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Nea Leg poe Picture Mouldings In the City Have you seen the latest? A YARD OF FACES. for GOOD work Ma? BALTHASAR, Under Patwen REIF, acTURER OF ) B way Howse A. W. mary Carriages | and Buggies. ALL KINDS QF SLAP ERT THING DONE TO ORDER.| | ‘Horse Shoelng~a Socially. 224 Court Street Between Second aad Third, HARRIS & Attorneys IGE, aLaw, Sele & C0 Undertakers and enjbaimers Store Telephone Bors Tele t ee em -«:1380 8 Third with ev.cyching the Tonle wvnli FT attorda 117 BROADWAY. Pitive Am,-Ger, Ni “BIG FOUR” | said, The simplest thing often reminds one of some interesting incident con ated with the article ¢ Winchester bad a board brought into his office on Legal Row He intended to con struct a shelf from it, but couldn't} get the correct dimensions from the | board, which wasn't the correct shape | “That plank reminds me of some ways,’’ he said “I strolled down one years ago and happened day several to find a large number of the men sitting around waiting for the bell to ring As a diversion one of the men prc pounded a ques hull stove in and A ship had her there was a plank fr and a formal en to there may be tion forty reasons motion | usually t came At- torney Blank this court to grant «new trial in such and such for the following reasons, to “This day and petition a care wit.’ ‘Ther e enumerated a long reasons, charging that the j given the wrong instructi monwealth of has favored the cc ns in his it just brands the jud 1 fraud at a ca in short ab i fool or ad al glance “Well, one day there was a ‘green’ deputy sheriff over there phrysboro named Joe Willis, Mr ms for a new tria The deputy to r sheriff chanced shoulder and writing, and his eyes once began to dilate, Presently he walked over and calling me aside Say, you just ought to see what Mr, Harkey over there is writ- ing about the Judge, ‘There'll trouble sure if the Judge finds it out glance over see what he soon as court is over.’ ‘But that deputy wards found out bis learned that a Judge can sheriff mistake swallow and motion for a new trial, with eommon- | Jaw reasons.”’ There was nothing Judge Sanders began to recount, few friends, several a of the past. He relate a few AT | nymous with t thing I saw once down on the marine | e, and | hundred feet a a| knock the knot out, SU | at Mur-| raised her up, Harkey was writing out a motionand | plank, and couldu’t and I believe that be will kill him as| 1 haven't after- to before I leave here, a ing for great deal, espe ially when it is in a man,however, 80 he was not molested, \ stirring about It cures croup, whooping cous the city halla day or two ago when in the bead and giv to a ing sleep. usiug stories the taste remi-| ask for more, niscences about City Marshal Collins it joa evoked roar after roar of laugh- Walker, RANDOM, ter from the crowd, while the smiling Marshal sat there and joyed it as much as the rest. When Capt, Collins was a young man he was the same ensy-going big-hearted, magnanimous, Jim. He made plenty of money, and spent it, and like all other young men he had , whieh oftentimes was syno- able. I was judge away back in the ‘remarked Judge Sanders, and Jim over there used to be up before me pretty often, If he had a fight with anybody he always came up and paid bis own fine and the We all liked lenient towards him, About every Monday morning he would be on the docket for some ever ene sixties,” other fellows fine too him, and were very the other fellow replied When I walked up asked me if I could shoot ‘Shoot?’ 1 said, ‘why, anvthing—whether it is not.’ I wanted to rumina bluff, and to get my pistol away from such danger- ous men. ‘Do that usked, anvther one 1 can hit there or see that knot over there?’ I a barn Well w The n held my pistol handed it over, felt safe then, whether Ibi or not I knew I had to st indifferen hitting even the do it again in a fired. 1 knocked you barn pointing to rout & ch me n who ad I barn , sol the took for I had no idea of million years, and his | that knot out just as clean and pretty was|as if I bad at| walking cane, with my at it as punched it out I wondered much as any of the rest. My repu- tation as a crack shot was made, and I knew it would never do to take an- other shot “They all begged but I said ‘no, {1 but fous loads there's no telling what 1 m: can’t do it left, aud get in seemed to be look- wit such a marks None of them trouble There coughs and colds of babies as De, Bell's Pine is nothing so good for the the children and Var Honey cold sweet, refresh- It is pleasantly sweet to Any child wilifake it and Good Vor wale by Od hlaeger & hggists sell! a DRIFTWOOD GATHERED ON AnmvALs | New South John 8. Hopkins Ashland City HL. Geo. H, Cowling DEPARTURES. City of Clarksville Will J, Cummins Dick Fowler... +06 John 8. Hopkins Yew South Geo. H. Cowling NOTES. | Capt. Barrett is im the ¢ River rose 4!