Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1896 — Page 3

The Decatur Democrat,

VOL. XX XX.

■ Kev. J. Dorwin ami wife, of Anderson, Ind., are visiting friends and relatives in the city. Miss Lena Barthel returned from New Haven, where she has been visiting during the past month. Miss Evalyn Eckert and Airs. Freel were at Monmouth, Sunday, attending the funeral of Harry McCampbell. The encampment Aug. 13, 14 and 15, will be the biggest of the season. Get ready for it and enjoy a good time. Misses Edith Fulk, of South Bend and Nellie Spangler, of Fort " Wayne, are the guests of Miss Dollya Shafer. Samuel Laman is at Petoskey, Mich., with the hope of recruiting his health, which has been rapidly failing of late. Ground was broken Monday morning for Spangler’s new business room on Madison street. This will be a fine two-story brick. 7 T ■ . -- Mrs. George W. Copeland, of Guide Kock, Nebraska, a sister of Mrs. W. H. Myers, arrived last Saturday and is her guest. John Vogelwede brought to this office some samples of fine sweet corn. As a farmer John is a hustler and leads the procession. The second twin child of Mr. and Mrsv Clarence Reynolds died Sunday night. The funeral was held at .4 o’clock Monday afternoon. A girl about seven years old, who was visiting at John Bucher’s, of Root township, fell off a shed yes terday afternoon and broke her arm. Dr. Smith and wife, of St. Marys, Ohio, Suudayed with J, T. France. The Dr. left for home Monday, but Mrs, Smith will remain for some time. Wm. Dickerson, Tuesday evening while returning from Jamestown, N. ¥., with a valuable horse, was robbed of 87 and a number of other articles. Miss Rose Brunner, after a week’s pleasant visit as the guest of Mrs. Burt Lynch and Alias Tena Radamacher, returned to her home at Ft. Wayne Tuesday. Frederick Melcher, of Root township recieved a telegram from Cincinnati, Ohio, last Sunday announcing the death of his brother.' William, who is one of the old settlers of the Queen City. Editor Moffett and family, of the Hartford City Times, are in the city on their way home from .Mackinac Island. They will visit friends in the city and vicinity for a short time. Mrs. Nettie Schrock and son, Robert were at Westerville, Ohio, last Saturday, being called there to attend the funeral of Mrs. William Schrock, the mother of the date Dr. Schrock, of this city? ■ Workmen engaged in excavating the cellar for Spangler’s new building on Madison street came on to a limb of a tree that was drove in the ground. It .was well preserved and has been there for over fifty years. X - It is a significant fact that of the 731 delegates to the national silver convention at St. Louis last week,, which unanimouly endorsed Bryan and Sewell, 527,- or considerably more than two-thirds, were republicans. It requires no little assurance to assert that there is no free silver sentiment in the republican party.

• DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, -JULY 31. 1896.

In ' a number of towns around here they have a few trade dollars and Mexican dollars in circulation. They are for political purposes, to make the silver appear in a bad light, but they won’t fool any person. Ex-trustee Bright, of Kirkland township, was in the city today and called at this office having some of the finest apples we have ever seen. If yon want to tempt your appetite just call in and take a look at the beauties. Mrs. W. E. Mereness and daughters, of Early, lowu, are the guests of her mother, Mrs. S. J. Cross. Mrs. Mereness treated h<r friends to quite a surprise in the way of bringing with her a beautiful little daughter. The Ladies Mites society, of the M. E. church, of Pleasant Mills, will give a social on Saturday, Au/ guest 15. On the same evening the “name quilt,” which contains over nine hundred names, will be sold. All are cordially invited. Some person broke open the door of the room in the court house, where the plumbers ale fitting up the water closets, They were not satisfied with breaking open the door but earned away the lock. Justice will overtake them before long, Joseph Keiss returned Saturday from Mobile, Alabama, where he located last spring. He seems to think this county better than the New South. The soil, the weather and the climate here agrees with a northern person better than that of Alabama. The Concord Sunday school, of Root township, will hold a picnic Saturday, August 1, at Dorwin’s grove one- half mile north of Mon mouth. There will be a large number of schools present. A special invitation is extended to everybody. Refreshments will be served on the grounds. The wet weather of the past 3 weeks - has prevented the farmers from hauling their wheat in and it is growing in the shock. The oats that have been cut are in the same condition. While the oats that are not cut are down so that if they can’t be gathered this week they will be lost. John D. Rockfeller, president of the oil trust, owns 400,000 out of the 1,000,000 shares of the corporation and they are worth 8100,000.000 according to report. His income from this source is $1,328 for every hour of the day and his annual income from all sources is estimated at 820,000,000. . — : A y Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Corbett are rejoicing over the arrival of a beautiful little girl, who came to their home Sunday. While J. T. is not as pugnacious as his name-sake, the puglist, he will look as carefully after the training of the little Corbett as though she were to be the champion of the world. . ** ■ Free silver, like the late rains, seems to be spreading all over the country. The more the people talk about it, the more they become convinced that it has been the cause of. the depressed times, and will register their votes for it regardless of the arguments of the so-called sound money men of this country. A number of good democrats are in favor of endorsing the of the popblists for congress for this district. While such a move will insure the election of their candidate, it is a question that the delegates should consider well before taking any action in the matter.

