The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, November 26, 1896, Page 3

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Under Pater House For An Easy Shave or Stylish Hair Cut JAS, BRYAN'S BARBER SHOP 405 BROADWAY: i in Nice Bath Rooms in Connection, _ W. GREIF, MANUFACTURER OF Carriages and Buggies. ALL KINDS OF BLACKSMITHING DONE TOORDER, . . Horse Shoeing a Specialty, 222-224 Court Street, Between Second aad ‘Third, (Mati, Efinger & | Co STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. ‘icambamiaere natalie So feo es... | WRITTEN At ~ RAND ning this town, have had take?’ Iff had, you should your man, What’ll you i] The stranger took a little straight, It was in the spring cf 1465, at the but he refused. So they ime the cartel was in vogue, by glass of brandy, sat tain steamboats under of trace could ascend the Yazoo and table and soon had the 4 portion of the Tallahatchie rivers | bleeding part severed. When t and exchange their loads for cotton, arteries in the stump had all be that a small wet-ender, which sailed staunched and the flap nicely turned, PADUCAH, KENTUCKY | iter the name of ''Keoto,” at-\Dr. Lyle said: ‘There, my: brave ieee |teinpted to steal het way in through and gallant boy, I think your life is el the overflow and the ‘pass’? and saved and hope you may soon be The young soldier, who had an eye nor uttered a trade for a cargo of the fleecy staple. | well.” She succeeded in getting into the} not bathed Sunflower river and was doing a live-] groan during the terrible ordeal, re- | you in your good |! asked for a cigar, ly business with the swamp angels of| plied: I join that stream. She bad disposed of| wishes,” and about half of the load she carried | which, when lighted, he arose, picked whena squad of six Confederate] up the dismembered part of his anat cavalry scouting in that section, got}omy, walked out of the cabin to the wind of her marauding expedition, \guards, gave it a twirl or two and made for the river and laid a trap [flung it as far out into the stream as for her capture. They secured two|he could, coolly remarking at the + aie ' or three old shovels, spades and|same time, ‘There goes a bait for a ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK |iijes, found an empty ‘nil keg, [eatfsh,”" "Many such - operations DONE. threw up an embankment, stuck the|were performed, but no one keg through a port hole in it and/exhibited such an amount of awaited the coming of the boat.|/nerve as the young soldier When the ‘Keoto’’ was nearly}mentioned. Arriving at Nashvil mate We na Normal) abreast of them two of the soldiers} as the writer stepped from the stag stepped out, emptied their carbines}to the wharf, he was greeted by across her bow and ordered the cap-]Capt. Jesse Johnson, who took hin tain to haul to or they would turn}to his ‘hospitable home on Broad the cannon loose and send him and|street, where his wife and daughter ll on board to Davy Jones’ locker. [dressed his wound aod extended Notwithstanding they had nearly alevery kindness and attention heart full crew and seventeen soldiers as a] coula wish, hat night a train of guard they came to the bank. Two]sick and wounded left on the old N. of the boys stood by the ‘gun’’|& D. railroad, Capt. Jesse saw the while four went aboard, forced every-| writer off and when he said ‘‘Good- Now open for beginners at Cecil-| body on board to the forecastle and|bye; may God watch over you disarmed them, It was then that be]though this terrible struggle, my ian Melt. Classes for ladies, ge0-liwe cannoneers led the horses down |boy,”’ who blames him if a t thereon and children. Private les-[to the boat, and after they had got-|coursed down his manly, weather- sons at all hours. For terms and | %2 the steeds aboard explained the | beatyn face, or me, that they ran out nature of the ‘fort’ to their captives}of my eyes like rain, We both re- full particulars call on or address} who did some talking which was far|cognized and felt what was to come. Ottice New Richmond, ‘Tel. 186 | more expressive than elegant. How- |'That was the last time the writer ever ever it was of no availtothem. One |saw the big-hearted, gallant and able old steamboat captain—Jesse John- “c, Confederate stood in the pilot house, another over the ccgiine, oneon the] son. roof with the captain while the other *° Cogecg ats ee ta City Clerk