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Extracts From His Speech at Indianapolis Last Night.'*'** "4 A Very Full Discussion of the Financial Question. r^* -m: lie Pays his Compliments to the

Believers in Fiat Money.

(From Wednesday's Dally.} Secretary Thompion addressed a crowded audience at the Grand Opera House in Indianapolis last night. Quite a number of Terre Haute people were in attendence, and there was not one of them who did not lcel proud of the magnificent ovation tendered him by the citizens of the capital city. He made a splendid speech, (from a Republican stand point) and was loudly applauded all the way through. We present liberal extracts from his speech. ). SECRETARY THOMPSON'S ADDRESS.

Fellow-cltizensj There are quite a number of interesting questions now engaging public attention which might be very profitably discussed if it were calmly done but I knowot none more interesting than those which concern the currency—a subject which is in everybody's mind in some form or other. It is perhaps necessary for me to say—it is at all events proper that I should say—in approaching the discussion of a subject like this, that I am no financier. I know there are very many people, very good and clever people in the country, who think that a mau can team financiering as Jack Falstaff acquired his courage and wisdom—by inbtinct. But as I do not believe in tliat kind ot knowledge, whether acquired suddenly or otherwise, I will say that in the remarks I may be permitted to address to ou this evening, 1 shall make a few 'practical suggestions not founded upon vague and indefinite theories, but upon the practical experience ol mankind. The question of currency in this country has resolved itself inio "a very simple issue. There are but two distinct propositions. One is a paper currency redeemable at par in gold or silver at the pleasure of the holder ahd limited to the wants ami necessities. of our commerce, both domestic and foreign. The other, a paper currency, limited only by the legislative discretion of Congress, having no reference whatever to specie value and not redeemable in anything. Jfow, there are vArio'us details to these two propositions, about which a great vJuriety of opinions may be entertained: but the real difference is as I have slated •**that is simply the long and short of it, there being no middle ground. So lhat in the determination ot the question which is now pressing upon the public mind, every voter,in this State must decide for himself which of these propositions he prefers. If he shall prefer a paper circulation redeemable in coin, he will vote the republican ticket. If he prefers a circulation not redeemable at all, he will \ote the democratic ticket, or with some other organization of equivalent financial importance. I will not sat nor do I wish to be understood as intimating, that the democratic party throughout the United States is a softmoney party. I do not believe it is.

There are very many eminent men in the Democratic party—its most distinguished leaders, in fact, scattered all over the land, and some of them in this state, who do not disagree with the Republican party upon this question of the redeemability of our paper money. While I believe that to be true* I must still be permitted |co say that, so far as the organization of that party in this state is now concerned, it is undou6tedly on the side of those who would have the currency redeemable in nothing.

The Secretary then gave an extended account of the origin of greenbacks claiming for them that they had been conceived by the Republicans and issued by them over the opposition of the Democrats. Going still turther back he gave a chapter of financial history during the time of Jackson's administration. He also discussed the question of a bimetallic currency and declared that in 18153 a bill had passed Congress making gold the single standard Of value and that for that bill the Democrats of Indiana in Congress had voted. The act of 1873 for which the Republicans had been denounced was a mere re-enactment of that old l»iil. pj

THE FIAT FGLLY

he treated aa follows: I have a dollar in my pocket, 412)^ grains. I go and buy a dollar's worth of coffee for my family I get a full dollar's worth I, however, wish to buy a dollar's worth of tea, and I pull out a piece of coin just half the size and I want to get the same value of tea that 1 have of coffee. Don't you think I would have to pay two of them, and so on down? But suppose, when I am done, I take out a piece of paper from my pocket, on which is stamped "This is a dollar," how much tea or coffee do you think I could get for that? [Laughter.] What is the idea of paper money? We call i". paper money, .' but strictly speaking it is not money it is a mere representative of n.oney its value is not intrinsic, because the paper ou which it is printed is not worth peihaps a quarter of a mill, but it is valuable because it contains the promise of somebody to pay. If it be a promissory note, and the name of the man who signed to it is insolvent it is not worth anything. If the man is worth

