Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 January 1896 — Page 3

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MONEY IN CIRCULATION. IX the report st nt out by the Hureau of Statistics upon tin- tinamv. conimenreeand immigration of tin l'nited States, corrected to Dee. !, lspö, the most interesting feat uro is the colored diagram of the comparative amounts of money in circulation from ISO! to lsüö, inclusive. While we might severe'v criticise this table, in fact, al:no -rse it. as showing the real circuit A the country during the war an shortly after, as compared with that in late years, for Mr. Ford, chief of the oureati of statistics, takes no account of the small issue of ten-thirty bonds, which were practically a part of the early circulation. Nevertheless, taking his own figures, we may make same interesting deductions. From Isii'J to lsTs. inclusive, gohl remained stationary at the relatively small amount of about $-'ö. m 1,01 10. Then it rapidly advanced in iiuantity till, in lssö. it had reached the amount of S ITO.IMNI.IHH). Flu mating somewhat, but with a general advance, it reached in lsi'i! the amount of .",(), mi.ikmi. In the year of depression. lsi;;, it receded to the -".-iMio.mNi mark, to rise again last year to söüimmih.umi, from which point it has this year gone hack to .".::). umuhki. Silver did not again reach the circulation ii possessed in the first two years of the war (Si::r.NKMiiH until ls, when it was about -S-, i n.m m Then it rose steadily in amount until 1tr reaching then tin- sum of 1so.imio.imki. When a drop to about $4üU mmi.im.mi jn in the last two years silver has remained it about ij I H h m i.i M M I. At I he height of the war. isqt. Vnited States notes were about S41M.imni.IM Ml in amount, and from the close. 1 Si ;i to IMS. wavered around the S.T.o.immumm mark. Since that time S:;m.imm.imm has been about the average amount, though in 1V.M ami IKC tin re have been less than S''7ö.MMM!Nor l'nited States notes in circulation. From ism; to iss; the national bank notes remained pretty steadily around s::o.ooo.im,i, dropping from that figure since then until they now iuuuIkt about SIM IÖ.I M M I.I '4 )l I. The increase which has kept our circulation for lS'rj-ls.." above that of etiler years is in the treasury notes-. amounting last ,var, when our currency reached its maximum, to about Sl""..iMMi,MM, and this year to 1 lö.tim,. INN 1. The total amount of currency has advanced with slight retrogressions from Jibuti I Sim."..MM).(MNI at the close of the war toSl.t;r,i).oiMi,iMMi in ls.i. The retrogression to a little more than Sl.Oiti.noo.iMMi this year is lue most largely to the decrease f ,',, m illation of gold and treasury notes. When it is considered that the decrease in gold is naturally due to the evil strait into which the financial policy of the present imali administration has brought the country, the proposal to withdraw the treasury notes Is like adding insult to injury. It is the very form that most needs strengthening. The coinage of the seigniorage, to say no mote, would place the silver circulation where it belongs, above that of gold. The national bank notes will undoubtedly be Increased by an enlargement of the act which created them, allowing banks to issue circulation up to a limit of their deposits. The l'nited Statesand treasury notes alone remain endangered by tlx threatened acts of tlie present administration. We think, howovr. that I her,. Is enough old time patriotism in the present Congress to resist t f if striking down of t be forms of our currency which have done Us sllch lioble service in the past. The fact that the per capita circulation is now down to a little mote than S'2'2 tells its own stury. and shows the tendency to constant contraction under present laws and lluancial operation. of the treasury; and Hie fact that France, with a territory not larger than Te.xa and a population less than twothirds of ours, has nearly double our circulation per capita, illustrates the iibsun'ilty of our posit ion. - Financial Kecord. Tbc Free Colnuui Mcunrc. Following is the full text of the free i'oinige bill recently 1'itrodueed in the Senate: Section 1. That from ami after the passage of this act (lie mints of the Fulled States shall be open to the coinage of silver. Jlinl there shall be coined dollars of tin weight of grains. Troy, of standard silver nine-tenths fine, as provided by the act of .Ian. is, (H IT, ami upon the same terms and subject to the limitations and provisions of law regulating the coinage and legal tender quality of gold and whenever the said coins herein provide I for shall be received Into the treasury, cerlillcates may be Issued therefor la the manner now provided by law. See. . That the Secretary of the Treasury shall coin Into standard silver dollars, as soon as practicable, according to the provisions of section 1 of this ad, from the silver bullion purchased under the authority of the act of .Inly J I. is'.H, eutilh'd. "An ad directing the purchase of silver bullion ami the issue itf treasury notes thereon and for other purposes,'-, that portion of said silver bullion which represents the seigniorage or prollt to the government, to wit, Ihe difference betwi-en the cost of Uie idlvcr purchased under said act and Its coinage value, and said silver dollars s coined shall lie used in the payment of the current expenses of the (Joveruwent; and for the purpose of making

