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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
Edison in Florida.

Callahan Record.
Fort Myers, Monroe county, is very
happy over the prospect of having Mr.
Thomas A. Edison, the great electrician
and inventor, as a citizen. Mr.. Edison
owns a number of valuable lots on
which he is now preparing to build
residence and laboratory.-Ex.
Edison, who started in the active
scenes of life as what was then train
boy" bat now is politely termed 'gen-
eral information agent" and who, we
believe by the way, is the only one of
that class that ever invented anything
except mammoth lies, is something of a
curiosity. He is a wonder, but while he
knows much about electricity and its
possibilities, he occasionally displays a
verdancy in other directions We met
him some years ago out west when he
was returning from pleasure trip to
1.-The Rockies and beyond and he told
us n rich one on himself. While on the
plains one day hunting deer with q party
of western friends, he suddenly came to
a halt, squatted down and taking care
full aim fired away. "What in thunder
are you doing?" excitedly asked one of
his companions. Trying to kill that
deer right over there, of course: keep
still and I'll fetch him, " replied the great
inventor of the photograph, telephone,
electric light, electric railroad engine
etc, as he banged away again. "Well
pard, that ere deer right over there is
/ just sixteen miles away smilingly re-
/ piled the western man, who was ION to-
the light atmosphere and the optical de-
/ fusion it causes. The great electrician
was not, and if he saw rabbit fifty
/ miles away he would blaze away at it as
/ long as the ammunition held out. When
he was married he was busy studying
/ on one Of his inventions and as soon as
! the ceremony was over he returned to
! his laboratory and worked until a. m.
when he suddenly remembered that he
had bride at home who was doubtless
wondering if lightning had struck her
'ele Ctrical Tommie.'
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09

the race took comfort to themselves
and made great preparations to I'LL
ga long felt want" when with all our
improvements we had no such hotel
for the winters guests as those of Or
Wis and Larkin had been. Our citizens
did not wait to take breath from the
erection Of new business quarter
when they filled the last breach and
decided on the creation Of the chest
botel in the. state" The money was
laid down; all the lumber within
reach was bought-two hundred la
borers set to Work-our railroads
worked together as one mantle
Florida Southern ran a special track
into the heart Of the square, and the
new Putnam House, more spacious
than of old, central in location, of
imposing size and elegant appear
ance will be ready for occupation
by the middle Of next month";
solid example of what "our way"
can accomplish.
Need we tell how other things,
not less wonderful have been ac-
complishtd in the same way? How
a committee of our citizens went to
work and in a few hours secured the
location Of the railway shops at
this place? How water-works will
soon supply each room in the city
with pure water in quantities mex
haustible as the everlasting foun-
tains of the hills from which they
flow ? How gas will soon light our
streets from works whose founda-
tions are being laid today? Or
show the enterprise Of corporations
by telling how the Florida Southern
can already show up their track for
hundreds of yards in front of an en-
CINE by pushing forward electric
lamps on tripods supplied with light
like that of the sun! Who is not
proud of Sour way" and who does
not know that the main factor OF
/ success is found in united effort, and
its chief element is called in New
England "goaheadativeness ?"
And as long as the same spirit an
mates our people and the same
broad principles of pablo good gov
ern our capitalists, Palatka will b.
proud Of her past, and her futur,
Will take It's serene course along
pathway broad and bright as on
peerless river, glorious as our heav
ems and toward the sweet fruition o
hopes golden as that visible embed
iment of our soil and climate nov
, sought for in every market of TIL
civilized world.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
PkLATKH BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Banks.

