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Evening journal., 1891-04-11
George white,

contractor for hauling by the day or
hour safes and pianos moved and set
with care; furniture cars at short notice /,
hoisting and rigging done Office. No.
1913 French street.
Evening journal., 1891-04-11
GENERAL sPINoLA.

the general rallied and improvement was
noticeable for several hours. Since then
be has been steadily sinking Drs. Ma
gruder and Walsh have been in steady at
tendance all day, while Surgeon General
Hamilton was also called in consultation.
Evening journal., 1891-04-11

Yesterday Father
Slattery, Of New
York, reache d
here, having been
sum moned by
telegraph, and
proceeded at once
to the Arlington
hotel, where he
administered the
last sacranents OF
the Cath ollie
church 70 the dy.
n < veteran .
Shortly aftprtvar1
Evening journal., 1891-04-11
lTEMe or INTEREST

"UoNFoUND the typewriter growled
Mr. Banckere as he slapped his fist down
on the machine. whats the matter2''
asked friend sitting alongside Don't
you ever have any trouble with your
typewriter?' qusried B. in reFly "Well
-um-e er. hesitated the other man, Il
never did until l married her Wash
ington Star.
Evening journal., 1891-04-11

The Equitable Life holds larger
surplus, writes a larger annual business.
has larger amount Of insurance in force
and pays a larger dividend than anv
other company in the world
Evening journal., 1891-04-11
WIlmingtoa CleartnK House.

The exchanges Of the Wilmington banks
At the clearing house to-day were; Total
$l65, OS3 40; balance. $50, ,224 20.
Evening journal., 1891-04-11
No Hone for Gennrnl srl...,..

WAsHINGToN, April Congressman
Spinola is slowly but steadily sinking. and
this morning his death is regarded ~ a
question Of a few hours All the best
Evening journal., 1891-04-11

"WHAT it costs" must be carefully
considered by the great majority Of
people, IN buying even necessities
Hoods Sarsaparilla combines positive
economy with great medicinal power. 1t
is the only medicine Of which can trulv
be said 400 Doses One Dollar"
Evening journal., 1891-04-11

For several years I
had been all cted with
a catarrhal disease Of
the throat and bron
chial tubes, said Miss
Bella Buchanan, OF No.
43l Webster street.
Camden, N. j. II
coughed a great deal
and raised blood fire.
quently. Tho disease
a. last extended to my
lungs. consulted
several physicians y ho
prescrih bed palliative
medicines, but thev
Evening journal., 1891-04-11
pnnI Tnnrnannanf

The POOL tournament for the champion.
ship of Delaware at w a. Bergers pool
and billiard room continued last evening.
The following was the score:
noinfs' highest scnre a-eraoe
Evening journal., 1891-04-11

THEATRICAL Manager (gloomily)-"I
can't see why the engagement was a
failure The divorce was granted all
right enough. and the papers were fun
of the case Perhaps the
lady can't act Chicago Times.
Evening journal., 1891-04-11
CHURCH NOTES.

Our patrons will find Fellheimer here
after at Sl2 Market street.
Evening journal., 1891-04-11

DR.. DE HARDT's Pennyroyal Pills are
the only genuine pennyroysl pills made
AT druggists and by mail, 81 Office, 203
N. 9th St., Phila. Ladies beware Of
limitations,
Evening journal., 1891-04-11
CURED OF CONSUMPTION.

A Remarkable story Told BY Camden
Lady, Who Wa, Made Well AFTER Hav
Ing Bsen Declared Incurabie by sew
aral Phvslctana
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
SHORT AND SHARP.

Volney b. Cushing, of Maine. is
doing great work in that State. He is
organizing thoroughly, and is secur-
ing valuable lists of voters an
workers.
Rev. James Z. Reed, Chairman Of
the Michigan State Prohibition Com
mittee, has resigned, and Charles Il.
Russell, well-known business man,
OF Detroit, has been elected to SUI
coed him.
The Maryland Prohibitionists have
already started a vigorous campaign.
Great basket picnics are being held,
and the State candidates are winning
support by their able speeches.
The Prohibition papers of Ohio are
to unite in an Ohio Prohibition Press
Association for mutual consultation
and helpfulness. The National Pro.
hlbition Press Association should
hold convention soon and plan FOL
the needs of the great battle year.
The New York Grand Lodge, L. D
s. T., has just held its annual session
at Thousand Island park, with abort
1000 attendants. The order has ~
lodges and 1920 members, a gain o
1856 members during the year jus
passed.
G. II. Mead, of the Silver LAX,
Qurartett, is now u D. ID. Friends
will hereafter call him Doctor" in
stead OF Badly" 1t is more reveIent
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
OHIO PEOPLES PARTY.
Captured Again by Liquor Men m
False to the Peoples Good.

