Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 May 1897 — Page 4

AYER’S PILLS « Having been subject, for years, to constipation. without being able to find much relief. ! at last tried Ayer's Pills, and testify that 1 have derived great benefit frum their use. For over two years past I have taken one of these pills every night.”—U. W. Bow* MAX, to East Main 51. Carlisle. Pa. OXJXUB CONSTIPATION. dr §fik* Couutg Democrat ■r m. ncc. stoops. One Tear, in advance. .......... .... II to Six Months, in advance.— . to Entered at the postoflto* in Petersburg for transit) tsaiou through the mails as second* elans matter. FRIDAY, MAY 7,1897.

It becomes the pleasurable duty of the Democrat to once more remind the people Of Petersburg and Pike county that they are in the push. They now occupy a position that no other people of any county in the state of Indiana, in the west or of the United States enjoy. They live in the garden belt of the world; they live in the richest bituminous coal field in the United States, and now that the discovery of natural gas in Petersburg is assured and a test of the well made known, they are again blessed. Petersburg can now boast of the cheapest fuel m the World—having both natural gas and coal. It is a great pride to live in such a place, ami the people should not now forget the fact that all eyes will be turned toward the new gas field and that strangers will be pouring in from every direcfiou. Give them the hand of welcome and make their stay among you pleasant, and when they return to their former home towns they will sing your praises. Spare neither time or money to show them about and point oat the many advantages this locality posesseses for the locating of factories, the pleasant places for residences, etc. This you can do without in the least discommoding yourself or your friends. It takes people to make a community; it takes hustle and bustle and an energetic class of men to do it; it takes capital and investors; it takes hard untiring work to make a city and secure thelocating of large manufacturers. This can only be done by working together with only one purpose, and that of making a substantial manufacturing center of Petersburg and community. Thete is another question that must be spoken of in this connection, and that is; manufacturers must have land on which to locate their plants. Don’t get the mistaken idea that you have the only piece of land on which a factory can be located, and raise the price far beyond its actual value and thus force the manufacturers to locate at some distance from the city. That has killed several northern Indiana towns in the gas belt. Manufacturers want cheap fuel and can locate three or four miles away from the town just as well as they can within a half mile. Make the price of your lands within reason and thus secure the factory closer to town. Petersburg is bound to boom from this date on, and it becomes the duty of every cituceu to deal liberally with the strangers that they may locate and become citizens and help to build up your home and native town. This should be borne in mind, it is good advice and should be heeded. To capitalists and manufacturers we would say, come and locate with us. Receipts of grain at Chicago so far this year show a material falling off with those of 1896, shipments a very fair decrease*, especially of wheat arid corn. Receipts of wheat have aggregated only 1,458,000 bushels, against 3,180,000 in 1896; of corn 16,429,900, against 23,604.000 last year; of oats 25.581,000, against 27 #07,000 in 1896. Shipments of wheat have been 5,302,000 against 8.335.000 in 1897; of corn 9,381.000, agaiust 11,054,000 last year; of oats 18.506,0U0 against 18.448,000 in 1896. The receipts of the three grains show a falling off of 10,123,000 bushels, the shipment*of 4.647,000 a* compared with 1896.

Lkt us not be diverted in the months to come from the one great issue—the restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of stiver equally with gold at the mlio of sixteen to one without consultation with any nation. Our enemies refuse to meet us in a fair discussion on thi» great subject, bat let u» press it hotue upon them. The people of Ohio are sound and true on this question. They will have an opportunity this fall to declare their will.—Cincinnai Enquijrar. ... - - .. lx the town elections held Monday throughout Indiana the democrats generally came out on top. The confidence-prosperity game is dying out and the people ate waiting for another whack at the corporation had trust promoters.

