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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
A Sort OF Family Affair.

"Bingley, am very much disgustod
with you"
whats the matter?"
@Well, was unfortunate enough to
be arrested the other day. and when
sent nots to you asking you, as a
friend, to help me out, You never even
answered me-"
Il couldn't do anything for YOU"
"Why not?"
IT was in Jail myself. Nebraska
State Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
A Slick Scn,,ndrel.

A man calling himself o. s. Hammer
slaugh. OF Chicago, and claiming to repre-
sent the Diebold Safe Company. recently
sold safe to o. b. Harding, of Rockford.
ILL.,. passed forged check on him for $3.50.
and another on Rockford bank for $500.
and stole $50 worth of clothing.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

CARE you engaged?" inquired pert
young lady, stepping briskly up to q
Bar Harbor blackboard driver, who was
lounging indolently across the front
seat. "Lord, no! Are you?" was the
prompt reply.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
BUsI Ness I.ROsPECrs.
An Encouraging Outlook In All branches,
Though Trade Is Somewhat Dull.
r. O. Dun Al 90 a trade revfexv for IN a mast


r. @. Dun e. Co. s trade review for the past
week says;
improvement continues The collapse OF the
Western Iron Manufncturera' Association has
set nearly all mills at work. and makes pig iron
hrmer, but bar iron weaker. Stocks have been
strengthened by n decision arresting the enforce
ment OF the Iown rates. Wars Of rates do not
cease, and interstate decisions on many import
ant cases are deferred Net earning OF eighty
though their gross earnings gained 81 per cent,
and the gains I'm gross earnings for July have
been less than half as large. Statements show
I'm the hands 81 receivers during the hall year.
with e153 CSC, 900 bonds and stocks, against only
420 miles and e28 400 900 bonds and stocks for the
first half OF last year. But the average price Of
stocks has risen about e1.40 per share, though
less strong Of lac. Reports Of domestic trade
are almost uniformly encourn ing. for though
duIlnoee yet prevails improvement appears
at many points. Tho Treasury has taken IN
during the past week s2ooQ0o) more mcney
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

Six Of gang Of nine thieves, who have
boon robbine vieo County. Indiana. farm
ors. we're arrested ut Terre Haute. Ind.
Charles II. Hepler. a sewing machine re-
pairer. who was FIRST arrested. confessing
and informing on the others. Three es-
capped.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
An Arinless Boy.

Middletown. Conn. boasts OF lad of IL
years of age who was born without arms.
He plays ball. peddles papers. making
change with his toes. besides being able to
drive q team Of horses.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
RapId Tyne-WrltInr.

In type-writing contest at Cincinnati.
Frank L. McGurrin. of New York. scored
S.7O9 words in an hour and half to 6,93s
words by Louis Traub OF Cincinnati.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

MOxfe has created the greatest excite
ment as beverage. in two years ever wit
messed, from the fact that 1t brings nervous,
exhausted, overworked women to good pow
ers of endurance in a few days; cures the
appetite for liquors and tobacco at once. and
has recovered large number OF cases OF
old. helpless paralysis as food only.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
A Kansas Inyention.

DR.. Horace w. Hopkins. of Wamego. Kan.
has invented an apparatus which is expected
TO do away with wars or entirely revolution
ize the present system OF warfare.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
BASEBALL BATTERs.

Competing for First Place.
The relative standing of tho clubs that are
competing for the championship OF the asso-
Citations named is shown by the annexed
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
A Wine Merchant Assiens.

James Guest. wholesale wine merchant
of Montreal. Canada. has made an assign
ment The liabilities are $2O0.OOO assets not
stated. Large losses by failures caused the
assignment
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

IT is said that there is a machinist in
Milwaukee so expert with his lathe that
he can turn a deaf ear on the slightest
provocation. Life
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

HE-But amt you afraid your parents
Will be angry if We get mariied2 She
No, they won't care. Why, they are mar.
ried, too.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

The vices of old age have the stiff
ness of it, too; and as it is the unfttest
time to learn in, so the unfitness of it
to unlearn will be found much greater
-2O2lfh
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

