Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 November 1895 — Page 4

$kt fife (Sonntg gjenwfwt ■r a*. McC. STOOPS. MT The Pike (out; Deaoeret he* the ler* feifetrcelktloe of iey aewipaper pablluheS la jPIhe County I Adrertleere will aiehe e note ef this fact 1 One Tear, In advance...-. .... |1 85 Blx Months, In advance. . 65 V'- Entered at the postofflce In Pete reburg for transmleelon through the malls as secondclass matter. FUIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1895. h---i--— After next week a number of persons who have been taking The Democrat without paying for it will yeceive It no longer. , Their names ywlll be erased from our books and a statement of their account sent them. We have been yory lenient with the feope that you would come in “after harvest” and settle. Several harvests have passed and you have failed to comply with the request for silver or gold, or anything else in the shape of money. We cannot afford to carry you any longer. Please settle an ^onest account. The Press comes up nobly and acknowledges its mistake when talking about the county debt. But now it would be a good thing to raise the figures again. The debt is nearly 860,000. Raise 'em up. Governor Clark of Arkansas, is to be congratulated upon jhis victory in running the pugilists out of his domain. Brutal exhibitions have been done away with in the United t‘> States. Now let them all sail for tChina or some other seaport. Holmes, the arch fiend and murderer, was declared guilty by a Philadelphia jury of the murder of B. F. Peitzel. The people are too well acquainted with the facts to here rehash the circumstances. His crimes have startled the world, and no less than jthlrteen murders are charged to him.

-The McKinley law may have been p beneficent measure, an American, patriotic affair and all that, but there }s something significant in the haste jrith which Harrison, Reed, Allison j?nd the rest of the conservative republican? are disclaiming all responsibility for the enactment of the same jegisfotion. The great improvement in business throughout the country is reflected in the large increase in government revenue last month. Receipts fropa customs and internal revenue, the government’s main sources of income, were over $8,000,000 larger than in ^October, 1894. This is au increase of pver 40 per cent. How original the Press is on the <?o«|nJy debt question. Figures are figures and they most generally give the correct total, unless there be a flight mistake in addition. But then the Press can now claim that a part of the floating debt has been paid, from the fact that some of the taxpayers are paying their taxes with county orders. Oh for some more {republican reform. The next republican national conyention will have a lively political picnic, says an exchange. The selection of a ticket will be an ea$y task compared with the framing of a tariff plank satisfactory both to the radical and the conservative protectionists. It will have to be constructed somewhat on the plan of the frontiersman’s famous rifle, which would bringdown the animal fired at if it was a deer but miss it if it was a calf. Senator Sherman will write a book. The advance sheets, giving its contents, have already heralded its advent iuto the field of literature. The |jck it gives Ex-President Harrison is probably one he merits, but to disturb the confidence the people had in the Martyred President Garfield jseems to us a great deal like spleen yenting. It will probably nominate McKioley for president in 1896. AU the old wheel-horse politicians in the republican party come in tor a scoring.

The editor of the Press claims that )he debt of Pike county is $5,576.09 less than it was June 1,1894. In Jpne, 1894, the bonded dobt of Pike county amounted to $28,000, with a eash balance in the treasury of $17,585.41; net indebtedness $10,414 57. In dune, 1895, the bonded debt was $53,000, with a cash balanse of $9,533*57; net indebtedness, $43,466.43. This would show an increased debt taf $33,051.86. Now take the amoont of claims issued since June 1, 1895, $25,085.83, and you hare a total of jjyjrlj 1*0,09006.

The nearer the opening of (be session of congress gets, the more ap* parent U becomes that the fight which a number of republican members are making for the chairmanships of the most important committees may develop some rather dangerous obstacles in the path of the Reed presidential boom. _• The grammar of the editor of Tax Democrat may be bad, but it is not half as bad as the exposures he made against the present republican court house ring last week —Petersburg News. Possibly it is, you see we never bad* an opportunity to attend college. Nevertheless, things and sich may become pretty hot before the next campaign is over. The reform (?) party mast be shown up, Pikk county has a heavy burden. It can’t be helped now, for we are pledged to pay our debts; but in the name of all that is reasonable, let us stop before tbe county Is put up at auction, or some other calamity befall us I —Winslow Era. . Let’s see. Patoka township increased her republican majority about 100 at the last election. The way to decrease a debt-making party is to vote it out of power. Most certainly the tax-payers will pay t|pe debt. Again the Era editor hits the nail on the head. Thbbk is nothing new under the sun is not an original remark and we arise to correct It. Thb Democrat has discovered that the republican party of Pike county Is responsible for national calamities.—Petersburg Press. Our friend is oft his chunk. The republican party of Pike county is not responsible for the national calamity. The natloual calamity was wholly due to the infamous McKinley tarifl law passe4 by a republican administration. The republican party in Pike county Is responsible for the low assessment of property, the high tax rate and the immense debt put upon the taxpayers of Pike couuty.

