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THE DAILY NEWS. BY SPEEK & HARRISON. The Daily News is published every morn ing, except Monday, and delivered by carriers in the city, or mailed postajre free, for 50 cents a month, $I..r0 for three months, $2.50 for six months, or $5 per annum. The Weekly News is an 8-pajre 43-column paper, published every Saturday, containing all' the news of the week, local and general. It is the largest and handsomest weekly paper published in Florida, and will Ik; mailed post age free for $1 a year, or 50 cents for six months. Specimen copies free to any address. Local advertisements 20 cents per line for first insertion and 10 cents per line for each ad ditional insertion. Special notices 10 cents jkt line. Keduced rates on continued advertise ments. All advertising bills become due pro rata every month. Local advertisements due at the expiration of the time for which they are inserted. All remittances should be made by express, money-order or registered letter. Address PALATKA DAILY NEWS, Palatka, Fla. Registered at the Palatka Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter. PALATKA, FLA., MARCH 7, 1884. Arrangements have been made in Paris by Russia for a loan of 200, 000,000 rubles. There are being built two Cunard steamers the Umbria and Etruria to cost 1,200,000. The prime minister of Norway has been impeached. lie loses his position and has to pay a fine of $5,000. Major Burke, of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, and Gen. James Eustis, a rich man with personal traditions of plantation aristocracy, are opponents of Senator Jonas in his contest for re-election. The leg islature that will select the successor of Mr. Jonas is to be chosen in April. Montreal has a far better right to the title of ."City of Churches" than Brooklyn. It not only sup ports sixty French Catholic chur ches, but the the French Cathedral situated there is the largest church building on this continent. It is built of limestone and 15,000 people have often been assembled under its roof. Two statements in regard to the steamer Great Eastern are going the rounds of the press. One is to the effect that shevis to be carried to Antwerp during the international exhibition there in 1885, and used as a floating hotel. Another story is to the effect that the British gov ernment has purchased her for use as a coal hulk at Gibralter. The R. E. Lee camp fair to be held in Richmond, Va., to raise a fund for the disabled and indigent ex-confederate soldiers, has been postponed to May 1. The local pa pers say that the enterprise is as suming such large proportions that it was thought best to wait two months and make it a grand affair. Donations are coming in very fast. Engineer Phillips, late of the Northern Pacific railroad, says that not less than 20,000 elk, antelope and mule deer are slaughtered everv winter in Minnesota, Montana and "Wyoming alone. He thinks it will not be many years before the race of three of the noblest game ani mals on the American continent will be entirely extinct. The city court of Atlanta has de cided that certain nude pictures, copies of well-known works of great artists, including a "Temptation of St. Anthony," are not obscene, as charged by the mayor of the city. Hon. Emory Speer and Dr. Whar ton, ex-minister to Germany, gave testimony for the defense, the testi mony being overwhelmingly in fa vor of high art. The pictures in question were proven to be copies of grand works, which could be seen in nearly all the art galleries in Europe. Georgia has 543,415 sheep, worth -$1.50 a head, as against 7,956,270 head in Texas, worth $2.24 each. Tennessee, "West Virginia and Ken tucky also outrank us. There are no dog statistics in the pamphlet. We have 1,582,116 hogs, worth 3.67 cents each. Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky again lead us. The average value of hogs in Massachu setts is $13.90, in Ohio 6.20. We ought to have more and better hogs. During the past year there was a handsome increase throughout the country of stock, cattle, sheep and swine. The movement of cattle of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi to Texas has, it is thought, caused a flight reduction in the number of cattle in the three states. This is offset, however, in these states by the unusual interest taken in stock improvement. Atlanta Journal. OUR EXEMPTION LAW. If any good was ever contempla ted by the passage of our exemp tion laws as they now stand it must have been the protection of the poor man's family against the conse quences of his own vice and extrav agance. Yet its practical operation has always been injurious to the best interests of the poor, and the rich man's dishonest' has profited by its action more often than a poor man's necessity. In town or city, a half acre with the buildings thereon, however valuable, is exempt; in the case of the fanner