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Vol.II.-Xo 25.
Lexington, Kentucky, Saturday December ,19 1891.
Subscription, $2 a Tear
GRASS
.BJLAIDIHL
4.
PEV. J, W,
Sermon on "Horse-racing,
the Liquor Traffic,
Whoredom and
Corruption.''
'CharleyMoore has said
Some very bad Things
but I have never yet
Caught him in
a Lie."
(From the Lexington Press.)
For many years back I have
thought at intervals of calling such
a meeting as this and presenting
an address on the subject which I
have now chosen, and I would have
done so had I felt certain as to the
results. But now that 1 8ee before
me bo large a representation of
the character and the brains of i
Lexington, I thank God that at
the request of the Y. M. C. A. I
have made the announcement.
One of our daily papers eaid yes
terday morning that I have se
lected a large subject. It is a
large one, and it has grown on
me bo during my preparation that
I am burdened with the magnitude
of it. I can speak only of its
most promiuent features, and can
touch these but lightly. They are
""ILn IMHHili"" horse-racing, the
4-PP IC5v-f- ore " unj.-ftuJ t-
ruption in the city government.
When the Kacing Association
made an assignment a Bhort time
since and the pool rooms were
closed under action of the Circuit
Court a little later, our papers ex
pressed the most tender regrets
as tender as if one of our most
prominent citizens had died. I
published a short article in the
Transcript expressing surprise at
this. I asked if the men who had
thus written cared more for the
little money brought here by pool
selling and horae- racing than for
the morals of the community. I
aked these gentlemen whether
they had no sons to be ruined, and
if not, whether they had no
daughters liable to be married to
young men who were thus beiug
ruined; and if not, whether they
had no care or simpalhy with us
who have. I called tor some one
to give a sober answer to these
questions and to explain these re
grets. No one responded, but
when the Leader sent a reporter
around to certain gentlemen for an
expression of tlair views as to the
effect of closing the pool rooms, one
of our Councilmen said that it
would send moj.ey away from
Lexington to Louisville and Cov
ington. Now I would like to
kuow what money is brought here
and put into circulation by the
pool rooms and the races, liy the
first, there is nothing but the pass
ing of money from one man's
pocket to that of another, and
the biggest rascal in the game gets
the biggest pile. The same is
true precisely of the races, except
that the visitors Ut these bring
some money here with them. But
every rascal of them comes ex
pecting to take away with him
more than he brings, and if he
does not he is woefully disap
pointed he is outdone in betting
by our home gamblers. True,
these do bring an 1 expend some
money; but who gets it? A large
portion goes to the saloons, and
another large portion goes to the
bawdy house. In consequence of
the latter, every season a races is
attended by a very large influx of
etrumpets from Louisville and
Cincinnati to accommodate our
distinguished visitors, and these
carry away with them the money
which they get. The only legiti
mate lines of business to which any
or the money goes are the street
railways, the hotels and the livery
stables; and the Councilman to
whom I have referred, and the
man whom you are going to elect
Mayor, get the plum out of the
pudding.
iNow let us look tor a moment
on the other 6ide ot this money
question. It can not be denied
that horse-racing, with its attend
ant vices, is a deadly foe to col
leges. It seems to me that some
ot our city rulers do not know
that we have such things as col
leges in our midst, or else thev
care nothing for the interests con
nected with them. I know it to
be a fact, that hundreds of fathers
in this state who admire our col-
eges. send their sods right throuel;
this city on the train to other col
leges, because they are afraid to
trust them to the moral atmos
phere of Lexington. Nevertheless,
we have every year not less than
one thousand young men from
abroad in the University, the
Commercial College, and the
State College combined, and they
expend among us at a low esti
mate f 200 each per anDum. This
makes 8200,000. The professors
in these colleges, most of whom
are married men. and none of
whom would be here but for the
colleges, number more than thirty,
and they expend here not less than
fcoO.000 more. Besides there are
not less, I think than thirty fami-
les that have moved into the
city within the last few years to
send their children to our schools,
aud their expenditures amount to
another $50,000. Thus we have
another aggregate of $300,000 put
into circulation here every year
by these educational institutions,
and it goes to legitimate lines of
business. If we could get rid of
the races, the saloons and the
bawdy houses, Lexington would
be the model place of the whole
country for the education of young
men, and the number of students
here would soon be double the
present number: the number of
professors would be double, and so
would that of the families moving
iu, aud thus the money put. into
circulation by all would amount
to more than half a million annu
ally. Looking at the matter
fron. .a purely financial point of
view, then, which do you prefer;
the races, with the saloons and
the bawdy houses, or the col
leges? That the saloon is a deadly foe
