Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 10, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 July 1897 — Page 8

of ft general nature gathAT*d from the various offices ftt the court Circuit The following ouu hove been disposed At during Aa part week: Thomas Carr vs.B Jb 0. S.W. Ry., dfttnl|(i; continued. Vinson France, admr. Rose, vs. Elisabeth jRoas et al; continued. Mary K. Mitohdl vs. Martin C. Barker, (foreclosure; dismissed. Good let Morgan vs. Joseph Barton et al; rlinminsrri Martha Lynch vs. James Lynch, dtoroe; dismissed. “ Joeeph H. Rees vs. Jfoeeph Burton et al; dismiaeed, John T. Rime ify Mary A. Barker, aojdoont; judgment for $36. Malvina Tucker vs. William Tucker, divorce; divorce granted and fJOO alimony. F. Curren & Co. vs. Martin Peuner, account; continued. Albert KloU, guardian Bessie Mount, vs. Ilinnie Bryant et al; continued. William F. Rodimel vs. Robert L. Mosby ,and William T. Blythe; judgment for $53,78. Catherine Richardson rs. J. N. Rinrnan it al; dismissed. Fannie Holloa ts. George W. Hdlon, divorce; divorce granted.

Heal £at»te Transfers. Dering Bros. Lumber Company to Bettie Wornitimnn. pt lot S8,Canaiport add, burgFrederick Reuss to William Lube, pt lot £7, Petersburg. William Ridgwav, sheriff, to Graham F. Denby, n hf e qr nwqr sec 18, town 3 south, range 7 west, 32 acres. John 0. Ml ley et al to Francis S. Hyatt# lot 19, Morgan’s add, Petersburg. Pike County Fair Company to James S. McCoy, pt se qr sec 27, town 1 north, range 8 west. G. J. Nichols et al to James S. McCoy, pt se qr sec 27, town 1 north, range 8 west. Hattie Stephens to Warner Sorgius, pt w hf nw qr sec 4, town 1 south, range 7 west, and pt oe qr nw qr sec 4, town 1 south, jange 7 west, and e hf ne qr ne qr sec 3, town 1 south, range 8 west. Commissioners of -Pike county to Guy Frank, lot 88, Petersburg. Hester A.R. Shandy to James B. Thomas, pt lot 191, Petersburg. Tbomas X. Mount to Minnie Bryant, pt ae qr sec 32, town 1 north, range 8 west, 8 80-100 acres. Emily M. Hargrave to Ralph A. liar grave, pt lot 180, Petersburg. Harrises LIc#b«m. The following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report : Norman Moore and Sarah E. Marsee. Isaiah Toolev and Emma Blacketer. Francis M. Nance and Ellen Kinman. Spurgeon Items. Prospects good for a large corn crop. Wheat threshing began last week. Crops much better than was expected. K. E. Langford reports a field of wheat that made twenty-seven bushels to the acre. On last Saturday Elder Mart Burch was phosen pastor of the G. B. church for another year. Elder Ausraus, a prominent minister of the Regular Baptist church, was here two days last week, preaching Thursday and Friday evenings. A heavy wind Mid snow storm pasted pver here last Saturday evening, doing considerable damage, unroofing the wheat granary of John Yeager, whiclt was full of wheat. Johu O'Neal of Oakland City, was here Tuesday. The blackberry crop here is big and the ladies are now harvesting early and late. W. B. Osborn «k Co, say they can’t get enough of McCormick mowers* to supply the demand Our blacksmith, Nick Gissleman, was married last week to a young lady of Webster county, Kentucky; we did not learn her name. Jackson Ferguson and son Ira of Petersburg, were here Tuesday looking after the yenis of their farm and shaking hands with friends, Parties were here last week in the interpet of a railroad from Jasper to Mt. Vernon, Indiana, and from present indications it won’t be long until we will have an outlet for our coal fields, which is the richest in the county. Our people should encourage the company which we feel certain they will. With the boom at Petersburg and a railroad running east and west through the south part of the county Pike will be the the banner county' in the state.

