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VOLUME I.
PALATKA, FLOIUDA, TUESDAY, APKIL 22, 1881.
NUMBER t
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TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES.
THE L.ATEST XEAVS FROM A LI;
PARTS BY WIRE AND CABLE.
Steamers from New York Saturday
took $2,881,485 in specie to Euroie.
The carpenters strike in New Orleans
doe3 not interfere with work on the Ex
position buildings.
Dr. Swearinger, State health officer of
Texas, is getting ready the quaratine
against yellow fever at Texas posts.
Mr. and Mrs. II. C. Filmore, of Fay
etteville, N. Y., guests at the Palmer
House, Chicago, blew out the gas Friday
night and died Saturday morning from
asphyxia.
In a suit for pay as contractor, a.t
Houston, Texas, Friday, George W.
Dibley secured a judgment for $100,000
against the Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antonio Railroaj. He sued for
1142,144.
It is now thought necessary to con
struct another immense Exposition
building 1,000 feet by 400, for the recep
tion of Government, State and agricul
tural exhibits.
Charleston, S. C, April 19. In the
United States Court "here to-day true
bills wee found on two additional in
dictments against ex-United States Mar
shal Blythe.
Mobile, April 19. The report reaches
here from New Orleans that the revenue
cutters Forward and Seward, reported as
sailing from here in that direction upon
a mysterious search for filibusters, pre
now blockading that city, one being in
the Mississippi river and the other in
Lake Pontchartrain, in the rear of the
city.
Denver, April 19. Since the snow be
gan to melt in the mountains snow and
rock slides of greater or less magnitude
have been of almost daily occurrence.
Early yesterday morning a large boulder
fell on a bridge across the Gunnison riv
er, near the mouth of Cimarron creek,
smashing it down. In addition to this,
there were half a dozen small slides be
tween Currecanti and a point three
miles this side in the Black Canon. The
regular west-bound passenger train went
as far as the first of these slides, and
was waiting for workmen to clear the
track, when another slide occurred, stri
king the engine, and turning it over.
Engineer Arthur Pratt was instantly
killed and the fireman, Frank Martinez,
was slightly injured.
HANDIilXG ORANGES.
A Paper Submitted by P. P. Bishop
and Adopted by the Florida Fruit
Growers' Association at its Last
Annual Meeting.
1. The interests of all growers of Flori
da oranges are, in many respects, identi
cal. One of them cannot make import
ant mistakes in handling and marketing
his fruit without injuriously affecting
all the others. Each of them has an in
terest in the maintenance by all of that
system which promises the largest meas
ure of common benefit.
2. The practice of shipping oranges
in promiscuous lots, without grading or
sizing, is detrimental to the orange
growing industry. Such fruit is sold for
what it would bring if none of it was of
the first-class. It is graded and sized by
the retailer; and he is then able to sell
the best of it at so low a price as greatly
to injure the trade of dealers who handle
only first-class oranges.
8. Florida oranges should never be
placed in market before they are suf
ficiently ripe to be evidently superior to
any imported oranges. The incomes
hereafter to be derived from our groves,
must depend, to an immense extent, on
the future reputation of our fruit. No
orange grower in Florida can afford to
have hi3 fruit placed on she same level
with oranges purchased abroad at .3 per
thousand, and thrown upon our market,
t h cost, even with duty included, less
than the cost of transportation from our
principal shipping points to New York.
Yet it is well known that, in the earlier
part of the season, l!8;3-4, imported or
anges were preferred to Florida oranges.
It is notorious, also, that, by reason of
the prejudices, excited in October and
November, it was late in December be
fore the demand for our fruit became ;us
active as in former years.
4. It is for the interest of growers to
co-operate in distributing shipments
as equally as practicable over the entire
period during which Florida oranges are
plainly superior to imported oranges.
