Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 December 1884 — Page 2

Pike CoBBty Democrat OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COOT I. j Ii.'P. KM, Editor and Preprietot j '.Entered at the Pwtofttee at Petersburg, 1 lad., for transmission through the mails as j Heeottd class matter, j TERMS Ct StBSCRIPTlOX* If paid In advance $1 2f> If paid within thirty days. . 150 I f paid within the year. . 175 If paid after expiruthm of year 2 Do No paper sent out of the county unless paid n advance. IVrsons sending us a club of fivr, with $$.2o, will receive the paper free for one year. The Pike County Democrat hss the lar* fcent circulation of asy newspaper pchMed in Pike County J Advertisers will make a note of this fact! Thursday, Dec. 25,1884.

sQivk the boys (Indiana Democrats) a chance. We have not hoard that .any lie publicau office-holder has- resigned. The Board of Directors of thte Southecru Prison have re-elected Howard to the office of WardenThe Indiana benevolent institutions have been carried on the past year for $50,000 less than usualThe Indianapolis Sentinel is a newspaper with nerve an$ a strong' j spinal col limn. Success. Jfokv' is the winter of the farmer's discontent—summer to be made glorious by the high price of grainSenator Harrison “fathered” the hill which passed the Senate admitting part of Dakota as a State. TherrSuis been great improvement in -flic eitv page of the Evansville Courier under Mr. Claude G Bruler. DeWe wish the Democrat subscribers a merry Christmas, and the delinquents can help to make ours merry by paying up. , Won iu it not be as cheap to. urns ter out the force of the pension bureau and give a pension to all honorably discharjged soldiers ? lar is a cold day when Jim Rice does net get in his work. “They say" he prompted. Rev. Burchard s three R’s —-“liitm Romanism and Rebellion." Taj: cold weather allows the. mer- j chant &j| dispose of his winter stock, J and puts nioney into the coffers of the coal dealers. “It is an ill wind that I blows lip good." • M vn i of thy- striking miners ii#he ilocking valley, have offered to go,; to wonkt The pangs of hunger and'the j ■cold blasts of winter compelled them-j. io t»ke this! step. Jambs G. Blaine has dismissed his s-eRbra|ed suit against the India tin polk! Sentinel pa the grounds-that lie emild not get justice in this State, j beys, “put it in black type.” iPsksnim Arthur, by torching a -little button, set the ponder eg and intricate machinery of the I\ew Orleans exposition in motion, although •over two; thousand miles distant. Governor Roster will turn over the office to Isaac P.Uvay next-month, and General Manson will preside over The Semite in the place of that revolutionist. Lieutenant-Governor Hanna. Mr. Blaine does not think that “Westward the tide of empire takes its way.” He has a poor opinion of Iiidi■nna.and says he could not got justice in ins libel suit against the Indianapolis ikudim;!.

SPrrosr the United States Depute Marshals are used during Democratic supremacy, and to the bulf-dozing of Iiepnblleans. It would be if;vim: the ltepubticau partv «s<»nc -of its own incdb-itic. v The Priiss is stilt “harping on my daughter.’- While the paper is agitating the ,T. IV. Richardson matter, does it not know that the question will be linallv settled, without the ad- ■ ' * ; vice of an organ. Evansville is over run with scandals. The trouble comes at being found out, it seems. As long as all is | serene oil the surtaee, “all is o. !;.” j But then the exposure—well! “Albs: well that ends well.” Congressman Matson proposes to soon introduce a resolution providing ■for an investigation of Mr. Blaine’s charge that a citizen of the Fiuted States can not get justice in the Federal courts of Indiana. . . An exchange says that a newspaper reporter will always be found fault with until he learns to write up an account of a street light that will soothe the feelings, of the one Who got licked. Tliisisa goodpoiuter. Vincennes is enjoying-a boom in improvements, both public and private buildings having been erected. The Old I’ost lias not been dead, but •sleeping, and has awoke to new energy and activity within the last few years._ Maj. IIalLett's plaiii of improving wheat is simply to fitul the best plant of a variety, in a given crop, then its best car, and, finally, the best grain in the best ear; and with this ultimate best single grain to re-start, every bear. The Indianapolis Sentinel has been victorious in its defense against Blaine’s suit for libel, in the Federal court. Tiic newspaper undoubtedly had the best of the fight up to Tuesday, of last week, when Blaine withdrew the suit. The opinion of influential and intelligent colored men of the South is that tlie condition of their race will be bittered,1!?anything, under a Democrallc administration. Since the elec-* tion; prominent colored woliticiaus 1 nr -oexpim.'scci th:at-viy-i

