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fa M I t - - - 7 - . KD4 ais EVENING BULLETIN WW . Cs s JT o- T- J. &? " HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." VOLUME 1, M A YSVILLE, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1882. NUMBER 235. HUGH FOWERS'SOXTS will not be undersold in STOVES, TINWARE, MANTELS, GRATES, Etc. EXCLUSIVE SALE " OM AH A " THE OF THE "MONITOR" THE MOST PER- OILSTOVE.THEONLY PECT COAL AND -ABSOLUTELY SAFE WOOD COOKING OIX STOVE IN THE WORLD. STOVE WITH EVERY MODERN IMPROVEMENT, (aug23dly) NOTICE. ON account of my continued ill Health, 1 hove concluded, as toon as practicable, to retire from the dry goods trade, 1 now offer my entire stock lor 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 offer to the retail trade some special bargains. All persons knowing themselves indebted to me will please call and settle at once, as I am anxious to square my books. Respectfully, . apllldly H. O. SMOOT. J. O. PEGOR & CO., AGENTS FOR BUIST'S GardenSeed A fresh supply Just received. nXTO OLD JS 212 23 X3 , All this year's purchase. Call and get a catalogue. WALL PAPER WINDOW SHADES Livery style and pattern, as cheap as the cheapest. Give us a call and examine our stock. np211y J.U.PECOR&CO. P. S. MYERS, Dealer in Groceries, Hats and Gaps Roots and Shoes, Queenswn re and Hardware. Highest cash price paid lor Grain and Country Produce. Jyl5d Mt. OLIVET. J. R. SOUSLEY, Architect, Contractor and Builder ti furnished and ujI work war-ranted. ESTIMATES Shop on Fouith Street between Market and Limesione. p.VUL D. ANDERSON, DENTIST, JVo. 21 Market St. , nearly opp. Central Hotels Ojfflco Open at all Hours. MA YSVILLE, AT. miy!3ly.d. CONTINENTAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF NEW CAPITAL, $4,500,000. G EO. W. ROGERS, agent, oflice at Wheatly ss uo.'s, cancel st ueiow econu. (jiautn) LATEST SENSATION. 4000 Yards Lawn, choice styles and fast colors at 5 cents per yard. 500 yards India Llneu at 10 ceuts per yard. 2-10 pairs regular made men's half hose at 10 cents per pair. Otlier goods proportionately low. BURGESS &NOLIN. July 6, 1882. T. J. CURXiEY, Plumper, Gas and Steam Fitter dealer in Bath Tuba, Hydrant Pumps, Iron " nnd,Lad Pijio, Globe, Anglo and OhecK Valves, Rubber Hose and'Sewer Pipe. All work -war-, ranted and done when promised. Second street, ' opposite White & Ort's. ap8 T. B. Fulton. E. Davis. FULTON & DAVIS, Manufacturers of OHIO VALLEY MILLS FAMILY FLOUR, Corn, Shorts and Shipsiuff. Flour for sale by all groceis in the city. FITLTON & DAITIS, aulSJJy ABERDEEN. O- JOHN WHEELER Headquarters for all kJndsoi Confectionery Fruits, Canned Goods, etc. Fresh Stock and Low Prices. Come and see me if you waulto save money. X7V A.TCIIES CHANGED TO Stem WINDERS. AST J. BALLENGKftat Albert's China Store adjoining Pearoe, Wallingfoid & Co.'s Banli. apllOmd F. L. TRAYSER, PIANO MANUFACTURER Front St., 4 iloors west of II1II Hoisso Grand, Upright and Square Pianos, also the best make of Organs at lowest manufacturers' prices; Tunlngaud Repairing. ul.7 TEAS n TEAS ! ! a full supply oi the best 1HAVE in the, market. Give mer a trial myOlyd GEQ. II. HEISBR. REOPENED. M. W. COULTER has reopened the MUS. HOUSE and is prepared to furnish board by the day or week. Meals furnished to transient customers at any hour during the day. raylofim Estsu'tolisla.ed. 1SS5. EQUITY GROCERY. G. W. GEISEL, No. , W. Second St., Opp. Opera House, OBEY. Fruits and "Vegetables in season . Your patronage respectfully solicited. J14dly WILL AM CAUDLE, Manufacturer and Inventor of "$ MadeItouplo dress.,.! .JL apldawly ill jhp m 9 togjiinkto fcrlmeneKboys. A wm if ) IT. Bli? Sanlf Marsvllle, Kjr. Snake Charmers. Some years ago, when Cairo "was the Cairo of the "Arabian Nights," and not the disreputable-looking second-rate French country town it is nor, we inquired for any possible successor to the old snake-charmer whom old Anglo-Indians may remember to have seen playing with his cobras before Shepherd's Hotel. (Was he not at the Zoo in the wonderful year 1851, and did he not promptly decline, without thanks, our offer of two or three lively capellos then in the collection ?) After some trouble we lighted on a furtive Arab caitiff, in the usual long blue shirt, girded about the waist to form the upper part into a species of spleuchan or sporran. In this he seems to keep his dirty pipe, his packet of frousty tobacco, and whatever small portable property he had acquired more or less honestly. With him we resorted to divers ancient stables and outbuildings in the suburbs, and conjured him to find a snake. Placing a small wooden pipe between his lips he tootled quaintly an old Ar.ib air, now low, but hardly soft, and now high and loud. Thus he wandered, tootling and furtive, and we following and expectant. At last, arriving at an old half dark, evil-smelling stable he apieared to get excited, gave vent to still wilder squeaks and squeals, circled round and round under a big palm tree btam, and at last, with an ear-splitting note, he squatted suddenly down, dashed his hand apparently upward, and clutched a big cobra, which he evidently intended us to believe had been charmed from above. I say apparently, for I am certain that he lost the brute out of the "bosom" of his blouse. Now' this was very pretty, but hardly satisfactory ; so, instead of giving our charmer "backsheesh" (having a man in authority among us,) we promised him bastinado if