The greater length of our marketing sea
son is an advantage which we jtitly
claimover the grower of peaches and
many other fruits ; and it would be man
ifestly unwise to throw away any part of
that advantage. Great losses inevitably
occur to shippers when the market is
over-stocked even for a few davs. Pri
ces are then reduced, and it is found im
possible to advance to them again for a
considerable period after the glut has
passed away. It is only by the gen
eral adoption of the practice of
shipping at a uniform pace, that the fre
quent recurrences of such a state of
things can be avoided.
5. Since the heaviest shipments from
groves especially liable to iniurv f.
frost are sure to be made in the earlier
half of the season, growers who are in
little danger from that source will best
subserve their own and the common in
terest, by reserving the bulk of their
fruit for later shipment. Besides avoid
ing competition with those who are hur
rying their fruit to market through fear
of cold waves, the proprietors of groves
more favorably located can avail them
selves of an increase, to the extent of 25
per cent, or more, in the size of their or
anges, and, consequently, in the number
of boxes to be placed in market.
6. In consigning oranges, the utmost
care should be exercised to make sure of
their going into the hands of trustworthy
men who have an orange trade; who con
trol ample and well ventilated space for
storage; who understand the art of re
packing, and who will not permit them
selves to be over-stocked. It is easy to
see that the consignment of large quanti
ties of oranges to parties lacking any one
of these requisites, must tend powerfully
to the demoralization of the market.
7. There is a promise of benefit to
growers in the establishment of packing
houses at points of final shipment in
Florida; and the expediency of consign
ing fruit to the proprietors of such houses
is worthy of consideration. Only the
shortest time possible should intervene
between the final packing and the final
shipment of oranges. In some localities,
the skilled labor requisite to the proper
preparation of oranges for market, is not
available. "While the production of a
grove is small, the considerable outlay
involved in providing facilities for the
final handling of oranges, may not be ad
visable. The proprietors of packing
houses are able to inform themselves
thoroughly as to the lines of transporta
tion, the characters of consignees, and
their facilities for storing, re-packing and
selling oranges, and as to the demand in
the several cides of the country. They
are in a position, also, to secure the low
est rates by making up car-load lots.
8. It is the duty of every shipper of
Florida oranges, to furnish public infor
mation of eery instance of extortionata
charges, or careless handling on trans
portation lines, and to expose even' case
of dishonesty or inefficiency on the part
of consignees. The fruit-growsrs of
Florida should constitute a brotherhood
so compactly united, and so loyal, as to
insure the immunity of all from the ef
fects of rapacity and shiftlessness.
The Seotclmiau in the United States
Senate.
Cleveland Leader Washington Letter.
There are seeral Scoichmen in the
House, such as Hardy, of New York
city; David B. Henderson, of Iowa, and
Hugh Buchanan, of Georgia; but there
is only one in the Senate, and he is a
host in himself. Senator James B. Beck,
of Lexington, Ky., comes from the
shire in Scotland, where the poet Burns
wrote his sweetest songs. He came to
Kentucky as a boy, and was educated in
a little college in Lexington. Here he
also studied law, and heie he afterwards
became the partner of John C. Breckin
ridge, ax-Vice President of the United
States. He has since served four terms
in Congress from the Lexington district,
and is now in his second term in the
Senate. Senator Beck is no orator, and
it is a remarkable fact tv at, not being
such, he could be elected from a district
which produced Clay and Breckinridge.
He is the only man who has made a
name in Kentucky as a statesman who is
not a gifted speaker, and he owes his
success to a well-balanced brain, a pleas
ant manner, and excellent horse sense. I
am told by Kentuckians that he is the
most popular man in Kentucky, and that
he and Carlisle divide the honors of ad
miration letween themselves. He is a
curious speaker, this Senator Beck. Let
me tell you how he looks on the floor. A
giant of a man tall, broad-shouldered,
and big headed, his very weight com
mands attention. He has a hroad, full
face, covered with a grisly beard of iron
gray, bright black eyes, full of earnest
ness, and pleasant mouth. "When he
speaks he grows much excited, and the
words flow out in a torrent. He talks
faster than any man in the Senate, and
lie always wilts his shirt collar during a
speech. In a Kentucky campaign Sena
tor Sherman is reported as saying:
"Beck rests wh'le he ?s speaking If
this is so. it is a curious kind of renting,
and one which will take the place of
sleeping. Though, bv the way. a xmra
graph has leen lately published quoting
this Kentucky senator as saying that his
mental work is done during his dreams;
at any rate he is a hard worker, and he
makes his work tell on the Senate. He
is now sixty-two years old. He is mar
ried and has some grown up children.
