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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-07
The Income Tax Idea

WASHINGTON, Nov. .20.-Representa.
tive McMlllln's subcommittee of the
Democratic members Of the WAYS and
means committee on internal taxes
held two sessions at the capitol this af-
ternoon, considering the question of an
income tax. The members of the com
mittee stated that they had not consid-
cred whiskey, but only the better plan
OF imposing a tax on incomes. To
night the Democratic members Of the
committee met at Secretary CarIisles
home for another conference. The
Secretary is understood to be unfriend-
ly to the proposition to tax individupl
incomes, and 1t Is still probable that
the solution Of the matter will be q
compromise which will impose the tax
mainly on iegacies and corporations.
The proposition is supported by the
conservative members of the Demo
cratic Wilson, Turner, Mont
gomery, Stevens and Cochran. There
is no suggestion of reciprocity in the
new tariff bill, although it has been
said In some quarters that that matter
has been left hanging in the air. "If
there is anything in the bill as 1T now
stands that favors reciprocity, 1T will
not be there when the bill becomes a
law" said Chairman Wilson. "By re-
ciprOcity, mean," he continued, "that
power vested in the President under
the Mckinley act to regulate tariffs by
proclamation. Such a policy will be
cast out of the House, root and branch"
Every mail that now reaches Washing
ton brings with 1T numerous letters
and petitions addressed to the ways
ana means committee, urging 1t to in
crease the tax OF whiskey to $3.50 a
gallon. 1t appears that the religious
ana temperance bodies throughout the
country have taken up the subject, the
acClVlty being especially noticeable
among the Presbyterians.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-07
The Cotton Moveme ent

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 24.-Crop state.
ment from September to November
~, inclusive: Port receipts 2,6j5 2I5
bales against 1892 last year and
3.29l,l ,l3O year before last; overland to
mills and Canada 1886, against 3l5,.
4l0 and 6l6,5l2; interior stocks in az
cess Of September 1 3lG,266, against
2l6 las and 1886; Southern milf TAX
lngs 2lo, ,6S5, against 2O6 .43O and I87, 1916:
crop brought into sight during the
elghty-hve days to date 3,47I,5O1,
against 3,170,335 and 4,4l3, ,291; crop
brought into sight for the week 1851,
against 351 ,776 for the seven days end
| ed November 81 last year and 4lG,8OS
| for the same time year before last;
crop brought into sight for the lirst
| twenty-four days OF November 1872
G21, against l.716,575 and 1,570,331.
Comparisons in these reports are made
ND to the corresponding date last year
and year before last, and not to the
close of the corresponding week. Com
parison by weeks, one-nfth of the sea-
son, would take In seventy-slx days of
the season last year and elghty-eight
days year before last, against only
days this year.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-07
Exempt from Taxation,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-Attorney
General Olney has rendered an opinion
that certain notes issued by corporations
durlog the recent currency "famlnen are
not taxable 10 per cent. under the bank
circulation law. The opinion, which Is
addressed to Secretary Caclsle quotes
tho bank tax provision Of the internal
revenue law, and says it there is any
doubt as to the meaning of the statue
imposing this tax, the doubt must be re-
solved in favor of exemption. The
opinion was given upon clearing house
certificate from Albany, Ga, issued to
The First National Bank Of that CITY, and
the leXt OF which is embodied in the
opinion. Tho Attorney General saws:
"The paper is not signed by the FIRST
National Bank anywhere. 1t is plainly
not an instrument upon which the bank
or the clearing house association could
be sued IN an action at common law and
a money judgment recovered by proving
and introducing the paper alone, with.
out further evidence. In my opinion,
the refore, the paperls not q note within
the meaning of the statute.D
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-07
Five Negroes Kuled

CHARLESTON, w. ", Nov. 29.--Tbe
ehoting OF ten men in Eckmau, Mellow.
ell county, last evening resulting in III.
death of five aad the fatal woundlno n
several more seems 20 have resulted
from the TACT that the miners had in Al
peen paid OIL and had loaded up on NEAR
whlskey. A part of the row occurred
over the gaming table. The country is
a wild one. The miners are chiefly me-
groes and toushs. ALI of the shooting
occurred within radius of three miles
ana what is remarkable all were sepa-
rate cases. 1t is believed that all The
parties concerned were drunk.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-07
Remove by tho President

