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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

During the month of January,
1884, 12,0l5 immigrants landed on
our shores. For the seven months
of the fiscal year, including Janua-
ry, the arrivals numbered 25O,366,
being 33,053 less than arrived dur
ing the corresponding month of last
year Of the newcomers Germany
contributed 96,254; England and
Wales, O,l42; Canada, SO, 888; Ire
laid, 20,95O, and Sweden, GAG.
The arrivals so far indicate for the
year probable increase of our pop
ulation by immigration of about
100000 souls, or 10000 families, all
of whom must find homes and sub
sistence in this country. 1t has
been bonStingly said that America,
sheltering the oppressed of all ma
tions, offers to them all homes and
good government. The patriotism
OF the citizen may perpetuate the
blessings of liberty forever, but I'M
less congress takes speedy action to
preserve the public lands for their
legitimate purposes, the immigrant
landing homeless upon our shores
will be at the mercy of the specuIa-
tor, whose demands will too often
deny the stranger a foothold on the
soil. The consequence will be that
this tide of home seekers will be
thrown back upon the cities and
densely populated states to become
desperate, half starved paupers in
the struggle for bread. The coun-
try will then experience the horrors
of ever recurring strikos, riots, and
every form of municipal disorder.
Who can picture the deplorable re-
suits which must then inevitably
follow?
Let congress reduce the amount of
land givan to the actual settler. The
intention should be to give him a
home, and not more than he can
cultivate. Let the laws which now
admit of so easy an alienation of
homestead privileges be so amended
as to prevent the accumulation of
the public lands in the hands of the
land shark. Let the requirements,
and proof, in regard to residence,
cultivation, and enclosure, be so in
creased as to make the commission
of fraud difficult and its detection
certain; and augment the penalties
for the commission Of fraud in the
acquisition and sale of pretended
homestead rights.
These remarks apply to the entire
public domain, but especially to
Florida, where the acreage required
for the purposes of settlement and
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20
MIR. TILDEN AND THE PARTY.

1t is high time for Mr.. Tilden to
give the democratic party some I'M
deniable evidence of his intention
to accept or refuse its nomination.
There seems to be a strong and
growing desire to have him head
the national ticket, but his friends
throughout the country are con-
fused and perplexed by the contra
dictory reports which continually
reach them regarding his willing
ness to be again elected president of
the United States. Unwilling to
transfer their support to others as
long as Mr.. Tilden remains a posi-
BILE candidate, they fear that their
continued support of his transcen-
dent claims on the party may prove
futile in the end by his refusal to
accept the nomination.
An end should be put to all this
uncertainty. Mr.. Tilden owes it to
his friends, his party, and the coun-
try at large, to so declare himself
upon this subject as to leave no fur.
.ther doubt about it. Nor is this all
If he intends to accept the demo
cratic nomination should, it be ten
dered him, he ought to furnish the
country with indisputable proof OF
his physical ability to manage its af
fairs. Retirement from the public
gaze is both dignifed and proper
But that retirement should not be
deepened into an obscurity both Of
intention and ability.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

REGISTERED AT THE PALATKA Posi- OFFICE
AS SECOND-CLAss MAIL MATTER.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

The house of representatives of
the Massachusetts Legislature has
passed bill providing that wife
heaters should be publicly whipped,
after a conviction. The south
can now safely initiate that illus
trious commonwealth without being
arraigned. for barbarously legislating
against the bodily peace of the ne
gro. With such a law in force the
sole difference between Florida and
Massachusetts, would be that
we would harden occasional hides
while they adorned the back of its
owner, while this merciful old moth
er of Tewksbury would harden
them at the whipping post before
death and tan them in an almshouse
vat afterward. Perhaps after all
this legislation is only designed to
improve the quality of Massachu-
sett's poor-house leather.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20
CRIME AND THE PRESS.

