Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 July 1892 — Page 1

PIKE COUNTY DESIOC PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: For one pear.tl M For six month*..... 65 For three months. SB INVARIABLY IN ADVANCI. AUVUKiiMMU BATKSi One square (B lines), one insertion........41 00 Each additional Insertion . BO A linerol reduction mods on advertisements tunning three, six and twelve months. Legal and Transient advertisements mast he paid tor In advenes. STOOPS, Publisher. —,— PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1892. VOi,. XXIII-NO. 6 — REASONABLE ELfrPKOTICR! N Persons reoelViBg a oopv of this paj this notice orossed id lend pencil are that the Ume of their suDsertntion has

nH>nmo»At camisA T. KIM^l. M. D., Physician and Surgeon, FKTiCRSEUB <J, IND. *j-03tcc In Bank building, first floor, T''** We found at office da; or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given to all Businas* SS-Offlce over Barrett & S^n's atom. rRANCH B. FOSBT, PEtVJTT Q. CUAPMCM. TOSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law, Petkbsburb, Ind. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the oflioo. *®-Offloe— On first floor Hank Building. E. A* KX.T. S.G. DAVKNPOta. ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYER, Petkrsbuko, Ind. JSWOfllce over J. B. Adams A Son’s drug Store. Prompt attention given to all bnsiBess. K. P. Richardson. A. H. Taylob RICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petkkseuho, Ind. Prompt attention givon to all buslne39. A Notary Public constantly in nio office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main.

- ; „.<• DEN’TISTRT. W. II. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms6 end 7 In Carponter BuildhHr. Operations first*class. All work warranted. Anmstlictles used for painless extraction of teeth. < L H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Ini>. ■Will practice In Piko and adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Olflc« hours day and night. $3f-Di*cases of W'»men and Children a spoMalty. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, D. V. S.r PETERSBURG, IND. Crring to long practice and the possession of a fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle ISTJCCKSSFULUY. He also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he soils at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store.

96000.00 i year in being made by John R. ■ Goodwin,'!''roy,K.Y.,at work fur us. Leader, (you may nut make r.s much, but we can teacli y*>u«|iii‘kly lion- to earn from 96 to $10 a day at the start, and more as you go on. Doth sexes, all ages. In any part of America, you cau commence at home, giving all your lime,or spare moments only to the work. All is new. Great pay bl Hk. for every worker. We start you, furnishing •veivihing. EASILY, Sl'EKUlLY Lamed. rAltl K lLAltS FREE. Address at once, STIXSOX k 10., 1'OUTLAKD, SAl.NE.

TIIIS PAPER IS ON PILE IN GHIOAGO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. TRUSTEES’ NOTICES OF OFFICE DAT. ■\TOTICE Is lioreby Riven that I will attend 1 r to tho duties ot the cilice ol trustee of Cluy township ut Union on EVERY SATURDAY. All persous who have business with tho Sffice will take notice that I will attend to usincss on no other day. At. M. GOWEN, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby Riven to all parties Interested that I will attend at my office Jp-$tend:il, • ■ EVERY STAURDAY, To transact 'business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having businesj with said office will please take notice. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. OTIcSe Is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be nt mv residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with the Office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. TVTOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at ”‘y reS'dEVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Logan township. g^-PosItlvely no business transacted except on office days. <,■ ‘ 8ILAS KIRK; Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence " EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the offleepf Trustee of Madison township. 49-rnsltlvely no buslnoss transacted except office d*y*-JAM]Eg TUMBLE, Trustee. XT OT1CE is hereby given to all persons InXN tefested that I will a^end In my office le Velpso, EVERY FRIDAY, To t ansact business connected with the office of Trustee of Marlon township. Af pel-sens having business with said office Will .lease take notice. W. F. BROCK. Trustee. N oriCE Is hereby given to all person! Ctncernrd that I will attend at my office KVERY DAY To transact business connected with the offl i of Trustee of Jefferson township. R. W. HARRIS, Trustee.

What is Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oils It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years* Use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria dest roys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria nssimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is the Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friend,

Cgtstoria. « castorln Is an excellent medicine for children. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children.” Da. G. C. Osooon, Lowell, Mass. » pastorls, is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the various quack nostrums which are destroying their loved Ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby Bending them to premature graves. ” Dr. J. F. Kiscueloi, Conway, Ark.

Castorisu “ Castoria Is so well adapted to children that I recommend it os superior toany prescriptlci known to mo." H. A. Archer, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. *• Our physicians in tha children's department hare spoken highly of their experience in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have Among bur medical supplies what is known as tegular products, yet we arc free id confess that the tnetits of Castoria has won us to look will favor upon it." • United Hospital and Dispensary, Boston, Mass Allen C. Smith, JVm.,

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NEWS AND NOTES. A Summary of Important Events. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.

