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DR, W. C. EUBANKS, MOMHOPATIIST, \_L, HARPER, ATTORNEY-AT- pop tal 120 8, fhe Room L, WILLEA, AND SIGN POATER, ies vine / Attommeys~ at - Law, J, 0, RUSS, Baggage and Moving Wagons Otlive At Willetts Livery Stable. Matil. Effinger & Co Undertakers and enftbaimers, R. M. McCUNE, Sign Painter, With PAOUGAH @YCLE WORKS, C. A, ISBELL, MD, Office Hours 7: ST, JAMES HOTEL Rates, be.od Per Day. Room and Breaklast$1.00 European Pian, $1.00 Per Day. ST. JAMES HOTEL JETT & WILLIAMSON, Physicians and Surgeons DABNEY, |; /* (DENTIST. 406 ROADWAY, J, W. Moore, Staple and-Fancy Groceries, Caniiéd Goods of All Kinds, Free delivery to all parts ofthe city. . 7th and Adams. Horse Shoeing a Specialty. All kinds of imperfestion in & horse's travel corte: 1 Do Repalr Work of Every Kind, WORK GUARAXTERD, Always on hand ready for work HENRY | GREIF. J, $. GANSTER, Solicitor of Pension Claims, rs in the war of Veteran of four 3 1 Prosecutes claims before the Bureau on the 19th day of hall a aa Mast Fak aren, (Or, . Mayor of vue Gity’of Paduen, WRITTEN AT RANDOM, Officers Jones and Crow stood on the river front yesterday watehing the |! huge banks of purple clouds above tinted — with iridiscent hues that iged with the ever shifting ors, and listened to a bevy of ered about a chattering merrily all the “There's going to be a martin storm,’’ chserved Officer Crow, looking upwards at the hastening vapor A martin storm? What's that?’ asked Officer Jones, “Why, when you hear martins holler like that you may know that there's going to be a storm,’? was the rejoinder, “By hi ! All that kind of stuff deprecatingly averred Officer Jones “Well I've known it to come true, Anyhow,’’ insisted Officer Crow. “True nothing! — I used to be on night force with To Etter,’’ re- torted Oflicer Jones, “One night dog howled and Tobe whispered to me and told me almost in a whisper that the dog howl meant that there was going to to be a fire somewhere. We walked on a few steps and sure enough dis- covered a fire and turned in an alarm Tobe afterwards hoastingly said he never knew it to fail, and af- ter that I used to call his attention to] every dog that howled, and then ask him wh we'd hear a dozen in one night and maybe there wouldu’t be a fire in a month. That cured Tobe of dog signs wl Tinyself never did have faith in any of them—dog signs, bird any other kind of signs. And storin today it won't be rten storm concluded the officer, and sure enough there wasn’t any storm at all, e the fire was, — Sometimes Som mes a slight episode will oc- street car no} a ere ae | City of Clarksville..........K’town le embarassment. Tt | City Chattanooga... .. + no. river} ® young man bo ieee Broadway car that was isi haal Spleiad eared a Ue is very nolite, dick Fowler oe 400 ORNS when a woman opie the ¢ |Joe Fowler...... . Evansville elamoy ri he saw that it would | 1. W. Buttorff.....-..- ++ Nashville dificult for her to walk up front | Gee HI. Cowling........ Metropolis sit her fate (a'the box, 60 he A. Speed ..... Cumberland river | length of the car to} Ashland City... s..6 ....Danville He noticed just as he NOTES that she was colored, | ‘Traffic quiet on the river front to-| ,, not previously discern | day. n account of her veil. His face as-] ‘phis was a big ay in arrivals and sumed a lurid redness, and he could} t help looking around for a mo- at ain who perceived his mbarrassinent. He never faltered yowever, but put the woman's fare box and found it convenient to unt at the next corner, The 1 to the courtesy doubt, but the young man would | not made discovery of which him. an was enti ardly vouch It is equal toa circus to board a Broadway street car and wait uatil it swin, ound the curve at Fountain Avenue Some of the motormen arry the