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wy Cat THE AITIES “NORTH NORTH-EAST ano NORTH-WEST EACHED fasile Teta PING & BUFFET CARS FROM NEW ORLEANS FP. JEPERIES 6 PA D.N.NILLMAN,.G: EVANSVILLE. 'ND. NASHVILLE, TENN. BLLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD Time Table tn offect July 3, 1894, “LOUISVILLE AND MEMPHIS DIVISION ANontTH BouND— No Wt No 24 Leave. Nev Orleans 29 pm 900 am isa.12 47 am 1 58 pin vot 80 atm § 0 pus J'esoa Tenn, 10 25 am 1025 pra Cairo, tl Wien No. i Pralton........12 9 pm 12 01 am ‘Atrive, Waducah 26pm tisam 90am Leave. No sz Paducab......218pm120am 14am ‘arrive, weinceton.... 345 pm 24am 69am 600 pn Kvansville....$ 00 pm 650 am | Hopktosvilie 180 pm 720 pm Norvoovilie 445 pm $90 am 10 am Central Clty ..|S 3 pun 4 0 ar 1! 40 win Horse (ranch 6 8 pm 501 am { OF pm Owensboro ..*10 00 pm “9 0) ain 30> pnw Aeouisville.. 1000 pm 740 am 6 00 pia Chactonat! 7 10am 11 Gam Tr 7] ror Lop a2 4 sisam 9 20 pn ane 210 pm $48 am 110088 pa No 181 220 pm 3.46 am 400» 89) pm 6 1s am 218 am 188 pox 32) pn 3.00 am 445 pu Am New Orieans eM am7 opm ST, LOUIS DIVISION wo @18pm | Team | r) Ss pm ac tree reclining chair cars between Clo N THE DESIGNERS. Of cur wail paper patterns are of the cleverest’ men in the profession Therefore our designs are charming | We aim to svi paper to the wall Jand its uses, If for a parlor you want od background for pletotes and c¢ m No fect plete the beauty of the re paper that will spotl ther ef Let us show you our patterns PICTURE FRAMES MADE 10 ORDER, L. P. BALTHASAR, NO, 45 BROADWAY, Capital and Surplus, $305,000.00 ‘American -German': National Bank PADUCAH, KY. | Interest Paid on Time Deposits vie in second and third floors to Let. Gro. ©, THomPson, Pres, L. Ark s, Cashier, a L. LASSITER | Fo BB, DAVIS Architect and Su perintendent “LET US HAVE PEACE” Peace hath her victories no less re- an war.’ tors belong the spoils.”’ | _nownec ‘To the v To our customers belong the profits this week. We have met the enemy and—we've got ‘em. jeans, Pullman’ sleepers cincin-]| WE HAVE SILE D THE nan but | FORTS of bigh prices with the bar ween Padu | sold to the trade, Our |tigures, at all times the LOWES’ }oow knock all the rest in the shade. 4 . * ba | From our dress goods may yet be se- Donovan, CA, Paducal KW Jlected some choice things im hot aie | weather s iff, on which we won't 4 ny prices, though others do Exposition Ix fora tole hese goods you Omaha, Nebraska!: JUNE 1 TO NOVEMBER 1 1898—— Best reached from the south, east and | west by the MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY In elegant equipment, consist- ing of reclining chair cars (seats free of extra charge), Pullman buffet slee; and comfortable high coaches. REDUCED RATES FROM ALL POINTS DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE See agent for tickets, time tables and other information. | R. T. G. MATTHEWS, T. P. A LOUISVILLE, KY. ST, JAMES HOTEL SAINT LOUIS EUROPEAN PLAN | Rate. 75¢ and $1 per Day | Restaurant, Popular Prices | SPECIAL 250 DINNER| SPECIAL BREAKFAST AND SUPPER 1 Ree fsteak or mi chops, pot cakes or wate ea and fi No.2 Hamrawoeays, potatoes, calves or wat. | fos and coffee... 5 No.3 Pork chops with OF Wallies, and coffee | No. 4 Lake trout, butter say | fies and coffee, tea, 1 No. Oatmeal and' crear, or bout Polis, Mutter and coven OF tea... ....15| No.6 Two eggs, butter, toast and coffee oF ten: f Take Mative’ street cars direct io bore eapest and best— Try European Pla only pay for what y you PENSIONS! WAR CLAIMS! JAMES A. WOODWARD United States War Clatm Avent Public. VOUCHERS & specialty opo. court house, Paducah, MeCri Matil.Effinger & Co Undertakers and embaimers, ER Pre’ Bre Teles onelsd 130 8 Th J, W. Moore, DFALEB I Staple and Fancy Groceries, Kinds, Canned Goods of Al! Free ‘clivery to all parts of the city Car, Tth eet &dame | think it yourself And when you have spent a few dollars you get We s you wish them make the prices to suit. a fine picture