Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 March 1899 — Page 5

THE BLACK DIAMOND R. R. An Important Director* Meeting a Cincinnati Last Week. The much-talked-of and long-pro * jected Black Diamond railroad ap pears to have reached a culminating point in the important meeting held at the Grand hotel yesterday of the directors of the different corporations in the several states through which the system is contemplated, says the Enquirer. The purpose of the meeting was to raise the balance of funds required to pay the preliminary*expenses -of financing the road in London, England, which includes the lithographing and registering of the bonds, preferred stock, common stock, as soon as the legal formalities have been,complied with and the transfers of the charters to the British syndicate. Both these objects were obtained by the meeting yesterday, and the $10,000 required was put up in cash and everything agreed to that was asked from abroad. Hon. T. M. Dickinson. the financial agent of the company, who has been in England for two years in its interest, said to the Enquirer man: “The funds necessary to commence the construction of 550 miles of the road from Clay City. Kentucky, through the rich coal, iron and timber regions en route to the magnificent harbor of Port Royal, South Carolina, will be available immediately, and we expect to commence the actual construction of the road within three or four months or earlier. Mr. Thomas Tancred, the eminent English civil engineer, who made a thorough inspection of the projected lines last falL, has made a preliminary report to his associates in London, and it is very strongly in favor of building this great trunk line. He estimates the net earnings of the traffic at 15 per cent on its net capitalization. 1 crossed the Atlantic this time to present in person the conditions upon which the money will be furnished to build this splendid line of railroad, which will be double tracked the entire route and equipped in first-class, modern style in every way. I have already Expended $25,(XX) of my own money and have agreed to put up $20,000 more in the preliminary work, which is practical evidence of my faith in the enterprise^ Of course, 1 expect to get my money back and much more in the way of commission from the sale of the hands. The meeting today was entirely satisfactory, and I shall return at once to London to close up the

deal. “This road will be one of the grandest ever built on this continents Its seaboard terminus. Port Royal, South Carolina, is on a straight, line north from the proposed Nicarauga canal, and when both these commercial highways are completed -they will shorten the communication from China to Chicago and the Northwest 12,(XX) as against the San Francisco route.” Colonel Albert E. Boone of Zanesville, Ohio! the original projeC jr and promoter of the Black Diamond system, said: j “The whole scheme now passes into the hands of the British syndicate, and it will own every dollar of the bonds and the stock and the charters will be transferred to it. Every dollar that lias been contributed to the preliminary work of the- road, $257,000, will be paid back in* cash, with interest, before a shovel of dirt has been thrown. Not a dollar of stock will be owned in the United States. I get my * money in the transfer and pass out.” There were over 30 men in the meeting yesterday from live states, and a representative body of Americans they were. One of the cjiiepotticials present was Colonel Ross, president of the Knoxville chamber of commerce and president of railway lines of that city.

Sunday School Conference. There will be a conference of Sunday school workers—including county and township officers, Sunday school superintendents, secretaries and teachers, at Winslow, Friday and Friday evening, April lf>, at the M. E. church; C. D. Meigs, state superintendent of Sunday school for Indiana will be with us during both sessions. There will be important business before the meeting. Every school in the .county should be represented. You can’t afford to miss hearing Bro. Meigs.- Let every school in the cotfnty take the matter up at once and arrange to send as many persons as will go. Programs will consist of lectures, recitations and music. Come prepared to stay through both sessions. M. L. Heathman, Sec. 4H-2 Recommended for La Grippe. N. Jackson, Danville, Illinois,writes: My daughter had a severe attack of la grippe seven years ago and since then whenever she takes cold a terrible cough settles on her lung's. We tried a great many remedies without giving relief. She tried Foley’s Honey and Tar which cured her. She has never been troubled with a cough since. 25c. J. R. Adams & Son. m --;- We want to do your next job of printing. If you have not been in the habit of having your work done at oui job department ddn’t fail to call and see us. Our type is all new and of the latest styles. Only flrstclass stationary iy used.

INJURED 3Y "HAZING.” ; J. J. Mount. X ho Formerly Lived j Here Badly I e Jured at 4'hlcaco. | The following special appeared in the Evansville C urier l;ist Saturday, which has refen ice to a Pike county boy:, ! Chicago, 111., 1 arch 17.—Hazing as a practice at th Chicago college of dental surgery may make James J. Mount of the cl: ss of 1903 an invalid for life, if it dc s not cause results even more seriou . He is now in the Presbyterian hot >ital. The cords of his neck are inji ed and the doctors think he has beei hurt internally. Mount is the v :tim of the custom of “passing up” t at long has been so popular with the students of the college, who have c :fied the efforts of the faculty to dc away with .hazing. “Passing up” com sts in seizing a man in the class rooi and passing him from one tier of e- ats to the one just above or below un 1 the outer or inner circle of the sea s occuplfed by the class during a clin ; is reached. Then the victim is star id on a journey in the opposite direc ion. ' Student Mount 1 ilongs to the freshman class. Some >f the students at the college have . habit, when they wish to shirk a re itation, of having some friend answe “sick and absent” when their names ire called. Mount had a classmate sick in the hospital, and became indign nt because certain of the students laughed derisively when he reported in the class that the student was * sick and absent.” One of the men who laughed at him was reported as sick” on Wednesv day. and Mount in tahtly called out:

"mat man is not sick. He is here. After the clinic v. as ended a cry was set up tor ‘‘pass h ra down.” Mount had been ill for soi e time, but he was tossed back and foi :h from tier to tier of the seats and th n shot down to the floor, where he los' consciousness. Mount is marri> d and lives at 324 Ogden avenue. H s parents reside in Petersburg, Indiar i. The faculty of the college veste: lay suspended six students for comp city in the hazing and more are threatened. It was reported ere Sunday morning that Mount ha died while on the way home and it s appeared in Sunday's papers. The editor of the Chicago Tribune tel jphoned here to Deputy Sheriff The nas Mount Sunday for particulars. Bi : nothing had been heard by Tom. 1! hat night he received word from Chicago that his nephew was at hi^ home in Chicago and getting along ery well and would soon be able to re ume his studies in the dental college He is a son of Goodlet Mount, wh lives east of town a few miles. Mom t,was married to a Princeton lad}r ab >ut two years ago and has been in (. licago nearly two years studying den istry. The Sure La ;rippe Cure. There is no use uffering from this dreadful malady i you will only get the right remedy You are having pain all through y ur body, your liver is out of brder, ha ,-e no appetite, no life or ambition. I ave a bad cold, in fact are complete! used up. Electric Bitters are the or y remedy that will give you prompt a d sure relief. They act direct on your liver, stomach and kidneys, tone up t e whole system and make you feel like a new being. They are guaranteed t cure or price refunded. For sale at J. R. Adams & Son's drug store only 50 cents per bottle. . Ik ir . r- — It isn't every m n whose wit is keen enough to produ e an original proposal of marriag;. It is told of a bishop whose hun jr is as pronounced as his piety that he proposed to his beloved at a dii aer party. During dinner he had 1 ?en helped to the “wish bone” of he chicken. As is the custom at a risk dinner parties he pulled for the wish*’ with his companion. He sect ed the “wish'’ and as ^e laid dow the fragment of “lucky boue” ht whispered to the lady, “My wish i that you lay your bones with my bones. Will you?” She blushed and accepted, and they lived happily eve after.

WoVds of Truth. We, the unde signed druggists of the Upper Pen lsula of Michigan, unite in saying 1 iat Warner's White Wine of Tar Syr p has no superior as a throat and lu ig remedy. It has given entire sati faction in this part of the country ai 1 is one of our very best sellers: Sta ford Drug Co., Marquette, Michigan H. J. Atkinson, Harbor Spring, Michigan; J. M. Perkins & Co., NegaunptV Michigan; H. M. Powers, Ontonag in, Michigan: D. T. Macdonald, Calm tet, Michigan; F. P. Tillson, Ishpemi: g, Michigan; A. J. Scott, Hancock, Michigan; Rudell & Conway, Sault S . Marie, Michigan. For sale by Par Bros. m In response ton any inquiries Attor-ney-General Tav or has issued the following constrv tion of the new fish law: “The plain meaning of section 4 of the new fish law is that no fish whatever can lx taken during the months of May | id June and no fish may, be taken e cepting from Lake Michigan, the Oh o river and private ponds in any oth *r way than with a hook anil line bel veen January 1 and April 1.” ‘ ,

LOCAL BREVITIES. The News Gathered From Various Parts of the County. Rev. C. D. Darling returned last Friday from Chicago. William Nieman made a business trip to Evansville Monday. Josh McClure of Monroe township, was in town Monday on business. H. H. Tislow, jeweler and watchmaker. Petersburg. All work guaranteed. _ 28* Mrs. E. P. Richardson visited her sister, who is very sick, at Evansville last eek. Lewis Brewster, Ira Tooley and Green Chumbley of Marion township, were in town Monday on business. The entertainment given by the Shuman concert company at the Presbyterian church last Tuesday evening was well attended and appreciated. The DePauw university glee club gave an afternoon concert at the M. E. church yesterday. The boys left on the evening train for Washington. Frank Chandler of near Oatsville, was in town Monday on business, and while here dropped a couple of plunkers in the Democrat’s cash box.

