The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-18

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Her president seeds,
Each folded germ, with life endued,
To bloom in deeds.
o ove-fraughthours, sail mutely on;
Die, one by one;
It's life to sigh, when all are gone:
Il might have done?"
Mary Clemmer.
Large quantities of fish are sold in this
market every day,
The Famous Golden Egg Cigar is only
to be had at G. H. Padgett.
Colonel Marshall, a lawyer from Wash
ington, D. c., was in town yesterday,
looking after some legal business.
John D. Terrence, of Lakeland, Polk
county, late of J. T. & K. w. R. R. en-
gineering corps, was in the city yester
day.
A nice cupula is being erected on Cap
tain Reds store, and another will soon
set off the top of THE News office build
ing.
Capt. E. R. Mexican will leave tonight
for Sumter county to look after his af-
fairs down there, and will be absent sew
eral days.
Mr.. S. J. Kennerly received a large
shipment of door and window screens
last week. The mosquitoes held an in
dignatiOn meeting.
The register book of the Westmore-
land Hotel showed an average of twenty
names per day for the past week. This
makes pretty good showing.
The Harnett House, of Savannah, is
justly popular with the travelling public.
It is run in first-class style and its mana
gers are genial and clever gentlemen.
DR. J. J. Harris, the able editor of the
Sanford Journal, passed through the city
Gainesville, and paid THE News a pleas
ant visit.
A Chinese girls foot is called a lily in
the language of tibet country. The ques-
ton now before this country is, what
would that poetical people call Jack
sonville girls foot.
THAT is a well-balanced man." re-
marked citizen yesterday who had just
met stranger. ''Why SOP was asked
him. Because, don't you see he parts
his hair in the middle"
We noticed beautiful sziff in the j.,
T. & K. w. depot yesterday that we
learned belonged to Mr.. Henry Payne.
1t will be the handsOmest craft on the
river when it is put in the water.
The material of the Putnam County
Journal was being packed in a car at the
depot yesterday, preparatory to being
shipped to Jacksonville, where a daily
Republican paper is to be printed with it
The Lake City Baptist Witness printed
last week an article from the pen of al
unsuccessful fisherman. Its a mighty
risky business allowing any sort of fish
erman to tell his stories in religious pa
per.
Mr.. S. H. Royal returned from dowr
the Florida Southern yesterday, where
he had been on a business trip. He says
he saw at Hawthorn three onions thai
weighed ten pounds. They were grown
there.
Mayor Mount will move his office to
| 4C hn IJNv,co Ir,1II,y,S
and will make the violators of law anC
order dance to the usual tune in tn,
room heretofore used to hold city cleo
tions in.
The Academy of the Sacred Heart vii
be greatly improved in appearance whel
the painters get through their work. Thu
building has been repaired throughout, ;
new fence has been put up, and all i
now being painted.
The Florida Southern shops, located il
this city, have just turned out two hand
some new ventilated fruit cars. The car
are stout and well built and are capabl,
of good service. They were being LOADED
yesterday for the first time at the J.,
K. w. R. R.
Mr.. f. c. Cochrane carries a splendit
stock of goods at his store at the post
office. We noticed yesterday a fine lot o
note paper and envelopes, and his stool
of fine gold pens, pencils and general sta
tionery goods cannot be excelled. H
also keeps constantly on hand all the hes
and latest periodicals.. Go around an,
see him.
T, J. TilghmEn & Sons arrived yester
day, accompanied by Mr.. Tlghman'
family, and about ten hands, who vii
begin Immediately the construction of al
extensive saw-mil at Francis Station
The mill is to have a capacity of from
ten to twenty-five thousand feet of lum
Der per day. We learn that this tirr
own some fine timber land in that vicini