0*r (labblag Kstae. The Dekoceat has made arrangements whereby it can furnish papers and magaxines at greatly reduced prices. The Dkeoceat will be furnished with any of the papers named below one year for the following price*. The publications are all flrstrlass: Scientific American ...... .. ... I37& Cincinnati Enquirer. ...... ... . 1 T» Indianapolis Seutlnel.. . ... .... ........ I 76 Hew York World. . i 90 ftt. Louts Republic. Leslie's Weesly .. . . IIE Kcw York World Almanac.. ..... 1» Bertew or Reviews ...... . .. S IE Word and Works . . ... 1 IE Cosmopolitan. . .. , ,, ■,..| W Farm, field and Fireside. ....115 Monday. Marshal Khiman acoording to notice let the contract for the building of a concrete sidewalk about the court house Square, to E. Wise at 1?$© per square foot. $am Smith’s bid was 19 cents. The total pps| of the job is estimated at $1,573.

say her greatest resource* are yet undeveloped. Her early settlement was by farmers, and the rich returns from this industry hare been the stimulant to sow and reap rather than develop her mineral resources. The abundance of timber has supplied fuel so obeap that there eras no inducement to prospect for ooal or gas. Manufacture has been neglected because our people hare not turned their attention in thirt direction. They hare found profitable employment in rawing corn and wheat, and in the production of beef, pork and wooL The result is that our farmers hare grown rich in these pursuits, while our inexhaustable ooal beds have lain undisturbed save the small quantity which has been taken oat for domestic use. There is nothing strange in this. Colorado's gold and silver mines were never dreamed of till long after the whole Pacific coast had been thoroughly prospected. The long emigrant trains wound'their way over richer mines than were ever discovered in California from *49 to away up in the sixties. The real beginning of the dangers and hardships of a trip overland was at the very gatewaw of the richest mining district on the American continent. The ore was there, but it remained to be discovered and the mines developed. What has been done in the last two or three decades in Colorado remains to be done in Southern Indiana. This is not a gold field, but we have the gas, oil and mineral which must be converted into money. The discovery of natural gas in Petersburg is the entering wedge. It is fbke’s Peak episode of our new development in rocks and hills of Southern Indiana. It remains for us to enlist capital from abroad, and much will depend upon the means adopted. This will not be done either by a hide-bound policy nor by profli- j gate waste. There will be subsidy hunters of every conceivable kind. Special care should be taken to investigate the standing and credit of all applicants for a bonus. It should be *uown what can be done for ns, and for themselves before we put money into iheir works, but we should be equally I careful to render any assistance iu our power to worthy concerns. There are other ways of doing this than by giving money outright. The donation of a site and free fuel, and the securing of suitable ground in the proper location may be more than a < cash subsidy to the manufacturer. Every , deal should be conducted in a business way. Every factory should be established on a business footing, with a view to the mutual profit of all concerned. The upbuilding of this city is a matter in which we are all concerned, and, let us hope, there will be no drones in the hive. If every man does his part the burden will be light, and we will all share the profits, j The man who profits by the energy aud liberality of his neighbor presents that type of selfishness which should never be known in Petersburg.

