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The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24
NEWS AT THE COUNTY-SEAT.

SALEM, July 23. 1896.
1t is not every place that can have
successful elopenent to vary the monot-
ony of this hum. drum summer weather,
and divide the interest, even momentar-
ily, with the base ball excitement. Salem
has been enjoying such distinction the
past week. 1t was not sensation IN
high life, however, and will be but nine
days wonder. The parties are James
Hurley, aged SO years, and Mamie Dare,
fifteen. year-old daught ter of s. Clement
Dare. They left this city on Saturday,
and from information since obtained,
crossed the river in a small boat and
started for Baltimore. Hurley is
steamboat engineer, and up to few
months ago had boarded In the dare
home, and the girl became dead in love
with him. Last fall they tried to elope'
but the girl was intercepted at Alloway
junction and returned home, since which
time Hurley has lived elsewhere, ana OF
late has been unusually attentive to Miss
Dare, much against her parents wishes.
Detective Carney is working up the case
and will no doubt come up with the run
aways soon.
Base ball continues to excite local
interest, and the home club is now in the
lead, with fair prospect of keeping it,
though they were given shut-out at
Millville yesterday. This, however, was
but returning the compliment, for Salem
wbitew ashed Millville here last Friday
Bridgeton also dropped game here on
Saturday. Bridgeton plays here Friday
and Millville on Saturday.
The combination excursion to Cape
NAV. Ocean City and Wildwood on Wed.
nesday landed less than two hundred.
The next excursion to Atlantic will be
the big one.
Ex-Congressman Hires and family and
A. Il. Slape, Esq, and Mrs. Shape. went
to Cape May on Saturday to enjoy the
sea breezes. They stopped at Congress
Hall.
William P. Finlaw and wife, Mrs. l..
A. Freas, and Misses Freas, Finlaw and
Alice Freas are at Susquehanna Heights.
James Fox, formerly glassblower in
this city, but recently employed at Elmer
died very suddenly there on Sunday
night of apoplexy.
The Alva Glass Works were sold by
Master in Chancery l. o. Acton, to q. w.
Shoemaker, on Saturday, for $4,000.
A special term of the Orphans Court
was held on Tuesday, Judge Sinnickson
on the bench, an appeal being taken from
Surrogate Morrison's decision admitting
the will of the late William Justice, of
Pedricktown, to probate. l. 0. Acton
and Salmuel Fl. Grey appeared for Alex
Justice, who contested the will, and Jos.
J, Summerill and d. o. Watkins for Har-
vey Justice. The day was consumed in
taking evidence, and the case was not
finished.
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

1t is pretty generally conceded that the
Presidential campaign this year is to be
an educational one, and conducted on a
higher plane than some of the methods
that have characterized the last two
campaigns, when mud-slinging was the
paign of principles and not men,"
decision that will no doubt be welcomed
on all sides. And the financial question
has been forced to the front as the lead
ing issue, and it is already being dis
cussed from every possible standpoint,
not only by the newspa pers, but by the
majority of readers as we'll. The press is
taking special pains to explain and make
plain the terms that are employed in the
free silver arguments. This issue, it
should he kept in mind, was forced by the
sound money Democrats. in their anxiety
to head off the public sentiment that was
crystalizing in favor of Major Mckinley
as the representative of the great Ameri-
can idea of protection, and that they
have been overwhelmed by their own
folly and submerged in the votex of the
free silver craze and Populistic arguments,
they alone are to blame. The only thing
to do now is to stand together and defend
the honor and integrity of the country.
Had the Mckinley tariff instead Of the
Wilson-Gorman tariff been in force, there
would not have been a deficiency in
government revenues of $262, 339, 630
since 1893, but instead corresponding
reduction of the national debt, as under
the Harrison administration, when
$244 ,S19, 730 was paid, and who believes
that under such circumstances there
would have been one-half the silver agi-
tation there is to-day? 1t would have
been confined to the strictly silver States.
Elect Major Mckinley. inaugurate q
business like conduct of the government,
and the bugaboo of free silver will dis
appear. A wise and conservative admin
istration of the national government can
better be trusted to adjust our monetary
affairs than lot of hot. heads, who
would sacrifice everything to the one
idea that controls them.
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24
SHERIFF'S SALE.

IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Between Charles f. Allen,
Executor of os. X. Riley, FL Fa
deceased Complainant, for sale Of
ana MOrtg lged
John wallace, ct. ais, Premises
Writ dated June %, 1896 Returnable oc.
tober Term, 1896
pY virtue of the above stated writ of FL
~ ia. to me directed and delivered, 1 will
sell the mortgaged premises therein de.
scribed at public vendue, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1896,
In front of the Court Honse, in the city Of
salem, N j., between the hours of II and 8
In the afternoon of said day, to-wit, at 3
O'Clock, p. M
All the following described tract or piece
OF land can factory. &c, situate in the Dor
ough OF w OOdStoWn, in the county of Salem,
ana State of Now Jersey, and bounded as
follows:
Beginning at corner in the old Salem
ana Woodstown road, that part thereof
known as Water street, and in the line of
Thomas Nj. Whites land and other land of
sald John wallace south 81 degrees west to
Inc intersection OF sal road or street with
The road over Clark's mill dam, thence with
the ROAD over Clark's mill dam down tho
mlddle thereof north degrees east to a cor
ner, thence along or near the edge of the
mill pond north s6 degrees east chains and
~ links to a corner; thence south II degrees
west 81 links to the beginning, containing
Dy estimation ~ acres of land, be the same
more or less.
Being the same promises conveyed to Ed
ward allace and John Wallace, trading us
n. wallace & Brother, by K. W. humphreys
by deed dated July 49, 1897, recorded Mt
Salem in book IS of Deeds, folio SIC and CON
Veyed by Edward Wallace to John Wallace;
anu also including in said sale the following
machinery and fixtures in ana upon said
promises, to-wit: Two boilers, one engine
ana fixtures, one blower, four scaiders, Two
hlling machines, two capping machines, two
acid machines, four fire pots; the steam and
water pipes, shafting and betting, nine
cooking vats, nine skinning trays, hve
tables, weighing scales, air pump ana gaso
line fixtures, two floating machines, seam
Ing machine, one fire pot; and to be sold by
OLIVER Ill. WRIGGlNS, Sher1h.
E. s. FoGa, Solicitor.
Dated Salem, N. j., July I, 1896. 7lO
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
FIRST DISTRICT
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION

TN COMPLIANCE with the duty imposed
Il upon me by the last Republican Con-
gressional Convention, do hereby fix the
time for holding the Republican Conven-
tion for the nomination of a candidate to
represent the said district in the Ftfty-ffth
Congress, to be
THURSDAY, JULY 80, 1886,
At 10 O'Clock, NJ, the said Convention 10 pe
held at Woodbury., N. j., as prescribed by
the last Convention; and in further compli-
ance with said duty do hereby designate
MONDAY, JULY 27, 1856,
As the day for holding the elections tor
delegates in the various wards, townships
and boroughs in the District.
Under the rule adopted by the Convention
held at Camden, September 10, 1882, 1t shall
be the duty of the Executive Committee OF
each county TO fix the hour and place ior
holding such election; under this call each
ward and township in the district Is entitieo
to five delegates; boroughs haying poied
more than one hundred Republican votes at
The last Presidential election will be entitled
to five delegates; boroughs having polied
less than one hundred Republican votes at
said election will be entitled to one delegate
only. f. L. ho'0'
Chairman last Republican Convention.
Cape May Court House, N. j., July 2, '96.
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What Free Coinage Is.

EXPLAINED BY A NEW YORK BANK
STANDING OF GOLD THE WORLD OVER
AND THE REAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE
CHICAGO DEMANDS.
The National Union Bank, New York,
is sending to its CORES pondents as gen.
eral answer to many inquiries brief
statement as to the meaning of 16 to /.
This statement says: "Under existing
law the gold dollar Ia the unit of value, ,
but the silver dollar is equally legal
tender for all debts. The gold unit con-
tains 1922 grains of pure gold. worth in
all the markets of the world one hundred
cents; worth just the same before made
into coin as afterward. Coinage adds
nothing to its value and gold is not
favored. The Secreta ry of the Treasury
is required by existing law to preserve
the parity between the two metals In
consequence of this policy every dollar
of currency in this country is the equiva-
lent of the gold dollar.
"The silver dollar contains 3714 grains
of pure silver-sixteen times (exaotly
Is. 9S) the amount of pure gold In dol
lar; hence by sixteen to one is meant that
sixteen ounces of silver made into our
legal tender coins shall be the lawful
equivalent of one ounce of gold. The
market price of silver is SO cents an ounce
(4S0 grains), hence the actual value of
3714 grains of silver In our dollar is 80
cents; in other words, ODE ounce of gold
will buy 80 ounces of silver.
"Fhe demands of the Chicago platform
may be defined as the right of anyone to
deposit silver of any kind at mint of
the United States and have every 3714
grains of pure silver (now worth in it's
uncoined state about 53 cents) made, free
of charge, into coin of the United
States and stamped 'Ons Dollar which
dollar shall be full legal tender at its
face value in the payment of debts and
obligations. No provision is made for
maintaining these dollars at par with
gold.
"The immediate result of such legisla-
tion would be the destruction OF the
parity, the separation of our currency
between gold and silver, and the with
drawal of all gold coins from circulation
and use as money. producing an enOr-
nous contraction Of the currency"
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why Silver is Cheap.

