Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 July 1893 — Page 8

The County. News Gathered by Our Correspondents from V_ Various Farts of Pike County for the Democrat’s Readers. l’onr Friends, Where and What they Are I)o1iik at Present., Brief Mews Items Graphlrallr Portrayed—Aend tn Your Items. Otirell Items.

John Bilderback and sister, of Augusta, were here on the fourth. Clarence Abbott, of Algiers, was here last Tuesday calling on lady friends. Mrs. Sarah A. Hayes died last Monday and was buried at the Hayes cemetery on the day lollowlng Perry Chappell and William Cox. of Algiers, were in our burg last Friday on very important business. Mrs. Ruth Milcy, near here, died on last Wednesday very suddenly, and was buried at the pulic cemetery. F. M. Hedrick and family, ot Daviess county, were the guests ot T. G. Hedrick the forepart of the week. Mrs. Ellen Denny, the TV. C. T. D evangelist of Vincennes, lectured here last Monday evening to a large audience. Peter K Weininger, who has been suffer, ing with caucer, died last Friday night and 'was buried at Shiloh, Dubois county, the day following. 01 Kinman, who haB been lingering with consumption for sometime past, died la6t week. The interment took place at the Logan cemetery. Hilbert Dillon and Miss Nora Hedrick were united in holy wedlock last Monday night, Rev. J. W. Godwin officiating. We wish them a long and happy life. A double wedding occurred last Thursday evening at Mrs. Hostetler’s, three miles south of here. Edward Balthrop, of Tennessee, and Miss Laura E Hostetter, and W. B. Anderson and Miss Emma Hostetter were the contracting parties. Early on lastITuesday morning our citizens began to s(ir themselves about and .to get ready to cerebrate -the great and glorious fourth. Some of the people went to * Petersburg, Jasper, Bethel and others to the Lemons church. At the latter place all seemed to enjoy themselves. Rev, Steen, of Elliottsville, delivered an address in the morning, and in the afternoon Rev. Godwin, of Otwell, and Hon. Mike Sweeney, of Jasper, addressed an audience of 800 or more. The exercises were a success in every particular and a pleasant and enjoyable time was had by all present. “My little boy was very bad off for two months with diorrhea. We used various medicines, also called in two doctors but nothing done him any good until we used Chamberlain’s colic, cholera and diorrhea remedy, which gave immediate relief and soon cured him. I consider it the best medicine made and can conscientiously recommend it to all who need a diorrhea or colic medicine, J. E. Hare,fTrenton, Tex. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by J. R Adams & Son. j

Hosmer Items. T. J. Howard has been on the sick list* J. M. Clifford is clerking for J. O. Mile.v. j The voice of the reaper is heard in the land. Rev. T. Smith was at Washington last week. Newton Miley, from near Petersburg, is visiting his son. J. O. Miley. ' i Dr. W. C. Smith is home again from Lou-1 isville, Kentucky. The General Baptist folks will soon have the addition to their church completed. Ice cream social at the Congregational church next.Saturday night, July 8, 1898. Dr. W. H. Smith has completed the medical course, and is practicing with his father. 5 Dr. J.T. Smith has bis new barn about completed. It is one of the best barns in the township. W. C. Miley is in the sewing machine business, with Applega,th & Whitman of Littles, Ind. The American is the machine that he handles. While harvesting for W. W. Welton last Wednesday a week ago, Jesse Bell, an old soldier of the 58th Indiana, met with a very j peculiar accident, and one that might have been serious. He was cutting along on a The, oply Pure Cream of Tartar Powc Used in Millions of Homes—

very steep bill-side end stopped to sharpen his scythe. He set the cradle up as be had done a thousand times before and laid his arm along: the blade and commenced to whet, when the cradle got over-balanced, and be and it tumbled headlong together down striking the ground about twenty feet below, breaking the whetstone, a linger out of the cradle, cutting Mr. Bell’s fbrefinger on a snag and bruising him up considerably. The hill was so steej|> that Still Willis took a “brick” in bis neck from cradling across It twice. Mr. Bell is getting along nicely. Last fall I was taken with a kind of summer complaint, accompanied with a wonderful diorrhea. Soon after my wife’s sister, who lives with us, was taken in the same way. We used almost everything without benefit. Then I said, let us try Chamberlain’s colic, cholera and diorrhea remedy, which we did, and that cured us 1 think much of it, as it did for me what it was recommended to do. John Hertzler, Bethel, Berks Co., Pennsylvania 23 and SO cent bottles for sale by J. R. Adams £ son.j Spurgeon Items. There was a baptizing at this place last Sabbatb. A large number of eur people spent the fourth at Lynnville. William Osborn and family are visiting relatives at this place. A large of our citizens attended the ice cream festival Tuesday night. Mrs, J A. Shepard visited relatives the latter part of last week at Patoka. Several ot our young gentlemen who are working at MeOary, spent the fourth at home with their friends. Miss Ethel, the accomplished daughter of W. R. Osborn, has been visiting her sister in Petersburg the past month. Buckleu’s Arnica Salve. Thu Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, andpostively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar, anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per bos. For sale by J. R. Adams & Son. aprS-92

