Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 July 1899 — Page 5

THE SMALL DEPOSITOR How Free Silver Would Affect Labor’s Savings. APPARENT LOSS, POSITIVE GAIN. The Goldit* i DlMreaa For the Poor Man Who llaa a Smnll Sam o I Money In (tank la Rank Hypocrisy. Wbnt the Worker Wnnta la Steady Employment. Tlie gohlite is always distressed at tbe thought of the poor bod carrier or the poor washerwoman wbo bas $200 or $300 in tbe bank having it scaled down in value by the free coinage of sifter. Why. be says, if mouey is made 25 jper cent cheaper, the $300 will only be worth $225, aud tbe $200 will be worth but $150. If anybody thinks that the chambers of commerce, boards of i trade and the great bankers of tbe world are opposing the free coinage of silver in tbe interest of tbe washerwoman, be most lie credulity itself. This objection is easily met Iu the first place, comparatively lew laboring men aud women j have any deposits iu bauk, aud they are coustautly becoming relatively fewer. Those who have are exceptionally fortunate. Just now a very large proportion of the laboring men of the country are looking rather anxiously for work with which to provide themselves with the bare necessaries of life Secondly, it must be remembered that $200 or $300 iu bauk is but a very

cixjiuA arm ui uiu n;uiiwiv U4 u wuiiw iugmau’s life. What, ho needs is steady work at good wages. Let us do a little figuring. Suppose be has $300 in bank and is working at $2 a day. Suppose, further, that in consequence cf the low price of tho product tbq factory iu which he is employed is on short time, and be has to lose one day in each week, iu a year heis short $104 on wages account Now take the opposite condition. Suppose, as before, he has $300 in bank. Times are dull, and he is losing a day each week—say $104 iu a year.# Silver is remonetized and money becomes 25 per eeut cheaper His deposit shrinks to $225 in purchasing power. He loses $75. But this ineaus higher prices for goods. His factory starts up iu full blast, and he works every day. In a year the extra time amounts to $104. He is $59 ahead. But with the increased demand for labor wages are certain to rise. Keeping within bounds, let us suppose that 25 cents a day is added to his w ages. This amounts to $78 a year. When the whole account is balanced at the end of the year, we find that he has lost $75 on his deposit and gained $183 iu wages, so that be is $107 better off. But this is not all. The sum total of his loss cu the deposit is $75. He does not lose anything on that account the next year, but his increased earnings go right on, and tho second year he is $182 ahead. Under tho chauged conditions ho would be better off without the $300 deposit than ho was before with it. It would take but a little over two years for the increase ot his earnings to amount to more than the entire deposit. Tho workingman’s capital is his capacity for labqr, and his interests are on the side of rising prices and business activity, which always bring his labor into greater demand. Going a step further, it may be laid down as an axiom that APPRECIATING MONEY (WHICH xMEANS FALLING PRICES) IS ALWAYS PRODUCTIVE OF BUSINESS DEPRESSION AND “HARD TIMES,” WHILE WITHIN THE LIMITS OF MODERATION DEPRECIATING MONEY (WHICH MEANS RISING PRICES) INVARIABLY STIMULATES ^BUSINESS ENTERPRISE AND LEADS* TO GENERAL PROSPERITY. After the Gold Sharks. Governor McLauriu of Mississippi has taken a bold aud very commendable stand regarding the insertion of “gold payment clauses” in tho bouds of corporations seeking charters iu that state. Iu every iustauce or that kind he attaches what is known as a “silver rider,” and declares that he will adhere to that policy to the end. The law authorizing this course says that “the governor may require amendments or alterations to be made previous to signing the same, or, if deemed expedient by him, he may withhold his approval entirely.” Corporations asking charters have provided that their bonds shall be’ payable in “gold coin of the present weight aud fineness.” Governor MeLaurin has substituted the provision that such bonds shall be payable in legal tender money. The governor is right, aud the time is not far distant when this provision will be a national law. Legal tender money is good enough for corporations as well as the people, regardless of the material of which it is composed. If we run out of other material we will take the scalps of the goldbugs aud stamp them legal tenders and make them circulate “as good as gold. ” ,

