The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-08-02
CITY NOTES,

Inc mass -IiIScIiliS5 otG tiAC CottAb iiOCl9c
-o-dav at 10 o'clock M. viii be well at
tended.
Judge Burt offers some desirable
citv lots for ale in this mornings NEWS.
See advertise ment and call on the judge.
Mr.. w. S. Moore, of Hawthorn, was
in the city yesterday. He reports every !
thing lovely and in good health in that
Mr.. S. E. Bond has moved his quarters,
and can now be found with the popular
dry goods house of Mr.. I. jacobson, where
he will hold forth in future.
Mr.. F. A. Garrison returned to Palatka
Yesterday, after on absence of five weeks
in the north. He looks much improved
in appearance from the trip.
The Gem City Guards keep up their
semi-weekly drills with unvarying regu-
larity. and the boys are determined to
have the best drilled company in the
state.
Mr.. D. R. Farrer has been confined to
MS bed for the past week with trouble
some carbuncIe, but was at his place of
business yesterday ready to talk 10 Gus
toners.
There is but little social activity in
Palatka now We hear of no parties,
hops or other entertainments to come off
soon. The Young people should not ''let
it be thus"
Mr.. j. F. Barnhill has opened gen
eral carriage and repair shop on the cor
ner Of Laurel and Third streets, where
he is ready to do any work that may be
entrusted to him.
The sale of lots at Benedict Highlands
continues good, and many from a dis
/ lance as well as near home, have recent
! " purchased lots there. Webb & Mich
OILS have these lots for sale.
Mr.. Isaac White can now be found be
hind the counters in the dry goods de-
partment of Devereux, BogerO &
Sons establishment, where he will greet
! all his old friends with his usual pleasing
! smile.
CAPTAIN Ed. Lucas has returned to Pa
Iatka after an absence of some time in
! Baltimore. New York and Saratoga. He
gained fifteen pounds in weight while
absent, and reports good time gen
orally.
Mr.. j. E. Marshall was in the city yes
terday. He reports everything lively
and progressing at FruitIand, and the peo-
/ pie busy erecting new houses. A new pub
lie school building is being erected al
that point.
Mr.. B. l.. Lilienthal displayed in his
. furniture store yesterday several suits OF
furniture made after new patterns. The
, furniture is made Of veneered ash, ant
the carving was all done by hand. They
are beautiful and would set off any room
nicely.
Green turtle steak, shrimp, fish of al
5 kinds, chickens, etc. at Geo. c. Thaye
& Co., Grifin's Wharf. Look out 70
the fine assortment of vegetables to al
= rive on Saturday All to be sold q
prices that cannot be duplicated at an,
other place in the city. IF.
Messrs. Webb& Eyichols have sold tn
p residence on the corner of Kirby anc
Kirkland streets, recently occupied b,
r. Mr.. W. J. Webb, to a Mrs. Crane, 0
Pullman. I'll. Mr.. Webb will leave to-da.
= for New York, Boston and Maine, an
e will be absent about two months.
The blind mosquitoes must have rea
the item in THE NEWS q day or tw
since mentioning their absence from th
= city. Anythey, they have called aroun
Il again to see US, and are no ways bacl
ward in letting their presence be known
The blind mosquito is a cheeky bird.
An indignant citizen asks us to Civ
warning to a crowd of young boys VIII
are in the habit of sitting around o
n fences and other places for the purpos
I, of watching ladies retire at night
l. through the windows. The names {
a the D3EGiGS are kuONIl, dhtIi tueN 10 III
II give up the habit the citizen aforesai
n says he will publish than to the publ
o Such conduct cannot be too severely CO..
/ demned.
= The superintendent of public school
! Mr.. J. W. Strickland, was in the eli
yesterday, and examined the applcan
for the places of teachers in the schoo
of the county. Thirteen white and eleve
coIored teachers were examined, al
their qualifications viii be passed on
the county school board to-day, and &c
tifcates issued to the appointces. TT
teachers were noticeabel rs being mo
intelligent and neat in their person.
appearance, as a whole, than has ev
been examined here before.
Robert Bennett, white man, fell {
the corner of Lemon aud Third stree
Yesterday afternoon from exhaustio
and for a short while he was pretty sic