Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 August 1884 — Page 2

=3! OFFICIAL PA1?BB OF THE COIJiSTY, Win. P. KI18HT, Editor and Proprietor. * [Knhtwl Hit the Fosteflle© at Petersburg! Iml., for tyeuxndn.slon through the mails as »;vond visas matter.] ” terms op siiisuumos. ffpald iu advance...|1 2lii If paid within thirty days.... 1 ai If paid within the year..1 75 If paid after expiration of year_........ 2 0(1 No paper sent out of the county unless paid In advance. Persons sending ns a club of five, with J0.25, will receive the paper free for one year. fcT' The l*lk» County heniocrat lies the larB*Kt- clrcHiatlun of say newspaper published lu Pike County! Advertisers will mate a note of this fact) r Thursday, August 28,1884. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET. For President, GROVER CLEVELAND, of New York. For Vice-President, THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, Of Indiana. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. For Governor, ISAAC T. GRAY, cr Randolph. For Lieutenant-Governor, A All LON D. M ANSON, of Montgomery. For Secretary of State. 1 (WILLIAM B. MYERS, of MadivoiU l‘'or Auditor of State, • JAMES II. El.CE, of Floyd. For Treasurer of State, JOHN J. COOPER," of Marlon. For Reporter Supremo Court, . JOHN V. KEItN, of Howard. For Judge Supreme Court—Fifth District, . J. A. S. MITCHELL, of Elkhart. For Superintendent Public Instruction, JOHN W. HOLCOMB, of Marion. -totDEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For, Joint Representative—Hike ami - . U. Duliois, LEMUEL R. HARGRAVE. For Treasurer, FRED. II. POTKEIi. For“ Sheri IT, WII.LIAM J. EUROPE; For Recorder, JOSEPH C. RIDGE. For Surveyor, FRANK *Ii. BILDERBACK. For Coroner; PEM S. WITHERS. For Commissioner 1st District, WILLIAM ,T. ABBOTT. For Commissioner 2d District, EDWARD II. REEDY. Faithful in nil Thing**. Hu Halo Espresg, Kcp.: The people of Tuff ala hare knou%n Mi\ ax one of their icorthtest citizens, one of their mantles! men—faith- .. fu? tv his clients, faithful iorhisfr totals, faithful to rrrry jtnbUe trust.

rrowil »* His lltcaril Buffalo Advertiser, Ucp.: The people ofiluf- _ fain are promt «/ the record he hits made its X'uyirbf the city and as Chief Magistrate of * tlic Slide. IfW'tV ;ce efirnestly supsicrt (he candidate of our party for Jh-esidcut of the United Matte, v'c would not detract one jot or tittle from the u'clt-curncd fame of the distinguished gentleman who honors the op position by bearing its standard, A if^nblican Opinion. [Kt.I,o"ntsGlob«-Democrat, ltcp.,Mny 2S, 18K4-] “Maine cannot carry th- full strength of the Jlepublican party, to begin with, and lets repulsive, rotten recent too’Or-'tn,’ the ievht'YretehyxtiuX the pwopte will not have him. To nominate him would be to court defeat. He stands setf-eon-vidal of prostituting the high offices he has held to build up a private fortune." A Bit 1P E TAKER, It Btslioncst Then, is Ho Honest Ne\v¥ tVhnt n leading R 'publican paprr now snpportliij; limine thought of him in 1872: “The startling exposure of Speaker Maine's venality in eon met ion with the Union Ihxcijic Hoad, Hasten Division, entirely destroys, of course, whatever credit some people may have given his evasive denial of the Oakes’A mes bribed#, uad puts the whole case of the Cref 'it Mobilier upon a different basis. * * * A'ovr tt is shown that Speaker Maine never dessrx'ttl his good reputation^ lie had taken bribes in another ease.’’— [Now York Tribune, Sept. itO, 1872. Coxklixg is in the field for St. John. The Republican party is not pointing tvith its usual prhlo to the price ^f win at. Reports fiChi Maine indicate tiiat Biainewas engaged in a life and death struggle to carry 3iisowM» State. .. .iunlii———. -r Ox Thursday of next weed; W? will print a double issue of the Democrat., Advertisers will make a note of this fact. ■ We print Mr. Hendrick’s letter of acceptance to-day. It is a modelletter for vice-presidents. There iis no nccessiyt for them to discourse at great Je ngtl i. ^_ The Democratic majority in Tennessee, at Uic recent county elections, is estimated af ,HO,000 to 40,000. In East Tennessee, the RcpubB cans lost heavily.. __* There are four hundred millions of dollars in the Treasury* bui for all the good they arc to the bountry they might as well be four hundred million hail-stoncs. Gov. Clevelaxi/s letter will be found in full in another column of this issue. It is a manly document, with which liis opponents find it impossible to iind'reasonablc fault. Buthkr’b letter of acceptance is Out and there was no earthquake, cp clone, tidal wave or any other phenomenal event attending; its appearance. It is a weak effusion.

