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TRAHI’*, DAVIK * 00.
A Southern gentleman of prominence said re
cently that Louisville should he a great cotton
mart. The tlnu of Trabue, Davis A Cos.
have for yuan been in the habit of bundling
. large quantities of cotton in the bale. It is a
house whose irreproachable integrity is known
and recognized all over the great Southern
country. Year by year cotton comes to this
famous house in larger quantities and from
longer distances. This pioneer house in the
cotton trade of Louisville has gained the con
fidence and oiteem of the cotton planters and
dealers of the South.
ALFOBD, NKWHOUBK A CO.
The gradual growth of the business of a
great wholesale house is one of the surest in
dices of a general increase in the population
of a country. We were very forcibly im
pressed with this fact while looking over the
stock of the stanch and well known drug
house of Alford, Newhouso & Cos. Every
thing that our rapid advance in civilization
has made necessary as material for the supply
table of the chemist, or pharmacopia of the
druggist, is to be found in their immense
stock. The multiplication of means of trans
portation has largely increased the business of
this house, which extends throughout the
whole South and West.
A handsome compliment to the integrity
and well known liberal dealing of this house
came up during the yellow fever epidemic.
A druggist of Memphis, temporarily in Cin
. cinnati, mceiy.ed a tfilqgram from his clerk for
a large line of drugs to be shipped to Mem
phis. The druggist at once telegraphed the
entire order to 'Alford, Newhouse & Cos., of
Louisville, with instructions to fill it at their
best rate. This incident is indicative of the
universal esteem and confidence with which
this solid house is regarded.
HARBISON A GATHRIGIIT.
There is not a stancher or more reliable whole
sale house in the entire country than thnt of
Harbison & Gathright. The sterling gentle
men. composing this house are familiar with
the intricacies of the harness and saddlery
business, and their insight into the needs of
the great trade of the South and West is best
evidenced by the superiority of their stock in
all lines. They have every late approved de
vice in bridles, harness and saddles, as well as
everything appertaining to horse gear. The
vivid interest which this Arm takes iti their
great industry is admirably shown in Mr.
Gathright’s valuable and unique inventions in
saddles, saddle trees, iror horns and gig sad
dles, besides numerous other inventions of
great merit. The firm of Harbison & Gath
right is a power its its line.
UR..WINTKRSMITU’S CHILI, CURE.
The nkme of the above gentleman has been
made a most familiar one. in those sections of
the country subjoct to malaria, lor Dr. Win
tersmith’s (Jhill Cure has been found' an abso
lute cure and preventive of all descriptions
of malarious disease, including chills and
fever, bilious, typhoid and remittent fevers,
and all others of that class. Arthur Peter <fc
Cos., the great wholesale drug house of Louis
ville, are the general agents for all of Dr.
Wintersmith’s famous remedies.
CHILTON, GUTHRIE A CO.
This well known trunk house is one of the
most stable and reliable in the trade of the
South. They have all the latest and best im
provements in everything appertaining to
trunks, traveling bags, sachels, etc. Their
manufacturing facilities are of the best, and
their goods are of a high grade in excellence
and low in price. This firm is crowded by
orders this fall.
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
The recent failures in life insurance com
panies in the East and West servo to bring
more prominently into notice those which
have weathered the storm, and, after a most
searching investigation, are found to stand
upon a Arm foundation. Among the best and
strongest institutions in thiH kind in the coun
try, as far as solvency is concerned, is the
Southern Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Louisville. / The officers and directors are
among the most respected citizens of that city,
and the rigid economy of expenditure, coup
led with judicious investments, has had the
legitimate effect of securing the confidence and
respect of its policy holders.'
JOHN P. MORTON A CO.
It would be more appropriate for us to ask
John P. Morton & Cos. to introduce us to the
public than to perform that office for this old
and well known publishing house. From a
period so remote that the memory of middle
aged men and women run net to the contrary,
the publications of the firm of Morton & Gris
wold have been as familiar as household words.
