The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, January 22, 1897, Page 3

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MISSOURI PAaciFiG RAILWAY The a4 ARKA! oat Free Reclining Qhatrs Tunoven DALLAS ann\t ny Wortn, Noles on Texas, Ar For mays Kansas, inform or write Rn. 1. G. MATTHEW f.c. TOWNS IND, G.P.&T. st ~~ RAILROAD TIME Nashville, PADUCAM AND MEMPHIS DIVEST sourTm HOUND Fi Luv. Paduead, 7.15 em $2 bon boat civ » 7.42 pw iam aw Chattal Ly, Chattan: Naphvil toe ILLINOIS CENT KAL RAILROAD Sovrn ¥ Ly Cineinna’ linois Cenjfal An goon weather. A via Rew the eout Rates as ines, 0 Louisviile. Ketablished Ma Steam Fagines, House Fronts, Mi And Tobacco Screws, Wraps and Tron Fttings of all Panveau wit Collective CITY fson ( “Fre Line SAI direc! all Paot AS AND EST AND Coat tr w ttanod ailron cl Nouri BOUND LUR AND MEM No “OF Low a8 by addressing Wy A. Ke AL. Hanson, A. 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We're alwyys designs and colors.) ready for your inswectlon ‘ou seen the atest When You Want Son es Always on band re jw Orleans & Cincinnati Company. yelnnatt for Memphis innaul eve luca ional pursday, passing 2 ing Pad KW, WIBE Supt, Cineinnall hand Cairo Packet Line porated by the io River Transpor- n Co. tly excep HOPKINS ot Line (Dally except H, FOWLER, Supt douse LLE, KY. Oto $5.00 per \ ad upwards. COQPER, anager, he first to show } | j h v all the lates hey're in now pity A YARD OF FACES. for GOOD) work THASAR, ler Parmer Lovse Are being Heated by Front Rank © FURNACES, G. R. DAVIS, hird Streét iething Yo LOOD, REGULATE KOUR LIVER Groceries, nd Adams. Shoeing pecialty. mperfection in vel corrected, Every Kind, RANTPQD. ly fokwork, GREIF, ple patronize us sdevicdguaranteed 1 parcels to any OVERSTREET, Mouager, Judging from the reports of sever- al local physicians filed in the county 8 office, they are not ‘*totin’ fair’ with long suffering humanity. Some of them have submitted for cord from a dozen to thirty births during the past year, with from 75 to 100 deaths on the debit side of the account. Verily, gentlemen, give us more and don’t take 80 much. + O° . A few days ago an old farmer who boasts of several gitls longing to create a furore somewhere on thié mundane sphere slouched into Lang Brothers’ drug store, and calling Dr. Tank aside confidentially whispered that his two oldest were very anxious to change their flowing tresses into a , scintillating hue like the ac- they saw on the stage when y came'to Paducah, He wanted to know how to do it, and Dr. Lang informed him that the usual remedy was peroxide of hydrogen, but can- didly remarked that the drug was far worse sometimes than the ughest hair imaginable, or even no hair at all. The mayor of our city was fool- ing with a bottle of that stuff a few months ago,’’ he said. ‘Dr. Yeiser —I guess you know him—is our mayor, you know. I don't guess he was thinking of changing the color of his hair, but it was pretty near changed when the doctor got through with the stuff,for the bottle exploded and some of the glass cut him ingthe le—limb I mean, the explosion making a good many people believe that some one had thrown a bomb at thefmayor because he was too promiscuous with bis ve- toing in the council, But it was only the bottle busted,’’ concluded the doctor. “Wal, guess I'll tek a bottle eny how, decided the farmer, ‘+ 'kase them gals o’ wine is bound fur ter have jar bair.’’ ‘The doctor got down a bottle and as a precautionary measure showed the purchaser how the cork was held down by wire, and warned him against opening it too suddenly. But the bottle was destined to attend to all that itself ‘The old fellow was riding a mule, and bad two large saddle bags slung over the beast like they used to use thirty years ago, before we all rode bicycles. He deposited the drug in one of them, which also contained a large sack of coffee, started homeward, By the way, lives out near the Polk a few miles out the he Brooks farm, Ber No was heard of him until , when, slowly wending his migh the front door of the tore, he cautiously crept back the stove, eying askance picious looking bottle. at he looked into the thought. Dr. Tank saw nd as a suspi- awned on him he stove anc the look of cion of the tre went ‘around the corner to see a friend,’ and didn’t go back apy more until he witnessed from the »pposite side of the street the depart- ure of his country acquaintance. But the farmer could not forbear tell his story while he was there. On his way home somebody shot at When the gun went off so did the mule, and the farmer went off the mule, being left in the middle of the 1, where he sat until he could col- lect. his scattered senses and a few packages that the mule inadvertently left behind. He tracked the animal home by an unbroken trail of fresh roasted coffee, and found one of his saddlebags bursted to pieces, the mule all skinned up—but no hair medicine. Of course the girls were disappointed, but their fond parent says that “if they still want that they’il ha’ter cum to town an’ git it theirsel’s,’” "lasses The Pastor's Aid Society of, the Virst Baptist chureh is making prep- give a ‘Poverty enter- the residence of Mr. y next week, The are wrapped in the brown paper, and a large number of these have been sent out, every- body is cordially invited to attend, The social will be intensely amusing. Everybody who attends must be at- rations to tainment’ invitations iss commonest although tired in garments as tacky’’ as can be and whoever is so unfortu- to have on a wateb, ring, rf pin or anything else in the jewelry line, will be subjected to a tlne of one cent foreach offense. In addition ices, cakes and other re- will be served at the ged at church devise freshinents price eustoma benefits. ily cha In the winter of 1862-3 Grenada, Mis as evacuated by the con- federate forces and to saye the roll- ing stock of the Mississippi and Ten- vessee railroad, together with a part of that of the Memphis and Ohio and the Nashville and Northwestern roads which was in the service of M. & T., it wa run south over the Missis- sippi Central and Southern roads Meridian, Miss. ‘The old North and South, as it was then called, but now the Alabama Great Southern, in the Queen and Crescent system, was graded from the junction of the Me- ridian and Selina road, from what then was only’a farm with one log house on it, but Low the flourishing little city of York, Ala., for some miles in the direction of Decatur, As there was not track room in Meridian tu accommodate so great a number of cars and engines we Jaid a track of nearly two miles on the right of way of the N,& S. and ran our rolling stock@ut there, All the employes who were train men, some others and a few of the officials went along, and all the married men among us had their families aboard. Among those of the latter remembered were, C, F, Vance, the treasurer; Conductors Charlie Paul and Murphy, Engineer Stewart, Road Master Tom Teague, and several othe As we had a RITTEN AT “Htucky legislature, so in all proba- RANDOM. HELPS IN ECONOMY, How to Make a Few Dimes Saye a Great Many Dollars. Stylish Gowhs ot Handsome at Smull Cost—New Cloth: the Whole Family--No N Looking Shabby, Even ii r was used as a dining hall and a caboose next to it as a cook kitchen. We had a splendid cook and as game was plentiful, milk, butter and eggs abundant we lived like lords. After a week or more several of t'» young- er set and the writer con iuded to \ take a run over to Demopolis on the} 8rd Times. pmbigbee river. We spent a day] ‘‘I hope to Help ma or two in that pleasant little town] trying to economiise,”’ gdys a writer and while there found a druggist who}in the Ladies’ Jpurngf, ‘With a had on hand twelve dozen bottles of |few packages of diangond dyes won- enuine French Cognac brandy that}ders can be done/in making old he had purchased in Mobile long be- | dresses look like few. In my own j fore the war broke out; we purchas-|family we did ngt\buy a single new ed two bottles and those who drank | dress or cloak lagt fall, yet we dressed it pronounced it excellent. (The] comfortably ine by dyeing writer did not drink then), Thejover clothes /that \had heen cast price was 62 a bottle and as the/aside.”’ / for of who are If you want t ST.- LOUIS - No clinkers, no Washed Pea Coa We only charge writer saw achance for a good spec-| DiamondAlyes come in convenient ulation he bought the whole lot and|packages, Avhich color from one to shipped it over to our car. There]ten pounds of goods for 10 cents, was quite a large force of the troops} Full dirgctions make it impossible camped in and aroand Meridian at|for one have ‘‘poot luck’’ with the the time and the writer was sure of| di and they afe so simple to $5 a bottle, provided he could evade|use thgt perfect, nan-fading colors the provost marshal. So he borrowed | are cbtAined without) any experience two large trunks from the ladies and|in dyeiag, packed them full of the brandy and] A bopk of free difections for home took the first train over to Meridian, | dyeing Will be sent/to any one by the which was a small junction town at}proprietors, Wells, Richardson & that time. However, he put up at}Co., Burlington, Vt. their thousands BO, Harr, Crice’ ' the “Burton House’’ and had his AAA DRIFTWOOD “‘baggage’’ taken there. Down near the Mobile and Ohio depot a man by the name of Massengale was running @ restaurant under a large tent, and writer sold him the contents of one]GATHERED ON THE LBVEB. trunk by wholesale at $4.00 a bottle. The orders were very strict in regard to selling any intoxicants to private ARnrvas, soldiers, and he, growing careless, was caught and had what was left confiscated for hospital use. Ascer- taining this, the writer put on a bold front and ‘‘bearded the lion in his Geo. H. Cowli ” by calling on the provost, Capt. | 70 + Cowling. , and after showing him his DEPARTURES. papers and his hand still on the} Dick Fowler.. splint, telling him he had never and] Ashland City would not enter the hospital as |New South. patient and had to pay his own ex-|Joe Fowler penses, presented him with a bottle|Geo. H. Cowling of the cgonae and told him if ie worn. wanted to confiscate it he would fin ‘ ‘ 5 . what I had left in room twelve of the par Bre ogneee oe ee Burton House. The provost was]POr pretty fond of his “"T’? as the saying Gierate ab ee was. away to 0 : a. m. is, especially if it was good, and big hearted and generous man, as} The gauge showed 18.7 this morn- ing, and rising. well as a brave and sympathe' soldier. His reply to me was to sell] ‘The Ashland City left for Danville all L wanted to, but to be discreet | this murning at 10 o’clock. about it and if T did let the privates! Capt. J, F. Beatty will arrive here have any to be sure they brought me] this afternoon from Sheffield, Tenn. an order from their commanders. I] The towboat John Barrett is due promised and that night the provost | here today out of the Mississippi came over, bringing General prac ” along and took five more bottles and} ay. Joe pow] be E ; insisted on paying for the one I had} i, cat pees sggltvberd oy i Morpher carried to him at our first interview. | 1), einer a: MorMing, leaving st I had to take pay for it then for fear 7 the General might think the Captain} Capt. John Barrett will arrive in was bought up, but I made it|the city today in the interest of his up to him afterwards. As soon as 1] line of steamers. closed out I went back and returned ‘The New South, from New Orleans, with two more trunks full and it was|passed up this morning for Cincin- not long until nearly every officer in] Dati, without stopping here. the camp knew me by sight and] The Alta went up the Tennessee would hold up one two or more} river last night after a tow of iron. fingers signifying the number of bot-]She is under charter of the Barrett tles ,he wanted. When my cognac iine. eout I went over to Demopolis} ‘The City of Clarksville is due here again and found a still about five} out of the Ohio this afternoon, and miles from town, the proprietor Of} jeayes on her return to Elizabeth. which had several barrels of apple} town tomorrow at noon. and peach brandy on hand which I]. 