In circus parlance, you might remark that Mr. Cleveland is tho sacred white elephant—the main attraction of the big tent, while Mr. Blaine is •nly a tattooed man in the side show. Rktorts from Boston are to the cllbct that a coalition has been formed between the friends of*Blaine and Butlers—{Ex. Why not withdraw Logan and let the ticket read,-fjlaine and Butler? > ■———■■■ »■ ■" — Con. J. B. Maynard, for nearly eight years chief editorial writer of ti c Indianapolis Sentinel has severed h s connection with that paper, and h is now taken charge of the editorial column? of the Indianapolis Daily tuocrat. The Colonel is an able iter, and wejvishjiim success.

of the Mormons,—[2 As the largo body Ci.rvEtA*: skle in- Utah, and as the Territories havfe no voice in the election of the president, we can't understand how the above can be true. a very damaging operation. The friends of that candidate must prove the charg'd made with great particularity by the LaPorto Argus to be false, or withdraw him. It is a very serious charge and a fleets his personal honesty. TtiKhK has been a good deal of talk voeently about Dudley's resigning his place as Commissioner of Pensions. What nonsense! Republicans never resign—.never. They always wait as Arthur did, when he went out of the Custom House, hard pressed by the too of Sherman's boot. In the Hocking valley the bosses have also imported Italians and Hjuncan miners. This is the way Protection works every where, whenever American workmen cannot live on the wages paid by the protected bosses, they arc turned out and European paupers arc brought over to fill their places. the Republican party is making on federal .office-holders for “voluntary" contributions to the campaign fund. A son -fit' Mr. Blaine's is in Washington in the capacity, of collector, and when an office-holder who is too poor to boiled declines to respond he is forthwith “black-listed" for remembrance by the son of tho Guano statesman. Ouii Republican friends will find at the head of our editorial columns a couple of opinions of their nominee for President—one from tho St. Louis Globe-Democrat and one from the New York Tribune, both strong Republican papers. As these opinions cannot be laid aside as “vile Democratic abuse,” we reecommend that they be road at the nex t meeting of tlio Maine club. It is stated that twice before Maine has brought suit for slander growing out of the Kentucky story, but dismissed each when called to trial. Evidently Mr. Maine is used to hearing the story and his dramatic surprise when Mr. Holloway sent him the Sentinel and urged a suit for libel was put on—a° sort of warmed-over indignation that shows the flavor of a twice cooked steak. Calkins’ little school thud loan is garians to take the place of Ameri

11 ERF. is another instance of the : beauties of protection. Under the operations of our tariff laws the doors are shut against the manufactured goods of England and. Germany, and these nations, in return and by way of retaliation,! have shut, their doors on our pork and grain. As a result the American farmer can only get seventy cents per bushel for his wheat and a low price for hLsJma&. After all the charges and counter charges against the candidates for the Presidency, one tact stands out pre-eminent. Mr. Blaine entered public life worth less than five thousand dollars. His salary was never more than $8,000, much of the time $5,000, part less than that and several years at a -merely nominal sum. lie retired from public life worth several millions. He did not inherit nor was any money given him. Ho lived up to and largely in. excess of his-’salary most of tiie time. ; Now how did he got ricli ?__ Four hundred millions of dollars is the amount of money now lying idle iu the Treasury. This immense sum is being increased at the rate of one hundred and twenty millions a year. At this rate it would only require about twelve years' fdr the National ‘Treasury to absorb tthe entire volume of the circulating medium, yet Mr. Blaine makes a long argument ia his letter of acceptance in favor of keeping up the present war taxes. lie does not say what we shall do when there is no more money in circulation, but wo suppose that he thinks as Major Calkins does, that we can go back to the days of coon skins and gingseng. j After all the idle gabble about “protection to American industry” has been "indulged in by campaign elaquers, this stubborn fact remains: This government lias been under the direct and Absolute control of these protended protectionists for twentyfour long years, and yet there is no man among us who earns his daily bread by his lis'Jy toil but will toil yon that times to-day arc h.trdci than ever before; the necessaries of life are higher,; work and money arc scarcer, and the wolf of hunger is no stranger even in homes right here in our own county. A “protection” that lias swelled the capitalist’s pocketbook to bursting and stolcu the crust from the hungry children of the laboring men is the “protection” the Republican party lias guaranteed tills people. _

