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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07
OUR EXEMPTION LAW.

If any good was ever contempla
ted by the passage of our exemp-
ton laws as they now stand it must
have been the protection of the
poor mans family against the conse-
quences of his own vice and extrav-
agance. Yet its practical operation
has always been injurious to the
best interests of the poor, and the
rich mans dishonesty has profted
by its action more often than a poor
mans necessity. In town or city,
half acre with the buildings thereon,
however valuable, is exempt; in the
case Of the farmer forty acres with
the buildings, provided these do not
exceed in value one thousand dollars,
or one hundred and sixty acres of
land. We have known of at least
one instance where a half acre In
town worth fifty thousand dollars
had been exempted, and the party
/ laughed at threats to collect even
his board bill. But the iniquity eX-
tends further. The man of small
means is practically thrown out of
work and business monopolized by
the rich. For the poor mans good
name and credit is his only stock in
trade, and of the benefits of this, he
is deprived by the exemption law.
For every mans honesty is suspi-
cious where such premium is offered
to bad faith, and if he gets credit
at all, it must be at the expense Of
giving a mortgage with all its disa-
greeable features. A poor man is
deprived of his good name and
credit, constituting his only stock
in trade, by the operation of a law,
which he is made to believe was en-
acted for his especial benefit, and
politicians who know the injury it
works dare not speak, for their OPP
ponents would Immediately raise a
hue and cry for protection to the
farmer and mechanic
We object to the exemption laws
because they do not really protect
the poor man; they give opportuni-
ty for fraud; they injure the poor
mans credit, they injure our com
mercial standing in the eyes of the
financial world, and drive off capital
seeking investment in our business
centers. Let them be repealed as
fully as may be judged safe, at the
earliest possible moment, and let our
silly separate acknowledgment
statute follow it to the limbo of
oblivion
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07
The Philadelphia Times.
I SSG.
THE PHILAnELPHIA TINIEs- 18S4

THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, 1884.
THE TINES Will enter upon the new year
fore in its histOry-mOTp widely read and
quoted, more heartily commended, and more
ierccly criticized, with q more complete or
ganIZatlOn, ana an able sSOH of contributors
and with the same independence and fearless
ness that has made it successful and powerful
in the past.
THE TIMES hassao party to follow no candi-
dates to advance, but viii meet every issue, as
it has ever done. with consistent devotion to
the right, to honest government, and the pub
lie welfare And, Whlle maintaining ITS posi-
ton as the leading journal Of Philadelphia, it
viii aim to be continually in the advance in all
that can add value to a newspaper.
The value of a newspaper is not in its size or
display. but in the intelligence and care. the
c0nciseneSs and freshness with which il is
edited. THE TINES spends laVishly for news
from all parts of the world, but all its dis
patches are carefully edited and condensed. in
order TO give the complete news Ot.the day in
the most concise ana attractive shape, ana with
it Il large variety of entertaining and instruc-
tive reading. The best writers at home and
abroad are employed TO enFlch It's columns,
and to make it q journal adapted both to the
busy man and to the leisure of the home Cir
Gle welcome visitor TO intelligent and honest
citizens Of every political religious and social
taste.
THE WEEKLY TIMES is altogether different
from the weekly newspapers of twenty years
ago. The day OF those papers have gone by.
The telegraph and better local newspapers
everywhere especially in the thriving centres
OF rural population nave maze the OIu weekly
metropolitan newspaper unsatlstylng. Those
that cling TO their ancient usages have lost
their hold on our mountaineering people: they
are but shadows of theirfOrTne greatness and
they have but a shadow of their former power.
Those papers have had their usefulness, but II
IS gone: aud. with it. they are going, too. 1t
was not the fault Of the papers; il was the i'm
prOvpment Of the country that brought about
the change. Men and women. wherever they
live. now require freshcr news; and they re-
Uuirg more than news.
THE WEEKLY TINES gathers of the types of
every passing week whatever has lasting in
terest TO the people at large, and sets it before
them in such generosity of paper and print as
would have astOniShed us all twenty yeOrs ago.
DAILY-Twelve cents q week, fifty cents a
month, Sc a year. two cents copy.
SUNDAY-FOur cents a copy. - year.
WEEkLY-0ne copy. 3 a year; five COPIES,
S year; ten copies, SIS year; twenty cop
les S25 a year, with one copy free to the getter-
mp of every club.
THE TINES.
PHILADELPHIA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

