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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12
IMPORTANT TO BUILDERS p!
Lumber and LathS
In Small Or Large Quantities
From the New Mill at
Devils Elbow, Opposite PalatEa.
Headquarters and yard at Palatka. Office
corner Water and Madison Streets Having
our own ug-bOat and lighter enables us to de-
liver lumber up or down the river most adYan-
tagcOusiy to purchasers. We challenge ad-
veCtitiOus trace. FTOmptness and dispatch
considered. Guaranteeing satisfaction spe-
cialty.
AVERY ~ IEINNAN.
/ $685.
The PHILADELPHIA TINES

Aims to cover the whole field of progressive
journalism. No subject is too great for it to
discuss inteIligentIy and without bias, and
none 50 insignificant as to escape its notice.
1t lays the world tributary to its wants, and
everywhere its agents may he found, alert
to gather the particulars Of all passing events
and send them by telegraph up TO the last mo-
ment of going TO press. 1t is Il brief and alb
stract chronicle of the time and contains all
that Is worth knowing in the history of the
world for the past tWenty-fOury years.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12

Sam. Jones has thoroughly begun his
evangelical work in Chattanooga, and is
holding four meetings each day. His
houses are so crowded that standing
room can't be had. He is creating deep
feeling, and many have already been
converted.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12

Edwin Fleming, for several years a
resident Washington correspondent, has
been appointed managing editor of the
Buffalo Courier, President Cleveland's
home organ.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12
Great Auction SaIei

will sell at public auction, at my store, cor
ner Lemon and Second street. Saturday, May
2nd. Second hand buggies, fine new buggy
harness brides, halters, whips, and second
hand furniture. | have just received $500
worth of dry goods. which I shall offer for
sale TO the highest bidder, without reserve
These goods must be sold. Hours Of sale from
IL a IN to > p M. Don't forget the day
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12
H. J. CAMPBELL,
ARCHITECT & CIVIL ENGINEER
Plans, Specifications,
Superintendent and Estimates
For all Kinds of Buildings.

Surveys, plans and estimates made for all
minal facilities for railroads water works,
sewerage, irrigation, drainage, river and har-
Dor improvements, and landscape gardening
Land surveying, examination, laying out and
mapping of town sites. Barometric levels and
flying reconnaissance taken. Properties and
proposed work examined and reported on for
Palatka, Fla.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12

Connecting at Chattahoochee with Pensaco-
Mobile, New Orleans, Texas and all trans-NI Mis-
sissippi points. Passengers for Brunswick take
this train, arriving at Brunswick via B. & w.
Railway at l2:45 p. m.
Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars Waycross
TO Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12
Savannah, Florida & Western R'y
waycross Short Line

All trains of this road are run by Central
(90th) Meridian time, which is SO minute
slower than Jacksonville time.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12

LeeSDufg as 1OuOWS:
Leave Gainesville, .-.... -......... ... $50 a IA
Arrive Ocaa. .......... .............. II Oj a N
Leesburg, ......-...- .-.. 900. 1240 p m
Leave Leesburg, ...... .....-..,.... 1.40 p m
Arrive Ocala, .....-....--.-. -.. 800 ST. p N
Gainesville, ... .........-..... 5.l5 p II
This train connects both ways with trains on
S. T. & W. Railway.
Trains leaving Palatka at 600 a. N, and ar
irving at s. p. m, every week day, connect
with trains and at Gruellc.
Trains Is and Il will run between Palatka
and Gainesville, on Sundays only, leaving
Palatka at $50 a. N.
Arriving at Gruelle........ ..-.... $50 a. n.
- Gainesville -... ...... 1000 -
Leaving Gainesville. .-.-.. ....--.....- 500 - III
Arriving at GrueIle.....-.-... -s-...... $50 -
Arriving at Palatka.... ..........-.....G. $50 -
These trains connect with trains 3 and at
Gruelle..
J. d. HOLLISTER,
Superintendent.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12

j. Edwards Pierrepont, continues very
i'll at his residence in Westcherter county
New York.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12
NEW ORLEANS EXPRESS.

ON and after Sunday, Novembe" ?, 1884,
~ Passenger Trains viii leave and arrive as
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12
Florida Southern Railway
SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE

PALATKA, FLA, January 18th, 1885.
Begi ming Thursday, January 22d, trains 3
and viii run daily between Gainesville and
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

We have now reopeGed with
an entirely new stock of goods,
and arecOnstantiy receiving ship
ments from the North. No old
or stale drugs on hand, every
thing new and fresh. Our prices
will be lower than ever, We
have not the largest store, but
the best and largest stock Of
goods, also the most complete
and most select variety ofChrist-
mas goods. IfyOu wish to make
your friends a Christmas gift
call and examine them,
M0RaGHE & kERSTING,
On Lemon St., one door abOVt
fry's Brick Block.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12

