The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-28
CITY NOTES.

was in town yesterday.
kilograms are luxuries that come high
in this part of the moral vineyard.
The music of the saw and hammer is
familiar in the Gem City at this time.
There are several very dangerous places
on the wharf that need prompt atten-
ton.
The ladies memorial ball comes of this
evening at the Elite rink, commnbing at
$50 o'clock.
The transgressor of the law who comes
to Palatka to evade arrests finds himself
in the wrong pew.
IT. s. K. w. railway will run pas
senger trains through to Enterprise on
and after Monday next.
Palatka's daily hotel arrivals will COM
pare favorably with any city in Florida
at least such il our opinion.
Attention is called to the new specials
of Capt. r. r. Reid, to be found in
another column Of to- days issue.
Mr.. Henry Petermann assignee, has
legal notice of importance to parties in
terested, in this mornings paper.
Owing to the absence of some MEM
bers of the board there was no meeting
of the city council Tuesday night.
A number of tourists were doing Pa
latka yesterday. 1t goes without the
saying that they were pleased with the
Gem City.
Mr.. w. j. A. Fuller, a noted lawyer of
New York City, is registered at the Put
nam, and is accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Miss Leila Fuller,
The thermometer behaved very nicely
yesterday. At o'clock in the morning
il registered at SO degrees, 12 m. 81 de-
grees and at p. m. at So degrees.
The Band of Hope will celebrate its
first anniversary Friday, January Goth.
at half past seven O'Clock, in Capt. Luz
cas- hall. All are cordially invited to
attend.
At the Elite rink last night the race
| between Catherwood, skater, and Coul-
ter, byciclist, was won by the latter gen.
tleman. Distance, three miles; time,
twelve minutes.
In the circuit court at Tallah assoc last
week Henry Mann, colored, who was
| found guilty of murder and recommend
ed to mercy, was sentenced to peniten-
tiary for life. Another colored individ-
ual, named Louis Floyd, who was con-
victed of poligamy, was fined $25.
The ladies of the w. c. T. Union will
give an entertainment of dissolving
| views-'nagic lantern-at Lucas hall.
Saturday. January 3Oth. at three O'Clock
dren 10 cents. The entertainment will
be interesting, particularly to the chill
dren. Come out to see it.
Mr.. George NJ. Finks, late private Sec
rotary of the president of the o. & NJ.
r. r., has accepted a similar position
with General Manager S. Conant, of the
Florida Southern railway, vice-Major
Geo. p. Fowler, who has resigned to &C.
cept a position in another capacity with
, the company.
The Putnam House received its last
shipment of fur niture yesterday, which
completed the furnishing Of the hotel.
The furniture which arrived yesterday
was of a most elegant kind, being Of red
cherry and mahogany and black walnut
with marble trimmings. The new fur
niture will be put up to-day, and then
the Putnam, the most elegant hotel IN
Florida, will be completed,
Fourteen car loads of brick have ar.
rived for the new county Jail building,
which are now being placed on the
ground for the contractors. Work will
be begun in few days, and it will be
but a short time until we will have jail
building that no criminal will be asham.
ed to be incarcerated in! 1t will be q
beauty but we hope it may never be
necessary to fill it to its full capacity
with violaters of the law.
A great many leaves on the orange
trees in front of Capt. Reds store and
THE NEWS office are as green and bright
as possible. We also noticed several
green leaves and budding twigs on the
trees of Col. Harris just across the street,
which shows that the tenderest branches
escaped injury from the frost, the very
unreliable correspondents of our north
ern contemporaries to the contrary not
withstanding.
Fine Wine.
Whenever we see our friend, Mr.. C. F
Waldron, of Welaka, entering the edito