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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-25
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
CONNECTIONS.

CONNECTIONS.
Trains No and 3 ma Ike connection at Day
tona with steamer leaving 7:sD "A. IN. following
morning for Port Orange. New smyrna. Titus
vile and Kockledge.
Trains No = and make close connection N
Roileston with ferry for jacksonville and IT
Augustine. also with steamers for points ON st
Johns and Ucklawaha Rivers
L.. J. WHITE W H. PISGREE.
Pres q. p A.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-25

ST. JOHNS l. HALIFAX
t"THE wHITE"D
RAILROAD.
For Ormond, DaytOna.
New Smyrna, ROckledge.
No. I. No J.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
A Novel Complaint.

Senator Sherman makes an objection
to Democratic administration which,
we think, is entirely original.
He says that the Democrats are too
economical, and have not proper
willingness to spend the public money.
To this lamentable disposition he at
tributes all our ills. But for that there
would not be surplus. If the Blair
bill, and the Hennepin Canal bill, and
the Fertilization bill, and the Depend
ent Pension bill had become laws, there
would be no money in the Treasury,
the high taxes might continue, and the
country would be happy.
Senator Sherman is one of those
statesmen who think the national pros
perity and the peoples happiness are
best secured by heavy taxes and large
expenditures.
We have never been able to under
stand the bitterness of feeling which
Republicans generally manifested
against Democrats and against Demo-
cratic methods and principles.
Senator Sherman discloses the source
of that animosity. Generous minded
Republicans don't like the stingy Demo-
Gratis who are not anxious to spend 9TH
er peoples money and are not willing
that other people should spend their
money.
1t is a great pity that Democrats are
sc, stubborn and narrow. How happy
they would be it they were only CON
tent to let ample-minded and large
handed statesmen like Sherman, Blaine
and Blair have all their earnings to
spend upon great and beneficent enter
prises! But we say, in all seriousness,
that Democratic cussedness is likely to
last. 1t began at an early day. 1t led
the Pilagrims to Plymouth, the Catho-
lies to Maryland and the Dutchmen to
the Hudson. 1t beheaded King Charles,
and made war upon King George.
AS soon as the government was estab-
lished, this obstinate spirit showed
itself. Jefferson was full of it, and i'm
Jackson it was powerful strong.
Strange to say, the American people
have always liked it. A man who in
public life showed that he was gov
erned by it, has generally stood well
with the plain workingmen who gov
ern this country.
We admit that this is rather hard on
the men OF generous natures and large
ideas. 1t is sad to see the effusive gen
erosity of our Republican friends con-
fined in the riged channel of Demo-
cratic simplicity and economy. But
that is spectacle to which we are all
accustomed, and, strange to say, we
find a certain pleasure in it. We do
not think Senator John Sherman will
win many votes by proving that Demo-
Gratis are too economically Y Star.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
Ii Worries Elm.

The trouble with the Republicans is
that they have never intended to keep
the promise made in 1884 'to correct
the irregularities of the tariff and to re-
duce the surplus"
And they have hoped that the Demo-
Gratis were equally insincere in the
pledges they made at the same time.
Now that they find the Democratic
party is in ERNEST they are greatly
alarmed. A few alleged Democrats in
Congress have sympathized with the
Republican desire that the Democratic
party should be false to its principles.
With the help of these the Republicans
have expected to defeat the will of the
people.
But they know the President means
what he says. There is no equivoca-
tion or double meaning in his utteran-
ces. The declaration of the Democratic
platform that unnecessary taxation
is unjust taxation" and that the Demo-
cratic party is pledged to revise the tar
iff in spirit of fairness to all interests, y
is accepted by him as pledge which it
is his duty to see fulfilled. And he will
do his duty in that as in everything
elseand that's what worries 'em.--
New York Star.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
Still After the Farmer.

