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How Free Trade Works.


Greenfield Republican.
Here it is. In September, 1843 Elijah Allen,
of Blue River, with two-helse team and hand
besides himself, took fifty bushels of oats to Gin
cinnati, and over into Kentucky, and sold them
for $3.50 With this ST. 80 he purchased two bar
rels of salt and hauled it home. 1t took them
seven and half days to make the trip Mr. AL
len remembers this trip and ats results as one of
the incidents of 4'freetrade" and is not willing
TO try it again. Every Young farmer ought to
read up on THE tariff question. The older ones
mostly understood it to their sorrow.
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State Ticket.

GovERNoR-WILLlAM H. CALKINS, of La Porte
county.
LIEUTENANT GovERNoR-EUGENEH H. BUNDY' of
Henry county.
SECRETARY OF STATE-ROBERT MITCHELL, of
Gibson county.
county.
TREAsURER OF SrArE-ROGER r. SHIEL, of
Marion county.
NEY-GENERAL-WILLIAM G. WILSON, of
Tippecanoe county.
JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. FIFTH DISTRICT
EDWIN p HAMMOND, of Jasper county.
REPORTER SUPREME COURT-WILLIAM NJ.
H0GGATNT of Warrick county.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC Instruction
BARNABAS G. HOBBS of Parke county.
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THE POLITICAL CALENDAR.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.


National Ticket.
PREs1DENT-JAAIES G. BLAINE, of Maine.
IcE-PREsIDENT-JOHN A. LOGAN, of Illinois.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
State at large-NIilo s. Hascal of ElkhartA John NJ.
Butler. of Marion
First District-,James c. Veatch. of Spencer
Second-William B. Roberts, of Sullivan
Thrd-John G. Berkshire, of Jennings.
Fourth--William D. Ward, of Switzerland
Fifth-Marshall Hacker. of Bartholomew
Sxth-Josiah E. Meette, of Delaware.
Seventh-Thad. S. Rollins of Marion.
Eighth-Elias s. Holiday, of Clay
Ninth-James NJ. Reynolds, of Tippecanoe.
Tenth-Truman F. Palmer, of White.
Eleventh-James F. Elliott, of Howard.
Twelfth-Joseph D. Terrell of Lagrange.
Thirteenth-L. W. Royse. of Kosciusko
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Colonel GRAY as a Know-Nothine.

To the Editor OF the indianapolis journal.
If there is single indvidualin the State of In.
diana who has doubts as to Isaac P. Gray, the
Democratic candidate for Governor of that
State, ever having belonged to lodge of Native
Americans, or Know -nothings, to such would
say that several of our citizens have made ar
rangements to pay their expenses in case, after
said investigation, they are not fully satifed
that he did belong to said organization. Can
anything be fairerl G. D, NoRrHRoP.
New MADISON, o., Oct 20.
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THE CANDIDATES CoNTRAsTED.

Mr.. Blaine has what may be called the
American instinct.-GEo VIM. CURTIS in Harper's
Weekly, Nov. 5. 1881.
'I have no personal grievance with Gov.
Cleveland. 1 shall speak from the record,
and will ask to be Ostracized from all decent
society if I can not point to corruption stalk
ing straight to the door of the executive man
sion and knocking at the door and coming
out of the door, with all that corruption
sought at the expense of the people IF can
not prove that brides known to fail in the As
sembly in 1883 were placed near Mr..
Cleveland that If he does not have the money
he can get it at any time-ifI can not prove
that am not what L profess to be."-State>
Senator Grady before the Tammany Committee, Sept.
g. 1884.
ITS there any good reason why Hendricks
should be selected from forty-five millions of
people to be the possible head of Govern
ment which he did his best to destroy?'-GEo.
w. CURTIS IN 1875.
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SAID Aaron TO Moses,
Let's cut off our noses"

Aaron must have been a sufferer from catarrh
The desperation which catarrh produces is often
sufficient to make people say and do many rash
things, and many continue suffering just as II no
such cure as DR.. Sages Catarrh Remedy existed
It cures every case, from the simplest TO the
most complicated, and all the consequences Of
eatarrh person once cured by Dr. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy will not be apt to take cold again.
as it leaves the mucous membranes healthy GaaA
strong, By druggists,
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ton which has caused the erection of the numer
Gus cotton and wooden mills in the country, the
poor fellow of that period worked for 81 cents
day-and paid % cents yard for three yards of
unbleached factory cotton to make him a shirt,
requiring two days work-and that the poor
fellow of to-day only gets one dollar day and
gets factory cotton at 13 cents per yard, and
for two days work gets twenty four yards.
A. H. DUNIHUE
BEDFORD, Ind Oct. 90, 1884
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The Democratic Idea.

