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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-12-19
"SHAKY."
The Zig-zag Methods Employed by
Mercenary Men.

Mercenary Men.
1t is a notable fact that the people
OF Atlanta and elsewhere are Begin
ming to be thoroughly convinced that
worthless compounds become "shaky"
at all new innovations, while an hon
est preparation never fears opposi-
ton. We do not propose to "wipe
out" Others, as the field for operation
is large, and we accord to one and all
the same privileges we enjoy. We
are not 50 far lost to business princi-
Piles as to denounce any other remedy
as fraud, or imitation, or as contain
ing vegetable poison, the effects Of
which are horrible to contemplate.
The alarm need not be sounded, for
there is ample room for all anti-polash
pine-top slop-water compounds.
If one bottle of B. B. B. is more
valuable in effects than half a dozen
of any other preparation, We won't
get mad about it. Iften bottles of B.
B. B. cures a case of blood poison
which others could not cure at all, it
proves that B. B. B. is far the best
medicine.
10000 BOTTLES
If B. B. B. have been sold to parties
living inside the corporation of At
lanta since it was started two years
ago!
Why this wonderful sale of a new
remedy in SO short a time with 50 Its
tie advertising?
1t must he confessed that it is be-
caus, B. B. B. has proven itself to
possess merit in the cure Of blood,
skin and kidney disease. Hundreds
of home certificates attest the fact of
our claim that in Atlanta ana many
other points B. B. B. are son top"
and will stay there. Many persons
desire to know how the b. B. B. acts
on the system. By entering the cir.
culation, it modifes the vitiaied
blood globules, incr' asses the red cor.
puscles, antagonizes all poison, vital
ICES and regenerates the tagging
forces, furnishes the pabulum foI
rich, new blood, eliminates all poison
through the secretions, and increases
the appetite, while, by its wonderful
action upon the pores Of the skin, The
kidneys, liver aud gIamlular system
all efete and impure matter is speed
ly conducted from the body, leaving
the blood pure, fresh and healthy.
BY its magical Alternative powers,
B. B. B. unIoads the blood of all i'm
purities, uDlocks the liver, arouses al
secretions, restores nature to its NOR
NAL condition, uncIouls the troubled
brain, clears and beauties the COM
plexion, cheers the respondent
strengthens the feeble, oalms the dis
turbed nerves, and induces quiet anC
peaceful SUMMERS. 1t has been II
use over twenty-five years as a pri-
vale prescription in the south.
1t is no far feiched, foreign>toun'
or drenm.discovered subterraneaI
wonder, hut it is scientific and hap
Ply combination of recognized vegeta
BILE blood poison agents, effected afte
many years If constant use and eXpe
riment in the treatment OF thousands
of spme of the most appalling cases o
scrofulous, sypmlili" and culaneou
blood poisOns ever known in the state
resulting III complete aud unpa'allele'
cures of pronounced incurahIe cases
Send to Blood Balm, Atlanta, Ga
for a copy of their Book Of Wonders
free, filled with information about
Blood and Skin Diseases, Kidney
Complaints, DC. For sale 10y Hen
derson IL Martin.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-12-19

Pomroy's Liver Cure.-A sure
remedy for sick>headache, dyspepsia
and liver complaint. Ask fra free
sample lp'jie 90 Henderson L Mar.
tia's.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-12-19
SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE
NASHVILLE, TENN.

The largest Book Manufacturing Establishment
the South. A full assortment Of the better claSs
miscellaneous books constantly on hand. Theologie
books, and Sunday-school song-books and Libraries
specially. S,,..,..t.,, Aa,.o.,,c- \
General organ Of the Methodist Episcopal Churc
South. Twenty pages each week. a pure paper !
the old and young. Only - year
Snday-schOol Periodicals.
Eight periodicals for Sunday-schoo teachers
scholars; different grades and prices; issued week
monthly, and quarterly.
Advocate and Sunday-school Periodicals sent {
TO any address
Estimates furnished on all kinds Of Book and
Printing. Address
Southern Methodist Publishing Hous
49, =. NASHVILLE, TRIM.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-21
According to the-Rail4Fnav Ace