Beckville Items. Wheat harvest is at band, Warren Frost is a happy man. It's a girl.1. Van Mead and sister, took a trip to Petersburg last Friday eylnlng. B. F. English and Elmer Butler attended Sunday school at this place last Sunday. James Bottoms, of near Ayershire, visited friends in this vicinity a few days ago What’s the matter with Barlow f Give an account of yourself. Happy Jack Children Cry for Pitchcr’g Castoria. Elder S. S. Beaver, McAlllsterville, Junniatta Co., Pennsylvania, says his wile is subject to cramp in the stomach. Last summer she tried Chamberlain’s colio, cholera and diorrhea remedy for it, and was well pleased with the speedy relief it afforded. She has since used it whenever necessary and found that it never fails. For sale by J. B. Adams*sou. j Koxid Items. Wheat harvest about over. Mrs. Hays is very low with consumption. Everybody went somewhere to celebrate the fourth. Rev. J. JI. Berch preaches at Flat Creek next Saturday and Sunday. There will be a township S. S. convention in Marion in the near future. Miss Ola Woolsey of Oakland City Is visiting Miss Audie Traylor near here this week. Rev. F. C. Iglehart, New York, writes: “A corn on the toe Is a thorn in the flesh, which ‘C. C. . C. Certain Corn Cure’ most mer- ' cif ully removes.” For sale by Bergen. Oliphant & Co.

Beal Estate Transfers. Tbe following changes in Pike county dirt have taken place during the past week; Mary £. Amos to Aut Amos, 87 acres in sec 12,11 8; Aut Amos to William P. Amos, 87 acres in sec 12, t 1 s. Elijah Ficklin to Perry W. Chappell, lot 6, Alford. T Herman H TodranK to Dimmie Hollenburg, lots 63, 51, 57,58 and 70 Jouesburg James Sbawhan to Eli Rumble, quit claim to land in seo 86, 11 n. XT “C. C. C. Certain Chill Cure” Is not the best remedy you have ever used for Chills and Fever your money will be refunded. Vleasant to take. For sale by Bergen, Oltphant A Co. % The editorial room of the Warsaw Indianian has a common, every day, hemp carpet on the floor, but the Indianian claims that it beats the signal service as a weather prognosticator.- Whenever there is rain close the carpet simply humps itself on the floor, in some places three inches or more. The editor carries his umbrella or leaves it, just as the “humps” may signify. aking owder •r.—No Ammonia; No Alum. 40 Years the Standard*

DESEET OE COCOPAH FOUR YEARS' EXPERIENCES OF TWO DARING GOLD MINERS. A California Inferno Which Haa Swallowed Up a Small Army of Flacky Seekers After the Yellow Metal—How Two Men Managed on Their Terrible Trip. God may have wrought a place more terrible than the Coco pah desert of Lower California, but If ao it Is unmarked by the trail of mortal. A desert from which Dant e might have added to the horror^bf his "Inferno” a level of gray death, feared of man and forgotten of its creator; a region separated from the Beething caldron below by a thin crust of sand, through which the fumes and heat from the ebb and flow of fire seem plainly apparent. As a starting point for a desert trip find Campo, a vi’lage in southern California near the Mexican boundary and about 00 miles back of the coast line. Twenty miles south of that, as an initial point, run a line of 100 miles southeast until it touches the gulf const line. Between that line and the gulf lies the famous Cocopah desert with its range of mountains—a territory about 1001 miles square, but as little known as the interior of Africa. An. innocent looking little spot on the map, but on the surface of what it represents lie bleaching the bones of many men, both white and red. You will note that it is not marked with the zigzag lines which generally denote watercourses, nor is it marked with the shaded lines representing mountains. Why! Simply because as yet there has been found no corps of engineers with sufficient hardihood to attempt its survey. There are maps of the region, but they are seared on the brains of less than half a dozen hardy prospectors. Standing on the line you have drawn and looking eastward you may see the outlines of a range of low mountains distant, with