Pullman Buffet and Sleeping Cars Jackson
vile TO Washington, ID. c. Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cars Gainesville TO Savannah. Con
nections ut Montgomery with Louisville and
Nashville Railroad for New Orleans and TIE xas
points and the West and the Northwest. At
savannah with Central Railroad of Georgia
for all points West and Northwest. Charleston
and SaVSnnah Railway for all points North
with steamships for New York, Philadelphia
Boston and Baltimore. At Charleston with
steamships for New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore,
Through tickets sold to all points by Rail
and Steamship connections, and Baggage
Checked through. Also Sleeping Car berths
ana sections secured at COmpany's Office in
AstOr's Building, 81 Bay street, and at Depot
Ticket Office, and on board Peoples Line
Steamers II. =. Plant, Margaret Chattahoo-
chez and Jennie Lane
JAS. L. TAYLOR
General Passenger Agent
y. NJ. IVES, Agent
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-12

THIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PALATKA,
Il successors to VIM. J. Vinegar 4 Co. A
general banking business transacted. Front
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-11

The tone of the press, in its notices of the
recent death of General Mcdowell, has been
one of unusual kindliness. The writers some
times seemed to feel, in fact, that they were
paying their last tributes to a man who had
often deserved better than he had received.
Scarcely any commander in the late war under
went greater popular detraction, or was held in
higher honor by those best qualified to Judge.
He was, indeed, one of the unluckiest and one
of the very best officers i'll the army.
1t was his dangerous fortune to be the first
assigned to high command in the field. He had
been favorite staff officer of General Scott, and
vet he was forced to oppose his old chief by
urging an aggressive policy when General Scott
wished delay. He had to make the first adj
vance with raw troops, ill-equipped and unsus-
tained and to take the consequences. Military
critics agree that his plans for Bull Run could
hardly be improved and that his conduct
throughout was admirable; but he did not es-
cane the odium OF it till the war was over. Ill
luck pursued him at every step in his subse-
duent active command, and at every step he
was Judged in the light of the first great dis
aster. His most careful discipline begot in
subordination, and his most exposed service
was a lifelong total abstinent, and yet he was
denounced in the press, and even among his
soldiers, as a drunkard. He was among the
truest and most Jealous in his loyalty in the
whole Regular Army, and yet Michigan Col
onel in his command, dying of a wound on the
battlefield, scrawled Il last note to his family,
in which he said, L" | am one of the victims OF
"Pope's imbccity, aud McDowelIs treason.
"John, you owe a duty to your country. Write
"-show up POpes imbecility and McDowells
infamy."
This at last gave him an opportunity; and on
its publication he asked Court of Inquiry. Ot
the nature of the storm then beating about this
General at the head of volunteer troops in ac-
tive service. whose confidence il was indspen-
sable for him to retain, if he were to have any
success whatever, his own almost pathetic
words to the Court give some idea. He said :
There is hardly form OF rcproach that not used
toward me. Every possible way my feelings could be
hurt seemed to be TAKEN not only by those who opposed
the Government, under whose very eye / serving,
but by friends and supporters Of the Government as
we'll . II was said of me that was dling away
the time, doing nothing the banks Of the Rappahan
mock; fitting back and forth between Fred
rrcksburg and Washington for merely personal
purposes; fearing TO cross tbs river when there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-11
NOTES ON INDUSTRY AND TRADE


TIE EXCHANGES-Ihe report of exchanges at
the different clearing houses in the month of April
compares unfavorably with tho returns for April,
1884. showing decline of 1919 per cent outside
of New-York. For the four months ending with
April the decline was 11.9 per cent, and for the
latest week reported ending May 2, the decline in
comparison with last year 1917 per cent. Last
week, according to incomplete returns the decrease
in comparison with last year was somewhat less
but still zig per cent small improvement APP
pears at Chicago though at other points the trans
decline in exchanges is by no means adisheartening
symptom, when considered in connection with the
fall of prices within the past year. One year
ago for example, the average price OF STOCKS
May was 500 80, whereas the price OF the Same
stocks on Saturday at the close averaged ite less
than $40 per share decline of over 10 per cent
Again. the price of wheat year ago ranged from
81 OGIo to 81 O9io. But last week the range
was from 9sl2 to 81 031, loss OF to per cent
In cotton the decline in price, from ll.69 cents
year AGO TO 1887 cents on Saturday last, was over
7 per cent A year ago the price of lard was $40
cents and on Saturday only 7.l0 cents, fall of
over IS per cent Pork has fallen from $17 last
wear TO $40 90 on Saturday, over 26 per cent The
decline in corn, from 64l2 to about 81 cents, has
been over ~ per cent In print cloths the fall has
been over 10 per cent; in pig iron, just 10 per
cent; in steel rails, Is per cent; in refined bar
IRON nearly 80 per cent. Thus it is PLAIN that the
exchanges inasmuch as they fall not more than
about 10 per cent below those OF one year ago. ndi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-11

