The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Snow is fifty feet deep in some of the
gorges of the San Francisco Mountains,
Arizona, which rear their heads more
than 1000 feet above sea level.
A large public clock with twenty
four hours dial has been set up at a central
point in San Francisco with view Of
famiIiarizing the public with the system.
NJ. Kasscn, who goes to BerGn as me
American minister, has been g sutton or
the hand of Miss Frelinghuysen, the
daughter Of Secretary Frelinghuyse1 L.
'"He has addressed her twice." write a
correspondent, ebut MS offer was Dc h
times rejected. TIE lady, it IS said, I'D
not so much object 70 Mr.. Kasson as fle
did to going to the Northwest to live
Tie steamship Alaska. which sal ed
from New York for Liverpool on Sat r
Gay, carried Us passengers August he
DAILY and his theatrical company; the
first complete American dramatic trol pc
that has ever ventured to cross tho It
iantic TO give performances. Mr.. Dalg's
London season viii begin on Saturday
evening, July 10, in Tooles Theatre, I'd
VIII continue for six weeks. He carr I'd
with him twenty-five artists including
the smaller people as well as the leadi g
artists of his New York company.
The hotel-keepers in London are enjoy
ing an exceedingly profitable season, and
hope yet for another harvest before the
summer ends. Their theory is that
American tourists who had intended to
make the round of the continental raso It's
viii ba deferred by the cholera cpl
demic in France, and, after visiting the
Rhine country, will return to London;
and that many Europeans who have g a
orally spent their summers in the Sol III
of France will visit England instead and
pass through London on their way from
the French resorts.
While two large gas-pipes were being
repaired on the Boulevard Malesherbes
in Paris the other day workman impru-
IDENTIFY brought his lantern in contact
with the escaping gas. Instantly, with
O sound like the discharge Of artillery, a
pillar of fire shot up III the air to me
height Of the second stories of the house
and five men lay mangled and bleeding
on the pavement. The pillar of fire
burned for some time, and the heat was
so intense that the neighboring trees on
the boulevard were destroyed and the
panes of plate-glass in the windows of a
grocery shop opposite the scene of the eX
plosion shattered. The fire department
was finally called out and the flame eI-
tinguished, while the sufferers, all Of
them dangerously wounded, were taken
to the Hotel Diece for treatment.
Letters from Naples give an account Of
the execution of Misdea, the Italian sol
der who ran a muck in the barracks at
Naples, killing four of his comrades. The
execution took place in the Campus Mar
thus, at Bagnell where the prisoner was
taken by rail early in the morning. De
tachments from the various regiments
comprising the Naples garrison had mar
ched there during the night. The troops
were formed IN a hollow square, the
prisoner was tied to q chair in sitting
posture with his back to the iring pare,
After the colonel in command had red
the sentence to HIM the priest kissed N
and stepped aside. ''Be quick" said the
condemned man. The officer in con
mand of the firing party dropped the
point Of his sword and Misdea's figl .e
collapsed. his breast and head were
riddied with outlets.
Tie Toocoa Ca News has a singu, Y
story about Samuel J. Tilden and lis
sistcrs 1t is TO the effect th4t Mrs, n i
nie Fitzpatrick, widow of Gen. Thon IS
KiIpatlick, and a sister of Mr. Iildo 4,
Passed through Toccoa a few years as.o,
bound on q tour Through the SouthC n
States. The general was a republic, i,
hut Mrs. Fitzpatrick IS Q staunch demo
crat, and sympathizes deeply with ne
south. During the siege of PetersbI e
she passed through the Federal lines a d
carried several thousand dollars of ] or
own money as present TO Gen. Lee.
There are five sisters and one brother
Samuel j. Tilden. The sisters have been
all the time opposed to their brother run
ming for the presidency. Notlong since,
when Tilden had almost yielded to the
solicitations of friends to enter the race,
Mrs. Fitzpatrick, hearing of it, hurr ed
home from the south and with the id
of the other sisters prevailed ON him 10
keep ont of the race. The reason assil Il
ed for this was that he was too old and
feeble for the active and exhaustive Cu-
ties of public life.
The present virtuous crowned heads of
Europe are getting into high state of
indignation over the continued mainten-
ance of the gambling hell of the little
government of Monaco. The French re-
public, through its Premier, NJ. Ferry, is