Banks.
THIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PALATKA,
l. successors TO VIM. j. Vinegar X 90
general banking business transacted. Front
Street.
r JACOBSON, LEMON STREET, DEALS
/ exclusively in staple and fancy Dry Goods
Books and Stationery.
II C. COCHRANE, FIRST DOOR NORTH
Il of Post ONCE, Front Street, wholesale !s;l..
and retail dealer in Books, Stationery. EIori-
da Curiosities, Maps, etc.
Groceries and Commission.
yTERTKEES " CO., WATER STREET, COM
' mission merchants, and wholesale dealers
in Hay. Grain, Fertilizers, etc.
4 n. HAUGHToN & BRO, GRLFFIN's
N. Block, Water street, wholesale and re-
tail dealers in groceries.
Hard ware Etc.
" Il. LANE, WATER STREET, DEALER
u ain Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, house fur
uishing goods, building material; plumbing,
thinning. etc.
Drugs and Medicines.
/ CKERDiAN & JACKSON, CORNER LEM
I1on and Front Streets. Full line Drugs and
Medicines.
THE MORAGNE PHARMACY, CORNER
Il Lemon and Front Streets. Established 1856
Prescriptions carefully compounded day or
night,
w B. CROSS. WATER STREET, BEEF,
w sMutton, Fish, etc.
Furniture, Etc.
ID L. LILIENTHkL, CORNER WATER &
ID Reid Streets. Wholesale and retail dealer
in furniture, house furnishing goods, etc.
Bakers.
y J.GRO0Ms. LEMON STREET, NEXT TO
ID Opera House. Fancy and Family Grocer
les, and Bakery.
ndcrtaIx e1'5.
d 5. MOONEY, LAUREL STREET. UN-
III sdertaker and embalmer.
miscellaneous.
THE PALATkA INSURANCE AGENCY
Z over three hundred millions capital, repre-
scented and c0rresponded with l. Harkins Hill
lard Manager.
u CUNNEELY, WATER STREET, FINE
l. Wines, Liquors, etc. Billiard and Bowling
Parlors.
HARRY HEATH, LEMON STREET,
II matchmaker and eugraver
I H. MERRYDAY, CORNER OAK AND
u Fourth Streets. House ana Sign Painter.
T MEYER, WATER STREET, DEALER IN
1IPaints. Oil, Ladders, etc.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
OUR WAY,

"The way they do things in Pal
atka" has become an expressive
phrase now well known everywhere.
Strangers enqnire what it means,
but it is one of those terSe sentences
which push their way into popular
use because there is no exact equiv
alent i'll other words. But it is not
difficult for even a stranger to grasp
the meaning in all its fullness if a
little space is given for explanation.
When our town lay in ashes one
year ago, all thought Palatka was
dead for ten years. We can show
the prettiest town in Florida to-day,
with block upon block of brick build
ings, substantial, spacious and ele-
giant. That is "our way All our
merchants lost heavily, and their
customers saw no alternative but to
buy in Jacksonville. But goods
were ordered by telegraph; when
they arrived, wooden shanties built
on the ashes were ready to receive
them and business went on as before,
until loaded boats and extra trains
could furnish the bricks and mortar
which have been transformed into
the town of to-day. Only a few
years ago and the promises made by
the management of the Florida
Southern Railway were regarded as
extravagant and idle. Fogies said
they might possibly give us mar
row gauge to Gainesville, but the
"rest was talk" To-day it is the
best paying road in the state, ana it
is now laying rails at the rate of one
mile per day south of Bartow-on
Saturday it laid Two miles. When
it reaches Charlotte Harbor and
gives us rapid communication with
New Orleans and the Mississippi
Valley will it be "bosh % That al
so is "our way" for the Florida
Southern is with us and of us.
When the Jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West Railway promised tc
open for us the riches OF the PENN.
sula and the eastern coast it was
again urged that the ST. Johns
could not be bridged. That has
been done long ago, and the road
way IS all finished now as far a,
Sanford except the bridges and
tressel work. This season..
tourists will stop in our hotels while
they decide whether they will 90
south in our palace steamers or Gid,
into the land of perpetual sunshin,
which has haunted the dreams of nj
men for ages, on the line of stee
which binds it to the country O
hard facts and every day life. Wht
ever expected to gaze on coco;
groves, plantations of pineapple
or ripening sapodillos from the win
dows of a boudoir car? Yet tht
whole world and his wife may q,
this during the present season.
The rivals we had distanced il
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09

