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miwmm rf(j' apl21yd MAYSVILLE. KY. XiAXTEl c& WOHXCHI, Contractors and Builders. E STI MATES promptly and clieeriully furnished for all work in our line. Shop on Third street near Wall, Maysville, Ky. 12flm WIIiLAM CAUDLE, JZ mj MaWfacfutl a6alHvtntoY b TRUSSES, 3i f.' '. m Of i tin .j t t I Made Double onSlncrle for men Drbqys. Address ... WILLIAM CAUDLE, l-; i . . -.... car T.K. Bull, & Son, apl4dawly. . : MayfiVillef Ky. JD U JjJjJOj 1 UN 4 How the Pieces are Packed The Kcil Tape Process. Gold coin for shipment to Europe is packed in kegs, each' keg containing $50,-000. Specie is not thrown loosely into a kesr nor, upon the other hand, it is cave-fully wrapped in tissue paper and piled upon another. The keg serves only as a protection for canvas bags, into which the Kold is placed in the ordinary hit-and-miss fashion of pennies in a Jersey farmer's wallet, The canvas of these bags is especially stout and the ends are sewed particularly strong. In the interests of security each keg is treated to what is technically known among the shippers as the " reel taping" process. At each end of the keg, in the projecting rims of the staves above the head, are bored four holes at intervals. A piece of red tape is run through these holes, crossing on the head of the keg, and the ends finally meet in the center. At the point of meeting the tape is sealed to the keg's head by hard wax bearing the stamp of the shipper. Any me Idling with them break the tape or wax, and so on the trip across the ocean it is an easy matter to watch the valuable consignment and detect any attempt to interfere with it. Gold crosses the ocean very much as does every other kind of freight. Years ago there were some shippers who detailed an employe with every consignment to act as a sort of detective and hold a watch as best he could over their kegs. No such care is ever taken now. As a rule, the gold shipped is insured. Safely watched until on shipboard, the precious freight is then under the control of the vessel authorities and the marine insurance companies, and upon these parties is all responsibility placed. The average rate of insurance is about 350 something over $1,700 upon a shipment of $1,000,000. There are shippers who do not insure, or rather they insure themselves in Wall street, which sent some $30,000,000 abroad last year, paid no taxes to any insurance company. The savings thus effected amounted to about $50,000. In maintaining this policy of no insurance, these shippers say that their savings on this account since they have been in business have been such as would enable them to lose outright a shipment of $1,000,000 or more, and still have a balance to their credit in the fund which they have set aside in the their own house instead of paying it out for insurance. Carefully chosing the steamers upon which to place consignments, they discount all probability of disaster. A rule, however, the shippers who does not insure divides up his consignments Having to ship $1,000,000 he will give it in equal parts to four or ftve different vessels. It is a strict rule with some Wall street firms never to trust more than $250,000 at a time on any one ship. One of the singular circumstances connected with the shipping of gold is that for the last twenty-years or more every kee which has been taken out of Wall street has been handed down to the vessels by one man, u honest old John Bark-ley," who is said to have grown rich in the business. For each keg he takes on board his truck he is paid $1, and the big heavy one he has had built for the special purpose will carry $2,000,000, or forty kegs. A similar monopoly is held by Cooper Spier, who furnishes all the kegs and packs them, getting $2 for each one completed. In shipping specie there are many matters of detail which the experienced man knows to be of prime importance, but which, to a person unacquainted with the business, seems valueless. For instance, in making ready a shipment of $1,000,000 to Europe tne ordinary individual would be quite, as willing to bag. five-dollar pit os as double-eagles. Not so the shipper who has his eye upon the main chance, He demands the double-eagles every time. Chief among the reasons for his choicejs the. fact that specie shipped in ari quantity 'for any considerable distance alwfiys HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS PALL WHERE THEY MAY." VOLUME 1, MAYSVILLE, THURSDAY EVENING, JULtf 13, 1882. NUMBER 1SQ KEY WINDING WATCHES CHANGED TO STEM WINDERS. , . J J. BATLEXGERat Albert's China Store adjoining Pearce. WallinfM'oid & Co.'s Bank. ,. m -, .. J. C. PBCOR & CO., AGENTS FOR BTJIST'S GardenSeed A fresh supply Just received. 