car around unusually fast, just so they can look back, see the and split their sides laughing at the rutiled dignity of the passen- ers within, ‘In nine cases out of ten when the car fgets over its ‘spell’ every fellow finds himself just where he ought not to be, the young men in some young woman's lap, and the der men performing gymnastic Woman's gocs under s in the old colo es basket. Anythit however, —if not o say every thing, but the average victim of the careening car escapes with nothing but a momentary hu- miliation, for he sees that everybody else has fared likewise, the circumstances Business is picking up everywhere according to report » rivers have not yet subsided toa degree that admits of the most business pos- ible, bat they have gone down suf- ficiently to enable many traveli salesmen who were compelled to lie up two or three weeks a wo to get out a here is no surer evidence of an the depots, whieh are daily most crowded to overtlowing with al ine i travelers The = Maytield Mirrot’’ asks We shor! 1 like to know who it is ofthe Se Press Association that wants to meet in Middlesboro, We are told the members are trying their best to forget the other meetiog there afew your when that mush- motown was in the fungosity, We move Nortonville or Graud Rivers as a substitute How unkind to tell secrets! The St. Louis ‘Star’? says of of a young Southwest Kentucky biryelist ‘ “Clarence D. Simpson, a promis- amateur of Maytield, Ky., ast night, and will be a vues) Of the Coburn boys, while traing here for the season’s racing He will be handled by Dave Coburn during his stay here, and will proba- bly not race until the local “pures’? begin at the state meet, — Simpson is only 17 years cld, but is the best amateur in the South and has be: all the fast men in his own territ His object in coming here is to get » speedier company, He does the I -men the houor to believe they ing youn, struck town ire the fastest amateurs in the coun- «lhe wants to get into the band wagon with them, Simpson was rained during a great part of last wason by Billy Buckner, who holds a ‘igh opinion of the Southerner as a bicycle rider,” re Henderson comes to the front with ies inthe chicken line or ia other words fowl freaks, Lucy Lewis, a colored woman who lives in Nouke's on Alvasia between First and Second streets, is the sole owner of tiese freaks of nature. She relates that out of a setting of eggs there was hatched, a chicken with iit [four legs, all of which are used in plore the scramble for its daily bread, Two other chicks came each possessing ten toes with which to scratch for anoth- a result. It has been sugg the young men w spectively in order that no mistake may be made in their identity. | departure a very light business. ing at 100 study of medicine and pharmacy week old and are said to be of Ply mouth Rock stock, ‘The proprietress ntion of exhibit- ing these fowl! freaks at ten cents per has signified her i view. .* No little amusement has been re- vd at a certain North Side fashionable boarding house by the ludicrous and sometimes very annoying predicaments in which two of the young men boarders frequent- cently cr ly figure as principak characters on account of their remarkable sem- blance to one another, One is a young lawyer about ready to bloom, while the other is engaged in introducing pants stretchers in Paducah, ‘The latter is quite a and whenever he meets any of the boarders they always, through mistake, address him by the name of the lawyer, and with appreciative po- hteness he lawyer is then dreadfully upbraided by his friends the next time they see him, especially the indignant young Indies, who do not like being slighted for ignoring them, and he has a time explaining to their — satisfaction. When one goes out he is certain to be accosted by the other's friends, who are now almost afraid to speak to either for fear of getting the das a ted that r blue and red re- wrong one and being slig DRIFTWOOB LEVEE ERED ON TH ARRIVALS. IL. W. Buttorff os eee Clarksville Joe Fowler... .. 