The Savannah News has summa-
rised the crimes recorded in north
ern paper taken without previous
examination from its last Saturdays
mail. OF thirty-two criminal items
only four related to the south. It
would seem, therefore, that those
northern Journals which praise the
Times-Uhioh for its false and fool
ish assertions regarding the preva-
lence of crime in the south, would
do well to Clash the murderers' who
hang about their own doors. No
state is exempt from crime. But
the impression which our contempo-
rary unceasing strives to produce
upon the northern mind, that crime
is widespread and goes unpublished
in Florida, is as foreign to the truth
as it will prove hurtfuI to the state.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

PALATKA, FLA, MARCH 20, 1884.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

portrait of the late Mr. Haskell which
cost $500, which amount congress was
kind enough to appropriate by joint reso-
luton. This memorial volume" will
probably cost $1,000 more. OF its 1880
copies three or four thousand will find
their way, free of postage, to the people.
The remaining thousands will soon be
covered with cob-webs in some Wash
ington Junk shop
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20
THE DAILY NEWS.
BY sPEER & HARRISON.

THE DAILY NEWS is published every morn
ing, except Monday, and delivered by carriers
in the city, or mailed postage free, for 30 cents
q month. 81 80 for three months. $3.50 for six
mouths or s. per annum.
THE WEEKLY NEWS is an SPACE 48-column
paper. published every Saturday, containing
an the news of the week, local and general 1t
is the largest ana handsomest weekly paper
published in Florida, and will be mailed post
age 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 ad-
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 be made by express,
money-Order or registered letter.
Address PALATKA DAILY NEWS,
Palatka, Fla.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

A farmer in his shirt sleeves and
without collar and cuffs used to
have a chance to praise God in a
church, but that was before churches
were made a place in which to show
off tailors' and dressmakers' efforts.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

There are symptoms of a sag In
the free, extra session boom, but DR..
Harris is still there.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

the water.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

There isn't a gondola in all Venice
that can hold a candle to a Florida
saw-log for grace and movement in
the water.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-20

A LARGE, COMFORTABLE TWO-sTORY
LOG HOUSE, with wide verandas on all sides
the coolest place and healthiest situation in
the pine woods around Palatka. Only half an
hours drive from town. Kitchen and clubhouse
for servants separate. \ good well with splen-
did and abundant water, fine garden, green
houses, orange, lemon and other fruit trees:
wagon shed and stables for horses and cows,
chicken yard with about fifty laying hens.
Address, d. H, BOX S3s
Post Office. Palatka, Fla
Or, E. r. MCKEAN,
Real Estate Agent.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15
Brockway Sits.

Mr.. Michael Shanahan has return
ed from Roscommon. He looks as
though the new country agreed with
him...... There is a rumor that one
of our young ladies is about to go
into partnership for life.......The
assault and battery suit which orr
big justice had on hand came off on
Saturday last. The jury brought in
a verdict of guilty......,Mrs. Smith
Gustin returned home on Saturday
evening. THE farmers in this
vicinity have nearly completed their
seeding. Mr.. j. III. Moore goes on
the road the 18th to sell the Bonan-
"a tanning mill.....A meeting of
the &. a. Il. Post in our village on
Saturday. Judging from the number
of old soldiers we think it will be
well attended. Our village is well
represented, there being three So
cictics located here-R'l Arcanum,
Knights of Maccabees and the g. "A.
RI. DIR. Gowan, Sen, is about
buying very toney horse. Must be
he is getting young again......A
new style for the front hair is called
Scrambled. ......Sabbath evening
while Rev. Holmes was giving us a
good sermon on honesty we were
startled by the alarm of fire. At
once the church was vacated and all
who were able were off to help. We
soon discovered the cause of this
stampede to be the burning of Mr..
Nathan VanOrman's farm house.
A good many things were saved and
many burned. He is insured so the
loss will not be so very heavy. The
cause of the fire is unknown.-JIM.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15
DIinden CITY NIurmurlngs.

