The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, December 12, 1896, Page 3

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Oilige Am,-Ger, Nat Bsok Bulg \ store T Residence 180 S Third bone 128 vlepbome 190 j for a living’? crossed and boarded the train, we pulled out for Tallahatohee river and what's what I call out of a job how, |lost no time in getting there. When A young lady at the city has ceased | !* doin’. the writer went through the train trading with the family grocer, She] ‘The conductor came along about | gathering tickets, he asked the sol- is very fond of macaroni and very] this time, though,” concladed the |dier w , yrrest had nid te frequently goes to the grocery for|drummer, “and ‘what I call fired’ | him to change the face of matters so five cents’ worth of cheese to use in{him. I haven't seen him around (quickly, but he would impart no in- preparing it. A day or two since|bere yet, but he may be what I call | formation on that subject; but on the she went after the usual amount and | still coming from the size of the sack thought that the proprietor bet certainly given ber) Incongruities and anachronisms are more than usual, Wh ¢ reached | frequently observed in the modern home and it was opened she was mor-| pinay, but it is somewhat astonishing tifled to find three or four crackers, ; that such a play as ‘The Man In the bit and the pre the rest If it would would get wet. dry’ “Col. Grates and Mr, Cool enjoying the revival — these nights,’ and ad infinitam, o* ‘0, I'm like old Abe Lincoln, I always tell a story when they| Justice Winches. litor once went to church] boat used for transferring both man her said ‘We'll spare and beast across the torturous Yalla- busha river had been discontinued for some time, and in its stead a pon- toon bridge was maintained by the government under the supervision of the post quartermaster. During the winter previous both the Mississippi and Tennessee, and Mississippi Cen- tral railroad bridges had been fired and destroyed by a raid of the Fed- eral cavalry, At the time we speak | of the writer was running a train on the Mississippi & Tennessee railroad, It was the day before ( Bed- ford Forrest made his celebrated and unexpected dash into the city of Memphis. The General and several of his staff officers spent the night before in Grenada at the residence of his brother, Mr. John Forrest. They were to be passengers with us rain the streets What we need is a town. are fine can't want me t ver last night. “Whenever a person gets to taik- ing tome, I am often reminded of some good old story. But this is my busy day They do say, though,’’ suddenly the genial magistrate, » people are thinking of run- said ning C nstable Anderson Miller for ‘ county judge. He'sdone more work | #8 far as Tallabatchie river, where the for the county and got less fur it] bridge was also destroyed. It was the afternoon before that the more known Yellabusha was rising and combined. — In- he would make a than all the others trepid and honest, good officer of ‘some sort, and I| Plank for lengthening the pontoon sues we'll have to run bim for| 44 Ordered and sent down so as not something in November. Of course] to delay the departure of Gen. For: rest and his aids. For some reason a detail of soldiers had not been made to do the required work of repairing the bridge during the night. About “T once met a man, Col. | 6 o'clock on the morvivg in question John Miller e snuff drummer who] Engineer James Eblen, Fireman [ra to have lost an arm at Bunker} C , Brakeman Perry Wortham, 1 onc aman who was|the writer and two colored roust- to § ircumstunces and a box car. | abouts, the train crew, wended our It was near Kansas City way to the pontuon to cross over to “How is the world serving y the train and bave everything ready friend, 1 asked 1 joined him to leave when time was up. We asked for a chew of tobacco. found Gea. Forrest and his staff of he'll make the race on the Republi- can ticket.” . —said Hill e met my and It's gittin’ whut I call putty bard | officers there with their coats off car- on a feller,’’ was his disgruntled re-|rying the lumber down the hill while |ply. He gave me a handful of to-]an old man was holding their horse: bacco crumbs, which I proceeded to|and looking after their arms, etc hew When we started to pass the lumber What do yon do for a livelihood ?] on our way to the bridge the general train in readiness or he would be de- had government transportation tick- | ets and were not going to work their | passage. The general looked dumb- founded, and being high tempered as well as irascible he gave them some pretty tough language. Then sing- ling out one of them he ordered him to pick up @ pland, the soldier said = ‘I'll be damned if I will."’ Gen, Forrest ‘Did he have lots of brass? out his knife, cut off a good Naw, he was whut U call a sil-|sized brush from a limb of the old ver man.’ water oak and dealt him several pret. ‘Well, whut did he do about/ty hard blows with it, The soldier uF wilted, shouldered a turn of the lum- ‘He grabbed me by whut I call) ber and went down the hill with it. my collar and yenked me to whut I/'The General then turned to the other, call—the jail.’ and started at him with the brush, “L began getti but he was made of different materi- ‘that’s whut I call il al from his companion. He coolly drummer, ‘but he i pulled his Colt’s navy and a long me his trovbles.’’ *‘Arkansas tooth pick’’ and pointing They locked p@ up in whut 1) che gun at the General said, ‘Stop, call a cage, and then }took me before} General Forrest, 1 know yon, and whut they call a judge,’ rec gnize your value and -worth to ++ ‘What did he do; give you whut] our cause and your great ability as a you call a fine? commander of our cavalry, but don’t mer “ he ‘ompletely ignoring this,” proceeded, “I found whut I call a pretty good place in a part of a barn whut I call a loft, and laid down to —well, to whut I call sleep.’ ‘Did you ever wake up?’ ‘oT slept whut I call a little late and when my repose was broken, 1 found beside me whut I call a cop.’ bored by this man,"’ said the isted on telling ‘**Yes, and sent me to work on] you come a step nearer me with that whut I calPgwoek pile,” limb. If youdo I will surely kill “Did the’ ed you well?’ you, Iam sorry to disobey a su- i us three times a and mixed with id other things 8, they day on meab, cut potatoes, tolpal —that’s whul J call “Umph, Fumpb! heard it called that betor perior officer, but I do not belong to your command qnd have been regu- larly furloughed. I would have wil- lingly assisted if I bad been ap- proached in a different manner. But—.” Just then the General Melieve I've Did you drink, (han (is him the emptty bottle} with pleasun laid down his weap- again) and then tell me where you! ons, pulled off his coat and shoulder- are going now." ed as big a turn of the planks as the | ‘I'm seeking what I call greener| general himself could, After the tields, have a drink with me'—presently}and Clem one of the colored men | 1), : i Ef ; hands the man on the hog the empty| embarked, Clem was to bring the |‘7n00n with an excellent trip | o bottle. aah baie tac Oo cattle, peanuts, cotton and other ‘Feeling good by proxy, the man] While they were making the first maerenone merchandise She b, “ paves on her return to Florence this| become quite talkative, voyage General Forrest espied two | rp peo I allus did have a strong objec: | stalwart soldiers leaning against a |“ \eThoon at 4 0 clock. tion to what I call work’, he said, | giant old water oak that stood at the] Capt. Mont Fernand, who has ‘So I comes over here to whut they} top of the bill near the lamber pile | been absent from around the river | call Missouri looking fur whut I call] He ordered them to lend a hand and | front for several weeks, was on time | a soft snap. pack the lumber, but they refused, | for roll call this a. m. », Mont You must have found it in what] stating that they were on furlough has been acting as‘star-gazer’on the | I call a bard place,’ quoth the drum-| merited by long and arduous duty, Perguin in Green River, but thinks I'w goin’ to Padueer to live bridge was repaired and all had next day's run up, when we received the news that the general had dashed into Memphis, we concluded that he had explained to the soldier the ob jeot of his hurry and conduct at the| pontoon. Will J, Cummins... - Florence | John 8. Hopkins. . Evansville Notes, | The river continues to fall | Business quiet morning. The Dick Fowler Cairo at 8 a. m. The gauge showed this a. m. 14 and falling ; a fall of eight inches last | | night, The John 8, on the levee this was away to Hopkins was in sind | away for Evansville on time this morning. | The City of Clarksville, with a good trip, left today at noon for E’ town. The John D. Lewis arrived out of the Tennessee river last night with a tow of lumber. The towboat, Charley MeDonali passed down last night with a | of model barges. Capt. Billy Burton went as pilot on the towboat Fritz up Cumberland river yestemla; The R. A. Speed arrived out of the | Cumberland last night with a big tow) of ties for Brooklyn. has been on the ways for repairs was let in the river today. ‘The towboat, Fritz, from Cairo. passed up for the Cumberland river | yesterday afternoon to bring out a tow of two barges of iron. | The Buckey: today from Cincinnati en route to New Orleans had not put in her ap- pearance at a late hour this forenoon The Dick Fowler's new himneys will be erected set tomorrow The Ashland City is due out of the 1 inquired ordered us to help pack the plank, as ||. Wh—W hat?” in fact he did every person who came Tennessee river this evening and wiil| » “What do you do fora livelihood—| along except the ladies. 