His only son. George, is farming in Wy
oming territory, where he has a ranche
of fourteen hundred acres and upon it
over a thousand sheep. The Senator
himself lives at Lexington when not in
Washington. His house there is a plain,
substantial one not large but very com
fortable. He is in good circumstances,
lives quietly and Scotch-like, is economi
cal though not stingy in his habits.
Isaac Thomas, colored, is under arrest
at Jacksonville, charged with criminally
assaulting two colored girls named Anna
and Emma Saline, in Oakland. The
girls upon whom the outrage is said to
have been committed are aged respect
ively six and eight years.
STATE PRESS.
A new town, taking the name of Bay
Ridge, has sprung up three miles south
of Sorrento, near Eustis.
There is a man in Alachua county who
makes his living entirely by deer hunt
ing. He sells the venison for 15 and the
hides for 25 cents a pound.
A Marion count- trucker shipped a car
load of vegetables last week to Atlanta,
and realized $9.50 per barrel for Irish po
tatoes and 3.50 per crate for string
beans.
The St. John's and Lake Eustis Railway
Company have determined to erect their
workshops at Fort Marion, and contem
plate the building also of more com
pany's offices and other improvements.
At Fernandina a negro named Lee
Cothren shot at Mr. Mc Williams Wednes
day. He missed his mark, however, and
the ball struck Mr. Edwards, a clerk, in
the foot. The wound is painful, but not
very serious. The difficulty was unpro
voked. The lands of Sir Edward Reid, adver
tised to be sold for taxes last week in
Hamilton county, amounted to 72,000
acres. Baker & Blockwell purchased
49,500 acres, which brought enough
money to liquidate the taxes due thereon
$1,003.34.
On an excursion from Norwalk to San
ford on the steamer Merrimac the middle
rudder was broken, and the purser, while
helping to repair it, was taken with the
cramp and fell into the water, and was
rescued after a hard struggle by the
watchman.
St. Augustine feels sure of having the
deaf and dumb asylum located there.
Major Russell says the proposed site is
admirable, and so located as to be easily
accessible by rail and water. There is a
sulphur water well near by which dis
charges 14,000 gallons per hour. The do
nor of the site is Captain E. E. Vailes of
the St. Augustine House.
PROMINENT PEOPIiE.
Professor Palmer of Harvard College
is about to publish a translation of the
Odyssy.
Since David Davis' new baby has ar
rived he goes out and sits on the fence
oftener and longer than he ever did.
The London correspondent of an Irish
paper says Mr. Henry George was asked
in his presence if he would run for a
Scotch constituency, and he replied: "I
would then be ineligible to the Presiden cy
of the United States."
The royal and distinguished sick list in
Europe is now a tolerably lengthy one.
King William is supposed to be dying.
Queen Victoria is not well. The Duke of
Buccleuch is dangerously ill. Cardinal
Manning is still very weak. Mr. Glad
stone is physically used up and John
Bright is an invalid. There seems to be
an aristocratic epidemic and the fashion
able doctors must be in great demand.
Tom Moore's Harp.
In Clarendon Hall, New York, on
Monday evening, Tom Moore's harp Avas
exhibited to seA eral members of the So
ciety for the Preservation of the Irish
Language. Many of the visitors expect
ed to see a harp similar in size to those
manipulated by wandering Italian mus
icians. They saw instead a little instru
ment, about sixteen inches high, stand
ing on a desk. It is painted green and
the back is shaped like a round tower.
