Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 January 1896 — Page 4

—. == ,£kt filu bounty gjtmorrat Br n. flee, stoops. Itf'Ttif Pike I'eeitjr Beaecrat ku the Ur* Mofetmlattoa ett Uf Mwinper fahltuheO li fill Ooutjr I Adrertisen will aikt a aute of •hlafaeti One Tear, In advance... —f) *5 «Blz Munllis, in advance.«. 05 Entered at the' poetofflce in Petersburg for transmission through the malls as sceondclass matter. , FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1896. Township Com mill ee Meetings. The democrats of the various townships fti this county will meet iu their respective townships on Saturday, February 15,1896. at 2 p. m. for the purpose of selecting a township committee to serve for the next two years aud to select delegates to the various conventions. Each township wilj elect a township chairman, and all towuship6 having more than one voting precinct will also select a precinct committee* man for, each precinct. - Each township will, at the same time select one delegate and one alternate to each of the following conventions: state, and congressional. .Washington will meet at Petersburg. Jefferson at Ot well. Marion at White Oak. Lockhart at Stendal. Monroe at pleasant vilie. Patoka at Winslow. i Logan at Center,School House. Clay at Union. Madison at IJownian School House. Let all democrats turn out and help in the,selection of the committees. M. L. Heathmax, Chairman. M. McC. Stoops, Secretary.

The political pot Is beginning to boil in Pike county. Jiijs date of the national democratic convention has been fixed for July tth. The old republican ring will control things from now until the November election when there will be & change. The republicans over in Kentucky are still unable to elect a senator, and it is said that it will be Blackburn or bo seuator. Hon. Theodore Runyon, U. S. ambassador to Germany, died very Suddenly of heart disease Sunday inornlug at Berlin. «_■■■■_ i »,| v i It seems" to be catching over in Ohio. Several ex-members of the legislature have been indicted by the grand jury of Columbus for bribery. Both democrats and republicans are mixed up in the allair. Read oyr campaign offer. All new subscribers and all 6ld ones by paying for The Democrat oue in advance \ bah take advantage of this big oiler. Send in your subscriptions j^t once and commence early in (he campaign. It is said that Russia amt Turkey have formed an alliance, offensive and defensive. If this be true. Great Britain will have lost her opportunity to perform a very plain duty in the' protection of the lives of Armenian Christians. Pike county is $60,000 in debt and Dubois is entirely tree from debt. The republicans have been ruuutiiv; Pike county for a few years. The democrats have always had charge of affairs in this County, he two counties adjoin.—Ja*per Herald.

Xi(»'KE qever was a time when the people Watched the actions of public officers closer than at present. Not to perform their duty, although sometimes disagreeable and arduous, is to pfAce themselves where the imputation of being bought off or frightened will obtaiu, aud that is au unpleasant sequence. ^ The present congress should adjourn and give the country a rest. Nothing has been done up to this time that would tend in the least to Ahow that the republican party means business. Legislation is simply blocked because ot the divislou of the g. o. p. on the financial questions. It is one of those do-nothing congresses for which the republican party is noted. The Press seems to have a job lot ^ of pet names tor pin Demi* bat and j* wants ns to take “paregoric" for! **bilionsness.” It is only when a eon-1 temporary is cornered that he seeks aneb petty words to get even, but 1 our friend is welcome to use such words, term*, signs or whatnot, as he tees fit if it gives him- pleasure. White The Democrat will content itself with givug to the taxpayers of ihe county the condition of thiugs as the> exist i

Tke delinquent list of Pike county will be published tills week. It will show that there are only 166 persons delinquent on taxes for the past year and their lands advertised. This is a very smalt list compared to the total amount of taxes returned delinquent, which amounted to f2£,060.—Pike County Democrat. ^ The fact about the paatter Is that the majority of delinquents' are laboring men who have no real estate and only people belonging to the latter class are advertised. As will be seen by examining the list it is small this year but the great majority of delinquents belong to the personal property list. In other words the delinquents are laboring men who have been thrown out of employment by the democratic administration and are uuable to do more than make a bare living^iwing to the scanty employment afforded them. These'Cleveland times are indeed terrible and the laboring man suffers more than'ail.—Petersburg Press. The above needs no comment whatever as the records are snch as to refute ibe charges that the Cleveland times have effected the tax-pay-ers. The small number of delinquents either shows one of two things, that is that the tax-pavers' are enabled to pay their taxes or the officers have not doue theirduiy In advertising taxpayers delinquent who have not paid their taxes. The editor of the Press tnay take his choice. People who tnay care to investigate this will find during the past four years the following results by examining the delinquent tax lists as published in the county papetfs: Delinquents In 1893. . . 3W Delinquents in 1884... 337 Delinquents iu ..*..244 Delinquents in 1886 ... ... .Itid This shows that there is 223 less delinquents in 1396 than there were iu 1893. The editor may take his choice, either that the people arc better able to pay their taxes or the officers have not advertised all delinquencies. But from the face of the returns the Cleveland times have the advantage over the Harrison times.