added new penalties for the negllgeh. Vi ii'''.'
cious kindling of such fires. The other was W
facilitate the collection of taxes, and 10 es'au,
Isb titles. and it provided that the State shouiu
nav taxes on its own wild lands, thus lifting
burden from the counties where THESE ANUS 10
AS an offset to this concession horo 1ViV' I-
and rand procedure for the sale OF WIN anus
ON which the taxes were past due was proviueu,
and the removal of timber, bark or other lo,es.
nroducts from such lands by owners WHO h"u
ceased to pay taxes was prohibited.
II now appears that both OF these
hills will probably fail. AS for the one chang-
inc the Penal Code, it may be said that II other
forest owners can afford to refuse this pronereu
protection against fire, the State can DO without
II for another year. The failure OF the ak Dill
is a serious misfortune, for the law Is sound III
nrincinle and carefully drawn In It's details'
But something worse than this simple fallure Is
threatened. One house has already passed
hill embodving one feature of the original meas
uro--tbe taxation of the State lands to wit
and withholding from the State any correspond
ing advantage. If the failure of the Comms-
sion bill is a calamity, the passage Oh tills iop
sided measure would be an outrage. III Is saiu
that some of the Senators have agreed 10 XIII
this bill, and for decencys sake, it is to be hoped
that this is true
But after ALL we are convinced that the pas
sage of this new Assembly bill would prove
decided gain. 1t does not contain all that the
best interests of the State demand, but unlike
some other measures that have been proposed,i it
sets out in the right direction. 1t is step
forward. 1t does constitute preserve, not a
park be it understood, but "preserve to be
forever kept as wild forest lands" which are
not to be sold or leased to any person or corpo-
ration and to this preserve are to be added all
lands within certain boundaries acquired here
after by the State. 1t does establish an unpaid
Forest Commission invested with adequate
authority to represent efficiently the interest OF
the people in their preserve. These provisions
are essentially those recommended in the re-
port of Messrs. Sargent, james and Shepard.
The bill is therefore good as far as it goes and
the Senate should not hesitate about passing 1t
at once.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-11
PERSONAL.

The Rev. George r. Van De Water rector Of St. Lukes
Church, Brooklyn, will spend the summer at Garden
City attending officially TO the arrangement OF work at
the Cathedral schools for the coming year.
Josh Billings" will not trouble the trout in the White
Mountains this year. but will spend the summer in tho
West He will remain the Pacific Coast during next
winter and thereafter has twOyears foreign tour In
contemplation.
Senator Stanford, returning home from Washington
said he had talked with prominent educators in tho
East about his projected University. AND one who
is at the head OF institution here has promised TO visit
California this summer and advise concerning It's organ
ZatiOn.
Mr. W. NJ +. Rounds. secretary Of the Prison Assoca-
ton Of New York, will read paper on Prison Reform
to-day before the Baptist preachers OF Philadelphia
Mr. Rus kns resignation of the Slade Profcssorship at
Oxford remarks Truth Ondon),is hardly to be regretted
for he has great deal of other literary work on hand
he is sxty-sx years DID, and the excitement OF his
public lectures endaDgering his health. 1t will be by
no means easy however, to replace him. 1t Is common
idea artist ought TO be appointed 10 tho post but
this is absurd, for nobody at oxford wants TO learn
of the Professorship was failure He could not lecture
and he therefore had practically no rdtson dee as pro
fessOr at all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-11

LET THE BROOKLYN EXTENSION WAII.
The members of the Assembly must cOmpre-
bend fully by this time the Importance OF the
Bridge bill, which has already passed the Sen
ate. 1t contains three principal features-the
enlargement of the terminal facilities at this
end of the structure, the reorganization of the
Board of Trustees by putting the management
of the Bridge in the hands of the Mayors and
Controllers of New-York and Brooklyn, and
the extension of the railroad IN Brooklyn to the
City Hall. If the bill had contained only the
first two of these provisions, there is every
reason to believe that it would have become
a law several weeks ago. The Brooklyn ex-
tension however, has been bone of contention
ever since it was first proposed; and it now
seems extremely doubtful whether the bill can
be passed with this section included in it, or
whether, if so passed, it will receive the Gov
ernor's approval. 1t is not yet too late to strike
ont all reference to the Brooklyn extension.
The members of the Legislature will make a
mistake if they insist on pressing the bill VI Its
present shape 1t should have been divided be-
fore this Then the Brooklyn matter would
have had chance of being discussed and de-
cided on its merits.
While we believe that the Brooklyn extension
Through Adams7st.) has many advantageous
features, it is of immensely greater importance
that the right to extend the railway tracks across
Chatham and Centre SITS. be given to the Bridge
authorities and that the unnecessarily large and
cumbersome Board of Trustees be replaced by
a small and responsible body. There is no
difference of opinion on these points. To the
Brooklyn scheme great opposition has been
manifested.
The Bridge bill will come before the Assem-
bly, Committee en- Cities tonight. We appeal
to them most earnestly, and to the Legislature
as a whole, to give us the two things for which
there has been Il unanimous demand from the
people of this city and Brooklyn. Unless room
for switching longer trains is provided in New
York, the Bridge Railway will be cramped for
a year longer az least. The travel is increasing,
while the accommodations are already strained
to the utmost. Why daily with the Brooklyn
extension when this most important matter
needs instant action Let the Brooklyn scheme
wait
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-11