As a Banker Sees It. A country banker, subscribing to the fund of the ways and uieaus committee, expresses himself as foll&Ws: “Inclosed please my subscription. When the time for action arrives, I may do more. The cause of bimetallism must speedily triumph or, the mass of our population will be reduced to a condition little better than the peasantry of feudal times. The sturdy manhood of a few decades ago is giving way rapidly to servility. I have been a bimetallist a long time— notwithstanding that for the last 17 years I have been a director of a national bank. Let me make this prediction—that iu the fight in 1900.we will have over half of the country bankers with us, for the reason that they are now simply the custodians of money that cannot bo safely or profitably invested. Congestion will even kill a country, banker. **

FREE SILVER BLUNDER, (• Try In k to ExiHMe It a Gold Paper 1'n 11 a into a Ditch. The free silvcrites ar|| always talking about the scarcity of money, as thouah by the “demonetization” of silver the country had been depr|*«xl of a large part of its circulating medium. The fact is that there has been a great and steady increase in the amount of money in the country—an increase considerably greater than the increase in population. In September. 188". the total stock of money In the United States was ?2,510,49&,28ti. This is twice as much as in September, 1890, when the amount was $1,£58,570,912. \ Here is an increase of almost $70,000,909 a year, while the population increased less than l.itL.cAj a year. The amount of money in the 17 y< rs has increased by 100 per cent, while the peculation has in- i creased by only 4<J per cent.—Indianapolis News. It is very seldom that an extreme gold organ attempts to expose a '‘free silver blunder” without itself falling' in a blind ditch. The above'is no exception to the rule. We shall not take the trouble to closely analyze the foregoing piece Of wisdom and make an elaborate reply to it, but we will call attention to the fact that the total amount of money in the country is overstated §.>00,000,000 at the very lowest estimate. No allowance1 is made for export and loss of gold, or for the destruction of greenbacks and other forms of paper money. It is broadly assumed that all the money supposed to be in the United States in 1880 and all that has since beeu created is still here, except the gold that is actually known to have been exported—that is. of which a record has been kept. in making up that total the gold slock is plated at almost §700,000,000, whereas neither the Indianapolis News nor the United States treasury can -lo

cute $400,009,-OUU, a duterenee oi $300,000,000 in a single item. Nor can* they trace within $200,000,000 of theamonut of paper money claimed to be iu tae j country, making a difference of not less than $500,000,000 between the amount claimed and the amount that can be found. Of what we actually have, which may be liberally estimated at $2,000,000,000, nearly $£00,000,000 is positively known to l>e locked up in the treasury. If we assume the balance to be in circulation (which it is not), it only leaves about $1,200,000,000, or less than half the sum staged by The_ News. Not only this, but atiout $4501000,000 of it is in silver and has been virtually boycott d .as redemption money, both Cleveland and McKinley holding it unfit for redempt ion purposes. The former issued $202,000,000 in bonds, which, with interest, will amount to about $500,000,000. rather thnn use a single silver dollar for redemption purposes. It is not the mere fact of money being in existence that j is required—it must be used in order to-I give us the benefit of it. TO THE POINT. How the American Producer Suffers by the Single Hold Standard. It has been repeatedly shown that iu 1873 an ounce of silver would buy a bushel of wheat in India and lay it down in the English market. It will do the same thing today. Briefly stated, it may be said that all producers of wheat receive in the English market the equivalent of an ounce, of silver for a bushel. Therefore the East Indian or the Russian gets substantially the same price as he has been receiving for many decades. v He gets it in silver, but that silver will pay as much debt or taxes and buy as much of other things except gold as it ever would. As a rule he buys no gold, and therefore he suffers no loss, The American, on the other hand, in converting his silver into money on the gold basis or receiving the gold equivalent for an ounce of silver, which i~ the same thing, loses more tha“p onehalf. Iu other words, he has suffered all the loss which came from the gen eral fall in prices, while at the same time he has sustained a special loss from the competition of those who produce on a silver basis. This whole matter has been repeatedly explained* It can be found iu many speeches made in congress and elsewhere. The writer of this article adverted to it iu 1891 in a report made .by him as a member of the coinage committee of the house of representatives, and indeed i^.pervades the entire discussion. Stiver XisW School I.e.ssou Ler.flets. In response to inquiries from p r ns who desire to take part in the organization of silver night schools in the'rural districts Mr- Cr. Burr Smith of the silver night school department. Unity building, Chicago, makes the following announcement: The lessons are furnished to the press through the various plate matter bureaus and may be reprinted by your local editor in leaflets fot use in school^ Among the publishers in Chicago who have agreed to print leaflets for special