We can really form no.estimate of the amount
of white paper used in this establishment, but
it must be enormous. In holiday goods the
largest line kept by any house in the city, of
all styles, from the cheapest to the most ele
egant, is to be found there.
THE DICKINSON FURNITURE COMPANY
is one of the oldest and most favorably known
of all the factories in Louisville. The facilities
for obtaining walnut, which abounds in Ken
tucky and which finds its market there, are so
great as to render that city the cheapest mar
. ket for furniture in the country.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
In boots and shoes there are a large number
of houses, among which may be mentioned
Sutcliffe & Owen and K. L. White & Cos.,
wholesale dealers, whose trade is coextensive
with the South and Southwe.-t. Those houses
are thoroughly reliable and trustworthy, and
are well and favorably known by all dealers
in the South.
In leather and shoemakers’ findings the
house of J. 11. Kyan <S£ Cos. stands pre-eminent
in its specialty. It givVs us pleasure to call
attention to this strong and well known firn> t
whose vast bu-eriess has been built up by strict
integrity in dealing and good treatment of its
y*rmy of customers.
Tne Louse of Cannon A Byers, wholesale
in millinery goods, is an example of
great success earned by fair dealing and
the strictest attention to business. The fre-
quent change in styles never catches Mr.
Byers napping. By long experience and
perfect management the shelves and counters
of this model establishment are always laden
with goods of the latest fashion, and there
never seems to be a strain to work oil an over
stock bf unseasonable goods. Purchasers may
rely upon getting the latest styles at the low
est possible prices, and that an order will re
ceive the same scrupulous attention as if the
purchase was made in person.
HAND AND POWER MOLDING MACHINES FOR
METAL CASTINGS.
Messrs. Aiken and Drummond are pat
entees and proprietors of a moulding machino
which received the medal of honor at the re
cent French Exposition. They have pre
pared a circular explaining its merits, which
ia addressed to manufacturers of brass, gray
and malleable castings.
TO TUB LADIES.
We most earnestly advise ladies who desire
a pair of shoes or gaitors, to go to J. M. Dab
ney & (Jo’s. You will secure a neat fit at
a low price, and will be in every way satis
fied with the purchase. Mr. J. M. Dabney is
remarked as one of the most honorable gentle
men in Louisville. His genial, sunny temper
and pleasant manners have made him a host
of friends.
We also call their attention to the card of
Mrs. Jennie Richards’ Ladies’ Purchasing
Agency. This lady is thoroughly trust
worthy and an excellent judge of goods. La
dies in the country will find it to their inter
est to secure her services.
W. M. JONES.
The above named gentleman has earned an
enviable reputation as a Main street com
mission merchant. Ilis high honoris beyond
all reproach, and his sterling integrity is a
part of his solid business capital. Consign
ments cun be made to Mr. Jones with the
positive certainty that he will do the very
best he can for the consignor every time.
B. MATHEWS.
This gentleman has the artificial limb trade
of the South in his hands. He is scientific
and thoroughly upright.
D. F. BENNETT.
This house has supreme control in two
specialities—fine parlor furniture and mat
tresses. They supply dealers who have the
choicest and most fastidious trade all through
the country. Their mattresses have already
made a very high reputation. Mr. D. P.
Bennett is on the road most of the time.
Dealers will find him to be a gentleman in
culture, and thoroughly posted in his busi
ness.
GILMORE, HITE & CO.
The river trade of the West is under many
obligations to this go-ahead, honorable house.
They are always up to the times, and sup
ply all the needs of their customers with
speed and fidelity.
j. v. WHITE a co.
This concern is the Market street groat re
tail dry goods house. Mr. White is a gentle
man of infinite experience in his line, and
his lady purchasers reap the reward of his
shrewd skill in buying by getting bargains
from him which can not be equalled in the
city.
INTERESTING TO THE LADIKB.
