Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 December 1895 — Page 4

EART DISEASE, uf many other ailments when they have taken hold of the system, never gety better of Its own accord, hut OwifsiiHy frvift wsrss. There are H thousands who know they have a defective heart, bnt will not admit the fact. They , don't want their friends to whrry, and Dom*t know othmt to toko for it, as they have book told time and again that heart disease was Incurable. Such was the : bass of Mr. Silas Farley of Dyeaville, Ohio who writes June 18,1894. as follows: “I hm* heart dioonoo for »l wears, my heart hurting me almost continually. The first 15 years I doctored all the time, trying several physicians and remedial until my last doctor told melt was only a

quesuou ui uuio mm. I could not be cured. I gradually grew worse, eery weak, and completely die* oouraged, until I lived, propped half up In bed, because I couldn’t lie 4otm nor sit up. Thinking my time had corne l told my family what I waited

. oone wncn w»a gone. But on the Bat day of Mmwb on the recommendation of Mrs. Fannie ^enea. Of Anderson. Ind, t commenced taking Hr. JTffee* ffew Mere /or the Heart and wonderful to tell. In ten days I waa working at light work and on March 19 com* me need framing a barn, which Is heavy work, and I hav’nt lost a day since. I am 5* years old, 6 ft. 414 Inches and weigh SSOlhs. M believe JT am fully cured, and I am now only anxious that everyone shall know of your wonderful remedies.** Dyesvillo, Ohio. Selas Farutt. Dr. Miles Heart Cure la sold on a nositfye guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. Ail druggists sell it at fl, 6 bottles for 15, or Dr. Miles’Heart Cure Restores Health Slu § ike Countij Jrnwmt By U. Met:. STOOPS. |^*Tke Pike> County liemorrnt ht » the largest eircalatioa of any newspaper ptbllnhed ia Pike County 1 Advertiser* will wake a aote of (k)ifitH One Year, to advance. — $1 95 Six Months, in advance.,... 65 Entered at the postoffiee in Petersburg for transmission through the mails as sceondclass matter. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27,1895. Democratic Convention. There will be a democratic convention at Petersburg, January 4th, to appoint ten delegates to the district convention which meets at Evansville January 8th, for the purpose of electing a district committeeman for the ^Tirst district and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. All democrats arc iuvitod to attend. M. L. Heathman. Ohm. Pike Cen. Com. Czar Reed has appointed hi9 house committees. How the “youug uns” are kicking. The whitewashing business never pays, Developments may appear sometime in the future. Tiijs republican party are now electing presidents every day. The election though does not take place until November, 1896. Boston never proved her reputation for intelligence and culture so well as when she went democratic last week by 5000 majority.

a bill nas oeen mirouuceti in me Senate by Senator Voorhees to increase all (tensions granted old soldiers under the act of 1890 to $12 per month. ? John Bull, Esq., seemed to take the president’s assertion of the Monroe doctrine as a huge joke for the first few days.' But upon .sober thought concluded that the United States meant busiuess. From reliable sources it is said that the democrats will be permitted to vote in Pike county at the electiou in J96L The democrats are bouud to elect a full set of couuty officials. The edict has gone forth to that effect. The editor of the Press it would seem, is willing to write state, papers. We have no objections. To get his hand in he might begin by giving a completo account of the couuty debt. And agaiu he might give au account of.the stationery contract. In some counties in Indiana the commissioners have published the indebtedness of the county up to December 1895. The amended laws of 1891 require the publication of such indebtedness. The people of jpike county would like to know just how they stand. > ■ r= o Congress wilf not adjourn for the holidays. The reason tor this is that the president sent a special message to congress asking that immediate action be taken on~4he financial question now agitating the country and to prepare for the coining oui|an£ht if trouble theie is to be.

