Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 43, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 March 1897 — Page 4

thrgikr Counts §tmmt fty ». McC. STOOPS. One T» nr, in advance_ _...... .... »1 $5 81s. Months,to:«u vaaee .. Hi Bute red at the po«tortic<? In Petersburg for Ira-tsniission through the mulls as second - class matter. >AY, FRIDAY. MARCH 5,1807. The inauguration ceremonies are now over and the next thing in order will be the Corbett-Fitxsiinmous fight. ' President McKinley will call an extra session of congress to convene March 15th. The session will monkey with the tariff. The fight for the post mastership of Petersburg st|ll continues. The Press has been silent on the question for several weeks. The Indiana senate passed a bill over the governor’s veto last week. The hill creates r new judicial circuit in northeastern Indiana. The Geetiujg educational bill has been hilled by the »iepublicau legislature. There will be no clutinge in the educational system of Indiana. Echoes of j the last campaign in Pike county are still reverberating. The people came out on top notwithstanding the use ot a great deal of cold cash. The Indiana legislature will adjourn next week. The majority members are killing time in ordejr that the governor will be compelled to ball a special session of that body. It is to U* 1 that thev can 0|**d that the' corporations, trusts ami monopol -ts are now happy ami dictate to their heart’s content. But wljuit is lo become of the laboringmau ami farmer? (ijtKar Chunks of confidence and prosperity are n<»w being dished out upon every street cornerj The^e are the promised times. What do you think of ’em? But the average republican don’t like to hear the words “Confidence" and “prosperity” any more. ;

Why do the republic*us fear the result of the next ejection? Because they know they will not redeem the promises they made in the' last campaign, ami they fear that monev aiid coercion will i>e inadequate to win when the six-and-a-half millions are reinforced by ithe men they deceived. It is altogether probable that the republieio legislature will turn every state institution into a j political machine. For the past several years they have bean controlled by non-partisan l*oards and the institutions have prospered and been ably conducted and the inmates given the attention that they deserve.! But there seems to . be a howling moh ftfter positions. The powersj may coerce Greece, but when they come to muniing an' American conftrsa they will find it altogether a different proposition. Congress would fight the world for the/? f passing resolutions. Thnf^xmntry has a sympathy for Greece as well as Culm, and we know of no reason why the powers, as they cal themselves, should not be informed jot St. Their policy ih regard to Greece, Crete aud Turkov is siiniplv hart <arous. • —U-- |.* The legislature of Alalstma has adjourned after a fiv* idays’ session. Fifty general laws have Uxn enacted, among them a revenue law, which, without increasing the tax rate, will increase the state's annua! revenue $;>Xt;ooO and pay the floating debt within tiro jews. New building and! loan, insurance, mining, convict and banking code* have been adopted. In Iudiaua the legi.-iators wajrit all the time the law affords aud then ask (for more without doing much. A bill hasjbeeu introduced into the legislature by Representative Brown a'nd which has {massed the house providing that all notes and other evidences of debt shall bear the stanjip of the township assessor. The purport- <>f the bill is to make it: possible to teciire (lie listing of notes for taxation. It in. pp.viii.sl in the bill that a note cannot»be collected in court that does not bear the stffinjpof the assessor. This would tie a go si law and would make many a money-lender “cough up” and pay his just proportion of taxes.

of commissioners to take some action toward placingthe court house square in a preyears, anti isjthe c* turnon taikdf tbejpeople! Anti every stranger that comes into the county. The j*-..ple syih to think that the reason that it i* lot fixed up is because the county is bankrupt and has no funds to make any iitaphjvements. It looks worse than a majority of the barnyards of the county. Felice it in, level up aud *>'. t he yanl. It should be done litis spring. Keep'* up appearances. . Ax agricultural editor who thinks before he speaks, has figured out the protective tariff on the wool question, and says “the whole matter on the high tariff on, wool urged by th*j representative-* of the alleged wool growers" association amounts to this: Under such a tariff wool growers would, receive little if any more, lor they cannot combine; the hitj buyers and manufacturers would control the price, as they always do; but the cost of,goods manufactured from wool would advance from fifi to 50 per cent. The minority, wool growers, get little be nefit: the majority, wool growers, are taxed ft>r this benefit <»f a few rich peopl*.*

