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RAILROAD TIME TABLES. Nashville, Chattanooga & St, Louis Railroad PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS DIVISION sourH BOUND Ky Paducah. ris Hollow Rock Junction 7 Lexington 10 jun Ly am ar *) 9m Nushivi us pin Chattanooga +55 am Avante 05 am Aradacks Axington Ly Lexington 1 Ar Hollow Kock Junction 35 pm = 60) am 605 pm = 880 am vice between Pa Pant Baltimore, Philadelpuia on the esiiegsh, And to all Southwest. Fr thon call op or address. CH Dani Pa Paduoa’ 8. Burnuain. depot agent, Padneah, Ky CENTRAL RAILROAD ILLINOI LOUISVILLE AND MEMPHIS DIVIIONS HOUT HouND— No we No a4 No a! Lv New Orleans 0 tablished 1856, Johnson Foundry and Machine Co. (uoutacturers aud Incorporated 188 ~ 1 Dewlers in Stean enti aS, Boilers, Ouse Fro And Tobheco Ser and Iron Fittings. of al} kinds. Papvean, , Mill Machinety ews, Brass Castings Kentveny. 6. THALMULLLE~ Fine Boots and Shoes Made to Order. fall kind Give Hi wn neatly doneat 6 i AL. Brinton’ B. Davis, Ottice When in Ar Paducah Ly Paducan Ar Falton, Ly Fulton Ar Memphis. New Orleatis aie nek wey Ville St. Louis Missouri PaciricRaiuway The Great Through Line From TRY THE NEW FAST TRAIN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA LIMITE Jaon Mountain Route, The most direct line via Memphis to all points in ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. WEST AND SOUTHWEST. Free Revhaing Chaig on All Trains, Tunoven Coaches Memrnis 10 Dauias Anp Fort Wont tes, free books Western States, all on your loeal tick or write G. MATES SBA. ne Centennial and Tennesse NASHTILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS PAILWAY, | THROUGH CAR ROUTE. TO AND FROM TENNESSHE. KENTUCKY, GEORG ALABAMA, FLORIDA, NORTH SOUTH CAROLIN WASHING PHULLAL THROUGH Jie ie SERVICE Korn eMLIUS w Ak, TEXAS PALACE SLEEPING novus CARS VILL York Fi: International Exposition. |. casos ot 1 w Rock McK unt eK Lt ection at Mone weiphiia Between Nu i gent oF . R. C. COWARDIN, Western Pass 405 Ry. Kxchange Bidg., 81, 5 A. J. WELCH, sion Pass, Agt W. L. DANLEY Pass, and Tkt,, Agt., Nasuvinry JB. TEACHOUT, C1 “ away, Paducals st Mt Memes, TRS x Movenare Feces ATENT OFFICE fees nse than U6 3 3 ‘and foreign countries ent free, Address, c. SS owa.00. Orr, PATENT OF7ick, WASHINOTON, D.C. ¢ ot H ; H TRADE MARKS, DESIONS, COPYRIGHTS do, Anyone sending m sketch and d fe a “ Woe ee Goop Rooms | Goof SeRVICE When y stop at t ARCHIT: Ain,-Uffniya Nat, Batik, ‘ CT fetropolis HOTSL Special rates by the D. A. Bates, Propr rry st st. LOUIS Kates, $2.00 Per Day. Room and Pregtlast, $1.00. European Piag, $1.00 Per Day. wu visit Sf Low ‘. J¥MES rt Goop MEALS. HOTEL WAY AND WALNUT © WeRAY F, WILLIAMSON, M.D * A Physician and Surgeon DAB DENTIS 406 BROE Ts OWAY. », dorse Shoeing a Spec ialty. wel | bo Repalt Work of Every ‘King, Work G ARANTERD HENRY GREIF, ‘J, 8. GANSTER, Solicitor.of Pension Claims, | Ve eran of four y LiTTLe amuse | Pawn Bpeker and & MONEY LO i ON AL We arp overstybked ars in the war of the Bureau epee sR NAN BEI, n Ladies’ ad Solid Sad and Filled Case 4s of move nent CASES big lot of Silver Watohe Musical Tas (range 3 we will ake yc Wear Ml line of Clothing ne gs, Hats, Shoes Ete We bu ds at fore Noney tofloan on all BelrMichael S. Second, next - r , BAL Unde: “1 A LTENVIOUIC ing Cards, Dice, d sales: , and can al every line. valuables: Ji to Lang Bro pe crane lings HASAR, ‘ALMKK House = \ discovered that the ‘ST JAMES HOTEL WRITTEN AT RANDOM. A new and pretty song is just out, “Ask Your Heart the Question,’’ the wusic of which was written by Prof. Chas, Gilbert, formerly of the city, but now of St. Louis, The words are by Mr. Dustin. 