South Bend Register.
Lady Catherine Gaskell in an English maya
zine says the wives and daughters of farmers
should not be educated. If kept in ignorance
they would submit to many privations and
would not grumble at humble fare, coarse cloth
ing, hard work and long hours. This represents
the Democratic 'idee" for the United States.
Free trade, no free schools, low wages hard
work and long hours.
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THE LIBEL ON MRS. BLAINE.

1t 1.-THE libel on Mrs. Blanel is the basest and
foulest job of scoundrelism that ever found its
way into an American canVass.-Louisville
Courier-J Journal
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Three children Fatally Burned.

QUEBEC. Oct. 2l.-A farmer at St. Jacobin left
four children in house while he went to field this
morning. The eldest, aged eleven, placed flask of
The stove was blown into fragments and the house
set on FIRE Three of the children rescued in a
dying condition, the fourth may recover.
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PEOPLE will not be 50 very foolish that they
will allow themselves TO be deceived with a new
cough syrup when they have experienced the
value of DR. Bulls Cough Syrup for many years.
Price, % cents
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FROM 1926 TO 1886.

farmer who came to this town (Bedford)
any year from 1927 to 1886 with wagon load of
produce to exchange for goods, and the price he
received for it, will be found in the statement
below. the prevailing prices throughout this
country. The prices of the goods he received in
payment we're the regular retail prices of the
period, and which continued without material
change, either for goods or produce, for eight or
ten succeeding years. The produce he brought
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81 killed Print Matthews. told him not
to vote, and he voted and killed MIN. 1t was
not me that killed hint was the party IF
had not been a Democrat L would not have
killed him. 1t was not me, but the Democratic
party; and now if the party is a mind to throw
me off, d-n such party.-E. B. WHEELER of
Hazlehurst Miss afterwards elected Marshal by the
Democratic party.
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have carefully observed the attitude and
movements of the Democratic party for twenty
wears. Inmy judsmentit has learned nothing
andfOrgOtten nothing. So far as lean perceive,
it is not only swayed by the same principles,
but, to large extent, guided by the same
men.-PREsIDENT CAPEN of Tufts College, Mass.
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TIE GOOD OLD DAYS
Some Facts as to Prices and Wages in the
Democratic Era of Free Trade
"Good Old Democratic Days."


Fowler Era.
The following prices were copied from an Old
day book in the possession of J. w. Scott, of
Ambia, where it can be seen by anyone. The
book was used by his father, who ran a general
store at Yorktown, Delaware county Ind, in
the years 1887, '3S and 49, during VanBuren's adj
ministration under what the Democrats of that
day called a tariff for revenue which was sim
liar to their present doctrine of revenue ex
clusively." To enable those who have not given
the subject any study to see at a glance the
difference between the two systems have ap-
pended the present prices also:
Jesse Turner, Dr. Oct 81, 1887
Present price, cents per lb-$1.52.
Rob- Gordon, DIR. Mar. 81 1888
Present price, 20 cents.
John Lonely, DIR. Mar. IA, 1888.
To u gall linseed oil. ST. 90
Present price, 50 cents.
Jos. Shepherd, DIR. April 60 1888
To y yards blue cloth. BIZ 49,
Present price, 1888.
Geo. wOstOn, DR.. May %, 1898
To ii lbs. bar iron 12l2c per lb..-.......-.$ LIS
Present price, &c per lb-2S cents.
B. Bartlett DIR. Dec Is 1898
Present price. SOC yard-$1.5O
g. b. Norris DR.. Dec %, 1898.
To 141 lbs. salt, 412c per ID So 81
Present price, l9c per lb.-71 cents
Israel Shepherd, DIR. April 81 1899
~ yds calico, SO 1-3c per yard. 90
Present price, 7e per yard "a cents.
yards calico, 25c per yard. LOO
Present price, 5c-20 cents.
2 yards bleached muslin, 81 l2c-. 20
Present price, 14c-29 cents.
ysrd-wide bleached shrting .----........ 11212
Present price, per yard, 81 cents.
Sl2 yards jeans, 81 81 ..------..-..... 4.S1
Present price, 50c-$1.75.
We find but one thing to indicate that those
were good old Democratic days That is the
following charge:
W. MeSherry DIR. March 16, 1888.
To 70 gall. French brandy. ....--.--.-...-----50c
p Id tobacco. 2l2c
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Free-Trade Emoluments.

