The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-05-26
CITY NOTES.

Mr.. S. Z. Hammond, of Fort Gates,
was in town yesterday.
The J. T. & K. W. R. r. is having its
platforms repaired and extended at the /
depot here.
Mr.. Joe Quarterman came up Sunday /
from his place near Micanopy, and Is
with his friends here for a short while.
The Charleston and Savannah excuT-
did not come in to any great ex-
tent yesterday, not more than forty or
fifty having come to the city so far
Miss Belle Tyson, who has been in Pa
Iatka for the past winter the guest Of her
sister, Mrs. Rutledge Hunter, returned to
her home in South Carolina last night.
Messrs. l.. Falz and ~ Loeb behaving
their shanties torn down, and when they
are down the last of the temporary bull
dings erected just after the fire will have
been removed.
Very heavy clouds hung over Palatka
yesterday afternoon, and from the indi-
cations tho section just south of US must
have been visited by a wind and rain
storm. The rain fall was light at Paiatka.
Quite a number of young ladies and
gentlemen went down the river last
night to attend hop at the residence OF
Mr.. Bowen, near Orange Mills. They
left in high glee, and no doubt had a
pleasant evening of it.
The Methodist Sunday school will pic
mic to-day at Racy Point, few miles
down the river. Two of Capt. Lucas
boats will carry the party down, and if
it does not rain no doubt the little ones
and their parents and their friends will
spend a most enjoyable day. The boats
will leave Lucas wharf at 8 o'clock this
morning.
Devereux, Rogero & Son have a new
advertisement on the second page of THE
News this morning. They have an I'M
mense stock of goods, and special bar
gains are now being offered They will
begin to move their immense stock this
morning to their new mammoth store
room in the KennerIy & Hickman block,
where they will soon have things in ship,
shape order.
The desire has been so generally eX'
pressed by the people of Francis and Pc
NAL for a repetition of the entertainment
given last week at Francis, that the
young people who took part in it have
agreed to repeat the entertainment. will
some changes in the programme, ON Fri
day evening at Crowns Hall, PENAL
With favorable weather a large numbe
will attend this really delightful enter
tainment.
Lydia Mosely, probably the Oldest per
son living in Palatka or this part 0
Florida, died at the Moragne grove Oh
Friday last and was buried Saturday
She was brought to this country whel
quite young from Africa, and during
slavery times belonged to the Moragn
family, with whom she has lived 70
perhaps forty years. She was about on
hundred and five years of age, and
said have possessed a remarkable mem
orv of the incidents of long ago, thong
she never claimed to have been the nurs
Of George Washington. She was fami
iarly known to our people as Aunt Lydia
and no doubt she will be greatly MISE
by those who had charge of her
: Several important changes will |
made this week in the running Of til
= DeBary-Baya Line of steamboats,. O
Thursday the steamer DeBary will |
taken off until September, and durin
the summer she will undergo thOroug
. repair. The Water Lily with Cap
! Charley Brock in command, Will tai
the place of the DeBary on the dayligl
. line between Palatka and Sanford. an
the George NJ. Bird VII take the O
route of the Water Lily, between Palati
and Seville. In a few weeks the steam
. err Pastime will be substituted for Il
Q Water Lily. The old routes viii be Ike
up by the line, which have proven vel
popular along the river during the pa
), season.
~ Mr. Chas Gordon, the foreman, has a
% rived from New York, and is now eng
= cling help to begin work on the ne
IS building for the Palatka National Ban
J. on Front street Trenches for the fOu
7 dations will be dug out this week al
" brick work will be begun on next Mo
Y day. The building will be three stori
high. the first floor to be used by L
bank and the upper part ofthe house W
he made into sleeping rooms for the ne
hotel that will be erected on the Lark
House lot. We learn that work W
= begin on the Front street wing of t
y hotel as soon as the bank building is Fl
t ished So we have one more hotel nc
d in sight for the summer, and probab
u another will he erected before next st