According to the Railway Age
500 13 miles were added to the rail
way track of the United States dur
ing the first half of the current cal
endar year. The Age states that its
records for a number of years show
hat the construction during the first
'lalf of the year is generally not
more than % to 33 Is per cent of
the entire construction for the wear.
IN view of this, and of the further
fact that it has a record of large
lumber of roads on which tracklav-
ing will be in progress during the
second half of the year, but on
which no track was laid on the first
half, the Age considers it safe to es-
innate that the total addition of
railway mileage during the year will
not be less than 5000 miles and NAV
reach 1000 miles. At the most it
will be no more than it was last
year, and only about one-third that
of 1882. The Age ventures to pre-
diet an increase in construction af-
ter the present year, and with much
reason, since in many parts of the
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-21

The New York World, whose ed
itor is of pure German extraction,
thus raps the Austrian childi~hncss
toward our Minister Kelley: "The
Vienna correspondent of the London
News says that the Austrian obiec-
ton to the newly appointed Ameri-
can minister is solely attributed to
Mr.. Kelley having expressed him
self on some former occasion in a
disrespectfuI way with regard to
the reigning dynasty of Italy. Put
ting it in this simple Saxon way
shows the ludicrous position which
the Austrian government has assum-
ed. 1t is a humiliatlng confession
That Austria is willing to be impcr-
tinent to power infinitely greater
than itself for the sake of pandering
to a power smaller and more in sig
nlhoant, if possible, than itself. The
magnitude of the lately unified
German empire has shrunken Aus
tria-IIungary into a second or third
rate continental power, about on a
par with Italy, which it humiliatcs
itself to placate"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-21

A special from Emmettsburg,
Md, of Wednesday tells the follow
.ng story: "Forty years ago Mr..
David Gamble, a wealthy farmer
/, ar here, made a coffin in which he
slept every night. His novel bed
was chosen, he said, as a constant
reminder that death is always near
His desire to impress this fact upon
himself was owing to the sudden
death of his wife, at the age Of thir-
ty years, by heart disease. Just be
fore he made the coffin they had
been to ball, and after returning
home retired to bed. Fifteen min
utes later Mr.. Gamble found that
his wife had died at his side. The
shock was believed by many to have
unsettled his reason. lie always
kept his coffin i'll the corner of the
dining-roOm. Last night he retired
to his coffin at the usual hour, but
when the servant called him this
morning it was found that he was
dead. The body was not disturbed.
and will be buried as it was found. >
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-21
PALATKA, FLA, JULY 20, 1885.

The Florida constitutional con-
vention will probably insert a clause
in the new constitution providing
for the payment of a poll-tax as a
prerequisite for voting. The object
is, of course, to cut off voters who
are so Indifferent to the right of
suffrage as not to qualify themsel-
yes by payment. The proposition
to abandon this system in Pcnnsyl-
vania is not wise. The law should
be amended so that every taxpayer
would be obliged to pay his own
poll-tax, and the sale of receipts in
block should be forbidden. The tax
itself is proper safeguard of the suf-
fr1ge; the method of collection is
/ alty.-Philadelphia Record, Ind.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-21
Sword Cancs Cor I.a,lic..

Philadelphia Press.
Il guess III have to lay in anew stock
Of sword canes, said q Ninth street deal
er in walking sticks yesterday. That
lady took the last one I had"
do ladies buy sword canes " was
ossl,--odd..
do they Wen. I should say =.
Young lady artists are heavy Customers
in them. You see they so around the
country sketching, and painting, and
they want something for protection.
against tramps:"
mo, against lizards and snaEez-aud
COWS. They tell me they splita lizard
every time-run him right through"
Are you sure they fight cows VITA
them :"
That's what they say, but l doubt it.
Between you and me. il a girl saw a COW
coming toward her shed drop the cane
and make Tor a fence every time. That's
none Of my business, though. I'm sell
ing canes, and if the ladies want to buy
them I'm going to encourage them all I
can.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-21
THE DAILY NEWS.
BENZ. HARRISON, Editor.

