The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-04
Brief Mention.


1t is estimated that there are now
between 100000 and 100000 people
in Dakota Territory, 100000 more
expected this year.
The album of the Bank Of Eng
land in which specimens of counter
feits are preserved has three notes
which passed through the Chicago
fire. Though they are burnt to a
crisp, black ash, the paper is scarcely
broken, and the engraving is as
clear as new.
New England, according to the
Boston Journal, will vote in the
Chicago Republican Convention
nearly in this way; Massachusetts,,
Vermont and probable New Hamp-
shire and Rhode Island will be for
Edmunds, Maine for Blaine and
Connecticut for Hawley.
The Evangelical Alliance will not
meet this year i'll Stockholm. The
European members deem it ''inex-
pedient" that a conference be held
there, and accordingly all action re-
lating to the proposed conference
has been rescinded by the American
branch of the alliance. Not only
had delegates been elected, but their
state-rooms in some instances had
been secured.
Among those invited to the re-
cent celebration in Paris of the six
tieth anniversary of Greek indie
pendence was Victor Hugo, who
excused himself in the following let
ter: II will be with you in heart
at the celebration of Greek deliver
ence. I celebrated formerly that
event in verses, a line Of which oc-
ours to me to this effect. 1t is that
italy is the mother and Greece the
the grandmother of our civilization. :"
Thurlow Weeds remedy for in
temperance is otter referred to-
Briefly, it is an abundance of cheap.
pure wine. Mr.. Weed wrote:
'FFrance and England are divided
by narrow channel; France pro-
duces wine as a beverage; England
grows hops and brews beer. The
French people are Industrious, fru-
gal and sober; in England the labor
ing classes are improvident, intern
perate and degraded"
Nine rosy-cheeked peaches, each
partly wrapped in delicate tissue pa
per, attracted the attention Of the
people in lower Broadway, New
York, a few days ago, to the show
case of a fruit store. As each sue
ceeding crowd gathered around the
show case some one would ask a
statesmen the price. He said in re-
ply: "Seventy-fve cents each. They
were grown in a dollhouse. They
are the first of the season, and we
have no difficulty in selling them. "
The ''return relative to deaths in
the British merchant service for
1882" gives 1O11 deaths of seamen
from disease out of total of 1853
deaths on the seas and abroad; 2131
were drowned by shipwreck, 1896
otherwise than by wreck, and 28G
were killed by other accidents, ma
king 1853 accidental cases. The
figures are regarded as approximate
only, their value consisting in the
proportionate mortality as to deaths
by disease and accident.
The French people are about tC
enjoy, for the first and last time, The
opportunity of seeing in one collec
ton all the crown Jewels of France
They are to be exhibited in the
Louvre, and Immediately after the
exhibition their long heralded sale
is to begin. A few of them, which
possess special historic or intrinsic
value, including the Regent diamond
and the great ruby, will be retained
as national property; presumably
says the st. James Gazette, in cas-,
they might be wanted again.
Karl Krom, a journalist, rode
bicycle from Detroit, Mich, t
Staunton, Vt, distance of l42: