Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 December 1893 — Page 4

HOLIDAY GOODS Jt is a custom established in years gone by to make presents to your friends on Christmas, and to give you a choice selection we have just placed on our shelves the finest lino of « SilTre^wa-r e » Ever seen in the city. These goods consist of Castoisof all Kinds, Butter Dishes, Knives and Forks, Platters, Fruit Knives, kjpoous, Berry Dishes, Cups, Bon Bon Baskets, Cake Baskets, Fruit Baskets, Syrup Cups and many other ar'icles. We hayc a fine liue of Yheso goods arc the finest made and will make very suitable presents. Ot course we have an elegant line of Gold and Silver Watches jFor which our store has always been noted. We have a splendid assortment of Rings, Chains, Charms, Pins, Lodge Emblems of all kinds. Come and see us before buying. We have the goods and are selling them at exceedingly close margins. We have a few of those $3 eight-day Clocks leit. S-HP-ZEIstirimozid.

Jifo County grmocrat Mr 91. nice. STOOPS. KtSf"' The Pile Comity Democrat hus the Urtest elrcuUtion or »nj nenspuper published la Pike Count}! Advertisers will mule • note of his feet! Entered at the postoftice in Petersburg for fransmlsslon through the mails as seeoud,olass matter. FlilDAY, DEC. 22.1893.

Attention Democrats. ' ^Petersburg, Dec. 15,1893. To the democracy of Pike county: By direction of the Democratic State Central Committee, I am hereby .authorized to call a mass convention to be held at Petersburg, Saturday, December 30,1892, at 2 o’clock p, m., for the purpose of electing ten delegates to the district convention to be held aP Evansville, January 8, 1894, to elect a member of the State committee for the ensuing two years. George B. Ashby, Cham. Dem. Can. Com. Next Monday morning will be a happy event in the lives of many .children in Pike county. But at the same time there are others who ,will never know that there is 6uch a thing as Christmas ouly in name. It is a day for the exchanging of presents from the “old folks at home,” through an imaginary “Santa Claus,” to the • .children. In ipany homes the presents will be not very valuable, but will be cherished just as much as if they had cost hundreds of dollars. Be .charitable and if you have neighbors who are in such circumstances that— do not permit of them giving them presents, do the noble and Christian act of makipg the children happy. It will cost you but a dollar or so, and your deed will be remembered so long as the child lives. Christmas is a great day among the children and to their benefit it should be observed in the most befitting manner possible, and each year make it more enjoyable fur the young of the nation. You were once a child yourself.

It doe* not seem to be a question 1 with some of the republican papers of how close the times are, but how plose they can lead the people to beJieye they are. If our republican brethren of the press would put on a better face aud sound their truuijjets

in another way the times would undoubtedly open up to a great degree. But they are for politics no matter whether it ruins the country financially or otherwise. Up to the present time there has been no legislation by the democratic party in congress to cause hard times. The same law now exists that hsfve for some time past with the exception of the Sherman law, aud which the author helped to repeal. The republican newspapers throughout the country can lake the blame of the hard times upon their own shoulders. To gain a political advantage they have caused, in a measue, a financial panic. And by the way when Harrison stepped down and out left an empty treasury.

Newspapers that are publishing the statement that the President’s message is a good one for Eugland should read what the most influential newspaper in England, The Standard, says: “Mr. Cleveland has stood for reform like a rock. No words could be clearer in dealing With the thorny tariff question and no attitude could be sounder from the American standpoint. The President and his cabinet haye chosen their positions with remarkable shrewdness. Their policy divides and demoralizes the enemy at the beginning of the battle. It is also a policy which commends itself to the most ardent American-tor-the-Amer-icans patriot. We wish we could hail it as a step likely to have immediate and favorable results for the British trade buf1t is far likelier to prove just the reverse, from our point of view. Despite Mr. Cleveland’s frieudly attitude toward this country, the new tariff might almost be put down as the work of an euemy.”

ft If there was more push in the world there would be fewer hungry, halfclothed, homeless, sufferiug children; fewer broken-down dissipated men and women; less need for almshouses ; houses of correction and homes for the friendless. Push means a lift for your neighbor in trouble. Push means a lift for yourself out of the sloughs «f despondency and shiftlessness, out of trouble real or faucied. Push never hurts anybody. The harder the push the better, if it is given in just the right direction— always push up hill—few people need a push 4°wu hill,

