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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
GABRIEllA.
An Industrious and Thriving Community, Where
Lite Moves Pleasantly.


Lite Moves Pleasantly.
Correspondence Of The PaJdtka Neas.
GABRIELLA, ORANGE COUNTY,
February II, 1888.
As | see in your newsy, practical and
interesting paper from week TO week
communications from various sections
of the State, feel emboldened to give
you few jottings from this pleasant
and healthful section, hoping that they
may prove acceptable, and proving to a
make them benefit to this community,
for the able and wide-awake newspaper
is tho true developer of localities.
have nothing especially wise or witty
to transcribe, but rise to remark" that
the people resident at Gabrielle, like
those of most other localities in Florida.
are firmly persuaded in their own minds
that they have the most lovely, the most
gether the most desirable section to be
found in the State, noted as it is for a
balmy and genial climate, lovely lakes,
productive soil, thrifty groves, gardens,
ETC., and the thousand and one things
promotive of health and pleasant and
joyous lives, reasonably free from corrod-
ing care and anxiety, with great hopes
for the future, based ON what we believe
to be sure and solid foundations
The real, genuine spring time has not
arrived as yet, though its advent is daily
expected. Vegetation has been growing
all winter unframed by frost, the orange
and lemon trees are heavily budded,
some blooms have already appeared,
while the trees are covered with new
shoots several inches long. Guavas
have had some fruit ON them all winter,
and some are now putting forth fresh
bloom. The. chief industry here is the
making of orange groves. Nearly every
family has a kitchen garden, from
which they secure good supplies of va
ried kinds of vegetables. Many of the
yards are adorned with flowers, while the
houses are surrounded with thrifty
Bermuda grass which covers the sand,
promotes comfort in many ways, and
is much more pleasant to the eye than
bare ground. None of the dwellings
are pretentious, all being of the humble
sort, the people being only in moderate
circumstances, yet they are all self-sup-
porting, are pretty generally out of debt,
only one or two having INDUCED in that
inconvenient and expensive luxury
mortgage. The chief crops besides those
mentioned are, sweet potatoes and cow
peas, with a little corn and cane, and a
variety of small fruits for home use.
The face of the country is rolling, COW
cred with thrifty long-leafed pine, with
now and then black jack, turkey and
live oak, and indented with numerous
lovely clear water lakes that abound in
fish and turtle and sparkle in the sum
shine.
The absorbing question now agitating
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
DRINKING IN AMERICA.
Our Comparative National Sobriety-what the
Figures Show.

Figures Show.
Macon Telegraph
We hear a great deal about the enor-
nous consumption of intoxicating
liquors in the United States. The fig
ures are startling. Drunkenness is far
too common, and in most localities re-
strictions on the liquor traffic are too
light
At the same time we must remember
that our tendency, asa people, is toward
temperate uses of intoxicants.
In a recent address on triumphant
Democracy, delivered in New York,
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie said: Every
ones experience proves that the vice of
intemperance has been driven from re-
spectacle society. y. <
The report of the Secretary of the Treas
| ury for last year 1856 shows that not
withstanding the increase of population
which has taken place, the amount col
lected from excise, both for beer and
distilled spirits, is more than a million
dollars less than it was the previous
year. Every figure made upon the sub
ject proves that the people are becoming
more and more temperate, and are using
less alcohol than they ever did,"
1t can be shown by official statistics
that a population of 81 ,443, 1921 in the
United States in 1860, consumed more
whisky than did population of twice
the size in 1887. The whisky drinking
per capita, therefore, decreased by fully
one-haf from 1860 to 1887.
The temperance record of our people
among other nations, makes most cred
liable showing.
The Swiss Bureau of Statistics re-
recently prepared reliable report, Civ
ing the annual liquor consumption of
different countries. 1t showed that the
people of the United States drink, per
capita, less than those of Denmark,
Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Ger
many, Sweden, Russia. France, Austria,
Hungary or Great Britain and Ireland.
The only countries which consume a
less quantity of Intoxicating beverages,
per capita, are Norway, Finland and
Canada. The average consumption of
spirits in the United States, is little less
| than five quarts a year, while in Den
| mark 1T is over nineteen quarts. and in
Switzerland nine and a half quarts, in
Germany nearly nine quarts, in Russia
eight quarts, and in France seven and a
half quarts
In the consumption of beer and malt
liquors, Germany comes first, with an
| average per capita of one hundred and
seventy quarts year. England is sec
ond, with an average of one hundred
and forty-fve quarts, while the United
States is sixth, with an average of thir-
ty-two quarts. France is, of course,
the greatest wine drinking country. The
average per capita in that country is
placed at one hundred and nineteen
quarts. Switzerland is second, with an
average of fifty-seven quarts. The
United States is sixth with an average
of two and two-thirds quarts.
The figures of the United States Bu-
reau of Statistics agree substantially With
those of the Swiss bureau. They show
that in the consumption of spirits per
| capita, the United States ranks eleventh;
in beer and other malt liquors sixth, and
sixth in wines. These figures prove that
we are comparatively sober people.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21


