Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 October 1890 — Page 1

l-SJ J. L. MOUNT, Siitof fend j *roprietor. VOLUME XX I. “OfcLr Motto is OFFICE, over j. B. YOTJNS & 00/8 Stofe, Mai* Street, PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1890. NUMBER 20.

!OY, M. D., n and Surgeon PETERSBURG, IxD. Will practice in city and adjicnc county. Special attention given to Chronic Diseases. Venereal Diseases *mcjssfully treated. Consultation free. 49^ Office in seconda|ory ->f tlisgen Budding, Main street, between Seventh and Eighth. v i'n\sbiz B. Posey. Dtvnt Q. Chappell POSEY & CHAPPEI.R, Attorneys at Law 9 Petersburg, Ind. \VilTpractice in all the courts, tention given t.) all business. Public constantly in the office. l>n first floor Batik Building. Special at A .Notary J3~Office— E. A. ELY, Attorney at Law]S Petersburg, Ind. 03~Officd over J. R. Adams A Son’s Drug Store. He is also a member of the United States Collection Association, anil gives prompt attention to every matter in which lie is engaged. G. I*. Richardson. A. H. Taylor. RICHARDSON <fc TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Plibl.c constantly in the office. Office n Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. EDWIN SMITH, attorney at Law AND Real! Estate Agent, Petersburg, Ind. i fiSTOffice over Gus Frank’s store. Special fiti«*iiti(»n given to Collections,.Buying and Selling L inds, Examining Titles, Furnishing Abstracts, etc. R. R. KIME, Physesan and Surgeon Petersburg, Ind. in Bank Building. Residence oi Seventh street, three squares south of Main. Calls promptly attended day or nignt. I. H» EaMAE, Physician and Surgeon Pkteissburq, Ind. 4. Will pract%3 in Pike and adjoining counties. Offijc in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. «£»Di*euses of Women and Children aspei iaiiy. Chronic and^lifficult cases solicited. DENTISTRY. HARRIS,

NEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important I rent). . . FIFTY-FJRST CONGRESS. IN the Sonata, on tho 2»th, after the !)4*aage of some minor bills-, the cohfi rencs re. port on the Deficiency Appropr ation b 11 waB presented, explained and pa! sed. The conference report on the Tariff bill was then presented and read at length Messrs. Morgan, Carlisle and others made speeenes against tho bill, and Messrs She man, Aldrich and others spoke in its fa rnr. Tho report was then laid aside Inform illy without action, and the concurrent 1 esolvtlon tor final adjournment on the nth, was presented and referred to the flm nee committee. After a short executive s< ssioft the Senate adjourned.....In the .House the conference report on tho DefiClenc.; bill Was. after brief discussion, agreed tc, Several other bills, of minor luiporta see Were passed, and the House took a re less in tit eight o'clock, When several t dlls wert passed. IS the Senate, on the 33lh, the I onlcrencc keport on the Tariff bill was ado] tod, S3 to $7, Messra Plumb, Paddock and Pettigrew Voting in the negative. The St nate also passed Mouse hill (with verbal am mdment,) to promote the administration of Justice in the army. The conference repo rt on the Signal Service bill was-agreed to, md Fottso bill to enable the Postmaster- tenoral to test the free delivery system la small towns was passed. ->tn the louse the Senate bill to protect Settlers < a certain lands in Florida was passed; al: o bi ll relinquishing certain lands to the c ty o! San Francisco. The bill to establish a uniform standard of grain Was taken up, rut objection which threatened to block a II Dnsiness developed, and it was withdraw!. A number of bills were taken from th j calendar and passed. IN the Senate, on the 1st, the conference report on the hill in reference t - contracts fog surveying public lands was .greed to. Veto messages of bills for tb i reliief of Charles. P. Chouteau and of Me Portland company, and to prohibit book making in the District of Columbia were rei eivetl from the President. The Senate refu fed t» Con - car in the resolution to Correct further tlio Tariff bHl.la the House the report of the committee on accounts on the investigation of the postmaster of the House was presented. It declares the office of postmaster vacant and directs the assistant postmaster to discharge the duties until another postmaster shall be elected. The report was agreed to. Senate concurrent resolution requesting the President tc> enter Into negotiations with Great Britain and Mexico to seenre trade stipulations lo prevent the entry of Chinese laborers was passed. The Senate agreed to the conference report On the hill in reference to contracts for surveying public lands. At six o’clock both Houses of Congress adjourned sine die.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. In Grace Church, New York; on the 1st, the first session of the first training school for EpisCopal deaconesses was opened. Others will be started at Philadelphia, Cleveland and Richmond. The Russian Minister of the Interior is preparing a law authorizing the deportation. to Siberia, without trial or formality of any kind, of all fore igners who have been expelcd from their own countries and whose governments refuse to recognize them. The Anti-Lottery law seems to be more comprehensive than at first supposed. Judge Tyner, Assistant Attor-ney-General for the Post-Office Department, Is of the opinion that the law applies equally to the church fair raffle and kindred schemes of chance as to the Louisiana Lottery, and that newspapers advertising such are- to be as rigidily excluded frpm the mails as those containing announcements of the greater grab for the gold of the gullible. The Secretary of State, on the 30th, t to the Senate a statement of the bursements from the appropriation the expenses of the late Pan-Amer-conference. The appropriation $125,000 and the expenses $124,88, the balance, $20.12, being turned tho Treasury. serious flaw has been discovered he Tariff bill since it was signed— ission of the paragraph providing drawback on manufactured tobacut as this clause does not go into until January 1, Congress will an opportunity to remedy the det. >tal production of silver in this his year will be fifty million hen in ess blocks in llion, N. Y., d to the ground on the morn■0th, and half a dozen others > or less damaged by fire and 'ore the flames were gotten .rol. resident promised a labor comthat called on him, on the 30th, Congress adjourned he would ijsideration to the Eight-Hour ' would ifisistnpon its strict enit in the Government buildings. Ns sending mail matter to f the Dakotas should be caresignate North or South Dakota, ce officials find much annoym a neglect of this precaution persons. k the provisions of the pending ill all articles of import must y marked, stamped, branded in plain English words so as the country of their origin, so marked, stamped, branded they shall not be admitted e Hinkle, eight years old, l killed his five-year-old sister olas Court-House, W.Va., on the he had threatened to toll her f George’s disobedience. Carnegie, the iron magnate, ong the passengers on the rvia, which arrived in Now Liverpool on the 28th. is in San Francisco of adjusting, if possible, ces between the engineers thern Pacific road and the i company. i Doolittle, of Racine, ▼ering from the injuries rebeing thrown from his buggy, mayor of Troy, was Congress by the DemoFourth Ohio district at 1st, on the 95th ballot ird convention held. In a deadlock of eight days, portion of the town of the county seat of was entirely destroyed the i for am market, on the flue silver declined ght guilders per . in Sioux Qity, carrying New ropreihso

