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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-23

swer 10 tnat question - tnat rho foreign
market and the homo market together
are better than the home market alone.
fApplausc. We have had thirty years
Of your policy Of restricting importation
and expectation. We Q the result In
castles everywhere except whore the
common people live. We see the most
remarkable concentration Of wealth the
world has ever known. and In nine cases
out Of ten the wealth Is concentrated In
tho hands Of those who have been pro-
| tccted into op~ulence. Applause
The surplus Is constantly increasing.
and the question Is what Congress Is go-
ing to do about IL The Democratic
way Is to let down the barriers and let
the surplus go OUT 70 the people. who
want IL. In this extraordinary bill .
new policy is inauguratcd by which tho
whole American people are taxed in
order that somebody may 60 into q for
eign market and sell cheap goods to for
cigners. The Democrats are opposed to
subsidies. l want to see tho flag OF tho
Union float in every sea, but want to
see those vessels 60 into foreign ports
as free ships representing free Ameri-
can institutions. Ibid not ant to hire
any body 10 display the flag Of the
United States anywhere in the world.
The Republicans may pass their bill.
but IL has a He'll Gate 10 60 through
after il leaves the House and Senate.
Applause. do not expect to hinder
them from passing this bill. but l want
them 10 take the bill to the Northwest
and show il 70 the people whom they
were taxing unnecessarily. Iwantthem
to confront those people, and when they
have preached their m and told
the people how good the Republicans
have been, and how in the peoples
name they have cast out devils, the
people will say to them: Get thee be-
hind me. satan" The Democrats will
not impede the passage OF the bill, but
when the Republicans appear before tho
great American people after passing
this measure. may the Lord have mercy
on their souls. Applause.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-23
4 VETERAN GAMBLER.


Death Of One Of Europs's Most ExtrsOr-
binary Chnractera
The Borsen Courier states that an exc
traordinary character has just passed
away at Monte Carlo. ''Old Ludwig
as he was called by all ~frequenters OF
the gaming tables, has been . familiar
figure to the habitues at Monaco for
many years. Before the tables At Wies-
baden. Hombcrg and Baden-Baden were
closed he spent his time travelling be-
tween the three. When gambling was
put an end 70 BY the German Govern
ment, odd Ludwig was handed over
in the inventory Of furniture which the
Blanc5 took over from the principal
gaming table Of Germany. Every day
the old man was TO BE- seen occupying
the same seat at the rouge ct noir table
ct the same hour OF the day. As the
clock struck twelve he entered the
rooms, and ~ three exactly he took his
departure. The only game ae ever
played was rouge ct noir, and that on =
system Of his own, which never varied.
lie sometimes lost heavily. and at other
times made large sums OF money. He
was ncve Respondent at his losses, nor
excited at his good fortune, but used 10
plod steadily on, working at gambling
as IL IL WERE a business. ''Old Ludwig
was a striking contradiction TO the gem
eral belief that a gamblers life Is gem
orally a short one. lie had played since
his twcnty-first year and celebrated his
eighty-sccond birthday in full health
and vigor. Ills favorite boast was THAI
be had not consulted a doctor for the
last sixty years. One evening the old
man fell back in his chair vt the gam-
ing table just as he was about to place
his money on black; and whom he was
removed and medical assistance pro-
cured Il was found that his life was ex-
tinct The old gambler had died at his
favorite occupation with his louis still
clutched in his hand. "Ludwir's''
rooms at Monte Carlo were one OF tho
shows 81 tho place. The walls. instead
Of being papcrcd, were Lung with a
series OF cards marked BY him with
dates and the amount lost OF won by
The bank on each occasion. - London
| Globo.
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cLARkSON'S PARADOX.
Talk That Il Almost AS Humorous - II
IL iuxxiing.