It Tak»« .Money to (Set Then. If the citizens of Petersburg are laboring under the impression that factories can or will be obtained without effort or payment of subsidies in cash, and that they will have no competition in getting them they are sadly mistaken, for the cities and towns in the northern gas field are still in the market. Witness the following from Cicero to the Indianapolis Journal of the 19th inst: | The eitiseus of this city succeeded this evening in closing a contract with Otto Jaeger, a prominent glass manufacturer, of Fostoria, Ohio, for the erection and operation of a glass factory at this point. This contract comes after dose competition with several other cities of the gas belt. The main factory will contain four tanks and one eight-pot furnace, giving employment to from 5ftX) to 400 employes in the manufacture of high-grade blown and pressed glass specialties. Work on the erection or the plant will begin at once. When completed the new factory, together with the Modes glass works, will give employment to fully 1,000 hands in the glass industry here, and will further emphasize the fact that Cicero is a growing town in the gas belt. Cicero had only 1300 population by last census, and even now is no larger than Petersburg and of course must have paid a handsome money bonus of several thousand dollars for this factory. But what little Cicero has doue Petersburg can and ought to accomplish, especially as it is easily seen that the getting of one factory naturally begets a desire for more. The mere possession of natural gas without the necessary nerve and energy to take advantage of it will do no more good than owning a farm without cultivating it, will do for a fanner.

Mrs. Louisa Selby died Tuesday night. July 8th, at 7 o’clock, from th* results of the fall mentioned several weeks ago. Since that time she has suffered terribly, and from advauced age and enfeebled condition could not withstand the strain. For many years she bad been a sufferer from other ailments, being scarcely able to get around on account of paralysis, bat always maintaining a pleasant and cheerful die* position. She was the widow of Abner Selby of Petersburg, and was a native of Martin county, being about sixty-nine years of age at the time of her death. She was married to Mr. Selby in 1881, and leaves two children Fred and Mrs. Minnie Daugherty. She came to this city about ten years ago, residing first with her son, and after her daughter’s marriage to William S. Daugherty, with her. Crippled and helpless as she eras die made many friends and will be sincerely mourned. The remains were taken to Petersburg for interment.—Princeton Leader. John fiilderback left Monday for Washington where he will work tor Mart FJecoer in investigating the records of Devices county for omitted taxable#.

_____- A great mao? people art still on the anxious seat about the “drilling in” at the gas veils, and it may as veil be said now that they will remain in that condition for several days yet. The drilling in this territory is stow and tenons owing to the immense amount of water encountered at various depths and the many deposits of soft substances which crumble and cave in. These obstructions are sometimes vary I difficult to overcome and the drillers are | compelled to go slow in order to learn the ! territory in which they may drill wells in ! the future. About the same obstructions are found in the two wells now being drilled that were encountered in the Jumbo well. No. 3 near the fair ground is progressing slowly on account of the great volume of water and the caving substances, but the work goes steadily on, and yesterday evening the drillers had reached the 1000 foot mark and will probably case the well today and have a dry hole for the balance of the way to the gas rock. But just how long it will take to finish the drilling of the well cannot be said at tbis time, as delays in the work may be encountered, but the company hopes to have the well completed in a very short time. It may be finished in a few days and it may take two weeks, as the work in this territory is very uncertain. Work on No. 3 on the Omelteua land was suspended last Friday owing to pressure of the water being too great on the light casing which had been placed in the j well to ease off the water. It is said that the casing collapsed in several places and drilling ceased and the casing pulled out. The contractor, Mr. Bloorehead, has | ordered heavier casing and it is expected to arrive here within the next week, when it will be placed in position and the water entirely cased off and the well completed as soon as possible. It is uncertain at this time to make a prediction as to the time the wells will be “drilled in” from the circumstances as above stated.

Want Locations. Since natural gas has been discovered here hundreds of manufacturers have been here or have written for information concerning the supply and facilities. Many ot them are seeking new locations and it is sate to say that "in the near future several new factories will locate in the new gas territory. Among the many enterprises that want locations may be cited the following: One foundry employing 500 men. Four window glass factories. Two glass bottle works. One tubing mill. One umbrella factory. Three planing mills. Four steam laundries. Many propositions have been received from persons who have not named the factories which they desire to locate. There have also been a large number of gentlemen here who are anxious to engage iu the general merchandise trade, and as soon as the field is fully developed Pike eouuty people may look for a genuine boom without any “prosperity or confidence” racket thrown in. What manufacturers arc looking for is cheap fuel at the present time and they will go where it is. If the citirens waut these factories they must do something before they are located elsewhere. ^ Com will be more than an average crop this year in Pike county. Rev. John Speers of Spencer, preached at the M. E. church Sunday morning. C. G. Ward will sell from July 19th to July 2tfth good syrup for 15e a gallon cash. Miss Maggie Merker of New Albany, is visiting her cousins, the Misses Eiuiua and Katie Meisenhelter, this week. Dr. Frank Osbou went to Indianapolis Monday to attend the meeting of the state veterinary association, which is in session this week.