to morals, is admitted by every
sane man, and no honest man can
deny it. The measure of immoral
ity in any community, is the
measure of its patronage of the
saloon. Do you know how many
of these are now operating in this
city? The figures have been ob
tained for me by the Y. M. C. A.,
and they number 275, all of which
are licensed by our city ' govern
ment. Now if we suppose that
their average income is $1,000
which I am sure is a very low esti
mate, we have $275,000 annually
expeuded by our people for
whisky bought by the dram. It
were infinitely better that every
dollar of this money had been
thrown in the fire. If you add to
this sum. say $25,000 per annum,
to represent the tax entailed upon
the benevolence of the city in
caring for the widows and orphans
of drunkards, and the tax on all of
us to keep up the police, the po
lice court, the jail and the watch
house, you have an aggregate of
full 300,000 which we give every
year to debauch ourselves and our
eons, bueli is the state ot things,
that as soon as our boys get big
enough to be trusted on the street,
there begins a hard fight between
the father and mother of the boy
on one Bide, and the saloon-keepers
on the other, to see whether
he shall be brought up as a man,
or degraded like a brute. This
tight goes on day and night tor
long years, and the bitterness of
it to the hearts of fathers and
mothers, many ot you before me
have felt. I have felt it most
keenly. Often the victory is won
by the saloon-keeper, and a heri
tage of shame and mourning is
entailed upon the boy'8 family.
Who lias a right to impose this
heavy burden on me? Who has
a right to 6teal my boy from the
shelter of my home, aud ruin him,
body and soul, forever? Who
gave the saloon-keepers this right,
and who protects him in it? You
say we have laws to repress this
hellish traffic. So we have; but
what do they amount to? We
have a law against selling to mi
nors and a law which imposes a
fine ot forty dollars for every
drink of liquor sold to an inebri
ate; but who does not know that
inebriates are the principal cus
tomers of the saloons? These
laws in our city are dead letters.
One ot my best friends is so unfor
tunate as to have an inebriate son
Within the last six months he has,
at great trouble and mortification
to his feelings, obtained convicting
evidence against nine saloons for
having sold him liquor after
warning given. This evidence
was placed before the grand jury
and an indictment was found; but
when it was brought before court
now in session, somebody iu draw
ing up the indictment had been so
careless as to leave out a word or
two, aud there the matter was
dropped. What shall we say to
these things? Are we helpless,
bound?
Have you any idea of the extent
of this vice in Lexington? Men
who are supposed to know, have
been called upon, and they vari
ously estimate the number of
public strumpets at from four to
six hundred, besides a large num
ber of private sluts which are kept
by individuals. Suppose we put
the number at five hundred; what
does it cost to keep them all?
Some of them have an income of
thousands; and I suppose that none
of them live on less than $500 a
year. At this lowest estimate
for the average, our men pay not
less than $250,000 a year. Com
bine these figures with the $300,000
spent for whisky and you have
largely over a halt million which
we spend every year for strong
drink and lewd women. How
can God look down upon us, and
spare us? llow can we look one
another in the face, while we
stand still and permit this rotten
ness to continue?
While we are timidly holding
our breath in the presence of this
Moloch, its audacity is increasing
day by day until it has reached a
climax. Last month, a young
man in good circumstances, and ot
good family, was enticed into a
Megowan street house while drunk
whisky and lewduess ever go hand
in hand); when a relative who
heard of it went to the house and
demanded him, that he might take
him home, he was insulted, re
fused admitance and ordered
away. Only three weeks ago, a
married man who has a store, and
had been on a spree from which
he had not yet recovered, was met
at the door as he closed it for the
night by a strumpet from the
same street, who had been wait
ing for him. She took him bv
the arm and started with him
to her den. A relative ot his met
them at the postoffice and began
to plead with the man to let him
ead, pim home. 1 bp amjarions
woman cursed him and threatened
his life, and he was constrained to
turn away for tear of a street fight
with a whore. A married man,
drunk, with $150 in his pocket,
went to one of those houses to
have a frolic, and in treating the
crowd to wiue, which is there
sold to such as he at $5 a bottle,
though it is bought down in town
for $1, he spent all of his money,
yet the next morning a bill was
sent to him for $140 more, and he
aid it to avoid exposure. A
modest youth, a clerk iu one of
our Main street dry goods stores,
was waiting on one of these
painted Jezebels, when she leaned
over the counter and whispered
honeyed words to him, persuading
him to visit her house. If I had
store I would not permit the
wretches to come into it. I would
feel bound to protect my clerks
from their meehinations. lucre
are young widows on Megowan
street, who, in order to go there
unencumbered, abandoned their
own little children which are now
under the care aud protection of
some of our benevolent women.