No matt has a right to cxpCet the support of a newspaper for anything, says theMt. Vernon Democrat, unless he supports the newspaper. This is just as it should be. ; There arc three good ships in the navy, says Secretary Chandler. The Secretaryship is one, says an exchange, and it inquires: Where are the ether two? The Secretary's pantaloons, rescued from the Tgllaposa, have been made into one, perhaps; j Nevada and Rhode Island, with only 44,000 votes, have seven presidential electors. Florida,; however, with 5S,000 voters, has but four electoral : and West Virginia,, with over 145.000 voters, has only six! Will Bro. Blaine please lecture on these prominent facts ?

I\ the matter of public printing it “makes * a great ileal of difference whose ox is gored.*’ A 1 is per which lias none of it, wants it “let out to the lowest bidder.” When the same gentleman secured it all for a former pa-, per, he was quiet on the bid question. •‘Qpnsistehcy. thou art jewel;!”' The annual a grit- u H era! eon v e :ttio n of delegates from each agricultural society in the State will convene on Tuesday, January 6th, 1SS|, at Indianapolis, and last thpee days. An interesting programme has been prepared. and will be Sent on application to tiie secretary of the State board of agriculture. Indi is.irons is the political center, and there politicians of all grades, from a tionstarmlary up to a VicePresident meet and talk over the question of public 'offices, fire work of the incoming Legislature, the details of congressional, work and the formation of Cleveland's (,’abinet. There is nothing- the average [►olitieian will not tackle. The various presents sent to Presi-dent-elect Cleveland and returned by him, make eousidgraWc business' for .the express- companies. Among lh« articles may be mentioned pups, easy chairs, white mice, slippers, onelegged. frogs, snuff boxes, kittens, cigar bidders, white rabbits with pink eyes, etc. Mr. Cleveland is not going' to start a museum. . p Tut: Supreme Court on Thursday oflast week reversed the decision of a Marion county court in the Fiebelmah Justice of the Peace case, and held that the law of 1883. which limthe number of Justices in each county,is unconstitutional for the reason jjtat it amended an act of 1852 (which has ceased-to exist) instead of a subsequent act passed in 1867. Cinti'TH'.s and New Year’s! It is truly said that there is no season in which the familiar life seems more attractive and delightful than that of Christmas and the ;Xew Year—the very time in the twelfth-month which is e-pccially consecrated to home* and the domestic affections, and to the celebration bv outward signs: of gifts and gaycty of the hapjnnes^f this world. ‘ TtiruE arc so many people who arc fighting the war over .again. They can. nut be impressed with the fact that peace, reigns throughout the land. There is no occasion for this wincing like a galled jade. As an old eitisens (a Republican) remarked to us many days ago: “Your President is my President; I, like all peace-loving citizens, desirma good administration, ami li-ipc ihwjifTh'ove so.” Ex-Sex at^b McDonald does not want asenatorship. The proper place for Mr. McDonald for the next four years iS in the Cabinet of President Cleveland. A inan<>fgieat worthasthe ex-Seuatdr, and level-hwads like that possessed by him will go far to make .up a careful and .conservative Cabinet. All indications point to the making of Mr. McDonald either the At-torney-General or Secretary of the Interior. THE.South wants two,Cabinet positions—the Department of Justice and the Postmaster-Genera!—according to Henry Watterson, of the, Louisville Courier-Journal. He is the representative editor of that section, and no doubt knows whereof lie speaks. But we wish to see ‘“our esteemed old Saddle-hags” (Joe McDonald) in the Departilqjnt of Justice. Give the South another Department—Interior, for instance. Reuben Sprixuek, an eminent citizen of Cincinnati, died ©«* Wednesday of last week. lie commenced life a poor man, hut he was highly favored by fortune and accumulated a large One. His liberality knew no bounds. ,Uc was the most liberal benefactor Cincinnati ever had. He iplorncd the city with magnificent buildings. He was liberal to the poor, to churches, colleges and. the arts. The whole city mourns his loss. Tin*: Second Adventists—the world will come to an eaid on the fourth or fifth of January.1 It looks like they ought to make a-closer calculation, but that is probably close enough for most people. In fact it is entirely too close. Just think of it. Here the poor Democratic prodigals have been living on husks for a quarter of a century and now just as we-were about to return to our father’s house where the fatted calf was waiting to be killed, these Adventists come along and blast our hopes by knocking the world into smithereens. It is perhaps, true that some people who do not obey the poetical injunction to “think of your head iu the morning” and who consequently take too much celebration during the holidays, will be perfectly willing for the world to come to an end on' or about the time set, but the great body of mankind would probably prefer to have the event postponed, if not indefinitely at least until after the hext PresrdtiitiJu dtc-.kx