Hok. Albert G. Porte*, ex governor of Indiana, died at his home in Indianapolis Monday last. The funeral services took place Wednesday. He wasone of the leading men of Indiana and ah honored citixen. The republican legislature of Kentucky have at last succeeded in electing a senator. Hon. D. W. Deboe was elected last week. This is the second effort, the legislature of last year failing to make a selection and the present session came near ending in the same manner, but Hnnter gave up the caucus nomination and the result was that Deboe secured the nomination and election. Those republican editors and old veterans who stood in the front ranks at the last election and fought the battles over in the First congressional district have been pushed back from the*‘pie oounter,”and will no doubt have to wait another four years, and then the possibility is that there will be nothing for them. The republican politicians have been treating the editors and veterans very shabbily. The hard times have forced a new style among country editors, and many of them now wear a belt instead of suspenders. When they get word from home that there is nothing for dinner, they simply tighten the belt another notch and feel too fall for utterance. The Democrat editor's belt differs somewhat from the ordinary style. It is an electric belt of the latest pattern, and when the report comes from home that the neighbors have not brought anything in for dinner, be loaches the button ana starts in circulation a little stronger current of lightning. It is very effective. Ix this issue will be found full accounts of the dedication of the Grant monument at New York and the opening of the Tennessee eentenial. Both articles are well illustrated. On other pages of this issue will be found a number of articles on the gas question and the future of Petersburg, besides a number of illustrations. The Democrat always gives the news in advance of other Petersburg papers. Subscribe at once and be on the ground floor and get the hews first hand. The Democrat is recongined as the leading paper of the county and is at the head of every enterprise that benefits the town and its people.

tion&l committee from Georgia, postmaster at Augusta, Georgia, there will be a fight and a very bitter one, too. The entire Georgia congressional delegation made a respectful protest against appointing this negro postmaster at Augus ta, taking the ground that there were plenty of places paying just as well that could be given him, where the performance of his official duties would not necessitate constant irritation of the entire business interests of a city and the greater part of its population— probably nine-tenths of its mail receiving population. Postmaster General Gary had given the Georgia delegation to understand that he was opposed to making this negro postmaster at Augusta, but it seems that the negro, who was a McKinley whoopee up previous to the St. Louis convention, had boss Hanna’s positive promise of the postoffice if McKinley was nominated and elected', and that he has refused all offers of other places, although some of them carry more salary, and insisted upon being nominated postmaster at Augusta. The Georgia senators believe they can defeat his nomination in the Senate, and it is certain that they will fight it to the last ditch, and hang it up if they can’t defeat it. “Oh, its just the regular pendulum swing,” is the substance of what members of the administration say when their attention is called to the large amount of goldmore than $7,000,000—engaged last week in New York for shipment to Europe, “and it will all come back again in the fall to pay for our crops.” They may be right, but those with good memories have not forgotten that Secretary Carlisle and his assistants talked the same way in 1884, when nearly $102,000,000 in gold went to Europe, ar.d in 1896, when the value exported almost reached $106,000,000, and again in 1896,. when it went close to $57,O00.000, and they know that this gold was only brought back by issuing $201,000,000 in U. S. bonds. Mr. McKinley has said that he would not issue bonds, but he has also said that Mr. Cleveland did right in issuing them when the continued demand for gold caused the gold reserve in the U.S. treasury to fall below the arbitrary limit set without any legal authority by John

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■ Washington Letter. (From our regular correspondent.; Washington, May 3,1897. Mr. McKinley has fully made up his mind to curtail some of the extensions of the civil service rules made by Mr. Cleveland, but he lacks the nerve to do so until public opinion has been worked up a little on the subject. That is why members of bis cabinet and other prominent officials are making pubitc their opinions against those rules. Of course, everybody understands that the rules do not keep the present democratic occupants of the positions in office, but so long as they are in force they do operate to keep those republicans who are not already in the government service out of office. And that is the milk in the cocoanut. Promises have been made that they have got to be kept, and the only way to keep them is to withdraw the civil service rules from some of these places. Ilad Mr. McKinley been a man of backbone be would simply have rescinded Mr. Cleveland’s orders extending the rules and said no more about it, and that would have been a much more manly way than this beating the devil around the bush in order to make it appear that the public demands their abrogation, when everybody knows that the public doesn't care a continental who fills the minor offices under the government. The Lingley tariff bill should now be known as the Allison-Aldrich-Platt bill, since those three senators have added more than a thousand amendments to the lull, which was to-day laid before the full finance committee of the Senate. The amendments have not made the lull any less objectionable as a whole to democrats, but some of them have started many republicans to kicking at a lively rate, but there is no likelihood that any of them will kick out of the party traces. There hasn’t been a determined fight made in the Senate against any appoint* rent yet made by Mr. McKinley, but if he persists in trying to make J. W. Lyons, ha negro member of the republican na

