The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, February 25, 1897, Page 2

THE PADUCAH DAILY SUN, Published every afternoon, except Sunday, by VHE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INCORPORATED. PRESIDENT Vick PRESIDENT SRCRRTARY TRRASURER es MAsAGrnG Eprror DIRROTORS: Fisher, J.R. Smith, R.W. Clements, J M. PiWilliamson J.J. Dorian THE DAILY SUN Wit give spectal attention to ALL Jocal hap Ponliga of fuverest in Paducah and viciuity fot neglecting general news, which will be Given as fully as space will permit without re- ard to expense. THE WEEKLY SUN to the interests of our country pat ‘will at all times be newsy and In devoted ex] rines and teachings of the can party. CORRESPONDENCE. Jal feature of the weekly edition of IN will be {ts Correspondence Depart ment, in which it hopes ably to represent every locality within the limits of its circu: lation. ADVERTISING. Rates of advertjsing will be made known on ‘applicati OMce, Standard Block, 115 North Fourth street. Daily, per annum Daily, Six months Daily, One month Daily, per week Weekly, per annum in ad- vance .. Specimen copies free THURSDAY, FEB, 25, 1897. = Mr. Bryan has delivered a lecture on ‘*good government.’’ Judging from the overwhelming defeat he suffered last fall, the people would much prefer hearing him lecture on the subject to experiencing a practi- cal demonstration of his theories. Tue cyclone season is approach- ing. The first one to make its ap- pearance in the United States this season being at Athens, Ga., Tues- day night. We may look for them from this time forward for several months with considerable frequency. Tur petty kingdom of Greece, which has led a peaceful existence for so many years, is rapidly regain- ing her ancient fame through her part in the Cretan affair. King George is not to be bluffed by the Ottoman empire, even with the powers behind it. A Lonpon newspaper man, in 8 book on America, deseribes a visit to some of the vessels of our navy, and gives it as his opioion that the United States will soon lead the nations of the world at sea. Our navy at pres- ent is smalb, but with time and the help of American genius, there is no reason to doubt that it will equal all demands made upon it, Tuere seems to be a serious split among the Populist editors which would seem to promise a healthy fight of mammoth proportions within the ranks of that party. The Republi- can party isthe only party in the county which has anything to fight over, and it is the only party that is not divided against itself. There is truly a bright outlook for the future of that party and hence of the country. Ir is perhaps not generally known that we are now, notwithstanding the low price of silver, importing it at the rate of more than $2,000,000 per month. If we import so much under existing conditions what would be the result if we were coining it into money at the rate of sixteen to one as to gold. We leave the ques- tion for our readers to answer, and suggest that they keep the fact im mind for future use. Tuoven we are importing under the Wilson bill vastly more foreign made goods and depriving our labor of millions of dollars of wages 1,09] the country has been denuded at a tawa is almost in the extreme north- bernatorial race and straightway ern part of the state, and now liti- eaid, ‘This is our Moses, who will gants from this end will be compelled , lead us out of the wilderness of po- to pay the expenses of their attor-/ litical defeat in which we have wan- neys several hundred miles, whenever | dered for 30 years.’’ They all took it becomes necessary for them to ap-| courage and with Cleveland’s name as the shiboleth, they went forth to battle. A viscusston of the civil service] him and he was law in the House of Representatives | gut we venture the sugges- in which Congressmen Grosvener, Of} tion that there is not a man Ohio, and Bailey, of Texas, were the] in the city of Paducah who can point chiet ‘persons of the drama,” shows to q single thing said or done by Mr. that there is yet in high places ®/ Cjeveland during his first term that strong feeling against the measure] ontitied him to any distinction or and © conviction that itis chiefly 8leave him any claim to greatness. humbug. Certainly the way in which] Bot the glamor of a first success was it has been manipulated by Mr-}sumicient to hold the faithful to his Cleveland to place in office for life] standard and though he was defeated his partisans is calculated to dis-]in his second race he was still the pear before the august body. _—= elected. -jeredit it before the country. In]pemocratic Moses and eventually led theory it is probably in the main cor-/them to the borders of the promised rect, but in practice we have no evi-|jand in a third race. But alas! Four dence that it has greatly improved years more, begun when he was bet- the public service, while it bas tend-|ter known, have sufficed to strip the ed to the upbuilding of an offlce-|igst gauzy covering from his soul and holding class similar to that of Eng-| he stands revealed as an ordinary land. In the hands of such aman] mortal, with a dogged persistence in as Cleveland it is capable of great] preconceived opinions se his chiet abuse, and he has abused it to the| characteristic. Fearless, it is true, but his bravery is of « distinct stripe from that of the truly great men; self conceited to the extent that the wisdom of congress and the people bears no weight in shaping bis policy foreign or domestic. He has insist- ed, as no president ever did before, Turne is nothing of greater impor- tance to the future than the preserva- tion of the forests, of whieh the wonderful rate of recent years. They are essential factors in the climatic conditions of the country and es- pecially in the matter of the reten= moisture in the soil and the executive branches of the govern- hesitating at nothing that preservation of springs and streams. | mC aang o a Le 290 To the destruction of the forests and] #00. Egotistic, he has regard ‘ himself not only jas the leader and the consequent drying up of these little feeders is it that{ Mead but the ruler fand dictator of ‘ the Democracy. He retires from the we are ina large measure indebted a t President with dead | 8nd more enemies within and with- out his party than any President in the history of the country with the possible exceptions of John ‘Tyler and Andrew Johnson. DRIFTWOOD GATHERED * ment, tion of 7 seemed thousands of low waters which alternate with suc distressing regularity in our western streams, where formerly the boating stage preserved afar greater uni- formity throughout the year. The redemption of the West from the ex- h it is sub- tremes of drougth to whi ject must probably be wrought by the planting of forests in the waste- lands as well as the boring of artesian wells. ON THE LEVEE. a ARRIVALS, As indicating the feeling that pre-} John Ss. Hopkins vails with reference to the Cuban/Geo. H. Cowling question a brief stady of thecartoons| Ashland City.... DEPARTURES, City of Clarksville. Dick Fowler John 8. Hopkins i Geo. H. Cowling........ Metropolis NOTES, Evansville - Metropolis + Danville appearing in the metropolitan papers daring the last few days will be in- structive. Yesterday’s Globe-Dem- ocrat contains a three-column sketch representing Columbia with a sword and shield, facing toward Cuba, ‘ ‘hich is represented as a beautifull, Business was not rushing on the "ah epcigthi dae 5 levee this morning though the arriv- woman with manacled hands stretched} als and departures carried very fair forth in mute appeal for help. The] loads. pose and expression on Columbia's} The Ashland City will arrive here feature’s indicate a purpose to go to|tonight and leave on her retarn to the assistance of the helpless victim|avville tomorrow morning at 10 i aa o'clock. of Spanish tyranny across the narrow , Capt’s Jimmie and Henry Owen channel separating them. But be- have returned after a several weeks hind her, holding her back with all] visit to the spring, being much im- his strength and determination, | proved. stands Grover Cleveland. The} Ifthe river reaches the 37 feet’ sketch purports to show ‘‘Cleye-|notch it will stop the ferry boat Bet- land’s Cuban Policy.’ The Inter|*ié Owen from making her landings Ovean’s cartoon represents ‘Our In-| 0% ‘he Hlinois shore. M ra 4 ‘4 The materiaig}, The, little harbor boat Mary W. dustrial Triumphs.” “‘The materials! took Mayor Yeiser and the councit- from which the Trocha is constructed] men up to Stiles and Lawton’s bluff are mainly America: Interwoven] yesterday to inspect the gravel pits. with the barbed wires of the trocha] The Ohio flood will reach 63 feet is the American flag, one end resting} before the water recedes at Cincin- nati, the river men predict. only eighi feet below the famous flood of 1884, on a chair occupied by Uncle Sam, who holds it. Hobnobbing with Un- cle Sam, and withfhis glass waved) o..4 Harpham of the underwriters aloft toward the national capitol in agency of Cincinnati who has been the background, is General Weyler]in the city for a couple of days on on one side of the trocha, while in the] business left this morning for Casey- distance is seen the neglected tomb of | Ville on the John 8. Hopkins. liberty. Above their heads hangs a] The three excellent packets, Dick sign-board on which isthe legend, oan hace Toe ara “Spain—Friendship—Arms,’’ —_be-! were away for Cairo, Elizabethtown neath whic clasped hands show the/and Evansville on schedule time this bond of friendship which holds them|morning with nice trips of both together. On this side the trocha, | teight and people. unseen and unrecognized by Uncle] , ae adap Boeckeler, which Sam, whose back is turned to him| ter shelter, moored over ot the wien and who is so absorbed in his friend] eft last night at 6 o'clock with a tow ly revely with the “butcher"’ as to be] of empty barges to bring out a big utterly oblivious of the Cuban’s pres- | tow of ties from the Cumberland for monthly, which they would receive under the McKinley law were it force, we are receiving much swalier revenue for the government coffers, and were it not for the fact that the tariff is soou to be changed we should be compelled shortly to borrow money again for current expenses. tO Cua } to tion of Spain as to the settlement of the war by the intervention of the United States. With the United States a3 mediator, and with the dis- tinct understanding that the settle- ment will be made only on condition independence, she will the proposi- of absolute enter into negotiations with a view to purchasing her independence at a ‘This furnishes an reasonable pri opportunity for Uncle Sam to insist on ya settlement of the trouble promptly. Tae Illinois legislature has just perpetrated a piece of legislation which furnishes an excellent example | of how too much legislation affects the people. court of that state of litigants in all parts of the state, governor and he was elected by an] siderable wio have been greatly benefited thereby. Some fellow, huwever, took any it into his head that it would be just/ frie aswell to have it located at one paign, but simply because the wind Ohio. point permanently, and this has been drifted that way, The Democracy Ot- read of his great majority in the gu- | | | | | done with Ottawa as the seat. above is the Cuba Hitherto the supreme) such as fall to the lot of few has sat in three Circumstances favored different cities, Ottawa, Springfield | land, an unknown man in state poli- and Mt. Vernon, for the coavenience tics when he became 4 candidate for ence, stands a ragged and emaciated |5t Louis, Cuban, with his trusty machete swung] ,, The Clyde is due eae . F ‘ennessee river tonight or early Fri- at his but with an arm in 8} day morning. She will lay over here sling and a hand to his head as if in}and receive freight for Saturday de- pain, gazing on the strange spectacle} parture, when she leaves tor Flor- before him. The sentiment ence, Ala., and all Tennessee river veyed by these cartoons is unmistak-] W4Y landings. : ‘ able, and their presence shows that The river here at this port is now i Guisdions” inn ka on a boom and from yesterday after- a 1 “noon at 6 o'clock until this morning minds of the American people now} at 7 it had crawled 15 notches by the question. iron official gauge at the foot of Broadway. The marks showed this morning 30 feet 5 tenths and rising very rapidly, though it is not expected to come over ten feet more, which would make it about 40 