Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 May 1896 — Page 4

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?£fcr fib; County graorrat Hr m. Hoc. stoops. H^TI* nu (Hitjr Ueworrat k»» tk« l*rE*t elrcaUUoo at U) a»a*ii»|>er pafclUktd ia k* Ctutfl (Otftiwri will *ak* I »oti> mi iifkrt! Oats Fear. Id advance 8lix Months, In advance tl » (A Rnteicd at the post office In Petersburg for traiismtSHloQ through the mails as sc-eoi.d-H»M (putter. FRIDAY, MAY 8,1898. dEilLSJi—'.aiMHi^.i—.-!'.■!■ ..L..-5SSBaa! Announcement. COUNTY RECORDER. Pierian Hart! ol Jetlereou township, U a ccndidnte for county recorder, subject to the dcclsi«ku oi the democratic uutninating eon. ventlon. • * - Please announce my name as a candidate foe lit* nmntn&riou of Recorder of l*lke county, subject to tin* decision of the democratic nominating convention. I*own*y Bicatty. giJl'J'J... ... eBBgBBeaBHBBB? STATE CONVENTION. t ■ L Indianapolis, Ind.. April, 1, 1896. To the Democracy of Indiana: The democratic state convention will ansemhic at Tomlinson Hall, in the city of Indianapolis, at 10 o'clock a. m., on Wed. nasdey, June 24. 1896. for the purpose of nominating candidate* for state offices to he voted for at the November election, 1896; the adoption of a |«Utflorti>; the selection of delegates to the national democratic con? mention: the selection of presidential elect? ors and such other business as may properly come before the convention. The basis of representation to said eon? vent ion as fixed by the democratic state central committee is one delegate for each 150, and one delegate for each fraction of 75 or more votes cast for Hon. Chtttde Matthews for governor ind%892. ’ Under this apportionment the convention frill consist of 1,747 delegatee. Sterling R. Holt, Chairman. S. L. Waijlacb, Secretary.

COUNTY CONVENTION. The democratic and conservnt ive voters of Pike county, Indiana, will meet in mass convention at Winslow on Thursday, Stay 88th, 1896. for the purpose of nominating candidates for the following offices to be Voted for at the ensuing November election: Judge of the 57th Judicial Circuit. Prosecuting Attorney of the 57th Judicial Circuit. Representative 4 Treasurer. Recorder. SherifT.S County Assessor. Coroner. Surveyor. Commissioner First District. Commissioner Second District. . The convention will be organized at 10 p’dock a, m. By order of the Committee, W. J. Richardson, Chairman. M • McC. Sroow, Secretary. April 86. 1696. The g. o. p. is badly mixed op in Vanderburg county. The silk stockings; grid the cottons are on the outs. Harrison and McKinley men are taking sides in the matter and it promises to make a real lively ■ Oght The council of the city of Evansville last Monday night adopted an ordiuance requiring dealers in cigarettes to {»ay an annual license of $500. This is pretty stiff, but vrilll save the livps of a number of young men in that city. Tbi Southern Indiana hospital tpr insane at Evansville is very much crowded at * present with unfortunates who have been dethroned of reason. In all probability additional buildings will be erected during the next few years. McKixlkt now seems to have a cinch on the republican nomination for the presidency. Cullom of Illinois, who enjoyed a boom for a short time, was shelved by his own state last weak, which instructed for the high protectionist and the single standard. The state board of health will meet May 18, at Indianapolis, and at tile same time the county health officers will hold their meeting. It is expected that the state beard will discuss some additional legislation to be asked for from the next legislature looking for better smutary conditions in the state. This will%c especially directed to bog cholera and the inspection of foods. It is now believed that tae republican congress will adjourn next week, The session bps been * very long one indeed, The present republican congress was elected by a gnat hue and cry of reform, the democratic party had ruined the country and an immediate changgtaras demanded m the financial standing pud the tariff basis. Well, what has been done? Nothing. The tariff remains the same and the finances in the same condition. The reformers were ««•