said seigniorage .miuediately available for use as money the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to issue silver certificates against if. as if it were already coined and in the treasury. See. .". That no national bank note shall be hereafter issued of a denomination of less than .Sin, and all notes of such banks now outstanding of denominations less than that sum shall be, as rapidly as practicable, taken up. redeemed, and canceled, and notes of SIC and larger denominations shall be issued in their stead under the direction of the Comptroller of the Currency. Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem the l'nited States notes comnionV called greenbacks, ami also the treasury notes issued undv the provisions of the act of .Inly 14. l.s'io. when presented for redemption in standard silver dollars or in gold coin, usjng for redemption of said mdes either gold or silver coins, or both, not at the option of the holder, but exclusively at the option of the Treasury Department, and said notes, commonly called greenbacks, when so redeemed shall be reissued as provided by the act of May .".I, 1S7S.

'Intrinsic Value." The theory that gold has an inherent, intrinsic value, which remains forever the same immutable and everlasting, is a delusion which should have no weight with any thinking man. Why should gold alone, of all the substances on earth, be unaffected by the law of supply and demand? If a shipload of nit n were cast away an a desert islam! and found a thousand tons of yellow metal but no food, would they not gladly give a ton for one box of bread Suppose they found the sand was all gold, but there was one little patch of earth where they could raise a garden, would not that little patch bo of more value to them than sill the rest of the island. The gold would be a "drug on the market," no one could use it and no one would want it. The price of gold is no more intrinsic and no more permanent than any other value, except as the demand for it is steady. The coinage value set upon the metal by the governments of the world gives a ste.dy demand at :i fixed price. The same sv of circumstances would act in the same way for silver. It is silly and futile to deny it. Some goldiles jidtnit that remon.'tization "would cause sonn rise in value," but they deny that the silver would have this wonderful intrinsic property and preserve Its value unchanged without lliK'tuations, as they say gold docs. At least such is the jirguinent of some gold men. Others claim-and here !s mi Inconsistency very eluvacteristie of Ihe gold sophist -that "no amount of legislation I its favor could change the value of silver one iota." The Ignor- j nnce which promotes such statements ay this must bo wilful Ignorance. It conies from men who have every chancy to know better. - Farm. Field and Fireside. The Giant lludiics. ol. A. A. IWell. the Texas giant. Is tired of the show business, and is trying to get a Job as Moor walker in u St. Louis store. "The show business is a tough life always on the go very little sleep no regularity in meals or anything else." be said. "Sonu limes I get Sön or $70 a week, but then I have to pay my expenses, and hotel bills and railroad fare i at up all the proilts. I'd rather get S'JÖ and have no such expenses. When I go with a circus for a winde .season I g t r .."." a week and expenses, but the life is too bard for me." Col. Powell Is ."I years old and won his title in the show business. II. was once a Texas cowboy, but his les got so long that they dragged on the ground when astride a pony. At is lie stood 7 feet t Inches in his stocking fiet, and Is no taller now. Fol. Powell has stood before about till the crowned heads of Mil rope, lie has showed with many circuses. He has no brothers and but one sister, who is of modern height only, lie Is a Royal Arch M:tson. Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias. The colonel's shoes are .No. Ills weight Is H.'O pounds. He Is still single, but says that it Is not his fault. "The girls all admire me, but at a distance," Is Ihe way be expresses It. St. Louis ;iobe-leinocrnl. Mountains of Sulphur. The recently discovered sulphur dojHisits in the Southern Cocopah range of mountains, on the eastern side of Lower California, are said to consist of mountains of 'ilmcst pure sulphur. A. tioodbe, :t banker of Ihisenada, wli i turned to San IMcgo from a visit to Ihe deposits, says the sulphur is S7 per cent, pure, and in its natural state is lit for ordinary commercial use, especially for the manufacture of sulphuric acid. At one place there is a bin IT of practically pure sulphur 1Ö feet high und 1Ö0 feet wide, and at the foot of this bin IT a shaft has bet u sunk '. feet deep Into pure sulphur. The sulphur can be sbovebd into hacks and put on the market in Its natural stale. -New York Sun. Ncy'n liest Menl. Marshal Ney said that Ihe bst tnr, he ever made was on n piece of halfraw pork. During the Russian cam paign or isrj in was passing by a caiap Jlrp where n soldier was rasting a pig h had shot, lie offered the Mar shal u piece, which the latter thank fully accepted ami lovotireu on uio spot, with an excellent appetite.

