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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
A CHANGE OF STANDARD.
What the Demand Of the Free siIverites
 Amounts To.

 What the Demand of the Free Siiyerites
 Amounts To.
 The demand for the free coinage of silver at the rate of 16 to by this country, regardless of what other countries may do, is demand that the silver dollar be substituted for the gold dollar as our standard of value
 1t is idle to deny this, as the advo. cates of free silver coinage sometimes do. If the demand is not for change of standard, and a change from 8 higher to a lower standard, then all that is said about the wrong done to debtors by the adoption of the gold standard is senseless. Debtors cannot be benefited by silver Legislation otherwise than by providing them with cheaper dollars with which to pay their debts. Debtors as such would take no interest whatever in free silver coinage if they were not led to believe it would give them cheaper dollars.
 As matter of fact we have the gold standard. We have had 1t in law for more than twenty years. We hage had it practically for more than sixty years. During the seventeen years from 1862 to 1879 we had paper eur rency which was legal tender in pay ment of most debts, but the gold dol lar was the standard of value even then. There has not been a year, nor so much as day, since the passage of the coinage act of 1S44, when the gold dollar has not been practically the standard of value.
 The advocates of free silver coinage propose to discard the gold dollar and give us the silver dollar as the stand ard of value. They propose that If man owes thousand dollars he may discharge it by rendering thousand silver dollars coined for him by the government out of bullion costing him five hundred. more or less, of the kind of dollars he promised to pay.
 1t devolves upon those who propose that the government shall enable men to scale down their debts in this way to give good reasons why it should do so. 1t is incumbent upon them to tell US why the standard should be lowered, why confidence and credit should be destroyed, why enterprise should be discouraged, for the benefit of those who have promised to pay their debts in gold dollars or their equivalent They do not tell us why when they fall foul of the coinage law of 1873 and denounce it furiously as 3 crime. Denunciation proves nothing. Chicago Chronicle
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
Change or Dict.

q guess I'll have one of those Meth, odists broiled to-day said the king of Mbwplza.
 May it please your royal highness,a ; ventured the high chief steward, the Presby terian batch is much the fat. tcr.'
 'sYou do what I tell you, thun- dered the monarch. T have been eat. ing Presby terians for. a week now and the court physician has ordered a change of diet. "-I Indianapolis Jour. nal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
1 sNAos FOR FREE siLvERiTEs.
Advancing Prices Controvert White Metal
 TheorIes.

AQyAnclnK ETiCtS A0uNfofcAs VI --~~
 TheorIes.
 We find the following interesting paragraph in the editorial columns or the Fort Worth Gazette:
 From statistics corpiled by Capt E 5. Harold, of this city, 1t appears that oVo'oVV Texas cattle were marketed in Cnlcago' St Louis and Kansas City between the oth oi February and the Ist of June of the present wear. These cattle brought from s6 to SIP more per head than their selling price during a similar period last year. In other Words, Texas is for this period of four months over s2. GOO 900 in pocket on account of the advance in cattle, and it is conservative estlmste 10 say that her gain during the year on the mar keted product will be in excess or slo Voo'ooV. This represents net profit above any pronts that may have been made by the cattlemen and the feeders last year.
 The Gazette is free-silver paper, and is not likely to overrate any pros perity that may prevail in the country.
 1t has been the contention of the free-coinage advocates that the decline in prices is due to the closing of the minus of this and other countries to the free coinage of silver In this con nection they talk much of wheat and cotton, but say very little of corn and cattle. Now there has been no change in the legislation of commercial coun- tries as to silver since last year. Yet here we have an estimate that Texas alone will realize SIC, 900, 900 in profits on cattle over and above what she realized last year.
 If the decline of prices were due solely to the measure of value there would have been uniform decline all along the line. Yet where we find great reductions Of prices in some articles we find that others have de- elined but little, while some show a positive advance. Values have never been estimated in silver since 1884, but in 1873 prices were quoted in green backs, and gold was worth 14 per cent. premium The course of prices has been generally downward since that time, and part of the decline may fairly be attributed to the disap- pearance of the premium on gold, which made greenbaels and gold equal in their purchasing power. This. cause ceased to operate at the beginning of 1879, since which time all our currency has had equal purchasing power.
 The decline of commodities since 1879 has been coineident with great Improvement in the means of produc- tion and corresponding increase in production itself When these improve ments or this increase have been great est the fall of prices has been sharpest. Where these causes have not been active the fall has been slight. When demand has exceeded the supply there has been rise from time to time. The price of wheat and cotton, as every body knows, is affected from day to day by reports as to the visible supply and the condition of the crops. For some years past the supply has been large in the worlds markets and prices correspondingly low.
 As to cattle, the contrary is the case at present. There has been a reduc- tion of the supply and a corresponding rise of prices.-Louisville Courier-Jour- nal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
only resource short of detour Of