Two-thirds of all the intelligent white mcu in the United States are Democrats. We have never claimed a,ny considerable part of the colored vote, though for the past few years— as education and enlightenment finds its way among the negroes—they have been shaking off the shackles of Republicanism, and coming out on the side of good government and the honest, administration of public affairs. Only last week a colored Cleveland fi nd Hendricks club was organized in Cincinnati with a charter membership of 143, and since that time its members have increased daily. This is a harbinger of an awakening among a, race of people that have always lived under the bans of darkness and superstition that it is gratifying to record. The day is not far distant when all these people save the Republican office-holders will be Democrats.

MMae*jr 11»ih X,'. .. bOMs time ago the editor of the Press made the statement in the columns of his paper that the present Republican board of commissioners ha<l reduced the eounty indebtedness,, and they had also reduced t ho rate of taxation. County Treasurer Chapl*fil at once informed Mr. Gladish that he was mistaken, and that if he would cat! at his office Jsc would show him the figures. Mr. Gladish, however, did not do so, and lias since that time remained as silent as an Egyptian mummy on that subject, although his attention has been frequently called to the matter. The tax levy of June, 1SS2, tho present commissioners had nothing to do with, June, 1S83, they loyicd a tax of 55 !x cents upon each ono, hundred dollars worth of taxable property, which, if all collected, would biing into the county fund $24,372.41. The orders drawn on tho treasurer from June, 1IS83, to .fane, 1881, amounted to $28,591.21. Now, if every dollar of the tax levied had been collected there wtnjd not have been enough by $1,218.80 to pay tho current expenses of the county, thus increasing the debt in that matter alone $ 1.2 IS.SO, besides the amount of uncollected tax. If Mr. Gladisli is laboring in the interest of the tax-pay-ers, as he claims, he should not hesitate to make this correction, as it is highly necessary that the people should know the truth in regard to the condition of the affairs of the county. We do not expect Mr. Gaulish to make the correction, however, as it might be injurious to his party and thereby affect his own personal interests, to which he would sacrifices the interests of the tax-payers every time. The fact is that the county indcbotpdness has been increased nearly eight thousand dollars, and the current expenses have been a great deal more since the liepublicans took charge ofcounty a Hairs, and there has been no improvements made in the county to show what has become of the ntonev. C'ai.t.ing us a Democrat docs net disprove tho fact that the present county auditor belonged to a party that pledged itself to let the county printing to the lowest bidder. Tho Greenback party is a dead duck in this campaign.—[News. We would gently remind the editor of the News that the Republican party of this county pledged itself io'let out all the eounty printing, including the Sheriff sales, iu tho same way, and at| their County Convention hold at Winslow on August 4th, 1SS0, untinitnously adopted the following resolution: •‘liesolved, That wo believe tho county printing, Including the SherilFs printing and tire delinquent list,-should be given to the paper printed in tho county that will do tiro work for the least money, and wc pledge ourselves that it successful we will give tile county printing to she paper that will do it lor the least money.»

How -have the Republicans kept that pledge? At the last election, by coalition with the Nationals, (who hadjUlso pledged theniselves in conve»|ion to let ont tho printing to the lowest bidder), they succeeded in electing alt the county officers who control the county printing and the Sheriff's sales, Tho Democ rat, al'ter waiting some time to ho notified by said officers that they were ready to rePWt\7isA“'(ll a* s\‘afoment at the head of itsleolnmns that -it was ready to submit a bid for part or all of the county printing. After wafting several weeks, and- not hearing anything from our proposition, wo filed a bid with the Auditor and Commissioners offering to do all the county printing at less tkqih one-half the amount paid to tho Press. It is needless to say that our bid was rejected, and wo were informed that they did not recognize any paper except the Press.; That Scandal Case. The announcement that Blaine the plumed knight, had ordered Senator Harrison to bring a libel suit against the Indianapolis Sentinel has created quite a stir among the Republicans, and under ordinary circumstances the sympathy of the people would be with him in bis present unpleasant position. The charges that certain newspapers have made affecting his personal relations with his wife, before they were fl; a cried, whether they are true or false, are disgusting to rex speetable people. A7e can see nothing but a political _ trifik in the libel suit, and that Blaine is anxious to : pose as a moral hero in order to distract. public attention 1'rom hi:; alledgcd short comings, lie is fond of poking before the world, and is not very particular what pose lie assumes so that it is considered striking. 11 is little game of bluff with the Sentinel will not deceive any observing people. Indeed it will only serve to add another plume with which caricature has decked his brow. The Sentinel lias only published what had been current rumor for years. Dozens of newspapers had published the same. It may be false, but if true the suit for libel will recoil with terrible efI feet upon Blaine and his family. The | commencement of the suit has not dotered other newspapers from publishing it. It gives them full license to refer to it in publishing the case, and besides that Blaine i is giving the Sentinel tho biggest advertisement a newspaper ever received. But why did he pass by such papers as tho Chicago Times, St. Louis Tost-Dis-pateh, New York Herald, and a great many others, all off hem having pubj lislied the samo charges for which he has brought'a suit for libel against tho Sentinel ? Any of them have a larger circulation than the Sentinel, and is much abler to pay auydatnages I that might be adjudged, and because of their wide circulation have contributed to the injury of his character more than tho Sentinel. It seems that. Blaine’s actions have been advised by some of the Republican managers at Indianapolis, for the idea thafwas published by the Indianapolis Journal that “Blaine acted upon the impulse of the indignation that would have thrilled any honest maids breast at sncLaa moment,” js therefore im

