Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 January 1898 — Page 4

MOVAi. IAXMC POWOf H CO. M« YOU*. Skr gikr Counts gnaocrat By «. McC. STOOPS. One Year, tn advance .. — .... |1 STi Stx Months, iu advance . «3 ^JSntered at the postottUv tn lVt^hurg for ' traiumitsrflou through the mail* &s weomlelmatter. Friday. January t, i89s. Notice of District MePtlng. By order of the stale central committee, at a meeting in Indianapolis on December 7, 1897, the democrats of the First congressional district of the state of Indiana, will meet in delegate connection at Princeton, Indiana. on January 11, 1898, for the electing a district committeeman for the First congt< ssioual district, and for the transaction of any other business that mar properly '/©me before said convention. The representation in -aid convention will be I delegate for every 300 votes or fraction thereof over 100 cad for Hon. Benjamin F. Shively for governor at the November election, 1896, and the several counties will be entitled to the following number of delegates to-wit: Gibson county, 16: Spencer county, 13: Pike county, 1*2; Vanderburg county, 35; Warrick county, 13; Posey county. /15; total minder f votes, 104; neces*4g> to the choice. 53. Now, therefore, the democrats of the Jseveral counties will meet at •>••«»» plate, designated by the county chairman in the I county, at a date not later than the 8th dav of January, 1898, ana select the necessary, number of delegate- that the respective counties are entitle*! to, in the district convention, and this will be their authority for calling said convention. The democratic paper* in the several counties will please copy this notice. By order of the district committee. John W. Spencer, Chairman. Thomas W. Lindsey. Secy. .< Democratic Contention. J 'There will be a meeting of the democrats of Pike county on Saturday, January 8, 1898, at the court house in Petersburg,1 Indiana, for the purpose of selecting twelve I delegates to the district cm vent ion at) Princeton. January 11. 1*98, for the put - J - pose of electing a member of the state eCn- f tral committee to serve for the ensuing t wo i years By order of the state central com- ! m it tee. i W. J. Richardson, Chairman, a M. McC. Sioji ', Se. rotary. Dec. 27. 1897.

Jcst remember that these are the promised confidi mi tyh s. The gold standard must l>e main tain«!d- sa ys ° the McKinley administration. How delightful. Thi first number of ibe Reflector, pub1 is hid at the reformatory at Jeffersonville, wass received ia<t week. > It is edited and published l y the inmates of that institution, atnl is the only newspaper of the kind in existence. The price is 30 cents per year, j ,, ■ —- The state boardof medical examincrt-will issue a book in a few week' giviug the uaine* and locations of all physicians who have been licensed to practice in Indiana. The book w'iil be sent* to-every prosecuting attorney in the state with instruction to prosecute ti»Ose who have not registered or I obtained a license.' A'license from the’, county clerk is as necessary as a certificate < from the state board. ,< | --- t , The republican.lore/east at Indianapolis last week was attended by but few jcople from Southern Indiana. The republicans of this j»ar{ of the state are sore and very much so. They hare rea|»ed none of the spoils of office, either iu state or nation, although hatring a raft of, boys who were willing to accept anything nb matter how small. Central Indianacanfiaged everything iu sight, lu fact republicans of the gold .standard stripe are now few and far between /Jown this war. * SE.vKa.4t. city papers of late hare ha^ j ♦very interesting article# on the new gas> field of Southern Indiana. There is no question but what Petersburg is bound to come to the front during the next year. All that is now needed to make things hum 1 is for the No. 3 well to come in a gusher, i when factory men and investor* who have bad their eye* turned toward Petersburg lor several months will cixue with a rush. Mr. Jabtr Wooley, the superintendent of j the Petersburg «as company is confident that au immense gas gusher wiii be struck on the shandy land, basing his belief from , .the fact that the same conditions exist in j the formations of the rock as it does where the now famous Jumbo .well' was drilled, i \fonltej is an expert geologist #nd no -