In tho senate, on the 221, aft Jr disposing of come bills on tho calendar, the senate spent three hours on the free- silver hill. Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, made a speech against the bill, in the course of which he questioned the statements of his colleague, Mr. Peffer, and of Mr. Morgan, as to tho "impoverished condition of the farmers,” and the high rale of Interest charged on farm mortgages.In the honso the blind chaplain offered a beautiful and touching prayer for kelp aud sympathy for Mr. Blaine and his bereaved family, and as hls resonant voice filled the chamber the members stood With bowed heads. The house agreed to to cot hereafter at 1* o'clock. IN tile senate; Oil tho 233; til spite 8f the tetri'} weather and the interest manifested in the democratic convention, the sc# don was of con,’siderable length and was very interesting. After the passage of several bills, the principal amtjng them being one to appropriate 850,000 to» the Sherman pedestal, the agricultural djlpropriation hill was taken up, but withont taking a vote thereon the senate at 5:05 p. m. adjourned.In the house no qnornm appeared and an immediate adjournment followed the opening. Tho sen.-ito was not in session on tho 24th. In the house no business of importance was transacted. Tbb senate was not in session on the 29th. .....Inthe ilodsd the sessloblasted jnst thred minutes. There Bjin? no qnornni preseritte transact business, the house adjourned until the 27th. In the senate, on the 27th, a disposition was shown to push as many of the appropriation bills through as possible before the expiration of the fiscal year on the 3)th. Nearly the whole day was given to consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial bill, in which considerable progress was made. Mr. Hale (Me.) offered a resolution reciting that the presont high wages and 10# prices of necessaries are due to republican proteBtioii . ...In the house the confererica report on the military academy bill was disagreed to, and the bill was recommitted. Tha general deficiency bill was passed. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Wolves are so"’plenty in South Dakota that the cattlobaen are arranging’ for the biggest hunt on record. Rewards of 810 a head for old wolves are offered, and it is expected that thousands of the animals will be killed, They have Increased enormously within a few years, as there has' been little Or no hunting, Jacob HaRVey tvas hariged in the annex to tile Ohio fieniteritiary, dii the mofhtng of the 24th, for the murder of Mrs. Maggie Lehman, }n Daytoii last August. The trap was feprung at 12:29 a. m., and he was pronounced dead at 12:37. His neck was broken. A fearful collision between a 1 west-bound passenger train and a freight train on the Frisco occurred near llrnsh Creek station. Mo., on the 22d. The trains met on a sharp curve and came together with a terrible crash. ■ Horace Gilmore, fireman on the passenger train, was killed and five others injured. Emperor William and King Humbert visited .Tuterberge, on the 22d, where they witnessed the artillery practice. As they returned to Berlin they were cheered by the Immense throngs that crowded the route. The cheering was Continued Until the emperor and his royal guest entered the scliloss. The Parisian jury in the case of the murderous anarchist Ravachol, returned a verdict of guilty, on the 22d, and the prisoner was promptly condemned to death. His alleged accomplices, Beale and Souhere, were acquitted.

A crevasse fifty feet wide occurred on the Delagny plantation, thirty miles above New Orleans, on the 23d. Traffic on the Texas Pacific road was interrupted. Surrogate Ransom, of New York city, rendered his deeison in the Hotchkiss will case on the 23d. lie says that the will was not procured by undue and unlawful influence or persuasion, blit that mild fraud was practiced, of which Mrs. Hotchkiss was fully aware. He adds that if it is possible for him to annul the claims of Raphael Wood and Mrs. Manning', his mother, he will do so. A souTH-iiouNn train on the Big Pour railroad, when twelve miles north of Niles, Mich., on the 23d, ditched its rear passenger coach, containing seventeen p'assengers, many of whom were severely injured. They were taken to Niles for medical attention. On thf morning of the 2 tth, an unknown man about 25 years of age entered Charles Green's gun store in Boston, and selecting a revolver asked the clerk to load it. The clerk explained that it was against the law to load the weapon in the shop; but to show how to charge it he inserted one cartridge, and handed the pistol to the man, who took it, pointed it to his own bveast and fired. He died while being taken to the city hospital. Although he expects to spend the summer at his seaside retreat in Massa-* chusetts, ex-President Cleveland will go to New York when the notification committee is ready to meet him, as he prefers to receive the formal notification of his nomination in his own state. Rev. Thomas Dixon, of the Twenty-third-street Baptist church, of New Y ork, was indicted on the 24th for a libel against Excise Commissioner Joseph Koch. The alleged libel was contained in a sermon denouncing the excise commissioner. The Commercial hotel at Sanger, Cal., was destroyed by fire on the 24th. Five of the guests were burned to death and a number of others were injured. The second section of traiu^ No. 9 on the Pennsylvania railroad ran into the rear of the first section of the train at South Harrisburg, Pa., on the night of the 24th, while running at great speed to make up lost time. Five passengers were killed outright and fifteen injured persons were sent to the hospital. Department of state officials are very reticent in regard to a reported proposition having been received from the Dominion government for a settlement of the disputed question of canal tolls. There is no doubt that such a proposition has been received and is under consideration, but its nature can not be definitely ascertained. Ex-Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, haa gone to Europe. The sleeper attached to the Alabama & Vicksburg train from Cincinnati was derailed, on the 26th, four miles from Vicksburg, Miss., and hurled over an embankment twenty feet high into a pond of considerable depth. The passengers, about 25 in nqmber, were all injured, though only four of them seriously so, and- narrowly escaped drowning before they could be taken out. Absolute proof has been discovered that Thomas Neill, now in London charged with poisoning Matilda Clioevy, is Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, a native of Quebec, Can., who graduated from McGill college in Montreal, and was sentenced to a life term in the provincial penitentiary for criminal malpractice.