1 stepped | !ay over here tomorrow, leaving for a living forward and explained to him that| Danville Monday morning at 10] ‘Aw! I'm whut I call ‘on the]we were the train crew and |0’clock. | g This wasn’t hard to guess. it would be necessary for us| The H. W. Buttorff is due here Did you ever do any thing else}to get over and get — the Jont of the Cumberland River tomor- row and leaves for Nashville as soon| ‘Well, nuthin but I call work, to] layed the same length of time on the | as she can receive and discharge her| speak of. Were you ever on the hog] further side of the stream that he de- | cargo here. | before? tained us on that side, Recognizing} The two barges which broke loose “T'm not on it now, you blank|the fact, the general allowed us to | from their moorings at Smithland idiot’ L howled, cross over in a dugout but admonish-| several days ago, one of which| 1 was only judging frum whut) eq us to be sure to be ready by the | struck the bridge pier at Cairo and I call arauces,’ apologized the | time he arrived. ‘The dugovt would] sunk, did not belong to the towboat other only transport three at a time, and} 4’ Speed as was at first reported | Well, you judge from some-| Mr.Eblen who was over a 200 pound- | per, thing else next time. Wait until I] er and about the shape of the ‘Jack The Will J. Cur get it all out of the bottle and then] of Clubs,”’ his fireman Ira Cochran o HLS. Comming: arrived 96s of the Tennessee river yesterday af- that steamer is too small for him, The light house tender, Jrod, will be out of the Tennessee| about Monday, making the trip in| about five days, this being the quick- | est time she ever made up that stream | and it is all on account of Christmas | | being so close at hand, and her crew wants to be in Cincinnati when that! day arrives. About the only class of river men} that take holidays are those who work on ‘Uncle Sam's’? steamers. Sunday, Fourth of July, Christmas, or any other holiday don’t out any figure ina steamboatman’s case, when- The Clarksville wharf boat which |" ate which was due|!* ot | MS od her friends won't know her when | Cy she leaves for Cairo Monday morning. | Golden- | ¢ Illinois Coal far excels all other coal for grates or stoves. Washed Pea Coal beats the world for furnace or cooking. Washed Coal. If you want the best coal in the city you can get it of Illinois Coal Company, who handles the celebrated AND - BIG - MUDDY - COAL. dirt; but pure, clean co; . Our Egg Our one price the year around. The poor get their load of coal as cheap per bushel as the rich of bushels. Try our ‘coal and you will an 10c.; Egg, 9c.; Washed Pea, 6c. BARNES & ELLIOTT, Proprietors Illinois Coal Company, in addition to the cheese, which the| ron Mask’? should present one #o| , Ve forgot to state that a pc rtion | had evidently thrown in for| palpable. ‘The scene is, of course, {Of he command which went on the 8 - J measure and to draw trade.|jnid in France, and’ the various| Memphis raid had crossed on the young lady indignantly informed | characters are supposed to be speak. |POMtoon a day or two before the her friends that she objected to being] ing French, but for the benefit of |0T!ng in question rok taken for a tramp English speaking people the dia-| ph second day after the inva- No clinkers, no logues are given in English. Ores acne tae Kno seri cap. It young local journalistic tyros] French maid, however, who, in the | ptm! (inte wore transported Dy ius would devote more of their ambi-|original, speaks French, and attends | oO, fs lalatelee | to | Cinenala,) tious energies to getting news,, and|® French Iady of court, comes out/fiit i’ by blew. doe Buxton, We only charge less to the publication of facetiously bores audience age “Le eaeed ts rat A pha yy ms, Gad @ antiquated jokes on their confreres, | Madamoiselles,’’ and uses the ‘stage 7 . os eeeeeied eae on. ak Sealers ceoamn ton Veeneh ,oasdes7 San O.L | their thousands yapers besides such as this when they are learning to speak | Pep are Lr some talk of moat epott.