use m the schools are Charles H. Kerr & Co., 56 Fifth avenue, and the Lyceum Publishing company, 53 Dearborn street. Leaflets for a large school may be had for a trifling sum. A little later in the campaign we hope to furnish tne lesson leaflets free of charge ih districts which may be 'properly termed missionary districts—i. e., where the locality has formerly been a Republican stronghold. Organisers who devote their entire time to the work will receive compensation. However, in most localities this will not be necessary, as there will be some one in the place who will explivn the examples in eaeh schoolhouae in tho township. - Municipal 0>vuer»liii». There arc hundreds cf things that the public cannot da But there are a great many that it can, should and must da It has been demonstrated that municipalities can successfully and very profitably own and operate water, gas and electric light plants, street railway systems and a number of other things, and the American people are prepared toinove forward along this line,.and every such step by helping tho j>eople will help the Democracy. — John P, AH^ekl

PREDICTION FOR 1900. Ch&irxcan Jones Says|be Senate Can Ee Regained. MAJCBITY ICS BIMETALLISM. If the Or!M*r?nt* of the Slagle Standard SoeeecQ In Fleeting the Xext President, the Control of the I'pper House Is Assured—IIi>i»efill Outlook Tor Silver. Senator Jon as. chairman of the Democratic national committee, has issued the following statement in reply to many inquiries thatj have come to the headquarters of the Democratic national committee The claim o? the Republican papefs that the senate is already irrevocably •against. silver and will so stand until 1803 r.t the earliest is. like many of their extreme claims. i« my opinion, not well founded. Upon the passage of wjgjt is known as the Teller resolution c*!:;a ~ ■. Is*Os, which declared that the bonds of the government are paya- j ble, “principal and interest, in silver j dollars, coinsof the United States, containing 412 i I grains of standard silver.’* and that “to restore tv its coin-! age such coins as a 1 gal tender in the ! payment pf such bonds, principal and |

interest, is not in violation of the public faith nor in derogation of the rights of tlie publie creditors, ” there was a majority of 15 votes in the senate in its favor. This may be reasonably accepted sis a test vote on the silver question. A gold, man hafl" since been elected from Oregon toiill a 'vacancy, which’reduces ourmajorlty now to 14. Of those who voted in favor of that proposition jat that time seven senators will be succeeded on the 4th of March next by senators opposed to the unlimited coinage of silver—namely, Senators Allen of -Nebraska, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Murphy of New York, Reach of North Dakota, Smith of New Jersey, Turpie of Indiana and White of California. This will leave the two sides equal, and the deciding vote will be in the hands of the vice president. This condition of; things hardly warrants the triumphant claim of the gold men that they have captured the senate and will hold it for many years to come. y . This year an unusual proportion of bimetallists, who come from close states, have had their terms to expire. Taj 1900, however, all this will bo even^L np by a larger proportion of the gorer men retiring who come * from close States. What is likely to be tho condition of the senate in 1901 can be easily seen. The terms, of 80 senators expire ! at that time. Of these 00, 11 who are uow friendly to silver may safely be counted as absolutely certain to be succeeded bf silver men. These senators come'from the following states: Alabama. Arkansas. Colorado. Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, -South Carolina. Tennessee; Texas and Virginia. The following states maybe expected to elect gold men to succeed gold men at that time: Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. New Hampshire* is now . represented by a silver man, whose term will expire in 1991. Much will depend iu that state upon the personal popu: lari tv of the present senator, Mr. Chandler, but if he should be succeeded by a gold man Louisiana and Kentucky-, uow represented by gold men, are certain to send two bimetallists in their stead, leaving the advantage so far with the silver men. In two states—South Dakota and Delaware — where we now have silver senators there will be contests, and the most that can be claimed by the gold men is that we are not positively certain to hold these states, while the following states, now represented by gold men, can certainly not be claimed as sure to return a solid gold delegation, namely*: Iowa. Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jex-sey, Oregon, West* Virginia and Wyoming. From all this it is perfectly safe to assert, without fear of contradiction, that if the bimetallists succeed iu electing the president in 1900, they will unquestionably have a clear working majority in tho United States senate. Very truly yours. James K. Jones.

