The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-08-05
CITY NOTES.

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helm.
News frSm the ocala convention reads
we'll for lougherty. His nomination is
almost Icy oni question.
\ young Ieoplrs' union prayer meet
ing will IL. held at the Presbyterian
church next Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock.
/ The lsand Of Hope meets at the resi
lence of Mrs. q. ". Lansing at o clock
Saturday afternoon. A full attendance
is desired.
The steamer City Of Palatka came in
last night from Charleston. A list oi
her freight tonnage and packages. will he
/ given IN to morrow's NEWS.
Misses Ad.lt- and Grace bailey, OF
San Mateo. passed through the city YES
ter,iay. They have gone over to st.
Augustine To spend week to ENJOY the
ocean breeze.
| The Ladies Aid society If IN. Melho.
dist church will give a moonlight excur.
sion to Bridgeport on the steamer Louis.
ON Thursday al next week the II instant.
Tho Louise is well supplied with life
BEATS.
Baldwin n Cochran have sold out
their insurance business To- Chas. NJ. Iii
lard x 90. The new firm have good
list Of companies, aud will give the bus
mess their careful attention. They are
dealers in fire insurance exclusively.
Mr.. &. j, Joseph has been confined to
his room by illness since Monday last.
lie and Capt. lIusson have been sur
veying down on tho coast ut the ter
minus 81 the st. Johns and Halifax road
and ho had to return ON account Of his
illness.
Our city editor, Mr. ". W. Ran.
dali, after several weeks vacation
IN t;eorsia. returned To tho city yes.
! tcrlay. lie will continue his vaca.
ton for few days longer, when he will
return To work, greatly refreshed by his
holiday.
n small sized ~ clone, u very small
one. passed over the western portion Of
III" city yesterday afternoon. II did nv
further damage than to move small
house near the Jacksonville. Tampa and
hey West railroads. new depot. M one
was hurt by the blow.
| a number III friends If MIR. GEORGE l..
Vincent gathered at tho residence of his
father, ';corgc -. Vincent. Esp, Friday
evening last. il being thu OCCASION Ut his
birth day, and gave him very pleasant
surprise party. Several Of his friends
remembered HIM to the extent of very
handsome presents.
| The steamer Comet is in a bai way,
and needs, from all appearances, an
ovsIhauling. On her down trip yrster.
day she came into port being s,ecred
with the gang plank, the r,ni,ier having
lost position aud was trailing behind thu
boat with the chain. capt. Cable says "A
gang plank will do when no other rui-
der il tn M hat.
We arc glad to SEE from the follow my
paragraph clipp~d from the Saratoga
Summer SEASON. that our old friend
Major Washburne is enjoy ing IL well de
served prosperous season ut his Saratoga
hctcl: "'rhc genial MAJOR Washburnc,
proprietor Of the Washburnc Hons,
here, and Of the Saratoga Hotel at palat.
ka, Fla }, is at his wits ends how to ne.
commodatc his many old friends and
their acquantanccs, who season after
season make his house their summer
home, hut the Major who has Il peculiar
knack of doing things. manages to max,
all feel comfortable and at home.
Tuesday night some one borrowed
twithout his consent. however,. tn,
horse and wagon Of Mr.. H. Z. Dinsen
the sexton Of West View cemetery. AT
ter using it rs long as they cared to, tn,
horse was tied in front Of tho rrsi,lenc,
of Mr.. }. X. Baldwin. Yesterday morn
ing Mayor J. T.. Baldwin came down
town driving the turnout. and the mar
shall looked at him rather sllspiciously
but ON the mayors avowal that he III,
not take the team from its owner, an,
his solemn testimony to tho facts a
above stated. the matter was settled b,
sending the tournout to MIR. binscn
IAN = well that ends we'll"
The man on the Jacksonville llcral,
who wrote the account Of the young Ia
latka merchant who I" lost his shoes IN
boarding house in that live village
should lr elected to IA seat in cungres
instantcr. The future for him in tn
field of journalism is no doubt bright
but the Jacksonville Herald. while i
may he the most popular paper in al
Florida, is not So widely circulated as
say the Congressional Record tiolly
how that funny piece published in yes