Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 October 1897 — Page 4

flu §pilu Gaunt tj frawttxt Br n. UcC. STOOPS. Oim Year, to advance—. .. ... . |1 85 Six Mouths,! n ad rauce — ... 65 Entered at the poetottlce tn Petersburg for tram* mission through the mails as second • class matter. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1897. And the deficit still grows under the great Dingley tariff bill. The imports are growing lens day by day. What a nice thing that income tax law would have been at the present time. Thu rate of taxation |>er $100 valuation for all purposes in .Indiana ranges from $1.12 to $3.34 in cities and town*, and in towuships from 93 cents tv #2.84. The tax for county purfxises, levied by the board of county commissioners, rauges from 221 cents in lai(.Jrange county to 90 cents in Perry county. *j . 1 " T«s Indianapolis Jourual says the election at Indianapolis on Tuesday “was not a democratic victory.** That was like’the boy that was knocked down by another l«oy. and who arose after an hour's silliness on his back and shouted to his antagonist: “So, Mr. Smarty. you think you knocked me down; But you didn’t: I just laid down mvself.”—New Albany Ledger. .. 1 111 1 Next month general state elections will occur in Virginia Kentucky, Ohio, Iowa Pennsylvania, New York, Nebraska and Massachusetts. Kentucky elects a clerk of tb« court of appeals, Massachusetts chooses a governor for one year. Ohio and Iowa choose governortfor two years and Virginia a governor for four years. Senatorial contents are to be decided in Ohio and Maryland. Pennsylvania will elect a state

treasurer and an auditor. In Nebraska a judge of the supremecourt and regeuts of the state university are to be chosen. New York will elect a legislature and chief justice of the court of appeals, besides a complete set of officers for the huge municipality of Greater New York. Colorado also will elect a member of the supreme court. Listen to the tale of woe that is being sung by the republican press. About every week you find something like the following: “The silver erase is dead, and is deader in this county than in any other‘part of the country.” And yet when the votes were couuted oat in the city elections this year it was found that numerous republican cities had gone for free silver, and still the end is not yet. Oh, yes. the silver craze is dead, but how the goldites have been snowed under. In a decision by Justice Howard of the supreme court, the law of 1898 requiring school officers to pay to county treasurers all unexpended balances at the end of the school year, was sustained as constitutional. The case came up from Jeffersonville,where the treasurer of the school board had $ 15.000 unexj>cnd®d balance and where this balance has been carried year after year. The court holds that this money was not only doing the school children no good, but might be a source of temptation in the hands of those holding it. The recant election in Indianapolis showed very plainly that the People have soon tired of the confidence and prosperity that were promised them by the republicans during the last campaign. The election was one of the biggest landslides known in many years, and yet there are some republican papers that think the silver issue is dead and buried. The editors of some of those sheets in this neck of the woods preached that song during the hist campaign, but when the votes were counted out several of the counties cast democratic majorities, especially Pike county. Republican newsj»apers seem to la* very sore over the recent city elootios in Indianapolis in which the democrats achieved a grand victory over their gold standard-confidence-prosperity opi>onents. One would infer from the excuses made of the defeat that it was upon local issues only, but the convention which nominated Thomas Taggart for mayor also adojrted the following yrhieh fully endorses the Chicago platform and William Jennings Bryan: •‘While recognizing that the issues of the municipal campaign are local and not national, we take this opportunity, the first which has offered itself since the presidential election of 1896, to reaffirm and emphasize the declaration of the last national democratic Convention in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the historic ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting the aid or consent of any other nation on earth, upon which that great statesman,