Free-Trade EmOluments.
Knightstown Banner.
In England blacksmiths get S. per week,
butchers So, eoopers 81, printers 81 20, saddlers
IS, shoemakers 81. 70, tinsmiths $40
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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

We are confronted with the Democratic
party, very hungry, and, you may well be-
lieve, very thirsty; party without a single
definite principles; a party without any dis
tinct national policy which it dares present to
the country; a party which fell from power as
conspiracy against human rights and now
attempts to sneak back to power as con-
spiracy for plumber and spOiIs.-GEo VIM
CURTIS June B, 1884.
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'In the contest In Congress last winter
he Borrower Cleveland stood with Carlisle
and Morrison and against Randall. 1t is
within my personal knowledge that he
wrote letters to New York members
of Congress urging them to vote with Mr..
Morrison, both on the question of consider
alton and on the motion to strike out the
enacting clause of the Morrison BILL At least
one vote and perhaps more were gained for
the bill by these letters."-Letter of Henry l..
Nelson clerk to Speaker Carlisle.
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The PRICES that Prevailed Fifty years Ago.

To the Editor of She indianapolis Journal:
Preliminary to the statements l send you 1
have only to say that have been engaged in
the retail dry goods trade continuously for fifty
eight years, and during that time have purchased
and sold nearly every description of goods re-
qured by the people of town or country, includ
ing dry goods, hardware, crockery, iron, nails,
groceries, ETC. When first employed clerk,
ffty-eight years ago, ree-fourths of all the
goods we sold, taking the whole stock through,
were imported from Europe. The wholesale
prices of goods at that time continued without
material change for ten years or more. 1 ap-
pend the wholesale prices then and now of some
of the leading goods that are consumed in nearly
every family. The prices are from old bills of
nurchasa.
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Four thousand unemployed workmen in
Glasgow, Scotland, held public meeting the
other day. They did not pass free trade reso-
buttons They have too much of that over there
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The prices of the produceand the goods he buys
are at the current prices, at present and that
have prevailed for several years past, as is
known to all consumers of the articles named.
1t will be seen that our granger Of 1884 has left
his old friend of fifty years ago far in the rear
in the trade gets the same amount of goods for
his truck, and has $35. IS left, on which he can
take big splurge if so disposed. If you step
into dry goods store to-day, that contains
thousands of dollars worth of stock and ask the
proprietor what proportion of his goods are for
eign, and what of domestic manufacture, he
will tell you that at least 90 per cent. of them
are made in the United States. The only ex-
eeption will be in the larger towns and cities, in
stores where the finest goods are sold to the
wealthy classes. Even in such stores at least
one-half is of domestic manufacture
If you make inquiry of the hardware mer-
chant of your city he will tell you that at least
90 per cent Of his goods are made in this coun-
try. lie will tell you also that they are better,
and if anything cheaper than the goods that for
merly came from Europe, and also, if he has
been in business for forty years, that at that
time 80 per cent. was imported. If you ask the
retail dealer in crockery and glassware he will
tell you that large portion of his goods We're
made in this country, and the prices are less
than ever before, especially in glassware. If
you ask a German mechanic or laborer if he
gets higher wages in this than in the old country
he will tell you he gets more than twice as much
here and that his living is as cheap or cheaper
If you ask Frenchman, you will have the same
reply as from the German
The hearts of many free traders are breaking
N their sympathy for the poor laboring man
They forget to tell him that before the protec-
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DDS he received in payment, and prices,

We will now compare the price the farmer
now gets for his produce and the price he pays
for his goods per the statement below, being
precisely the same kind in quantity and quality
or fifty years ago. Wecan then, by comparison,
tell what kind of everlasting ruin and destruc-
ton this terrible protection tariff has brought
upon him and the country
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DEMOCRACY FOR FREE TRADE.

The Democrats have discovered that the
people want free trade, and it is on just that
issue that they going to win the election
in Indiana.-Indianapols Sentinel Sept. 6.
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Democratic success means a radical revision
of the tariff or IL has meaning at all.
The history of the party would force re-
vision, even if the leaders were reluctant.
Louisville Courier Journal
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An Old Mans Experience.