Fufcioa Means Victory. Whatever any man may think concerning the relative merits of the different articles of Democratic, Populistic and Silver Republican faith, all must admit < that if the forces of reform do not unite they will be beaten in detail. We need about 7,500,000 votes for 1900. How are we to get them 1 Simply by *niting upon those things concerning which wo are agreed and leaving other questions in abeyance for the present. By joining hands on those things concerning which we think alike we will naturally create friendships and political sympathies which will at least bring us more closely together on other pointsWe cannot do everything at once. » Telephone Monopoly. The control of the telephone lines throughout the United States is practically vested in the few corporations named below Capital. American Bell Telephone cesapyiy. §30,1)03, ($0 New England Telephone and Telegraph company,....,.,,.15,000,003 Central Union Telephone tChieaj»Q), New York met New Jersey Telephone | company.. ......... 4,128,800 Erl<* Telegraph and Telephone puny.. 5,OOtMWO Tatai eapitahuiMa... ' ** .'■

A FIFTY CENT DOLLAR. lot*** Fallneto'jw Statement* C<»iu« 1 cernlmss Coinage, The chief aui constantly repeated argument against free coinage is taut it would “'turn the Country ” How? we ask. Why, it is replied, we would at once slump to a silver basis, and our dollars would only be worth 30 cents each. This, of coarse, assumes the entire case. Wo deny that the free coinage of- both metals would cause the United States to slump to ^ silver basis, and we demand the proof. Wo 'chittl- i leuge the gold people to even give one good reason for so believing. They can not point to a siugle cas» in history which is at all parallel in support of their claim. But let us concede for a morueut that the result would to a “slump to the silver basis. ’’ How w old that ruin us? The answer is that the dollar would only be worth 50 cents. This, however, is another assumption, not only unwarrantable, but invoking au impossibility. What is meant, of course, is that the dollar would only be worth 30 cents in gold. Nobody dentes that the silver dollar would, be w rth 100 cents iu silver But the silver dollar hammered into a piece of bullion is worth more than 50 cents now.

ii we were to goto an exclusively silver basis, it wer.ld certainly increase the demand far silver and rune its value compared with gold. If wo lost aii of -our gold, we would certainly ol tai r a very considerable amount of silver to take its place, for it is a fandam rtal principle in economics that every nut ioa , most have its distributive share of the world’s money. The free coinage of silver would certainly not diminish the aggregate supply of money iff the world. It would increase it. So. as wa have no more; than our share now, if we should lose our gold we must get siiverto replace' it, and more. The effect of all this would be to increase the demand/or silver and lessen the demand for gold. A man who knows enough to raise an umbrella when it rains ought to be able ia see that this must necessarily enhance the value of silver and lower the value of gold, thus bringing them nearer together than they noware; hence the “50 cent dollar” would bo an impossibility. DON’T GO TOGETHER. The Gold Standard and a Protective Tariff Conflict. Protection and the gold standard do not go together hud cannot be made to work together. We have already shown that a debtor uajtiou like the limited States, having payments to ius^, as Mill says, “hot originating iu commerce,” is at a disadvantage ia the struggle for gold, and, therefore, cannot permanently maintain the single gold standard; also that prices of all commodities that go to pay debts or to pay for imports must be as law In the United States as anywhere else, or lower, in order to indues other countries to buy of us rather than buy elsewhere, and, this being the ease as to a large percentage of the productions of this country, that the prices of other goings cannot be permanently kept at a higher level by protective tariff's and hi the same time be made to conform to A common gold standard. As confirming thi9 view, Professor Nicholson of: the University of Edinburgh, in hi^ recent work, “Money and Monetary Problems,” says^ “By an extensive protective policy a country may keep up a high level of prices compared with that of a free trade country.” Eat he*intimates that the case would 'be different if such country had a permanent tribute to pay. Mill says the result, where a country is indebted to other countries, is “that a country which makes regular payments to-* foreign countries, besides losing what it pays loses also something more by the less advantageous terms on which it is forced to exchange its productions for foreign .commodities,” and, again, “The paying country will give a higher price for all that it buys from the receiving country, while the latter, besides receiving the tribute, obtains the exportable produce of the tributary eouutry at a lower price.” Silver KtsM Schools. The organization of surer night schools is extending rapidly. A number of publishers are printing leaflets •or use iu these schools, and supplies for a large school may be obtained for a trifling sum. The problems are prepared by a committee of prominent bimetallists and explain the question in the simplest way by means of the familiar rules of the common school arithmetics. The object is that the students of the schools shall be enabled to mite thoughtfully and earnestly upon a line of political action which will correct