The pardon committee of the Massachusetts Executive Council has tihdoi consideration the ttppilts&Ubh for a pardon for Jatnes burlap* sentenced to (State pfisbn ih £k fcefiiier, i8TT, loir twenty years tot cbmpiiblty id th'e North ampton hank robber^. NO mbmbeIs of the House introduced the ehstomary resolution thanking Speaker Seed for fairness, impartiality, etc., in the chair. Once before during1 the history of Congress was this feature omitted. It was at the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress, over which Mr. Keifer presided. Congress adjourned sine die on the 1st. . . Loots Kossuth, the llunguri&h patriot, has written a letter in which he advises thfe Hungarian extremists to take their stand Ch the-dualistic principles Onuciated in l$4d. . At Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 1st, Charles McElvaine was sentenced to death by electricity in the second week of November: for the murder of C. W. Luca. Germany and Austria are discussing the preliminaries of a joint convention looking to closer rhiatitths between thti railway systems bt those countries. Governor of Now York has appointed General Roger A. Pryor J udge Of the Court of Common Pleas of New York, in the place of Judge Larremore, who recently tendered his resignation, to take effect October 1. The Government Printing Office mado the quickest time on record in the annals of printing it getting out the official print of the Tariff law. Tint Independence Beige, Of Brussels, says that the passage of the McKinley Tariff bill insures the-failure of the Chicago World’s Fair, It is needless, the paper adds, tor Americans to ekpoct that Btttopeiins will, under the Circumstances, go to the expense of making an exhibit oh that occasion. Louis Gkigg, aged twenty-one, of New Albany, Ind., f atally stabbed William Carroll, aged nineteen, on the 2d, with a pocket knife, for twitting him with being a cripple. The latter,drawing the blade from his owh body, plunged it into the abdomen,.of his murderer and immediately fell dead. The other died in a few minutes. There is no doubt that an extra session of the Ohio legislature will be called by Governor Campbell to abolish the Cincinnati Board of Public Improvements. A special message is being prepared, it is said, that will be a full and terrible arraignment of the political vices and corruption in office Which abounds in that city. It is said that the greatest discontent reigns in Guatemala among the masses against President Barillas, and war within four months is predicted. Karl Haas, the valet of the Count of Paris, who was removed from the steamship Germanic to St Vinoent’3 Hospital, in New York City, at three o’clock on the afternoon of the 3d, died at seven o’clock the same evening from intestinal obstruction. On the 3d, the grand jury in the New York Court of General Sessions returned an indictment for conspiracy against the full board of walking delegates of the building trades of that city, but the district attorney arose in court and moved that they be dismissed. Recorder Symthe immediately dismissed them. The indictment was found in connection with the boycotting of brick manufacturers. Two children of Nelson Dion, of Marlborough, Mass., aged seven and four, respectively, were burned to death, on the night of the 2d, by the explosion of a lamp. The entire Republican ticket of Seattle, Wash., was elected in the late election. The Republican majority is estimated at about three hundred. Eleven prominent men have been called recently to Cabinet positions by President Barillas, of Guatemala, but all have refused to serve. The ceremony of turning the first sod for til- Niagara Fa lls tunnel took place at ten o’clock on the morning of the 4 th. A tremendous gale swept over tho North Sea on the 3d. During its prevalence five vessels foundered. Two of the Ohio express robbers were captured at Bellefontaine, on the 3d, by the railroad detectives, and one ef them made a confession.