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and the note be for the

payment of a ^small sum, it is worth something, and anybody would take it. Why? Not because the paper is worth anything, but because the promise to pay is worth something, and the raan who promises to pay has got the money ^to pay it. -C Now, I say that has always been so, find always will be so and when I talk about the" creation of what is called "fiat monev," simply to put the government .*tamp on a piece of paper and say this is

dollar, this is five dollars, or this is one hundred dollar*, the advocates of that proposition seem to suppose that they have struck upon anew idea, and I imagine they think if they wisre lo apply for anew discovery, like a mar. asking for a patent on patent medicine,: they would be, entitled to one, too.

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Fiat money is nothing 'new. It is a great deal older than you or I. It is old er than this government. It is older than Christianity. The first time in the history of this world when anybody undertook to make fiat money is about

550

years, or in that neighborhood, before Christ. [Laughter.] A Roman king once undertook to stamp his coin with animals. He stamped a cow upon one piece of coin and a sheep upon, another, throughout all the animals, with the idea that that coin was a cow, Laughter, and that the other coin was 'a sheep, Continued, laughter. The idea he had was, it a man who had a cow on his coin wanted the cow in flesh the men who had the cow in the flesh would have to take the cow in the coin. [Laughter and applause.] It worked along very well until they happened to find out, I don't know how, that there were good cows and bad cows, and that they were not all of the 6ame value. [Laughter.] It would uot work at all. And I cannot find in history, anytime during all the intervening

2.300

years,

when any bud else has been wise enough, sagacious and inventive enough to fix upon the fiat money idea. It died and went into the tomb with that king. [Laughter.] And my impression is it had better been permitted to stay iere.

Nevertheless, there area great many good people who think that they want "fiat money," and plenty of it. WJiat they mean by plenty ot it is they want enongh to relieve them of their pecuniary liabilities, and I wish to God they had it. [Laughter and applause.] I would like to see every one in this country out of debt, because that would include me. [Laughter.] They have an dea that they muxt have what they call '•flat money. I am not going to quarrel with ..you about that, but thinkyou are radically wrong. Let me tell you that your fiat moner requires, first, last and all the time, that you shall put the greenback out of the way. In other words, you cannot have your fiat money until you destrov the greenbacks. And, when vou take the greenback and apply it to your party as the fiat money party, you use a contradiction of terms, because the greenback promises to pay one dollar and your money doesn't promise to pay a cent. Therefore, when you make your fiat money, greenbacks must be destroyed. Therefore, I say to you for one, hands off. [Laughter.] Make your parties and construct your platforms as you please, but hand* off oar greenbacks. [Laughter and applause.! We intend to take care ot them. They are promises to pay dollar tor dollar, and yours are not promises to pay at all.

We hay, moreover, that the government of the United States, under the constitution, lias no power to make money out of anything except coin. Am I talking to an intelligent audience? Am I talking to any man who was trained and educated in the Democratic taith? What does the constitution mean when it says: "Congress shall have power to coin money?" Is monev coined in a printing office? Is it made bw stamping printer's ink on apiece of pa, per The constitution says coin money not make money, make it out of metal, something that will ring. I say that congress, under the constitution, has no power to stamp upon apiece of paper the idea that that is money, because if the constitution had intended to delegate such power to congress it would have said congress shall have power to coin money, cyto print it but it doesn't say any such, thing. Why doesn't it say to print it? Because specie, the world over, has been regarded as the measure of values and when I speak of specie I mean both gold and silver. I shall perhaps use the word coin, therefore. Coin was regarded always as the standard of value in earlier patriarchal times, when the talents were passing about among the Hebrews. They may have been bullion, but alter coin was established among the civilized nations they had a measure of value, signifying so many dollars—so many francs in France, so many pence in England, and so many somethirgelse in the other governments of the world. When our friends the Nationals tell us that our silver coin will not pass in Europe, they make a very great mistake, they deceive themselves first and then deceive others. The reason their coin dees not pass there is because they do not coin it and the reason their coin does not pass here is because we do not coin it. We say that a silver dollar shall be'412% grains they say a silver dollar shall be four hundred and something else. So, when we take our silver dollar there it is measured with theirs, or weighed, and in the scale it passes right along by the side of theirs and wherever silver and gold is known in the world, even among the savage nations, it passes at its intrinsic value. [Applause.] It is metal God made it for our use. He scattered it all over the world, and now when our mines are pouring it out in great abundance, when we are the greatest metallic-producing country on earth, when all the world is just beginning to look to us for their gold -.and precious metals, we are told that our gold is worth nothing more than paper. Out upon such an idea as that. There is nothing in it. I was about to say it was a humbug, but I won't say that. [Laughter and applause.] Why is it now that gold and silver are the accepted measures of value the world all over? It won't wear out you may take jt and rub it from now until morning. [Speaker rubbing a coin between his fingers.] But I see this is not an American coin 1* have in my hand now. It is an English coin, and it snows that English coin passes in this country. New, if I were to take a greenback and rub it half as much as I have rubbed that coin it would wear before morning s6 there woufd be none

