Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 June 1898 — Page 4

POWDER JUwaUitnir Pure «? hpym, swnw. soups* co- wswvow*. Ekrfikt County £J mortal Hr at* McC. stoops. Om T®»r, lu advance .. BU Months, to advance *8 Entered at the poetoflce In Petersburg for transmission through the malls aw seeondclass matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 24,1898. jem ^Democratic Comity Ticket. ^or.C^ngreeg, .Vintt district. l&pXAfipjtffKS. for KDWAlUl f. jR^^ARP^Kor Ctv^k. * LEWIS E. THAsJfLK^. For Auditor, WILLIAM U. SCALES. For Treasurer, ONIA8 O. 8MITH. For HherifT, W.*. RIDGWAY. For Coroner, ALLPN RUMBLE. For Hunreyor, A. G. CATO. For Commissioner, First District, JOSEPH L. ROBINSON. For Commissioner, Third District, WILLIAM n. ftOTTOMB. . •The ordinary reader of the county news-! jasper wants the nows and all there is to be had. The Democrat makes a specialty of j news, ami its reports each week makes it .the leading newspaper of the county. If | you want all the news order the Democrat j to yo«r address, and also send along one] dollar in cash to pay the hill. Tme new bond issue will take $300,000,000 ,of the taxable personal property of the .nation *out of the way of the tax collector And place it on the free list. Government jbnnds are non-taxable for any state or local jmrjiose. Thus this large additional amount of (he accumulated wealth of the nation .aacapee, and the rich grow richer, and the poor grow poorer.

Put silver is —Petersburg Pres?. Peculiar is it not that .the present congrwa should be compelled bv the democratic minority to ooin the seignorage in the vaults at the praeent time at the rate of $1,500,,000 per month. The democratic party ha» always favored it, while the /©publicans fought the issue, but were compelled to get, In line, at least enough of them to pass .the bill. _____ Tut trouble between t he Dubois and Pike county democracy still hangs on. ' We are always willing to give advice to our neighbor*, and from'all the circumstances are inclined to think that a lubricating oil will ijo more to smooth the ruffled feathers of £jbe unfortified train our sister county than all the wind jamming of eyeu a $ry«n. —Huutiugburg Argus. The unterrified of Pike eoynty are all right, and the trouble of the Dubois and Pike democracy will be settled in due tfine and amieablv to all concerned. <jg»——Mas— The Indiana Bulletin of charities apd correction for the six months ending April BOtJh, 1808. has been sent us end although it is almost entirely given up fo a verbatim report of the sixth annual state conference of the board which was held last November and therefore not as fresh reading as it might be, we glean from its pages that the expenditure* for maintenance and construction of all charitable and correctional institutions for the six months mentioned amounted to 1588,019.32 <* $130,000 more than for the corresponding period of the year before. Another increase of like ratio .will fit the tax payers of the state to jthinking. ^f——■[» The most successful merchant is the one who advertises and asks the buyer for his trade. People look to the newspaper to find out who are the wideawake merchants of a town or city and they pat ionize them when they need their goods. As an advertising medium the Dnnocnax stands at the head of Pike county publications. The reason is apparent to all. The paper is eagerly /ought for by the eitixen who wants to know what is going on in the county without reading a jot of personal slush and blackguardism. The readers know that they can rely on JJke news when they read it, and hence it is the best medium for the advertiser. It circulates among $e buying idassea and has a splendid circulation in all xmrts of tte county.