The total importation of barley at the port of Oswego, N. Y., for the thirty-fire days ended on the 4th, was 1,800,000 bushels, $27,009 in duties were collected at the custom-house there. Every available craft was pressed into the service. The last ones to leave Canada were instructed to return with their cargoes if they could not make Oswego by midnight of the 4th. The Mississippi River Commission 'which has been sitting in New York City for a week finished its work, on the 4th, after after apportioning over $3,000,000 for the improvement of the Lower Mississippi and its tributaries. The commission will report to the Secretary of War and the work of improvement will be begun as soon as he approves the apportionment Mrs. Rooth, wife of General Booth, chief of the Salvation army, died in London on the 4th. From the beginning of the Salvation movement Mrs. Booth has been her husband’s chief assistant in the development of the organization, having been the first to introduce the fevnalh element which forms so conspicuous a feature of the army. Several wealthy Jewish merchants of Odessa have been ordered by the authorities to se ttle up their business within four weeks and leave Russian territory. No charge isjnade against them, except that they are Jews. The trade of Odessa is largely in Jewish hands, as is indeed that of most Russian cities. On the 4th the Secretary of the Navy awarded to Cramp A Sons, of .Philadelphia, the contracts for building two coast-line battle-ships, increased twelve feet in length, for $8, COO,000 each, and the protected cruiser on the department plans for $3,725, 900. POSTMASTER-GENERAL Wanamaker made pnblio, on the 5th, a letter addressed by him to Representative Bingham, chairman of the House Committee on post-offices,embodying an elaborate argument in favor of his plan of postal telegraphy. Oh the evening of the 5th, the Compt d’Paris, the Due d’Orleans, the Due d’Uzes and Count de Haussonville dined privately with General Sherman at the latter’s residence in New York. Ex-Pbesidehi Cleveland will attend the banquet to bo tendered by the Thurman Club of Columbus, O., to exSenator Allen G. Thurman on his next birthday, November 18. The Secretary of the Navy formally acoeptad the ciulsfr San Franoisooon Mm 4th.

STATE INTELLIGENCE; ElFtH INDIANA BlSTRibt. ■tatal Population of Eight Town* and Blissed bounties aw Announced by the Ceniia Bureau. The Census Bureau has announced the .result of the census in the Fifth District of Indiana, which consists of sixteen counties, which are as follows: Population. Counties. 1890. Benton....:. 11,896 Carroll.;.20.005 Cess...,....8l.Hl Fulton..,.,.s. wh..., .,. 16,693 Howard—....#6,097 dsspet'...:;..li, ITT Lake-_— *8,844 Laporte 84; 813 Increase. Marshall.; Miami _.SB,s4i .25,528 NSwton;;:;... 8,784 Pulaski. St. Joseph. Starke. White.18,038 ..11,218 -.42,404 .. 7.5B ..15,660 1.6)0 8,903 8,394 W* l,fl4 8,738 3,1*0 84* U 1,361 4.826 8.827 1,865 The total population of the district is S37.909, an increase of 46,600, or 16.57 per fceht: The population of eight ot the largest towns in the same district is given as follows: titles. Population. Kokomo.............— .... 8,224 Laporte. 7,123 I.ogansport__...13,796 Michigan City_.10,701 Mishawaka.... ... 8.369 Peru -,.._6,731 Plymouth.,. 8.743 South Bend .li.i. ..i.21,788 Valparaiso...:.,..,..,. 5,os8 Increase. 4.184 927 2,600 8,338 T4B 1,451 I5d 6,506 Itifc other morning Jacob tl. Turner, 6f Muncie, received a telegram from the President's private secretary, Mr. Halford, tendbHilg hiin tht) appointment of thessenger at the White House, a positioh lately vacated l)y Mr. fed ward M. White; of the same City; resigned. At the recehl reunion of the Thirty* fourth Regiment at Ossian, the survivors, 133 in number, held services at the grave of their old commander, Lieuten-ant-Colonel Swaim, who was killed in battle at Champion Hill. Brief remarks were made by W. T. Giffe, of Logansport The stolen, horse wanted by the In* dianapolis police has been found at Crawfordsville. It was in the possession of oman who had purchased the ahiinal from the thief, Jons B, Wilson pleaded guilty of horse-stealing, at Covington, hnd Was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. While the sheriff was returning him to jail he made a break for iiberty, but Was recaptured. Frank Magee, a Pan-handle brakeman of Logansport, died the other nighty of lock-jaw. He had his arm badly| crushed while making a coupling and ■died in great agony. White Caps notified Fred L. Weil, of English, to either sober up or leave the county. He left the county. Rev. J. R. Drew, aged eighty-two, and Mrs. E. T. Drew, seventy-five, were! married at Evansville. The couple were early lovers. John Cunningham, of Harrison County, sold the apples from his orchard of 800 trees for 81,600. Mrs.Cuas. Hass, a widow living alone in Ft Wayne, was attacked by burglars the other night and beaten so badly that she was unconscious and doctors pronounce her injuries fatal. The burglars got no thing, and effected an entrance by shouting that her son, a switchman, had been killed in the railroad yards. At Huntington, Joseph Silney has entered suit against Louis Gauss, a saloonkeeper, in the sum of 83,000, for selling liquor to bf* minor son, who, becoming intoxicated, fell into the Wabash river and was drowned. A prowling panther is doing more to keep the Brookville boys in of nights than whole volumes of lecture^ on the folly of late hours could accomplish. George Allen, of Brazil, was killed by the cars at that place. The last work of the -Morgan County grand jury, which has just adjourned, was to return twenty indictments against persons for violating the liquor

