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\LL THE ITIES ORTH-EAST xo NORTH-WEST ACHE ike FP. JEFFRIES,G.D. A. e UANSVRLE IND. ONL LMAN 1 CALIF ORNIA VIA NEW ORLEANS In connection with the Southern Pact Through Weekly Tourist Sleeping Car ving Cincinnatl ral Ratiroad fast” EVERY THURSDAY Friday morning, for Los rancinco without chal nects at New Ori ily with Kxpress Train for the Pacitic and on ye and ys (after J Gary 4 ison) with the Sunset Limited Annex Of the Southern Pacttc, giving spectal through: wervice to San Francis: r Of the Llinots Hoes, x Division Passenger Agent, Cincinnatt JON A, SCOTT ‘Agent, Mempois. howov ak raducab icy. Division Passeng: {LLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD Tine Table to effect April a, 180, LOUISVILLE AND MEMPHIS DIVISION Nowrn BouND— No 2 No 2 Leave. 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Moore, DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries, Carned Goods of All Kinds, Free delivery to all parts of the city, Cor. 7th and Adame, WOOD ¢ YARDI Mr. George W. Grubbs is in the wood fusiness at the corner of Tenth and Trimble streets. He is well known by all, and will give satisfaction. All orders promptly filled. ie A «| Not — RIGHT WAY Ours is different. Of course, some articles stand the washing and iron- ing better than ot but we en deavor to have all through the process unimpaired. Good soap, pu water and skillful hands insur results, Give us an opportunity to prove it. Small packages thankfully received, larger ones in proportion, STAR § hone 200, ¢AM LAUMDRY, 120 North Fourth St. ED H. PURYEAR Mus". 8. Nay Attornev at Law And Notary Public, Real estate and/' Life Insurance Agent, and Abstractor of Titles master commissioner of irouit court. Will : in all the courts of this and Adjoining counties. Special attention given to the collection of all c the renting of real estate and ail other litigation. Will act and receiver of insolve ates, also as administrator of decedents’ guardian of infants. Legal Row), Paducah, Ky, A MISTAKEN IDEA e used to hear a great deal about things which fit “like the paper on the wall,” but how frequent it is that the paper doesn’t fit on the wall, Just because itis pasted ard is no sign that it fits. The pattern may not be right, the color may not suit the room You Will get the most suitable paper by coming to us. Our specialties are Wall Paper, Pictures end Frames And our etock is large, our right, and designs varied inspect. bi P. BALTHASAR w. ™M. JANES REAL ESTATE AND MORTGAGE LOANS tga OFFICE 828’. BROADWAY Second Hand Goods Highest cash prices paid by WILLIAM BOUGENO & SON line of new nd get our ices are Call and 208 Court street. We Established, 1855. Johnson Foundry and Machine,, Company Steam Engines, Boilers House Fronts, Mill Machinery And Tobacco Screws, Brass and Iron Fittings, Castings of all kinds PADUCAH, KY. Incorporated 1883, stop at the STATE HOTEL. $1.50 a day, Special rates by the week, D. A. BatLey, Propr. Between 4th and 5th on Ferry st =| Mali: £8 fpeee {sh voting BALLARD’S Little Cuba Cigars Clear Havana Five Cents Straight OEHLSCHLAEGER & WALKER ORUGGISTS Fifth and Broadway. WRITTEN AT RANDOM. las word th origin Interest It would be well to relieve the gen- to exist reg in the Spanish war of the eral impression that seems especially in America the word. ‘This term should never be ,applied to Italians, It bad origin among the sailors of our ships, who, mectivg so many foreigners who ol to come from Sau Dieg Spain, naturally dark skinve Dalives tries under the g goes.” This is way the term in classed all al name ¢ said to be the ginated Pa ae Down at Third and Court there is a deep trench that has been en for there being no pipe bere the ce tion at the inter: | Across the diteh, which is fifteen feet deep, there ank for pedestrians, da- | real streets on account of with which several days to make section. ten or narrow pl place is se dangerous that oflicer is employed to renain and He reports amusing oceurrences. The ditch cannot be perceived until | one is almost upon it, Sunday after. | an scorcher came eed, gazing | The | ial | there maoy a spe watch slong He was evi: | blissfully beaveaward dently r. and diteh, The ollicer vaio. When the ver the officer yelle too late. Fortunately struck the plank in th as he did s0, he | yawning chasm and with a tion of horror threw stretched out his air. Butke was safely over, a only tunbled off on the street