feii'cSnti Bt&sW Iftini . Vtfk for the ri-eeR ended on the !i5ti! Hreft Ml,282,545. Of silver, 8157,425. Imports >f gold were $94,118; of silver, $84,020. Martin Mundt, a dealer in skirts and gaiters, died in New York, on the 26th, of morphine poisoning. A drug clerk gave him ten grains of morphine instead of quinine, and he took the entire quantity, death resulting in a few hours later. D. D. IiKM., the well-known Kentucky horseman, who was stricken with paralysis recently, died at Lexington, Ky., on the 20th. He was one of the wealthiest men in that section. He jave thousands annually to charity. Most of his fortune is in New York and 6t. LbUiS:

Fjvfc square, miles of. territory adjacent lo lhe village of Dauphin, h suburb,of thicago^ weye buried beneath 4 Hood on the night of the 26th, and a thousand or more houses between State street and Lake Michigan were at the mercy of the waves. Tnn Mississippi river at Burlington, la., was, on the 27th, nearly twentyeight miles wide, and boats could run to Gladstone, 111., twelve miles inland. Many buildings were submerged in the lowlands. All trains were abandoned till the St. Lotiis, lxeftktlk & Northwest' ern toad: . .. The World's fair commissioned froui Llreat Britain, Sir Henry Truman Wood, is trying to persuade the exposition authorities to grant more space for the Qreat Britain exhibit. Edward Cook, aged 70, residing north of Lebanon, Ind., committed suicide, on the 20th, by shooting himself in the head and cutting his throat: No cause given for the deed. It is said by those in a position to know that strenuous efforts are making to effect a reconciliation between Mr. and Mrs. Drayton, and that Mrs. Astor confidently expects it to be effected. This is assigned as a reasqj for her departure for Europe with her daughter. On the night of the 26th two electric care in widely-separated parts of the city of Boston were simultaneously struck either by lightning or by the motor current through burned-out insulators, and Several passengers were bruised in the rush to escape. JoriN Axri IVaeos, prominent masons of Birmingham, Aia., were Bred upon; oii tile 27tH, while' robbing a store. The former was jailed and the latter fatally wounded. Cai>t. Bonur, the military attache to the American legation in Paris, lias admitted that he traded in French official secrets. He has been promptly recalled. Minister Lincoln gives public warning to Americans to beware of English estate sharks who advertise fortunes and titles, mentioning William Lord Moore in particular. Years ag‘o George M. Withers separated from his wife at Columbus, Ind., leaving h?r to care for a small child. Recently he returned and found his wife working in a tailoring establishment itiid his baby boy grown Up and manager of the Postal telegraph office; A happy reunion took place, and a palatial home will be built with the fortune which • he has accumulated; Indian Commissioner Moroan says that Rev. Sheldon Jackson, who was reported murdered on May 20, has arrived safely.»t his destination in Alaska, and that at the time of his reported assassination he was on shipboard 1,000 miles from the place where the assassination was said to have occurred. Hon. John Fitzgerald, ot Lincoln, Neb., ex-president of the Irish League of America, lias sailed for Ireland as one of the committee from the United States to bring about a reconciliation of the Irish ‘factions and to secure united action in the approaching election. After suffering long and severely from a peculiar distress in the stomach Dr. E. M. Booth, of Yallonia, Ind., on the 27th, swallowed a strong emetic and vomited a live lizard six inches long. He is much better. Myron Pratt, the gray-haired old man who, on June 11, killed Mrs. Margaret Sperry, at Lincoln, Neb., died at the county jail, on the 27th, of brain fever, brought on by remorse for his crime.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 28th, the agrijultural appropriation bill was passed, with an amendment, and the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was taken up.In the house the committee on invalid pensions was accorded the floor and bills were passed to pension army nurses now without means of support who served six months in caring for and nursing the sick and wounded; to provide a pension of 150 pet month for nonspecified disabilities, and to remove the disabilities of those who participated in the rebellion and have since enlisted in the army or navy of the United States and become disabled. The officials of the Amalgamated association were informed, on the 28th, that “every man in the employ of the Carnegie steel works at Homestead, Pa., would be discharged on July 1,”* the company having decided to run the works thereafter with non-union employes. *' Rev. Shelby Hardy and two daughters were killed by lightning near Ridgeville, Tenn.,on the 28th. The three were returning home in a buggy when the storm came up and they sought shelter under a tree. The bolt which killed them did not hurt the horse. George Rhett Cathcart, one of the leading members of the American Book Bo. of New York, and widely known in business, literary and social cireles in this country and Europe, died at Newport, R. L. on Hie 28th, of heart failure. Mrs. Nettie Colburn Meynard, a well-known spiritualistic medium, and author of “Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?" died at her home in White Plains, N. Y.. oh the night of the 28th. Bank of Ireland stock has had a further decline of six pounds and was offered, on the 28th, at 305 pounds. Irish railway bonds are also falling on account of home rule legislation. A terrific storm passed over eastern Pennsylvania on the night of the 27th. In many sections it assumed the proportions of a cloud-burst, and resulted' in much damage. The Tennessee people’s party state convention met in Nashville, on the 28th, with 200 delegates present. J. C. Roberts was made temporary chairman. The United States battle ship Texas was successfully launched at Portsmouth, Va,, on the 28th, in the presence of 19,000 spectators. The British parliament was prorogue*) by 9«teen Victoria on )h« 88th.