The comments of tine Press, both j Republican and Democratic, upon the action of Blaine in withdrawing Ms j iibfl suit against the Indianapolis Sentinel,-have been strikingly severe. A1 the papers consider the plea, advanced in his letter, as flimsy, shallow and superficial—that be could not get justice in Indiana, and a man that | would pen such a lettereertainly lias un joiutded aud unprecedented gall. jTltj St. Louis tilo be-Democrat, the I Sea ling Republican paper of the [Wtst, has the following, regarding the insult to the courts of this State : 31 r. Blaine’s letter dismissing his suit | against the Indianapolis Se ntinel is exccedi ingl) ill-tempered and unfair in its spirits. In f fleet he says that he could not get a just vert ict in Indiana. This is a serious accussv

non to mstKe against tae people oi a wnoie I Stat.6. It is a serious accusation against 1 the Federal Court, which in Indiana is ISts puh icau in all its branches, and which in ;il the States, whether Rpjmhtican or Den ;Ooratie, is honest and impartial. It seen is to us that Mr. Blaine might have will drawn his libel suit against the Sentinel without libeling the whole State of Indiana, her jury system, and hhr eourts of justice. ’ _'_ ~ -■ Organization. iRepublicau clubs in New York, Ohio and. other states instead of dieban ling after the election lare organizing in more permanent form. This means that they are preparing for the congressional contests in 1886 and the national struggle in 1888. If successful in electing a Republican house iu lie next election the rojad for the Democratic ad mil; is t rati on will be a pretty rough one. However, there is little danger of'that, but I there .is great danger of a Republican victory four years from now if Democrats lie 'on their oars and let Republican organ zations do thefimvork. 4V Idle not belier^Sgiu machine politics yet a certain kind of mutual effort is necessary. That; cannot be secured without organization, and .there should be some kind of a club, committee or society in evejry county «: le tst. Tills society should see to it thot doubtful voters do not get much under the control of opposition leaders ; they should also aid iu disseminating Democratic papers and in furnishing names of proper persons to be supplied with Democratic documents.. Mee tings held euee a month to counsel and advise with advise with one another would be beneficial. This kind of work done through the off years will serve to keep up a local interest and save much, work fend worry it the heat of.campaigiic. Protestant aud Catholic Growth. [New Albany Ledger.] During the sessions of the Plenary Council at Baltimore, some statistician collected a mass of instructive figures relating to the growth of the vari us religious sects. Their tables may be briefly summarized and made intelligible at a glance. In I860 the total population of the United States was in round hunkers. 31.500.000. It is now 55.000.00d. The increase, in twenty-four years has been 7a per cent. ' In I860 there were iu the country 8.000. 000 Methodists. The [Methodists now number 15,000,000:. an increase of 04 per cent. The Methodists are the most numerous sect, iuid have made a more rapid increase than any. other Protestant element. The Baptists in 1860 numbered. 8.000,0(0. They now number 12,000.000—an increase of 50 per cent. The Presbyterians utimkaivd 15,6^0,000 in 1860; they now number y,5(I),000, an increase of 53 per cent. The Lutherans numbered 1.250,000 in I860; their numbers have been increased by foreign immigration; their ranks now 1 nclude 2,000,000,, an increase of ! 60 per cent. 'J’iie Congregathmalists have increased from l,4tK;MXk> to 1.18003)00, or about 27 per cent. The I Episcopalians have ipercased from ! 900,000 to 1,200,000 which is 33)fe per I rout.