4... «+ Evansvill (G H. Cowling. ...... Metropolis boats were doing The City cf Chattanooga arrived itof the Tennessee this morning with a tow of iron for Brooklyn. The Ashland City left this morn- lock for Danville, after gular trips this gone of herr The ‘sisters,’ Dick and Joe Fowl er, were away to their different des- tinations as usual on fine time this morning. The towboat R. A. Speed left early this morningen route up Cumberland river to bring out atow of railroad cross-ties, ity of Clarksville is due bere fternoon from Elizabethtown, es on her return trip to river points tomorrow at noon. The H.W, Buttorff arrived from Clarksville on time this morning with a nice load, and left on her return up |® the Cumberland for Nashville at 10 m. The gauge registered 41.9 and ‘clock, there being # it rise of two-tenths last night. The river is predicted to five feet before it strikes a receding movement again. me to fort 1876 1896 Twenty-three years spent in the result—the-mmst palatable and effect- ive Chill and Fever Cure on the f: of the globe—Dr. Mendenhall's Im- proved Chill and Fever Cure. Price 50 cents. Sold by De Bors & Co, Clinton, Ky.wOet. 12th, 796, De, J. G.-Mendenhall, Evansville, Ind. Dean Sin:—Yoy’ may ship one half gross of Dr. /Mendenhall’s Im- proved Chill andA#fever Cure on same terms as last. I\uave sold two or three times as much of your chill cure this season as any other and it has givea splendid satisfaction. Yours truly, J. K. Tavion, Druggist. dd by Dubois & Co. Hickory Stove Wood, For nieé stove wood telephone 29, $1 per load. tt. ( Riven Sroke anp Rr Co, For Sale by Oehlschlaeger & Walker er chick in the same brood that was horn blind. All these chickens are a er replies. The young|! every second and fourth W 131 Broadway day in each Saturday afternoon tn each | trance to institutions that were cou-| COLORED DEPARTMENT.# CHURCH Husband Street—Ohwreh (Methodist) Sun. day school at Ba. m a.m and 7p.m. Rev. ©. M. Pal Burks Chapel, 7th and Ohfo (Methodist) Sun. day school 9am. P m. Rev. B.S, Burks, pastor Washington Street Baptist Chu achlog Rpm. ev, Ge W: Dupes, pastor Seventh Street Maptist Church.—Sunday 19a. m. Preaching, i! a.m. and *p. mi Rev, W. 5. Baker, pastor St Paul A.M. E, church @unday school 9 a m,, preaching I 8 m 7:8) p m,, Rev. J. G “tanford, pastor Ht. James AM. B chure streotm Sunday yc Dine fev'd. 6. Stanford. pastor Trimble Street Christian ch 90 i Oth & Trimble Preaching 3 ‘Allare coridtally fnvited Ri Cotter, pastor E (United Brethren Jaybchoo! &-) a.m, p.m. Visitors to invited to attend. Tennessee streets, Rev. Jus, A. §Woodward pastor. COLORED Lop fourth Stone Square Lodge } cond Monday in each mo INDEPEN DENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS corner 7th & Adams nid of Ruth, No. 4#—Meets first and ning in each month at Colored SH is every se: Paducah Lodge No. Isi5—Meets every first andthird Monday imeach month at Colored ‘Odd Fellows Hall Paducah Patriarch No. 7. ( very second Friday month at Colored Odd Pe UO OF. 4 and fourth ‘at Colored Odd Fel Young Men's Pride Lod at Hall over N: roadway UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIENDSHIP. St Paul Lodge No @—Meets every second and fourth Monday evening ineach month at ge Slaters if the Myntert Meets the first iit Broadway viden Ku ‘Ten, st N Jay in'each mont second Thurs way « and third Wednesday ulghts in ev een Sarat Tabernacle No 30. uurth Monday nights in @ Madaline Tabern: N third Thursday nights in each Lily of the West tabern 4 and fourth Thur month, Pride of