’ . ■ , ... * ieg!sl;;l>l I'C i' o'g.'.l. It IS mj 11101’0 th in t’m.‘\ have d me heretofore, and no more - than can be expected. V. i n w t ike into-coiishleratiuii the extivmc partisan eouft tiiat we have m tins sg-.ie one that will he willing to 'loop to anything that v\ lit assist m bringing their party back into pov,.« r in this '.’.tie, for they have an ax to grind themselves iau the near future, ami realizing ■that under our present splendid system of holding our elections when boodle and bayonet.* will have to take a back s> at, that their chances to .return will be nowhere, unless the people can be hopdwinked by sohie of the old tricks. GovEu'gk llovky, in his great speech on tiie tee and salary bill, showed how tar a Republican go in a political measure to carry out the 1 wisb.es of the Republican party, lie well knowing that the peoplejwill see the effects of it before the Eo„i election and with that alone the DemocrAm party j will be prepared to go before, the I'eople asking their suffrage, assuring them that they will be prepared b to give to them still better JegiS’la- ; tion than the work just done. ’ . A v the first session of the FiftyHirst congress the Republicans created 1,131 new offices at an annual cost of tsl, 1d0.145, and also approfor salaries which were not specified the further sum of «1,346,500. During the second session they added several new offices to the civil list, some of them with salaries of £G,OOO each, and also increased the salaries of the various J officials already in office. Reckless j AA-travagance characterized the Fifty first congress.,. y Uxoer the new assessment lbw I the duties of the assessor wiii tiiI creased, they will have to assess the - real estate this spring, and in addition thereto will be required to till out a blank notice ot the assessment for each individual tract of land, tiius making, their labors i double what it has formerly been.

.177. V S7’ IX COUJIT. A decision made February 18, by > Judge Waiter l.’oyd Smith, of the New York supreme, court in a case : relating to a trust combination de--1 strves attention in all parts of the ‘ country for scveralTcasoiis, one of ■ which is that the existence of tiie , combination affected by it has been ; known only to a small number of ! per.-on«. It is a trust- which has ; undertaken to control j the manufacture and sale of harrows 1 in the United States, and it is known : as the’National Harrow Company. I Some of' the facts disclosed by ■ the evidence, as set forth in Judge Smith's opinion, are as follows: By re:>iiiji of its superiority, the “float spi-mg-tooth harrow” has driven , nearly every other kind of harrow i out of the market. The National Harrow Company is a corporation which undertook to control the ■ manufaet’.ire and selling price of . tins kind of harrow by nw/ins of voitraet.' with the twenty’firms or corporations engage* in the industry. All- the patents, with all the rights and privileges ot the several manufacturers, were surren- . dered to the central corporation or ' trust for a term of fifty years, - and the manufacturers bound themselves to make and sell harrows only as agents and licenses of the central ; organization. By tiie contracts they were restrained even from •utilizing I ° any new inventions tor the nnprove- ‘ ment of harrows. It was stipulated that they should comply with all the , requirements of the board of directors of the trust corporation with i\ ference to their sales, and under : this stipulation prices were fixed. . Said Judge Smith: “Under this stipulation the de fem’aut ( the National Harrow Company) to fix the prices ; ami terms for the sal/ of harrows by these manufacturers, as set forth in Exhibit iff Thes'e prices are not , ba ed upon tfte cost of manufacture, I but are to be uniform with all manufaeturers upon a certain style of harrow. But this stipulation is a v erv broad one. As practically eon- : striied by the defendant, it gives the defendant absolute power to regu- ; late the prices at which these harrows ar? to be sold, to raise or lower them nt pleasure. It may fairly be coiotriicd to give to this defendant the r.b;ol;iie power to control the nmnufaeluve a- v.ell as the sale of the liarrbw s,' to regulate the production, subject only to tiie condition that the r-.Upiirements of the clefcnd.