The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-10
STATE PRESS.

Live Oak IS to have $4,000 arteslan
well.
Drought is complained of in several
parts of the State.
A telegraph line is projected between
Brooksville and Cedar Key via Otter
Creek.
G. NJ. Stephens killed, a few days since,
in Gulf Hammock, a bear weighing 600
pounds.
Key West commission merchants are
beginning to ship pine apples to Northern
markets.
A postoffice named Osprey has been
established ten miles south Of Sarasota on
Little Sarasota Bay.
Preliminary steps are being taken to
convert the present St. Luke's Episcopal
mission at Orlando into parish.
A new town has been laid off in Or
ange county and christened Sulphur
Springs. 1t is located three-fourths of a
mile west Of Clay Springs.
A new postofifce called Troy has been
established at the east end of Lake Bol-
den, at the residence of S. J. Morrow,
who is made postmaster.
The coast canal, near TitusviIle, is an
assured fact. Two dredges are now at
work and two more have been ordered.
The work is progressing rapidly.
L.,
& Co.'S mill, at Highland Flats, in the
hands of A. G. Rouse, cut s., ,515 feet of
yellow pine lumber in nine houIs.
The Crescent says the roasting-ear
patches around Brooksville look very
promising. Corn is six or seven feet
high and making a fine show for one Of
the luxuries Of spring.
Probably the oldest citizen in Florida
resides in Jefferson county. Mr.. Barlow
was born in Augusta, Ga, in the year
1880, and is therefore one hundred and
four years old, and is as vigorous as many
men of sixty.
A meeting Of the business men of Ce-
dar Key was held last week to devise bet
ter means of transportation between that
place and tributary cOatwise ports by
steamer. A resolution was adopted look
ing to the establishment of such lines,
and committee was appointed to furth-
er the project.
The following was handed one day last
week to a South Florida postal clerk:
Wildwood, Fla, April %, 1884-Jim
Coleman-f you run three more trips to
this place you will be dead negro. We
are tired of your d-m negrOism. So
you will take warning from this, for we
mean just what we say. You may goOn
and pay no attention, if you like, but
look out. ONE OR MORE.
Key West Democrat: The watchman
at the county Jail here was aroused Sun
day evening by fall, and upon proceed
ing to one of the cells found Olofeo. a
murderer, whose trial was to have taken
place Monday, lying on his cot with an
artery cut, from which blood was flow
ing. No instrument Of any kind could
/ be found in the cell, but one of the pris-
oners was shaving with a piece of glass
Sunday, and it is thought that he got
/ possession of this
The Live Oak Intelligencers SAYS: South
Florida papers have named their choice
for Governor, and bring him to the front
in the shape of the intelligent and bril-
/ lirnt young Senator from fernando.
/ Hon. A. S. Mann" Now. if our friend
of the Intelligencer had read his South
/ Florida exchanges for himself and formed
/ his own ideas of their political senti-
ments, instead of taking them at second
hand from the Times Union. he would
/ have known that they have done nothing
/ Of the kind. We defy any one to name
/ a single South Florida paper that has
/ published line that would indicate that
/ the Intelligent add brilliant young Sena-
! tor from fernando" was the choice of
! that paper. The truth of the matter is,
/ that our contemporaries in other sections
/ OF the State have been, and are, laboring
/ industriously to manufacture choice for
US; but it won't work; we propose to
+ paddle our own canoe" South Florida
Will indicate by her votes in the State
+ Convention who her choice is.-Tampa
/ Tribune.
\ Proposed Substitute for MorrisOn's s
Bill.
/ Washington Special
Representative George L. Converse, of
Ohio. will introduce in the House at the
earliest opportunity an amendment to.
or substitute for, the Morrison tariff bill.
The features of the proposed substitute
are as follows:
The wool duties of 1867 are to be re-
stored, except as to carpet woods, which
are to be placed on the free list with some
twenty other articles. The metal sched-
ule is to be equalized by reducing duty
on some articles and increasing it on
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