Captured Again by Liquor Men and
False to the Peoples Good.
The proceedings of the Ohio PeO-
ple's Party Convention Mt Springfield,
August and 6, had features that
were Of considerable interest for the
Prohibitionists. Con Burckhauser.
the Cincinnati beer man, was present,
and took an active and conspicuous
part. Secretary Robert Schilling, Of
the National Committee, known as a
personal liberty man, sat on the plat
form, and was influential in shaping
the party's work.
Tie conventions views of the liquor
question are expressed thus:
I'VE recommend the following reso-
luton to the National Convention for
favorable consideration, believing it
to be National instead of State
issue:
I'VE believe that the solution of the
liquor problem lies in abolishing the
element of profit which is a source OF
constant temptation and evil; and we,
therefore, demand that the exclusive
importation, expectation, manufac-
ture and sale of all spirituous liquors
shall be conducted by the Govern
ment or State at cost through agen-
cies and salaried officials i'm such towns
and cities as shall apply for such agen-
cies."
This plank was fought by liquor
men, and is not. included in the Ohio
platform. but is simply recommended
ton to the National Convention.
George L. Wa-hburne of Boston,
Eastern member OF the National Ex-
ecutive Committee of the party, in an
interview in a Springfield paper says
that the plank will be modified to suit
the demands Of the different States,
according to the strength of the Pro-
hibition sentiment i'm them.
1t is understood that there was a
strong representation of Prohibition
feeling. 1t is almost certain, indeed,
that majority would have Endorsed
a straight out Prohibition blank.
When GubernatOrial nominations
were called for, John J. Ashenhurst,
Prohibition candidate for Governor,
was one of the men named. There
were expressions of protest, and be-
fore the ballot was taken, Hugo
Treyer, Secretary of the State Com
rubbed Ashenhurst' name
from the blackboard on which the
nominees names were posted. Preyer
was formerly violent personal liberty
champion, but several years ago he
surprised people by becoming inter-
ested in the Prohibition cause and
writing articles against the saloon.
Mr.. Ashenhurst received fifteen
votes in the convention but will re-
ceive many more Peoples votes at
the polls in November.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
A Young Lady who Likes the
Blade and Wants My Book,
1.-THE Rational View

a "a
RIcHMoND, KY, Sept. IS, '91.
Charles C. Moore Esq.
DEAR SIR-As the Blue Grass
Blade failed to reach us this morn
ing, l concluded it had suspended.
| am sorry.
Although there seems to be, to
the masses, many Objectionable
points therein, to me these were
outweighed by the unobjection-
able.
What peace-giving health
giving and spiritualizing words
came to us through the columns
of the Blade.
My subscription does not expire
before April 2lst '92; therefore, if
you are willing, please send me a
copy of your book, "The Rational
Vivw," in lien of the Blade for
that time.
This will more than recompeuse
me. Very truly
Miss W. E. P. McALIsrER.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

broad land of ours. Your keen
little Blade is doing grand work.
Keep it bright and shining.
Don't hang it up to rust. Keep
on moving. Save the boys. and
the rising generation will call you
blessed. IF the Blade lives con-
tinue me as subscriber.
Yours truly,
JESSE RUSSELL.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
A Christian Minister who Does
not want the Blade ''TOned
Down.

812 w. MARSHALL ST. RICHMOND,
Va, Sept. 81, 1891.
DEAR MOORE-Don't stop pub
fishing the Blade. Please don't
stop. 1t has evinced and dis
played more moral courage than
any paper in the United States.
You and Bro. Neal write and con-
tinue the Blade. Then you may
have something of a balance
wheel in the estimation of many;
but as for myself l don't want
any modification or toning down
in your writings. No matter who
is on the liquor side, Blackburn,
Breckenridge or anybody else, let
them get out of the way of our
civilization and progress.
L. A. CUTLER.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

