The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-04-18
GAINESVILLE LETTER.
\ CITY OF CHURCHES AMI
SCHOOLS.
Aud Costly COust House, But NO
Big Hotel"

Aud u Costly Coust House. But N
Big Hotel"
Special Correspondence PAlatka NEWS.
GAINESVILLE, April Il. SO.
The people here lore praise. The,
speak, write and print city of Gaines
eiile. Ocala and Palatka, towns. The,
are loyal and generous to their city.
0ns OF the first citizens, We will cal
linn Brown. but his name may be GRAY
encountered mo OIL the court house
square, and said:
You are Palatka NEWS reporter.
No answer except by smile and sligh
nod,
Looking at our court house: Ii il the
finest in the State, cost, with its furni
turc and furnishings, about go, 900. See
tha. golden lion: There is one on the
ether side. King of beasts, YOU know.
You see that eagle up there on top of
the cupola. ono hundred feet from the
ground: King of birds, You know"
Are these your titular divinities:
Where is Justicia, blindfolded, holllng
the balance in equal pose:'
I'VE haven't any, but King is Judge,
you know. A name don't mean any.
thing ex.-Ant when one is smelling after
an olilco, We want b. ss.o'"sthiag that can
see day ana night. The negroes !, "ala
steal Just!cia blindfolded. There, the
clock up there on the court house has
struck two. You can hear it all over the
city. II you listen. II you don't listen
you cant hear anything mot even hear
your wife talk at you sharp and fast YOU
know. That clock cost about &, 900: has
four faces: 1t can OUTAGE a double. faced
lawyer, who has one face for the right
side and one face for the wrong side
These clock hands are six feet long
Don't look more than three, so high IN
yonder.
Jump in with mo and let's drive
alout thc city. Til two story brick
house, with iron bars across the windows
is the Jail. Several negro men have been
hanged in that Jail, and manv more
went from there to the penitentiary. II |
they had not been so quick to sign whis.
key petitions, drink whiskey and take
other peoples property, most Of them
might be live freeinen now.
"Look at that large two story house;
well finished, newly painted. Good |
looking building. II is the public school |
honse. Two hundred OF more pupils at.
send these. fhat building over the
Lranch is SinlOnnn's opera house ami
rnk. lie has q well there from which
he retais sulphur water by the drink.
it's good for sore eyes and itch. There
in these new houses live two Of our bank.
rrs. That low house there in the bushes
i fudge 6ing.s, The orange trees look
s:.:... @ 10 can 40 more wo.k for his looks
than any one you ever cav. There is
Judge Goss' house. He was lon,
Judge Dawkins succeeded him. Gaines.
willie is:the home Of our Judges" !
:. yecause you nave the best mate
rial for Judges
"No. or maybe not, but this city is
important. Here We have the United
States Land Ollie for the whole State,
end the East Florida Seminary, and will
have the capitol Of the State when we
get ready for it. There IL East Gaines.
vile. There are several new houses as
ia asr you can see. Now wo will 20 TO.
wards the old Fair grounds. Look at the
houses about there. There is where Prof.
Noyle lives, a naturalist, scientist and
learned man, poor and sickly.
THAT large two story brick house there
u the ''East Florida Seminary" Fifty
or morestudents there. You see them
in uniform with their accoptrements.
They look well, rho oommandant is
lieut herman of the u. :. A. He was
q jacksonville hoy. That elderly lame
man is Capt, Curtis of the U. S. A.
Wounded and disabled in the war, is one
of the teachers here. That man crossing
over there is Rev. +. Pasco, one of the
professors. lie has good influence
with the ,.udents Col. Cater, the
principal, is not in sight. lie has
b. ought this school where it il now. lie
Is in poor health and Is made worse by
the trials he has to endure. That house
i the Methodist church. You see the
foundation the Methoist's hare laid for
> large brick church.
Nov we are before the Union Acade-
my. A large and well finished house
that. This is large colored school and
partly for the education of teachers. The
ieachers there arc we'll educated, some
graduates In northern colleges.
"fOn sec near here three churches for
the oolored people, ono Methodist, one
African Methodist, one Baptist, and there
Is another Baptist church near tho rail.
way depots. And close here, too, Is
school for colored children conducted by
white teachers, placed here BY the north.
ern Presbyterians who have organized a
small church, composed Of solie of the =
best and most intelligent Of our colored
people.
These are brakes mills, saw, planning.
turning, grinding and rice
cleaning. He has teams Of various kinds,
4 great deal Of money passes through
lis hands. Came here without dollar"
"a Yankee =
"You bet he is r.
THAT Is H. F. Dutton & Cos banking
house. He owns these large cotton.
house works at the depots for grinding
and crushing seed. There is a sash fac.
tory and many other works on small
scale. Over there is the Douglas school
.cr girls and boys, controlled by Rev.
sIr. Waugh and wife and Miss Caring
ton. They are Nirginians. Near there
is Miss Thebaus' school for young wo-
men, girls and small boys. There are
boarding schools also. There a.e not less
than about four hundred white pupils at
our schools
Are there great many children