The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-13
UTTY NOTES

As Mr.. r. II. Little, a guest Of thu
Saratoga, was boarding the steamer
Queen of st. Johns last night the boa
moved away and he and the gang planl
were dropped into the river. Mr.. Johr
Chisholm and James Keepers threw on
n rope and Mr.. Little was drawn on
after not little wetting.
Prof. Nisbett, Of Jacksonville. vii
within week form q dancing class il
Palatka and afford the lads and lassei
an opportunity to learn how to trip the
light fantastic.
The steamer Georgiana now building
here, is nearly completed. She steamed
up yesterday for the first time to try hei
engine and turn the wheel and the tria
was quite satisfactory.
The Florida Southern Railway had all
the freight she could handle yesterday
and the employees were dong land Of
flee business all day.
The steamer Louise il bringing oyer
large numbers of boxes of oranges every
day from the Halifax Railroad and the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
depot where they are landed presents a
busy scene disposing of them and the
large quantities Of other freight passing
through it.
The time card of the Atlantic Coast
Line vestibuled train is a neat and hand
some pocket schedule. Trains will leave
New York January ID, IS and 20, and
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
thereafter. Returning it will leave
Jacksonville January is and 20, and
every succeeding Monday, Wednesday
and Friday afterward. Leaving New
York at $50 a. m. they travel distance
of 1,O74 miles, reaching Jacksonville at
3:45 D. m the following day, making the
run in thirty and a quarter hours.
Mr.. G.. A. Howard is loading and
shipping from the Florida Southern
dock an upright mill for Mr.. w. II.
Larimore to his place ON the Ocklawaha
River. The mill is one Of the muley
patterns and is capable of saving the
largest logs and turning out about $4,000
feet a day.
The fire in the woods last night didn't
break up the Leap Year hop, as some
designing miscreant hoped, and it would
not be bad idea il one or two Of the
boys who make business of yelling fire
in the vicinity of large assemblies of peo-
pie and endangering many lives were
treated to first-class coat of tar and
feathers well laid ON and thoroughly
rubbed in.
Mr.. John +. Speck continues to receive
new goods in the jewelry line, and is
daily expecting line of elegant we'd
ding presents. His establishment is q
real art gallery. and ..gems of purest ray
serene are found in abundance there.
The question now is, what hasn't
Lilienthal got?
Meat markets are on the go now. MIR.
Becks has Just sold out to Mr.. Duane,
MIR. Bauer has sold to Silas Smith, Mr..
has moved to St. Augustine,
and rumors are thick concerning other
market places.
That cigar factory, mentioned in one
II the Jacksonville dailies recently,
would il located here bring three hun
lred operatives and circulate between
our and five thousand dollars a week. |
Messrs. Board of Trade, that's worth |
rying for. The projectors have Orlando
ind Sanford in view. and would pos
IDLY come here under proper induce
nents.
Rumor says that a new manufacture
ng establishment will be started here
DON. Machinery has been ordered, and
when all arrangements are completed
he protector will tell abodt it.
A box car ran off the track on the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
Hallway, near the Gas Works, last night,
nd at hast accounts had not been re-
racted.
A grand opening hop" will be given
{ the Sanford House, Sanford, this
vening in celebration of the beginning
the season Of 1888.
DtSeIcSS siSuaA uylHk. liuh wave
shore. Yacht Club to the rescue.
A bright light to the northwest of the
ty last night indicated a large fire
'me miles in the country, perhaps an
Their patch of wire grass, or some ones
yelling.
The first number of the LaGranoe
raphic, of LaGrange, Ca, our friend
J. w. Randall's paper, arrived IN yes
rday's mail. 1t is full Of news, and is
well gotten up paper. We wish him
cry success. \,
On our telegraphic page, in the Jack I
nville dispatch, will be found the an L
'uncement of the marriage Of Miss
ankle Perkins and Mr.. E. e. Guern- c
v, which took place night before last. b
:. and Mrs. Guernsey viii return to Z
i city and remain during the winter
tn the brides parsnts. II