trunk lines has cut down the business OF the
Lake Shore. The stoppage of some manufact-
uring establishments, however, the threatened
or actual strikes of workers in different parts
of the country, and the unfavorable news in re-
gard to the wheat crop, all had depressing
tendency.
The effect in the grain market was consider
able. During the week wheat rose about 10
cents after q decline on Tuesday to 9Sl4
cents for May, the price rose to 81 0314 at the
close on Saturday. Corn was also depressed to
559s cents for the May option at the close on
Wednesday, but recovered to 567s cents on
Saturday, only one cent below the closing price
of the previous week. Oats also lost liz cents
in price. Thus the general course of the grain
market during the week correspondent much
more closely than usual with the tenor of infor-
nation which ought to govern it. The market
for provisions also closed lower, with pork 20
cents per barrel below the closing
price of the previous week, and lard, tallOw,
butter, cheese and eggs each shade lower.
During the past week much attention has
been given to the financial situation and
better state of feeling prevails. Though the
Treasury has lost since May 1 $1,576,112 in
gold owned and has increased in amount of sill
yer owned 81, Tip, 704, the receipts OF silver
certificates at the Custom House last were
about 40 per cent of the entire receipts, and the
gold receipts were larger and the legal tenders
smaller than usual. The Treasury is evidently
making a determined effort in the right dl-
rectiOn, to reduce the volume of silver certiti-
Gates in circulation and thus reduce the pro-
portion of such certificates received for duties
Moreover, the fall in the rate of interest at
London, and the change in the tone of the Ex-
change market, appeared to remove the danger
of gold shipments from this country at present.
During the week the banks added about
81, 100000 to their reserve without material
change in the surplus. and, as usual, the re-
serve is the largest on record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-11
MONEY and BUSINESS.

During the past week there has been a sharp
decline in the prices of stocks, to n lower
average than had previously been seen since
June 27, when the decline eliminated after the
manic a year ago. On Thursday at the lowest
noint the average price of sixty stocks was only
S43 10. not quite So per share above the lowest
of last year. Excepting a day or two at that
period the average of prices on Thursday was
lower than at any other time since early III
1879. Hence a recovery during the latter part
of the week was natural, and at the close on
Saturday the average was $44 81 a tritle above
the closing price of last year. VIGOROUSLY,
onerators who have been on the "shOrtn side
made large purchases, and 1t is supposed that
they not only covered, but bought largely for
tbe long account If the rumOr of CO.
oncration between Mr.. Vanderbilt and the
Cammack party had any foundation, their
efforts would seem to have been, not in the
direction of lower prices, but the beginning of
an upward movement of greater or less dura
ton. Whether this movement is to last long
or not Is a matter of conjecture. Butthe legiti-
mate influences which ought to govern prices
have in some respects changed for the better.
Ii seems to be the fact that some definite
progress has been made toward settlement
of the Northwestern difficulties, nOtwithstand-
ing the great pains taken on Saturday to circu-
late the information. 1t has been openly
charged that speculative directors III the
Northwestern roads have been keeping up the
quarrel and cutting rates in order to buy stocks
cheaper. If this was true, they had an excellent
chance to buy last week. But the Eastern trunk
lines have as yet failed to agree, and the
controversy between the Erie and the Chicago
aud Atlantic has not only led to suit but dis
closed very vigorous efforts to secure traffic by
Offering low rates. The reports of the business
of Vanderbilt's roads were used to deDress
prices, although they referred in fact only to
the traffic of last year, and it is not news to
anybody that the war between the old and new
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-11

THE LEGISLATURE AND THE NORTH WOODS
The amended Adirondack bill which passed
the House last week should be concurred in by
the Senate. 1t ought to be known, however,
that the statement made to- the effect
that the Forestry Commission Endorsed or
accepted this measure was not correct. The
Commission originally prepared three bills
which taken together formed consistent body
of lawe AT the New-York conference they
agreed to favor measure similar to the one
which has now gone to the upper house and
containing the essential provisions of their
first bill, with the understanding that
the two remaining bills or others
with the same scope and purpose should
be enacted One of these erected new
safeguards against the sweep of forest fires and