■l’.L's board .'hall be uniform witii .all t’.e manufacturers. There is m.Ahi.:g to prevent this -defendant ai auv time from raising prices at will. It is Imrd to conceive how a mmmpo;y corn-! be more lirmly int'.enehvd or how competition could i be more effectively strangled." (hie of the twenty manufacturing concerns, which had become members of'this “combine," the Clipper < hilled l‘i >w Company, of Elmira, sotiglil to get out of it, am! the suit in question involved the validity of hthe contracts, the Trust asking that these should be enforced and the Clipper Company asking that .it . should be released. Judge Smith quoted many authorities, among . them the decision in the Sugar , Tru<t case. Said he: i “I am cited to no case where the courts have relaxed the rule [as to l.cu’ntracts in restraint of trade | where there was a geheral combination to enoross the market, control ; prices, and prevent competition. This was a conspiracy indictable at j common law. Unless the policy oi 1 the common law has so far changed as to authorize any monopoly for the restraint of trade, this combination must clearly come within its condemnation.” ■ v We direct attention the following passage, for the Trust in this ease has a corporate charter: “Nor can this defendant shield itself under its corporate rights, j When the fact appears that f the i iorm.s of law are being used to ae- ! complish a legal wrong,, a court of i equity is potent to relieve a mitor, I and, if necessary, to rend asunder the legal veil which covers iniquity. The contracts as interpreted by the court, however, are clearly’ beyond the power ot the defendant corporation as a legal entity, and it is not necessary here to adjudge the corporation illegal in order to annul a contract m excess ot corporate power.” In these days trusts obtain corporate charters in order that they may get an obnoxious, name. Themugar trust, the whisky trust and the linseed oil trust have become disguised in this way. The decision of Judge Smith is that the Clipper Chilled Plow Company is entitled to the relief for which it appealed to the court. It is not held by the trust contract, and may neil harrow-® anywhere at itti own privG. . This d>ei?ioii was reached primarily, it siivuid be noted, under the common law, and not in obedience to any state or federal statute, although reference

V- —- is made to the law concerning a corporation’s powers. Moreover, the suit was brought as the result of a I quarrel or a dispute between tl e parties to the trust agreement, ami 1 irnt one brought by the people. If one vt the combined manuf icturors had not determined to get out of the iti I't, the combiiiation would have ’ continued to be effective an 1 it may be so now with respect to the nine- ■ teen other manufacturers. The final ■ decision in the sugar trust suit was , made under the requirements of a i statute concerning the duties and ; powers of corporations. I spext oVeii j hilliox. Il' ■< . . Joseph I). Sayers, a member of ■ the appropriation committee in the Fiity-lirst congress, has ■ prepared ' an analytical statement of the appropriations made by the session . just closed, in which he says: For ■ the first time in our history in time ■ of peace the appropriations made i by congress will exceed the current [revenues. Comparing current appropriations with current revenues, that deficit is certain - and large. [ Should the executive branch of the government carry out the will of ■ congress' as manifested m several . - i appropriation bills during the first ■ and second sessions of the FiftyI w * [-first congress and expend the ap- | propriations within the years desig- [ nated, and should it also set apart the sinking fund for the year IS9-2, estimated at *40,2-24.8’28, it is almost certain that there will be a deficit, even though the trade dollars now [ m the treasury be recoined and i used in the payment of expenditures authorized bv congress. Allowing 1.. . » & ¥10.000,000 as necessary to pay the sugar bounty during the fiscal year of 1892 the appropriations of the Fifty first congress will amount to ¥1,009,270,471 as compared with ¥817,963,8.19 appropriated by the Fiftieth congress, exceeding the latter more than 1,000,000 v and this' although there will not be money enough to meet these appropriations. The Republicans have also signalized then- return to power in the last congress by the creation of i many new offices. At the first sesLsioii thev created 1,351 new offices at an annual cost of ¥1.4.50,348, and 4 al-o appropriated for salaries that [ were