One of the most enterprising and prosper
ous business men of Louisville is the ladies’
man, 15. F. Fitch, who has now one of the
largest and most elegant store-rooms in the
city. From a small beginning in ladies’
goods a few years ago, he has gradually grown
to a position that is second to no merchant in
Louisville. The ladies all over the southern
country know him as an extensive dealer in
ladies’ goods, such as are enumerated in his
advertisement in this paper. Persons desiring
goods in his line may order by mail with the
assurance of being suited and receiving full
value for their money.
We can not close the sketch of houses vis
ited by our representative without referring
to the largest wholesale and retail dry goods
establishment in Louisville—S. Barker & (Jo.,
familiarfy known as the
NEW YORK STORE.
This house has for many years been known
to Southern people through its order trade, in
which department it far surpasses any two
houses in that city. Orders for every kind of
goods in their line are received daily from all
the States between the Ohio river and the
Gulf. A glance at their mail is sufficient to
give one a conception of the immense extent
to which the order business is carried. Here
is a letter from a modest young girl in Geor
gia, who, with many a blush, confides to the
firm the fact that she is about to be married,
and inquires the price of a wedding troussoau.
Another, from a matron, incloses a half dozen
samples ef goods, with an order for a bill of
goods. She is an old customer of the house,
and writes briefly and to the point. The
letters,duly registered, are handed to the super
intendent of the order department, and the
goods selected. Many letters contain re
quests for samples of late style dress goods,
all of which receive prompt attention. The
store on a pleasant day presents a gay appear
ance, crowded, as it almost always is, by the
beauty and fashion of Louisville.
The silk department presents so many at
tractions for fashion's votaries that, in order
to afford standing room for the throng of cus
tomers, it was found necessary, the last sum
mer, to build a large addition to the store for
this trade. In it is a dark room, lighted by
gas, to show the effect of gaslight upon party
silks.
The cloak department is on the second
floor, a large portion of which is devoted to
this line of goods. Every conceivable kind
of wrapping, from a zephyr shawl to a fur
cloak, are to be found in this immense stock,
and it may well be imagined that this room
also is an attractive one to the ladies.
The New York Store is par excellence the
most fashionable dry goods establishment in
Louisville, and has few equals in the Missis
sippi valley.
The saddest words of tongue or pen,
“I’m going to pay, but I can't tell when.’’
—[Yonkers Gazette.
GEMS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART.
The beautiful exhibit of tine photographs
made by Washburn is one of the mod attract
ive features of Fourth avenue. The pictures
are ail made from negatives taken at his gal
lery in the regular course of business, and are
faithful representations of the work made
every day by this well-known artist.
The soft gradations of high lights with shad
ows, producing the moot delicate blending of
half tones, is the result, not of accident, but of
skillful management of light and of artistic
posturing of the subject. In a word, it is the
result of knowledge, without which no artist,
either with the camera or the brush, can hope
to produce portraits woithy of the nuine.
It seems almost unnecessary to call tha at
tention of our readurs to the work of an artist
who has so long stood at the head of the pro*
fession.
A few days since a group of ladies were
seated in the parlor of a gentleman, whose
wifu is in Europe, when he entered and hand
ed them a large sized photograph of his
absent wife. The picture was received with
exclamations of delight. “ How perfect in
every lineament," said one, and “ How softly
do the shadows blend with the light upon the
f, ee," said another. “ One can see at a glance
that this a foreign picture; our artiste never
learn to produce such perfect effects of light
and shade," said a learned connoisseur.
Where was it made, Mr. D.?" “At Wash
burn's," said the gcntluman, suppressing a
smile, “and I am sending it to her, as she can't
get one in London that pleases her.”
“PURE WATER."
What is more desirable than pure water?
Why should we use impure water from a foul
well or cistern when we know how essential
to health pure water is, and when the means
of removing the impurities are within the
reach of all? Among the industries of Louis
ville is one lor the manufacture and sale of
the “ Mayfield Water Elevator and Purifier"
—not the machine invented in 1871 by Dr.
