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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-08
Record Of James John Corbess.

James John Corbett was born in San
Francisco, Sept. 1, 1865. He was educat-
ed at the Sacred Heart College of that
city, and when graduated Flood, the
Bonanza King, secured him q clerkship
in the Nevada Bank. While holding the
position he won the amateur heavy
weight championship of California In
1884. He became so infatuated with box
came boxing instructor OF the Olympic
Athletic Club and drifted into fighting
as business. His professional record:
Defeated Dave Eiseman; two rounds.
Defeated James Daily; four rounds.
Defeated Duncan Mcdonald, of suite, Mont.
Drew with Jack burke. the "Irish lad" at
San Francisco; eight rounds
Defeated Joe Choynski at San Francisco;
four rounds.
Defeated Mike Brennan, the Porta Costa
giant; three rounds
Defeated Capt. James DAILY; two rounds.
Defeated Frank Smith, Of Salt Lake; three
rounds.
Defeated George Atkinson; two rounds.
Defeated Frank Glover; two rounds.
Defeated Joe Choynski, on q barge on the
Sacramento River; "a rounds.
Bested Joe McAuiiffe in Q point contest;
four rounds
Defeated John Donaldson at San Francisco.
Defeated Prof. william Miller of Australia;
Defeated Martin ("Buffalo'D Costello; three
rounds. aa
Defeated Dave Campbell, at Portland. Ore.
Defeated Jake Kilrain, at New Orleans,
Feb. ~, 1899; six rounds.
Defeated Dominick McCaffrey at South
Brooklyn; April a. 1890 four rounds.
Drew with Peter Jackson at San Francisco,
May 1891; 81 rounds.
Has successfully met all corners on his tour
Defeated William spillinss, Bob Coffee and
Joe Lannon In one night at Madison Square
Garden.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-08
Record Of John Lawrenc. sullivan.

John l.. Sullivan was born in Boston.
Oct. Is. 1858. lie is 8 feet 10 1-2 inches
tall. He began sparriny in 1873, but pre-
viously figured ns a fairly gooi baseball
PLAYER. Here is concise history OF his
fstic performances:
Defeated Joe Goss. Music Hall, Boston; one
round 1872
Dcfeated George Rookie at Boston; ono
round 1879
Defea cd Prof. John Donaldson a. cincin-
natl three rounds 1880
Dofea.ed trof. John Donaldson, same city.
Dec 20 1851 ten foynds
Defeated steve taylor. Harry Hiil's. New
York, March 81. 1911 Ia thre s-rou nd bout
Defeated John Flo7d. - q barge n the
Hudson River, May A 1891 eight rounds.
purse ~ 600.
Def.sed Psday Ryan At Mississippi City.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-08

sullivans stomach. Corbett wass now
| the aggressor. They exchanged hot
blows and clinched. Sullivan landed on
Jim's deck. Honors easy.
Round 17-Sullivan swung his left
| lightly on Corbett's neck. Both were
very anxious. John landed good left on
C,rbett,s body. Corbett seemed the
fresher man. Sullivan was breathing
hard. Corbett neatly nv ,ided left on
the face. Jim jabbed Jonn in the mouth,
following IL with q heavy left on Johns
stomach. They exchanged light lefts.
Round 1S-Corbett was confident. The
men exchanged hard blows on the head
and stomach. Jim jabbed John hard in
the nose. Jim swung with the right on
Johns head. John cross-countered on
the neck. Corbett jabbed John hard
twice but Sullivan came back hard on
Corbett. The blow sounded like base
drum. Jim swung hard on Johns stom-
ach. Corbett led Sullivan on and
punched Sullivan four right handed
blows in the face. Corbett had the best
of the fight to now. He had not marx
on him.
Round 10 - Both quickly responded.
Sullivan landed heavily on Corbett's jaw.
Sullivan was now the aggressor and
looked viciously at Corbett. Jim smiled
and danced around him. Corbstt landed
twice on Sullivan's stomach and followed
with the right on the face. Sullivan
two lefts in the face. Sullivan was wind
ed and had the worst OF the fight up to
this time.
Round 20-Sullivan looked very tired.
Sullivan landed left on Corbett's face.
Jim was very cautious. Jim forced John
to the ropes and landed four swinging
blows. The champion was nearly
knocked down with right In the jaw.
Corbett made vicious swing but Sulli-
van jsmped away. Corbett punched Sui
livan hard in the stomach. Sullivan was
tired. Corbett landed his left on Johns
stomach. John retaliated hard on the
neck. Corbett forced John to the ropes
with a heavy right and left. Corbett had
the best of this round.
Round II and last-Sullivan led with
his left but every blow was weak. Both
spared for wind. Both then exchanged
lefts. Jim landed his left on Johns
stomach. Corbett rushed Sullivan to the
ropes, knocking him all around the ring.
Corbett knocked Sullivan down with a
terrible right handed swing. The cham
pion tried to respond, but could not get
up. Sullivan then was ''counted out"
and Corbett was given the fight. Corbett
came out Of the fight without . scratch.
The crowd went wild.
Sullivan was badly punished and bleed
ing like beef. The ovation that the
Californian received was something tre-
mendous.
James j. Corbett OF California was de-
clared winner in the twenty first round,
and declared champion heavy weight
pugilist OF the world.
Sullivan's Graceful Acknowledgements.
NEW ORLEArs, La, Sept. 6.-When
Sullivan was brought around after his
knockout, he stepped into the middle OF
the ring and made q speech, saying that
he was glad that the championship re-
mained In America, but that he had
fought once too often. The crowd
cheered him wildly.
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REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE.
~ 1 a 1ssoAAScE REAh EsTATE ASD xNsURASch.
Oakland Beach

