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F. A. NORTH & CO.,
Dealers in Pianos and Organs.

Parties buying musical instruments should
be careful about two important points
First, that the make of the instrument is "a
standard one; and second, that the person
they buy it from is trustworthy aud safe to
deal with. 1t is risky business buying
these articles from irresponsible parties,
for the country is flooded with fraudulent
limitations that bear close resemblance to
the standard makes and with their well
painted cases look about as well rs Il good
instrument; but less than year use dis
closes the fact that they are mere rattle
traps, made especially to defraud unsus-
pecting purchasers. We refer with plea
sure to the above house, located at 7l3
Market Street, Wilmington (W IL. Null
len, Manager).
These gentlemen understand thoroughly
what they deal in, and rs fair and honOra-
bic gentlemen their reputation stands first
class. They keep in stock the most pOpu-
lar and standard pianos and organs made
in the country, which have, bV peculiar
merit won their way and established their
reputation wherever highest excellence is
appreciated. tits here, that the celebrated
Hazleton Bros. pianos and Wilcox Il
W hite organs are kept, conceded by all
To be the best in use.
by the most favorable business arrange
ments with the manufacturers, MEssRS.
NORTH " Co. are able to sell an instrument
as cheap as it could be purchased direct
from the factory.
The increase of trade which naturally
seeks this centre, is due to the fact that
standard goods governed by the lowest
market prices, are the controlling elements
of this house. mar j. Cm
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s. Mysterious KnOckings.' -
BY TIE RARp OF TOWER HAL1..

Mysterious sknOckngS!-sOme facts will mention,
And hope that no Skeptic the matter will scout;
such things are occurring, in manner too stub
To leave room for even the ghost Of doubt
sheriff was standing, writ in his fingers,
And Justify pounding away at door,
But spirits within had secreted the bodies;
Response to his raps he did vainly impOre
There was nothing so strange in his manner Of
The noise Of the raps showed the zeal of his
heart
The mystery lay in the rogue at the window,
Who laughed as he he saw the poor sheriff de-
part.
merchant was busy-his books he was posting
The cash was deficient and dark was his brow
He'd studied and pondered it over and over,
The lucre was missing, he could not tell how.
He had a new salesman, with him was the secret
fellow brought up in Il back country town
He learned in week that mysterious knocking,
Mysterious truly-thats called "kROckjHg dOlUR."
stranger was walking one night in the city;
Around his was slence-nO lOaler was nigh
But as in his walk he was turning "A corner
He got a mysterious knock in the eye.
The stranger believed in the gestdti0nS"
And thoughtthata question he then would pro-
Say how manyare there% Twas answered by
knocking
a couple of bruisers" that fell on his nose
The stranger lay bleeding, the spirits proceeded
To rifle his pOckets-it truly was shocking
And one of them cried, when his pocket book
seizing,
och! here is the charm Of mysterious knocking"
The sly pOlitciOns-rewarded for plotting
W no long AT lle government CrlD nave DeCu lea,
Are mystihed Oft by mysterious kt0ckiags,
When quite unexpectedly Knocked in the head I!
Though many the knockings in mystery shroud-
cd,
That startle the skeptic-awaking his wonder
This knocking is pan--that the dealers in cloth
ing
To G. N. 4 A. on bargains are all knocking un-
der"
The truth, that their clothing is best and the
cheapest
Knocks now at the hearts of the purchasers all
And that is the best 0f mysterious tHOckRgS
Which answered will lead TO the famed Tower
Hall
lust Before Making uD Your Mind
About your Spring and Summer outfit, call and
inspect the splendid Clothing we have prepared
for this Season.
Ahtough Of such elegant qualities
dnd desirable materials, nude up
IN tie best manner and latest
styles, our prices lCW be found
tOlCer than Is asked for interior
goods elStlUhere
BEING DETERMINED NOT TO BE UNDERSCID WE
/ GUARANTEE GENUINE BARGAINS. AND THE RELIA.
/ BILIrY OF EVERY GARMENT PURCHASED
TIE BOYS DEPARTMENT.
full of splendid Suits, is on
the ground floor of our new
buildings, Nos. 5ll and jl3
MINOR STREET, recently
added to TOWER HALL,
where bargains are plenti-
ful
GARITEE, MASTEN & ALLEN,
TOWER HALL,
BIS and $50 MARKET street
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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smvrna Branch Trnins
Closing Of Mills.