The ''grocery racket" of which our readers
have heen informed in the past, is again be-
gin played on the farmers in some parts of
the State. The Chillicothe press has exposed
three agents of that character who have been
working portions of Ross county, and in
one instance farmer paid sixty-fve dollars
for bill of goods which would have cost
him but fifty dollars had he purchased
the same of his regular grocer. This is
merely an example of numerous cases where
in farmers are swindled by that class of
sharks. As we have rep eatedly asserted,
groceries as we'll as all other staples of life,
can be purchased more cheaply of hom e
dealers, and it is one of the duties of citizen
ship to support the men who help support
our towns and county. At best there is a
narrow margin for the retail dealer in
groceries, and no bills should be more cheer
fully paid than grocery bills.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
Don,t Tell the RInIneItes.

Mr.. Blaine will be opposed by many of the
most powerful Republican newspapers in
the country. The Boston Herald does not
want him. The Philadelphia Press is against
him. The Springfield Republican repudiates
him. The New York Times will fight him
first, last and all the time. Harper Weekly
will caricature him with the same relentless
bitterness as before. The Chicago Tribute
will attack him with all Joe Medill's power
full battery. The st. Louis Globe Democrat
will oppose him in the Southwest. The St.
Paul Pioneer Press will swing the Northwest
out of line for him. With these forces
against him it seems hardly possible that
Mr.. Blaine can get the nomination, and if he
is nominated, with such forces against him,
is is impossible to elect him. But hist!
Sh-h-hl Let them nominate him.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
A Nut for Lawyers.

A subscriber of the Wood county
Sentinel proposes the following conundrums
in regard to the oil regions, all of which viii
equally interest the people of this county:
John Smith owns so acres of valuable gas
or oil land. 1t is timber land and was valu-
ed in 1880 at $1,000. AS timber land only, its
valuation in 1890 would not exceed $500.
tbs now worth, by reason of the develop
ment of gas and oil in that vicinity, $4,000.
John Smith year ago leased this land for
one-eighth royalty of oil and 800 for each
gas well. The company has done nothing
except pay an agreed rental of 81 per acre, or
$50 per annum. Suppose the real estate
assessor in 1890 appraises Johns land at
three-fourths its selling value, or say SIS, 900,
who pays the taxes, the owner of the lease or
the owner of the land? If the owner of the
land, how much has John Smith made by
the transaction, if his taxes are increased ten
fold?
Or, suppose in the meantime the company
drills in several paying oil wells; will the
assessor add their value to the land, or con-
slider them the personal property of the
lessees? Or will the product of these wells
only be taxed?
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
CROP ESTI MATES,
Figures of Interest to Farmers and
Perhaps Others.

Perhaps Others.
WASHINGTON, Jan. THE estimates
of acreage, product and value of corn,
wheat and oats for each State and
Territory, has been prepared for puhIi-
cation by the Statistician of the De-
partment of Agriculture. The area of
corn harvested, excluding abandoned
or worthless acreage, is 72,0O0,O00 acres
in round numbers; product, 1856, ,OOO,-
600 bushels; value, $646, 900, 900.
Area of wheat, 81 100000 acres; pro-
duct, 456, ,0OO,O 900; value, $500 600, 600.
Area in oats, nearly 26,OOO, 900 acres;
product, $50, 100000; value, $500, 600. 600,
The reports of winter wheat do not
show much decrease of area. In Texas
there is considerable increase and
slight increase in some other States.-
The average decline appears to be be-
tween one and two per cent. In Ken
tucky, 81; Ohio, 80; Michigan, 9s; In
diana, 100; Illinois, 9S; Missouri, 80:
Kansas, 9S. The condition is affected
somewhat by the dryness of the seed
bed in the district that suffered from
drought, delaying seeding, germina-
tion and growth. The late rains great
ly improved the situation.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

~ Dialogue between Jim Blaine, the Re.
publican standard bearer for the Presidency
in 1885, and a poor sewing woman: "Blaine
The luxury of one day is the necessity of
the next. Let the laborer have his chew of
tobacco and cigar at the lowest price,"
"Sewing woman-But what about the tax on
my needle and thread, and (shivering with
cold in her thin cotton shawD why can't I
have an untaxed woolen shawl?" (Hang the
Harpsters and Delanos for their greediness.) }
"Blaine-Don't mention the matter, my
good woman. You must be protected
against the pauper labor of Europe"
Taxation" according to Senator Sherman,
"enriches the taxed" Take ''chaw."
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