Prom these figures ot mint hers and growth ami of rates of increase among Protest:uit Sects, let us turn to the Roman Catholics. In I860 they numbered in the United States 311.75,000. lu 188:1 a careful estimate of all their congregations gives them 9|000,(KX>, which is an increase'ot 200 per cent. They have trebled in number tin twen-ty-four* Wars. Compared with the little progress which Protestants denominations have made—of from 27 to (SO per cent, and the Methodists of 91 per -eat.—this -is gigantic progress. At: tin; same ratio of growth, in the year IflOO the Catholics wilt number 25,000,000 in the United States, and will have outstripped the most numerous Protestant sect in powerl These figures are well worth studying and Protestants may mark their course acordingiy. If anybody] thinks the Catholic Church is in its [dotage or decline, he had better overhaul these Igures and rellect. If this ehureh increases in power it is because there is a demand for it. Why this demand Protestants must find oht. Stay at Ho ate. We urge upon our people the importance of patronizing home business men, especially during the holiday season. Immense quantitiesofgood's are piled upon the counters daily and ourstores present a metropolitan uppers net. There is no reason for anybody going aboard for anything, substantial,or ornamental, as ayrdealers have just as good stock as can be found vrithin two hundred miles. If you do l’t believe it, just consult our advertisements and then investigate for yourself. The Board of Agriculture. The Indiana Agricultural Report for 1883 is a 600page volume. It eoutains ai undent, evidence of prosperity and useful information. It has been distributed to each county in the State to the principal libraries in the United States, and quite a number shut to foreign countries. The Report lias receive; favorable comment from the agricultural press generally. The agricultural societies in the State, of which the State Board is the-bead centre, have been productive of much good to the farmiug interest, and any farmer may consider himself fortunate that secures a copy of the report. A few copies remain on hand, which will be rent to applicants oil receipt of 20 cents in postage stamps l'or mailing and wrapping. The Annual Agricultural Conveni tkm of JDIslegates from each agrienltur- ; al society in the State will convene on Tuesday, January 6th, 1885, and last three days. An interesting program has been prepared, and will be i sent on application to the Secretary of i ft> Stab Board of Agriculture.

Mr. Blaine, of Maine. If any voter ever entertained any i doubt of Mr. Blaine's unfitness for the 1 Presidency. a perusal of the follow-! ing letter Will entirely remove such doubt: Fl’LLTEXTOVMR. B LANE’S LETTER. The following is Blaine’s letter to his attorneys instructing them to dismiss the ease: Washington, Pec. 19,18*4. Messrs. Harrison, Milter anil Elam. Counsellors nt law: Gentlemen*, When I requested you in August hist, to bring suit against the publishers of the Indianapqtis Sentinel for libel, I did so in the belief that the wrongdone me ; by that paper, being entirety of a personal ! anil domestic character, cbuld be fairly I tried without undue influence from political j