Afew months ago Rev. DR.. Leonard
Bacon was grieving over a Republican
paradox. He had discovered that, al
though the Republican party was COM
posed entirely Of truly good people, it
took the wrong side or every moral
question and distinguished itself in
every sort Of political infamy. Since
his discovery nothing quite so remarka-
bic has been given to the public as the
speech delivered at the Americas Club
in Pittsburgh by Assistant Postmaster
General Clarkson, who had also discov-
cred a paradox.
Mr.. Clarkson's paradox consists in the
fact that. although the Republican party
enjoys a monopoly OF intelligence, the
newspaper and magazine literature OF
this country is supported almost entire
ly by the Democrats In New York, he
says, there are !, 400, 900 copies Of news
papers published daily. and the Repub-
Leans pay for less than 200. 900 of them
The daily newspaper circulation Of Bos-
ton and Of New England generally, he
says, presents the same paradox. and
what Is true Of the daily press = equally
true Of the agricultural newspapers and
the magazines. The Republican prcsss
be says. Is 'loyal. virile and mighty.
but it needs to be increased In circula-
ton" Evidently.
Any one in his sober senses would say
that this state Of things proved that the
virtue and intelligence in this country
were mainly in the Democratic party.
Not 50, however, Mr.. Garrison, who, 50
far as his own paradox is concerned.
maintains that this phenomenal condi-
ton OF the National literature Is due
partly to the fact that . great many
Republicans prefer Democratic news
papers, and partly to the sh~rewdness
and energy Of the Democratic party
managers, who are already stealth:ly
capturing the entire newspaper press Of
the country for use in 1892.
These explanations are almost Is hui
morous as those Of DR.. Bacon. Demo
Gratis can afford to smile At them. 1t is
the Republicans who are not quite sure
Of the morality Of the free whisky and
taxed blanket idea who will grieve.-
Chicago Herald.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-23

A. the root Of all or II 4. II.
sharks foe. This Is tia i,..
Raum's agency and Of e,.s
pension agency in the ,cier,. ~
Tho fact that such an a,e....
dustcd by the o % the oom3
Of Pensions Is a National scana,'
members Of the family. Green i n
senior and junior. hold the AZ. ~
ant offices In connection nv
bureau of Pensions. Tho 4"
Commissioners. and one son. =.
division, attend To the insid. -~A
claims, while the other son ~ 4
the pension agency submits ,he.s
passed ON. II is with the nema'
tho family inside the bureau Y
what claims shall be oxp.dl,1
what pigeon-holcd. ~
''Rcmcmhcr, says tho Raum /.
circular, that under the law no n
payable until the claim Is a%lloa.a
paid II the father allows INA ~
the Raum agency claim, the q, ~
ing on the outside gets The tee \,
How soon the son is u r...'.
his fees, or whether he * ID ,s,,''
them al all or not. depends \, N
fathers use or abuse Of tho au,lur.. /,
his Office. NJ"
Nothing under the Harrison As~,,
~istration has been on IT, iacr mora N
graceful than il this method NJ m,,,.'
a family affair OF . public irust N
Louis Republic. 4
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-23
THE PENSION OFFICE.


The pension agency conducted by
John Raum, o Of Green u. Raum. the
Commissioner OF Pensions. pursues in
its circulars the methods by which Pre-
torianism has been made . menace to
American institutions. II urges all
who IAN put in a claim for pensions to
do so ''at once" and insists that those
who have been pcnsioned already should
apply for incrcasc or rerating.
by this method thousands Of old SOL
dicrs who would have been content
otherwise TO earn a living in indepcnd-
cnce. as Americans should. have been
debauched until they prefer dependence
on the public purse as outdoor paupcrs
to the work necessary Il retain their
own self-rcspect and prevent them
selves from becoming an unwelcomc
burden on the labor OF the country.
Hundreds Of thousands Of circulars such
As the Raum agency is now sending out
have been distributed. The pension
agents chain the addresses OF a. many
veterans as possible and lombard
them with circulars. telling them how
easy II Is 10 get a pension. and insist
ing that II Is almost II not quite crimi-
nal 70 neglect such opportunities.
Under such assaults the manline-s Of
the veteran too often yields. Hc argues
that he might as we'll take q pension as
the thousands of others who are doing
IT, and he presently gets himself on the
roll Of pubic dependents, where he re-
mains TOR life. an imposition on over
burdencd workers who have a cosstant
struggle 70 support their own families.
80 thousands have bccn induced to
become public dependents who are much
better able to live at their own expense
than . majority o. those whose earnings
90 70 swell the fund from which over
sioc, 600 900 q year Is expended for this
dependent class.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-23

NEW ORLEANS, May l4-John A. Nor
ris, for the Louisiana State Lottery
Company. yesterday offered the Stato
Legislature now in session at Baton
Rouge $1,000, OoOa year for the extension
Of the charter Of the company for twen-
ty-ivc years, Or ss5, 0oo,O 900 for tho en-
tire term.
The question m~onopolizcs political at
tention, and will occupy the time Of tho
Legislature until disposed OF. The
fight in that body promises to be long
and bitter, and with the chances at
present in favor Of the lottery com.
pany.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-23
POLITICAL POINTERS.

