davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
The Statue of John Marshall.

Washington Special, 28th.
As [ descended the steps which lead
down from the western front of the Cap
itol, at noon to-day, I found the work
men placing tue pedestal for Mr.. Story's
statue of Chief Justice Marshall. The
site is directly in front of the lowest
flight of steps, spot where more per-
sons pass at all hours of the day than at
any other point in the grounds. The
master workman informed me that the
statue was in a great box some fifty feet
away. Passing round to the other side
Of this box, I found that the larger por-
ton of the boards had been removed on
that side, and within sat the figure Of
the grand old magistrate who moulded
our constitutional law. The blazing sun
of high noon poured over the pavement
throwing a strong light on the right side
of the figure. 1t sits in judicial chair,
a colossal image. clothed in the simple
robe of office, which extends down tothe
feet, but does not cover them. The ar
fist has achieved a great success. There
is dignity and power in the head and
face, in the extended right arm and
hand, in the cold, clear keenness of the
earnest eyes, in the whole action of the
man, wonderfully but most simply ex-
pressed. He is laying down the law in
all the majesty of its authority, with a
calm earnestness of manner that will.
when the statue is put into its place,
speak for ages of what he did for our
stability and safety. Icannot quote cor
rectly, perhaps, but the passage that
! comes to my recollection runs somewhat
! thus, if my poor memory serves me:
AID Republican, firmandam, ad sanan-
dam pOpulum, ct ad stabiliendas wires.
Ominis ejus pergebat institution.
am told that the statue is to be for
mally inaugurated on May TO- Seats for
5000 persons are to be erected on the
lawn which stretches below the spot
What the ceremonies are to be is not yet
announced. Senator Sherman, who is
Chairman of the Library Committee, is
now absent The inscription for the base
of the statue reads that it was erected by
the bar and the Congress of the United
States in the year 1884.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06

opinion has ceased to be virtue,
and they will submit no longer to
the arbitrary dictation of the office
holders who, for years have walked
insolently over the faces of the vo-
ters. 1t is no protest against Re
publicanism; it is no mere kick of
the colored masses, it is an organized
effortled by brains and money against
the rule of the bosses. 1t is no sign
of the strength or weakness of Ar
thur as a presidential candidate, but
an open expression of disgust
for Bisbee and his strikers. When,
relying on his prestige and old
strength, Bisbee wished to enforce
inaction on the party to advance his
new scheme of personal ambition
and ACKNOWLEDGMENT, Mr.. Kinds
opposition poured oil on the slumber-
ing Goals Of discomfort and the blaze
which sprang up surprised even the
authors thereof. And of all the in
dications Of future results in State
politics, this revolt is one Of the
most promising.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
THE REPUBLICAN ANDa THE NE

The Republican has always claim
ed that to him the colored brother
must look for protection and sup
port. For twenty years the negro
has given the offices and power at
the disposal of his vote for these as
surances. And now it seems that
when he claims a fair division of
these in proportion to his numbers
and in justice to his increased intelli-
gence and education, he is threaten
ed with party ostracism more exclu-
siye than any ever practiced by
Democrats. This has taken practi-
cal form and open expression in
Georgia, and the brother is alarmed
and began to kick in Florida at St.
Augustine,
But it was not alone to this feel
ing that the prolonged struggle at
the convention was due. Putnam
County led the revolt, but the avow-
ed leaders of the delegation from
our county had also other motives.
Such men of wealth and influence
as Mr.. Hind, and those who have
stood with him in this movement
have been ignored and insuited by
Bisbee until forbearance, in their
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
The Philadelphia Times.
THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, 1884.
4 - $~S 4.