state these facts as they have
been stated to me by reliable per
sons, the most of them having
been collected by workers in the
Y. M. C. A. These, gentlemen,
are the creatures on whom the men
of Lexington are expending a
quarter of a million of dollars
every year!
But these wretched women have
not always been the vile sluts that
they are now. All of them were
once innocent little girls. Every
one of them was somebody's little
daughter; somebody little sister.
O! what a transformation since
the days of their childhood! Our
city papers have receutly given
Belle Breezing a handsome tree
advertisement as an owner of dia
monds. Yes, of diamond earrings
worth $1,500. When she lost
them, nice paragraphs were pub
lished about it as nice and couched
in as respectful terms as if she had
been the richest lady in .Lexing
ton. Aud when the diamonds
were found, this furnished our
obsequious newspaer men occa
sion tor some additional para
graphs, all paying due respect to
"Madam" Breezing. Eighteen
years ago this unfortunate woman
was a bright little pupil in the
Broadway Suuday School. She
was the daughter of a jioor, honest
widow, who tried to bring up her
child in decency and respectability .
But the tempter came. Some
scoundrel seduced her, and before
many years she was a regular
strumpet. Nine years ago she
waa living with another girl on
North Upper street in a little cot
tage of two rooms. So miserable
had their lives become that one
night they undertook to kill
themselves. They took morphine
m what they supposed to be fatal
quantities, and went to bed to die,
A negro woman heard their hard
breathings, broke through their
window, raised the alarm, and
physicians were called who, after
hard work brought them back to
life. Since then, in those nice
short years, she has become the
owner of five dwellings on which
she pays taxes, one ot these being
ine palatial residence wnieu sue
now occupies on Megowan Btreet.
When she bought that lot, less
than two years ago. she paid the
cash for it, and I have not been
able to find any mortgage against
it on the records. Y here did she
Set all this money? There is a
ying girl now in one of our in
firmaries, recently brought there
from one of these houses on that
same street, who sent piteous en
treaties to some benevolent ladies
whom she had known in her inno
cence, not to allow her to die in
that horrid place. Just a few
years ago ehe and her sister were
pupils in the Main street Sunday
school and the daughters of a poor
woman with a drunken, worthless
husband The mother died and
the girls were enticed into a life
of shame. The other sister is still
in the house whence this one was
brought away to die. Less than
a year ago a girl just blooming
into womanhood, a member of the
Broadway church, and, like the
others, a daughter of a poor
widow, was drawn into the same
cesspool, and I, with the help of
others, tried to rescue her. In
the course of a conversation I told
her that if she kept on in her
present career she would land in a
few years on Water street among
the negroes.
I asked her how on earth she
came to fall into such a course
of life. She answered that danc
ing was the cause of it. "We be
came excited in dancing the round
dance, he went home with me, I
slipped him into the house quietly,
and we went to bed together."'
Gentlemen, you who have daugh
ter?; will you permit them to in
dulge in this pernicious amuse-
menu uo so u you win; nut as
for me and my house', God for
bid.
Even now when less than one
year has nnssed. hr health, has
failed, her supporters have de
serted her, and she is begging
good women whose advice she
spurned to come to her relief.
These three are but specimens of
a vast number of these wretched
creatures, whose lives are now
but a hell on earth. Surely, with
all their infamy, they are more
sinned against than sinning. And
where are the seducers? Tell me,
where are the men who beguiled
them from their childhood inno
cence, and became the murderers
of their souls. If these poor girls
had had fathers, or grown
brothers, of any spirit, of the Ken
tucky spirt, mauy of these se
ducers would have been dead and
in hell long ago. But where are
thev now?