Republican paper* advise the people tc have confidence and everything will work ont all right. The trusts and monopolists pull the string and the newspapers come to the center and talk out as they want them to. The people don’t want confidence; the] want work with which to buy the necessaries of life to feed their starving families. There are hundreds of families in Pike county that have had all the confidence they need, and now want a chage of diet. The march of monopoly is steadily advancing through the influence of republican courts and republican legislative bodies. Says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Tht monopolist is the true enemy of independent capital. If he is allowed to continue his work unchecked, industry and trade in every civilized country, and probably ir the United States first, will crystalize into a few hands, A billionaire corporation will control every branch of industry, and the opportunities for individual enterprise and the small capitalist will be gone for ever. We shall be a nation composed el an autocratic oligarchy of wealth and a multitude of pauperized underlings.” The process is pretty well uneler way and there are no indications of a stop. The legislature has passed a fish bill which will more than likely become a law. It reads as follows: “That it shall not be lawful to take, catch or kill, or attempt to take, catch or kill, any fish in any or the waters of this state, except I>ake Michigan and the Ohio river, and except, also, any private pond, by means of any s{>ear, seine, pound net, gill net, dip net, or other kind of net, trap or set line, or to kill or destroy, or attempt to kill or destroy, any fish by means ol dynamite or other explosive compounds or substances, or by the use of Indian cockle, fish berries or any other substance* which has a tendency to st upefy or poison the fish; or to tftke, catch, kill or destroy any fish in any manner whatever, except with hook and line, which line shall be held in the hand or tie adapted to a pole or rod which is held in the hand, and no line shall be used which has to exceed three hooks attached thereto. That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the taking of minnows for bait without a seine not to exceed twelve feet in length, the meshes of which seine shall not be less than three-eighths of an inch. ‘•It. shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell or offer to sell any fish taken from any of the waters of this state, except Lake Michigau, the Ohio river or a private pond. ** Anv person who shall be found guilty of violating any of the provisions Of tins act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than $5 nor more than $100.”

Democracy’s mission is the subject of a vigorous and thoughtful editorial in the Illinois State Register. This article contains the gist of the whole article: Tha accomplishment of the full and complete restoration of silverjto its time-honored place as money, side by side with gold, is the fixed purposes of the democratic party. This will be the leading feature of the platform of 1900 as it was for 1*96. Our opponents will talk of international agreement for bimetallism, and international conferences may be held, bu„ the real purpose of all expendients will be to deceive the people and gain time to more securely fasten upon them the clutch of the gold standard. The democratic shibboleth will be independent action for bimetallism on the part of America, spurning to be the follower and tool of lireat Britan or any other foreign nation. The object and purpose of our campaign which began right where it left off on November, 15*96, and will continue until November, 1900, may be epitomized in these words: The repeal of all laws by which silver has been demonetized and its use as money abridged, the prohibition of air discriminations by the government or any of its officers against either gold or sil' er. and the admission of both metals to the right of free and unlimited coinage at Our mints at the ratio of 16 to 1, with full power for all the money thus coined as legal tender for all public dues and all transactions of the citizen. Ho.v. Joux Kern, one of the brightest men in Indiana, aud a democrat who votes the ticket, is in Washington .and has been interviewed by the Post. Mr. Kern said: ‘ The democratic party is a< full of life and in as good condition in Indiana as it has been during any time within the last twenty years. Such interviews as appeared in a New York paper yesterday with the gentlemen who will administer the United States treasury after the 4th of March are well calculated to buoy up the con race and restore party spirit to the Indiana democracy.