Congressman Taylor. It is the general opinion of those who watched the workings of former congressmen from the First district that Hon. A. U. Taylor is the most active" and earnest worker that has ever represented the people of" the district. lie has been industriously at work ever since his electiou last November preparing bills for relief and for the future interests of the district. Besides all this he enjoys the reputation of having secured more postoffice changes than any other member of congress. As will be seen from the dispatches below he now has but two. more postmasters to turn down, and. when that is done there will not be a republican office* holder within his jurisdiction. His recommendations so far as The Democrat is able to learn have given entire satisfaction to those interested, while his action ou all public matters has met with a hearty approval, as evidenced by the many editorials from the district papers. The Washington correspondent to the ludianapolis Sentinel has this to say in that paper of December 14th: Cougressman Taylor called at the white house this morning and had an extended Interview with President Cleveland upon the matter of appointing a steamboat inspector for the Sixth district, which includes Evansville. It has been reported that Secretary Carlisle was in favor of the appointment of a man named Haves of Louisville, but the result of Mr. Taylor’s interview warrants a belief that a resident of Indiana will get the place. Mr Taylor and the,entire Indiana delegation, without exception, have bee - working, for thejappolutment of Capt. John Zinzich of Evansville Capt. Zluzlch is at present ship chandler and he has been in the river service for fifty years. Not only is he strongly backed in Indiana, but delegations from Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and

Illinois are supporting nim. There was a vacancy in the office the 4th of August, reckoning from the time of appointment hut since the date of confirmation was Jan. 4. a change will not take place until that time. President Cleveland will let the matter rest for a short time, hut Zinzieh’s friends feel very much encouraged and believe that he will be the lucky man. Congressman Taylor will introduce a bill tomorrow to establish a signal station of the weather bureau at Evansville for the benefit of the surrounding country of Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana. He does not know what this will cost, but the farmers will be particularly beuefltted. This member is also forming a bill to light the bridge running from Henderson across the Ohio river to Evansville. He appeared before the committee on rivers and harbors, asking for an appropriation to improve theOlilo river and prevent a cut-off at Evansville. If the appropriation is not allowed in the general bill Mr. Taylor will look out for it In a special measure. The Indiauapolis News (republican) correspondent at Washington City sends the following to his paper ot the 13th: Congressman Taylor, of the First Indiana district, has made a record in securing, appointments of postmasters that is the envy of all his democratic colleagues. He has secured a greater per cent, of democratic postmasters than any other congressman in the country. There are but two republican postmasters left in his district. One of these is presidential, at Petersburg, where there will be a change very shortly, after which, the sole remaining republican postmaster in the First congressional district in Indiana will be at Rtpue, a small, fourth-class office in Perry county. Next to Congressman Taylor are Messrs. Bretz aud Brookshire of Indiana. For a long time Congressman Bretz was accredited with having secured more removals of fourth-class postmasters than any other democratic congressman In the country. But Mr. Taylor has since quietly forged to the front. From the above it will be seen that Petersburg is soon to have a postmaster to succeed W. C, Adams, who has held the office four years and six mouths. The appointment has been anxiously expected for several months, and the boys who have their names in the pot are holding their breath awaitiug the appointment. <As stated a few weeks ago some democrat will secure a Christmas gift in the shape ot a postoffice appointment.

The Press Lied. Joshua Steve®* Is a farmer residing in northern Warrick county. ^'(He -was a brave soldier during the rebellion and his military record is highly complimented by those who fought in the ranks with him. He was in the 91st, lud.. regiment. After the war he received a pension of $12 for disability which he received in the service. He received his pension till last month when Hoke Smith informed him his disabilities did not exist and his pension was suspended. Mr. Stevens is a life long democrat ind voted the ticket last election. It is needless to say that in the future he will vote the republican ticket.— Petersburg Press. It has been reported that Joshua Stevens’ name had been dropped from the pension rolls. This is not a fact. Joshua Stevens is au honorably discharged Union soldier fro.m the 91st. Reg’t. Ind. Vols., and a better soldier never carried a gun, and the writer hereof knows that the evidence filed which placed his name on the pension roll is strong enough to retain his name there as long as he is able to answer roll call. And we do not believe he will vote the republican ticket either,—Lynnville Chronicle. When on a visit to Iowa, Mr. K. Dalton, Of Lurray, Russell County, Kansas, called at the labratory of Chamberlain & Co., Des Moines, to show them his six year old boy, whose life had been saved by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, it having cured him of a very severe attack of croup Mr. Dalton is certain that it saved bis boys life and is enthusiastic in his praise of the remedy. f'Pi side by J. R. Adams & Son.