forty acres with the buildings, provided these do not exceed in value one thousand dollars, or one hundred and sixty acres of land. We have known of at least one instance where a half acre in town worth fifty thousand dollars had been exempted, and the party laughed at threats to collect even his board bill. But the iniquity ex tends further. The man of small mean's is practically thrown out of work and business monopolized by the rich. For the poor man's good name and credit is his only stock in trade, and of the benefits of this, he is deprived by the exemption law. For every man's honesty is suspi cious where such premium is offered to bad faith, and if he gets credit at all, it must be at the expense of giving a mortgage with all its disa greeable features. A poor man is deprived of his good name and credit, constituting his only stock in trade, by the operation of a law, which he is made to believe was en acted for his especial benefit, and politicians who know the injury it works dare not speak, for their op ponents would immediately raise a hue and cry for protection to the farmer and mechanic. We object to the exemption laws because they do not really protect the poor man; they give opportuni ty for fraud; they injure the poor man's credit, they injure our com mercial standing in the eyes of the financial world, and drive off capital seeking investment in our business centers. Let them be repealed as fully as may be judged safe, at the earliest possible moment, and let our silly ''separate acknowledgment" statute follow it to the limbo of oblivion. OUR MOSQUITOES. A recent writer in a Texas paper under the title of "Medieus" asserts that mosquitoes and bed bugs contain a large quantity of animal quinina, and that when they sting they inject into the system an anti dote for malaria and fever. This writer declares that he has captured quite a number of these insects, and after macerating them in a mortar Avith alcohol, has actually precipita ted the sulphate of quinine of the drug stores to the amount of seventy per cent to the mass. The News is prepared to accept and credit this Texas story, and trusts that this industry may as sume some definite shape, and that great factories may be projected for the milling of mosquitoes and the manufacture of the drug on this newly discovered scientific principle. When we come to estimate the an nual expense to be saved, alone, in the matter of bars and barriers against the agile and testy mosquito we are prepared to regard this Tex as doctor as a substantial benefactor and friend to humanity. Here in Palatka, for example, we might raise a half dozen of the largest sized mills and never suffer for lack of the raw material. No city of our heft in the broad universe can size up to us in the vigor of our in sects. When the night falls he is early on deck, a restless, thirst v trooper, with a song like a search warrant, and a body filled, we doubt not, with fat dividends. As a rule, our Florida mosquito is a liberal in faith and a heathen in practice. It makes no sort of dif ference to him what kind of meat he feeds upon. The old and the young, the tough and the tender, the llamite and "the Caucassian are all on the tax list of his visitation. Education and wealth offer nothing in the way of flavor and he had as soon raise a slice off a tramp as to suck the blue blood of an alderman. Let hisrace and generation be com passed about. Let this new indus trial road to quinine be surveyed and its feasibility reported. In spite of the bitterness of Bis mark and his party towards Sar gent and the United' States, the tide of German emigration to this coun try will continue. Really the big gest source of the bitterness m question is the fact to which we have called attention. I SOLU RI F 1-J JLj JLj I PACIFIC GlfflO COMPANY'S For Garden or Grove. Guaranteed Analysis on Every Barrel. Manufactories: Boston, Mass., and Charleston, S. C. For sale by DREW, H. L. & GARDNER, SOLE AGENTS, FALATKA, FLA. Also wholesale dealers in FLOUR, GRITS, MEAL, HAY, GRAIN, LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, HAIR, Etc. BRADLEY'S FERTILIZERS i GEORGE E. WILSON, Si site V'roiit, No. Fi West Bay street, JACKSON VI LLE, FLORIDA. THE MOST N A TURAL. AND SUBSTANTIAL Orange Tree Food Tin poi'tn lit n-!