Off a aiauu vi lact u«i 8H11T Uie ejection has intensified the belief of the voters out our way w ho supported the Chicago ticket, that they had the right side of the argument. The record since the election couldn't well have been worse for the party that succeeds them by reason of seductive promises made to the workingmen. Instead of higher wages and full time promised by the republicans, wage-earners in Indianapolis-have experienced a decrease in their earnings since last November, and that this has happened in many other parts of the country is a {natter of general notoriety. Now we will have a revision of the tariff under which, when the law gets in operation, there may be a little temporary spurt in business. As a necessary consequents there will be an overproduction, and then cornea the stagnation of and idle plants, with .thousands of men, thrown oat of employment. This is how the republican program will pan out, and this is why that party will be repudiated by the people at the next general election. Even now there are thousands of good men who were scared or buncoed into leaving the democratic party that are willing to come into the fold Dime non. They realise they have been p«dt the victims of a Mg confidence game.’ f

A Picturesque Character. A man who has been a conspicuous figure i m public affairs from a date so far back | that the memory of the “oldest inhabitants” : hardly goes beyond it, drops out of political life when the present congress dies. This Senator Daniel W. Yoorhees. It was the good fortune of the eminent Indianian to become a great national character before he entered congress, while he has been in congress, except for brief intermissions, ever since 1861. Previous to that year he ; held the post of United States Attorney for the district of Indiana, on the appointment of President Buchanan. That selection by that official attests his democratic orthodoxy, and in all his changes of base on the various issues which have appeared since he first entered the national legislature he has been true, or has intended to be, to the democratic faith. Very few persons now remember that Mr. Yoorhees was one of the counsel for one of the John Brown raiders. Of the many lawyers who figured in the Brown case as advocates for that “sublime madman” or any of his men—Potts, Green, Hoyt, Chilton, Griswold, Senuott and one or two others—some of whom were distinguished earlier than that episode, and all of whom made a national reputation then, Yoorhees is almost the only one who is alive, and he is quite the only one' who is known to the country today. Moreover, he had more influence than any of them. Hoyt was more earnest, ChUton and Griswold were more experienced, and Sennott was as eloquent and was much more persistent. Botts and Green, Virginians, who were appointed by the court, did not have any heart in the work of defense, and retired early. Yoorhees, who was an ardent proslavery man and a powerful pleader then and through all his career until the physical and mental collapse came recently, made a- more effective defeuse in a case which was prejudged from the beginning than did any of his co-workers. It was Mr. Yoorhees’ misfortune—how far it was his fault is uncertain—to come during the war under the suspicion of the government and of union people in general on the ground of disloyalty, and this circumstance destroyed his influence in congress for many years, but he outlived the stigma. It is certain that there was much anti-union sentiment in Indiana in 1861-5, and to this doubtless is due the fact that the charges of copperhead ism against Yoorhees, whether true dr false, did not

seriously hurt him ih his party in his state. His long service and his readiness us a speaker gave him a prominence in congress which made him for: many years one of the marked men of his time. In the discussion of every great question which has come up in his branch of congress during a generation he took a leading part. He was on two or three sides of some of them, but as this lack of rigid consistency is a common concomitant of a long and’active public service, it has simply imparted a dash of picturesqueness to his career. When on March 4, Daniel W. Voorhees retires one of the most captivating personages of the time passess from the stage of affairs.—Globe Democrat. 3Iarvelous Results. From a letter written by Rev. J, Gunderraan, of Dimondale Mich., we are permitted to make this extract: ‘*1 have no hesitation in recomending Dr. King’s New Discovery as the resuits were almost marvelous in the case of my wile. While I was pastor of the Baptist church at Rives Junction she was brought dow n with pneumonia succeeding la ut ippe. Terrible paroxysms of coughing would last hours with little interuption and it seemed as if she could not survive them. A friend recommended Dr. King's New j Discovery; it was quick iu its work and highly satisfactory in its results.*’ Trial bottles free at J. R. Adams & 8on’s drug store. Regular size f>Oe and $l.flO. Rumors of War. There are good fair prospects that the sun of the twentieth century will rise on seas of blood. Of course all signs may fail, but appearances lead to the prediction [ that the world is on the eve of one or more great wars. European nations have long1 been preparing for it. Although diplomacy has been ardent in its protestations of peaceful intentions, the force of standing armies has been increased ami a war footing constantly maintained. Within twelve hours of a declaration of war millions of men would be on the march. The spark which promises to ignite the powder magazine on whieti Europe is standing is Greece. She may be compelled to withdraw her forces from the island, but that does hot mean that her army at home