This inscription is on a brass plate on one
side of the harp: "J. Egan, 30 Dawson
street, Dublin. Harp makers by Special
Appointment to his Majesty George IV,
and to the Royal Family." The harp
was presented to Moore by the citizens
of Limerick in 1823. Moore's widow
gave it to Mrs. S. C. Hall, whose husband
recently presented it to Mr. G. W. Childs,
of Philadelphia. The harp is made of
white sallow. Brian Bora's harp was
thirty-two inches high, and was made of
red sallow. .
Death From a Snakebite.
Lake City Reporter,
A son of Mr. Bethel Popple, of Perry,
Taylor county, Fla., was bitten and killed
by a rattlesnake, on March 14th. Mr.
Alspaugh, who is connected with the
Wraught Iron Range Company, was
driving along the road, and hearing the
screams of the youth ran to his assis
tance, and arrived just as an elder broth
er of the victim did. The rattlesnake
having bitten the boy in the face and
breast had caught him by the hand and
would not let go until the brother beat
him loose. As soonas the snake released
its hold the brother took his dying broth
er to the house, some distance away,
where death within three hours relieved
his sufferings. The snake was killed by
Mr. Alspaugh.
The New Haven (Conn.) News relates
the following story of ex-Governor Hub
bard: "Years ago at Hartford he was a
member of a coterie which met periodi
cally to play whist. One of the partv,
who was locally famous for his sloveniy
habits and soiled dress, astonished hi3
friends one night by appsaring with a
beautiful white rose in his button-hole.
Addressing Mr. Hubbard, he said: 'Hub
bard, did you ever see a finer rose than
that ? Now, where do you imagine I got
that rose? Mr. Hubbard looked quizi
cally at the flower resting in its dirty
loop-hole, and answered: 'Looks as
though it might have grown there.' "
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
BEXJ. PUTNAM CALHOUN. IHVING GILLIS.
U'M. LOWNDES CALHOUN.
Calhoun, Gllll fc Calhoun,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
Special attention paid to Insurance, Ileal Es
tate and Collection of Claims. Will practice in
rotate and Federal i-mirts.
A.. AV. 15()il)OX,
ATT O XJ TV IS Y-AT-L AV
Office opposite St. John's Hotel,
Lemon Street,
Palatka, Fla.
x:. it. 3r'ivi.v',
AT T O 12 TV EY-AT-LAW
Ajrent for Sale ami Purchase of
TP L O 1 I 1 .V Hi .V TV r s
Palatka, Florida.
Notary Public State of Florida.
W. II. WIGG,
AT TOKNE Y'-AT-EAW
Office Lemon St., Mann's Building, Upstairs.
Palatka, Florida.
PALATKA HOTELS:
Qlt.VII.VM' HOTEL. ,
S. GRAHAM, Proprietor.
Corner Lemon and Water streets,
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
rpi 1 1: wi wr-vioft i:iLv r i.
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PALATKA. FLORIDA.
White Sui.i-iilu Water, Hot and Cold
Sci.iMii'K Baths.
Bus meets all trains and steamers.
Ol'KN ALL THE YEAR.
j AiMvi:v house,
PA LATKA, FLORIDA.
Addition built last summer of forty-five rooms.
Accommodations for M) guests.
Open December V. 188.'!.
LA R KIN & ALLEN, Proprietors.
iitt:val3i iiousi:,
1 December to May. PALATKA, FLA.
WINDSOlt IIOTLL,
Dec. to May. JACKSON V1LLE, FLA.
IT'Qixi :s ox
Irf June to Oct.,
No Dojrs Taken.
HO IT-!.
MANCHESTER, VT.
F. H. ORVIS.
pOUNTY couitrr.
V,' PUTNAM COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Office hours, 10 a. m. to 3 p. m.
Justice Court First Monday in each
month. Ben.j. Harrison,
County Judfre.
LEGAL!
