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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-16
PENINSULA NEWS.

William b. Earle late of Fedderman
Il Earle, Of Centreville, has applied in
the circuit court of Queen Anne for
the benefit of the insolvent law
Over two hundred OF the most prom
inent landowners in Talbot have agreed
not 10 shoot any patridges this season
and to prohibit cunning on their
lands.
Mrs. Sallie Jones died at her home
near Cambridge on Sunday Nov. Sd,
aged 96. She was an aunt of John
T.. Hurst and was the oldest resident
of Dorchester county.
Franklin p. Hynson has sold his
grocery business in Chestertown to
Frank McWhorter, the former pro-
prietor having determined to cast his
financial fortunes in Texas town.
Plans have been accepted by the
commissioners OF Dorchester county
for placing Il fire proof vault in the
office of the clerk of the Circuit Court
for the preservation of the public re-
cords.
A freight wreck occurred near the
Elkton station on the p. w. d b.
Railroad, early on Monday morning
Of last week Several tons OF coal
were spilled along the track, but no
serious damage was done.
Dover will soon be equipped with a
town telephone connecting the different
places of business Mr. Miller of the
firm OF Carrot. Miller & CO., of vii
mington, has been there and secured
enough names to guarantee the project.
The Democrat, of Georgetown, pub
lished an account of marriage of a
colored couple recently in the A. NJ.
Z. Church Of that place. When the
bridal party entered the church the
choir sang "Come, Ye Disconsolate, :"
and upon their exit an air no less
familiar was sung.
Street urchins in Middletown have
adopted new method of amusement.
They catch sparrows, blow up small
paper bags tie them to the sparrows'
tails and then let them 20.
The number of bicycles in Middle
town is on the increase and some Of
the people there want laws to regulate
the speed. Some people are afraid Of
being run into at night, and want
cyclists to carry lamps. There will be
100 wheelmen in that town in short
time.
At Woodside, Kent County, seven
houses were visited by burglars early
on Sunday morning. j. p. Slaughter
lost s., Andrew jenkins sl2, and a
pair Of driving gloves, and James
Smith, the colored preacher, pair of
shoes.
The Middletown Transcript says !:
George Nj. Stevenson, Smyrna Ca
terer, who was engaged Tor the Browne
Parvis wedding breakfast, made a raid
upon the Transcript office on Wednes-
day and after he left the office force
made raid upon the box Of good things
he left. Mr. Stevenson was with the
Smyrna Times for years and he knows
how to interest the employees of a
newspaper office from the editors up.
BY way OF joke, some fellow work
men of William Honey, an employee of
Richardson & Robbins cannery, load.
ed his pipe with smoking material
composed of one-third tobacco and
two-thirds gunpowder. William light
ed il without suspician, but after few
puffs disastrous explosion occurred.
His face was badly burned, his mus
tache singed off, and his right eye so
seriously injured that there is little
hol e of saving the sight.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-16
IIow's This +:

We offer One IIunired D,llar> Reward
for any case of ''atarrh that cannot lie cured
hy Halls cntarrh Cure
+ j. CHENEY 4 Co, Props. Toledo, q.
W. the undersigned. have known +. J.
Chcnes fnt the last Is wears. and believe
him l,.rf"rtle hon ,rahlc in all business
transactions aud financially able to carry
ont ANY obligation nrrie rs their firm.
WEST Il TRU *. Wholesale Druggists, To-
edo. q.
Waldiug, kinuan 4 Marvin. Wholesale
Druggists. Toledo Gkio
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood AMI mucous
surfaces of the system. Price. 7,c per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Tcstim"n-
ials free.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-16
The People,

According to the Baltimore SIN the
census of Maryland needs alteration.
1t says "the people Of Maryland
won in their fight" meaning the
5000 who jabbed their trusty blades
into the Democratic ticket
II the 5000 were the people, and
the Republicans who assisted them are
allowed to stay in the State count, thi.
excludes the 100000 straight Demo.
cratic voters altogether, and reduces
the number of people in our State con,
siderably.
Who are the people, anyhow =
Hagersto,rn Nail.
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expenses, with salaries for the execu-
tive officers.
No END TO GOOD THINGS.