BEDFORD, Ind, Oct. 90, 1884.
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of Illinois, will speak as follows;
Milroy Thursday, Oct. %, night.
knightstown Friday, Oct, "a, night.
Cambridge City, Saturday, Oct D. night.
Muncie Monday, Oct. 81, night.
Alexandria, Tuesday Oct % afternoon.
Manchester, Wednesday, Oct. 20. afternoon.
Columbia City, Thursday, Oct. 30 night.
Butler, Friday Oct 81 afternoon.
Waterloo, Saturday, Nov. 1, afternoon.
Lagrange, Monday, Nov. 3, afternoon
HON. J. O. Chiffon,
Of Michigan will speak as follows:
Lawrence county, Oct. 81, %, 20.
HON. A. J.. MORRISON,
OF New Mexico, will speak as follows;
Anderson Friday, Oct. "a night.
Fort Wayne, Saturday Oct. %, night.
HON. ELIAS S. HOLIDAY,
Candidate for presidential eector, will speak fol
lows:
Hsboro, Wednesday, Oct % night.
Newtown, Thursday, Oct. %, night.
Gebinss school house Friday Oct, "a night
Msrshteld, Saturday Oct. %, night
GEN. MILO s. HAsCALL,
Candidate for presidential eector at large will speak
as follows:
Greencastle Wednesday, Oct. %, night.
Iippecanoe county, Thursday. Oct %, night
Logansport' Friday Oct. %, night
HON. WILLIAM B. ROBERTS
Candidate for presidential elector will speak as fol
lows:
Princeton, Wednesday, Oct. % night.
Huntngburg Thursday Oct % night.
French Lick Friday, Oct. "a, afternoon.
Shoals, Saturday, Oct. 25, afternoon.
Worthington Monday, Oct 27, night.
Springville Tuesday, Oct % night.
Mountain Springs, Wednesday, Oct. % night.
Bedford Thursday, Oct. 80, night.
Washington, Friday, Oct 81, night.
Bloomfield, Saturday, Nov. l, night
Sullivan Monday, Nov. 3, night.
HON, TRUMAN F. PALMER
Caddate for presidential elector will speak as follows
Pulaski county, Wednesday, Oct. %.
Pulaski county, Thursday, Oct. 23.
HON. JAMES G. vEATCH.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-28

Premature Loss of the Hair
May be entirely prevented by the use of
BURNRTT's COCAINE
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THE DYING DOLPHIN's BEAUTY
Exquisite TInts that Give Place, Hue by
Hue, Soon After the Fish is Caught.

Exquisite Tints that Give Place, Hue by
Hue, Soon After the Fish is Caught.
John T. Birge, formerly of this city and
who accompanied party of Trojans on
fishing excursion at Fire Island Beach,
saws the Troy N. " Times, says in
a letter to a friend in this city: 'But to-
night we still hold the BAN
ner as the champion fishers of Fire
Island, having caught to-day, about seven
miles from the lighthouse. a dolphin
weighing between fourteen and fifteen
pounds, the first one that has been caught
here by any boat IN five years. We had
brOiled for supper and sent around to the
tables where we had acquaintance. 1t
is a rather dry fish, by no means equal in
flavor to a Spanish mackerel, but very
good eating. Now, l am going to tell you
how we caught it, and though a fish story
it is literally true. Harry II. b. Dauchy J
had the outrigger and had omitted to
fasten the stick. The line is wound on so
the loop in the end of the pole was all that
held it. Suddenly came big strike
bending the pole so the loop slipped off
and away went fish and tackle. A gen.
eral shout and dismay-when in an in
slant Mrs. Dauchy, who had the inside
line on the same side Of the boat, said: i
have a fish, We let the boat come to and
began pulling in. Lo! and behold-her
squid had caught the stick of Harry's
tackle and she had saved both tackle and
fish. Joel pulled him alongside Of the
boat and landed him with a gaff-hoOk.
Talk of beautiful colors! The dying
dolphin is no vision Of the poets fancy.
In the water an exquisite blue, moment
after coming out rich gold color with
black spots, then in another moment
turning to silver with blue spots; then
blue with purple spots, and finally to a
perfect mother-of-pearl with blue spots,
the great back i'm being an exquisite pea
cock blue"
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Mrs. NIorriII and Mrs. BIain,


