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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
CHRIS

Mr.. E. R. Farrer now makes a special
ty of window and door screens as will
be seen by his attractive notice in an
other column. Ii is one of our mer-
chants who lives up TO the motto ''Quick
sales at low prices
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
AGENTS FOE THE NEWS.

The following gentlemen are the authorized
agents of TIE PALATKA DAILY AND WEEKLY
NEWS, in their several localities.
w r Dewitt, San Mateo.
w @ Valentine Nashua.
G s Packard, Welaka.
II Nj Bard Norwalk.
j f Marshall, Fruitland, Fla.
j / McCailum, Orange Mills, Fla
A Il Bartlette, Georgetown,
Daniel Darling Drayton Island.
r E Higly, Lake George.
j E Burton, Crescent City.
J G Strickland, Interlachen.
A MunrOe. McMeekin 49,
WmsC Braddock, Seville.
J S Cewdon, st Augustine.
A II Vogelbaeh, Nelrose.
Charles Moore, Lake worth, Fla.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
THE KING IS DEAD--LoNG LIVE
THE KING.


Place 70 the Officers Elect
A Harmonious End to I.
Woodworking Gov
ernment---A
Vote of
Thanks.
On Thursday, April 9th, our citizens
will remember that the last meeting of
the first council elected by a non-partisan
vote in Palatka took place. At 10 a. M,
the board was called to order, with the
President, William ]. Vinegar, in the
chair. There were present Aldermen
Kenner,y, Merryday and Loeb, Clerk
Falk, Mayor Mount, Marshal Lasseter
and reporters &C the city press.
On motion Of Alderman Kennerly.
the vote was canvassed and the result de-
clared, as already published in THE
News: Mayor. J. C. Donnelly; Alder
men, S. J. Kennerly, NJ. Loeb, Fl. R.
Teasdale, A. w. Mann, j. [. Purcell,
etc. The Clerk was instructed to notify
these gentlemen and the other officers
elect of the vote. Alderman 3Terryday
then moved that the board return a vote
of thanks to its President for the able
and impartial rulings which had made
the discharge of his duty so useful to the
public and the pleasant manner which
had been SO thoroughly appreciated by
his associates. The motion was seconded
by Alderman Kennerly, put by Clerk
Falk, and carried unanimously.
On motion Of Alderman Kennerly, the
thanks Of the beard were unanimously
rendered TO Clerk Falk for his careful
and most efficient discharge of duties
made unusually severe by the incompe
tency of his predecessor.
On motion OF Alderman Loeb, the
thanks of the Council were rendered to
the retiring Mayor, who was assured by
several most pleasant speeches from the
members, that while they had at differ
ent times disagreed with his Honor, they
had never doubted his single-hearted
zeal for the public service, or the purity
of his motives.
Alderman MerFyday then received the
unanimous thanks of the Council for the
highly satisfactory discharge Of the
Presidents duties on several occasions.
On motion Of Alderman Loeb, The
PALATEA DAILY News was unanimously
assured that its efforts in behalf of good
government and its support Of the re-
form movement had been highly appre-
ciated by the representatives of the citi-
zens.
On motion Of Alderman Merryday, the
Palatka Herald was heartily thanked for
its uniform course and its support of the
present administration in its attempt to
| improve our city, cleanse the govern
ment and preserve peace and good order.
Then, on motion of Alderman Ken
nerly, the board was declared adjourned
sine die.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
Reading Notices.

TAX AssEssoR's NOTICE. will be in Nor
walk on Thursday, April end, for the purpose
of assessing property for taxation the year
1885, and for the next three weeks will he in
West Putnam for that purpose us announced
by posters. BENZ. z. BOYD,
Tax Assessor for Putnam Co.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
PALATKA. FLORIDA
Dissolution Notice,

The co-partnership heretofore existing be-
tween Fl. L. Green and Martin Griffin. JF-. IN
der the name of Green & Co.. has this day been
dissolved by mutual consent, Martin Griffin,
.Jr., retiring, The business viii hereafter be
conducted by HI. L. Green. who assumes the IL
abilities of the late concern and win receipt
for outstanding accounts.
H. L. GREEN,
MARTIN GRIFFIN, in.
Paiatka. Fla. April It'll, 1885.
In retiring beg leaye to thank the customers
of the late concern for their generous patron
age and respectfully solicit for Mr. Green 3
continuance of same. Very respectfully.
MARTIN GRIFFIN, JR.
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Daniel Xehsfe,.,s Earnir