-it ioiii: DO VOF DESIRE A STEADY', HEALTFI f ul, vigorous jrrowth. do you desire (Lean BitMiMT l ui iT? I hen buy and apply Presbrey's Drayton Island Marl. Every person's fruit where it has been plied are clean, luscious and brijrht. Ret cnee bv permission: Hm. J. W. Tucker, Jin W. A. Cocke, A. ('. Martin. N. J. Stenstn iip- er- lue .1,1, Kii- of ad Charles Groves and many others have d st rated its excellent qualities, and we now fer it to the public wit h perfect confidence. Price per ton, or oiirht barrels, on pier h Dravton Island. Sin: or at Citv Wharf. S ford. Fla.. Slo: per barrel, SI. "5. All ordt in- tilled C. O. D. Address. A. A. PRESBREY & CO., Sanford, Fh 2,000,000 ACRES of LAND FOR SALE BV FLORIDA SOUTHERN RAILWAY ESPECIALLY" ADAPTED TO Orange Growing, Truck Farming Vl StoJv XS:iis;ini-. These Lands are located in the following counties: Alachua, Bilker, Bradford, Brevard, Clay, Columbia, Hernando, Ilillsboro, Levy, Marion. Manitee, Monroe, Orange, Polk, Put nam, Sumter, St. Johns, and Volusia. For further information, address C. A. IJOAltIM A Land Commissioner, P.W.ATKA, FlOIMDA. " WE lill & NICHOLS. LAND BROKERS AND AGENTS HOUSES AND GROVES CARED FOR AND RENTS COLLECTED. OFFICE AT COL. HART'S. WATER STREET, PALATKA, FLORIDA. ATE ARE NOW OFFERING SOME VERY' T choice house lots in Palatka. House lots and oranjre lands in the new town of McMeekin. First -class lands in the town of Martin. Twenty thousand acJ.es unimproved lands in Polk county. Twenty thousand acres first-class Pine and Hammock lands in difterent sections of the state, which will be sold at a low price. WEBB& NICHOLS. F. C. COCHRANE, WHOLESALE A.D HETAIL BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER AM) jDKALEK IX FISHING TACKLE, FINE CIGARS Florida Curio-itItvs, ; n Florida Maps, Books, Canes, &c Post-oSfiee Building, Front Street and next door south, PALATKA, - - - FLORIDA. r LARGE. COMFORTABLE TWO-STORY LOG HOUSE, with wide verandas on all sides, the coolest place and healthiest situation in the pine woods around Palatka. Only half an hours drive from town. Kitchen and outhouse for servants separate. A rood well with splen did and abundant water, fine jrarden. jrreen Imuses, oranire, U nion and other fruit trees: wnjron shed and staWes for horses and cows, chicken yard with about fifty laying hens. Addre-s-, G. F.. IJox 1HIJ, Post Ollice. Palatka, Fla. Or, E. R. MeKEAN, Real Estate Afrent. DE BARA-BAYA Merchant's Line ST. JOHNS RIVER STEAMERS. CARRYING THE U. S. MAIL ONE OF THE STEAMERS OF THIS LINE will leave Jacksonville daily, from wharf foot of Laura street, at ::.'!J p. in. FALATKA. ASTOlt, SAN FORI), ENTERPRISE AM) A I.I. I.NTEHMKMATK LANDINGS SoLTtl OF l'AI.ATKA. Will make close connection with all Rail Lines for POINTS IN THE INTERIOR, And wirh all steamers at Sanford for POINTS ON INDIAN RIVER. Returning, leave Enterprise at :'.UK and San ford on arrival of Train, arriving at Jackson ville EARLV NEXT MORNING, Makin.tr close connection with Kail and Steam Linos for all points NORTH, EAST AND WEST. For all points between Jacksonville and Pa latka. take one of the Steamers leaving daily, Sundays excepted, at S:-Jti a. m. The throuu'ii boats of this line run in con nection wiih the People's Line, and all tickets and passes issued by that line will be honored on the through Boats. ( HAS. B. FENWU'H, f ieneral Passenger and Ticket Arent. W P.. WATSON, General Manager. ZZEiOUST amboat Line. THE To FRIST'S FAVORITE IRON STEAMBOAT COMPANY'S Indent ruct able palatial Steamer, built with fourteen water-t iyht compartments and cannot sink; built of iron and can not burn perfect safety. G "3T G-HTJS Daily, except Sundays, from the Florida Central Railrod Wharf Foot of Hogan Street at 9 a. m. roil MAGNOLIA, GREEN CO'E SPRING, I Tocoi (St. Autrtistine), and Palatka, con nect injr there for ( tea la and Gainesville, and all points on the Florida Southern Railroad. Also, wite boats for Crescent City and Ocklawaha River Steamers for Silver Springs and interme diate landings. The Cysnuis is the larjrcst boat on the St. John's River. Licensed to carry Ink) passengers. Is illuminated with !:' elect ric, lights. Grand piano for the use of her patrons. ( Jrand I nst ru mental 'oncert on boat daily music by Masino. The Cyjanus connects with the Palace Steamer IP L O 1U 1 V, (Havinir unsurpassed passenjrer accommoda tions) lor Astor, Enterprise, Sanford, and all points on the upper river. For reliable infor mation, tickets and staterooms, apply to Leve - A Idea's olliees. corner Bay and Ocean streets, St. James ami Everett Hotels. I '-'- Our tickets are FNLIMITED, and frood to STOP OVER AT ANY OR ALL OF OCR LANDINGS, iind in case you ehanjre your mind after purchasinir. we will at all times re 1 end t he money for the whole or any portion of tickets sold by us. Tickets sold to all parts of Florida or the Cnited States. Any infor mation as to prices, etc., cheerfully furnished bv mail. Tiavi: A: ALDIN, Manajrinjr Afrents. The Philadelphia Times. 1 !-;- i. THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, 14. Tiik Times will enter upon the new year stronger and more prosjerous than ever bo lore in its history more widely read and quoted, move heartily commended, and more fiercely criticized, with a more complete or ganization, and an able ssotf d' contributors and with the same independence and fearless ness that lias made it successful and powerful in the past. The Times hastno party to follow, no candi dates to advance, but will meet every issue, as it has ever done, with consistent devotion to the rijrht, to honest government, and the pub lic welfare. An. 1. while maintaining its josi tion as the leadinir journal of Philadelphia, it will aim-to lie continually in the advanc.J in all that can add value to a newspaper. The value of a newspaper is not in its size or display, but in the intelligence and care, the j conciseness and freshness with which it is edited. 