expenses, with salaries for the execu
tive officers.
No END TO GOOD THINGS.
The Governor fills temporarily all
vacant Judgcships, County Commits
sionerships, vacancies in the office Of
the Sheriff, in the Orphans Court
Judges and the Police Commissioners
All the appointments must be made
under the Constitution within 30 days
after the opening Of the session Of the
General Assembly, ami sent into the
Senate for confirmation.
There are 40 or 80 positions to be
filled in the Legislature, such as officers
and clerks of the two bodies. There
are also a number OF subordinates,
which increases the list Of employees Of
the two Houses to as many. if not
more. than the number of members.
A hot fight has already begun between
county and city politicians of the
second grade for these clerical posi-
tons, which generally pay about 50 a
day for 80 days. The principal clerks
and officers get $40 day.
The Democrats who are expecting
to be busted say they are willing to
give up their offices to good Republi.
can party men, but they hope that
they will not have to hand them over
to boiling Democrats.
A STORM BREWING.
Charles j. Bonaparte, the noted
civil service reformer, is now one OF
the foremost leaders of the Republican
party in Maryland. He says that
the merit system should prevail, and
the Democrats and Republicans alike
are now anxious to see whether Mr.
Bonaparte will be able TO apply hi:
civil service reform methods here
The ward bosses and political workers
the men who have been working fol
the Republican tickets on election
days for years. are already kicking
about the civil service reform idea
I'VE want the spoils, say they. 1--WE
can't work for nothing. If we don'I
get the offices the Democrats will soon
get the State back again" There is a
storm brewing if the plums are not
passed around pretty generously. The
pathways of the new Governor and
Mayor will not be strewn with roses
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-16
Letter List.

Letters remaining in Snow Hill. Md.
Postofiice, saturday Nov 10th, 1898.
Mrs. Susan Johnson, Kate Drifting.
ham, Mrs. +. ii. Wilson. Alexander
Birmingham, u. Y. ID. Johns.
Persons calling for above letters will
please say they are advertised.
JOHN l.. Mock, =. NJ
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-16
COMFORT.

1t is impossible to be comfortable
with hacking cough. bad cold, pain
in the back, rheumatism, toothacEe,
earache, soar eyes and dyspepsia. The
Combination Drug Store, in the Shanty
Palace. corner Nubbin Avenue and
Savage's Retreat, Berlin, Md, is where
you can find remedies that brings com
fort; reading matter that edifies the
mini cigars that cater TO the finest
taste; banker to supply you with
cash a dentist to extract and save
teeth, and make you artificial teeth !;
salesman to serve you promptly /;
prices to suit the times, and open doors
500 days in the year.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-16

Samuel Shockley, aged l3 years,
fell off train near Lincoln City, and
was so badly injured that he died.
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The Messenger.

~ This paper has the largest circuIa-
tion OF any paper in Worcester County,
aud Is the ofiicial paper of the County.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-16

Then come the Supervisors Of Elec-
ton. three for Baltimore city and
three for each county all registration
and election officers, all State auction
GERS, Coroners. Commissioners of
Pharmacy, Inspectors of Steam Boil
ers, keepers of the hay scales, weighers
o: hay and straw, weighers of live
stock, State whartinger, commanders
AMI captains of the fishery and oyster
measures, mine inspectors, and so on.
He does not appoint the Board Of
Pelice Commissioners. They are cleo
ted by the Legislature and he confirms
or rejects them. The incoming Legis-
lature elects two of the three members
Of the Board. OF course. they will be
Republicans One will succeed John
G. I.egg and the other will take the
place Of John Gill The latter's term,
however, will not expire until 1897,
but ia order 10 get control of the police
force Of this city the Republican Leg
islature can easily cut short Mr.. Gilfs
I Itt Ill al Dtiitt 81 ~ ~ navy pubia-
can majority in the Board next year.
| But apart from the direct offices
filled by the Governor, there are many
important ones which he indirectly
controls. and which play no mean part
in politics. The Board Of Public
Works, of which the Governor is
chairman, appoint the managers OF
the House Of Correction they i'll turn
select the superintendent, and he has
a large number Of deputies and subor-
dinates. The wardens of the Peniten.
tiary and the managers Of other msti'
tutions are also appointed in the same
manner The Governor also appoint:
all State Commissioners. Some OF these
positions are honorary, and other have
appropriations to cover their necessary
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-11-16