to boot, the handsomest DR sold in this end of less than the goods all home made and date Our ne fairest, be right LADIES WEAK can boogtit cres nd looks lovely ures fair; Our styles, iT ever the rarest, ‘‘are barming,’’ fair women declare. And the men folks never forget us, when NICE SHIRTS and FINE They know we keep the from which they can less are veeding SHOES. ortment easily choose Our SHOES are |cheapest ov top of the earth—or be- low—and every last pair 1s as ‘solid’? as the rocks in the Forts of Morro You may fancy this quite out of rea- but a trial will prove it is true. Just to wind up for the si son, FORTY CENTS buys a LOW- QUARTER SHO. In GAITERS and BUTTONS and LACES we can fit every foot toa i Cousin or how dainty your feet look!" ‘*i wear Dorian’s shoes—don’t you see ?’" Rich people are pleased with the beauty of our LINENS, LACE CUR- TAINS and RUGS, and other folks a duty to follow the taste “big bi . Our trade is increasing and healthy—our prices creating a muss; we hold fast the trade of the wealthy, “the poor we have always with the best and Our PICTURE: corms of s|nuorrars—in every ‘+sweet home’? ought to be, when just for a few dollars’ purchase, you're wel- come to of them fre All will admit the above contains ruth than poetry.”” to this winding- body come jup sale of the season, JOHN J. DORIAN, 0, 205 BROAOWAY, - PADUCAH, KY. ed EXCURSION KATES TO CAIRO, Dhe grand free street fair at Cai lasting from October 11th to the 15th, will bg inaugurated next Tues- day by the ainboat race greatest st that bas ever taken we since the famous Lee-N race The | steamer Dick Fowler will during this time make a one fare rate for the round trip, Uckets good returning until the 15th. She will leave the wharf here at 8a, m., arriving at Cairo at noon, rematning there until 6 p.m, each day of the fair. On Tuesday the great naval rade will take place in which over | \hirty boats will participate, winding up with the gr $1,000 being donated by the to the winner, ‘The citizens of Cairo have spared no: } the incident {been at ‘WRITTEN ‘onsimption of snuff in Pas nd vicinity 18 something re A great many snuff men wen noticed here within the past few «ays, and when one comes, it can confidently be expected that others will not be long in following. They keep on each other's trail, as it were. One of these drummers esti- mates that the monthly consumption io the city, or in this vicinity, is about 100 cases, which means, with packages to the ease, 7,200 pack- ages a month, or 240 aday. In the face of these figures, however, jer- sons who use snuff would be difficult individuals to find, Deas: There was a deaf and dumb boy in the city yesterday en route to the institute at Danville who will doubt- less make a success in life, if making a bloff at it counts for anything ‘The little fellow appeared to be about 7 or & years old, and at the hotel where he was being kept during his stay in the city, spent his time riding up and down with the elevator boy, who regarded the unfortunate guest with a sympathetic indulgence that be, with his callous heart, would hardly bave extended to any one else. A reporter called to obtain the names of the children, and could find no one but the boy in the ele- |vator, who would likely be able to impart the desired information. He wrote a few words on a slip of paper, asking for the names, and after criti cally scrutinizing the note, the boy reached for the pencil and wrote a reply. There was nothing to resem- ble English in it, but the boy, after finishing, sank back with ao air of ineffable satisfaction, and weited for the reporter to read it. This, of couse, could not done, as the scrawl was unintelligible. The gen tleman in charge, upon being told of t, only laughed and Why, that boy can’t write. wanted to make out like he be replied, He just could.’ The death record for ten days in October was something remarkable. There was not a certificate of burial for Oak Grove during the first days of the month. ‘The decre death rate this year, thus far, 10 per cent. + + t nine e in has The yellow fever scare has played havoc with the railroads in the south It is said that the Llinois Central railroad is losing $15,000 a day be- cause of the yellow fever in Missis- sippi, and all other roads in that state are suffering heavy losses, On the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley di- vision of the Illinois Central, 500 miles in length, trattic is completely suspended by the quarantine regula- tions, neither freight nor passenger trains moving. All passenger trains except the double through vestibule service daily have been abandoned on the maio line of the Llinois Central, +4 1 And speaking of yellow fever fright,a great many stories are being told of how it effects some people in the south. A day or two ago a sick tramp,who was turned away from)the door of every terrified farmer ia Miesissippi county to whom he ap- plied for food and medicine finally sank exhausted in a small colored church, unable to proceed further. It was near a fever stricken district, and every stranger was regarded with suspicion, When the helpless and emaciated tramp was discovered in the church the following day,the eon- gregation dispersed in alarm, and in a short time some of the frenzied na- tives set fire to the structure, and the sick man was roasted alivein the flames. Db. Ay YEISER, Wholesale Agent. METROPOLIS NOTES. INTERESTING DOCKET | oOSEPART AT RANDOM, vera Marriages of Interest “4 A Man in Court There—Confer- | ence Closes. | — | Metropolis, Ill., Oct. 12 —The Southern [llinois M. E. conferenc has just closed its session, and Ri J. W. Jackson has been returned to this place and H. O, Sheridan bas been sent to the Metropolis cirenit. | Walter Cooper and 'Artbur Proftit, who were arrested a few days ago in Paducah on cemplaint of Alex Hen- derson of ihis county, accused of stealing wheat from Lim, had their trial before Samuel L. Wells, justic | of the peace. he case was dis- | missed, the evidence being i cient to bind them over to await the) action of the grand juty. Work on the steamer Nettie is pro- | gressing slowly, and she will not ve | completed before next week. The | job will be a good one when fivished. | Bro. & Co. are pushing! the work on their factory at the old | Towle mill, and are looking every day for a battery of new boilers, On the 6th S. M. Nance and Ame- | lia Atwood, of Marshall county, Ky., were married by Rev. B.C, Swan. | On the 6th J. M. Brown and Az per Clark, the river at Harris, of Ballard county, crossed | midnight and were mar- ried at daybreak. | On the 6th Thomas J, Allensworth | and Almira C. Hatherton, of Bard- well, Ky., passed through Paducah and were married at Metropolis by | T. Liggett | On the 10th Milan Sisk and Della Tolscott, of Paducah, came down on | the Fowler and married the 10th, Lucience Ba lus and Lucinda Blades, John P kins and Irena Garnett, all of Padu- cab, came down on the Cowling, forming a double wedding at the office of T. Liggett, returning on the| same beat. At noon, BUILDING A SMALL S¥ WER. | | tonnection on North | Third, It Is tor Fi of the residents of | thought they A great many North Third street wh were through with sewerage ditches when the main sewer was completed Jast spring, were surprised a day or two 9 yards was being dug up again An investigation developes the that the original intention was not to hava avy house connection with the main sewer on account of its depth, d for this reason it was deemed advisable to coostract an auxiliary sewe! 0 yards, running north and south on one side and the same num- ber on the other side, of the main sewer, for the house connections These newly laid laterals will empty into the manholes instead of the main sewer, which ie 20 feet or more deep, and far too deep to dig down to from every house, Doa't experiment, but yet the old reliable Plantation Chill Cure. LOW RATES TO ST, LOUIS. On account of the