1HE u.mes spends lavishly tor news from all parts ot the world, but all its dis patches are carefully edited and condensed, in order to jrive the complete news of.the day in the most concise and attractive shape, and with it a larire variety of entertaininsr and instruc tive reading. The bet writers at home and abroad are employed to enrich its columns, and to make it a journal adapted both to the busy man and to the leisure of the home cir cle, a welcome visitor to intelligent and honest citizens of every political, relijrious and social ta-te. The Weekly Times is altogether different from the weekly newspapers of twenty years aim. The day "of those pajx-rs ha e jrone by. The telegraph and better local newspapers everywhere, esK-cia!ly in the thriving centres of rural population, have made the old weekly metropolitan nowspaicr unsatisfying:. Those that ciinir to their ancient usasres have lost their hold on our forward-moving jeople; they are but shadows of their former g reatness, and thev have but a t-hadow of their former power. Those papers have had their usefulness, but it is ymc; and, with it. they are jroinjr, U. It was not the fault of the pajwrs; it was the im provement of the country that brought alut the change. Men and women, wherever they live, now require fresher news; and they re quire more than news. The VVeekxv Times gathers off the tvjs of every pas.-injr week whatever has lastinir in terest to the eopie at hnue, anil sets it lief ore them in such generosity of paper and print as would have astonL-hed us all twenty yeorsatro. DAILY" Twelve cents a week, tifty cents a month. si a year, two cents a copy. SI N DA Y 1 our cent ? a copy, fz a year. WEEKLY" One copy. 2 a year; tive eonies. S--1 a year; ten copies, ;:j a year; twenty cop ies s- a year, witu one copy tree to taejretter u p of every club. THE TIMES, Philadelphia. CALHOUN ANOS, PI AND ALL KINDS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. MANUFACTlTRER'S agent for the rest MAKES OF PIANOS, Cliickering, fflatliusliek, ArionA Otters Organs: Mason & Hamlin, Packard, Crown, etc. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: GUITARS, BANJOS, FLUTES, VIOLINS, HORNS', TAMBORINES, ZITHERS, ACC0RDE0NS, DRUMS, CONCERTENAS, . BONES, 2YL0PH0NES, OCARINAS, ETC. A Fine Assortment of Strings for all Instruments. SEWING MACHINES: CROWN, DOMESTIC, NEW HOME, AMERICAN, WHITE, IMPROVED SIN GER, HOUSEHOLD and Others on hand and for sale at Lowest Cash and Time Prices. Attachments, Parts, Needles, etc, for all Machines. A Very Superior Quality of Sperm Oil put up Expressly for Sewing Ma chines. STATE AGENCY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ANT) SEWING MACHINES SOLD ON THE INSTALLMENT plan and rented on most reasonaale terms. ld Machines and Musical Instruments taken in part payment for new ones. JrTL'XING AND REPAIRING A SPECIALTY'. Instruction Given in Vocal and Instrumental Music by Prof. F. Sulzner. MUSIC FURNISHED FOR BALLS, PARTIES AND ENTERTAINMENTS. Call or write for cata lnujres, circulars, price lists containing illustrations, descriptions and prices. Ask for a copy of THE MUSICAL JOURNAL, containing Vocal and Instrumental Music, Mu sical News, etc., sent free. All orders by mail will receive prompt attent ion. Address, C 1 JSITIlNJOlf. Lemon street, opposite St. John's Hotel. PALATKA, FLORIDA. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. Formerly with A. G. Phillips, is now established in the Music store of C. F. Sulzner, and la prepared to do all kinds of WATCH AND JEWELRY' REPAIRING. Fine Work a Specialty. 1'nirra vinif and Stencil Guttin'-r. All work done in the best manner and satisfaction irnuranteed. Wholesale & Mail Grocers Griffin's Brick Block, Vater Street. EQUAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO BOTH WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEPARTMENTS. HOUSEKEEPERS WILL FIND IT TO THEIR INTEREST TO GIVE US A CALL STOCK FULL AND QUALITY FIRST-CLASS. COUNTRY MERCHANTS WILL FIND OUR PRICES ON TOBACCO AND CIGARS "ROCK BOTTOM" AND ALL OTHER GOODS CORRESPONDINGLY LOW. Fifty Barrels Different Kinds Seed Irish Potatoes. ZBTLOTTIEt I FLOUR HAS REACHED ITS BOTTOM PRICE, AND NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY. WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK FRESH FROM THE MILLS, AND GUARANTEE OUR LEADING BRANDS OF FANCY PATENT AND FAMILY TO GIVE SATISFACTION. A. M. HAUGHTON & BRO., liLOCK. ORGANS FOR THE CROWN MACHINE. Palatka, Florida' i