¢ inches Ia | Business lively on the ja. m Tne gauge showed this % Uk . Ma Shannon is {M Fannie Mr AQ me today Gre n wrned b Mrs. F her hom Mrs Ewell Miss € Provia Emma eet ra Smith y tr is co her u learn, Ww. Ashford, mds will b LEVER Cincinnati . Evansville Danville Metropolis | KE town | ++ Florence} . Memphie «Metropolis ity st night levee this furenoon Illinois ST.- LOUIS No clinkers, no | county, We only charge 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 inthe city you can get it of Illinois Coal Company, who handles the celebrated AND - BIG - MUDDY - COAL. dirt; but pure, clean coal. Our Egg Our one price the year around. The poor get their load of coal as cheap per bushel as the rich their thousands of bushels. Try our coal and you will use no other. Lump, 10c.; Egg, 9c.; Washed Pea, 6c. BARNES & ELLIOTT, Proprietors Llinois Coal Company, uite a while, slowly. Mr. W. H. Mansfield has been confined to his bed several days with rheumatism is recovering very Sterling Fouse, ason of Mr. and Mrs. A. Fouse, on Jackson street, is very sick Luby Woods, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Woods, on South Tenth street, has been very sick. Miss Georgia Thompson, of the has been the guest of Miss Ethel L. Owens this week. Miss Gerdena Berry was the pleas- visitor of Mrs. Fenton Baker in the suburbs of the city. Mrs. Geo. Davis and children have returned after a four months’ visit to her mother in Yazoo, Miss. Mrs. Martha Chambers, of Chi- ago, is called to the bedside of her laughter, Mrs. Lizzie Finley, who is very sick. Any orders left for wood at No. 1009 North Seventh street will be mptly and cheerfully filled Alonzo Ashford, Master Frankie Trice, the youngest hild of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Trice, sin a very precarious condition, suffering with fever. H. Burks and the tras- ing electric lights put in by A.M. E. church, also they are vaving the church neatly painted. It will be ready by the holidays. he Old Folks’ concert at the A. M. E. ehurch will play Wednesday night, Mr. and Mrs, 8S. T. Overton are assisting the Old Folks in their ncert, and it promises to be the vest of the holiday entertainments. The Bible Social Club will meet Wednesday evening with Mr. James Owens on South Ninth street. All and committees are re- present as some special the membe vested to arrangements are to be made for an ntertaiument to be given by the club at the Odd Fellows’ hall during the holidays There is a romor circulated that 5. E. Marshall has defrauded the people out of their mone; who at- tended the Goodwine Bros.’ concert at Odd Fellows’ Hall last Wednes- lay night. ‘This is a mistake as I myself had M employed to sell Ww. S$. Greif, HAS REMOVED TO 132 S.-THIRD STRBET — Where you can find » coi¥plete line of—— WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADES, Picture Frames and Mouldings COME AND E ME Jas.A.Glauber’ Livery, Feed and — aa ELEGANT CARRIAGES, FIRST-CLASS DRIVERS, BEST ATTENTION TO BOARDERS Stabh---Caraet Tard and Washington Streets NO. ——This is the week to buy your Fine Pictures and Easles ! FOR XMAS PRESENTS. Your Girl Is Expecting One. + Go and see all of the Latest NOVELTIES and LOWEST PRICES in PICTURES at G. G. LEE, F. J. BERGDOLL, PROPRIETOR———. Paducah - Bottling - Co., AGENT CELEBRATED . LOUIS O'BERTS BEER, Of St. Louis. In kegs i bottles, Also various temperance drinks—-Soda Pop, Seltzer Water, Orange Cider, Ginger Ale, ete, tick my money received |to y for my Piecaniuny band 8 they me they had no y t wlva and allowed me € sell tickets until I l my money, so I engaged the of Marshall as 1 had the ten could not leave d Tbope that no one will iM all for his reputation who knows him knows he € auding any one, Respectfully, J. L, Campers, Leader of the Piccaninny Cornet band Mr. Dan Smith will open a gro- ery and saloon on the corner of Ad- LNDSHLP. uth at or {board containing « certain num-|of his