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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
A Splendid Tribute.

Seth Lows tribute TO Cleveland, in
his splendid speech al the end OF last
week in New York, considering that
he spoke as Republican and pro-
tectionist, is at the least remarkable.
lie said:
"No one will dispute that tho Presi-
dents message Of last December made
the contest inevitable. They think
much more poorly of President Cleve-
land than the record justiiies, If there
be any such, who believe that he did
not foresee precisely this effect. There.
fore | count that measure as an act OF
Executive courage worthy to be com.
pared with the notification proclama.
tion of Andrew Jackson. II threat.
ened to divide the Presidents own
party, as did that. But IL appealed
with apatriot's confidence, to the sound
sense Of the American people ON .
question which the President believed
to be Of vital consequence. The in
tegrity Of the Nation Is not now al
stake, the supremacy of the Constitu
tion is not now the issue, but the wei
fare of the American people in all th,
manifold bearings of their industrial
life Is in the balance, and the President
as ] sec 1t, has calmly accepted th'
chances Of doubtful contest for thu
sake Of bringing the Nation face t.
face with danger which It must b.
made to recognize, with a problem
which 1t must solve"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
New York congressman SHIFT Politics.
Especial to Timcs-Dcmocrat.l

Especial to Timcs-Dcmocrat.1
New York, Oct 24.-Thc tariff issne
has singularly transferred Demo-
cratic congressman over into the Re-
publican party, and Republican con,
gresham into the Democratic party.
Both represented New York City dist
riots at Washington, and both are can
didates for reelection by voters who
were against them two years age.
They are Truman A. Mcrriman and
Ashbel p. Fitch. They are from the
very near evenly balanced eleventh
and thirteenth districts, and so their
shifts of politics will have fair test In
success or failure at the polls. Merri-
man was New York Sun reporter.
His election was especially triumph
Of the Press club, which doomed him
enthusiastically and elected him with
out other expenditure than eloquence
against man with ample capital. But
after thinking the Mills bill over care
fully Merriman concluded that he
would have to vote againstit, notwith-
standing that IL was party measure,
He fully understood that his action
threw him out of the Democratic
party, and he lost no time in securing
promise of nomination by the Re
publicans Of his district. lie will be
disappointed If he is not elected. Ash
bel +. Fitch was Republican of a
quarter of century's standing, but he
voted for the Mills bill against the
policy of his party in Congress, and
was promptly expelled by the Repub.
!ican organization in his district. The
Democrats have thereupon placed him
in nomination. In both these cases
there will be hot fight for principle
as well as men.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
Death or a Bonanza King.

James G.. Flood, the Nevada and
California Millionaire, died of Brights
disease at Carlsbad, Bohemia, on Thurs
day last. lie had been desperately i'll
at Heidelburg and during temporary
convalescencc had been removed to the
famous spa, where, soon after his arri-
val, he expired. His wife and daugh-
ter were with him, but his son was in
San Francisco. Mr.. Flood who was oi
Irish birth, went to California in 184g
aud began mining. In time he grew
rich, and became in 1867 a member of
the famous firm of bonanza kings, ol
which the other members were John
W. Mackay, James q. Fair and VII.
liam $. O'Brien. His fortune is esti
mated at $20,000,000, the larger part
due to the discovery by him of rich
ores to a great depth in the Comstock
lode, a fact which was not then suspect
ed. lie not long since built a palace
on Mob Hill, San Francisco, the cost OF
which has already run into millions
The interior fitting and furnishing Is
Of regal splcndor. His first attack OF
Bright's disease took place after the IA
nous Nevada bank wheat deal, and, n
spite Of the physicians advice, be per.
sisted IN remaining in California to put
his large estate In order. lie convert
"a m>zi ~ he Fortune irfc trrfds ~-'f
saiisd for-Enrope in the eprinG
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
BLAINE MAD.
NO states.l