Military drill, under a competent drill-master, will be a new and permanent feature of Oakland City college, beginning with spring term. April 4. E. E. Me A tee.of 'Princeton, was in town last week. He recently returned from Colorado. He will move back to his farm east of this city this spring. For quick and positive relief from a cold or cough Dr. Sawyer's Wild Cherry and Tar has no equal. Try it and you will recommend it.—Paul Bros. _ m The ladies of the M. E. sewing society will give a calico carnival at the residence of William Braden this (Friday) evening. Everybody invited to attend. The St. George hotel at Evansville will be opened to the public April 15. The building has been thoroughly remodeled and will be one of the finest hotels in Southern Indiana. Henry Thomas is prepared to trim yodr trees or grape vines. He thoroughly understands fruit culture and if you have any work of that kind call on him at his home on Vincennes avenue. 44-3 The roads are still in a very bad condition. Gravel roads would just about suit the people at this time. A majority of the people favor better roads and vcould like to see them built as soon as possible. There is no medicine that has yet been discovered that has virtues deserving to be compared with Dr. Sawyer’s Wild Cherry and Tar, for bad' cases of chronic bronchitis, consumption, or any cough or cold.— Paul Bros. m Fifty Dollars Reward—To any photographer using better paper or making a picture that will last longer than ours. The best cabinet photos II per dozed. Your money back if you are not pleased. Gallery next to Joseph Lorys tin shop. J. H. Nazor. Notice to Tax-Payers.—The first day of May is the fcist day for paying taxes without penalty. The books will be closed that day. No receipts will be written for future payment. Don’t ask it. O. O. Smith. 43-4 Treasurer Pike County. You can secure the Democrat and the Cincinnati Enquirer, one year, for $1.50. Come to this office and get a ! sample of each. The Democrat is the largest paper published in Pike Pike county, and contains all the news of any interest to the reading public.

If you will need horse and jack bills printed this spring call early and inspect our stock “cuts*’ for same and if we have not what suits you we will send and yet it. We have a good selection, however, and will do your work in the best of style at reasonable prices. The Democrat is now headquarters for job printing-. Sam Jones asked the following" pertinent question: k*Do you know that boys are more particular who they go with than girls are? You may think it a strange statement, but it is so. A girl will go on the street in open day with a boy that gets drunk, and carouses around, but the minute that a girl is intemperate he won't go with her. I wish our boys would be as particular as the boys are.” Prof. P. D. Abell closed his term of school‘at the Thomas school house, Clay township, last Wednesday. He has given entire satisfaction to the patrons of his district, who showed their appreciation of his services by giving him a banquet and passing resolutions directing the trustee to employ him for the term of 1889-1900. Mr. Abell ha* been a hard worker and I his school is one of the best in the | county. At night an entertainment was given to a crowded house. All were highly pleased and every one left feeling they had spent a profitable day and evening. Mr. Abell will spend vacation in Dubois county, but 1 we shall welcome his return next fall.

Go to H. H. Tialow for all kinds of | watch and clock repairs. 28* | Walter Ursery of Augusta was in1 town Monday on business. James McNeeley of Monroe township, was in town last Friday on business. _ , The several Sunday schools of this place will hold appropriate Easter! services. % j Easter one week from next Sunday. New hats and costumes will be shown on that day. A light snow fell early Sunday morning. The weather is still changing about every other day. A. V. Hostetter of Otwell, was in town last Friday. He will engage in the wool trade this season and will pay the highest market prices. * The town of Patoka was nearly wiped out by fire last week. The fire occurred in the business part of the town. The loss is about $20,000. Dr. Talbott, presiding elder, will preach at the M. E. church next Sunday morning and evening. Quarterly meeting will be held Monday morning. Prof. F. F. Hostetter. principal of the Union schools, will teach a spring term of normal school commencing April 10, and continuing eight weeks.

Mrs. Charles Boonshot was at Martinsville the past week visiting her father James Shawhan, who has been taking treatment at the sanitarium in that city. J. C. Thomas, who has been studying law in V. R. Green's office for sometime, left this week for Prescott, Arkansas, where he will teach school the coming year. J. S. Basinger, who has been visiting his son. Dr. Basinger and family in thfs city for several weeks past, left last Saturday for his home at Elreno, Oklahoma. Dr. Sawyer.s Wild Cherry and Tar cures because it waj made to cure. It soothes and relives the irritated condition of throat and lungs. A trial will prove it.—Paul Bros. m The Democrat's jobdepartment ha* been rushed for the past two or three weeks with orders for firstelass printing. ' Call and leave your orders at once and secure firstelass work. Read the advertisements of the wide-awake merchants and profit thereby. Our advertisers ask for your trade and don't forget when you come to town to buy goods to call and see them and buy what you are needing. Backache is the first indication of kidney trouble. Urinary disorders. Diabetes and even Bright's disease follow unless promptly checked, i Nothing better to make perfect kidneys than Dr. Sawyer’s Ukatine.— Paul Bros. m Pass your copy of the Democrat to your neighbor when through reading it, with the suggestion that he read it and then send in a dollar and have it sent to his address for the coining year. The Democrat is the largest paper published in the county and comes at the same price of small ones. Tornadoes have been playing havoc in the Southern states, with a good promise of more of the same sort. Let us thank heaven that our home in the Ohio valley with its chilly winds and other discomforts, is not quite so bad as the South, whose sweet sunshine and warmth seem only to invite disaster and death. i Isaac Lane, of the firm of Johnson [ & Lane, grocers, celebrated his half century in America last Saturday. On that day fifty years ago. he arrived in New York from England. Many years of that time he has spent in Petersburg and is one of it’s best citizens. He is proud of the fact that he has lived in the United States for so many years. May he live another fifty.