Georgia has 543,4l5 sheep, worth
$3.50 a head, as against 7,956,276
head in Texas, worth 1924 each.
Tennessee, West Virginia and Ken
lucky also outrank us. There are
no dog statistics in the pamphlet.
We have l,582,116 hogs, worth
1857 cents each. Texas, Tennessee
and Kentucky again lead us. The
average value of hogs in Massachu-
sets is $3.50, in Ohio $500. We
ought to have more and better hogs.
During the past year there was a
handsome increase throughout the
country of stock, cattle, sheep and
swine. The movement of cattle of
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
to Texas has, it is thought, caused a
slight reduction in the number of
cattle In the three states. This is
offset, however, in these states by
the unusual interest taken in stock
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

Montreal has a far better right to
the title of "City of Churches"
than Brooklyn. 1t not only sup
ports sixty French Catholic chur-
ches, but the the French Cathedral
situated there is the largest church
building on this continent. 1t is
built of limestone and 5000 people
have often been assembled under its
roof.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

Engineer Phillips, late of the
Northern Pacific railroad, says that
not less than 10000 elk, antelope
and mule deer are slaughtered every
winter in Minnesota, Montana and
Wyoming alone. He thinks it will
not be many years before the race
of three of the noblest game ami
mails on the American continent
will be entirely extinct.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

The city court of Atlanta has de-
cided that certain nude pictures,
copies of well-known works of great
artists, including ''Temptation of
st. Anthony" are not obscene, as
charged by the mayor of the city.
Hon. Emory Speer and DR.. Whar-
ton, ex-minister to Germany, gave
testimony for the defense, the testi-
mony being overwhelmingly in ia
vor of high art. The pictures in
question were proven to be copies
of grand works, which could be
seen in nearly all the art galleries in
Europe.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

Major Burke, of the New Orleans
Times-Democrat, and Gen. James
Eustis, a rich man with personal
traditions of plantation aristocracy,
are opponents of Senator Jonas in
his contest for reelection. The leg
islature that will select the successor
of Mr.. Jonas is to be chosen in
April.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07
THE DAILY NEWS.
BY sPEER & HARRISON.

THE DAILY NEWS is published every morn
ing except Monday, and delivered by carriers
in the city, or mailed postage free, for 50 cents
q month, 81 80 for three months, $3.50 for six
months, or s. per annum.
THE WEEKLY NEWS is an SPACE 48-cOlumn
paper, published every Saturday, containing
all the news of the week, local and general 1t
is the largest and handsOmest weekly paper
published in Florida, and will be mailed post
age free for 81 a year, or 80 cents for six
months Specimen copies free to any address.
Local advertisements 20 cents per line for
first insertion and 10 cents per line for each adj
dftional insertion. Special notices 10 cents per
line Reduced rates on continued advertise
ments.
All advertising bills become due pro rata
every month Local advertisements due at
the expiration of the time for which they are
inserted.
All remittances should be made by express,
money-Order or registered letter.
Address PALATKA DAILY NEWS,
Palatka, Fla
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

The R. E. Lee camp fair to be
held in Richmond, Va, to raise a
fund for the disabled and INDECENT
ex-confederate soldiers, has been
postponed to May l. The local pa
pers say that the enterprise is as
Stunning such large proportions that
it was thought best to wait two
months and make it grand affair
Donations are coming in very fast.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

In spite of the bitterness of Bis
mark and his party towards Sar-
gent and the United States, the tide
of German emigration to this coun-
try will continue. Really the big
gest source of the bitterness IN
question is the fact to which we
have called attention.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

The prime minister of Norway
has been impeached. He loses his
position and has to pay a fine of
$4,000.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

Arrangements have been made in
Paris by Russia for loan of 2OO,-
100000 rubles.,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

There are being built two Cunard
steamers-the Umbria and Etruria
to cost $1,2OO,OOO.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07

Two statements in regard to the
steamer Great Eastern are going
the rounds of the press. One is to
the effect that shells to be carried to
Antwerp during the international
exhibition there in 1885, and used
as floating hotel Another story
is to the effect that the British gov
eminent has purchased her for use
as a coal hulk at Gi5raIter.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-07
PALATKA, FLA, MARCH 7, 1884.

REGISTERED AT THE PALATKA Posi- OFFICE
AS SECoND-CLAss NAIL MATTER.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14
A Rig Revo,, In massachusetts,.