= he l1-year old daughter OF Will
liam Munnie, Of Sharon, Pa, is living
in n critical condition and cannot re-
cover. She had often heard that to
swallow n whole chickens heart was Il
good omen. and that she would behold
her prospective husband in the next
gentleman she would meet. She tried
to swallow the chicken heart. which
lodged in her windwipe. When a
physician was summoned the girl was
in a dying condition from strangulation.
We have been printing a number
of handsome wedding invitations this
fall. City styles at less than city
prices, prevail at the MESSENGER
Office.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1895-10-02
Reign of High Carnival.
St. Louis in a Blaze
of Glory.
Seven Weeks of Uninterrupted

The name of Americas greatest car
nival city-St. Louis will be blaZon-
ed on the skies of gaiety from Septem-
ber 4th to October 18th, 1895. The
eighteenth annual reign of carnival
will parade the city, and for seven
weeks. European capitals noted for
their seasons of mystery and regal en-
tertainment will gracefully bow to the
superiority of the city on the banks of
the Mississippi.
September 4th will mark the open
ing of the Twelfth Annual St. Louis
Exposition. This splendid feature of
St. Louis's carnival period will remain
open until October 10Th. In addition
to Sousa's world-famed band many
new attraction will be offered. Sep
tember 4th to l4th the Celebrated
French Equilibrsts, the Kins-Ners,
will appear. September 18th to the
2sth, Caicedo, 1.-The King of the Wire"
and Louis Oloriz, "the Man Monkey"
by their unique entertainment will
delight the fun-seeking public. Sep
tember Both to October 18th. Ivan
Tscheroff's celebrated educated mutes,
the Russian dogs, are carded for a
series of wonderful performances. Oc-
tober 18th to 10Th, Price kokin, the
greatest japanese Juggler alive, will
fill an engagement, while Buck Taylor
and troupe of native Sioux Indians
and Miss Carnelia Campbell Bedford,
of New York, Demonstration of Cook
ing. will appear every day during the
Exposition season.
That mysterious parsonage, King
IIotu, and his retinue will give day.
light parade September 2Sth. This is
one Of the most unique attractions OF
the carnival season in st. Louis, and
is grotesquely staged. October 7th to
18th, the world-beater, the great st.
Louis Fair, will be the chief attraction.
On the evening October Sth, His
Majesty the Yelled Prophet and royal
court will parade the principal
! thoroughfareS of the City, followed by
the famous ball, which is known of
throughout the land.
| All the St. Louis theaters, during
the season of high carnival, have
billed most excellent attraction.
Among the number might be mention
ed 'Trilby," Lyceum Theatre Com
pany, Chas. Frohman's Stock Com
pany, Hoyt'S "a Black Sheep,
DeWolf Hopper, ect.
| The management of the Missouri
Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain
Route constantly having the interests
of st. Louis in mind, will sell tickets
from all points on the system to the
carnival city and return at greatly
reduced rate. FOrcopy of the program
giving the features of the carnival
season in detail, address company!
agents, Or Fl. c. Townsend, Genera
Passenger Agent, st. Louis, Mo.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1895-10-02