imtm STATE NEWS

New AlLAn i i nfcw railroad depot. , The burned glass factories at-Mun&e are being rcbui! t. Baoi.ey & OissBumen, Laporte jewelers, made an assignment. . ( Anna Carlyle, of Terre Haute, dieu from a dose of cil of tansy. Wheat crop near Washington will be the largest for many years. Of all the odd pets which adorn a domestic yard Wm. Mathers, of English, boasts of an immense blacksnake and A polecat, which he has fed and humored during file past three years. In return Mathers claims that his barnyard has been diverted. W fftti, Which,three years hgo, swarmed pboUt the bfctriij.anfl two years jjgo,ivhen every other farmer wai almost ruined by their, depredation, Mathers’barn was unmolested. C. & E. I. will soon begin survey f0* a line from Brazil to the Ohio river. Dan Davis was arrested at Seymour for forging a $505 order oft township trustees. Anderson glass workers protest against non-union made glass in the World’s fair building. S. C. Allen's young daughter was Minded for life by lightning at flaminond: . . The Lafayette gun club offers a $200 badge for the best score ih the state tournament to be held ffbin J uly 0 to July 8. At Borne City a mob seized Hugh Platt and beat out his brains while he was driving along the road. Platt had whipped a man; and the latter's friends wanted revfc’nge; . George Wilson, of fcblumbUs, arrested a burly Negro who entered HlS house, hut the jailer refused to lock the Negro up, and arrested Wilson for carrying eOncealed weapons. Dii’HtIieria is raging at Shelbyville. The South Bend Y. M. C. A. is out of debt Electric ears will be running in Ft. Wayne July 1. Anderson barkeepers organized for the purpose of shorter work. The corner-stone of the New Albany Y. M. C. A. building has been laid. Ly*iAN CoLe, of Taswell, blew in a, shot-gun and blew off the top of his Lead; , .... (JraciE YouNtz, aged 13, fyas caught in flour mill machinery at Eaton add killed; A Lafayette stofcfe company raised $150,000 to secure the Monhn railroad shops. Peter Richter was found lying on the canal bank at Indianapolis with his throat cut from ear to ear, and after his removal to the hospital he rallied sufficiently to say that he had attempted self-destruction. Mr. Richter was formerly in flourishing business, but illhealth had downed him, and fearing that he might become a burden upon his wife he tried a short route to eternity. jl Hon. Thomas R. Cobb died at his home in Vincennes, aged 65 years. He tvas a member of the Indiana legislature froin 1858 to 1806, was delegate to the national convention that fiominiited Tildeh, was tt member of congress fretn that district from 1876 to 1888, aiid a member of the Forty-seventh congress. Senator McDonald’s old partner testified in the McDonald will case at Indianapolis that several days before his death Senator McDonald said he had left his wife a life interest in his estate. A’^Lafayette, the north wall of the three-story building occupied by the Dienhart Harness Co., gave way the other evening, precipitating the eotitents of three floors into the cellar filled with water. The stock was damaged to the extent of $2,000, and the building, owned by J. D. Marshal, of Chicago, was damaged about the same amount. The new city council at Vincennes ordered all saloons closed at 11 p.m. and raised the license $200. ■ The body of Mr. Charles Burge, of Geneva, was found early the other morning at a railroad crossing, about a mile from Union City. The body was lying in about two feet of water, and two gashes were in his head. It is supposed that he fell from a-train. The relatives of Mr. Burge took the bodv home.