Of all months September the best for purchasing real
estate People returning from the various summer resorts
where weeks OF pleasure have been passed. always feel like
renewing them another year. In this connection we desire
to call your special attention the heathfuness and beauty
OF Oakland Beach for summer home situated on the
western shore of Narragansett Bay where the direct sea
breezes are never falling where the climate is unsurpassed
by any section in New England where the facilities for
travefor the business all that could be desired
and where the prospects for future growth are unlimited
We have no hestancy saying that this particular location
offers superior inducements any other the coast and
therefore cordially invite you call Office inspect the
plat note the prices arrange with visit the property
and 1t meets your approval to select site for your future
home
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swan fOlls cemetery.
Oficc Breck's Building. No. 35 North
Main street.
CHARLEs II. GOULD, Tren.urer
Ielephons NO, 49, City Once

gHARLEs u. GOULD, Trea.ureE
Telephone No. etl-2 City once
TIMOTHY MCCARTHY, superintendeu.
ut thc Cemetery.
An omnibus will lie run from blackstone Park as
the terminus ~ the Governor street horss car route
further notice. ~ follpws Connecting 18th the
Governor street cars which leave arket square al
lii5 A. 81. and every forty minutes thereafter tIli
t5s y. ". On sundays ~ lOls A. NJ, and every
twenty minutes thereafter tlll $3.50 r. VI Heturn-
ing. leave swan Po NJ week dsys at ~ NJ, and
very forty minutes !hereafte tn go y. " and
thereafter til X ~ n ~.
Providence. MAJ ~. isSA
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12

v.
married His first wife, Adella King,
died in Erie County before he came to
Waterloo. A daughter survived her,
who is now Mrs. J. W. Carson, living at
Mount Vernon, Iowa. His second wife
was the daughter of DIR. Barber, for
merly of Erie County, but who had
located at Waterloo before his daugh-
ter's marriage He had come West for
her health, and it was this circum-
stance that probably had much
to do with the final location of
Mr.. Roes at Waterloo, Three
children survived her-two sons and
one daughter. f. L. and Herbert Boies
are two bright young men who are
carrying on with the help of their
fathers advice large law practice
which he had built up at Waterloo. Miss
Jcssica Boies presides over the Govern
or's household, and is the only member
of the Governors family who displays
any interest in his official position. This
young lady is about 26 years old, and
spends considerable time with her
father in Des Moines. She is a most
interesting young woman, very popular
in society circles both at Waterloo, Des
Moines, and throughout the State. She
is known in the best society in all the
different cities in Iowa. Tall and state
ly, she is a handsome brunette with an
especially graceful carriage and pleasing
manners. She is an active member of
the Congregational Church and takes an
earnest interest in the promotion Of re-
ligious work.
Governor Boies has two splendid
farms in Iowa, which he operates by
means of tenants and by the cultivation
Of great many acres himself. His
whole lande1 possessions aggregate
about $500 acres, most of which he ac-
quired when Iowa was young State
and lands were cheap. Governor Boies'
tastes and habits are of the simplest
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12