Gg' sold Hickory" on the perils of sur
plus and the collection of q greater revenue
than is needed for the legitimate expense of
the Government: 'Do not allow yourselves,
my ow-citizens, to be misled on this SUBJ
ject," said Andrew Jackson in his farewell
address. "The federal Government can not
collecta surplus for such purpose without
violating the principles of the constitution
and assuming powers which have not been
granted. 1t is, moreover, a system of in
justice, and if persisted in will inevitably
lead to corruption, and must end in ruin
The surplus revenue will be drawn from the
pockets of the people-from the farmer, the
mechanic, and the laboring classes of society;
but who will receive it when distributed
among the States, where it is to bo disposed
of by leading politicians who have friends to
favor and political partisans to crafty? 1t
will certainly not be returned to those who
paid it and who have most need of it and are
honestly entitled to it, There is but one safe
rule, and that is to confne the general gov
ernment rigidly within the sphere of its ap-
propriate duties. 1t has no power to raise
revenue or impose taxes except for the pur
poses enumerated in the constitution; and if
its income is found to exceed these wants it
should be forthwith reduced, and the burdens
of the people so far lightened." The sur
plus revenue for the present fiscal year will
reach $140oo0,o0o. This is altogether too
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

~ An exchange remarks that the boy is
now living who will be President of the
United States in 1910. 1t would be little
interesting to know where that boy lives, and
his present status-whether he is city boy,
or lives in the back woods; whether he is a
studious boy, or plays ''hooky." 1t may be
that he is so unruly he is put to bed nearly
every night without his supper, and perhaps
goes to bed with dirty feet and unkempt
hair, and with the ''sap" running from his
nosey posey from the fogging received as he
climbs into his couch. Does his mother
know that he will yet be President, and that
the nations eye will be upon him as "Hail to
the Chief' resounds in his honor? Even
now, as we write, that blessed boy may be in
some back alley trying to tie two cats to-
gether by the tails to see them fight.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
Legal Notice.

JAMES NJ. GREEN and Mary Green. whose
~ places OF residence are unknown, will take no.
nce that James P. Ragan, administrator Of the es
December, 1887, filed his petition in the Probate
Court OF Henry county, Ohio alleging that the per.
sonal estate OF said decedent is insufficient to Ia
her debts and the charges Of administering her es
low ng described real estate. to-wit: Lots number
eighteen tiS) and nineteen (S) In Susan s. J. Row
an 8 addition to the town of Napole IN In Henry
county, Ohio, known as the Fair Ground addition
to said town OF Nauoleon, and that said premises
are appraised at $50.
The prayer of the petition is for sale of said
premises for the payment of the debts and charges
aforesaid.
The persons first above mentioned will further
take notice that they have been made parties de-
fendant to said petion and that they are required
70 answer the same on or before the 4h day of Feb
ruary, 1888. JAMES P. Raglan.
Administrator, as aforesaid.
Napoleon, o., Dec. Is, 1887. 6l So 50
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

a Eighty-seven years ago the property
in Ohio was assessed at $4,000, in round
numb ers. In 1903, when the State was ad-
mltted, it was $4,000 dollars. In 1887, "a,
100000 dollars, or more than three times
that of 1860. Prior to 1926 funds for county
purposes were derived from poll tax and a
tax upon horses, mules and cattle, to which
was added by the Legislature from one-halt
to one-ffth of the taxes on real estate. By
law taxes on land and buildings went for
State purposes. An act took effect March l.,
1926, placing all property ON the grand tax
duplicate. In 1916 the present law went into
effect, with the exception of the dog tax.
This am ounted last years to 2O2, TIP dollars.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
Strange StranDulntinn.

IAlgona Qa } Spec. to Chicago Inter Ocean,.
On January 1st the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Palmer, of this
place, died from strangulation. She
had been great sufferer for some time
previous to her death. A post.mortem
examination has just been concluded.
1t was found that projection, start
ing from the spinal column, back of
the thorax, growing forward until it
came in contact with the windpipe,
gradually closed it until death finally
ensued. 1t is the first case of the kind
on record, and puzzles the medical fra
ternity of Algona.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
A,Candid AcknowIedement.