Aroa the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. 6. Snowden entertained about 80 of her friends last Monday evening in honor of her sixth birthday. The eighteeu-nionths-old daughter of Ezra and Mrs. Payuter died Sunday morning. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. S. Rader Monday evening and interment at Walnut Hills cemetery. John Heubner, John F. I^arkin. W. C. Vauhay and T. K. Shirdiff of Loogootee, were in the city Wednesday gathering pointers on natural gas. The citizens of that place are thinking of prospecting for gas. oil or other minerals. If this thing keeps up, vehicles drawn by hones will have to be equipped with bells by day aud headlights by night. In the east horses are being shod with robber tires are rapidly coming into almost universal nse, rendering the equipage almost noiseless. I'. A story is told of a Monroe county justice of the peace which is worth repeating After arguments of the opposing council had been heard the justice said with all the gravity which the importance of the case seemed to demand: “Shentlemen, de ease is a wery com bikale one, and in wolves some Very fine boints of law. I will (lake it under adwisement for three days, but I shall ewentually decide for de plaintiff.’* A borrower of an Indianapolis loan association complains to the court that after paying $980 on a loan of $1,900 in 1890 his offer to square by paying $730 more was refused, the association claiming that he is entitled to $995 credit. At this rate, he swears, the loan will encumber the property for twenty-seven years, and he prays the court fora receiver,alleging bad management and insolvency. Moral: invest in a I home loan.—Biufftoo Chronicle.

Experts to Be Named by Monetary Conference. FIRM FOB TEE GOLD STANDARD. of H»tm Xws What b BMt For tbo Fooplo awl WU1 Toll Co*. INoWhattoDo-WhjrShoaldthebwr and Valgar I ogblato For Mom; Klagsf — The deliberations and recommendations' of the so called mo-^tary conference lately in session at x ulianapolis deserve the attention and respect usually given to purely ex parte utterances and no more. A great share of the gentlemen there gathered have, it is true, given much thought to the science of money—though perhaps more to the science of its accumulation—and are perhaps fitly to be regarded as expert students of the currency question. Nevertheless, that does not put their findings above criticism. Many of them are bankers or intimately associated with investment companies. All were selected by boards of trade, chambers of commerce or bodies of like distinctly capitalistic character. In their belief the dollar which most will contribute to their profit is the dollar -which Increases in value, and by formally declaring for the maintenance of the single gold standard to the exclusion of even international bimetallism they have pat themselves on record as demanding such a dollar. We have no doubt that this gathering of financiers will be pointed to with awe by a certain class of journals as comprehending the most successful and expert monetary scientists in the land, men who handle millions, men to whom widows and orphans confide their little savings for thrifty management The commission of 11 which they will appoint to make recommendations to congress will be eulogised as the very fountain head of financial wisdom, and its creation will he hailed as a step toward taking the money question out of politics. A certain element in our society, by the way, seems to be trying to take every public question out of politics—that is, away from the people's management—and turning it over to those who can make a profit out of its management.