On the day that man finds out that
he is fool he has become a near neigh
Dor to wisdom.
PEOPLE are a good deal like trees,
Those who make the most bows do not
often bear the most fruit.
CHICAGO man recently advised his
betrothed to eat sauerkraut aud beans
rs preventive Of the grip.
HERR HAULER-"What do you think
OF my voice, madam" She-"I don't
think of it II I can help it"
A TOMBSTONE is about the only place
where the average man doesn't really
care to have his name in print.
The devil gets a good many men by
persuading them that the way TO be
happy Is to make lots Of money.
THERE'S great art" says Mickey
Lennon, lin knowing what not to know
whin yez don't want to know 1t.
A MAN reaches sitter the unattatnable
when he finds fault with everybody and
expects none to find fault with him.
THE man who has sworn OF profanity
should spend few minutes In medita-
ton before removing porous plaster.
AN italian woman living in New York
has, during her eighteen years Of mar
ried life, given birth to thirteen chill
dren.
THERE are lots OF wives in the world
who never know that their husbands are
"jovial and whole-souled" except when
they see It In the papers. :
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12

You don't mean to say" said a
stranger to whom he was telling the
story of the old barrel, that this is the
same barrel?'
Yes, sir; the identical barrel"
Are these the same hoops?'
NO. we had to put TN new hoops
Are these the same heads?"
"No. We had to put in new heads.
Are these the original staves?'
NO. we had to put in new slaves"
We'll, sir, if the hoops. slaves, and
heads are all new. l should like to
know what there is about the barrel
that is old?"
why" said he, "thc bung-hole, to
be sure"
Now, dear reader. this is all that re-
mains unchanged Of the Democratic or
Republican parties the bunghole.
Old partisans lay very close to it.
The people or plutocracv must go.
Which shall it be? Liberty or slavery !?
Your votes shall decide the question.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12

sons who have fixed salaries. This
includes all the officers of the coun-
try in its various departments of
National, State. County and Municipal
government. The officers of all pub
lie institutions with their clerks and
subordinates, whose salaries are fined
by Ia.
Besides these are all the officers of
all the great corporations who lay trib-
ute upon the people, independent of
law, and fix their own salaries without
regard to the amount of money in cir
culation.
Look at the bankers, with their mill
ions of interest every year, made 10y
selling 75-cent wheat and Scent hog.
When money was plenty You paid 10
per cent. interest on what little You
had to borrow, but 100 pounds of pork
at 10 cents Il pound paid it. Now in
terest is only 8 per cent. at the banks,
but it takes $50 pounds of FORK to pay
it. 1t takes just as many pounds of
corn 10 fattcn that hog as it ever did.
Thus you see all this class are inter-
cstcl in dear money, gold basis. and
cheap labor, and they s.and ready at
any time to down anybody who opposes
them.
If Webster, who denounced banks,
! were living now he would be called Il
crank, calamity howlcr; jefferson,
who said, hanks are more dangerous
to the liberties of the people than
standing armies" dcmagogue: and
Lincoln. who said, "thc corporations
that had become enthroned during the
war would try to prolong their reign
of working upon the preiudiccs of the
people till all wealth was concentrated
in few hands and the Republic de-
stroyed, would be denounced as an
anarchist. Now. my readers. those of
vou who remember the two old parties
when their leaders We're honest and in
corrup!ible men and patriots, before
the demons of greed and avarice took
possession cf them. before the imper-
ialism Of capital had corrupted the
leaders, when men were actuatcd hy
principle, ask yourselves if either of
the parties are SO now. If they are
not, aren't YOU voting your prejudiccs
instead of your principles?
| Compare John Sherman, Brier, Bay
ard, and Blaine with Thomas Jeffer-
son, Garrison, jackson, and Lincoln.
The two old parties have drifted
clear away from the ancient landmarks
and are more like the old mans barrel,
that he said had been in his family for
100 Years.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12

