The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-20

trial IN the ponce court.
y young man well up in the grocery
business will find a notice of importance
! to him in our special column.
| y neat crossing was put down and the
bridges repaired yesterday at the juno
| ton of Lemon and Fourth streets by the
marshal.
Holly Branch and Armstrong are the
names of two new post-oflices recently
established on the st. Augustine and Pa
Iatks railway, in St. Johns county.
The New York Star has a long article
on ''The right time to drink" We have
always found it about the right time
when some fellow asks. (which will you
take?"
| Mr.. Granville Beale has Just returned
from an extended trip North, fatter,
saucier and better looking than ever.
| He says he had good time, and we are
| prepared to believe the statement.
Messrs. J. W. and J. f. Marion and
| Mrs. Marion returned yesterday from
New Jersey, where they have been for
the summer. They will reopen their
restaurant and hotel in a week or ten
days.
Mr.. G. p. Devereux, the well-known
dry goods merchant, has a card in this
mornings paper, announcing himself as
a candidate for the Office of County
Treasurer, to which the attention of the
vot rs of the county IS called.
We inv.t, attention to the advel tise-
ment of Mr.. l.. Faik, which will be
found in this mornings paper. He has
an immense stock of goods, and
proposes to make all his customers hap
py by liberal gifts. See the advertise
ment for particulars.
Nertrees & Co. report the demand for
horses and cows as being pretty good
for this time of year, and already they
have sold a numl n of the car loads re
ceived last week. Some of the horses
are very fine ones, and are e5 stylish as
one would want to drive.
Dir. E. McBeth yesterday sent us
basket of early oranges, which Were lack
ing very little in being az GO ,Do
later oranges. Those se..t u ,,Ie Just
turning color, but they were very sweet
and palatable, and Mr.. McBeth has our
best thanks for his kind treat.
St. Augustine IS pretty thoroughly
disguised with the Indian braves quar-
tered at old Fort Marion, in that city.
The papers over there say they are a
dirty, thieving crowd, and would be
glad if Uncle Sam would move them 10
some retired spot where they would not
prove such nuisance.
Mr.. \. Usina has received SO many
new goods lately, that he is at a loss to
know where TO put them in his crowded
store room. He has had new tables
erected, ana in placing crockery on them
yesterday looked just as a boy does
when trying to put the works of watch
in place, after he has foolishly taken
them apart.
Capt. Leo Vogel will leave on his last
trip as captain of the steamship City of
Palatka to-day, he having accepted the
command of the steamship Cherokee,
just put on the line between Charleston
and New York by the Clydes. Capt.
Nogel has been on the Charleston and
Florida lines for twenty-five years, aud |
has hosts of friends in every port along
the line. All will regret that he is going !.
TO leave us, but are glad to know that he I
will have one of the finest ships afloat 4
under his charge hereafter.
Melrose will Toe the scene of a grand .
Democratic rally on Friday next. 22d /
inst, under the auspices of the Union I
Democratic Club. of Melrose, for the /
counties Of Alachua, Putnam, Clay and I
Bradford. \. J. Russell, Ex-Governor /
Bloxham, Hon. Chas. Dougherty and /
others will be there TO address the null .
titude that will be present. DIR. II. II. (
Vogelbach has charge of affairs, which .
is equal TO saying that it will be the big
gest thing of the kind ever gotten up /
there.
Jacksonville NclrS: An incident oc-
CURED aboard the City Of Palatka, on
her way down from New York, which 1
illustrates the traditional density of a
eefo's skull. y colored deck hand was
crossing the deck with barrel OF flour
upon a truck. = hatch gave way and
he fell through TO the lower deck, a dis
tance of fourteen feet. The negro
struck on his head, and the flour and
truck fell on him, The coon was unin-
jured, the flour is comfortable, and the
truck convalescent.
The Crescent City Gazette says: THE
Palatka News, it seems, is vainly trying
to get up county ticket, judging from
the success it has had with its candidates