AAlsisaa-- - kAnFllinn hOnGn
owned by William Presser was destroyed by
fire. and Presser. aged As. his son Willie.
aged Z. and John Morgan. aged IA. were
burned to death.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

ALL the policemen of Kansas City
are church members, two Of whom are
elders and several Of than are deacons.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

BISMARCK is reported sick. He is al.
ways ailing when the Prussian Diet dis
agrees with him.-Sdn francisco Alta.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

chickasaw Nation The leaders win be
charged with rebeIling against the United
States laws as well as Chiekasaw laws.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

THE boy playing with marbles stoops tc
conquer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

: USE the suresr remedy TOR catarrn--Dr
Sage'A
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
BOOMi BOOM

The spring overcoat is more badge OF
wealth than garment of comfort, Puck,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02

"''st' ----.--+---or-i--.,I-t - - -
not In his favor.-Life.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
NORTHWESTERN MILITARY ACADEMY

Twenty. three miles north Of Chicago has a full
corps OF experIenced instructors; I'VE courses Of
study, and unsurpassed facliities for fnstuc lon.
health. home com '0Its. and Christ an influence.
Send for catalogus 70 Highland Park, III.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
THE VIOLATIONS OF TIE POSTAL LAWS.

THE VIOLATIONS OF -EE POSTAL LAWS.
We received a @'attcr. yesterday, from q
friend at Ellis, Ksn.. Enclosing q copy Of the
Democratic campaign circular which is be-
ing fraudulently circulated as o Labor Signal
supplement-. The w1iter said:
This is one of many thousand that are be-
ing industriously distributed along the line Of
the u. T. r. r., through this portion of the
State. II is an old and true saying that
sheep killing dogs never remains st home to
do their work, and 90, / imagine, the defamers
Of Harrison 90 away from hGme to do their
cowardly and dirty work. You may think il
worth while to expose this dastardly bust
ness.n
The circular has already been exposed In
the Journal, but this letter from Kansas shows
how widely and extensively it is being circu-
lated. It is sent from here at publisher
rates, as o supplement to the Labor Signal, in
plain violation Of law. Every copy
of it thus sent out is a fraud
on the government. The so-called sup
plement is printed with Sentinel type, on
the Sentinel press, and is circulated by the
Democratic State central committee, who
have already given notice to scavengers of the
Gould type that 1--WE need all the aid we can
get in this campaign" The illegal and fraud
ulent circulation of this libelous circular in
the mails is in keeping with its character, it
being simply an elaborate compilation CT lies
invented by characterless scamps like Gould.
II the Postmaster general is not wholly alb
sorbed in trying to carry Michigan for Grover
Cleveland, We call his attention to this
fragrant violation Of law and prostitution Of
the peoples mails to the basest partisan pur-
poses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
CONFEDERATE FREE TRADE.

JEFF Davis is not In a position to vote for
Grover Cleveland. but be has done what he
could to commend to Southern Bourbons the
platform on which Cleveland stands and the
cause he represents. Cleveland himself is
not a more determined opponent Of protection
than the late leader of the lost cause. In his
book entitled Rise and Fall of the Confeder-
ate Government" Davis dsvotes ons chapter
to pointing out the distinctive features of the
confederate Constitution. Here he says (Vol.
l, p. 260):
Protective duties for the benefit of special
branches of industry, which had been SO
fruitful a source Of trouble under the govern
ment of the United States, were altogether
prohibited"
This was done in express terms by the con-
federate Constitution. 1t will be noticed that
JEFF says protective duties had been "a fruit
full source of trouble under the government of
the United States" The people of the North
who prospered so wonderfully under q pro-
tective tariff never found it a fruitful source
of trouble. 1t was only so TO the Democratic
party, then as now, controlled by the South.
In another place JEFF arraigns the North for
its sectional" policy, and enumerates the
grievances and burdens put upon the South,
by way of justifying secession. One of these
was the large acquisition of free territory un-
der the Missouri Compromise. He continues:
'Nor was this the only injury to which the
South was subjected. Under the power of
Congress to levy duties on imports, tariff laws
were enacted. not merely to pay the debts
and provide for the common defense and gen.
eral welfare of the United States as author
lied by the Constitution, but positively and
primarily for the protection against foreign
competition of domestic manufactures. The
effect of this was to impose the main burden
of taxation upon the Southern people, who
were consumers and not manufacturers, not
only by tho enhanced price Of imports, but
Indirectly by the consequent depreciation in
the value of exports, which were chiefly the
products of Southern States. The imposition
of this grievance was uuaccompanied by the
consolation of knowing that the tax thus
borne was to be paid into the public treasury,
for the increase of price accrued mainly to the
benefit of the manufacturer. These GAUGES
all combined to direct immigration to the
Northern section, and with the increase of it's
preponderance appeared more and more dis
tinctly a tendency in the federal government
to peivert functions delegated to it, and to use
them with sectional discrimination against the
minority."-voL ], page 80.
Again Ivol. ], page 49Sl. he refers to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19

