Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 May 1897 — Page 4

It will go... Right to the spot Ayer’s Hair Vigor will go right to that bald spot and begin to bring the hair back. It Makes Hair Grow. fir §ikf Count jj gmoaat By m. HeC. STOOPS. One Tear, in advance. .$1 *5 8lx Months, lu advance . *5 Entered at the poatoffiee to Petersburg for transmission through the mails as secondclass matter. FBI DAY, MAY 28, 1897. At the coming meeting of the board of county commissioners some action should be taken to place the court house square in a presentable condition. For the past three or four years the yard has taken on much the appearance of a barnyard. The grass has utterly been ruined by holding festivals and other evening parties on U. The remains of the old jml should be removed and the yard leveled up and sodded*. The town trustees at a recent meeting passed an ordinance requiring the board of oouuty commissioners to place a stone or granitoid walk around the square. While the commissioner*must obey this ordinance, and no doubt will, they should at the same time place a ucat fence around the square and fix things up and make the court house and its surroundings present a neat and clean appearance. J’.ke county will be visited by thousand* of people from ail jover the country during the next few years, and they should l«e made to have a good .opinion of the officers and the tax-payers of this count). This county, while somewhat in debt, should not be behind the times and let its property go to ruiu for the sake of saving a few dollars. l»ut improve it and keep it in repair and in the end it will Ih> a great saving to the tax-payers. Let the commissioners at the June session take this matter in hand and make a general cleaning up. ■ , '

Till? city ami county should by all means have another railroad, one running from east to west in order to give greater shipping facilities for the great coal trade that will lie built up within the nest few years. Pike county holds the banner as having the greatest’ veins of coal of any county in the world. The coal is of a fine grade and the Tcius lay from four to twelve feet in tbiekuess. There t> a growing demand for Pike county coal and with increased shipping facilities new mines would be opened up and Pike county and Petersburg would become the mining center of Indiana. Besides this the discovery of natural gas will open a great manufacturing center here within the next few years. This will also necessitate additional shipping facilities. The citizens of Petersburg and Pike county should talk this matter up among themselves and at the earliest opportunity encourage the building of a railroad through here from ea.»t to west. There w ill likely lie a meeting held here ui the uear future with reference to building a new line through this section of the state that would give an outlet to the seaboard. If this line could be built, and it is possible that it will be, it will prove a great bonanza for this section. It is to the iuterest of every man to encourage the building of another railroad through this county. The democratic officials elected at the election la-'t November are proving themselves the right men in the right place. They have commenced eeouotny on all sides aud have saved the tax-payers of Pike county thousands of dollars. In one item a Ion- that of bailiffs during the terms of the circuit court has beeli cut down and a saving of over one thousand dollars will be made this year. Not alone in this one particular has expenses been cut down, but they have been reduced all along the line. The officers were elected on a reform platform and they intend to do just what the people elected them to do. The expenses of the county were running beyond the receipts and it was necessary to reduce the excuses and meet the debts that had accrued during the past few years. County orders were floated and are still floating, but with the rigid economy that is being used it will only be but a short time until the orders can be udled in aud the interest stopped.

LHai.xu the couuug year the town trust**** should euforee the ordinances and. compel the property owners to clean up' their prefl-ertk* and so.*p theta from throwing their rubbish into the street*. The weeds should be kept mowed dowu^ad tbv road scraper IrecjueuUv used on the street?. Vss.iors to the uty should be shown that the citizens of Petersburg are progressive and not behind the times in any manner whatever. Clean up and keep things clean. Move the barrels, oicl wagons and farm machinery from the streets. In sotue places barrels, old machinery and other rubbish have been allowed to remain for years. Have them mooted. The streets and sidewalks an for the benefit of the general public and not for the use of private individual. Clean up aud put on city »***: i

<1ohs Wasamakkr, ex-postmaster-gen-«ml, at a banquet of the Business men’s league in Philadelphia last Friday night, made a remarkable speech on national aud state politics. Alter commenting on the failure of promised prosperity to appear in consequence of Presklent McKinley’s election, Mr. Wanauiaker said that the lowstate to which the political religion of the natiou was brought by unscrupulous bosses must eventually result in a near party. In discussing McKinley’s administration Mr. Wauamaker said: “The country is not prosperous. Since the outset of the last presidential campaign the party press and political leaders generally fixed the November election of lSi)6 as the date of the beginning of good times. A full half of the year has expired since the will of the republican party was declared. Thus far but one of the important issues of thecatupaigu is neariug settlement, and hardly any noticeable iinprovemenJ^oTlthe wretched times is manifest. The tide will soon set in strongly against the republican party unless the depression of business is altered. Idleness and want breed a bitter discontent, which will never be overcome until there are ample employments. The foes America has to fear are not the sullen savage Turks nor the insurrectionists of Cuba, uor the territory grasping British, but they are our jvuient aud heart-tired people, our own suffering, much promised people who, betrayed and disheartened, no longer have faith in their [>*rty, and will turn to any leadership that offers promise of better times, believing that worse times can never come than those now existing. It is a terrible thing to observe public sentiment adrift and uncaptained and the people sweeping away from Uieir affection to the old party."

