The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-04-08
CITY NOTES.
BONNET THOUGHTS,

For she wondered how her hair
Fixed up like the Smith girls there
Would really, truly look.
The Putnam House spring flows and
flows.
The distractions on the wharf remain
fixture.
Now We will have long rest before the
next election.
The circuit court attracted quite a
crowd yesterday.
Mayor Donnelly no doubt feels vindi.
Gated A tie vote with Dick Lucas!
The bolt" sprung by Donnelly was
not SO formidable after all. Two votes
all told,
Mr.. J. b. Pharis, of Golaha, is in the
city. the guest Of his friend Mr.. C. F.
Sulzner.
Mr.. j. E. Marshall, of Fruitland, is
among the attendants at the session Of
the circuit court.
DIR. Donnelly received two votes for
mayor. One was cast by himself; who
could it have been that cast the other
one:
There is very gratifying increase in
TnE NEWS subscription list. We pro-
pose to have the largest list in Florida in
the course Of short time.
Nlessrs. A. j. Selig. Of New York, T.
q. Eaton, Of st. Paul, MIMI, and l..
Weisbaum, of Hawthorne, Fla, were
registered ut the Graham Hotel yester.
day.
Tuesday proved ''cold day" for our
friend Appleyard. We are sincerely
sorry, because he would have made an
excellent alderman. No one doubts
that.
Dick Lucas called yesterday morning
to say that he won at last. He was not
running against Baldwin, but Donnelly
he got two votes, the DR.. one! SO Lu.
cas- is elected.
Tho private Waterman, or some other
man, imagining that they saw burglars
trying to carry of the Larkin House lot,
fired several shots at the delightful Flor.
ida climate pervading that spot on Tues.
day night. The burglars were not cap.
tureI
The running time of the steamer Geor-
gea, between Palatka and Drayton Is
land, will not be changed because Of
the mail contract. but will run the same
as it is now, bringing the mail down in
the morning, and carrying the up river
mail back in the afternoon.
Hon. ". u. Barnum, of Connecticut,
President Bartholomew, Messrs. Coleman
and Ven Fleet and the other directors
and officers vt the j., 7. 4 X. W. r. r.
passed through the city yesterday morn.
ing in special car, on route for Titus.
vile. They are going over the road and
all its branches giving it a thorough In.
specton.
\ new line Of railroad is projected to
begin at Pomona, on line of the D., Il.
n X. W. Railway, seven miles east Of
the st. Johns, run thence to u point on
the river, from thence to Lake Kerr, and
from this last place to Silver Springs,
Lake Weir and other southern points.
Considerable interest is being manifested
in the proposed line and maps for a por.
ton of the route have already been pre-.
pared.
The News says that Gainesville has
now n public school that is an honor to
her. and monument to the enterprise
and zeal of there who have 80 faithfully
labored for its establishment. It EN-.
ploys five teachers. The pupils are gra.
Died, thlrty-eight in the senior and forty.
five in the the primary department
Prof. W. r. Poole is ut the head of the
school, a gentleman of superior lualif.
cations for that position. How proud
We would bc il we could write such an
article about Palatka. We have a big
hotel, but we havnt got respectable
school house
Gainesville is making commendable
progress in the work of paving some Of
It's streets. The work of paving west
Main street from the public square to
the railway crossing, distance of O
quarter of mile, has begun. The paw.
ing is of flint rock, quarried several
miles north of that city. University
street has been paved for six months.
with results entirely satisfactory. This
i'a good example for our own mayor
and city pars to study and ponder over.
Palatka cant afford to be behind any
little interior town in this state in the
way Of good streets.
We had the pleasure Of meeting Mr..
}. b. Swan, one Of the proprietors of
Kerr City, new but thriving settle
mcnt on the lake of that name, on the
east side of the Ocklawaha, in Marion
county. This settlement was begun