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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
Peculiar Workings of n Tax Law.


The new tax law in Pennsylvania
reduces the rate of taxation from four to
three mills, but the popularity of its
working is that more revenue is raised
over three times as much-than under
the old law. The new law contains a
provision requiring every person to assess
himself under oath, and this is probably
the explanation of the sudden increase
in the aggregate amount of reveaue col
lected. The Philadelphia Times gives
some interesting figures in this connec-
ton. 1t says:
The workings Cf the new tax law rela :
tive to the assessment of money at inter
est IN this commonwealth are clearly
demonstrated i'm the report of assess
ments published yesterday. Under the
old law the tax on money at interest
was four mills. The assessment for 1885
amounted to S145, 2S6, 7G2. upon which
the four mill tax Melted 1891 ,149, 06. The
new law reduced the tax to three mills,
but contained provision requiring every
person to assess himself under oath, with
the further provision that court records
We're to be searched for mortgages, judg-
ments and other liens. The result of the
first years application of the law is an
assessment upon $500, 749 800, or nearly
three times the amount returned in 1885.
The tax upon this amount at three mills
is 81, 172, 24S.G6 or more than twice the
amount secured under the old law with
q rate thirty-three and third per cent.
higher.
A comparison of the assessments for
1885 and 1886 shows the amounts re-
turned under each law. In many of the
counties it appears that the assessment
under the old law amounted to practi-
caily nothing at all. In Blair county,
for instance, only $50 800 in money at
interest was returned for assessment in
1885, while the assessors last year were
able to tiLd 81. 33S, 400. In the ad ioin-
ing county of Cambria, where only S19,-
693 was discovered in 1885, the assessors
managed to find 81 .661 1921 in 1886. The
assessment of Allegheny county in
creased from 81 $50, 149 under the old
law, to SIS, 5O6,0O6 under the new, IA
nearly ten-fold increase. While the in
creas is very great in all counties, it il
less propOrtionately in the sOuthe astern
counties than elsewhere. Philadelphia
returns about sixty per cent more than
last year, and the counties of Lancaster,
Berks, Montgomery, Chester and Dele
ware varying from one hundred to six
hundred per cent more. The increase in
a good many of the other counties is
from one thousand per cent upward.
This creditable showing more than
justfies the wisdom and effectiveness
of the new law. Fhe tax on money at
interest is certainly not oppressive, in
view of the fact that it Is exempt from
all other taxation. The defect of the old
law was that it did not assess; the new
one does. Ii is probable that the assess
ments in future will make still better
showing, as the courts have sustained
the law, and assessors will be able here
after TO find this species of property with
greater facility than during the first
year, when so many persons were con-
strained to dispute the constitutionalty
of the law.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
The Coming Issue.

Resolved, That we favor the nomina-
ton of such men to the next General
Assembly who will support legislation
creating a railroad commission for Flor
ida and who will advocate laws making
railroads responsible for damages to citi-
Zens in killing stock and cattle, and who
will use every honorable means to enact
laws of protecting fruit and vegetable
growers against unjust discrimination
and unreasonable freight tariffs.
The foregoing resolution adopted at
meeting held at Anthony last week ex-
presses the sentiments of a large major
ity of the orange growers, truckers and
farms rs, and of ruost people of every vo-
cation in Marion county. In seeking to
develop the Lew industry of vegetable
growing, the greatest obstruction en-
countered is the excessive railway
charges. The Florida railroads exact
more in the way of freight rates in pro-
portion to distance carried, than the
roads in other States. Instead of ar
ranging "A reasonable tariff, so as to en-
able the establishment of great business
i'll vegetable growing, they seem deter
mined, in their short-sighted policy, 10
crush out that industry, by taking all
the profit 1t is not To be wondered at,
that the people have determined to undo
this unfortunate state of things. by max
ing it the basis of political action. The
tiliers of the soil have good ground of
and they have the sympathy
and support of all good citiZens-inclu-
ding, of course, the editor of the Free
Press. Everything tending to benefit
the agriculturist, Is a corresponding ad-
vantage TO the entire community
Free Press.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

One of Chicago's many successful
women artists is Marie Koupal-Luhk.
Born and bred a peasant in Bohemia
she began life in this country as a scrub
woman in Chicago boarding house.
Here her taste for drawing was by acct
dent discovered by boarder in the house
"a female artist-who encouraged her
by kind words, and introduced her to a
brother artist, who was able to give her
more practical encouragement. A few
years later Marie Koupal had saved
money enough to enable her to go to
Paris and study there. Now she has
a picture on exhibition in the Salon of
the French capital.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
BIGGEST OF IHEIR KIND