Tk farmer who tried to cut hie wheat in time to get a dollar » bushel for it sharpened hi? sickle in rain. Dollar wheat is generally for the consumer and the speculator, but not mnch for the producer. When the farmer goes to sell he finds wheat banting for the comparer of silver again. Perhaps the editor of the Press can tell why .wheat has fallen in price from $1,8? to aboat 70 cents. While ,it was at top notch it was doe to president MeKinleyVadmin-I.-tray on. The low pripu was due,to something .else. All professors should be able, to giye valid reasons for such a big slump. Toe popular loan seems to be genuinely popular; people everywhere are subscribing. And all that sjpall investors do not^subseribe j for great bankers ami insurance .companies j are .ready to tttke.—Indianapolis News. The chances are that the small investors < will secure but preoiousfew of these bonds. | The great bankers and syndicate companies will gobble die lot up before the “small investor" hgs an opportunity to say the word. Thk county commissioners did some very commendable things last week. The people of the coupty are lit favor of economy but not in favor of parsimony.- Petersburg Tea, Joe Robin sou apd Jam^ Rumble have dope many commendable things since j they have been on the board. They have stopped several leakages on t^e county t reasury and will continue to do so as long’ as they are retained by the tax-payers iuj tbeir present positions They are competent men and besides are large taxpayer*. IL... '..."J'.'ft1. Jig One of the democratic officials came very pearly resigning last Saturday. He placed >iis resignation with the wrong officials, or else Pike county would be minus a county officer. Of course the sweetest harmony Ke vails »n the democratic carap.--Peters-irg Press. The above has reference to Dr. Kime, the county coroner, who handed in his resignation to the county commissioners, that body not baviug the power to accept the resignation. An officer has a perfect right to resign at anytime that it interferes with his business. The doctor is still coroner of the county. By looking over the commissioners’ allowances it will be seen that the expenses for holding coroner’s inquests last quarter are rather large. If the rtpuhlicau commissioners were to make such allowances, the democratic economists like the editor of the Democrat, would suo>t about peedles> extravagance.—Petersburg Press. It is unfortunate that people die suddenly and mysteriously but such, however, is the case. The coroner under the law must investigate the ease*, and in some the expenses are high and in others low The commissioners reduced the expenses of postmortems at inquests $250 at the last term. However, the Press does not say anything about that. _■■■■■■■■.. ^ : lx will soon be “after harvest.” That is an old expression but it is used a great deal, nevertheless.^ and several of our subscribers have used it on several occasions. We are needing money to carry on our business as bad as Uncle Sam needs it to carry on the-present war. There is a great difference between Unde Sam aud ourselves. He can final bonds that capitalists are eager to gather up, while our bonds would be at a great discount for cash with hardly a taker. But be that as it may, there is here and there a dollar over the county that is due ns on subscription which we need ami must have within the next thirty days. We need it to liquidate maturing obligations. Will you send it tu at onqe aud help us pay our debts?

The war is programing slowly just now. About 20.0Q0 soldiers were landed at Santiago this, week, and the 10,000 sent to i Dewey will he landed at Manilla in a week’s time. News of a land halt le arc now looked for at almost any time. The naval engagements so far have all been American vie. tones. The insurgents are making a hot fight on the Spaniards at numerous points aud are receiving orders from the American generals. The war shook] end In the next two months, as the superior fighting qualities and the numerical strength of the two armies is all in our favor. The navies are not to be compared at all, as about onethird of the Spanish navy ha? been destroyed or captured. Should troops be landed near Havana in the near future god a hot fight made and that Spanish stronghold captured the war would soon come to a close. The j soldiers now in camp at vinous points in the United States are eager to jjo into the thickest of the fight as. soon as possible. Jl-rssss*Sg There will be no new regiment formed ip Indiana under the second call for men. The second call is tor men, not organisations, and all that is wanted is 1,384 men to recruit the companies now in the field, j Jit turns out that Indiana is one of the few ] states that sent out her regiments filled toj the maximum fixed at the time of the? master, namely,eighty-four enlisted men to each company of infantry. Each of the toor regiments from this state went out with more than 2,000 men. Pennsylvania, .Ohio and several other states sent out regiments containing from 000 to 800 men only, and by doing so were able to get more organisations than iher were reaU| entitled <o under the apportionment. A married man recently drew an elegant j piano tamp and presented it to his wife, tthe was tackled to death over the present, and said she would name it after bin. On epking her the reason why. she replied: '•Well, it has a good deal of brass ajbout it. is handsome to look at, is most mnarkably brilliant, requires a good deal of attention, is sometimes unsteady on its legs. Liable to explode when half fell, flares op occasionally, is always out at bed time and is bound to smoke.” 41

