Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1894 — Page 4

She JJemorrat 9. RT.ACKBVHN, Proprietor. 6. /«»4. Jiaton of SubscriptionOne Year, in advance, H 80 Six Months /.....,- ••*■ 75 Four Montns 1,0 All subscriptions not paid during me year wiU be charged at the rate of 12.00. - Office in Democrat Building, east sided Sec ond Street-n< vn<» tie or DEMOCRATIC JUDICIAL CO > VENT ION The Judicial convention held at Portland, Ind . Wednesday, May 16, 1894, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for J udge of he 26th J udicial Circuit and a Prosecuting Attorney for said district. The basis of representation to be one delegate for each 200 votes cast for Matthews for governor and one for each fraction bf 100 and over. George W. Bolds, I Com John Hanlin, I

DEMOCRATIC GITY TICKET! - •; For Mayor, ;DeSh.; ’ A. P. BEATTY. . ; For Clerk, ;Dem.. FRANK CRAWFORD , ........ For Marshal •Dem.: MILLIARD F. COWAN. • • For Treasurer :Dem.: F.E. McDEAN. • Councilman—First Ward 'Dem.: j. w. PLACE. • • - -•; Councilman—Second Ward :Dem. - . BARNEY J. MEIBERS. • ; Councilman —Third Ward ;Dem.: PETER CONTER. COUNTY TICKET. I - ‘ For Auditor. :Dem.; W. Et H. FRANCE. For Clerk. J'Dem.; JOHN H. LENHART. • Dem.: DANI EL P. BOLDS. ■ For Recorder. .'Dem.: HARVEY HARRUFF .: ' V ■ ; For Sheriff ;Ldip.: PETER P. ASHBAUCHER. . < •••; For Coroner. Dem.; g.C. LARK. ;Dem.; w.EFUIK. «%•**(*■** X For Commissioner —-2nd Dist. •Dem.: CONRAD BRAISE .. • ••• ’ For Commissioner—3rd Dist. ;Dem.’ DAVID ECKROTE. From present appearances, sugar, i whiskey, and vefo.,s- ignorage hung np together wouldn’t makf a bad pawn-shop emblem. ■ * 111 Madison Street hut underwent a considerable cha 1 ge i’>t the better this speek. Commissioner Archbold has been filling and rolling this thoroughfare in good -b •■.pe. “The Democratic, party has sim ply been held np as a Stage Coach fhight be in the dark spot of the highway by some <>f its own inmates,” says the Evtup-ville Courier in speaking of the men have sought and gained c.fli • - at tha* hands of the D< ni< cratic «>. --vs. Governor Tilman, '<••; n Carolina niti-i hav. !•<. ■ : his goods. < 'r. ■ eo i ! ■ innn rt I pi 1 t d ; remarked tha i’ - ••><>)«•< •<» • n drinks? 'I It i me : v: o.g in Sou’ h ( Senator \ his ni itiy s auto 1 • ■I- .*r ’ and ali ■■ “ ’ - wi. h suchßo. 1 ; .‘" •_ Brice- H’ 1 rebuke t h - tjum uln n rui ■ : ; ripe. Property-<>w - s a > r ; i. Fourth ai d F • r- ■ commence • >” !r resp'-ctiv - • 1 ble this ■ c- • ■' putting >fi i ■' - ! e done Imu ; s do tbly enhance i• . v- : I >'< ’■■■■ '' i‘ ,r the oulh;' ta-’ lie gcajid work?

