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l'LAITSMOUTII WEEKLY IIEIiALI), TIKJIiSDAV, MAY 20, 18S7
"BEHOLD ALSO THE SHIPS."
REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON TO
THE NAVAL POSTS.
Decoration Day Service In the ISrouklyn
Tuti-rii:i l Sur I vorM of tlio (vy Al
vicl to Titk Ailmlrul I-'itrritgut u
Tlielr i:xnil:ir.
Brooklyn, Mny 22. A this is the timo
for the dt'Ooi'Htion of tlio graves of tliono who
fell in tho war, tlio naval jiosts invited the
Ilev. T. Do Witt Tnlmaj?e, I). 1)., to ii'eneli a
Mormon ut tho lirooklyn tulK'rmielo appropri
ate to tlie x:cnion, us often in tlio annual
commemoration lut littlt hud lx;ii said of
ths who served in thn navy. An American
Has adorned tho inlpit, and tho congregation
Bang with great Kpirit:
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet Ifiuil of lilx-rty.
Dr. Taliiiafjo'n text was from James iii, 4
'IWiold also tho ships." Ho said:
If thiM exclamation was appropriate alxmt
1800 years ngo, when it was writ ten concern
ing tho crudo fishing smacks that sailed IaUo
flalilee, how much moro appropriate in un
ago which has launched from tho dry docks
for iurxses of pcaco tho Arizona, of tho
(Juion line; tho City of Richmond, of tho In
maii line; tho Egypt, of tho National line; the
Germanic, of tho Whito Star line; tho Circas
sia, of the Anchor line; tho Ktruria, of the
Cunard lino, and tho Great Eastern, with
Lull W) feet long not a failure, for it helied
lay tho Atlantic cable, and that was enough
glory for ono ship's existence and in an age
which for purposes of war has launched the
screw slKi like tho Idaho, tho Shenandoah,
tho Ossipeo, and our ironclads like the Kala
mazoo, the Hoanoko and tho Dunderberg, and
thoso which havo already been buried in tho
deep liko the Monitor, the Housatonic, the
Wechawken and the Tecuniseh, tho tempests
ever since sounding a volley over their watery
sepulchers, and tlit senrred veterans of war
shipping like tho Constitution, or tho Alliance,
or tho Constellation that havo swung into the
navul yards to spend their last tlays, their
decks now all silent of tho feet that trod thein,
their rigging all silent of tho hands that clung
to them, their ort holes silenJS of tho brazen
throats that once thundered out of them. II
in tho first century, when war vessels were
dependent on tho oars that paddled at tho side
of them for propulsion, my text was sug
gestive, with how much moro emphasis, and
meaning, and overwhelming reminiscence we
can cry out, as wo see the Kearsago lay
across the bows of tho Alabama and sink it,
teaching foreign nations they had better
keep their hand off our American fight,
or as wo see the ram Albemarle, of tho Con
federates, running out and in the Roanoke,
and up and down tho coast, throwing every
thing into confusion as no other craft ever
did, pursued by the Miami, tho Cores, the
Kouthlield, the Kassacus, the Mattabesett, the
Whitehead, tho Commodore Hull, tho Louis
iana, the Minnesota and other armed vessels,
all trying in vain to catch her until Capt.
Cashing, 21 years of age, and his men blew
her up, himself and only ono other escaping,
and as I see the flagship Hartford, and the
Richmond and the Monongahela, with other
gunboats, sweep past the batteries of Port
Hudson, and the Mississippi flows forever
free to all northern and southern craft, I cry
out with patriotic emotion that I caunot sup
press, if I would, and would not if I could:
"Behold also tho ships."
