The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-22
CITY NOTES.
THE SEA SERPENT.

THE SEA SERPENT.
The way to make
la width and length gigantic,
To Dive and plunge.
with motions madly antic:
Shiny and green,
And submarine.
Cav crnous-mOuthcd and spouting'
With Wild alright
And satisfy the doubling.
Is but to make
straight goods ami undiruted.
Then you'll agree
The snake you see
Can never be disputed.
Hon. p. p. Bishop and his daughter,
Miss Mamie Bishop, were in the city
yesterday.
a new tin roof is being put on the
warehouse of Gardner, Eaton 81 Co., and
the building otherwise improved.
Mr.. S. U. Hammond has sufficiently
recovered from his attack of sickness to
come down to town yesterday for few
hours.
Capt. T. c. Minor has just returned
from an extended trip through the New
England States, where he went for the
purpose of recuperating.
The weather behaved itself pretty we'll
yesterday, and made amends somewhat
for the fearfully mean weather of the
previous day.
a large crowd, including most of the
candidates Of the county, will go out TO
the Pencil meeting today. y big time
and some good speeches are expected
out there.
The summer absentees are returning
to their Florida homes in large numbers
now, and the couldn't getaway crowd
are not so lonesome as they were n short
time back.
The shipment of oranges Will begin in
earnest earlier this fall than usual, as
the growers have not had any orange
ious to see its color.
The candidates for the various side
show offices are about the most energetic
set of men that can be found in these
parts. They discount the active bill col
lector by large per cent.
The walls of the Baum buildings, on
Lemon street, are nearly completed, and
the house will be ready for tenants in a
short while. The buildings will be de
cided ornament to that portion of the
street when completed.
The new Job office for THE NEWS es-
Establishment will be one of the most com
Florida. 1t will be perfect ia every
detail, and we will be prepared to turn
OUT work in short order
DIR. b. L. Lilienthal has just received
a large consignment OF new furniture,
some of ii the finest ever brought to Pa
latka. In his stock can be found some
of the latest novelties, which it would
pay those having houses to furnish to in
spect.
There is great complaint made by
business men because of the difficulty in
collecting money. The dollar of our
dads" is a very scarce article this season
of the year, but the winters business
will open shortly, and the present stress
will be relieved.
Mr.. Ed. Rumley, of Keuka, was in
town yesterday. He IS busy sending out
his annual descriptive paper, the Florida
Home journal, which has a great deal of
information in it in regard to
Florida. He sends out about 81, 900 cop
les of this paper every fall.
Election day Is approaching, and the
prospects for Dougherty's overwhelming
election get better as the time draws
near. The 90 born victor" knows no such |
thing as defeat, ana every Democrat owes |
it to himself and the best interests of the
State to cast solid vote for him.
The Lente buildings on Front street are
fast nearing completion, the store rooms
now being in the hands of the plasterers, |
and the brick work and roofing are fin
ished. The store rooms are large and
and will present as handsome
an appearance as needed when the ten
ants get their stock IN place.
We neglected to call attention TO the |
advertisement of 8Ir. NJ. Loeb. to be |
found on this page, yesterday. His new
don't begin to tell of all |
the new and fine goods he has on hand, |
and nothing but a personal inspection !
will tell how well prepared he is to suit |
in style and prices.
In the paragraph in yesterdays paper |
speaking of the death of Mr.. Barber, !
which occurred at Fruitland, on Friday |
last, we should have said Mr.. J. Barber,
instead of ''E. c. Barber" rs printed. |
Mr.. Barber was very popular, and had |