Even It. G. Dim Co. have become disgusted with the republicans iu congress and says: “Failure of the senate, thus far, to take any action upon financial measures proposed W the president, or those passed by the house, effects unfavorably all branches of busip.ets. Undersuch adverj«ccircumstahcefc it is actually eucouraging that shrinkage in transactions and resulting commercial disasters have not been greater. IJut four large failures within a day or tw.o indicate that the same condition cannot continue without much embarasstnent.’* They might have added that the republicans have carefully fixed the.finance committee so that uoihing can be done, ' . Thk Pik* CocsTY Democrat complains of high taxes. We respectfully refer that bilious Organ to the democratic township trustees.—Petersburg Press. The responsibility of making the tax rate of a.county is placed upon the county corumissiouers. The rate of the various townships is submitted to the dotnmissioners and by them made. The trustees make no rate but simply ask that the amount be made, if it is too high in the minds of the board they have the power to reduce it as was done iu this county some years ago. Will some kind-hearted aud obliging calamity howler please rise aud tell an anxious people what has become of all those boastful promises of what would be dope when the republican congress met? That party stands toda^ apparently without any policy for the relief of the treasury and the couutry. It does not dare to take any position on the finance or any other question affecting theinter•pts. of the people. Having made arrangements with the publishers we are now iu a position to give you two papers at neat ly the price of The Democrat. We will send you either the Indianapolis Sentinel or the Cijncimjnui Enquirer and Tue Democrat one vear, tor $1 50. Or we will send The Dem«krat and the New York World, thrice-a-week editiou for fi 75. If you want reading for the campaign now is the time to subscribe. , .

Washington Letter. From our regular correspondent,' W isiiixoTOSt, Jan. 27, 1896. resident Cleveland has no occasion to worry because Uis patriotic foreign policy fails to meet the approval of men like Senator Wolcott of Colorauo, when^fheir speeches of alleged criticism are followed'by such extraordinary votes of confidence as the adoption of ths Armenian resolution by the senate was. inhere are always a few men who delight in taking the wrong side of every question, but congress as a whole is now, as it has been from the first, solidly behind The administration, regardless of party politics, in maintaining a patriotic American policy in all our dealings with foretgu countries. —o— The senate will this week pass the finance committee’s free coiuage substitute for the house bond bill, unless something now un looked for shall furtlier delay the taking of a final vote, and that wii) probably be the

I " ; * 2~ last of It for this session, as It Is practically certain that Speaker Reed will direct sub-boss Dingley, of the ways aud means committee, to see that it never even gets to the house, let alone voted upon. Jf the deadlock on the house tariff bill continues in the finance committee after the free coinage bill is chsposed of it is probable that the Pavis Monroe doctrine resolution, which wa3 last vreck favorably reported from the committee on foreign relations will «bc made the unfinished1 business of the senate until it is adopted. s—o— Senator Allison ot Iowa, has always been known a$ a dodger upon all financial questions, and now that he has allowed himself to be announced as a candidate for the republican presidential nomination, he wilt dodge more than ever. The friends of the other candidates are determined to make^liim go on record either furor against that tree coinage substitute for the house bond bill, or to openly convict him of dodging it. * —o— _ Few quicker pieces of official work have been done uuder the federal government than the removal ol U.S. Marshal Nix of Oklohoma, and the nomination of Patrick Nagle to be his successor. Sometime ago Attorney Geuerai Harmon put examiners at work upon the charges which had been" against Marshal Nix. Those examiuers reported him guilty of having shaved the pay warrants of his deputies greatly to his personal profit. He was removed by telegraph ! audit) less than ten hours the name | of his successor had been sent to the | senate. '