II is shame that SO many of the
Congressman who were III favor of free
silver, and who said they were in favor
of free coinage of silver should have
absented themselves from Congress
when come the time to vote. When
came the time, these men were wanted.
Mr.. Bland, who introduced the bill,
had to telegraph here and there asking
Congressman to be there to vote, but
they did not all come He charges and
proves that Speaker Crisp of Georgia,
changed his attitude toward the meas
ure, deceived the friends of the meas
ure, and by the use of his official pow
er caused many Congressman who fav-
ored free coinage to weaken in their
position. lest they and the bills they
had before Congress should suf-
fer defeat at the hands or votes
of the gold conspirators- Enter
prise.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12

to everybody practically unlimited
quantities of wheat which he does not
owr.and never expects to own, is named
Edward Pardridge. The dispatch
says:
After day of wild excitement on
change, the famous plunger, impassive
as stone. stood on the floor of the
Board of Trade receiving frantic con-
gratulations. his brokers informing
him that he was richer by at least half
a million dollars, and that acting for
him they had pounded down the price
of wheat ) cents on every bushel. His
enemies. who. it was said, had formed
q combination Il few days ago to COM
pass his ruin, were themselves made
heavy losers and put to utter route.
The scene during the latter part of the
session was the most exciting that has
been witnessed for many day. From
50 % cents, May wheat was dropped
by bcarish news and big jumps to SOl,
and finally closed at s0l. This is %
cents below the close of Saturday
night, From the high point to the
low figure, Pardridge makes 5 cents
per bushel, it is supposed, on his 1O,-
O0O, 900 short line. or what amounts to
n gam of half millions. Over and
above this it is estimated that he netted
considerable on the trades on iluctua-
tions. He was the heaviest buyer
and seller, and apparently must have
made a pot of money out Of his scalp
ing"
Possibly Congress will see no
reason in this for passing a law
to suppress this kind of gambling.
BY longer neglecting this measure
of protection to our markets from
such raids, our law makers will con-
vict themselves of caring more for
some other interests than those of the
people.
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DOES FARMING pay,
been led to believe that there was any

been led to believe that there was any
body in the United States mean
enough to try to carry it out, "It is bet
ter to control the money of the nation
and through it the wages of the peo
pie than it is to own the, slave" or if
he could have read what jefferson said
about banks being more dangerous to
the liberties of the people than stand
ing armies, he might have hustled
enough to pay oU.
Dear reader, ,<if You should venture
to humbly petition your servants in
Congress " make legal-tender paper
money plenty enough to enable you to
do business upon cash basis,
and to pay your debts, you would
be called an intiationist, calamity
howler and repudiator by the
papers, and fool by the political
party Democratic or Republican--yo
have always been voting with. Those
subsidized papers will also tell you
that it don't make any difference
whether money is plenty or not. They
say you can buy more with your money
now than ever before. Look at sugar,
they say, you used to pay % cents a
pound for it, now You can buy twenty
pounds for dollar.
To this silly answer that the bankers
have told the papers to tell you every
week for years, l answer: If we were
all producers it would not make much
difference. But we are not; we have
large army of non-produccrs who
never produce cents worth of wealth,
but they fare sumptuously every day"
on the wealth produced by others. 1t
IS in these two parties producers
and the non-producers-that the differ
ence exists between high and low
prices. and cheap and dear money. All
professional men charge twice as much
as they used to when wheat was s. a
bushel, and it costs ten times as much
to bury you.
1t is necessary to have Legislators to
make laws for both State and Nation,
and officers to administer those laws
running through all the ramifications
of government from President to Road
Supervisor, and from Chief Justice to
Constable. This class all have fixed
salaries, and whether wheat is $1.5O or
tc Cc1lS IL DuSuc4 uIAW tuc SiL1S
number of dollars for their salaries,
and the government collects it off the
wealth created by labor. So, when
wheat is 81, so it takes 1000 bushels,
to pay an officer whose salary is 81 500
year.
But when wheat drops to IS cents it
takes 1900 bushels to pay him. As it
requires as much labor to raise 75-cent
wheat as it does $3.50 wheat, it takes
just twice as much labor to pay the
81, 500 salary as it does when wheat is
worth $l.50. When wheat falls from
$3.50 to IS cents it doubles the pur-
chasing power of the Office holders
dollar, as far as wheat and flour is con
cerned, but it doesn't reduce his sal
ary. What is true of wheat is true oi
pork, beef, wool and all the products
of labor.
This illustration applies to all per
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12
How rriecs Are Controlled.

