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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01

An Independent Newspaper of Dem
ocratic Principles, but not Controlled by
any Set Of Politicians or Manipulators
Devoted to Collecting and Publishing all
the News of the Day in the most Inter
esting Shape and with the greatest pos
sible Promptness Accuracy and Impair
TALLY; and TO the Promotion of Demo-
cratic Ideas and Policy in the affairs Of
Government, Society and Industry,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01
$4,000 Orange Trees For Sale

5,e00 Budded Trees. at 80 cents each.
5000 = 80
10000 = 20
5.000 Seeding 10 to &c.
These trees have been grown on high pine
land. and buds selected from the choicest bear
ing trees on the st. Johns river stocks three
years old. Nursery on Palatka Heights, one
mile from wharYes.
Address: ". c. HARGR0EE.
sep2I-Sm palatka. Fla.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01

The 1910 D. N. train from Palatka and lis p
m train from Jacksonville make connection
at Palatka with the Florida Southern R'y., TO
and from Gainesville, 0eala, Leesburg and in
tsrmediate points.
A Pullman Sleeping Car leaves PaIatka dali
" except Sunday at $50 p. ID. for Washington.
without change. Reservation and through
tickets on sale at ticket Office in Palatka station
NJ. r. MORAN.
Surt.
March 9th. fss5
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01
Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West
Railway.
THE ONLY ALL RAIL LINE BETWEEN
JACKSONVILLE & PALATKA. THREE
HOURS THE QUICKEST TO
JACKSONVILLE.
TRAINS RUN AS FOLLOWS:
GOING SOUTH.

The Sunday train leaves Palatka at SIS
q. n. for st. Augustine and Jacksonville. Re-
turning leave Jacksonville at 40 p. m, st.
Augustine -4.50 p. IN.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01
For Sale.

/ have for sale about 1900 orange trees. buds
and seedlings. stocks five years old, buds two
years old. Address
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01
De BkRY-BAYA
Merchants Line

ST. JOHNS RIVER STEAMERS-SIDE
WHEEL LOW PRESSURE PALACE
STEAMERS BUILT OF IRON.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01
LUCAS BOATS.
STEAM YACHTS for CHARTER

THESE YACHTS are in frst-class order. OF
j fast speed and are in charge Of careful
and competent crews.
ROW BOATS.
New Boats for hire at all hours. with good
oarsmeu. when desired Boats on hand to suit
the fancy OF all, and in numbers TO supply nH
demands.
FERRY BOAT.
Leaves lucas dock every thirty minutes
for groves on opposite side Of river Trips
made quickly and safely.
J. L. LUCAS
Foot Of " alter Street, near
J., r. & X. W. Il. II. Depot.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01
las. JACKSON. W. JACKSON.
BUILDERS MILL.
] JACKSON & JACKSON,
Late of Philadelphia, Penng
Carpenters, Contractors, Builders,

C ntracts taken for the largest 10 the small
est brick and frame buildings. Door and
VIII dow frames for brick or frame buildings
ma de to order. Mouldings, sawed and turned
Ira Tlsters kept on hand. Scroll saving and
turning to order. Mill, Orange Street, near
FL urth Palatka, Florida.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01
ST. AUGUSTINE.

The St Johns Railway makes direct c.
nection al West T0coi. TO and from
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-01

Steamers Fl. B. PLANT, of the Peoples L
and CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, of the DeBa
Baya Merchants Line, will run as folio
Leaving the DeBary- Baya Line wharf at f
of Laura street:
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

The recent important events In Egypt
have diverted public attention from few
events OF almost equal importance in the
south OF ASIA While England has been
meeting with disastrous losses France has
been making steady gains and her present
position In Asia places the so-called invinci-
BILE Chinese armies at great disadvantage.
France has DOW secured an effective control
OF Cochin China, Cambodia, Anam and Ton
quin, and is thus in fair way to gain her
ends on the eastern peninsula in the south Of
Asia, which contains besides the provinces
already named, Burmah, Siam, British Bur-
nah and the Straits settlements. A DISPUTE
has arisen between France and Siam as to the
eastern boundary of the latters dom!nions.
and another has been some time pending in
regard to telegraph line from Bangkok to
Saigon, so it is not improbable that the near
future Will see more trouble. The inha6i-
tants Of British Burmah are very desirous of
seeing the country united, and an end to
King Thebaw's brutal rule because of the
wholesale massacre in Msndalay, the capital
OF Burmah, last October, and for this reason
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

The judiciary Committee of the Massa-
chusetts House OF Representatives has with
one dissentient vote reported against the
proposition to license the Grand Army of
the Republic to hold lotteries. The ques-
ton arose in consequence of the
agitation of the matter in the
towns where prosecutions had been
made. 1t was claimed by the advocates
OF the proposition that the lottery was the
only means by which the Grand Army could
raise funds for their sick members. One of
the speakers said an appeal had been made
to the churches throughout the common
wealth aud only one had responded, and the
sum contributed by that one had been very
small. The advocates of the bill made a
strong case against the public for not assist
Ing the Grand Army to carry on its charlt-
able work, but when they undertook to show
why the Grand Army should be exempted
from the provisions of law which forbade
a thing that is morally wrong, of course they
failed to give any reason that would bear
the test of moments examination. Lot
teries are indefensible under any circum-
stances: and in the long run. even when
their motive is charitable, are likely to cause
as much suffering as they relieve.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

That newly formed organization, made
up of certain individuals who are stagger-
ing under the name of Anarchists" is
Just at present getting considerable gratui-
tous advertising through the editorial col
unns of the newspapers, and several mis-
guided clergymen who often find their texts
In the journals OF the day have preached
tremendous sermons on the Threatening
danger" If these so-called Anarchists
knew how to read all this would greatly
puff them up and make them think that a
tramp's calling is not the worst after all.
This apprehension of danger is somewhat
previous, for, after careful investigation it
has been found that their numbers are at
most only few hundreds, while the term
Anarchist" in America is only another
name for beer guzzlers, loafer and tramp.
Their ''lodges" are the cheap saloons of the
cities, aud their only "weapons" their own
tongues, hung in the middle and oiled
with bad whiskey. We cannot even give
them the credit Of being cranks, and, ex-
cept what evil they do to society in their
real characters, they are perfectly harm
less.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19
FEELING OF THE MossRACKs,
Now York Sun.l
Personal Paragraph hs.


Next to Mr.. Cleveland the stilIest man in
the Democratic party is William a. Bar
mum.
Baroness Burdett Couus entrusted Mr..
George Augustus Sala with a present for
King Kalakaua, and he will deliver the
same at Honolulu.
Bradlaugh, the English "atheist for nc
toriety only, announces that he will be re-
turned to Parliament for several constituent
ces at the next election, and will sit for
Northampton.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin says he wore an
overcoat, the other day, the first time in his
life, and caught cold. He says be ought to
have known better, and will never do it
again.
AT the recent annual dinner Of police cap
tains at Delmonico's New Yerk, DR.. How
ard Crosby arose to say grace, when Cap
tain Cumminsky loudly whispered: "Tell
his reverince to be sated; there's no toasts
been given yef."
Miss Julia E. Clark, Superintendent of
Public Schools iu Boone County, H., trav-
eled SIP miles from school TO school in the
best and worst weather In January, and put
in a full days work at every school she
visited.
W.S. Gilbert says that he and Sullivan
have enjoyed good fortune far above any
achieved by opera bouffe or burlesqne''
without asking s'any of the clever, hard
working and excellent ladies of our company
and chorus to put on any dress that they
could not wear in society at fancy ball."
MIR. SalRs estimate of Gladstone was given
TO San Francisco interviewer the other
day, thus: "Mr. Gladstone has character
that in many respects must attract general
praise. He Is noble in his mind, true in
heart, fervent In his ideas, but unfortunate
y be lacks that element of decision which is
SO necessary in the crisis of a nation.''
The last time there was serious trouble
about electing United States Senator in
Illinois was in 1877, when General Logan's
first term expired aud he was candidate
for reelection. The Legislature met on
January 8, and the balloting for Senators be-
gan on January 16. Logan was nominated
by the Republicans in caucus, and ex-Gov-
ernor John NJ. Palmer by the Democrats.
After voting for eight days, and taking
thirty four ballots, the Republicans took up
Judge Lawrence, and the Democrats united
with the Independents in voting for Judge
Davis. On the thirty-ffth ballot Lawrence
got Sc votes and Davis 81. On the thirty
ninth Davis received only SO votes, Lawrence
AZ. and j. G. Haines crept up to so. Had
the ballotting been continued that afternoon
Haines might have been elected, but the
adjournment killed him. During the night
the Democrats fixed things with the Inde-
pendents, and the next day, on the fortieth
ballot, Judge Davis received t101 of the 200
veies cast, and was elected. The Republi-
cans voted for Judge Lawrence, who re-
ceived "a votes; J. G. Haines received 3, and
two were scattered. The voting lasted nine
days including Saturday and Monday.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

Mr. Randall has got his scheme for
building a navy embodied in the naval
appropriations bill which has passed the
House. The zeal of the Democracy, and
Of Mr.. Randall especially, in this business
10 one Of the very few good results Of the
election of a Democratic President. 1t is
well to remember, however, that but for
Mr.. Randalps obstructive tactics in the
past we should now have navy we'll under
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

Mr.. Dorsheimer's bill relating to the ell
yer coinage proposes to stop the coinage of
the present short weight dollar and substi-
tute dollar whose intrinsic value shall cor
respond to its representative value. That
would be an improvement, but still greater
improvement would be the stoppags of the
coinage altogether until some basis of inter-
national agreement as to the status of silver
can be reached.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

The tenement house commission appointed
by the New York legislature have just made
their report. They inspected 90s tenements
They estimate that in New York city there
are $4,000 tenements. The percentage of
deaths in them has increased from 51.11 in
1870 to $3.50 in 1884. The percentage would
be greater were 1t not that tho sick occu-
pants of tenements go to charity hospitals,
to which their deaths are credited. In the
district known as the "bend'' the mortality
OF children under 5years is over 65 per
cent,
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

Suppose Republican House had been
urged by men standing very near to Re-
publican President to pass bill giving the
latter power to suspend the silver coinage at
Will, what would the Democracy have said9
wouldn't there have been howl from ev-
cry Bourbon throat in the land that the
Republicans were centralizing the govern
ment; that they were placing in the hands
OF one man dangerous power; that they
were trucking to the ''gold bugs and money
sharks" of Wall street?
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

A detachment of dynamiters is going to
the assistance of El Mahdi. 1t is to be hoped
that ODonovan Rossa's wound will not pre-
vent his joining the party.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19
THURSDAY MORNING. FEB. 10.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publca
ton but as guarantee of good faith
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

Ex-Chairman Cromwell of the Democratic
State Committee has called upon Cleveland
and had pleasant interview. This will be
disquletlng news to the Hon. Charles Fl.
Chase
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

Inventors must now be looking under
their chairs for dynamite. At recent
meeting of Socialistic cranks, in Brooklyn,
all labor.saving machinery was unsparingly
denounced,
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

If there is not another snow storm the leg
islature will probably leave the capitol in
about two weeks. Another fall of snow may
imprison il until June.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19
SPECIALTIES FOR
TO-DAY !!

90 doz. more Turkey Red Stand Covers 25c each
20 6 Table 8 rs, SO, $1OO 6
Case "a inch ALI Linen Glass TOweling 12c yard
SO dOz. Turkish Bath Towels 1OC each
so " Bleached Huck s Zoe S
100 more MarseiIIes Toilet Spreads $1.OO g
100 Bates Honey Comb 6 SOC 9
Case Is inch All Linen Diaper $40 piece
Pieces more go inch Cardinal Damask 55c yard
so doz. IL 81 inch All Linen Towels 6 l-4c each
80 $ more Plaid Glass Linen Doylies SOC dozen
Is Pieces more 20 inch All Linen Crash 1-4c yard
rs dOz. All Silk Pongee Handkerchiefs 6 1-4c each
200 Gross New French Dress Buttons SC dozen
cases more Best Spring Style Prints 4c yard
2 $ s. s. $ Ginghams Sc 's
Bales 8 Fine Yard Wide Brown Cotton SC $
70 Pieces more Best American Satteens IL 1-2c 6
25 :" White Figured NainsOOks IL 1-2c 6
20 8 Lace PiQue lOc S
ALSO
100 White and Fancy Lawn and Muslin Robe Dresses
elegantly trimmed, in great variety Of qualities.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

Mr.. Randall is going to try to bring up the
Ednunds bill to place Gen. Grant on the re-
tired list before the session closes, and he
seems to think that he will be successful.
The grounds of his confidence are not ap-
parent. The Edmunds bill amounts to the
same thing as the bill which the House re-
fused to consider on Tuesday. The differ
eEce is that while the latter specifies Gen.
Grant by name, the former merely author
ICES the President to place an officer on the
retired list. That is difference, however,
which is likely to lose IL votes, because those
Democrats who voted for the House bill SIM
ply for the purpose of embarrassing the
President, probably considerable number,
win not vote for the Edmunds bill.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

All
exceedingly
possible
will
-
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

The Massachusetts house of representa-
tlves has passed the biennial election re-
solve to third reading, but by so narrow
margin as to make its finsl passage exceed
ingly doubtful. In course of the DEBATE one
OF the opponents of the bill urged that the
newspapers were all in favor of biennial
elections simply because of the expense in
volved in gathering election returns. We
venture to say that if the newspapers were
acting in this matter from selfish motives,
every one of them would oppose the resolve.
The excitement attending an election al
ways stimulates the demand for newspapers.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

all the people of the western part of the
peninsula viii look with favor upon Freuch
annexation.
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

GRAND SALE
OF
RlOI SEX Z Z EeH n G. LINEN GOODS
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY And THURSDAY.
Feb. a7tHR, 18th and 10th, al 9 "a. nm.
Feb. a7th, 18th and 19th, al 9 "a. nm.

mpled to greater exertOns
o Sar @ sk and Mark Down and Remnant Sale and the soa
mei{ irene; low prices expressly for this sale, will
before prices be
lower than were made BEFORE ItcOnsts OF " -
Bleached, Cream, Cardinal, Turkey Red and Plaid
Table Sets, Table Cloths, Napkins and Doyes,
Plain and with CoIored Borders, Bleached Damask
for Table Scaffs, Bleached Damask Tray and Bas-
ket Napkins, Barnsey, Russia, Scotch and Stevens
Crashy Glass, Stair and Butchers Linen, Fronting
and Pillow Case Linen, ESleached and Brown Terry,
Toliinefts 5leached, Cream. Cardinal and Turkey
ned Damask, Bleached Huck by the yard, BIeached
Hucks Damasky Turkish and Bathing Towels
Scotch and Russia Diaper Crochet and Toilet
Quilts.
Damask Napkins and DoyIies CENTS
and upwards.
Turkey Red DOyies all prices
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19
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Rockland es & 4s. Bath IS Il As
No. Pacific Codes Maine Central. rs 8 5s
Anson. ...........- As P. &o.R. Res
ARETAS SHURTLEFF.
NO. as4 MIDDLE STREET, Portiand.
January 1. 1884. tap1dtf
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19
FRESH EL0MERS
minstrel Sonas---CIfl and NeN


Like the book above mentioned, this is very
great Success and everybody likes the bright. pat
riotic songs. great favorite with the eSrand
extensively in War Song Concerts. 80 cts. $3.50
per dozen.
Mailed for the retail price.
OLIVER DITSON Il CO., Boston.
feb14 .STrRy,r0,u
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19

A TRIP TO SWITZERLAND
The cheeriest. brightest and most Joyous comic
creation OF the present stage. Repete with wonder
ful and intricate mechanism, artliBg action, sc.
The sensations are upsetting Of stage coach pas
sengers thrown all over the stage; Pullman car in
full motion on stage collision and railroad explo-
sion; wreck Of the Rigi Kuhn Hotel; man falls
through the ceiling.
Seats rs aud so cts gallery 80 cts. Sale Of seats
commences Monday, Feb. 16. feb13d1w
The Portland daily press., 1885-02-19
MAY CHAPMAN,

of Crock Bound Park" Peaks Island, will continue
the Course of Lectures in Mechanics Hall, next
Thursday Evening at O'Clock.
SUBJECT:-"Law Of Human Progress"
Admission Free and Collection.
Mrs. Chapman is at the Preble House.
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-12-05
A Disastrous Error.

Drinks was alawyer ofconsiderable
note, but he made a costly mistake
when he took young Fudge into part
nership.
Fudge burst into the Office a day or
two ago all aglow with excitement.
Congratulate me, old man." he
exclaimed; "I've settled that case
of Brigg VS. Jiggs."
"What! That one that's been run
ing for ten years ?"
"The same. Settled it today"
Drinks rose eXcitedly.
"Great Scott man; what are you
trying to do ?-ruin the firm %
Didn't l do right to settle it"'
inquired Fudge in some surprise.
"Do right? DO right? Good Lord
Eye supported my family on that for
ten years; and it was good for as
many more. Haven't youany sense?
Why, you'll put us in the poorhouse
if you 60 around closing up these gold
mines in this way" And old Drinks
glared ferociously at his inexperi.
enced partner.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-12-05
First American Railroad.

In the course Of paper read before
the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
bearing the title of Transportation
Privileges of the Past and Present."
Barnet lie Van cOrrects the common
ly received statement that the granite
railroad built at Quincy, Mass, in
1927, by Gridley Bryant, for trans
porting stone for the Bunker Hill
monument from the granite quarries
at Quincy, was the first railroad
built in the United States. On this
point he presents interesting testimo-
ny to prove that, far from being the
first, the granite railway was really
only the fourth in order of precedence
in the United States. WequOte from
that portion Of the paper relating to
the subject as follows:
Railroads werealso first introduced
in Pennsylvania. In September,
1909, the first experimental track in
the United States was laid out by
John Thompson, the father of John
Edgar Thompson, who was afterward
president Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Co., civil engineer of Delaware
county, Pennsylvania, and construct
ed under his direction by Somerville,
Scotch millwright, for Thomas
Leiper, of Philadelphia. 1t was $50
feet in length, and graded one and
one half inches to the yard. The
guage was four feet and the sleepers
eight feet apart. The experiment
with loaded car was so successful
that Leiper, in the same year, caused
the first railroad in the United States
to be constructed for transportation
from his quarries on Crum Creek, to
his landing on Ridley Creek, in Della
ware county, Pennsylvania, a dis
lance ofabout one mile. Itcontinued
in use for about nineteen years. Some
of the original foundations, consisting
Of rock in which holes were drilled
and afterward plugged with wood to
receive the spikes for holding the
sleepers in place, may be seen to this
day"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-12-05
The Original Bloody Shirt.

A number of correspondents have
written to a number of newspapers
lately inquiring about the origin of
the phrase, "bloody Shirt" so often
used in the political discussions of
the present day. We know of no
better explanation than that given
by Roscoe Conkling, in speech made
in New York, September II, 1880.
Referring to the "bloody Shirt" he
said: ut is a relief to remember that
this phrase, with the thing it means,
is no invention of our politics. II
dates back to Scotland three centuries
ago. After a massacre in Glenfruin,
not so savage as have stained our
annals, 900 widows rode on white
palfreys to Stirling Tower, bearing
each on a spear her husbands bloody
shirt. The appeal walked Scotland's
slumbering sword, and outlawry
and the block made the name Of
Glenfruin terrible to victorious Clan
Alpine, even to the third and fourth
generations"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-12-05

according to your calibre, which in
turn suggests something else to me,
ard so conversation is generated,
whereby you and l become better ac-
quainted and may be stauncher
friends. A good conversationalist is
one who talks suggestively; he does
not cover the whole subject in a sin
gle peremptOry sentence, nor does he
appropriate all the time to his own
vocabulary. He likes to hear you as
well as himself; you are fuel to his
fire. He likes to shake you mentally
by the hand and see what sort of q
grip you have, and he neither runs
away nor intrudes upon you. He
neither talks much nor little. If a
man must have one of these faults let
it be the first for man was made to
be social being, to communicate his
thoughts and not hide them. If a
greater talker bore you, still you have
refuge in his very lOquacity by re-
naming heedlessly silent to what he
is saying; whereas with one who
does not talk at all or very little the
burden of the whole conversation is
thrown upon your shoulders.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-12-05
Some Facts About our Population.

In the list of States and Territories,
the District of Columbia naturally
shows the most dense population,
approximating 5000 souls for each of
its sixty square miles. The next in
order is little Rhode Island, with 2j5
to the square, mile, and next to her
Massachusetts, with 222. None ofthe
other States have 200, and very few
over 100, these few being Connecti-
cut, with 1919; New Jersey, with 151,
and New York, with 107. The aver
age for the whole United States,
Alaska excluded, was, in 1880, 1929
souls to the square mile, today
probably 10. The poulatiOn of this
country, must, therefore, be fifteen
times greater than it is today before
it will be as densely populated as
Great Britain and Ireland, and twelve
times greater before it will be as
densely populated as Germany. The
proportion Of our population now
living in less than 800 cities of the
Union is % per cent, or nearly double
what it was in 1850.