Dissipation, religion and cigarettes seem the principal reasons why the asylums are tilled. Liquor and wrong living do much to break down the physical and meutal attributes of men ami women, while a number of others, possessed with a religious monomania, are the worst patients in the institution to haudie at Logansjwrt. One of the latter class is a negro preacher, who is a giant in stature, being over sis feet tail, lie is kept in a barred room where he jumps about and clings to the grating and bars like a huge monkey. Cigarette fiends form no inconsiderable colony at the Logansport asylum. When one of these degeuerateS arrives at the institution he seldom leaves. His mental system seems to be a blank, and he >its about in a pitiable apathetic state, careless of the future and ignorant of the past. These arc the most pitiable of all the inmates. To run a newspaper without occasionally publishing an item that is untrue or giving offense, is like running a railroad without having accidents or mishaps. It can't he done. No man in the world is so much imposed upon as an editor of a newspaper. Pushed with work continually he must rely upon second and third j>arties for information as to the events that transpire. Frequently statements are received from reliable people, but which arc subsequently discovered to be without foundation. If. therefore, kind reader, vou find yourself aggrieved by some statement in the Democrat keep this fact in your mind. Dj not flv off the handle but go to the editor and ask for a correction, and, take our word for it, nine cases out of ten if your case is just, you will be received politely and the correction made with pleasure. Those workingmen who voted for McKinley and are now so busj awaiting that side-tracked wave of prosperity that they can find nothingoelsc to do should not be discouraged they still have the gold hat and cane, the gilded livery with which they were harnessed by their royal friends last fa!!. If contemplation qf. the beauties of these yellow souvenirs of their victories struggle for a dollar so dear and scarce that they can’t get it grows a tittle monotonous they should not desf»air. They may be happy yet. There are now three American commissioners in Europe trying to secure them permission to lay aside the gold hat and cane and go to work. The appellate court last week affirmed the decision of the tower court in the case of Mrs. Susan King vs John Smiser. The case was taken to Daviess county on a change of venue and the plaintiff secured a verdict and damages. The case was appealed with the above result About two years ago Mrs. Kings’ husband was iusome manner rendered uncouscious while in SmiserV saloon on Main street ami died soon after being taken from the saloon. Charles Hutchinson was arrested and tried for manslaughter atul acquitted in the Pike circuit court.

Owning I p. The lion. William C. Whitney makes the following admission that the so-called gold standard democrats are responsible for the election of McKinley. He is quoted in the New York Tribune as saying: The republican party has disappointed the men of independence and {«triotic sentiment who cut loose from, their wonted political affiliations and gave its candidates their generous support. If such a measure as the Ding ley bill had been outlined before the election it might have been disastrous to Mr. McKinley’s success. Mr. Whitney i> i? representative of the same element that Cleveland represents, and his admission shows how utterly insincere and disbonotabie the course of such men has been in their dealings with the democratic party. It is well rid of sued leaders, and it is to be hoped that they will never again be permitted to exercise any ipdueuce over the democratic party, <7

Washington Letter. (From oar regular correspondent.) Washington, May 24,1897. The Hou«» of Representatives presents an object lesson to the world showing how easily a supposedly free branch of a supposedly popular government can be muzzled. Three-fourths of the members of the House would like to vote for the Morgan resolution, adopted by the Senate last week, for the recognition of the beligereney of! the Cubans, but they are not allowed to do so. Mr. McKinley says the adoption of that resolution by the House would interfere with the mysterious Cuban policy that he is engaged in hatching out, by compelling him to show his hand, as it is a joint resolution which would have to be either signed or vetoed, and not a concurrent resolution, like the one adopted by the last Congress and pigeon-holed by Mr. Cleveland; the sugar trust says the resolution i must not be adopted, aud Czar Reed says j it shall''not be,, aud there you are. The ' democrats kick to the full extent of their power, but the republican members of the I House swallow their convictions and vote I against the will of their constituents be- ! cause they are afraid to offend Mr. McKiuI ley and Mr. Ree l, lest they should fail to | land an office or two or to get the committee 1 assignments they want, and the farce of | calling the House a legislative body goes j on, like the butcheries in Cuba. There will be no tax on the breakfast of | the poor, nor any additional tax upon beer, I the poor man’s beverage, or tobacco, if the ; democrats can prevent it. as a caucus of I democratic senators unanimously decided j to move that the entire internal revenue I section of the gmcuded tariff bill, now being j debated in the Senate be struck out. j Whether that motion is carried will,depend I upon the vote of the populist senators. It j | was also decided at the caucus that the