Isaac Mayfield, of Mayfield, Kentucky, but
one having all the merits of the original and
the improvements that inventive genius have
devised and added to it.
We would call the attention of thoughtful
people to this invaluable machine. We have
examined into its merits, and pronounce it to
be the most valuable invelition of the age for
the purpose for which it was designed—the
production of pure drinking w er. We
believe the Elevators are manufactured at
other points, but the facilities for manufactur
ing, and the superiority in point of workman
ship of the Louisville machine, renders it the
favorite wherever used. Messrs. Browning,
Loeey A Cos., 153 West Market street, Louis
ville, Ky., on application will send circulars,
price list, and terms to agents. Agents
wanted to lease territory throughout the
South.
Insurance. —We call attention to the ad
vertisement of the Royal Insurance Company
in another column. This company has the'
largest net surplus of any company in the
world, and does business with our Southerp
agents. The managers for the South are Rare
bee & Castleman, of Louisville. In Kentucky
the company does a third more business than •
any company in the State, and its business
here is evidence of its popularity everywhere.
“WE ARE ONE!’’
This is the title of anew book, one df tlie
most readable and pleasantly interesting books
that has been published for many years
It is a story that takes one from the Dowel*
fields of Alabama, where we seem to drink
the fragrance, to the magical twilights of the
far North, where the falls of Minnclfaha
(laughing water) gladden nature; and from
the snows of the grand old White Mountain)
to the slope beyond the foot-hills, away to the
great oeean. There are many beautiful
glimpses of tho land we love, North and
South. It is a pleasant story of pleasant peo;
pie, with a little of the evil of human kind, a
tragedy, a deal of nobility and broth
erhood. It seeks to plant flowers on the graves
where sleep those we have lost:
“Under the blossoms, the blue;
Under the garlands, the gray.
Under the sod and the dew, * * *
Waiting the judgment day—
Love and tears for the blue,
Tears and love for the gray."
We are first given to look upon the love
that a good, brave man evinced for a frail,
sweet wife, that holds “the span of her short
life in her hand and sees to the end.” This
spiritual woman has a noble mother and broth
er and a sweet sister, nappy in her own little
family. There is another fumily around
which centers much of- the interest of the
story—a mother and so h and daughter, true
and noble in heart and mind as they are in
physical proportions. This group forms the
Southern element. The two young men a'e
fast friendß after long association, faithful each
to the other in promise and performance. In
the course of events these families meet, and
‘ At eleven o’clock ‘good nights' were said and
two families were one—the Northern heart
had absorbed the Southern heart, and the an- i
gels bore the news to the ramparts of heaver:,
while the sentinel at his pogt proclaimed, -ft
is well 1’ ” After this there are many Beauti
ful days and dreams and cruising in pleasant
waters. There are happy meetings and bitter
partingg, where a subtile pain is bid beneath
a smile, and, too, where hearts ache and tears
flow.
Running through all the story is a golden
thread of pathos, tender with pearly tears,
because of the fair, sweet loved one whom
death has taken by the hand and is slowly ;
leading away from the glad, bright life she
had planned; yet so beautiful to her is her
journey that we only seem to see her going
home.
There is another death, where the soul goe
out in darkness—a tragedy, terrible in its re
ality. There is convicting circumstantial
evidence that leaves no doubt in the minds of
the community as to the identity of the mur
derer. The case is apparently hopeless, arid
the grief of those who love him is deep. At
this crisis comes the friend—almost brother
and labors untiringly for him, until, amid the
profoundest silence, he said: “If your Honor
please, and gentlemen of the jury, in view of
these facts, 1 move that my friend, your friend.
our Southern friend, , bed -charge 1 j
from custody.” “ Cneer upon cheer renT the
air, and the old court-house was shaken to its '
very foundation. Justice smiled serenely •
upon this demonstration of approval, and the ■
recording angel echoed itin heaven.” “How !
fickle is popular opinion! A single stroke of
the pen, the utterance of one thrilling sen
tence, may be sufficient to enroll a name on
the immortal page.”