At tho annual decoration of graves north
and south among Federals and Confederates
full justice has been done to tho memory of
thoso who fought on the land in our sad con
test, but not enough has been said of those
who on ship's deck dared and suffered all
things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea,
Lelp mo in this sermon! So, yo admirals, com
modores, commanders, captains, pilots, gun-'
ner.-5,boatswains, sail makers, surgeons, stokers,
messmates and seamen of all names, to use
your own parlance, wo might as well get
under way and stand out toward sea. Let all
laud lubbers go ashore. Full speed nowl
Four bells 1
Never since the sea fight of Lepanto, where
800 royal galleys, manned by 50,000 warriors,
at sunrise, Sept. 0, 1571, met 250 royal galleys,
manned by 120,000 men, and in tho four hours
of battle 8,000 fell on one side and 25,000 on
the other; jea, never 6inco tho day when at
Actium, thirty-one years before Christ,
Augustus, with 200 ships, scattered tho 220
ships of Mark Antony and gained universal
dominion as tho prize; yea, since tho day
when at Salamis tho 12,000 galleys of the
Persians, manned by 500,000 men, were crashed
by Greeks with less than a third of that force;
yea, never since tho time of Noah, the first
ship captain, has the world seen such a mi
raculous creation as that of tho American
navy in 1SG1. There were about 200 avail
able seamen in all tho naval stations and re
ceiving ships, and here and there an old
vessel. Yet orders were given to blockade
3,500 miles of sea coast, greater than the
wholo coast of Europe, and, beside that, the
Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland, Mississippi and
other great rivers, covering an extent of
2,000 more miles, wero to be patrolled. No
wonder the whole civilized world burst into
guffaw of laughter at the seeming impossi
bility. But the work was done, done almost
immediately, done thoroughly, and done
with a spejd and consummate skill that
eclipsed all tho history of naval architecture.
What brilliant achievements are suggested
by the moro mention of tho names of the
rear admirals! If all they did should be
written, every one, I suppose that even the
World itself could not contain tho books that
should be written. But these names have
received the honors duo. The most of them
went to their graves under tho cannonade of
all the forts, navy yards and men of war, the
flags of all the shipping and capitals at half
mast.
But I recite to-day the deeds of our naval
heroes who have not yet received appropriate
recognition. "Behold also the sbiis." As we
will never know what our national prosperity
is worth until we realize what it cost, I recall
the unrecited fact that the men of - the navy
ran especial risks. They had not only the
human weaponry to contend with, but the
tides, the fog, the storm. Not like other ships
could they run into harbor at the approach
f an equinox, or a cyclone, or a hurricane,
because the harbors were hostile. A miscal
culation of a tide might bring them on a bar,
and a fog might overthrow all the plans of
wisest commodore and admiral, and accident
might leave them, not on the land ready for
an ambulance, but at the bottom of the sea,
as when the torpedo blew up the Tecumseh,
in Mobile bay, and nearly. all on board per
ished. They were at the mercy of the At
lantic and Pacific oceans, which have no
mercy. Such tempests as have wrecked the
Spanish armada might any day swoop upon
the squadron. No hiding behind the earth
worts. No digging in of cavalry spurs at the
sound of retreat. Mightier than all the fort
resses on all the coasts is the ocean when it
bombards a flotilla. In the cemeteries for
Federal and Confederate dead are the bodies
ot most of those who fell on the land.. But
where those are who went down in the
war vessels will not bo known until
the sea gives up its dead. The J ack tars knew
tb "vhilo loving arms might carry the men
r,oo f ti on the land and bury them with
v solumn liturgy and tho honors of war, for
flie bodies of tUose who dropped from the rat-
lines Into the son or wrnfc down with 11 on
loard under tho stroke of a gunlioat there re
mained the shark and tho whale and tho end
l'tss tossing of the sea which cannot rest. How
will you iind their graves for this national
decoration? Nothing but tbe archangel's
trumpet shall reach their lowly bed. A few
fif I hem have Ieen gathers! into navnl cetno
terii's of tho land ftiid you will garland the
sod that .covers th:?m, but Vt ho wijl put flow
ers on the fallen crew of the exploded West
fleld and Slia whIiocii, and the sunken South
field and the Wiiitleld S.-ott? Bullets threat
ening in front, homlis threatening f om above,
torjM-does threatening from lieneath and tho
ocean with its reputation of 0,000 years for
shipwreck lying all around, am I not right in
saying it required a special courage for the
navy?
It looks picturesque and tn-autiful to see a
war vessel going out through the Narrows,
sailors in new rig singing:
A life on the ocean wave,
A homo on the rolling deep!
the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships,
tho docks immaculately clean and tho guns at
Quarantine firing a parting ssdute. But the
poetry is all gone out of that ship as it comes
out of that engagement, its decks red with
human blood, wlioelhouso gone, tlio cabins a
pilo of shattered mirrors and destroyed fur
niture, steering wheel broken, smokestack
crushed, a hundred pound Whitworth rifle
shot having left its mark from port to star
1 ma rd, the shrouds rent away, ladders splin
tered and decks plowed up and smoke black
ened and scalded corpses li'ing among those
who aro gasping their last gasp far away
from homo and kindred, whom they love as
much as wo love wife and parents and chil
dren. Not waiting until you are dead to put
upon your graves a wreath of recognition,
this hour we put on your living brow the
garland of a nation's praise.