not specified the further sum I of 16,500. During the second i Session they added several hundred new offices to the civil list, some of ; them with salaries of 86,000 each, and also increased the salaries of I various officials already in office. I It will be months yet, and then only i after the most careful and thorough examinations of the laws enacted by ■ the Fifty-first congress, before it | can be fully and accurately determined to what extent the RepublicI an party has gone in the expenditures, the creation of new offices, and the increase of the many sal- [ aries It is sufficient to say that the Fifty-first congress has been m such I matters without a parallel in the , history of government during a I time of peace. I Withix the past week we have noticed the reports of the failure of two F. M. B. A: stores in this state both of them having lied for want [ of patronage. There is nothing new or remarkable about these failures. Such - things ffiave been known to happen beforei In fact the older citizens in this city and the county will remember that a store started on the same plan as the farmers mutual benefit association stores proved a great failure and was the means of relieving those who went into the thing of some of their spare cash. Such enterprises might be made successful if all the members of the organization would confine their patronage strictly to the company’ store, but that is just w’hat I they will not do. Most business ■ men are now doing business on i about as small a margin as they | possibly can and live. Os course I there are those who do not believe that such is the case, and they are the ones who are most apt to jump into the scheme of establishing a store- of their own. Experience is the only school m which these people will learn. Governor Hovey seems to be in a box with his intended manner of ursuping the power that the com stitution of the state confers on the legislature m the appointment of certain officers. The legislature made all the appointments that by law belonged to them and the governor refuses to commission them. The trustees appointed for the eastern insane asylum have organized, and have taken charge of the insti tufion without any commission, all the other appointments will proceed in the same manner and if the governor proceeds to appoint a second set of officers, the aid of the courts will be invoked to settle the matter. He seems to be getting into further trouble with the Attorney General who refuses tn obey bis order in the Murdock jgalter, in which the At-torney-General says that he ppwt bp shown that there is something due from ex-Warden Murdock-

HORSE CARDS. The jolMHii-..- . .. -i r«M.eive<i a neu line ot Itoi-'e ent- for; < n-uiin:sea-ton and is now l.ett. r ;«i\ .. | . i./n sret out neat anil Inm.l-' . . t u < :t.i be sent conveniently In ms I ■ : -ore to be They do not . ; r ;ls bills and are nuien’hand er _ t all at once ami si>e the han.l.-oit. We have the only tirst-elass photeir: 1 - : tse eity, LOOK HERE! 1 ant here to stay at. . v tn sell Organs and Pianos cheaper than anybody < “ec:.n at:.,rd to sell them. I sell ditl'e; oil’ makes. CLEANIBS AliD "REPAIRING done reasonable So»‘ me t'rsi and save money. »7. T. COOTS, Decatur. Ind. c " e ' S. «F. «Torcian, Attorney-at-Law and Pension Agent ’ Collection of Claim' a , \J:y. ?nd hi aa. . Kent K. Wheelock. M. D., EYE AND EAR SPECIALIST, '.'4 Calhoun-st. Fort Wavne. Ind. Agents WanterT'T.fFi'gr GEN. WRI. T. SHERMAN, By Maj. Gen. (>. <>. ■_ I s. A., and W. Fleteht r Jo!!::- i, I’.••. .'-Theonly correct and autl.t-ntieedition. 600 pastes. Cioth. *I..V. Ototi. r. adA E. D. CL’UTIS X CO., i’ld-ii'hi-rs. Cincinnati, Ohio and Boston Nonce of Final Settlemeui ofEstate. No. 311. Notice is hereby "-ivet, t ■ heirs and legatees of Wiliiatt: ib . . ‘oi.toappear in the .\ i-ttas t . i iieeatur. Indiana. ..:i the |S!M, and show • ■ : i ■■■ . ..j Nettie-n’.i-t:' ■:■ ’ v : • :I j,( deCedeni s.lo'O' : e-'d- said heirs are tie.-: . proof of ht irsh;. . \e shares. , . Atlta’i. l>eca'f -. io-L. . Hooper x.Co verb t.. = Notice of Fi<%; SUeU'•! ... j No, 528. Not me >s .he.fby a a 1 t .-'••(•<. heirs and .---..ijr-!. ou Ar.; -eased to appear in. the At. . - held at IleenHie. !:..diat.: i’;-v of "April, I'dl, and'shod- .■'»• - . v by- the tinal settlement aee >li:c ' estate of sflid decedent should . '.id: and said heirs are notitied : • t!