South Carolina is having considerable trouble with her “dispensary” whiskey tarffic, and the Governor has declared Darlington and Florence counties in a state of insurrection. Probably the Governor of North Carolina should he appealed to for a compromise. The vetoing of the Bland seignorage Bill by President Cleveland should be no surprise to any Demo crat in the l»nd. The Chicago Convention was familiar with his views on silver when they nominated him, and therefore have no redress in store. \ The majority of our States are fav >rable to amending the law whereby Uuited States Senators will be elected by the popular vote. Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska, has presented a bill to that effect. If this law was created banks and trusts would find it a little more difficult to handle our leaders than at present. On with the dance. Elsewhere in this paper will be found a communication from G. H. Martz, President of the Farmer’s Institute of this county. The pur port thereof is to enlist the Commissioners of the County to dispose, of the Old Fair Grounds and apply the proceeds to a new and more commodious site. Our merchants will do well to read it as it may effect their interest. Our Republican friends have about the slowness of the Democrats in Congress, but forget the Republicans put in about four months on the McKinley bill. While they have had no obstructionists to contend with as the Democrats have now, there are thoughts that every honest Republican should think of before he sets up the howl about the slowness of the Democrats. With the great amount, bl love (professed) that tht Republican party has for the old soldier, iheffC'invention which framed a City ticket last Thursday failed io recognize any of. the old boys; airhough two very worthy ones—J e Helm and .August C.'Grcgory were placed in nomination for different offices. Ov coorse it’s all right, from a Republican standpoint, but from any other it would be censirred. AS WE APPEAR TO OTHERS. • I Many of our people are of the Opinion that Decatur is not as good a city of bs stz<- as ■it"-' surround itig us. We know of no better judges to preside in the settlement of this question than the traveling I man .who comes here in the interest of his business. The maj >r portion of these people speak of Decatur as being the “best business city of its size in their territory.” Os course Iwe could improve on ourself in more ways than one. Our streets and public highways leading into the country could be made better if a little “push” were introduced by those in authority, and we hope that those of our people who are chosen t<> dole out this very necessary panarea, will not be found lagging. what our exchanges say? The Decatur Democrat has just l passed its thirty-seventh milestonein life’s pleasant newspaper journey, I •i.nd celebrated by changing its form i *-ix column quorto,all home print. The Democrat is a good newsy jm nal and democratic 365 days in iln- year.—Winchester Democrat. The Decatur Democrat published ; I v N. Blackburn, shows every evi ’ ce of prosperity. Last week it ■ ■■.,<311 volume thirty-eight and - adopted the all home print p* n. The paper is cre<fit<o Mr B ickburn, and is an able supporter i tie Adams county Democracy.— L grange Democrat. Tiij? DecatiirJlEMociiAT hp.s made a deeioed change in business all around. The paper is now a six cobimn quarto and all home print. Ji' -ame out. last week in the new style and is a good looker. All home print is becoming the. rage now, and Bro Blackburn has our best wishes. —'Willshire (Ohio) Rec- . ord.

THE QUESTION SETTLED. The mooted question of the past week by our people was <‘Wbat will the City Council do at their next meeting regard to improving Second Street with vitrified street brick?” This question was completely dissolved last Tuesday night by that honorable body who favored b-icking Second Street from Monroe Street to the south side of Jefferson Street with vitrified brick. The Democrat is pleased with the action of the City Council in this very necessary and important enterprise. There is no city of our size in the State but what takes a greater pride in beautifying and improving their streets than Decatur. This is not because our citizens are not as open-hearted and publicspirited as our neighbors in all matters which they are familiar with; but a lack of experience in these enterprises make them appear inactive to those who have been accustomed to greater push and more modern ideas of business. With this improvement commenced and finished in the near future, our people will become educated to the idea that “what is worth doing is worth doing well,” and the time for doing at once. Now let Third and Fourth Street citizens of our City make a break for brick streets and the wish of all enterprising citizens of Decatur will be gratified--for the present. AN IXCONiSISTENiCY. Mr. Cleveland will see before he leaves the White House that his Seigniorage veto was a tactical blund er of the worst description and a financial opinion unsupported by Statesmanship cannot follow the President through his explanation. If all our currency and finance is to be controlled by an unreasoning terror at the very name of silver, the argument of the veto may be a consistent part of the general