After reading our Washington cores
pondent' s interview with Mr.. Dougherty,
published in Sundays issue, we are
forced to the conclusion that our repre-
sentative is no friend of the imagination.
This is unfortunate in a representative
from the Land of Flowers. perhaps, but
the fact is that long residence in our
beautiful land gives one strong admir-
alton for facts. Mr.. Dougherty in
sists that reporters must confine
themselves to facts in speaking of
him. Cold facts are what some
of our legislators most dislike, when it
comes to themselves, personally consid-
cred, but we are glad to know that Mr..
Dougherty does not fear them. 1t is to
his credit when newspaper man anx-
ious to attack him is forced to resort to
lies. But Mr.. Dougherty's proposed
censorship ''to prevent newspaper re-
porters lying about individuals" would
require god-like omniscience to make
sure that in every case the reporter was
lying. In this case we have evidence
that indicates that he was
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21

the minds of the people is. "Shall we
have raiIroadsn The Orlando and
Winter Park Railroad is to be completed
at once and extended through Oeiedo,
six miles northwest of here, and two
miles further to Lake Jesup. This will
give Orlando, which lies nine miles to
the southwest of Gabrielle direct trans
portation and competing line by the ST.
Johns River TO your city and beyond.
If the company would build direct from
Osceola the present terminus, the route
would lie through the choicest part of the
Gabr. ella section, but they talk of going
two miles north to L AXE Howell. four
miles west of this place, and then max
ing direct line to Oveido which would
carry it two miles north of us through
a much less desirable country. They
demand thousand acres of our land as
the price of coming through here, while
they only require $4,000 for building
the whole twelve miles. AS the aver
age value of the most of our lands is
more than twenty-five dollars an acre it
looks pretty steep, the increased distance
of three miles being caused by going out
of the way to Lake Howell whose people
we think, ought to pay for the privilege,
and not the people of Gabrielle. What we
really need is a through line from Or
lando through Gabrielle, Oviedo and
Geneva to New Smyrna, Daytona and
st. Augustine, thence to your city and
other points. Such line if extended
from Orlando to Oakland and connected
with the Orange Belt to st. Petersburg
ON Point Pinellas on the gulf would
make the most valuable trunk line in
the State. WoRoNOCo.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
IMMIGRATION.

The New Orleans Times Democrat
calls attention to the immigration set
ting in from Kansas to Calcasieu Parish.
The fact is that the inhabitants of the
blizzard stricken States of this country
are looking southwark, but Florida does
not comprise all the South. There are
fertile lands in other States besides
this and this State must make up its
mind to competition not alone from
California. The same issue of the Times
Democrat contains an editorial showing
the great advantages Florida enjoys
from the tourist travel and reminding its
readers that Louisiana's Gulf coast is as
near to the Western States as Florida is
to the Eastern. This is not a new thing,
but New Orleans is giving up the policy
of deprecating travel to Florida and
taking up the more dangerous one of
admitting that Florida has claims to ad-
miration but insisting that Louisianas
Gulf coast is nearer the Western. States.
The fact is that Florida's competitors
are becoming more numerous and
Floridians can not lie back and depend
upon the climate to draw immigration
and visitors. We must advertise, and
it must be done with system. The best
plan is through some such agency as the
immigration Association. There must
be system.
A great surgeon once said if he had
only five minutes in which to perform
an operation he would spend three in
considering the best means of performing
it. 1t is not case of surgery, quite the
reverse, but the principle is the same.
The best means of inducing immigra-
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
GENERAL SHERIDAN DECLINES.