only resource short of detour of 8 hundred miles.
 For the present the guides disregard the mo trespassing" signs, and carry their boats over the private roads of the lairds of the Raquette when they feel like it. If this privilege should ever be denied, there would be tre- mendous row about it, and the legisla- ture would probably declare the carries public highways. Doubtless the signs, in view of the possibility, are mainly meant for a "bluff." If this is the case they are needlessly irritating and might well be replaced by ones similar to those of the Mountain reserve.
 Most of the great Adirondack re serves = Webb's, for instance were
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
GOLD AND SILVER PRODUCED.
The Amount Is Sufficient for all National
 Needs.

nt <AIhOuDb 1b EuIHCttltl IOG 8lI lN8ILOu&1
 Needs.
 The official figures of the worlds gold and silver production for 1894, as furnished by Mint Director Preston, do not support the argument of the free silver advocates that the world is suffering from deficiency of money of final payment. Both gold and sil- yer are money of final payment, and the world managed to get larger supply of these metals in 1894 than in any previous year in its history
 The estimate made by the mint bu- reau last year of the gold product of the world for the year put the amount at S16s, 900, 900; the official figures make it $1s1, ,000,o00, an amount S25, 900, 900 in excess of any previous years output During the current year production has thus far gone on at rate which justifies an estimate of S200, 000 GOO, or E further increase of nearly $20,0o0, ,00O.
 The increase in the output of silver, in spite of the continued decline in price, has kept pace with the increase of gold. In 1893 the silver mines broke the record with production of S209,- : 900, ,000, an increase of nearly S13, ,oOO,- 900 over 1892. But in 1894 the product was $214,0Oo, GOO, the great increase coming from the South American and Central American silver-using coun- tries. Of course in estimating the silver production in dollars we con tinue to use the old rate of 16 to 1.
 The capacity of the silver-using countries of the world to absorb silver and use it for currency seems to be equal to the capacity of the gold-using countries to take up the gold supply. Both metals are needed, or they would not be mined. Both metals are used under varying conditions in the do- mestic commerce ard international exchanges of different countries There is no scarcity of either metal There is limitation on the use of silver which is unnecessary and re- strictive in its operations and which should be removed It can be removed only in one way, and that is by inter national agreement-N. Y. World
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
Tine Patient Fish.

First Fish-How are you getting along?
 Second Fish-No luck at all The man at the end of that line is chump, or else he's as full as a goat,
 First Fish--What's the trouble?
 Second Fish-I took the bait off his hook an hour ago. and I've been wait. ing ever since for him to D at some more on.-Puck.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
Merely an Oyers .ght.

Miranda. said the new woman to her junior companion. I'm afraid you are forgetting yourself"
 s.Why?" was the startled inquiry.
 You did not remove your bonnet when you rode up in the elevator with that young man. = Washington Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

....The Washington free silver con vention was a demonstration of the diminished strength of the silver move ment and makes the ambitious dema- gogues still leading it ridiculous. Further, it will do more harm than good to the cause of ffty-cent dollars It will stimulate sound money men to organize and resist this conspiracy within the party to pervert it's doc trines and practice. ' Baltimore Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

.... The silver conference at Wash ington was rather forlorn and dismal gathering. The attendance was chiefly remarkable for the distinguished sil- verites who were not there, so to speak, and the proceedings from be-. ginning to end were marked by noth- ing that gave the occasion the charac-' ter of "a dignified or deliberate assem- blaze. Probably it's promoters will al.l low that it would have been better f. it had not been held. Boston Herald.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

...."The honest money men will hear something drop" says silver ite. It will probably be the price of silver. Chicago Chronicle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

....T The wave of free silver at sixteen to one sentiment has reached its highest mark and is now retiring. It will slosh around for some time, but 1t will never be as strong as it was last spring. Toledo Blade.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

IA majority of all the newspapers published in Georgia are opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of aik ver.-Atlanta Journal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

....To make fair popular test of the silver question let every man raise his right hand who is in favor of re- ceiying short silver dollars for wages or for commodities which he offers for sale. Chicago Chronicle.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-01-04
MURDER AND SUICIDE
TERRIBLE DEEDS COMMITTED ~
FARMER PALMER.

He Cruches His wife's Skull with "a Picc,
of Stoys Wood. Cuts Her Throat and
Then Kills Himseif-One of the sons
Witness TO the Terrible Tragedy.
WELLINGTON, Mich. Dec. Sl.-Matthew
Palmer. a well-to-do farmer living a
mile and half east of here, struck his
wife with piece of stovewood. crushing
her skull. and then took u iackknifc and
cut four gashes in her throat All this
was done in sight of one of his sons. who
had followed his father from the barn,
where they had been milk ng COWS. The
boy ran for his elder brother, and when
they got back they found Palmer drag
ging the body Of his wife into the kitchen
from an adjoining room. Both boys tried
10 interfere, but were unsuccessful.
The father won't into tho pantry and got
a razor. AS he entered his son George
asked If he were goins to kill himself,
too. He nodded his head and then drew
the weapon twice across bis throat, sever.
Ing arteries and windpipc. The boys ran
for help, leaving their sister rs watch.
During their absence she had q a., and q
truly pitablc spectacle was witnessed by
the ncighbors who rushed to the scene
Palmer was As years old and his wife 40.
They had seven children. The father
acted strangely in the morning. The
cause of tho deed is known to the family,
but they will not divulge it,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-01-04
JAM ES G. FAIRS WILL.
He Leaves Considerable Money to Relatives
in the Hawkeye state.

He Leaves Considerable Money to Relatives
in the Hawkeye state.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 FIX Senator
James G. Fair died suddenly at the Lick
House ut 1890 tn S morning.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 3l.-The will OF
James G. Fair, tho noted bonanza
millionaire and OK United States senator
from Nevada, whose death occurre here
Friday night, has been filed in the superior
court. The will disposes of an estate the
value of which is estimated at $4,000, 000
The biggest slices will go to the two
daughters living in Now York and other
relatives residing in Iowa The only gifts
of a public nature are three, aggrogating
$is:5, 000 to the Orphan asylum of San
Francisco. Among four employees So QUO
is to be divided. There arc no other be.
quests save those to near relatives.
To his sister, Mrs. Mary Anderson, of Id
Grove, Ia, he leaves $4,000; to his broth.
er William and family, same place, $50, 0)0;
TO his brother Edward, same place, $780,
900; TO Mrs. Ludy, daughter of his dead
brother Thomas, Corrcctionvillc, Ia, Sl0,.
900; James ID. Fair, Ida Grove, $4,000
The relatives in California get $3.50, 000
and his son.in-lnw Herman Oelrichs, Of
New York, $500 q The remainder of the
estate is put iii cltrgc OF trustees, who are
to pay the income during their lives to his
children, incluling his son Charles. On
their deaths the estate Is to be divided
among their children. I nc will declares
that tcstator is not married, but leaves
$4,000 to any possible widow" and $50,-
200 to any children declared by law to be
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-01-04
Commissioners Notice