Coder our English monetary system the ’fanners have'been unable to make their business pay, hence they are going into politics, and are going to vote for their own interest awhile.. They have grown weary of wailing for the betterment of their condition to come through the boss politicians who are owned by the money sharks. It is stated semi-officially that the Pennsylvania company, into whose hands the Grand Rapids and Indiana road has recently passed, will next year expend -870,000 in beautifying Rome City park and adding new features to make it attractive as an excursion resort. An official party recently visited the resort with a view to adopting this measure. Da» Berry closed up a sale of his fine pacing horse, Cambridge Hal, to the Anderson Transfer Company, /of Chicago, for four hundred dollars. This tine young horse has a record of 2:25, and has been worked but very little. We have a few more good horses left here. Our horsemen handle some of the best stock in the state. We notice in the Detroit FreePress, that among the gold bugs who have singed a call for a democratic convention of the single standard men of the democratic party, Harry Miesse, of the legal department of the G. R. I. Co. Our people will be somewhat surprised to learn of his views on the financial question. It seems if some of the boys and girls, of the tender age, when they should be under the protection of their parents w’ings, think that the steps of some of our houses of worship are for other puropses than religious matters. Most any evening passers-by can find a loving couple or more, embraced in each others arms while perched on these where they do their wooing. It would seem that Job, that ancient old patriarch, was also a silverite. Take down your old Bible and turn to the 22nd chapter and 25th verse, and you will read: “Yea, the Almighty shall be thy Defense, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.” Is this not the comforting assurance of a possible condition of things for the people of this country under the administration of President Bryan. Company B left Saturday for Camp Fairview at Indianapolis. The boys bad to wait at Bluffton for a long time on the L. E. & W. train. The report came back that some of them tasted of the “john barley corn” of that burg, until they had to be helped on the train.f The boys ought to have known better than to fool with the water of the Wabash, for it always makes them sick. Some miscreant, without the fear of the officers of the law’, the devil or anyone else, last Saturday evening, while Recorder Harruff and family were down in the city, went into |heir yard and shook the green plums off the trees. One bushel and a half were gathered up, but they are too unripe to be used. A person who will do such tricks are tit subjects for the pen and will in time surely reach their home. ' 7 _ ■ .'Ll— —- , Win. J. Bryan is now the nominee of three great national conventions. Two of them alone—the democratic and populist—represent <«,- 597,940 voters as shown by the returns of 1892. In the same year -the re pu bI i can.party cast but 5,179 of the popular vote. Will the republican press be able to convince even itself that the voters of this country are lunattck, swindlers and anarchists by a clear majority of 1,421,838? * .. . i 7 • A .... « • •