eoiwiaerauons. i conxess tnat l was profoundly amazed to Mad tfie matter taken up Rnd the libel produced with at! possible exaggeration in every Democratic paper iii Indiana. Except three members of the Democratic' party 'of that State. I never heard that a word of dissent or disapproval was spoken, while the great mass of Democratic speakers repeated the libel from every j stump in Indiana w ith vituperation, with j raneor, with gibe and rabulil jest. It was | thus made, so far as any matter of the kind j can be made, an issue in an exciting politi- | cal campaign, and the Democrats, of the State were thoroughly poisoned in their minds in regard to the question to be dtei- j ded at lav. Under such conditions it is simply impossible that I can have a fair trial, ot that 1 can expect any other result1 thati thatwhich informally attends a political libel suit growing out of stn exciting campaign in this, country. If I were unfair enough to desire a jury composed of my own partisans ! could not have it. A properly constituted jury in Indiana would be composed of both political parties in about equal projiortious. When I visited Indiana in October I was repeatedly advised that six Democrats could not be found iu the State who, in a political suit, would given verdict against their leading party organ. This did not necessarily convey an imputation upon their personal integrity as citizens, but simply that the blinding of party prejudice would utterly prevent an impartial consideration of the evidence submitted. I am perfectly able to fight the Sentinel, newspaper in an Indiana court, bat 1 would stand no chance against the consolidated venom of the Democratic party of the State infighting this, paper further. ’Therefore it is idle for mdtogp through the trouble and annovanee of a trial. The questions propounded bv the bill of discovery have alrt ady been su'd mtially and fully answered by me, and I am willing to leave tiiy written statement and answers under oath to the judgement of the public. I do uot choose to have the case indirect iv concluded by a technicality or suffered to die in.silence. I prefer to make this frank and open statement, of the reason which induced me to believe the prosecution in the State would be utterly fruitless Very respectfully, James G. II:. a ink. He closed the campaign as he opened it, with a falsehood. After Kepnbliean papers had thrown all kinds of dirt at Mr. Cleveland the Sentinel charged that Mr. Blaine educed Harriet Stan wood and afterwards married her some three months- Before her child was born. He denied this charge, and said-it was false in every particular,' and instituted h libel suit against the Sentinel in the United States Circuit Court at Indianapolis. On motion of the Sentinel he was compelled to answer certain questions under'oath, and in his sworn answers he showed conclusively that every material charge made by the Sentinel wuAtrue in suhstanceand in fact, and that in denying the charge made by the Sentinel he had perpetrated a deliherate falsehood. At the close of the campaign, after suffering an overwhelming and merited defeat, he supplemented Ids itrst falsehood by a second one, in• better founded titan the first, but more enormous and sweeping-, as it embraces within its scope the entire Democratic party of the great State of Indiana, fie charges that six Democrats can not be found in the State who would render a verdict according to the law and the evidence in Isis suit against the Sentinel. (Fortius I dub him tin; FI timed Liar.) Any man who would make such att unfounded and wholesale charge against the prevailing party iu the State, a party that is full ot as honest and-intelligent men as live beneath the heavens, is not tit to pc i t slice p-ki Hi ng- dog's or clean pilv ies, much less lo.Iill tin; exalted position of President of the United States. To the honor of Judge Woods, belt said, he would not" suffer Blaine's libelous letter to be spread upon the records of his court nor permit the suit to he dismissed till Mr. Blaine had withdrawn the false charge that he could not get justice in the Federal Court of Indiana, which is Republican in all its branches. General Brown,

\viu> is a sQiiit ic.publioaii, says that “Mr. Blaine could get justice in Indians it he could get it anywhere, and this is the feeling generally." Thisenormous falsehood of Mr. Blaine's has no parallel, unless it be found in the eolunity and a half of drivel in last,week’s Press, written by one Gobdiet Morgan who styles himself‘-.Mains,” in order to giye credence to Ids drivel, but who is better known of late as BillyGoat Morgan. Now this superanuatbd Billy-float, who contemplated a trip to the World’s Fair at New Orleans for the purpose of resuscitating his lost power, is very much exercised be-’ cause the people of the South, like the people of Indiana, prefered Cleveland to the Chimed Liar, but in the oiib case as in the other is iua poor condition to do anything save to yawp. Well let him yaup to his hearts eou(tent, for if his yawpin'; amounts to no more than it did during the late campaign no one will be seriously hurt by it hut the Republican party, and the more that is hurt the better it is for the entire country. Whci'e is the evidence that several hundred thousand votes were cast in the South and not counted to the person for whom they were cast ? Where is the evidence that several hundred thousand voters were kept away from the polls by threats of murder or intimidation of any kind ? There is no more evidence of this than there is that Blaine could not get justice iu an ludiana court. Tliis fossilized Billy-Goat, like the Plumed Liar, speaks hot from the testimony but from the abundance of malignancy in las heart toward Democrats in general. The thoughtful aud loyal people of the United States are made merrier than usual this happy Christmas day by the reflection that they have escaped so great a calamity as the election of the Plumed .Liar to the Presidency would have bceu. In conclusion I will say to the Old Billy-Goat that he is a living example and constant reminder of the fact that notoriety is not respectability, aud that l am now ready for lesson number two. E. A. E. Chicago News: Two tramps met a Missouri fanner on a railroad track the other daj. Leveling gnus at him, the tramps demanded the farmer’s money. Witii weli feigned lea- the farmer wem do wn iu his pocket as if to produce his money, but brought out instead a seven shooter witii which he shot one of the tramps dead. The other trarap was gladehough to escape. It is a bleak, winterish day when a [Missouri mnu tails to get in an argu- [ ineut that depends on getting the drop.!