J EGAL PLANKS OF EVERY DESCRIF-
tion and of the most approved forms printed
and sold by the undersigned.
Stationers and members of the legal profes
sion furnished at reasonable rates.
WARREN, THAYER & CO.,
Reid street, Palatka, Florida.
A.. J. 1JEACII i(t SOT,
NURSERYMEN
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
A LL FRUITS GROWN SUITED TO THIS
1 V climate. Catalogue free.
0'KEEFE & M'KINLAY,
Machinists, Boilermakers and
Blacksmiths.
REPAIRING SPECIALLLY ATTENDED
to. New and second hand machinery
bought and sold. Engineers supplies cheap.
Comer Reid and Second streets.
PRACTICAL TAILOR.
T HAVE MOVED MY TAILORING SHOP
x up-stairs over Mr. Gus Mann's Butcher
Shop, on Lemon street. Itepairing neatly
done. A share of public patronasre solicited.
JOHN HEWSON.
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.
THE UNDERSIGNED WILL BE AT PA
I latka Election District, No, ,s, on Monday,
May 5th. and remain during the week ending
on Saturday the 10th., for the purpose as of as
sessing the State and County Tax for the year
A. D. 18t4. All tax payers wishing tax blanks
will please call at either the office of clerk of
Circuit Court or Tax Collector, where they
will find them. J. XV. XYiH jds,
Tax Assessor Putnam County.
CIIAsS. IS. H3LITlfr
Fresh Meals and Poultry
Ahvays on lluntl itt
SMITH'S ST API D
On AVater fStrocrt.
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE BOOKS
JEPT BALANCED OR ADJL'STED, IN
strict confidence, by
G. 3IOATES
Expert accountant. Practical instruction in
Bookkeeping. Best of references. Apply at
this office.
LEMONADE
SERVED JKVnL.Y
BY-
H. A. Meyer & Co
A full and complete line of
GROCERIES
Will be kept on hand. '
IB IR IE A-ID
will be served twice a day with Wagons, and
H. A. METER will do his own baking: in fu
ture. Palatka, FlU, March J4, 1SSL
To make room for New Summer Goods, I offer all Fall and Winter Cloth;
and Piece Goods at
STRICTLY COST PRICE
A large stock of
MISFITS AND ORDERED CLOTHING
Left on hand after deposits were made, will be sold at a sacrifice. Befc
buying elsewhere call and see H. W. KLICKER,
The Tailor, Corner Lemon and Fourth Street.
-A.T JCOBSOnSTS
ONE PRICE STOR
DRESS COODS OF
NEW LINEN LAWNS, PIQUES,
LADIES HATS AND TRIMMINGS IN
A FULL LINE OF
Gent's Furnishing Goods, Clothing and Hals.
FINE PHILADELPHIA MADE SHOES FOR GENTS AND
KVEKY PAIR CTAUANTKED.
ONLY FIRST-CLASS GOODS
A. & G. C. ft, and
S. 11. r.HEY, President.
J. M. KKEAMEK,
Engineer.
W, II. WliHiHT, Vice-Proident.
LANDS FOR SALE I LOTS OF FU03I i() TO 10.0(H) ACRE:
IN THE COUNTIES OF PnEVAUD, POLK, MANATEE AND M02SROE.
PRICES:
I-or average Pme Lands a; i n- ,. ., .
For averajre Prairie and Pasture Lands " L.-'. '.'
For Lake and River Fronts VmV.i iti'Tli ! !
For Sujrar Lands .'.V.'.'. f J,,,!! 1', J.
The Lands of this Company are svocjullv adapted to the Cultm-e of TroYueai 1" ' - s"
Sugar Cane, etc., and are K'-nerally accessible bv steam navigation.
"W". rl . IO 1 1 1 S lf-i. Land Commissioner, Jacksom l1
KiSS!
T. II. ASrsFRY, Paesident.
HAMILTON IHSSTO.N, Vice-President.