policy. Otherwise statesmanship must ac case him of a glaring inconsistency in the principal feature of the mes sage. As the country understands it, the entire message is simply a declaration to the effect that the Executive is to add even the smallest amount to the silver currency," unless it has ample power to buy gold with bonds. What are the figures upon which the New York banks and the Presiden rest their assumption that the Treasury would have greater d fliculty in sustaining the currency after the approval of the seigniorage bill than it has now? Here are the paper issues and the recourses behind them at present: Greenbacks Treasury notes of 1890 Silver certiticates - 338,1)00,000 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Gold M 00,000,000 Sillver dollars 364,000,000 UNAVAILABLE ASSETS. Silver bullion (ounces) ~..» 188 000,000 If the seigniorage bill were a law the figures would be changed by the issue of about #55,000,000 silver certificates, which would not be an immediate charge upon the gold reserve. At the en<X_jaf the coinage period the figure* would be: LIABILITIES. Greenbacks Old silver certificates 338,008,000 Seigniorage certificates on. Intj.O'l Later'certiflcates 1a2,H61.Z80 AVAILABLE ASSETS. • Gold JIOO.MKO.OOO Til ver dollars., 572,167,961 This assumes that all the Sherman Treasury notes would be con verted into silver certificates. If they were not, it would- be because they had not been presented for redemption; and the gold stock would not h-ive been required to supply that demand. —; In Ather words the only differ--1 ence would be the addition of 208,108,261 coined standard dollars > to the available supply of metal for redemption purposes. The power ‘ of the Treasury to maintain parity by the sale of bonds would not be • impaired. I Mr. Cleveland’s financial statesmanship is as much, at fault as his • party statesmanship. —St. Louis Re‘public. I - ==- > All the cats in New York must hereafter wear collars. Verily the - Troy collar factory* is on a boom since Murphy got io the Senate.

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Hogg of Texas can root out the facts in any given sitqption about twenty-four hours in advance. He is never caught under a gate and never comes out at the same end of the hole he The repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act did not restore good times within the period presoribe<?by John Sherman himself, which was ten days. It has not restored good times even yet, though it is nearly five months since the repeal bill passed- But let us not be impatient. President Cleveland’s veto of the seignoriage coinage law may start the - country to booming again. This is df course what he expects. We shall soon see what the result will be. Democrats have much important j legislation to enact out side of the j coinage question, and must be united I for that purpose. We roust con-j tinue the silver until it is restored to its proper place in its monetary system. If possible to pass a bill over the.veto, th< silver leaders in the House and Senate should press a vote at once If it? is impossible, further effort would be a waste of time. A count of votes which would be cast against the veto can be very quickly and easily made. Upon the cofint de pends the propriety of another at tempt to pass either the whole bill or a single section. j The b'lsinpss judgment of the’ country, even in the silver States, will not approve a wrangle which must be fruitless. Congress has voted, and the people know the record of each member. If the passage of h law is impossible, there is but one course and that is t& transfer the question to the decision of the people and proceed to finish the other important legislation which awaits the attention of Congress. A Thoroughly Honest Man. “In conversation with a politician, said a lawyer to me, “I mentioned the name of a certain gentleman. ‘Now, there,’ said the poiltician, ‘is as honest a man as there is*in town. Yes, sir, I tell you, he is the straightest man 1 know. He is white, he is. You need never be afraid of him beating you, for he is honest to the backbone. When you buy his vote, you may be sure he will do as he promises. If he happens to find out that he cannot carry out his contract, why, he won’t pocket your money" and say nothing. No, siree, he will give your money back to you every time. Now, that is' what I call an honest man.’ ’’—Louisville Courier-Journal. Z— Stale Bread. -~- It is generally supposed that the staleness of bread arises from its becoming actually drier by the gradual loss of water, but this is not the case. Stale bread contains almost exactly the same proportion of water as new bread after it has become completely cold. The change is merely in the internal arrangements of the molecules of the bread. A proof of this is that if we put a stale loaf inlo a closely covered tin, expose it for half an hour or an hour to a heat not exceeding that ,of boiling water and then allowing it’ to cool, it will be restored in appearance and properties to the state of the new bread. —Brooklyn Eagle. Hard to Please. -Landlady—This is a very bright, pleasant room, and Mr. Henpeck—Well, I’ll have to see my wife first, for she may want a room where she can have the morning sun in the afternoon. —Chicago Inter Ocean. To Farmers and Horsemen. Having established myself iji the Blacksmithing and shoeing Business in Decatur, I yvm’l'i respectfully ■ ask all those in need of work of any kind in my line to give me a call. I will Warrant my Work as good as any, and at Prices as Reasonable. □ Shop iri Ellsworth & Co’s, building, east side of Second Street, Decatur, Ind. c. W SCHIFFER,