THE DAILY NEWS is published every morn
ing, except Monday, and delivered by carriers
in the city, or mailed postage free, for 50 cents
month, $50 for t1ree months, $3.50 for six
months, or S. per anuum.
THE WEEKLY NEWS is an SPACE 48-columE
paper, published every Saturday, containing
all the news of the week, local and general 10
Is the largest and handsomest weekly paper
published in Florida, and will be mailed post
age free for 81 a year, or 50 cents fer SIX
months. Specimen copies free to any address
LoC-a advertisements 20 cents per lire fer
first insertion and 10 cents per line for each adj
ditiona insertion. Special notices 10 cents PER
line. Reduced rates on continued advertise
ments.
All advertising bills become due pro rata
every month. Local advertisements due At
the expiration of the time for which they are
Inserted.
All remittances should IA made by express,
money-order or registere Ietter.
Address,
w. w. RANDALL.
BUSINESS MANAGER,
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-21

REGISTERED AT THE PALATKA POST OFFICE
AS SECOND-CLAss MAIL MATTER.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30
Argus.
The Widows Wit.

Boston Herald.
\ dashing Washington widow, who
had received attention from a very pop
ular and gallant physician, found herself
suddenly deserted. Her Esculapius, aged
SO, was completely enthralled by beau
ty of IS, and on Christmas morning the
wedding took place with all due pomp.
WOrmwOOd for the widow, She swal-
lowed it bravely, wore an undaunted
front. and was among the first to offer
hurried congratulations to the happy
pair. The conversation turned upon
Chistmas gifts, and the bride said laugh
ing gaily: "All my wedding presents
were sent just before Christmas, so on
Christmas morning | had not n single
gift ''Ah my dear, that is cruel; you
had me-" said the bridegroom, reproach-
fully. Before the pretty bride could an
swer, the widows eyes grew dangerous.
and, swinging slowly her large fan, she
murmured: Surely, my dear Mrs. X,
you should be more than satisfied, for
you know that antiquities are all the
rage" In the awful silence following,
the widow rose, carefully arranged her
draperies, and bowed her adieus in
stately serenity. DIR. Y. and his bride
never returned her call.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30
PUBLIC OPINION.

According to mugwump logic, If
Mr.. Blaine lived in New York state
he would vote for Hill in order to
rebuke the administration Utica
Observer.
The wealth of the sonth has in
creased since 1850 from 81, I94 ,O00,-
900 to So, 6,OOO,O 900. Anarchy is
a pretty good foIm Of government
if it produces such results.-Pitts
burg Post, Dem.
Judge Foraker is coming to our
state to teach New Workers the new
Ohio idea. So far, to the credit OF
the republicans be it said, they have
not gone on the notion that the
south is still in rebellion-Albany
Times, Dem.
OF course the mugwump has n
right to vote as he pleases, and dem
ocracy has no right to assert author
ity over him, but we must think he
is too attenuated and sublimated a
political quantity to be Of much
fyr p further Getaru.i-3e- ill.,
destinies of this somewhat practical
government 1t is generally couce-
ded that nebulous bodies exert but
little influence in any sort of sys-
tem.-Nashville Union, Dem.
a new party has developed in the
state of New York. It's members
call themselves "fossils," and their
popularity is that, unlike the mug
wumps, who vote for the best man,
according to their own infalliblc
light, the fossils cannot tell who Is
| the best man to vote for. \ repre-
sentative fossil has written to the
Herald for solution to his dilem-
ma, and the Herald coolly advises
him not to vote at all. The fossils
| -~l5rstiv i1r:uaa that important
section Il every party which never
goes near the primaries.-Portland
| ArUuS
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30

Referring to this action the Mem
phis AvalancA says editorially: '1n
the main the ministers who sustain
DR.. Woodrow do not profess to be-
lieve IN evolution a demonstrated
scientific theory fhey onfyrinsist
that it must be treated as other
scientific truths which have been
equally denied and afterward ac-
cepted. 1t must not be made one
way or-the- other a test Of faith or
of religious belief or orthodoxy. No
man is to be condemned for believ-
ing, and none because he does not
believe it. The action of the South
Carolina synod is opportune and
pioneer to a great intellectual revi-
val and agitation in church noted
for intellect and learning. 1t means,
however,a sword and not peace"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30

1t was stated in the republican
newspapers some time ago that ex-
Senator Roscoe Conkling was com
ing back to New York to re-enter
politics, and that he would support
Davenport for governor. He has
returned from his European tour
and has unburdened himself to a
friend, who publishes an account of
the conversation in the New York
Sun. 1t is not exactly what the re-
publicans expected or wanted. He
says that Davenport is a millionaire
and nothing else; that EvartS is a
venerable icicle and that the repub-
lican platform is a mess of adulter-
ated vapidity and monumental va
Guilty. He says: The republican
party is now in the hands of those
who have been the willing tools of
the man from Maine, and it remains
to be seen what they will do with
it," and that there is not much hope
that the republican party will be,
under their management, restored
to its pristine strength and effective
ness
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30
Cancer of the Tongue |!
i Case Resembling Gen. Grants.

