Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 May 1897 — Page 4

ttitsttim AYER’S Sarsaparilla I Is the original Sarsaparilla, the 3 standard of the trodd. Others § hare imitated the remedy. 3 They eau’t imitate the record: 3 §50 Yeisrsof Cures! miimumiuiiiHiitiiimr? Sir Spilt Count; gjnuomt •r m. net'. sToors. Oue Year. In advance. ..... ... H » Atx Months, In advance . .. » Eolered at the po*t<XB<v iu Feterebsij for .tranenaiSKiou through the mails as eeeomiclaw matter. FRIDAY. MAY 14,1897.

The Democrat with this issue begins volume under very auspicious circumstances. It has led a tempestous life on the sea of journalism and has encountered all the ups and downs, but still rides on the top wave of success. Many times in its existence it has been hard to keep its head above the waters, but with a careful maa- . ageiuent and a fear to do right tins kept it iu the lead, and has won for it the encomiums 1 and praise of the people of Petersburg and Pike county. It has been the chief supporter of every enterprise that tended to promote the interests of the people at all times and under all eircuinstauees. Prow a struggling puf^r with a “hard row to hoe’* it ha- bee < me a valuable piece of newspaper projH-rty aird commands a large and growing business, which is increasing every week. Tin Democrat took an active interest in the street lighting, and today Petersburg is one of the best .lighted little cities in Indiana. Tin Democrat for the past five vears has been the advocate of drilling fur gas and many columns have been devoted to that cause. Today Petersburg can lay claim to having the highest pressure gas well iu the world. In these promotions of the town’s best interests the lhcMociUT has done its part and docs not seek to share the hooors. but only has done its duty as a newspaper in helping to advance the interests of the town. It has done that at ail time* and under all circumstances. The citizens realize that fact and are standing by it. As in the past, the Democrat will be lound in the from rank working for the best interests of the town and county. The proprietor ties ires in this connection to thank the people for the very libera! patreuage accorded and hopes to tnem a continuance of the same in the future. Again we thank oue and all, and may success crown alt in their efforts to make their home and native town a city of factories and the lending business centre of this section of Indiana. pETERsst ao cannot am) will not grow and cannot hope to secure factories unless -- aiifise of the real estate holders in and about Town thaw-out. They are holding the town back by placing fictitious values on their lands, and in souie in>tauces will not even name a price. They have always been held out as the public spirited men of this section and always ready to help iu any enterprise that would benefit the town and the cota- ,, muutty at large. At the present tir.ie this cannot be said of some of the real estate owner, we are sorry to say. The town can only increase in population and secure the location of factories by land owners being litwrai and yet realizing a neat profit on their lands over and above what they could have been sold for a couple of months ago. Your lands will not sell at these fictitious values at any time, but it will have a tendency to drive men away from Petersburg who would otherwise locate here and build up the town and locate factories of ail kinds They can locate and buikl towns two, four and six miles awav just as easy as they can here within the corporate limits and adjoining tovu. Gentlemen, the future of the town depends greatly on you at the present tune. It takes lands to build towns and factories on. Place your figures within reason and yon will have a chance to sell ami see your home and native town build up and become a city. Many of the people have accumulated their every possesS* n jight here And it has been from the ^people that they have been made what they are. It i» now tHM for them to do somathing in return. The opportunity is presented to tlieiu as it never was before. Will they accept the situation and do that which wiU most benefit the town and themselves, or wilhthey me some other town with not one-half tire advantages reap the reward of the discovery of natural gas right under their nt*«. What will the land owners do in the tnatter?

Ik ring every campaign for • number of years the ivpubin-sui »>**ws|>uper* and stump speaker.' haw be Id out every imaginable teason why the old. soldier should support the grand old party. In fact they hare said that the country would Jfo to the detunition bow wows unites the ohl >oluier would vet# that way. They have also beliered long and loud that the old soldier would lie given the first i-haiac at the pie counter. Iu the last campaign that was made the special subject of every stump orators speech and the common cross roads editor never failed to allude to the subject. Now, at the present time, we would ask these stumpers am! cross roads editors the names of the old soldiers that have , received any appointments in this section oi indiant?