WAsIIINGTON, Nov. 28.-.George d
Johnston, Civil Service Commission er
mas been removed by the President. lie
was the only Democrat on the commis.
SION, and was appointed from Louisa.
ma oy PRESIDENT Harrison, to succeed
ilugh 5. Thompson. Mr.. Johnston re-
iused TO say anything about the affair
Ionlgnt, and the other members Of the
commission were likewise silent. The
removal grew out of report made by
Ihe commission on appointments un-
der the Postonice Department. Com
Lnlssioners Lyman aud Roosevelt made
Ine ruling and report to which JOhD-
s'on look exceptions. lie submitted a
minority report, which he desired to
make public, and it is understood that
10 this the other commissioners object.
ed. The matter being carried to he
PRESIDENT, the majority was sustainep
and the minority report order sup
pressed. On Saturday .IOhnston's res
llgnation was called for, which he re-
fused to tender, and today the Presi-
dent removed him.
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Rescued From OF Death

FIRE ISLAND. Nov, 29.-Capt. Ran
dali with MS wife and little son, and
the ten men Of the crew, who, tor up.
wards OF twenty.four hours were lash
ed to The spray -drenched rigging of the
wrecked schooner Louis IL. Randall
OH smith Point, were rescued at day-
llght today by the tug l. j. Merritt. Ia
splle OF Che exposure ard lumbing fear
10 "hich they have been subjected
SInCe the schooner went on tie beach
tuesday night they are all alive, and
Will recover when proper care can he
given them. The schooner is breakino
up.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-07
OVER IN THE SENATE.
FIRST DAY.

i IL,
One minute before the city clock
struck twelve yesterday, Lieutenant
Governor Gary raped the Senate to
order The call OF the roll showed
nearly all the Senators present Sena.
tor Hazard, of Georgetown, ana Sena-
tor Williams, of Williamsburg, were
absent, as was Senator Smythe, of
Ch;glt on. but the latter me in he.
fore business had gotten well under
way.
The scene presented by the Senators
was the usual one TO be observed each
November Everything was decorous
and placldly digned, but there was
curious, indlscrib biz look on some of
the notables. il was an air Of dreamy.
faraway conte mplatiOn which they
wore. Possibly 1t was due to the mild
sunlight which seems to shine less
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-07
THE LEGISLATURE.
THE SALARY REDUCTION BILL IN THE
HOUSE.

Salaries Wherever 1t Is POssible-Bills
of Interest Passed in tho Senate-The
Outlook For Legislation
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
MAILING TRUTHS.

The rusaors ,soAich are being csrcu-
lated ano@sd tossss by politicians to
the effect that there is a first orsseco,ad
nsortqdge, or any other leise or claim
qo1soteuer, on the Record office mater
sal, or that the proprietor offered to
sell ont for$5;OOO, or for any other
sam, is False. The truth, Aoscever, IS,
that Mayor Byoaoaa, hinsseJ, offered
to pay me for aohotecev space the
Slater people might aoassx a-L scould
zeuve their ns0tter out, using as a
lever toward my accepting his
offer and sticking to him now
when he needed my help, personal
obligat1on, incurred in connection
with my residence property, in
the shape Of notes endorsed by
him, one of which is due to-day, as
well as mentioning the fact that
some of his friends manning them)
were doing business with me, and
implying that their patronage
would be withdrawn if permitted
the friendship to remain all on one
(his) side-all of which occurred
at a private interview, March 10,
in room rs, News Building
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18

Liabilities over Assets. .$I76. .o36. 81
In two years our liabilities over
assets have jumped from $os,I55.3o
to $I76,o36.54, an increase of
S87, 88I.24. The current expenses
Of the City are in excess of receipts
and as consequence the City had
notes outstanding Dec. 81, 1892
which had been discounted amount
ing to $Io5, 500.
Ordinarily, the inflow of taxes
during November and December
very materially reduces floating
indebtness by retiring notes as
they mature.
Taxpayers need not rely on
statements put forth to serve per-
sonal ends. Personal investigation
cannot fail to convince that un-
checked extravaganza will result
in tax rate that will be. oppress-
i've.
No statemeat can be made that
can truthfully disprove the asser-
ton that the City is now in worse
condition, financially, than it
was two years ago.
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
PAssAIC- CITY, N J., SATURDAY, MARCH IS, 1893.