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silver are recognized by the whole world as the measure of value? Because it is coin and will not wear out, and because used by all people, and because commerce cannot be carried on without it. Suppose we say that gold and silver shall not be the basis of our circulation, that out bills shall not be redeemed in it, and we shall have fiat money, that is, "this is a dollar," this is "five hundred dollars," being stamped so by the government. Let us see how that would stand. When I came to talk about our present pecuniary embarrassments, after a while, I shall have to talk to you about our ports and imports to show you what we are doing in the world to show you that instead of expiring or going down or running out, and becoming the laughing stock of nations, we are really rising up in our majesty, and are in point of fact to day not only the proudest and the best, but the most compact nation on tUe face of the earth. [Applause.] If we were a people living alone in the world, or, as the Chinese say, with the outside barbarians, perhaps we could get along tolerably well, a* they used to do in their earliest and most primitive times, swapping a horse for a cow, a cow for a sheep, and so on. But the great trouble about thfct thing is that if you were to go into a tailor shop to buy a coat, you might not have anything to swap to a tailor but a horse, and the tailor probably has no use for a horse, and, therefore you could not get a coat. We could not go back to this old system of exchange, but we might get along here if wc had a sortof consent with a stamped currency and tall it money. But what could we do with that when we come to our commerce. Don't you see that we must sell what we produce, our surplus product must be bought by somebody, and we must buy a great many things and from somebody however, you will observe that when we undertake to regulate the value of our products by one standard, we conflict witii the standard of the world and that places our labor population in the Condition of being compelled to buy many things, the pricea of which are fixed by the gold and silver 'standard of the world suppose now, that we had fiat money in this country and plenty of it, how would a- poor laboring man buy a pound of coffee or a pound of tea for his wife and children? Let us see about that. It is a practical proposition. We do not raise coffee and tea in this country, they are brought from abroad, imported, if you go to your grocer, or from whom you buy your coffee and tea, and ask him, he will tell you that every pound of coffee and tea that is brought into this country is paid for in coin, and not fiat money. Y011 cannot buy it for anything but coin. The uian who brings it here, having paid for it in coin, must have coin for it when he sells it, so *hafe wbenit comes, into.the hands of retail grocer, or from whom you buy it, he pays its coin value, and having bought it at its cuin value, he can afford to setl it only at its coin value. Therefore, will you telt me how you would buy a pound of it with fiat paper? You pay the laboring man for his labor in fiat bills, and yonder rich banker thiat has gold and silver can buy coffee and teas for his family at pleasure but the poor man who maintains his family by the sweat Of his brow cannot buy for sick wife or child a pound of coffee or a pound of tea with that money which you paid him for his labor. So it is that whenever you undertake to create by an inflated or debased currency, the high prices and losses invariably fall on the laboring man. And yet the laboring man is now asked, under the idea that- he may benefit his condition, that he shall make war,. or aid in making war upon a system which to-day gives him in return for his labor gold, silver,

In discussing .... THE HARD TIMES he said: ".j

of it left. Why is it, t^en, that gold and^out of it. He did it himself nobody told