I DAY WITH A SENATOR

SOMETHING ELSE TO DO THAN TO LOOK DIGNIFIED. Senatorial Life la a Laborious and Exacting Hound Duties to Const i tuen tit and to the General Public Private Secretary and His Work. Washington Gossip. Washington correspondence: Till: United State Senate is now entering upon its busy season. All the committees having Leen reorganized the work to come before them is being referred to special committees, and shortly there will be n deluge of reports for thu full committees to consider and pass upon. I "p to the present time the committees, with the exception of two or three of the more important ones, have done little or nothing. The Democrats realizing that their lease of power was drawing to a close did not care to start the wheels of legislation which would shortly be under the control of the Republicans. It Las often and truly been asserted that the AT WORK. L'nited States is governed by committees, nnd with the great mass of legislation to bo enacted by the national legislature, it must always be so, but the only important act passed by the Senate during the present Congress, the resolution providing for the appointment of the, Venezuelan commission, was distinctly legislation by Congrixis, understood and approved by every member of the Senate and House, rather than by a mere committee. While the importance of n. Senator'? work i popularly Ranged by tlio part he NO WONDER if1, i B URS. MAUS -I po wisiT, 5iits. KAimr, that Abb TIIK TIME; ONT. CAN'T takes in debates on the tloor of the Senate, hii real duties are chiefly performed 'n connection with committers. The daily routine of n Senator involves attendance on commit tec meetings, usually called to meet at 10 o'clock in the morning, and lasting until nearly noon, when they are adjourned, nnd the members take their lea tu In the Senate, lhieh committee divides its work among nub-committees, consisting of one or more Senntor, and reports of facts bearing on the particular bill under consideration, together with rcewhat thi: pt nr.ic nv.i:n. ftinmendatlons Tor its disposition, are made at uieetings of tlie full committee. In nearly all minor matters these recommendations are approved by the committtr, and in turn by the Senate. It is only in the consideration of important political measures that a general discusaJon is carried-on. and even in such cages the Bnb-cornmittee, being in accord with the dominant party, usually has Its work uorovrd with little or no amendment. A

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Republican sub-committee is given a bill to consider, its report is approved by a Republican committee and a solid Republican vote in the Senate is apt to pass the measure, though just at present, as the balance of power rests with the Populists, it's pretty dillicult to pass any bill on a strict party vote. Resides the work in committee that is looked for from a Senator, he is expected inconvenience, but only a small contingency are so favored. Senators who happen to be engaged in committee rooms in the Maltby building and in the terrace don't enjoy the trarep to the Senate in order to answer to their names when called. Rut even in the case of a Senator who attends closely on the business of the Senate it is seldom necessary for him to spend more than two hoars at his desk. From 1 1! to "J o'clock is what is known as the "morning hour," and within that time committee reports are received and often acted on. and Senators frequently ask to have their pot measures considered. At '2 o'clock "the regular eider" is demanded, and, as a ride, that means that speeches are continued on the measure before the Senate, and unless the afternoon promises something of interest Senators retire to their committee rooms or go home. Much of a Senator's "time is taken up 5n attendance on callers. Nearly every one who comes to Washington on a sight-seeing journey wants to meet the Senators from his State, especially if the visitor ii of the same political party as the member of the tipper house. There is a standing rule that Senators do not receive card