The working-men should rene
Der our blessed high tariff and ce's'
strike. II Is base ingratitude . /,
E. Q. .. TO strike under a high iarlf y
ministration Louisville Courier'''
nal.
- Kansas community sti1
draws the color line by refusing \
orcd pupil admission to the ~
schools. Shades OF Ossawatomie bna
whittier arr We drifting?-Omaha ~
Bee.
Mr.. Blaine Is said 70 be wo'sj
earnestly to secure the second tern
his friend. President Harrison
Sisyphus had a much pleaSanfeF ~
far more profitable task IN taa,',s
bratcd stonc-rolling contract -
World.
when Europeans are taus''
cat nothing hut corn-bread' ana Y
American farmer begins p ra'F y
crops OF silk-worms, Agricultural VIZ.
sion will ccase in this coun'rh !.
William Mckinley will be frcs'a'''
Chicago Globe.
Matthew Stanley Quay W, \,
orcd BY a banquet given IN hep-s IA,
club house in Pittsburgh Tues'as Y
This. following close upon the XVI \
the resolution Of confidence adopn+ ,
his State committee, fully diSpos~
presume. Of the '~ridiculous cn' !.
embczzlcmcnt. corruption ana 'n- n Z
ity made against him BY sco,ss
sponsible newspapers -. > 4.
The silence Of many q ~
publican journals regarding tne VA \,
disclosures about MI. Quay y V'0
" dIscouraging. Those disclosure Il.
come in a form which a no' y M
silence: silence will b. taken |" ~ y
and will mean. confession Y
lican party can not afford Y w. y, Y
chairman OF its Nationaicomnn ns1
undisturbcd under such charH'e
tian Union. r.,ha
The design which tne :
majority manifcsts 70 take xS
thc entire machinery Of consF
elections Is evidently ain,es
south. and Is intended % w. n
white people Of that section 4 IN
blancc ~ political power.
fore. little To s,c wondered e rSf
ernRcprcscntatives should 'e ,,,ile y
cr Reeds uttcrances ,os
OF revolutionary. Wasn
und.l.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-23
A DAY IN CONGRESS.
The Great Repuhiican aggregate. !
surplus Iinstcr- at Work.

~ - ~ III |
In the House yesterday the bin j.,
propriaiing $500. u0o Tor a public h.T1
ing at C~oyoteyille. Oak. aa. opun.l
by q member from PENNSYLVANIA N.
thought that a city" Of zoo !nhab.
ants, six saloons. one gambling MN.
and ten dwellings should not Ak a,
5000. 900 public building. while %,own,d
Is. 900 and 20. 600 in his State NJ.
denied such a boon. The member N,
Dakota said that II there Was 4 tou,d
10. 900 people in Pennsylvania Within
q 5000. 900 public building. ii wasa~|
fcct.on on the enterprise ana ~innus,,
OF the member from that district. h,
bill was reduced 10 Si2,.o oo. ana pa~d
The bill granting a pension Il ~,
month TO the civilians who witne.vI
the first battle OF Bull Run. and parte
rated in the mastery retreat 10 Wal
ing,on. was considered. The msn,e
from the 'Stccnth New York disra|
opposed the bill on the ground that II
the statesmen and other civilians Ill
not accompanied the union army N
feat would not have followed. A!a|
further discussion the bill
The bill appropriate
public building in GRASSY M
passed.
a bill granting So N
widow Of a drafted man III
injured while fleeing ~ VA
over without action.
A member from ColoraAa IA.
bill asking for an am n
$500. 600 for q public bnilN Nj
Cat Centre. Wild Cat n y
had only $50 inhabita1t Ds'
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-23

FRANKFORT, Ky. May 1A-At $40 p.
n. yesterday the Democratic Joint
Legislative caucus assembled and i'm
mcdiately went into the nomination OF
candidates for United States senator.
Representative J. q. Carlisle. ex-Gov-
ernor Proctor Knott. Hon. L. T. Moore
and c~x'Judge Lindsay were placed in
nomination. just AZ the chairman Of
the caucus was ordering a ballot. a mo-
ton was made from the ti-CarlisIo
faction 70 adjourn. The motion was
carried BY q vote Of 90 70 W-sevcral
Carlisle men, however, voting Tor adj
journmcnt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-06
BACK FROM M'INTOsH.
Judge Falligant and the Lawyers
Return from the Darien Court.