Ox au Inside passe our readers will And President's Cleyelaud*’ extra* do;d nary message to congress in reference t > the Venezueliau affair. The 1 iter should be read very carefully by all. _ The candidates for the republican nomination for governor are bobbing up on every side. Iu the neighborhood of twenty gentlemen are now ready to sacrifice themselves for the good ot the people of the great state of Indiaua. The editors of the Evansville Journal were arrested last Week upon a grand jnrv indictment for publishing obscene matter in their newspaper. The article in question was published several weeks ago and created a great deal of comment from the people ot Evansville. The Press should at its earliest convenience state the difference to the tax-payers between the stationery contract of 1895 and 1896. What will be the probable difference? Being one qf the contractors the Press should be able to give the tax-payers 6omc light on the question. 1/Great Britain wants war, this country can proceed to take Canada for idemnity, to begin with. There are a great many Americans who believe iu the theory of Stepheu A. Douglass; “I would make this an ocean-bound republic, and have no more quarrels about red lines ou the maps.” We publish in this issue the allowances made by the couuty commissioners at their December session. It shows the items of expense tor the past three months and to whom they were allowed. Cut them out and paste them in a scrap book aud they will serve to show you at the end of each year just for what purpose the money was spent. Indiana's tax law which our republican friends talked so much about for >he last few years, was sustained once more by the supreme court, and the telegraph companies will begin to crack down their taxes. This is a democratic law and passed wholly by democratic votes. The corporations are now paying their just share of the taxes in Indiana. Speaker Kefd in his makeup of committees seemed to forsret that there was such a etato as Indiana. Johnson is the only man that heads Indiana as chairman of a coinmittee. Hemenway of this district is placed op the appropriations committee. He wanted on the rivers aud harbors coinmittee, the committee upon which Hon. A. II. Taylor worked so faithfully for his constituents. President Cleveland went duck hunting a few weeks since, but upon, his return he went hunting for the English Johunies. He got 'em both. The president's prompt action has won for him the admiration pf the whole world. He stands firm by the Monroe doctrine and is being backed up by congress. It now stands that either England or the United States must stand or take 'er back.

The meeting of the democrats of Pike county will be held at Petersburg. January 4th, insteau of at Winslow as locally stated last week. Chairman Heathman has called the meeting for this plaoe. Let every democrat arrange to be preseut at this time. The district meeting will be held at Evausville, January 8th, for the purpose of electing a committeeman for the First district. In sentencing James B. Wilsou editor of the Indianapolis People to two years in the penitentiary Judge Baker said: “The mail who deliberately scatters abroad publicatious calculated to lead the youug, the rising generation, astray, it seems to me, does a thing that is almost unpardonable. The thought of destroying a human life by means of this obscenity is a fearful thing. 1 would rather a thousand times that the midnight marauder should break into my house and rob me of everything I havb in the world than that the disseminator of this kind of literature should gain an audience among my children. The new coal mine industry should bo encouraged. Mr. Woo Icy only asks the encouragement and support of the business men in this enterprise. While we have had no talk with the gentleman, we understand that he will not operate a store, but will throw all the miners’ trade to the local merchants. This would be quite an item to the business men of Petersburg and would build up a very large trade here. The matter should be given considerable thought and some plan of action taken to have the gentleman locate here. The mine if opened would employ probably 150 hands and would be of inestimable benefit to the locality. What will you do in the premises? Don't delay. ’ "

Down in Spencer county a mob undertook to take a colored man from the jail and hang him, but were dispersed by the plucky sheriff. This occurred in Spencer county. If such a thing had taken place in one of the southern states the republican papers in this section would have set up a terrible howl. This affair occurred in a republican county which puts a different construction on the whole matter. See! Tusks are 238 lawyers in congress, forty-one farmers, twenty-seven editors, twenty-eight manufacturers, oue railroad manager, two steamboat owners, fourteen teachers and college professors, twwity-five bankers, tweuty merchants,one house-builder, three clergymen, seven who sav they are “engaged iu business,” eight doctors, one architect, one music teacher, one owuer of oil wells, five miners, two insurance agents^ oue theatre manager, one manufacturer of ice, three civil engineers, nine lumbermen, two owners of stone quarries, two real estate agents, one pharmacist and oue steamboat csptaiu. One of our calamity exchanges imparts the information that auother big draw was made last week from our gold reserve in the uational treasury. The republicans have absolute control of both houses of congress, hut they have made uo etlort to check tho drainage upou the treasury, and until they show a disposition to improve upon our monetary system this howling about the drainage of the treasury is iu exceediug bad taste; especially is this true since it is well known that the republican party is responsible for this selfsame financial system of which our republican contemporary complains. In reply to query of “Constant Reader” we wish to say that we have The Pike County Democrat for authority that there is or was a democratic party in this county. The same Is now lost, but it is hoped that persistent searching will discover the body in time for decent burial at the next election.—Petersburg Press. The editor of the Press will realize the fact after the November electiou whether or not “there is or was a democratic party in this county.” The voters of Pike couuty cau stand republicanism fp*' a few years iu the mauagemeut of offices, but trom present indications they have got cuough. A $17,500 surplus turned into a clean debt of nearly $60,000 is enough to turn the stomach of all voters in the the couuty.