THx DAILY NEWS is published every morn
tag except Monday, and delivered by carriers
n the city. mailed postage free, for 30 cents
. month, $50 for three months, $3.50 for six
N )nths, or s. per annun.
The WEEKLY NEWS is an 8-page 4s-cotnIln
paper, published every Saturday, containing
Al the news OF the week local and general. 1t
= the largest and handsomest weekly paper
Published in Florida, and will be mailed post
are free for 81 a year, or 30 cents for SIX
months. Specimen copies free to any address.
Los, advertisements 70 cents per line Tor
frst insertion and 10 cents per line for each ad-
fitional insertion SpeciaI notices 10 cents per
HE Reduced rates continued advertise
u1gfJS
All advertising bills become due pro rata
avery month. Local advertisements due Fl
tine expiration of the time for which 'hey are
Inserted. ,-
ey-order registcre 42tteT-
Address,
w. W. RANDALL.
BUSINESS MANAGER,
ePALATEA, FLORIDA.
REGISTERED AT THE PALATKA posi- OFFICE
AS SECoND-CLAsS MAIL MATTER.
PALATKA, FLA, DEC. 9, 1883.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
Poison

had pro uced great holes in my hack aad
chest and had removedaH the hair OF of my
head, yet began 20 improve IN & week 5
time. and the sores began TO heal. and were
entirely gone inside of eight weeks.
WILL JONES. Porter. Union Pass, Depot.
Cisco. Texas Julyl 3, 1855.
Sold by all druggists.
Treatise on Blood and Skin disease free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co..
Drawer Atlanta. Ga
\. Y, 157 W 23d ST.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09

One Of the prisoners in the county Jail
at Pensacola became somewhat OBJ
streperous Wednesday, and Jailer Van
Alst had slight alteration with him,
during which the jailer's pistol was acct
dentally discharged, sending a bullet
into his left hand. where, after twisting
around among the bones, 1t lodged in
the middle finger. The wound though
painful is not dangerous.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09

John A. Mcdonald, of Eustis, who
made contribution of 81, 900 to the San
ford and Lake Eustis road. has, it is
said, withdrawn it, because Tavares was
selected as the western terminus of the
road instead of Eustis.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
BLOC

Is the life, and he is wise who remembers it.
But in March of last year QSSH ! contracted
blood poison. ana being in Savannah. Ga, at
the TIM. went in the hospital there for treat
menC, suffered very much from Fheuma-
tism al the time I did net get well under
the treatment there. nor was cured by any of
the usual means. [ have now taken seven
bottles Of Swift's Specific and am sound and
well, 1t drove the poison ont through bois
on the skin. DAN LEAaY.
jersey City. n !. Aug :. 1885,
Two years ago l contracted blood poison.
After taking prescriptions from the best ply
sicians here and at Dallas, | concluded TO visit
bot Springs, and on reaching TeXarkana
a doctor recommended me TO try Swift's
Specific, assuring me that If would benefit ne
moro than Hot SpliDCs Alth0uEh he
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-09
CONTAGIOUS

Diseases are prevalent all over the world.
am native of England and while in that
country contracted a terrible blood poison,
and for two years was under treatment as an
outdoor patient at II ttingham Hospital,
England, but was not cured. / suffered the
most agOniziug pains in my bones, and was
covered with sores all over my body and
limbs. l had vertigo and deafness, with par
tial loss of sight. scye ere pains in my head and
eyes, etc, which nearly ran me crazy. / lost
all hope in that country. and sailed for Amer
lea, and was treated at Roosevelt in this city
as well as by q prominent physician in New
York having no connection with the hospitals.
/ saw the advertisement of SwitU's Specific,
and / determined to give it trial as last re
sort. / had given up all hope % being cured,
as had gone through the hands of the best
medical men in Nottingham and New York. Il
took six bottles of :. :. :. and / can say with
great joy that they have cured me entirely.
| am as sound ana well a [ ever was in my
life. L. FRED IIALFORD.
n. Y. city June Il. ISIS
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-06
GREED FOR OFFICE.
THE POSTAL INsPEoToRsnIps


WAsHISGroS, June DIN response to
flood Of applications for positions as post
Office inspectors the Postmaster General
selected 250names Of persons most favor.
ably recommended aud sent them notices
requiring answers to certain questions by
which their fitness could be ascertained.
The questions intended to secure informa-
ton as to the age Of the applicants, their
experience in the postal business and
other matters. Answers were received
from 1T5. A special committee was ap.
pointed to examine and classify the ans
wers and to select the most promising
subjects. About IS were rejected because
OF advanced age. There were 20applca'
tions from one State all endorsed by the
Senators, and these appointments will be
made with q view 10 3 fair geographical
distribution. Two persons at most Gamble
appointed from one State. The commit
tee has submitted its report and the Post
master General will notify the persons Sc
lected by the committee to appear for ex.
animation. The vacancies to be filled
number So.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-06
cApiFAL cuLL1NGs.