The painters brush is making its
mark i'll our town......Mr. Mooney
has repainted his hotel inside and
made other improvements ia order
to keep pace with the Minden City
Hotel. Some of our townsmen
were on a quiet drunk Saturday and
promised the marshal to be orderly
if he would not lay hands on them.
......M Mr.. o. Il. Kerr, our postmaster,
has been quite sick. He is BETTER. -.
Mr.. +. a. Dean, an old resident of
Minden, age ~ years, died last Fri
day and was buried on Sunday. lie
died in hope Of everlasting life......
We have two cheese factories be-
tween Forestville and Minden..
While there is not much doing men
have time to quarrel through the
press. 1t don't take much brains TO
quarrel, but it requires considerable
jaw. 1t don't require much capital,
though some people consider it one
of the Injuries of life. Some will
quarrel over cent, especially if the
other man is getting it.....Some of
the Mindenites were pretty badly
frightened last Saturday night, sup
posing a cyclone had dropped down
upon us. Women sent for their hus-
bands and by the time they arrived
the storm was over.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15
Greenwood.

Have you heard the whistle of
the locomotive on the l.. e /. Il.
r.. yet?. Farmers are most done
with their spring work, 49,. Did you
hear the whip-poor-will's sweet
voice. Plant your corn....... Mr.. Fill
more, a gentleman rom Canada,
has been at Mr.. Hayes visiting the
music teacher. Albion Oatman
has purchased a fine French horse in
Canada. Died on Tuesday, April
9th after a short illness, Mrs. Jas.
Newstead with scarlet fever. De
ceased leaves large family to
mourn her loss. The funeral servi-
ces were held in the German school
house on Sunday April 25th at p.
IN. The family have the sympathy
of q large circle Of friends.-P ETE.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
TkNcINn Apprr 10 &c

To ". u. CHURCH. 1IASAGER:
Dear Sir The Alabastne put on the walls of
the Chemical Laboratory more than four years
ago is in as good condition and bright i'm appear
ance as when first applied, save where water
from leaky roof has injured IL. The Alabas
tine seems To grow harder with age, making a
firm and coherent covering, and has no tendency
10 soil the clothing by contact. as whitewash and
kalsomne will. | am well satisfied with Alabas-
tine. Yours faithfully.
II. G. KEDZIE, Professor of Chemistry.
Do NOT DE IMPOSED UPON WITH CHEAP INVITATIONS,
as the inferiority of cheap article sold as a
substitute may not he seen when first put on.
Common calcimine appears to he a very fair
finish when first put on but no one claims that
il is durable.
ALABASTINE COMPANY, NJ. b. Church,
Manager. Grand Rapids, Mich
For sale by paint dealers everywhere. 62wS
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15
CORRESPONDENCE.
PECK FLASHES.

The Globe Hotel has been greatly
improved by coat of paint......
Another marriage has occurred in
our town. Miss Julia Babcock to
Mr.. James Youngs, of Gladwin Co.,
Mich. Rev. j. T.. Foxen performed
the Miss Clara Dice of
Port Huron, is visiting friends in
this place. 80. Who said Joe. B. is
going to get married? Mr.. West
ern of Canada is visiting his friends
i'm this yicinity.-WIG-WA
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15
Drive Dull Care Away.

Be cheerful, be pleasant, he happy. be
healthy. Health is wealth. Use parmelee's
blood purifier, il acts upon the liver and
kidneys, IL regulates the bowels and purifies
the blaod, il acts upon the digestion. it carries
off the old blood and makes new, and is ac-
curing a great reputation for the cure of
Scrofulous affections hollis. pimples, Ulcers,
and nil sk in diseases. 81 90 per bottle. Sold
by G. A. Wells & Co.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15

head, throat and lung complaints, liv-
er and kidney diseases and other
chronic complaints consequent upon
impure and impoverished blood which
is the life. Health is paramount to
wealth. We advise the afflicted to
call and see the specialist il you prize
health. Oflice hours from o a. m. to
~ m. from y. IN. to y. IN. Office
not open on Sundays and no medicine
dispensed except III cases of necessity.
Consultation and advice free.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-15
n. Mustard. Specialist,

respectfully pegs 10
announce to the
citizens of Brock
way Centre and vi
entity that lie has
opened AN Office one
door north of j. 5.
Dulles Office for
consideration and
treatment of chron-
ic diseases, viz
catarrh, cold in the
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05
SelfHelp.