A forty -tive-imch sunhower is being ex-
/ hibited ut Travers, Cal
VI. Estrada a French engineer. is building
forty-ton locomotive, which Is expected TO
attain speed Of seventy eight miles an hour
The driving wheels are 70 To- eight feet in
diameter
The largest balloon i'll the country, accord
ing to The SAN Francisco Chronicle has re-
Gently been built III that city bv MIR. \. T.
Van TaSSel 1t has "a capacity Of 10000
cubic feet of gas, and has been constructed
for the special purpose of enabling the we'll
known aeronaut 10 undertake "a Journey
across the continent from ocean 10 ocean.
y magnificent diamond. weighing $50
carats, of the finest water and free from all
flaws and imperfectionS, has just been cut in
England 1t i owned by n syndicate and is
said To SuIpdSS IN weight and quality all the
historical diamonds on record. Some idea of
ITS value may Dc gotten from the fact that a
little piece sliced OF the end TO improve its
shape produced brilliant of nineteen karats
and was sold for S2p,poO TO a diamond mer-
chant.
The one place in the country where the most
railroad trains pass is said To be the Union
depot, Elizabeth, y. j. \ man was put on
for the purpose last week AMI counted up
3,-'3 as the total, and in one day of twenty
four hours GoD. IL Is n crossing at the street
level, too.
1t is said of John l. sullivan, Jr, who is
now p months old, that when but Ii months
old he would size hold of kitchen chair with
one hand AMI hold it out mt arms length
One day, when he was about . months old he
was put upon his feet near "A coal hod two
thirds full, when he seizci ami lifted it from
the floor. Now, when playing in the open
air, he handles heavy stones that ir would
trouble lads of 10 or II years To manage.
III. G. lIotchkiSS, of Lyons, n Y, known
rs the Peppermint King, says that seven
cIghthS OF the peppermint of the world is
raised IN Wayne county. The average CROP
is about lH,uOo pounds. The average price
paid for crude oil is from 81. ~ to 81 a pound
To give am idea of the money that Is in pep
permint MIR. Hotchki~S said that "A farmer last
year hr"ugh: Ia the refinery an ordinary
sleigh load, which, when measured proved "a
be worth Si,pbu. OF cours. this was in tho
crude oil, which the farmers iistiI themselves.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

Charleston has her quota of mean men.
A rich alderman, whose palatial home
had just been completed at cost of be
tween 100000 and 5000, 900, and. es-
capped without serious damage, has his
horses in tents. while his poor neigh
bors are shivering on the outside. One
of the wealthiest men in the city, who
has lost about $50, 600 of his 800, 900,
has raised the rent on all his buildings
twenty-five per cent.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
AIachua Republicans.

The Republicans of Alachua county,
who were dissatisfied with the action of
their convention of the 7th inst, met in
mass meeting at Gainesville on the 18th
inst, and nominated an independent
ticket. The meeting was quite largely
attended, eleven precints of the county
being represented. The ticket nomina-
ted IS composed of substantial and rep
resentative Republicans. Ger. j. T..
Walls, Hon. NJ. NJ. Lewey, Hon. Geo. j.
Arrow and James McCaslin are gener-
ally well known and men of influence in
the Republican party of Alachua. The
resolutions adopted give an idea of the
situation, and il the dissenters have the
courage TO hold out, there may be a
ty this fall. We confess, however, to
very little faith in Gen. Wallis ability to
stand pressure. But, if the following
resolutions express his true sentiments,
we cannot see how he and his associates
can again fellowship with the men who
run the convention of the eth inst.
The resolutions are as follows:
Whereas, The Republicans of Alachua
county, in mass meeting assembled, de-
plore the existing state of affairs within
the party in this county, and
Whereas The recent Republican con-
vention held in Grainesville, on the 7th
inst. for the purpose of nominating four
candidates for the Legislature, pretended
to do SO in a manner and by such meth
DDS that has provoked the Indignation
and contempt of every intelligent and
honorable Republican in the party, and
Whereas, The exhibition of such
cheat, trickery, brow-beating and bull
doing as was displayed by would be
leaders in that convention, has destroyed
the vitality of the party, alienated its
intelligent forces and subjected the party
to inevitable defeat. Therefore
Resolved, That we thank God that bri-
berry, ring POWER .and party ignorance
are no more the rule of the hour, but
competency, intelligence and an honest
purpose-the true political and moral
agencies underlying the living principles
of the great Republican party, must and
shall prevail.
Resolved, That the partial ticket NOM
mated by convent n held in this city
on the 9TH inst, do not represent the Re
publican party of the county in that,
that a cunningly devised system of ger
emandering the precincts in the interest
of n few ambitious fellows has resulted
in sham convention, sitting the will of
the people and setting at naught the
wishes of the great majority of the Re-
publicans of the county.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
meeting to place before the Republican
voters of this county four candidates for
the Legislature, and we pledge our
selves to use all honest efforts to secure
their election on the 2d day of Noven-
Der next.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
Messrs. Mucklow and Glover, a coup