In the matter OF thecstate of Edwin $. LAYER
ock, deceased. We, the undersigned, having
been appointed by the Hon. Matthew Bush,
Judge OF Probatei in and for the county OF Shia.
vase, State OF Michigan commissioners to re-
ceiye, examine and adjust all claims and
demands of all persons against said estate, do
hereby give notice that we will meet at the of
flee of Stearns f. Smith, city of Owosso in said
county, Monday, the 25th,day Of February, 1895,
and the 21th day OF May A. D., 1895, at ten
O'Clock in the forenoon of each of said days, for
the purpose ofrccoiving and adjusting all claims
against said essate, and that six months from
the Goth day Of November, 1894 are allowed To
creditors to present their claims TO said com.
missioners for adjustment and allowance.
Dated the .Gth day OF November, A. d., 1891.
JOHN G. DINGMAN,
DANIEL BURHANs,
commissioners.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-01-04
BREAKFAST-SUPPER
ia PPS'S
GRATEFUL-CoMFORT
coco a.
Mortgage Sale.

Whereas, default has been made in the pay
nfJnt Of the money secured by mortgage dated
the sixth day OF December, in the year A. D.,
1850 executed by William II. England and
Bertha England, his wife, OF the city of Owosso,
ocnnty OF Shiawassee and State Of Michigan to
Saynuel Schmid, of the township Of Owosso, in
500 county and state, which said mortgage was
recorded in the Office of the Register OF Deeds
OF the county of Shiawasse, in liber AZ of mort
cages, on page 303 on the 9th day Of December,
I'd the year A. D., 1889, at ten O'Clock and forty.
I'VE minutes, a. m. And whereas, the amount
claimed to be due on said mortgage at the date Of
this notice is the sum OF one hundred and fifty.
eaght dollars. OF principal and interest land the
Stipulated for in said mortgagc) and which Is
thewhole amount claimed to be unpaid on said
mortgage, and no. suit or proceedings having
bcpn Instituted at law TO recover the debt now
remaining secured by said mortgage or any part
thereof, whereby the power of sale contained In
said mortgage has become operative.
NOW therefore, notice Is hereby given, that
by virtue of the said power OF sale, and in pur-
suance of the statute In such case made and
provided the said mortgage will be forecloSed
by sale of the premises therein described at
ppblc auction, to the highest bidder, at the
ffont door of the Court House, in The city Of
C0runna in said county Of Shiawassc, on the
12th day of February next, ut ten O'Clock In the
forenoon OF that day; which said premises are
described In said mortgage as follows, TO wit:
AT that certain piece or parcel OF land, situated
In tho city OF Owosso, In the county OF Shiawas-
see and State OF Michigan. and described as fol.
lows 20 wit: Commencing ffty-four rods north
Of the center OF Oliver street, and ten rods east
~ the west line OF the east half OF the southwest
quarter OF section eighteen, In the City of Owes
20, Eichigan; running thence east on q line
parallel with King street four yods and ten
teet; thence north twelve rods to south line of
King street: thence west parallel with King
street, four rods and ten feet; thence south
twelve rods to the place of beginning.
Dated this 9th day of November, A. d., 1894.
BARBRA SCHMID,
CHARLES d. STEWART
6. +. SMITH. Executors of Mortgage.
Attorney.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-01-04
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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-01-04
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.
Loaded Stick of Stove Wood Causes
Frightiul Explosion.

