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OREKNCASTLB, IND., MAY 26, 1894.

Vol. 22, No 6

r.ITY AND COUNTY j CongresaionBl Cenveution. / The Democrat* of the Fifth CcngresHiomil / ,«trict of ludiaua will meet in delegate I tonvention on Tuesday, June 12,1891, at ColI imbua, at eleven o’clock am, to nominate a candidate for Congress from said district. In the Convention the delegates are apportioned as follows: One delegate for each one hundred votes cast for Oov. Matthews in 1892, and one vote for each fraction of fifty or over; On this basis the various counties of 1 tjte district are entitled to representation as

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IBartholoil ifL - 32 I Brown ... ... L 14 | Monroqf.. - 19 Morgan ,n Owen Putnam - 28 By order of the congressional committee.

W. C. Di-scan, Chairman. John W. Cravens, Secretory.

ROACHDALE ROASTED. A Destructive Fire Destroys Six Business Houses. On Saturday morning about 5:30 o’clock a most destructive and quick consuming fire visited our neighboring town of Roachdale, and consumed six of the business houses. The burned district includes Weudling & Priest’s hardware store, and the office of the News, which was located in the second story of the building; next was the grocery store of Mr. Turpin, in a one-story frame building; next door was Russie’s barber shop, and then came Mr. Rice’s two-story brick drug store; still further west was \V. H. Rich’s harness

store.

The losses as we gather them are H. T. Tucker on building occupied by

The delegates to the judicial convention of W n( ] linK & p r jest, RuSsie and Tur-

tle* 13th Judicial Circuit, composing the counties of "'ay and Putnam, will meet at the Opera House in the city of Brazil, on Saturday, June 9,1891, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating Democratic candidates for Judge and Prosecuting Attorney

for said circuit. Fraik D. Aper,

Chairman Putnam Co. Committee.

Frank A. Horner,

Chairman Clay Co. Committee.

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Democratic Judicial Conventicn.

Born, to W. E. Thomas and wife,

on May 10, a son.

D. L. Southard now makes hishome with Mrs. Sedwick, at Martinsville. John Cawley shipped a car load of good horses to Boston, a few days

- ago.

Sl'ght fall of snow in some parts of this county, early last Saturday morning. Mrs. J. II. Donan has returned to St. Louis, accompanied by her sister, Miss Mary Anderson. Any person desiring to engage good, sweet Jersey butter, can do so by making intjuiry at the Stak-Pkkss ! office. 2t W. H. McNary reports churning j over four and one-half pounds ol but- ' ter from a gallon of Jersey cow s cream. Next? I am the spring, the gentle sp.lng, And I am notJ,p blame If poets use me eve~y year To boom their waning fame. The mother of es-Deputy Clerk D. Shannon, of this county, died in 1 Mt. Sterling, Ky., last week, at the I age of 94 years. I T v e cold weather and the rain, of Saturday, caused a demand for furs and mackintoshes; gauze underwear and straw hats were at a discount. Flem McCray, Esq., of Tipton, the popular passenger conductor on the L. E. & W. R. R., has been here this week, visiting his relatives and many friends. Fenley P. Duncan, of Indianapolis, and Miss Eva Brooks, of this city, were marrried on Friday, by Ret. Bryan, and left immediately for their future home in the capital city. Ti’iV >und within the suicide's watch hotoof a female face, with one accord they said:

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and We went to Morton, Friday nigh ., to visit tho Masonic Lodge. The ■ report a nice time, and good work. • Mrs. Luella Fulton, wife of Frank , ulton, formerly of this city, died on Friday of last week, at her late home in Laftyette, of lung disease, aged 29 years. The remains wore taken to Bainbridgo for burial. There is a pamphlet issue' 1 , by E. E. Posey, Esq., entitled “Southern Facts for Home Seekers and Travelers,” that is filled with Information otj- ;eneral interest to any and all who arL interested in the South. If you are interested in this subject drop a postal card to E. E. Posey, lien. Pass. Agent M. & O., Mobile, Ala., and he 1 will send you a copy of the pamphlet. Bide Opened. The bids were opened by the committee for the building of the new ChrisCnn Church, on Friday evening. .There a five bidders. After ex*aminin fe aebids and figuring thereon, the comi rittee decided to reject all bids And call for now ones. The supposition is that the committee thought the figures too high. Another Compromise. Tho damage suit of Mrs. Mary Welsh, of Nebraska, who was injured by a Big Four railroad train, while on a visit in this city, in October, 1891, and who was given $10,040 by the jury in the Circuit Court, has been compromised. The railroad appealed the case to the Supreme Court, where it had been pending up to Friday last, when a compromise fwas effected the railroad company B pays her $6,363 and the costs of the

suit.