Tune was—perhaps with the revival ot McKinley ism it may return—that a like plea was made for the submission of the tariff question to the exclusive judgment of the beneficiaries erf protective duties. We were told that it was ridiculous for members of congress, economists, college professors, irresponsible journalists, to pretend to knowledge of a great public question when Andrew Cpnegie, Judge Lawrence, the Ohio shepherd; John Jarrett, the professional ironmonger, and other unselfish patriots were perfectly willing to settle it themselves—to take it out of politics and get right down to business, as our esteemed contemporary, The Herald, would say. And then there was the matter of reviving American shipping. How foolish to listen to Captain John Codman, who is nothing but a lifelong sailor, when the Cramps, who know all about building ships at a heavy profit, are j perfectly willing to undertake the whole thing! And why should the vulgar and usually poor men who sit in congress or state legislatures be permitted to make laws for the regulation of railroads when' the Huntingtons, Goulds and Vanderbilts stand perfectly willing to relieve the people of all thought iu that direction? All these issues we have been told from time to time ought to be taken out of politics and given over to the adjudication of commissions made up of experts. But this line of argument has never proved very convincing to the great masses of the people. They have felt that the line between democracy and oligarchy consists very largely in keeping these issues in politics. It has occurred to them that the taxpayer has some rights which tax eaters must be forced to respect; that the shipper by a railroad has rights co-equal with those of the stockholders. And now that the clamor for putting tne reform of the currency in the hands of a commission of “experts” rises so loud it will he urged that borrowers have rights as well as lenders, and that the great masses of the people, for whom the currency is merely a tool of trade, are not likely to consent that its management be left wholly to thoae to whom it is entirely a source ofjinoome. The Indianapolis programme must be recognised for what it is—the formal expression of the wishes of the money lending classes.—New York JoonraL

The governor of Delaware is talking in this anarchic manner, “A distinct danger threatens ns in these tinys of i overgrown fortunes, when the corrupt ! hand of ambitious wealth is extended j to seise upon the great political plaoes which have heretofore been supposed to belong to those whose good citiaenahipt worth and attainments have commended them to the electorate of the state. ” Ex-Governor Watson is doubtless a conscientious disturber and does not quite realise the enormity of pointing out the evils of misdirected wealth. set Ail A—antes van. The-coon try may draw comfort from Mr. Cleveland’s assertion that there is la “surplus’* of flW.000,000 in the treasury, but people will be apt to ask him what has become of the other 9170,000,000 for which he sold the bonds» Wfmifc McKinley the Moose of America. As Hanna is doing all he can to create a wilderness for the president to crone through, he ought to know Whet kind of Mena it takes to oaaa eta PW**

500 Gas Wells Ail tamed loose at once at night would eanse more people to re~ pent than 16,000 sermons ono hour and a half long. 300 yards of pretty, cool DimiUes, nice patterns, some light, some dark, not to load nor to dull, bat just right for that cool dress you have been talking about, at 9c, that is worth 13ic the world over, is a caution. COOL ORGANDIES^ Iu all the pretty colorings, just the dress for comfort the 35c kind, only 35c a yard. 1,000 yards cool Challies, soft and thin, nice, bright patterns, just right for "hot weather, 4c a yard. Why will you \ Sew and Sweat this Hot Weather

When you can buy Ready-Made Garments at such “bust-up prices," better pull weeds in the garden. See the prices— Ladies' Gowns, nicely made, good tnnslin.". 59c Ladies’ Gowns, ffne muslin, elegantly made..... 98o Ladies' Wrappers, nicely made, full sue.. 65o Ladies' Wrappers, empire back, best goods ..... 75c A CORSET BAFRQAIN<r 500 Summer Corsets, long waist, full boned, eleganfr/tters, the 50c kiud..... 89o A SHIRT WAIST BARGAINS 800 Ladies’ Shirt Waists, pretty colors, pleated front, stylish collars, each waist complete with collar button, 8 shirt studs and pair link cuff buttons, # 49c; worth 75c, A 6IL-K MITT BARGAINS 875 pairs Ladies’ Silk Mitts, stitched backs, pure silk, worth 85c, for 15c per pair. We are bargain givers and money savers. W. V. Hargrove & Co THE PEOPl RORE. Agency for Standard Patterns.