The Injunction suit Of R. @. Hewitt d
a, ys The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the District Commissioners to
restrain tho telegraph company from the
erection OF q pole line on Seyentk street
has been decided In the equity court In
favor Of the plaintiffs. h I'D,
Sidney L. Wilson, pension agent tot the
District Of Columbia. says that the state.
menk that the names Of 200 pensioners Of
the District had been dropped from the
rolls because they were not legally en-,
tifled TO pensions Is an entire misappre-
hension OF the, facts.
The Iowa editoHsI excursion party,
numbering over 100 0petsons, inei1dng la-
dies, arrived here from Baltimore yester-
day. They will yisityarioss points Of In
terest in the city and on next Tuesday
night VIII leave for Lexington Va; and
viii visit HaFpef's Ferry ON Wednesday.
The next day they propose tostart for Chi
eago, Gtopping a .GumheFlsnd, Deer Park
and Grafton, w. Va. The excursion va
projected BY the Baltimore 4 Ohio Com
pany toF the purpose ot bringing into
prominence the advantages 70 settlers Of
Tered by these portions Of Maryland, Yir.
einja and West Virginia tributary 10 the
Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad system,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-06
AFr4s Trade Consul.

BERLIN, June interview with Mr..
Raine. the new United States Consul, is
published in the Tageblaa. Mr.. Rains
says thathe has undertaken the task Of
reviving the commercial rclaionsot Ger
many and America. "The depression in
trade, /" says Consul Ratne, "will soon con.
vince the American people Of the Aeces-
sity for abandoning their policy Of the
past twenty years. Mr.. Raine believed
there would be 'sno difficulty in removing
the points Of difference between the two
countries" BE denounced as q ialsehood
thereport that he wrote in his German
newspaper in Baltimore in disparagement
OF Germany.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-06
DEVASTATED VALE.
THE rARrnouAkE IN eAsnarEns.
A1arss Number OF People Killed and En.
tire Towns and villages Dsst+Oysa-Lums.
den on AllEhaaoa.s Trlsksry-rhs
French ohambsr wrousht up.

LONDON, June SAN official dispatch
from serinagar gives the number Of the
killed and wounded by the earthquake
there on Sunday and Monday last as fol-
lows: Killed, 81; wounded, 100. The
official alreports have not been received yet
from the other points in the Vale Of CASH
mere affected by the earthquake shocks.
Until these come to band, the full extent
OF the calamity cannot be known.
Unofficial reports, however, are OF such
an alarming character as to make Il more
than likely that the earthquake will prove
even more disastrous in its effects than
the fitst dispatches stated them TO be.
Whole cities and towns in the "Yalen are
spoken Of rs destroyed, and the absence Of
definite news Is attributed to the demoii.
ticn OF the telegraph lines In the general
wreck and chaos, In consequence, tho
magnitude OF the calamity and the ilum-
bers OF the killed and wounded are left for
the Imagination to supply.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-06

LONDON, June 5.-The race for the Oaks
stakes at EPSON to-day was won by lord
cadogan's bay tllly Lonely. The winner
was ridden by Fred Archer, WHO rode the
winning horse in the race for tile Derby
stakes on Wednesday. Lord ZeGland' 8 bay
'fly St Helena, was second and Sir j.
Willoughby's chestnut lilly Cippo.lina,
third. The other starters were s. Sykes
chestnut filly Dame Agnes, N. 7. Donon's,
chestnut tilly Diapree, Mt. ]. II. HouIds-
w6fth's baY fllly Gol3en Light air. Mar.
tons chestnut Oily Grecian Bride, MI. I.
Jennings chestnut flly Jane, and the
Duke Of Portlands brown fllly Salchel,
aud brown lilly Hussy. M :
The betting this morning was 0 70 "a
against Lonely, Z to against 81. Helena,
I to against Hnssy, s to against Dame
Agnes, and 3S to l against Satchel.
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SWIFT TYPE SETTING.
Anew York "HeraId" compositOr Beats the
Best Record.