Mrs. Blaine gave fine entertainments in
Washington and had money to lavish in all
directions, but Mrs. Morrill, and her hus-
band had nothing but his salary and they
could not afford to entertain like the
Blaines. One day Mrs. Blaine was so
indiscreet as to say to Mrs. Morrill, while
they were both at Washington: ''Why
don't you take a fine house like l have
and do some entertainingp That made
Mrs. Morrill, very angry. She went home
and said to her husband: "Why don't
you steal?' He was shocked almost be-
yond expression, but managed to ask her
what on earth she meant. ''Imean this"
she said; ''to-day Mrs. Blaine asked me
why we don't take house and entertain
like she has done. l now repeat, why
don't you steal?'' Mr.. Morrill, had no
difficulty in knowing what that meant,
and from that day until this Mrs. Morrill,
and Mrs. Blaine have not spoken to each
other.
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THE BEASTS OF THE soUDAN.
One-sided Warfare Long Carried On in
the MahdPs Country.

One-Sided Warfare Long Carried On in
the Mahdi's Country.
The demand for animals for exhibition
in Europe and in civilized America, says
the London Times, has armed enterpris-
ing hunters with net and trap, and send
them far into the wilds of unexplored
Africa. The Soudan, part of that con-
tinent to which attention and even anx-
iety are now directed, has long been a
hunting-ground for the providers of the
great dealers like Mr.. JamrOch, whose re-
pOsitory at East-end London has been so
frequently described. The difficulty of
catching some of the ANIMALS is very
great. A hippopotamus, for instance,
may be Melted; but he is very big ''fish"
to land safe and well, to send over hun
dreds of miles Of SOudan tracks, to ship
sound and in good condition, and to land
at a European port after a sea voyage.
The cost Of such an undertaking is very
great and not unfrequently is incurred in
vain. Delicate animals torn from the
steaming swamps and reedy thickets in
which they delight are very apt, after all
the pains and risk of capturing them, to
die upon their enslavers' hands.
Perhaps the king of beasts is as hardy
as any of his subjects. At least he suffers
less in captivity than the majority of
them, if we may accept as proof the fire.
quent leOnine families which Bring re-
jOicing to the Geological Gardens Of Lon
don and Dublin. So keen is the pursuit
of genuine wild beasts in the SOudan and
the regions adjoining that Within very
few years travellers have noted a remark
ably falling of in big game. Between
the sportsmen who go fully equipped for
slaughter from this and other countries,
the natives, now better armed than
formerly, and the snarers who seek live
specimens for Mr.. Jamroch and his
brethren, the monarchs of desert and
forest are having a hard time of it just
now, and have little to thank steam for
in bringing the white man into the heart
of their Businesses,
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AERIAL NAVIGATION.
Details of the Successful Experiments
I'm France

Details of the Successful Experiments
in France.
We have received from Paris, says the
Boston Advertiser, the official iourr ais Of
Sept. 1 and of Aug. 26, which contain
the full reports Of the successful naviga-
ton of balloon by NM. Renard and
Krebs, engineers in the French army.
The experiment is all the more interest
Ing that it is made at the charge of the
French Government, by its direction.
The machinery was built at its military
workshops at Chalais. The formal re-
port is laid before the Academy Of
Sciences, which, as the report says, gave
it the hOnors Of the occasion. The full
report says:
The ascent was made on Aug. at 5
O'Clock in the afternoon, in an aerostat Of
of an elongated form, having a screw and
helm. by NJ. Renard, captain of engineers
and directors Of the establishment, and
NJ. Krebs, captain Of infantry, who has
for six years been his collaboration.
After having travelled a total distance of
10 kilom., performed in % minutes, the
balloon was made to return TO its point of
departure, after having executed series
of maneuvres which may be compared
to those Of a screw steamer at sea.
The solution to this problem, previously
tried in 1855 by NJ. Henri Gitfard, who
made use of steam; in 1872 by NJ. Dupuy
de LONE, who utilized the muscular
strength Of men, and finally last year by
NJ. Tissaudier, who was the first to apply
electricity, has hitherto been very i'm
perfect, since, in no case, has the aerostat
been brought back to its point of depar-
ture. We have been guided in our labors
by the studies of NJ. Dupuy de LONE, re-
latiye to the construction of his aerostat
of 1S10-72.