Some of them are married men,
who lav down at night by the side
of virtuous women, and tell them
he alter lie to hide their crimes.
Some of them are still unmarried
men, who walk about with up
lifted heads, and who expect ere
long to marry virtuous women,
and to go on like the others with
this continuous string of lies.
Well if, they are going to hell any
way, as most ot them will, let
them keep up their lying, for a
few lies heaped on top of their
worse crimes will not sink them
much deeper in the bottomless
pit, and they will keep their wives
from the shame and horror of
lowing how mean their hus
bands are.
Iu the presence of sin and
crime like this, you are perhaps
ready to cry out: Is there no law
in the land that these things are
allowed? I jaw! there is a plenty
of it. Listen while I read to you
an enactment that is iu point,
"bee. .52:3. Any iktsoii who
shall in this city keep any ill-
governed and disorderly house,
or house, at which lewd or ob-
sceue acts are perpetrated in such
manner as to become a nuisano to
the neighborhood, shall be fined
tvventy-live dollars for each day
he or she shall so keep said
house."
Here is a law which would, if
enforced, shut up every bawdy
house in this city; for every one
of them is a nuisance. But what
about the law? Is it one of the
blue laws of Connecticut that has
come down to us? No! Is it a res
olution passed by some Methodist
Conference? Or a deliverenee
sent forth by some Presbyterian
Synod? No! Wind is it then? It
is au ordinance under which we
are now living in this city, passed
by our own City Council when it
was composed of better men than
it is now. Whose duty is it to
enforce this ordinance? It
that of the Chief of Police and his
subordinates; and it is the duty of
the Mayor to see that the Chief
of Police does his duty, and the
duty of the Council to see that
the Mayor does his. The City
AttOiTiey and the City Judge
have ilieir part in it Why then
is it rot done? I will tell vou
why. The city of Lexington be-
longsto the Democratic party
and the Democratic party belongs
to tha gamblers, saloon-keepers
and bummers, who control itspri
mary elections. These classes
dicta'o the election of a sufficient
number of their own men to pre
vent pny serious interference with
the immoralities of the town
They will permit no man to be
elected to any municipal office
whojj-res to come out openly
with n endorsement of such
speecit 83 I am now making,
i hey take possession of the poll
ing p'aces at the primary elections
and will not allow a gentleman to
east his vote unless thev know
what tt is to be. They have
hitcht'd all of you decent Demo
crats n the traces and they have
mounted the box, whip and lines
in hand. The bass behind is
filled with saloon-keepers,
strumpets and gamblers, and you,
like little ponies, are pulling
along;
.2 - o
If any ot you tries to kick out
of the; traces at any time, the
party uvhip is cracked, yon are
threatened with a boycott, and you
lujiiicuiaicijr ijuil iYlliVlllg. jUOOK,
for example, at the ticket now in
the field. Did you see Charley
Moore s analysis ot it yesterday in
his ilade.' Lharley says some
very 1 ad things, but I have never
yet caught him in a lie. He says
that on this ticket there are five
saloon-keepers, and three ex
saloon -keepers, twenty-one pa
tronize of the saloon, six hard
drinkers (he calls them drunk
ards); nd four race horse men.
They riave some good men sand
wiched among these; but when
the wl ole of them come into
power; these few can do n thing
they will bo handcuffed and
tongue-tied. Let me say, that I
speak thus of the Democratic
party, not from a Republican
point it view, for I have never in
my life voted for a Republican.
I speak the plain truth, which
ought to be spoken, and I sup
pose tjiat nothing I say will be
cnijafci'tM
Is tfiere any remedy fur these
crying evils: rerhap3 some of
you aro ready to answer: No we
are helpless; we can do nothing;
and it is not worth while to be
talking about it. You say, for
example, that it is impossible to
prevent the existence of bawdy
houses in a city like this. But I
know better. I know that it is
not impossible? There is the city
of Glasgow in Scotland with 650,
000 inhabitants, and there is
not a house of ill -fame in the cor
porate limits. There is Edinburg,
with its 4o0,000, which not only
has none within its limits, but
none within two miles of its
boundry. In the hospitals of
those cities there are no cases of
venereal diseases. These facts I
state on the authority of Dr.
Sweeney, who is present, aud who
took special pains to inquire into
the lact whin he visited Great
Britain a few years ago. What,
then, is the remedy in Lexington?
