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

All of the members were men of
nice feelings, for when the subject
of atheism was mentioned they rose
in wrath. we are not atheists
they cried.
"The result of the debate was
resolution that the British navy
must be destroyed. According to
the Pail Mall Gazette the British
navy is already in the last stage of
decrepitude. If the dynamiters are
anxious, therefore, to destroy it, we
should advise them to take immedi
ate action, lest it should tumble to
pieces before their explosives are
prepared"
When Pennsylvania gets its mar
riage and divorce laws all right, its
immoral roller-skating Kinks abolish
ed, its professional marrying par
sons into straitjackets, its civil SER
vice reformers will be ready to at
tack the old commanders once more,
and if the average Pennsylvania
heart is not more than ordinarily
depraved there may be sort of mil
lennium here, some time before the
North Pole is reached anyway.
Meanwhile, thanks to the rain storm,
good deal of temporary outside
| street cleaning is rapidly going on.
Philadelphia Times.
Thomas Bullitt Harrison, of Balti-
more, has for q number of years
been one of the most daring opera
tors in cotton in the United States.
He was noted for his recklessness,
as he seemed always wiling to stake
all he had on a turn in the market
7 to win or lose a fortune He had
: recently lost 100000, which unbal
e anced his mind. He knew that or
: Wednesday his friends would make
: an examination of his mental condi
: ton with the intention of sending
I him to an asylum. This so enragec
him that he cut his throat from cal
/, to ear, and when bis4zslsnds ~Adea
!. -Xo<ed to stop the flow of blood h
: tore the wound open with his hands
e and died in a short time.
e Charles Francis Adams was a wit
d The command issued to Sam Bowlet
: at Cincinnati in 1872, ssPull me on
G of that crowd !" was perhaps play
full in its manner, but it was scarcel,
e witty. But when he went as minis
/ ter to England, and dinner wa
r given to him by the premier, one o
the speech-makers, abiding to vari
1t Gus classes in Europe, "Our distin
e guished guest will tell us that a.
e. men are created equal suppose ?
st turning with the bantering question
u to Mr.. Adams. eyes," said the lat
g ter promptly. Cali men create
s equal ?" repeated the orator, incre6
1T uously. Eyes, created equal" ea
If planned Mr.. Adams, "but shortly a
in ter that the fun begins ~
N Henry Ward Beecher: When
Is was quartered as pastor at Indiar
1t apolis, in my early days of the mil
istry, celebrated preacher cam
Of there, Geneva divine, who natl
u, rally spoke English with variation
ID 1t was in the year 1887, in whic
IN the country was covered with ruiz
e. and the homes and property of ha
at the citizens of Indianapolis were i
u the sheriff's hands. One Sunday b
as took my pulpit. and wound up
s, thrilling discourse with the tendt
ne peroration: t1f you will bear wit
5 resignation and fortitude the mi
an fortunes which have fallen on 70
es for a brief time here below, the tim
as will come when you will be born
up aloft to heavenly land by Il
b Cherubim and Sheriff-im," Isle, ft
n Seraphim.) sob, hell % groaned
a. voice; care we to find them Their
!, too?"