Loaded Stick of Stove Wood Causes n
Frightiul Explosion.
MANIsTIoUE, Mich, Jan. 1.-The moro
the matter is investigated the moro evil
dent it becomes that deliberate and
aastardly attempt was made to inflict fa.
tai injuries on Prosecuting Attorney G.
w. Dunton by blowing up the stove in
his office with loaded stick of hard wood,
but who would DO guilty of such ilend
lsh deed still remains mystery.
When the prosecuting attorney re-
turned to the office from dinner the fire
in the small heater was nearly out He
went to his woodpilc and picked up the
FIRST stick he came to- which was the one
that caused the explosion. 1t had been
placed in convenient position on the
pile. When the explosion occurred Mr.
Dunton was reading law book, his chair
near the stove and his feet upon tho edge
of it. He docs not know whether he was
knocked from his chair upon the floor
or not, as the force of tho explo.
sion stunned him, and the first
thing no was conscious of was his
standing in the mAldlc of the street OPP
pos tc the office. Thc explosion, which
was terrific one, blew the stove to pieces
and scattered fire aud ashes all over the
office and set fire TO the building, but this
was quickly cxtinguishcd by tho large
crowd which quickly gathered A parti'
ton some feet from tho stove was loosen
ed and a large hole blown through 1t
near the ceiling Mr. Dunton's escape was
miraculous. the only injuries he sustained
being slight bruises about his head and
shoulders.
What motive lol to the attempt upon
Mr.. Dunton's life can only be surmised
As prosecuting attorney he has recently
been called upon to prosecute number
of persons charged with criminal offcnses,
and during the last torn OF circuit court
for this county he secured n conviction in
all criminal cases, one man being given q
twenty-ycar sentence at tho Marquette
states prison, while the others received
lighter sentences. IL may be some friend
or friends of enc or more OF those who
were convicted have sought this means of
obtaining revenge. If this be so, then
Mr.. Dunton's life may still be in danger.
Another theory is that he has been made
q victim of some old grudge.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-01-04
Probate Order.
STATE OF MICHIGAN,

COUNTY OF SHIAwASsEE, / %
All session of the Probate Court for the
County of Shiawassee holden at the Probate
Office in the city of Corunna on Monday the cath
day of December IN the year one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-four.
Present, Matthew Bush Judge of Probate.
In the matter of estate Of John Brandt, de-
ceased. On reading and filing the petition duly
verified of Hiram Reed as administrator, pray
ing for % license to sell the real estate OF de-
ceased for the purpose of paying debts.
Thereupon IL is ordered, that Monday the 21st
day of January next ut ten O'Clock in the fore
noon, be assigned for the hearing of said petit
tion, and that the heirs ut law OF said deceased,
and all other persons interested in said estate.
are required TO appear ut q session of said
Court, then to be holden at the Probate ONCE,
in the City of Corunna and show cause, il any
there be- why the prayer Of the petitioner
should not be granted. And it rs further order
cd that said petitioner give notice to the per-
sons interested in said estate of the tendency
of said petition, and the hearing thereof by
causing o copy OF this order to be published in
THE TIMES, a newspaper rinted and circulated
in said county sof Shiawassee for three success
i've weeks, previous to said day of hearing.
MATTHEW BUSH.
Judge of Probate.
BY KATHERINE T.. KELSEY,
Probate Register
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-01-04
GLADSTONE EIGHTY-FlVE.
Celebrates the Day by Attending Churcl
and Receiving Armcnians.


and Receiving Armcnians.
LONDON, Dec. 3l.-Mr. Gladstone ccle.
DRAFTED his Sith birthday and was the re-
cipient of hundred of letters and telc-
grams of congratulation and parcels con-
tanning birthday gifts He was in re-
markably good health and spirits, and de-
spite tho stormy weather drove through
the village to Hawarden to the church,
where he met n 'deputation of Armenian
Christians from Paris and London.
On behalf of Mr.. Gladstone tho dcputa.
ton presented q silver chalice to the
church. Tho chalice was presented to the
Rev. Stephen Gladstone, son of the ex.
premier and rector of Hawartftn church,
in recognition of the interest his father
has takon in the Armenian outrages. In
reply TO tho presentation address, the ex-
premier expressed his sympathy with the
suffcrings of the Armenian Christians.
The deputation took luncheon with Mr..
Gladstone ut Hawardon castle. The
Prince of Wales and Lord Aberdeen were
among those who photographed their con-
CALCULATIONS to Mr. Gladstone.