St. Louis Fall Festivities the Illinois Central Rail- d Company will on Tuesday,Sept. th and each succeeding Tuesday uatil Oct, 25th sell tickets to St Louis and return at one and one third fare for the round trip, good for three days On Thursday, Sept. 15th and succeeding Thursday until Oct. at one fare for the round trip, for three days. On account of the St, Louis Fair, tickets will be sold from Oct. 2 until Oct. 8th inclusive at one fare for the r ach th It is said that when railroad trains pass through some of the places, the car wiodows and doors have to be closed tight, and to show one’s head means to have it riddled with bullets. ven here in Pad@aucah there have been refugees from the same town who are afraid to meet each other, each fearing that the other may have brought some of the fever germs up in his clothing. It is told as a fact that two families from the same fever besieged city, who have been here two or three weeks, will not go pear each other, and if they see each other on the streets, will cross over to avoid one another, “IT want er ticket ter Mershall county,’’ said a young farmer as he poked his head in the tcket office at the Union depot this morning. ‘Marshall county?’’ queried the agevt. ‘What part of Marshall county ?"’ «Jes’ Marshall county,’’ was the sententious rejoinder. “Well, my friend, you'll have to take a ticket to some particular sta- tion, I don't know where you want to go.”” “Any old place so it's Marshall county, I aint pertikular!’ ‘Do you keow what the place you vket to looks like?’” 8 like any other place in Marshall county, I reckon.’ ‘Does the railroad stop thére?’” “Naw, it ruos on through, but they've got a big bar’l they pour water frum ioter the iron horse, b’ gum!"" ‘I guess you want to go to Little Cypress, there’s a water tank there pneluded the agent, and the callow pense to make this ocegsion a great success, and the steamer Dick Fow- Jer will do her part ‘azar affording the best o for our people ere sp uth suddenly hethought himself of the fact that that was the Place, and bought the ticket. ‘I have the ‘ i i round trip, good returniog until Oct. 10th, J. I’. Donovan, Agent, td 50c, may save your life. Planta. tion Chill Cure has saved thousands, Nose and tt Dr. Edwards, Kar, Eye, Thresr Specialist, Paducs The Average Lecture. When a man buysa ticket toa leo ture he pays out hard-earned money for the privilege of nat he doesn’t live righ n't eat r doesn’t sleep nd d anything ri son ¢ Public Schools in Massachusetts. For three years past the number of pnpils in the Massachusetts publie schools has been increasing relative- ly fi than the number in private schools. —Cupid is a wise fellow. He is always making matches, but never ago Daily News Paternalism. marrics.— r who likes “But,” said the neig “Well, Farmer Cornros- “not litera ally, of cou An’ yit od thing if junno but it t k uld b woodshed ar Fy of their a tuck out some f Suggestion. Willie (studying his Virgil) —Pa, | fm stuck. The Trojan gladiator ia saying something to his rival, and J ean’t make it out. Alleged Wheat Thieves Acquitted | | Works for | intents. | forbidden the boy from visiting | job to find that the street for 500] It Who Saw a Boy With Ais | the Yeople of Ya- Daughter's Picture ducah is Fined. ila Other Cases Interest Were Cailed Before Judge Sanders if man would take about seven | good drinks and then sit down, go to sleep and dream, the result would somewhat illustrate the evidence that | was presented in various cases in the police court this morning. Henry MeCawley, colored, who Mr. Chas. Rieke, wils charged with pursuing John Hale, colored, better known as ‘'Brownie,”’ into the Delicatessen with murderous He said the reason he did it was because Hale had a picture of his (McCawley’s) daughter on the lapel of his coat. McCawley had |daughter, and when he saw her like- ess on the youth’s Coat lie was very wroth, and started to resent it with bloodshed. Mr. Rieke was there, and made quite