Judge Falligant and the Lawye rs
Return from the Darien Court.
The Mcintosh superior court adjourned
for the term Saturday. and Judge Faliigant
and Solicitor General Fraser arrived at
Brunswick yesterday morning by boat and
reached home at noon by rail.
There was but one Indictment found for
felony during the sitting of the court.
Alexander Levine (colored) was indicted on
the charge of shooting with intent to kill.
On Christmas eve, it is alleged that he
fired a shotgun at his wife, the charge
entering her body, and on account of her
confinement to her bed she was unable TO
be brought into court as a witness, and the
case was not called. Levine is in jail The
testimony is said TO be circumstantlal
There were no felonies tried during the
term, but nine prisoners we're convicted Of
misdemeanors, and received chain-gang
sentences. Mcintosh county, which sent its
last batch of convicts to work on the
Chatham county chain-gang, will keep the
next batch at home, as ths authorities have
concluded that it will form a healthy
nucleus for chain-gang of their own to do
public work for the county.
The principal civil case tried, and which
occupied two days of the session, was the
trespass case of Adam Strain against the
commissioners of Mcintosh county vs.. ex-
ofticio mayor and aldermen of Darien, and
which resulted in a mistrial after ALL The
suit was to test the question as to whether
a certain piece of property in dispute is a
public street or lane, or whether it is the
property Of Strain. Messrs. Robert G..
Erwin and w. g. Charlton, Of Savannah,
and c. NJ. Tyson of Darien, represented the
plaintiff and Hon. r. E. Lester and L.
keenan, were counsel for the city of Darien.
In the Durant- Miller ejectment case, in
which Lester & Ravenel appeared for
Durant and F. O. duBlgnon for Miller. a
verdict was returned for the defendant.
In the ejectment case of c. H. Hopkins
VS.. e. A. Hopkins-duBgnol & Fraser for
defendant and Lester & Ravenel and Kenan
for plaintiff verdict was also found for
the defendant.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-06
IMAGINE THEY HAVE THE GRIP

The Police Think They Have Been
Struck With the Influenza.
If everybody who thought he had the
grip" last week. during an epidemic of
colds, and all those who now think they
have it are to be counted, the Russian Wis
itor has tackled nearly all of Savannah.
Nine policemen visited the city dispensary
in one day last week for medicines, and each
thought no had the grip. The keeper of the
city dispensary, his assistant, and the porter
claim that they had an attack with all the
symptoms of broken bone fever, which,
they say, WAS nothing more nor less than u
mild attack of the influenza, which physi-
clans unite in saying will be less severe in
this climate than in the north.
DR.. George F. Shrady, in the January
number OF the Medical Record, discusses
the disease at length, and his conclusions
are as follows:
The period of illness is comparatively brief.
and rarely is the ordinary robust patient con-
fined to his room more than two or three days;
very many, indeed, keeping up and about from
the beginning to the end of the sickness The
reports of the fatality of the disease as might
have been expected, have been very much ex-
aggerated. Particularly does this remark apply
TO the alarming reports of the recent death rate
IN Paris In point of fact, there is no disease
with such wide prevalence which has such q
".
at least, there is yet to be reported the first
case of death which can be laid to a
pure and simple attack of the disease
Even the serious complications are 80 few as
scarcely to merit recognition alongside of
those which are constantly occurring with the
usual diseases of the season. The after effects
Of the epidemic will doubtless be marked by
feelings of prostration more or less continued
and lowering of the health tone. The previ-
ously robust will quickly rally, while the feeble
will require stimulants and tones for variable
periods. The remedies which have found most
favor are laxatves, anodynes antipyretics and
tones, with stimulating expectorants
For the headache, artipyrin and the bromdes
have held their reputation, calomel and
salines as the laxativeS have many advocates,
while quinine in tonic doses especially in the
latter stages, has the confidence of the ma
jority.
From present indications and from past his
tory, the epidemic is likely soon TO pass over q
few days more settling the question OF immu-
nifty from attack. With this epidemic as
with all others Of its kind, the feeble and the
old have been the first to succumb and the
slowest to recover although all classes of cases
have quite generally suffered There is no
better protection against an attack than the
| maintenance of good health by avoidance of
oyer-fatigue, of undue exposure, and Of in
sufficient food and sleep
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-06
CITY HlREVITIES.