William J. Bryan, made hie memorable campaign for the presidency. We condemn i the republican party for its failure to open ■the mills as it promise*! to dojf restored to power, for its enactment of a tariff law imposing new and oppressive taxes on an already overburdened people for the sole benefit of the great trusts and monopolies to whose power and wealth it owes its present ascendency in the government; and for perpetuating the business prostration and industrial paralysis, from which the country has been suffering for years, by persisting in the mistaken financial policy to which these conditions are due.” One of onr republican exchanges last week stated that the Hon. William J. Bryan was a failure in everything that he hail undertaken. Well, that is queer. He was twice elected to congress from a republican district; carried a number of solid republican states as a candidate for president; was offered $25,000 a year as legal advisor; and is today the most prominent figure in national politics. And more, they claim that he is a failure as a lecturer and then make the further statement that he receives from $500 to $1,500 for every speech he makes. Certainly there must be something wrong with the gray matter contained in the eraniuins of these republican editors. Now-a-davs it takes a fine lecturer to demand such prices. From the standpoint of the People William J. Bryan is a fit subject to occupy the executive’s office of the United States, and to which he will be elected in 1900. A«k these the “promised -good times” which were heralded to the people last year if Hanna and McKinley were boosted into power? If so how the ‘'neighbors” will suffer during the coining winter. In the last campaign the average republican ; shaker called the voters “neighbors,” and dwelt loud and long on “neighbors, gold, j v*|>erity, confidence and their uncle, Johnny Bulk” The laboringmen have not seen the promised retutymqis*>f good timeand higher wages, but on the other hand he has seen a reduction in wages and work and a raise in the price of sugar, flour and other necessaries of life, and advanced prices on woolen goods. These are the promised good times. Ksgland-says the United States cannot' have the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, ami Wall street likewise caters to Johnny Bull., But the voters in 1898 and 1900 will decree otherwise. The citizens of the United States are capable of taking care of themselves without the dictation of any other Nation. They showed that during the revolutionary period when they showed very conclusively that they were able to take care of themselves ami govern a Nation. - , -_ Will the Union Pacific steal of $20,000.000 lie a 1 lowed to go through? That is now one of l he questions that is agitating the people of the United States.

To Attack the Greenbacks. The result of the negotiations of the American colnmission in Europe headed by Senator Wolcott, while strengthening the democratic position for indej>emlent action by the United States, umloubtedly increases the confidence of the plutocracy in its power to hold fast to a monetary standard that enables the bondholders and usurers to absorb the substance of the wealth producers. With Europe and the entire civilized world committed to the injustice of the gold standard, there is but one thing in the mind of the average American gold bug which stauds in the way of the perpetuation of the existing system in this country—the greenbacks. Our paper currency system, particularly the greenback issue, is a eon1 stant menace to the gold standard, as has been demonstrated by recent financial history. It puts the gold reserve, upon which its maintenance depends, at the mercy-of a few gold sharks in Wall street, who have it in their power to force a bond issue at will, and who can be depended upon to hold up the government as often r.s possible without arousing the people to an extent that would mean an end of all their schemes for public pluuder. To retire the greenbacks would at once strengthen the defenses of ihe gold standard and reduoe the volume of the circulating medium of exchange—two results altogethei desirable in the eyes of that school of finance and political science which regards government as a mere adjunct to a handful ol great corporations. The money power having brushed aside the thinlv-vcilcd fraud of international bimetallism, hoping to force the American people to the conclusion that they must submit to world-wide conspiracy, will now direct its attack against the greenbacks The fight in the next session of Congres.will be on the question of carrying out thh mandate of the money lenders. The ad ministration is already committed to th« proposition. The newspaper organs ol | Wall street and the Rothschilds are already j leading up to the fight. The oppbsitior j should prepare to present a solid front U j the enemy to prevent the final aet in tin j movement to fasten gold standard upoi the American people forever.—Louisvillt i Dispatch. Condensed Testimony. Charles B. llood, broker and manutac | turer’s agent, Columbus. Ohio, certifies ; that l>r. King’s Sew Discovery has nr equal as a cough remedy. J. 1>. Brown i prop. St. James hotel. Ft. Wayne. Indiana, testifies that he was cured of a cough ol I two years standing, caused by la grippe, ■ by Dr. King's Now Discovery. B. K, ; Merrill. Baldwuisville. Mass., says that ht I has used and recomended it and nevei knew it to fail and would rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming of 223 E. SSU» St. Chicago, i always keeps it at hand and has no fear ol j croup, because it instantly relieves. Free | trial bottles at J. R. Adams & Sou’s drug 1 store.