The other night a freight tram on the Pan-handle road passed over the body of a man who lay upon the track. The wheels passed across the chest, severing also the right arm. Upon the head were a couple of wounds, which looked as though they might have been made by a blow from some blunt instrument, fracturing the skull, prior to the mang* ling of the body by the train. There is no clew to the identity of the stranger. A disease resembling la grippe has broken out among horses at Madison. Leonard Hinkle, of Noblesville, was fatally injured in an elevator accident. Crawfordsvillf, has an epidemic of diphtheria. James Lykens, of Newcastle, died from the intense heat Muncie will have a new Presbyter* ian church. The Crescent paper mills at Ft Wayne burned. Loss 568,000. Abram Aleshibe, the oldest man in Wabash county, died of old age the other night He was ninety-three years of age. Clerks in W abash are organizing to urge the early closing movement When the legislature convenes Ft Wayne will ask for a new charter. Cassius Watts, of Logansport attended a republican jollification, and, going home, shot himself in the heart Mrs. Rachel Watson, of Brazil, suspecting her husband of infidelity, took morphine and then screamed for help to save her. The doctor and his pump brought her around all right The old settlers of Fountain, Warren, Vermillion, Montgomery and Parke counties, will hold the thirtieth re-union at Yeddo, August 18. Mrs. Margaret Bogan, of Marion, has brought suit against the electric street railway company, of Kokomo, asking $10,000 damages for the killing of her husband recently. The city of Vincennes lost its suit with the Vincennes Gas Co., and will have to put up about $20,000. Vernon and North Vernon are to bo connected by a street railroad, the line passing through a picturesque strip of country along the banks of the Muscn* t&tuck. Lightning struck a short telegraph circuit in Roachdale and set fire to several barns, whereupon, it is reported, the alarmed citizens cut down all remaining private wires in the town. James Searles, of Mitchell, and Belle, Gibbons were married in 18T5. Later they were divorced and each married again. Pivorce is again in order, and Searles ar.d hia nrst }oyc will be parried tbe second t-imo.

THE PLATFOBM

Of the Democratic l*arty of the United States is It was Adopted In the National Con- £ Tentlon lb Chlcugo^lt Will be Bead with Interest by Men *f All Parties.