O, men of the Western Gulf squadron, of
the Eastern Gulf squadron, of tho South At
lantic squadron, of the North Atlantic squad
ron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the Pa
cific squadron, of the West India squadron
and of tho Potomac flotilla, Lear our thanks!
Take tho benediction of our churches. Ac
cept the hospitalities of tho nation. If we
had our way wo would get 3'ou not only a
pension, but a homo and a princely ward
robe, and an equipngo and a banquet while
you live, and after your departure a cata
falque and a mausoleum of sculptured
marble, with a model of the ship in which
you won the da'. It is considered a gallant
thii;g when in a naval fight the flagship with
itsbluo ensign goes ahead up a river or into a
bay, its admiral standing in the shrouds
watching and giving orders. But I have to
tell you, O veterans of tho American navy!
if you are as loyal to Christ as you were to
the government there is a flagship sailing
ahead of you of which Christ is the admiral,
and ho watches from tho shrouds, and the
heavens are tho blue ensign, and he leads you
towards tho harbor, and all tho broadsides of
earth and hell cannot damage you, and yo,
whoso garments wero once red with your
own blood, shall have a robe washed and
made white In the blood of tho Lamb. Then
striko eight bells! High noon in heaven!
With such anticipation, O veterans of the
American navy! I charge you bear up under
tho aches and weaknesses that you still carry
from the war times. You are not as stalwart
as you would have been but for that nervous
strain and for that terrific exposure. Let
every ache and pain, instead of depressing,
remind you of your fidelity. The sinking of
tho Weehnwken off Morris Island, Dee. 6,
1S0;, was a mystery. She was not undei
firo. Tho sea was not rough. But Admiral
Dahlgren from the deck of the flag steamer
Philadelphia saw her gradually sinking, and
finally she struck the ground, but tho flag
still floated above the wave in the sight of the
shipping. It was afterwards found that she
sank from weakness through injuries ir
previous service. Her plates had been
knocked loose hi previous ftmes. Bo you have,
in nerve and muscle and bone and dimmed
eyesight and difficult hearing and shortness
of breath, many intimations that you art
gradually going down. It is tho service of
twenty-three years ago that is telling on you.
Bo of good cheer. We owo you just as much
as though your life blood had gurgled through
tho scuppers of tho ship in the Red river ex
pedition or as though you had gone down
with tho Melville oK Ilatteras. Only keep
your flag flying as did the illustrious Wee-havrkon.
Good cheer, my boys! The memory of man-
is poor, and all that talk about tho country
never forgetting those who fought for it is
an untruth. It does forget. Witness how
tho veteran sometimes had to turn the hand
organs on the street to get their families a
living. Witness how ruthlessly some of
them have been turned out of office that
some bloat of a politician might take their
place. Witness tho fact that there is not a
man or woman now under SO years of age
who has any full appreciation of the four
years' martyrdom of 1S61 to 1SC5 inclusive.
But whilo men may forget, God never for
gets. He remembers the swimming ham
mock. Ho remembers tho forecastle. He
remembers tho frozen ropes of that January
tempest. lie remembers the amputation
without sufficient ether. Ho remembers the
horrors of that deafening night when forts
from both sides belched on you their fury
and the heavens glowed with the ascending
and descending missiles of death, and your
ship quaked under the recoil of the 100
pounder, while all the gunners, ac
cording to command, stood on tiptoe,
with mouth wido open, lest the concussion
shatter hearing or brain. He remembers it
all better than you remember it, and in some
shape reward will be given. God is the best
cf all paymasters, and for those who do their
whole duty to him and the world the pension
awarded is an everlasting heaven.
Sometimes off the cost of England the royal
family have inspected the British navy,
maneuvered before them for that purpose. In
the Baltic sea the czar and czarina havo re
viewed the Russian navy. To bring before
tho American people the debt they owe to the
navy I go out with you on tho Atlantic ocean,
where there is plenty of room, and in imagina
tion review the war shipping of our three
great conflicts, 1776, 1S12 and 1605. Swing into
line, all yo frigates, ironclads, fire rafts, gun
boats and men of war! There they come, all
sail set and all furnaces in full blast, sheaves
of crystal tossing from their cutting prows.
That is the Delaware, an old revolutionary
craf4-, commanded by Commodore Decatur.