Worcester t1Gass) Spy.
In view Of the protracted trial in our
Superior Court Last week it is of interest
to note the fees which Daniel Webster
received for his services. For many years
be kept a regular account of his profess
sional receipts, and for two Of those years
the accounts have been published. IN
the first Of tbs two, when he was about
81 years Of age, his receipts, emitting
several small affairs, amounted to
S15,t 1871. The number of items, mostly
against different clients, was 129. The
largest charge was $4,000 There were
twenty-foUr retainers in the year. amour
ting in the aggregate to $3.50 The
largest was retainer in patent cases.
Of $50; but most Of the retainers were
of 500 and $50. The second published
account covered the year 1923, when
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

WANTRD-A reliable midde-aged white man
who understands the care Of stock, and who
has worked in orange groves, Good wages
will be paid. Apply at this office.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
PALATKA HOTELS.
HOUSE,
4. SHELLEY. PRoPRIEToR.

Finest location in the city. Newly remodel
ed and refurnished, making the finest home
accommodations. Table unsurpassed. Electric
bells in every room. $50 feet of piazza prom
enade. Accommodations for 200 guests. On
nibus at all depots and landings.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

Mangold's new gallery when completed will
be the finest in the state All furniture Ofthe
latest styles. One price alone. Is capable OF
making sixty different changes.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

over goo worth Of scenic back grounds pos
ing chairs balustrades and other accessories
on the way for Mangold's New Gem City Gal
lery.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10
THE DAILY NEW S.
Observation-Disclosures

Solicited on all interesting topics throughout
the state. We will be especially grateful Tor
all local items of interest to the public News
sent by wire should be abbreviated when prac-
ticable, and sent after O'Clock p N, adtlfesseu
to PALATKA DAILY NEWS.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

The Office ofTHE DArLY NEWS is located on
Water street, in the icon Building next to
Reid brick store.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

For Thousands of old papers,
good for many purposes. Apply at the
NEWS office.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

Ladies' and Children's Underwear,
Corsets, Hosiery, Umbrellas, Parasols
and Satchels, at
DEyEREUx. RoGERo & Sons.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

For aRENr-Fine store rooms on Lemon St,
apply % l.. FALK.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

Killed by Nule-kiIIer or Scroncher.
Editor PALATKA NEWS:
Not so; there never was anybody
killed by one.
But what is a Mule-killer or Scaron-
cher? He is a rather hideous looking in
sect, found all over our State Or tropical
countries, his habitat being under old
logs or wood piles, general damp but not
wet places, and feeds upon pinch bugs
and other insects, which with his strong
claws he can easily crush or tear to
pieces; is of a dark color, about two in
ches long when full grown, by three
quarters of an inch in width, and has
two strong claws at the front end after
the manner of crayfish, while at the
south end is a foeler or antenna, gener-
ally about one inch and half long, COM
monty called the tail or singer. His
home, with his mate and from five to
ten young ones, is in long galleries under
ground, which lead to a comfortable dry
nest.
His technical name is the Telephorus
and lie is classed with the Arachnidae, or
spider family, and. evolutionarily, may
be considered the connecting link be
tween the arachnids and the coleopterae.
Instead Of being dangerous, he is en-
tirely harmless, can only pinch or ezude
an offensive odoroas fluid (his means Of
defensel, which on an abraded surface
would prove irritant.
Stories Of persons or mules having
having been killed by them prevail in
different localities. butpatient investiga-
ton by the writer has always failed to
verify them. That he must do great
good to the farmer and truck gardener
is undoubtedly the case, considering
what he lives upon.
| Not harmful, but beneficial TO man +!
Then don't wantonly kill him. W.
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TIC News Once.

Can be purchased at f CCOCHRANES.N M
at the postoffice building.
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inc Daily Ncws

PALATKA, FLA, APRIL 10, 1885.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

Atwood Suits, Mems Boys and Chill
never before offered in
Palatka, at
DEvEREUx, RoGERo- & Sons.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-04-10

Our bargain counter is now longer and
we are displaying many specialties which
has been impossible for us to do before,
on account of limited space.
DEYEREUX, RCGERO & Son.
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CITY NOTES.

We see our friend B II. Miller,
Esq, in attendance on the circuit court.
Roberts Razor Steel Scissors and Cnt-
Iery. Needles. etc. at
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04
Perils of the Sea.

