The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-01
CITY NOTES.

Unheeding the hours that pass,
The shadowy phantoms that fit,
When the fire and chandeliers lit,
Shining bright on the boards where we
play,
We don't care for sorrow whit
But we pay for it all the next day.
Puck.
Two marriages will take place in the
Presbyterian church this week.
Ugh wasn't yesterday a raw, mean
day And didn't the rheumatic and
corns have high old time?
| Look out for the advertisement Of FL.
L. Green, assignee, in to-morrow's pa
per. He will offer special bargains in
| furniture.
Mr.. Edward L. Bsrtlett, an attorney
o. Santa Fe, New Mexico, passed through
the city yesterday en- route to South
Florida, and gave THE NEWS office a
call.
The 1egu'ar monthly meeting Of the
Ladies Memorial Association will be held
at the residence Of Mrs. Blanchard, Wed
nesday afternoon, December End, at $3.50
| o'clock.
The Merry Makers calico hop will take
place at Lucas Hall this evening, when
the young people Will trip the light
fantastic toe, and have good time gen.
orally.
| The corner room in Mr.. P. Cunnee-
ly's building, is being handsomely pa
pered and fitted mp for first class barber
shop, which viii be opened there on next
Monday.
'The Mi,ado" bills, announcing the
coming of the Bijou Opera Company,
have been placed in the windows, and it
will be presented here on the evening Of
the 18th of November.
| Mr.. W. G. Hargrove has greatly re-
duced the price of his nursery stock, and
is now offering first-class trees cheaper
than they were ever sold before in Flor
! ida. See his advertisement.
Our merchants have already received
fine displays of holiday goods, and the
toys and fire works will be on sale in
good time for Santa Claus to make his
selections for the good children.
There is no let up in the improvements
being made il the city, and as fast as
one house is completed the carpenters
begin work on another. Let Ter roll.
Palatka needs all the dwellings and cot
tages that can be erected.
Messrs. Blaine Bros, of the Ellavile
car shops, have the material on land
ard are putting up fifteen fat cars in
this city for the J. T. & K. w. Ry.
When put on the road they will be as
substantial and handsome as any flats
that come to the state.
Mr.. w. 3. Cross fiery steed, unaccus-
toned to drawing SO fine q wagon, be-
came frightened at the picture of the
COW on his delivery wagon cover Satur-
day night and tried 70 run away. He
succeeded in demolshing L. Meyers
paint wagon and damaging Cross wagon
to some extent before he cooled down.
The J. T. & K. w. Ry. have made i'm
portant reductions in the freight tariff
from Palatka south. The rates by river
and rail 5 81 cents per hundred for first
class freights from Jacksonville to
poiu's south of us. but
the new tariff gives the rate from Pa
latka south at 10 cents per hundred, thGs
enabling our wholesale merchants to
compete with Jacksonville for all the
trade south.
We learn from Mr.. Lott Allen, who
was in town yesterday, that Mr.. David
Young has just purchased tract of four
hundred and ninety acres of land, at In
terlachen, for parties in Canada, end that
thirty families will come down to loaate
on the same. Already contracts for
$4,000 worth of Improvements have been
lei, and the land wiz be cleared and put
in groves and cultivation as rapidly as
possible. This accession VII give our
Lutte neighbor town quite boom.
Mr.. Chas. Underwood has returned
from Connecticut to Palatka for the
winter, From him we learn that paI ties
in Boston have taken the matter in
charge, and that the probability is that
we will soon be enjoving all the pIivile-
ges of first-class system of water wocks
An engineer from that city is now in
Palatka looking after the water works.
With gas works assured, and the almost
certainty Of water works, with the PROM
Use of a street railway, is enough to make
all Palatka feel good, aad these enter
prises will give us new boom that will
surprise even the natives, and cause our
sister cities TO look on in open mouthed
wonder.