AT the regular Annual meeting
of the Wright Universal Electric
Company, held at the Office of the
company, .26 Whitehall ST., New
York. March 13, the following
board of Directors were elected
for the ensuing year: A. P. Mori-
son, DR.. Robert Taylor, Thomas
F. Ryder, Vim Morrison, J. Terr,
w. S. Taylor, Robert S. Morrison.
The company are about to intro
duce new f1ament to be used in
their Electrical hand lamps for
family use, which will increase the
burning time of the lamp from S
to hours, making each lamp burn
II hours or more steadily, with
only one, filing. The demand for
the Cornpany's Electrical goods is
steadily increasing, and they will
be taxed to their utmost to I'LL
all the orders received.
1t has been a good winier for
the men who had old clothes to
wear ont. Aclosely- buttoned over
coat l1assenab1ed many to appear
well at times when critical ex-
anlinatic would have been cruel.
7. Potash, shoe manufacturer,
a87 Passaic street, will sell by auc-
tion, to-day 500 pairs of shoes and
boots made by himself. His OBJ
ject is to get rid of old styles and
make room for new goods.
1t seems that post Offices are not
to be edited under this admins
tration. The mucilage on the
stamps is to be made strong
enough to stick without the aid of
editorial paste.
Forsyth & Bell hardware store
was again entered by sneak thief
Wednesday night. Knives, razors
and uevolvers to the value OF
about $50 we've stolen.
The .Aex'ss of the first Cleve-
land administration and the /. ex's'
to be, during the coming months,
might even up things by organiz-
ing new party.
According to State Senator Nc
Carren, sOf New York, Roswell P.
is not in it" when it comes TO
the selection of a National flower.
The nush of job work at the
RECORD office is unprecedented. 1t
indicates improvement in business
all over town.
The Boston Store us preparing
for its usual Easter display.
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
THE MAYOR.

When the nominating conven-
tions meet for the purpose of plac-
ing upon the ticket the names of
the men for whom the citizens of
Passaic are expected to vote they
will be confronted by conditions
which must be observed, and mat
ters which have been popular talk
for a year past will assert them
selves as a potent agency in deter
mining the best and most popular
candidates who are to bear the
voters to success.
These conditions are such that
they cannot be ignored, set aside
or compromised, but must be
fairly met and fairly dealt with.
In nearly all the Offices under our
municipal government there is a
demand that reform be inaugu-
rated, a reform not of a transient
character, not necessary revolu-
tionary or sweeping, but of such a
kind as shall result in nominee
or nominees pledged to remove
from the government the stigma
If misgovernment r which ring poli-
ticians have placed upon It: such
4 reform as will inaugurate busi-
ness methods in municipal affairs
and place a number of business
men in charge of city affairs to
second the Efforts Of the Mavor
and complete his work
These conditions will omar antee
that the rent and tax pavers will
he nrotected the GOOD name Of the
civ ke,t above mar and the deci-
sion of the voters respected
For > wear mast the popular
voice has been raised for a change
If not in men certainly in meth
ods of conducting municipal bust
ness All indications point 10 the
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
ABOUT EASTER.
How the Date is Fixed Sf sthe ssQuceM
81 Fcst1valA.c,

81 FcstivalA-e'
Easter falasson April 2, this year,
and some one asks the question !:
.sWhat fixes the date of Easter
each year, and why isn't it like
Christmas. the same date every
year.
Easter is the first Sunday after
the full moon that occurs on or
near after March Fl, and if the
full moon fall ON the 2Ist, Easter
is the next Sunday. Of course, if
the date were the same each year,
Easter would be ON Sunday but
once IN several years Some of
the early Christians did fix the
date in this way, while Others used
the present way. But IN the year
,25 the matter was brought by
Constantine before the council at
Nice, and 1t was evidently thought
best that the anniversary of the
event which changed the Sabbath
from the seventh day of the week
to the first should always fall upon
the 6rst day, for they, deciding
between the two days then in use,
selected the method which would
bring Easter always on Sundays.
Since that decision Easter cannot
fall earlier than March aa, nor
later than April IS in any year.
These days are called the Easter
limits" Easter occurred on March
22 in 1873, but cannot come again
on that day until 1885.
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
BENEATH THE WHEELS.
David Campbell, Jr., KILLED by an
Electric Car I'm Paterson.