The cigarette ordinance will go into effect today or immediate'' after its second publication. The license was fixed at 8250 per annum. Tins is high enough to keep out any dealer in the vile stuff, b it will not prohibit the dude from puffing them, for they will have them shipped here in the original package and the interstate commerce law will protect the shipper and the buyer, even should a law be placed on our statutes, making it a penal offence to smoke them, the habit will be indulged in. The great political issue of the day is the money question. It is important, therefore, to understand the use of mom y. It cannot be eaten, nor drunken, nor worn. It does not produce a profit to the keeper. Its one use is to lie a medium of exchange. No one, who sells something, for money, expects to keep it long. Under ordinary circumstances every holder of money desires to exchange it as m as.possible for something which hecan use, or' for something from which he can make a profit. Charlie Bottenberg receieved the ■ sad intelligence of the death of bis niece, Etta Ames, who resided in Nebraska, bhe was the youngest , daughter of Ezekiel and lone Ames, formerly of this county. She met her death in an attempt to stop a team of horses that were running away with a harvesting machine. , as they came toward the house she ran out and tried to stop them. But in their mad career they dashed bv knocking her down. Before, she , could rise the drive wheel.of the • machine passed over her head crush- . ing'her skull. Her death was instantanious. She was nineteen years ' of age. . , Through the blunder of a govern- ; merit engraver the United States has 1 been flooded with hundreds of thousands of defective postage stamps of the new 2-cent issue, the postoffice department has been compelled to destroy a plate that cost 840,000 "and stamp collectors and dealers who were fortunate enough to learn of the matter before it came to the eyes and ears of the authorities have reaped a rich harvest. Stamps that were worth two cents as their sage before the mistake was discovered are now held at ten times that amount, and theiprice will advance as they grow older and are scattered through the thousands of collections in the country thus becoming one of the rentes in which the philatelic enthusiast delights. .The postmaster at Warren believes that a new swindle is being exploited among the farmers of this section. A farmer called at the postoffice to see if a salesman by the named Brown had made arrangements there to refund the price of a bottle of medicine which he had bought on the guarantee that it would cure his cattle of certain diseases. The man who gave his name as Brown declared to the. farmer that he was an agent of the government department of agriculture which was desirous of inducing farmers to take hold of the medicine for the pu/pose of eradicating diseases of cattle. He said that if the medicine failed to do the work all the purchaser would have to do would be to call srt the postoflie and have his money refunded. This particular farmer must have been particularly gullible for he hesitated’ to believe the postmaster’s statement that the government was not engaged in the patent medicine business. In these days of newspapers it is hard to u-nderstamUiow people can be taken in by some ot the swindles which are said to succeed in every community^—Hartford City News. ’’ J A- ’ a ■

Gouge Dutr, of near lUrm 3 , attempted to cross the G. R. & J. track, two miles this side of Berne, • as -train NX I, north behind, was , thundering along.at the -peed ot forty miles an hour. The train struck his horse anil buggy, throwing all a distance of i :0- feet, killing him and the horse and smashing the buggy into kindling wood. Those best acquainted with him think he must have been asleep and did not hear .the train approach him.. He was known as a man who never drank to excess and that he left Berne in a happy frame of mind. The train that struck him is the one due here at 10:4i‘>. It stopped land backed up to Berne and notified the authorities who I took,charge of the remains until the arrival of the coroner this morning. Judge Ong, one of Cleveland’s able jurists ar 1 a leading Republican is out for 'free silver. This ist what he say-: vThe St. L mis platform is not :n accord with republican loctrine. I solemly believe tha. the gold plank was put into the St. Louis platform to defeat the party at the polls, for Bill McKinley and Mark Hanna never intended to stand on such a plank when that body convened at St. Louis. They could not defeat McKinley for the ' nomination and they forced that plank in the platform to beat him ■ in November. Ido nor gpp bow it i is possible for M.Kinley to win. I 1 have traveled through northern Michigan, Wisconsin and southern ■ Ohio, and everywhere I have listened'!© discussions on this question. The rtien in the districts I have ■ visited are for Bryan and free silver ' almost to a man. It seems lec-'T'a'?!. ’ Bu‘ Bryan will be elected. McKinley must make concessions Ftcr tbe gold Democrats if he has hope »- of carrying even the s< * The committee ot bankers of New - York appointed to devise some > plan to stop the withdrawal of gold - reverse from the United States I Treasury, submit a report to their 1 bank conferers that they say is all - right, and that the gold reserve will be kept above the minimum amount. - They have placed enough gold there now to raise the amount above the necessary 8100,000,000. Their great secret has to be carefully guarded for fear the public might find something rotten in their acts. Ihe facta, are they are doing this for their own benefit, which time will fully prove to the people. Never before did they feel-such an interest in.the honor and credit of this Government. They have some scheme in view in which they Will make their money back with a good round .per cent. They have seen the reserve sink lower than it was this tnnejbut waited to see the bonds sold that they might, become purchasers, whicn they did to a great extent. And the same would be the condition now if they did not see a chance to make some money out of the transaction, 'W. <l. Bryan was-noiiirnafed on Friday. Is it a good or evil omein 1 Columbus sailed form Palos on Friday., He discovered America on Friday. Henry the Seventh gave to Cabot his commission which led to his discovery of America oii Friday. Melendz-founded St., Atigustine, on Friday. The Mayflower arrived in Provipcetown on Friday. George Washington was born on Friday? Richard Henry Lee moved ' “that the colonies are and^, ought to be free and independent states,” on Friday. The fiftydfour delegates affixed their signatures -to the J.)e<y laration of Independence on Friday. The. Stars and Stripes were first hoisted as a national flagon Friday. Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown was on Friday. President John Quincy Adams, Franklin