water 40, possibly 60 miles. Without water eternity intervenes between you and that range of hills rising darkly purple through the shimmering heat. That stretch of 40 or 60 miles is the worst part of the Cocopah desert—a wide stretch of arid, sterile, sandy plain lying far below the level of the sea and absolutely devoid of vegetation and life in any form. Too hot and dry for even the lizard and homed toad, the heat radiates from the sand and rocks with scorching effect, blistering the skin. Forty or 60 miles is not a great distance, you say, and ought to be covered in less than 84 hours. Other good men have thought the same and tried it. Their bones scattered about on the sand afford proof of their error. Every year for nearly half a century that desert has claimed its victims singly and in groups. Yearly since the Argonauts drifted south from the gold fields in the center of California men have started for the Cocopahs' and never returned. Once having reached the mountains, you are not saved from death by thirst. There are but two or three places in all that range on the west side where water fit to drink may be found. There are strange phenomena in that region, however, which are worthy of a scientific exploration. At the foot of the mountains, on the west, is a lake known as the Laguna Salado. It is probably eight miles in length and from one to two miles in width, lying parallel with the range. The water is very salt and has tides like the ocean’s. Its shores are fringed with a marine vegetation, and it is evident that the lake is fed from the gulf of California, but the gulf is more than 60 miles away, and a range of mountains intervenes. What^ lures men to that locality and tempts them to cross those burning sands? Gold. Of the hundreds that have tried to reach these mountains, that El Dorado of mucho oro, there are but a pitiful few that have ever returned. Among the latter are J. M. Brown and Jacob Crawford, two old time miners. Four years ago they “outfitted” at the little village of Campo and started for the Cocopah country. Two years later, gaunt, thin and hollow eyed, they drifted into the little Mexican town of Ensenada, some 66 miles down the coast. Their^lts were full of gold, however, and after resting they refitted and disappeared. From that time nothing was heard of them until Monday, when they arrived in this city. When they started for the desert, in addition to the usual supply of provisions and necessary prospecting tools, they had made four canteens of zinc, each of six gallons capacity and so constructed as to fit the backs of their burros. On the back of each burro was also a 5-gallon keg. Their way led them south from Campo to Tajo, some 30 miles Bouth of the Mexican line. From there they went down the Canon de la Palmas, and nine miles brought them to the edge of the desert. They decided to steer straight for what appeared a low pass in the Cocopah range and one that could not be mistaken. One night the canteens and kegs were filled at the spring 2% miles up the canon, and the next morning they started on their journey through that veritable val

leyoi ueatn. They had hoped to make the pass by traveling constantly in 24 hours, but here their experience failed them. The heat was worse than that of the Sahara, and the dryness of the atmosphere something of which they had not dreamed. They soon found that they could not engage in conversation without their throats and tongues ’becoming inflamed, and they went along in silence. The hot air seemed to shrivel their very lungs. Their canteens were constantly drawn upon, and by the time the mountains were reached those 192 quarts of water had disappeared, though it bad been used sparingly. Suddenly the oid burro stumbling altSig in front half paused, threw up his head, the long ear? went forward, and his nostrils worked convulsively. The pause was but for an instant. Then he went forward at a pace that hurried his more heavily packed companions to■ maintain. He had scented water. The first visible sign to the men was a spot of dam p sand under the edge of a bowlder in the bottom of the canyon. A short distance farther up a little stream trickled over the rocks, and not far above was a spring. 5 * The ever present heat was too intense for them to carry on their operations except in the early momingor late in the afternoon, but they managed to get an ounce of gold a day.' The nights were bqt littiocooler than the days, and after the men had'spent the usual two hours after Bundown in the placers they would stretch out naked on the sand and endeavor to pass the night in sleep. Mosquitoes and other insects did not bother them, the heat being too great seemingly for even them to bear.—San Diego Cor. San Francisco Examiner. I - | \ ■ Tobacco as as Indian Ottering, j Tobacco was regarded as an offering of peculiar acceptability to the unknown powers in whose hands the Indian conceived [his fate for good or ill to lie; hence H is observed to figure prominently in ceremonies 'as Incense and aa material for sacrifice.— J ohn Hawkins in PoptHar Science Monthly. ■t. - -■ C- _- ■ .» ■ . -A.