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HIS APOLOGY FOR CROSS WORDS. It Wan a Wildcat Scheme, but the Nevada t Cow buy Propitiated the Lady. t “On my overland trip to San Francisco I was treated to the exhibition of a rough ranchman put very much on his good behavior." said a New York lady. “We had got out at one of the stations in Nevada for dinner. I have forgotten the name of the place, if ever I noted it, but if it wasn’t Poverty Flat it was misnamed. Not feeling hungry, I leaned back in my chair, idly looking at the distant sand hills through the open window opposite, unmindful of the rattle of knives and plates around me. A rough voice at my very ear startled me from my dream. > “ ‘Here, why the hell don’t you pass me the butter?’ “It came from the nearer one of two stalwart, sunburned men, who seemed to be ranchers or miners. .They sat beside me in dusty high top boots and rough peajackets, with their broad brimmed hats on, and were eating as if they had long arrears to make up in the way of square meals. “Imagine my astonishment at such a summons, which I made no doubt was j addressed to me. But I was too much I intimidated to be indignant and hastily i him not only the butter, but evI erything else within my reach. At this 1 he lookeij round at me for the first time, and his look of amazement showed that he was worse taken back than I had been. He did not thank me, but took his hat off and put it under his chair, And nudging his companion said in uh awestricken stage whisper: * “‘I say. Jim, take your hat off. She’s a lady.’ “Then, evidently wishing to make further amends for his discourtesy, he again turned to me: “ ‘Say, inarm, hev ye ever seen a live I wildcat? 'Cause es yer ain't I’ve got one outside here I catched myself, an I'll take ye but after we get through eatin an show it ter ye.’ “I thanked liipi and said I would be very glad to see it, as I had never seen one. After dinner, having still 10 minutes to spare, we went/ to' see the wildcat. It was in a rough wooden box with wooden bars, crouching as far back as it could get, with its eyes gleaming like coals of fire. When one of the men of-, sered it a piece of meat on the end of a stick, it made a spring that seemed as if it would break through the bars, but the stick hud a sharp point that made it beat a hasty retreat, though not before it had secured the meat, over which it snarled viciously. Its owner told me he had brought it to the station to send it to a friend who kept a ‘clubhouse,’ whatever that is, in Carson City. I asked him to tell us how he caught it, but before he could answer the conductor called out, ‘All aboard!’ As the train got under way I looked back and saw my two friends flying the country on their mustangs.’’—New York Sun. Stage Drivers of Early Days. Speaking of stage'drivers reminds one of the glory of stages, which reached its crowning point when rival lines ran between Sacramento and Virginia, Nev. Six magnificent horses to each coach, the coaches the finest possible, t<ie horses caparisoned with every ornament which could be added to enhance their beauty. The driver, in a bearskin and cap, bearskin gauntlets, was a little sovereign in his way. No matter what the grade was, no matter how fierce the blizzard or how deep the snow, he carried things through on schedule time. He cared nothing for snowslides or high water, and his ruling idea was th4t he must the station ahead of the opposition line. In this work there were a dozen men, each with a personality of his own and all with a perfect art in their hands and their brains which made them sovereigns, and the locomotive that succeeded them did not very much increase the time which some of them made. Each had his friends, his champions; each was greatest in his sphere among a certain crowd, but they were altogether great. The like oi them was never before and never will'be again.—Salt Lake Tribune. Deep Sea Thenanineter. *The deep sea thermometer, as invented abroad and improved by officers of the United States navy, is a marvelously ingenious and effective contrivance. It is in effect a sejf registering instrument, though not techiTically so called. The thermometer is so arranged that it is automatically turned upside down when : thp machinery begins to draw it up from the depth at which the temperature is to be ascertained. The effect of the inverting process is to break the column of mercury, and a small portion of the column remains in the tipper end of the I tube, exactly enough to measure the temperature at the moment of inversion. r The tube is graduated so us to read from 1 either end, and the quantity of mercury in the upper part of the tube is so small that it does not respond to any but great and sudden changes of temperature. It thus happens that the reading, when the , thermometer reaches the surface, is practically correct for the temperature at the 1 1 point of inversion.—Kansas Citv Times.

