The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-13
CITY NOTES.

last evening, bringing large freight and
few passengers.
DR.. w. T. Sylvester, president of the
Silver Springs, Ocala & Gulf Railroad,
was in the city yesterday. He reports
everything booming.
One horse tried to make another run
away yesterday by pulling an awning
post across his back, but the horse was
too lazy to more than pull ghimself from
under the post.
On next Sunday the J. 7. & K. w. R.
r., will run an excursion train for st.
Augustine, Green Cove Springs and
jacksonville, for 81 for the round trip to
either place; leaving Palatka at 80 am.
The fires have been kindled, and the
political cauldron will seethe and splut-
| ter and splash until the elections are all
| over and the man who always goes
around with Il told you So has had his
say.
Mr.. B. F. Roberts shipped from Fran
els station yesterday a carload of fine
melons for the Northern markets. This
is the first extensive shipment of melons
North we have heard Of from this sec
ton.
In another place we print the proceed
ings of the Democratic meeting in pre-
cinct 8. The report was somewhat late
in reaching us, but we deem it of suffi-
cient interest to give it room in our col
umns.
A patent medicine reads:
do YOU know what causes that extreme
tired feeling?" Yes, alas we do, it is lis
tening to the man who comes in to tell
us why he always thought Blaine would
get the nomination.
We call attention to the new advertise
ment of Mr.. |. Jacobson to be found on
our first page. He has an extensive bus
mess, carries a heavy stock, his clerks are
polite and gentIemanly, and offers goods
at shortest possible profits. Give him a
call.
The journalistic walking match in
jacksonville Tuesday, developed the fact
that some of the boys can walk, the
winner scoring 81 miles in twelve hours,
which was closely contested by two OF
three of the walkers. Mr.. @. H. Ash
mead was the winning man.
By a noticein another column it will
be seen that Mr.. L. J. Ireland will here
after have charge of VIM. F. Forwards
hay, grain and commission business and
, ice warehouse. Mr.. Ireland is a clever
and competent business man, and the
business will net suffer at his bands.
Editor Henry NJ Mcintosh, of the Al
bany (Ga.) News, accompanied by his
wife and son, were at the WestmOrelanC
yesterday. He publishes one of tina lives
little daily papers in the south, and wield'
a considerable influence in the affairs o.
our sister State. He left for st. Angus
tine yesterday morning, where he viii
$ spend a week or two.
3, Messrs. Haughton Bros had on exhi
5 bition yesterday a vegetable curiosity il
the shape Of a squash which weighed
sixty-two and One-half pounds. It look
e more like huge pumpkin than a squash
/ and it was only after most solemn as
surance by zone of the boys that the re
porter would believe it was anything bu
Il pumpkin. 1t was grown over the rive
on the Harding place, and is of the Hub
bard variety. A soil that will grow sucl
, a squash, larger than an average pump
kin, and twice the size of the average
watermelon, cannot be called poor, fo
no where else under the sun can this veg
: etable be grown to larger size.
, The Jacksonville Herald says the ex
, element at MaypOrt Tuesday night raj
7 high as DR.. l. Engle'stug boat swept pas
, the wharves with the schooner Wolstol
in tow. At three o'clock this beautiful
schooner lay piled upon the sand beach
apparently doomed to add another to tht
string of wrecks along this grave yard
, Many regrets were expressed at her sac
fate. At s o'clock cheer after cheer an
iOulloCb VilC very p'C'todllL News tudJ Ilt
Schooner was once more "a thing of life,
! and Mayport responded heartily, compli
menting DR.. L'Engle upon the skill anc
I pluck exhibited and success attained
The schooner was only a year old, anC
cost sci, 600. She was not insured. Thu
+ schooner got aground ON the south beacI
just inside of st. Johns bar, on the 31s
ult., while attempting to sail up the st
Johns river. She was bound from New
York to Palatka with a cargo of bricl
and hay for w F. Forward
The Military Ball.
e A News reporter has been permitted t.
get glimpse of some of the good thing,