1." At arecent M. E, conference at Rockport, Ky., was an old preacher, « cousin of Mr, W. Fred Long, of the city, who had never seen a flash light picture taken, On the last night of the confer- ence the weather Was somewhat threatening. The old minister is mortally afraid of lightning, and a staunch disbeliever of the old saying that “lightning never strikes twice in the same place,” becau-e twice had lightuing burned his barns, killing three mules and severely shocking son on one oceasion, The barns struck were of course different, but they were in the same place, So on the last night of the confer- euce, when the preachers began to line up near the pulpit this old min- ister who was afraid of lightning did not know what it was for, but pres- ently concluded that a storm was ap- Proaching and the ministers were try- ing by taking a firm stand, to set an example and prevent a panic. ‘This idea was strengthened when the pho- tographer touched off the apparatus, | whic Li the minister had not noticed, “Oh Lord, take care of me!’’ he exclaimed as the room was illumined | * |by a blinding flash, and be dropped | down on the floor. When he finally house was still standing and nobody was hurt, be glanced at the smoke gracefully spreading out against the and murmured a fervent “+1 thank thee! slowly arose al Collins does a great deal His bill for mes- lected to fill the unexpired the late Marshal Geary, has amounted to over $100, t of which he paid himself. allowed $50 at the Inst He was |council meeting for special police work. ‘There is a fand consisting of $200 annually, set aside to be de- voted to whatever the mayor and shal desire in the way of secret slice work, ‘The council is required to allow it without asking any ques- tions: Maesbal Collins, however, ing his previous four years as cent of it, and but €100 of it. did not use this year has not use id that a local sport became i with the way things ter- Tues d the** bookie" to ret he had placed in the pool. A refusal on the part of © bookie’ might bave precipitated ished, but aud it Was prevented, A incident that vecasioned |some excitement he eutting by| ome misereant of the rubber in Mr. Het man We rting machine. It was practically disabled, and bad the culprit been caught. an indelible spot would be left on his memory of knew his ‘*biz,’ he ed in a race at the fair grounds| Paducah and Cairo Packet. Line. ‘Owned and Operated by th Tennessee and Ohio River ‘Transpor- tation Co. INCORPORATED, Str, JOH FUWLER apts: iN S HOPKINS Leave Paduican at.) cic ba Padueab and Uairo Packet ae (/ ally except ay Steamer DICK WE Leaves Padua) = 3 9, in au ER, surt So the traveling man concluded to drive on and inquire of someone else when the branch-off was reached, Af- ter he arrived, however, he was cha gtined to find that the road turned off to avoid a bad place that had once been in the center of it. The two divisions traversed the outskirts of the bad portion and then re-united a lit- tle further on, So there was only one road to Drakeyille after all 8 . Mr. KE. B, Harbour yesterday re- ceived from Mrs. Harbour a letter that was not instrumental in improv- ing to any pheno:inal extent his physical comfort. The letter was written from the Rocky Mountains, where the writer spent her spare mo- ments picking snow from the road sides. After finishing