nan m this section oC the state has a more horough knowledge of the earth’s formaions than he possesses*. He has made it a ftmdy for several years and ha^ it down to i fine point. Should gas he found in the text well look out for a boom that will surprise the people of Southern Indiana, j Petersburg is now one of the best business ;owus in the state. Those who think times have improved inder the present administration need not j ook further than the state of Indiana for iroof. This is what the secretary of the | ‘tate board of charities says in his report: “The question as to why such a vastlumber of people asked or accepted, aid in 1896 puzzled the students of chanty, and I Jiey disposed of it at the best on the j grounds that it was due to hard times, and j hat‘on the incoming of the new adminisiratiou to fulfill promises qf prosperity there would be considerable* lessening in the re|*ort of ‘outdoor’4relief in 1897. ‘•But reports ©f trustees to date show that 10,898 more people came to the trustees for i aid this year than last. This, too, when reports have been industriously circulated ! that times are better in localities specially affected, or where this great increase ha? occurred.*' Every democrat in Pike county should subscribe for the Democrat. If you are now a subscriber ask your neighbor to take it during the coming year. The'proprietor will take it a- a personal favor. The Democrat should have at least 2,000 subscribers in Pike county* ami if our friends will but speak a kind, word now and their that number can be secured by the first of July. Support Vbur party paper first and then help some foreign paper. Send us'in a list of names and a remittance, '■ The currency commission has adopted a plan to maintain the present guidstandard, and it isezpected that the republican gold standard Congress will take action on the rejort. The®tandard as it now exists is gold and nothing else. The plain wealth producing clas~e.> of this country want a change, but the money power says nay. The time is not far distant when the wealth producing class.will rise up and by their votes show that they have something to say. A correspondent from Petersburg to the Evansville Tfibime sizes up the republican congressional fight in this county. The leaders of the party are divided over'the several appointments f<> r post masterships in Pike comity. For the Petersburg post- < She.* then* waSfluin even dozen candidates for the plum, and each candidate had his supporters. Many of them have if in for Congressman Herneuway at the election in November next. Tm senatorial fighr in duo is neaping a close and how harmonious the republicans atv in that state. The legislature con vend Mi nday and from now on a ripsnorting time Will be indulged in. The. leaders of the party are all engaged in the scramble and the ward heelers are bringing up the rear for soft snaps. The gold standard advocates after 1900 will take a back seat and Ohio will sweep into the silver column.

The opposition in Pike, county to Congressman Heuit-nway of the First district, will, it i- said,-present the name of Goodlrt Morgan of ’ .. before the eoogresI convention o^tKat district, for the congressional .nomination. It is the dR-ip-I" tinted post office Applicants in Pikeenunty that arc opposing/ Mr.Hemenway.—Louisville Dispatch, f_ Tar Ohio legislature >.rganized Monday. In the Senate the democrats organized and elected -all the subordinate officers, i The auti-Hanpaites with the assistance of the democrats, captured everything in sight in the House, knocking out every Hanna suppotter. It now looks like Hanna would 1* defeated for the United States Senate. Senator Teller declares that there will be no currency legislation at this sessiomof Congress, and predicts a split between the administration anfl the bimetallic senators. Dingley Deficit. Trusts are not worried over-deficits so long as the deficits do not occur in their own accounts. No one has heard the managers of the sugar trust finding any fault ; with the Dingley tariff, for, while the1 government faces a deficit of f45,000,000, the sugar trust i.a? a robust surplus on hand^ The Dingley bill has given opportunities which tiie trusty app-eciate and are qu\£ to take advantage of, as is shown by the establishment of eleven gigantic combines since the tariff went into effect. Crackers have been advanced! in price half a cent a pound since the announeement made a few days ago of the perfection of the trust. This is simply a hint of what is going to happen all along the line. Nails will go up, cotton hose will increase in price, rubber goods will be advanced and all the other trusts will send priced skyward, while new trusts will be organized. It does not take much to moke a republican happy these days and the announce, ment that December will show a flight gain in revenue has sent the defenders of the Dingley pill wild with joy. It is always best to be perfectly fair in discussion; therefore. acknowledgment is made that the ieficit has been lesseued a million dollars. This makes the account book a great deal setter, for^tohe accurate, instead of last mouth's deficit of $46,000,000, the Dingley all has up to dale succeeded in putting the government in debt only $45,000,000.— Chicago Dispatch. * For Sale Cheap.—Hot air pumping engine; can be run by one gas jet or lamp. I. L. jngleheart, Evansville, Ind. 8tf