got up, heard the la this the d——t town lit out for Broadway. The next man who cam the well He could not stopped. Fortunately he happened | to sitike the narrow plank in the cen- ter, predecessor, and | rad brace heture bs venta Hin ued cape. When the abyss was crossed, | he fell off his wheel and sought a| {on the nearest side walk, simply lyzed, unable to walk, ‘He L there two ot three. hours be mustered up suilicient cours] a str gesticulated in wheelman drew but the eyclist center. Just ed down tl b exclama s arms and ap hi i limbs in dire | He | and calling str he ever k along was known fact re | Mr grocer just like his par re- wain fore he age to proceed. | mm Corbett bi a he has carried fer yeu very highly it has n Very liandy in bis} lh One day he was out| in Oklaboma one of the biggest hotels when a prominent man from Texas arrived at the hostlery and was introduced to the colonel, “Col. Corbett,’ introduced — the “from Kentucky, but now a at of this place.’” ol, Corbett, from Kentueky ¥""° echoed the man from Texas, as smiled, ‘Well, Col, Corbett, fro | Kentucky, L suppose you have your | corkserew with you, “That's what I have,’ replied the he drew forth his cork- displayed it to the aston- fei Whi mo tie. {hai did carry cork- Col, 'T screw that He values it often ¢ eregt and ne ations. host, resid colonel, as screw and ishe Texan Kentucky men really screws, He astonished that he took them into the t and asked them what they wa nd just to all for it, was so Otticer James Crow had escape on Decoration Day, down on one of the colored excursionists officer, to preserve peace ness Without unnecessary bloodshed Over at some point in Lilinvis a drunken negro got aboard and pro ceeded to cuss everybody in Ken- tucky, He was a big, muscu looki » aod bad a man with him who was equally as large and seemed to back him up in every thing he said, Finally th Kentuckiabs in gene avery | name, and told the officer if be didn't like it, he could settle it right there He made a dive towards the officer, and the former was compelled to draw his pistol and threaten the ob streperous coon with instant annibi- | lation, ‘This had the desired effect, and the pext the ofticer heard of bim he was dodging about among the darkies offering $5 for the use of a pistol for just “two minutes,” ‘The Keotue ky excursionists were with the ofticer, and offered to throw the Lli- nois negro overboard if he said so, But if the had succeeded in gotting a pi been vl o A narrow He went s of special ud happi- Way rote: rd to | for polite conver did not see the | it was | g The wiles to which small boys sometimes resort are enough to baille {the shrewdest parents that ever wielded the paddle, and some of them would do credit to one of Pinkerton’s star detectives, The other mornii South Side sent her cery tor some strawberries. ‘There was none there, and the grocer sent herries inst Ka route home the youngster ate balf the cherries in one box, and then half from the other, and delivered them in that impover- The lady con- not the proper send her such de- pleted boxes, and told the boy to take them back. He was in a pre- jdicament. He thought until b 0 Jout of sight of the house, and theto jemptied the contents of one box inox the otber box, and carrying the bin- that was full back to the grocery, in- formed the grocer that his mother didn’t want but one box It all came outin the bill, however, and the boy's strategy was expose t+) lady of the son to the gro ished condition. cluded that it thing to do, to was One of the deserters from the Pada 20,925. Paducah's Population, as Shown by Zorn’s Latest Di- rectory. The 1898 Directory Is a Valuable Book —It Has Just Been The city directory for 1898 is un- questionably the best one ever pub- lished in Padacah. It is accurate, and in appearance one of the neatest jobs of printing ever turned out io Paducal, and great creditis due Mr Zorn for the manner and taste io whieh gotten up. Mr. Zorn la- bored herd to make this work com- plete. and he certainly should receive the endorsement and encouragement of every business man, Mr. Zorn gives Paducah a popula tion of 20,925 700 over the ing the pope it 23,000, using 3 h increase of nearly st directory, In giv- 1897 he made as a multiplier, ion of }cah company was seen by the writer the other « He did not seem tc feel any however, and said that sold snare and a} delusion, many of the boys would liked to have “craw. | |fished’’ if they had