Aud, now, on the heels again Of
HarrisOn's announced retirement from
the rhetorical field, comes this morn
ing the sensational news that Mr..
Blaine has got into a white heat of
passion over a remark simple and
easily intelligible campaign remark
made by Governor Hill in HIS recent
visit to Indiana. The Governor had
said that, though Mr.. Blaine was so
great professed admirer of home
made American goeds and so pro-
nsunced an antagonist of the supplant-
ing of the American by foreign labor,
yet the Maine tourist had SO far for
gotten his American professions as to
bring home with HIM from the other
side thirty-three trunks filled with the
choice product of European workman
ship.
Now 1t will strike most people that,
although there was exaggeration in
Gov. Hills estimate of the exact num-
Der of trunks, for Blaine assures us
that there were only twenty-five
trunks, and that the remaing eleven
were only bundles and packages of
such things as rugs, wraps, travelling
chairs, umbrella covers and the like
il will strike most people that the
campaign addition to the actual
amount Of the gentleman's luggage
was hardly sufficient in itself to ae-
count for this extraordinary ebuhtion
of temper in the usually imperturable
~Uncrowred King Charges of far
deadlier import have ON many an
occasion been made against him by
prominent speakers and writers on the
opposite side, and they have not even
to the outward view so far affected
him as to appear worthy of a simple
| denial.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
A Campaign Joke.


A Democratic orator in New York
had his audience composed of equal
numbers ofDemocrats and Republicans
arranged separately, rope dividing
them. He read carefully an extract
from one of the Presidents messages,
setting forth the necessity and desira-
bility of reducing the tariff and increas-
ing the free list, and concluded by ap-
pealing to all Democrats present who
believed that to be good advice and
given in the best interests Of the pce-
pie to raise their hands. Every Dem
ocratic hand was lifted. Now let the
Republicans who believe II Is good ad-
vice raise their hands. Three or four
sickly efforts were made, when discov-
ering themselves so nearly alone they
drew them quickly down. After a
moments pause the orator remarked,
Il forgot to say, fellow citizens, that Is
an extract from one Of the last messa-
ges Of Pres. G. A. Arthur The dis
may and modification among the
crowd Of Republicans, aud the exul-
innf yell Of the Democrats can be bet
tor ifuaoiued Thar 1r<crz'<eH
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
The Practical Limit Of speed.

The highest speed practically attain
able in daily service with passenger
trains has always been a point ON
which much discussion has been raised.
The recent race between London and
Edinburgh seems, however, to afford a
tolerably complete solution of the
problem. The official figures. giving
the actual time and load for each day
of the run, when analyzed, give the fol-
lowing average results for the London
and Northwestern route from Aug. s
to Aug. 81 inclusive. During this time
the schedule time was s hours for the
400 miles, and the train arrived In Ed
inburgh ahead of schedule time on 22
days and was 81 minutes late on one
day only, owing to hue on the loco
motive collapsing. With this excep-
tIon, the running was remarkably reg
ular, the trains arriving within | min
ute for II days in succession. The
average speed for the whole period
was fraction over so miles per hsnr
including stops, and slightly under 55
miles per hour excluding stops. The
average time occupied in the three
stops was 40 minutes, one stop being
for dinner. The train consisted 0ffour
eight-wheel cars, with \, w. Webb's
radiating axles. The cars were each
AZ n. long over bodies and weighed
l2,500 ID. each. Three different classes
of engines, weighing respectively 6i,-
900, 10000, and $4,000 lb. in working
order, were employed on different por-
tions of the route, the lightest engine
running over the lightest grades. The
minimum weight of engine, tender, and
train was 2s7,000 lb, and the maximum
$4,000 ID. the average beng 100000
lb. The grades varied considerably,
the worst being one l-2 miles long
averaging 81 II. per mile, and another
Ali miles long of 20 II, per mile. The
best performance over the section con.
tanning the former grade was l0l
miles In i0l minutes (Which was done
on three occasions), and over the latter
90 miles in 80 minutes, IN both casei
from start to stop. The fastest ruI
over the more level portion was l5'
miles in 1866 minutes, start to stop, o
II minutes under schedule time. Tn
feat seems to have been so easily per
formed that on the Northwestern !
was not considered necessary to EN-
ploy the compound engines, and tn
fast running was done with compars
lively old engines of far less weigh
and power than the compounds, whic
were reserved for heavier train
| These facts merely emphasize what hs
repeatedly been urged in these column
! the Importance of good signal
J which mid fast running far more cfiet
I tually than heavy engines.
Il will thus be seen that with ligh
train, stoppages avorageing 100 mile
apart, good permanent way, and some
what severe grades on the northern
portion of the journey speed of b
miles per hour, including stops, wa
maintained with case. This certaiul
marks considerable advance on pre-
vious practice, and shows that wher
sufficient inducement offers, moder
railroad appliar ces are capable of AZ
: preaching very closely to the apparen
limit of mile a minute.-liailroa,
Gazette.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03

,pecial to Times-Democrat.