Herbert Spencer. the profoundest
thinker and dearest writer on social
science this age has produced, says
the Rural Home, believes that inter
ference with the people, by govern
ment, even when that interference is
designed TO aid, really retards the
development of the individual and
social progress. The infant in lead
ing strings, the child petted, and
pampered, and aided, aud shielded
from adverse conditions. seldom de-
velops into the strong, self-reliant
aggressive man. The pioneer of
progress, the inventor, the original
thinker is, nine times out of ten, the
man who in boyhood was obliged, al
most unaided, 10 overcome formid-
able obstacles. Human functions,
qualities, characteristics, talents are
developed by exercise, and without
such exercise there are feebleness,
inefficiency, impotency.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05

told him 70 come nere--here TO tile
very centre OF the serpent's den-for
bis answer. The poisoned teeth and
tongue will give it to him. See Yn
The pen ia powerless to describe
the scene that followed. The In
dian girl, from her lofty look Tout
saw il all--saw n human form fight
ing with countless serpents. whose
fangs were driven deep into tina
quivering flesh. She saw him fight.
ing with the desperation Of despair.
She heard his prayers for mercy, aud
answered with horrid and mocking
laughter. She saw the maddened
wretch, completely covered with
network OF serpents, leap headlong
from the rock-kpew that She had
been terribly revenged, and calmly
sought old Pedro and told him that
his master wanted him. All! how
THE OLD MAN sHUDDERED
when he found the disfgured corpse
and read at a glance the true history
of the matter. His eyes could not
be deceived no matter what anoth
er's might be. He made coffin Of
bark, and was preparing to bury the
remains, when he saw "Berry Hun
ter" standing at a little distance.
laughing and making gestures This
act exasperated Pedro and he deter
mined upon revenge.
"God forgive me-" he muttered
between his teeth. II may be wrong
to take human life, but"
The ring of his rifle cut the SEN
tence short, and at the same time an
arrow from the unerring bow Of
Berry Hunter" pierced the hunters
heart, while simultaneously bullet
from old Pedro's rifle crushed
through the brain of the unfortunate
Indian girl Thus closed a tragedy,
short but terrible in its ending.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05
New Notices.

AS the meeting of the Lime Kiln
club opened, the president announc-
ed that the following spring notices
won Id be hung on the walls during
the coming week
ssPay cash."
IDEAL on de sxuar'n
'sSell your dog"
mo man kin sit on de fence an
plant onions. -
''Time wasetd am shillins lost out
of a hole in de pocket"
IF it am pollyticks against taters
take de 'taters."
IAN hour wild a saw-buck am
more valuable dan al hour wild a
statesman"
"De man in debt am swimmer
that has butcs on
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05

A close-isted ScOtchman recently
insisted upon being admitted to a
panorama at half price because he
had but one eye.
Some mean fellow says, that the
giving Of the ballot to woman would
not amount to much, for none of
them would admit that they were old
enough to vote until they were too
old to take any interest in politics.
A young man was passing an ex-
animation in phisics. He was ask
ed what planets were known to the
ancients. swell, sir, there were
Venus and Jupiter, and'-after a
pause think the earth; but l am
not quite certain
II see you've got colored servant
girl" said Slabvill man to another
the other day. Eyes," was the re-
ply, "you see my wife's sister out in
California, has just lost her husband
and so we had to 60 into mourning.
We discharged our white girl and
hired colored one. She kind of
harmonizes with the mourning, as it
were.
Among the Sunday school chill
dren of a certain church was a poor
little fellow who could not tell the
house in which he lived, and was
charged when he next came to school
to bring it. The next time he ap-
peared he was asked If he had the
number. mo, sir" said he: sit
was nailed on the door SO tight that
l couldn't get it on"
They used to have the champion
mean miser in Halifax. He showed
his leading trait of character on his
death bed Being told by his ply
stefan that he would shortly die, he
sent for a barber to shave him. On
the arrival of the barber the miser
asked: "What will it cost if / am
shaved now p" ssFifteen cents,"
said the barber. "And what win it
cost If lam shaved after Tan dsad?"
"Twensy-nvec cents. = - Then shave
me now ~ be gaSped .s III
A Yankee In Huelind, was toast
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05
For You or Me.