TROUBLOUS TIMES AHEAD. Confidence jiot Restored by the Success off “Sound Money.** The sadden and severe financial collapse in the northwest, by which so large a capital is wiped oat and so extended a business community paralyzed, is very naturally the more remarked and commented upon because coming right on the heels of the election to the presidency of the candidate who was heralded as the “advance agent of prosperity.’’ It is only a few weeks since the columns of our Republican cqntemporaries were filled with rejoicings over the certainty of better times and with confident assurances that they were close at j hand. The Rubicon was passed, and poverty and idleness were to be known no more forever in the land. The magic of . “sound money’’—that is, of less money j —was to solve every problem and fill every man’s pocket. It was only necessary that the people should declare against the free coinage of silver, and forthwith all the blessings of good fortune would be secured to us. It is observable, also, that these vauntings and predictions were most effica-1 cions in Illinois and its adjacent states. The most energetic appeals to the business classes, the most audacious compulsion of employees, took place in that region. All financial institutions were made to contribute to Boss Hanna’s fond, and free suffrage was crucified between bribery and terrorism. And it is exactly in the same locality that the, prevalent panic now exists, and the local banks, which took so great an interest in the McKinley election, are bursting and exploding ip every direction. Confidence seems to have departed, and distrust and apprehension reign in its place. If all this trouble breaks out in the: section of the Union which, by its rejection of Democratic principles under the temporary influence of delusion, before the “advance agent of prosperity’’ | assumes office, what are we to expect j when he removes from Canton to Washington and more fully develops the policy of his administration?—New York News. #

WHAT THE GOLD MEN WANT. Would Mak* • Return to Wlfttllkiw { Well Nick Impoaelble. Referring to the recent meeting of gold monometallists at Indianapolis the Detroit News remarks: What these people-want is the adoption of a financial course which will j render it difficult or impossible for the 1 next silver administration to adopt the j bimetallic standard. It is not the gold 1 standard they are fighting for, for that 1 they have now. They want to get the • gold standard nailed down so effectual- j ly thut no victorious silver party can get it in four years. They know that the conditions of this moment are more favorable than they ; are likely to be again for a return to j silver without financial jar. They want« to change all this so as to make a return to bimetallism as disturbing to businem ■>- To this end their flirt move will be to retire the greenbacks and in payment Issue 9S4fi.000.000 of gold bearing

Sends. TSey will fill tiKe gap, if It Is to be filled, with an increased bank note circulation payable in gold only, for there will be no greenbacks in which to pay aud not enough silver to eauae anybody to want to pay in that. Them people can be trusted to fix up the matter, if they are permitted. But they have gouo to work the wrong way. The City Markets* Eggs—8 cents. Butter—10 ceuts. Onions—50c i*er bu. Potatoes— 50c per bn. .Lemons—30 cents per do*. \%>ranges—50 cents per do*. Bananuas—30 cents per do*. Chickens—Chicks 5e, hens 5e. Turkeys—Hen tyrks 8c, young 7. Cider—30 eent> per gallon. Navy Beans—$1.35 per bu. Prunes—*10@ 13 cents. Shoulders—7 cents. Sides—6c. Lard—6 cents per lb. Pork—Hams, smoked, 10 cents. Wheat—83 cents per bushel. Com—35,cents per bushel. Oats—13 cents per bushel. Rye—38 cents per bushel. Clover Seed—$4.00 per bushel. Salt—75c per bbl. *" Flaxseed—80 cents. Uogs—$3.00 to 8.10 per 100. Cattle—$3 to $4 per 100. Sheep—to 3c per lb. Wool—16 cents per lb. Ciuclauati Markets* Wednesday, July 14,1897. Wheat,67 to 75c; com, 37 to 99ei; oats, 18 to 81c; rye, 87 to 34c; hay, $8.50 to $10.50; cattle, heavy, $3.35 to $4.90.; hogs, good shippers, $3.40 to $3.55; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75. ■ _ e

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