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PALATKA, FLORIDA, TIIUKSDAY, JUNE 12. 1884.
NUMBER 91.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES.
THE IiATKST NKWS FROM AI,1.
PARTS BY WIItK AM) CAULK.
A REDSKIN HOW.
Yankton, Dak., June 10. A social
from Springfield says tlie Indians bring
reports that last week some Brule Hioux,
at the Rosebud agency, got into a fight
among themselves, and three were killed.
T.ie rest of the band, which liumljers
6,000, lias taken sides, and a general en
gagement is in progress. The Indians
j-re all well armed and mounted. This
information comes wholly from Ind'an
i jnners, and may not be reliable.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAW.
New York, June 10. A motion of
fered by the United States Assistant
District Attorney was granted in the
United Slates Circuit Court to-day for a
nolle prosequi in the case of Samuel J.
Singleton, who was indicted under the
civil rights act for refusing to sell tickets
to a place of amusement to a negro man.
The motion was granted on the ground
tluat the law bearing on this subject was
unconstitutional. Singleton was dis
charged from custody.
AGUERO'S DOWNFALL.
New Orleans, June 10. In an inter
ievv lo-day with some Spanish gentle
men, principally Havana merchants, one
of them said, concerning Aguero'soper;-.-c'ons,
that of the fifteen men with whom
A" aero f rst landed, one desei ted him a
few hours after landing and surrendered
to the gm'ernment. Three days 'ater an
other was captured. In the different en
counters Aguero has had with the
(ii.ard-'aCiviles it is claimed he lost seven
more. Two others, Don Juan Dcutz and
Don M'guel Rosite, were recently cap- :
lered in Havana. Of the fifteen men I
wro landed, only one is with Aguero in
lie swamps.
general swaim court-martialed.
"Washington, Jime 10. The record of
l'e court of inquiry in the cases of Judge
Advocate General Swaim, was published
t t'ay. The result of the inquiry is that
the President has ordered acouit-martial
to t y Swaun. The coin t gives its opin
ion that while it is not prepared to say
thft p.ny specific act developed by the
evidence is actuary fraudulent, yet the
evidence does show a series of transac
tors discreditable to any officer of the
Prmy, and which especially demand the
severest condemnation when engaged in
by an officer holding as high position and
per uliar relations to the administration
o" justice in the army as those held by
Brigadier General Swaim.
two new legal points.
Atlanta, June 10. The Supreme
Court to-day rendered two decisions in
vol v.'naf aliovt $1 ,000,000 each. The first
t ase was that of io!icy holdevs against
the Southern Mutual Insurance Compa
ny. This company had an accumulated
surp'us o $1,200,000. A movement was
made for a division, the directors hold
ing th?t the present policy holders only
shorld participate. The past, policy
holders, feeling that they were entitled
to a pro rata share, employed Captain
Henry Jackson and Mr. Henry Lumpkin
to contest for them. Upon its reaching
th' Supreme Court that hotly decides
that every policy holder, no matter
whether lapsed or not, ''s entitled to a
proportion of the surplus and orders an
immediate divis;on. The second case is
a t untested short will case, involving a
princ'nal of $750,000. Relatives who
were overlooked fought the will, but the
court holds it to le valid.
2.000 MILKS IX A It ATKAU.
The Florida Kpcriences ami Curious
Yoyagl'ir of 31 r. George lies.
"I built that Imat myself in Sanfonl,
F'orida, last Decerning, and since then
have traveled iully 2.000 miles in it. I
have lived and slent in it, and there is
the sleeping apartments of myself and
crew." As he sait? this to a Baltimore
Snnieporter, the speaker pointed to two
small covered apertures on each side of
the eemre-loard of a cat-rigged bateau
lying at Water's wharf. The bateau
was bat 19 feet long and 4 feet 10
inches leam. '"She draws seven inches
l'ght, but when we are in she goes
down to eleven inches," continued the
speaker, who was Mr. George lies, a
Im'lder, of Akron. Ohio, who went to
Florida last fall to escape the rigors of
r Western winter. He was accompanied
by Walter Scott, of Mystic, Conn., who
was saving-master of the frail-look;ng
craft, in which Mr. lies, Scott and a
reporter stood yesterday, with barely
room to turn around in the stern sheets.
