The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-23

| business trip over the Florida Southern
railway, where he W al visit his custom
ers and show his samples and prices of
goods.
The county candidates are ell hopeful
and confident of success on election day,
and the voters of the county are pretty
well stirred up to the Importance of Wis
iting the polls, to vote early, if not often.
Now, boys, for steady pull and a pull
all together for Dougherty, until after
election day. His election is morally
sure, but every vote will count, and he
is entitled to and should receive every
Democratic vote in the district.
Messrs. Richardson & Co. had sub
stantial walk put across Front street yes
terday, leading from the Grill and Lente
blocks to their store, which will prove of
great convenience to the public, who
haye had heretofore to trudge through
the sand and mud in getting from one
side of the street to the other.
The large iron schooner, the largest
ship that comes to this port, is now lying
at the dock of Gardner, Eaton & Co.,
discharging a cargo of orange boxes,
hoops, hay. etc, brought from Maine for
this firm. The orange boxes are of the
best quality, and are now ready to de-
liver to customers.
| In an interview with a prominent
physician yesterday, News reporter
learned the gratifying news that sick
ness was decreasing in the city at pres
ent, and it was rapidly assuming its usual
good health. The doctors have been
quite busy of late, but for the sake of
the people, we are glad that they find
time to rest occasionally now.
Messrs. Race &c Maj in have Just over
hauled the old hand hose-reel, and made
it intoa one-horse affair, so that hereafter
| it will be pulled by horse instead of the
firemen. and Will thereby be got to the
| fires in much shorter time. The reel
presents handsome appearance, and
| looks every bit as good as new one.
Vertrees 6 Co. yesterday received
seven car loads of u DDS for their grain
and hay warehouse. Besides hay and corn
| they received car load of seed oats
and cat of some of the finest apples
ever received here. Read their specials
| this morning and give them an order.
Their goods are new and fresh. and will
be sold cheap
Several car loads of turtles, some of
them weighing 800 or 400 pounds, have
been shipped over the j., T. 6, X. w.
Railway for Washington and New York,
from the Indian river country. The tur-
ties are fine ones, and the industry is a
growing one, can ying delight to the
gourmands of the cities and bringing
ducats back to Florida. 'Rah for the tur-
ties,
Because very little has been said about
it is no sign that there IS no building now
going on IN the city. Besides the five
brick store rooms now nearing compile
ton, there are n number of cottages
going up about the city, and several large
and elegant residences. No. sir, the
building boom is a stay-at-home, all-the-
year-round citizen of Palatka, and grows
more robust with each succeeding season.
One of the prettiest pieces of workman
ship we have seen in a long time is the |
handsome office desk Just made for DIR.
2. j. Strauss. The desk was made by |
constructed of beautiful curly pine,
highly polished and oiled. The desk is |
of the flat top, cabinet pattern, and has |
drawers and compartments about it TO |
keep everything in il place that is likely |
to be used in desk.
We noticed in the depot yesterday !
lot of very nice school furniture for t
Norwalk, which viii be placed in the
public school of that place. We are |
glad to note the fact that the schools of |
other places IN the county are progress
ing more or less satisfactorily, even if |
the parents of Palatka do have to depend /
on private schools for the education of |
their children, because we have no build
ing fit for public school to be taught |
in.
The following from the Jacksonville /
Herald shows that our former fellow
citizen. Col. +. Ii. Orvis, still has a |
warm heart for the suffering people in /
whatever section they may be: "Col.
Orvis, of the Windsor Hotel, this city,
has a big heart, and it always beats in
sympathy for the distressed. At his /
summer hotel in Manchester, Vermont, /
he went to work as soon as he heard of |
the suffering of Charleston, and headed /
a subscription list with 500. and then
obtained in addition thereto $40 more.
His own employees, occupying humble
stations, gave S13. The major portion
was given by strangers to the suffering