- —- -"== Speak out, the matin* is peblk and you can have your fall say without contradiction. On the other hand nearly every republican (editor on this part of tene firms is kicking like the aid veterans the® soiree became they did not get a chance at the pie counter. Before the election these same republican papers would hold their candidates up as the simon-pure and the beet men that ever held office and were true «« steel Now they call them tricksters, liars and anything else that happens to come into their noggins. Whet a mess the conAda«m»j»rosperity gang is getting themselves in. In the near future as the city grows and grow it will there is one great improvement that will become necessary. That improvement will be a system of water works. It will be found necessary to hare such a 1 plant in order to give proper protection against fire and for the accommodation of the people. A system of water works is not only a luxury in a city but it is a necessity. Nowhere in the state can a system be put in with such, a small outlay of capital as here. A system of wells can be drilled which will furnish pure soft water of the finest quality. Water in immense quantities can be found at a depth of from 75 to 150 feet, and which is as clear as crystal. This is one of the great enterprises that must come in the near future, and there is no question but what the opportunity will be offered during the coming year. It would prove a paying investment to some company to put in a plant in the growing natural gas city of the south. Many small towns of Southern Indiana j have water plants that do not possess the * advantages that Petersburg is blessed with. ] With the discovery of natural gas the town j will thrive and prosper beyond the imagina-j tion of the oldest inhabitant, and these improvement? becomes necessary. Water works is what Petersburg must have.

New York special in last week's dispatches: ‘‘Von Ilofman & Go., will ship |1,500,000 gold to Europe tomorrow. ! Lanutl Freres will ship 11,250,000 mixed gold bars and coin, and Heidelbaeh, Iekelheitner & Co. will ship |500,C00, making the total shipments announced thus far |8,230,000. The total shipments of gold to Europe for the week ending May 1, ts» $6,227,000. This includes the shipments announced for tomorrow. On Tuesday next, Kidder* Peabody & Co. will ship ?T50/KM) makmg the grand total announced and actual shipments from April 2? to May 4, #0.977,Out).~ The gold standard must be preserved even though the farmer ! and the artisan have to go to the poor house —nit. Eiuhty-kive colored persons who served as efficient and satisfactory assistants in the bureau of engraving and printing in Washington were removed from their places I during the Cleveland administration merely | to make romu for white democrats. These removals were possibly made by some reckless and vulgar spoilsman while Mr. Cleveland was busvlv engaged in preparing one id his famous, heavy-weight seeches praising the beauties of civil service reform.— Viucennes Commercial. Hear the gush. In the past two months ! about 400 old soidieni who went to the front in the hours of the nation's peril, have been pushed aside from the pie-counter in onler to give positions to ward politicians The old soldiers stand but little show. Beadst&eet's statement for April 80, says: “There is a moderate increase in the commercial death rate, there being 244 business failures throughout the United I States this week, compared with 216 last week.” The only satisfaction the business community gets from this report is that the “increase'’ in the commercial death rate is only “moderate.” If prosperity is approaching bv the line of a “moderate increase in the commercial death rate” when may the country expect its arrival? After all, the “advance agent" seems to be coming down the road on a hearse. Axe you faring any better under the McKinley prosperity times tlian you were under the Cleveland panic? Do you notice any change under the high protective policy ? These are the promised confidenceprosperity times that were talked of during the last election by the republican stump speakers.