feet. The Leyhe’s mammoth iron hull steamer Ferd Herold, which the ma- side, con- other Less than a week now will witness the permanent retirement from na- tional politics of President Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland has had a most re- markable career. One who has giy- en careful study to his life cannot}rine ways at this place made an at- but conclude he has been a greatly|tempt to pull out last week, but over-estimated man, but his career] ‘lida’t succeed in getting her high has been none the less reuarkable be« cause of his From clientless law office river, was taken to Mound City mediocrity. a for some slight repairs to be done to] j her metal hull. River men anticipate no elevations | whatever from the men. Cleve- governor of the Empire State, and thence to the Presidency at a bound, is a series of fortunate Mr. is receding at Pittsburg, highest water that reaches this point will not make the gauge forty feet, though it has caused con- Again the fates were with|{ in runnining both the legislative and enough owing to the high stage of the| charge, ator of the United States and the ex i danger | goyernor of the state of Lincoln and rising water in this} Grant join in such a charge the out- section of the country, as the river( side world is liable to be more » and the} less deceived by it. read over| Review, in ANNOUNCEMENT, ‘Tee Sun is authorized to announ-e 1. D, WILCOX ty g candidate for sheriff of McCracken coun: ‘as, subject 0 Democratic primary to be held April 8, 1807, Ke: Wo are authorized to sanounce W. 8. DICK f of MeCrackén of Dergo: PEDDLER PETER DUFFY, This Well Known Character Killed. LIVED IN PADUCAH ONCE, Was Known for Many Years to Everybody in Gates, Tenn, NOONE TO LOOK AFTER HIS AFFAIRS. There was perhaps never a wore familiar character ia Paducah history than Peter Duffy, an Irish peddler, who for years made this his head- quarters, He was known at one time by every man, woman and child, tosay nothing of the dogs and billy- goats in Paducah and Jackson's Vur- chase, and he is today no doubt re- membered by hundreds of people Peter is dead now. He is supp ed to have been killed, but the ques- tion involved in regard to his death is | yet to be settled. Postmaster W. C. Clark, who was one of Duffy's old war comrades, re- ceived a letter a day ortwo ago stating that Duffy was dead, but there was some doubt as to the cause. He was struck on the head with a spade a few days before at Gates, sician injuries was death. The letter divalges sufficient to no suspicions, suppressed too much. Dufty to this country when quite young. He was very sensitive about his age, and no one was ever able to find itout, And this was only one of his many peculiarities. He had a large, hori- ‘of his life. The boys used to, twit it for s hat showed fight. And he could fight! When the civil war broke joined the Confederac. nd was Reb- el to the back bone and until his last breath left him, Capt. Clark and all the other old sol- diers in the First Kentuc' He was respected for hig bravery— as well as his moustache. After the war Duffy came batk to Paducah and began life as a peddler. His territory was through McCracken, Marshall, Calloway and Livingston counties, and west Tennessee. sometimes traveled afoot, with the regulation pack of goods, and at oth- er times made his excursions on horseback or in cart. Everybody knew him then, and he amassed quite a little fortune, which he increased by going into the distilling business with @ man named Seitz, who lived near the city afterwards resuming his _vo- cation of peddler. Duffy was born within a half mile of the verdaat spot where Mr. John rack. That is|J- Dorian, of the city, first saw the light of day, and when the latter came to America and found the pret- tiest place in the south—Paducah— the first person to greet him was Duffy. They recognized each oth- er’s nationality perhaps intuitively, as well.as facially, and a8 coming from the same locality, and when they found out they were born in the same village they shook again for luck. In more recent years Duffy did not stay about Paducah as he for- merly did. He had not been here in five years, and