Since Secretary Morton assumed charge of the department of agriculture, he has saved out of the money appropriated by congress for the support of that department $1,430,000, and a considerable sum will be added to that amount at the close of the current fiseal year. The house committee on agriculture has decided to utilize this money by ejecting a new building for the agricultural department which Ijas outgrown the one it now occupies which was built when the department was only a small [bureau of the interior department. It is proposed that work on the new building shall begin early in the coming fiscal year. v —o— Senator George of Mississippi, who will after March irh, 1897, be succeeded in the senate by Representative II. D. Money, says of Mr. Money : “1 know him well and have known him since his boy-hood. He has been my neighbor for many years. Our interi course and communications on political subject's have been frequent and confidential. I have bad opportunity to judge the man from everv point of view. lie is of unblemished honor and of the' Strictest integrity. His nativfe ability is of the best, and ids courage, moral and physical, unquestioned. He had my sympathy in his race for the senate, although I took uo step to secure bis election.’’ —o— i Ex-Boss Clarkson, of the republican national committee^ was in Washington when Mr. Harrison was, last week, but he did not call on him. In fact it is pretty well known that the men are not in love with each other. Clarkson has never forgiven Mr. Harrison tor refusing to make him secretary of the interior in 1889, and loses no opportunity to put obstacles in the way of Mr. Harrison’s political* ambitious.

Representative Cowcn of Maryland, I who lias ^>een elected president of the ! B. A U. railroad, will not take any further active part in the legislation ol the house, but bung a member of the house committee on banking and currency; he will not resign until he has completed some data he has been j working on in connection with a bill j to place the U. S, treasury upon aj sound basis. But when that work is ! completed, he will resign in order to devote his whole time to the railroad over which he has been called to preside. The democrats of the house will lose a valuable man when he goes. > ^lot a few who read what Mr. Robert Howls, of Hollands, Va., has to say below, will remember their own ex|ierience under like circumstances: “Last winter I bad iagrippe w hich belt me in a low state of health. 1 tried numerous remedies, none of which did me any good, until I was induced to try a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The hist buttle of it so far relieved me that 1 was'enabled to attend to my work, and ‘ the second bottle effected a cure.” For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by J. R. Adams & Son. j 1 It not only is so, it must be so. One Minute Cotub Cure acts quickly, and that a what makes it go. J.' R. Adams & Son. Or. Price’s Cream Baking Powder Worlds Fair Highest Award j

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Stellings & Ketcham Have opened out an extensive Sewing Machine Business in the room formerly occupied by HhatnVv, the photographer. The best standard Machines will be sold on aasy tet mis at lowest prices. We keep a full stock of all kinds of ©Sewing Machine Paris and Supplies® In connection 4-ill be a complete repair department. .1. 0. Ketcham having had almost a ii etime of practical expeiience in factory, work, is prewired to repair or rebuild a:ty style of sewing machines ever npide. We turn out any roacirtne we rebuild as good as new.guaranteeing all repair work to be fully satisfactory We Respectfully Solicit Your Patronage Notice of Assignee’s Sale of Keal Estate. Notice U hereby given that by virtue of an order of the Pike Circuit Court of Indiana, the undersigned assignee of the Arm «»i- J. B. Youug A Co. and Jonathan B. and Florence Young Individually, will otter for sale at public auction to the highest bidder at the ndrt beast door of the court house in the town of Petersburg, Pike«county. Indiana, on Saturday, February 8, 1896, At one o'clock pm. the following described real estate in Pike county, in the state of Indiana, to-w’it: Lots numbers two and nine (2 and 9) in Harrell's addition ti> the Town of Petersburg. Indiana. And the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-four, town one north, range eight west: ^containing forty '.-W acres more or less. That upon each of these said tracts and parcels of real estate there are certain liens and incumbrances, and said property will l>e sold free from said liens ami Incumbrances, and the proceeds of the sale of each of said parcels will be applied in. discharge of the fiens thereon. In accordance with the order 6l sale herein. Terms of Sale—One-fourth cash on day of sale, and the residue in equal installments in six, twelve and eighteen months from date of sale, the purchaser executing his promissory notes for the deferred payments bearing Interest at the rate of six percent per annum from date and providing for attorney’s fees and waiving relief from valuation and apprateeuieut laws of the state of Indiana, and with good and sufficient freehold surety to the approval of said a*signqe. Oeoruk J. Nichols. Assignee. Perry A. Chappell, attorney. 31-6 FRED SMITH Dealer In all kinds of • • • F"UR^sITUrfJ±:.

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