ine wrongs wmca care ueeu aim are now suffered by those who produce the nation’s wealth and which will Insure to the workingman of the future a rightful share in the enjoyment of the wealth he assists to produce. In order that there may be unity of action all persons who are interested in or have been engaged in the organization of schools of this nature should report to the local silver committee or to'headquarters of the silver night school department, Unity building, Chicago. Labor Federation and :imi»eriaU«>ai. The American Federation of Labor numbers nearly 1,000,000 member s, and these members are, with few exceptions, all voters. It comprises far the largest fraction of the American electorate known to exist within the bounds of one compact organization That so vast a body of voters Should now s^eak through their chosen representatives with practical unanimity against this “new, farreaehing and dangerous policy,” is a fact calculated to give pause to those imperialist politicians v ho are guiding their course by what they guess to be the jpopular sentiment. —Springfield (Mass.) tiepublieau

Sheriff’* Sale. By virtatof feertifi *4 copy of a decree to me directed from the terk of the 1’ike circuit cuoh.Id a caus- . relu The Southern lmtiaiiM I^hiii and . v iij< In>il!’:’'itii of U.M-sport.Iiiuiana. an o|ltts. * ud ,u.uy 1, Stewart et at.an* <k*lct ■ --ipurtux tile to make Uw sum ol t»*or i. ...■. .1 a d nine dotlam und thirty-eight omt,' .* ut> interest on said decree and costs, 1 w.tltxpose at public stile, to the highest bidder, on Saturday. t lie 19th tlav to August, A. B. 1899, Between the hours of Id o’clock a. pi mull o’clock p. Ul. ol said day, at «Ue ilt«>r of the court house in Petersburg:. Bike county, Indiana,; the rents and* prop Is for a term not exceedin'* seven >cars, of the foiunytng real estate to-wit: j ■ <• The east half of. the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter and the west, tinlf of th* northeast quarter ot the southwest iiuarter, a.; in. section No. U>. township N > U south, range S west, containing hi acres. It sneb rents and proms will u d sell for a suitiyieht sutn to satisfy said decree, Interest and costs, 1 wilt, at the s me tine and place, expose to public sate the tee simple of said real estate, or so mueh^tliereo! as may lasufficient to discharge said device, interest and e.'Ssts. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever front valuation or appraise aunt laws. W. M. Kiih vay , duly 3tt, ItSash Sheriff Pike County. UiehaMlson df Taylor, attys. for ptaiatitt.