|Rogliohy nad when they appease tal DRIFTWOOD use no other, ing that was killed during the recent|Enghsh plays. There would have cold snap. been as much propriety and realism} 7 ‘ “Posty Grubbs was at church | if the whole cast had used the same}GATHERED ON THE LEVEE. last night with his best girl, Look |/ind of language as ‘Ze leetle maid,”” — out, Willie! ete. ARRIVALS, “There is some talk of another #,° John S. Hopkins. «Evansville. | = frost tonight. It was on the morning of Decem-|Geo. H. Cowling Metropol | #-@- Har fe, be Crive “Now is hog killing time. Come | ber 13, 1864, bright and early, that| Ashland City...... Danville. | HARRIS & GRICE, around and subscribe for the Jaro] the writer witnessed an incident of [John D. Lewis. .... Tennessee River | al, ; 1 he {thea Nich he does not remember DEPARTURES, | Attorneys - at - Lay, “Judge Sanders smiled as he of fever having seen in print. It] pick Fowle ea 8 " opened court this morning—' and Salta the coy et Grésenas Mion at Bee pedals : oes] Bh A Mbombpamie! asec so on to the end of the column the upper ferry landing. The flat | City of Clarksy, agi 2 eg benmnain an A. L, HARPER, ATTORNEY-AT-L. 115 Legal Row—Upstai Ww, Will practice tn all the eourts n of claitas promply attended to. COLORED DEPARTMENT. CHURCHES, Methodist and Sua am E'S Burks, pastor ington Street Baptist Church —Sunday Qam. Preaching 8 pm Geo. Ww € s D * Baptist Church gam. Pi ng, 1a m aD. tee WS. Hake tor St. Paul A. M, B, church, Sunday 4 a ing lia. ma 1G St.James A. M. EB. chureh, 10th and Trimble preaching 3 p. MASONIC. Broadway, third floor, Meets every first nth cots every first ath. jon Lodge lay evening sannah Conrt Ni rth Monday in each -Meets every se INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. ws’ Hall, s¢ r 7th and Adams. No 48—Meets first and in each month at Colored Na 1515—Meets every first day ia each mont at Colored : s first and Tent, N t frst Sat . second Satur Mrs. Bettie Slayden is quite ill at present Teachers’ meeting this afternoon atthe Lincoln school. The entertainment given by the Musical Club last night Mr. and Mrs. B, F. Jones was a grand suc- ess and largely attended enee. The quarterly c se of Burk’s Chapel, A. M. E. church, was held ast nig the church by Rev. L. 3. Sims, P. KE. of the Western Ken- Rey. € nick tucky District. the pastor in cha the conferenc early and the conference H. Burks, the mem- assembled was called general bers of }to order and opened for the routine business Rev, Sims stated nary remarks th pointed by the in his prelimi- had been ap- nual conference to he ever there is a job in sight, and there is almost always one in sight when an occasion like this arrives, Holiday Rates. For the Christmas and New Year holiday season the Illinois Central R R. will on Dee, 22, 23, 24, 30] and 3ist sell round trip excursion! tickets to any point on their line south of the river fora distance not exceeding 300 miles from Pauoah at one and one one-third fate for the round trip, good returning until and including Jan, 4th. To points on north of the river within 0 miles of Paducah we will on Dec, 24, 25, 31 and Jan. 1, sell round trip tickets at same rate Good returning until, and including 25, ever work any Where else? threw away the limb and said, ‘I | Jan, 4 A. H. Haygon, ‘Yes, L was up to Erie onct and) will tell you something.” Ad J. T. Doxovan aRA worked my way on a canal boat.’ | cing a few steps nearer the soldier, Cc. A: W. A, Kettanp, ‘What did you do?" he spoke in a low tone to bim./G, (, MoCarry A. G..P, A “Ob, I walked along the bank and| What he said waa heard hy DPA pulled what I call the rope,’ ‘no one else but the soldier a ‘Well, my friend, take another} who answered, ‘Why, of cuurse; restored Lost mand fully Worth $50 a bdgtle, buf costs only | $1 a bottle, Ond bot guaranteed to do the work, “ listrict, not to fill jout an unexpired term of some one jels aud he would en- |deavor to try to do every amicable |thing in his power to enhance the | progress of this and other churches | under his jurisdictions The diseip | preside over thi but bis own, | linary questions were asked and an- swered, The stewards reported as having gollected for this quarter $125.71 and the trustees $128.63, Yotal collections for quarter $264, 34, The stewards reported the spiritual | condition of the @hurch good and the membership jnogeasing. The en- jrollment of thegburch is 307, In- erease this qu@pter, Last, 2. Mr. C, H. 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