Messrs. Mucklow and Glover, a couple
of ehterT rising young Englishmen. have
purchased James Gamers place of thir
teen acres at Fruitland, in this county.
and have already taken possession. They
arrived with their baggage two weeks
ago. This is the second purchase 10y
parties from England in that section.
Additional purchases will soon be made,
as other countrymen of theirs will arrive
before long. We are glad to note this
circumstance, and trust that the young
gentlemen will meet with success 1t
would be good idea to make Fruitland
Il point for an English settlement
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
Fine Thoroughbred Cattle for Put
nam County-An opportunity for
ImpI owing our Naive Stock.

Impr owing our Naive Stock.
NEW HAVEN, CONN, Sept, l3.
Editor Falatka NEWS:
Enclosed please find 80, for renewal
of my Subscription to THE WEEKLY
News. 1t is with pleasure that 1 renew
my subscription for THE WEEKLY News
as | look forward with pleasure to its ar
rival and would not discontinue it for
many times the price of subscription.
Should you desire to make use of any
of the following items you may select
from the same whatever you may deem
either interesting or of value to Florida.
For six or seven years past the writer
has spent several of the winter months
in Florida, and some years the entire
winter, and during all this time 1 have
been convinced of the necessity for. and
have endcavored to do little towards
the Improvement of the stock, such as
cattle. hogs, etc. in the immediate vicinity
of Palatka, and with MIR. Daniel Fraser
purchased of Capt. j. w. Fitzgerald his
place in East Palatka, since which time
have sent to our place some of as fine
thoroughbred Berkshire hogs as could
be found at the North, also with a drove
of cows thoroughbred Apshire bull,
and last fall sent thoroughbred Hol-
stein-Fresen bull. This stock is noted as
the greatest milking strain of cattle
known. And now l have bought and will
send to my place early in October next.
eight or nine head of thoroughbred reg
istered jersey cows, all exceptionally
fine, deep and rich mixers: among the
last named herd will be the COW Pales-
tine Queen. No. 3, 147 a. j. c. G. and her
bull calf get of the bull Prince of Broad
moor No. 1905. This calf will be raised
for service in Florida as he is from royal
blood both from sire and dam, as his
sire is a direct descendant from both Ra-
iah and Victor Hugo, while the dam
Palestine Queen is the granddaughter of
Landseer and Palestine Third. Land
seer stands at the head of butter pro-
ducing stock. as the test which was fin
ished early in July last, of the cow
Landseers Fancy, for one year. shows
the highest ever recorded, both for
amount of butter made in one year and
the greatest amount butter from given
number of pounds of milk. She is cred
tied by n committee of the American
Jersey Cattle Club, who superintendent
the test, with hav. ing made 936 pounds
II ounces of butter in one year. The
next best record is the COW Eurotas, with
a record of $40 pounds for one year. And
with such stock as above at hand and
near Palatka. the owners of cattle will
have a golden opportunity to improve
their stock. The Holstein, for large
quantity of milk as well as large beef
cattle, and the Jersey for rich milk and
butter quality. The whole will be under
the care and management of Mr.. Will
liam r. Browning, who has spent several
years on my place in Fest Palatka.
Yours truly, w. w. MINER.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
Good Advice from a Republican

The Tampa Guardian has this excel
lent advice to offer the colored people:
But politics aside. our candid advice
to the colored race is to give more atten-
ton to the education of their children.
the securing of homes and the advance
ment of their social and business condi-
tons. They will be respected more by
the white people, and it would not be
long before they would respect them
selves more highly. Industry and econ
omy will do more for them in a few
years than all the politics in the country
can do in a century,"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