A New Wheat Pwt. Worms, bugs etc., without end are now iu existence which were unheard ol several! years ago’. The latent wheat pest which has been discovered is a very small worm which is getting in its work iu the roots of the plants by boring holes in them. It is; | said to be causing considerable damage in ; j many localities, and is milking fanners feel j rather blue over the prospect* for wheat. It is earlier than the chinch bug or hessian | fly, ami does its work so thoroughly that »the last two named will find it little trouble 1 to lay waste wheat fields wherever they t operate. The little worm is a diligent worker, and while the farmer is puxxling his brain trying to figure oat how he is going to benefited by the new tariff law, it goes on in its work of destruction. Memorial Day. The time is near at hand for oar annual offeri ng of flowers. Let us put aside the business cares of life. Let it be to us a -acred day. Come from your shops, from your stores, from your farms, from all the avocations in life, bring your offerings ami with grateful hearts honor the memory of our dead by scattering over their graves good, beautiful flowers. This year Saturday. May 29th, will be observed as meawrial i day. All the benevolent organisations are i cordially inrited to join with' the 6, A. XL I in honoring the memory of our dead coat* trades. A program of exercises will be I issued later on, Co*.

== (From oar regular correspondent.) Washixstos, May 10,18V?. Is there to be soother sugar scandal? that is the question that is being asked oftener and oftener as the sugar schedule in the amended tariff Jail is becoming better understood. Washington is full of ugly rumors concerning that sugar schedule and the manner in which it was adopted, one being that a copy of the schedule was in the hands of a broker several days before rite hill was reported to the Senate, and was used for speculative purposes. Senator Jones of Nevada, is reported to have stated that at the last meeting of the republican members of the Senate finance committee, which he was invited to attend it was definitely understood that the provision expressly continuing the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty should remain in the bill, yet when the bill was reported to the Senate the next day that clause was left out. It is notorious that the sugar tmst has been working to get the treaty with Hawaii abrogated. It is also known that majority of Congress is opposed to the abrogation of this treaty. Can it be wondered at then, that it should be charged that the treaty provision was left out of the bill so that money might be made speculating in the stock of the sugar trust? Prominent republicans have openly denounced this sugar schedule as ludefensiUle and as being intentionally muddled and mixed so as to confuse the public as to the benefit the sugar trust would derive fnpm it. The Dingier hill as passed by the j House gave the sugar trust protection to the extent id one-quarter of a cent a pound on sugar, but representative Swanson of Virginia, a democratic member of the House ways and means committee, who has carefully analyzed the present schedule positively asserts that, “the least possible protection to the sugar trust in the schedule adopted by tiie Senate finance committee is nearly half a cent a pound.’' Whether the present schedule be allowed to stand or not. the sugar trust people and those who stand in with them have probably already utilized it to make a big pile of money by speculating. Mr. Claude M. Johnson, the gold demo

crat who, as a personally requested favor of ex-Secretary Carlisle, is being allowed to remain at the head of the Beurau of Engraving and Printing, is getting some rough raking over from democrats. He is accused of recommending the reinstatement of republicans whose dismissal he had recommended to the secretary of the treasury for specific cause under the late administration, and is said to take a special pleasure in a republican reinstatement that pushes a regular democrat j out. The country is likely to get an idea very soon of why Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, some time referred to as ‘‘Scrapping Teddy, was made assistant secretary of the navy, as Mr. Roosevelt will this week begin an invest igar tion of the New York navy yard, with special reference to ks employment of labor. It has been hinted that boss Platt has had an understanding with Mr. Roosevelt, and that the New York navy yard is ta be utilized in behalf of the republican machine in greater New York, but it will uot be believed by those who have faith in klr.Roesevelt’s professions of reform, uutii there is proof in sight. Now that the aVbitration treaty has been rejected, largely by the efforts and votes of democratic Senators, lots of those who were at one time advocating the ratification of the treaty are talking about what a lucky escape the United Stated kad. Recent news from Ohio has not been at all satisfaction* to Boss Hanna and his hopes of the seat in the Senate that John Sherman was compelled to give him, and be has gone to Ohio to study the situation at close range, and figure up howmuch cash he shall put into the campaign. 'His republican colleagues in the Senate showed how transient they regarded him by failing to make him chairman of any eommittee and by giving him unimportant committee assignments. They could not very well have made plainer their belief that the next Ohio legislature would be democratic and Mr. Hanna's successor a democrat. It was given out by Mr. Hanna that he was goiug home for a rest, by order of his physician. If indications are not very deceptive the influence of the sugar trust is quite as potent in the White House as in the Senate. Mr. McKinley has been unable to staud the j pressure, and will, there are reasons to believe^ sare the New York broker (Chapman) who refused to divulge the names of senators who speculate in sugar through his firm from the ignomy of serving the term in jail to which he was sentenced by pardoning him. If he does, the pardon will indirectly result in saving the two members of the sugar trust who are uuder indictment for contempt in the same case, as tha indictments will probably be nol pressed if Chapman is pardoned.