Going North, 714A. NJ. S53 "A. NJ. 1O.5SAM NJ 42OP.M.
Going South 1880 2.25PM. 450P.M. 7A5
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-27
STATE PRESS.
himself.

Tavares Herald 1.-The air is full of
railroad news.-Almost every town
along the st. Johns and Lake Eustis rail
way now has organized a brass band.
footing" has become a mania in this
part of the State-The time Of year is
now here when the darkies can live
without work. Fish, gophers, possum,
blueberries, and an occasional stolen wa
termelon, make up great portion Of the
average darkey's living.-The Florida
Railroad and Navigation Company
road better known as the Leesburg and
Indian River branch of the Transit and
Peninsular road, is rapidly nearing COM
pletion. On Wednesday afternoon the
crOss-ties We're laid, and the laying of
iron was commenced this morning. Mr.
J. S. Camp, the Superintendent of Con
struction, on Monday, brought the con-
struction train from Fernandina, and the
work of completing the road will be
pushed forward as rapidly as possible.
Lake Eustis New Yorker, the only out
spoken Republican paper in Florida, says:
9 1t is reported that convention of the
white Republicans of Florida will meet
at some point in Florida soon to organize
the National Republican party Of Florida
and cut loose from the negro entirely"
Orange City Times: Mr.. Matthew A.
Bridge, a merchant at VOlusia, and well
and favorably known by many Of the
citizens of the county, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head
with pistol at that place, on Thursday
of last week. Mr.. Bridge was a man of
splendid business qualities, and has been
gagged in the mercantile business at VO-
lusia. He has been for many years an
inveterate drinker, and had become a
hopeless victim. He had too much
character to fall from the counters of a
saloon into the cutters of the street, but
had slipped too long and too often from
the decanter that was found in his death
chamber to tell a sOrrOwful and melon
chOiy story
Orange City Times Charles Dough-
erty, if we base our opinion upon reports
of interviews a number of our exchanges
have had with prominent Democrats in
this district, is to-day thes strongest can
didate in the field for Congressional hon
ors from the Second Congressional dis
trict of Florida. Dougherty is one of
the best workers in the district and no
man could make better canvass than
he,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-27
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORMS.
An Almost UnbrOken Series of De-
mands for Tariff for Revenue.


mands for a Tariff for Revenue.
From the Washington Post.
Free commerce with all nations, po-
htical connection with hnone.-Democratic
Congressional Caucus, 1900.
Hostility to any and all monopolies
by legislation, because they are viola
tions of the equal rights of the people.
The true foundation of republican govern
ment is the equal rights of every citizen
in his person and property and its man
agement First Democratic National
Platform, 1886.
Justice and sound policy forbid the
Federal Government to foster one branch
of industry to the detriment of another,
or to cherish the interests Of one portion
to the injury of another portion Of our
common country. 1t is the duty of every
branch of the Government to enforce
and practice the most rigid economy in
conduc ting our public affairs, and no
more revenue ought to be raised than is
required to defray the necessary expenses
of the Government.-Dem Ma
tional Platform, 1910. Reaffirmed in
1914.
Resolved, That the fruits of the great
political triumph of 1914 have fulfilled
the hopes of the Democracy of the Union
in the noble impulse given to the cause
of Free Trade by the repeal of the tariff
of 1912, and the creation of the more
equal, honest and protective tariff Of
1946, and in our opinion it would be a
fatal error to weaken the bands of polit-
ical organization by which these great
reforms have been achieved, and risk
| them in the hands of their known adver-
saries with whatever delusive appeals
they may solicit our surrender of that
vigilance which is the only safeguard of
/ liberty. ."-Democratic National Platform
/ 1848.
Resolved, That il is the duty of every
/ branch of the Government to enforce and
practice the most rigid economy in con
Quoting our public affairs, and that nc
more revenue ought to be raised than is
required to defray the necessary expenses
of the Government and for the gradua
but certain extinction of the public debt
Resolved, And to sustain and advance
among them constitutional liberty by
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-27