•iuuqk ijarney, or me tnrawiorasviue circuit court, decides that a trustee’s power is supreme ip the matter of expending money for township purposes. The trustees settle with the commissioners, but the providence of the latter is purely ministerial and in po sense judicial. Trustees can credit themselves with carriage hire if they wish and the only way to test their right to do so is for some taxpayer to sue them on their bond. . 1 ’Ll...... JJ Senator Shkkmak doesn’t like the phrase “high tariff” as descriptive of the republican policy in case they shall elect a president and congress. But he says it wilt be high enough for protection purposes. *■ And how. high is this? The average!rate under the original Morrill tariff was » per cent. Under the republican commission tariff (Arthurs) of 1884 it was 41.6® per cent. Last year, under the Wilson law, it was 41,?5 per vent. Is not this big enough? Bo the uinfant industries” require higher protection the older they grow ? lifcREMBUt that the democratic county convention occurs on Thursday, May 28th. The convention should be largely attended by the voters of the county and a strong ticket nominated of representative inen | who will have the best interests of the county at heart. It is uow high time that a change in the financial management of | the county should take place, and to that end manlier one men should be nominated. | The county is heavily in debt and is increasing at an alarming rate. Nominate a strong ticket. The unit rule is a tyrannical exercise of power that ought not to be tolerated in a democratic conventions are popular bodies not amenable to any provisions of the organic law. Every delegate in a party convention is a free agent representing a constituency that is entitled to be heard. For a bare majority of the delegates to cast the entire vote of the delegation is to deprive the constituencies of the minority delegate of representation. Every delegate in a party convention should be permitted to cast his individual vote m accordance with his own wishes and those of his constitutents.—Evansville Courier.

State Auditor Daily has completed an abstract showing the aggregate value of all the taxable property intnijUana in 1895 to be $1,286,050,531. The lands of the state were valued at $455,738,569, and the improvements thereon $80,354,330, or a total $536,087,809. The lots of the state were valued at $149,585,107, and the improve- -t ments thereon at $150,819,353, or a total of $299,004,550. The personal projierty in the state was assessed at $288,389,711, the telegraph, telephone and express company property was valued at $5,206,793, and the railroad property in the state at $156,469.578. The assessors listed $406,401 taxable }K)Us. The total amount of taxes levied on the $1,286,050,531 of property was $19,574,630.60. The average rate in the state was $1.53. DEPEW ON CONGRESS. For a man who has as much to say as Chauncey Depew on current topics it would be strange if he did not occasionally strike a fact and he probably comes as close to this as any one ever does in these remarks about congress: The improvement woul# have resumed had it not been for the statesmen at Washington, who construed it as patriotic to go about with their tadfeathprs on the ground inviting somebody or anybody p> tread on them. While the warriors were parading and fumiug the people were aware that the country was unprepared for War. However the warriors had not the time to pass apportionments for ships and guns. They were too busy shouting for a conflict to prepare for it. 1 know that many enterprises were abandoned on account of the war talk, which, had they been carried out, would have made a great deal of business for the railroads. Two real estate transactions, of $1,500,000 and the other of $3,000,000, were given up. The transportation of building material in connection with them would have contributed not a little to railroad earnings. A cotton merchant who had looked forward to a large trade, and stocked up accordingly, sold his goods at a cent a yard below cost, in order to realise on them. Last summer and fall the iron works started upon full time and at full pay, but the war alarm put them back on half time. When congress adjourns general business will pick up. It is singular, but true, that people are afraid to do anything white congress is in session, OM People. Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true remedy in Electric Bitters. This medicine does not stimulate and contains no whiskey nor other intoxicant, but sots as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach end bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organa, thereby aiding nature in the performance of the functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent appetiser and aids indigestion. CMd people And it just exactly what they need. Prk* fifty cents per boute a( $ SL Adaiftf # Son’s drug store. *