When flrit issued the price of thi book
wa? sl.s®, but, having had a large run, it may !
now be had for sl, sent by mail to S. L.
Ewing & Cos., publishers, Louisville, Ky.
Correspondents would confer a favor
i upon the advertisers by mentioning: that
I they saw the advertisement in torn paper.
London & Lancashire
Fire Insurance Company
OF LIVERPOOL.
SOUTHERN:
DEPARTMENT*,
BARBEE & CASTimMt
Managers.
Afjcnts llirouffltout flip South.
Kmlmlillmliwl IS i(l*
WM. SKENE & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS.
LAMPS. CHANDELIERS, LANTERNS,
Olts, AXLE
GREASE, &C. •*
Office : 153 W. Main St., LOUISVILLE, KY.
Factory : 177.179. I*l, 183.186 A I*7 High Avo.
D. H. BALDWIN & CO..
Pianos and Organa, Decker Brothers’ Pianos, j
Valley Gem Pianos, Estey Organs.
Matchless in tone, incomparable in workman
ship. A large wholesale and retail stock of these
celebrated instruments now open at No. 8U Fourth
Street. Louisville. Pianos rented until paid for.
Send for illustrated catalogue and priee list.
I). 11. BALDWIN X CO.
W. M. JONES,
General Commission Merchant,
Dealer in
Agricultural Implements and Seeds,
105 W. Main Street, LOUISVILLE, KY.
S. L. EWING. G. C. KNIFFIN
S. L. EWING & CO.
General Advertising
AGENTS,
120 Breen St., Conrier-Journal Building,
1.01 'IKVILLE, liV.
J. G.
Tower Palace Carpet House,
‘SO W. Market Street, bet. Fourth and Fifth,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
Wlf you are interested in improvements in
Home Corn Mill and Cotton Gin Drivers the new
circular of the Faught-Deering
BARN AND GIN HOUSE
CENTRAL SUPPORT HORSE POWER
will interest you. Ask one by postal card addressed
Faught-Deering Plantation Machine Works, Louis
ville, Ky. 'Cheap Transportation.
McGILL & TRUMAN,
DEALERS IN
SEEDS and FARMING IMPLEMENTS,
WHOLESALE AT FACTORY PRICES.
Avery, Meikie, and Richmond Plows,
South Bend Chilled Plows,
Mitchell Form Wagons, Pumps,
Corn Bhellers, Cutting Boxes, Etc.
90 Main St., LOUISVILLE, KY.
SUTCLIFFE & OWEN
' Sutcliffe, Owen & McCready
M Jobbers of Boots and Sho< s
/H I JkjuH i\and manufacturers of Ladies’,
i i 'ffik /f \ dSAiMisses’ and Children’s Fine
\ dewed Shoes.
287 AA eat Main Street.
<•*''' LOUISVILLE, K.Y.
W. T. PYNE & BRO.
MILL-WEIGHTS
• AND
MILL FURNISHERS.
Mills. Factories, c.. built by Contract or
otherwise.
A large assortment of new and second-hand
Machinery kept in stoek. Illustrated Circular and
Frioe-list lurntshrd on application.
Office, 427, Wareroome, 436 and 437 West
Main street, bet, 11th and 12th,
Louibville, ... - Kentucky.
ASX FOR
AMBER CREAM.
A positive cure for Chapped Hands and Face, also
for beautifying the skin.
To iic hud from Tour Druggist. Manufactured
by C. J ROSENHAM & CO.,
Cor. 4'ih Avenue and Jefferson St.,
Price LOUISVILLE, KY.
