The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-08-23
CITY NOTES.
A CRITICAL MOMENT.

And he holds her hand,
With perfumed zephyrs her cheeks are
famed.
All honeyed words are the words she
hears
''Win he, tonight" and she hopes and
fears.
Then all is still, and old Time is fleet;
All that she hears is her own heart beat
As the lights go out in deserted halls,
Gently head on shoulder falls,
Gently an arm steals round waist,
A lock and a ringlet are misplaced.
He'll surely speak, oh, that little wordr'
Her willing soul with a thrill is stirred.
Are you fond of Goldfish balls said he
81 never attended one, said she
Mr. J. p Wall, nominee for represen-
tative, was in the city yesterday.
Large fine sea bass at Palatka q Cedar
Key fish and oyster Co.
Mr.. s. E. Timmons, of Putnam Hall,
was in Palatka yesterday, and gave THE
NEWS a call.
Our grocery stores are now pretty well
supplied with vegetables every day,
which fact maketh the housewife glad.
Mr.. John C. Calhoun, of st. Louis, a
brother of Mr.. B. P. Calhoun, accompa-
MED by his wife, was registered at Gra-
hams hotel yesterday.
The democratic meeting at Como on
Thursday was well attended by the voters
in that neighborhood, and they are all
solid for the ticket throughout.
Just say in the morning paper that it
is hotter'n-a Bang! went the reporto-
rial howitzer, and our community now
mourns the loss of another citizen.
The stand from which Pope delivered
his address, in the grove, on Wednesday,
is now being used as a place of sweet re-
pose by some of his sable constituency.
The new machinery for Captain Luz
cas- steamer Escort has arrived, and will
be put in place Immediately. The Es-
cort will be ready for service by Tues
day.
The Graham Hotel register shows that
it is receiving q good patronage from the
public this summer. Mine host Graham
looks carefully after the comfort Of his
guests,
Brown & Paterson have.a good stock
of organs, sewing machines. etc, and
they have splendid upright piano, all
of which they offer on the best terms to
the public
The flood gates agained opened yester-
day afternoon, and Palatka was drenched
thoroughly Like everything else about
the Gem City, except a Pope meeting,
the rain was on big scale.
An excursion party will come over the
Florida Southern road from Leesburg
and other points Sunday, bound for St
Augustine and Jacksonville. No excur
sion tickets viii be sold from this point
Quite number of the young people
attended the social party and candy
pulling given at the hospitable residenc,
of Colonel G. W. Pratt, on Thursday
evening. Social games, music, chat anC
candy pulling served to make the hour
pass very pleasantly.
. A thirteen-year-old girl and her beal
boarded the Jacksonville, Tampa ant
Key West railroad train the other day, a
Hibernia, and took passage to Greer
Cove Spring, where they were united il
, the bonds Of matrinony. The young
bride seemed as happy as a lark, ant
: those who saw them only hoped that he
husband would raise her up in a prope
manner.
Mr.. Oscar Morse, who was so seriousl,
injured few days since by falling from
the scaffolding at the Episcopal AGA
denny, is still in very critical condition
He has some use of his arms and should
ers, but the paralysis in his lower limb
continues complete. He is unable t
move himself at all, but he receive
every attention from his friends, an
everything possible is being done to max
him comfortable.
Messrs. Pope and Kinds are evidentl
= not stirring up the kind eff enthusiasm
that viii draw crowds to their meetings
while making a canvass of Putnam cour
ty. They had a very small crowd i
: Palatka on Wednesday, and only thirty
a five colored voters and thirteen white re
publicans turned out to meet them {
Crescent City Thursday. A few demo
. Gratis went out to hear what they had {
say, but we still hear of no convert
: made by the lurid eloquence- Of thes
9 statesmen.
On the opening of the Cincinnati E,
position, September Sd, 1, 200 little chicl
ems viii celebrate the event by maxim
I their first appearance into this word
They are already in their shells in til
: patent incubators located in the anne,
, Fourteen thousand eggs are engaged f
the incubators during the exposition