Washington letter. {From oar i*galar com-spout Jem.; ^ Washinuton, May 4th, 189$. Democrats are delighted with what now looks like the certainty of Mejfinely’s nomination for president by the republicans. If Uiey can't beat anybody. Speaker Reed was reported to he so disgusted with the result of the week just closed that it required not a little persuasion to prevput his announcing his withdrawal in favor of McKinley, whom he has abandoned all hope of defeating. The McKinleyites want Reed to take the second place on their ticket, but his mind will have to undergo a great change before he consents. It is said that Mr. Reed feels very bitter towards Senator Proctor of Vermont, on account of his belief that Proctor betrayed him to McKinley in that state, in the hope of getting second place on the McKinley ticket, and it has been intimated that Reed intends to have something to say about the treachery of Proctor, after the meeting of the St. Louis convention. General Fitxhugh Lee is in Washington for the purpose of receiving his final instructions before goiug to Cuba as U. S. Consul-General. Hp has had several conferences with President Cleveland as well as with Secretary Oiney, and has probably been made fully acquainted with the j>osition the President intends to maintain towards both Cuba and Spain. Re expects to $o to Havana this week. President Cleveland will preside over the exercises at the unveiling of the equestrian statue of Gen. W. S. Hancock, on the 12th, and may jnake a short introductory address, Following is the formal program: Prayer, by Bishop Satleriee; “Star Spangled Banner,” by Mariue Band; unveiling of statue, accompanied by artillery salute fired on the Washington monument grounds; address by Senator Palmer of 111., who was a Major General of volunteers ; “Hail Columbia,” by Maride Band; Benediction by Rev. Dr. W. H. Gottwald, post chaplain, department Patomac, G. A. R. The military and civil parade which will precede? the unveiling will be under command of Brigader General Brooke, commanding the department of Dakota, who is in Washington on a visit. All of the U. S. troops in reach of Washington will take part in the parade. While all democrats regret the wraugle between Senators, Hill, of New York and Tillman, of South Carilonia there is almost unanimity of opinion among democrats as to who was at fault and who got the best of it. Senator Tillman's honesty is unquestioned, but his judgment is generally regarded as poor, and 1 heard one of the most prominent silver democrats in congress say that Mr. Tillman’s latest speech had done silver more harm than all its enemies had l>een able to do it by Frightening conservative democrats into the belief that there was danger in the triumph if silver. A number of silver democrats in ?ongress deny that Mr. Tilltnan spoke for them when he declared that the silver lemoemts would bolt the Chicago convention unless a 16 to 1 free coinage platform was adopted, and agree with Senator Hill's leclaration that no roan ought to be admitted to the National convention who declares in advance that he will bolt if he rails to get everything he wants. Senitor Hill’s answer to Senator Tillman’s .“laim that the democrats of the south were roing to Chicago with only one idea to get free coiuage or to bolt—was level headed inoUgh to be studied by every democrat, in the south as well as elsewhere. He said; “No; it will not do for my friend to give 'hat as the sentiment of the south. The lemocracy of the south is not going to that invention with one idea. The democracy las more than one idea. The south will go » that great gathering to confer, to compare. It would be blind folly for that great party to split, to divide on the financial question. There is more in democracy :han the single question of silver. There ire the great questions of paternalism, of jentralization, and the vital question of personal liberty of the citizen.” Mr. Hill mded his remarks with this advice to the' party: “Inessentials unity, in non-essen-Uals liberty; in all things charity.” Senator Allison’s reputation as a dodger is as old as his aspirations to be the presidential candidate of his party, therefore nobody was surprised when he dodged the rote on Senator Gorman’s amendment to the naval appropriation hill reducing the number of battleships provided for from four to two, but nearly everybody smiled. The amendment was adopted. According to the most trustworthy information which reaches Washington from Georgia, Ex-Speaker Crisp will get that Senatorship regardless of the result of the financial fight for supremacy which is bang waged by the silver and anti-silver democrats of that state. The House passed the bankruptcy bill Saturday afternoon by nearly a two-thirds vote.