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greenbacks, at his pleasure. He is asked to exchange that for currency with which he can buy nothing—absolutely nothing—out of any store where the price of goods has been fixed on a specie value. [Applause.] I tell you, therefore, my laboring frjend, that I sympathize with you. God knows I have sympathy for the laboring men of tills country. I tell you, then, that, though this argument may not be intended for it, it is, nvertheless, deceiving you, and you may be misled, and I tell you. moreover, that the only way the working men of this country can secure a proper reward for their labor and thus secure prosperity, is to stand fast by the old landmarks and maintain those principles that are consistent with the world, and see to it that they have a currency all alike for everybody, baaed upon a solid specie foundation, redeemable in coin at any time at the pleasure of the holder. [Applause. You cannot get along any other way.

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We were all extravagant after the war. We bought a great deal more than we really wanted, simply because we fancied we wanted it. We were all to blame. Everybody did it Go out in the country now and look among the farmers, and you will find sonfe very clever people who have got their

property

mortgaged they are hard run, don't know what to do they lay awake nights thinking about it.

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if you lookback you will find thi9 state of things fifteen or twenty years ago: The daughter of that farmer would be coiftent to come to town1 in her domestic clothes, and the son woald have been content with his ordinary homespun, but owing to the extravagance of the war the daughter must have a silk dress, and the son must have a broadcloth suit, a gold watch and chain, and a ring and other adornments, such as young men have in town. And the house must be a little better than it used to be, and there must be fine furniture is it. That *was well enough if he hadn't borrowed the money to do it, because his surpluaproduce aid riot furnish it He borrowed it probably frorh an eastern insurance company and agreed to pay high 'interest on it, thinking that he could get

him to do it. We all did it. Nobody told us to borrow the money and make a mortgage, and there it is, and all the power and strength applied to it since then cannot lift the load off. It is there yet So he looks around and implores the government to do do something by which he may be relieved. I would_ to God that the government* of the United State» had the power and the money to lift every mortgage in Indiana, and set every man free from debt. [Applause.] Bat we are so situated, our government has- been so constructed, that men in this coon try are dependent upon themselves. He who starts out in life with a strong arm and stout heart must make his own way through the world with enemies upon the right of him, aod enemies upon the left of him. No matter, though he he hedged around with debt and calamity, if he be A true man he may achieve victory at lasti [Applause.J My admiration goes out with strong sympathy and affection for a man who in the midst of the calamities of life, has been enabled by his own strong will to make his way in the world in spite of enemies all around him. The government has nothing to do with your habits or mine. I have the reputation of being an inveterate smoker. Well, I do smoke sometimes. [Laughter.] I was asked at one time how many cigars I averaged per day, and the only answer I could make was that I did not average. I do not know how much money I pay int$ the treasury on account of the cigars I smoke but whose business is that but lay own. The government has nothing to do with my smoking. If it were to Undertake to makp me smoke I wouldn't smoke at all. I do it of my own accdird, and nobody oh earth, unless it be wife, [laughter] has any right to find my fault with me because 1 do smoke. I don't kn$w how much tax I do pay every day in that way, and the reason I don't know is that I am afraid to inquire, and that is the way we all get in debt.

We have to sell our surplus produce abroad, or if we do not sell it abroad it rots omour hands, and no matter how much we raised we would not get any richer. We are going to feed the world we are the grandest producing region of the world. Its products manufactures, its grain, iron, its coal and its ores of various kinds, the product of its manufactures, its inventions, agricultural implements and all its great and'vast machinery excites today mor6 admiration in the hearts of Europeans than those of any other people in the world—of this wc are all justly proud. have a son who was at the ex-

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jsition at Paris, and when he returned him about our American inventions and their success there. He says this got this premium and that got the premium and that and that and that, excltiiwifctMmiration of all Europe, and at fSst saysire. What do you think—we got the premium for lager beer. [Laughter and arfplaute Showing that whatever we undertake we do the best of any people in the world. What we cannot consume ourselves we send abroad-, and the money they bring is brought back, and it comes into our coffers and our farmers get rich, and our mechanics get rich, and our laborers get rich—that is if they are provident, but there are some men who cannot get rich who w*uld never get rich—who would not get rich if you would let them put their arms in the treasury up to their shoulders—simply for the reafeon that they would squander it some way or other.