74 4 bought and bottled disposing of it at}..,TH¢ Clyde arrived here out of the Meridian and Jackson, and before | Tennessee river this morning, and will lay over here until Saturday we returnea to Grenada I bad cleared : between eight and ten thousand dol- | *fterwoon at 4 o’clock before retura- ing to Florence. lars,—Confederate money. C. L. . The Alta, which passed into the ‘Tennessee river last night from Mr, John M. Meloan, the talented] Cairo, will engage in towing pig young editer of the Murray Ledger, |i" from over the shoals to River- Will in all probability shortly go to] tn, Ala the legislature as a representative} The Will J. Cummins leaves for from old Marshall county. There|the Upper Cumberland river tomor- isn’t a brighter or more convivialjrow morning, and will enter ina fellow in all the Purchase than Jobn, | trade from Nashville to points above. and he ‘‘stands in’’ with everybody down in our sister county. He sel-| to this effect yesterday afternoon. u dom takes a drivk, but when he does} Business was very quiet on the] it’s always two, and he could never] levee this forenoon, as well as the help believing that the Creator de-|four days previous, and very little signed him especially for the Ken-|traflic has been transacted on the wharves and levee this week so far, bility by election time all barriers} but it is expected to be somewhat will be burned y, for when it} better tomorrow, as Saturday is gen- comes to ‘‘roasting’’ he can stay with Jerally the busiest day down around avy of them. During the campaign} this venue. x he will not act as editor of the Ledger, espectally when his indignant opponenis come around with their ‘weepuns.’’ He'll then be out can-| been dissalved by the - New Orleans City o' Joe Fowler... . Cincinnati Evansville . Metropolis - Dreytuss will said concern, future alone re against the firm eil, The business will be continfied by Sol Dreyfuss one, doing business. under the name and style of Dreyfuss & W jucah, Ky., Jan, 1, 1897. 10. To Complete Organization, in time. pay all debts ‘due and will be in ‘th A funny thing happened yesterday | *Ponsible for de in the Palmer House lobby. It baf- tles description, and likewise solution. Mr. O. De Cordova is a young St. Louis drummer of foreign ‘ex whose headquarters are at Princeton. He came down to the city yesterday at noon, and after dinner took a few drinks and a seat in} The second meeting of the Histori- one of the tall back chairs that}cal and Literary Club, recently orn the lobby. He leaned back| formed in the city, will take place against the railing of the small office} this evening at the Christian church formerly occupied by the Equitable] to complete organization, Anumber that opens.into the enclosure. The result was that he tumbled Award and when finally, by the assistance of the clerk, he became disentangled, Important Notice. All pergons knowing themselves in- debted to the firs of Rogers & King he could no where find his hat, — He} nd Jobn Rogeys & Son are hereby had it on when he sat down and{ warned to call abd settle the same at leaned back, but it disappeared as if}once at my olllpe No. 127 South by magic after he fell, Several per-|Fourth street, spd thereby save to sons witnessed the incident, among | themselves costs, \ps I will be forced them being Mr. Tom Leonard, and|to proceed by law\to coltgct same, they all say it was a sight as ludi-| unless otherwise settled promptly. crous as the disappearance of the bat Ep H. Poryear, was mysterious. Mr. Cordova at | Receiver of Rogers & King and John first thought some one was trying to Rogers & Son. d6¢t