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THE DAILY NEWS.
BENJ. HARRISOX, Editor.
The Daix-v News is published every morning-,
except Monday, and delivered by carriers
in the city, or mailed postage free, for 60 cents
a month, $1.50 for three months, $2.50 for six
month 1, or $ per annum.
The Weekly News is an 8-page 48-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 be 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 per
line. Reduced 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,
AV. W. RANDALL).
Business Manager,
1'alatka, Florida.
Registered at the Palatka Post Office
as Second-Class Mail Matieu.
PALATKA, FLA., APRIL 13, 1884.
Our valuable exchange, the Jour
nal, :f Sanford, congratulates Palat
ka on the change in her government
and ex' ; '.'-ses the most ardent wish-
t
es for ..: er connection and nearer
reciprocity of interests. Thanks
from our citv and The News for
this good feeling which is fully re
ciprocated. Soon the two cities will
be joined by the loving hands of our
broad gauge, The Gem City Route
and through the Gate City of South
Florida will come the wealth of a
country hitherto unknown to our
merchants. We will come on the
first train, neighbor, and the two
listers will celebrate their meeting
by a grand jubilee. Say we well?
FOR SUNDAY THOUGHT.
Once upon a time a people half
civilized, irritated by bitter wrongs
during years of oppression, in the
moment of triumph, at the bidding
of a depraved tyrant threw some
three-score prisoners in a small cell
and smothered them to death. These
murderers were ignorant soldiers,
living in the open air, knew nothing
of the fatal properties of carbonic
acid gas and never dreamed that con
fined air, deprived of oxygen by the
respiration of a number of animals,
becomes a deadly poison. The
world shuddered at the horrors of
the Black Hole of Calcutta; the
name of Sura j ah Dowlah has passed
down the ages loaded with the exe
crations of mankind;after all allow
ances made for ignorance and pas
sion, for deadly wrong and stern
punishment, the tale is yet told as a
blot on our common nature more
foul than any left by the butchery
of kingly wrath, the horrors of rev
olution or the massacres of whole
cities taken bv assault after long
siege. Why? Because the silent
death of asphyxiation is more crue
than the rack. History tells how
strong men fought for breathing
space at the little grated window
how manhood was forgotten under
torture, and the weak were trample
under foot and died for want of the
air God made universal, and free to
the meanest thing that crawls on the
earth He has blessed with His pres
ence.
What would be thought of a brave
people in an enlightened age, with
churches in which to worship, ami
books wherein to read, who would
inflict death by inches, in such a
shape on those committed to their
care by the operation of law, a no
made helpless by regard for the good
of their fellow-men? With women
beautiful in their kindly charity an
men whose purse strings fly open at
the hint of need; with ministers o
that Christ who died for the sinfu
and helpless in our midst, am this
be true?
The citizen need only visit our
county jail to satisfy himself. For
two years the space given has been
utterly inadequate to accommodate
the number of prisoners committee
to its keeping. Two new cells were
built, and the careless Dublic was
satisfied. We have visited the build
ing often and have always come
away sick at heart. It avails noth
ing to say that innocence may fine
for a time an abiding place there
Even the guilty, rendered helpless
claims of right the tenderest care
consistent with due regard for the
public safety. We will take it for
granted that only murderers of the
blackest dye are here incarcerated
vet the horror is not lessened. In cells
barely capable of containing air en
ougb. for two, four or five, sometimes
six or eight, are locked. We spoke
of it. We then asked the opinion o:
a scientist on the subject. He saw
the cells, and pronounced such con
finement certain death in time. His
opinion endorsing the writer's was
given to the proper authority and
no action was taken. Prisoners
rom these holes have beeu brought
into court, term after term, with
complexions ashy pale, eyes lustre-
ess and yellow, movements languid
and painfully slow. No judge has
poken, or taken enough interest in
these degraded wretches to inquire
into the cause. Jury after jury has
inquired as to sufficiency of food and
had no care for lack of air and wa
ter. Prisoners ieariully ioul in per
son have been arraigned before the
solemn courts of a civilized people
and no questions asked; counsel pure
n life, of enlightened brain and
d- lly feeling have claimed mercy
or the prisoner's life and made no
appeal for the bodily well-being of
brother man or client.