ON THFT RESUMPTION ACT. He said: "To repeal the resumption act after resumption, is like locking the door after the horse has been stolen. I don't know as it would hurt much. They cannot repeal it, however. It is folly to talk about it. 1 You might send a man to congress to vote to repeal it, but when he gets there everybody would laugh at him. What do you wank to repeal it for? Is not specie payment resumed? While vou have been talking about resuming specie payments the Republicans have done it, and I don't see any use in making any ius9 about it It gives us the bestjcurrency in the world, because it is the faith of the goverment Then it does this: it puts bur credit before the nations of the earth in abetter condition than the credit of any other government in the world. We had a large debt of over two thousnnd millions when the war closed. The Democratic party in this state at their last state convention condemned the policy of borrowing money from abroad, and sara our debt ought to be a domestic debt that we ought to bring the bonds home and let our people have them, so our gold would not go out of the country. That is just Vhat we are going to do. That terrible fellow, John Sherman, who sits in the treasury and moves his wand about like a necromancer, who sends distress and bankruptcy from England, Germany, France and Austria, [laughter], who destroys the trade of the savages in the islands of the sea, who even visits the Celestial empire itself and scatters desolation there that same desperate man, John Sherman, has been sitting quietly there administering the affairs of the treasury, striving to maintain the honor and credit of the nation, and has been drawing those bonds in from Europe until, out of the nineteen hundred millions, or about that, he has got all of them hei-e but two hundred and fifty millions. And before another year is but, before a Democratic President can get into the President's chair, John Sherman will have every one of them at home, and every dollar of gold that is paid upon the interest of those bonds, ahd every dollar of gold that is paid upon the bonds themselves will be American gold and owned by American people. [Great applause.] Some of our bonds are drawing six per cent 6ome of them are drawing five per cent and John Sherman said "Now, that is a pretty heavy interest to pay. There is really more money in the country than the people think for. The people lack confidcnce ia each other, and, therefore, while the money is in the country they cannot borrow it. I cannot possibly inaugurate a

policy by which I can restore that confidence. I cannot induce the people of this country to have more confidence in each other. I will see whether I cannot give them a rate of iuterest which will be paid by the people. I will issue 4)^ per cent, bonds, and will ask the holders of the old bonds to come in and exchange them, giving me the 5 per cent and 6 per cent, bonds, and taking new bonds at 4)^ per cent., and will make par cent, and per cent, on every dollar of that investment."

Did you think Mr. Sherman could »«11 the 4.% per cent, bonds for the 5 per cent or 6 per cent, bonds? Most peopk doubted it But he did it. Why? Because the holders of those bonds had more confidence the integrity and honor of the people of the United States than the holders of any bonds upon earth have in the integrity of the people of any government issuing bonds. [Applause.] i'hey took the 4^ per cent, bonds. Mr. Sherman then said: "I have saved that much to the government. I have reduced the interest thajt much. I will try it again. I will issue 41 per cent, bond* and see if I can bring the interest down a half per cent more." He tried it, and is selling those 4 per cent, bonds to-day at the rate of one million per day. Think of that. When the government of the United States was turned over to Abraham Lincoln it could not borrow for less than 12 per cent interest.

To-day, under a Republican administration, it can borrow money for 4 per cent. TGreat applause.] All that gives confidence, and gives promise of a bright future. Bui our Democratic friends and our fiat money friends come in and say, "Let us.run this government" I don't know how they want to ran it, whether as a sort of joint stock operation just to swallow each other, I don't know. Thev certainly cousin and coax each other with wonderful adroitness, and they fall into each others arms as gracefully and beautifully as if they were dancing a round dance. [Laughter.] I don't complain of it. I never interfere with the affections of people who think'of getting married. [Laughter.f They may marry or not, just as they please. Only, if they do marry, I will be curious to see which one will apply for a divorce first.