between 1- nnd 1! o'clock, and visitors wait until the latter hour before announcing their presence, and tben are invited into the marble room. Some of the popular Senators lind that the reception of vis iters who merely call to pay their re speets is an important part of their daily labor. Usually it doesn't take much tims SHE COMPLAINS. vot 'n stop vorn r.t: a rs qi'Auuemno JKT A WINK o' Sl.f.bP. to dispose of visitors, who are Rcuerallj dismissed after a brief interview, delight ed with the attention shown in their receiving a card admitting them to tho private gallery of the Senate. l'reqnently the greatest part of n Senator's work is done in the evening, when the Senator and his private secretary Ret together, and either dispose of the accumulated mail or prepare a speech. It is a fortunate Senator who knows the value of tin ctlieient secretary, and is able to find one, for they nre not abundant, nnd fs wise enough to intrust such a one with responsibilities. It Is the Senator who thinks he must dictate his letters nnd must open and read them all who ia weighted down with routine nnd nonproductive work. Those w ho liave capa lo secretaries rely on ;hem, and it is only in tho case of special communications that the employer is called on to suggest a reply. Many clerks do not even trouble their Senators to si'n letters, but are given carte blanche to aliix the name of the principal. The reading of newspapers Is an Important part of the daily labor of ill the tipto dale Senators, who endeavor not only to glance over their local publication, but, to read the leading periodicals, without regard to place of publication. At Little York, right miles west of Scottshurg, Ind., Walter Coombs shot hi wife through the abdomen. She lived but fifteen minutes. Coombs then idiot himself below the heart, lie is still alivt nnd bogs for vuno one to kill him. Tho two children of the Coombs are absent at nehool. Mrs. Coombs was a highly respected woman, nnd thero was no cause tnrv groundless jealousy. A thousand families of St. Johns, N. are detituto and have, nothing with which " rizors of the coming foul montl r

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EECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Trunin's Successful Trick to Gain Sympathy Made the Subject of Ser moiia You ii Folk Meet tit Night anJ Marrj Next Day. Tramp with a Fertile lirjin. A tramp giving his nine a-i U.-nri: I leinbi-ggar struck Kokomo Tuesday and worked a m .v trick. His plan is on approaching a city to hide nearly all his clothing, walking in without shoes, hat, coat or vest, saying the authorities of a neighboring place sent him oit of theiv in that condition. In this way he gets a liberal donation, lie then went to Tipton and told his story, which was made the theme of tlie sermons ,,f tip Tipton pastors tlie next day. and it was recomiMended that missionaries tie sent to Kokoino to civilize the people. The scheme has been worked successfully in nearly all the cities in that part of the Stale. Shaving for the Loiiy: Sleep. The will of tlcorge II. Merriti. for many ears a prominent merchant of Mi'-higan-town. was probated. It contain the following strange paragraph: "Sooner later I will be called upon to leave this state of existence. When that time comes be sure that life i extinct, then a plain box. without paint r varnish; in that .n bed and pillow of clean -.having.. Wrap me in a sheet, a dean piece ,,f niu-lin. lay nie in the box on the shavings, nail down the lid, and onsign me to the grave wiihteit any form of ceremony. Leave nothing but tho mound of earth with plain head ainl foot boards to mark the po?." Strong Love on Short Notice. W-'liam HaMwin and Miss Tiüie Stahl, from Louisville, Ivy., were married at .lefiVrsonvilie by .!utice Han v. They saw each other for the first time the night before, being introduced by an uncle of the bride, with whom the young man was transacting some business. They decide,! to marry and went to the river. Missing the last boat, they started to cross in a skiff, but came near drowning in ihe drifting ice. They had to go back, and walked the streets until theeariy morning ferryboat left, which they took to the Indiana side, called on tile justice and were ma rried. All Over the State. I'M ward Lankford, of Sanborn. wh killed lUatin It. Williamson, constable, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Henry llensenberger, wie set tire to the buildings on tlie KendallviUe fair grounds last September, was sentenced to Jive years in the northern prison. 