Saturday night fun, but he] 15:9 and rising, ber of square inches. The hole con-| would always get off light The Dick Fowler sailed away for tained a similar number of inches Judge Bloomfield was elected| Cairo at 8 a. m. but the plank was so constructed,|over me thongh, one year, and the The Grace Morris left at for Ten- however, that it would not fit in the| first morning he took “his seat and] nessee river Inst night after a tow of hole, The question was how could | opened his docket the first thing -he] ties, you cut that plank so the hole would |saw was ‘Jim Collins, breach of the! ‘The City of Clarksville, with # be filled | I didn't take him kk 0} ni " When the carpenter asked the Gas fifty dollars and%hree wens ie eer wen ene Se ewe to. teuttiiots 4 ) day at noon tion a plank was cut ¥ Jim jomped wp and yelled a]. eee towbost Dick Clyde passed ng of the imaginary plank Judge Bloomfekd | Give , nse] C77", thle morning for Brooklyn with re was drawn on the floot| Judge Sanders.’ Hegot out of tha|® “weoppia’” big tow of railroad to represent the hole in the ship [jail sentence, but bind to pay the] Cross tes “All of us studied the question, | fi The Will J. Cummins arrived out and every one finally gave it up and mber another time." quoth] Of the Tennessee last evening with a said it couldn't be done, except one when met with an} fine load of country produce. She old tramp-looking carpenter, who ed disaster. A circus came] Will leave for Florence this aftercoon did not say a word. Me took the town and Jim and a crowd of his] 4 board and a piece of chalk and be sporty’ friends went to see it.| The big State of Kansas, from Cin- ry atk The rest looked ed the clown off by himself,|cinnati bound for w Orleans breathless silence, and the old 1 said, ‘Boys, let's lick that] passed down yesterday at noon. She ew Z marks on the w. If you'll stand by. we, I'll) carried a ul of freight and pas- it and they f n the hole exactly} They agreed to stand by him,| The A 1 City is due out of the “ t another way he ‘started in, but the clown} Tev tonight. She will knew his bus-| whipped him, and when the others! lay over here tomorrow and leave would happen to] rushed in licked them every one, aod | her reiur Dauville Monday morn- drop in just now and show me how] Jim ne near getting his head | ing ) ; to saw out tha’ | punched off aia I —— | One day Mayor Meyer Weil and th nee er ge be <n y be careful in | some other official were! ¢, fo bee with the he rons, It standin nd Court. The] pick for. ¢ She returned up about with rson their hands |Jim was then driving the hose wagon, 1 New Heed and fave they ave been be: ae patel je mayor he} arrived liere from Cin nna en route burned w pon sieges Ste aes pc. yore and he|t? Memphis this a. m. She dis- A few days ago, howev ie within afew inches of doing depen ise oe ™ 4 se tacu roune lets of Fone levily ceeded down to the Blatt wn tet 6 hed ahot| They told several others on the oe a Ls Stas ita te Swe, Goo bal : but this was years and] _ Chri ; gools ave swelling re everal days 6 te Judge Sanders Guished that he would an a art vag iret ainful eu ysecute to the fall extent of the " ake Shas ol ter to hes eye hi 1 uw the first reporter that wrote any- ; ag ine hae alg th oa Se Ie ee Ore: tit been cn ths| thing aboa' what Jedgs Benders hind)’ ally tue Cummins ap Tenne pupil the vision would have been des-| told, it may be well to stop this nar- sail alba Wats yea e eye, at least, a 1 pos: | rative befor it is too late \ wit 3, Commie, ep in 7 — | ‘ Tennessee river, ar the . . overnme licial | noted for some of its desperute and] sno pose somewhat a Georgia f the city has a r who } | daring eitiz said Dr. J. G.| pine forest ss bak ena he a wonder agnetic | The | Brooks yesterday, The doctor bas} cargo a very large shipment of cedar fact that some people are 1 with | lived about here long enough to know, | Christmas trees, which were billed to apparently tural ability /and when plied with @@estions con-| this port ve a table or chair by merely {sented to tell some of his Ballard] ,. she cheer la indlaputabie, |aowuny experieuse This moruing opened up as u and if it should be doubted, the p Iwcnt down there years ago,’’|DU8y around the what. All the lo- are Sy Pe ie sould eteily'| hé said.’” be eaid, ‘to avtend court,| cl Packets were in and out on time vince any one disposed to be at|The court room was a bleak, bare! trying