a great many had for- gotten him. He boarded for years in the old ‘Cent House,’’ which stood on South Third street, near Kamleiter's grocery, and was kept by Mr. Jobn J. Bleich’s father. He was never married, and leayes no relatives in this country. The gentleman who wrote to Capt, Clark asked§to know if there was anyone who would take charge of his belongings, and wind up his earthly affairs for him, incidental to in- quiries as to the manner of his death, but Capt. Clark knows no one. It is believed that Duffy was murdered, but just why is at present a deep and decidedly unsolved mystery. It there is any one who can legally conclude Duffy's business for him, let him now appear. ‘hat Fraud Cry. The charge of Senator Allen, of Nebraska, and our own ex-Governor that the last Presidential election was carried by fraud is of no importance from political point of view. will not make @ vote for the Demo- cratic party. The opponants of the Republican party may repeat the and pretend to believe it, but to-| the hypocrisy of it all 1s too apparent {DUMber of Bryan states. ‘The gain 4 day by one of the Leyhe’s many tow-] to be dangerous, he is elected] boats, the Dolphin, where she will be however, sheriff at Buffalo. From sheriff to] pulled ovt on the ways at that place|a national slander, and in a sense In another respect, it is a serious matter, It is ap international disgrace. When a Sen- or An English monthly, the National its issue for February, Tenn., and afterwards fell and broke several ribs, but the attending phy- thinks that neither of these produce but states that the affair was being was born in Dunkineely, county of Donegal, Ireland, and came {zontal moustache, that was the pride him a great deal by asking to borrow Then Duffy out he He fought beside He t 4 the one giving the percentage of gain To say something is one thing, to / prove it is another, Weed’ prove| at oncey / that Dr, Bell's Plpe ‘fet Honey 1s the ys fe best cough remedy%n earth unless o / you will try it. immense majority, not because of hing done by himself or his cau iends before or during the makes Senator Allen’s accusation, vague and wholly unsupported as it and a large| was, the basis of a solemn homily excitement among the res- ; idents of the city, throng of working "men visit the] over the degenerac sale by Oéblechineger & Walker, a . generacy of the great re- | 1) , . Venue of the river at noon time to| public and the demoralization which | 8s Milth agd Broadway. watch in raging ely the muddy is ruining American politics, if not Hickory Stove Wood, 315 Brdad Dhi eth of river in-| American life in general. For nice stove wood lephone 2 lividuals that the water will not] ‘The assumption of Altgeld and Al- {81 per load. @Ye neg way, reach the curbing along the levee. [Jon is that about everybody voted in! Ouso Kiven Seg anv Raw Co. 155. money back how excluah agonts for the : Diplor Flow The «i repu Dipl THE WAY FOR Our Spring Business. HOw ? / By making big cuts on our fall and winter goods. Try us and see ifthis is not true. Don’t you need an dmbrella or mack- intosh for this, season of the year? if so, look at our new and complete line. /Do you need a new Carpet, Matting, Linoleum Portiers or /Lace Curtains? We have all’ these in artistic patterns and can lay the floor- ings on one days notice. Our 69% and 99% Rem- nants for/Rugscame yesterday. They are pretty designs and money Savers too. Look at the new Ruben waists for.children as per cut, hefcan be secured at ai ble. grocery in the ma Flour n no praise (us, for been sold on iving GENERAL, Rion’ tt is ung finest patent roll on the market. half barrels flour for sale it up in barrels, Ib, sacks, To this cepobrated brand of DI- PLOMA. for any conside: Dur prices are as low as ret-class flour, quality cd. WE DO Ni ELL TO CONSUMERS. M. LIVINGSTON & CO. ranging infsizes;from No. 2 to7 and priceg from 35¢ to 75c. They fre a very fine grade of wool ai just the thing for the little ones+no buttons to come off. We have a splendid lot of percales for boys’ and ladies’ shirt waists,—fook at them. Our stock of Kid Gloves can nor be ifs pa Our 3 prs. stockings tor 50c will continue for this