THE TIMES will enter upon the new year
stronger and more prosperous than ever be-
quoted, more heartily commended, and more
ferCely criticized, with a more complete or
ganiZatiOn, and an able SsOff of contributors
and with the same independence and fearless
ness that has made it successful and powerful
in the past.
THE TIMES has no party to follow, no candi-
dates to advance, but will meet every issue as
it has ever done, with consistent devotion to
the right, to honest government. and the pub
lie welfare. And, while maintaining its posi-
ton as the leading journal of Philadelphia, il
will aim to be continually in the advance in all
that can add value to newspaper.
The value OF a newspaper is not in its size or
display, but in the intelligence and care, the
cOncisenesS and freshness with which it is
edited. The TIMES spends laViShly for news
from all parts of the world but all its dis
patches are carefully edited and condensed, in
order TO give the complete news of the day in
the most concise and attractive shape, and with
it a large variety of entertaining and inStruc-
abroad are employed to enrich its columns,
and to make it a journal adapted both to the
busy man and to the leisure of the home cir
Gle, welcome visitor to Intelligent and honest
citizens of every political, religious and social
taste.
THE WEEKLY TIMES is altogether different
from the weekly newspapers of twenty years
ago. The day of those papers have gone by.
The telegraph and better local newspapers
everywhere, especially in the thriving centres
of rural population, have made the old weekly
metropolitan newspaper unSatisfying. Those
LnaJ ClllE 10 Jncir ancient uSdgeS nave lost
their hold on our forward moving people: they
are but shadows of their former greatness. and
they have but a shadow of their former power
Those papers have had their usefulness bUt If
is gone; and. with it. they are going, too. 1t
was not the fault of the papers: 1t was the i'm
provement Of the country that brought about
the change. Men and women. wherever they
live, now require fresher news; and they re-
quirc more than news.
THE WEEKLY TINES gathers off the types of
every passing week whatever has lasting in
terest to the people at large, and sets it before
them in such generosity of paper and print as
would have astonished us all twenty yeors ago.
DATLY-Twelye cents week, fifty cents a
month, 81 year, TWO cents a copy.
SUNDAN-Four cents copy. g d year.
WEEkLY-One copy. s. a year; five copies.
$ "A year; ten copies, So a year; twenty cop
les S25 year. with one copy free TO the getter-
up of every club.
THE TIMES.
PHILADELPHIA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
THE STATE CONVENTION.

The Democratic Executive Com
mittee has called the meeting Of the
State Convention at Pensacola for
June 25th, prox. We hope our
district committee will meet as soon
as possible, and set the date and
place for making our Congressional
nomination also, otherwise our coun-
ty committee will be embarrassed,
and may be compelled to call three
conventions-one to choose delegates
for Pensacola-one for the Congress
sional convention, and one to make
county nominations. This would
cause Inconvenience and expense for
which there Is no necessity, as two
conventions would be ample for all
our purposes.
The ratio OF representation in the
Pensacola convention will be prescri-
bed in the circular orders of the
State committee soon to be issued.
If this is unchanged Putnam will
have nine delegates, and in the cOun-
ty convention about sixty. 1t will
be seen that our citizens would like
such movements to be conjoined
wherever practicable, and we would
again urge upon the committee that
the congressional convention should
meet at Palatka. 1t is easily ac-
~7sIble from all points of the dis
trict, we have ample accommoda-
tions and our city has laid first
claim 70 the honor through the col
umns Of The News.
PaIatka cannot base her request,
like Pensacola, on the ground that
Putnam Democrats need encourage
ment, but we have not had our pro-
portion Of such honors heretofore,
and our citizens would highly appre-
ciate the visit of so large a member
of orr fellow-~0ldiers in the fight for
honest government and good princi-
! Pile in politics.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
PALATKA, FLA, MAY 6, 1884
TAXATION.