Laughter, But however that may they ask us to stop right here say tQ the administration "Stop your policy,

The speech, of which we have only given a tew salient points taken here and there from the full and accurate report published in the Indianapolis Journal, occupied two hours and three

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the delivery. It was listened to with close attention throughout and very frequently applauded. 7 •,,,

THE BALANCE OF TRADE/ To the Editors ot the Evening Qazstrt: I find the following conundrum, pro* pounded in this mornings Express: "If our country is getting rich because It sent beyond Its bordtr* |88a,000,06& last year and received back but 1838,000.00^ would it not be richer still if it had sent out 1680,000. 000 and received back not king? And this being the ease, would it not be enriched still further by senoiag out all of the movable effects of the country,, and. getting back nothing?

The country would hot get rich, if its citizens should act in this insane manner. When our country is overflowing with wealth, as it no doubt will, when the National party obtains the ascendency, 5uch a thing might happen, and we may be able to give the pauper laborers oi Europe a few million of doltars by way of charity, as we sent a few thousand bushels of potatoes to Ireland a good many years ago. But the Express does not state all the facts of the case. This country exported (I take its figures) 680 million dollars of our products,, and imported 323 million dollars of the products of foreign countries, litis waathe account as shown on the custom house books, not a very sure criterion, by the way, on account of the undervaluation of imports. But there is another account current between this and foreign countries, which never appears on the custom house books. We have an interest account to pay annually to foreigners, which goes abroad in the shape of our products: and we have retired and repurchased a Urge amount of securities held abroad. These, if added to the import side of the ledger will balance the account and relieve the anxious mind of the Express Editor as to our financial condition. I will further elucidate the subject by a familiar example, and also propound a question:4 If a farmer sells wheat to the amount of $1,000, expends $500 in the necessaries of lite, and lifts a £500 note, secured by mortgage, is he impoverished to the extent of $500? If he should use the whole proceeds of his wheat for that purpose, and still live more comfortably on his other resources, is he the loser by $1,000? 'XT"

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MAINE ELECTION

Nearly Complete Returns §f the Election in V*1

45- Gveenbackers, and

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let us (iave a change, and see if we

can.

not get a little more money." specie Now, when we have resumed ,h*U payment, just think of what we have. We shall have for the circu

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all the money of the country, afte gold and silver has C9tne out frotrl

lo

treasury, or shall be in a condition

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come out, nine hundred and ninety-ni millions of dollars. Think of that. Taking our greenbacks, our national currency, the other moneys that are issued by the g»v*rnmeat, or the representative money ia the. nature of loans and bonds, then the gold in the treasury, after .that the gold hoarded in the country, which is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $100,000,000 put it all together and we shall have an aggregate of $990,000,000.

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Hftame.

Conner, for

Republican Candidal* Governor, Gets a Plurality.

But for Lack of a Majority? the Election Will be' Thrown Into the Leg-** iaiatnro. .'t Four Republican Congressmen, and One Democrat Elected.

Portland, Maine, Sept 10.—The represenlatives known to be elected are 58 Republicans, 39 Grtrenbackers and iS Democrats. Not reported,

37

of these

19are known to be Democrats or Greenbackers. If all the rest are Republicans, they will still lack one of a majority. While it is apparent that the Greenbackers and Democrats wilt control the House, the complexion of the 17 ufiknown will be required' to settle who I contsols the joint ballot, which i» important, as that eldcts the state officials.

The result depends upon the towns in Washington not heard Irom, which will go against Hale, but as the Washington town* are going Democratic rather than Greenback, so tar as received,, they may save Hale by going for Martin.

Portland, September 10.—Returns today make the vote about a» fbllows: Connor,.Rapublican, 5g,ooo Gartelon, Democratic, 29,000 Smith, National, 37,000- The representatives heard from stand. 64. Republicans,

Augusta, Sept. 10.—Returns for governor from 284 cities and towns, received at the Journal office, show in these towns a total vote of 102,868, giving Con*

nor, 41,278 Garcelon, 22,753

NATURE

Who writes in the Mail."

