The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-26
GOINGs ON IN FLORIDA.

wireless telegraph station being
located at Key West for connection
with Havana.
The labor unions of st Augustine
will celebrate labor day by holding
basket picnic at South beach -
A local census of Jacksonville has
been taken by the sanitary depart
ment and the result shows a pOpula-
tion of 43,O35, a gain of over l4,OOO
since 1900.
Mrs. Dudley w. Adams is dead at
Mount Dora us the result Of an oper-
alton. She was u woman of extended
travel and great culture, and owned
extensive orange grove property.
A marine hospital surgeon of Key
West has reported the discovery of n
new kind of mosquito the kind that
breeds malaria--and has recommend
ed measures for eXtermInating the
pest.
The business men of DeLand have
perfected an organization to be
known = as "The Business Mems
League y" The object of the league
is the general improvement of the
town.
The annual encampment of state
troops will begin at ST Augustine
next Wednesday, August 3lst. The
camping ground has been named
Camp Taliaferro in honor of Senator
Tallaferro.
Rev. DR.. G. j. X. Jones, former
pastor of the First Unitarian church,
Louisville, KY, and later pastor at
Los Angeles, Cal, is going to locate
in DeLand. Previous to the freeze
of 95 Dr. Jones owned fine grove at,
DeLand.
Captain Jones, an overseer at
Dunn's convict camp near Ehren,
Pasco county, was shot and killed by
one of the guards on Sunday. There
are no particulars of the tragedy.
Capt. Jones was to have been mar
ried on Monday.
4. M. AmmOus of Jacksonville had
hls jaw broken by billie in the
hands of a tough last Saturday. The
latter was arrested. At, the eXami-
nation AmmOns appeared with his
write out his testimony as lis ply.
sician had forbidden him to talk.
He went down to Jacksonville and
fell among thieves who touched him
for thousand dollars. Such was
the experience of A. w. Callen, an
old gentleman who resides about six
miles from Ocala, who, on arrival at
Jacksonville last Saturday took a
drink with a nigger and temporarily
forgot his troubles. He woke up in
nigger Joint minus his wad of money.
Then he sought the police.
Frank Clark the eloquent Lake
City lawyer whom the people of the
Second congressional district thought
enough of to nominate for congress,
has, because Of that distinction, been
sentenced to 90 to Maine with eX-
Senator Frank Cannon of Utah,
Mormon, and make speeches for Par
ker and Davis. And yet Clark is
patriotic democrat who long since
adopted Bill Nye's motto of "One
country, one flag and one wife"
Mrs. A. w. Durrance, Il resident of
the southern part of the county, kill
ed two big rattlesnake last Friday af-
ternoon. Mr.. Durrance was absent
attending to business affairs. The
snakes were discovered by a large
dog owned by Mr.. Durrance, and it
attacked them. Mrs. Durrance, at
tracted by the disturbance, came on
the scene and dispatched both rep
tiles, one of which measured six feet
in length, and the other feet and
inches. They We're Y and 10 inches
in circumference, respectively. st.
Augustine Record.
A party of cranks, known as the
Koreshan Unity, has purchased two
whole townships of land in Lee coun-
ty on which they propose to build n
great city to be called the New Jeru-
salem. The koreshans claim to be
scientific in their religious grasp.
They have discovered that the CO.
pernican system of astronomy is
false and they therefore teach cellu-
lar cosmogony. OF course you all
know what that is? No? Well, ac-
cording t. these Koreshan cranks it
is something that demonstrates as
clearly as the nose on your face that
we are llNlilS vi we lllSl'lt VI a llbl-
low globe about 25,000 miles in cir
cumlrence and 5000 miles in Diane
ter. Most of us have been led to sup
pose we were being balanced on the
Ontside of this globe One of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Koresi-
ans says: The Koreshan system
belongs to the new Aquarial age, in
to which we have passed these last
thirty-f -four years. The Christian era
was called the Piscatorial age, be-
cause of the passing of the sign
through the constellation Pisces,
There are twelve dispensations in IN
age of 24,0O0 years, and at the close
of each one Il manifestation OF the
Son of Man appears. We are now in
the lap of the two dispensations; one
passing out, the other coming III,
the time for the establishment of
new church and new state in which
righteousness shall dwell" Those
who desire corner lots in the New
Jerusalem, Lee county, Florida,
should speak for 'em early and avoid
the rush.
J. A. Bennett of Hampton Coz 5, c.
woke up at night to see some one
standing before his window. He
reached for his pistol and shot. He