a speech in behalf of the defendant, an employe, and bears {a good reputation. ©McCawley was fined $3 and costs, and ‘‘Brownie’’ still has the picture, Obediah Bradshaw, colored, was charged with drawing a pistol on Rena Fortson, one of his ‘best friends,’’ who did not like the pro- eeding a bit. He claimed he did not do it, and there was copious evi- dence on both sides, It would bea for a sphinx to unravel it all. The cave was left open. Lillie Nemo, for entering a saloon, was fined $5 and costs upon confes- siot ne case against will Scott, the al- leged Birmiogham murderer, was ontinued until Friday. He is arged with vagrancy, while the of- advices from Alabama, Wesley Beaumont, 8 hackman, was yned $5 and costs for a breach of or- dinance. G Fletcher, colored, for a breach of the peace, was fined $3 and costs, DO PEOPLE READ POETRY? A Recent Investigation of the Subject Some Other Observations. astern periodical has been try- wer the question: “Do peo ?” and to that end hers and va rary } pposed_to mation on the subject. The on drawn from the data sc effect > aware, if k, that if only ry who write on of the populat ed as readers. Per readers of other people’s dly so numerous, but poetry is wide. garded by literary pre- Ask very domestic he woman in a remote keeps a scrapbook, ll probability, ac s preserved @ —taken, the m the one weekly pa rome. The club f cou she id well, but it es in joyment. f poetry what Browning n was driv of the poet and the elut What like is, of f verse ad- litors to be sively this re or le hat the woman er scrapbook t of p ways pass muster ‘Their meter ma per is worr the thoug! but they sentiment that , of home sometimes of re- lways a tender sem and woman who ‘i resent be. of child, art, the verses, perhaps contributed by amateurs, perhaps taken from the | masters, but chosen because they ihe the thoughts and aspirations, e hope, and loves, and iefs com: Pa (looking up from his sportin; enya i he’s telling him to We '] conven EPARTMENT. wy PAE | SUN Is the Faxorite With the FP Have You Any Idea? W. It is Because This paper is for the upbuilding of this community. It is for the people, It told your friends when you were married. It told how you completed the common schools, and of your gradu- ating oration on the evening of the commencetnent. It told of your baseball contests and gave yous puff when you de- served ii ‘ It bas siways wished you well in all your undertakings, It gave you a nice notice concerning your wedding. When you were seriously ill it told your friends and neighbors of it, far and near, When yott were on a committee for any public move for good, it has printed your name; and when the affair was over it gave you due credit for its success, 1n numerous ways it has helped you to get your name before the peo- ple. It has published the announce- ments of your Sunday school and church, It bas told the people much which you would like to have known, bat which modesty or necessity prevented you from tel‘ing. If you have been successful the paper has said so, if unfortunate, it has asked for sympathy. And thus it has rejoiced when you re! wept when you wept If a good and enterprising citizen the paper will always be your friend. It tells you where to buy and where to sell. It tells you of rogues to be avoided. If you are going to travel it tells you when the train leaves, It tells of current prices and prevents you from being cheated. Finally, when you die, it will pab- lish your obituary and will cover over your faults and recite the story of your good deeds. All these things the local editor will say of you when no one else in the world can. The paper does it all free of cost to you, if you wish to receive it that way. However, for your sake, we hope you are too gen- erous to accept so many unrequited favors, and that you are willing to reciprocate them. Subscribe for the Sux. Be its fmend and it will prove a friend to you. Send us the news occasionally. If you have anything