At the Electric Fleet. A man not accustomed to being around where electricity is made will feel a little nervous at the apparent recklessness of the man in charge of the dynamos. A visitor at the power house on lower Tenth street the other evening asked McKeown, the Brush electrician, “Where is the most dan* ger?” “ltight here at the arc ma* chine,” was the reply; “touch this brush and with the other hand touch any part of the machine and it would knock you senseless—it might kill you if your constitution were a'little weak, 3ut here,” and he held both hands close to the ends of the brushes—“to touch these brushes, one with each hand, would be certain death.” The big dynamo has a capacity of fifty arc lights, twenty-four are now run by it. The automatic brush holders.keep the arc lights smooth. They are an improvement over all other makes. The arc machine gives out great heat and is as good as a stove to warm by. The other machine is an alternator and supplies the fluid for seven hundred and fitly incandescents. A still smaller machine, an exciter is used to tease the other machine into activity. This will gjve some people an

idea of what dauger there is in connection with the works, and people visiting the power house should beware auckkeep their fiDgers in thetr pockets. Ip-wtry be a little annoysome for the electrician and others connected with the plant to .answer the million of questions asked them every day but they are perfectly willing to do so as long as the people will keep their fingers ofl Ihe machinery and save funeral expenses. So be careful when abcut the plaut. Call at this office and have a copy of The Democrat sent to one or more absent friends. If the people generally knew how kiudly a paper is received froip some former relative or neighbor by recipient away out in the western states and territories, far removed it may be from a railroad or perhaps several miles from a* post office thus making mail matter only an occasional affair—we are coufideut that the distant ones would be generally remembered in this manner. There are families in Kansas, Nebraska, California, Oregon, Washington, in short every westorn state and territory, who horde The Democrat as a treasure. They peruse every line ot its contents, hand it to their neighbors and then file them away when they are returned. These are regular subscribers. How much therefore, is an occassional copy appreciated, received by some father or mother, sister or brother—first settlers in their respective localises, who feel that they are not wholly forgotten by the “old folks at home,” for it must be remembered it requires years of residence in a new country to take away the word “home” from the old place. Send your home paper to friends abroad. — Disuse of the Hat. A London correspondent complains that he cannot take his walks abroad with bis bead uncovered without being exposed to gibes and fionts and sneers and treated as a lunatic. “And yet,” he asks, “who but the hatter would suffer by the almost complete disuse of the hat? The advantages would be many. We ‘should entirely avoid baldness (which our hats induce); our heads would be as cool as our faces (which we never think of covering, though they are less protected with hair than our heads); we should save our money and a great deal of trouble. In this climate we need not be afraid of sunstrokes, and we should avoid colds in the head. It is a mistake to suppose that either chimney pot hats or bowlers shade the eyes. They do not do so any more than women’s bonnets.”

Alphabet Suppers. “Alphabet suppers” are getting to be quite a craze in some parts of the country. The young people of church societies arrange for an evening lunch, the name of every article of which begins with the same letter. Each member is instructed to provide a portion of the feast, and forfeit is levied against delinquents. A “B” supper, for instance, would include bread, beans, butter, bananas, beef, brick cheese (by an elastic construction of the rule), bologna, etc.—Exchange. Their Weight In Halfpence. It is said that a tradesman was lately residing in London who had disposed of eleven daughters in marriage, and as a fortune for each he had given their weight in halfpence. It is suggested that they were rather bulky, as the lightest of them weighed fifty pounds, two shillings and eightpence.—London Tit-Bits. The game of football played in American colleges and schools is not nearly so harmful and dangerous as that which is played in England. .Among the recent inventions in electric heating devices are hand stamps, curling irons, coffee urns and branding irons. . ._ The South Sea islanders are claimed* to make an intoxicating drink from corn and decayed fish. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla.

Drugs and Medicines. Toilet and Fancy Articles. ; a The “old reliable” drug firm of Bergen, Oliphant & Co. are headquarters tor anything kept in this line of business. For that, hacking cough try Bergen’s Asthma Cure,. Wall Paper and Curtains. Taints, Oils and Varnish.

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Funeral Supplies A pecla 11 y We keep on hand at all times the finest line of Parlor and Household Furniture to be found In the city. Bedroom and Parlor Suits a Specialty. In funeral supplies -we keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc., of the best make. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. In the matter of the estate of Joseph C. Ridge, deceased. In the Pike circuit court, July term, 1893 Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as executor ofthe estate of Joseph C. Ridge, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up far the examination and action of said circuit court on the 21st day of July, 1893, at which time all persons interested In said estate are required to appear in said court, and show cause, ir any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs of said estate, and all others Interested therein, are also hereby required, at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to anwnart of said estate. f JAMES W. RIDGE. July 6th, 1893. Executor. Richardson A Taylor, Atty’s. 7-3

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