GALT HOUSE,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
THE GALT HOUSE
Is Being Entirely BEFITTED and KLKUIUNISHEI)>*•
PRICES REDUCED-Full Board and large HANDSOMELY FURNISHfi
Rooms Th lee Dollars per day. J. W. ALMY.I
J. H. RYAN. „ W. Nr
J. H. RYAN & CO.,
Manufacturers and Dcalurs In all kinds of
SHOE AND SADDLE LEATHER/
Shoe and Curriers’ Tools, Best Tanners’ Oil.
No. 206 West Main Street, one door below Seventh,
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY j
M COUJSTUY ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
— *
AVERY
| AVERY’S CELEBRATED CAST AND STEEL PLOlfisr
BLACK LAND PLOWS. WALKING CULTIVATORS, DOUBLE SHOVELS/ .
An. gold by responsible merchants in every town. Farmers should send us their names and *
on a postal card, for which we will send our largo illustrated sheet, with full information, frecgf’J
The Best Plows are the Cheapest. Address,
B. F. AVERY & SONS, LOUISVILLE,.
JOHXT P. MORTON <& CQ. *
BOOKSELLERS, STATION'
AND BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURE^
A Full Assortment of
Holiday and Juvenile Book
Bibles and Prayer Books, Photograph Albums, Writing lJe
Work Boxes, Card Cases, Inkstands, Papeteries, Game*, and
phabet Blocks, and all the novelties of the season.
promptly and carefully Filled.
156 and 158 West Main Street,
' _ XjOTJIS'VIXjII.E, ZEC'T
AL PLOW 4: 4TTACHU,:
We manufacture a, large variety <if Plows, suited to every kind of soil all of Mr.
invention, 'flic Universal Plow is convertible into steel or cast iron. ‘-ultivalit
shown above can be applied at will to the one-horse Plow-stock. Nine implement■c*fr7 Vfb-s
descriptive eata loguo with priee 1 i-t. DRINLY, MILES & HARDY. Bole MauufacUj -
Factory and 0110 c, 12S to 132 East .Main Street, near Preston, Louisv ,i
The Fashionable Fourth Avenue Boot and Shoe Store.
J", M. DAB3NTKY db C<
We keep the best lino of Roods in Louisville for Men, Ladies, Misses, Boys, und Youths.
GENTS’ AND LADIES’ SHOES MADE TO ORDER,*
166 FOURTH AVENUE, Between Green and wd^ 1 '
THE SOUTHERN
Mutual Life Insurance Coni?
OF KENTUCKY,
LOTTISYILLF
Ihhui-h policin' on all approved for inn, and managed by well known buMinenn men a* l
under the rigid insurance laws of the State,examined personally by the Inauruuco Count
and approved.
Assets One Million Dollars, with an Increj)
Surplus Exceeding $170,000. 4 -
Its policies, by their terms, arc made to continue in forcu for such time as three-fourth
reserve will curry them, or choice of paid-up policy for definite amount given, after payment
annual premiums. Time of extension and amount of paid-up insurance printed on too >
For information address
J. B. TEMPLE. L. T. TIII STIN, 8. T. WILSON,
PruMiueiit. Secretary. General A; '•
Or Anv of its Agents.
AI HI IT <& DRTJMM-QXT.r
LOUISVILLE, KY. v/
HARDWARE MERCHANTS should purchase MACHINE MOLDED SASH WEIGHT,-
arc the only perfect weight in the market, and are sold as cheap as the rough, tirooked woifc
hand. .SoihJ for prices to A
AIKIN & DRUMMONT
Main Street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth. LOI’ISVILL
WM. POUTCH, r
• WEDDING AND VISITING CARD
Engraver, Stationer and Prr
No. 171) Fourth Avenue, Library’ Building,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
Wedding and Party Invitations, Viniting and Bvutineea Cards, Monograms, o'“*'
Engraved and Printed in the latent atyle, and at reasonable prioeiT
GARDNER db OC
WHOLESALE
TOBACCO AND TE
No. 205 Main Street, LOUISVILLE, KY.
GALT HOUSE,
LOUISVILLE, KY.