; Pierce and James A. Garfield were' inaugurated on Friday. And the , Decatur Democrat is also issued on ; Friday. Observer. The editor of the National Bi- > metallic like those who left the i convention hall has also been a . 1 publican in principle ever since he I was old enough to think, proud of the origin of the party, proud of its ' achievements and proud of the great men it has emblazoned in imperish- ' able letters upon the pages of our ‘ country’s history. But the' glories of Lincoln and Seward and Chase : and Grant and Garfield and Blain can never atone for the ! short coming- of the party in 1890. ' He cannot swallow whatever a lot of subservient politician attempt to put irito his mouth merely because Lincoln was a grand and noble character. Lincoln was a fiiend of the common people, a humanitarian in the-truest ami purest sense byt .The gold standard is the instrument Z - -r 7 of despotic wealth and the oppress ion of the pyor. Believing that the cause of bimetallism is the cause of humanity, the most important issue before the people of this country, he is left no alternative but to follow the example of the illustrious senator from Colorado and regretfully but firmly say, Good Bve. — Editor Democrat:—Apropos of your article concerning tk@ establishment of a public library, allow me to say that there have been two libraries—about 100 volumes each—- . started here, not exactly for the benefit of the public, but for the , families of those who bought them. • The ’ chased about eight years ago 1 . think; they were good books, well . boabd, containing history, bro- . graphy, fiction, etc. The last the writer knows of them, they were put into Dr. Mann’s office for.the • use of a Young Men’s Literary , club. Dr. M. did not take them with him, but private inquiry has failed to discover their whereabouts. . They are doubtless somewhere in the city and if this catches the eye of anyone who knows where the books are, please make it known through The Daily Democrat. Those books belong to the parties who paid for them. They would form a good nucleus lor a public library and the subscribers would doubtless donate them tor that pur- . pose if they can be found. •/ One of the Owners. / We know of no place on the faci / of this earth that contains as tough an element of-genuine, alLrou/id toughs, from away back, as doth a small hamlet, a few miles west of here, known by name of Bluffton. And when away from homb, the afore said toughs imagine the world and its inhabitants are theirs., Last Sunday, two” fiends, wearing pants, by some means gained admission inside the city limits, and at once proceeded to have a good time. And we are, indeed, very sorry we Jo not know their names-. They stopped two young ladies in front of Hensley’s jewelry store and demantled that they go . walking with them. The ladies refused, when they grabbetl, and attempted to force them for a stroll. Theories of the girls soon attracted a crowd, and a hot time followed. One of the Bluffton bums was caught and giv&n a severe flogging. Officers soon arrived, and took them in until train time, when, they were , sent home. Had the officers not arrived when they did,” there is no doubt but that Bhiffton would liave two badly mangled beings on their hands today. With all.due respects ■ to our sister city, and.,her toughs, we would advise the laster to stay at home and .attend church on Sunday, as we will not tolerate their in- -« suits any-longer. % *

NO. '2O.