Blaek Diamond Railroad. Col. Albert E, Boone, promoter of the Black Diamond system, of railroads, lias been giving more interviews on his line and makes pnblic the official route. According to the published statments the road is to be a trunk line of large proportions when completed. Col. Boone says his company is organised to build a (double track) line of railway from Vevay, Indiana, via Sadieville, Kentucky, Connersville, Cynthiana, Millersburg, Mt. Sterling, Irvine, McKee, Manchester, Barboursville, Kentucky, Knoxville, Tennessee, Franklin, North Carolina. Rabun Gap, Georgia, Clayton, Georgia, Anderson, South Carolina, AbbenviUe. Edgefield, Aiken, Barnwell, Hampton an*. Beaufort to Tidewater at Port Royal, S. C. a distance of TOO miles—with an extension of main line, single track, North of the Ohio river from Vevay, Indiana, via Versailles, Rushville, and Greenfield t* Indianapolis, a distance of 89 miles, with a line, single track, along the north bank ot the Ohio liver, Vevay, Indiana, via Rising Sun to Aurora, thence via the tracks of Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, into the city of Cincinnati, a distance of 40 miles with a Northwest branch line single track, from Vevay, Indiana, via Madison. Seottsburg, Salem, Paoli, West Baden Spriugs. French Lick Spriugs, Jasper, Petersburg, and Vincennes to Springfield. Illinois, a distance of $75 miles, with an extension from Paoli, Chambersbnrg, Rego, Hard insburg, Fredericksburg, Palmyra, Greenville, Galena, ami Floyds Knobs* to Jeffersonville a distance of 59 miles, Northeast branch line from Cynthiana, Kentucky, via Claysville, Germantown and Dover, Kentucky, thence via Ripley, Ohio. West Union, Cynthiana, and Darby ville, to Columbus, Ohio, 190 miles. A total of TOO miles of double track and 044 miles of single track, or in,all l,Ti44 tuile» of standard gunge rail- ' road. Florida Excursion Rates. Excursion tickets to Florida and othei j Southern resorts are now on sale via tht j Southern railway, from and timmgJl Louisville and Cincinnati, in connectioi: with the Queen & Crescent route. Best Elites and schedules. For particulars, j address, W. H. Taylok. Asst. Gen‘1. Pass, j Agt. Southern Railway Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Cincinnati Markets. Wkosbsday, Oct. 27, ,1897. j Wheat, 89 to 911c; corn, 25J to 27e;oats, , 15 to 20c; rye, 48 to 47c; hay, $8.50 to j $9.50: cattle, heavy, $4.60 to $4 75; hogs, go al shippers,$8.93 to $4.00; sheep, $8 25 to $8.85. Never S*iy Die. Many desjwraie etises of kidney diseases pronounced incurable have been cure*! bv Foley's Kiduey cure. Many physicians use it.

How to Find Oat. Fill a bottle or common glass with urine and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sedi-ment-or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of the kidneys. When urine stains linen it is evidence of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire to urinate or pain in the back, is also convincing proof i&bat the kidneys and bladder are out of order. WHAT TO DO. There is comfort in the knowledge so ofteu expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s SwampRoot, the great kidney remedy, fulfills every wish in relieving pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of t he urinary passages. It corrects inability to hold urine and scalding pain in passing if, or had effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to get up many times during the .night to urinate. The mild and the extraordinary effect of ■'wamp-Root is soon realised. It stands he highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by , druggists, price fifty cents and one dollar. | You may have a sample bottle and pam- ! plilet both sent free by mail. Mention the [ Democrat and send your address to Dr. I Kilmer & Co., Biughamptou, X. Y. The ! proprietors of this paper guarantee the genuineness of this offer. - o Failure of tike Biugiey Bill. The deficiency in the Uuited Statestreas- | ury tor the last year of the Wilson tariff, j ending June 30,1897. was $18,053,554. The deficiency in the United States treasury for the first three months of the Ding- ! ley tariff, in this fiscal year, was $29,015,955, or at the rate for the current fiscal year of $116,068,880. The deficiency for three months of the \ Dinghy tariff exceeded the deficiency for twelve months of the Wilson tariff by ! $10,963,701. . It Hits the Spot. When suffering from a severe cold and | your throat and lungs feels sore, take a u d Foley’s Honey mid Tar, when the . soreness will he—-- at ouoe relieved.,. 1 warm grateful feeling and heal- ! ing of the parts1' ® affected will lie j experienced and:_you will say: “It j feels' so good, IT HITS THE SPOT.’’ it [ is guaranteed. Bergen & 01 i|Amur. o Low Rates to the South. The Southern railway, penetrating the j l>cst states of the South and Southeast,calls ! attention to its one-way settlers and n~uud- . trip home-seekers’ tickets at special rates on the third Tuesday of October, and on the first aj*J third Tuesdays of November and December. For full information, rates | and maps, write to Win. 11. Tayloe, A. 0. j P. A., Louisville. Kentucky. J. C. Beam, , Jr., N.W. P. A., 80 Adams street, Chicago. [ Illinois. 22-4

«» TEE ® GEEAT • SACEIFICE • SALE <&» On Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Ilats, Caps and GehBsTurnishings, commenced at tin# NEW YORK STORE ! OCTOBER L 1S97, And will continue as long as the goods last. This sacrifice sale will be of more benefit to you than anything ever offered. Everything is marked at special low prices, so bring this paper with you and satisfy yourself that you are getting goods as advertised. Remember, this sale will continue as iong as goods last.