1'ive tramp are under arrest at Frankfort, charged with parsing counterb it money. Several spurious coins and burglar" tools were found in their possession. It is estimated that burglars realized ,Sln,(MMI in inoiu y and geod by robbing the stores of (Jeorge Wandel!, William Finch ami August Totiio, of (!rand iew . The twin daughters of .James Davenport, near Fayotte. died almost within th .same hour, of typhoid fever. They wer IS years old. and had neer been separated for a day. At Cra wfordsville. S. X. Wa rbrit ton ha 4 brought suit against the Yandalia railroad for -Si. Hi n. A train took him pa; hi station and the conductor to'.d him to jump off, which he did. and wa injured. Prof. Tl plains Itobarts. of lVr-y County, claims to have discovered the long-sought rule of trisecting any rectilineal angle 1 .y elementary geometrv that is. by mean of a straight line ate', a circle. I lo declare that this great problem has at bist been unraveled ly a very simple method, which he expects soon to give to the World. Tin faculty of the Ter re Haute Slate Normal School has discovered that there ha I u cheating in the examination and other misdoing on the part of student who are preparing themselves for positions a teachers in the pn'Iie schools, ami live ste.lciits have been epeje. It i understood that more vv ilbhave to leave school on ihe same charge. The ollicials of the prison norfh have been advise! that .latin s Kedmond will he scnl up from Marion County to serve another term. Ibdinoiid has a remarkable 0 criminal caieer. lie is but .".' vear old and I'as served seven terms in the northern prison for larceny and has aggregated iweiily-two years of lime behind tl.v bar. Itci'.moiid was released fn.'.ii the northern prison nine mouths ago. He enjoys the i ted of serving the i.vt terms in the prison of any inmate "ov er t'here. W'illiivm .Johnson ami Amelia Smith, eloper front Kentucky, arrived at .leffersouville ami were about to be married by Sipiire IIa use when the groom, instead of taking hi position to have the ceremony performed, darted out of the front door and did not return. Hi deserted bride-to-be v:i forced lo return home alone. Louis A. Schocnotuan. a newspaper man of Indianapolis, and Mattie Meneiihal. of Ter re Haute, elopers, wen married by Siiire Kcigwiu. Four other eloping couples were married that day. Samuel Atkins, of Fcudleton. got a judgment lor 1. '-!."' against his children. Atkins went insane three years ago and was sent to Itichuioml. Hi son ifi lawhad himself appointed guardian for the estate, and knowing that Atkins was looked Upon as a hopeless case, converted the property into money and distributed it among the heirs. They were thunderstruck three mouths ago when Ihe lather, ill possession of nil his sense., applied lo I hem for his money. They would not give it to him. II' asked for shelter, but was refused, and as a last resort he had lo bring suit to get even a small judgment. This is, however, all that could be proven to lar hi. Atkins is well known as a business man at Ter re Haute and oilier places. The jail nt ?reenhurg wa left in iharge of a sennnt girl while the jailer ami sheriff went to (he county convention. Three prisoners escaped. Mrs. Hideoii II a user, a young bride nt Kansas City. Mo., has just learned the whereabouts of her husband, who disappeared !ec. J). Häuser was found by her at Albion, where he i an inmate of tlie hospital ward of the county jail. He attempted to rob a numtry resilience near Avilln, nnd. being closely pressed by his pursuers, attempted suicide by sending a bullet through his head. His recovery is doubtful.