from Jn0 Now IOTk 1lhoS.
In 1875 the total product of silver In
the world was 81, 100. 600 ounces and the
silver in dollar was worth 81. .04 in gold.
Last year the worlds product of silver
was 165, 100000 ounces and the silver in a
dollar was worth only 80 ITO cents.
In 1894 the potato crop of the United
States was, in round numbers, ITO, 600, 900
bushels and the average price 53 cents.
In 1895 the estimated potato crop was
400, 000, 900 bushels and the average price
was 26 cents.
The fall in both cases was due to the
same cause. But when the farmers po-
tatoes fall to half the former price, how
much good will it do him to compel him
to take silver dollars for them worth only
80 cents each That brings the 26 cents
down to 13 cents.
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

Lessons are taught BY the thunder an

Lessons are taught by the thunder and
lightning which purify the air; SO great
troubles come like an avalanche and
sweep over us, bnt we do not die, the
scales are only swept from our eyes and
we see more clearly.
Be not discouraged on account of the
storms of life, they will always bring
blessing IL borne In a Christian manner.
No burden will be given us to bear alone.
There is always hand underneath by
which we are upheld. Be strong and of
good courage, never leaving your post
of duty until you have done all that you
can do, and the Voice has said. at is
enough"
The light of Christ will guide yon and
the rainbow of peace will follow the
cloud of war, and thus will the banner
of righteousness be upheld in the world
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

average less than those main
tanned during the phenomenal
sale of a year ago.
And linen at Wanamaker' S
means pure flax and nothing
but flax. We will not sell
poor linens.
Table Linen
SOC yard-Good quality, old-fash-
toned e-pattern Table Linen;
nearly white; 54 inches wide We've
5000 yards.
40c yard-l400 yards of this same
old-fashioned loom-dice Table Linen,
very heavy. go inches wide.
soc yard-8000 yards bleached Irish
Damask, 70 inches wide. Z patterns.
Csc yard-s50 yards cream Damask,
German, 72 inches wide. 9Oc is a
fair price.
75c yard-Heavy German Damask,
bleached, good styles. 6S inches
wide. 81 is cheap for it.
95c yard-Heavy and fine half
bleached Double Damask. IA inches
wide. Would be bargain at 81. .35.
$ll0 a yard-Bieached Double Dam
ask. 81 inches wide. Value 81 so.
I.25 yard-Scotch Double Damnsl,
SO inches wide
Sl.4O yard-Bleached Double Dam
ask, u inches wide. Has been a
good seller at S1.75
Mapktns- <2
Shc dayop- DIooohod
Napkins, II inches
NC a dozen-Grass- bleached German
Napkins, Is inches
Sl.29 dozen-l9-inch bleached Dam
ask Napkins.
Sl.4o dozen-22-inch bleached Nap
klns, heavy and strong.
Sl65 dozen-s2-inch bleached Dam
ask Napkins, no dressing Fairly
worth $225.
S1.So dozen-a0inch bleached Scotch
Napkins, double damask.
s;oo dozen-24-inch bleached double
Damask Napkins, Scotch.
zoaVels-
1870 each--Bleached Huck Towels
trahsed OF henmed. Less than equal
goods would cost by the yard.
l5c each-Huck Towels, 29x44 inches
loc each-All-white Irish Huck Tow
els; sOx3s inches; hemstitehed ends.
2Sc each-White Damask Towels. soft
finish; s4x4s inches; fringed ends,
30c each-Fine white Damask Towels.
nemstitchedi one row of drawn
work; 22x50 inches.
Bic each-Fine Irish Huck Towels. a4x
~ inches. Made from finest warns
and washed ready for use.
zoaOeling-
&c yard-irish crash: red and blue
border; II inches wide.
lS'sc yard-Unbleached Huck Tow
cling, heavy; 20 inches wide.
john WANAMAKER.
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IGM6F6Om.