The soul is man's choicest heritage
from his Creator, but his soul is so
wedded to his body that it is impos
sible to benefit the one while the
ther i. clothed in filth and tortured
by discomfort. The end of rmni.sh-
. J.
ment for crime is protection to
the public, but men who call them
selves Christians should consider al
so the good of the criminals. Wt
arraign the people of Putnam coun
ty for careless cruelty to the help
less. Let us give our brothers, how
ever degraded, air and water. We
must build a jail, more commodious,
more secure as well, in which neces
sities demanded by our common na
ture may be provided. Feed the
prisoners on brerrd if you cannot do
better, but give them light, air and
water. We accuse no man for no
one man is responsible. We call be
fore the bar the people of our coun
ty. The grand jury intimated that
better quarters should be provided
and the judge proclaimed it necessa
ry: we declare that humanity to
others and a decent regard for com
mon charity make this work one of
immediate necessity. It is Sunday;
think of this, and remember that a
man just declared guiltless of crime
has suffered in this place for long
months. Living as a brute among
brother brutes he comes out the
wreck of his former self.
THE LI QUO It LAW.
From the bench it has lately been
decided that no endorser of a liquor
petition has place thereon unless he
had been registered ten days before
the last election. In Duval county
it has been held that the name musi
have been on the registration list
when this was last revised by the
board of county commissioners. Out
board has held that it is sufficient if
the name is found among those duly
registered. But Judge King's rul
ing supports the opinion expressed
by our circuit clerk which caused so
much comment and feeling in many
quarters.
We give to-day a communication
from one of our most prominent cit
fzens suggesting another amendment
to the law giving the right to sign
only to the holders of real estate in
the precinct wherein the sale of li
quor is asked. This suggestion is
most valuable, and we doubt not,
will be found to eliminate some ob
jectionable features from the practi
cal operation of the law. We agree
so entirely with the doctrine that
government should lie as near as
possible to the fountain head that
we are loth to see any law giving
local option replaced by others. Let
the people, wherever practical, ad
minister their own rules, and we ed
ucate public sentiment, encourage
thought, and train the citizen by the
exercise of neighborhood govern
ment for intelligent participation in
national affairs. If any amendment
to the loeal option law can make it
effective for good ends give us local
option. Let the law have a fair
trial at any rate.
The Chinese Minister.
Cheng Tsao Ju, the Chinese minister at
Washington, according to a correspon
dent of the Chicago Inter Ocean, ''wears
steel-bowed spectacles and garments of
the most radient hue. He is very much
cultivated by Washington people, and on
reception days the callers are very nu
merous at the legation, which is the
brown-stone mansion on H street winch
was occupied by Zachariah Chandler for
twenty years, and is still owned by his
widow. The baby is always brought
down on reception days and is admired
and fondled by the callers, but Mrs. Ju
seldom if ever appears, as Chinese eti
quette permits the husband to have all
the fun alone. The minister is very
generous with his cur is, and gives a good
many ornaments to those who please his
oriental fancy. He cannot talk much
English, having command of only a few
set phrases, such as good night)' good
morning,' 'glad to see you,' 'come again '
i and the like."
Mr. Geo. C. Morgan
OF JACKSONVILLE, ALABAMA, WILL
exhibit samples of leather tanned from
five to seventeen days; also show the demon
stration at Thomkins Sc Weeks.
He has letters from leading Boston merchants
and othets who acknowledge it to Ik; equal to
it not superior to bark tanned leather.
J nst the thing for Florida, as it requires no
bark, and persons of limited means can start
with a small capital and double same every
sixty days.
Will tan alligator skins, and furs with hair
on, such as mink, deer, rabbit and cat, in seven
days, leaving the skin softer than any tun
known.
Will sell tanners county or state rights.
Persons can have alligator skins tanned bv
leaving them at Thomkins & Weeks,
JACKSONVILLE
TAMPA & KEY WEST RAILWAY
THE "GEM CITY" ROUTE.
THE ONLY ALL HAIL LINE TO
ORANGE PARK, MAGNOLIA, GREEN
COVE SPRING & JACKSONVILLE.
Three Hours Quicker to Jacksonville
Than by any other line.
IlkOAD GAUGE, STEEL HAILS, A1H
BRAKES, FIRST-CLASS EQUIPMENT.
o
rpRATNS RUN A? FALLOWS:
L f.OIXG SOOTH.
Leave Jacksonville 9.50 a. ni. 3.'V) p. in.
Orange i'ark " 4.00 "
Magnolia 10.54 " 4.37 "
Green Cove Spring I1.(M " 4.4' "
West Toeoi 11:40 " 5:15 "
Arrive Palatka t':2Up.m. 5.55 "
UOINU SOUTH.