Mrs. Ei.ma C. 'Whitehead is to bring suit for $50,000 against prominent persons to whom she attributes the rumors of her supposed connection with the death of Mrs. W. F. l’ettjit. A novel, lawsuit was disposed of in the Montgomery Circuit Court the other day. J. D. Hoss, of Indianapolis, sued Mrs. Lydia Hesley on a note. The defense set up a counter-claim for fuel and light used when Hoss was coming to the house of Mrs. Hesley to see a girl. Hoss then filed a demurrer, asserting that inasmuch as Mrs. Hesley also had a bean when he was there, she would have used the fuel and light anyway. The Court found for Hoss. ' Tom O’Neill, who was the confidential clerk of County Clerk John Sullivan, and was jointly indicted with Sullivan for issuing fraudulent warehouse receipts, entered the Criminal Court at Indianapolis, the other evening and gave bond lor his appearance for trial. The bond was 85,000, but was reduced to 82,500 by the court, and was promptly given. O’Neill has been in Indianapolis with friends for several days, but the fact was kept secret pending his efforts to secure bondsmen. He says that he knew nothing of Sullivan’s fraudulent methods, and left only because he did not believe he could get a fair trial, owing to the prejudice against Sullivan. There are now, in round numbers, 53,000 pensioners receiving their quarterly allowances through the agency in Indianapolis, and scores are constantly being added to the list The last quarterly payment called for 83,250,000. This places the Indiana Agency next to that of OMo, which is the largest in the country. y The following were named for postmasters a few days ago: Wm. A. McDaniel, Thorfitown; Jas. M. Overshimer, El wood. The Democrats of the Ninth District nominated Leroy Templeton, of Benton County, for Congress. The Farmers’ Alliance Convention later indorsed the nomination, though part of the delegates organized a separate convention and entered a protest At Danville, James Wilson, a boy fourteen years of age, recovered a judgment for 87,000 against the Indianapolis, Deoatur and Springfield railroad as damages for the loss of a leg, caused by negligence of the railroad oompany. A host-office Inspector has made a favorable report regarding the establishment of the free delivery system at Jeffersonville. John Shaffer, who was shot by his brother-in-law, Valentine Stierwalt, while attempting to force an entrance to his house at Brazil, died next day. Stierwalt in bis preliminary trial, was acquitted. Alfred Wilton, manager of the Harrison Coal Mine at Clay City, was caughl under a heavy mass of falling slate and srushed to death, the other morning. His father, Edward Wilton, fainted whan be beard of bi« son’s death.

THE NEW VOTING SYSTEM detailed instructions on the Daw Governing the Election. Report of a Committee Selected by the Stole Chairmen of the Tiro Leading . Rattles as Ho How the Voting Mast Be Bone. POINTS OF THE ELECTION I.AW. The committee consisting of three lawyer* of each of the two leading political parties of Indiana; appointed id take Cognizance of points brought forward by the new election law; have completed their work and i-epbrted the rhsult Of their laibrs. to the chairmen bf the Republican and Democratic State Committees. The gentlemen' engaged in this work were .Tames B. Black, Addison C. Harris and Roscoe 6. Hawkins bn behalf of the Republicans, and Judge William E. Niblack, James McCabe and and Jacob P. Dunn, Jr., for the Democrats. The first section of the report applies to the order in which the ticket shall be printed, that of State being as follows: Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State. Judge of the Supreme Court—Fifth District, Attor-ney-General, Clerk of the Supreme Court) Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chief of Bureaii of Statistics, St&te Geologist; On the ioCa! tickets the battles Of the Candidates the Committee advise should be in the following order, as far Its applicable t the particular county: Representative in Congress, judge of circuit court; prosectttiiig attorney, judges 6f SiiperiOr Court, judge of criminal Court; Senator, joint Senator, Representative, joint Representative, clerk of circuit court, county auditor, county treasurer, recorder, sheriff, coroner, county surveyor, county commissioner. The report then continues:

I. J CBCT^ A table for electloa board. B B B booths when ballots are marked. C challenge window, D door. E E chute through which the voter must enter. P railing separating the election board from the Voters. W W windows. In constructing the Ohtitei and in enforcing the provision that no person shall remain within fifty feet of thS challenge window, regard should be had to the purpose of the statute. Passage along the highway should not be unduly obstructed. Persons passing or being within'fifty feet for manifestly necessary and lawful purposes should not be hindered or molested. We recommend the following instructions to voters, required by Section 35 to be printed on tbe cards Which are to be posted at the polls, as sufficient to meet-tbe requirements of the law: . Instructions to Voters. Fifst—Voll must get your ballots of the polling clerks in the election-room. Second—If you want to vote a straight ticket) stamp the square to the left of the name of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket, then do not stamp the square to the left of the name of your party, but stamp the square to tbe left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote on whatever list of candidates it may be. Third—Do not mutilate your ballot, or mark it eitheaphy scratching a name off or writing one on, or in any other way except by the stamping on the square or squares as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. Fourth—After stamping your ballots, and before leaving the booth, fold them separately, so that the face of them can not be seen, and so that the initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on the back thereof can he seen. Then hand your ballots to the inspector, the stamp to the polling clerk, and leave the room. Fifth—-If you are physically unable to stamp your ballot or can not read English, so inform the polling Clerks, and tell them how you wish to vote, and they will stamp your ballots for you. But the voter and clerks should not permit any other person to hear or see how the ballot is stamped. Sixth—It you should accidentally, or by mistake, deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot, return it to the poll clerks and get a new ballot Sec. 43. Whoever shall knowingly cr willfully make a false affidavit, under any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of perjury. Sec. 50. Any person who shall remove or attempt to remove a ballot or stamp from the election-room, or having in his possession outside the election-room any ballot or stamp, either genuine or counterfeit, during the election, shall be guilty of felony, and, on conviction, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less thantwo hor more than five years, and be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years. Sec. 65. If any person not herein authorized so to do shall enter or. attempt to enter the election-room, or enter or attempt to enter within the railing leading from the challenge window to the entrance of the election-room without first having been passed by the cMttllengers, or having been sworn in as herein before provided, or shall remain within fifty feet of the polling place, contrary to the provisions hereinbefore made, ho shall be guilt; of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Section 56. If any person shall induce, or attempt to induce, any elector to write, paste or otherwise place on his ballot the name of ' any person or any sign or device of any kind as a distinguishing mark by which to indicate to any other person how such elector has voted, or shall enter into or attempt to form any agreement or conspiracy with any other person to induce or attempt to induce electors, or any elector, to so place any distinguishing name or mark upon his ballot, whether or not said act be committed or attempted to be committed, such persons so offending shall be guilty of felony, and, on conviction, he imprisoned not more than five nor less than two years in tbe State's prison. Section 59. Any person who shall, daring the election, remove or destroy any of the supplies or other conveniences placed in the booths as aforesaid, or delivered to the voter for the purpose of enabling the voter to prepare his ballot, or shall, during an election, remove, tear down or deface the cards printed for the instruction of the voters, or shall, dnring an election, destroy or remove any booth, railing or other convenience provided for such election, or shall induce or attempt to induce any person to com mlt any of such acts, whether or not any of suit acts are committed or attempted to be committed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall he punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, and be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years. Seo. 90. No officer of el<f tion shall disclose to any person the name of any candidate for whom mw an tor hM 'rated. No nt aIaaUab i

