The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-02-10
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Petty thieves are giving the people of
Ocalo good deal of trouble.
DIR. Hawthorn, silver-tongued minis
ter of Atlanta. lectured ut Ocalo Tues
day night.
The sout,. bound express, due here at 3
q. m., ran off the track Saturday morn
ing when about a mile OF the Junction,
three miles north of the city. The en-
gine, baggage car, coach and sleeper left
the track, the engine turning over on its
side down an embankment. No serious
damage was done. A force of hands
was put to work and track laid around
the wreck to let the train pass. The pas.
.engers were sent to the city on the Sill
yer Spring accommodation train at 4
/ o'clock. The accident was caused by the
/ spreading of the rails.-Ocala Item.
! Mr.. John O'Connor, former editor and
/ proprietor of The Pensacolian, left this
city Monday morning enrcute for Jack
( sonville. He intends entering the news
paper business some where in East Flor
ida.-Pensacolian.
The mayer of Brooksville aud the edi-
tor of the Register, Of that place, are en-
gagged in what may be termed small
sized war. The mayor has shot at the
editor, tie editor has given the mayor a
black eye, the mayor has been fined the
full sum of ten dollars-and no charge
returned for assault with intent to kill,
and tho editor arrested but released in
time TO work out with his jack knife
portrait in wood of the mayor, which
positively can not flattcr his beauty. In
time OF war they should prepare for
peace.
At Madison last week Mr.. w. +. An
derson, of Brooksville, and Miss Jennie
Love, of Madison, were married.
Mr.. Frank Sanderman, of Glasgow,
Scotland, visited Floral City last week
prospecting for lands and orange groves
for colony lie was highly pleased
with the country.
On the Halifax coast are several large
trees. In the hammock west of Daytona
is a live oak that three feet from the
ground measures SO feet in circumfer-
ence.
There are more northern visitors in
Monticello the present season than ever
before, and all appear pleased with the
town and its surrouudings.-Con
tion.
a cnrrAsnnnI.pt Of 4 ~. ts-Anl-Eu:n IpaCr-
ister thus formulates paragraph about |
river land: Soon the passerby will bs
made to exclaim, where are the dense !
forests that covered these beautiful hills |
but short while: Why indeed they |
have vanished and in their stead we now |
behold country as lovely as the vale of |
Arno, covered with the enchanting |
scenery of groves and gardens, palaces |
AMI towers, transparent lakes. delicious |
air. and sunny skies.
The Brooksville Register wants remit
tances made to it by draft This is c !
check on the usual way OF doing busi- |
ness.
Gainesville's new public school build |
ing has just been completed. 1t will |
furnish accommodations for two hun
red and fifty pupils and will be ar orna-
msnr and public benefit to the city.
Geo. S. Well, former mayor OF Pensa-
cola, has brought suit against the pres
ent provisional municipality of Pensa-
cola for his salary as mayor, knd even
tually to test the validity of the law un-
der which they are acting.
The ball NJ the Semiuo,s Hotel. at !
Winter Park, Thursday night. was the !
most successful one ever held in that |
portion of the state, special trains bring |
ing in large delegations from along the
entire line of the South Florida railroad, |
and distingu; shed strangers from almost |
every state in the nuion. Tho lawns
were Illuminated with Greek fires. Full
ly five hundred guests were present.