SLAVES INSURED IN LOTS. Old-Time Protection from Los in 11 u in a u Property. Yesterday the Picayune was shown by a prominent insurance agent a life policy, whb h. in the light of the present methods of insnring. i; a curiosity in more ways than one. It was sent here by a Memphis agent, headed "Negro Policy." numbered r,0. Issued by the Phoenix Insurance Company of St. Louis, dated in that city the loth of Man h, lsöl. and signed by John 11. Catmbn. President, and W. II. Pritchartt. Secretary. The premium paid was Ss..:;0. and the risk was for ss.itm for threo months from noon of March I. lsöl. to noon of dune 1, lsöl. on sixteen slaves, as follows: Tom. Frank. Sophie. Kviline. Jordan. Daniel. Ann. Hester. Henry. Lew. Zelina. FJIcn. Nelon. Mary. Charlotte, and Ann. in favor of Ilolton. Dickins vV: Co.. of Memphis. Tenn.. Itoing at the rate of Söno on the life of each one win might die during the continuance of policy. The restrictions in the policy rend that the said slaves "shall have only the privilege of traveling in the usual conveyances on laud, rivers, lakes, or inland seas, and of residing in any of tin' States or Territories nf lliis Futon, or the liritish provinces of North America, north of ".n d-gr i s north latitude and L'ii degrees west longitude from Washington city. e.e-p that from tlie 10th of July to tlie 1st day of November, in each and every year, it shall not bo lawful for tin insured to visit or n side south of .", I degrees liorih latitude, ami HO degrees west longitude from Washington city, or enter into the military or naval service whatever the militia not in actual service excepted , without such permission previously obtaim d and endorsed on this policy, or in ase they shall die in consequence of a dud or by the bands of justice, or in the known violation of any law or this State or of the Fnited States, or of the said provinces, or if the said slaves shall be engaged in any capacity on a sti aniboat. raft, or vessel of any description, without the permission of the said company previously obtained and endorsed on this policy, or slnll run away or be kidnapped: then and iii a II such cases the said company shall not be liable for the payment of the .aid sum insured or any part thereof, and this policy, so far as relates to su.-li payment, slmll be entirely void. This policy shall be void if assigned without the consent of I lie company. There was a loss susiaiiied umhM'lliisj policy, as the following endorsement will show: "I'eceived of the Phoenix Insurance

Company .4:s.os in full, in payment of itegio girl, Charlotte, instiled under tikis policy. No. :,('.. less forty-seven days Interest. P.OLTON. DICKINS & CO. "Memphis. May 1!1, lsöl." --New Orb-aits Picavune. What tin Horses Thought. The unanimous opinion of threo horses was once more convincing than that of many times that numb -r of human beings, a c rd;ng to a story in Harper's Magazine. The question at issue, moreover, was one of architectural dosign, such a question as might seem at tlrst thought to be quite foreign to any equine understanding. Mr. It. built himself a In, use soiu years ago. The architecture was simple, a a friend said, "to a itotous degree." It was correspondingly pure, and the bouse was correspondingly cotufort'.ble. The effect of tho lines, however, upon the untutored mind was n u imp'essjve. A friend visiting Mr. It.'s town, inquiring the way to the house, was told by He boy of whom he asked the question, to "go T'ut a well, a mile, till you come to a house 'at looks like a barn, only it ain't a IiTirn. an that's hisii." It. enjoyed Hi desi-ripti n, ai d r ported It to bis nivhitect. who made a few remarks ab ut public t ist which wi.uld have offended public laste very much to hear. 'That's their verdict." said the architect, "but what does it amount to? It simply " etc.. eb. Two weeks later tin friends of 1. rde up from town on horseback, entered the ground, and stopped beforo the lioue. one of them dismounted and rang the bell, and It. himself opened the door. 'Whoa'" cried all Ihe three riders at once. It. almost swooned. The horses had tried unanimously to walk In. They rccognl.ed the simplicity of tho architecture, and the architect himself has had to admit that popular tast ; sometimes receives Indorsement from unexpected quarters. Mask. Masks were ordinary articles of female costume In Ihmland previous to the reign of Ouc u Fli.abcth. The winde mask, covering the entire face, was held between the teeth by men ui of a round bead fastened on the Inside. White half masks, with chincloaks I. e., hin clothes or tiiufllcrK were In fashion as late as tie Commonwealth. During the reign of tjuecn Anne and the first half of the last century masks were still used by la dien In riding, and were worn appended to the waist by a string. To Improve l urs. Furs will look much improved If they are cleansed with bran heated in the) oven. Kub the hot bran well Into the fur with a piece of llannel, then shake tho fur to remove all pat'lbles, ami brush thoroughly. Fur collars that have become soiled from rubbing; against the hair may be made to look like new by using hot bran on them. Apply tho bran a second time If the fur Is badly soiled. Tho day after a man bilks a crcat deal, le Is never In good company.