pin, $3,500; insurance, $500, a $2,000 policy having expired a few days before the fire; J. R. Miller, on building, occupied by Mr. Rice, $700, no insurance; W. H. Rich’s loss on building, $200; A. G. Rice’s loss is put at $2,500, insurance, $1,200; Wendliug & Priest, loss on stock about $2,500; insurance, $1,000; C. E. Moore, loss on News office about $2,200; insurance $600; Turpin’s loss, $2,000; insurance, $1,000.

.ere is a woman in the case.’

*}vans and Messrs. Richardson, Scot'l Hibbitt, E. E. Black, Darnall

Blankets and Wool.

The facts in regard to a protective tariff, and the price of wool in the fleece and the wool after it is manufactured are set forth vividly in a business transaction which took place here last week, Mr. W. I. Buis furnishing the facts in regard thereto. He brought here the fleeces clipped from 60 sheep; this clip of wool weighed 300 pounds, for which he received 15 cents a pound, aggregating

$45.

Affer'Selling the wool he went to a merchant and bought six pairs of blankets; these blankets weighed just 42 pounds; he paid for them $7.50 per pair, aggregating $45. Thus it will be seen that it took the fleeces of 60 sheep 300 pounds of wool to pay for 42 pounds of blankets. As we have often remarked, the farmer and stock grower receives no protection; his products arc sold in competition with the prices fixed in the markets of the world, and ho can command no greater price for what he has to sell than the open markets of tht

world guarantee to him.

With the manufacturer in the protected industries the case is entirely different. By reason of the Republican high protective tariff, which by tho way levies a tariff tax of over 80 per cent, on blankets of this quality the foreign manufacturers and dealers are virtually walled out, and the price of manufactured products fixed at what they would legitimately be with almost the entire tariff tax added, which in this instance is

80 cents on each dollar.

Great is protection for tho protected industries, but it is robbery and extortion on the farmers.

Prohibition Contest. Tho Prohibition contest in oratory took place at Meharry Hall, on Fri day night, before an appreciative audience. The judges were: On manuscript: Prof. Belle A. Mans field, Prof. Ayres and Dr. Bassett; on delivery: Miss Sidelia Starr, J. P. Allen and L. C. Bentley. The piog.T.r.i was as follows: Piano «.o1o—Mis* Honker.

Invocation.

Vocal solo —Miss Duuibue. The Mission of the Prohibition Party,” Rr y

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Vocal solo—Miss Grubb. Prohibition as a Political Problem,” George

W. Kenny.

Cornet solo—Mr. Walker. The Relation of Prohibition tothelndintrial Problem,” Maynard L. Duggy. Vocal solo—Miss Hanker. Trombone solo—Mr. Werncke. Maynard Dnggy was a winner, in fine style, his speech being quite strong and very nicely delivered. The markings of the Judges aggregated as follows: Daggy, 9; Wade, 11; Kenny, 16. Real Estate Transfers. Washington T. Scott and wife to Charles B. Howland, land in Floyd

tp., $400.

Nancy E. Henry et al. to Martin M. Henry, Jr., land in Franklin tp., $1. Edward Arthur to Charles Lueteke, lot in Greencastle, $1. John E. Newhouso to Hannah M. Gibbs, land in Greencastle, $9,000. Wm. M. Dobbins to O. Rentzsch, lot in Greencastle, $4,000. City of Greencastle to Susan Terry, lot in Forest Hill, $55. Wallace Johnston to Susan Terry, lot in Forest Hill, $55. Ed. Perkins, admr., to Wm. A. Grigsby, Jr., land in Warren tp., $135 The ladies of the Presbyterian Church made nearly $40 on their musical entertainment.

Editor Chambers, of the Newcastle Press, visited friends here on Friday. Miss Ida Cullen is at Plymouth, Ind., with her mother, who is quite

sick.