ai:iuwsm’j rue wnoie auair near* uiu ovidonec of a scheme to influence tlie campaign in this State. The employment of Senator Harrison as counsel, was doubtless to give additional importance to the case before the country, and all arrangements see hied to have been made to use the scandal as a foil to the discussion of Blaine’s public record. The Sentinel has announced itself ready, and has abundance of evidence to substantiate everything it has published and moro. Everybody is anxious to have the matte/ disposed of early, so that the end of the campaign may bo onjoyed, =as tiro Itopublicans alone are responsible for the blackguardism through which the canvass is now progressing.

A .'Widow Persecutor. Poor Calkins] There scorns to l>e a widow in bis c®<% too. She was a poor war widow sixty-three years old, with an aged .mother and two children to support. She held a post office in Calkins’ district worth $300. Tliis royal Bengal Republican tiger, chuck full of magnetism tip to the muzzle, had this $300 post office assessed at $12, (twelve dollars,) to bear the expenses of his campaign. The poor woman could not spare Uie amount, and, bclievieng in the civil sendee reform pretentions of the Republican party and those high in place and power, she thought she was safe i:v declining to pay the assessment. Then came rumors that Calkins was going to have her removed. She took the alarm, and secured scores of names of the best citizens of both political parties to a petition praying the President that she could be retained in the post office. Calkins might have prevented her removal, lfe did not do it. She lost her place, and is now living in Chicago, barely able to keep the wolf from the door. She is said to be a lady of excellent reputation and a member of the Methodist Church. What manner of man is the Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana anyhow ? He is altogether the weakest specimen of decent Republicanism tliat ever headed a State ticket. If these stories are true there is a demand for Mr. Calkins’ removal from the* ticket. Talk about “dash,” ‘Chivalry,” “cavalier,” etc. This treatment of a poor Woman is the act of a poltroon. Gov. Clevelands Letter. Gov. Cleveland's letter was given to the press last Wednesday. It is a brief document, well written and exactly to the point. It will probably disappoint the Republicans, as it' affords them few openings for attack. Their chief consolation will bo found in denouncing its brevity, which they will attribute either (o his inability to discuss national policies cr to his anxiety to avoid commitiiig himself directly". But Democrats will find no such fault. They v, ill see and appreciate Gov. Cleveland's wisdom in quietly assuming a position on the Democratic platform and modestly waiving a discussion of its principle's that is neither necessary nor pertinent. He recognizes that the duty of the President is not to formulate party policies, but to enforce thcocountry’s laws, ami lie therefore passes to the “suggestion ofcertain well-known truths, so absolutely vital to the safety and welfare of the Nation that they cannot be too often recalled or too seriously enforced.” These truths relate to the purity of the ballot; to the necessity of a change from a party that has ceased to serve and has began to rule, to one tliat will conserve the interests of the people in legislation and the execution of laws; to the justice of the demands of honest labor for protection in its rights; to the subject of imported labor; and to tiie subject of a reform in the civil service, where fitness alone, and not party zeal, should be considered. On the whole the document is elear, concise and'conscientious, a lilting contrast to the literary fireworks of Mr. Blaine and the stage thunder of Bombastes Turioso Bailer. ... it.. .