DeKalb Lodge No. 8, l. o. Q. f., meets
this evening.
Regular monthly meeting of the Georgia
Historical Society this evening.
The first strawber ries of the season were
imported from Sout a,ern Florida Saturday
by ]. s. Collins g. ca.
There are but six y 'es for this mornings
mayors court, aud the offenders were ar
rested Saturday and Saturday night.
The only criminal Gse assigned for hear
ing in the superior ctxur5 this week is for
tomorrow, Sophia Ing am and one Smith
indicted for assault wia1 intent to murder.
One hundred and fifiy employees of the
Ponce de Leon passed thN oUgh yesterday on
their way to ct Augusta to open out the
Ponce" 1t required SIX special cars to
transport the help. The hrain was nearly
an hour late.
Up to l o'clock this morning, for the
twenty-four hours ending then, not an
arrest was made in the city by the police
force. The saloons in mast cases were
closed front and rear, and the city was
quiet and orderly.
The Charleston Ice Company b as bought
out the old ice house firm of Alva Gage &,
Co. of Charleston. Among a 10 names Of
the directors of the new compal " are those
of Messrs. Louis P. Hart and Samuel j.
Whitesides of this city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-06
TIE WELLS SLOW PROGRESS.
One Hundred and Twenty-h five Feet
Drilled Through the Hardest Flint.

One Hundred and Twenty five Feet
Drilled Through the Hardest Flint.
Slow progress is being made on the
artesian we'll Contractor Joyce says that
! Saturday he penetrated the hard flint to a
depth Of only two feet, and the outlook IS
discouraging. for the flint seems TO be mora
solid than at any previous point in the well.
The last 125 feet drilled, MIR. Joyce said,
| have been fiat with shallow intermediate
| layers Of CLAW or sand, and until about the
middle Of week before last the flint layers
seldom exceeded one foot 10 thickness.
Since the oil sand was passed through, on
| New Years day, the drills have been IN the
| flint, with no immediate prospect Of getting
out Of il sooner, although 1t is necessarily
con1ectural, for what lies at the bottom OF
a well l.4O0 feet deep no man knows.
Mr.. Joyce says that in ali Of his expert
ence-and it includes the boring Of wells
twice the present depth OF the artesian well
on the Springfield plantation-he has never
encountered flint Of such depth OF hardness.
Drills must be changed every half hour.
The drill-points are dressed 10 cut an eight
inch hole, and half hours drilling cuts
away the points of the drill from one-half
to three-quarters of an inch. One man Is
kept busy dressing the worn drills. The
loss of time in pulling ut the tools, putting
Ai NAc Oou6A bdhAtlk ~ Outf AN RNbsAA6 AL -
new drill consumes great deal of time,
and, with the hardness Of the flint, com
bines to make the work tedious Vexatious,
and expensive.
Mr.. Joyce says that every time the bailer
is put in IL brings up evidences Of oil, the
oil sand and oil in the bailer. 1t used to be
faVorite trick in the oil country TO plant
oil, but he says it would be impossible to do
this in the well he Is drilling, as the heavy
pressure in the well which is pouring out
such an immense volume of water would
render it impossible of accomplishment.
you couldn't drop a brick in the well"
said Mr.. Joyce "If you would drop a
brick In at the top Of the casing the water
would throw it out as fast as you could drop
it in"
The full ], 800 feet will be drilled down,
Mr.. Joyce says, there being about 100 feet
yet to drill, but he says if the flint
should continue to that depth. it would
hardly pay the city to 60 further down. A
diamond drill, he thinks, would enable him
TO make better progress, but drills of that
kind are expensive. A two-inch, diamond
drill would cost $3.50. He expects, if he
gets through the flint that he is now in, to
strike water-bearing rock that will bring
the water so high up to the floor of the der
rick that he will have to wear top-boots.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-06
THE CATHEDRAL TOWERS.
a Committee Appointed to Consider
Their Completion.

Committee Appointed to Consider
Their Completion.
Among the committees Of the cathedral
parish appointed for 1890 is the following
committee on the building of the towers for
the cathedral Rt Rev. T. A. Becker,
Father Cafferty, Messrs. Read. Flannery,
Blum, Kehoe, Lyons, Grady, Hogan, and
Reilly.
The plans and specifications of the towers
furnished by Architect f. f. Baldwin.
architect for the cathedral and also for the
bishops palace, have been placed in the
hands OF contractors but none of the bids
have been received yet. Bishop Becker
does not believe that the bids will be opened
before July, and he doubts if work ON the
towers will begin earlier than fall. The
towers are to be run up TO u considerable
hight, and the cost will be several thousand
dollars
Bisaop Becker said yesterday that there
is no hurry, for the reason that the commit
tee is considering whether or not the towers
shall be made thoroughly fire-pro'f In
order TO make them fire-proof some changes
will necessarily have to be made in the
plans and new bids will have to be called
for. lit Is determined to make the spires
fire-proof, they will be covered with copper.
and in case of fires like that of last April
there will be no danger from sparks or large
fires of burning material igniuing them.