AMONG the many foolish regulations of the
Postofice Department is one ~forbidding the
transmission of postal cards having printed
slips pasted upon them. Not knowing this.
the secretary of a Republican club in Phila-
delphia sent out in such shape q call for a
meeting to members of the organization The
cards were not delivered, but, after the date
of the meeting, were returned to the sender
in bulk. In order to discover whether the
rule was of impartial application, the secretary
resolved upon a test, and to this end cut from
a newspaper notices of a Democratic meeting,
pasted them on cards. and mailed them to
certain persons Of his Acquaintance. Subse-
gent inquiry developed the fact that the cards
were all promptly delivered. This incident
shows that Postmaster Jones is not the only
official who is using his Office as q Democrats
machine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
INDIANA'S DIRECT TAX.

One of the war taxes made necessary by the
Democratic rebellion in 1861 was the direct
tax. This was one of the emergency measures
passed by Congress in the summer of 1861 to
replenish the treasury which had been Quilted
by a Democratic administration, and to enable
the government to meet the extraordinary de-
mands of the time. The direct tax was i'm
posed on the States according to population.
The total amount was about 500. 900, 600, and
Indiana's share was 500, 675, which was
promptly paid. All the Northern States paid
their share of the tax. but most of the South.
ern States, having gone out of the Union, did
not pay. It has been proposed to refund this
tax to the States which did pay, and the
proposition is manifestly just. With an excess
of revenue and q surplus in the treasury
which the administration processes to regard
as a menace to the welfare and prosperity of
the country, the government is certainly in .
position to refund to the Northern States
their respective shares Of this direct tax. To
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
GOV. WILLIAMS AND GEN. HARRISON.

As Mr.. William Henderson SAYS, mo re-
spectacle Democrat" believes the lie 30 indus
triously circulated against General Harrison,
but, on the contrary, there are many Demo
Gratis who believe that he did what no good
citizen could rave refused to do without dis
honor. II is known to every one that Gov
ernor Williams directly, and in writing. re-
quested General Harrison to do what he did.
Had he refused to obey the call Of the Cor
ernor of the State, what would decent, law
abiding citizens think of himi Surely, il he
had refused no one could have reached any
other conclusion than that be was either IN
arrant coward or a miserable demagogue.
If it was wrong for him to obey the call of
Governor Williams, much greater was the
wrong of the Governor in making the call.
The simple truth is, that both Governor Will
Jams and General Harrison did their duty.
He who asserts That General Harrison did
wrong asserts that the Governor did a greater
wrong, for the Governor who commands Ger.
tainly is moro censurable, if censure be
Just, than the citizen who obeys.
1t will be an evil day for us,
if it ever comes to pass, that a Governor shall
be condemned for maintaining public order
and securing the reign of law. If men are to
be punished for obeying the call Of the execu-
tive they will be slow to give him aid, and
person and property will be without protec-
ton, for who will undertake to protect if
abuse is to be their only rewardf
Every man who believes in maintaining law
and order should rebuke the miserable Sian
+. ders by voting for the man who did his duty
when called upon by the chief executive of
the State. 1t ought not to be forgotten that
General Harrison was the Governors unsuc-
cessful competition, and for him to have de-
MED The Governors request would, and not
without reason, have been attributed to q
mean and petty spirit. if not to cowardice.
But neither Governor Williams nor General
Harrison desired or intended to injure or OPP
press any railroad man; they simply meant
to preserve the peace. General Harrison's
sympathies, as the unanswerable evidence
shows, were steadfastly with the railway em-
ployes, and he was their firm friend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
NIB. oLEvBLAND's NEW SCHEME