shall do dhy electioneering oin eieotion dsi;y. No person whatever shall dS any electioneering on election day within any polling piahV- W within Bfty feet of any polling place. Nopersob Shall apply for of fitjeiVc any Ballot in any polling place other than that ifl wBIch he M entitled l«o vote. No person shall show his Billet after ft is marked to any person in such a way as to reveal the contents thereof, or the name of any candidate or candidates for whom he has marked his vote; nor shall any person'examine a ballot which an elector has prepared for voting or solicit the elector to show the same. No person except the inspector of election, or judge who may be temporarily acting for him, shall receive from any voter a ballot prepared by him for voting. No voter shall reeeive a ballot from any person other than one of the p:dl clfefks; Bor Shall any person other than a poll fc lerk doiivef 8 ballot to in inspector to be voted. No voter shall deliver any bailed tfc du inspector to he vOted. except the tints he tecfeives from ihe poll clerk; No voter shall place any mark upon his halldt of setter Or pefmlt any other person to do so, by which it may be afterword identified as the one voted by him. Whoever shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, and by fine of not less than :me hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dol lars, and be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ten years. Sample Ballots. The sample State and local ballots, provided for by section 35 of the statute, acts of 1889, page 174, three of which are to be posted by the inspector in and. about each polling place, should he printed in large type, each on a sheet at ]:iapef about 35x38 inches ifl size. The sample State ballot will be prej pared by the State Board of Election Commissioners. and inclosed in the package Of State bailots for each precinct. They wili be printed on yellow papef, Sfld will have printed thereon the words: “Sample ballots; Genuine State ballot is on fed paper.” The sample local ballot should he prepar id by the county board of election con missioners, and inclosed in the package of local ballots for each precinct of the county. The sample local ballot should be printed on green paper, anc should have printed thereon the woi’ds: “Sample ballot Genuine local ballot is on white paper.” If deemed desirable by committees of pol itical parties or by committees for the purpose of the Instruction of voters ballots Conforming to the above description of sample ballots may he printed Of any size. On yellow and greeil ptper, respectively, and posted up or circulated by such committee or candidates at any tit le during the political canvass. Ballots; .is there afe two bailots and two hai-lot-boxes, inspectors Should bo extremely careful to put the red ticket In the red box and the white ticket in the white box. ' , The initials of the poll clerks on the back' of each hailot should be scrutinized before the ballot is deposited in the box, as a safeguard against possible forgery of ballots. In case a voter offers a ballot that is not folded so as to show the initials of the poll clerks it should he returned to him, with instructions to go into the booth and fold it so that they will be shown. If a voter offers a ballot so folded that the name of any candidate voted for is disclosed it can not be placed in the box, and he can not thereafter he allowed to vote. This ballot should he- surrendered and destroyed, and a minute of the occurrence, With the statement of the destruction Of the ballot, should he entered upon the poll-list, opposite the name of the person, Challengers and Full-Book Holders. Section 41 of the Act of March 8, 1889, Cvided “One challenger and one pollk holder appointed and designated by each party organization shall he entitled to stand at the side of the chute near the challenge window.” The county chairman Should provide & written appointment for such persons, which should he recognized by the election board, unless revoked and a substitute appointed over the same signature. The judges of the Marion Superior Court have construed Section 2 of the Political Purity Act of March 9, 1889, (Chapter 130, Acts 1889), to prohibit the payment of challengers, poll-book holders, drivers or any other party-workers on election day. We acquiesce in their construction of that act.

Election Sheriffs. Election sheriffs will preserve order at the polls, make arrests on the demand of a member of the election board, or on affidavits. They should conduct blind voters or others needing physical assistance through the chute and to and from the voting-room. They should attend from^he opening of the polls to the conclusion of the count. When the polls are closed the election board must first count the ballots remaining and unvoted, and the clerk* must record the number of unvoted ballots on the tally-sheets. Thereupon these unvoted tickets must be totally consumed by fire. The board must then count the State ballots before counting the local ballots, by laying each ballot upon the table in the order in which it is taken from the ballot-box, and the inspector and the judge of the election differing in politics from the inspector, shall view the ballots as the names of the persons voted for are read therefrom. If a ballot is not stamped on one of the squares at the left of the titles of the tickets it will be counted for the names with stamps on the squares to the left of them, and no others. If two or more names of opposing candidates for the same 4ffif$e are stamped neither can be counted. If the title of a ticket is stamped and no names are stamped, the ballot will be counted for all the names on the ticket whose title is stamped. If two or more titles are stamped, the ballot must be treated as if neither title were stamped. If the title of one ticket is stamped and also names on other tickets, the ballot must be counted for the names so stamped and also for all the names under the title stamped, except the opponents of names stamped. This is subject to the following exception: In case there are two or more candidates for the same office on the same ticket, as in case of candidates for the Legislature, Judges of the Superior Court, justices of the peace, etc., in some counties, if the title of one ticket and the names of one or more, but less than all, of such candidates on another ticket are stamped, such ballots can not be oounted for any of the candidates for such offices, for the reason that the intention of the voter is not apparent. If a voter desires to vote a mixed ticket, as to such offices, he must stamp the name of each candidate for whom he desires to vote whether be stamps the title of a ticket or not. To avoid possibility of mistake, in such cases, election officers should advise voters, if they vote a mixed ticket, to stamp the name of each person voted for. If any ticket is found not indorsed Counting Oat. with the initials of the it ftpy ticket bean fay (