Yonder goes tho Constitution, Commodore
Hull commanding. There is the Chesapeake,
commanded by Capt. Lawrence, whose
dying words were: "Don't give up the ship;"
and tho Niagara, of 1S12, commanded by
Commodore Perry, who wrote on the back of
an old letter, resting on his navy cap: "We
have met the enemy and they are ours."
Yonder is the flagship Wabash, Admiral
Dupont commanding; yonder, the flag
ship Minnesota, Admiral Goldsborough
commanding; yonder, the flagship Phila
delphia, Admiral Dahlgren command
ing; yonlr-r, the flagship San Jacinto,
Admiral Bailey commanding; yonder, the
flagship Black Hawk, Admiral Porter com
manding: yonder, the flag steamer Benton,
Admiral Foote commanding; yonder, the flag
ship Hartford, David Glascoe Farragut com
manding. And now all the squadrons of
all departments, from smallest tugboat to
mightiest man of war, are in procession,
decks and rigging filled with -tho men
who fought qu the eea for tbefuvjag ever
rince we were a nation. Orandt fleot ttie
world ever saw. Sail on lfor all ages!
Run up all the colors! Ring the 1k-11s! Ye,
open all the port holes! Unlimljer tho guns
and load and fire ono great broadside that
shall shake the continents in honor of peace
and tho eternity of the American union!
But I lift my hand, and the scene has
vanished. Many of tho ships have dropped
under the crystal pavement of the deep, sea
monsters swimming in and out tho forsaken
cabin, and other old craft have swung into
tho navy yards and many of tho brave spirits
who trod their decks and gone up to tho
Eternal fortress, from whose casements and
embrasures may wo not hope they look down
to-day with joy upon a nation in reunited
brotherhood?
At this annual commemoration I liethink
that most of you who were in the naval ser
vico during our late war are now in the
afternoon or evening of life. With some of
you it is 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, o'clock, 0
o'clock, and it will soon le sundown.
If you were of ago when the war broke out
you are now at least 4H. Many of you havo
passed into tho sixties and tho seventies;
therefore it is appropriate that I hold two
great lights for your illumination the ex
ample of Christian admirals consecrated to
Christ and their country Admiral Foote and
Admiral Furragut.
IlaJ the Christian religion leen a cowardly
thing they would havo had nothing to do
with it. In its faith they lived and died. In
our Brooklyn navy yard Admiral Footo held
prayer meetings and conducted a revival on
tho receiving ship North Carolina, and on
Sabbaths, far out at sea, followed the chai
lain with religious exhortation. In early
life, on board the sloop of war Natchez,
impressed by the words of a Christian
sailor, he gave his spare time for two
weeks to the Bible, and at the end of that de
clared openly: "Henceforth, under all cir
cumstances, I will act for God." His last
words, whilo dying at tho Astor house, Now
York, were: "I thank God for all his good
ness to me. Ho has been very good to me."
When he entered heaven he did not havo to
run a blockade, for it was amid tho cheers of
a great welcome. Tho other Christian ad
miral will be honored until tho day when the
fires from above shall lick up tho waters from
beneath and there shall be no more sea.
Oh, whilo old ocean's breast
Bears a white sail,
And God's soft stars J rest .
Guide through the gale,
Men will him ne'er forget, '?
Old heart of oak,
Farragut! Farragut!
Thunderbolt stroke!
According to his own statement, Farragut
was very loose in his morals in early man
hood, and practiced all kinds of sin. Ono day
he was called into the cabin of his father, who
was a shipmaster. His father said: "David,
what aro you going to be, anyhow?'' He
answered: "I am going to follow tho sea."
"Follow tho sea," said the father, "and be
kicked about tho world and die in a foreign
hospital?" "No," said David ; "lam going to
command, like you." "No," said tho father;
"a boy of your habits will never command
anything," and his father burst into tears and
left the cabin. From that day David Farra
gut started on a new life. Capt. Penning
ton, an honored elder of this church, was
with him in most of his battles and
had his intimate friendship, and he
confirms, what I had heard elsewhere,
that Farragut was good and a Chris
tian. In every great crisis of life he asked
add obtained the divine direction. When.in
Mobile bay the monitor Tecumseh sank from
a torpedo and the great war ship Brooklyn,
that was to lead the squadron, turned back
he said he was at a loss to know whether to
advance or retreat, and he says: -"I prayed:
'Oh, God, who created man and gave him
reason, direct me what to do. Shall I go on?