The city schools close on Friday of next week. The commencement exercises will take place at the M. E. church. April 3rd, when Dr. Halstead will lecture, the subject being “The New American Spirit.'' The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. C. D. Darling at the C. P. church Sunday, April 2nd. The Alumni will hold their banquet at the A. O. IT. W. hall, Wednesday evening. April 5th. Eugene Wilder, our popular music dealer, hied himself to Boonville last Wednesday and was the rejoined in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Ethel Hargrave, one of Boonville's nest young ladies. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Reed, at the M. E. parsonage. At the same time and place Dick Wilder was united in marriage to Miss Dena Kaiser, formerly of Boonville, but who has of late made her home in St. Louis. The latter' will reside at.Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, where Mr. Wilder and his mother will engage in the musical instrument business, while the former couple will ! make Oakland City their future home. | They Will board at the Bock hotel for j a couple of months and will then go to housekeeping. The Enterprise gladly j welcomes them to our city, and with their many friends extend the hand of congratulation.—Oakland City En- | te^rise.

Asks imtliing but a fair coni|<arison with others. Our store is tive. We have a bristling armament of bargains aud big small prints*. People who visit this store are amazed at selling. We have gat tiered from everywhere everything in worth placing liefore you. We want you to visit iis. It pare the following pricey with those of'other concerns: EN' SUITS. Men’s spring-weight Smts, clay worsted, well edged, worth $5,50, our price .. Men’s Spring Suits, brown, worth $7.00, our price . J. Men’s Spring Suits in cassimeres a tel clav worsted, stag breasted, everything firstclass, worth $10, our price The Boston Next Door to Burger's, PETERSBURG, INDIANA. ^>BOVS’ SUITS.<c Boys’ Knee Pants Snits, sizes 4 to 15, worth $1.35, our price . Boys’ Knee Pattis Suits, in light colors, worth $1.85. our price Boys’ Suits, extra quality, double breasted Coats, well made our price... ->PANT6.<T? Men’s Cotton Pants, worth 85c, our price..... Men’s Cheviot Pants, worth $1.00, our price_... . Men’s Pants, light colors, u|eto-date goals, well made our price ... ............._......_ Men’s Dress Pants, clay worsteds, neat checks and stri] date gnod.s, French waists, side or top pockets, wort Boys’ Pants from Ij^cents to 40 cents. F’UfRNlBHIIMQ Men’s Suspenders, 15 cent kind, our price... ______ Men’s Suspenders, 25c kind, our price.. Hoys’ Suspenders . L.' ....; { .. Men’s and Boys’ Work Shirts, 30c kind, our pii<?e.v. Men’s Laundrred Shirts, with detached Collar, worth 50c, our price Men’s colored Dress Shirts are worth 75c, our price.. Boys' 25c Waists, our price..... .... Boys’ 50c Waists, our price ... i.... Boys’ 75c Waists, our price............. SHOES. Men’s Dress Shoes, all styles and sizes, worth $1.25, our Men’s Shoes, all styles, worth $1.65, our price .. Men’s Viei Kid Shoes, cloth tops, worth $2.75 .. Men’s Viei ICtd Shoes, worth $3.00, our price .... .."... Ladies’ Shoes, lace or button, worth $1.25, ouy price. ... Ladies’ Shoes, lace or button, worth $1.60. our price..... Ladies’ Shoes,’lace or button, worth $2.00, our price.... Ladies’ Shoes, lace or button, up-to-date goods, worth $2.50. Boys’ Shoes, coin toes, all sizes, worth $1 25. our price. Boys’ Shoes, com toos, all stze>, wlnrth $1.20, our price \yre also handle a full line of Children’s Shoes,

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Funeral Supplies a Specialty We keep on hand at all times the finest llpe of Parlor and Household Furniture to be found id the city. Bed mom and'Parlor Suits a Specialty. In funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shmuds. etc., of the best make. , V -

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