continuing to resist all monopolies and
exclusive legislation for the benefit of
the few at the expense of the many. =
Democratic National Platform. 1852.
Resolved, That justice and sound pol
icy forbid the Federal Government to
foster one branch of industry to the det-
riment of another, or to cherish the in
terests of one portion of our common
country.
Resolved, The time has come for the
people of the United States to declare
themselves in favor of free seas and pro
gressive free trade throughout the world. >
Democratic National Platform, 1856.
Reaffirmed in 1860.
"We denOunce the present tariff levied
upon nearly four thousand articles, as
masterpiece Of injustice, inequality and
false pretence. 1t yields a dwindling,
not yearly rising revenue. 1t has I'M
poverished many industries to subsidize
a few. It prohibits imports that might
purchase the products of American labor.
1t has degraded American commerce
from the first to an inferior rank on the
high seas. 1t has cut down the sales of
American manufacturers at home and
abroad and depleted the returns of
American agriculture-an industry fol-
lowed by half of our people. 1t costs the
people five times more than it produces
to the treasury, obstructs the processes of
production and wastes the fruits of labor.
1t promotes frauds, fosters smuggling,
enriches, dishonest officials and bankrupts
honest merchants. We demand that all
custom-house taxation shall be only for
revenue democrat National Plat
form, 1876.
"Home rule, honest money, consisting
of gold, silver and paper, convertible on
demand; that strict maintenance of the
public faith, State and National, and a
tariff for revenue only."-Democratic
National Platform, 1880.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-27

good work; and he did it by doing moth
ing. Applause and laughter We slept
Tlaughterl; he slept; he is not dead; he is
sleeping yet. [Renewed laughterl." This
was the tribute of the Cooper Institute
mass meeting to the poor Fraud, whose
name emerges from oblivion now only to
be scurged or flouted.
The contempt of his fellow Republi-
cans have been piled high on Hayes ever
since he took the office which was stolen
for him. That is his punishment for his
share of the crime. The Republican party
is not yet punished. Hayes is an issue in
himself
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-27
The CtOwning neutrality-suspicious.
Insulted by Beecher.
New York Sun.


New York Sun.
1t is almost four years since R. B.
Hayes, of Ohio, then the fraudulent oc-
cupant of the Office of President of the
United States, sat down to dinner in
Brooklyn with the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher and other Republicans prominent
in this and the neighboring city. The
occasion must be deeply engraved on the
tablets of Hayes memory, for it was a
great day for him. No doubt he has
carefully preserved reports of the speeches
in scrap books for which the people of
the United States have paid. 1t was his
last experience of the sweets of f1attery.
Some of the gentlemen who figured in
the Arthur demonstration of night before
last went to Brooklyn then to do honor
to Hayes, and to compliment his admin
istration for the same alleged qualities of
prudent conservatism and patriotic re-
gard for the business interests of the
country as are now attributed by the
same men to the present administration,
and urged as reasons why Mr.. Arthur
should be renominated.
For all that we know, Hayes was in
the audience at Cooper Institute night
before last. His wife was in Philadel-
phia on Wednesday. Curiosity to learn
how he is now regarded by the Republi-
can business men of New York and
Brooklyn may have led him to Cooper
Union. 1t is certain that he can go from
4own to town unnoticed, and that his
presence in the throng of Arthur Repub-
hcans would not attract the slightest at
tention. Possibly Hayes was there.
If he was there, he heard his name
mentioned only in the phrases of insult,
and received by the audience only with
derlsive laughter. To intensity his hu-
initiation, the insult came from Beecher:
when Hayes took the Presidential chair
llaughterl-stop, gentlemen; stop awhile
when Mr.. Hayes was elected President,
the country had been scourged with the
i'reS oil wan, and as a physician applies
sweet OH and poultices to the skin of a
scaided man, the nation needed poul-
tice and 1T had it" Laughter.
Then again, as the merriment of the
business Repubhcansincreased Little
90 ~" may 'i'iiiA OF Hayes, he did us q
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-27

Lord st. Leonard must stand trial and
become the figure of a bad sensation. A
true bill was found against him in Lon
don yesterday.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-27
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES.
THE LATEST NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS BY WIRE AND CABLE.