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I Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. Tranis run on Central Standard Time, 88 minutes slower than Columbus or fortner time. Took effect March IJ, 1894. GOING JWJHTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 5 No. T ClnoihnatL.lve Richmond 735 pm liooam Winchester.... 8 34.. 11 49 Portland 914 .. 1228 pm t.. .. Decatur 10 12 .. 1 25 Ft.Wayne...arr 10 55 .. 215 •• " ...Ive 236 805an> x Kendallville.. 8 41 .. 9 10 .. Rome City 3 56 9 26 ~ Wolcottville 4 01 9 31 .. Valentine.... 4 11 9 42,. LaGrange 4 19 953.. Limk 4 29 10 10... Sturgis 441 1021 .. Vicksburg 5 36 11 14 ... Kalamazoo.arr 6 05.. ....1145.. *■ ..Ive 625 .. 5 45am 1235pu> Gr. Rapids..arr 810 . 7 25.. 215 D . G.H.&M.cr 7 55 Howard City... , 9 05 Big Rapids 1000 Reed City 10 85 Cadillac arr 11 45 “ .. ..Ive II 50 Traverse City Ifnpm . Kalkaska 155 ■ Petoskey ! ... 855 Mackinac City. 5 15 GOING SOUTHS STATIONS. No. 2 No. « No. 4 ! No. 8 MackinncCity 7 40aui Petoskey 915.. Kalkaska 11 2'i .. I Traverse City 1105 Cadillac ....arr 105 pm ........ " .. ..Ive 1 2.’ .. ... Reed City 2 85 Big Rapids 3 05 .. ~ Howard City..’ 350 I).G.H.&M.cr .... 500 Gr. Rapids .arr 5 15.. “ “ ..Ive 650 am 112>pm' 2 Ispn> Kalamazoo.arr lOuainl 4 06 .. “ ..Ive 838 4 05.. Vicksburg 904 433 .’ Sturgis 956 5 '4.. Li tmi 10 10 5 37 .. J,aGrange... .10 22 5 50.. Valentine 10 31 o Uti. Wolcottville... 1042 612.. Rome City Io 47 6 18 Kendallville... 1103 .jii.vi j Ft. Wayne..arr 7 50.. I “ “ ..Ive 1285t>m 5 45ilin « Decatur 125 r. 30 Portland 214 730 Winchester.... 249 - "’.t Richmond 345 ♦. . 915i>m Cincinnati., , Trains 5 and t; run unity between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati, C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON, Agent, , Decalin, Iml Lines. Schedule In effect Nor. 12.1893. Trains Leave Decatur as TKAINS WEST. No. 5, VestibuleJLtmited. daily for t Chicago .................. . f ’ No. 3, Pacific Express, dally for ( , ~| K x v . Chicagtf '... I No. 1, Express, daily for Chicago 10:45 A M No. 31. Local, daily, except Sun-j \ « day..... I TRAINS EAST. No. 8, Vestibule Limited, dauy forY -, v j New York and Boston f No. 2, Express, daily for New l p York I No. 12. Express, dally for New l M York 1 No. 30.Local.' daily except Sun- . Jay 10180 A. M. Train No. 12 carries through sleopinp cars to Columbus, Circlevill, Chillicathe. Waverly, Portsmouth, Trontor, and Kenova, via Coluin bus Hocking Valley & Toledo and Norfolk & Western Lines. J. W. DeLong, A. ent. W. G. MacEdwahds,T. P. A. Huntiugion.

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