The A. O. U. W. order has paid to Mrs. Hiram Miller $2,000 insurance, because of the death of Mr. Miller, who was a member of the order. The fisherman at eve comes home.

From angling after trout.

And tells a host of stories which His friends take leave to doubt. Miss Flora Math'as entertained a large number of her young lady and gentleman friends, Friday night, in honor of Mrs. Sedwick, of Martinsville. The occasion was one of real social pleasure and was greatly en-

joyed by all present.

The “Ten Sisters” of Locust Street Church were entertained, together with their husbands, at the residence of Mrs. M. A. Mooore, on Friday evening, in a most pleasing manner. The “Ten Sisters” are Mesdames McNeff, D. C. Hughes, Jacobs, Doley, Little, F. M. Lyon, Fussier, Crane,

Benham and Bryan.

Tho shooting contest, on Thursday, at Carbon, between Messrs. Thompson, of this city, and Gifford, of Brazil, on one side, and Messrs. Lovell, of Carbon, and Erdly, of Perth, on the other, resulted in a victory for Lovell and Erdley. The contest was for a $200 ptirse. Thompson and Gif-

ford lost by three birds.

A sneak thief hid himself in the basement of Broadttreet & Son’s store, Friday night, and after the doors had been locked for the night Mr. Thief tried to force an entrance 12 the business room, but the door was bolted, locked and barred, and he could not get in. He then opened the outside door of the cellar and escaped without securing any plunder. After he came out of the cellar he was seen by two or three persons, but the night was so dark they could not seo him sufficiently well to iden-

tify him.

The Lafayette Courier says: Prof. C. S. Plumb, of the Purdue experimental station, has issued a bulletin on a “substitute for coffee.” The intention of this bulletin is to direct the attention to a desirable and easy available substitute for coffee and such as can be grown on a farm in this latitude, viz. the Soy or Soya bean. Prof. Plumb is very confident over the future of this plant and says: “As tried in the family of tho writer, tho drink made from tho Soy bean was agreeable and enjoyed more than some of the so-called coffee served in hotels and restaurants. I have no hesitation in recommending farmers to make a drink of the roasted Soy beans rather than buy cheap grades of coffee sold in the market, that in so many cases are adulterated with burnt pastry beans, chicory, peas, etc. Drink made by a number of per sons in this community from the roasted Soy bean was much relished. The fact that the plant producing this bean can be rais d to a great advantage and with decided success in this territory, makes it apparent that

Ratio in Silver Coinage. Congressman Bland publishes an article in the North American Review, on the coinage question, in

which he says:

“My papers were written on the subject,‘What Shall the Ratio Be?' I then undertook to show that the

H E best investment A in real estate is to keep buildings well painted. Paint protects the house and saves repairs. You sometimes want to sell—many a

time and divested ofits more disagree-j good house has remained unsold able features if the opposition to the f or W ant of paint. The rule should

Wealthy Men and the Income Tax Chicago Herald. The income tax in some form is sure to be part of the new revenue bill. Without it the bill will fail. The prospect now is that it can be limited in

ratio should be our present ratio of tax as a whole is not too obstinate ^ though, “the best paint or

none.’’ That means Strictly Pure W^hite Lead

You cannot afford to use cheap paints. To be sure of getting Strictly Pure White Lead, look at the brand ; any of these are safe: “Anchor,” “Southern," ‘‘Eckstein,’’ “Red Seal,” “Kentucky,” “Collier.” For Colors.—National I.ead Co.’s Pure White Lead Tinting Colors. These colors are sold in one-pound cans, each can beintf sufficient to tint 2s pounds of Strictly 1’ure White Lead thedesire«I shade; they are in no sense ready-mixed paints, but a combination of perfectly pure colors in the handiest form U*

tint Strictly Pure White Lead.

A good many thousand dollars have bee» savea property-owners by having our book painting and color-card. Send us a postal card

and get both free.

NATIONAL LEAD CO., New York.

Cincinnati Pranch,

Seventh and Freeman Avenue, Cincinnati.

if it can once be successfully introduced it will have a future as a sub

stitute for coffee.

The Old Gentleman Lidn't I.ike to Ite the

Innocent Cause of Sarciifttu.