1t will be remembered that in late
communications 20 THE News, nei-
Their B.r. Lyle nor Mr. Hind com
planned Of excessive, but of unequal
taxation. Neither did we deny that
the assessment was unjust or impro-
perly equalized, but only that any
partisan discrimination had been
practiced. These views, as viii be
seen, are now endorsed by the Al
dermen Of Palatka, who were elect
ed by an overwhelming popular vote
as representing the best elements III
our city, and we wish again to de-
clare our firm adherence to the same
opinion. The result of the last as
sessment has caused universal dis
satisfaction in our county; even
those at present benefited by the
loose work done, join in the com
plant because their turn may come
next year The results as concerns
individuals has been sufficiently dis
cussed: in Palatka the town loses
nearly half its revenue, as estimated
by those who have made close study
of the subject
The only objection that can posi-
bly, be urged to the basis proposed
by the board is that the same valua-
ton must run throughout the coun-
ty, and then Putnam would pay to
the State more than her proportion
OF the State tax. To this W answer
that the law should be closely fol
lowed, whatever the cous-quen 70,
and also that the State tar is so low
that little actual loss or injustice
would be caused by the rigid en-
forcement of the statutory provisions;
while the county and the corporate
towns therein would be largely bene-
fitted. Another suggestion we would
make is that it is well nigh impossi-
for one tax assessor to perform the
work required of him III such a
county as ours. The urgent need Of
an assessor, or a board of assessment
for each election district is painfully
apparent in view of our late ex.
perience. This might be so proyid.
ed without additional expense to the
counties, and we venture the pre-.
diction that the work would be
much more satisfactory to all con
cerned. Reasonable men of both
parties might agree on this, or some
similar plan, and give us an amend.
meut to the constitution which wouio
bring common benefit to all.
And We wish also to point out
that this is one of the reforms which
can best be secured by a revision OF
the constitution, and to reiteratt
our hope that no partisan opposition
viii be allowed to defeat a measur,
of practical necessity.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
NOTICE OF SALE.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDER OF
Il the County Court in and for Putnam cOun-
ty, Florida, bearing date April 1, 1884, ! will
sell at public cutlery on May 5th. 1884, being
the first Monday of said month, within the le-
gal hours of sale, at the Court House in Palat-
ka, for cash, the following real estate, belong
ing to the minors Mabel l.. Webb and Clara l.,
Webb. being in said county and state, and
comprising so much of lots No. I9, private sur
yey, in See. L. T. I3, Range 26 east, as remain
ed unsold after deed February 9, 1876, Of
Thompson and Webb TO George Z. Marvin.
Also a part Of Section II, T. IS, 5. r. % E.
bought at sherif's sale in July. 1874, portion
having been sold TO George Z. Marvin, being
the remnants of the said two lots of land and
containing about nine acres of land, more or
less Dated this, April 4, 1884.
E. 5. GRILL. Commissioner.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
THE DAILY NEWS.
BENZ. HARRISON, Editor.

THE DAILY News is published every morn
ing, except Monday, and delivered by carriers
il the city, or mailed postage free, for 30 cents
month, $50 for three months, $3.50 for six
months, or s. per annum.
The WEEKLY NEWS is an SPACE 4S-cOlumn
paper, published every Saturday, containing
all the news of the week, local and general 1t
is the largest and handsomest weekly paper
D iblished in Florida, and will be mailed post
e free for 81 a year, or 80 cents for six
months. Specimen copies free to any address
Local advertisements 20 cents per line for
first insertion and 10 cents per line for each adj
ditiOnal insertion. Special notices 10 cents per
line. Reduced rates on continued advertise
mentS.
All advertising bills become due pro rata
every month. Local advertisements due at
the expiration Of the time for which they are
inserted.
All remittances should madc by express,
mcney-order or registere -etter.
Address
w. w. RANDALL.
BUSINESS MANAGER.
PALATEA, FLORIDA
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS

THE UNDERSIGNED WILL BE AT pa
i lat1a Election District, No. 5, on Monday.
May 5Jh. and remain during the week ending
on saturday the 10TH, for the purpose as of as
seSSlng the State and County Tax for the wear
a. ID. 1854. Al tax payers wishing tax blanks
VIII please call at either the office Of clerk of
Circuit Court or Tax Collector. where nv
viii find them. J. w WOODS
Tax Assessor Putnam County
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
ST. Johns River, Florida
S. B. PLANT, CHATTAHOOCHEE
j II n ~ L H L n n II.