Padueah Tent Star of Paducah Tent Meets Pm in each month. nd Saturday Lily of the West Tent, Meets third saturday Pm imeach month | Grand Army of the Reput y nigh The Tennessee © From the Freeman, does, says St. Paul. The saying is} still logical. ‘The Tennessee exhibi- tion promoters are giving negroes very much consideration. The effort to belittle the movement owing to the distinctive negro feature is out of place when every thing is considered. The rage for getting ‘‘by’’ is all right, the fact mast not be lost sight of that the negroes are on trial all/ the country over, but mainly so in|} the South. It is more than likely too that they who are able to bring about the situation, will use their own methods in doing so, The process of evolution is going on as truly as in the case of some of the lower productions of natu: It is folly blindness not to} recognize that what is, is. The tend- ency to sit on the wheels of the move- ment not have anything other than a bearish effect. To put it plain- ly, there should be no sideshows for Negroes in any part of the country, RW. H. NELSON Keen Cool this Summer, Our day service enables you to run fans off of reg- Attach fan to any electric light No dangerous high voltage pow- er or railroad circuit in your store or residence. EASTER SUNDAY ular lighting circuit. socket in any room. hing Ita m. and 8p.) Sunday | Mrs J. By Merriweather, ‘ 4 nl Night Service, Store lights, 60 to 40c per mo, 19 to 28¢ Electric Fans, $1.60 has performed severa eminently established self with the people highly recommended and himself to be wort fine opefations gts | Chattanooga, Tenn’ Price of current for lights depends on number station. Electric Co. A. C, EINSTEIN, Vice Prest. and Mgu. PADUCAH CYCLE WORKS 128 North Fifth Street, FAR Pater House. Ile cate to us aducah SACRED CONCERT Song—Choir Prayer—Prof Song—Choir. H. Provinee. girls and boys} —A. M. E. Chureh in Afric Recitation—Rutha Smith and Mat- tie Robinson. y school—Represented several girls and boys. High Grade Bicycles and Bicycle Sundries Price $20.00. Suitable for Ministers, shers, and in reach of all, Riding School call and see Anthem—I Will Sing. Agent for Odell Typewriter, 1 “Millie and Gunn.” The Only Exclusive Bicycle House in the City. WHEELS and om Prices on same. PURYEAR, Mai “ WHEN YOU DRINK DRINK THE BEST You cam find it 2 DET ZEL'S. — Where we keep the finest of — hiskiesy Wines, Beer,Cigars, etc RESTAURANT OPEN AT ALL HOURS, Stowers and Co Lillian Canford ary Crutchfield. Rebecea at the Wall Paper Window Shades. IN THE LATEST PATTERNS. Tf ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL ORDERS, GREIF, Telephone No. J. BERGDOLL, PROPRIETQR——— Paducah - Bottling - Co., AGENT CELEBRATED “LOUIS O’BERTS BEER, Of St. Louis. In kegs and bottlom, drinks—-Soda Pop, Seltzey Water, Orange When | am in Rome I do as Rome | “| WL. Se NA CYCLONE. riving through Cider, Ginger | Telephon orders filled until 11 o'clock at night during week and 12 o'clock _Telephone 101, nor would there be if the spirit of the} PADUCAELKY, law prevailed. negro race a side show, but senti- in the minds of the people who c« trol affairs, wealth, power and iui! ence, it is firmly established that t negro has not yet subscribed to all) the conditions, then the rule of con-| adjuncts If the establishing of the to these expositions is a means of proving worth and ability, the op- portunity should be eagerly em- braced. | The Atlanta Exhibition was a grand power for good. — It prominence to an individual who has | since that time had carte blanche en- sidered impregnable to. the assaults] of the black handed so The suvcess of this individual carries with it the possibility of the race. A few more Atlanta Expositions companied by a few more Booker 'T. Washingtons and the citadel of