Mrs. Emily Caid, of Salem, is visiting
friends here.
The Misses Hardester and Ryan are
gusts Of Mrs. George Richards.
Miss Sadie Lewis is visiting Miss Nellie
Mason, at her home In Chester.
Mrs Stultz Hurff Is entertaining two
of her friends, the Misses Strang, of
Camden.
Farmers are carting potatoes to Phila-
delphia markets. Crops are large, and
of excellent quality, but prices very low.
Mrs. Thomas Borton, In behalf of the
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brown,
presented their little daughter Els ie, with
handsome and comfortable rolling
chair.
Our Sunday school went to Alcyon on
Wednesday. Three little maids, who
were left behind, walked the mile to JEFF
ferson station and waited for the nooL
train, rode to Redwood, and then walked
from there to Alcyon. There persever-
ance was rewarded by good time, and a
ride home
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WANAMAKER,S.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, July 20, 1896.
EVENTFUL MERCHANDISING

We've picked the time, when
old heads say trade slumbers,
to do some of the liveliest sell
ing Philadelphia shoppers ever
enjoyed. Trade conditions
helped, but trade conditions
are useless unless improved.
Such values as are offered
now cannot be heedlessly
passed by any one with pres
ent or prospective need for
anyof the goods we tello Alb
solute mastery of the markets
has led to the gathering that
makes this July selling posi-
BILE; an outlet practically un-
limited justified the move
mentS.
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

Don Cameron, one of Pennsylvania g
United States Senators, says he is in favor
of free silver, but significantly adds, 81
am not fool" and shall vote for McKip-
ley and Hobart. The suggestion is
worth thinking about. If bimetallism is
a good thing, under international agree.
ment, which party can best secure 1t ?
The answer is plain-the party that first
and always maintains the national credit.
Let this be the first thing, and then
tariff enacted that will give sufficient
revenue to run the government and afford
protection to our industries. This will
remove the constant dread of depleted
gold reserve and the panic scarecrow,
and place the government in position
to wisely conse rye the best interests of
the country.
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

The Populists and Silver party are hold
ing their national conventionsi in st. Louis
and all the Indications now point to an
endorsement of Bryan and Sewall, though
there is large element of the Populists.
known as the "middle-of-the-road men,
who advocate the necessity of maintain
ing their party organization, as the only
genuine Originals" of the present free
silver doctrines, by making separate nom-
nations. The bone of contention is as to
who shall take precedence.
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24
Sixteen to One.

From the New York Sun, Ind. Deml
Many people ask US to explain what 16
to 1 means.
They are figures of weight. By the
Mint act of 1884, which, except as regards
silver dollars, is still in force. every owner
of gold bullion and of silver bullion was
permitted to take it to the Mint in un-
limited quantities and have it coined, free
of expense, except for refining and for the
alloy used, into silver dollars and gold
eagles and fractions of an eagle, at the
rate of sixteen times as many dollars for
q given weight of gold as for an equal
weight of silver. That is to say, while
% % grains of pure gold went to the
dollar in gold, 3714 grains of pure silver
were required for silver dollar. With
the alloy added it took % 8 grains of
standard gold for the dollar in gold, and
412t grains of standard silver for the
silver dollar. The provisions of this law
as to silver was repealed in 1878, and
this provision the silverites now demand
to have re- enacted.
AS matter of fact an ounce of silver
was worth in the markets of the world
from 1884 to 1878 more than one sixteenth
of an ounce of gold, the value in Europe
being at the rate of 154 to /. Consequently
our silver coin was exported as fast as it
was coined, gold became the only coin
in circulation, and in 1858 small change
had became so scarce that Congress
authorized silver halves and quarters of
dollar to be coined, on Government
account exclusively, of less weight
than the proportionate parts of full
dollar, so that the two halves and four
quarters contained only 1884 grains of
standard silver instead of 4124 grains.
At the present moment the market
value of silver bullion relatively to that
of gold bullion is as about 81 to /. That
is to say, one ounce of gold Is exchange
able in the market for thirty one
ounces of silver. Hence, If the law of
1884 relating to silver were re.enaoted,
the dollar would sink in value very nearly
one half, because under free and unlimited
coinage, silver coin would be worth no
more than silver bullion. The reason
that the silver dollars now in circulation
remain equal in value to dollars in gold is
that the quantity Of them is limited, and
they are received by the Government on
the same footing as gold in payment of
duties and taxes.
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