=
FORMING On CONNECTION WITH THE
L DGBary- Baya Merchants2 a DOUBLE
and intermediate landings, connecting at As
tor with the st. Johns and Lake Eustis Rail
way; at Sanford with the SOUTH FLORIDA
and TAMPA, and from this point with Steam
ships for Cedar Key, Key West and interme-
date landings on the west coast of Florida.
Steamer H. b. PLANT leaves Palatka from
Florida Southern Railway wharf at $50 Ocl'k,
p m, on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays.
DeBary-Baya Merchants Line Steamer
CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, leaves Palatka from
Florida Southern Railway wharf at O'Clock
p m, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Returning, leaves Sanford daily on arrival
of the train of the South Florida Railroad,
from Tampa at p. M, arriving at Jackson
vile in time to connect with the fast mail
train at $50 a. m, Of the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway.
Steamer CHATTAHOOCHEE leaves Palatka
from Florida Southern Railway wharf at IL
O'Clock p. m, on Tuesdays and Saturdays
Returning, leaves Sanford on Mondays at
o'clock p, m, on arrival of train on South
Florida Railroad from Tampa.
Returning on Thursdays, leaves Sanford at
$3.50 a. m, on arrival of train on South Florida
Railroad.
Steamer JENNIE LANE leaves Palatka from
Florida Southern Railway wharf at II o'clock
p. N. on Mondays and Thursdays.
Returning leaves Sanford on Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
Tickets on sale at W. 0. VOLTS Drug store
Palatka, Fla and on board of the steamers.
All tickets and passes Of the DeBary-Bay
Merchants Line viii be nOuOred until further
orders.
Steam Barge Uncle Sam, suitable for carry
ing unusual aud heavy freight. open Tor
For further particulars, inquire Of
Il. =. DOWD, Agent
Peoples Line st. Johns River,
Office WayCrOSS Steamboat Wharf,
.I9clE%OnViilp Florida
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06

From the Galveston News.
Wonder if Grants crutches are made
from the famous Appomattox apple
tree2
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
THE MOST NATURAL AND SUBSTANTIAL
Tree Food
Important Questions:

Inn portant Questions:
Tao YOU DESIRE A STEADY, HEALTH
l. fuL, vigorous growth, do you desire CLEAN
BRIGHT FKUIT? Then buy and apply
Presbrey'S Orayton Island Mari.
Every PERSONS fruit where it has been APP
ence by permission: Hon. 7. v, Tucker. Judge
W. A. Cooke a. c. Narttu. I j. Stenstrom.
Charles Groves and any C.heIs hive demon
stHted its excellent qualities ard We now Of
fer it to the public with perfect confidence.
Price per ton, or cikht barrels on pier head
DraytOu Island, $40: or TT City Wharf SAN
ford, Fla, SD; per barrel, Sl.75. All orders
filled {. o. ID. Address.
A. A. PRESBREY & Co. Sanford Fla.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-06
PreSbrey's Orayton Island Mari.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

4 LII CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF
y 5 II. Demont must be presented as pre-
scrIbed by law or this notice will be pleaded
in bar. And all parties concerned viii take
notice that six months from the date hereof
will ask for my final discharge from such
administration before the county judge Tor
Putnam county, Florida.
G. A. KNOWLTON
Ap Administrat r,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-20
DEATH IN rHENISs.

Remember" said a Fort street
physician to his wife, as he was leav =.
Ing home for few days, "and do
not let the children Kiss anyone.
sis it possible" asked surprised
third patty who was present, "thst
you consider it necessary to give such
instruction as that? Where is the
danger?"
"The danger is go complicated,
and yet 80 certain, that it would take
too much time to describe it here"
9 id the doctor, looking at mis- watch.
SIN my case, ell kinds OF people
come to my house and Office to CON-
suit me, ami they often wait hours.
Ii one OF my children happen to
come 10, they are almost certain to
talk to it, AMI you know almost the
first impulse with people who notice
children is to ki.s them, BAIL it
makes me shudder-t tainted and d.
seasei bresths, lips blue with cancer,
foul and decaved teeth. You would
kill a stranger who would waylsy
your young lady daughter and kiss
her by torce, bat the helpless, inno-
cent. = year old child, susceptible as
a flower t. every breath that blows,
can be saiuted by every one who
chances to think of it. / tell you it
wasn't Judas alone who betrayed by
a kiss. Hundreds of lovely, bloom
ing children are kissed into their
graves every year"
"But. doctor. how can q mother be
80 upgracious as to refuse to allow
people to notice her ctildren?"
There need be no ungraciousness
about it or, il there were. which ia
the nost important-the safety and
we'll being of the child, or the
permitting OF habit OF i'll breeding
and doubtful morality at best. Let
the mother teach her child that it is
not kitten or lsp,dog, to be picked
up and fondled by every stranger,
and lnstruc. it 10 resist anv attempt
to kiss it. Why.snere are agents, pe6s
dlers Of house hold wares, who make
it custom 10 catch up a pratsling
child. kiss and pet it, and 30 interest
the mother that she will buy somea
thing she does not want. | tell you
there q death in a kiss! The be-
loved and lameDted Princess Alice of
Hesse took diDhtheria from the Hiss
OF her child, and followed it to her
grave. Diphtheris. malaria, scarlet
fever. blood poison and death lurk
10 these kisses. There! l shouldn't
wonder il lost"this train. Remen =
Der. no kisses!" and, waving his
hand, the doctor drove away.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-20
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