The new water-works of Mobile have
failed to prove equal to an ordinary fire
test. The entire system could not supply
This, like in the case of Sanford, comes
from endorsing chedply JuIt, INSULT
eienf, shOddy system of water-works for
fire and domestic uses. The point is SO
plain that anyone can see it.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

y warrant for forty five thousand dol
lars has been issued to the assignees of
John Roach. in final payment for the
Dolphin, and for the care of the monitor
Puritan. This is accepted in settlement.
of all claims of John Roach against the
Government, and the Dolphin becomes
in law what she long has been in fact
the property of the Government.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

Carl Won Weller, the musical director
of Jacksonville, who was caught with
stolen property in his possession, has
been arrested and placed in Jail. lie is
thought to be of unsound mind. Most
all musicians are slightly cracked. If
he's no count, better let him go.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

Revs Sam Jones and Sam Small are
Gainesville, Ga. An effort is being
made to get Sam Jones to attend Brom-
wells coIore1 camp meeting down on
the Florida Southern Railroad next
month
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

shake" Every body nearly We're ASLEEP
and no panic followed.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

The way to get people to come to
Florida this winter is for the railroad
companies to reduce their tariff on pas
senger troffic.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

1t is now asserted to be fact that Mr..
Blaine will be a candidate for President
before the next National Republican con
yention.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

The largest theater in the world is ii
Paris. 1t covers three acres of grOuno
and cost $1S, 900. 900.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

Gen. j. Il. Wall has been nominated
for the Senate on the Democratic ticket
in Hillsborough county.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

The story is revived that Secretary
Manning will not return to the Treasury
DEPARTMENT
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

They are just talking about a safe de-
post company in jacksonville. PaIatka
has had one for over a year.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

The Indian prisoners will probably ar
rive at st. Augustine to-day.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

Fair weather is predicted for Florida
for the coming week.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
FOR CONGRESS- DIST RIOT,
CHARLES DOUGHERTY.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
FOR SENATOR,
+. NJ. MCMEEKIN.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
PHILIP PRlOLEAU,
HENRY HUTCHINSON.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18
THE DAILY NEWS.

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a month. sI.j6 for three months, $3.50 for six
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FHE WEEKLY NEWS an s-paEe B6-cOlumn
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all the news of the week. local and general. it
IS the largest and han,.somest weekly paper
published in Florida. and will he mailed post
are free for 81 year. or 50 cents Tor SIX
months Specimen cories free To any address.
Local advertisements ~ cents per line Tor
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ditional insertion. Special notices Ia cents per
line Reduced rates on continued advertise
All advertising bills become due pro rata
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All rcInttances should be mi-tc by express,
mon, -,Jr'ies f,F req istert d letter.
At..iT.saS.
=. u. HAMMOND,
BUSINESS MASsGER,
PALATAA. FLORIDA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-18

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than once cruel things were said to her
and once when she was reading to old
Aunty Markham, who had drunken son
and miserable puny grandson who was
not quite full-witted, the latter glanced
on the floor before her, calling out:
your father was hung, and you'll
come to be hung, too, Miss Ruth; every
)ody says So"
Mrs. Chalmers, the very person who
aau said So" boxed the boys ears anal
ala something apologize; but Ruth was
90 angry to stay; she went home for ret
1aS to give old Aunty Markham her med
cine and her flushed face and red eyes
attracted the minister's attention. The
;ood wife could not explain 1t, so Ruth
vas questioned. She told the truth.
knew my poor father met with that
nameful death, she said, "but certainly,
Ven II he was guilty, It was not my fault.
I nave heard spiteful things before. I'm;
ms time II made me .urious; oh sn fur.
Gus, hated the child hated Mrs.
Iainers could have killed them both.
IN yes, 1 was angry enough for that
Md came away with the CHAPTER hail
lniShed, and forgot to leave tho pow
:Srs-forgot until was halfway home,
men | would not go back; will never go
Town there again"
My child" said the minister, "the
irst thing Christian should do Is to for
I've his enemies. You are a protesting
-hristian; you must set an example. &c
your room and pray for power to do
And then" said Mrs. Martin. ego
'ack to the poor old woman's home read
er chapter through, and give her her
medicine. Think how much evil speech
'eSus bore, and we are his followers"
Ruth went to her room. When she rn-
'"rned to the study her adopted mother