l have received a long rambling
scatter-brain kind of a letter from
a party who signs himself Thomas
Martin, at Erlanger, KY.
Thomas represents himself as a
devout Christian in religion; while
of his politics he says, "Now Bro.
Moore / am a Democrat, but I'm
as good a Prohibitionist as you
and don't keep a little brown jug
in the cellar as the majority Of
your so called Prohibs do"
The rest of the utterances of his
letter, which is in a little fnical
hand writing with some mispelled
words u.s.: intellectually, about in
keeping with the sample / give,
Another one of his statements
is that l can not find a minister
who is in favor of the liquor traf-
fic.
Thomas says that by mere &C.
cident one of my papers has fallen
into his hand. / would advise
him never to let that accident hap.
pen again; for the first one seems
to have had a deleterious effect
upon him, and 1 am satisfied thai
Bro. Martins nervous system
could not stand a consecutive
reading of the Blade for q
month.
l would recommend to him
something soothing in literature,
like "Baxter's Saints Rest" among
books, and the Kentucky Metho
dist" among newspapers. A few
Presbyterian tracts on the Fina
Perseverance of the Saints" taker
in broken doses just before going
to bed, have all the sedativc effec
of morphine, without the DANCE
of contracting a habit that 20,
can not get over.
Bro. Martin is fearfully exer
cised over my theology. HI
thinks l will "never get to be
second Bob Ingersoll." l thinl
he is probably right in that con
lecture.
There is a vein of facetiou
irony through his letter that il
quite enhancing.
One extract from his letter
have thought would be of SUI
ficient public interest to warran
me in publishing.
He says; ado saloon-keeper
60 to church? If they do it
very seldom. Ask the maiorit,
of them what is their religion
they will say like yourself the
believe in no church, and are in
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
NEBRASKA PaOHIBITIONlSTS.
Good Convention, Good Platform.
Good Ticket, ~ Good Campaign

| a 6ood Convention, Good Platform, .
Good Ticket, n Good Campaign.
Nearly 400 delegates were present at
the Nebraska Prohibition convention
held at Lincoln Aug. 5. not including
representatives from the county W.
c. T. Unions.
G. Z. Bentley was reelected chair
man of the State Committee. with H.
@. Bittenbender as secretary and H.
e. George as treasurer
Mrs. NJ. II. Durham Of Iowa, and d.
Ward King of Missouri spoke at the
evening session.
Though times are hard in Nebraska,
$500 was raised in short time for the
coming campaign.
A resolution was adopted inviting
the next National Convention to meet
in Lincoln.
The candidates nominated are .
Judge Of .he Supreme Court, F. W.
Richardson Of Omaha: Regents of the
University, Rev. William Gorst of
Neigh and Mrs. Caroline NJ. Wood
ward.
The platform opens with the usual
acknowledgment that Almighty God
is the source Of the just powers Of
government, and declaration of allie
glance to the National Prohibition
Party. Uncompromising planks fol-
low, including this one:
Laws should be enacted making it
q felony for officers of any munich
pality to barter away the public health
or morals By permitting the mainten-
ance Of houses Of immortality or vice
on condition that a portion of the pro-
ceeds be paid into the public treasury
by system Of monthly fines or other
WISE"
The platform also favors Govern
ment ownership Of railroads and tele-
graphs, declares that further extern
sion of time for the payment of the
Pacific Railroad mortgages should be
refused, advocates prohibition aud
suppression of trusts and like combi-
nations, favors the control by the
Government Of all corporations, de-
clares for the abolition of the Internal
Revenue, favOrs a graduated income
tax, says that taxation for State pur-
poses should be so adjusted that each
citizen and property owner shall con-
tribute in proportion to his ability,
favors service pensions, asserts that
mo citizen should be deprived of the
franchise by reason of SEX" endorses
the plan Of electing President, Vice
President and United States Senators
by direct vote of the people, main-
tains that so long as the present sys-
tom of electing the President is pre-
served Presidential electors should be
chosen by the Congressional District
system, excepting that each State
should elect two at large, and opposes
all laws tending to the regulation Of
vice.
There will be lively campaign par
ticipated in by national leaders. Sec
rotary Thomas of the National Conn
mittee will spend the last days of the
eamDaicp in Nebraska.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
10000 ACRES OF LAND
WANTED.

An Eastern Steamship and Col
onization Company have written
to the General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Queen &
Crescent Route. to find for them
a tract of land in either Kentucky
or Tennessee of about 10000
acres. The land is to be suitable
for truck farming, also for raising
corn, wheat, trees and shrubs, and
near enough to railroad to make
shipping facilities handy. Any
one having a body Of. land suitable
or this purpose, will please com
municate with the undersigned,
giving price, terms, location, and
all particulars.
d. G. EDWARDS
G.. P. & T. A.
Cincinnati, o.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
w r. p McAI,Srrp
He Likes the Blade and PAYS
for ID and ssThe Rational
HARDYvILLE, KY, Sept. 20, 81,
Mr.. c. e. Moore.