1t has been understood ever since Ceve-
lands nomination that the Democrats Of
old Massachusetts, were all torn up in their
minds. The following extract from the
Boston Journal, of the 9th instant, shows
that the decentralization is even worse than
theimost sangulne Republican could antici-
pate. The Journal says:
The demoralizing effect of the nomination
OF Cleveland on the Lawrence Democracy may
be realized from the nature OF the meeting OF
the City Committee on Thursday evening at
The Brupewick Hotel. 1t was well understood,
Gays the american, that Chairman Towey was
hostile 10 the Presidential nomination OF the
The committee had already pronounced
against Cleveland, but the extent OF the com
mittee's Generalization was hardly anticlpat-
ed by any one. Notices had been sent TO every
one of tho forty.two members, but only four
teen mem bers put In an appearance, includ-
ing Chairman Towey. Tho latter called the
meeting TO order, ana rendered his resignation,
addressing the members substantially as fol-
lowe:
"You have seen by the press OF the city that
nomination for President. In all other matters
appertaining to politics Yield TO none In al
legiance 10 the Democratic party. Our newly
1edged Democratic Ed0Ie ha0 said that am a
sOrebead, and desire this committee TO dis
tinc,ly understand that such is not the fact. 1
retire from this committee solely because my
business Will not permit mo TO participate ac-
lively in politics, and because the nomluatiOn
OF Mr.. Cleveland Is, In my Judgment detri-
mental 10 the industrial interests OF this coun.
uy."
To talk of carrying the State for Cleve-
land in the face of such decentralization as
this is to mouth the silliest of twaddle.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14
REAL ESTATE.

The following transfers OF real estate were
filed for record August ID with the Recorder OF
Deeds, as reported exclusively TO THE CRITIC
by j. F. olmstead, 1d16 New York avenue;
Sixth street, south eide, between A and u
streets southeast, square $40, sublots aud @,
Behrens; 81 $50.
First etreet, west side, between and L
streets northwest, square 800, part OF lot IL,
2Ox00, and on l. street, between New Jersey
avenue and First street, 10 It. front by 30,
John +. Hanna, trustee, to Charles Schneider;
$505.SO.
Nineteenth street, east side, between II and
streets northwest, square 1913, sublot o, 20x
%, David McAullffo to John Fitzgerald, trus
tee; nominal.
Same property next above described, John
Fitzgerald, trustee, TO Mary McAuliffe; nom
inal.
Eleventh street, west side, between Boundary
and W etreeta nnesl west, square 3Ol, sublot
40, 20x65 1.12 Ddhiel Scott to VIM. Maysei
81, 400.
Vermont avenue, between Eleventh and
Twelfth and and Il streets northwest, square
800. part OF eublots II, 1S, 10 and 30, 20x
103 81 100, Mary A. Grimm to James s. Robin.
son; $1,000.
Second street, west eide, between and q
streets northeast square 720, sublot SO, 10hx
90 1.0, Job Barnard OF. al, trustees, to E "a
ward II. May; $105.b0. assp"
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14
1.-THE Son of on,e.Cris,o. :,

'The Son OF Monte.Crieto," being the sequel
TO "The Wife Of Monte-Orlsto," and the ond OF
the continuation OF Dumas masterwork, "The
Count Of MonteCrisyo," Just published by II.
B. Peterson Brothers, IL In all respects
great novel. Romantic In the highest degree,
powerful In the widest sense OF the term and
absorbingly interesting, It is work abso-
lutely Without parallel at the present day.
Every chapter has a strong and stirring fea'
ture Of It's own, white oil the legions of In
tensely. thrilling incidents are as original and
surprising as they are strong. Tho hero i5
Esperanoe, the son OF the Count OF Monte
Cristo, who Is followed from boyhood to the
close OF his wonderful and unprecedented ca
reer. His varied and remarkable adventures
form q succession OF amazing episodes never
equaled In fiction, while his love for the un-
fortunate Jane Zeid and the strange complica'
tions to which It gives rise are depicted In the
most fascinating fashion. The Count OF Monte
Cristo and Haydee also have thrilling adven-
tures, and Mercedes, Benedetto, Sanselme and
Danglars, together with Fanfar, again appear.
The hosto OF admirers OF "rhe Count of Monte
Cristo," as we'll as all who relish u novel OF
rare merit, should read "The Son OF Monte-
Cristo." They will certainly be delighted
with 1t. 1t is published In a large, square
duodecimo volume, with an illustrated paper
cover, illustrative OF various scenes IN tho
work, In uniform style with "The Wife OF
Monte.Crlsto," price seventynVe cents, and
Will be found for sale by all booksellers and
by all news agents everywhere, as well as on
all railroad traina,or copies OF It Will be sent to
any one, TO any place, postpaid, on romitting
the pricaof IL in letter TO tho publishers,
Il. u, Peterson X Brothers, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14