Extract from letter OF Dr. d. W. Atkinson,
Sloan Springs, 4 rk.l
"l know that many physicians are
very much prejudiced against all pro-
prietary medicines, and I think some-
times foOlishly so. / am, however,
willing to acknowledge merit wherever
1t is deserved. | have prescribed Sim
mons Liver Regulator, and have given
1t a pretty thorough trial myself, and
think 1t deserves all the praise it re-
ceives. Ihave watched its use for the
last five years and do not know of a
more popular medicine. My patients
praise it very highly and it gives good
results wherever it is used"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

The Tariff Reform League held .an
interesting meeting in Boston last Fri
day, at which there were present o
large number of prominent men,
Among those who made addresses was
James Russell Lowell, who among other
matters said:
zone certainty of the reasons that
chiefly suggested the opportuneness of
our coming together here has been the
Presidents message at the opening of
the present Congress. Personally I
confess that leel myself strongly at
tracted to Mr.. Cleveland as the best
representative of higher type of Ameri-
canism than we have seen since Lin
coin was snatched from us. But we
are not here to felicitate each other
that the presidential chair has a man
in it, and this means that every word
he says is weighed with what he is
We are here to felicitate each other
that this man understands politics to
mean business, not chicanery; that he
has the courage to tell the truth to the
country without regard to personal or
party consequences, and thus to re-
mind us that country not worth tell.
ing the truth to is not worth living in.
nay, deserves to have lies told it, and
to take the inevitable consequences in
calamity. The President has set the
example not only of courage, but of
good sense and moderation. He has
kept strictly 10 his text, and in thus
limiting the field of his warning, he
has done wisely, and we shall do wisely
in following his example. His facts
and mis- figures will work all the more
eftectually. But we must be patient
with them and expect them to work
slowly. Enormous interests are in
volved and must be treated tenderly.n
The sentiments expressed in the fore
going will most assuredly find response
in the minds of hosts of the citizens of
this country. There are no persons
who desire to injure single man or
business, in the reform of the tariff.
but the time has come when some-
thing must be done, or absolute ruin
will follow. Sixty millions of people
are paying tribute to sixty thousand
monopolists in war tariff taxes upon the
necessaries of life. Now it is by far
better that the sixty thousand be shorn
of portion of their enormous profits,
than that the sixty millions be robbed
oftheir substance to be piled up in the
vaults of the United States Treasury.
A few New Workers are paying 1915
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

s8T Wanted. Immediately. a candidate for
the Presidency. To beat Cleveland, it is
necessary to carry New York. New York
goods are, therefore, in demand. The ap-
plicant must conciliate Oonkling and placate
Blaine. Conscience, consis tency and politi-
cal principles are of no consequence-Sarrels
alone are needed. If the applicant is with
out public record, so much the better. No
man of letters need apply. See managers of
G. o. P. Immediately, and make qualifca-
tions known.-E. Y. Star.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

20" The New York Sun gets off editorially
the following on Foraker's inaugural ad-
dress:
''There was no perceptible tremor OF the
earth. The Alleghenies and the Rockies
dozed in their cloudy skull caps. The great
innumerable- -grinning sea was as nervous as
ever. The skies had their wonted stony
British stare. Niagara continued to tumble
and the great prairies of the immeasurable
West stretched and rolled. Nothing in ma
ture's aspect indicated that great man had
fired off his multijaw gun"
"Yet Fire Alarm Foraker spoke piece at
Columbus"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
BOiIs and CarbunCIes,

which defy ordinary treatment, yield to
Ayers SarsaparilIa after comparative
ly brief trial. 49, :,
Mr.. G. X. Murray, of Charlottesville,
Va, writes that for years he was af-
flicted with boils which caused him
much suffering. These were succeeded
by carbuncles, of which he had several
at one time. He then began the use Of
Ayers Sarsaparilla, and after taking
three bottles, the carbuncles disap-
peared, and for six years he has not had
even pimple.
That insidious disease, Scrofula, is
the fruitful cause of innumerable com.
plants, Consumption being only one Of
many equally fatal. Eruptions, Ulcers,
sore eyes, glandular swellings, weak
and wasted muscles, a capricious appe-
tite, and the like, are pretty sure indi-
cations of a scrofulous taint in the
system. Many otherwise beautiful faces
are disfgured by pimples, eruptions,
and unsightly blotches, which arise
from impure blood, showing the need Of
Ayers Sarsaparilla to remedy the evil.
All sufferers from blood disorders
should give Ayers Sarsaparilla fair
trial, avoiding all powders, ointments,
and washes, and especially cheap and
worthless compounds, which not only
fail to effect cure, but more frequently
aggravate and confirm the diseases they
are fraudulently advertised to remedy.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
Rivers ofon.
I Bow Ing Green Gazette