Arthur Cole has had and the balance of the crew on the) nany interesting experiences, many se pas hig BASE ease very remarkable experiences, in fact, ers ain, the pilot, "engineer! which when related to his friends, of- and the balance of the crew were ten evoke expressions of pardonable doubt. Yesterday the subject of dynamite was brought up, and he | regaled a crowd at the city hall with forced to attend to their duties and given to understand if they made any false plays their goose was a goner When all was ready the boat was hacked i it A some of the astonishingly large patronage with me. 1 have) becker nie Y; dar,’ red caval blasts he had totiched off in bygone] wagons that I will let you use thes bin vg(hlews pi Tai SA years, when compelled to use the nere Capt. Goodwin, who had once free while yours are under re- ca ‘ sce | powerful explosive. veen a clerk on the river, was given |" protographer P. L. Noble was| pairs. Work guaranteed. the command. Gid Montjoy, who bs aie present and with a replied to one withering smile when he enlisted was a striker on the £ Vicksburg and hatehie river hoe iy a ries, ‘‘Pshaw! I’ve touched off more I ne kets est pese ep oO “y —— ’ mite at one time than you ever while the wrlter, who wasthen purser | sow in your whole life.”” and on the J. M, was transferred to the house with the the Keolo. Our mate was a soldier who had never be- fore trodden the decks of a steam- boat. His deck crew were planta- ion coons fresh from their overtlown homes and on their first voyage. We were an inexperienced set for the du- ties we had to perform, but the best available with which to man the little captive. ‘The captured crew were to be pas- sengers with us to Grenada, where most of them were paroled and sent through the lines to Memphis. The pilot was a deserter from the Confed- erate navy, and being an old timer on erst Sharp, ‘I'll bet you money you haven't,’ said the official by way of argument. ‘What's the largest charge you ever fired?” “Well, when I was blasting out in Colorado several years ago, I fired one blast of 12 tons of dynamite at one time.”’ The clerk gave a glance at the small audience, was appalled into silence, and with- out another word, sought the quie- tude of his office on the second floor, “A man don’t stand any show at all with th evil fellows,’’ he after- wards said apologetically. twelve tons—24,000 pounds— of dy- namite would blow Kentucky into glass windows on contemptuous these turpld streams, age over- ! Europe. I can’t tell my past expe- ihe yen we in UP OFT riences When those sort of fellows are first night out, and swam to ” 8 around. land, making his escape, rather % than ron the risk of ant 2 : arrest for desertion. However, we hen the mob began to scatter and over town yesterday morning the writer steered that little doubled. | baving its ardor dampened by disap- | wheel single engine craft all over the |Pointment, most of the saloon-keep- Yazoo Delta, We were homeward | down town, not being by any bound with a load of corn and bacon reached our destination all tight many formidable looking weapons of| Gave him al, im down in a| flag jchair with the wounded arm on the torn and | of Clerk Cole’s sto-| that) “Why, | fter | means reassured by the sight of 80] 4 ist «1 with the observation that it beat blind tiger booze all hollow,’ stalked stocked home he «las bis weapon. with his large and well When he started | waa as heavily load ual | When Prof, Martin, the hypnotist, casts his transfixing glance up into |the colored gallery at the opera house, those present in this quarter of the house, without any )relimin- aries, bend down until he cannot see Some of them even lay down, at is their superstitious fright, Tuesday night when a colored | boy in the gallery was made to swing down from the gallery and go upon the stage, half of the colored people left in the greatest haste and confu- |sion, and haven't been back since. A prominent society lady of North Fighth street had printed at a local office a large number of plac bearing these words, ‘Book peddlers and other annoyances will please step around to theditk door.’’ She intends to paste them on the front of the house, and if they don’t “*frost’’ the nu ces nothing will. DRIFTWOOD GATHERED ON wharf was The very quiet this morning. The John S. Hopkins left for | Evansville this morning at 10. The Dick Fowler was the lower | Ohio river steamer vhis morning. The Ashland City is due here to- day from Danville and returns to- morrow. The little tug, City of Metropolis, passed up without stopping this | morning. The R. A. Speed arrived here from Mound City last tow of empties. The big U.S. steamer, Lily, ar- rived here from St. Louis this morn- ing to go into winter harbor here. night with a The big John K, Speed passed up yesterday at noon en route to Cin- \einnati. She did not recognize this | city. The Will J. Cummins is due here out of the Tennessee this afternoon Jand leaves on her return trip Satur- {day afternoon. The City of Clarksville brought from E’town and left on today at 1 p. m. A cute little two mast schponer }from thé Upper Ohio passed down jyesterday afternoon, going at a 25- knot per hour gait. The U. S. Lookout returned here yesteri t noon to have some re- |pairsdone to her boiler feeder, as |she broke an arm to her doctor. The City of Oceola, which sunk a |few days ago in the Mississippi, was raised and arrived here this morning to go onthe marine ways for re- pairs. her return | The Peter Hounc, as this is going |to be the name of Capt. Joknson’s | boat when she is completed, will be ready for business in a few days. ‘A beaut she is.”’ The Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers are all falling from the heads of them to their mouths. The Ohio is falling at this port a very good gait and the guage showed this morning 5.9 and falling, I] of about three-tenth, in twelve hours, and if it keeps up at this rate jvery long the big steamers will all }soon have to seek refuge at the bank and the little ones will be given a chance for the army,which had been secured ap Cold Water river and Cassidy {¢¥ery description, closed up aad) ‘The towboat R. A. Speed, which Bayou. On reaching the seventeen | Went home. }has beén laying at Mound City dur- mile ferry, below Grenada, by land] One well-known bartender, how-| ing the low water and summer season and about sixty-five by water, we|€Ver, Was not one of the latter, and | undergoing repairs, and being newly were met by a courier with the news| Pefore daylight the men began to} painted and now has the appearance that Gen, Johnson had surrendered | Straggle in with their axes, guns,/of a new boat, arrived here last the department. Our load was] #24 pistols and some of the more| night with a big tow of empties, She bibulous become free and easy. The transferred to the Sharp, and in rounding out to go down stream the | ¢lectric lights were in some manner engine caught on center. We drifted | *ffected, and would go almost out oc- casionally, and every time they went out, the bartender would crawl down under the bar, out of.range of what- | ever came along, which was as likely tobea bullet as anything else, and when the lights brightened up in he would resume his standing tion, the very picture of courage. One fellow became a little loqua- cious, and laying one pistol on the bar, he hugged his Winchester, and leaning over the counter confidently declared, ‘You fellers didn’t do us ayfield fellers right. d’ye hear?"’ The bartender certainly did hear, in inst the bank and one of the ma any old trees which line the banks of these rivers pierced her side with a much more telling fatality than any ball from the keg with which she was taken could bh: lone. c. le * posi- At the time of the battle of Ft. Donelson the writer's home was in ksville, Tenn,, where there were large Confederate hospitals, to which the wounded from the battle were sent on steamers dail Capt. Jesse Johnson, an old time skipper tor yeays in the Nashville and New Or- leans trade,. gd whose heart was BAL mee i larger than his leviathian craft, was} Mr. W. G. Whitield yeviartay re in command of the B, M, Rungan, | ceived from his sister SATE pe The writer, being wounded, was to]N- C-, an old Springticlt rifle and have gone home on hisboat, but not|“aftridge box which he carried heingeatled in time was left. How-| through the memorable cays of "64 ever he escaped and reached Clarks. | #04 "65. ee ae ae In '64 he captured the gan at Til yilleon the Gen, Anderson with é. r Capt, Jas. Davis in command, The] ‘0%, Ga., and carried it through the next day the Minnetonka, Capt, | battles of Decatur, Ga., of Franklin and Nashville, Tenn, and of Ben- tonville, N. He surrendered at