Filthy Politics. [St. Louis Kc»iiibl!can.j T *». - t - - , • ibie political preachers, and a few dirty- Republican papers, finding they could not attack the public record of the great reformer, Governor Cleveland, they attempted to smirch his private life, and. made an ignominious failure. Blaine's private life need not be attacked by Democrats, bad as it can be shown up. Ills public nets are sufficient to defeat him for the Presidency. In fact, Democrats need not trouble themselves much concerning the public record of Blaine. All that is necessary, is to let Independent Republicans alone; they are showing' the tatooed candidate in his true colors. But, since the untruthful and indecent charges have been laid at Gloveland’s door, Independent; honest voters naturally want to know what Blaine’s private life has been. It has oomo to light that James G. Blaine betrayed the woman whom be married,- and then only married her at the muzzle of a shot-gun. Such a candidate cannot atibrd to assail his opponent. If tilth is wanted by Blaine’s trainers and followers, they can be accomodated with a great deal more than they can digest. Will Blaine With drawl The Washington Sunday Gazette, a stalwart Republican paper, advises Mr. Blaine in no weak language to withdraw, and gives- the following reasons why lie should do so. It says : “The outlook is decidedly gloomy.” This is tlio naked truth. The Maine statesman has seen the brightest days of tho canvass. Tiie magnetic wave is slowly but palpably subsiding. The enthusiasm lias spent its force. The defection of tho German is portentous. The 1 rish-A1 nericans are holding fast to their old political creed. The slight disaffection among the working people hies been pretty effectually allayed. Tho Democratic ranks are rapidly closing up. Hundreds of thousands of veteran troops are deserting Mr. lllaiuo’s camp. Verily, “tho outlook is decidedly gloomy.” ' These are not the words of a Democratic or an independent journal but one of the strongest Republican papers in the east. The Blaine Scandal, [Cincinnati Post.] _ The rural press of Kentucky is publishing the Blaine scandal with tho greatest detail, .giving tho woman’s name, the name of the person said to have caught the parties participant in a compromising position, and the name of a physician who became cognizant from observation • of tho woman’s’ subsequent condition. One paper is so brash as to oiler to prove all the allegations in a court of law in two hours time, and charges a morning paper of Cincinnati with being in-possession of all the facts.

Just now the Republican organs arc parading the following paragraph in relation to the Blaine affair: “The Louisville Courier-Journal, the Democratic organ of Kentucky, investigated that accusation at the time it was made, and denounced it as a pure fabrication.” The statement embodied in that paragraph is essentially true, with two very important exceptions. 1st. The Courier-Journal did not “investigate that accusation at the time it was made.” 2nd. The Courier-Jour-nal has never “denounced it as a pure fabrication.”—[ Louisville CouriorJournul.

What an Independent Republican Thinks of County Matters. AV'o clip the following items from the lust issue of the News: Has the county auditor carried out the promise made to the people concerning tljc county printing? The editor of the Press fails to deny that P. W. CUappcl told him to call at the county -treasurer’s office, and he would show Brother (Radish, that the present board had increased the taxes and the county debt. Monday last, two of Jeff Richard - sou’s bondsmen called at this office and informed us that they were not wiiliug for Richardson to settle the suit by arbitration. They claimed they were’willing to pay their part if there was anything to be paid. Perry W. Chappell, offi/rs to bet $1,000 that J. W. Richardson, will never have a dollar to payback on account of the investigations Why don’t some of those fellows that have been claiming for a year past Richardson is a thief-and a defaulter take the bet ? Wo understand the game, gentlemen, concerning* the county printing. So'far the game has killed the party in this county, that elected Mr. Bothell auditor, and when that 'gentleman announces himself as a ■Republican and a candidate for re-election, lie will find, that the little game has killed him, politically. The Press still insists that Mr. Johnson was elected commissioner, because he promised to have the county records investigated, and that he wilt be re-elected because lie carried his promise. If this is so why was it thought a few weeks ago by certain Republicans, that it would be a good idea to* have Mr. Johnson sign an agreement to tlm effect that in ease lie was elected, he would pledge himself to vote for the building of a new jail at this place, and then quietly circulate the petition among certain portions of the county. Arbitration is now offered by Republican authority as the best manner in which to settle the suit brought against J. Wi Richardson by the commissioners. Arbitration or compromise of any kind will never satisfy the taxpayers of Pike county. If Richardson, according to the claims of the Press, is a thief, a defaulter, and has stolen $10,000 of tiic people’s money, the people want to know it. If the county owes Jeff Richardson $400 or $000, as it is claimed by his friends, the people want to know it. If Richardson has stolen $10,000 of the county funds, he and his bondsmen must pay it back. If the county owes Richardson from $100 to $000 the county must not repudiate ' the debt. .To Settle this matin* by a compromise will leave every one in doubt as ,to the iuneeeuse or guilt of Mr. Richardson. By the Press that gentleman lias befcn branded and published to the world as a thief. Mr. Richardsoti’s character is as much at stake as is his property. If a few Republican leaders in this county have made a mistake in paying out $1,000 tor a fruitless investigation in order to make a little political thunder, the taxpayers,—the men that will have to pay that $4,000,—want to know it, and don’t you forget it.