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rx:ed^costg-] -:> foi: * | STAPLE!FANCY GROCERIES A LARGE AXIi WELLJSELKI TED STOCK OF G-lasswai3 a.n..cL Q\xeean,£rw’a.re.. -THE LOWEST PRICES OX Sugars. Coffees, Teas, Molasses. Canned Goods, Candies, Queens-ware, Glass ware. Cigars and Tol A eco, vf(.•. Large Stock of st received. The highest market ce—Turkeys, Chickens, &e. Cali Bexgei jB-u.iIc3.IrLg^ St. Just revived. The highest -market price paid for sail kinds of country produce—Turkey*, Chickens, &e, Call and see him ,at his new store in the

HAVING I am Prepared to'Guarantee of the Public Patronage. Fair Dealing HIGHEST MARKET PRICE FOR WHEAT. Wanteix—100.000- .Bushels of Corn, for wh.eh the Highest Market Price will be Paid. Call and See Me. Also Keep Coal for Salem any Quantity to Suit Customers. THOS. S. SMITH. C. A. BURGEE & BRO.., -.•FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS:— PETERSBURG, - - INDIANA, - J . Haie Received Their Large Ste ei Late Styles of Samser Coeds, Consistiog of theory test ;aud-Bro.«i-;Intas. Petfeet Fits and Styles taM • Prfes as- law« Mitre.

1384. TSS OSBORN BROTHERS Hu\e removed to t^oir Elbuant New BiriLmxu «uf Main street,where they have a large and splomlkMinf of Boots and Shoes for Men, leiaa and (Mte -;o| WE KEEP IL L. STEVENS AND EM'IKESON'S BRANDS OF FIXE SHOES. ' OSBORN BROTHERS, PETEEABURCK - - - - IN1>LANA. J. W. BERGEN, XI. i> EX'S. M.-CRILLUS ADAMS. mm® & A ■ yY A *$ m “ iJAMS, c.’.n new lx> found ill Hit ir EI<-smut Xi-y Boslttvss IJotiso tlu? earner i;f Eighth tuttl Mail febi’tvts, iu\‘t havt* one ot fho h:uutsjp.:iiosi stores iji tho-Statt*. -SIS STOCK S3 SfS W AND COMPLETE:Am', they guarantee- satisfaction t-> ait Ui-'ir.casK'iaets. They in W-tit snvtui atteiitiiQ to their spii-mtut assortment ;;f n w am! eiegnji t styles tu --AND THEIR KlVKlilt.tH ISiAtfUi oils c& ~^E!ESEL The Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco. BEHGEN & ADAMS, .: : : : Indian* cr. cr -—MANUFACTURER OgSHIRTS TO ORDER. -AND DEADER INMen’s Fine Furnishing Goods!! Our Shirts are the Best -FOR3=^it and T77"estx- Tx^r Tb.sm. 131 Main St., cor. 2d, Evansville, Indiana. THE LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED STOCK OE:Hardware, Table & Pocket Cattery, Edged Tools ■:OP -A-3LH. ZECTjfcTIDS:-' -=t> The Finest Display of Stoves and Mantles -EVER BROUGHT TO PIKE COUNTY ;- Also, a Large Stock of Silver and Toilet Ware, All of which will be disposed of eheitp for cash, la connection we have & tin shop,-of which wC^amke Koofikg ipid GrTrEHiNti n iSpeciahty. . t > WE WANT EVERYBODY TO CALL AND- GET OUR PRICES. B3XJLl£ErrEE-;& “SrOTXIfcTCr..