Last Tuesday Mr.. David Camp
bell, Jr., of Passaic went to Pater-
son on business, Mr.. B. F. Abbott
accompanying him. Intending to
return home on an electric car he
reached the corner of Main street
and Broadway about six o'clock
and there waited for a Main street
car One finally reached the cor
ner and Mr. Campbell started to
cross Broadway on the eastern
cross walk. Car No. ~ on the
Broadway Park avenue line IN
charge of Motoneer Riley was
coming around the corner at the
tine and Mr.. Campbell fearing
that the Main street liner would
GO, hurried to try to pass in front
of the Eastside car. When within
about two feet of the tracks the
unfortunate man slipped and fell
stretched full length across the
tracks. His left arm lay across
one rail and his right leg across
the other. Before Motoneer Riley
could stop the car the wheels
passed over CaInpbe1l's limbs. An
effort was Immediately made by
large gathering Of men to lift the
car off the PROSTATE man but it
was of no avail.
Jacks were Tesorted to and in
this way the car was raised suffi-
cient distance to release Mr..
Campbell. The ambulance re-
moved him with his left arm and
right leg horribly crushed and
bleeding to St. Joseph's Hospital.
Wednesday morning it was
found necessary to amputate Mr..
Campbell's leg but the physicians
in charge believed that they could
save his arm and that he would
survive the shock.
At 4 o'clock Wednesday after
noon Mr.. Campbell died.
A host of friends in Passaic and
elsewhere mourn his death.
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
Gates for Grade Crossings.

The following is the full text of
the bill introduced in the Assembly
by Mr.. Chamberlain, of Hunter
don, relating to gates for grade
crossings on the railroads
Be it enacted by the Senate and
General Assembly of the State of
New Jersey that any railroad CO.
poration chartered by or author
lied to exercise it's franchises with
in this State, which now owns or
possesses as leases or otherwise,
any railroad within the State shall
erect and maintain gate at every
grade crossing where its road
crosses any public road or street
within the State, on or before the
first day of September, ammo
domini one thousand eight hun
and ninety three
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
FRANK M. UEHLEIN
WEI Give Passatc Model Bakery
and Confe< tioneTy store.

ana COnIetuOneIy STORE.
Frank M. Uehlein, the we'll
known confectioner at goo Main
avenue, will shortly occupy the
building at corner of Main avenue
and Jefferson street, and there
conduct first-class bakery and
confectionery business. In making
this step Frank is to be congratu-
lated. A few years ago he came
to Passaic stranger, with nothing
to recommend him but determ-
ined purpose, thorough experience
and correct business methods,
coupled with an amiable wife who
assisted him until a sweet little
girl came and demanded all her
attention. His store in Kip's block
is always tidy and inviting aud his
stock of fine candies and cream
fresh and reliable, and it is favor
ite resort for young and old, bach
elor and maiden, man and wife,
lover and sweetheart. He never
opens on Sunday, notwithstanding
there is always considerable bust
ness to be secured on that day.
The move he IS about to make, for
which preparation has been going
on some time, is evidence that
man who understands his business
and who believes in doing right
himself and treating his customers
right can succeed, even when ham,
pered by the many disadvantages
which beset business man in
Passaic BY the time he is ready
to make the proposed change of
location the building at corner of
Jefferson street will have been
thoroughly renovated and enlarged
and equipped with all the conven-
fences necessary for conducting a
strictly first-class bakery, confec-
tionery and ice cream business.
This is business in which Mr..
Uehlein was brought up" His
two younger baothers, of Wash
ington, are proprietors of one of
the finest stores of this kind in the
State, from which their father re-
tired several years ago. We join
his many friends in wishing him
the realization of derserving sue
cess.
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
The Record Man in Arkansas