The Be»t Remedy for KlNMtina. Prom the Pairhaven (X. Y.) Register. Mr. James Rowland of this village, states that for twenty-fire yean his wife has been 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, bat he had read of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and instead of going for the physician he went to the store and secured a bottle of it. His wife did not approve of Mr. Rowland’s purchase at first, bat nevertheless applied the balm thoroughly and in an hoars time wee able to go to sleep. She now applies it whenever she fceb an ache cw a pain and fiuds that it always gives relief. He says that no medicine which she had used ever did her as much good. The 35 anti 50 cent sues for sale by J. K Adams A Son. m

w. H. FOREMAN. ; Attorney at Law. Loan and Real Office—Room 11. Carpenter building, Petersburg, Indiana. «4FRED SMITHS Dealer la all kinds of 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 Suite a Specialty. lu funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc., of the best make. Grist Mill Corn Meal, Graham Flour aud Ground Feed Of all kinds kept on hand for sale or exchange. Cash paid for Corn, Oats, Barlej and Rye. You will find us located at the Petersburg Brick and Tile Factory. -e-Thomas Bead. Stellings and Ketcham. Agents for Sewing machines WHITE NEW HOME and other first-class machines. Beet grades amt lowest prices. FROIS $25.00 UP. Expert Sewing machine repairing done and satisfaction guaranteed. Hamilton bqowh ShoeCo* 0MI> If yon tre unable to get them from your dealer, write to us and we will tell you how Sell* Schwab & Co. Chicago. Largest manufacturers of Boots aud Shoes to the United States. i

AM,5SHSm SOLD BP R. E. Craig & Co., Otwell F ISO'S CURE FOR is time, " d by dnmtoa. CONSUMPTION

Leai) (Jpot) Jylq Qeor lyjotber. And go with me to Barrett's Store, that OH Reliable Stand, where I can get a Spring Suit rightly made and ready to wear. They offer a good Business Suit*, well made and durable, for #2.24. At *4.98 they offer Men’s all Wool Suits, of Black and Blue Cheviots. At $6.34 they offer Men’s Suits of all Wool Douhte-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 Exactty te 0or Ltytyg 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 Philadelphia. Goods of the very best quality, fit ami workmanship guaranteed. If they can't please us no one on earth can, and it will pay us to go where Style end Qaality is ^ssared (Js. Jb Their Spring Block and Jpolors iu Derby, Alpine and Straw Hats in all of the latest styles, are all marked at Oi)e,poartl) ej tljeir fleal yaloe Three shelves and counters are all loaded with the choicest of Dry Goods and Gent’s Furnishing Goods, and it's ouly such occasions as this that we can ! take the opportunity to buy. So let us go to yy. L- $°rreu-s-(Successor to S. G. Barrett & Son,)/ PETERSBURG INDIANA

Summer Suitings We have the latest patterns and styles to select from* S\xits Made to 2v£ea.s\ixe : $10, IQ, $20, $22 ar.d. TJp. Pants Made to OxcLqi: $-=£, 5, $S, V, $$ suxd. TJp, Burger & Bro., Merchant Tailors i Co. Ed fan?IU BerbHire Im

Some large broad backed, square hammed, ail around good Pigs, of both sexes, for sale at reasonable prices. Come aud see them. I know you vtl) like them. M. I_. HEATH MAN.

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