Following is the platform of the detfw* eratic party of the United States as adopted, after slight amendment, from the report of the committee on resolutions: Suction 1. The represents lives of the demo-et-atic patty of tba United States, in national ftbnVefttibii UsscBiblcd, do reaffirm their allegiance to (he ttlftciblfes of the party as formulated by Jefferson Slid exemplified by a Sng and illustrious line of bis sheoessmrs in demotrati^ leadership from Madison to CleW land. We beliefs IW* pqblic welfare demands thivc these principles be upplfekl to the conduct of. the, federal .government throu^T? the accestn p'yrSr of. the party that advocates Ike** and we kol6i?h«iy..d?5jsre that the needjoz a re turn to these fundf\Mental principles of a free, popular government oascu !*U home rule and individual liberty was never more trrgent than nmv, w hen the tendency to centralize all puffer afyife federal capital has become a menace to the reserved rfgfc** dLtho states that strikes at the very roots of om* under the constitution as framed by the r€pifr*U).~ THE PAIR-ELECTIONS BILL—(“ FORCE £Hltn) Sec. 2. Wo warn the people of our common country, jealous for the preservation of their free itosftittttiohs, that the policy of federal control of elections to which the republican party h*s committed itself W frftiigfet With tho gravest qohggtfe/ afiatt&ff. Ibsfl momentothj that! wptild result from a rev.bluiiotf practically establishing.monarchy on the rfifiis or the fepublie. . It strikes at the north as ^*ell as the south, •Ind injures the colored citizens eVifii mOTe than (he Whites. Jt means a horde of dephtv •laco armed with _»y federal authority, ttier pntrago the electoral rights of the people in the severs] states, the subjugation of the colored ixBopli t6 the control of the Ffcff. add the, reviving of, race antagonisms now happily abated, or tno utmost peril to the safety apd bAppiuess of all,.ft measure deliberately aha justly described by a lea Hug re?, publican senate** ;most,infamous bill I hat ever crossed the tareCT^rff of tho senate. Such policy, if sanctioned by law, would moan the domiuanee of a self-perpetuating on^utch% bt office-holders, and the party first entrusted With its machinery could be dislodged from powef 6ul*,by ftr. appeal to the reserved right of the people t8 fe5?i§t Oppression which is inherent in all self-governing fiOmitittnltidS. Two years ago this revolutionary pCfliCv #aft effi* phatically condemned by the pobplO tit ib& polls; bnt in contempt of that verdict the republican party has defiantly declared in US latest authoritative utterance that its success in the coming elections will mean the enactment of thelorce bill and the usuipatioa of .the states. despotic control over elections in all t Believing that the preservation of republican government ifl the United States is dependent upon the defeat Of thte policy of legalized force #nd fraud; We invite the support of all citizens who dCsite.to the.eonstitutiofl tnftitltajned in integrity, with foe laws porStiant thereto, its tfrhich ljaye given Oftr country d hhhdred yeafS of unexampled prosperity; and wo. pledge the TioiW *# if Ka iritrmitftfl With TMlWe*. democratic, party, if it be intrusted With poWe*,. not only to the defeat of tpe force bill, but fileo to relentless opposition to the republican policy i expendituiW, Which in the short of profligate -- -^. space of two years has squandered «Sn enormous surplus and emptied an overflowing tre'ftVPTT after piling ne^ burdens of taxation upon tho already overtaxed lsbov of the country. TARIFF TAaA?.*OW, Sec. 3. Wo reiterate the oft-reffeiUod adoctrinos of the democratic party that the nece^3i< A _ 0 J 1 _. 1 :« 4 t,» /.nln fintl ty of the government is the only justification for taxation, and whenever a tax is unnecessary it is unjustifiable; that when customhouse taxation is levied upon articles of any kind produced in this country the difference between the cost of labor hero and abroad, when such difference exist, fully measures any possible benefits to labor, and the enormous additional impositions Of the existing tariff fall With crushing force iipfofl OtU* farmers and workingmen, and for the mers advantage of tho few whom it enriches exact from labor ft grossly unjust share of the expenses of the government, and we demand such revision of the tariff laws as will remove their iniquitous inequalities, lighten their oppressions and put them bn a constitutional and equitable basis. Bdfc in making: reduction in taxes it Is not lccted at tho custom-hotlses hate been the chief source of federal revenue. Such they must continue to be. Moreover, many industries have come to rely upon legislation for successful continuance, so that any change of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and capital thus involved. The process of reform must Is subjected ifi.tne execution to this plain dictate of justice^ We denounce the McKinley tariff law enacted bv the Fifty-first congress. We denounce rcpufc'iean protections # fraud, a robberv of the Brent majority of the American peopio for the benefit of the few. We declare it to bo a fundamental principle of the democratic party that the federal government has no constitutional power to inforco and collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue only and domand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of tho government honestly and economically admrnRsciPRocrnr.

oec. 9. 1 limi.' vj.uu.itgu uu mu .. ciprocnl advantages to the countries participating is a time-honored doctrine of the democratic faith, hnt We denounce the a ham reciprocity which Juggles with the peoclp 3 desire for enlarged foreign markets and freer exchange by pretending to establish closer trade relations with a country whoso articles of export aro almost exclusively agricnltoral prodnets with other countries that are also agri - col turn!, while erecting a custom-house harrier of prohibitive tariff taxes against the richest countries of the world that stand ready to take onr entire surplus of products and to exchange therefor commodities which are necessaries 11ml comforts of life among onr .among onr own people. TRUSTS. Sec. 5. We recognise in the trusts and combinations which are designed to enable capital to secure mole than its just share of the Joint product of capital and labor and natural consequence of (he prohibitive taxes which prevent the free competition which is the life of honest trade, but we believe their worst evils can hi abated by law, and we demand the rigid enforcement of tbo laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary. PUBLIC LAKPS. Sec. 6. The republican party, while professing policy of reserving the public land for small holdings by actual settlers, baa given awav the people’s heritage till now a few railroads ana nonresident aliens, individual and corporate, possess a larger erea than that of all our farms between the two seas. The last democratic administration reversed the improvident and unwise policy of the republican party touching the public domairf, and reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly 100,000,000 acres of valuable lauds, to he sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens, and we pledge ourselves to continue this policy until every acre Of land so unlawfully held shall be reclaimed and restored to the people. SILYBE COINAGE. Sec. 7 We denounce the republican legislation known as the Sherman act of 1890 as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities of danger in the future which should make all of its supporters, as well as its author, anxious for its speedy repeal. We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country as to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both met?,Is must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable valne or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all tunes in the markets and in the payment of debts, and we demand that all paper currency shall be ‘rept at par with and redeemable in such coin. Wo insist upon”thi-* policy as especially necessary for the protection erf the farmers and lasary icr wb pwwuuuvn boring classtak tho .first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency. EANE TAXATION. Sec. 8. We recommend that the prohibitory 10 per cent, tax on state bank issues be re