Washington Letter. (From our regular correspondent.' Washington, Dee. 23,1895. While there are democrats who do not approve either the sendiug of that special linaucial message to com gress by President Cleveland or its recommendation, they all admit that it was a clever move ou the part of the president, and good politics as well, to shift the responsibility of relieving the government’s financial distress upon the republican congress. It is hardly probable that Mr. Cleveland really expects any immediate relief from congress, but he will have the satisfaction of showing the country that the republican Congress can criticise the acts of the administration. taken in accordance with republican laws, to preserve the credit of the country, but there cannot or will not provide a better method. Even it there were no other reason than the consternation iuto which that message has thrown the republicans, especially in the house, that ought to be sufficient to make democrats glad it was seut in. The republicans say they will answer the message with a tariff bill, but that isn’t worrying anybody much. It will hardly have one chance out of fifty to get through the senate. President Cleveland is still receiving congratulations for his patriotic message on the Monrce doctrine, and while there is loss outward excitement in Washington than existed for the first tw'o or three days after the document went to congress, there is a stalwart belief iu the absolute correctness of the position taken by President Cleveland and a determination to maintain it at all hazards. Instead of being shaken or weakened by the attempt of the British capitalists to frighten us by unloading their holding of American securities with the hope of creating a financial panic, those attempts have strengthened that determination. While it might be a temporary misfor*une for the United States to have all the railroad, state, and federal securities held in Great Britain dumped upou the market and sold, it would be equally disastrous for their holders, and iu the eud it might prove a great blessing for us, as there are lots of people who thiuk the United States needs a financial declaration of Independence more than it needs any other one thing. The president has selected the members of the commission authorized by

the bill that passed both house and j senate unanimously, to ascertain the boundary line between Venezuela and British Guiana, but he will not make their names public until they have notified him of their williugnesa to serve. Speaker Heed is now the Czar of the house sure enough. The chairman of every single committee of that body which is at all promineut Is a man who will do just exactly what Reed tells him to do, Henderson, of Iowa, was turned down because ot his allegiance to Allison, and Canuon, of Illinois, macto chairman of the appropriation committee. But probabiy the worst treated member of the house is Payne of New York, who was clearly entitled to the chairmanship of the ways and means committee. lie thought that Boss Platt was backing him for the place, but Platt had, It is said, tol<LJteed that Payne couldn't be controlled, although he pretended to want him to have the chairmanship. Dingley, ot Maine, was given the place, notwithstanding the selection of Boutelle for the naval committee and Milhken, both of the samo state, for the committee on public buildings and grounds. Three election conuqittees were named, so as to make short work of the democrats who either hold scats that are contested by republicans or are contesting seats held by republicans. This session of cougress will either make Reed the republican candidate for president or it will forever destroy his chances, for he is not outy responsible for the acts or failures to act ot the house by virtue of his office as speaker, but he is virtually the house Itself by reasou of bis ownership of the men who will control everything in that body. * State Senator Stattord, of Texas, who is now in Washington, pooh poohs the idea that there is danger of the populists gettiug control of his state, lie says: “I have but little fear in regard to the continued predominance of the democratic party iu Texas, The only thing to be feared is the adoption of a radical gold plank by the democratic national convention. Should thjs be done I am afraid that thousands of democratic voters would refuse to vote the ticket. They would not vote any other ticket out will stay at home on election day. However, unless the advocates of gold shut the white uietal eutirely out iu the convention, it's a safe bet that Texas will give a big democrat majority as usual.” Ex-congressman Stone, of Kentucky, has abandoned hope of a democrat being elected to succeed Senator Blackburn. He says: “The republicans will unseat enough deuacrocrats in the house in favor of contestants of their own party to give them a majority, and will elect the senator, and representative Hunter will probably be the man.”

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