mark or mtitllhflOH, it shall noi. be counted; so if any ticket p«wmrly *»' dorsad and Hot mutilated is so snase tip that it is iJSpestfiMe to determine Irons the ballot the elected Choice of Candidates; such ballots shall not Its Sftatcd as to the Candidate or candidates affected thereby, btit shohld be Counted as to tho candidates fieri thereby affected. In making the count if any member of the hoard shall protest Of-, object to the decision of a majosity thereof, as to counting 0? not counting the ticket, such ballots uiiiiH be preserved by the inspector, and the poll olerks must record on the tally-sheets a memorandum Stating how the tickets werd Stamped add counted, describing them for identification!. tin Completing the CoUitt of the State ballots and recording the tallies the ■ board must-then totally consume hf j fire tbe Undisputed ballots,- and the inspector must preserve, as hereinafter stated; thodisputed ballots. >■ Tbe board Pill then proceed to count tbe local ballots in the 9ahie manner/ The count ended, tne board trust fill , up the election return papers, shewing j the total vote cast for each candidate, j and immediately make a memorandum j of the total vote cast for each candi- j date, and deliver a copy thereof tc each I member of such board. Returns, The coufit being completed the board j must place in a paper bag or envelope j to be furnished for that purpose a!'. aiS- j davits made and taken during the elec-; tion, which bag or envelope must be se- i cutely healed by the hoard. Each mem- I her Of tbe board mh9t indorse his’name I on the back of such bag of envelope, i Which must he directed to the clerk of j the county; to whom the inspector mustdeliver such bag 0# envelope within j three days. --— All protested and disputed ballots preserved.from destruction must be pat in another bag furnished for that pur- ■ pose, together with the seals of the bai- ] lot packages in the same Condition as j they were when the packages vfr&fo j opened at the beginning of the election. { The inspector must seal this bag with ] wax and indorse thereon the number of j ballots therein and the condition of the > seals of the ballot packages, with the ; name of tho township and the number j of the precinct And stlch inspector shall deliver the same at the earliest possible period to the clerk of the county. In the third bag must be placed one of the lists of totef9 kept by the noli | Clerks and one of tbe tally*papers, j which bag must* be tightly closed and j sealed with wax by the inspector in the I presence of the judges; and the in- j spector must deliver the same to the county clerk on or before the Thursday next succeeding the day of election, and make the affidavit required by section 4,718 cf tbe revised statutes of 1881. In addition to the report of the com mittee as given above we reproduce \ from the law the following instructions to voters! tli‘n;g W licit the law Says fie must Do j urn Some Others that He Most Not Do. WHAT THE Vo¥eH MUST D» If you are subject to registration, as before stated, you must register at the County clerk’s office at least three months before the election. On going to the polls on election day pass through I the chute to the challenge window, and j if challenged swear in your vote or stand aside. The necessary forms for

affidavits will be supplied at the challenging window. If not challenged, or after sWearitig in your vote, pass on through the chute to the door, where you will be admitted in turn. When you enter the election room announce your name to the poll clerks,, who Will furnish you with a red ballotcontaining the names of all candidates for State offices, a white ballot containing the names of all candidates for local offices, and a stamp for marking them. If you do not understand how to mark your ballots ask the poll clerks. If you can not read English, or are physically unable to mark your ballots, the poll clerks will mark it for you, and on request will read ovor the names marked. Go alone into, one of the unoccupied booths and mark your ballot with the stamp. If you wish to vote a “straight ticket” mark the square in front of the title of your party at the head of the ticket. If you wish to vote a mixed or “scratched” ticket mark the square in front of the name of each candidate for whom you wish to vote. If by accident yon tear, mutilate, deface or spoil your ballot go at once to the poll clerks, explain how the accident occurred, and ask for another ballot. Before leaving the booth fold each of your ballots so that the initials of the poll clerks on the back will show, but so that no part of the “face of the ballot can be seen. When your ballots are marked and folded come out of the booth. Give the stamp to the poll clerk from whom you received it and hand the folded ballots to the inspector, who will pot them in the ballot-box in your presence. Then leave the room. When you have voted, and before you are ready to vote, remain fifty feet away-from the polls. As the vote? doubtless now understands pretty well what to do, he should now carefully read WHAT HE MUST JJOT BO. Do not attempt to vote if you are not a legal voter. You are not a legal voter if you have not lived in the State six months, the township sixty days and the precinct thirty days. You are not a legal vdler if you have lived in the county less than nix months and have not registered. If registered you must have your certificate with you. Do not accept a ballot from any person outside of the election.room. Any ballot obtained outside is fraudulent, and it is a penitentiary offense ti> have such a ballot in your possession whether you attempt to vote it or not. Do not attempt to hold any conversation in the election room except with the members of the election beard and the poll clerks. It is a penitentiary offense to declare that yon can not read English or can not mark your haslet if in fact’you can. Do not mark on the ballot with the stamp at any placo except the squares in front of the title of the party, or the names of the candidates for whom you wish to vote. Do not put any meek of any kind on your ballot except with the stamp. Do not tear, mutilate, deface or mark your ballot in any way so that it could be identified; and if you should do sc <wcidentally do not attempt to vote it, Do not show the face of your hollos to any person; you will lose your vote and be subject to fine and imprisoaiftcai if you do. Do not attempt to see tha bul- ' ‘ * any other person. «“,s