Civil- SEUVSCH. Bbc. ». Public office Is a pubUc trust. We reaffirm the declaration of the democratic convention of 18 8for the reform of the civil service, and we call for the honest enforcement of all laws regulating the same. The nomination of a president ss in the recent republican convention by delegations composed largely of appointees holding office at his pleasure is a scandalous satire upon flee popular institutions and a startling Illustration of the methods by which a president may gratify hfs ambition. We denounce a policy under which federal office-holders usurp control of party convene tions in the -dates, and we pledge the democratic party to the reform of these and all other abases which threaten individual liberty and •elf-government. FOKKiaK swains Sec. 10. The democratic party is the only parly that has ever given the country a foreign tv tQHt nas ev?r giro*' ^ policy consistent and vitfoyoos. compelling r.*spect abroad and inspiring confldencs at home. WMle avokiing eiWfipg alliances, it has SSSl to cuWivate fr^olyfralat^s ^th oth. r aimed to cmnvaw mepaw wmuw» - nations, and especially with cur neighbors on the American continent, whosedestinyia close7ly linked with our own, and we.view with alarm the tendency to a pohcyo? irrl taticn ana bluster which Is liable to confront ns with the alternative of humiliation or war at any time W-- favor the maintenanas of a navy str -rg enough for all putposw of national defense and to properly mamtalh th» taaof ae4 iUtuHy »< the eeuntry sbroaA

R£M<A*9T!f*JrCB « Tf* WWU. See. 11 This country bis always belli tb# 1 ,'fuge of the oppressed fr<m every »Bfl— exiles for conscience sake—and the spirit of the founders of otir government, wi condemn the oppression practiced by the Russian government upon Its Austrian and Jewish subjects, td we Call upon our national government in e interest 6r justice and humanity by all lust and propet means to Use its prompt and beat efforts to bttbfc Scout a cessation of these cruel persecutions in tL’C dominions of the ewi and to secure to the oppressed •qtttl rights. We tender our profound and earnest sym* pathy it? those lovers of ifpedgni who are struggling fof fe*me rule and tho groat cams or local solf-governmefff in Ireland. RESTRICTION Of fUJMOBATIOlf. Se* 18. We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the United State* from being used as ihe d inn ping ground for the known criminals and profeSWonal paupers of Europe, and We demand the rigid in force men t of thelaws against Chinese immigfbtion and the Im__A.. i:_ X portation of foreign workmen finder contract to degrade American labor and lesson its 4 wages, but wo condemn and denounce any and all attempts to restrict the immigration of the industrious and worthy of foreign lands. PENSIONS. 8ec. 13. This convention hereby renews the expression of appreciation of the patriotism of the soldiefS and sailors of the Unipn in the war for its preservation* and we favor Just and liberal pensions for all disabled Union soldiers, iSeir yidows and dependents, but we demand that tho frork of the pension office shall be done industriously, impartially and honestly. We denounce the present administration as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful and dishonest. RIVRRS AND tfSBBOHS.