Special to Times-Democrat.
Washington, Oct. 23.-Gen. Clark,
Clerk Of the present House, estimates
that the next House will be Democratic
by majority of five, while all other
calculators ON the Democratic side adj
NIT that the present plurality Of eleven
win be reduced. The Republicans. on
the other hand, claim the House by d
good working majority. Mr.. McPher-
son secretary Of the Republican con
gressional committee. says their major
ity win be from twenty 70 thirty.
1t win thus be seen thai II balance
Is struck between the estimates On botI
sides 4 small Republican majority win
be obtained.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
MANITOBA RAILWAY WAR.

Chicago, Oct. 2S.-[Associated Precsl
A dispatch from Winnipeg, Manito-
ba, says Speaking Of the crossing
dispute now in court, Attorney Gen.
eryl Martin said to a reporter that It
was thoroughly understood between
himself and the premier and Sir John
Mcdonald last winter that the road
would be built and not the slightest
hint was given that any opposition
would bo offered. lilo said II do not
know what the opinion Of the public
generally Is, but my ideas are clear, and
Think we must II fdefeated in the courts
appeal 10 the foot Of the throne and
point out to the home authorities thai
we cannot longer submit to the home
power 80 centralized at Ottawa that
the summcning Of our Legislature Il
the vericst farce. This centralizing
policy of the Dominion government
can only have this result. SO far al
Manitoba is concerned, we must ask
the Queen in council TO give us such
legislation as will enable us TO become
a crown colony. ,..inpcpendont Of the az
bitary power at Ottawa. We would
then have power to make our own tar
IFS and would In a few years become
the strong and powerful country oul
natural advantages should have long
ago made u.s. II is understood that
If the courts decide against the pro
yincc, the legislature win be promptly
summoned to dissolve the injunction
and Unnecessary the courts, too, as II
has power TO do.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03

What makes Holland, whose old
king is DYING. a particular object of
envy TO the neighboring nations is the
enormous development within the last
ten years of the tobacco growing facil-
tiles of Sumatra. The importations of
Amsterdam amounted last year to
nearly $15,000,000 worth of this pro-
dnct.o which mere than one-fonrth
found it's way to the United States.
The dividends of some ofthe companies
have been almost incredible, and az
more acreage is being put under cult.
yation every year, the value Of this
product TO Holland in the near future
can only be oonjectured.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
What Quarantine Cost Them.

The following earnings on number
Of Southern roads during the month
Of September this year as compared
with the corresponding time of last
year, 20 to show just how much the
quarantine and yellow fever have cost
them:
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

We are authorized to announce
THos. WoRTHINGToS candidate for
Sheriff at the next county election
subject to the decision of the Demo-
cratic Convention.
We are authorized to announce
RoBT. PRINcE candidate for Sheriff at
the next county election; subject to
the decision of the Democratic Con-
vention.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
Larger advertisements. quarterly, half
yearly and yearly,
Contracted forat Liberal Rates.

Orders from transient customers, YER
bal or written. for job work, advertising.
or subscription. must be accompanied by
the cash. Accounts Of regular eusto-
mers due and presented the LIST Of each
month
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03

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once = month without charge
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cents each subsequent insertion. Less
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and 10 cents per line each subsequent in
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rate.
Personal articles or notices charged
for or declined according to their nature
Customers will please give explicit d.
reetions oflength Of time for publication
Of advertisements.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03
Don't Shoot.
"Don't shoot. III come down." ex-
claimed high prices the other day, when
j. G. HEAD & co.
gn,r NUN r,pop IN rruEM

