The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-08-20
BRIEF MENTION.

Mr.. j. B. J. Portal, the pioneer wine
grower of the Santa Clara Valley. is en-
larging his wiisry to acapacity of ,00O,-
900 gallons year.
Tho bricks used in the construction OF
his church in Tennessee are said to have
been all made by Rev w. H. Key,
colored. the pastor.
A shark nine feet long, with mans
hand in its stomach into which sheath
knife was sticking, was caught in a New
port harbor Tuesday.
An estimate within bounds is that
which sums up the cost of the music for
the ten weeks of the watering place sea-
son at $3.50, 900.
John B. Sheridan, puddler in one of
the iron mills at Pittsburg, has fallen
heir to fortune of So, 900, 600, left by an
aunt dying in England
Michael j. Quinn, a printer, still at
work in the office of the Erie penn
Herald, claims to have set 119, $40, 100
cover 100000 square acres of land with
solid reading matter,
General Roger A. Pryor denies that he
is booming Butler, and says: ''In per-
sonal sense I am General Buffers friend
If he were the nominee of the democratic
party l would support him with enthusi-
asm, but Cleveland is the democratic
candidate, and for him I must vote. /
shall not bolt my party. consider allie
glance to it paramount to personal con
siderations."
The California ostrich farm covers 200
acres; has twenty old birds and eighteen
young ones. The proprietor is hopeful
of large profit. One-half the feather
product of Africa is marketed in the
United States, and the demand is in
creasing. Each bird ought to yield fifty
long white feathers twice year. The
feathers have to be washed and curled,
and are then worth "a to So each, whole
sale.
Leipsic is, thanks to the socialists, in
semi-state Of seige condition, and, as a
consequence, unpleasant to live in.
Every foreigner is liable to be regarded
with suspicion; passports are necessity
and the police are preposterously Off
cious. An American student at the Con-
servatoire was lately condemned to
twenty-four hours in Jail, with payment
Of all expenses, for stealing wood" in
asmuch as he had picked small branch
of lilac from n tree ogerhanging the
street. A policeman stated in evidence
that the amount of wood was about a
quarter of an ounce.
Among the pensioners are the wives of
three presidents Mrs. Polk, who is liv-
ing in Tennessee; Mrs. John Tyler, who
is living at Richmond, Va, and Mrs
James A. Garfield. Each Of these re-
ceives $4,000 a year, according to a spe-
cial act of Congress. Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln got from 1870 to 1882 a pension
of $4,000. In 1882 it was increased to
SIS, 600, which continued until her death.
The daughterof another president, Zach
airy Taylor, also receives a pension at this
time. 1t amounts to $50 month, and
is given for the services of General Tay-
Tor in the Mexican war
A special from New York says Mir.
Conkling has absolutely refused to have
anything to do via, blaine or his can
vass. He is reported to ha,, said some
kind things of Logan, who is one of his
old and warm friends, but for Blaine he
has only the bitterest and most biting
sarcasm. Men of Conkling's tempera-
ment are apt to allow their enmitics to
more than counterbalance their friend
ships, and in the present instance Lord
Roscoe has evidently given Logan to I'M
derstand that his love for him will not
affect his knitting Blaine. Conkling is
rather inclined to favor Buffers candi-
dacy.
The annual festivities in honor of ST.
James We're on the point of terminating
on Sunday, July q, at Santiago, in
Spain. when a telegram was received
from Rome by the Archbishop, announc-
ing that the Sacred Congregation had de-
cIarod the bones found about four years
ago under the high altar of Santiago
Cathedral TO be truly those of the apos-
tie, SPANS patron saint, Intellectually
sought for hitherto since they were CON
cealcd, from fear OF Moorish raids, in the
foundations of the cathedral in the year
100, by Gelmiez, the first archbishop.
New and magnificent festivities are be
ing prepared at Santiago to commemo-
rate the event.
A Republican Slogan.
Washington Post (Dem)
XIII the democratic Niger are
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