SEw YoEK, June 5.-when George
Arensburg set 2,O64 solid ems Of minion
type in one hour, on February 10, 1870, it
was chronicled all over the world as a
marvellous feat, ind he was called the
wizard Of the composing stick, But this
achievement was cast into the shade by
the performances Of Joseph McC Cann, Of
the New York Herald, and Ira Somers, OF
the New York Word, both Of whom set
over 5000 ems in three hours, in con-
test for . wager Of $3.50. The match took
place in the Sar office. The conditions
were, solid minion, without paragraphs,
each competitor to correct his own
composition at the end OF the work, one
line to be deducted from the work per-
formed for each minute or fraction Of a
minute consumed in correcting. Joseph
McCann set $3.50 In three hours, which
averaged up would beat Arensburg's
record, but outside time-keepers said that
he did nearly 2,200 ems in the first hour.
Somers set e,0s2in the three hours, and
Is credited with doing over 200 the first
hour. McCann lost twelve minutes and
thirty seconds in correcting his matter, for
which he was mulcted S25 ems. Somers
took eleven minutes and thirty seconds to
correct his proof, and for this 500 ems
were deducted, 50 that the official figures
are 6,025 for McCann, and 5,723 for
Somers. Mccain beat the record 955 ems.
Somers suffered from nervousness.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-06-06

vienna, June 5.-Yesterday Sir Peter
Lumsden arrived here, and proceeded on
sjourney to London. In an interview
he said that Colonel Alikhanofr had open.
ly boasted to the Aighans that Russia
would take Herat and great deal moro.
Sir Peter said that Russia would never
have urged her absurd demands II she
had believed that England was In earnest
In resisting then.
Colonel Alikhanoff is Governor Of
Mery, and the chief intriguer in the SER
vice Of Russia on the frontier. He Il the
crafty, degigning soldier who successfully
planned the swoop on Mery, and has men
engaged in planning Russian extension OF
territory in Central Asia for many years.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.

There were two deaths from fever at
Plymouth, Pa, yesterday.
Millions Of the seyenteen.year locusts
have appeared at the Hamilton, o., fair
grounds,
Pat Olarance, aged 90 years, was buried,
while digging in a trench at Lima, o., and
severely injured.
Reports from Battletorl state that Gen.
Strange has had three engagements with
The redskins in the Northwest.
/ A terrific hail storm passed over the
neighborhood Of Fremont, o. The .InLir-
mary farm was badly damaged.
Martin Cleary, who was struck by an
engine on the Bee line, near Springfield,
Ohio, died Of his injuries in that city.
An immense meteor has fallen at New
burnside, johnson county, Ill, Weighing a
ton and q half and imbedded In the ground
several feet.
Hon. Geo. W. Julian will accept his ap-
pointment as Surveyor General Of New
Mexico @ on account Of the climatic advan-
Richard D. Harlan, son OF Justice Har-
Ian, has been received under care OF the
Washington Presbytery as a candidate for
the ministry.
Fred. Gotegout, q German farmer living
near Edwatdsport, Ind, yesterday killed
his wife, and then tried 10 commit suicide.
He was arrested.
General Grant continues to improve.
II the present favorable conditions are
maintained he will tfgyel to Mt. McGre.
or Tuesday, June %.
At Washington O. H., Ohio, the corn.
fields are being injured by the ravases ol
the wire worm, and the seyenteen.year 10.
Gusts are being plowed up.
The people Of Panama, on good author.
ity from naval officers returned, are anx.
ious that the United States should make
Its temporary possession Of Panama per.
manent 7
Martha Wilson, q witness in the divorce
suit Of Miss Hill against Senator Sharon,
yesterday acknowledged In court she had
committed perjury In swearing falsely in
The gross earnings Of the Northwestern
Railroad company for May amounted "a
81, ,0I1 500; decrease, as compared with the
same month last year Of Sgs, 500. The de
crease for the fourth week Of May alone
was So, ,SO0a
AtGudgelss Station. on the Evansville
{ indianapolis railroad, yesterday, John
Butcher and John Minis got into quar-.
rel when the former stabbed the latter tc
death and then blew his own brains oul
with revolver.
The Greenbaek labor party Of Ohio
met yesterday at Columbus, and nomina
ted tue following ticket: Governor. j
w. Northrop, ot. Columbiana county,
Lieutenant Governor, n. B. CoSley, d
Washington county; Treasurer, &. p
HaIman, Of Lake county Supreme Judge
g. n. T1ttle, Of Lake county; Attofne,
General William Baker, oE Licking conn,
ltyi Board Of Public Works, W. B. Ogden
l0i Hamilton county, ~ 4 =