In the middle of February just
past, while this section was be-
seiged by w1ntry storms and the
f1eecv flakes lay many inches deep,
the editor of the RECORD made a
trip to the northwestern part of
Arkansas, via that fast a beautiful
train-the Erie's Chicago Limited,
to Chicago.
Leaving Chicago at night, in the
midst of a terrible blizzard, the
Chicago and Alton vestibule
train sped away southwark to St.
Louis, where he arrived in the
morning The sun shone warm
and spring like. and one might
easily imagine he had reached the
sumo South But there was
some snow on the ground and q
chill was in the air.
A day at St. Louis is enough.
for the black smoke from hundreds
of thousands of fires fed by soft
coal is sitting.
Evening found him on a Frisco
Line train bound over three hun-
dred miles farther south westward
through southern Missouri, to
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, place
of $500 inhabitants, where he
arrived at noon the next day.
The transformation from the
chill northern climates to the
balmy atmosphere Of that favored
region was most delightful. There
was no snow to be seen; the sun
shone warm, and birds sang mer-
rily. The hills-for it is all hills
there-were putting on their
springtime appearance, and cattle
were feeding along the gulches,
where silvery streams of health
giving waters freely flow. People
sat in the parlors of the hotels and
residences without fires and with
doors open onto the piazzas; or
rested on the public seats along
the avenues and beside crystal
founts flowing from beneath many
cliffs. The people appeared
healthy and happy and live IN good
houses. The hotels are excellent.
Thousands resort to the Springs
every year for rest and recreation.
The town supports two weekly
and one excellent daily paper, the
Times Echo, and has street railway
and other modern improvements
Having enjoyed, necessarily for
a short time, the hospitality of his
uncle, Mr.. z. P. Freeman a popu-
lar and well to do citizen at the
Springs, who went west before the
war, the editor a few days later
found himself snow bound in the
northern hills, with snow and ice
everywhere, and several engines
unable to move the train. He
finally reached Passaic, where 4
good old fashioned winter was on,
fully convinced of the fact thar
this is great country.
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18
A Good Word for the Winter.

Winter is about taking It depar-
ture, and while we welcome March,
with its train of spring impulse
and enterprise, it is but fair to take
a kindly, If not exactly, formal
leave of the winter. SO noted as
the coldest and stormiest in a score
of years.
In this matter, contrasts quicken
our conception of facts. We may
recall the comparatively mild,
snowless winters that frequently
visit this latitude, with a stray dan
delion in December, and blue birds
in February following, the some
time flowing Passaic river of jan
uary dates. Such things have
been, but by no means can they be
cited as incidents Of a covetable
winter. The compensations and
offsets to such unnatural mildness
in this latitude are well un-
derstood, at least by physicians ;
and the positive impediments and
interruptions to local travel and
business, by reason of weeks of
bare, frozen or muddy roads and
fields, are even more TO be depre-
Gated than painfully frosty air
blowing over icy snow drifts.
There is such deal of preva
lent extravagant complaint of this
. .horrid climate" (" this dreadful
winter even by the healthy. we'll
clothed, and comfortable-such an
undue exultation of the superior
tiles of Florida, California, South
ern Italy. etc, as to oblige nerv-
Gus, sympathetic people either to
join the TRADE against our winter
" disagreeables," or else seek to
name the discomforts which are
shared alike in all those mildeT
climates, or, what is more sensible,
take an account of the stock of our
own local advantages.
IF the winter just closed is noted
for an unusually low mercury, it
will also show a lower death roll
than usual, as we'll as greater inn
munily from contagious, skin, lung
and throat diseases. Even the ir-
ritating changes of temperature
have been mainly on the side of
health; the prevailing dry cold
weather, so much in excess of
dampness, contributing to general
invigoration. that very best con-
dition, as is we'll known, for resist
ing either existing contag1on or
the effects of imprudent exposure
and fatigue.
A population of invalids and
idlers may find the uniform, softer
flower scented climates more
agreeable, and also remedial to the
first class; but for well, energetic
people, doubtless a climate more
varying, a country less piquantly
beautiful lin short, the very re
gion we live in-is best suited.
Let not those who experience in
convenience or discomfort from
our winters, imagine for moment
that the milder climates are en-
tirely free from disadvantages.
the natives and visitors of the
more sunny climes have their
coughs, colds, catarr11s, consump-
tons, if not at the same rate with
ourselves, yet with far fewer as
suaging home comforts and COM
batants; they do not generally have
we'll warmed and cosey houses;
indeed fires, except for cooking
purposes, are the Unknown ex-
ceptions there. Let us consider
our coal bins and be happy.
Passaic City record., 1893-03-18

The Great Atlantic ard Pacific Tea
Store on Main avenue near Washington
place is always giving away something
handsome-especially at holiday times.
AS an Easter Souvenir, every pur-
chaser, on Monday March 81. and for
one week thereafter, will receive q beaa-
tiful panel picture entitled : Playmates,
This is ahead of anything ever given
away. You are invited to go and see for
yourself.