The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-18
CITY NOTES.

THE FAULT II N THE Gun or COZ kSE.
It's now the modern Wrinkle seeks for
game
Where piping quail and frisky rabbits
run,
And at each shot in wonder doth ex-
claim:
What! missed again: What ails the
pe7ky gum
The new tome-table, giving the arrival
and departure of the j., T. & X. w. Ry..
will be found in another column.
m f l.. Davidson. traffic agent Of
the Z. r. Y. & G r. r., is III the city
on business connected with his line.
A schooner with a cargo of steels rails
for the Florida Southern railwey arrived
yesterday morning from Philadelphia.
Mr.. Martin Griffin, Jr., is confined to
his room by an attack of the measles.
He is not very sick, the attack being
light.
Col John Frank, editor of the Tropi-
| cal Paradise, was in town for a few
hours yesterday afternoon. He left for
up the river.
The ladies of the w. c. 7. U. will
please hear in mind the meeting for next
Tuesday, Nov. cath. An early and full
attendance Is desirable.
~. II. Y. Therion has established a
..ar' :. sHr' -H l.rg. n street. where b.,
Is tr.r..ti {" ,lu all work in his line.
/ =, -.l,.rt rot;,, Go !, II
ment this morning and give him a call
Mr.. r. Packer, who is putting in the
electric bells for the Putnam House, in
forms US that it viii require twenty-five
miles of wire to fit up the building. This
is another Indication of the immense size
of the new Putnam House.
DIR. Kersting has added another mem
Der to his interesting family, in the shape
of young coon. The pole cat shows no
desire to make friends with the intruder,
and the coon seems to think himself too
good to associate with the cat.
Mr.. L. c. Conova has completed the
repairs and changes in his ice factory
and has started up his machinery again.
greatly increased, and he will be abe to
supply his customers promtly hereafter.
The new schedule of the Florida
Southern railway enables our friends
along the line of that road to come i'll
town to transact business or do shopping
and return home the same day, and a
great many are taking advantage of the
arrangement.
Capt.R.G. FIemming, superintendent.
Col. c. ID. Owens, general traffic mana
ger, ]. l.. Taylor, general freight and
passenger agent, and VIM. NJ. Davidson,
general traffic agent, all of the S. F. 6
w. X. R., are in the city, guests of the
Graham House.
Judge j. c. Nertrees has returned from
Tennessee, where he has been to pur-
chase stock. He says that he bought two
car loads of the finest horses and car
load of the best mich cows that were
rive here tonight.
Young V. P. Braswell. son of Mr.. Il.
II. BraSwelI, of Fruitland, has gone to
Atlanta. Ga. where he will take thor
ough commercial course in one of the
business colleges there. Young Braswell
is a very promising young business man,
and has bright future before him.
We learn that Mr. Jas A. Harris, the
orange king at Citra, has sold his crop
of oranges on the trees for $50, 900. Be
ing newly married and with pocket
full of rocks" he is prepared TO live with
all the reckless extravaganza of the av-
erage editor, and we tender him our
most distinguished congratulations on
his good fortune.
The time of the circuit court yesterday
was taken up by two criminal cases. the
first, the State Us. Geo. Baker. colored.
resulted in an acquittal, and the prisoner
was discharged. In the case of the State
V. Anderson Howard, a negro who. it
viii be remembered, attempted to out
rage white girl at Welaka on the 10Th
of ls~r june, the jury returned a verdict
.: Ufg.I.- 'is .,-.. p. 81. teuer.l by EG-
Ju.ye t..,~ nrorutt- The grand jury
failed to find true bill against Mary
COkely, a colored girl who has been in
Jail for several months charged with lar
ceny, and the judge ordered her to be
discharged. The criminal docket will
be continued to-day when the case of
Erastus Shaw, who is charged with
outraging his daughter and step
daughter, will come up. George Young
charged with house burning, will also
be tried.