WASttlHOm LETTISH. Oar Btfalar Cormpandeni ««ads in a Batch af News. Senator Telle? has a little surprise that he intends to spring on those republicans who, although pretending to be bimetallists, are doing nothing to counteract the effect of Secretary Gage’s efforts to have the entire world believe that Mr. McKinley,and the republican party stand for gold monometallism. Senator Teller believes that there should be no further masquerading ou the financial question; that the constituents of every senator have a right to know to a certainty whether he favors bimetallism or gold thono-metallism, and that bis little surprise, in the shape of a resolution he intends offering and pressing untiUa record vote is taken on it, will do the trick. This resolution did not originate with Senator Teller, but was written by the late Stanley Matthews, a republican senator from Ohio, aud was adopted by republican votes in the Seuate in 1878. It declares that “all the bonds of t he United States, issued or authorized to be issued (under the refunding act of 1870, the act to provide for the resumption of specie payment, etc.,) are payable, principal and iritcrest,at the option qf the government of the United States, in silver dollars of the coinage of the United States, containing 412$ grains each of standard silver; aud that to restore to its coinage such silver coins as & legal tender in payment of said bonds, principal and interest, is not a violation of the public faith, nor in derogation of the rights of the public creditor.” Reckless abortions have been made concerning alleged changes among senators on the silver question. For that reason, if for no other, Senator Teller’s idea is a good one. In additiou to smoking out the would-be straddlers, a vdte oil this resolution will doubtless eonvAuce Secretary Gage and his goltlbug assistants in and out of Con.gress.of the hepe-K-shvjs of their efforts to secure from this Congas legislation authorizing the issue of gold bonds for t he funding of our public debt, dr for any other purpose. The administration has put itself in a position to get a new batch of trouble, by meddling hi the congest among the Maryland republicans over the election of Sena- ' tor Gorman’s successor. It was supposed; that when the administration ascertained ! that it con.lt) not force the election of Post- ' master General Gary to the Senate, it had dropped out and decided to allow the ■ Maryland republicans to choose their o'Srn j senator, but that was only a supposition. 1 Within the last three or four days the ad- ! minis.ration has openly shown its advocacy of Judge McComas for the Seuate. and has J cmipeoed Governor Lowndes to withdraw in favor of McComas.

i Ex-pension Commissioner Murphy, is! | opposed to the publica^gpn of the entire! : pension roll by the government, because of ! • the large expense, but he thinks it- would | be productive of good results to furnish the j.newspapers' with the complete list of all, | pensioners within the radius of their circulation. When Mr. Murphy was in charge of the office, all newspapers that applied for lists of pensioners in their localities were j promptly accomodated. I —o— The republicans are doing more crowing | ; over the small surplus shown by the govern-1 meat receipts aJiti expenditures lor theJ ! month of December, than they will over the i big deficit that January will certainly show, i Mr. Dingley has taken advantage of the ! situation to issue a rosy statement in which he easily makes it apj>ear,—on paper—that | the deficiency of ^44,000,000, fox the first ] half of the current fiscal year will not be j increased during ^he last half, upon which j ] the country has j list entered, as though that i ! was something of j which He aud his party had a right *to be justly proud. Wiiat | would the stockholders of a big business j ; corporation think of a management that reported a loss of $44,000,000 in six months and only promised that the nest six months J should not increase the loss? They would : probably change the management as quick as they could, just as the people intend to ! do a? soon as they get an opportunity to cast their ballots against the present mism&nagers of our affairs. The democrat who isn't pleased with the political outlook, rau>t be hard to please. The issue of this year's Congressional catnpaign and of the campaign of 1900 has been made and the argument furnished upon which it will be won by the democrats by this administration, which after going through the farce of sending three eminent bimetallists to Europe as a commission for the alleged purpose of securing the consent r of Europe governments to international bimetallism, does not even, wait until the members of that commission have officially •reported^ before it announces to all the world, through its financial spokesman, Sekjetary Gage, that if doesn’t wantbimetallism at all,either national or internatioual, .only gold monetallism. A Clefer Trick. It certainly looks like it, but there is realty no trick about it. Anybody can try it who has lame back and weak kidneys, malaria or nervous troubles. We mean he can cure himself right away by taking Electric Bitters. This medicine tones up the whole system, acts as a stimulant to the liver and kidneys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures constipation, headache, fainting spells, sleeplessness and melancholy. It is purely vegetable, a mild laxative and restores the system to its natural vigor. Try Elective Bitters ahd be convinced that they are a miracle worker. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cents a bottle at J. R. Adams 4 Son's drug store.