Jules Houriet has his new store and torv being built on west Main street, opposite the park, almost ready for occupation. It will be a very fine, roomy place, quite convenient for the manafacture of his celebrated Swiss ague cure, that is meeting with such an extensive demand requiring the increased facilities.

A NUMBER of Terre Haute men will attend the soldiers re-union at Tuscola this month.

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20

Democrats,

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22

to hear from,

l'n» uuijoritv of thr not known are quite sure to be Demucruix and Greenback, I so that the hou*e will have an opposition majority of not less than 1, and will probably send up Garcejon and Smith to the senate, which, standing twenty to eleven,, will likely choese Gancelon, Democrat, as governor. As now heaod from the Republicans have a majoritv on joint ballot, which elects- the state officials, but there are twenty-tiwo districts to hear from. Three Republican congressmen are elected: Reed, in the First district, by 4,300 plunality Frye, in the Second dUtrict, by 3,000 Lindsey, in the Third district, by 3,000 Ladd, Greenback, is elected over Powers by 3,500, in the Fourth district the 5U1 district i* still in doubt. Waldo c#unty give*i»8oo ptorality

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Washington, as far as heaRHwm^. "glvei 1,100 plurality for Hale, HancOck gives 700 and Knox, 350 making Hale »$a ahead.

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Smith,

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tvear, gave a»®23i

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32,836. The same towns, last vear, gave Connor, 44,908 Williams, 3a Vote in the rir

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in the Fir*C congnss-

sion'Al district: Reed, Republican, 13,, 757 Anderson, Democrat, 9*36: GroveGreenback, 6,546.

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Belfast, Sep. to.—Thirteen towns in Waldo county, including Belfast gives. Mureh, Greenback candidate for con-' gresi, 1,148 plurality. The whole plurality in the county is probably 1,830.

LRWI8TON.

Lewiston, Sept 1O4-—Androscofjgfri complete gives Connor,. 3^14 Garcelin, 3,12$ Smith, 2,232. For Congress: Fc

Cong

3,88s Beieber, 1,113 Chase 3,114Republican senators and county ti

rye, THe

ticket are

elected by from 800 to 1,500" plurality,' Representatives to the legislature:. Six' Republicans |and three combination,' a Republican loss of thcae. Frye has neatlx £00 pluraliur over Solon Chase in ^jua district. Nearly half the Democrats voted for Chase.

Lewiston, Sept. ia—ThU district elects twenty Republicans, five- coalition, and pne sound money Democrat Fry'! plurality is nearly 3,000.

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Skowhegin, Me., Sept* 10.—In Somerset county the entire Greenback ticket is elected by from aoo to 800 plurality. The Republicans elected one representative.

has provided a most -potent

specific for diseases of the skin, rheumatism and gout, viz: Sulphur. That admirable remedial agent ia made available at an indefinitely less cost than former!*, inconsequence of the introduction Of

GKBKN'S SULPHUR SOAP.

Sulphur

Baths are expensive, so are visits to Sulphur SpringSfbut at a cost of sixty cents, the price of the above article per box* containing three cakes, precisely the same curative results can be affected as Sulphur bathing accomplishes.

SULPHUR

GLRHM'S

SoAp likewise heals bruises,

sores, and all erasions of the skin, whiten and softens as well aa purifies it The ladies prefer it to any cosmetic, not only bechuse it is a more effective complexiocal beautifier, but also because it ia eminently conducive to health, which cosmetics are-not It is a capital disinfectant of clothing contaminated with disease, and its timely use prevents maladies communicable by contact It is far preferable to any salve or ointment for. the cure of affections of the skin, being infinitely more effective and clcanly.

Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, black Or brown, 50 cents. -L#

EXTRACT FftUM THE POD* Dr. Price's Vanilla Flavor is extracted

from "the

Mexican Vanilla Bod. This

popular flavor, as made by Dr. Pride, embodies the delicate aroma of this agreeable fruit, free frcm the strong, rank nste of

those

extracts sold as

Vanilla,

made from

he cheap Tonqua or snuff bean

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