In discussing any question if we
eliminate the errors that time and
change of circumstances added to hui
man stupidity have thrown around it.
we will find what remains will consti-
tute the truth in relation to the ques-
ton under discussion.
Ipropose in this paper to point out
some of the errors that time and cir
cumstances have thrown around the
financial question.
And to begin, I will contend that
the old commercial dogma, {that the
supply and demand of commodities
regulate the prices of commodities is
not true nor has it ever been the truth
since men passed in commercial
knowledge beyond the principles OF
barter.
In primitive times, when barter was
the only method of commercial trans
actions known the dogma that / am
considering may have been true.
But as soon as men advanced in civ
ilizatio SO far as to recognize the ad-
vantage of some representative of all
objects of commerce, then the dogma
ceased to be truth.
And it seems to ME perfectly clear
that the prop rosition, that the supply
and demand of the representative alone
regulated the price OF commodities and
not the demand and supply of the com
moilities themselves.
To illustrate, l will suppose that
there is of the commodities produced
by labor for sale land will he conceded
suppose by all that there is not, nor
ever has been anything to sell that is
not the product of labor, lin this OF
any other country products of labor
that will amount in value to one thou
sand millions of dollars, we will sup
pose that there is in circulation in the
country where those labor products are
! produced, sum equal to one thousand
million dollars of this representative
| which the world calls money, We see
at once that the labor products and
the representative called money are
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successive terms, John NJ. Hamilton,
and Richard J. Ogleshy again. 1t was
we'll planned, and although an cd struc-
ture the building was SO thoroughly
overhaulcd. inside and oit, about two
Years ago that it still makes a acreditable
and comfortable, IL not an elegant. ex-
ecutive mansion. 1t is plain Trick
structure, and is situated on the south
end Of an entire block o. ground. The
ground to the north slopes gently to the
street, the lawn is thickly studded with
fine shade trees. and fountain plays in
front Of the house between the grace
fully curved carriage drives.
The present occupants o. the mansion
are Governor and Mrs. J. W. Fifer, their
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12
quail, and at what we would call q

equal, and at what We would call
party.
Now, under those conditions tie
prices Of those labor products would
be remunerative and fair, and We would
have what we call good times.
Now suppose again we have the
Thousand million dollars of labor prod
ucts for sale, and let us further sup
pose that through some means, say the
passage of a national hank act, a cor
poration gets control of this reprcsen-
tative of .ll labor products called
money and should lock up half of it,
leaving only five hundred millions in
circulation, don't you see that the in
evitable result would he 10 force the
thousand millions of labor products
down to the level of the five hundred
millions of dollars Of the representa-
tive money? Nothing else could
happen, and SO instead of the supply
and demand of labor products regulat-
ing the price, we find that the supply
and demand of the representatives in
exorably regulates the prices of every
thing that is to sell of the products OF
labor.
And it is recognition of this uni,n-
peachable fact that justities economic
writer's when they say that whoever
controls the money of country hold
the prosperity and happiness of the
people in their grasp"
1t makes little difference indeed how
much or how little labor makes, if the
money of the country is under the
control of any man or set of men, this
man or those men have in their hands
absolutely the happiness of the people
that depend on the fair circulation OF
money for their prosperity.
The fraudulent cry of -produc-
ton has always been lie invented by
the predatory classes to cover up their
villainous tracks; such thing under
fair and normal conditions is an utter
inpossibility.
And if it was possibly true that the
dogma that supply and demand OF
commodities regulated their price it
would be mockery to assert it in the
face of the fact that monopoly now
controls both.-John NJ. Payne, in the
Cotton Plant.
A Half Million in One Day..
The effect of short selling in de-
pressing the price Of wheat has been
analyzcd in the Kansas Farmer. A
striking cxemplification of this tool
place in Chicago the other day. The
man who was ready at all times to sell
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-12

A 19-YEAR-oLD girl Of Cincinnati
plac ed chair over a hole in the side
walk opposite her fathers house, where
Western Union workmen were about to
put a telegraph pole. She sat on the
chair until her father obtained an Ia
junction. This is the first occasion on
record when Jay Gould was sat down on
by a young lady.-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
THERE were a good many people smil-
ing at Grief in Cincinnati a few days
ago. Miss Mary Grief, pretty girl OF
IS, placed chair over a post-hole made
by Western Union workmen opposite
her fathers home, and deliberately and
firmly sat down and held the chair in
place while her father obtained an in
junction against putting a telegraph
pole where he did not want it.-Des
Moines News.