week. Give us your laundfy if you wan very, ished 1875, arble | 7 T. Bohanngn, Propr. Agents for I icks Patterns, L.B.Ogilvie&Co. H.G.H UNE, | ign Painter RM. Plain ayd Ornamgnta With-PADUCAHLOYCLE WORKS, | 126 and 128 N. 5th St. age Office at re ff Officé, 204 1- 1892 who tore Telephone 128 Residence Telepbone 150 IAT =) to, and that was entitled whatever increase there was in the vote of 1896 over 1892 in excess of | the natural and normal increase of voting population must be set down to fraud. This is the one idea of Allen. He was content to make a few gen- eral observations, but Altgeld went built a large superstruct- Vi _/ Chance mit his premise and his conclusion is irresistible. But every voter, even the most ignorant, knows that this is afalse assumption. Every one’s own observation, within the range of his| personal knowledge, teaches him bet- ter than that, But the census office at Washington has contributed data / of refutation which is absolute in its / proof. The Loter Ocean published it yesterday. Every state brought into the Altgeld letter to Judge Carter is subjected to this census test, The election of 1892 was only two years after the last national Ecensus, and the difference in the number of voters could not have been yery reat, but there must have been some invrease. By 1896 the increase was very considerable. Yet in 1896 there were fewer votes cast than there were males over 21 rsof age in 1890, In Illinois the numbers were almost the same—1890 (iales over 21 years of age), 1,0 3; 1896 (votes cast), 1,089,801. Of course the actval voting population of Illinois had very greatly increased during those six years, But the most ure on that foundation. Ad —— |To get some real bar- gains in fancy black ‘dress gogds. Don’t fail to sée the follow- ing spetial offers. 2 piece for $ fancy 118 styles worth $1.50 Ss fancy 1.48. jes, pee nifsdin es fine wOVelties 2 patterns fancy jacc worth $2 for $8. for 4 pie 1 pie for stylee worth $1.90 $1 for 66c, orth $1.25 convincing table is iyard weaves in the votes of the ten McKinley states of which Altgeld speaks, and the percentage of gain int These goods are new styles/and will be same in the first sot’ averaged between 17 aud 18 per cent., the gain in the sec- $ : ie $ ° $ $ ° first class work ang prompt de 125 Broadway You should call on A at prices to suit yor making extreme stock and make, 2.2 Telephone —Is UA DAL Holiday Telepnone 118, SELL Hardware, C Give him a call Bakes them every ta any part of the ¢ Fresh Graham Bread Every Day. Tel. 274, —__ DP Joerr, M. DW. P Wittaaw J & WILLIAMSON, Physiciang’ and Office, No C 1419's ¥j ay TELEPHONE 243, AS. DABNEY, * NSTER, SOLICIfOR oF | Statas/Pensio Prompt andAhoroy en to all case Vouchers fop@uarterly pa Pensions carefully attended to, | 714 8. Third Street. | attengion giv-| wot ond set averaged between 25 and 26 percent. This one fact js enough to let the wind a!l out of the Allen- Altge!d fraud balloon sold at thése prices for a few days onlyey Call Toter Ovean, you do this and h |us you get your om any druggist. For / rié& Co. don’t agree E. Guth Ph / Are Ybing ye by JF rout Rank | 12% South Thifl Street, If You are Looking for Fe twear RTERS FOR—— STOVES, 123 S. 3d Street.| a horse B —_—— | DR, W Aw, ff t Rooms only $7.00 alms, I ATTORNEY- CARNEY Tel fi Residence 1017 Jackson St, iNs in AA. DIEHL & SONS. eee We are Headquarteryfor all kinds of Shoes pocketbook..#.#We are Ww prices to reduce ours ‘oom for our Spring goods. aaa2ECee | O Broadway.#ue AAD AAA mae oe ee oo P. F. LALLY oceri¢s, HOME-MADE LARD A SPECIALTY. 9th and Trimble Jd ETC. Cor Court and Mar YOUR TRADE, foal f Cor, 7th and Adama, nd quivers ELOrse Shoeing ‘ /-& Specialty. “att kind 3 ofAmpertection in caawow wu jt DO Repaly’ Work-of EvetyKind, Wore Gv ananre . Always on hand ready "S| HENRY GREIF. Bank, — 8; EUBANKS, | Da’ Ottice Am,-German Nat. IMC(KO. or 98 Bro. Rwnce, 140 Jettdeee ‘Once Hal ATHIST, on howe Galt House LOU iLy, KY. n Plan $300 to $5.09 per Ande wards, » R, COOPER, Manager, A. L. HARPER, Y attended to, CoS. 119 ana Brogdway, GRAINING, K GLAZING AN! ds, ¢ arts of| att r work, s of the state $$ USE,. Papucau, Kr} Sta, 3 ket. * a,