Our neighbor of the Press seems to be pretty well satisfied with the present condition of affairs in Pike county. The one reason why he is satisfied and upholds the official ex* trayagance of the republicans is simply because he gels the county printing. Nothing more, nothing less. Hear what he says: * • ** all the money has been well spent and never before has Pike county been so well equipped with bridges and public buildings. Sinee June 1,1892, will the editor point to a single instance whe t bidden for bridges have been given public notice. Can he truthfully say that all bridges have been let to the lowest bidder? If the editor is on the inside of all these things will he explain to the people how bridge contracts are let out. In our statement of the floating debt ot the county two weeks ago a mistake was made. We stated the debt was in the neighborhood of $4,000; looking over the records it. will be found that it Is $9,423.91. The Democrat last week claimed that it was $15,532.29, whereas it is little more than half that amount.—Petersburg Press. Truly this looks queer. The figures speak for themselves and how $15.661.92 cau be paid with $9,533.57 is more thau we can understand. We confess right now that we have never taken a course in college or in political economy, but figures are figures and they speak for themselves. In our issue of a few weeks ago we gave a few figures on the debt question, and to show that the editor is in error we qnote the same again this week. Of the total amount of orders allowed many have not yet been issued, and since the taxpayers have been paying in their annual rent many of the outstanding orders have been paid, which naturally decreases the floating order debt. The figures given a few weeks ago were as follows: June allowances ....-.$10,189 15 August allowances 8,519 35 September allowances . 4,852 68 Circuit court allowances . 1,524 65 Total..$25,085 83 Balance on hand June 1st . 9,533 57 Allowances greater than surplus.... .$15,552 26

Weather Predictor Hicks. A storm period is central with full moon on November 2nd, and hence, about the 2nd, 3d, and 4th. rain and snow will appear in many parts of the country—rain and snow north— and a cold wave will be the order immediately succeeding the storms. The 8th and 9th will bring change to warmer and reactionary storms, followed about 10th to 12th by return to cold. From 13th to 17tb, look for many disturbances Storms of great extent will appear over the north Atlantic, and rain and snow will be geueral about 16th to 19tb, wheu it will react to warmer, and bring more rain and snow about 19th to 21st. Kenfcwed cold will intervene up to storm period, 24th to 28th. During | this period it will grow warm and nice, but rain and snow will appear, and by the close of the period cold to | freezing will prevail over most of the ! country.

Commissioners Csriisie was in town last week. His time as sneh official expires about the first of Beeember.

Washington Utter. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Not. 4th 1886. The distinguished war prophetr who Lave been on the ratnpage in New England, Washington, and other parts of the country should bag their ! heads and lock their jaws for a while. Instead of the red-handed ultimatum, demanding that we should either abandon the Monroe doctrine or fight, which these self-made prophets have declared waa in the course ot preparation by England, the English Ambassador has, through Secretary Olney, approached the president with an olive branch in the shape of a pioposition that the United States should form an alliance with England for the protection of English and American citizens and interests in Turkey. True, this proposition has nothing directly to do with the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine in Venezuela, which has inspired ail the war prophecies, bat even a school boy can see that England would not be asking an alliance with a country thftt she expected soon to be at war with. Whether President Cleveland sees fit to accept this alliance or not the fact that It has been asked for Should be sufficient to cause Senator Chandler and Hou. Don M. Dickinson to stop sitting up of nights to prevent Cauada sneaking New Hampshire and Michigan away from us. Notwithstanding President Cleveland's known aversion to “entangling for

eign alliances7’ the impression among those who ought to know is that he will accept this invitation to act jointly with England in protecting English and American citizens in Turkey, owing to the threatening aspect of affairs in that country. The Bath Iron Works, of Bath, Maine, the builders of the Atnmen ram Katahdiu, are it? a hole, $q to speak. The naval trial board has reported to Secretary Herbert that the vessel fell below the speed required ou her trial trip. Accora>ug to the contract the vessel now stands rejected. The ground is taken by some naval officials that unless congress come6 to their release, the Bath iron works will have to sell the Katahdin wherever they can. But the matter is complicated by the fact that about $7C0,000 worth of armor belonging to the United States is on the vessel. No official action has yet been taken by Secretary Herbert. It is the belief that he will gladly accept the vessel if any legal way of doing so can be found. ~ ‘ Attorney General Harmon is still getting letters iroiu lawyers aud business men, m Indian Territory, endorsing Judge Kilgore aud the manner iu which he has conducted the business of the U. S. court which he presides over in that territory. Judge Kilgore’s answer to the charges made against him by Mr. Davis has been in the hands ot Attorney General Harmon tor nearly a week, and the impression is general that the explanation will be satisfactory as far as the department of justice is concerned, but it is understood that Mr. Davis will use the same charges to try to prevent the confirmation ot Judge Kilgore’s nomination by thescuate. Senator Harris, of Tennessee, president pro tern of the senate, is confident that the republicans will not control the senate during the fifty-fourth congress. Speaking of changes that must necessarily be made, he said: I am in favor of the two parties appointing committees which &hall meet and agree upon a just and equitable organization of the eeuate with a view of conducting the business of the body properly.* The vacancies on committees must be filled aud the new senators must be assigned to committee places. I would have the organization do full justice to the populite party, but I am not in favor of making a combination with tho populite party for the control of the senate, by which their demands are to be met. I do not think the republican senators wil) be willing to make such a combination.

In a senate where no p$rty has a majority it is right and sensible for the twodomiuaut parties, in fact for the senate itself, to agree upon an organization just and equitable to all, and that I am confident the senate will do in a manner creditable to itsself as a legislative body. The attention of those who are suffering with the Cuban recognition colic is respectfully called to the following weighty words of Hon. John T. Morgan, chairman of the senate committee on Foreign Relations: “Any recognition of belligerency on our part would result in causing our merchant vessels to be subjected to search, and that would give a great deal of anxiety and trouble, and there is no doubt that eventually such a course would result in a war between the United States and Spain. It may as well be understood that when we reeognize the belligerency of the Cubans we should draw the sword.”

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Hog- Cholera and its Prevention. Purdue University agricultural experiment station. Newspaper bulletin, No. 15, October 31, 1895. It is difficult to estimate the loss Indiana farmers have sustained from hog cholera and swine plague this year. In some counties it reach $25,000 and if the whole state has suffered as the northwestern portion, the total will probably exceed $800,000. i There are two diseases responsible for these heavy losses, hog cholera and swine plague. As they are much alike in symptoms and occur under similar conditions, they may be treated as oue disease. Both are germ diseases of such fatal character that only a small per cent ot the hogs attacked ever recover. Medicinal treatment is not very effectual. Preventive measures are more successful and are the ones to be adopted. These diseases being due to germs, cannot exist without the germs being present. They are taken in the body with the food, water aud air. The closer animals come in contact, the greater the possibilities of spreading; hence, healthy and diseased animals should be separated as 6oon as the disease is recognized. The healthy hogs should be taken from the sick and not the sick from the well, as in the latter case the excrement and secretions containing the contagious principles are left in the pen, on the ground, straw gud troughs. During an outbreak it is better to have the herd divided in bunches of about fifteen, in small pastures, rather than a latge herd iu a large field. The hogs should not have access to ponds or wallows as this affords favorable conditions for the germs. The drinking water should be from deep wells. The food should be clean aud ofted changed. If a hog has be<m separated from the herd and recovers It should not be returned to the herdfor several weeks, as it is capable ot giving the disease to others although it may appear to be perfectly well. Hogs should not be placed in pens where the'disease has been for three months. All dead auimuls should be burned or buried deeply in places where hogs will not graze tor a year. Diseased hogs should not be driven through lanes or ether public highways. The healthy hogs should be cared for first and then the diseased, bearing material may be conveyed to the healthy. Clean the pens, use plenty o£ air slacked lime on the floors befor usiug again. The following formula given by the Bureau of Animal Industry is as efficacious as aoytbing known as a preventive and remedy. It has given fair results: Wood charcoal, 1 pound. Sulphur, 1 pound. Sodium chlorid, 2 pounds. Sodium hyposulphite. 2 pounds. Sodium bicarbonate 2 pounds. Sodium sulphate, 1 pound. Antimony sulphide, l pound. Give a tablespoonful once a day to a 150 pound hog. Give in 6loppy feeds, as bran, middling, crushed oats, j etc. It willj cost about $1.00 to have it filled. A. W. Bitting, Veterinarian.

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Worthy the name may be increased by shrewd advertising. A large number of capable business men desire to advertise but cannot make up their minds “where and how.” About this there need be no doubt at all, , for in point of quality and quantity of circulation THE PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT stands at the top, and results are sure to come from judicious advertising in its columns. This fact has been pointed out before, and merchants who have tested the drawing qualities of our ad. columns knows they have struck a good