The past is gone: the hours are fed,
A frozen sea
For You, or Ine.
Is that which has beea- rrackless, dead
One fact remains. We live to-day.
To live. to be
For you or me.
Means onward upward, while we may
The future is the futures own,
Whate're may be,
For You, or nae,
In store, 'twere better now not known.
Boston Globe
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05
In Prin,aeval Wood.

This deep, primeval wood--how still
Lo, silence here makes all his own;
Yelled shapes with hands upon their lips,
Stand round about the darkened throne,
The patient pleading of the tree
How deep it shames the Soal's despair
Ia supplication moveless, mute,
They keep their attitude of prayer.
john Vance Cheney In Century.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05

Don't blame the farmer who
palms off a five-year-old hen as a
spring chicken. Perhaps the very
woman who buys it is forty-6ve, but
won't admit to be one day over
thirty.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05
An English Woman Among
Japanese.

N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The boots OF an English lady in
Japan excited the curiosity Of Jap
anese women. Some asked permits
sion to try them on, which was
granted. Before doing this they
caused bowls of hot water to be
brought, washed their feet carefully
and dried them by tanning them,
which made the wet evaporate quick
ly. AS they all had children's feet,
the boots were awkwardly big and
the scene was very ridiculous. The
ladies next handled her skirt and
corsage, and, to oblige them, she
took them of. The petticoats had
their turn, then the stockings, which
they did not laugh at; after them
the buckled elastic garters, and last
the stays. japanese politeness here
broke down. Everyone shook and
cried with laughter in looking at
the stays. One of the ladies had
picked up some French and explain
ed that the others wished to know
whether the stays had been invented
to serve as a cuirass to protect fair
Europeans from rude men, or was It
worn as penitential garment to ex-
plate sins? The reply was: "No,
but to bsautify the figure" This
answer convulsed them. A stayed.
up woman affected their impression
able and well educated eyes as some
thing monstrously ugly and absurd.
Japanese dress is graceful and easy.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05

Plantation Philosophy.
Sunday breeches fits bes' when
dey is paid for.
faint no consolation to git chew
ed up by a fus' class dog.
De bobbykew takes way heap o.
bad feelin's.
De dog-chain tromples on ekal
rights
A POI man out o. work IL wus orr
dan a stray dog, cause he got to keep
on explainin' his sitivation.
IT'S dangerous to hab rotten
round OBJ de ladder on top.
De MORT wind hollers TO- it hit
you.
De quicksand don't fool you but
once.
De rabbit amt pertickler bout
holes when de houn's git in sight.
--
Qvhn ~vo,Skht,.1 nO1c- hc~.xk,- o-A
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05

The youthful color, beauty and
lustre are gradually restored TO gray
hair by Parker's Hair Balsam.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05
An Indian Girls Revenge.

A FATAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
HUNTERS" FINAL ANSWER
WARNED OF HIS FATE BY THE
HISS OF A SNAKE AND THE MOCK
ING LAUGH OF THE GIRL HE WAS
TO BETRAY.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05

ITO those who are the lovers e Sir
- Walters need, we ask q - = ~
our gen y inc Graverly-it is all tAr1Fw
clam for 1.-THE best. !"
JOS. II. SHAFFRR.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05

"A FEW PAIR of choice WOO,
- :. I'D Dian rg very cheap to closesout
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-04-05

BURKHART q co. are esilinf
ready for the Fall trade. Neg aesd,
all the time: au 18th-8t