HAMMOND & PARKER, •DEALERS IX WE ALSO KEEP A FULL AKD COMPLETE STOCK OF Which has been selected with great care hi regard to stylaaial liuriiMdtjV Our goods are ail new and additions are being made e\cry week. Our *U?< k cf Lawns, Cig’hams, Calicos, and other Dress Ctoocb, Are now on exhibition and'you pre re«iut’ckd to call and examine our stock and learn onr prices. We ke< p everything in the Grocery I,the. while oupXotion. Department Is full and comprises many new novelties. Von will find us In EMMETT SMITH’S NEW BUILDING, On Main Street, near the comer of Seventh) Street. If youtrant to save.money when 1 . goods, we are just the Urn* you are lows lug lor. Come right i ZE3: am in.o

1885. Harper’s Magazine. II JLl'STR AT ED, With the now volume, hot*inning Dof ti|*7* llAKyjcki's AIa*>\zi>f win ooncknhj Us thirl;.-rift.i yw. The ulik^t ;pvcfciHlk.'nl of »t» type, it i£ yet, iu eadi new tyiwfle, a new inaj«zi?u\ not simply b.-cause it present* 'hml new picttm.^j but also* an<f ctueny, because it stetuiily mtyun4ffcS is the mi-ttirMi --elf of laajiMune-making. lit a tut Ma*;ahnk Uvomr* mon> mint B“orv the faithful mirror of cabrnit lift amt ramvmeat. lanolin^ features in the iitinwv P^HPRimtue for Iv<j are? new serial vr ‘ Tt *-t>nshuiee Feniuunv Wonison amt * Mfwiiovel eoitftieet“At the -o y‘ '•jv., .,1 paper* by. K,lb VUU t. Uirfoni^E. A. Abbey,. :,U,L <Hh0r': 'h'Uisiuith’s *'fthe Hiustra^l by Abbey; ■ papers i>u Art. Science, etc.