3NTQ OLD Si 333333, All this year's purchase. Call and get a catalogue. WALL PAPER AND WINDOW SHADES Every fclyle and pattern, as cheap as the cheapest. Give us a call and examine our stock. np2Hy J . L PECOR dc CO. TAKE THE: Kentucky Central R. R. The Direct and Cheapest Route to CINCINNATI 2 Trains Daily f Except Sunday, 2 MAYSVILLE TO CINCINNATI, making sure connections with all lines tor the North, South, East and West Holders of Through Tickets have their Baggage checked through to destination. Special Rates to Emigrants. JSSTRound. trip tickets to CINCIJjT&ATI always on sale at greatly reduced rates.- Time table in effect :lay 14, 1882. MAYSVILLE DIVISION. 11 1(J 15 IS STATION. EX. AC STATIONS. AC Ex. A.M. V. M A.M 1 M. Lve.MaysvllIe. 6 li 12 3: Lve Lex'tou 5 00 " 2 4b " Clark's.. .0 08 12 51 Lve.Pari? G 80 6 00 " Mars'll.. (i i:f 12 5(i " P.Tu'o'u 0 85 fl OS ' ' Helena. 0 25 1 07 " MH'b'g.. 7 01 fl 38 John'n.. fl 31 1 15 " Carlisfe 7 2j 0 57 " EliK'lle 0 12 1 22 ' Meyers. 7 4U 7 13 Ewlng... 0 -17 1 Hfl " P.Val'y 7 4) 7 21 " Cowan., fl 53 1 31 " Cowan.. 7 50 7 30 ' P.Val'y. 7 03 1 -10 ' Ewlng.. 8 05 7 a". Meyers.. 7 lo 1 -17 " Elte'lfe. 8 10 7 -to " Carlisle. .7 25 20. t' .JolmJn.. ,8 18 7 47 " 'Millers .','.....'...'. i' Helena.- '8 28 7 5o " MiPbu's -Mars' 11.". 8 41 8 07 " P.Ju'c'n 8 20 2 50 Clark's 8 10 8 11 Arr. Paris 8 25 3 00 ' Sum'itt 8 55 8 20 Arr. Lex'ton U 20 7 00 Arr. Maysville 8 10 8 3-5 Arr.Cov'ton 11 -15 0 15 a.m. p. m a.m. p. M Trains 1 and 2 on Main Line run Daily, others Daily except Sunday. CONNECTIONS, at Lexingtotf Wlttf tire C & O R R for Ashland, Huntington and all points in the East and Southeast with the (JS04 T P R R, for and the South, with the L&NKIt for Frankfort and Louisville. For Tickets, rates on household goods, Folder's description of the western country through time tables etc., call on or address, W. l SADDLER, Agt., Maysville, Ky. iJt 5 , V I i V.TA.lemihgshurg. Or any awjnt of the K C R R. C. B. BROWN, G. P.andF.A. J.D.ELLISON, - Qenernl'Manageiv "T .: m jfi n fT A II I JK Covington, Flemiiigsburg mid Pound Gap ' RAILROAD. Connecting with-Trains on K. O. R. R. iLeitve Elemuwsburg fOttJqhnson Station: Uvf &A6 lu m't Cincinnati Ex'pVcssJ ' 9:13 i. m AJayavJlle Accommodation 8:25p;m. Lexington; - i i. , . tj 7;02 p.m. Maysville Express. Leave Johnson Station for Flemincsburg on the arrival of Trains on the K, Cf R. R.: - A:23 n. ra. 4:00 p. m. . , ,. - 0:48a. w. V:37pgm. NOTICE. account of my continued ill health; 1 ON concluded, as soon as practicable, to retire from the dry goods trade, 1 now oiler ray entire stock for sale to any merchant wishing to engage in the business, and will from the 1st day of July sell my goods FOR CASH , until disposed of, which will enable me to otfeV to the retail trade some special bargains. All persons knowing themselves indebted to me will please call and settle at once, as lam anxious to square my books. Respectfully, apllJdly H.G.SMOOT. LANGDON'S -CITY BUTTER- CRACKE For sale by all grocers. ap213md T. J. CURLEY, Plumber, Gas and Steam Fitter dealer in Rath Tubs, Hydrant Pumps, Iron and Lead Pipe, Globe, Augleand Check Valves, Rubber Hose and Sewer Pipe. All work warranted and done when promised. Second street, opposite White &Ort?s ap3 Ssta.Tolisli.ecx 1SS5. EQUITY GROCERY. G. W. GEISEL, Xo, 9, W. Second St., Opp. Opera House, Fruitsnnd Vegetablesin season. Your patronage respectfully solicited. J14diy JOHN WHEELER Headquarters for all kinds of Confectionery Fruits, Canned Goods, etc. Fresh Stock and Low Prices. Come and see me if you want to save money. F. L. TRAYSER, PIAETO MANUFACTURER Front St., 4 doors west of Hill House Grand, Upright and Square Pianos, also the best make of Organs at lowest manufacturers' prices; Tuning and Repairing. nl.7 THE LATEST SENSATION. 