A Washington special in yesterdays Journal
stated that the President and his advisers
were Matching a new scheme, the nature of
which could not be exactly ascertained, but
which was expected to create a political sensa-
ton. The Journal has been in possession Of
information for several days which points in
the same direction. It is to the effect that
the President intends to lend Congress An
other retaliation message, full of buster and
bravado, boarding the British lion In his
Canadian den, and demanding Of Congress to
place the President on . war footing. At the
same time there is to be a private understand
ing with the British press that 1t il to de-
nounee this exhibition of jingoism and abuse
Cleveland as vigorously as il has heretofore
been p~raising him. This ingenious schemes
expected to counte ract the effect of Cleve-
lands support by the free-trade press of Eng
land, and bring back the Irish-American vote
which has been DESERVING the Democracy.
It indicates q very low degree of intslli-
gepce on the part Of the President and his ad-
visers to suppose that such a scheme can b.
made to work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19

THE New York Herald correspondent, the
publication of whose private letter has caused
so much comment, told some great truths and
made some great mistakes. There is a mix
ture of both in the following:
''The surface argument is, as you know, all
in favor of the Republicans. and that is the
argument that catches the countrymen.
There are large defections of lifelong Demo-
Gratis among the farmers everywhere I have
BEEN"
1t is true that the surface argument Is all in
favor Of the Republicans, and the under-sur-
face argument also. 1t is a great mistake to
sappose that farmers are caught by surface
argument They are the very ones who are
not. They do more intelligent thinking on
political issues han any other class. and come
nearer getting at the heart and bottom Of
things. The strong drift among farmers to
the Republican party this year is because
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19

people of Indiana could find good use for
500, s75. But the solid South and a Demo
cratic administration have stood in the way.
The Southern brigadiers oppose the distribu-
ton Of 30 large a sum among the Northern
States, and Cleveland does not want to reduce
the surplus, which be is using as an argu-
ment for his free-trade policy. Thus the tax.
payers OF Indiana are kept out of 500, S75.
the payment of which would relieve them
just SO much. Not to speak of the principal,
the interest on this sum at 6 per cent. ia
$54, 292 a year. That might as well be in the
pockets of Indiana taxpayers as lying idle in
the treasury c-'sirc losaed to favored national
banks withon, Interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19

If It will relieve Chairman Jewstt's mind
any. the Journal is in a position TO inform
him, and oil whom it may concern, that
Mr.. Huston did not receive his information
Of the action of the executive committee of
one hundred from Judge Martindale. Mr..
Huston knew what the committee proposed
to do long before Judge Msrtindals ever
talked with him about the matter, if lie ever
did talk with him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
Insulting Language to Soldiers.

Extracts from CIeyeland's Veto essage-Dependen
Pension Bill, Feb. ii. lSS7.
al cannot believe that the vast army Of Union
soldiers. who have contentedly resumed their
places IN the ordinary avocaiions of life, justly re-
gard the present pension roll on which their names
appear, as a roll of honor. desire ct this time
and in The present exieency, TO be COMPOUNDED
with those who through such a bill IS this are
willing 20 be objects Of simple charity, and to
give . place upon the pension roll through al
legged dependence. ln the execution OF this pro-
posed law under any Interpretation, q wide field
or inquiry would De opened for the establish
ment of facts largely within the knowledge OF
the claimants alone, and there can be doubt
that the race after the pensions offered by this
bill would not only stimulate weakness and
pretended incspacity for labor, bat put q furthsy
premium on dishonesty and mendacity."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
PLAYING FOB THE SOLDIERS.