There has been great drop In the
prices of Buggies, Carriages, Wagons,
Phmtons. Dog Carts, Harness and all
kinds Of Plantation Regalia.
We have In stock Phatons from $50
up. Every man should have one. The
celebrated Columbus and Center spring
Buggy, the best In the market, always
on hand. Every lady that desires COM
fort and ease In riding should have one
Of these Ph@tons or Buggies, for with 1t
she is sure TO be happy, ever wearing
pleasant smiles We have large lot OF.
valuable vehicles
Which Must Be Sold.
A car load each Of the Milburn and
James Il Graham Wagons, Every farm
er knows these wagons to be the very
best made, They cost but little more
than the ordinary wagon, and viii GER
tainly wear longer. Planters will un-
derstand this and buy good wagon al
once, and save shop bill. Our Black
smitbing Department Is offered for sale,
and we have d large supply of material
on hand, which must be either sold, or
worked up at reduced prices, and now 10
the time to secure BARGAINS. Re-
member they must go.
Everything is low down to suitthe wet
weather.
j. G.. HEAD & CO.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-03

'lWk 'lWksI NOS 8 mosIi year.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-10-18
Missionary Work.

''Tha; portrait" said the father,
with moist eyes, "shows our Harry
as he looked when we gave him up"
"Gave him up?" echoed the visi-
tor.
"Yes. We educated him for a
missionary and just as he reached a
glorious young manhood he left US
and entered upon his lIfe-work of
devotion and self-sacrilice.
"HOw strange! L never heard be-
fore that you had son preaching to
the heathens. Is he IN China or in
Indla?"
"Worse than either" replied the
father, with heavy sigh; she pub
fishes Republican paper in Missou-
ri. ."-Chicago Tribune.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-10-18

Nor long since some Republican
dreamer sent forth a statement to
the world that Mr.. Cleveland had
given check on the Broadway bank
of New York directing the payment
of $4,000 to the national Democrat
ic committee. This, of course, was
for campaign purposes. There was
no denial of this statement until
some of the Republican papers COM
menced the printing of a fac simile
of the Cleveland check, when Col.
Brice, chairman of the nationa! Dem
ocratic committee, gave the subject
an airing and pronounced the whole
thing forgery, as Mr.. Cleveland
had not at the time, nor since, sent
any such check nor amount to the
Democratic committee.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-10-18
NUMBER 81.
DEMOCRATIC SPEAKING,

The citizens of Charlton county will be
addressed on the political issues ofthe day,
oy the gentlemen named, at the following
times and places:
BEE BRANCH TOWNSHIP.
Vein, Tuesday, October so, at 7p.m.-
ii. c. Mlnter, r. II. Musser and F, M.
Clements.
BOWLING GREEN.
Dalton, Monday, October 90, at 7. q. m.
R. II. Musser, w. w. Rucker and c. B.
Crawley.
BRUNSWICK.
Brunswick, Saturday, November 3, att
?. nj. c. Wallace, II. c. Minter and j.
G. Crawley.
CLARK.
Westyille, Thursday, November l, att
?. M, B. WEIGH, j. B. Ellington and
r. c. Ford.
CUNNINGHAM.
Cunningham, Thursday, November: l,
at p. NV S. Stockwell, J. T.. Craw.
ley and ". W. Rucker.
CoCKRELL.
McCurry school-house, Friday, Novem.
- - ~ ~ I1'-Ss IldID nOQut IL. ID.
Musser and N. B. Welch.
KEYTEsvILLE.
Keytesville. Thursday, October Is, at
1870 p. MI. H. Kinley, G. Hammond
and W. S. Stockwell.
MENDoN.
New Mendon, Wednesday, October 81,
at p. MI. S. Dimes, w. H. Bradley
and N, B. Welch.
SALISBURY.
Salisbury Saturday, November 8, at7p,
nj. H. Kinley, &C. Crawley and R. H.
Mugser.
SALT CREEK.
Shaughnnessey school-house, Tuesday,
October 80, at 7 p. R.-J. G. Wallace, j. B,
Ellington and R. C. Ford.
TRIPLETT.
Triplett, Friday, November 2, at D. m.
w. S. Stockwell, +. NJ. Clements ard
). c. Hammond.
Prairie Hill, Tuesday, October 80, att
}. MI. H. Kinley, W. S, Stockwell and
:. B. Crawley.
YELLOW CREEK.
Rcthville, Friday, November 2, at p.
Nv. W. Rucker, c. B. Crawley and j.
3. Ellington.
By Order of Committee.
7. d. BUTLER, JOHN KNAPPENBFRGER,
Secretary. Chairman.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-10-18
ON DEMOCRAT.
&c MEETINGS AND
PROFESSIONS.

