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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30
The Proposed Club.

Some few days ago We made mention
Of club being agitated among our
young men. From the dots We have re-.
cei,ed we recognize il as one Of the things
that We are in neel If. 1t is proposed to
obtain a membership Of lOO or 100 Of our
most prominent citizens. In which the
membership fee will lie one Of small
nature. A house could le rented, fitted
up with billiard parlor, restaurant and
sitting rooms, an unexccptionable fine
cook could Ia arranged for. over which,
with his assistants. he could make his
cuisine one to delight ones heart. Each
member could eat meals whenever he SO
desired and in the winter months invite
the strangers who may I've in our midst,
thereby making it second home for
him, one in which he will ever pleasantly
remember, and thereby enhancing his
stay among us. A club Of this kind. il
ever formed, would he Of great benefit Il
those have To make hotels, boarding
houses. etc, his abode. Palatka is city
one of which the state is proud, and
every thing that tends to raise her in the
estimation Of the public is heralded over
the country As soon AZ the same il
more talked around and an inclination
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30
Crescent city Items.

Special Correspondence PALATkA Slws
Summer Haven ia becoming quite q
resort for Crescent City people.
j. X. Pierce left Yesterday for Summer
Haven 10 erect house wherein his fam
lly tan live and enjoy pleasures to ~
found AT the seaside.
George. NJ. Weston, of st. Augustine.
former merchant Of this place IL her,
on short visit.
Mrs. :. Is. Somcrs Of Mayport, wife 81
Capt. Somers Of steamer Grorgea, is in
the city.
The steamer Georgia after Lring thor.
oughly overhauled is on the route H..
tween jacksonville and Crescent City.
in place Of steamer tfcsc, mt CITY, which
has been taken oil for repair.
Mr.. Hutchinson, the democratic nom
inee for the state Legislature, will make
"A thorough personal canvass of the roun
~ IN behalf of himself and thu patty /,
which he belongs.
The republican convention, com
possd Of two white men, and eight OF ten
negroes met under shed Saturday
afternoon. No particulars could h.,
learned from those IN attendance.
The Saloon 81 T. II. I3radIuk has
been closed for some time, and the pro
prietor gone Ia the country to 1--we
This speaks volumes for the temIarat.
habits Of Crescent City.
Mrs. u. l.. Tebbcis has gone to May
port for the remainder of the summer
Il. +. Dawson left this morning fo
North Carolina, where he is called to nj
tend an important lawsuit.
YOrED FELLOW,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

Eky :; should be insu.t-i ty tie e!ecIl0u
= a Eew committee t-caIs= ore nan
coli nj at a, chairman e tia, c1nl-
miiree.
Foster wanisl 70 know What xoUld
b-oome ot The OBJ coum.i'ee
TLs airtelievri IhA, The eouyeI,iOu
hai The right 10 elect 4 Dew committee,
that tie Oh committee vas deaf, and
til n--rr>si,l-- q tie hour demanded j
live csmuiltee 20 carry out the cam
Faigr for tie party.
T. !. brOa1 AS in ga forming a new
an a live committee If the old one vas
Tot dad Il was dying fast; AMI tina, il
Wa really iea.i by virtue Of limitation.
~. Innn-ily said tina, il the commit
ts- was dead il was not t-soming a.
wransle over the oorI--; le, i, alone until
the orUnty convention meets 20 pOmi-
hate losal officers; let the committee AMI
the nominees for office h. in unison Of
feeling. that sueesss would h. more apt
10 m.et their efforts.
III Kirby insisted on his motion.
James Adams thought there should BE-
10 rush ab-Uu; the matter Of an executive
committee, and no occasion 10 insult the
the present chairman and the balance
Of the committee BY such action, but the
convention wanted % vote on the matter,
AMI the lus s,ion vas called for in every
quarter. But Adams was as equally de-
,erminei to have his say ou,, and he dill
have it cat in his own way ami a, his
own pleasure a. To time. james .t.i on
his own personal rights.
pr. Cowgirl amended Ill. motion Of
I'll. kirb, ~ As TO instruct the chairman
u the executive committee to call con.
yen.ion u the republican party Ia assem-
bic four weeks from this day, and that
the convention then called shall nomi
nate a candiIat. for the state senate
al-o two candidates FOE the state Assem-
. bly, and alsD elect an executive commit
tee Ia act Tor the next two years. Thi,
: met hearty Response. and was carried
through with rush, and settled thu
question ais,ut the committee.
Here several members made motion,
. IA adjourn. But hr. Cowgirl hal some
thing to say a.out the duty Of the repub
/. licans a. a. the new constitution. II,
) oplseed Il for several reasons, and emu
nlera.ei nuuer Of those rersons. Fow
ler thought it far better than the old one
and while it was not AZ be- would have it
/ believed Il to be very much better for tn,
state and the party for its adoption
l Lyle and Broad and some others engage,
,. in the debate, hut no action was taken il
!. the matter. II was easy. however, to So,
that the sentiment Of the debates Wa
!. against the new constitution. a motiOI
= TO al journ was made. but George Smitl
y was making speech, and he hung Of
d tenaciously. but the motion was going +
90 through. notwithstanding. and &
q through il dill, even while GEORGE wa
u putting in blows such as were CALCULATES
to knock out the new constitution a
4 every round.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30
DELAYED Mails

There are occasions when DELAYS in the
mails are excusable, but II would te hard
to believe that all the delays in the deliv.
cry Of the mails at points south Of this
city are excusable.
The complaints received at the News
Office about the failure Of the newspaper
mails are numerous, and these failures
mean annoyance 10 NEWSPAPER readers
and serious loss 10 newspaper publishers.
For four weeks, says correspondent
whose complaint was received yesterday
from Florida. "our mails have leen fear.
full, and this has made it hard for the
sale Of papers. We generally sell out
when the mails are ON time, hut when
they are day late the papers are an en-
tire loss."
There is clearly something wIong
somewhere. The pest office department.
seems disposed to 10 what it can to civ,
this section Of country a good mail ser.
vice, hut somehow ~ other it fails 10 IL
~. How long, for instance, would New
York, New Jersey or Pennsy lyania stand
the sort 81 mail ser, ice that portions Of
the South have: IL the mails in any
part Of any one Of these States, or oil
many Of the other States which could
be named, should fail once there wOul,
te such protests made to the post Ollie,
department that the postmaster genera
would lie tempted to annul the CONTRACT
Of the delinquent contractor, unless an
excuse that was wholly satisfactory WEI,
presented.
The trouble here in the South is tina
the people have been accustomed 50 lonl
10 bad mail service that they don't pro
test when they are imposed upon unles
ethe imposition il so fragrant that the,
lOse their patience entirely. Some con
tractors seem u understand this, an,
hence comply with their contracts fo
carrying the mails only SO far a. it suit
their convenience to do No.
The thing for the people TO do is T.
make their wrongs known to the prope
authorities. and to insist upon bette
service. II they protest vigorO0sl
enough they will he heard and needed
| The Morning News has called attention
a number Of times to the delays in tn
mails. and has succeeded in getting tn
mail rice improved for few days o
weeks, but eventually it drops hack int
the same old ruts. The only thing III
to be done now Is to bring the complaint
relative to the bad mail service to the at
tention of the post office department, an
insist upon its Improvement ~ vigol
ously that the department will see To
that contractors live up to their agre.
ments. Savannah News.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE
MANSION HOUSE, BALTIMORE, MD.,
July 20, 1856.

MANSION House, BALTIMORE, Nd,
July 70, 1856.
special Correspondence PalAtka NEWS.
IL you eau spare room in your columns
for few lines, I will endeavor to give
you short account of my trip since
leaving Florida, on July 18th. | found
the journey a pleasant one until We
reached Petersburg, when We encoun.
tered severe rain storm, but from a
previous heavy rain the Appomattox
river was over bank full, floating par,
of the town of Petersburg, and il was
diflicult and dangerous to run the train
across the railroad bridge, but we passed
over safely, and reached Washington,
D. c., in good time.
Here we found business moving along
slowly. Arriving in baltimore, we found
things more brisk, M the labor strike had
ended, leaving no bad effects. A great
many were leaving for the springs and
summer resorts, on account of the ex.
treme heat. | have suffered more from
heat, in the past ten days, than eve,
have al my Florida home during half thu
summer. My friends here say to me
that | must be very hot in Florida.
tell them 1t il just the reverse.
| As my business calls me out during
the day here, 1t makes me wish was
back to my Florida home, where could
take In the balmy sea brpezes. resting in
my hammock and reading THE News.
| shall leave here to-day for a short
distance north. to investigate brick ma
chinery. not finding a great many in
operation here. Nearly all the yard.
here are producing handmade brick, a.
they are most in demand by builders.
have had the pleasure Of seeing sew
eral copies Of TnE News since my arr.
val here. Yours, respectfully,
| T., y. SArBIE.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30
Wrong Every Time.

Here's little BIT Of fun from the Sun.
Visitor lat Castle Garden - Are all the
emigrants Norwegians:
oflical-No, sir. A few VI them are
Swedenborgians.
This recalls story told by Troy cler.
gyman. A certain man who wis a fol-
lower OF Swedenlorg had for IA wife avery
excellent lady Of orthodox church aflii-
iations. She came to the minister ono
day in great tr,brIation owing to the
discovery that her husbands views were
a little OF color, from her own point Of
view. She cited her own fidelity to her
creed, and then CALCULATED: ITO think
that have gone and married Spitzcn-
bergW--Troy Times.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30
lie IL inthc Cityprison.

Editor pALATkA NEws
Your paper Of yesterday stated that
there was a case Of typhoid pneumonia
in the county Jail. II there is such n
case under Dr. Nico's care it must be in
the city Jail. X. II. STRAUSS, NJ. ID.
Attending physician to county Jail.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

a WOsDgE.-The old Mutual Iife In.
suranc. Company, u New York, nov
issues a policy that surpriss-@ the whole
world, viz. returns all the premiums
paid in case u death within q given Is.-
rnpi. This never was done. by any other
company. Tall On Iiilliard and exam.
Inc for yourselves. j.2, 10
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

20 s formation seems 70 b On foot, We
vii tI.5r make mention q all The rules
ami requirement, fU- tie governing Il
tn .arA
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

The dividends 81 the Mutual l.ife In
suranoe Company, u New York, by ac
tual comparison, are nearly twice a.
large ~ they are IN any other company.
No conditions, no Testrictions. This l.
the company To- insure IN. The is.st 10
the world. I. liarkins billiard, STATE
Agent. yE-tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30
Palatka Pushing
FOR THE TRADE.
MARKETS ADVANCING !!
look at GARDNER { EA1ON'S
Prices Of To-Day.

For REST.-A neat cottage on the cor
ner Of Orange and Hapgood SITS En-
qu,re Of Mrs. Adele Mann on corner of
Lemon and Blake SITS.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

coinrar. the old policies IN the Mutual
l.,fe with the policies u the same aye 10
tn. New York I.ife and Equitable. and
you will $50 some difference in cost.
This in what tells the whole stosy. Ton
tine won't tell the story. AMI the Mutual
l.ife Dos'T gamble Ia fortunes.
le9,.,f
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

Palatka L.ige. No. 80, r. & A. VI. reg
uiar communications first AMI third In
day IL each month.
u. 1. ILIIEsTHAI.. W. n.
r.. e, Py-r, Secretary.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

Insure with lilli,ard IN the Old Mu.
tnal l.'te Insurance company on the five
year distribution return premium plan.
u beats ALL ie2stf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

FOg sALE--fibe lusins-- property IN
this city, suburban lots, and two tearing
orange grove. Apply 10 t'rifiin * Par
ker, Falatka. Visit
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

The Miller cottage, on Lemon street,
opposite the Putnam, must te moved oil
the lot at once. FOR particulars apply 10
Is. II. n.no4. le2a II
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

fos SALE- Forget me-bGt lssss, tie
raniunis, Colens, .tc. Apply To II. T..
Dins4n. yl3u
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

HOTEL ron RRyT.--The hotel building
known as the Graham HOUSE, Is offered
Tor rent at reasonable rate. Apply to l..
Falk. lestf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

Go to lr. ". W. E-te-. over Hers
ting's drug store, TOT COOL dental Work
and fine set- u Artificial Teeth. Teeth
Extracted without Pain. leIV.u
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

Vertress a 90. JUS, received car Lad
NTls is~t Flour. Guaranteed A. cGssi
a. any in the market At prices To suit
the times. Jy2,.u
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

The Dld Mutual Life Insurance com.
Iaby, Of New York il the oldest. largest,
CHEAPEST and isst company in the world.
e2,tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

vertress & 90. Just received car.
lssad VI Irish potatoes. ly2.-u
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-30

To THE PCBfIC.-On August the ii.
TUESDAY next, exp@c, 10 start to south
FLORIDA on . picture making sxls.ii,'on,
and will return aisDut the 18th. lHrlng
tina, time ny gallery will IL cio~sed.
Pi~a,e take due notice and govern your
selves accordingly.
ly3--d&wlW j. q. MASGOLD.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18

Unfayorable reports of the condition of
the peach buds are coming in from Kent
county. Experienced growers, who ought
to know exactly whereof they speak, are
reported as declaring that examination of
their orchards has satisfied them that the
coming crop is either killed outright or
very badly damaged. We can only wait
and hope that it may not turn out as bad
as IL looks or, at the worst, that the dam
age may be confined to that belt and that
the orchards of the rest of the
Peninsula may have escaped. 1t
is hardly reasonable to expect a good,
general crop this year, but total failure
would be disastrously felt. 1t would
very seriously cramp many of our farmers
in money matters and impair the pros
perity Of our people in many ways.
There is time, however, to discount the
financial effect of such failure to a
material extent by planting more corn,
potatoes, tomatoes and similar annual
crops this spring and we presume that
our peach-growers will generally be
thoughtful and enterprising enough to
avail themselves of this partial remedy.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18

The death in such quick succession of
two prominent and honored ex- candidates
for the Presidency, General Hancock and
Horatio Seymour, recalls the memorable
Fourth of July of 1926, the semi centen-
nial anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence, when the nation was
plunged into unreasonable mourning by
the unexpected news of The death of ex-
Presidents John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson, Adamsand Jefferson had been
political rivals, the former being FEEDER.
alist and the latter a Republican Gas the
young Democratic party was called in
the days of its infancy, and each took
his turn in defeating the other for the
highest Office in the gift of his country.
men. But, though rivals in life, il
death they were not divided. So to-day,
before the body Of General Hancock has
been laid in the tomb, we are called on tc
chronicle the death of another American
patriot whom history has already recorded
as one of the chiefs in the list of New
York's great governors and who was ac
counted by his party as eminently fitted
to be its national standard bearer at 9
time when the strongest and most pop,
ular of its statesmen was imperatively
needed to carry it to within anything like
hailing distance Of victory. He has lived
well and he passed away full of years and
! honors.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18
Wanamaker's.
PHILADELPHIA, February is, 1856

h'At SSpkubfy 40 looO
1t would be rash to write
about fashion as if it were set
tied while still new stuffs are
coming everyday. On the other
hand it is useful to look at
those-that have come together,
and see, not only what they
are, but what they point to,
what the fashion is SO far as
appears from the stuffs in the
store.
Did you ever think of the
source Of early fashion-pro-
Phesying? Every maker keeps
his secrets as long as he can.
How do the fashion-prophets
get their information !? 1t takes
a skllful buyer in Paris itself
to pick out the styles of the
coming season. He keeps
his secret till the very day he
is ready to sell. Where is the
fashion-prophet's inspiration !?
Not going to answer the ques-
ton. But, when the fashion
prophet misleads, the fashion
prophet isn't the loser.
We mention the problem
only to say that what we say
of fashion is drawn from the
stutts we have put your money
into. We have endorsed your
paper. We are held for the
truth of our fashion-news bv
the stuffs themselves.
These bits of fashion in
dress-stufs are clear already;
Wool and combinations of
wool are still in greater favor
than silk with women who
shift with every little breath of
fashion, :! though nothing can
d Us the highest order of
silk decorations.
Lively boucle, boucle ofcon-
itrasting colors, particolor
boucle, abounds crops up
everywhere, on almost every
sort of fabric.
Bobbins of wool, punches
OF wool, splashes of raw silk
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18
rhe susquehanna su b.,,,no.

PoRT DEPOSIT, Nd, Feb 16.-The Sus.
quehanna Is nearly free from ice to-nioht
and the water is slowly subsiding, to the
general satisfaction of the distressed resi-.
dents of this place, To-day has been de.
voted principally to cleaning and scrub
bling out the heavy coating Of filth and
mud deposited in the houses by the re-.
cent flood. Mr.. Wilson Brown, superin.
tendent of the Columbia and Port Depos;t
railroad, succeeded in getting his road
clear through to Port Deposit, and has
all trains running regularly Tonight
Much attention was devoted TODAY 10
alienation of the wants of those in dis
tress. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany donated four car loads of coal. Il
was distributed among the needy. Hon.
Jacob Tome, Thomas O. Bond and many
others contributed provisions. Contribu-
tion boxes were placed in the streets. A
large number of poor people have not
only been deprived of their homes, but
will also be out of employment for an in
definite time, and much distress among
them il Imminent.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18
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DOVER.
Fears Tint Shakespenr's Will Dam
Would Give way New Stone
EkrId.Y,

Fears ThRt Shakespenr's Will Dam
Would Give way New Stone
Bridge Damaged.
Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal.
Dover, Feb. 1O.-Mrs. $. A. Ridgely,
Comegys, celebrated her Slst ami
versary last night. Those present were
Chief Justice oomegys and family
and his two e9Souuger sisters, Ben
jamin Ii. Comegys, ESD, of Philadelphia,
DIR. Henry Ridgely and wife, Edward
Ridgely, Esq, and family, j. II. Bate
man and family, Mrs. Rnthapna Harriug-
ton, Mrs. Anna Gnsner, Mrs. Susnn Cul-
breth and daughter Carrie, VI, Il. John
son, ESD, and several other relativ S OF
Mrs. Ridgely. Although Mis- liidgely
has passed her Slst yenr, yet there is not
q finer or more stately looking lady nnd
one more beloved by her relatives and
friends in the State than she is.
Dover, Feb. Yesterday rain storm
has been very destructive in and around
| Dover. Never before in the history OF
this town had there been SO much water
in the streets at one time as yesterday.
All of the vacant building lots were filled
deep enough to sail boats in, and in some
of the yards and gardens water stood
several inches deep. On the corner OF
Bradford and Reed streets good sized
boat could have easily foated. At the
mill pond the water gained so fast yester.
day afternoon that all of the waste gates
had to be raised. This morning the water
in the pond was increasing and at one
time there were great fears OF its breaking
In one or two places along the banks leaks
did spring but they were quickly repaired
With all the gates up large volume Of
water escaped which overfowed the marsh
Thenewstone bridge which pans the head
waters of st. Jones creek was considerably
damaged this morning by two northern
halves of the eastern arches giving way
The bridge is located about 800 yardi
south of the pond, and the heavy bod,
of water escaping washed the dirt from
under she foundation, thus causing tn,
arches to cave in. While the southern
ends of the arches renamed intact al
travel over the bridge was suspended
except on foot. To repair the damag,
will cost the county in the neighborhoot
of $4,000. To build the bridge cos
$4,000. The members of the levy cour
went up this morning in a body to view
the wreck. The other new bridge whiel
spans the same stream little furthe
down did not seem to mind the flood
Several bridges in different parts of tin
county, l understand, have either beel
washed away or damaged very consider
ably,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18

Without disparagement to the we'll
earned laurels which the late General
Hancock won upon the field, we wish to
say that higher, grander and nobler
should be the memory Of the part which
he took in the reconstruction era
in Louisiana and Texas. 1t was
here, while the heart-burnings en-
gendered by the war were still hotly rank
ling in the bosom of both victor and
vanquished, that he earned for himself
an undying place in the hearts of
all his countrymen by strenuously insist
ing upon the entire subordination of the
military to civil authority in time of
peace. Clothed with the extraordinary
powers vested at that time in military
governor of what was bitterly spoken
of by most of those in power
as "suhiugatedn territory powers
which the generation that has grown
up since that trying era can hardly com.
prehend should ever have been welded
under sueha government us ours-he sci
himself earnestly to work to build W
where others wonld have tori
down; he stood as the fatherly
and prtectiug guardian over those undei
his care; he helped them to bring
order out of chaos; he reached GU
his hand to the struggling an
placed them again upon their feet; h
showed that the hero great in war coul
be even more truly great in putting tn
war behind him and in grandly and mag
unanimously doing the healing works c
J peace,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18

According to an article, which we re-
print elsewhere, the descendants of one
Joseph Oliver are preparing to seize ''as
their own lawful prey" the town of Mill
ford and several thousand acres of rural
territory adjacent. But we have no idea
that the present holders of the coveted
property are losing any sleep over the
matter. 1t sounds more like Springer
than Whartonby claim and 80 years is a
long ways to go back to establish title
in this new country. Mrs. Gaines spent
her long life in almost fruitless endeayors
to realize something tangible from 9
claim which had otreached one-half tha'
age when she began suit. We opine tina
the Oliver heirs, should they really entel
on litigation, will find their claim much
more profitable to their lawyers than t.
themselves.