.mSSBSSSfESL'SSLMELL WAMUNflTON LJSmH. OM Itegwtfzr CcrmiNfiMt %q*<M <»« Batch at Rett*. At last General Shatters army is is Cuba, and unless somebody at the Washington end gets rattled oyer the reported sailing ct m Spanish fleet frqp Cadiz, bound .in the direction of Cuba, apd issues orders that wilt prevent, this is likely to be a h^t week jn tin vicinity of Santiago. The first fleet of transports is due at Manilla today, and Dewey is mot likely to wajt for General Merritt, who is just about e^adv to start from Sap Francisco with the third ami last fleet of,transports,/More taking Mauilla. It is ?emi-offieia}ly announced that at the last cabinet meytiug |t was decided that more troops would be needed, and that another call for volunteers would be issued shortly, probably this week. It would jjeem thqt more u^e of the troops we already have before asking mere men to volunteer. Although Secretary Alger has positively .dented the story that owing to quarrels between himself ami .General Miles, who is now in Washington, the latter had been virtually deposed from the command of the pray, the talk of friction betweeu them continues, and even goes .so far as to say .that Mr. McKinley intends directing the movements of the army himself. The change of plan by which General Mites is to go to Porto Rico in command of the invading army now beiug prepared for that expedition is said to have been caused by this disagreement, and to have beeh the pro] -sition of General Miles himself, who preferred being responsible lor one army over which he would have absolute control to being held responsible for the movements of all our troops and being hampered by cfjHiian control. It is announced that the invasion of Porto Rico is to take place before the Spanish fleet alleged to have sailed from Cadiz ran get to Porto Rico, if the reported starting of this Spanish fleet results in hurrying things up a little, it will be an almighty good thing. Similar reports iu the past have resulted in hanging up things. A democratic caucus of the House is to be held this week to determine whether the party shall return to the old method, suspended since the civil war, of compelling all participants in a party caucus to abide by the decision of the caucus. • While members of the administration profess to believe that the insurgeuts in the Philippines are acting in accordance with an agreement made with Admiral Dewey, it is well known that they are more or less worried over the news announcing the declaration of an independent government by the Philippine insurgents. No oflieial will say what are to be the relations of General Merritt, who is to command the army sent to the Philippines as well as be military governor of the islands, with the insurgents. It begins to look as though there might be more serious trouble in j those islands than whipping the Spaniards | who are there. The administration was] certainly not expecting the insurgents to I set up an independent government with instructions were prepared for the military j government, to be established by General j Merritt, to collect tariff duties on importations to the islands.

Although there are about thirty senators I who are opposed to the adoption of the Hawaiian annexation resolution, which j went through the House last week by so Urge a vote that tlie Czar was coiupelled ! to keep his room, under plea of sickness, j for several days, and which is »<>w the “unfinished business" of the Senate, it is not believed, even by themselves, that they can prevent a vote being reached and the resolution adopted by the Senate. It has been decided that the opposition should do all the talkiug during me debate; also that Congress shall not be allowed to adjourn uutil the resolution is voted upon. This brings it down to a question of the endurance of the opponents of annexation, should they decide to fight to the last ditch; but it is considered likely that they will allow a vote to be takeu in the course of a week or two—one very close observer of things legislative is so confident of this that he has wagered the cost of an elegant dinner for eight gentlemen that the vote will be taken before the 4th of July. The whole power of the administration is being used to bring about a vote. A larger proportionate number of democrats in the Senate will vote for the resolution than in the House, where 18 voted for it, and a few who favored annexation refrained from voting in deference to the large party majority against it. In the House the populists divided evenly on the question, and there is about the same division among the populist senators, although Senator Butler of North Carolina, and jfettigrew of South Dakota, are among the leaders of the opposition to annexation. The resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to Lieutenant Hobson and the volunteer crew of the Merriraac, apd authorizing the President to advance Hobson to the raojt of lieutenant commander, offered in the Senate by Senator Morgan and in the House by Representative Underwood, wilt be promptly adopted by Congress. There has been a bitch ip the exchange of Hobson ami his men, but officials are confident that the exchange will shortly be accomplished, as it has been officially stated at Madrid that the Spanish government had authorized General Bionco to make the exchange. Bidden** 4nlea Sal ye. TV bent salve in the world lor cafe, bruises, pons, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sages, tetter, chapped hand#, chilblains, corns, and all skip eruptions, and positive, ly cures piles or po pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or .......