While, perhaps, this campaign is to be
conducted on higher lines than has been
usual of late, because of the prominence
of single issue, and that vital one
which has suddenly been thrust to the
front, 1t is to be specially deprecated
that there is disposition on the part of
the extreme free silver advocates To
array, by most Incorporate language.
the poor against the rich. the West against
the East, the laborer against the capital. =.
ist, and in general the industrial classes
against the wealthy, and espec;a,,v
against the banks and indeed all forms
of organized capital, as though, some-
how. each were independent of the other
The law that no man liveth to himselfn
is as old as man himself, and the NOR
man can no more live without the rich
man than he can live without air. And
indeed, are not all men aiming to becom,
capitalists. and it is especially nraise.
worthy that in this country every man to
very large degree is the arcbiteot of
his own fortune, the avenues of success
being open to all, 30 that It has pasaad
into an axiom that the poor of ons
generation become the rich of the ne.t
such Is the inexorable law of chanoe
There are abundant examples Of this in
political, business, professional andlsocial
life. We have had men from the shoe.
makers bench rise to the next highest
office in the gift of the people, and bow
from the tow path to become the chief
executive of the nation, following an
illustrious example of the great rail.
splitter, while from the printers case
and smithy came the greatest philoso.
piers of the world. The very fact that
an attempt is being made to force a
political issue by such methods ought to
be sufficient ground to cause it to be
examined very carefully before it ia
accepted. Is it crime for a man TO save
his earnings? And is there country on
the face of the earth where the people.
as rule are more prosperous than in this
country? There can be but one answer.
Again, under what governmental principles
has the country enjoyed the greatest and
most general prosperity? Review the
past, and then stop this class and sectional
bitterness, and all strive together for the
common veal. Not that we will all
agree on political issues, but let there be
a broad charity in the advocacy of our
principles that will commend them and
at least show we have only the greatest
good to the greatest number at heart.
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24
Executors Notice.

"ANNAH KATES and John T.. Hates,
III Executors of Sarah Bacon, deceased,
by direction of the Surrogate of the county
OF Salem, hereby give notice to the creditors
of the said Sarah Bacon, deceased, Ia bring
in their dcbts demands and claims against
the estate of the said decedent, nnder oath
or affirmation, within nine months from The
date hereof, or they will be forever barred
of any action thereof against The said Exec
ut0rs HANNAH HATES,
JOHN II. HATES.
Dated April A. 1896. All Pun
The Monitor-register., 1896-07-24

We are hearing good deal about the
"gold bugs" of Wall street. and that the
maintenance of the present gold standard
of values will tend to enrich these men
and impoverish the toilers. While, on
the other hand, with the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver, we are assured
there will be more money in circulation.
and it will be more generally distributed
among the people. just how this is to Dc
brought about, however, we are not l n
formed. There has never been but one
honest method to get money, other
wine than by gift, and that is to ac-
quire it in exchange of some kind, either
of labor or material. Now, with the free
coinage of silver, wouldn't very large
benefit accrue to the silver mine owners !?
1t looks SO from the fact that they are all
advocating this change in our monetary
system, and nobody has yet discovered
that they are such patriots as to advocate
free silver for the public good alone and
entirely apart from any personal interest.
Else why have they 80 strenuously subor-
dinated every other public question to this
one? These are the men. who started the
cry about the great crime of 1878, and the
demonstration of silver. The demand
for free coinage was never heard of until
the price of silver fell so low that the
coinage at the old ratio offered an in
ducement to tho greed of owners and
operators of silver mining property. The
moment the price of silver in the world g
markets declined to a point where free
coinage would have put uncounted mil
lions in the pockets of the nabobs of the
mines, the demand for free coinage was
pressed upon Congress. The demandants
then discovered that the coinage of silver
only on government account was crime.
Why was it deemed crimes Because
the seigniorage, or the difference between
the value of bullion coined, went into the
Treasury as profit aud not into the
pockets of the owners of silver. If the
silver men will agree to put a
dollars worth of silver into the silver
dollar no one can oDJect 20 IL Jnen. But
what is to be gained by transferring the
money power from Wall street, If it now
resides there, to Colorado? If anything,
the change would be dangerous one,
because the silver men have not only
shown themselves to be theorists and
infiationists, but to actually subordinate
the best interests of the country to their
own private interests, as was seen by their
course in the last session, of Congress,
when they practically blocked legislation
unless their own silver interests were
catered to. The country will ask better
certificate of character before commit
ting tre financial interests of the country
te IL.lf control.