General Sheridan informs the Wash
ington correspondent of the Associated
Press that he would not accept the nomi-
nation for President if rendered him.
He says so with emphasis and, unlike
Blaine. he will be believed. "There is
nothing" he says, ''that would induce
me to leave the profession in which
nearly forty years of my life have been
spent to enter upon civil career"
There is nothing about General Sheri-
dan that should commend MIN as a can
didate for President. He is eminent as
a soldier, he has no experience in civil
life. The highest civil officer in the
land requires some training in civil af-
fairs and, despite one or two examples
which seem to show the contrary, no
one can be a successful President who
has not been trained in political affairs.
The American people are about
weaned from that idolatry to military
heroes which has led them in~the past
to elevate successful generals to the
Presidency without regard to fitness.
We are an older nation than we were
forty or fifty years ago. Life in Amer
lea has become far more complicated,
the threads of politics and trade, always
intermingling, are spinning a web of
national life of different pattern from
that which our fathers knew. No one
wishes to see the time when the Amer
lean soldier will be distinct from the
American civilian in his sentiments, or
less lover of American institutions,
however much he may be distinct in his
ambitions, but we require something
more than military ability to entitle
any one to fill the Presidential Office.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
jacksonville, Tampa and
Key-West Railway.

Onand after December 18th, 1857, passenger
trains will leave PALAThA Lemon Street
StatiOn) as follows:
GOING NORTH.
4:21 a. k.-CUBAN FAST MAIL daily: Arrives
ut Jacksonville $50 A. M, and has Pull
Buffet Sleeping Cars through to
Washington without change
tt:24 A. M.-Arriyes at Jacksonville 1928 p.
NJ. Has Monarch Parlor Buffet Cars, and
connects with train for the North, leaving
JACKSONVILLE at z: p. N.
4:47 p. m.-ArriVes ut jacksonville $40 p,
NJ. Has Monarch Parlor Buffet Cars. and
sonville.
GOING SOUTH.
1908 A. M.-(TAMPA AND INDIAN RIVER
Arrives at Sanford f2:47 p. NJ: Titusvile,
2:08 p. M: Orlando, 2:t2 p. M: Barlow,
$50 P. M; Tampa, $40 =. IA. Has Mon
arch Paror Buffet Cars to Sanford.
2:f5 P. M-CUBAS FAST MAIL tdalyl-A rrives
Orlando. 5:35 p. ~: Tampa, $40 p. M.
Has through Pullman from New York to
Tampa, and connects with steamship
OliVette MaScotte for Key West and
Havana on Mondays, Thursdays and Satur-
days.
500 p. M.-Arrives at Sanford 8:48 p. NJ,
and carries Monarch ParlOr Buffet Car.
Except where Indicated, trains do not run
Sundays. connecting train leaves LAUREL
given at Lemon Street, except that no con-
nection is made with Cuban Mail Train north
ward. Fast Mail South stOi only at impor-
tant stations. Tickets on sale at City Ticket
ONCE, k. kERsTING, Agent. and at both Sta
tons. l.. &. DEMlNG, G. L. a.
NJ. r.. MORAN, Gen. Supt.
January ]. 1888. de25-tt
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
THE DAILY NEWS

THE DAILY NEWS is published every morn
ing except Monday, and delivered by carriers
d the city, or mailed, postage free, 81 for three
months 81 for six months, or IS per annum.
THK WEEKLY NEWS is large four-page 80
column paper, published every Friday, con-
tanning all the news of the week. local and
general 1t is the largest and handsomest
weekly paper published in Florida, and will be
mailed, postage free, for 81 a year, or 80 cents
address.
Local advertisements, 20 cents per line for
first insertion, and 10 cents per line for each
additional insertion. Special notices, 10 cents
per line. Reduced rates on continued adyer-
tsements.
All advertising bills become due pro rata
every month. Special and sfort-time payable
In advance.
All remittances should be made by express
money-order or registered letter.
Address THE NEWS,
PALATKA. FLORIDA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
They Must Go! Walk OFF!

