The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-08
PERSONALS.

Mr.. D. d. Young received yesterday
four hundred boxes of Indian river or
anges per steamer Fannie Dugan.
Mr. John Wall was in town yesterday,
and reports all lovely in his neighbor
hood The crops were never better and
the farmers are well up with their work
Mr.. c. B. Cottrell, of Westerly, R. l.,
manufacturer of the Cottrell Printing
Press, called yesterday, and made us a
most pleasant visit. He is at the Larkin
and can be trusted to come again.
Mr.. Ming, the polite freight agent of
/ the Florida Southern railroad, stated
! Yesterday in conversation with News
reporter that during the past year the
! jobbing and wholesale trade of our city
has increased over five hundred per
cent, and that along the whole line
every town was supplied from this point,
as his books very plainly show.
Hon. Joseph Hicks, of Georgetown,
dropped into our sanctum and helped us
| discuss many subjects, grave, humorous
and heavy. He is prospecting in body,
we can see, and we know from the re-
cord that he is selling land for fifty dol
lars an acre for which he gave eight
three years ago. He is live man and
| deserves all the goods that fall to his lot.
Come again.
Mr.. Arthur II. ManvilIe, of the Man
vile Nurseries, near Crescent City, ia
vored us with call on yesterday. The
! gentleman is in attendance on the grand
Jury, and is rejoiced to think that the
work to be done by them will probably
occupy little time. He is one of our
most enterprising young men, and the
business he has built up is a credit to the
county as well as largely profitable to
himself and his partners.
Our sanctum was graced yesterday
with the presence of Mrs. Jennie E.
Hicks, special Florida correspondent of
the New York Evening Mail, Philadel-
! phia Press, Baltimore Herald, and other
! leading Northern dailies. The letters of
this charming lady are much admired,
and under her graceful and poetic touch
the cold type glows in radiant pictures of
| Florida's loneliness. Call again, dear
madam. Our office is yours to command.
! Mr.. J. L. Burton was with us yester-
day, and seems much stronger. though
not yet entirely recovered from the at
tack which kept him in town so long.
His arm is still lame and stiff with rheu-
matism. He brought us such a list of
subscribers that we felt obliged to shake
his hand too heartily, and the response
was a howl of pain. We apologized, and
he informed US that Crescent City was
f1ourishing like green bay, that John
Burton was shipping cucumbers daily, and
that the Democratic Club was a grand
success. So is Maj. Burton.
Judge Calvin ellis, of Gainesville, is
in town visiting old friends and ready
| for the Circuit Court. He walks around
and seems surprised to find he cannot
recognize the town after two months alb
sence. We are amazed he should expect
such thing. We are new every year,
and our looks change completely in a
week. We know of some parties in
town who find their way home with diff
iculty after even one days absence.
But Judge ellis, of course, is not one
of these. On his last visit he had
grievance against US as attorney for the
-Alachua Advocate; we hope he comes to
congratulate US this time.