On a Michigan avenue car the other day a woman had a baby about a year old on her lap, and next on,her right sat an oldish man, who was evidently fond A babief The child loo.ted at him and he smiled and clucked in return, Bays the Detroit tree i ress. Lie >>.. • getting along finely, when all of sudden the kid puckered his lips and

began to howl

There, there. Don't cry, my precious lamb,” said the mother, in sooth-

ing tones.

‘Seems to be afraid of me," observed

the man.

‘Yes, sir, he do. and I can’t make it out. I had him out in the country last week, and he saw hogs and horses and cows right along and never seemed to

care about ’em.”

A giddy young woman across the aisle began to giggle and a man standing up and hanging to a strap uttered a gruff “Haw, haw, haw!” and slapped his leg. The old man flushed up and looked hurt in his feelings, and seeing another giggle and another haw! haw! haw! ou the way ho rose up and went out on the platform und|| said to the

conductor:

“This is about the tenth time I’ve been insulted on this road this year, and the next hyena that does it is going to get both eyes knocked into

one!”

16 to 1 or the French ratio of 151 to 1. First, because the coined gold and silver money of the world was in circulation at par at or about the ratios named. Secondly, the ratio of production of the two metals was about at this ratio. Thirdly, it would be monstrous to demonetize silver and thus send gold up as it has confessedly gone up 50 per cent since the demonetization, then to put silver sufticient in the dollar to bring it to par with gold. To coin silver at the present ratio in commerce would require 825 grains of silver in the dol-

lar instead of 4121.

“The law has caused tlie divergence between gold and silver. The law will restore it. To outlaw silver and then seize upon it while down, and by law, in effect, declare that it should never rise, weuld be monstrous. To declare that silver shall be coined only at its present commercial ratio would be a decree against its rise in the future. The metal in tho silver dollar in the form of bullion has no demand except the slow and variable one found for its use in the arts, but when coined into a legal tender dollar the demand for it is instant, insatiable and ever present. For this p’ece of silver coined into a dollar the people of the world make a demand for it. The wealth of tho world and the labor of the world is ever ready to be exchanged for it. This demand gives it the increased value, for the silver dollar is worth as much in any market of tho world ns the gold dollar, beeause it will buy as much of our commodities as the gold

dollar.

“Our seventy millions of people a id our sixty billions of wealth make an exchangeable demand for the silver dollar sufficient to sustain its value and to sustain the value of all that could be coined at the ratio of 16 to 1. The single gold people cite us to Mexico and the South American States, ignoring our great com mercial power and wealth, as being unable to sustain the value of silver. But they carefully conceal the real question at issue. Silver has the satire purchasing power of value in the countries that it always had Silver has not fallen there or else where as compared with all other things, except gold. The fight is to bring gold down from its high pinnacle and keep it down to a just level with silver, wheat, corn and cotton These single silver standard countries are more prosperous than ever before. India has suffered, also the United States, since the discontinuance of further additions of silver to the coinage. The suppression of the coinage of silver has brought disaster and not relief to the people of the United States. The repeal of the silver law signally failed to improve our condition. Should Mexico and other American States demonetize silver and attempt tho single gold standard, thus putting gold still higher, it would prove disastrous to them and us. Every nation that starts oat to tho single gold standard adds to its own depression and to the

misery of mankind.

“The restoration to free coinage of the standard silver dollar cannot unsettle values, except to increase the value of labor and the products of

labor.

“The banks and other monopoly powers refused loans and alarmed the country so as to produce an “object lesson in finance,” to secure the unconditional repeal of the siher law did unsettle values and brought tho whole country to a condition of bankruptcy. The repeal has not brought the confidence nor tho prosperity indicated. There will be no stability of values or monetary peace until silver is restored. “As a tentative measure and to prevent the unconditional repeal of tho Sherman law, we last summer offered compromises on tho ratio up to 20 to 1. But these overtures were spurned. The legal ratio of 16 to 1 received more votes than any other”

and uncompromising.

Would it not be wise for men of| wealth to accept the modified measure while the opportunity is presented? Would it not be wise to submit cheerfully rather than take the risk of something more radical and offensive than is now promised? If experience proves it to be so unjust and impracticable as its opponents assert, it will be dropped when the time

limit expires.