And a voice commanded mo: 'Go on,' and I
went on." Was there ever a more touching
Christian letter than that which he wrote to
his wife from his flagship Hartford? "My
dearest wife, I write and leave this letter to
you. I am going into Mobile bay in the
morning, if God is my leader, and I hope he
is, and in him I place my trust. If ho thinks
it is the nroper place for me todio I am ready
to submit to his will in that as all other
things. God bless and preserve you, my
darling, and, my dear boy, if anything should
happen to me, may his blessings rest upon
you and 3rour dear mother and all your sis
tors and their children."
Cheerful to the end, he said on board tho
Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever took:
"It would be well if I died now in harness."
The sublime Episcopal service for the dead
was never more appropriately read than over
his casket, and well did all tho forts in Now
York harbor thunder as his body was brought
to our wharf, and well did the minute guns
sound and the bells toll as in a procession
having in its ranks the president cf tho United
States and his cabinet, and tho mighty men
of land and sea, the old admiral was carried
amid hundreds of thousands of uncovered
heads on Broadway and laid on his pillow of
dust in beautiful Woodlawn, Sept. o0, amid
tho pomp of our autumnal forests.
Ye veterans who sailed and fought under
him, take j'our admiral's God and Christ f or
your God and Christ. After a few more
conflicts you too will rest. For the few re
maining fights with sin, and death, and hell
make ready. Strip your vessel for the fray ;
hang the sheet chains over the side. Send
down the topgallant masts. Barricade the
wheel. Rig in the flying jib boom. Steer
straight for the shining shore, and hear the
shout of the great Commander of earth and
heaven as he cries from the shrouds: "To
him that overcometh, will I give to eat of
the tree of life which is in the midst of the
paradise of God."
English Official Simplicity.
Some persons are skeptical about centena
rians, but the English .commissioners of cus
toms are not. There was a clerk in their de
partment who retired on a pension forty-two
years ago. The confiding board went on
paying tho annuity till last month, by which
time the annuitant was apparently 109 years
old. This abnormal longevity does not seem
to have induced the commissioners to make
inquiries. If they had done so they would
have discovered that the nominal recipient of
the pension had been dead thirty-five years,
and that the money was really going to his
son, a mere junior of 79. It is almost a pity
that the fraud has been found out, says The
Pall Mall Gazette. It would have been inter
esting to see how long the customs board
would have gone on paying the pension. Per
haps about 1930 or thereabouts, when the
pensioner would have been 150 years old, they
might have begun to grow suspicious. Bos
ton Herald.
Chipping: Irving's Tombstone.
I confess I heard not without a secret
pleasure that the relic hunters so chip and
hammer the stone that marks Irving's graire
as to make its frequent renewal necessary. It
did not seem to me a grievous wrong, nor in
any true sense a profanation of the grave,
but rather a testimony to the lovableness of
Irving's character and an evidence of th
wide extent of his fame, that, from filling tho
circle of the educated and refined among his
countrymen, has now come to include that'
lower stratum of our common humanity,
which has only instinctive and, so to speak,
mechanical ways of expressing its feelings.
Clarence Cook in The Century.
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Transacts a General Banriiii Easiness
IIiailEST CASH PPtlCIy
Paid fcr County and City YarranU.
aad proinr'tiy remitted for.
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C. rt. V.'iin i-n-, J. V-. T:.ttciscn.
Ksi-d i.oti't-r, a . '' : e.itb.
il. 15. Vi'iiiUb:i:.i. M. -Monisey,
James rutterson. Jr.
JOHN FITZGERALD, S. "WACOW
rrcsidfcat. Ciisbier
F5RST NATIONAL
O? i'LATTSMOUl 7!. :,tiri;ASi:A,
Offers tbo very best taeilities for the prompt
traiicaction of legitimate
BANKING BUSINESS.
Stocks, P.onds, Gold. f-tiverr.rceiu erd I.cca
8ecuritiec Bought :ind Sola, Deposits receiv
ed and interest allowt-d ou tiir.e Certifi
cates, Draft? drawn. available in ar.y
part of tbe United St;.tcc nd all
tbe principal tow us of
Lurooe.
Collections made & promptly remittee
Hlgbest market prices paid for County War
Kt:vte aitd (!ounty Bum!'.
DIRECTORS i
John Fltzueriid
JobuR. Clark. I). Hawkswortb
oun riizcerjia
obu II. Clark.
S. WauKb. 1
SELECTED
'9 . .v
wj Mr;, this paic x .. ita
g. E. Wbite.