Sherman when he was secretary of the treasury. Everybody hopes that this gold raid is not made by the New York and London money changers to force another issue of bonds, but that doesn’t keep people ; from wondering what Mr. McKinley would do, should it turn out that way. Democratic employes of the treasury dei partment who are not so unsophisticated | as to expect to be protected by the civil | service commission are preparing to “get it | in the neck.” A committee has been api pointed to investigate ail the bureaus of j the treasury department, and to report a i plan of reorganization that will enable the most efficient employes to get the largest ! salaries. That sounds all right, doesn’t it? But every wide-awake democrat knows that j the plan reported will give the largest sal- j | aries to the republicans, and is preparing1 to take his dose of reduction with as good grace as he can. if he isn't in a position to i show his disgust by resigning when the re- | organization is made. ' The Best Remedy for Kheantlim. From the Fairhaven (N. Y.) Register: j Mr. JamesRowland of this village, states; that for twenty-five years his wife bas been j a sufferer from rheumatism. A few nights ago she was in such pain that she was nearly crazy. She sent Mr. Rowland for the doctor, but be had read of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and instead of going for the physician he went to the More and secured a bottle of it. His wife did not approve of Mr. Rowland’s purchase at first, but nevertheless applied the baltn thoroughly and in an hoar’s time was able to go to sleep. She now applies it when-j ever she feeis an ache or a pain and finds that it always gives relief. He sajs that no medicine which she had used ever did her as much good. The 23 and 30 cent sizes for safe by J. R. Adams & Son. m j When Weak, Weary and Wasted ' From kidney diseases, why not try Foley’s j Kidney Cure, a guaranteed medicine. Bergen & Oiiphaut.

H. FOREMAN, Attorney at Law. Loan and Real Estate. Office—Room II, Carpenter building, Petersburg. Indiana. «4FRED SMITHS Dealer In all kinds or FURNITURE!

Funeral Supplies a Specialty. We keep on hand at all times the finest line of Parlor and Household Furniture to be found in the city. Bedroom and Parlor Salts a Specialty. In ftmeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc., of the best make. Corn Meal, Graham Flour and Ground Feed Of all kinds kept on hand for sale or exchange. Cash paid for Corn, Oats, Barley and Rye. You will find us located at the Petersburg Brick and Tile Factory. Thomas Read. Stellings and Ketcham. Agents for Sewing machines WHITE NEW HOME and other first-class machines. Bert grades and lowest prices. FROM $25.00 UP. Expert Sewing machine repairing done aud satisfaction guaranteed.

If yon are unable to get them from your dealer, write to <u and we will UU you bow to get them. Selz, Schwab & Co. Chicago. largest manufacturers of Boots and Shot to the United States. Shoe Go's. Own Make •

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Leai) (Jpet) fylq jftnj), Qear Mother, And go with me to Barrett’s Store, that Old Reliable Stand, where I can get a Spring Suit rightly made and ready to wear. They offer a good Business Sait, well made and durable, tor $2.34. At $4.98 they offer Men’s all Wool Suits, of Black and Blue Cheviots. At $6.24 they offer Men’s Suits of all Wool Double-and-Twist Scotch Plaids; also of all Wool Black and Blue Clay Worsteds. I can keep trying them on until we find the color, cloth and fit Exactly te 0or Men of good judgment are taking advantage of this unsurpassed offer, and we must do likewise. Suits huilt to measure by the Jacob Reed's Sons of Phil* adelphia. Goods of the very best quality, fit and workmanship guaranteed. If they can’t please us no one on earth can, and it will pay us to go where i Stzjle at)d Qaetitq is ^ssared (Js, Their Spring Block and Colors in Derby, Alpine and Straw Hats in all of the latest styles, are all marked at 0i)e,j>eortl) ef tl>elr fleet yaloe Three shelves and counters are all loaded with the choicest of Dry Goods and Gent’s Furnishing Goods, and it’s only such occasions as this that we take the opportunity to buy. So let us go to W- L- flerrett'S. (Successor to S. G. Barrett & Son,) PETERSBURG INDIANA.

Summer Suitings We have the latest patterns and styles toselect from. Suits 3^Ca-d.e to Measure: SIS, IS, SSO, S22.a.nd.J“CTp. Pants 2v£a,d.e to OxcLex: S*4, 5, S<3, T', SS axxd. TTp. Burger &Bro., Merchant-Tailors ie Cq. lerd Thscwhlirei Berkshire Svis

Some large broad backed, square v hammed, all around good Pigs, of both sexes, for sale at reasonable prices. Come aud see them. I know you will . like them. [ ISA. L-. HEATHMAN, 9-l0z«xx. Imatana !-!_S_S --

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