POLITICAL POINTS. The colored people of Cincinnati have organized a Cleveland and Hendricks club witliT-13 members enrolled. Throughout all Gov. Cleveland’s executive career as ;"Mayor and a.. turn ipic^ nave tii8.de themselves prominent in Ids wordand acts—fearless, independent administrative honesty, amHhe sturdy championship of the people's interests in all their rights and privileges.— [New York World. Mr. Blaine has used the power ami influence of the speakership first to interfere with legislation and next to secure from the rich railroad magnet; the payment for his services. This wc charge and hold it to be fully proved by Mr. Blaine's letters, even in the form in which ho allowed them to go to the public. But with Mr. Blaine as a private citizen, and with his family history good or bad, we would rather have nothing to do.—[N. Y. World. Now, if Blaine would only bring a libel suit against the Globe-Democrat and'his Cincinnati, Chicago, and New York organs for accusing him of the blackest kind of treachery, villiam and betrayals of public trust, lie might extort a retraction which at least one of them lias never yet made. It is with respect to the charges they have made that he stands most in need of a vindication. His marriage certificate is a full :u»wer to the Sentinel’s attack, and it docs not look exactly right for him to prosecute so promptly iii that ease while submiting to charges that are far more damaging from thooYgans of his own party.— Post-Dispatch. , Party Illiteracy. The Republican .party since it had an existence lias ceaselessly asserted that it was the ‘‘God anil morality party" of the Nation with a big “N.” It has not only claimed to have rdl the virtues, but all the learning, or such a preponderance oftlfo Nation's erudition that what was left was scarcely worth mention. To hear the bosses boast of the scholarship of the Republican party, the credulous element of society would naturally,conclude that it was quite as much given, to lore as to lucre, and that all of its vast fund of knowledge was constantly devoted to the enthronement of “great moral ideas,” But the facts as ascertained bv the census official demolish the fiction of the Republican bosses, and leave them stranded in the mud of illiteracy. According to the census reporfof 1880, there were in the United States 1,871,217 malo citizens above the ago of twenty-one who could not Write. Of these 802,915 wero whites, and 1,00S,302 colored. It is estimated that of the colored voters the Democratic party secures about one-tenth or. in round numbers say 101,000, while the Republicans manage, to take in the remainder, something more than 900,000. Of the white illiterates 476,196 are credited to the Democratic party. Taking thc.se figures as a guide to honest conclusions the case stands: „ Total number ol' Illiterate Rep......1,2!H,1S2 Total number of illiterate Dein. 577,023

Excess of illiterate Republicans 717,159 It will be observed, after all the boasting,that more than two to one of the illiterate voters of the United States are in the Republican party. The Republican organs may wrestle with the figures at their leisure.— [lud. Sentinel. The Mammoth Stock and LxtraordlnarilyLow Prices Marked on the aforesaid stock is simply astonishing, The best judges are at a loss to knowhow Lyon of Evansville, can possibly sell such good clothing at such low figures. Lyon’s, fall and winter stock just received. For lame Back, Side or ChcBt use Shiloh’s Porous Piaster. Price 25 Cents.

J. W. BERC.KN. D. McCRJl ;LUjJ AHA' , 5rt,v BERGhEX? & , «- Jl- ■ Can now a| feuiv.l in their t'legnnt No ,. &% st •in their Elegant New Bie> of Khtt reels,-aim iutve enej^f the taU* feobxslci ure' in • KUdLfh &hu K&Wxzscmpsma -iTHESR STOCK IS S?1W AlfD COMPLETS:And they guarantee satisfaction to all their customers. Thov invitesr-ccih! ^tto.htloh to tin splendid assortmentof new amid wvutt .stvios iu -:AND THEIR SUPERIOR BRANDS OtF:— ozils dz The Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco. -16\~ -C-A.X.XJ -S^-STID !3SS' w“£,-~ BERGEN & ADAMS, :::::. Petersburg, Indiana. THE CENTRAL DRUG STORE! WARE & LATSHAW j ——DEALERS IN—Dru gs, Medicines, Paints, V arnisb.es, 3Dy© StM±fs, WINDOW BLINDS, WALL PAPER, 2?a/te:rrt 3MZed.lci2a.ei3. ciaAEs Jo rrobaa©> --FANCY ARTICLES,Pure Liquors for Medical Purposes, -and—-— All Articles UstiaXJy kept in a First-class Drag Store. A Prescription Clerk Always to be Found in tlie Store, Day and Night. [SAAO T. WHITE. FRED’K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. Estatolislred., 1950. KELLER & WHITE WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, -AND DEALERS INPaints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass And S-curglcal XELStram.eTTts, Na 105 Main Street, •••■••>• Evansville, Indiana.