Circuit Court Allowances. U. M. Slew art. p.1 ii juror. ., f 7 25* G. P. t' sw-tby. petit juror. " t; s Amos, petit jt.rur 7 20 John Head es. petitjuror R m> William K. Rlstev, j»**i it Juror.. .... H on Ed s. Adam.-, pel it juror ? John MfCofO. petit juror ... H «*t Janies,||. Hotting. petit juror .*» James M -Ntely, petit j«rt»r ? -o George W. Abbott, petit juror. ___ s <e « hap Huggalt. petit juror V, :a, Jame-d. Krentun, petit juror. s tv James R. Rreiiton. petit jiiror. . -J ;n Iielo-s Hadtock. talisman jtmuv, 2 hi Jerome Miiey, talisman juror . 2 to John 1>.Gray, talisman juror 2 on Samuel ChnmK-rB. talisman Jon r_... 2 Oo R.vuti Hiekerson. talisman juror. .. ■ -2 tv Thomas Abel, talisman juror r. . 2 tv J. \V Brum field attending court 22 ol* J. \V. Hrumil -id. tword of advisory Irtiaril and certificates _ " <t tip J. \V. It rum field, recordh.tr affidavits and information... 2 2a J. \V. Hrumflehi, drawing venires tv J. W . Itrtmtfield, (>. It. allowances. I tv J. W. ltrumrield, O. It. special judge 5u J. Wi-Rrumfteld.,postage 3 tv J. \V. Itrumleld, evrtitying allowance-. I tut JV. M. Ridgway, summoning jury. la t>0 W. M. Ridgway, resummoning j try. t; 5o W.M.Ridgway, serving advisory bmids 2b 4t> Thomas N. Mount. attending court.. 22 tv Thomas X.Mount,preparing Court lwni 2 'si John Meisenhelter, ice. • 55 N. N. Mount, riding bailiff 2 ■'** Cooney Rackes, riding bailiff. :: 75 Elurmn Rartt, house haiitf. ........ hi at* James K. Marsh, special judge u) uw spate of Indiana, Pike county, ss: 1 W. H. Scales, auditor of Pike county, ceitify that t lie alarve is a true list of allowances made by the circuit <*ou|i at the June term as certified ioby the clerk ot the circuit court, and as now remains of record in my utliyb. W. II. Scales, Auditor f>ike County. Notice to Build School House. Notice is hereby given that s. ded bids will he received by the undersigned trustee of Lockhart township. Pike county', Indian *, at It is oltiee, in the town of Stendal, on Saturtlpy, August 1 2th, lsii'J, At 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of biiUtiug a school house for said township, in the town ot Pikevilte, according to the plans and specifications now on tile in the office of said trustee, which all persons can examine. The contractor will be required to give botai with approved surety in double the amount of the contract price, conditioned tor tlie faithful performance ot saul contract.and also to execute it bond payable to the state of Indiana, with good freehold surety, eooditiom t for the tuithtul performance,of sain work, the payment of'ail materials used in the. eonstruct nut of said house..itieludlng the payment for all work anil labor and boarding of tiie hands employed m the construction t hereof ifhe right is reserved.'o reject, any and «M bids, i'his July P*th. ISP). .James T Hass. Township Tiusree'of LockhartS-Uoot Town* stiip. Pike County, tpdiaba. Application for Liquor License. fcjtnte of Indiana, Co-v-iity of Pike: Notice is hereby ttlvcn to Uie voters of Patakatownshlp/Pilfe county, state of Indiana, that the undersigned male inhabitant, >ver tiie .age of twenty-one years, and a resident of said township for more than, ninety days last past, wilt apply to the board of commissioners of Pike jedunty. state of Indiana, at their next regular session, which will lxon the 7th day of August, 1890, fora license to sell, barter and1 give away and a flow the same to be drank on the premises,spi.ritous.vlnotts, malt and other intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time, and he will at the same time and place apply for a permit t<> keep and operate in the same room where said liquors are to lx> sold two billiard | poo! tables. My place of business where said liquors are to be sold, drank or given away apd said tables o|ierate<J, is in a one story frame building, situate on lots island 6 i, [ in the town of Hosmer, said county ami state, more particularly Ueseribed as follows: Begiqning at tlitysbothwest coruer of said lot till, running east 22 feet, thence north 51 feet, llienee west 22 feet, thence south 51 feet to tire place of beginning' There is a double door and two windows on tlie south end of said building, and a door and two windows on the north end: that said room is the only one in said building and is 21 feet wide by 50 feet long, inside dimensions, with a id-foot ceiling; that I am the exclusive owner and proprietor of said business. Km 1>ex»iC. W 11,.SON A TYNER r. -M. WILSON. T. \V. TYXKK. Petersburg Collecting Agency. Collections iu, all-parts of tin United States. Remittances cromptly made. Charges are reasonable. Give us your old accounts,notes, etc., and we will do the rest. Call on or write us. Office opposite epurt house itr Parker building, Petersburg, lad.

First of the Season. Grand cheap excursion via B. & O. B-'V. to Atlantic City. Cape May. Ocean City, Sea Isle City and Atlantic coast |kants. AH trains of August 3rd. Tickets good tor 13 days, including date of sale. Handsome vest ibn led trains with day coaches. Pi liman drawing | room buffet sleeping ears, and company's own ' dining cars. Descrn'tive pamphlets furnished on application. For furt her particulars: call I on agents or address t> P. McCarty. general ‘ passenger agent, Cincinnati, Ohio. Half Rates via B. &. O. S-VV. August 2nd toSffh, to the Mountain Chan* lianqua. Mountain Cake Park, Maryland. . Most magnitieent prog! am ever offered. Gtxnl ! music, splendid entertainments and able lecj turers. Through express trains of Pullman ! parlor, buffet sleeping and ii. <& O. 8-W. dini ing cars to the door of the assembly. For i further particulars call on agents, or address ; O. I*. McCarty, general passes ger agent, Ciu* ciuuati, Ohio; i i X’OTfCK is hereby given to all parties conj 4.x corued that l wi.lt he at my residence SATUKDAY AND MONBAY ! Of each week, to attend to badness connected I with the office of trustee of M nrw tAwnship. i Positively ho business transacted only on office day, J. M. DtA VIS, Trustee, Posteliice address* Spurgeon.

