The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-19
INTERLACHEN.

Cotton crops look exceedingly well
and in fact everything in the neighbor-
hood does, owing to the rains.
Beautiful rain So feels the orange
cultivator of the soil, as it slowly drops
on the parched ground and one can al
most see the orange trees greedily drink
it up.
Another unlucky dog shot. Hard on
dogs, this section, and the laws of the
state give the poor brutes no protection.
Not being looked on as personal proper
ty. Another item for the convention.
But | have wandered in imagination
from our pushing little town. Mr.. Halls
mill is running and now the town boasts
of an actual whistle The Interlachen
band is fully organized and plays very
nicely every success to the boys for
their enterprise and pluck. Mr.. R. L.
jackson has commenced a dwelling, and
several others are going up in the east
end. Mr.. King, of Maine, is building
very fine residence on a beautiful
situation in Young's Addition. The hotel
is progressing.
Our northern friends are one by one
fitting northward, most of them regret
fully, but having business which requir-
es their presence, must needs leave our
pleasant agreeable climate. Mr.. Hol-
ford, Rev. Mr.. Haughton Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Taylor with many others have gone,
and Mr.. David Young leaves for the far
northwest in the course of the next ten
days, and will be near the seat of the
Riel (reaD rebellion, which is causing so
much blood to be uselessly split and rem
dering desolate homes and firesides in
the fair Canadian land Mr.. Young is
anxious to be into it. but his offered
services of self. horse and accoutrements
free of charge were not accepted by the
fort, who imagined at that time that
few hundred men would suppress the
outbreak. Five thousand five hundred
troops are now in the field and several
thousand more are ordered out.
The new time table on the Florida
Southern r. R., is a great convenience to
those who have business in Palatka. The
structures on this railway which appear
ed in your columns are scarcely deserv-
ed. The train referred to is simply an
accommodation train and such trains are
pretty much the same on all railroads,
slow and tedious. The express trains
run as fast rs desirable on this road.
Where there is a chance land a good
one) to criticise is on their freight and
passenger tariffs, particularly the for
mer. Ii is too high, the classification re-
quires ammending to suit the section
through which the line passes and the
vicious "post office" system of rates
should be abolished. Further it might
be better if the headquarters officials
were more approachable, so that an or
binary citizen might approach them with
less awe and nervousness. Every one
can run a rail way" or paper, you often
hear, but being public carrier subsidi-
zed by the state citizen has a right ia
criticise its management, if done in a
fair and Just manner. The bane of all
roads is grasping through traffic at low
rates, and neglecting local traffic, caus-
ing discomfort and agitation resulting in
new lines. What an opening there is,
Mr.. Editor, for an air line from Jack,
vile to Tampa, passing close to this place,
A glance at the map in this connection
is a revelation, try it. 1t scarcely seems
possible that the projected line along the
Ocklawaha to Silver Spring will head OIL
an air line