First and foremost of all, you
must banish party politics form
your city flections Good men
of both parties must get their eon
sent to vote in city elections for
no man because he is a Democrat,
or because he is a Republican
to vote for a man only because he
can be relied on to manage hon
estly the city's finances, and to
enforce w ith the utmost strictness
all ordinances against every form
of immorality. The moral forces
of the city combined in this waj,
can d anything that honest men
ought to do; and if they will not
do it, they may make up their
minds to go on iu their impotence,
and l slaves instead of beiug free
men. I love this city. Here I
have reared my children; here I
have hurried one of them; here
my grand-children are grow ing
un. and here I expect ere long to
be buried; and when I think of
the things of which I have
spokeu, 1 dread the thought of
appearing at the bar of God until
I shall have done more for the
future protection of boys and girls,
aud especially of the fatherless
girls among us, than I have al
ready done. I have much more
that I would love to say to you,
but I must desist. I close with
this j rojosal: If a goodly number
of true men, men who are afraid
of nothing on earth or iu hell but
to do wrong, will come together,
appoint their leaders, and lay out
their plans tor me suppression oi
these evils, I am ready to culist
for the campaign; yes, for the
whole war, and it it shall cost me
all I am worth, and cause me to
wear out mv life I could not die
in a better cause.
Rev. J. W. MeGKrrejr wads
from the Blue Grans Blade
to an Andienee of more
than a Thonaaud men
In a Lexington
Pnlpit.
On Sunday evening, Nov. 20,
at the new Broadway Christian
church in this city, liev J. W
McGarvey, President of the theo
logical department ot the Univer
sity of Kentucky in this city,
preached to an audience of more
than a thousand, all men, a ser
mon that was probably the most
startling ever delivered in this
city. His remarks were fre
quently interrupted by cheers,
demonstration until that time un
known in any Lexington church
on the occasion of a Sunday ser
mon.
Rev. McGarvey is perhaps the
most learned theologian in the
West, and is the peer ot any in
America.
He was selected by the "Arena,'
the ablest magazine in America,
to contribute an article on the
Evidences of Christianity.
1 publish the outline ot his ser
mon that was given by the Ken
tucky Leader ot this city, though
the sermon being solely to men,
and a part of it about lewdness,
some of it has been thought im
proper tor publication.
lie had in his hand a copy ot
the Bine Grass Blade of Nov. 28th
He held it up and said, "Have
ou read the last number ot the
Blue Grass Blade? Charley
Moore has said some very hard
things, but I have never yet
caught him in a lie."
When he said this the audience
cheered him.
He then read from the Blade of
Nov. 28, an extract from what I
had written with reference to a
body of thirty men lately elected
as officers of this city.
it was as follows.
There are on that "Democratic
ticket," thirty men. Of these there
are five that I do not know, or know
much about. Of the thirty there are
only four have the entree into what is
truly our best society .in the town.
Of that four one is intellectually
pretty weak. Every man on that
ticket will take a drink of whisky.
Twenty-one of them will go into a
saloon and get a drink of whisky,
twelve are "drinking men," six are
drunkards, five are saloon-keepers,
three are ex-saloon-keepera, nineteen
can not speak the English language
gramatically, or approximately so.
Only three' are members of any
learned profession, and one of those
never waa a student at any college.
Nine of them are Catholics who be
lieve that St. Patrick drove the
snakes out of Ireland. Only four of
them so far as I know are members
of any Protestant church, and one is a
Jew. Four are race horse men, two
are dead beats, who are not good for
their debts, twelve of them I would
not lend $100.00 on his own name, if I
were a banker.
There is not a man in the whole lot
who has distinguished himself a3 a
public benefactor. There is one of
them who onght to be in the peniten
tiary. There are only three men in
the lot who are even first-class
smart" men, and there are only two
men of first-class brains in the whole
gang.
Prof. McGarvey is a true blue
third party Prohibitionist, and
always votes with us; but I think
at the last election here his vote
as recorded as having been east
for Sullivan, the saloon keeper
ho was elected, as was the vote
of Rev. R. T. Mathews, known by
everybody to be a thorough Pro-
ibitionist, and that if . E.
libler who had but lately been
Chairman of the Prohibition
State Executive Committee. The
men who falsely recorded these
votes and the details of the eir-
ura3tances under which they did
so, are all familiarly known to
thousands of people in Lexiugton
to day and have been ever since
that election; and yet they are
not only not in the penitent uin-,
but are leaders iu Lexington De
mocratic politics, and would be
oted for to-morrow by leading
men from every church in the
city, if they should run for office.