Leave Palatka 10::$5a. m. 4:15 p. m.
" 1-iorida Sou. June. . 10:45 4:.' "
West Toeoi 11:;J0 " 5:()S "
" (Jreen Cove Spring 11:50 " 5:35 "
" Magnolia 12:00 " 5:40 "
" Orange Park 12:33 p. m. K:01 "
Arrive Jacksonville... . 1:00 " 0:45 "
THE ST. JOHNS' RAILWAY
MAKES
.dikuct conm:ction
At West Toeoi, arid from St. Augustine.
Kates and Fare to all Points as Low as by
any other line, and baurgage cheeked through.
M. R. MOKAN, G. W. BENT LEY,
Gen. Pass. Agent. Gen. Manager.
FRANK R. POND,
AGENT FOR
THE SIMPSON & GAULT
MANUFACTURING CO.'S .
CELEBRATED
PORTABLE GRAIN MILLS
FOR WHEAT, CORN OR FEED
AND
Flour Mill Machinery of all Kinds
CASTINGS, SHAFTINGS AND
IRON WORK OF ALL KINDS
ON SIIORTJXOTICE.
JACKHONVILLE, I-TA.
IeukaWorange spring
TRANSFER COMPANY
TEAM WILL LEAVE KEI'KA FOR
Orange Spring- every morning- on arrival of
the freight train fram Palatka, for the purpose
of
Transporting Passengers and Freight,
For further information address
KEUKA AND ORANGE SPRING
TRANSFER COMPANY,
At Keuka, Putnam Co., Fla.
LARGEST and MOST COMPLETE
ICKtalriixluiiciit South.
G. S. Hacker A Son
MANUFACTURERS OF
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings
AND
BUILDING MATERIAL.
Established in 1842.
Office and Warerooms, King, opposite Can
non street.
E. M. HACKER, Proprietor.
Charleston. S. C.
Buy direet from the Factory and save deal
ers' pro tits.
XJ. J. GK003I
DEALER IN
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FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES
Glassware, Crockery, Confectionery,
TOBACCO I CIGARS
Lemon street, one door from Opera House
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
FRESH MEAT MARKET
Oldest Establishment in Town
o
BEST OF
NEW YORK BEEF
KENTUCKY MUTTON
A IAVAYS ON HAND, DRESSED POUL
1 V try received daily. Call at the old stand
on Lemon street.
DE BARY-BAYA
Merchant's Line
ST. JOHNS RIVER STEAMERS.
CARRYING THEU. S. MAIL
s&3
ONE OF THE STEAMERS OF THIS LINE
will leave Jacksonville daily, from wharf
foot of Laura street, at 2:0 p. m.
PALATKA,
ASTOR,
SANFORD,
ENTERPRISE
Axd All Intermediate Landings South
of Palatka.
Will make close connection with all Rail
Lines for
POINTS IN THE INTERIOR,
And with all steamers at Sanford for
POINTS ON INDIAN RIVER.
Returning, leave Enterprise at 7:30, and San
ford on arrival of Train, arriving- at Jackson
ville EARLY NEXT MORNING,
Making- close connection with Rail and Steam
Lines 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 9:30 a. in.
The through boats of this line run in con
nection with the People's Line, and all tickets
and passes issued by that line will be honored
on the through Boats.
CHAS. B. FENWICH,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
W B. WATSON,
General Manager.
UROHsr
Steamboat Line.
THE TOURIST'S FAVORITE
IRON STEAMBOAT COMPANY'S
Indestructable Palatial Steamer, built with
fourteen water-tight compartments and
cannot sink; built of iron and can
not burn ierfect safety.
o nr G- zisr tx s
Daily, except Sundays, from the
Florida Central Railrod Wharf
Foot of Hogan Street at 9 a. m.
T.OR MAGNOLIA, GREEN COVE SPRING,
1. Toeoi (St. Augustine), and Palatka, con
necting there for Oeala 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 Cygnus is the largest boat on the St.
John's River.
Licensed to carry 1800 passengers.
Is illuminated with 12 electric lights.
Grand piano for the use of her patrons.
(irand Instrumental Concert on boat daily
music by Masino.