All manufacturers of patent medicines
will ere long cease nauseating the people,
claiming to purify TIE blood ETC., Their
end is near. A wonderful spring has
been found in Ashe County, \. c.. Per-
forming almost miraculous cures. Taste
less and delicious Purifying the blood
in reality, and identifying the complex
ion in reality! Ask for Thompson's Bro
mine Arsenic Water. half gallon bottle,
go cents; case, SO. Pamphlets with analy-
sis free.
We ask the medical profession to re-
port any of the following diseases they
fail to cure with this wonderful water,
viz:
Blood Poison, Bleeding at Nose,
Catarrh, Eczema, Nervous Headache,
Old Sores, Scrofula, Loss of Appetite,
Kidney Complaint, Ulcers and Tumors,
General Debility, Indigestion,
Eruptions, Itchings, Throat Affections,
Dyspepsia, Nervousness,
Rheumatic Gout, Erysipelas,
sore Eyes, Cramps, Weak Lungs,
\ omiting, Cancers, Liver Complaint.
Alderman & Stewart, Sole Agents.
Palatka, Florida.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
The Governor and the Legislature.

TIC McIrOpOIIs
1t was said just after the adjournment
of the late Legislature that Governor
Perry never wanted to see the same body
OF men corralIed at the capitol again.
and it would appear from the commit
tees report to have him call an extra
session to form State Board of Health,
that he has not changed his opinion.
Messrs. Burbridge and Fitzgerald, of the
committee, returned to the city night
before last and report that the Governor
declines to make the call unless he can
have request to do SO from a majority
of the voters of the State, which at this
time is impracticable. In case of an
epidemic disease next summer, who
should be held responsible therefor?
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
MEDICAL.


Thoroughly cleanse the blood which is the
fountain of health, by using DIR. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery. and good digestion.
fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength. and
soundness of constitution viii be established.
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors,
from the common pimple, blotch. or eruption,
TO the worst Scrofula, or blood-poison. Es-
pecially has it proven its efficacy in curing
Salt-rhoum or letter. Fever-sores, Hip-joint
Disease. Scrofulous Sores and Sweliings, En-
hrged Glands and Eating Ulcers
Golden Medical Discovery cures Consump-
ton (which is Scrofula of the Lungs, by its
wonderful blood-purifying. invigorating, and
nutritive properties. For Weak Lungs, Spit
ting of Blood. Shortness of Breath. Bronchitis,
Severe Coughs. Asthma, and kindred aftec-
TONS il is a sovereign remedy. It promptly
cures the severest Coughs.
For Torpid Liver, Biliousness, or Liver
Complaint" Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, 1t is
an unequalled remedy. Sold by druggists.
DIR. PIERCEsS PELLETS Antts
Bilious and Cathartic.
25:. VIAL by druggists.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21

The prospects are good at this early
date for an orange crop that will surpass
anything seen heretofore in Florida. The
bloom is very thick and the trees are
stronger than ever before. They are
likely to carry their bloom all the better
fo~ the set back and rest consequent
upon the Great Freeze.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21

The Titusville Star says the Hauloyer
canal is filling up rapidly and scarcely
three feet of water now mark the vast
and extensive work 81 done by the Coast
Canal Company to claim several thou
sand acres of fine Indian River land. ;"
Haulover the Coast Canal Company.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
PALATKA. FLA. FEB. 81, 1888.

Its beginning to be problem whether
the Birmingham Age is Democratic
paper with Republican leanlngs or Re
publican paper fringed with Democ-
racy
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21

"a subscriber" proposes that Wash
ington's Birthday be observed as holt
day. Would not Friday, the day when
tie President is expected, do BETTER
Washington has been dead some years
now but Cleveland is real live Presi-
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21

That engaging little paragraph from
the pen of Col. Merrill descanting upon
Editor Fletcher of the Ne,cs- Herald,
which appeared in Sundays Times
Union, has our warmest admiration. 1t
is evidently so sincerei
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21

Jacksonville proposes to sport her
bunting when the President arrives. Let
Palatka do likewise, Friday. Hang
out your banners on the outer walls
or wherever else you ean-only hang
them
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
I TRAINS.

-bnnects with the Florida South
AtiJacksoTN lille, Tampa and Key
ern I, ard St Johns and Halifax
West. Johns River steamers 20 ana
RaiHs in South Florida.
front Tocoi with st. Johns River
Oboints in South Florida.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
CONNECTIONS.