Some ten years ago had II scrofulous sore
on my right hand which gave me great trou-
healed up and supposed was we'll found
how Yer, ii had only been driven into the
q. -',f d y the use of potash ANA mercury,
an. F." 'larch, loo!, 1t broke out IN my throat.
ana concentrated in what some of the doctors
denomnated cancer was placed under
trca tIncht for this disease, some six or seven
OF the best physicians in the country ha,i fnc
at different times under their charge, am ing
them three specialist III TINS llnc' Dul ore
after another would exhaust their skill! and
drop me, for grew worse continually, I'll"
cancer had eaten through my cheek, destroy
ing the roof of my mouth and upper lip, then
attrCk ed my tongue. palate and lower lip. de-
strOying the palate and under Lip emf rely and
half my tongue, eating out TO the top 81 my
left check bone ami uP to the left eye. From
Il hearty. robust woman of 10 pounds, ! was
reduced to a mere frame of skniu and bones,
almost unable to turn myself in bed. could
not eat solid food. but subsistcd on liquids,
and my tongue SO far gone L could not
talk. The anguish of mind and the horrible
SUfferingS Of body which experienced never
can DE revealed, Given up 10y physicians TO
die, with no hope OF recovery upon the part
of friends who sat around my bedside expect
ing every moment To be my last; i'll fact. my
husband would place his hand on me every
now and then 10 see whether | was dead or
not. and at one time all decided that life was
extinct, and my death reported al over
the country.
Such was my wrctched and helpless condi-
ton the first of last October GSS4l. when my
friends commenced giving me Switts Speci-
fic. In less than Il month the eating places
StOPpC'i and healing commenced, ana the
fearful aperture in my check has been closed
ana firmly knitted together. \ process of
new under lip is progressing finely, ana the
tongue, which was almost destroyed * being
recovered, and il seems that nature is supply
ing i new tongue. / can talk that my
friends can readily understand me. and can
eat solid food again. | am able To walk about
wherever please without the assistance OF
any one. and have gained fifty pounds OF
flesh. All this, under the blessing OF a rel
ful Heavenly Father, is due to Switt's Specific.
| am wonder and marvel To all my friends,
hundreds of whom have known my intense
sufierngs. and have visited me in my aifiict-
ions. While 1 am not entirely well, yet my
gratitude is none the less deYOut. and lam
cOntident that a perfect recovery Is now in
sight. If any doubt these facts, i would refer
them to Hon. John III. TTaylOr. state senator
of this district, who Is my ncighbor, DR., I. :.
Bradfield. Of LAG range. Ga, or to any other
person living in the southern part of Troupe
county, Ga.
MRS. MARY L. CONFER.
LAGRANGE, Ga, May II, IoS5,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30

Wall street has just transacted
the largest weeks business on its
record. The sales of stock amount
ed to 1928, 1857 shares. This unpre
cedented volume of business for the
brokers naturally enhances the val
ne of their privilege of executing
orders At The Exchange, and sat-
000 has been lid FIR the r1Eh. 10
b,,-.,n,c one OF the exclusive eleven
hundred. The buyng craze contin-
ued unchecked during the first three
days of the week, and everything
good, bad and indifferent-wentu up.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30
\ DccOrOus and FAIR Minded Car.