On Monday afternoon an 800 barrel
oil tank at the big Campbell oil well
suddenly bursted, flooding everything
in the vicinity with the greasy fluid.
Three men were constructing small
gas tank on a derrick about eighteen
feet high and were working only a few
feet from the oil tank. The rushing
Gil swept away their support as IL 1t
had been n reed and down all went.
They were pulled out by Others who
saw the accident and although nearly
drowned were not otherwise injured.
The oil is standing two and three feet
deep all around the well.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

"a The question whether the wheat Of
Manitoba can be transported through Hud-
sons Bay direct to Liverpool is of serious
moment to this country aswell as to Canada.
On this subject, in the American Magazine
for February, ]. Macdonald 01ley will throw
whatever light recent exploring expeditions
can afford, aided By illustrations and details
of existence in a region where mercury
freezes solid
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

~ "Ramblings in the Far West" by the
late General Randolph B. Marcy, and "On
the Outposts-17e0," by Edmund Kirke, in
Harper's Magazine for February, seem to be
preparatory articles to Mr.. Charles Dudley
Warmers series on 'The Great West" to
begin in the March number. General
Marcy's experiences are tales of adventure
most captivating to read, and hard to be-
lieve when one glances at the cities and
towns which dot the vast stretches of coun-
try that few years ago we're boundless
p rairies or bowling wildernesses.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

President Cleveland has declined an
Invitation Of Edwin Booth and Law
renee Barrett to attend their perform
ance at Baltimore. Since Wilks Booth,
brother of Edwin, assassinated Presi-
dent Lincoln. the tragedian Booth has
never entered Washington, his nearest
being Baltimore, where
crowds of Washingtonians go on special
trains to see him. He fears that some
of the army of cranks might have an
impulse to assassinate him.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

lg- All this Pow-vow about cleveland's
message pleasing the British is the veriesi
bosh and quin;eSsence of nonsense. Lord
0verstOne said: When the United States
removes her potective tariff. il that ever
shall be, it will be sad day for England. 1t
will then be only a matter of time when
America and not England will be mistress Of
tie aeas
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

ty- The House Committee on Military
Affairs on the 11th, unanimously reported
favorabIy on Boutelle's resolution of inquiry
relative to the Presidents order for the dis
tributation of Confederate flags, and the
subsequent action. Democrats all voted for
the resolution, as its understood the flags
which were distributed under the order all
vent to the Northern States.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

"a In looking about for county paper
for the year 1888, discriminating people
should not forget that the NORTHWEST is the
only Democratic English newspaper in Henry
county. 1t publishes all the news of the
county, neighborhood, state and nation and
is recognized and conceded to be a model
country newspaper,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
No Universal Remedy

has yet been discovered but, as at least
four-fifths of human diseases have their
source in Impure Blood, a medicine
which restores that fluid from a de-
praved to healthy condition comes as
near being universal cure as any that
can be produced. Ayers Sarsaparilla
affects the blood in each stage OF its
formation, and is, therefore, adapted to
a greater variety of complaints than any
other known medicine,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

A note picked mp in a rural post
office in Tennessee, read: "Dear -:
The reason didn't laff when you laft
at me in the postOffis yesterday was be-
cause had bile on my face and can't
lafK II | laff she'll bust. But love
you, bile or no bile, laff or no laff."
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19

~ The kick of the nine Republican Sena-
tors should have sufficient backward force to
send the gentlemen into private life, there to
remain. says the Wilmington Journal, Rep.
Never mind, SO far as two of the kickers are
concerned, the two from this district, the
people will relegate them into private life
soon enough, kick or no kick.