reading about the snow and ice and other products jof other climes, Mr. Harbour has- tened to the nearest soda fountain, and under the cool fans indited a telegram fora few tons’ stock of snow to be shipped at once. OniFTWOOD Saved From the Waters, Cor- ralled on the Levee. | ttems of Speeial Interest to River | People. | The Dick Fowler skipped out for Cairo at The J Hopkins was in and away for Evansville on scheduled time this morning. + The vew texas atly the appearance of (ie + of Savannal: improv amer City The Ashland City is due here out of the Tennessee river tonight and leaves on her return to Danville ‘Teon., tomorrow at 10 o'clock The ‘bonny’ Clyde is out of the Tennessee river. due here She will ‘The arrival and departures were about as usual this morning only the }local packets were in and out and were doing very lite freight busi- ness. | The new coal. for the St. Ber- jnard Coal Co., built at the tipple was the eventful occasion | brought down by the Mary N. this oo. morning and put in place at the foot While all good * people wand pees t Court street, where it will remain - . no doubt throughout its existence. piring around trying to find a cool} "® © spot for the past two days, the| ‘The fall of the river here last night | worthy board of magistrates was at |i estimated to be 4-tenths. It would lie couaty court house drawing per|Tequire only a very few such days as liem for deliberating on how to keep | ‘is until the big liners would have to wart next winter, As they examined | Sek refuge at the bank, and conse- on p! ipes for carrying so much uuently the litle steamers would have steam such ae such a distance, from | a chance to get out and do a little a furnace to be located at such and | bustling. such # place, and of such and such a] Engineer Joe Flach, of the ferry capacity, the perspiration welled up| boat Bettie Owen, dreamed a very | iu huge beads on them, and streamed | curious dream the other night. Get down their faces, necks and hands, The very thought, this kind of weatner, of beating the court house} by steam, precipitated the enterpris- him to relate his experience with the ten goslins that could talk. When the painters complete the | work at the lower boat store ‘*Monkey Jing justices into an imaginary hades,| Wrench’? corner will be one of | the jsubject us they appeared to be as hot over the over the weather, As one finally remarked | \ i with steam heating this! kind of weather, and they soon waxed It isn’t always necessary to stop aud argue a question with astranger. 4 well-known local traveling man was up lust week makiug rural trips near Central City rt in the country he met a small, freckled-tg bare-footed girl, and asked her the way to Drakeville. ‘to them forks beyout | | take either the or the tother one to | iy replied he protested, Is two one “Why you the bilis thar, an it left, + But my dear if the right ha Drakeville, then t ft rlainly does not, sad ne to drive to the end of n the misk of finding that my on is at theend of the other "” tell ve a» stoutly rig nd haven't one 1 aud osti- “dust like J maintained them forks will fetch ye to Drakeville to argy, but ye'll "bout! I haint got vo time ind L know whut Dm talkin” For Ladies. . Every lady knows the value-of -a.good toilet powder, es,e- cially in hot weather. "Our Velvet Chalk is the purést, bestand most economical toi- let powder on the market. Actrial will convince you of its superiority. Large Boxe: See Window OEWLSCHLAEGEG & WALKER DRUGGIS ive Cents isplay. | handsomest | the river, ones in the vicinity of “And that’s no josh.’’ A me beionging to the McKinley | Coal Co., of Cincinnati, which was | repaired "recently here on the ways lag thea taken to the island and ti up, is in a very bad condition, owing to the water falling and leaving one corner igh and dry on the bauk twisting it very badiy, One of the boilers of the old steam jer Clyde which sunk in Tennessee river severuly ears ago and which has wen remodeled and repaired by th boi er makers here is vow being put in the Marine Ways. The little Metropolis packet, Ge: , brought up au immense rowd of people This lint ts doing uo hittle amount of bustoess la tre of excursions a ctowd every day morning. packet she brings ap » Witness the ball game or yo fishing er at the lakes, The Obio river stands third in commer importance of all the riv }ers of the world, The two that sur- | pass it are both in’ Amer The Detroit river comes first, affording as wt does a connecting link, through which passes almost the entire com- of the great lakes, Second on the list is the Huds u, and closely | following it is the Oto, — Que bu dred mii by Is of coal are seu to market ove Ohio every year bushels of co: Allowing » Which me the One handred million equals 8,825,000 | tweutysfive tons to the average, it would load ht cars, To continue the comparison, these cars made uy ina train would reach about 1,100 miles, Statistics of the Miners’ Strive ghee New Yoru Work Number of 1 Number of » Month's loss [to 378.000 men ar 90 cents a day each s1012 fonth’s loss to operavors at 10 cents pr Mt per ton on 16.009 000 tons 1600 0% Loss vo railroads at 30 cents per ton., 4 S00 0X Loss to coal com! miner Monthly loxs plied with seribors v Beansville and Paguean P ckets (Daily excep da pm web om mh 9 pra, mnesse pastor. Thursday % Quee invited Fev of COLORES: DEPARTMENT. CHURCHE Rev JG. Stal Trimble hur COLORED LODGES, MASON jMasonie Hall BAM MeGregor Li vad tut rete Pickaninny an open air concert fourth Priday eve jored Odd Fellc Western Kentucky (ods every second and bra b. the best in the er Cure deffered in’ y der yoor Chill Cure narket. second Friday r dal Seve FN Adams tomorrow night. he & Adam No. 2891—Meets Everybody |remain over here as usual till Satur- New Providencg, Ten at Jet. |day afternoon before returning to}J+ C. Mendeuhs naville, 1 | Florence. Dear Sir:— Please ship 4s sv0 possible pt Four Chill Yours respectfally vV.W~. Sau wel ‘The values will be by all oddg-the greatest evr r offercd iV ae3 TIMES "R SHOE SUPERS, ~The end of the summer selling sea- son is nigh and we find ourselves Yi stocked than we care to be iuring July. Therefore, beginning _on Monday, July 5, at 8 a.m., we will condact a general CLEARING “ALY that will set the town talking, Geo. BERNHARD, Paducah’s Leading Shoe Merchant, 306 Broadway. CASINO. RAMONA PARK. —_0——_—. in Paducah, Shoes that are today marked @3.00° Will be $2; shoes that are $2 will be $1.25, and shoes ‘hat are now $1.50 will be $8c, The high cost o be cut deepest and the low price ones shoru of p $1.50 ox. ford ties for $1; small ones at your own price, Remem- ber the sale ins Monday. July 5. Come. JW. Moore, |ADMS- Staple and Fancy Groceries, FREE Ganned-Boots ot All Kinds, .