democratic senators would only antagonize I the tariff bill to the extent of exj*osiug its' enormous and unnecessary increase in taxation, and would interpose no objection to taking a final vote in a reasonable time, j The republican senators are having a regu-1 lar moukey and parrot time among themselves over some of the amendments to the i bill. The explanation of Senator Aldrich was not at all satisfactory, and there was lots of the plainest sort of talk at the republican caucus held today, and although they are making a strong effort to settle | their deferences in some wav off the floor! | of the Senate, there is litt.e prosj>ect of j their succeeding, and an open fight among them is expected to be an early and interesting feature of the tariff debate. They j are going to pass the bill, of course, but not until it has been much changed. The! ! agents of the sugar trust realize that the j I present sugar schedule ha< no show at all, and are scheming for another that will bamboozle the public long enough for it to become a law. There have been numerous things showing the hold of the negro politicians of the South upon Boss llayia, as a natural result of Hanna's method of securing McKinley delegates in the South, prior to the St. Luuis convention. Th ■ latest example was the withdrawal from the Senate of the nomination of S. S. Matthews to be registrar of the land office at Jackson, Mississippi. Matthews is a white republican w ho was strongly backed t>y such men as Senator Foraker, Peusiou Commissioner i*.vaus and \ General Powell Clayton, but the negro member of the republican national commit Ue from Mississippi, Jim Hill, didn't i like' the nomination, so he went to Boss j Hanna and told him it must be withdrawn. J and Mr. Hanna lost no time in getting Mr. > McKinley to withdraw it from the Senate, j From all directions come authentic news j of a change in sentiment since last November. For instance, Mr. S. W. M. Peters of West Virginia, said: “West Virginia cast its electoral vote last year for McKinley, but if the elec-tion were to be held over again right now, the verdict would be reversed, I am satisfied tliat free silver would win if the fight were to be made over again. Of ail niv democratic frieuds who voted the-republican ticket last year or for Palmer aud Buckner, I doubt if there is one who would fail to cast his ballot for; Bryan, if the opportunity were agaiu pre- j sen ted. The next legislature will be strongly j democratic, and a democrat will be chosen to succeed Senator Faulkner.'* The interest in the successor to Senator Earle of South Carolina, who died last week, is by no means confined to South Carolina democrats. As the legislature will not meet until next January, the governor will Appoint a senator to serve until au election is held. South Carolinians in Washington think that Represeillative McL&urin's chances fur becoming senator ; are excellent.

-:- Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, III., was told bv her doctors she had consumption and that mere was no hope lor *, her, but two pottles of Df. Kind’s New DisI covery completely cured her and saved ! her life. Mr, Thos. Eggers, 13b Florida St, I San Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, approaching consumption, tried without result everythiuK else then bought one ■ bt»ttle of Dr. King's New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. Me is naturally j thatikiul. It is sneh resuba, of which these are samples, that prove the wonderful efli- ! eacy of this medicine in couch* and colds. Free trial bottles at J. R. Adams A Son's drug store. Regular size 5oe. and $1.00. •McKinley Prosperity. “Here's a pretty bo wily do!” says J. B. ! ! Cheadle, late democratic candidate for j I congress in the Tenth district. “Six i mouths after the ‘advance agent of pros- j perity’ was employed by the people of thlse 1 United States to furnish an unlimited in- j voice of his goods, consisting of cbiuiuey -uioke (the factory kind), dying spindles,