The indignation against the
Democrats for that ticket thev
have nominated, I think has never
beeu equaled here before, and I
think it is among all proper kind
of people, regardless of political
affiliation.
It is interesting to note that
Duncan, the editor of the Press,
who was defeated in his desire to
head that ticket as the nominee for
Mayor, now joins in the expres
sion of opjtosition to them.
Rev. McGarvey said, in his ser-
mon tnai ue wouiu stump me
city if the people would nominate
the right kind of candidates.
I have very little experience iu
oratory outside of theology, but if
anybody wants my oratorical
services I will make a few incon
gruvial remarks.
ELECTED
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AT
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NO 53 EAST
LEXINGTON, KY.
Q Q n THE DAILY
TOE LOriSTILLETIlIES,lCEJITSPER WEEK.
Will be delivered at your residence every day for 20a per week.
or 25c. per week for Daily and Sunday. G ive your order to
J. "HUB" FRATHER, Agent,
1SOEAST MAIS STREET.
ROBERT.
MTCEMSORTO
NOKV
ILLE FMTURECO.
WtoM ail Retail
E,
Goods Soli cn Weekly
51E. Main St.,
Kaufman. Straus 8s Co
.13 EAST M 41SSTREET.
New goods are now arriving daily. Laces and embroideries are
crowding our shelves from the narrowest to the widest and richest
pattern. We show them iu all sorts of material. A treat for the
ladies and a wholesome surprise to those who get our prices on them.
Xo lady ia Lexington, anticipating to makeup Spring Underwear,
Children's or Misses' Dresses of White Goods, can aiiord to miss ex-
amiuing our stock of these goods.
Early Sprius Wa1ea Dress Mateilal.
Novelty Suitings, the rarest and oddest ot patterns, new entirely
and phasing to the ye; prices below
uc m v per a i u. i new une oi spring suaues oi .Henriettas just
opened, n jw colors, no change in price in spite of the additional duty
ou them.
WASH UOODgS.
Just received and put in stock a quantity of fine Zephyr Ging
hams, all new patterns and coloring, modest pin stripes and checks.
Scotch plaids aud neat stripes.
marked them at iOe per yard A lull line of dress Ginghams ia
new designs, estimated to be worth 15c; our price is 10c.
IjIUIEV JII SL1S I'XDERWEAR SPECIAL SALE.
Forty dozen Children's Muslin Drawers, six button holes, patent
facing, at 10c a pair; worth 20c.
Ladies' Mother llother Hubbard Gown; good muslin, well trimmed
at .; they arc worth 8oc.
Lakies' Muslin Drawers, "Fruit of the Loom" Cotton, deep hem
and tucks above, 22c; worth 40e.
Indies' walking skirts, deep Cambric ruffle, at 49c; worth 75c.
New Spaiug Hosiery for Ladies and Gents. We were fortunate in
securing many eases ot Ladies' Cotton, Lisle and Silk Hose, in both
black and fancy, prior to the going into eflect ot the administrative
bill, and our prices thereon will show how these early purchases bene
fit our customers.
tidies' regular made fast black Hose, regular price now 35c- we
still have them marked 25e.
Ijiidii-s' black and colored Lisle Hose, worth 60c; We atill offer
them at 40c.
Ijadie fancy striped Cotton
still marked at 2 x
40.
TOILET
C.lgate Turkish lath Soap, a full dozen lor 50c; 4711 Glycerine
different sorts at 42e per 1hx; Kspcy's Cream, genuine article, 20c
Vasaline, iu lttles at 10c; Ammonia, for household purposes; only 10c
per quart bottle.
tmuriTiSH, stee'jd a go.
nrcra f
MAIN STREET.
-PER WEEK!-
COURIER JOURNAL
- KENNEBY.
Mar ii an Kinisuf
CLOCKS, PICTURES, CARPETS ETC.
or Monthly Payments
Lexington, Ey.
actual anticipation, raoeins from
They are quoted at 30c; we have
Hose, boot patterns, costing you now
ARTICLES.

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