The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-03-25

ment. are likely to he held chiefly in
secret A considerable number Of
no limitations are expected tO-mor-
ruw and Tuesday. The time not con-
suned in their consideration will be
spent upon minor treaties,
HEAVY SNOW IN VIRGINIA.
DANvILLE, Va, March 23-Snow fell
in this section of the state and in the ad-
jacent portion of North Carolina yester-
day morning to a depth of six inches and
last night to a depth of four inches.
This morning the mercury stood at 24o.
The tobacco plant beds are all under
cover and are not damaged. The fruit
trees and vines are too backward in bud
ding to have suffered injury. The wheat
crop, which was previously reported as
greatly injured by the unusual and con-
tinued cold of the winter. will be bene-
fitted. reports from the country say, by
these falls of snow.
GEN. GRANT FATIGUED BY CALLERS
NEW YORK, March 23-Gen. Grants
callers yesterday numbered fifteen. He
was quite fatigued 10y meeting so many
persons He retired between and 10
o'clock, and slept fitfully until ? o'clock
this morning, from which hour he slept
none. He took food during the night
and this forenoon. After daybreak he
dozed at intervals in his chair and chat
ted with his daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, du-
ring the forenoon. The patient is not
feeling as strong to-day as yesterday,
owing to the undue excitement yester-
day and wakefulness last night. He
will not again be permitted to receive as
many callers in one day as was tn case
Yesterday.
THE COLD IN THE SOUTHWEST.
NEW ORLEANS, March 23.-The wealth
er here is unseasonably cold The
freezing weather Of last night extended
to within one hundred miles of New Or
leans. A special from Port Gibson, Miss,
says" :"Early fruit and vegetables were de
stroyed this morning by heavy frost"
A special from Jackson, Miss, says:
There was a heavy frost here last night,
and damage to the fruit crop is feared.
The mercury is below freezing point
again to night"
\ dispatch from Crystal Springs, Miss,
reports that the thermometer registers
several degeees below freezing point Ice
quarter of an inch in thickness has
been formed.
GALVESTON, March 23.-Specials from
numerous points in northern Texas re-
port a heavy frost in that section last
night In some places ice formed. Early
fruits were destroyed or badly injured
\ Raid on Colorado Rattiesnakes.
Occasionally by the hard baked mound
of a prairie dogs hole, the sunlight
would strike with a dull glitter on the
hack of rattlesnake and the boys were
never in too great a hurry to stop and
kill the 'varmint' with the loaded end
of a squirt The snakes were arrant
towards, always making every effort to
run away from an attack; as, however
their very best time was never faster
than lazy man could walk, they were
never allowed to escape. They were
easily killed, a small blow from a squirt
or the knotted end of lariat. stretching
them out motionless but for a faint move
ment of the tail, which the cowboy S
claim will not die until sundown.
One Billy insisted upon stopping and
skinning one peculiarly sleek and shiny
specimen. He said that snake skin
worn around the hat would always ward
off headache and toothache from the
Nvearer, and he considered it an espec-
tally prudent plan to assun this pre-
ventive at the beginning of a roundup.
Billy further assured us that a bite into
the back of live rattlesnake would in
sure a person good teeth for the rest of
his life. He was absolutely certain about
that, although he owned he had callers,
somehow, felt agin tryin' it himself. :
Billy's pard sam, seemed to express the
general sentiments of the party when he
remarked that there was lots of curious
ness about snakes"
Sam said he always carried piece Of
blue vitrol il. his pocket at a rund-up foI
snake bites. If he.was bitten he had
only to spit ON the vitriol and rub it CT
the spot to draw out all the poison at
once. But the rest of the party Were dis
posed to hoot in derision at this remedy,
preferring to place their reliance on
good whisky. Sam had proper respect
for this remedy, too, but he agreed with
much naivete, Good whisky is hard tC
Bulletin.
The Office of Recorder of Deeds for the
District of Columbia is in demand. The