CONNECTIONS.
Trains No. l and make connection at Day
tona with steamer leaving 1870 a. IN. following
morning for Port Orange, New S3yrna. Titus
vile and Rockledge.
Trains No. = and make close connection at
ROlleSton with ferry for Jacksonville and st.
Augustine. also with steamers for points on St
Johns andOcklawaha Rivers.
u. j. WHITE, W. II. PINGREE,
Pres. G. p. A.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-21
Palatka Heights.

bUILDING LOTS FOR SALE. VERY
choice situations for dwellings and also desir-
able locations adjoining the new Academy for
a school boarding house, which will be neces-
sary as so III as the institution is fully prepared
with graded school next season. The grounds
command a bird's-eye view of the city of Pa
atka and the river st. Johns, being on an ele-
vatOn of 100 feet mile distant taking in
scenery of over five miles in area surprising
any other landscape sight south of New York.
Its attractive advantages for a winter hotel
is Incompatible in the State of Florida.
JAMES BURT.
Address applications Post Office Lock Box
No. IL, or in person at residence from 10 a. m.
to u. IN. ON the Heights. feS-lm
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Pineapple Plants for Sale.

0SCENTS PER DOZEN, S1.50 PER HUN
Ao DRIED, $1,000 per thousand. Special rates
in large orders. THOS. e. RICHARDS,
Proprietor Eden Pineapple Plantation Eden,
Indian River Florida. ocl4-d&w2In
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Mr.. w. .COyerdaIe,

LATE PRECENTOR OF BEVERLY MIN
sTER, England, is now prepared to give lessons
in both Vocal and Instrumental Music. viii
also tune and repair all kinds of Musical In
struments. Forty Years experience.
p. o. Address, Meanwhile, Fla.
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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-05-29
ATLANTA. GA. TUESDAY. MAY 20. 1883.

snow and fed farther on. and the new day
was breaking on merry winter landscape
sheathed in white.
a hustle of church officers followed the
bier was carried forth to the deadhouse, and
the stains Of blood were cleansed from off the
TILES, that no such ill-omened spectacle should
disgrace the marriage of Lord Shoreby. At
the same time, the very ecclesiaSticS who had
been so dlsmally engaged all night began to
put on morning faces, to do homer to the mer-
rier ceremony which was about TO follow And
further to announce the coming of the day the
pious of the town began to assemble and fall to
prayer at their favorite shrines, or wait their
turn at the confessonalS
Favored by this stir, it was, of course, easily
possible for any man to avoid the vigilance of
Sir Daniels sentries at the door, and presently
Dick, looking about him YEARLY, caught tho
eye OF no less person than Win Lawless, still
in his monks habit.
The outlaw. at the same moment, recog--
nized his leader,and privily signed to him with
hand and eye.
Now, Dick was far from having forgiven the
Old rogue his most untimely drunkenness, but
he had no desire to involve him in his own
predicament; and he signalled back to him,
rs plain as he was able, to BECOME
Lawiess, as though he had understood, dis
appeared at once behind q pillar, and Dick
breathed again.
What, then, was his dismay to feel himself
plueked by the sleeve, and to find the old rob-
Der installed beside him, upon the next seat.
and, to all appearances, plunged in his devo-
tions.
Instantly Sir Oliver arose from his place.
and. gliding behind the stalls made for the
soldiers i'll the aisle. If the priests suspicious
had been so lightly wakened, the harm was al
ready done, and Lawless prisoner in the
church.
Move not" whispered Dick" 1--WE are in
the plaguie't pass, thanks, before all things, to
tiny sWliishness of yestereyen. When We saw
me here SO strangely seated where I have no
right nor interest, what murrainl could We
not smell harm and get We gone from eyil?''
Nay returned l4awiess, Il thought We had
heard from Ellis, and were here on duty
"hlis!" echoed Dick. lis Ellis then re-
turned?'
For sure replied the outlaw. "He came
last night, and belted me soree for being in
Wine-so there ye are avenged, my master. A
furious man IS Ellis Duckworth! He hath
ridden me hot-spur from Craven to prevent
inns marriage; and Master Dick, ye know the
way of him-do so he WILL
NAY, them" returned Dick, with COM