A somewhat new scheme is being worked in adjoining counties to extort money from unsuspecting farmers. The rascals play the roll of telegraph messengers and ride up to a farm house seemingly in great haste and announce that he has an important message for the farmer, hut refuses to deliver it until he shall receive from two to five dollars for delivering it. The unsu^eciing farmer anxious to learn what news the message contains draws his purse and pays the required amount ajpi' the messengers dashes off at breakneck speed and by the time the farmer has the message opened and read he is out of sight. And the farmer discovers, to his great disgust, that the message announces the death of some oue of whom he knows nothing. It is a great deal easier for the ordinary citizen to have a loss in the mails traced than he or she may imagine. It is the custom for uninformed persons who lose mouey or other valuables to simply sigh and pocket the loss or go to the postoffioe and make complaint. It is much better and speedier to send the complaint to the First or Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Geueral, Washington, D. C. Then the complaint is placed immediately in the bauds of the postoffice inspector iu the divisiou where the loss occurred. Iu making complaints about losses the character of the valuable should be described, the party to whom it is addressed named and the place and hour when the letter or “package was posted should bo given.

An exchange gives the following suggestions concerning church manners. and by the way they are good. Ilaviug, entered a pew move along; do not block up the end of the pew as if you did not intend anyone else to enter it, or as you were huldiug it for some special friends. Do not rise to lot others in, but move along and leavo the pew invitingly opeu so that they will know that they are welcome. It a pew holding four has already three in it do uot file out in formal procession to let a poor scared woman get to the other end but move along and let her sit in the end next to the aisle. It is not necessary uow for a stalwart man to sit at the end ready to rush out to kill Iudians, as possible as it was once. La Grippe. During the prevalence of the Grippe the past season it was a noticeable fact that those who depended upon Dr. King’s New Discovery, not had a speedy recovery, but escaped all of the troublesome after effects of the malady. The remedy seems to have a peculiar power in effecting rapid oures not only in cases of La Grippe, but in al] diseases of Throat, Chest and Lungs and has cured cases of Asthma and Hay Fever of long standing. Try it and be convinced It won’t disappoint. Free trial bottles at J. R. Adams Jc.Son’s drug store. Holiday Excursions. The B. & T. H., E. & I. and E. & R. R railways have, this year, arranged holiday excursions on a more liberal plan than ever before Excursion tickets will be sold Dec. 23d, 24th 25th, 30th and 31st, and Jan. 1st, at a rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip to all stations on its line; also, to all points. St. Louis, Peoria, Chicago and east thereof, to and including Buflalo,. Pittsburg aud north of the Ohio River; tickets good going on date of sale and returning until Jan. 2, 1894. Never before have the holiday excursion rates been extended to such "a large territory. Its pa. trons, under this arrangement, can visit friends and relatives anywhere withiu an area covering about ten states. A. F. Palmer, G. P. & T. A. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder Most Perfect Made.

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

Castoria. “Cqstorta is an excellent medicine for children. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect open their children." Da- Q. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. » “ Castoria is the best remedy for children of which 1 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 sending them to premature graves." Da. J. F. KracHxnox, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. “ Castoria is so veil adapted to children that I recommend it as superior toany prescription known to me.” B. A. Aecher, H. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, S. T. “ Our physicians iu -the children's department have sjKjken highly of their experience in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only- bare among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it.” Umtso Hospital and Dispensawt, Allen C. Smith, I'm.,

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Any person wishing to confirm the numerous reports regaining their success are requested to write for testimonials Drs. Vincent A Biggs have made chronic diseases a lifelong study and have ample proof that their reputation in this line Is unequalled. Every week for two years past the statement of one or more leading citizens, who were cured by these physicians, has been published in the Evansville papers. Unlike most Traveling Specialists they do not persuade yon to call on them for the purpose of robbing yon. On the contrary they propose to spow no partiality, and give the same low uniform rate to all. Their motto is, “Lire and Eet l.tve,” and If you will call on them they will prove their sincerity.

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