Democratic managers are laboring hard to
convince the people that their party IL the
friend of the soldier. To do this In face Of
the mountains of evidence to the contrary re-
quires effrontery and mendacity even moro
brazen and amazing than are usually involved
in Democratic campaign tactics, but they are
not thereby deferred from the hopeless effort.
All sorts of expedients are resorted to 70
prove that Mr.. Cleveland and his party exist
chiefly for the purpose Of befriending the
Union veterans, of rewarding them literally
for their sacrifice of health and strength, and
Of providing for them in helpless old age.
Some of these methods have already been ex-
posed in the Journal; bat, with the ingenuity
of desperation, others are devised. The latest
development in this line is the appearance of
pension examiners al political orators. Hand
bills are circulated announcing, for instance,
that DIR. II. s.. Wolfe. of New Albany, will
speak at Corydon on Saturday night next, and
twill have something to say to the soldiers"
4NotdiuS 10 coU Al Wv Will save ING ototcAicus
that he is now an examiner, to indicate the
speakers political bias, and the hope Is, evil
IDENTIFY. that the old soldiers will be induced to
come to the meetings, regardless of politics.
1t is hardly probable that any will be
so deceived AS to suppose that a pension ex-
aminer under Grover Cleveland will deliver
a Republican, or even non. partisan speech,
or that he is there for any other purpose than
to patch up and gloss over the Presidents
record on the pension question, and to mis-
represent the party's attitude on the same
matter. Should any veterans, or their friends,
be drawn to the meetings by any such mis-
taken idea, they will hardly be deluded into
the belief that the man who has repeatedly
insulted them; who has vetoed right and left,
regardless of the merit of the bills; who tried
to return the rebel fAgs, who surrounds him.
self with ex-rebels and gives them the places
of Union soldiers-in view of these facts, with
which they are well acquainted, they will
hardly be convinced that Cleveland is their
friend. The examiners are violating the civil.
service law TO no purpose.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
Hon. WILLIAM Fl. ENGLISH said Of Gen.

HoN. WILLIAM Fl. ENGLISH said Of Gen
Harrison:
"You will observe, fellow-citizens that I
have nothing against General Harrison per
He 10 an earnest man. true 10 his convictions,
not afraid to speak his opinions, and he lie in
no sense a hypocrite."
Hon. Joseph E. Mcdonald says of General
Harrison:
"As to General Harrison, l have no hard
words to say of him. Personally, I respect
him; he is my ~neigb5or."
These expressions were used by these rep
resentative Democrats at the Cleveland rntif-
cation meeting in this city on the night of the
14th OF July; and yet, in the face Of such
testimonials, Democrats like 81 Sheerin.
Charles L. Jewett and Gould are making anu
circulating stories that picture General Harri-
son as aman utterly unworthy public or per-
sonal regard. 1t is to the shame Of our poll
tics that lewd fellows of the baser sort are
permitted to throw their filthy abuse at a can
didate for Office. There should be conscience
and honor enough in any political organiza-
ton to prevent such scum rising to the sur
face and dominating a party organization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-19
"sThe Bloody" Shirt,

In the gubsrnatorial canvass Of 1876 General
Harrison. in q speech delivered at Greensburg,
said:
For one / accept the banner OF the bloody
shirt. / am willing 20 take as our ensign the
~tattsred, worn out Ole gray shirt, worn by some
gallant Union herosstsined with his blood a. he
gave up his life for his country, and shoulder TO
shoulder. elbow TO elbow, stepping to the music
OF The old drum taps. we will move forward,
eyes front ana our faces 10 the foe, 10 victory
sgain uDds ar the hallowsd banner of the bloody
shirt Let those who desire march under
Che black flag OF treason or the
white flag OF cowsrdice; for me. /
accept with pride the bloody shirt Not by
this do / mean that We desire to perpstuate the
bi.t.rness Of the war; but so long as the Demo-
cratic party prefers to honor those whose only
claim 10 their record OF hostility to the Union.
and SO long as they continue to taunt N for
hdslity 10 the country, just so long We will march
under the BLOODY shirt When they purge
their party of the leprosy Of secession, and pre-.
sent candidates whose records are fair during
the times when the country needed men 70 main
tain ITS honor. then we will bury the bloody
shirt IN the grave with the honored corpse who
wore Il, and lot before