Sec. 14. TIM federal govemmem snouid care for and improve the Mississippi river and other Eat waterways of the republic, so as to secure the interior states easvandcheap transpor- !«*» to the tidewater. When any waterway of the republic is of sufficient importance to demited aid Of the government, that such aid shouidbeextended on a definite plan of continuous work until permanent improvemant is secured. NICARAGUA CANAL. See. IS. Support of national defense and the promotion of commerce between the states, wo recognize the early construction of tne Nicaragua canal and its protection against forrfgn control vt iinportanee to the United States. WORI/Tl'S FAIB SIP. Sec. 1G. Recognizing the World's Col Ural tan expedition as a national undertaking of vast Importance, in which the general government has invited the co-operation of all tne powersol the world ,and appreciating the acceptance by ni any of such powers of the invitation so. extended and the broad and lilieral efforts being made by them to contribute to the grandeur of the undertal'Ing. wo are of the opinion that eongiees should make flid necessary financial provisions as shall bo requisite io the maintenance of the £a*ional honor and public faith. EDUCATION. See. 17. PopSla* education being the only safe basis of popular suffrage, we recommend to the several states most liberal appropriations for the public schools. Free common schools are tne nursery ef good government, and they have always received the fostering care of the demoer#t*c party, which favors every mean* of increasing intelligence. „ . Freedom 01 education, being an essentia' cr civil and religions liberty as well as a necessity for the development of intelligence, mustmot be interfered with under any pretext whatever. We are opposed to state interference witn parental rights and rights of conscience iit th» education of children as an infringement of the fundamental democratic doctrine th«t the largest individual liberty, consistent with the fights of others, insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government. NEW STATES. Be C. 18. Wo approve the action of the present house Of representatives in passing bills for the admission iiit6 the'Union as spates of the territories of NeW Mexico and Arizona. We favor the early admission of all the territories that hti?c the necessary population and resources to entitle fl#«m to statehood, and whllo they ro^ main territowtt* tre hold that the officials^ pointed to administer the government territory together with the Districts'* bla «f»d Alaska, should be botiaflchW^ the territory or districts in wiT are to be performed. The der lieves in borne ritlo and * own affairs by the people i RAILWAY EMFLOYJ Sec. 19. We favor leg stato legislatures, to pr* of railway employes an ous transportation cc the inactivity of the rep flcPlSrly the republican * defeat df measures benefit this class of tfrfge workers SWEAT?>*o sj Sec. 20. We are in favor the states of laws for aboil sweating system, for abpli! convict labor, and prohibiting in factories of children under la SUMPTUARY LEGISLATION Sec. 21. We are opposed to all sd laws as an interference with the rights of the citizen. ASKS JUDGMENT. ~ Sec. 22. t7pon the statement of the princip , and policies the democratic party asks tne mtelligent judgment of the American asks a change of administration ana a change of parties, in order that then? may b* a change of system and a change of methods, thus assuring the maintenance unimpaired ofmstitutions under which the republic has grpwn great and powerful. GREAT AND GOOD. The Private Characters of Some Famoo* 31 en. Poor Mrs. Carlyle! How significant that she should advise her young lady friends never to marry a genius. It was a humiliating discovery to find that the lofty philosophy of the Chelsea sage could not he .reconciled with the petty sneers and ill-nature of his common conversation. Said another unhappy spouse of a great man: ‘-‘When I hear my husband's magnificent speeches they mate me think we must not mind what he says to us at home.” It was Carlyle’s dyspepsia and Byron’s lame limb which put them at odds with the world. A man’s character may sometimes he the result of a diseased liver, and he may waste the highest gifts in raging at the megrims and fancies of a had digestion. It is a hard lesson to teach; hut, oh, how true that mental wealth can not atone for a poverty-stricken heart? that great gifts are not great graces! And yet some men were both great and good. Dear old Sir Walter Scott was lame, hut he carried his misfortune through life with sturdy good-humor, died from overwork in struggling to pay the last debt he owed. The late Henry Fawcett, postmastergeneral of England, was struck Jblind at the outset of his career. “What shall yon do now?” asked a

friend. ^ “Lire precisely as if I could see,” was the noble reply. Mirabeau was a dwarf in stature, and used to. joke and laugh about it with his colleagues. Men of gifts should not allow their studies to be growleries. Private life should be even fairer and more lovely than any public honor. It is too late to mourn, broken-hearted, on the grave of the dead, as did Carlyle in his later years. The pathway of such men’s lives can be made very beautiful with kindness. But it remains a curious , fact that many of those men who have joest loved and most influenced their fellows, or been noted for their curristmess or misanthropy, were sufferers from some defect of body or condition. The people who do not aspire to be geniuses are far happier than some who have dwelt on the lonelier heights of Parnassus. “Only one. man has understood me, and even he not perfectly,” said a dying German philosopher. What a- tragedy is such a confession as that!—N. Y. Ledger. the duchess of Sanfelice was walking along the Via Fireuze in Rome, recently, the cord holding her necklace of pearls broke, ancUthe gems, valued at. $50,000, rolled into the sewer. An alarm was sent to the department of streets, and laborers were instructed to search for the pearls, the Via Fireuze in the meantime being closed. The hunt was successful, and all but Jour of the jewels were found. —Bngley—“Whers are you living J now?” Brace—“In Harlem, on the installment plan.” Bagley—“AVhat is the installment plan?” Brace—“You pay for a house every month, and tl e* to foreign papers, whil* 4cn't ¥.,Tn»tfc