This species of vlllainy, practlcei
by Republican bulIies and thugs is
becoming entirely too common. Two
men have already been killed IN In
diana for hurrahing for Cleveland.
Two also in West Virginia. The as
sault made on the Democrats In
Baldwin, Kan, last Monday was
scoundrelIy, that on the Democrats
IN Sedalla, Mo-, last Tuesday, was
infamous. If there is no statute
law in the country to punish murder
ers and preserve the public peace,
there is a higher law-the suprem-
est of all-the divine law of self-de-
fense. None but towards and as
sassIns at heart would fire into or
assail in any manner a peaceable
gathering of American citizens, no
matter what their politics might be,
nor under the banner of which rival
candidates for the presidency they
had arrayed themselves. 1t is not
to be supposed that any body of
Democrats, whatever their numbers,
parading in town supposed to be
watched over by legally constituted
and efficient municipal authorities as
Baldwin and Sedalia would have to
60 armed to protect themselves from
mob violence. Yet if this condition
of things Is permitted to 60 on as it
has been begun such will be the in
evitable result. Free speech and |
free political action are things too
precious to be tampered with or in
terfered with in any manner under
form of government like this. As it |
is the Democrats have been surpris-
ingly patient Gnder not only the In
suits offered TO them upon every |
convenient occasion, but under show
ers of stones, rotten eggs, and now
and then pistol shot.-K. c. Times.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-10-18
Don't Experiment.

You cannot afford to waste time
in experimenting when your lungs
are in danger. Consumption always
seems, at first, only a cold. DO not
permit any dealer to impose upon
you with some cheap imitation of
DR.. Kings New Discovery for con-
sumption, coughs and colds, but be
sure you get the genuine. Because
he can make more preft, he may tell
you he has something just as good,
or just the same. Don't be deceiv-
ed, but insist upon getting DR..
Kings New Discovery, which is
guaranteed to give relief in all
throat, lung and chest affections.
Trial bottles free at w. c. CASTOR
& Co.'S. drug store. Large bottles
81. 2Se6w
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-10-18

LIBERAL, little village In Barton
county, is probably the only town
in Missouri that has no church. The
population is made up of men and
women who assume to be following
the lines of advanced thought, and
who claim that superstition is the
mother of devotion. The bible is
tabooed as a work of fiction and an
cient superstition. There are no ice
cream or oyster festivals, no pink
teas. no crazy suppcrs, no mite So
cieties and no bright, smiling Sun
day school children are ever seen
upon the streets. There are no gen.
ial, loquacious BARRIERS there TO
brighten life, for the men all wear
long hair and the women cut their
own. The butchers are lean and
pessimistIc because all of the people
are vegetarians and confirmed vic
Tins of the oat meal habit. There
has never been 4 boom in real estate
there and there will not be, for no
sensible man wants to buy property
in town that is owned and run by
people who are wiser than the proph-
cts, more righteous than the apos-
ties and who discredit, with high
blown wisdom, the accepted scheme
of creation.-Merico Ledger.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-10-18

The WRONG GIRL.-''When ] was
a young man, writes a French noble
man, l fell in love with q charming
young girl l used to meet at balls
and parties. l found out that she
rec:procated my sentiments, and oh
tanned her permission to speak to her
father. The next morning l called
on him, was shown into his study,
and presented myself as a suitor for
his daughters hand. The old gen
tleman seemed surprised ct first, but
when / had assured him of of the
sincerity and stability of my affec-
ton he offered no further objections,
and, accepting me as his son-in .lBw,
sent for his daughter As the door
opened l ran to greet my fiance-lt
was another young lady. Your low
er, my child he continued, suavely
smiling at Mile de Bourgoing. had
abstractedly come to the wrong
house, pressed my suit with the
wrong father, and had been given to
the wrong wife; but of course l
could not retract or put upon the
young person the indigLity of refus-
ing her."
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1888-10-18

THE editor of a Georgia newspa.
per certainly deserves the sympathy
of the entire newspaper fraternity.
He says: ''If any mortal man ever
got out newspaper under more
trying circumstances than we have
done this week we would like to see
the color of his hair. Our folks have
all been sick, so that besides being
editor, devil, canvasser, reporter,
foreman and compositor, we have
cooked, MIXED washed dishes, swept,
chopped wood, toted water, and
have been doctor, nurse and general
roustabout--ln fact, we've done
everything but say our pray
ers."