Far down in the green depths l SEQ beiow
The long sea.grasses waving to and fro
With sleepy motion, plant TO the tide
That etealthily steals ehoreward from the Wide
Deep eea beyond. Hore silver fishes CLEAN,
And vanish quite, or, stationary, seem
Poieed like a cloudlet in liquid sky,
And clear medusm swim past silently,
Like ocean orchids, while, with motions
strange,
Crabs hither and thither through the sea-
weeds range.
1.-the brown eel winds In and out, scarce
known
From twisting wrsck, and like wave.worn
stone
The fiat sole rests upon patch OF sand;
And on the weedy rocks, by no Winds famed,
But soothed by under.currents, red and white
The sea. a.nowere, the anemones, make bright
These songless groves, which only hear the
sighs
or tides at flow and ebb, or the sharp cries
OF wind'lashed waves when breaking, when q
storm
Drives shoroward surging billows multlform,
Or the long moan reverberant from the sea
When dreaming OF wrath past or yet TO be.
-Wm. Sharpe, IN Hd'per's Magazine for Sep
TENDER.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14

MEATs-Beef-si -sirloin, S92Oc. ;porter-house,
20G25c.; rib-roast 15@20c.; corned beef,
S@15c.i Clipped, 30c.; beef tongue, 55@60c.;
veal, 15@25c.; breast, 12hc. loin, 1885,;
bacon, 10@12c.i mutton, 12@lsc.i
pork, 12Kc.i sausage, 12kc.: hams, 16c.i cut
meats, s@1oc.i beef liver, 10c. ib.; spring
FIsH..Rock ash, large, 15@25c. y ID; Do,
' NJ hGiibut, 2oc, ' N; porch, 3oc., '
bunch; blue.nsh, 15c. ib.; sheephead, 20;,
b.; haddock, 10c. black bass, 15c.; sal
cells, loe. EACH Goldfish, 12'ae.i green
salmon, 4Oc.; sturgeon, Sc. ib lobsters, l5c.
' ib; yellow perch, 25c. bunch; clans, l0;.
do2 Spanish mackerel, zoe. III.
TRuiTs. - Lemons 25c. doz.; bananas,
l2l. 25c. v doz. cltron, 5Gl05.i oranges, 75c.
qsl Y doz.j peaches, 6oc.G9sl Y pk.i huckle-
berries, 1bc. watermelons, 30c.(aBl; musk
melons, 5@2oc.i pears, zoe; . pk.;, green
gauges, 81 pk.i crahapples, SOC. pix;
damsons, SOC. pk.i Delaware grapes, 25;. =
tb.
BUTTER AND Eaos.-philadelphla PRINT,
doc; creamery, 35,d1Os.; fresh rolls, 25 a
35c.; eggs, 20c. v doz. cheese 1s@2Os. ' 10.
pair; old fowls, iiss 75asi pair; aHSVSse aacts,
75c.GSl pairs ducks live, 759h '
VTGFTABLFs. .-Beets, 3a5r. bunch; let
tuce, 5a1Oc.; cabbage 5@1O,.; carrots, 50
(I40c. pk.j leeks, &c. bunchi onions,
30qd0c. PIX; chlccory 1Oi. y buncn;
peppers, 10c. Y doz.; squash, 6i. ibi pump
kiDi &c. = ID; turnips, &c. v bnnch egg
plants, 56l1Oc.; cucumoers, %. ea9n; eltly
rose potatoes, Cos. Y pix; tomatoes, 10 a
zoe. pix. string beans, 25c. Y PIX; wax
doz.i Lima beans, l5c. qt.i sweet potatoes,
zoe. quarter PIX.
CANNED GooDs.-Boston bakod beans,
l5e.i apricots, 15920c Bartlett pears,
dd0c; corn, loci peas, 1bs.i peaches, 10 q
2Oc; string beans, 15c.
GAME. Philadelphia chickens, 20c Y ID. !;
woodcock, S0@7 doz., squads, s2B093 v
dOz,
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14