All to Themselves. The people who live on a little peninsula sf land in the most southern part of Vanierburgh county pay no school tax and 3raw no school funds from the state. They have nine months of school in the year and pay their teachers as good salaries as are paid any place in tlie state. The reason for this happy condition is this: In the congressional township in the southern end of Union civil township ire 306.6 acres of congressional township lands that have never been sokl. It is rented annually by the Union towuship trustee to the highest bidder, and at present fetches $3,000 a year. It is divided into four farms and on each farm is a commodious house facing the Ohio river. The soil is fabulously rich. This $3,000 a year belongs to the fojur “ schools in the congressional township and supports them with something to spate. Supt. Geeting, of public instruction, calls attention to this peculiar condition and points out that school tax would be'ljttleor nothing today if theH^ds had not been sold for $1.25 an acre in early days. In his biennial report to the governor Mr. Geeting will show tliat the common school « fund of the state held by the counties in June, 1696, Was $710,069.26. Since that time there has been added to the fund $13,581.01 front tines bv county clerks. i $21,252.56 from fines by justices of the peace, and $7,919.73 from ail other sources. J This makes a total common school fund | held by the counties in June* 1897, of $7,752,828.46. This fund is permanent and draws interest at 6 percent, which goes toward supporting the common schools, r The congressional township fund held by counties as rejorted June, 1897.was $2,470,064.28. The value of unsold lands is estimated as follows: Jasper county. 040 acres, $.7,000; Newton, 160 acres, $1,600; Vanderburgh, 308.6, $24,688: Warren, 11, $338.47. making a total congressional township fund of $2,503,690.76. This also draws 6 percent interest and is a permanent fund. 1 k The total of. the two funds is $10,256.514.22. Not for Everything , But |f you have kidney, liver or bladder trouble 'you will find Swamp-Root just the remedy you need. People are pot apt to get anxious about their health soon enough If you are “not quite *reli” or ‘‘half sick’’ have you ever thought 'that your kidneys may be the-cause of your sickness? It is easy to tell by setting aside your urine for twenty-four hours: a sediment or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of the kidneys. When urine stains limhi it is evidence of kidney trouble.- Too frequent desire to urinate, scanty supply, pain or dull ache in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder need doctoring. There is satisfaction in knowing that the great remedy Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, fulfills every wish in relieving weak or diseased kidneys and ail forms of bladder and urinary troubles. Not only does Swamp-Root give new life and activity to the kidneys—the cause of trouble, but by treating the kidneys it acts as a tonic for the entire constitution. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by j druggists, price fifty cents.and one dollar, or by mentioning the Dfmocrat ai d sending your address to Dr. Kilmer A: Co., Binghamton, N. Y., you may have a sample bottle of this great discovery sent to you free by mail. ’ j

Special Excursion Kates via Southern Railway. Home-seekers' and settlers* tickets, on sale December 7 andfSl, via Southern railway to points South, A great system of railways through a great country. Also winter excursion tickets to Florida and other southern resorts, sold daily, via Louisville, Kentucky, or Cincinnati, Ohio, in connection with Southern railway and C. route. Write for information to C. A. Baird, traveling passenger agent, Louisville, Kentucky; J. C. Beam, N. W. passenger agent, 'SO Adams street, Chicago, Illinois; A. Whedon, passenger and ticket agent, 216 Fourth avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. The Greatest Discovery Yet. W. M. Repine, editor of the Tiskilwa, 111., Chief, says: “We won’t keep house without Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds. Experimented gWith many others., but never got the true discovery until we used Dr. King’s New Discovery. No other remedy can take its place in our home, as in it we have a certain and sure cure for coughs, colds, whooping cough, etc.” It is idle to experiment with other remedies, even if they are urged ou you as just as good as Dr. King’s New Discovery. They are not as good, because this remedy has a record of cur*s and besides is guaranteed. It never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles, free at J. R. Adams & Son’s drug store. Air Line Florida Sleeping Car Service. The L.. E. & St/Li. C. Ry., Air Line, has establish) j a^uaj^y Hue of Pullman buffet sleeping cars between St. Louis and Jacksonville, Florida, via Louisville, Lexington, Chattanooga and Everttt. These cars will run ou train No. 4, which leaves Oakland City 3:37 a. m., Louisville 7:43 a.m., Chattanooga 6:10 p. m. Arrive at Jacksonville 8:40 a. m. J. F. Hcbt, Agent. Made a New Man of Him. Bryan, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1897. Gentlemen:—For years I bad been suffering from indigestion. Had a poor appetite and eould not eat anything containing crease and bad constantly a worn out feeling. After using three 50c bottles of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin 1 am now able tc eat anything my appetite craves and can say it has made a new man of me. 'j * Eu Bowes. Sold by Bergen & Oliphant.

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Louisville, Evansville Sl St. Louis C. Railroad ? Time table in effect Nov. 2fk 1807: Stations. arrive arrive rx>ul8vllle .. Huntmgburg Velpen .... Winslow ... Oak land City 8t. Louis- . . *t. Louis r8»t Louisville LoutsviHa | Limited. Fast Exp. 7:00 aon. 4:25 a.m. 4:<C a.m. 3:53 a.m 3:37 a.m. 9:15 p.m. S:0n p.m. Leave .. ll:4« p.m. Leave : = 12:01 a.m. Leave .. 12:14 a.m. Leave 12:30 a.m. Leave 7:12 a.m. Arrive. .. arrive arrive Leave it trains stop at Wmaiow and Velpen on signal only. G.P.A., St. Louis. J. F. Hurt, agent, Oakland City .Louis Limited. ■ . .