The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-07

AeSSrS- A. w. Mann & Co. have Just
received a car load of fine Tennessee
mules, which are now for sale at their
stables on First street. In the lot are
some of the finest mules they have ever
brought to Palatka, and they are selling
at popular prices. They also received by
same train a car load of sheep shoats
and pigs, suitable for breeding or mar
ket. There are some beautiful Berk-
shire pigs, and all who desire to secure
any of them should call early and get
choice.
Mr.. |. w. Brown, of CollingtOn, Nd,
was in town yesterday morning and the
day before, and from one of his friends
we learn that he is prospecting here for
an immense door, sash and blind facto-
ry, and that he has decided Palatka to
be the best point for such an enterprise.
The factory, if erected, will be on an i'm
mense scale, and will require a one hum
dred horse power engine to furnish pow
er for the machinery. There is good
opening for such factory here, and we
hope Mr.. Brown will find it to his ben
fit to establish it.
The county commissioners We're in
session at the court house yesterday,
when they examined the plans for the
new Jail building, and ordered draft to
be made for their inspection at next reg
ular meeting. The Jail will be erected
ON the vacant lot at the corner of Orange
and Peck streets, near the present Jail,
and will have an elegant little ''parson-
age attachment in the shape of a
dwelling for the sheriff. They also
granted the licenses prayed for by \. n.
Edwards & Co., and t. II. Haley & Co,
to sell liquors, etc, and transacted the
usual routine business.
Yesterday we had the pleasure of n
call from Mr.. III. Iii. Herndon, city edi-
tor of the Leesburg Spirit. He repre-
sents his growing town as still on boom
and also informed us, with characteristic
newspaper modesty, that the report cir
cuIated by correspondents in several
state papers to the effect that he had res
cued a lady from drowning while on Il
having been rescued by two sailors who
were aboard the yacht upon which the
party had embarked for their pleasure
trip. Capt. Thompson of the sloop Cora
Lee, assisted by sailor, were the par
ties who saved the life of the lady, and
to them should be awarded the praise
due to such gallant act.
Just one year ago tonight Palatka was
laid in ashes, and while it was a great
calamity, the disaster only seems to have
given q new impetus to the growth of
the city, and we all are proud of what
has been done within the past twelve
months. The building boom that was
begun before the ashes hardly had time
to cool, and the brick blocks and resi-
dences and cottages that have been
erected, the new Putnam House and
the scores OF houses now going up with
in our corporate limits, give the Gem
City an activity and prosperity unknown
to her sister cities, and which is rapidly
bringing the place to the front as the
leading city Of the state. While drop
ping a tear to the memory of ''old Pa
latka," with her rickety shanties, we
join in the glad hurrah in honor of the
new Palatka, with her solid blocks and
magnificent residences that have sprung
up and made the beautiful city, that
will be ga JOY forever" and a source of
pride to all her Inhabitants.
DR.. King and NJ. Neustadtl, special
agents of the treasury for the internal
revenue, have just visited Tampa for the
purpose of examining the internal reve-
nue. office in that city.