Silver’s AdvAnee. ^ The advance in the price of silver to 59} cents victim the last few days has raised the question as to ?the cause for the change in price. The advance is dne to th© demand' of Spain for silvwr,to meet the demands tqr specie made upon the hank of Sggun, When war was declared .the bank had #52,000,000 in silver, but in three weeks that amount was reduced to $23,000,000, and the .rnn on the hank hpsi continued unabated. On the first of Jupe there could have been little pf the original holding of silver remaining. At the same time the hank held $50,000,000 of gold w&ieh it declined to pay out for the rederaptiqp of its notes. As the bank cpuld purchase nearly $3.50 in silver for epeh $1 of gold, while the former could be iV»ki as well as the latter in the.o?demptiou pf its outstaqding (taper, silver has been purchased. To protect the hankie authorities became purchasers of silver bullion in the London market, which the mint has coined as rapidly as possible for the use of the hank. Spain has about $103,000,000 of uncovered paper money in circulation and gold cuts little figure in the circulating medium of the country, silver and paper being the money of the country, while gold aud silver are both the standards. < The lessou to be learned from the advance is most plain. A demand for silver is instantly accompanied by an increase in its vqlue. The contention of bimetallists has always been just this and their logic is irrefutable.—Evansville Courier. Truths Tersely Told. Foley’s Kidney Care is a safe, sure remedy for all kinds of kidney and bladder diseases. J. R. Adams & Son. j J^ICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. A Sotary Public constantly in thenflfoe. office in Carpenter building, Kigiith antt Main-sts, Petersburg, lnd. ^SHBY A COFFEY, G. B. Ashby, C. A. Cottey. Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all courts. Special attention given to all civil business. Notary Public constautly in the orth-c. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office over W* L. Barrett's store, Petersburg, lnd. s. G. DAVENPORT, Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over J. K. Adams A Son’s drug store, Petersburg, Indiana. M. A O. Xu HOLCOMB. Attorneys at Law. Wttl practice in all courts. Prompt attention given to all business. Office In Carpenter block, Jikst floor on KighOi-sl, Petersburg. E. WOOLSEY, Attorney at Law. All business promptly altended to. Collections promptly made and remitted. Abstracts of Title a specialty. Office to Frank’s build lug, opposite Press office, IVtersbnrg, lnd. T. R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizens’State Bank, Peteisburg, Indiana. rp W. BASINGER, Physician and Surgeon. Office over Bergen A OHphant’s drug store, room No.», Petersburg, lnd. - » Ail calls prompt ty answered. Telephone No. 42. office and residence.

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LoMe, Evansville 4 St Louis C. I ailroad Time l*b!e In effect No*. A 1SW: St . Loots Fa#t K*p. Limited. &»» H:«S u m II £22 11:88 *a» St.Louis p.m H :» p.m. 12£t a.m 12:14 s-m 12:30 a-ra 7:12 s.m. Stations. Leave Leave Leave Leave Leave Arrive. . Louisville ,. H nDtingO^rg .4*.* ..Winslow .... Oakland City St. Lmlr . . Loaif jiSe Looisriila Limbed. Fast Exp. 7M S.BB. 4:2f • .m. *** S.m Sat a ;is 3:S a. m. »:i p.jm. P »»- 2:£pjn. 2:» p.ra. 1:37 p.m 7:38 s.m. jiigb* trains stop at Winslow and Velpeo on signal only. E. A. CarapM. 0.P.A., St.bonis. J. F. gurt, ag*j& O.kixnd City