busy mills and mines employed labor, increased wages, and in fact anything yon want (if you don’t see it ask for it), I see in every paper almost I pick up unmistakable evidence that hard times is still knocking at the door. Here is one day’s record of the great wave of prosperity that has inundated the country: Four thousand men locked out by the Illinois steel company at Chicago, a reduction of 50 cents a ton ou the puddling rate by the A. M. Myers & Co. rolling mill at Pittsburg; a reduction of wages in the window glass factory at Gas City; big reduction of men and wages on two of the great trunk line railroads; coal aud iron ore miners forced to accept starvation wages; idle men everywhere; bursting banks, failing business firms, mortgaged farmers giving up their homestead and joining the vast army of the unemployed. This is but a partial record of the day under the ‘existing gold standard’ and its unparalleled prosperity producing qualities. This doesn’t seem to alarm the goldbugs, however, who calmly tell us to wait and see how different it will be after awhile. They say you can’t expect to set a heu in the tnoruiiig and have fried chicken for dinner. No, you cau’t expect to set a hen on cracked eggs and have any chickens at all. The trouble is to keep the old prosperity hen on long enough at a time to hatch anything. In the meantime a long suffering ami patient people are wondering how much longer they will have to wait for those good times so freely and certainly promised when the old hen was set ou the golden eggs last November. If the late spring elections are any criterion, l take it that they have only to wait until they have an opportunity to reverse their decision and set a good old motherly hen that will stay on the nest and hatch out good times. That will be a metallic hen.” — Lagrange Democrat.

The Bi"t R^iuody for lUeiiuutisni. From the Fairhaven (N. Y.) Register: Mr. James Rowland of this village, states that for twetity-fiye years 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, but he had read of Chamber* Iain's Pain Palm and instead of going for the physician he went to the store and secured a bottle of it. llis wife did not approve of Mr. Rowland's purchase at iirst, but nevertheless applied the balm thoroughly a ad in an hour's time was able to go to sleep. She now applies it whenever she feels an ache or a pain and finds that k always gives relief. He says that no medicine which she hail used ever did her as much good. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by J. R. Adams & Son. m Compliment the Democrat. Wa congratulate Editor Stoops, of the Pikg County Democrat, on the healthy, flourishing appearance of his paper as it enters its 2Sth volume, lie is one of the best newspaper men in. Southern Indiana and shows it in every is-ue of the Democrat. — Huntingburg Argus. The Pike County Democrat has entered its 28th volume. The Democrat is clean, able and progressive. It is edited by M. McC. Stoops who is not only a genial gentleman but a pusher, as is evidenced by hts recent work in the gas agitation which resulted so fortunate for his city.—Oakland City Journal. The Petersburg Democrat began its 2$th year last week. Long may it and Jumbo be the greatest gushers on earth.—Jasper Herald. The Pike County Democrat has entered its 2Sih voimne “under very auspicous circumstances.'’ That it may realize its fondest ho|>cs the Leader wishes, and it will if the people of Pike county appreciate good, faithful and efficient work.—Princeton Leader. The Pike County Democrat, published at Petersburg, has entered its 2Sth year, ‘ under very auspicious circumstances.” The Democrat is au excellent paj>er, and has done much for the upbuilding of that town and Pike county. The citizens should give it their support to a mau, and they will find their investment a good one. Here's lookiu’ at you, Stoops. May you live long and prosper.—Huntingburg Independent. Old People. Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true remedy im Electric Bitters. This medicine does Pot stimulate aud contains no whiskey nor other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative, it acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding nature in the performance ol the functions. Electric Bitters is an excellent appetizer aud aids indigestion. Old people find it just exactly what they need. Price fifty cents per bottle at J. R. Adams £ Sou's drug store.

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Leai) (Jpot) lylq f[rrf). Qear pother. And go with me to Barretts Store, that Old 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 $4.9S theylatter Men’s all Wool Suits, of Black- and Blue Cheviots. At $6 34 they offer Men’s Suits of all Wool i 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 Exactlq to Oor Lilyi^g. t ■ Men of good judgment are taking advantage of this unsurpassed offer, and j we must do likewise. Suits built to measure by the Jacob Reed’s Sons of Phil- ; adelphia. Goods of the very best quality, fit and workmanship guaranteed, j ^ they cau t please us no one on earth eau, and it wiilTay us to go where Stqte at)d Qoalitq is j^ssared {js. Their Spring Block and Colors in Derby, Alpine and Straw Hats in all j of the latest styles, are ail marked at Ooe^foart!) o( tljeir f^ecl yalaeThree shelves and counters are all loaded with the choicest of Dry Goods and Gent s l* urnishing Goods, and it's only such occasions as this that we can take the opportunity to buy. So let us go to W- L- 06rreU,s, (Successor to S. G. Barrett & Son,) PETERSBURG, INDIANA.

j Summer Suitings> Wb have the huatt, patterns. a:ul styles to Select from. t * i * * * Sviits !2\<Ca.d.e to Measvize : t J SIS, IS, S20,lS22 and XTp. * j ZF'a.n.ts Mads to OrcLei: j! 5, SS, 7, S3 sincL X7p. | t ■ # t < (Burger&Bro., Mercliant Tailors J

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