The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-24
CITY NOTES.

As each successive sneeze is snoze.
Mr.. c. H. Wigg has opened a beef
market on west Lemon street.
River travel is quiet now, and the
boats do not seem to be in as much hurry
nowadays as of yore.
The tearing down of the kitchen and
outhouses of the old St. Johns Hotel has
been about completed.
The fremanic ball on May 1st is the |
next social event. The boys know just /
how to get up first-class entertainment. |
B. J. Groom's new bake oven is about |
completed, and he will soon be ready to /
supply his customers with bread and
cakes.
A great many fish are being caught ont
of the river now with the hook and line.
Ladies are out nearly every day enjoying
the sport
We print a communication in another
column relative to the firemans contest
prizes. We understand there is to be no
contest, only pleasant enjoyable time
for every one.
Considerable improvement is being
made at the Academy of the Sacred
Heart, on Lemon street. The new ban
listers around the front and side veran-
das add much to the appearance of the
building.
Mr.. Benjamin P Calhoun has had a
picture taken of his splendid new resi-
denCe in North End, that shows it off to
good advantage. He has an elegant
home, which any one would be proud to
call their own.
Captain ]. E. Lucas has purchased the
lot at the corner of First and Main
street, just in front of Judge Aillen's resi-
dence, of Mr.. Thomas Shelley, and we
learn it is his intention to at once erect a
fine dwelling thereon.
81 have lost my voice and want some
thing that will benefit it" whispered a
man to a Palatka druggist yesterday.
What pity" remarked a meel-eyed
little man when the customer had gone;
his wife now has all the advantages"
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The yard and sidewalks of the Presby
terrain church have been cleaned up, and
Strengthened out, and everything down
there looks as neat as a new pin now.
The place since the completion of the
new fence presents a handsome appear
ance.
Dr. Mann looks as much at home be-
hind the counter at the Westmoreland as
he does in his doctors office. Yesterday
he was smiling over a nicely arranged
boquet that some fair hand had doubt
less placed on his counter. The doc
tor looked happy.
A gentleman who has just returned
from trip out WesG was asked how he
liked the country. well sir" he re
piled, every bunch of willows is a
mighty forest, every frog pond a sylvan
lake, every waterfall a second Niagara,
every ridge ofrocks gold mine, every
town a county seat, and every mama
liar"
While THE News carrier was deliver
ing papers yesterday morning he was at
tackled by a fierce dog in the Hammock
and severely bit on his hands and wrists.
Sam declares he will hire him blunder-
buss and deal death and destruction to
the next dog that offers to come near
him. These biting dogs should be kept
! confined.
An Old gentleman, full to overlooking
; with the beverage that makes men drunk,
made his bed on the sand alongside the
track of the J. T. & K w. Railroad
Tuesday night. to the imminent danger
of his life. Some gentlemen passing
by was attracted by his drunken muir
murings, who reused him up and made
him seek a less dangerous couch.
A night or two ago, as a gentleman
was stepping from boat to the wharf,
the gang-plank slipped and precipitated
him into the river A curious bystander
rushed up to. him when he had been
pulled ashore, and asked Did YOU
get wet all Over?" did [ get wet?
Humph. Do you suppose a man can go
down to the bottom of the river and
come out dry" was the reply, given in a
contemptious tone.
A movement is on foot to secure the
Marye House and grounds, at Fredericks-
burg, Va, as the site for the proposed
Soldiers Home for the INDECENT and
crippled Confederate soldiers. 1t crowns
the famous Fredericksburg heights, over
looks the sanguinary plain over which
General Thomas Francis Meagher and
his celebrated Irish brigade moved to
meet death at the hands of Barksdale's
Mississippi brigade; is in sight of the
home of George Washington, and full
view of the tomb of his mother. It is
close to Washington and Richmond, and
is situated in a county in which more