not been afraid of |being called He said he| did not relish sleepin, , and dirty straw at that, avd eating bacon | and bread intimated that he would rather be a coward with a full Jstomach than a hero with empty | tive apparatus, It is probable all the deserters were boys of this little sense of honor. Needless to say they never will be missed, ‘ 1 5 } cowards and an Many readers find difficulty in pro { European coun-|nouncing the Spanish names mention. | eat Jed in the war columns, will be of value to them. The letter A’ is pronounced with the sound of KR. I always sounded U has the sound of W, softly aspirated, J is invariably pronounced as H, KE takes the sound of A, and Z is given the sound of TH | In pronouncing silent letter ven A few points Spanish there are no| Every vowel and « proper s one of the n Mm sound. | dious and has vo harsh tones when Used omit a woken correctly s a medium bounds in| Hlowers of ut ex- pressions of esteem, vehicle for the utteranc lies for which the Span peech and extray It is of the polite ris noted. One of the to the youn, Saturday for t history —‘ questions ex propounded men ined here | » West Point appoint. ment was in What is a man’s answer was: “It an implement for hoisting guns on- a warsbip.”” LOCAL COMMITTEES For the State Sunday School Convention, EXKOUTIVE Coaty Rey WH Pinkerton Rev M E Chappell Mr L M Rieke Prof J D Smith Capt T J Moore FINANCH Drs B Caldwell BH Scott Geo C Wallace TEE. OMMITTER, ENTERTALNMENT JD Mocquot Mrs J A Rudy Mes © 1 Gregory Mrs O P Leigh Mrs George Warticld Mrs RE Ashbrook Mrs FB May Mrs Clara McCarthy Mrs C E Thacker Miss Della Farley RS Barnett Rey W A Parker Miss Daisy Sutherland Miss Julia Scott Miss Minnie Wilbelm Miss Mamie Jones Miss Addie Hart Rev WR ‘Taylor Mrs L Gideon Miss Nellie Smith Miss Claribel Riek Mrs Birdie ( Mrs Chastain Mrs Martin JP Holt WT Byrd V A McCutchen HG Vaughan L'T Wilson Mrs E A Fox Ess COMMITTEE, Miss Susie Morton Miss Adah Bra Miss Ora Le Miss Mattie Vaughan Miss Nellie Millikea Mrs James Koger TER, Chairman SUNDAY SCHOOL EXIIBIE WoRK. | Miss Kate White Miss Minnie Wilhelm Miss Susan Morton music, Prof Charles Davis (Union choir) The committee on devotion, re- ception, badges and the ushers will he appointed by the executive com- mittee later, At the request of chairman of music, the place of meeting has been changed from the Broadway Methodist church, as first selected, to the First Christian church, Vlease bear this ta miad, The committee on Sunday school exbibit work request that the articles prepared by the different Sunday achools he sent in Friday afternuon Prof. Davis, | four | ducal | mao needs | support fitting | | ticket Jover to the Kirst. Christivn church, where ol, there would nodoubt {a Committee Will receive them, Please paid h without fall, ae 3 | bat this year he it by actual count The year li gives jority of the increase this taken’ place within the past or five months, which is due principally to the differeat enter- prises running on full time, besides the Cord works, which brought a number of people here Mr. Zorn should receive a hearty support from the business men of Pa- hen getting out a directory lackh A. directory as much encouragement avy other business man, If he the proper Q and good directory is assured dollar is thrown away on advertising throughout the in any results, which might be devoted towards the of the directory ; besides Mr, Zorn is a home aud every dol- ar derived from directory re mains in Paducah, and not only that he publishes directories of | other cities, brought here and printed have but t 1s as receives suppe Many « novelty without man thi which are STATE « f Tau PRANK J.¢ and 8 December, A. 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OF INTEREST TO STOCKHOLDERS | Frce Pransportation to Attend the Annual Meeting at Chicago, some Interesting Facts, e slocklolders of road ¢ ay attend in person there has been I rder th the Lilinois C may more readily nual meetings, comp: | posted in each station of the compa- to the effcet that, ace with a resolve of the board ctors, there may be issued to en wilder of one or more shares of the capital stock of the Hlineis Cen tral Railroad company stered the books of the company, a| enabling hum or her to travel company's from the st »ef the Ihnois Centrrl Rail- searest to bis or her reg to Chic return of atten in per yual meet ing of the company, which willl held at its general oilice Chicago on Wednesday, September 2 at noon. Details as to the ne procedure to obtain such ticket, date of its issue lin fully set forth on the posted referred to. Ta this coanc will be interesting to note th in 1862, the capital stock of t pany became full paid, a roti in ave cor of the lines ago and lit wldress, the the stockholders in 8, 1898 ary the are notices tion, it cash divi- * | of time, COLORED DEPART: \ENT. PATRIO’ IC And Inspiring Were ‘he Scenes of Last Evening 0) South Seyenth Strect, = Making nd Our Boys Left Morning. Feasting This ‘The scenes enacted last evening at 221 South Seventh street baps the most inspiring among our people ever witnessed the city since those dark days of the civil war, when hope was almost hoping 9 hope, when conditions snd theories confronted and sorely tried the and souls of men, when stre open sea against wind yard they received with joyous hearts teful pride and patriotic thankfal ness, the cinancipation proclamation The room was crowded 4 suffocation with many of our best citizens, old and young, who felt a deep ptide in the welfare of our peo: ple in generel and our boys in par ticular on that, the eve of their de- parture for the stirring fields and scenes of a new war, Every one was enthusiastic for the of our Patriotism on aad was measured ouly the feeling and it unfounded The eches made only could be made the moment when tie men are stirred by some grand and inspiring occ Those who spoke put their heart soul in all they said. They were inspired and turn inspired others until many were wet with tears. They spoke for the past—the humilistion of it. They spoke for the present—the promises of it. And they spoke for the glories of the future, Old men who had passed through the last sad contlict, who 1 seen and felt the terrors and the horrors of war and whose bair was white with the frosts together with young men who know nothing of the realities of war, ail joined in with the same feel- ing and sentiments of success and God-speed to our boys. Mr. Robt, Williams acted as chair- man. Speeches were made by the following gentlemen: Kivil, € W. Merriweather, Jno. Moore, Nel- son Owens, Chas. McGoodwin, Ser- geant C. B. Turner and others A collection was taken up for re- freshments and put into the hands of Mr. Minor Bradshaw, who went out and in a few minutes returned with 9 load of everything that wish on such an ovcasion that was a feast, was this feast. sion Mr. Jno. Moore presented the boys were pers in an tide. boys was by 8p on the pur of emotions of in Silas Io iu a neat with con speech, THE DEVOT. rt this morning the awe-inspirir It was nd tears, out for My Old vl done © was At the scenes were as those of last Just b Nashville, « quar Kentucky Hom on Just evening, tremende Al « of Those wh nora ev 4 of train pulled m cf aval ldwin, this in ry under Liew Allaut Ga Till , Win Joseph A Tew af. Ken- Pa MeMicheal Owens Nola man ki vwieit, W Clarence an aud War vore will leave tomorr Aud there and there stood tood old gravd ANNUAL SERMON sermon of and Daughters of Taly ched by Rev. J. W. Hay on the third Sunday in June: Wastington street Boptist ‘They wi!l meet at their bail and mareh from there to the church, bi jed by the pickaninny brass ban I} the members 1 Queen Sarah Tabernacle, and requested to | ual 0 Knighy be pre kins at the church tents of Madeline ‘Tabert No. 1 Tabernacle iolden Rule Tew; present Daughters— P.M. Mannie, C. S. L. Manseieno, ¢ Aumera HoweLn, C Sir W. H, Nexsoy, Cc. M. and C. G, First ward remonial p Vr. rv. Ss. at the The meeting Baptist church in progress, Seven additions have beea made the church. Rev, Phillips was bap- tized into the church last Sunday by the J. W. Hawkins. Rev, Wm. , of Lilinois, is assisting Glover, in the m welcome and Rey. Drs. Nelson, performed & ation this morning Manstield for He is getting sce perine lc Wes ily of th Paberp West The Lilly of the No. aod I will “at their ed at Burks’ chapel on th Sunday. Dave aonual ser Berne Hearne, € ren in Blow den, ranging from 4 per cent. to 10 percent. aunutn, has been paid semi-annually to every bolder of stock, and that it is now twenty y since the company than 5 per cent per I Oa Reauts stirring up the | i wm the bod 1 Me boita, bi icity Ditious complexion by ~-beauby for ten cents. Admira were such as to], ‘|Telephone 174, If it fails to cure go to your merchant AND GET YOUR MONEY BACK. We will refund to him. 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