The terrible weather of the past week
has been felt on the sea as well as on
the land. Press dispatches give the
following particulars of the sufferings
of cast-aways on the ice who had ar
rived at Charlottetown, Prince Edwards
Island:
j. A. FRASER was interviewed and SAYS
the twenty-five men started on Wednesday,
many without axes or provisions and only
small pocket compass and keg of water.
Morrison fell through the ice within an hour
after leaving the shore; his clothes were
frozen stiff and he suffered terribly. After
toiling all day he got on a small tongue of
ice at dark and determined to bvouac for
the night. The wind was blowing half
hurricane, and he suffered greatly from the
pelting seet and hail We smashed up one
kept us from perishing With the other
two boats we made a small cabin.
earnestly pray God / may never see such
another night-twenty strong men suffering
the terrors of frost, hunger and thirst, and
breaking the stiffness of the night by pray
ers, groans and curses. Thus the night was
spent. Toward daybreak we heard ire
mendous crash, and found the ice had parted
within fifteen feet of our cabin. The whole
party was then on small tongue of ice,
over WHICH UHe waves uaSleu 1urlOuSly. we
had barely time to get the boats into the
water and get aboard before the small
tongue broke in pieces. On Thursday we
again got on the solid ice, but it was in
tensely cold. Our sufferings were almost
beyond endurance. One of the crew named
Trenholm became deliriOus and wanted to
be left to die. AT four o'clock Captain
Irving discovered land ahead and the half
dazed men made a desperate and successful
effort to reach the land. Two of our party
will die. Three others will lose their hands
and feet. Glidden, the Boston man, will
have both feet and hands amputated."
" THE barque Lady of the Lake, Captain
Mosher, with a cargo of salt, from Liver
pool, November 29th, arrived at Halifax
February LIST, with the captain and crew of
eleven men all frost-btten, three danger
ously. They tell terrible tale of suffering.
They were off New York twelve days ago
and arrived off Halifax four days later
when they encountered cold spell, all the
crew being more or less frozen. On Friday
the Lady of the Lake was taken in tow by
two tugs, but instead of reaching Halifax
Harbor both vessel and tugs were blown
out to sea. Night and storm coming on, the
tugs left the vessel. The crew complain
that the captain compelled them to beat the
ice off the ropes and sails with marline-
spikes exposed them to the terrors of the
weather and kept them without food for
days. Another tug picked up the vessel
Sunday and brought her to port. Three of
the crew were removed to the hospital and
will probably lose their feet and hands
One of the three, in trying to rip shoe off
with a sheath knife, nearly severed his foot
from, the ankle. Captain Mosher,, whose
hands were also frozen, said he had no
sleep for eight days"
The marine reports contain many
similar accounts of misfortune and ter
rible suffering.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04

firmly rooted--this is personal work
that must be done by individuals who
are willing to devote time and great
deal of patience to good cause. This
is the way in which general discussions
must be applied and made effective
Voters need information, not only as
to the provisions of the system and its
practical working, but particularly as to
its business aspects-how it would af-
feet taxation for schools, how the divis-
ion of school property would be made,
and how such division would affect the
old districts, what would be the advan-
tages and disadvantages of the change
and many other matters of detail,
These are of decisive consequence, even
when the general merits of the system
are understood and acknowledged
These things are local and can be sup.
piled only by intelligent and well di-
gives prominence to one branch of the
subject of its address, which is a con-
venience, luxury, of the system, but
is by no means necessary to it's effective
working. We speak of the central high
school. Many towns have no business
or social center, where such school
could be established. 1t is not at all
necessary that there should be. The
system is designed to give the children
of the common schools collectively
equal advantages, schools of equal
length and teachers of requisite de-
gree of efficiency. This main purpose
of the system succeeds as well in a town
without as with a center. The central
high school is an extension of the adj
vantages of the system which may or
may not be adopted, according as the
conditions are favorable or unfavora-
BILE, or as the voters may elect or not
elect. The central high school is a de-
sirable thing to have if circumstances
favor and the voters want it, but, as we
nave SAID, the system, IN the fulfillment
of its main purpose, works as well with
out it. The fact that town does not
center in any particular locality is no
impeachment to the operation of the
system. Towns will be compelled by
law to vote in March on the question of
the adoption of this system. In a
matter of so great consequence they
should vote Understandings, and COM
petent citizens should begin at once to
prepare for a full and clear presenta-
ton of the general merits of the system
and the effect, morally and materially
of its application to their own town.
The work should begin at once, and the
discussion need not necessarily be de-
layed till town meeting day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04
The Town System of Schools.