cannot cross the irontier to attack the lurk in other quarters. Then the powers will be obliged to show their hands. The*e is a point always at which diplomacy is brushed aside and the real purposes of a nation are made evident. The powers are acting in concert merely from fear one of the other. The firing of a single gun may change the whole situation with lightning like rapidity, if any prediction at this time is possible, it is that Russia and England may adopt opposite lines in regard to Greece, and thereby create an antagonism which may precipitate war. There is a strange significance in the absence of all mention of England in Rus-sia's-ultimatum to Greece. Not for a quarterof a century has Europe been so closely on the verge of war as it is to-day. Apparently the conflict has been delayed because no nation was fully prepared. When they deem the opportunity ripe they will all find sufficient exense in the situation as it no^ exists about Greece. Friends, if yon are in need of job printing of any description call in and see us at once. The DxaotiUT does all classes of work in the latest styles, Gall and see us before going elsewhere.

J^ICHARDSON A TAYLOR. Attorneys at Lam, Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in tbo office. Office in Carpenter building. Eighth and Main-sts., Petersburg, Ind. ^SH BY A COFFEY, G. B. Ashby. C. A. Coffey. Attorneys at Lam, Will practice in ail courts. Special attention given to all civil business. Notary public constantly in the office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office ovet S. G. Barrett A son’s store, Petersbuig, Ind. g G. DAVENPORT, Attorney at Lam. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug store, Petersburg, Indiana. Dillon a greene. t. h. onion V. R. Greene Attorneys and Counsellors at Lam W ill practice In Pike and adjoining counties Careful attention given to all business. Collections given proinot attention. Nohuy Public always in office. Office over Citizens’ State Bank, Petersburg, Indiana. g M. A C. L. HOLCOMB, , Attorneys at Lam. Will practice in all courts. Prompt attention given to all business. Office iuCarpenter block, first floor on Eighth-st, Petersburg QOX A ELY. wst. r. cox 1IQKACK ELY Attorneys at Lam,, Will practice in the Pike Circuit Court and adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to all civil business entrusted to their care. Office over J. K. Adams A Son’s drug store, Petersbu rg,|l ndiana. L. E. WOOLSBY, Attorney at Lam, All business promptly attended to. Collections promptly made andremitled. Abstracts of Title a specialty. Office in Suyder’s building, opposite Democrat office. Petersburg,!nd

T d. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty Office over Citizens’ state Bank, Petersburg, Indiana. JT INTER A^BASINGER, Physicians and Surgeons. Office In the Carpenter building, first floor, opposite court hohse. Petersburg, Ind. All calls promptly answered. P E. H1LSMEYBR. Physician and Surgeon. Office on -Third-st,, next door to postofflee,, Veipen, Indiana. Office hours—7 to t> am, 1 to 8 pm, 6 to 8 pm. All calls promptly answered. yy H, STONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon. Office in rooms tt and 7 in Carpenter building, Petersburg, Indiana. Operations firstclass. All wortt warranted Ana'stheties used for painless extraction of teeth. Q C. MURPHY, VDental Surgeon. Parlors in the Carpeuter building. Petersburg, Indiana. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. "VrOTICE is hereby given to all parties in-i 1 x terested that I will attend at my office in Slendal, EVERY SATURDAY’, To transact business connected with the j office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having busiuess with said office will j please take notice. J. L. BASS. Trustee. ! N OTICE is hereby given to all parties interested that I will attend in my office at : my residence EVERY MONDAY, To transact business connected with the j office of trustee of Marion township. All j person* having business with said office will I please take notice. T. C. N ELSON, Trustee. I Postoffice address: Winslow. N OTICE is hereby given to all parties con- I cerned that 1 will attend at n>y residence ! EVERY WEDNESDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Madison township. Positively no business transacted except on office days. J. D. BARKER.Trustee. Post office address: Petersburg. Ind. N OTICE is hereby given to all parlies concerned that I will beat my residence EVERY TUESDAY’ *• To attend to business connected with the office of trustee of Monroe township. J. M. DAVIS. Trustee. Postofflee address: Spurgeon. NOTICE is hereby given to ali persons concerned that 1 will attend at my office EVERY MONDAY T<» transact business connected with the office of trustee of Jefferson township. L. K, TRAYLOR, Trustee. Postofflee address: lva, Iud.