their true light as heroes, and all doubt IS
removed Of their courageous, determined
devotion to duty and discipline.
Whatever there was in the story to hor-
rify and shock, to detract from tho laurels
won by the great explorers, has been dis
proved beyond tho question Of doubt, and
tho survivors of tho Greedy party are
proved to DO band of heroes, who did their
duty nobly, suffered, obcyed and starved;
cared for their weaker members, shared the
last rations with dying comrades, ana when
in the agony Of exposure, starvation and
failing strength, never forgot that they
were human creatures, comrades and SOL
diers.
There is not in history grander story Of
military obedience and disciple, Of heroism
and .martyrdom, than is found In the sad
record of the dreary days at Cape Sabine.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Star, Tammany Democrat, says that II the
party is beaten this fall, and he fears it
will be, "it will be because the managers
cannot see beyond their own selfish inter.
ests." He then proposes plan by which,
he thinks, the party can be thoroughly
harmonized. He would have the Demo-
Gratis Of New York and New Jersey and
Connecticut hold special election, and
whichever of the two, Cleveland or Hen
bricks, got the most votes, let that one be
the undisputed candidate for President and
the other for Vice. He thinks this would
barmonize the party at once. But what
about the Democrats of the other States ?
Are they to have no say in the matter, Mr..
g. H.?
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14

THE New York Freemans Journal sees
now very plainly, as many saw from the
start, that the Democratic hackers made q
most woeful blundcr when they traded OF
Tammany, with her 10000 votes, for about
sixteen Independent Republicans -espe-
cially when the said sixteen loaded up the
Iarty with such lightweight ticket as it
Low groans and staggers under. And the
Prospect ahead is so dark that tho Journal
feels impelled to utter the following solemn
warning to the said Democratic leaders:
The writer OF this hos never for one hour
been afIlllated TO tho Tammany Hall or any
other hall organization. He wears no mans
"collar" but his own. But, as long and In
terested observer, with no personal ends to
serve, he wishes to tell the Democratic lead
els throughout the country that Aorets no time
10 ioSeU W6V hope TO carry me state or NeiD
r0ik. The most powerful Democratic organ
izaiion In the State has been openly insulted,
together with the leader whom that organiza-
tlon respects. That organization only Is ablo
to do tho hard and patient work necessary to
win victory out OF tho peril gaping before tho
Democratic party. All the leaders OF that
organization have TO do is to put their hands
In their DOckets-dHU Keen them theT6i
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14

IT IS A horrible thing, under any cir
cumstances, to sacrifice human life. 1t is
doubly horrible to hasten the end of a mau
who stands very good chance of starving
TO death in the Arctic. But whom that
man, by stealing the food that belongs ia
others in common with himself, imperils
the lives of his fellows sufferers, death Is
not 200 great a punishment. Under the
circumstances, the shooting Of Private
Henry Of the Greedy Expedition was an nc.
iustifable in every way. ID was imperative.
The only fault that can probably be found
with Lieutenant Greedy Is that he did not
try Henry by court.martial, instead OF
ordering him to be shot The court would
no doubt have sentenced Henry TO death
but If IL had been convened there would
not have been even an informality to put
against Lieutenant Greely ia connection
with Henry's death.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14
q" How pleasant It's to SEQ
Brethren lie In unity"

LIEUTENANT GREELY's statement bears
every mark of truthfulness and straight
forwardness. He not only says that he
knows of no cannibalsm on the expedition,
but shows why the reports of the members
of his expedition eating each other are un-
true upon their face. While starving men
cannot be blamed for devouring human
flesh, 1t would be great relief to the peo-
pie If every suspicion of cannibalism in the
Grtoly expedition could be thoroughly eff
faced
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14

THE Democratic organs, dismayed by the
effect of Governor Cleveland's vetoes bills
in the interest of workingmcn, arc search
ing the record for measures of that charac-
ter which met with his favor As yet they
have not found sufficient number to make
a bon1r
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14

IT. is getting worse and worse, this can.
vass is, on the Democratic sido. For in
stance, yesterday the New York Times
Halpin. Cleveland organ-pitched into
Brother John Kelly and calls him "boro-
gove,' and, besides, 1t says that John and
his associates are "mimsy." This is simply
horrible, and we feel perfectly awful for
John, for in his normal condition John
knows that he shouldn't ought to be a-a-
let's sec. oh, yos, "borogove." There
is no harm in being simple borrower, II
you pay back, and John always does pay
back. Well say that for him, and so will
Mr.. Cleveland, but when he goes around
"mimsying" we can't approve his conduct.
We draw the line straight on "mimsy-
ing" If he had contontod himself with
philandering. or boojimiug, or even kanood-
ling, we might have shut our eyes and said
nothing. AS it is, when it comes to "mim-
sying," we say, call Off your dogs.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-14

CONSIDERING the nature of the principal
business that is being done by the Democ-
racy in this campaign, would it not be we'll
for the party to establish Clearing. House,
where the regulations Of impeached candi-
dates could be cleared you know?