QOO 000 ACUES CHOICEST; LOCATIONS YOU RESIDENCE N1 CULTIVATION
-V7UiUUU Orange?, Lemons, Pineapples, Ranannas, Cocoanuts, etc., in the counties of
Orange, Brevard, Sumter, Polk, Hillsborough, Manatee and Km;
Soll in Quant it ios to Suit 1isvm!i.
Prices to $10.00 per acre, according to location and quality.
KISSIMMEE CITY rt---
AV. rI
B. F. McGRAW & SON,
Buffalo Bluff Nurs'y
ALL ORANGE STOCK
From Sour to the Best Varieties
one;vauiety of
STR AWUER I J I ES, VI X :
FEDERAL POINT, OR
FLORIDA FOUNDLING
F. C. COCHRANE
5
WHOLESALE AND KLTAXL
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER
AXD DEALER IN
FISHING TACKLE, FINE CIGARS
Florida Curiosities,
Florida Maps, Books, Canes, &c
Post-office Building. Front Street and nest
door south,
PALATKA, - - - FLORI DA.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
HAVING BEEN DULY QUALIFIED AS
Administrator of the estate of Joseph H.
Mann, I hereby require all claims and demands
against said estate to be presented as pre
scribed by law, or this notice will be pleaded
n bar; and all debtors are warned to make
mmediate settlement to the undersigned.
A W. MANN, Administrator.
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AIL DESCRIPTION
SATEENS AND SUMMER SILKS.
GREAT VARIETY.
HOSIERY, GLOVES AKD CCiU ri
fir;.
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KEPT AT THIS S
Okeechobee LandOc.
HAMILTON DI8STON, Tivu
K. SALIM.JEU, Secretary.
L. W. KLAHIt, Trcnsuii;
T. V. PALMER. Seep fa-
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& Jili:
I?OI? IM:-i, Maiuver, Jacksonvir. .
LARGEST PUBLISHING HOIK
i:V THE KTATI-,
RED GROSS PRESS."
Warren, Thayer & Co.,
Steam Book & Jo
PRINTERS
REID STREET.'PALATKA, FLORIf
nAVINfl FITTED UP AN ENTIII
new office, we are prepared to do all 1
of Uook and Job printing, Uook Hit;., .
Stereotypinir, Enfrravinjr, etc.
Our facilities are unsurpassed Lv anv
in the state. AVe have tlie only Chroms.
Press in Florida, print intr any mi'mbcr i .
ors at one impression, also the onlv Hfiii
Ticket Press and Nuniberina- Atae: m
printing 14,000 tickets an hour.
Call and s''C ns. E-timale- .n sil' 1 re
work cheerfully furnished. A trial . ! r
sati-i'y all tiiat we can do ti !k-c w
in the state.
WARREN, THAYER dt CO.,
Kei l street, nea.! Putnam I .
W. COMJAl),
FLORIST & LANDSCAPE GA::
LARGE VARIETY OP PA I. i
1 V Hoses and Scmi-Tropical Ple.nts :
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constantly on nana. oriexporxici.
rout street, next to Bank, Pal v ,
WILLIAM F. FORWARD,
PIONEEll ICE 1I()L'.'.
AND DEi'OT FOH
Hay, Grain, Feed, Lime, Plsch ,
BRICK, CEMENT, LATH, Etc.
Established m 1.10. iieid's Brick Bioc k. it.'. .-in-g
wharf, PALATKA, FLA.
Statement of anEye Witnes,
FULL PARTICULARS IN NEXT IS.i
O.V BUSHEL? OF GKAI.V. AI0 A ' T ;
J lot of Hay, Bran nnd Ground Ve.''
received this week, lresh and in ire;, ...
to be sold at prices as low as such gGc. . :
bought anywhere.
W3I. V FOKWA i .
.VI) A 31 II. FINLEY,
GEM CITY HAlii DRESSING;.' ;
LEMON ST., PALATKA. FLA.
FRESH, SALT & SULPHUR OA"
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