The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-04
CLIPPED EDITORIALS.

that employment was procured dur
ing the twelve months for 28,e87 |
emigrants.
Senator Malone, who, according
to report, has been requested by a
hotel proprietor in Washington to
find other quarters for himself and
family, is not understood to relish
such ''repudiation," but he is likely
to get it so long as he fails to Gre
adjust" the habits of his hopeful
son.
a Cincinnati printer, who brought
suit to compel telephone company
that had removed his telephone be-
cause he used profanity in a message
through it, to replace the instru-
ment, has been defeated in the SUI
preme court of Ohio, the court hold
ing that the company had the right
to remove the instrument.
A meteor passed over Victoria,
British Columbia, on February %.
I! Mas Of enormous SIZE, ,aqs4rd appear
ed like mass Of molten iron. The
noise caused by its passage was like
that of escaping steam. Smoke and
flames were thrown off by the mete-
or. 1t was seen to descend into the
sea, cloud of spray and steam
marking the place where it met the
water. This extraordinary phenom-
enon was witnessed by many per-
sons.
A Texas editor has hit upon what
he thinks is just the thing to make
delinquent subscribers come to time.
He advertises his accounts against
them in his paper, offering them for
sale for whatever they will bring
and says he win keep each mans
name standing until the delinquent
pays up or the account is sold. If
it is safe to try this experiment in
warlike Texas there is no reason
why the rural press of other parts
of the country should not repeat it
with perfect impunity.
Acting under the instruction OF
the New York central labor union,
officers of that body have prepared
a circular to the various European
governments stating that the repre-
sentation of emigration agents that
work was plentiful and very remu-
neratiye in the United States was
untrue; that the labor market was,
in fact, very dull, and that all the
public lands had already been dis
posed of. The secretaries have been
directed to prepare revised copies
for the press and unions, as well as
for the governments.
While attending a ball on Feb.
II, in Lincoln, Neb., Patrick Egan,
president of the Irish national lea.
que, was handed an ordinary chip
basket by little boy, with the mes.
sage that it contained bouquet OF
flowers. The basket contained an
internal machine, in which, howev-
er, some innocent substance had
been used instead of dynamite. II
: is thought that some dealer, sus-
pecting mischief, gave the men ask
ing for dynamite the material found
in the box.
The New York Herald's special
dispatches describe the congress of
dynamiters at Paris, as terrible as a
session of the Spanish Inquisition.
The dress of each member was
adorned with simple green rosette.
It's watchword was, "Hellfre for the
British" In the audience was a
torpedo manufacturer with an eve
to busieess. "In this grim Council
of Eleven, America was represented
by three members. The Continent
of Europe had only two members,
but thosewere evidently persons of
distinction, for one of them wore a
Papal decoration and the other wore
the ribbon Of the Legion of Honor.