The object of the advocates of the tax is to do—not injustice, but justice. At present all the revenue raised for the support of the general government is derived from taxes on consumption. Men are forced to pay in proportion not to their means but to their wants and necessities. Those who have little pay a large percentage and those who have much an exceedingly small percentage of their gains. The object of the income tax isto redress in some degree this manifest injustice. If the mode of redress is bad experience will prove it, and a better mode will be found. Would it not be good policy for the rich to accept the proposed mode cheerfully, especially seeing that ly the proposed modification it will be temporary, and will cease it found unsatisfactory? They will thus ga n time for a deliberate consideration of the whole subject. They must know that in some way the existing system

will be changed.

The people are beginning to see very plainly that taxes on consumption are extremely unjust. As time passes they will see more and plainly that it is unfair to take far more in proportion for the public treasury from men of small means than from men of large means. In time j ait indirect taxation has been resorted to for the confessed reason that it took money from the people without their knowing it. This reason will not be available much longer. The people will insist upon contribution for public purposes more nearly in proportion to possessions. It behooves the rich to note this tendency and guide it, if possible, into tho best and safest channels Obstinate resistance may result in i popular rush to extremes which will be hurtful not only to the rich but to the entire social body. The rich should recognize the danger and seek to guide instead of resisting a just demand which is sure to prevail in one

way or another.

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Mountain, New England Resorts.

NEW YORK and BOSTON Via Cleveland, Lake Shore, New York Central and Rost on A: Albany Railways; to the Lake Regions of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota via Chicago; to the Cool Resorts of

Michigan via Benton Harbor.

When you on your Summer Vacation see that your ticket reads via the Big Four Route,

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The little insect popularly called tho death watch or tick is a timber boring insect which usually commences its sound late in the spring, and is no other than the cull by which the male and female arc led to each other, the same as with birds during tho mating season. The sound they emit is not owing to the voice of the insect, but to its beating on or striking any hard substance with the shield or fire part of its head The prevailing number of strokes art from seven to nine and eleven, and it isthis circumstance which probably adds to the ominous character il bears among ignorant and superstitious persons. There is an exceedingly able woman in Boston who can report a speech delivered rapidly in German,she first Liaiiblating the • peech into FoglMand then recording it in stenographic characters. Such celerity of thought is only approached by the tradition respecting Kossuth, who is said tc have thought in Hungarian, translated into Latin and retranslated and uttered at a rapid rate the choicest English, born of a study of the bible and Shakspeare.

TRAINS OK THE MissurhKansas&TexasRjf NOW HCN SOLID BETWEEN ST. LOUIS an d HOUSTON, GALVESTON A- SAN ANTONIO

THE OLD RELIABLE ROUTE via HHNNIB7SL 13 STILT, CONTINUED WITH WAGNER SLEEPERS and CHAIR CARS FKOJI CHICAGO TO ALL PIUNCirAL POINTS IN

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There is not a democratic senator or representative in congress who did not stand with the democratic party on the national platform in ts93; and was pledged to furnish a tariff for revenue only to the country. Those members, thereiore, both of the senate and house, who have shamefully disregarded their pledge of tariff reform by toremg into the Wilson bill almost as much protec tion as there is in the odious McKin ley bill, have forfeited their honorable obligations to the people and should never again bo trusted by their party.

C *PUREVJ FOR CLOTHES. THE Pr.OCTER U CAMCL6 CO . CiN’TL

Klectrocuted. Alburn, N. Y., May 15. — Lucius ) Wilson, aged 60, died in the electrocation chair at the penitentiary yesterday for tfie murder of Detective llarrcy on July SI, 1SD8. in Syracuse. An Ei-Governor Dead. Washington, May 15.—Ex-Gov. A. G Hunt, of Colorado, died of paralysis Monday at his residence in Tcnnalljtown, near this city. He was 65 yeaxs of age. To Meet In July. Des Moines, la, May 16.—The republican slate central commUtee met lierei on Tuesday and called the state cooveutiou for July 11 at Des Maines. During the seventeen days spent recently in Boston by Francis K Murphy, the temperance lecturer, nineteen meetings were held and 6,000 pledges were signed. Business room occupied by J. K Langdon for the last ten years for books and stationary is for rent on June 1, 1894. Inquire of Quinton Broadstreet, in Southard building, tf 3 r'D. L. Southard.

For Rent. Large two-story, 11 rooms, frame dwelling t ouse; goo 1 stable; desiiabie locaticn. i 3tf Geoxue E. B auk.