|Peoples Railway Co.’s cars run to the gate Free delivery.to°all parts of the city. O6r. 7th and Adaws of the Park. Pertormance begins at 8:00 every night. High-Grade Bicycles and Bicycle Sundries. Agent for the highest grades of Bicycles made. | We are prepared te-offer 1896 Stearns for $68.60 Don’t fail to see our $45.00 Overlands and Rugbys—best on the market, prettiest wheal made. Don’t fail to see our line of whegls before buying. We are the only exclusive Bicygle house in the city. Complete repair shop. Free riding school to those buy- ing wheels from us. Don’t fail to call—rememiber the place, Paducah Cycle Works, 126 and 128 North Fifth birt near P mer House. es wi Call o» Mrs. Joe B. Merriweather, Fashionable Dressmaker; and be pleased. Neat fit guaran- teed Formerly of Cleveland, 0. 129% Harrison street. C. ACISBELL, M.D, Physician and) Surgeon. Office 502 1-2 8, Seventh St " Residence Office Hotirs 7:30 to 9 a. m., iC bm , 6to Sp. m. 8, Sixth, :30 to 3 JW I~ NELSON) sician aud Surgeon, > Pi reet 2wip.n | William Thompson | NEW GROCERY and Trim- » polite | ~ REMOVED! 1 STEAM SCLEN 1IFIO“AND FIRST-OLASS BLACKSMITHING “1 REPAIRING be a PORSESHOPING uaranteed. AA. W. GREIF, Court Street, bet. ad and 3d. INE DRIVERS AND SADDLE HORSES, TH. Via Ilinois Central Railroad ‘ rae LAUND ‘Y Elegant Carriages arid Turnouts Toronto, Unt., July 12, 15 and AT. » for the round trip; rod on Aiarsieetiandt dae at; wide a bo North Fourth St JAS. A. GLAUBER =, angemeuts for extension s~hiner "Niagara Fall, for train 204 leav- achingry ery, Feed and Boafding Stable ing Paducah 1:25 a, m, duly Sth Good Ce Cor. Third and-Washington only, $17.90 for the good Satisfaction nt LEPHONE 148, i j s returning July 16th e all priucipal resorts redaced Pe si S < : = athe, for farther intormation sap! | ue ye ‘ - - i ‘oO ply to = 3 = : x . Wt mms, | CR DAMIS, |Migg Mai 4 E Greif & 0 Blouse iy 2 t- | WN Ep N \ te Apes rat h mq ets at — and Feftmph AGENTS, ../.... fini Furhie.ce : t { # 174. PADUCAH, KY ap eae for heating ) Wi-eemery, is | Tin, Siate and | r bavi i . | 1ay8. Thid St. | th ae L. WifLEA, | = Sine : | MISE AND SISK PAINTER, | pe | at | away | : | Dalia | | For | | Nk ef & DAL a | nd 0 Put Af\orney-at-Law| th ite Trost Building y nd \ 1 os tt 7 Ep sa bes § Manufacturers ers ju—— Loursviti nnn ~~ Steam E B ‘House Front mse Cocos se 8AM ngines, Bor “aS; OUSS Frits, ’ ra pp RaQUGAN Mili Mechiugry, etc. t i Water & i" INCORPORATED ee PADUCAH,hY nemo —eemoeneninest ~_? a tu 0 LACURSIONS. | a’i Liectric Ligh Linh ‘ Central Rally od Da d p C ir tye J aul July had . ve "4 v : ‘ esters ' Hip wekets tol Will furnish Lig 3 Power for fans, as follows; then Re ee Na Tennessee Cene Store Lights ~ detperfmonth, Pe crests ! «! Exposition} Residence Lights 0c t makes rosy cheeks : . 85 . , ' Is 50 they stay ¢ si alent Curr r Fans i cH rn | 16th, go i returning one tS pen ata AM Anat 8, Ws EUBANKS, |The Ardmore, quarter wore due Fu A ltetaee oa : > APHIS Th th street, boiwec so before it is forgotten | prem . oft i ‘8d i aly to takes { Northwest, ises not paid for on or beidre July | 88Y r a } > x WASHINGTON, D. C. 10th will be discontinued td Agents 4. : i Hanson, son European, $1.00/and | up Kemoval, . , Chicago, IN, American, $1.50 to 2 We bave remaved our ne and | : ¥ ne 1 eeniy : stables to corner Teuth and Monroe GP wouisville, Ky. sail uae ge ere fomaed tor niatiae stay tor! C. C. McCanna, LPTORNEY-AT/LAW, |. First-class famby tGiet. No tquore sand should be semethe A. GP. A., St. Louis, Mo. 1z0 8. Fourth, Room No, 2, e Most central location, to No, Il, Jd. i. Donovan, \ctice in all the courfs of the state| 4B home for Wuriste and \ Papuvau Tra ©. A., Paducah, Ky. cliec Lion of claims promply abteuded to, nthe city, T, M. HAL b, Prop.