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(toL,'1* Lig ttiU if j >'!. - ‘ C - -e I the Uiigou I TChe*,.lswith MICA Axli Greasa ! ' <Vt» box nMt foaro why lt's the **?* grease ever ptdejom axle. Sold everywhere. Made by STANDARD Olt CO. IF0RNJA Connect um Evansville, lana Funeral Supplies W * keen “n baud at aUtl of Parlopami Household found In thecity. Bedro. a Specialty. In funeral supplies Shrouds. « US. Of the tarsi f iie ft nest tine itttre to be Parlor Suit* tp Caskets, L. A L. E. WOOL*; Lawyers, All business, receivesWHitlou. Collections made mill reintiled. s, Ltlemeals ot estates h specialty ' JliSSSkf .ottlce over Citizens" h.u:k, Petersburg, lml. Illinois Central R. R. • r:X3SH3S.T MEMPHIS, - NK. Ami all i'umts Missisjsi ppl. Louisiana. •: ARKANSAS, TEXAS. MEN With elegant through8Gas lighted vesrtbuiVti tr*r I Pullman steepen* am! ftej ‘ ears. Comfecttons made eve nesitay wii.tr tljte famottV Sau Kranelseo. Callern route; ami every TluirsthiS Tourist steepiiiK .Cat for Texas ami California, iuM are very low. \ ' - ^ This is ttie trim Winter uo blizzards, eold weither above points, ilh oate curs, lining ehatr lay amt Wed. El^cd Limited for ltd points en i flie P il l man Orleans and ieh berth- rates yfoCalifimsra; io.v blockades. On the ilrst ami third? month humeseekpis' tkke i ami Southwestern pointy ' i good to return wfthuf ! w< date of sale. Lila-rat Mbps' A eop.v o! ib-dsouthern * will lie tie mailed to von M F. K. Wit FKL.K So Main A. II. II a x son . belt. PiiJ*s, Agt. A isilHi oJTE ays of each hi to "outhei ii hit.tow rates. Si»ne days fr« tu airaugr (tieiils. *ekers’t»uhH‘ application ttr P A T, A., vnnsviite, Ind. Kt t.1.0X0. -n. Pass. Agt. Line I Xf*t|.N APOU8 INN ATI, UUlIGIi, WASHINGTON Pllplipp, | “■ T1 MORE, NEW YORK, ■ TON, LL POINT!?

Ni>. St. south ., . ti:F> am >o. 3$ irort h :.4r,.... lt»:35 am No,:*>, south ... ... No. 34, north .-...... &^na Ft r sleeping ear resmtjfffej&s, maps, rates ami further information, ealtonyoar nearest tieket agent, or address. aegpyl ~ ■' vv K. P. J K F F K1 KS. Q. p. ,* T. \.. II. K. tilUSXYOlAVAAi.P..* T.A. ;,vR\ansvitle» lad. K l». UCSgKKU Agent, .vX^tersburgklnd. B.&O.S-W.RY. 'rzasrs ■r^as*s. Trains; leave \V’ashingt«H,hs follows for K.VST HO UN l>. S^fflSS'nKH’SU. No. 12 .l:‘S»a. in* Nwf'eS -.. tu, No. I ..:. 7:f.’a. m‘ No. '.7:-*U a. »* No. 2 .. l:oe p. m* 12: IK p. mi No s * £:12 a. urj- Nuu\ 1....... 1 ;S7 p. m* t Daily except Sunuay. For detail inu,rmathub regardins rales, time on connecting ilfijisggleojpiag, parlor cars etc., address ^ THUS. DONAHrE. Ticket. Agent, S-W. Ity„ Ind. ARTY, Vgent, inuatk Ohio. Saratoga of the West. Saylor Springs, one of tt the state o( Illinois. r' R. .* O. S-W„ lot m mites from Sprbrgfteld, villa and 211) m iles Imi pleasure a ml reereat kinds of mmoral water live properties. Vapor, mod baths. Natural sb lake, tine boating ami h net aceommoda*lops de«e ri pt i Ve pa mphle ts Say lor Springs (Clay the lt.\V 11. S~VY.. *u' tfe passenger agent, Ciaeia ttiest spots in main line of the St. Louis. HO s train toolsnnati. Health, Seven different ; Yemarkahfe eurark*.Turkish and park, beautiful ng. VnekeeHed hotel rates ami «s V. J. Allen, Illinois, agent of V Fat tv, general Ohio.