Greensboro, and intrusted the we to the care of his sister, who yester- day sent it to him by express, The gun awakened many a pa- thetic memory of the late war, and if bin tables ag opergting stretchers. it could speak, what stories of } tiv a There was one young man who was} 92, suffering and blood it could amember of one of Gen, Floyd's} tell. Virginia regiments, whose right arm ‘I've shot this gun many a time, was terribly’ mangled. The elbow|temarked Mr. Whitlield yesterday had been shattered, and the arm to] While showing it to some friends the wrist was lacerated and torn to|‘‘At Franklin it became so hot from shreds, When hig turn came to be} excessive use that I could hardly operated upon Dr. Lyle, the ghiet|bold it, 1 wouldn't take anything surgeon, informed him that amputa- | for it- tion was his only chance, and wanted to administer ay anesthetic, The} ‘We come up to git that ma young soldier said, ‘Doctor can’t} s And you dido’t let us Lave bin you save my arm?’ We didn’t waut to hang him in your The doctor replied, ‘Zt is impos-}d—n old town, We'd a tung biw sible and the quicker it is amputated in Mayfleld if there wasn't uthit the better it will be for you."’ A left but the end of the rope when we shade of great disappointment over-| got there.’’ spread his features and a teartrickled|” The barkeeper thought privately down each check, ‘Phen, wiping] that there woulda’t have been mu them off with the sleeve of his other] left of the darkey Wut the eud of t arm, he said; ‘It is hard, but you}rope when the cyowd got back | know best, and J mast soe it done. | Mayfleld, but he mustered up braws Don't give me the Pele Hg "J enough to reply, ‘Well, you know ‘They tied to induce bim to inhale it, (don’tyave anything to do with ruu- Wyle Simms, came down to Clarks- ville to transport the sick and wound- ed from the hospitals to Nashvilie, to be sent south, as Gen. Sydney John- ston was on his retreat to Corinth. On the way up the surgeons were at- tending the wounded, using the pon , | cally jreturned to Cairo this morning after anotuer big tow of empty boats, and when suflicient water comes in the jriver she will bring ties out for the | Ayers & Lord Tie Co., of Chicago. Every person who ever used Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey pronounce it colds, grip, lung and bronchial troubl It is a harmless guarantee agai stops the sleepless nights. One dose ough. All druggists sell it, Sold by Ochlschlaeger & Walker, The daily Sun, the newsiest paper n the city—10 cents a week. THE WAGE-EARNERS GAMBLE. A Foutwh Proceeding for Mea Who Tall for Thotr Living, Wage varners shoukl nobgamble with | their wages. Certainly they should not Jo go when the dive are loaded them, and !t ts @ case of “heads I win gnd tails you love,” Ho can win nothing, but may lose much, tf he gambles with the silver mine owners and takes tips from the free silver politiclans, ‘9 silverite claime that fre ep oolong would raise actual wages, le most they say is that the wage-earner would | hot lose much ip the purchasing ¥ ower of bis wages and that he would be likely to lmve éteadter work when the “more money” period ts reached, Perhaps, But tvhat should most gonoern those who exchange labor for dollars is that thelr dollars should not shrink In value, Looking a the question tn the light of ietory and of reason, it a seri ener certain that the free colnage dollar would Ce Po about half ae much 9s the oem tok lax, The Mextean dollar ty a free cotnage al tender dollar which goutains more silver than would ours, yet {t purchases ouly half as much as a gold dollar, This is true of all otber free silver countries, Rverywhere the value of the votn is measured by the value of the bullion In \ it, 1 Ye the price of silver should rise to 1,29 a Ounce ip gold, the wapyeenet {would neither lowe nor gain by free | colnnge, If, a Is certain, the price does | not rise but little or not Ot all, then the wage earner has lost halt ¢ he and tic fh fe ye woo re PC lt slothieg see a8 Tle gambles with | them when there te po! but pesetin eat 1 Kir ede? starvation down a good pile of freight last night | = the best and quickest cure for coughs, |' tl ne ing to be won, i] into euch an an llinois If you want the ST. - LOUIS No clinkers, no use no other, Your Letters Will Copy Themselves. 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