PARTS BY WIRE AND CABLE.
The WAYS and Means Committee have
Hewitt's tariff bill under consideration.
Five thousand, two hundred and TWEEN
ty-six emigrants arrived at Castle Gar
den Saturday.
The Macdonald, of the City Of Mexico,
has announced that President Gonzales
win ask Congress to permit him to re-
sign next month.
HOT WEATHER NORTH.
NEW YORK, May 24.-The highest
point reached by the thermometer to-day
was 81 degrees. Four sunstrokes were
reported in this city and two in Brooklyn.
One was fatal.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
NEW YORK, May M-The weekly
statement of the Associated Banks issued
from the clearing house to-day shows the
following changes: Loans decrease, $13,-
461 800; specie decrease, $10,8 100;
legal tenders decrease, 81 ,086, 400; de-
posits decrease, s., 1852, $40; circulation
increased, 1926, 900; reserve decrease, So
731, 400. The banks now hold $6,603, 125
below legal requirements.
BAGGING BANK PRESIDENTS.
NEW YORK, May 22.-It has been
learned that warrants were issued to-day
by the United States authorities for the
arrest of John G. Emo, late President of
the Second National bank, and James D.
Fish, last President Of the Marine Ma
tional bank. In the evening two deputy
United States marshals visited the house
of Emo and insisted upon searching the
premises. The alarmed inmates refused
to allow the search and the officer on
post was called in. He explained that
the marshals had right to examine the
house and see if Emo was in it. This the
deputy marshal did; but without finding
any trace Of Emo The detectives still
keep up the watch on the house.
LAND GRANTS FORFEITS.
WASHINGTON, May 24.-The Senate
COlnInlGJe6 OIl puDlIC IdIlOS JO-udy ueClueu
to report bills fOrfeiting the land grants
opposite the uncompleted portions of the
Northern Pacific main and branch lines
and the Atlantic and Pacific railroads.
Senator Plumb, chairman of the commit
tee, says: 1T is impossible to calculate
the number of acres involved, as in both
cases some of the roads were not con-
structed on the direct line contemplated.
Nominally, the Senator thinks the for
FIXTURES of the Northern Pacific will
amount to about 100000 acres and
of the Atlantic and Pacific to about &c.
000,0 900 acres. Senator Slater, who is the
author of the bill providing for the for
feiture of the land grant to the Northern
Pacific railroad, says the actual number
of acres forfeited along the line will be
about n, 900. 600, which is about 30,0O0,-
600 acres less than is proposed by the
House Committee on public lands. Sena-
tor Slaters bill further provides that lien
lands hereafter selected, if occupied by
bona fde settlers, shall be sold at $1.95
per acre.,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-27
HOT WEATHER NORTH.

NEW YORK, May 24,-The highest
point reached by the thermometer to-day
was 81 degrees. Four sunstrokes were
reported in this city and two in Brooklyn.
One was fatal.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-11-20
Double Murder In Colorado.

DENVER, CoI.., November 13.-Robt
Standring and wife were discovered
dead this morning in their h,1sc in O
rancho seven miles from Pine Grove,
a small station on the South Park Road
Circumstances indicate that they were
both murdered for money. Standring
who was one of Colorado's pioneers
was quite wealthy and was widely
known. lIc was an ordained preach
er of the anti-polygamy branch of the
Mormon Church. Mr.. and Mrs. Stand
ring were evidently shot when on the
point of retiring Sunday night. The
bodies were not discovered until yes
tcrday morning, when a ncighbor call
cd 1T the house. On entering the
ncighbor found Mrs. Standring in bed
undrcsscd, with n bullet hole in her
left breast. Her husband was found
in a knccling position al the side OF
the bed with three bullet holes in his
back. An old ncighbOr and bitter
enemy of Standring is suspected OF
having committed the double murder
end officers are in pursuit Of him.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-11-20

Are any members of your family thus
afflicted? Have they scrofulOus sweliings
of the glands? Have they any scrofulous
sores or ulcers? If so. and it should be
neglected, the peculiar taint, or poison,
may deposit Itself in the substance of the
lungs, producing CONSUMPTION. Look
well to the condition of your family, and if
thus afflicted, give the proper remedy with
Outdclay. Butuse that which makes abso-
lutte cures in the shortest space of time The
unerrimg finger of public opinion points to
b. B. b. as the most wonderful remedy for
Scrofula ever known. You need not take
our w0rd-yOu need not know our nrmes-
merit is all you seek. Ask your neighbors,
ask yo:r druggist, ask or write to those
who give their certificates and be convinced
that b. B. b. is the quickest and most per-
feet Blood Purifier ever before known. X
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-11-20
WESTINGHOUSE DEMONSTRATIONS.
Six Thousand Men in Line at tho National
Cnpital--A Grand Democratic
TOrChliphf Prncnsnin,