The Cygnus connects with the Palace
Steamer
IT L O It I TuV9
(Having unsurpassed passenger accommoda
tions) for Astor, Enterprise, Sanford, and all
points on the upper river. For reliable infor
mation, tickets and staterooms, apply to Ieve
& Alden's olliees, corner Bay and Ocean streets,
St. James and Everett Hotels.
t7Our tickets are UNLIMITED, and good
to STOP OVER AT ANY OR ALL OF OUR
LANDINGS, and in case you change your
mind after purchasing, we will at all times re
fund the money for the whole or any portion
of tickets sold by us. Tickets sold to all parts
of Florida or the United States. Any infor
mation as to prices, etc., cheerfully furnished
bv mail.
LEVE fc V1L.T13TV,
Managing Agents.
The Philadelphia Times.
1 S -.!.
THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, 184.
The Times will enter upon the new year
stronger and more prosperous than ever be
fore in its history more widely read and
quoted, more heartily commended, and more
liercely criticized, with a more complete or
ganization, and an able ssoff of contributors
and with the same independence anil fearless
ness that has made it successful and powerful
in the past.
The Times has no party to follow, no candi
dates to advance, but will meet every issue, as
it has ever done, with consistent devotion to
the right, to honest government, and the pub
lie welfare. And, while maintaining its posi
tion as the leading journal of Philadelphia, it
will aim to be continually in the advanco 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
conciseness and freshness with which it is
edited. The Times spends lavishly for newg
from all parts of the world, but all its dis
patches are carefully edited and condensed, in
order to give the complete news of the day in
the most concise and attractive shaje, and with
it a large variety of entertaining and instruc
tive reading. The best 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, religious and social
taste.
The Weekly Times is altogether different
from the weekly newspapers of twenty years
airo. The day of those papers have gone by.
The telegraph and better local newspapers
everywhere, especially in the thriving centres
of rural population, have made the old weekly
metropolitan newspaper unsatisfying. Those
that cling to their ancient usages hare lost
their hold on our forward-moving people; they
are but shadows of their former greatness, and
they have but a shadow of their former power.
Those papers have had their usefulness, but it
is gone: and, with it, they are going, too. It
was not the fault of the papers: it was the im
provement of the country that brought about
the change. Men and women, wherever they
live, now require fresher news; and they re
quire more than news.
Tiie Weekly Times gathers off the types of
every passing week whatever has lasting in
terest to the people at large, and sets it before
them in such generosity of paper and print as
would have astonished us all twenty yeors ag-o.
DAILY Twelve cents a week, fifty cents a
month, $6 a year, two cents a copy.
SUNDAY Four cents a copy, $3 a year.
"WEEKLY One copy, ?2 a year; Ave copies,
?8 a year ; ten copies, $15 a year ; twenty cop
ies $25 a year, with one copy free to the sretter
up of every club.
THE TIMES,
Philadelphia.
THE 3VHo3?e;g32Lo "P"h anr-m a.oy
ESTABLISIIED 185G.
Corner Lemon ancl Front Ht., - - PALATKA, FLA
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day and Night.
FRESH DRUGS! FRESH
-RECEIVED
1 II ARMAC Y. All orders filled promptly and nt bottom prices. PRESCRIPTIONS com
pounded at all hours by exieriencel Druggists.
IE. T X,
ardware, Crockery,
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS, HARNESS, SADDLES & MIXED PAINTS
Executed on short notice and on reasonable terms.
l'nlsitlcn, llorirtn.
BRADLEY'S FERTILIZERS
-Ct'v -fn-i
Z. t Ai JP
HGEORGE E. WILSON,
No. 15 West Bay street,
JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA.
SOLUBLE
PACIFIC
GDANO
COMPANY'S
Orange Brand
For Garden or Grove.
Guaranteed Analysis on Every Barrel.
Manufactories: Koston, Mass., and Charleston,
S. C. For sale by
DREW, H. L. & GARDNER,
SOLE AGENTS, PALATKA, FLA.
Also wholesale dealers in
FLOUR, GRITS, MEAL,
HAY, GRAIN,
LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, HAIR, Etc.
USiC ST
Opposite St. Johns Hotel, Palatka, Florida.
Pianos, Organs, & all kinds of
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
AND
SEWING MACHINES
SOLD ON TIIE INSTALLMENT PLAN
and rented on the most reasonable terms.
Tuning- and repairing a sjecialty.
Orders by mail wili receive prompt attention.
-iwr '
ORE!