vance over 1894; they fail to tell
the decrease in wages is still Is per
cent below 1892. Nor do they tell
the poor laborer on account OF
tariff reform the price of his shoes
has advanced about 40 per cent:
his nails to tack boards over his
poor family have advanced nearly
100 per cent, from which they
promised to take the tariff off and
make them cheap. wish to give
X. Q. Mills credit for a statement
he. made in one of his great tariff
reform speeches: ''Give the Dem
ocratic party power and we will
put our own skillful and produc-
tive labor upon a plane of equality
with the labor of all other coun-
tries" You will notice that he
does not propose to put labor Of
other countries on equality with
ours, but ours with others.
One other quotation from the
Register" Of August 10, 1898:
''The army Of unemployed grows
larger ever hour, the sole reason
for this deplorable state of affairs
is lack of confidence. Congress
must act, and act quickly.''
l will give another quotation,
Consul Mason's report to Hon.
John q. Carlisle, 1895: IAN inn
portant factor in the labor of Ger
many is not inquired into, viz: the
labor of dogs. l have heard it es-
timated that women and dogs, har-
messed together, do more heavy
hauling than the railroads and all
the other modes of conveyance of
goods united. Hundreds of small
wagons can be seen every day on
all the roads leading to and from
Dresden, each having a dog for
the near horse,' while the off
horse is a woman, with her left
hand grasping the wagon tongue
to give it direction, and the right
hand passed through a loop in a
rope which is attached to the axle;
thus harnessed, woman and dog
trudge along together, pulling
marvellous loads in all sorts of
weather."
Is this the kind of labor that the
Hon. Roger Quarles Mills had in
his minds prophetic eye when he
was making his speech. In clos
ing, we will say, if our good and
intelligent voters wish to realize
the conditions as to labor as stated
in Consul Mason's report, let them
vote the free trade ticket and we
will all soon get there with both
feet. A. BRAND.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1895-10-02

of the Union, every class of society:
all feel it, though it may be felt at
different places in different degrees.
1t is like the atmosphere around us;
all must inhale it and none can es-
cape from it. A few years ago
the planting interest consoled itself
with its happy exemptions from
the general calamity, but it has
now reached this interest also,
which experiences, though with
less severity, the general suffering.
1t is most painful to me to attempt
to sketch or dwell on the gloom of
this picture, but l have exagger-
ated nothing. Perfect fidelity to
the original would have authorized
me to put on deeper and darker
hues."
The repetition Of the times des-
cribed by Clay is upon us, the re-
suit of the same causes do we
recognize the picture! Is the
government aware that history is
repeating itself! If yes, why does
it not apply the remedy that was
effectual in Clay's time: Alas!
while history repeats itself in the
wretched condition of the country,
it does not repeat itself in the posi-
ton Of the party at present in pow
er in the admission that ''protection
to domestic industry is an incident
to the revenue raising power to be
regarded in the exercise of it, on
the contrary they have aban-
doned the doctrines Of the fathers
of the Republic and adopted that of
the secessionists and talk after the
manner of the jeff Davis constitu-
ton, of tariff for revenue only
and free trade. They refuse tc
listen to the representatives Of the
industries threatened to be destroy.
ed, with the exception of the coal
iron, sugar and rice of the sole
south, on the ground that the par
ties desiring to be heard are inter
ested parties. Interested partie.
forsooth, who else should be heart
theorists and doctrinaries9 L
these theoretical free trad,
southrons who insist on protecting
each one Of the pet industries o:
his own locality, would consent te
do by other industries as he wishes
his own treated, the whole countr,
would be both protected and pros
porous. n. w. B.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1895-10-02
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viii pay 800 for funeral expenses.
Will pay. if you lose hand and foot
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If INSURED,
You cannot lose all your income when
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Absolute protection to the member
upon paying s. life membership fee and
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The Fidelity Mutual Aid Association
is pre.eminently the largest and
strongest Accident and Health AssO-
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1t has the required cash deposits
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A two-thirds policy costs 81 per
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A one-third policy costs sl.5o per
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Reliable agents wanted. Write
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1895-10-02

WHILE the free silver papers
are inveighing against the single
gold standard as British institu-
ton, and are claiming that the
United States can uphold free and
unlimited coinage Of silver regard
less Of international agreement;
they are, on the other hand, advo-
eating the abolition of that tried
and strictly American institution
"a tariff for protection-and the
adoption of the British free trade
policy. The Republicans are as
consistent in opposing free coinage
as the Democrats are in advocating
free trade.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1895-10-02
To Improve the Neck and Throat.