We publish in another column the
address of a committee of the State
Teachers Association to the people of
Vermont on the matter of the adoption
of the town system of schools. Includ-
ing the evidence of the successful
working of the system submitted by the
committee, THE WATCHMAN has pub
lished from time to time great amount
and variety of information respecting
the system itself, and its practical
working in the towns which have given
ii fair trial in this state, and in the
states where it is the system established
by law. The address of this committee
presents in a comprehensive form the
merits and advantages of the system.
We shall be glad to give further details,
or republish any that have already
been given, if by so doing we can assist
voters to an intelligent understanding
of the question upon which the law re-
quires them TO act at March meeting.
The friends of good schools and econom-
ical expenditures for school purposes
must not, however, rely exclusively
upon such general discussion as news
paper can give this subject. Personal
work, in each town, by some friend OF
friends of better common school edu-
cation, is more effective than newspa-
per congratulations The application OF
the provisions of the system to the con-
ditions existing in each town, giving
publicity to the facts which have
grown out of the experience of towns
in which the system is on trial or has
passed the period of trial and become
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04

news went shuddering on the wings of
the lightning to the uttermost corners
of the earth, and from every tribe and
nation, pagan and civilized, came back
solemn and indignant denunciation.
The crimes in question to-day are far
worse, far meaner, far viler, and more
devilish. They have not the logic of
assassination; they are not directed, as
the bomb was against Alexander or
against Napoleon, to the ruler of a
country. They are simply an insensate
dash against humanity. Who suffers?
Two poor policemen, fifteen or twenty
women or children out for a holiday
visiting the public buildings. What
good will this resolution do? /
do not know. 1t does me good to
curse the crime. 1t does the world
good to hear from the whole world a
denunciation of such deeds. should
have been glad to simply record my
name in unanimous vote of the SEN
ate in condemnation. / decline to dis
cuss any of the questions which mere
imagination can connect with it. The
Irish agitation has nothing to do with
it. l protest that l never heard an
Irishman who did not lament such out
RACES, because fools charge them to his
race. l lay aside all other questions,
and protest that men of all creeds, all
races, and all nations curse this work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04

THE London Daily Telegraph, in
commenting upon the passage of Sena-
tor Bayard's resolution, says that it is
poor compliment to Americans to
praise them for doing what was so OBJ
viously their duty regarding the recent
explosions. The United States, ii says,
must rise to full realization of its re-
sponsibility in this matter, and must
grapple with such men as O'Donovan
Rosa and Patrick Ford, who are the
fountainheads of the mischief. With
out nagging, the United States will try
to do its full duty in the work of re-
pressing dynamiters and their accesso-
ries. England did not exactly Crap
pie" with the Confederate cruisers
which found refuge in her harbors
when this nation was in death strug-
gle with rebellion. But the United
States has no disposition to fling an in
furious precedent at the British lion at
time when his temples are tumbling
about him, unless he roars too saw
agely of "obvious duty" and 1" re-
spOnsibility in this matter" AT its
worst the English situation is hardly so
trying as Americas when, twenty-odd
years ago, the light from her burning
merchantmen, fired by rebel ships
built in British shipyards and stealing
out from the English coast, Illuminated
the Atlantic. There was scant oppor-
tunity then to "praise" England or
pay her "poor compliment &" for
doing what was so obviously" her
duty" regarding the piratical fleet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04

THE Reformer says THE WATCH
MAN has read that paper to little pur-
pose if it supposes the Central road has
been singled out for its criticisms. We
have read the Rgormer with interest
and the impressions its railway utter
ances have produced upon our mind are
very much as we have described them.
1t may be our fault, and it may be that
the Rgormer is itself unconscious of a
one-sidedness in its treatment of the
railways. With large element of
right and justice at the bottom of some
of its structures, il is possible that its
radical spirit and indiscriminate war;
fare may have hindered the success of
the cause it processes to have so much
at heart.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04

THE English army continues its march
up the Nile. General Stewart has en-
gagged the rebels second time, de-
feated them and established himself on
the river below Metemneh. Fifteen
hundred English troops withstood the
fierce onset of ten thousand Arabs and
defeated them with great slaughter.
The hollow square, the tactics Napoleon
taught the world during his Egyptian
campaign, availed against brave but
misdirected enemy. General Stewart
was severely wounded early in the en-
gagement. Mr.. Cameron, special cor
respondent of the London Daily Stand
ard, and Mr.. Herbert of the Morning
Post were killed. At Korti, at the
northwestern angle of the great bend of
the Nile, is General Wolsley, disabled
by fall from a camel. From that
point General Earle is advancing by
way of Abu Hamed, at the northeast
erly angle of the bend, towards Berber.
The rebels are reported to be strongly
fortified at Metemneh, about midway
between Berber and Khartoum, and Sc
we're fighting, with all the resources at
their command, will yet be required by
the English to open their way to Khar-
tOum
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04
GGattbman 4 Journal.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY a, 1886.

CONGRESS has, by a close vote, re-
jected the Nicaragua treaty, thirty-two
voting for it and twenty-three against it
not the necessary two-thirds. The
United States is in favor of the Nicara-
qua Canal, and the sole control of that
canal. Its course to the possession of
this route is not, however, entirely
clear, and in an affair involving so
many matters of the gravest conse-
quence it is perhaps the wiser way to
"make haste slowly"