HARDYvILLE, KY, Sept. 20, 81,
Mr.. c. G. Moore.
DEAR SIR-Enclose please find
check for $500, $1.OO for your
book, which you sent me some
time ago, and So. 90 for the Blade,
which you have kindly sent me
since wrote you for sample
copy early in the Spring. If !
send two much and the Blade is
this day hung up to be taken
down no more, place the rest to
my credit on the c. c. Moore lee
ture fund, and call on me for an
additional if it be necessary.
But l hope you will consumate
your trade with Bro. Neal, and
move on with the Blade. l have
read Bro. Meals paper, "The
Worker and like it very much
We need just such a bold, out.
spoken fearless paper as the Blade
is, in this rum ridden state of Ken.
lucky.
With Moore and Neal at the
helm, the Blade will surely have
a bright and successful future, &C
complishing much good for "God
home and native land" and the
rising generation. Don't get dis
couraged Bro. Moore, you have
admiring friends all over thi.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

l have on my place, eight miles
North of Lexington, two stray
cattle.
They have been on my place a
year. When they came there ]
informed my neighbors about
them orally, as far as 1 could
but did not advertise them in any
paper, because they were 90
diseased, or poor from bad
treatment, that l thought for
months they would die.
They are now doing well and
The owner can get them on
proper conditions.
CHARLES c. MOORE.
aug8tf
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

fdels like yourself. Bro. Moore
you ought not to be so hard on
the members of your own relig-
iOn."
My experience as a newspaper
reporter and my reputation as an
infdel would probably make me
know of every man in Lexington
who is an infdel. / think that
VIXEN 1 was reporting for news
paper two or three years ago, /
knew of almost every man in the
town who was willing to an
nounce publickly that he was an
inhde].
/ never knew but three saloon
keepers in Lexington who said
they were inidels. l went to all
three of them and said to them
that their business was thoroughly
inconsistent with their claims that
they did their own thinking and
acted accordingly.
Two out of the three vOluntari-
ally quit the business and said
they were ashamed of it, and not
a great while after the third one
was closed out by the sheriff; but
l believe he resumed the business.
The last was a Frenchman.
The other two were intelligent
American born men. One of
them drinks too much whisky,
but the other one is as near a
model man as anybody in Lex
ington. Both of the latter are
good friends to my paper and
book.
There is now only one saloon
keeper in Lexington that would
probably call himself an infidel.
He is now, or in the last few
years has been, a member of the
City Council.
Taken as a class. in Lexington,
l believe the most sincere be-
levers in Christianity, and the
most regular attendants at church
are aloon-keepers. They are
largely Catholics.
With the exception Of old Bro.
William Van Pelt, who is a men,
Der of the Christian church and a
Prohibitionist, the most regular
five or six church attendants in
Lexington are saloon-keepers, and
they are the most prominent and
influential and active men in their
church.
l do not know but one saloon
keeper on earth-or in hell, for
that matter-outside of Lexington.
l think he believes in Chris
tianity as devoutedly as Bro.
Martin.
Col. Pepper of Lexington is
like Bro. Martin, "a Prohibition
list who votes with the Democrats.
He runs great big distillery,
and has a Presbyterian Sunday
school superintendent to superin-
tend his distillery. But Col Pep
per does not drink any whisky.
Too smart. He knows what is
in it.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31
ssSOrry that the Blade IL Going
to STOP

HAZEL GREEN, Sept. 20, ''91.
c. c. Moore.
DEAR SIR-Find enclosed check
for 81 90 balance on subscription
l sent you a dollar but have re-
ceived the Blade more than 81,
months. If there is little bal.
ance in my favor just keep it tc
help you balance up.
l am very sorry the Blade il
going to stop but could hardly
advise you to continue it in the
somewhat dangerous state o.
Kentucky as the Oregon editor
puts it.
Very respectfully,
WILLIAM LUsK.
Bro. Lusk was a candidate on
the recent Kentucky state ticket
of the Prohibition party.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

BRoADwELL, KY, Sept. 10, 81.
Mr.. c. G. MOORE have been
reading your paper and have not
sent you any money. / am poor
in purse but not as a Prohibition
ist. l have just read short arti-
Gle headed "The last utterances of
a discouraged Prohibitionist".
He has right to be discour-
aged, for there are thousands of
temperance men and women who
take the meanest whisky papers
and pay for them and then say
when asked why they do not take
a temperance paper "Oh, l am not
able-I am too poor.
That is an excuse the devil got
up, and that is only one of the
thousands of his make. That dis
couraged man spoke the truth.
/ claim to be a Methodist, but
l have long since said-and will
not take it back-that / will not
give a cent to pay preacher who
does not vote the straight Prohi-
bition ticket; for otherwise he il
not Gods servant but the DEVILS;
and ifany one of that class will
argue the question with me | will
prove to him that a whisky
preacher is the greatest servant Of
the devil. Just so with the mod
crate drinker. His influence il
greater than that of the drunkard
who wallows in the gutter.
We have a little Presbyterian
preacher here, and he voted with
us once, and one of the widest O
our boys Joined his church while
he was carrying on protractet
meeting. Soon after the election
came off and that preacher voted
for the whisky party. The younl
man was watching him, and he sail
to me eff that is religion I'll b.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