An admirable exercise for ex~
panding the chest and filling out
the hollow of the neck and throat
is to rise upon the tips of the toes
at the moment of inhalation and
hold the breath, throwing it forci-
bly, against the muscles of throat
and neck, while you can count fif-
teen; then exhale forcibly and come
down on your heels. Repeat ten
times night and morning whenthere
are no constructing bands about the
body.
These exercises are no modern
discovery. Thirteen hundred years
before Christ the people of India
practiced full, deep breathing
at regular intervals, daily, using it
as a healing remedy for disease;
and it was no secret to the old
Greek and Roman physician,
who also prescribed lung gym
nastics as curative means. a Sc
we're cold can be greatly relieved
and quickly cured by conscious
breathing: and if taken in the first
stages, as soon as the usual symp-
toms Of cold are felt, can be
thrown off in a half-hour's time.
Many cases Of headache, especially
when accompanied by nausea and
congestion are quickly relieved;
and phthisis when taken in the in
cipient stages can always be great
ly alleviated, and is often cured by
this simple mcans.--From Demo
rests Magazine for October.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1895-10-02

The Cleveland administration is
extending the civil service rules
over department after department,
after they have been filled with
Democrats, and if it is kept up,
there will be mighty small picking
for the Republicans in. case the
party is returned to power in 1897.
So far as we have seen, the St.
Louis Republic" is the only Dem
ocratic paper with nerve enough
to enter protest against giving
officials and employees Of the gov
ernment life job. The system is
un-American and should be frown-
ed down.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1895-10-02
EDITOR POTOsI JOURNAL:

EDITOR PoTosI JOURNAL:
The Register, at Ironton, Mo-,
in it's issue of August Sth, 1895,
made the following statement:
''From the day the Mckinley
bill went into effect until it was re-
placed by the Wilson bill, factories,
furnaces and mills were closing,
wages going down, and tramps
multiplying. Yet your little 2x2
Republican sheets continue their
calimaty bowling in vain hope of
sustaining their dire predictions,
made when tariff reform began its
triumphal march. For a set of
obedient noodle-heads who take
inspiration from those who profit
through class legislation, the Re-
publican protectionist editors have
no rivals in damphooldom or else
where. Let the New York ''Trib-
une' or St. Louis "Globe-Dem-
ocrat" declare that black is white,
and it is enough from that time
on the truculent little fellows will
swear you fifty-two weeks in the
year that crow is the proper name
for swan"
Now all the above vaporings and
and assumptions are mere rant
ings Of a politically diseased brain,
without one scintilla of evidence to
sustain the unwarranted assump-
tions. The facts in the case are
that from 1890 to 1892, in 455 diff
ferent industrial establishments the
average raise wages was per cent
over 1890; and that 80, ,2S5 extra
hands were employed, and $40, 900
600 new capital invested; and in
1898, under the shadow Of tariff
reform, labor decreased 6o4 per
cent, wages decreaed 50 per cent,
business decreased 47.2 per cent;
number of hands out of work 1O1,-
163; total loss in weekly wages
81, ,202, S51. .36; average decrease in
rate Of wages $2.35 per week.
From history and the latest in
vestigation, September, 1895, it is
apparent that the industrial condi-
ton Of the United States has re-
Progressed more than half decade:
that in 1895 labor earned IA per
cent less wages than in 1889; that
the result Of a Democratic admin
istration and a free trade fanatic
congress is that labor is earning
$500, 600, 900 less this year than in
1889. This retrogrcssion is Demo-
cratic. You hear a great deal now
Of the advance in wages, but they
fail to tell that it is Just little ad-