The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-30

awaiting trial, besides ;.yout twenty 9th
ers who are out on bail
Miss Adelaide Randall and her Biiou
Opera Company will be in Jacksonville
on November 4th, 5th and 9Th. when
they will play the popular operas adver-
tised. This company has been greatly
enlarged for the season, and is too ex-
pensive to take in the smaller towns of
the State, so that they will only play in
Jacksonville on the above dates. Oh. if
we only had an opera house.
The elegant new residence of Major s.
Conant, on the coraer of Emmett and
Dodge streets, is fast nearing completion
and begins TO show just what a hand
some structure it will he when COM
pleted. 1t is to be model house, per-
haps the most handsome and expensive
house in the city, and an ornament to
that portion of the city, where so many
fine residences are to be found.
We learn that preparations are being
made for the establishment of an or
ange buying house in Palatka this fall.
Just who the interested parties are, or
the extent which they will enter into the
business, we are not prepared to state
at this time, but we learn that ample
capital will be placed in the business,
and the oranges paid for as they come In,
or the crop will be bought on the trees.
Miss Alice Cameron, of the New Or
leans Conservatory of Music, is in the
city, and is arranging to open a select
music school. There is splendid open
ing for such an institution in Palatka,
and we wish Miss Cameron success in
her undertaking. Miss Cameron brings
the highest recommendations as TO her
fitness as a teacher, and deserves the
patronage of all. See her card in our
special column.
In tho side-show election next Tues
day there will be four County Commits
sioners, Superintendent of Public In
struction, a Collector of Revenue, a
Treasurer and a Tax Assessor to vote
for. There are q number of candidates
before the Democratic voters for these
positions, and they cannot make any
great mistake in selecting incumbents
for the place. There viii. probably be a
very large vote puiied. as considerable
interest is being manifested in the mat
ter.
Mr.. Leo WellhouSe, the wei! known
Atlanta commercial pilgrim, has been in
town several days this week, furnishing
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his friends. Learning that one of his
friends was sick, he called TO see him.
Solemnly taking the sick mans hand he
counted over his pulse. asked TO see his
tongue, and with as soleIan face as ne is
capable OF putting on, he said: See
here, Abe, you are very piiious, mant,
and you moost take a coople OF pounts
of dose cadortic coampount bills. You
are very bilious" 1t is not recorded
whether Abe followed the prescription
or not.
Mr.. B. j. Grooms has got him a com
piete outfit for the trade coupon system
of doing business, which he will inaug
urate on the first Of November. The
system consists Of selling customers
books containing coupons, each coupon
numbered and representing from one
cent to one dollar or more. ard each
book containing from So to S15 worth of
coupons. BY this system the annoyance
of charging up every little article, ard
bothering over long accounts is abol-
ished, and Mr.. Grooms thinks that his
torily.
The Sanford Journal ACQUIRES us of los
ing our senec of appreciation of the
beautiful, because, forsooth, our dizziness
of poetic vision" failed to discern any
beauty in certain ''pome' on the COW,
published in the journal, and cruelty in
sinuates that We are incapable of criti-
cism because we can neither make a
rhyme nor whistle a tune. We are
sorry we have mislaid that Byronic eff
fort or else we would print it and offer
a premium TO the one who would discov-
er its special beauty. We plead guilty
to the charge of not being able TO make
a rhyme on the COW, but when we are
charged with not being capable of whist
ling a tune, our Irish rises Immediately,
and we deny the allegation and chal
lenge the alligator We can whistle.
Three men in the insane asylum are liv-
ing evidences, because they heard us
once, and But enough, the cow must
go.
Pull Together.
The business men and citizens oil Pa