1 have told you repeatedly that
l never send bills to anybody.
If you don't know and don't
want to guess at it let it 60.
You are not very anxious to pay
it anyhow, and it will be all the
same to me in hundred years.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

During the recent temporary
suspension of the Blade, 1 noticed
that subscriptions were just pour
ing into the Southern Journal.
and everybody was giving-it taffy
and money until / got so jealous
that the world looked as green as
if l we're looking at i. through
sore eye goggles.
l think it would be nothing but
fair that Bro. Sawyer should sus-
pend his rantankerous old sheet
for while until / can catch up
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

SHELLEY CITY, Sept. 5, '9I.
C. q Moore, Lexington, Ky.
DEAR SIR-For some time you
hav been sending me your inf
del PAPER.
I Inn a Prohibitionist but not
an ifidel, and l think that as in
fide ty overbalances the temper
ancd cause in your paper that lets
me Tut. If you will send me
you'll bill to date l will settle with
you pd then you will please dis.
continue the Blade.
Yours respectfully,
w. G. HUBBLE.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

Yesterday l met q man on q
street of Georgetown who smiled
good humoredly as he approached
me and extended his hand. / did
not know him, but some brogue
showed me that he was an Irish
man. He was not one of the
kind with the ourang outang lip
on him, but was a curly headed
good looking man. He eaid to me
that the Blade had been coming to
him, and he pulled out the money
and paid me for it, and said, "you
must let it come on, but l want
You to let it come to me at the
poor mans rates.. / told him /
would.
As soon as he called his name
l knew about him. He has
worked on a turnpike until he
made some money, and he bought
him a little home and a little farm,
and that man is prospecting in the
world, and the chances are that
he will be valuable citizen and
leave his family provided for, not
merely in means hut in a good
name.
If that man had lived in Lex
ington he would probably be a
member of the City Council, have
a saloon, and be robbing his coun-
trymen of their hard earnings on
turnpikes and railroads by selling
them mean whisky.
That man said to me ~ am an
Irishman and Catholic, and you
do give my people the devil, but
every word of it is true. And
then he told me that he was in
town to see a lawyer because he
had gotten into a fight with {
drunken Irishman who was doing
him wrong, and that it would cos
him $4,000.
Then he and l talked about pol
itics and religion, and we agreed
on religion just as perfectly as j
we had been brought up in thu
same church. We agreed that i
did not make any difference wher'
a man was born, nor whether h
was Catholic or Protestant, o.
what all; if his religion did no
make him a sober, honest man
who told the truth and was fair il
his dealings and tried to do goot
to his fellow men it was no
worth anything.
l have, among my neighbors il
the country, Catholic Irish people
and there is just as true friend
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

Excursion tickets at low rates
will be sold to NichOlasville and
return by agents of the Queen &
Crescent Route and Louisville
Southern R. r., during the races
November 2, 8 and 4. Tickets
good until November 9Th for re-
turn.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

For the Augusta Exposition
Nov. 2 to %, agents of the Queen
& Crescent route at Cincinnati,
Lexington, Louisville, Vicksburg,
jackson and Meridian will sell
tickets at low excursion rates foi
the round trip.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

BRENNAN, TEXAS, Sept. II, 81.
Mr.. c. c. Moore.
DEAR SIR-Find inclosed a pos
tai note for $1.00. Please send
me your book. If you stop the
Blade you need not refund any
money; l have got $500 worth al
ready.
Yours truly,
D. A. WILSON.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-10-31

d. if I want any of it,. So
that young man is out Of the
church and votes the Prohibition
ticket, while the preacher votes
the whisky ticket. Now l say
that young man is the better man
Of the two, for the preacher pulls
at the hypocritical end of the
DEVILS rope. The young man
pulls at the other, but is clear OF
hypocrisy.
Mr.. Moore l want the Blade con
tinued as you will sec by the fol
lowing. You will find check in
closed for $500 and I will be one
of ], 900 who will give $500 to be
paid to you to keep the paper in
existence. 1t is worth all the
papers in the state to me. 1t has
sand in it's craw.
f. M. BAILEY.