The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-08
CITY NOTES.
STILL We WONDERS.

Ca, friend, was in town yesterday.
Major w. p. Couper. chief engineer
of the Florida Southern railroad is in
the city.
The court house well was turned loose
yesterday, and the water seemed to flow
pretty well, but not with its old time
force.
Mr. a. q. Phillips moved his Jewelry
store yesterday from his old stand TO the
Kean block, where he will hold forth
hereafter.
Judge T. III. Haughton has gone to New
York for "A short visit, seeking rest and
recreation. All his friends wish that he
may have pleasant trip.
The County Democratic Executive
Committee will meet in this city to-day.
and will transact all of the important
business likely to come before it.
The river is very high al present. In
fact, it is getting light up to the wharf
planks, and is nearer to them now than
it has been in the past three years.
Mr. John King, of Sanford, is in the
city. He is the representative of the So
Iicitors' Trust Company, of Philadelphia,
and is looking out to place loans on good
security.
There are a number of now houses
going up on Palatka Heights, and they
are all neat and nice ones, and will make
comfortable homes for the inhabitants of
our chief suburb.
Mr.. Arthur Merriday has had SO many
improvements made to his store on the
corner of Lemon and Second streets,
that it looks like an entirely new estab-
lishment 1t now has glass front on
either street.
The Rey. J. j. w. Place has returned
from Sanford, where he held five days
meeting and received into the church
six members, four by baptism and two
by letter. Mr.. Place will be in his own
pulpit next Sunday.
MIR. C.. +. Avery, who carries an az
cident policy i'm the United States Mu-
tual Accident Association, was paid a
premium of $50 a few days since for an
accident sustained, by Mr.. l.. Harkins
billiard, the State agent.
We elret to learn that Mrs. Lombard.
of Drayton Island, is seriously sick. A
ply stefan of Welaka was hurriedly sent
for yesterday morning to attend her. Mr..
Samuel Farker, of the same place, is also
sick, but not alarmingly SO.
The heavy and continual rains have
filled the lakes and ponds to overlooking.
We Learn that the water IN the southern
part of the county has in many in
stances backed up into the orange groves,
but no particular harm is expected to
come from such an overflow.
More than fifty people passed through
the Guy yesterday from Orlando and
South Fonda. bound for the Halifax
coast The excursion'sts were a jolly
set, all bent on having good time, and
most of them VII invest in a summer
The colored Odd Fellows will have
charge of the city to-day, as large num-
Der of them will be here to attend the
grand celebration and to hear the ad-
dresses. This body is composed of the
most intelligent and respectable colored
men i'm the State, and we are assured
their conduct to-day will prove the truth
fulness of that assertion.
Mr.. Chas. Eaton, who returned from
Charleston yesterday, says that the half
has not been told of the distress and suf-
fering of the people there, nor of the
property destroyed and made worthless.
The scenes, he says, cannot he described,
and one has to see them to appreciate the
great calamity that has befallen the city.
We learn of another important sale of
an orange grove that occurred some
time since, but since the freeze of last
winter. 1t was the Dr. Clinton Doug
lass grove, at San Mateo, which was sold
to Mr.. \. S. Hall, for the comfortable
little sum of $4,000. The grove is a
small one, bu is heavy bearer and very
valuable.
The unsightly but inevitable debris
that accumulated in front of the new
Florida Southern buildings is being
cleaned up, and Water street will soon
be rs clean and more handsome than
ever. Work is progressing finely on the
immense new buildings, and they will
all be ready for occupation very soon.
The schooner John $. Davis was lowed
up To Paiatka, yesterday morning, by
the steamer Anita. The schooner brings
a cargo of 1876 tons of railroad iron and
fish plates, which will be used on the
extension of the j., t. ~ X. w. X. X.
from Sanford to Tavares. The cargo
will be discharged here and shipped up
to its destination over the j., I. & X.
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