to sell let us assist you in finding customers. Ad- vertise all the time, it pays. If you have any job printing to be done, give us a chance atit. Don’t get angry if we fail to see everything your way, but when we say a good thing tellusso, And in the end, though your life may not have been sublime, in departing you will leave foot: prints upon the sands of time, and upon which the Sun will not fail to sbiae. One reason why the Svw is con- gratulated on every hand for its wonderful progress is, because it has started for the top. A splendid article is **The Negro As a Soldier,” by Edwin Emerson, Jr., in the current number of Col- lier’s Weekly. Elder and “Mrs. J. W. Hawkins bave returned from a trip to Privce- ton, Ky. Rev. P. H, for the state, Sole elevation of all the Kei is in th y, missionary city. George G. Anderson writes a very interesting letter to the Metropolis Gazette in which he gives 8 besutifal account of the death of Lawrence Michaux, a member with him of the Eighth Lhinei+ tu l V,, now at San Luis die Cat Elder C. G. Hardison wil! | afew duysto attend the Prest rian Synod which will convene at Nashville, Tenn. Elder G. W. Stoner will leave in “| tew days to attend the annual confer- ence of the C. M. E. church which at Jackson ‘enn., next Monday, Bishop Laue presiding. Mrs. yesterday from a visit to St, H. Thompson returned Louis. Mrs. Charlotte Harris has gona on @ visit to her sister at Wittsburg, Pa Several colored persons ‘took in the excursion to Cairo, Ill., day. Will McMichael and Joseph An derson, members of troops lL. and D respectively, of the 10th U, 5, caval- ry, regular army, are in the city en route to Huntsville, Ala. , to juin their cavalry. They got left in Louisy recently when the famous 10th passed through that city. MeMicheal is of Paducah and is well known here. Anderson is a New Yorke The two buve lost no time in taking in the city since their arrival. They will probably leave tonight yester- convened Bapust The New Era Institute this morning at the 7th-St churca, at 9 o'clock. After devo tional exercises, Elder J. W. Haw. kins lectured on the origine! state of man, bis fall, the consequences, ant the universality of evil The subject ‘‘Man’’ was discussed during morning and afternoon se sions. Rev. Kennedy will lecture ov ‘Tomor- heh te onary work tonight. tow. ty Ys session, If it fails to cure go to your merchai AND GET YOUR MONEY BACK. We will refund to him. Price. 50 VAN VLEET-MANSFIELD DRUG’CO., Sole Proprietors, MEMPHIS, TEN J. G, GILBER Winter is Coming If you wish t» keep warm, pr pare for it by empl ying us O but in a complet: guaranteed 0° temperature steam or hot water :ystem. Thi opPortunity. Minzesheimer is your: Plumbing Comp’ y 104 North Fifth Street Under Palmer House Telephone 362. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF THE SPANISH GUNS! «TAKE THE... C.H. & D, « MICHIGAN THREE TRAINS DAILY FINEST TRAINS IN OHIO FASTEST TRA.NS IN OHIO Michigan and the Great Lakes constantly growing in popularity. Everybody will be there this summer, For inform- q ation inquire of your nearest ticket agent. -OBERTS BEER ~ Tt leads al) Is rapidly becoming the favorite with the people of this city. others, for the reaso. that it is ABSOLUTELY PURE HANDLED IN BOTTLES AND FY THE KEG BY PADUCAH BOTTLING CO. Tenth and Madison streets Orders filled until 11 p.m «1ads of Temperance D’*-** F. J. Bergdoll, Propriewr Telephone 101. “~da Pop, Seltzer Water and a . Everything New New Building, New Fixtures and an Entirely NEW STOCK*GROCERIES OUR MEAT MARKET Is stocked with all kinds of fresh and salt meats. ly to all parts of the city, Goods delivered prompt- Call and see our new store, P. F, LALLY Telephone No. 118, Tenth and Trimble, ESTABLISHEDS Miss Mary 8. §. Greif & Co GENERAL INSURANCE AOTTR . eks Telephone 174. - PADUCAH, KY SCIENTIFIC AND FIRST-OLASS BLACKSMITHING 1 REPAIRING De HORSESHOEING All work guaranteed. Fi, W. 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