exposition LOUISVILLE, KY., OPE2TS A UG UST lath. :< (JlJ)KKS OCT. 2“lh,'13S4. is iC2E3 STigibEEt OiTtS SSOO£'. 2 CONCEPTS EACH i)AY'2 ■r Cspua's and dilraorc-’s, E o FLam-ch Ihuuls hi tho >Vcrhi. (S MILITARY DRILLS EVER MTKES3BDH -lowest railway Rates ever givkn is tub state.—-— ~^23,x' B-cr.zx^xssasr.ca-s; 4 -CONTAINING THE CHOICEST TICTl'RKS IN AMERICA._A Thirty 'Counties of Mm will Make Exhibits uh^h^iU Recwisirato (he Slates ■ ;. Enorpns.Resooim Groat Display by the United States Govdlnmeir-- ri' A why and Vavy Relic* . -Entente of Smithsonian Institiite—aieduis, cbln.*, Etc. An Immense LIVE STOCK Exhibition Pretentin* over *l,Cfifl,tXy worth of lum!*,ani^hiag ail the sires* that have lii.ult Kentucky famous. 1 Ik- exhibit vrSR snirnts.: i i ex!wit flu' Hovn! Stock Ui.hhv m Lmuloj;, amt oreseat the must rmtsiniii cat stock exhibit the world' lum ever wttuesscO, .aid a sight that 6aftnm i e ildf !i ; tod in the wirtd. Bsaxsrr n. youku, ftwsfcit. j. a. rfciEirt, G«Mni a3A?rr. CTw JY j&.IDjfiLUE?/- • * -MANUFACTURER OFSHIRTS TO ORDER, -AND DEALER INMen’s Fine; Furnishing Goods!! ---oOur Shirts are the Best -FOR£tn.cl "^7“ea2:- 'XZx’sr ‘Z'Iigxsq.. -o131 Main St., cor^du^- - Evansville, Indiana. ALWAYS AT TmiffiQWEl -■u- —: THE LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED STOCK OF:— Hardware, Table & Pocket Cntlery, Edged Ms ZCIZZTIDS:The Finest Display of Stoves and Mantles -EVER BROUGHT TO PIKE COUNTY ;—- Also, a Largo Stock of Silver and Toilet Ware, All of which will be disposed of cheap for cash. In connection we have a tin shop, of which ye make Roofing and Guttering a specialty.

WE WANT EVERYBODY TO CALX. AND GET OUR PRICES, esc “sroxr^a-. HAMMOND & PARKER, -DEALERS INDRY GOODS AND GROCERIES, --r t;-;- ; ’ WE ALSO KElSp A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF Which has been selected with great gsare in regard to stylo find durability. Our goods aro ah new and additions aro being made every week. Our stock of Lawns, Gighams, Calicos, and otto Dross Goods, Are now on exhibition and you are requested to call and examine our stock and learn our prices, MeC keep everything in the Grocery Line, while our Notion Department iSTiilLand comprises many now novelties. Yon will And us in EMMETT SMITH’S NEW BUILDING, On Main Street, near tho corner of Seventh street. If von want to save monov when buying gotftls, we- are just the firm you are looking for. Come right in. IEHEsixn.mo n cl <Sz 3Pa,x3s:ox1