SESlIiS:it i:tV i a l,uk liny pud', h-.mtU lii-h. w.iol.ino; 1,00
loiiiuls. I lis lose, ci.)!;:ict form aibl not.il n-put 'it ion for cikIiiiiiiicc tnakcH him
one of tho Lot lioi-scs ol the il IV. J,.,.; ;l , of ami ia iil the fifth
licat of a race at ( 'olui.ilms. !iio. in i.': ','.". He v. as hrl in Kent ucky, sired ly
(icri'l Uinooolil, ami his ilnm was Tc iiiiim h. I ! has nliv.i.ly oof one colt in tliw
'-.'."0 list a mai v clou- sliowin;:' lor a hoi.-c willi his ham s ami stamps him av
one of tlie fon most horses in the laml.
The ohl paciiio- 1'ilot Moo.l is what made .M.nnl S., Jay Kyc Sec, uml others of
lesser note trot. The jciccr lllnc I'ul! siied mom trotters in llic ,':::( list than any
other horse in the world, and their in t value tar ce d . nil horses in Cass county.
Speed i.ml bottom ill h.r:. if not wanted for k oi l im; j mi j ios s. are st il 1 of ini
m use liem lil in savintc time ami l:Jor in every occupation in w hit h the horse irt
employed. Il is an old savin;' that "lie v.Iio mutes two Mades of ;i'unj to grow
where oiilv one orew Kefon- i a public hem factor;" hv less a hem-factor lit! who
produces a hoist-, which, with mine care and ex pen c, will with ens' travel double;
the distance, or do twi.-e the work of an t rdinarv horse. Il costs no more to feed
and tare to raise a irood horse than a poor one. The "ood are always in demand, 'fv
find if sold brino; double or treble the price of tie' common horse.
SHAKi:i; IK V -will stand the comiii"; sea hi in ( 'as county, at the following
places and lino s: V. M. bouln ido-.'s stable :,t .Mmiay, Monday and Tuesday of
each week. Owner's f-tablo, one mile , ;,-t of i:ivht ,M if.- ( 5 in Wednesday and
Thursday. Louis Korr. H's. at Hie foot of Main streit, Pl.ittsmouth, who has a
splendid and convenient stable lifted up for I he occasion. Friday and Saturday.
TERMS :
To insure mam with foal, .?l(.0o, if paid for bt fore foaling, vlu if not, $12.00.
Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but w j not be responsible, if uny occur.
Any one selling marc will be held responsible for fees of service.
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W ITIIOl T 1 IltsT SEKIMI IKMiliS
You cannot fail to find what yon want at
elsewhere, at tho Goldinjr Uuildin,
Sign of the Padlock.
(Oct.
Jonathan IIatt J. W. AIakthis.
CITY iflEATHAR&C ET!
PORK PACKERS ani im:ai.i;hs in DUTTER AND ECiCiS.
I5EEI PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL.
THE PEST THE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS OX HAND.
Sugar Cured Meats, Flams, Bacon, Lard, &c, &c
of our own make. The best brands of OYSTERS, in cans and bulk, at
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
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OLIVER Sc P.AMG-E'S
71 VtoU-JM
UXIOX
h4
Having moved into our now find cleimt ,'ooms in Union liior-k. w: ford,-, -, v n,vit
thosu v.antin the ,-t of cvt ry kind of Meat to call on ns. AVc ran v you
Million, Pork, Veal Beef, Ham Bacon,
FISH- ALL KINDS OF GAME IN Sl ASON.
And everything else that is usually oUairalde at a
first glass :m.ij.at hvl:ja.rk:et.
CG2IE AND O'JVJ: UX A TRIAL.
Or.c door south of V. G. Fiioke S: Co.'s Drug Store, Sixth Strrr t, P'.atb mouth, Neb.
RIGHEY
Corner Pearl and
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JL V?9"!
Lumber
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STJII.lDIIsr3- PAPER:
T3
(SUCCESSOR TO
Will.keep constantly on hand a
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rugs and Medicines, Paints,!
Wall Paper and
PU RE LI
BOY?
imware
AM) OliTA IN I N i THICKS AT
our store. So please cull before goinj;
.Main Street. 1'luttsmouth, Ts'tb.
2!),
JOHN S. LUKE
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-1 iL rWRSlZ BC!
BROS.,
Seventh Streets.
ALL KINIS OF
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' 0 Pi
J. M. KOIiEUTS )
full and complete stock of pure
'n biarrril
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a Full Iine of
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nit n rii nr
S W 1 U I SXUlj
PLOCK.
Sash, Blinds.
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QU O R"'
jfk T it k
5d T
J(q markt.
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j lias sot
aoneer.