Torchlight Procession.
WAsIIINTON, November 13.-Dcmo-
Gratis of this city and vicinity cclebrat-
cd the election of Clcvela,.d and Hen
bricks tonight by a grand torchlioht
procession. AT least six thousand men
were i'll line, about five hundred of
whom were mounted. The greater
number of these were residents of
Washington and Georgetown, but a
large contingent from Virginia and
Maryland helped to swell the parade
which, marching in platoons of eight
occupied nearly three-quartcrs Of an
hour i'll passing a given point. The
route OF the procession was from the
Capital, by way of PENNSYLVANIA
Avenue, to the northwestern section
OF the city, passing the Democratic
Congressional Committee rooms, Mr..
w. w. Corcorans house, and the
house of Chairman Luttrell, of the
District Democratic Committee, at each
OF which places the column passed i'm
review before prominent Democrats.
Private houses and stores along the
route were illuminated, and residences
ofsuch prominent Democrats as Mr..
Corcoran and Mr.. Mcrrick were de-
coratcd and hung with Chinese lam
terms, fLom roof to pavement. Crowds
OF spectators were masscd Oh the side
walks all along the route of the pro-
ccssion and greeted the column as #
moved, with cheers and waving of
hats and handkcrchicfs. Colored fires
were burned at intervals along the
route, and rockets and other fireworks
were used literally, giving great bril-
liancy to the scene.
Iransparcncies carried in the Dro-
ccssion bore devices which have be-
come familiar during the campaign,
and since, and large assortment of
living and Of pictured roosters cvok cd
enthusiastic plaudits of spectators.
Every second man in the column car
ried n broom. -.
Several divisions chcered themselves
hoarsc as they passed the different re-
viewing stands, and along the streets
shouted the names Of the Democratic
standard bearers and various catch
phrases of the campaign. !
a singular feature of the celebration
was that Blainc's magnificent. new
mansion, about which so much was
written during the campaign, was
brilliantly illuminated. 1t is leased
from Blaine by Mr.. Letter, of Chicago,
who is q Democrat.
While the procession was passing
through part of the city in which a
great many negroes reside, q colorcd
man standing in crowd on the side
walk, without any provocnlion, shot
into the column Of moving men, the
bullet striking a torch bearer named
Sullivan in the temple. lie fell in the
ranks, and number of the process
sionists charged Oh the crowd of col
orcd men who surrounded the man
who did the shooting. The latter rap
and in the'confusion the murderer cs.
capped, but was afterwards captured
by the police and locked up in the
station house. Sullivan is not expect
cd to live through the night.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-11-20
THE oHoLERA IN EURorE.
Progress of tho Disease It's Dreadful
Ravages In Paris.

Progress of the Disease It's Dreadful
Ravages In Paris.
PARIS, November 49, The physi-
clans here are of tho opinion that the
people who are strong and healthy
need have small fear Of being attack
cd. None. of the attendants ut the
hospitals have SO far been seized with
the dreadful malady. Many, therefore,
consider the disease not contagious.
Efforts were being made to put the
slums i'll better sanitary condition bv
| flushing them with water and carbolic
acid. Three cases of cholera have oc-
cured at tho police depot in the pro-
lecture. The conditions are such
there that it is feared tho disease will
make rapid hcadway. The depot con-
tains prisoners who are awaiting trial,
or who have already been sentenced
and have not yet been sent away to the
place os punishment.
The rooms III which the prisoners are
huddlcd together, pcll nell, are nau-
seous hoIes, in which scarcely ray of
daylight can penetrate. They arc ex-
trcmely filthy and reek with the foul
est odors. The bed linen, such as il is,
is seldom cleaned. These disgraceful
quarters arc now being surprised with
a thorough cleansing and disinfcction.
"A single death from cholera has oc-
Cured i'll each of the outlying villages
of Aubcrvillicrs, Clicby, Boulognc and
Pantin. The Spaniards, who have
been residing in Paris, have hurried
back to Spain to avoid quarantine.
Numerous tugitivcs from Paris are
stated TO have arrived at Genoa. 1t is
} believed, that the number of cases of
cholera at Toulon, in the fresh out
break of epidemic, has been under
stated through the influence Of the ho-
tel Keepers, who, of course, have had a
drcrdfully bad season. at Marsci!cs
three friars of the Ecolc Chrctcnne
} have died of cholera. In consequence
OF this tho ecole has been closed. 1t is
reported that Austria will establish a
sanitary Gordon at the frontier.
From midnight to noon to day there
were 33 deaths from cholera in Paris,
19 of which occurred in the hospitals.
The revised report for Yesterday gives
total of 81 deaths, all but twenty of
which occurred in the hospitals.
Eighty-four fresh cases were received
into the hospitals yesterday.
Fifty-cight deaths from cholera are
reported to have occurred since mid
night, of which 80 were in the CITY
proper, the remainder being in the
hospitals. Two deaths are reported at
Oran, Algiers.