play a trick on him by secreting his ba hat, but after sitting around in the lobby for a few hours waiting for something to turn up, viz: the hat, he drew his overcoat up over his] PbY ye fat 7:30, idence of Mr. pecan mes mo to Bailey t | Smalley, 62 Soulh‘Tenth street, for evar tis acs, (ound, the benefit of the \oyurch. Every: Tenth Street hat body invited. Admnigsign, 10c, s Improved Chill uaranteed to cure nd Malaria ip all forms. Taatele# >. Price, 50 cents, > Men- Hickory Stove ¥ For nice stove Kood telephone 29, $1 per load. Ouwo River Si Dr. Mendenba and Fever Gyre, Chills and Fevi number of coaches each family appropriated one to its own use, A full length baggage Look for the picture’yf J.C. denball, aud take ho ower. Sold by Dubois & Co, ‘—Meets the fret Tuesday 131 Broadway day in each month al 131 Broadway third Tuesday night Im each month, and third Wednesday nights in ond and fourth monday night third Phursday nights in each montl r : second and fourth ‘Thursday nights In each Capt. Bowman received a telegram |™o0\" and fourth Tuesday uights in each month in U.K. T. hall over Martin s barber shop. Joe Hamilton are on the sick list this week, in a called meeting with Miss Dora B. Lewis Friday mght, Jan, 23. ~|called to Mayfield yesterday after- Life Assurance Company, and bap-|of people are down for interesting 25th. Sir Knights will drill for pened to strike against the little gate rs. them. Sanat Manarmmup divine preach the gospel. gvenfng, January 22,/ th missionary left out the aspirate HARRIS \B GRICE, Attorneys -\at - Law, 195 8. Fourth—Upstairs Stenographer in Omce, COLORED DEPARTMENT. CHURCHES, Husband Street Chareh (Methodist)—Sua ay school 9am. Preaching 11a m and m. Rev C. M. Palmer, pastor. pel, 7th & Ohio, (Methodists.) Sun ool, 9am. Preaching Iam and 8 p v.'E S Hurks, pastor Washington Street Baptist Chureh.—Sunday m. Preaching § p w. Rev. Geo. pastor Seventh street Baptist Church.—Sunday School, Sam. Preaching, liam and9 p m Rev WS. Baker, pastor M. E. church, Sunday school9 a, g Li a, m. and 7:30 p. m., Rev, J. G. Burks Ci day scho m Re’ (St James A.M. Rot arch, 10th and Trimble streets, Sunday school 2p. in, preachiag @ mn. Rey. G- J. Stantord, pastor. © py, Trimble Street Christian church—Sunday school, #530 a. m., preaching. Ih ty mand a0 p.im.; prayer services, Wednesiay « jngs,?:3; Sunday ‘school teachers: no Thuteday evenings, 7.30. Allars cordially in vited. By My Cotter, pastor » LODG COLOR MASONIC. 4 Broadway, third floor. Masonie Hail Mt MeGregor Lodge No 2 ~Meets every first ‘Thursday evening in each month Mt Zion t odge No 6—Meets every first Wednesday evening in each month. fmeannah Court No 2, Ladies—Meets every fourth Monday in each month stone Square Lodge No 5—Meets every se cond Monday in each month INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. (Odd Fellows’ Halk se cor 7th and Adams. Household of Ruth, No 48—Meets first and third Friday evening in eash month at Colored dd Fellows Hall Paducal Lodge No 15i5—Meets every first and third Monday in each month at Colored Odd Fellows’ Hall. Paducah Patriarchs No 79, G UO 0 F— Meets every second Friday evening in each month at Colored Odd Fellows’ Hail Past Grand Master's Council No 70—Meets every fourth Frid: ing in each month at Colored Odd Fellows’ Hall. Western Kentucky Lodge No 2kii—Meets every second and follrth Tuesday evening in each month at Colored Odd Fellows’ Hall. Young Men's Pride Lodge 0 1783—Meets every second and fourth Wednesday evening in each month at ball over No ® Hroadway. UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIKNDSHIP, St Paul Lodge No @—Meets every second and fourth Monday evening in each month at Baoad’ 3! way. Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, St No in each month at Golden Rule Temple—Meets second ‘Thurs- 333 uv. K. tT. 777. Ceremonial Temple, No. 1. meets first and Golden Rule Tabernacle, No. 45, meets first h month. ets see: | n each month meets first and b. Queen Sarai Tabernacle No. Madaline Tabernacle, No. 2. Lily of the West Tabernacle, No, #5, meets Prble of Paducah Tent, No. S.meet first Sat urday afternoon in each month Star of Paducah Tent meets second Satur Jay p.m. in each month, Lily of the West Tent meets third Saturday- | p.m, in each month | Grand Army of the Republic meets second Miss Mavd P. Mansfield and Mr. The Trilby Social club will meet Mrs. Sarah L. Mansfield was She re- 230 train. noon on lodge business. turned last night on the 1 I would like for some reader of the Suv to tell me or to give answer to this question in tomorrow's issue, or any other day this week: What did Noah live on after the flood had sub- sided, and all of his provisions ex- hausted? Any member of Burk’s Chappel preferred, PREETER ADAM. Golden Rule Tabernacle No. 45 will give an entertainment at the Odd Fellows’ hall, corner enth and ‘Adams streets, Monday evening, Jan. A revival is going on at Hushands Street church, and Mr. Stoner is one of the best divines that ever vis- ited our city, In not quite two weeks he has made fifty converts, He delivered an elegant sermon last night. The honse was crowded. He invites both white and colored out to hear him, Come out, good people, and listen to a strong and powerful The Chinese Language. Dr. J. F. Masters, a minister in China, says the Chinese word for heavenly in “teen,” with an aspirate on the vowels, with the result that the word meant “erazy." After Dr. Masters had studied Cantonese a few months ho endeavored to preach a sermen, He wrote it out carefully but made so many blunders in tones, vowel quantities and aspirates that some of the Chinese remarked how much the English language resembled the Chinese. They supposed that he had beep preaching in English. Onan- Illinois Coal Compr - Coal far excels all other coal for grates or) stoves. shed Coal. foal in the i -/MUDDY - COAL. AND - BIG dirt; but pure, clean cdal. best can get it of celebrated Our Egg Our ts the world for furnace or cooking. rice the year around. The poor 1 be one get their load of coal. as cheap per bushel as the rich of bushels. Try our coal and you will use no other. Lump, 10c.; Egg, 9c.; Washed Pea, 6c. BAKNES & ELLIOTT, Proprietors Illinois Coal Company. Wall Poper and Window Shades IN THENX.ATEST PATTERNS. ———PROMPT ATTENTI W. S. No. 132 S. Third Street. GIVEN TO ALL ORDERS on GREIF, Telephone No. 371. —_ Jas.A.Glauber’s Livery, Fee | and Boarding Stables, ELEGANT CARRIAGES, FIRST-CLASS DRIVERS, BEST ATTENTION TO BOARDERS Stable---Corner Third and Washington Streets Paducah Electric Co. INCORPORATED, R. RowzAnp, Treas. M. Boom, Pres. F. M. Frsuzr, See, ¥ 217 N. SECOND ST. You can turn your lights on aly time—whenever you need them. We give continuous service day and night We don’t use trolley wire currents for lighting. Our yates; \ Iv’s dangerous, Over 10 lights to 25 lights, 86c per light per month. Over 25 lights to 50 lights, 35¢ pier tight par month, ‘These low retes for 24 hours’ service apply When bill is paid betore 5th of succeeding month, A. 0. EINSTEIN, Vice Prest. and Mgr. AW CRETE The... Expert AND Horse Suoee, Backs WILL APPRRCIATE YOUR TRADE, Paducah ttling - Co., AGENT CELEBRATED LOUIS O'BERTS BEER, Of St. Louis. In kegs dd bottles), Also various temperance drinks—--Sod& Pop, Seltzer Water, Orange Cider, Ginger Ale, ete P\ i Telephone orders filled until 11,0’clock at™night du week and 12j0'cl; Raturdsy nights reg ind 18 oclocks Telephone 10h.) 10th and Madison Streets. PADUCAH, KY, 64,— Miss, Mary B. E. Greif & Co, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS. ... SS Telephone 174, ESTABLISHED 1 EALER IN ware, Stoves, Hardware, Tin Carpenters’ Tools, Efe. other occasion he meant to order a roast chicken and told his cook to go out and set fire to the atreet.—N, Y. Tribune. CORNER COURT AND SECOND STRE — ADUCAH, KY

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