MMti PIKE COUHTT DEMOCRAT JOB WORK or sans Neatly EjKooutod -AT- | SEASONABLE BATES. NOTICE! j P-rtaas receiving a copy of Ibis paper With ! this notice crossed in iead pejvfil ire notified sabocripUOa has expired. j steat tin the tine of their clerks- Do w>* Injara or utter fere with try of til* railings, posters, booths or any of the furniture used in conducts 5*g Site election. Do not udvis*, counsel or abet any vote buying’, bribery os other violation sf the election law. Do sot personate some one else in registering. Do not misprint ballots. , Do sot make a false affidavit. fit) not refuse an employe time to vote, as She law says he can have four hours si some time In the day for that purpose. Bo not deceive an elector in assisting him to stamp his ticket. Do not forge the clerk’s initials on » ticket. Do not counterfeit ballots. Do not open or destroy ballot ages.Do net reveal the nature of ticket cast by voter. Bo not try to persuade election board f* violate the law. lie apt electioneer within the fifty feet limit. Do not 3bow a marked ballot .1 Do not bribe, '{ Iks hot break open any ballot box. Do not alter a tally sheet Do not import totem. , Do not vote twice. £‘% fDo not intimidate voters. Do not bet on the election. Severe penalties are provided for doing or attempting to do any of these acts. Any voter who attempts to leave the election room with a ballot or stamp in bis possession shall be immediately arrested, and any person having in his possession outside the election fosKn any ballot or stamp, whether genuine or counterfeit, during the election shall .be guilty of felony, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years, and shall be disfranchised for any determinate period not less than ton $

LUCKY METAPHOR. Row 1» Wide-Awake Youngster CS»»l His Father’s Resolution. , It had been decided that Ben Ham* snond should do a little study through the spring vacation, to make up for time lost that winter in illness. Ben rebelled; he declared that such a decree was tyrannous, no matter who imposed it, and at last plaintively asserted that he really didn’t feel well enough to work while the other boys were at play. His father and mother proved Immovable; study he must, they declared, at least two hours every forenoon. On the first morning of vacation, Ben was heard soliloquizing as he dressed: “Oh yes, harness me up! I’m nothing but aa old cart-horse. Put me into a heavy.cart, load it up with coal, and then lick me along.* ' Now’ the one circumstance which could move this family to wrath and vengeance was unkindness, of any sort, shown to dumb animals. U8n had chosen the most telling metaphor which occurred to him, and his mother, overhearing his remarks, was greatly amused by them. . “Ben,” she said, slyly, at breakfast, •’didn’t I hear something about your being a cart-horse this muming?” “1 am,” said Ben, seizing upon the -«taa. “dim, a-cart-horse and nothing else. All my chums are kicking lip their heels in the pasture, and I have to work all day long, with only a little musty hay in a nosebag three times » day. I’ve got on an overhead check so tight that I can’t see where I step. My back is galled under the harness. My knees are all barked, where I’ve fallen down on the cobblestones. One of my slices hurts me liecause I was shod by « poor blacksmith.” ! “Oh, come, Ben,” said his father, writhing behind his newspaper. “Wo might as]well read Fox’s Book of Martyru at the table as listen to such horrors.” ) “It’s all true,” said Ben, dolefully. “Tin just such a horse. And at night after my day’s work is done, the boys of the family harness me into a buggy anci drive me miles and miles. And they’ve bought a long, slim whip, and how it does tingle! Sometimes I see other horses in tho street eating grain for dinner, but I don’t even know the taste of oats!” “Get along with you!” said his father, unable to bear more, “Go and have a game of ball-—or skate—or go in swimming—or play marbles—hut don’t work on my feelings any more to-day. Youth’s Companion. ^ TO INSURE LONGEVITY. What t» One Han’s Food Is His Neiichbor’s Poison. Exceedingly common is the notion that length of life is controlled by habits, and that a careful observance of what are called good habits must necessarily insure to every one longevity. Indeed, some appear to think that such self-denying persons ought never to sicken or die. 5 it was my fortune, many years ago, io know a man who held to this idea and whocarried out to the full such a course of life with more than ordinary consistency and intelligence. His income enabled him to completely realize hns ideal. He trained his body carefully and regularly; he had no “small vices.” nor groat ones; he ate the plainest food, but, it was always of the best, well prepared and abundant. Not one of those habits which are esteemed good was neglected, and those which are called bad were shunned with abhorrence. He boasted that he was never sick, and that he would live to celebrate bis one hundredth birthday. He had a neighbor of the most self-indulgent kind, i He also was a man of wealth, who took iso exercise beyond an occasional pleasure drive, who uniformly ate a hot and | rich supper at ten o'clock at night, and i of whom it was asserted that, though | never drunk, bo was rarely, if ever, perfectly sober. The former of these gen- \ tleraen died at sixty-four; the latter at sixty-eight. Of the heredity of either I have no knowledge.—North American Review. __ How Ho Paralysed Her* “Sambo,” said Baldwin, as the two sat down St a table in a restaurant, “watch me paralyze that waiter girt.” He beckoned to the girl, and she obeyed the summons. “My dear,” he said, “you may bring mo some rare-done chicken soup” Shu went away and returned presently, bringing a bowl of lukewarm wafcer with a chicken-bone floating about “This isn’t on the bill of fare,” she observed, pattingdown a check for twen-ty-iive cents, “and it costs extra. Any thing else?”—Chicago Tribune. ' X maser—"How about that theater in your town?” Rasticus—“I tell yon (.hefSre no flies on our opera-h