he did not capture a snake in the open. Very l'mp about the loins and very yellow did that Arab caitiff show through his brown skin, but we were relentless. "Cobro or Toko!" and so he searched with the greatest care not to find what, in fact, he did not want to find. At last one of us spijd the tail of a snake protruding from some unuamable rubbish. "Now, my friend, catch us that snake, or " He tootled not the "or " had taken the music out of him and, overcoming with a visible effort his shuddering horror, ho caught the tail in one hand and rapidly ran tho other up the body till he reached the neck. Pinning this between his finger and thumb, he caught up the tail of his blouse, and forcing the brute to close his jaws upon it, tore it out rapidly, again and again, evidently with the intention of tearing out the poison fangs, which he did at last, to a certain extent, to his own satisfaction ; but he was wary to the end, and, instead of putting it into his pouch with his old friend, he knotted it up in a rag. And so he went his way and we went ours, with a gentle feeling that if we had bten "done" we were to a certain extent aware of the fact By the way, unless my memory has utterly given way to my imagination, I distinctly remember seeing in 1851 the cobras striking and drawing blood from the arms of the old Arab snake-charmer and his clever boy. Many wonderful things he did, such as producing a .cataleptic rigidity in the snake, as easily removed as produced things I should like to see again. The London Field. " It is difficult to understand women." Oh, no; guess not We've got one down home that we can understand every time. Kcntuoky State Journal, .It is thought that sonic time sZsotricity will do our heating and cookinf as well a our lighting. Why not? Judges Who Wear Gowns and Their Clerks $40,000 a Year. It is not true, the attaches of United States Supreme "Court say, that any of the Justices have had gowns made in Paris by Worth. They are all home made, and have all been made by one family of people for nearly forty years. Zach Chandler had a very poor opinion of these gowns, for it is said of him that he once said to Salmon P. Chase, a former Chief Justice: "Salmon, when you have your d d old jacket on you look every inch a judge. " There is no reason why one of these gowns should be called a jacket, for the skirt reaches tho floor. The gowns are put on the justices in what is called the robe room, adjoining the court, at five minutes to 12 o'clock, for the judges never go upon the bench until high noon. Then, after the Marshal's deputy sings his song about "God bless the United States and the Justices of this court," or words to that effect, the arrival of the justices having been previously announced, they take their seats and are ready for business. The clerkship of the court is worth more than the salary of four of the Justices, as it is said to frequently pay over $40, . 000 per year. The charges are simply' terrible. It costs about a dollar for the clerk to look at you, and another dollar to get out of his sight. They have a little talk then of keeping the decisions back as long as possible, often a couple of months, and in the mean time if any one wants a copy of the decision it costs 82 for each page of one hundred words. Theie is no good reason why the decisions should not be put in type the day they are delivered, and furnished as the debates of Congress are furnished, the day following; but this was not the practice si.ity years ago, and they never do anything about the court except in the time-honored but excessively slow way. This, all agree, would be a great convenience, but it would take $1 0,000 a year out of the fees of the clerk, and of course it is not done. Several times bills have been prepared for introduction in Congress on the subject, but somehow nothing was heard of them afterward. Those who proposed them were convinced that it was not the custom, and they let the matter drop. The Supreme Court has always held that every bill relating to the court must first be sent to them ior inspection, and strange as it may appear, they have always carried this point in their respect. Ancient Chinese Burial. The Celestial Empire gives in a recent number an account of a Chinese burial in former times. A man of means" purchased his coffin when he reached the ago of forty. He then had it painted three times every year with a species of varnish, mixed with pulverized porcelain a composition which resembled a silicate paint or enamel. The process by which the varnish was made has been lost to the Chinese. Each coating of this paint was made of some thickness, and when dried had a metallic firmness resembling enamel. Frequent coats of this, if the owner lived long, caused the coffin to as-Bume the appearance of a sarcophagus, with a foot or more in thickness of this hard, stone-like shell. After death the veins and the cavities of the stomaoh were filled with quicksilver for the purpose of preserving the body. A piece of jade was then placed in each nostril and ear and in one hand, while a piece of bar-silver was placed in the other. The body thus prepared was put on a layer of mercury within tho coffin ; the latter was sealed and the whole committed to its last resting-place. When some of these sarcophagi were opened after .the lap oi centuries the bodies were found in a wonderful state of preservation', but they crumbled to dust on exposure to the air.