• ■ . i there make pt.Hd of heirship, and . distributive shares. ~ Ci: vs i ; is, Adm r. Decatur. Ind.. March i. France X Merryman. Ai i - 51HJ SEEDS ££•••• " rs table Seeds ot Novella.s , lne p a ekand Spec's!ties+t>> onl-, B. L i b each of Heitdcr-o'i s New ibis j *: in--. Early lil.mhl Fttrtiip Bi*et. < txtif . \ !.■*. imrton s Gold Coin Sweet Corn. E . . ■■-. • Waketfeld and Sureht’i.d t’abbajre. : 1 Sei 1-liiatiehtnjr Celery. Nichols’ Medium 1 tieumiier. Prize Head Lettuce. The I' o , Muskmelon, Semineie Wateenieloii, \ 5 ii.es Globi panver's Onton, Hollow Ctvwn I’:o . Vick s Scarlet Glebe Radish. _Stb:e\ > ■■ . -yg White Salsify, New Long Stat: . ■ io ■■ !;. Dwarf Champion Tomato. Me| j . : 1 . . hi Pe.jS ;.nd Early Purple To. 'i .s ;■ . -.r ct..at eof pai.Epa-.-s of t'.eai'. ■ : at once. I.euut.ii ut:dog.i<" : L .' . .ire--, C. P. Hot', lit. Seedu an. In d Notice to SiObkiiDiiiirs, The anno 1! meeting . ..- .q,. '-ua-khul.lt-rs of the Cmcinmußichmond y* . Wayne Railroad Couipaux will be h< i . :tieepf-C. C. Binkley. Esq., in th ■ . ■ ot :; . I'.mond, Ind., on Thursday. April :.;. 1 I. m 1; . . lock A. M. for the put post of , m.'.i rectors to serve lor the ensuing- t d r.., ; i'.or the transhetion ot such other b'usitie-g as may come before the meeting. The book- for the transfer ..1 sto. k will be closed from March ’J-'tii. m.t.. utter the elevtu>u. Polls openeil from ii_>:.k>’uutil it o’clock A. M. Y? By order of the Board of Dd;. cto'-s. 4!*-5 J, H. P. Hi GdAirr. Secretary. THE ROUTS Standa rd Gauger Splendid Road Bed! New Steel Rail! New Modern Equipment} EuryiiUg Arrisgsi fcr Sciafsft'sf Passscferi. H WET 3 Trains Each Way between Toledo, 0., and Frankfort, Indiana. Q Trains Each Way between Frankfort, Ind., and St. Louis, Mo. (Daily except Sunday.) AH Toledo sad St. Louis Fissosjor TcMs Attire and Dejiriftoa Union Depot, THRQUG H TOILETS On sale at all principal ■: p Baggage cheeked to desti:' on THROUH TRAINS'' — -BETWEEN— Toledo, 0., and Si. i>i>ttis, Mo. Full information coueeenh' t u::.■ of trains, routes, rates. *e.. wili be elm fully-furnished by agents, or the undersigned. V, p. jiaKiia, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Toledo. O.

MAKEkC; TcOOM FOR Spriag ai uiiimer 1891! 0.. I ■ v ' * ■ In older to make room Tor new, we are pushing out the old If need anythingGn the • ' I Clothing and Furnishing Line! Come in and >ee what we can do for you. We have some great bargains tor you. We have already purchased our .: SPRING GOODS:. VV Inch will begin to arrive daily. We have bought them as low as any time before and some oi them lower. As 1 have purchased my brother’s interest in the Clothing business and with the knowledge and long together a with renewed effort and application, I hope to merit the patronage and confidence that the public so generously awarded the old firm. Yours Respectfully, ' Pets Holthouse, the Due-Price Clothier. / A The New Grocery Has opened up in the room formerly occupied by J. A. Mills, west side of Second Street, with a complete line of Staple Groceries. The goods are all new and have been selected with care to suit the demand of the tiding public. In GROCERIES ANO PROVISIONS We lead while others may follow. Remember that in the following list ot prices they are quoted at bed-rock prices for Cash. We propose to do a strictly Cash business and in that way will not contract any bad accounts, which under the credit system of doing business we would be compelled to add to the price of goods. ITote tiie Cash, Prices: Best Roasted Coffee, per pound 25 and 26c Granulated Sugar, 13 pounds for SI.OO Best “C” Sugar, 16 pounds for SI.OO Best Coffee “A” Sugar, 14 pounds for ; .SI.OO French Peas, per. can ■ 18c Canned Corn, per can .10 and 20c Tomatoes. /. .. 10 and 15c Good Peas 10 and 12c Good Beans 3 cans for 25c Tomato Catsup 10 and 15c Good Rice. . .4 pounds for 25c Best Family W’hite Fish, per kit.. 45c Spiced Herring, per kit 90c Holland Herring, per kit ' 90c English Currants, per pound 8c Molasses, per gallon * 35 and 40c Cinnamon, per pound 20 and 25c Pepper, per pouud 20 and 25c Cloves, per pound 25c And all other goods in proportion. Remember that we handle everything kept in a fi rate lass Grocery. The best Brands of Tobaccos and Cigars. We pay the highest market price in cash or trade for Country Produce. Call and be made happy. BARNEY MEIBERS, Opposite Schaefer Bros. Hardware Store, Decatur.

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