heavy cargos, ve ee all skeptical Jlooking bex structure, and when the bs big fon : vous wba Aud she isa valuable household | judge arrived he proved to be a far seat ceed yes anxiliary. Whenever it is desired to | more desperate fan than he looked | °batging freight and all left for their ve a bed, machine or cabinet, this] «He wore a mnk ¢ nd coon| ‘ifferent destinations on schedule piritual phenomenon >| skin cap, and carried e loog muzzle. | ‘ime with a good freight, as well @ loit. She can them |loading rifle. I think when he got] Passenger list. ythe t atter how | there he pulled off his shoes and be- avy the “ an move it} gan dryinghis feet. His bench was than people. One day the lock in| guess it answered its purpose | one of the doors became out of of fix Well, the judge began pointing} DEPARTMEN Be sud could not be it to me the spots of interest in allied in, and after he 4 building. ‘Right there is ‘where so-| CHURCHES, fora few moments it|and-so were killed two years ago.’ | b readily. ‘The woman|and ‘Jim Blank were shot in that cor-) asy's ae giem ad told that she is a medium, | ner a year ago come spring’ he would) ™ Kev © M. Bal “i = e tosay isafraid of her|remark in a matter of — fact] qay's cxehing I'am and 8 power way, as if killing men was as). Kev F . RES *,° common ns_ kil hogs. When| , : tev A great many legal methods of|he got to the man, who was |W. L pastor ’ procedure, if construed as a personal| shot sixteen times in one skirmish, | > Bing Be ee Bd reflection, we rht| bat not killed, and never could find wes between the oc ttorney, |out who hit him, T thought I would P ay nebook 8 Lawyers and jud, eat aiken | go outside ns geta little fresh air, | Stansor officials, however, have to bumbly|*This is @h—l of a pl 1 said to} 5 M and Pet bear many apparent insults, ‘This is| myself, and IL knew, because I was] m., 1 J. Sta bo ‘ one of the requirements, but a great | raised down there, COLORED LODGES. j insults are only] ‘But, as I was going to tell you | Anent this Attor-| when I got outside I found a group MASONIC, | ot, who was at one|of men standing around my b M ' ve y at Murphrys- | With curiosity that was chara’ mS - . 1, tells the following story: |istic in that day, they had gone! 54 No 6M y r a for a new|through the buggy and found my) Wesvesta: a 0 trial ithe attorney, ‘there are | pistol under the blagket what are called the common law Aint she a beauty?’ inquired t No b=M grounds or reasons, and the statu-| or : 7 tory reas In a common.law mo- **You bet! she’s a percussioner! meen: haem lored show Wednestay night ayfield, re e ill at 1 of North |? lek List, aval who has been sick} aud Seventh street in a few Mr, ‘Tom Emery has reopened his aloon on t Court street. He gave a grand opening last night Phe Crack Shots. Wednesday seemed to be beat They would have every body that night but John Chambers the leader of the brass 1 Ed Overby, the leader of band were onto them. 1 Mr, Geo, Marshall to col- loor until they got their James M.ravle, renter of got left by not being on to in time, James wanted to shut down but the officers advised on the beaten him uot to do so. Notice. report (hat iey apllec We that th took the ». Marshall | for the eo)- at Oda entirely. false. He auMwat in ouy Jobn Chalivbers, Washington, Fellow’s ball is turned over the whole presence. Signed Henry Windle Howard Finley Geo. Sea. urned last sum A Deep Nansen, who ret tied in his attempt to reach the although he got nearer anyone else has ever been, reports a fact which upsets some old ideas about the Polar sea, He found that the sea north of Siberia is shallow ip its sotthern portion, averaging only 00 fathoms deep, but that above lati- tude 79 degrees it suddenly becomes profound, the bottom falling to # depth of from 1,600 to 1,900 fathoms, If this plies to the entire polar basin, thea the north pole does not He in shallow water, a8 many have supposed, but ts situated jn the midst of a deep sea—a ned. wish to state|~ Telephone orders filled until,11;0’clock jatfnight during week and 12,0’clock Saturday nights, Telephone 101. 10th and Madison Streets, PADUCAH, Paducah Electric Co. INCORPORATED. R. Rowtaav, B, M. Fisuxr, See, KY, M. Broom, Pres. reas. STATION 217 N, SECOND ST, You can turn your lights on any time—Whenever you need them. We give continuous service day and night. 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