CTT 'REAt REDUCTION! ——'m TUB TRKJK-oyi—L. SADDLES, H&RNEi Pie public is hereby Informed thftiX wills my l«fe» .■••lock of .f r SADDLES A ND HAEXEbS \nd evs*> «hlnc kepi by lots lower than eyed soul in flu* place hylorc. If von w:ait any. thins to myVmJvdnn’t fail Uxullituinc ■an I uni otli" iiisj Special lfcwsjuns. i «i:n mass. TOCOLOLO, Iho Best Liver & Kid-1 ney regulator oh earth| for sale at • Bergen &Adams\| -:GOOL> BUGGIES:ox a1.1* ' fe Sfeii l^fii "is Cariip Maty) -: Xo Shoddy TiiAsii:Dut Koinethinj* that wiB carry you safely.. You will rtm! it to your interest to examine* ] aiy work before buying elsewhere. Kemeraber the 1U;st is tub Cheapest. l'ep«irig tea wi'ili Xcaiatss lad Dispateh. J. F. TKAFZEB, Prep’r, PEfERsirrnG. ixn. DRURKENNESS I Cl' »K» IX ITS YAKHIIS STAliKS. IVstre for stimulants entirely nmovtedllonte treatment. Mfedlcina can lio rulmlulaV terer; without knowledge pf pHtlynt, by simply ' placing it in coffee, tea or any article of food. Cures gunmutecd. $100 WILL BE PAID For any ease of drunkenness that Golden Bpeci'Ae will not cure. Circulars containing tes-^_ tinionUUs and full particulars®sent free. T dress / , (;OLIU;N STEUIIC C'O.w'f Jiy V f-!y. Is A ilicc St., t iacinuatl,

Petersburg Planing Mill JAMES P. SNYDER, Prop’r, (Successor to Dickson & Carson.) Dressed Lumber, FLOORING, WeatherLmrding, to, Always on 'Hazkd.. Sash, Ddors, Blinds, Brackets, &c., MANUFACTURED ON B1I0RT NOTICE. Having put my machinery to thorough repair p am prepared to turn oat oil work in my Iiu» promptly. ami in n good manner. Parties contempiatimr building should give mo a rail. JAMES I*. SNYDER. ADAMS BROTHERS, —•Proprietors— Corner Sixth and Walnut Sts., X’otarcs'bi.irgr, XnA. Horses; ami Buggies for htro at rcasonubifk-. nites. New Buggies! fc<a{e Horses.’ Horses Fed by the Day ok Wkkk. Hcraen dole1, on Cl - mmianicn. r . JYE NOW HAVE FOR BALK SvIiplailsUiaFaraitm Ever brought to th& market. Wecan give you " bed worn set, good enough for mfv house m the land; oilier sets graded all the wav down to the Humble eahin. Highly finished , BLACK WALNUT BEDSTEADS, BUREAUS, TABLES, STANDS, which \vc will sell separator In sots. SOFAS, LOUNGES, BEDSPIMNG8, HACKS, MIRRORS, PICTURE FRAMES, BRACKET^ BABY CARTS AND CRADLES, And in fact everytidifk that will nccointncb onto ami adorn a wcll-funilslievl house, we navy made a Specialty In Chairs, ninfenn sell ~ you an .OitW Chair, Dining Room Chair. ok other kind you may desire; Our stock of COFr INS is complete, and wo keep two lino hearses in readiness at all times. Cull anil sou stock. SMITH & FINNEY, . PETERSBURG, IND. BB .StfBE AHB TAKE -TXCZE: LordsYille and St. Louis Air-Lioe, (LouisvUle, Evansville & St. Louis By.) WHEN YOU CO EAST OS1 ■W7IBST. The Great Short Lixe l'o al! tlije Principal Cities of the East, anil making direct connections at SOiLouh With trams fur all points in MISSO URI, X EUR ASK A, EASXA S. COLOR A DO, . TEXAS,' IOWAr ksD THE CKKAT WEST AND NORTHWEST. Trains 3 and I havo Pullman Palaeo Slcep«g Cars between St. Louis anil Louisville. drain arriving at Louisville at 6:15 p. m., nakes direct connections with trains on C. & tor White Sulphur Springs, Staunton, itichnvoBd, Washington, Baltimore, Pliilatolphia, New York and all principal cities of die east, * •iTHE NOTICE OF EMIGRANTS:is especially invited to the following advanage offered by lids lino: This Is the SHORT LINE to St. Louis. This line connects at St. Louis In Union depot with trains of all roads leading West, Northwest arid Southwest. All trains run SOLID between Louisville md St. Louis. w For tut! information concerning routes, ates, *c., call m»n or write to J. W. IIU KT, Oakland City, Inti., r c. ,, „ Agent U, E. A St. L, U(yFas. S. Cark, Gen. Ticket Agent. • 1

GIBSON COUNTY FAIR! PRINCETON, QTD., - Sept. 16th to 20th, Iaclcsiit. 3 Days of Enjoyment! Big Racing Every Day! -:o:- - Railroads will Carry Yon -POB-’ Maxell We have a Now Track—the Best in Southern Induhia—and New Floral falls., Don't jniss thfegreat exhibriou. S. VET STRAIN, Secretary.