pre weight of the attack. ‘Tennessee 18 before us. Lt is truc a memory of the dead past arises with the name, Let us conclude philosophically to allow the des past to bury its dead. The real, the living confronts us. If ‘Tennessee fit to make amends for past short comings, she should be allowed to do it in the Way that she best feels that she can do it. If Tennessee feels that in this display she has acted magnanimously, who is to doubt it? Beggars cannot be choosers, is 4 homely phrase, that does not set well very often, but the truthfulness no matter how searching, cannot be de nied, The Exhibition cannot bring harm; hence must perfoee do some good. Mr. W. BE. Owens has returned from an extended visit to Mississippi and Arkansas, Prot. ¥, W. Bass, of Louisvil’e, is im the city. He is representing clothing house in Louisville ‘The center of the colored popula ‘ion in the United States is near Rome, Georgia, ‘This is the largest celored populated state in the union. It numbers 858,396, while North) Dakota, the smallest, only numbers 39 Dr. W./H. Nelson has provin But it is not law that renders the | et the best PLANO for the least mone Is Or— ARD_ BROS., 417 N. 6th St. WE HANDLE THE BEST PIANO s country--a piano that will last you Wergive you the best guarantee 1 goods sold on easy payments. ment, which is stronger by far, If} duct for the future is plain enough. | f bits of boards, r things which had ned me Thad got | en in exchang Quick sales and small profits our mi Ato FINE DRIVERS AND SADDLE HORSES,|: Elegant Carriages and Turnouts} of Africa. | ‘ JAS. A./GLAUBER’S Livery, Feed and Boarding Stable Cor. Third and Washington. TELEPHONE M.E. JONES Hardware, Cutlery, Tinware STOVES, ETC. judices will crumble beneath the) ' At first it didn’t Give him a call, ESTABLISHED 1864,—o Miss, Mary B, E, Greif & Co. INERAL/INSURA AGENTS. himself tobe competent and success- ful ag a phygitian and surgeon, He t - Telephone 174, dianapolis Journal, RATLROAD TIME TABLE Nashiville, Chattanooga «& 51. Louis Railroad. PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS DIVISION, rr 0pm BJasiet, 10.586 m S44p im opm = 9235pm a oOpm 35am NourH BOUNE Gy. Chatta swam 1.20pm Y e 23pm «39 pm Loam 5 80 brn dueab and Ja ja,, Jacksonwile, Fla, and the § 0A 1 amd ail points raiation eall on ee Welch, D. P Ai Memphis, Tenn Wu, Daniey. GP and T A Nashville, ‘Tean, ra Pe and'T. ane r Hone’ Burnhain. depot ticket YTRAL RAILROAD LOUISVILLR AN tea ew OnTH BouND— ville. .°. $30 pm Ly Central City... 650 pm Ar Louisy 6 F Cinetanatt....". 6 thin Sovrw Bouxp— Not Gv Cincinnati. 11 3pm i woul ie 330 am am 700 pin. ; Pullman buffe hair cars bet ans run solid between{Ct Orleans, carrying Pulls a p Traiu 34 carries F re 8, Been Way almer, and at the union depot, ae save St. I m. Sleeping and berth Fated, reservations, 1 ra Donovan, G.T. A, Vaimer House, Paducah, or A. By Wauson, General Passeliver Agent Chicago, [llinois CentralR,R. Has Through Passenger Trains and Fast Eificient Double! Daily Service m Cinemnati and Louisville to WENPHIS AND NEW. ORLEANS W. to Lonise se connees any WEST, Sot 7 New Orleang, Jackson, M point hand West oa its own aud connecting CINCINNATI, LOUISVILLE, CHICAGO AND)ST, LOUIS making direc ns with hroash Wain ints NoTH anp EAST ago, Buffalo, Pitter on, New York, Philadgt ud Kichinond, Solid Vestibule ‘Tr Through Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars. Through Free Reclining Chair Cars Particulars of your lo S.G. Hateu, Diy. P: JNO; A. Scorn, Div ALH.HAN#ON, 7.4. W.A, KRLLOND,A.G. Chicago, ‘Loutsvilie, ———$$_—— Tennessee Central and International Exposition. NASHTILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS PAILWAY, THROUGH CAR ROUTE. TO AND FROM KENTUCKY, GEORGIA. 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