4000 Yards Lawn, choice styles and fast colors at 5 cents per yard. W0 yards India Linen at 10 cents per yard. 210 pairs regular made men's half hoe at 10 cents per pair. Other goods proportionately low. JJURGESS&NOLIN. JulyO, 1SS2. T.LOWRY, DEALEK IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, Teas, Tobacco, Cigars, Queensware, Wooden-ware, Glas?warq, Notionsti"fcc. Highest price paid for Country? ITrodnce." Goods, delivered to any part of the city. Cor. Fourth and Plum Streets, SHIPPING GOLD COIN. losses, in weight, and consequently in value, through abrasion. While a five-thousand-dollar bag made up of five-dollar coins Aould contain 1,000 pieces, the same sum in double-eagles would take only 250 pieces. v In the latter instance there is not much if any more than one-fourth of the chance for abrasion which exists in the former. Eight five-dollar pieces show a greater surface and have much sharper coinage lines than do double eagles, and the loss by abrasion on a long, rough ocean voyage must, of course, be considerably greater with coins of lesser value. The uninitiated would be apt to smile when told that there is a loss and one of consequence by this abrasion of coins. Circumstances, varying on different voyages, of course, produce variance in tlie extent of the abrasion. " On an average," said a prominent shipper "a' million of dollars sent across to London will lose will lose well a few dollars. Oh, that's definite enough." What the Wall street irtan considered a "few dollars" was shown by reference to the account books of one of the heaviest houses in the street. Taking shipments of $1,000,000 recently made, one was found to have fallen short in the voyage of a fraction more than nine ounces, another a fraction more than eighteen ounces, another a fraction more than nineteen ounces, while in a shipment of $750,000 there was a loss of a fraction more than twenty ounces. The average loss can safely be estimated at sixteen ouncesona million dollar shipment. Gold, being worth $1G an ounce, sends the "few dollars" up to about $250. The only protection to be found against abrasion lies in the shipment of gold bars instead of in coin. Until quite recently, however, gold bars have not been obtainable. To secure them the shipper has been obliged to pay a premium, and generally so high was that premium placed by the bullion brokers commanding the situation that the possible loss by abrasion would not by means balance it. But not long ago a change came over this condition of affairs, and a law has been passed recently bv congress allowing the sub-treasury here to pass out fine gold bars from its vaults in exchange for national coin. There is occasionally an interesting item of expense of another nature, the mere en try ot which on an account book would be apt to puzzle the man not acquainted with all the petty details of shipping. "Sixty bags" is the charge recently sent from London to one big New York shipper. This signified that the cooper here in fastening the iron bands upon the specie kegs tore the bags containing the coin The result was that the London agents of the New York horse were obliged to repack every bag so torn, be the hole every so slight, before it could be placed on the English market. The cost of new bags was a trivial matter, but it is of trivial matters that the man who handles millions is generally most careful. An irristiblepun : When Fogg, went to look for rooms in the apartment house, he was shown about the premises by as handsome a piece of calico young, bright and ros' as ever gladdened the eye of a bachelor. " What suit do you think you should prefer, sir?" she asked. Fogtr says he could'nt help it if he was to die for it, and he replied in his most killing manner, "Sweetsixteen," "From what she said," added Fogg, " I somehow got the impression that sweet sixteen' was already engaged." Boston Transcript. - - His idea of prayer: "I tell yer wot, boys," exclaimed old Ben, the roughest man of the camp; " I (ell yer wot, boys, it made a feller feel kinder watery around the lids to hearthatlittle chit of a thing a-sitting up thar alike an angel, hev prayers so cute, ' Mary had a little Jamb,' or sunthiq er that sort." . . Adam ForepauglVs elephant Bolivar got on fi rampage at Muncie, Ihd., on Tuesday, thrashing all his companions and fighting '-n- his keeper for two hour9.