Get an Air Line 1000 Mile Ticket. GOOD FOB OBE YKAB, SOLD AT BATEOrfjU.00 The lost Useful Ticket oo the Market. Good over the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis, consolidated railroad, Buffalo, Rochester and Pit uburg, Centralis and Chester. Cincinnati. Jackson ami Mackinaw. Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia—for continuous passage enly between Cincinnati and Portsmouth. Cterdsud. Canton and Sonthern. Cleveland. Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louts ; Except ML titled Short Lined Cleveland Terminal and Valley. Columbus Hocking Valley and Toledo. Columbus. Sandusky and Hocking, Findlay. Ft. Wayne and Western, Indiana Illinois and Iowa. Louisville and Nashville, Lima Northern, Loutsvtile. New Albany and Chicago (Motion route.) New York, Chicago »»d St. Louis, Ohio Central tinea, Ohio Southern, Pittsburg Shenango and Lake Erie. Terminal railroad association of St. Louis, W heeling and Lake £rte REAt'it IXG St. Louis, Evansville. Louisville. Cincinnati, Chicago, Indianapolis. Terre Haute, Dayton, Columbus. Toledo, Detroit, and hundreds of other points. On sale by Air Line ticket agents. R. A. CAM PBELL, Gen. Pass. Agent. WAJTTED-FAITH FCL MEN or WOMEN , v* to travel tor responsible established house in Indiana. Salary I7M0and expenses. Position permanent. Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. The Nallo- | uni, star lusuranceJHiiiding. Chicago.

EXAMINING THE GOODS AND THE PRICES Given by me before you buy, which will be dollars in your pocket. Our stock Is so complete in every way I can save you from 30 to 60 percent on every dollar^ worth of goods you buy, anti I will not ask you to pay one penny more than your neighbor paid for the same. We have the finest line of ^Tailor Made Clothings That was ever displayed in Petersburg. Men’s Satinette Suits, well made, sires 34 to 42, for only $2.24. Men’s all Wool Cheviots, in Black and Blue, worth $9.00,'for $4.98. Men’s all Wool Clay Worsted, in Black ami Blue, worth $10.00, for $5.98. Boy's Knee Pants Suits, sell everywhere for $1.00, only 48c. o-And we offer you inducements on-—o That others cannot duplicate, as l have to raise money and reduce the stock. Our styles and prices on Men’s, Ladies’ and Children’s S5HOlEE€S» will make vou laugh until you cry. «G-ents’t ^-uLirLisliirLgr t G-ood.s» A specialty. We will be glad to show onr goods and give onr prices whether you purchase or not, for we know a look from you will insure your future trade. W. L. BARRETT, (Successor to S. G. Barrett & Son,) PETERSBURG INDIANA

. , - -J ;winter Suitingsj We hare the latest patterns anti styles to select from. 4 * Smits ^v£a.d.e to ^/lEeasiixe: SIS, IS, 2O, SOS stxrcL ‘CTp. Pants 3iv£ade to Order; S^fc, 5, SG, 7, SQ arid "CTp, (Burger & Bro., Mercliant Tailors

Some large broad backed, square hammed, all around good Pigs, of both sexes, for sale at reasonable prices. Come aud see them. I know you will like them. ‘ .* M, I_HEATHMAN, 3-leaea.. X33.3ia.3a.aL.

W. L. DOUGLAS $Q.0fl SHOE The Style. Pit ud Weir coaid not be Improved for Double the Price.

Merchant*, Hankers, Lawyers, Physicians •aaall' economical W. L. because the) For sals by

W. L. Douglas $330, $4.00 and $5jOO Shoes are the productions of skilled workmen, from the best material possible to put into shoes sold at these prices. We make also $5.50 and $225 shoes for men, and $2-50, $24)0 and $1.75 for boys, and the W. L. Douglas $330 Police shoe, very suitable lor letter-carriers, policemen and dthers having much walking to do. We are constantly adding new styles to our already large variety, and there Is no reason why you cannot be suited, so insist on having w. L. Douglas Shoes from your

We use only the best Cali, Russia Calf (all tailors;. French Patent Calf. French Enamel, Yici Kid, etc., graded to correspond with prices of the shoes . b If dealer cannot supply yea. V. L DOUGLAS, Braekfet, I Catalog us fun.

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