Fancy Prints, worth 5c, for only..... Indigo Blue Print*, worth 6c, only.. . . Good Shirting, per yard...... Heavy Shirting, worth 8$c, oulv... Good Muslin at only........ Yard-wide bleached Muslin ......... ... . Good A(«rod Gingham, only........,.. Fancy Gingham for Dresses, worth $$c,ooly.. Good Canton Flannel, only... Heavy Canton Flannel, only.... Good Flannelette, only...... Flannelette, worth 10c. only.... Imported Henrietta, for Dresses, only.... .... Black Sateens, worth 12,1c, only....... Fancy colors in Cassitncres, only.. Doable width Cassimercs, in colors, only... Ail Wool novelties in Drew goods, only .. Extra wide Cape Cloth, in all colors, worth 1.25 per yard, only Good Bedticking, heavy, only ...... Misses' Corset Waist*, each .... Iluutiugburg Yarns at the very lowest price*. Fancy Draperies at. ... . Eider Down at..... 3*c 4Jc 4c 6jc 4Jc 5c 8$c 5c 4* T*c 5c . 7*c 10c 8c $*« 15c i 1 *> t I 20c 75c 15c 45c }> * >* » » 12*c 87*c nnapHMHMMMw aeaeaocaf-a^ra

All-Wool Euler Down, good colors, at. . ...... Woolen Flannels, ml, at.... A good twilled ml Flannel, at..... White Flannel, good quality ... . Good Cotton Jeans at...... All-Wool Jeans at. .. All-Wool Jeans, worth 50c, for. Good Cotton Blankets, per pair, only . Heavy large sire Cotton Blankets, per pair, only Wool mixed Blankets, per pair... All-Wool red Blankets, worth 3.00 }»er juur._ Good sire Comforts, each. A good Comfort, large size. Cotton Batting, per roll. Floor Oilcloth, 4x4, 4x5, 4x6 and 4x8, at ... Table Oilcloth, best quality, at. Red Damask at Ladies’ Cnion Suits, good, for Misses' Union Suits for Children's Underwear from Men’s heavy Undershirts, worth 40c, for Men’s heavy Cotton Drawers for Ladies’ all-Wool Skirts for 50c l?ic 19c .. 20c ..Hie ,22ic . 35c v 46c 65c 1 00 1 75 69c I 98c 4*c 22c 15c 15c 48c 29c 10c np 25c 25c 65c

Indies' fleece-lined llosc, per pair, Misses Hose, per pair, Window Shades, each, >' Indies* Mittens, per pair, Lilies’ heavy Oil Grain Shoes, ifgrth 1.40, for Ladie>* heavy Shot's, worth 1.25, for Ladies* Calf Skin Shoes, worth 1.65. for laulies’ fine Shoes, button or lace, worth 2.00, for & » Children** School Shoes, frotu 8 to 12, per pair, , Misses* Shoes, from 13 to 2, per pair, Infauts* Shoes, from 2 to 5, per pair, Men’s heavy Oil Grain, tapped sole, worth 1.50, for Men’s fine Shoes, only Men’s fine Shoes, lace or congress, per pair, Meu’s heavy Shoes, extra high top, worth 3.00, per pair, only Men's heavy lined Cotton Jeans Pants, per pair, I . Men’s Wool Jeans pants, per pair, Boys’ Wool Jeans Pants, per pair, . Men's round and straight cut Suits, per suit, only j Men’s heavy Cheviot Suits, black, per suit, i Children’s Suits, per suit, Children’s Suits, well made, per suit, Men’s heavy black Coats, worth 1.50, for only 12|c 5c 124c 10b 1 00 85c 1 25 l 25 €5c 75c 21c 1 25 1 00 1 75 and 2 00 2.00 60c 95c 65c 4 50 5 50 48c 1 00 1 00

Buy your Boots and Shoos 40 percent cheaper than of people who will humbug you with old shoddy goods. Patronize home industries. The New York Store, Maz Blitzer, Proprietor,