NOTICE OF SALE.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANT ORDER OF
the County Court in and for Putnam coun
ty, Florida, bearing date April 4, I4, I will
sell at public outcry on May 5th. I84, beinsr
the first Monday of said month, within the le
pal hours of sale, at the Court House in Palat
ka, for cash, the following real estate, belong
ing to the minors Mabel L. Webb and Clara L,
Webb, being in said eounty and state, ana
comprising so much of lots No. 19, private sur
vey, in Sec. 12, T. 13, Range 2i east, as remain
ed unsold after deed Februafy 9, IS-&, of
Thompson and Webb to George E. Marvin.
Also a part of Section 41. T. 13, S. R. 26 E.,
bought at sheriff's sale in July, 1874, a portion
having been sold to George E. Marvin, being
the remnants of the said two lots of land and
containing about nine acres of land, more or
less. Datd this, April 4, 184,
E- S. CHILL, Commissioner.
DRUGS! FRESH DRUGS!
DAILY AT-
A ITr IE
Florida Southern Kailwuy.
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I'ai.atka, March , l.s4. (
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STATIONS,
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. rRAlNS ARUI VE AT G.MM;SV1LLE
From l'alatkar" I ""9:.iTMan7l
Oeala and f :m P M
Ijeesbui-fr. 4 ;jo "
From Micanopy 7:45 am
TRAINS LEAVE (Ta fNES V 1 L LET
For Palatka, "( 8:(H) a m and
Oeala and j ll:(r0iM
Leesburjr, :1:II0im
rr Micanopy 5:(Kt p m
MICANOPV.
i rain leaves at e ,)o A M
Trai n a r ri ves a t ' ' " jj'.jy p M
First-class car-:ln7oulTfii'uTatkaTc
Gainesville on all trains.
CONN ECTIONST '
.At l'?latka with Jacks. .n ville7 taini.a&Tey
West Ry, last river steamers for St, Au
jruslme. Green Cove Sprimrs. Jacksonville
and all points North, Iiist. and West, and with
up river steamers for South Florida. A )o
with the Twin Screw Iron Steamer f
1'alatka," for Charleston, New York- ilostou,
Philadelphia, etc.
At Wait's Crossing: with I'enin lllar Railroad
for Waldo.
At Gainesville with Transit Itailroad for
Cedar Key, Pensacola, New Orl-an9 and Tam
pa. At Oeala with Transit RaiiwlJ' an,l Hacks
for Silver Spring's.
At IieeshurK with boats on L.l,4e Harris for
points on Lake and aloinr St.. Jms and Iake
Eustis Railway. Also with (;n'lanl'H Hacks
for Rrooksville, SumterviDe and points in
South Florida.
S. CONANT, JAS. I). HOLL,sTER,
General Manairer. Smerintr'na'llt'
O. W. RROMWELL, G. T. F. & A.
THE M0S T NA TURAL AND SUBS TANTJAL
Orange Tree Food.
I in jort ii t uftst Ioiik:
DO YOU DESIRE A STEADY, IIEATH
ful, vigorous growth, do vow ilesire i ean
IIright Ful it' Then buy an.l apply
Presbrev's Dravton Island Marl.
Every arson's fruit where it has nP
plied art clean, luscious ami briirlm Refer
ence by iermissioii: Hon. J. W. TuckeiSl"'1
... a. y ockc, a. y . aiartin, iN. .1. Stenstii
st rated its exeel)entinmliti, and we now of
fir it n i.. 11 i :. I. . u i
' f ijuuiii; nun ju i iecL coiiiiuence.
Price iK-r ton, or eiuht barrels, on pier head
Drayton Island, g0; or at City Wharf, San-
lT: ,Vhi-' 1:J: '"'r " t i, 1.75. All orders
filled C. O. D. Address
A. A. PRESBREY & CO.. Sanford. t'la.
LL CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF
-iA S. H. Demont must be presented as pre
scrit)ed by law or this notice will be pleaded
in bar. And ail parties concerned will take
notice that six months from the date hereof
I will ask for my final discharge from such
administration tie fore the county Judtfe for
Putnam countv, Florida.
C. A. KNOWETON
Ap . Adiuinistratsr,
lvTToFxhe
SQUITOES
I have just received a largs lot of
MOSQUITO NETS
DIFFERENT STYLE. ALSO
FIFTY PIECES NEW PATTERNS
OF-
iatfmg
AT LOW PRICES.
I
Floor
WALNUT, ASH & PAINTED
CHAMBER SUITS
A FULL ASSORTMENT.
B. L. L1LIENTHAL
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