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E. GRIM, Lawyer, PETERSBURG, INI). Office in Citizens’ State Bank building, up stairs. Prompt attention given to all business. Notice of Sale of Heal Estate. Notice Is hereby given that by virtue of an I order of the Pike Circuit Court of Indiana under the law ot assignments the undersigned assignee or Charles Li. Alexander and Flavius J. Patterson as partners under the firm name ol Patterson A Alexander, and each as indi* | viduals. will offer at- orivate sale and receive | bids therefor at the store of Moses Frank, iu | the town ot Petersburg, Pike County, Indi ana, uutil and on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1U. 1895 The following described real estate situate ill the County of Pike.and State of Indiana, to-wit: The west half of the southwest quarter, and the northeast quarter of the soldo west quarter, ami the uorili half of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirtythree i33i, town pue Ui north, range eight (8) wept, one hundred forty (HU; acres, aud the j nor'Uwest quarter of the northwest quarter of seeliou tour f>, town one (lj south, range eight (8j west, forty (40 acres, and in all one hundred eighty 1180) acres. Also the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section four (4'. town one (1 south, range eight ;8; west, except the following parts thereof to-wit: Oue and oue-half U.S) acres in the northwest corner ot said quarter of quatter section, and the fcaid one and onehair acres is more particularly described tote st; Beginning at the northwest corner of j the southwest quarter ot the northwest quarter of section four (4), town and range as j aforesaid running theuce east twelve (12)) r«*ds. thence south twenty (20) rods, thence west twelve (12» rods, theitce north twenty V2U> rods to place of beginning; and also except one (I) acie in the form of! a square iu the southwest ‘corner of said southwest quarter ot the northwest quarter of \ said section four (4,. containing thirty-seven and one-iialf (iff*,,’ acres. And also the west half hf the southeast qUarter of the northeast quarter of section nve (5) town oue (l) south; range eight (8) west, containing twenty i2U]:acres. That upon the said out* hundred eighty I18U1 acres of real estate tlrst abovie deserlbeifthere is a certain mortgage lien in favor of James Hhawliau. the principal sum ol which is three. thousand IKMJUOJ dollars with the accumulated interest t hcrcou. i hat there are certain | other liens and incumbrances on ail of said' real estate herein offered for sale. That said j one hundred eighty jlMO] acres of real estate, above described will be sold subject to the* said lieu and debt of saki James shawhan. { the purchaser thereof to assume aud pay said j debt and to discharge said lien, and the same j will be sold free from und to discharge ail other tie.ts on said land. That upon the residue of said real estate i herein offered for sale there are certain liens and incumbrances, aud the same will be sold ; free from and to discharge all liens thereon, j Tkkms or Hals—As to the one hundred I eighty acres ot land first above described, the I purchaser to assume and pay the said mortgage lieu and dehtof James Sha whan t ho eon ! and to pay one third of thy amount but egeess of said mortgage lien and debt In ca h ! oue third in nine months aifd the resiuue In ; eighteen months from: the date of sale. That as to the residue of said real estate { herein offered fur sale the purchaser to pay one third of the parents* price in cash, one third in nine months ana the residue in eighteen months from the date of sale. The purchaser to execute bis notes for the deferred payments to said assignee, with *ix per cent interest thereon per annum from date uutil paid, and with attorneys fees and without relief from valuation and appraisement lain, aud with good and isufUcieul surety thereon to the approval of said assignee. Haelky R. Snydkk, Assignee. Posev A Chappell, attorneys. May 1. MW. Notice of Assignee's Sale. Notice is herby given that the undersigned Assignee of Alexander Wilis will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY. MAY W 1SW at the residence of Harsh J. Dawson, in Jefferson township, Pike County, Indiana, £. of S mile west ol Cato postoffiee, alt the goods and chattels in my haud as «*)•> assignee, consisting of one lot of merchandise, ur> goods, notions, boots and shoe.-, groceries, queensware. one peddling-wagon-bed and a lot of 1 other articles too numerous to mention. Hale i to begin at ten o'clock a. in. Sikhs op Sauk:—All soup* or five dollars and under, cash in hand. An sums over five dollars a credit of three mom ns will be given. Girchaaer to give note bearing six percent teresl with surety to the approval of the as- | atgnee. No property to be removed from ' premises until terms ot sate are compiled .with. John H. Dawson, Assignee. » -Dillon A Greene, Attorneys,

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