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.Harper's Periodicals. ! . *. JP«r Year, : KARPKK’iS WSKKI.Y . |4 00r ( i HARPER'S MAGAZINE 4 00 HARPER’S BAZAR _ 4 OtT" I HARPER'S vorxo PKOPIil 2 oo ; HARPER’S FRANKLIN SQUARE LIBRARY, Oso Year (52 Numbejrs) 19 OQi Postage Free to all subscribers in the United ■45 iutes or Camilla. T*ii^ Volumes of the WijKKlJr begin vr-Uir the first Number for January faf each year. V. !:•■:» no time is mentioned, it^wlli he unitor-sN->.»that the si,bscri»>er wishc&ito. eommeuce with the Number next softer t?\e receipt of [ order. ? ! Thy last Five Anmntf Vc:Tsmu.v-o;fTf AJtPKB’s \\ K2K la ,.Jn neat etorh binding: ivviii in* sen I ; by tttiii!vpostr,s-.* paid, or by express, free of expense vprovided the freight <R&k not exceed:one tl&Uar ^per volume), for ?7 u$ per volume. for each volumeL suitable for binding, u iil be sent by mail,-jxjst-paW, on receipt Of $1 CV-each.. T ' Remittances* should he made by lY-st-OfBe* Money Order og Draft* in avoktghiaeeof loau Newspapers ajre not to jeopy this advertisement v About the express order of Harper A Brothers. *?•''•■ Address HARDER A BROTHERS, , i *1 New York. 188c i r Harper’s Baza?. . hJu.strat’edI i iiAKrkR’s- Bax a a is -tin oniV paper in tha [.world That. eopibirms tin* ehe!test dt^ttiiuro bond -h. lint dsrt 'lustrations wfth the tKtest ; I'utifeions u d raetl! ds of household adorni aaei'ft. rts weejelv ilit^trattoud and deacripi th us .a the newest Baris'-c njLi New* York .•;,.•!« s, v, its te-efui j :u* - ruAheeV suy'pla- ; i:. -a'*. * : < at »-atoms, by enabling folio* lu b the'r own dressmakers. m anytime®, the cost i i > ih rip:ion. Its papers pn cooking, management of servants*and he»ua keeping in IL* various de tails a|re eminently j practlc tl. Much attonti»*a is given to-tins tai Wri-stiuz topic of soeiai ctitple«Z. anti i» ib Ri^tr.diious .d' Art iicetllevvorkr ufe acknowiof .1 to he unequalled: U^hj.iy merit i*. excellence, an<| the unique highest ru ’ter iif.it.. humorous pic litres lies wua for it the iiutueof the Auierkati f^trich. Harper's Periodlcalsi, Pear ¥ciwf: HAUI'SirS BAZAAR... .j...;; *4 00 HARPER’S M ATiAZINE *>■....L'. 4 U» n ARPEiUS WEEKLY.4 W HARP Firs YOUNG* PEOPLE!,.2 90 IIARPKIVS FRANKLIN SHUARS HE i ARY, One Year ’of Numbers 1000 Postage Free to all subscribers hi tho United. States or Panada. p The Volume*; of the Raxar bigln with the Srst Number for January of each ytssr. Whea no time is mentioned, it W1U be uhtlerstood that the subscriber wishes to commence with the Number next after the receipt of order. Iftie last Five Am mud Volu me> ilf Karpek'S BT^Zak in neat elotti binding, will be sent by mail, postage paid, or b> express, ft©* of expense (provided the freight do*)s not exceed one dollar per volume), for $7 ©OYvraotume^ Clot’ll Cases for each volume,-suitable for biruUng, will be sent by mail, postpaid? on reeel |>J of $1 iX) each. $e4»ittanqesJshottld be made by Post-OfBee. J^oiiey Ordecor Draft, to avoid ehani e <>f loss. Newspapers are tuvt to copy thp» advertisement without the express order of IlAnrKR A Broth Kits. Address HARPER & lil&vriXKRS, New York* 1885. Harper’s Young People; AN illi STKATE!) WEEKLY. The serial and short stories in H arpek’s Young Reopjgf have all tiio drahaitic Inter-, est tiiaf juvenile iietlon can possess, whilethey are wholly free from what {Kmieious. 1 or vulgarly sensational. The humorous stories and pictures ure full of innocent fun, ami the p»p»'rs-*>n natural history and selbuce. travel* ami the* facts ©f life’, are hy writers whose names give the best assitranco of aceuruey ’ arid value. Iliustnttetl papers ‘on athletic | sp«>rts. games, and pastimes give full tnfor- ; motion on those subjects. There is nothing cheap about it but its price. An epitome of everything that is attractive and desirable in juvenile 1 iteratlnv.-^-iiosioi^ Courier. ' I ? A weekly feast of good things do the >K>yse add girls in every family which it visits.— Hroo fcly?i I ’ liov. 1 It is Avoalleribil in Us wealth ^of pietnrea* ibibrtflatioii and intdreoL—thrust inn AdtK*> cafe, X. Y. Terms: Fostago Prlp!, S2 00:Per Year. Voh Vli commentes 2SToi\ 4th, 1S84* Single numbers^ Five Cvttlseach. Remittances should be made by Rt>M4-Oflfc?o Yt«»ney OrcK r or Draft. to avoid chance of Iocs, Xewsp-i^'iN a>*i' uot to copy this advertisement wit it out the express order of Harper A Brothers. Address HARPERd: BROTHERS, New York

Petersburg Planing’ Mill JAMES P. SNYDER, Prop'r, (Successor to Dickson & Carson.) Dressed Lumber^ FLOORING, Weatherfooarding, &o, Al^waiTJ on EiastdSash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, &c.»