The tide of immigration setting
toward our shores is subject to f1uc-
tuations, but there exists no reason
to anticipate that during the life of
the present generation it viii fail to
reach the average height o. the
past ten year,; immigration, the e.
fore, continues to be ole OF the
great economic questions Of this
country, and it involves q political
problem Of the highest Importance,
that Of naturalization. That our
naturalization laws are defective in
many respects is notorious, and the
demand for their revision will no
doubt acquire added force from the
publication of an article by Justice
William Strong upon that sui jsct
in the North american ReUisaO for
May. In tire same number of the
Reoieo0. Edwin P. Whipple offers a
candid judgment of Matthew Arnold,
az thinker and man of letters
Richard A. Proctor, under the title
of "A Zone OF Words" writes of the
vast multiGue OF the pigmy kindred
OF the earth, known IS the ASTEROIDS.
In THE Railroad and the State"
Gerrit L. Lansing essays to prove
the multiplication and extention o!
railroad lines. and the establishment
OF low rates OF transportation, are
hindered rather than helped by gov-
ernmental interference. Prof. Henry
F. Osborn, OF Princeton College, has
a highly interesting article on 'Iilu~
aions of Memory" Helen Kendrick
johnson contributes an essay on
The Meaning OF Song" Finally,
there is a joint discussion OF Work
ingmen's Grievances, by William
Goodwin Moody and Prof. J. Laurence
Lsughlin, of Harvard University.
North American Review, New
York City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-20

$3.50 A BRICK house OF SEVEN
ets, ETC., all we'll arranged and we'll built.
Lot 3r10 rods, In Seventh Ward. Hydrant
water in front and back of house
A NEARLY FINISHED FIVE LARGE
n roomed house, built in modern style
bay window, Mansard roof, in commanding
situation on East Bench. Large rock ce Lar
Lot fenced, 5x20 rods. Call for terms.
S1SSO CORNER LOT AND GOOD
P1OoO dwelling house OF three rooms
well house, barn and out houses, on First
South street; good fence magnificent lOcs-
ton on street car line; lot 5x5 rods, south and
west fronts.
S1oOO AN EI5HT-RO"MED, TWO
p1HOO story brick house, with two halls
and closets, modern built, extraordinary
thick walls; painted and grained; good well OF
water, a number OF fruit trees, all in good
condition; lot 5&20 rods; Sixth South street,
enc block south of the new station on the o..
CIR. R. and one block from street car
S0S0O EIGHT ROOdED HOUSE AND
OOOOO buttery, well finished, lawn. barn.
fruit trees, on North Temple street; lot
rods front; cheap property.
OO1OO HOUSE OF FIVE ROOMS, LOT
O@1OV 1920 rods, a little paradise; an
excellent orchard, half an acre in lucerne,
half an acre OF garden, under the highest Gull
tivation; corral and stable; near Liberty Park
S1RSO FOUR ROOM HOUSE, WITH 10
SIocO x20 rods of ground, in the
Eleventh Ward.
10000 AFULL LOT, 1Ox2e RODS, COR
pow ner lot,'good house of three rooms
and buttery, mostly brick, cellar, we'll, or
chard shade trees plenty Of water, adobe
barn; on Fifth South.