New Moon.
l once had a cat which always sat up
to the dinner table with me, and had his
napkin round his neck, and his plate and
soa fish. He used his paw, of course.
but he was very particular, and behaved
with extraordinary decorum. When he
had finished his fish / sometimes gave
him piece of mine. One day he was
not to be found when the dinner bell
rang, so we began without him. Just
as the plates were put round for the en-
tree. Duos came rushing up stairs ami
<ar:3u- int bis chair, with so nice IN
his mouth. Before he could be stopped
he dropped mouse on his own plate,
and then one on mine. He divided his
dinner with me, as l had divided mine
with him.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30

The Importance and value of the
tobacco crop in Virginia is very
clearly shown in the statement of
the Lynchburg Advance that Lynch
burg pays more revenue INTO the
United States treasury, on the SIN
gle article of tobacco, than any one
of the New Engla ID states pays on
everything it produces
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30

y countryman took an old pistol into
Crawford & Co.. store in Tallahassee
Saturday to get it fitted with cartridges.
1t was said to be empty, of course, but
when Davidson Stockton gently pulled
the trigger the innocent-looking pocket
gun went off with bang and sent a
leaden missile buzzing around among
the tobacco boxes.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30


AS the election approaches, Ma
hone is redoubllng his efforts to Sc
cure the legislature of Virginia. He
is having prepared list of every
republican voter in the state, and is
also having his 'aencAaen thoroughly
organszea III military style ana dlvl-
ded into squads under the command
of regularly detailed officers. The
squads are to be stationed about the
polling places armed with these lists,
and as fast - q republican votes lie
name is checked eli II .tu thus
be seen exactly vino mas not voted,
and the rccalcitrant can be readily
hunted up and brought in. All this
costs money, but Malone has been
literally supplied by his northern
friends, who are everywhere making
his cause their own In this CON
test the democracy of Virginia is ar
rayed against the radicalism of the
union, and if they win, it will be in
the face of almost overwhelming
odds.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30
PALATKA, FLA, OCT. 30, 1885.

December will come III on Tues
day this year, the first Monday in
the month falling consequently on
the 18th, which will make the vaca-
ton between the two congresses the
longest possible under the constitu-
ton.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30
FriShtful Ga Sc
Of a CoIOred Man.

1 contracted fearful case of blood poison
in 1855. / was treated by some of the best
pa sIciaIs in Atlanta They used the Old
remedies of Mercury ana Potash, which
brought ON rheumatism ami impaired my dI-
-c,.>tIFe ORGANS Every joint III me was SwUl-
/ en- and fun of pain. L was i'll Il horrible CON
dition. When I had been given up to die,
my physicians, who had seen the workings of
the medicine in other cases. Thought il would
be splendid time to test the virtues of
Swft'S Specific. When commenced taking
;. ). :. the physician said could not live two
weeks under the ordinary treatment. He
com HcucCd to give Iue the medicine strictly
according to directions, which continued for
several months. l took nothing else, and com
menced to improve from the first. OCCASION
ally would have Il bacilsct from imprudencc.
soon the rheumatism left me, my appetite he
came all right, and the ulcers, which the doe
tor said were the most friEhtful he had ever
seen, began to heal, and by the first of Octo-
Der, 1851. | was IA we'll man again. ! am strong
cr now than ever was before, and weigh
more. have not failed to report for duty
since that time. being engaged III the oil ware
house of the Chess-Carley Company. | have
been, and still am. doing some OF the hardest
work any man ever did. and am ready to
swer any question that may be asked concern
ing this case. Swift'S Specific has saved me
from an early grave.
LEM MCCLENDON.
Atlanta Ga. April Is, 1885.
Lem NaClerdon has been in the employ of
the Chess-Cal,cy Company for some years.
and know the above to he true. At the time
he began taking Swift's Specific he was in
horrible condition, and Mt my solicitation his
treatment with = :. =. was undertaken by
physician after several others had declaredhis
case to he hOpelesSly iucurable. He took moth
ing but ). s. s., and has been sound a dol
lar for several months, l regard the cure al
most miraculous
w. q. CROSBY, Manager.
Chess-CarIey Co; Atlanta Division.
Atlanta, Ga: April Is, 1883.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-30
The svnods of South Carolina an,

South Georgia and Florida have
sar ferEos3 th2 acti-a ,s lbt Board
OF Directors III eJvctIng Prof. Wood
row from his chair of Natural
Science in Connection with Revela-
tion," in Columbia Seminary, for his
belief in the probable truth of the
theory of evolution, while at the
same time holding that the theory,
as merely descriptive of Gods
method of creation, and not as a
substitute for creative action, was
consistent with the Bible AM with
the A4>sJ, terlan sym oois of faith.