Mr. lies gave an interesting account of
h'"s travels. "In Florida," said he,
"trarspo'tation lines are few and far
between, and specially so if you want
to thoroughly penetrate the interior
water-ways with which the State alxiunds
It was lecause of this that I built this
bxit. I started from San ford last De
cember, and followed the St. Johns river
to liaise Harney. I then had the Ixxit
hauled overland a distance of eighteen
miles to the Indian river, which ians
pa-allel with the ocean. I struck th
Lucia river, and thence through Jupiter
sound to Jupiter inlet. There I procured
1 16 services of a half-breed Indian to pi
lot me through the Everglades, a dia-
ta"ce of twenty -eight miles, to Lake
Wort'i. Progress was slow, for we had
to pole all the way. I spent three weeks
dch'gntfully, at Lake Worth in the month
of January, where we were daily regaled
with ripe tomrtoes, cucumbers and other
vegetables. I returned by the same
route back to Rock Ledge, on the In
dian river, and again I had the loat
cirted three milts across the country to
Lake Poinsett, the head of navigation on
the St. John's river, and 105 miles from
Luke IIarney. The only inhabitants of
that section were alligators. Not a per
son or airmal were to be seen in the vi
cinity. I then returned to San ford. I
again left it on March 14 for Baltimore,
liie St. Johns river was followed to the
b?r, and after passing through Mud and
Nar.au sounds, I awived safely at Fer
r dira. I then skuted the coast to
C'jpe Roman, in South Carolin, and then
had 150 miles of the open sea to contend
with. Of this stretch we made 70 miles
n one day. We crossed heavy bieak
c s at New Topsail inlet, which was the
riion dangerous of our whole experience,
but we were lepaid by a good haven in
side the mouth of the New river. Pass
ing through Pemlieo and Albemarle
founds, we entered the Dismal swamp
r nal and reached Norfolk. On the
rente we spent several days at a time in
various places, sometimes wind-boxmd or
making investigations of the country."
V-. lies will sell his boat and leave for
1 ;s home in Akion. He has on board
: ,i!P(; beautiful specimens of preserved
j ei 'cans, water ti.rkeys, cormorants,
iv ; -y bills, curlews, pyles and loons, all
of wh'ch he wi'l have stuffed upon his
r ..'vol home. He has besides many cu
os't 'cs gathered on his long trip.
TIIK KKPlTP.IilCAN PLATFORM.
"A Combinnl iun of MeiiJimjIo.ss 11 ;i -ilmle
ant! Cheap Demagogy."
From tin; New York Times.
The republican convention might have
mode a worse platform, for oU things are
1 cS'b1e updei the sun, but we do not see
n wht way one eouM have been made
much mo-e ridiculous than this.
From 1 lie Now York Evening Post.
T'e pip form adopted at Chicago is an
r 'r'rable sp?cimen of that kind of doc
ument. As Abraham Lincoln said:
"Fo people who like that sort of thing,
that's just the sort of thing thev would
'ike."
Flora the Philadelphia Times.
The republican platform adopted at
Ch'c.ngo 's the most extraordinary com
1 ''nation of meaningless platitude and
rank demagogy with which any respec
table party ever entered a national cam
paign. Toe vagueness and confusion of this
Mosaic pVtform would be ludicrous if it
wen; not so distressing. It is not a tle
c 'lral'ou of principles: it is simply a bid
for votes, an attempt to promise every
thing to everybody except those who
o 11 v want good government and a wise
and il'giufied nat'oral policy. For these
he pVtform contains only words.
From the New York Tribune.
The platform ''nsists upon a tariff "not
for revenue only." It thus antagonizes,
;n the clearest and most d'rect manner,
tl, p. licy winch the Democratic party
avowed four years ago, and which four
li'ths of the Democratic menuVrs of
Co lgress have been striving to embody
in legislation.
From tho Louisville Courier-Journal.
As for the democrats, it must lie plain
row, if never before, that they have to
t' 'cept tl 's issue and fight on it to the
end. No retreat is possible if retreat
wee des;rable. It is not desirable; with
a tofiff for revenue only on our banners
we have nothing to lose and States to
win.
A IJFK SAVKI) ltV MOSQUITOES.
Struck "With Poisonous Fangs ii 3Ian
Snatched from Death by thelnsects
Ilcrrion County News.
On last Friday, the 2Sth nit., Messrs.
R. Q. Houston, B. R. Johnson, George
McMillan and W. K. Rolerts went on a.
titer hunt in the Alapaha river swamp,
alnnit three m'les from town. After ta
k;ng their respective "stands" Mr. Hous
ton went leh)w about three miles to
"dr've" up the swamp. When he was
near the Bi unswick and Western Rail
wav bridge, which crosses the. Alapaha
t iree miles east of this place, on his re
ii'rn an immense rattlesnake sprang from
the brush and buried its fangs m the calf
of his left leg. He at once called for help
and forlunalely Mr. J. P. Loyd, section
masier, who was having some work done
near, heard and responded to his call. By
the ilme M Loyd reached him Mr.
Houston's leg lielow the knee was swol
len to twice its usurl size and he was suf-
ie ing great pam. mt. ixwu bound a
rgatore around the leg above the knee
! and then lioarded his hand car to come
I to Alapaha for a doctor. Dr. Fogle was
soon found and hastened to the scene of
; suffering. When they reached Mr.
j Houston's side, wonderful to relate he
; w;.3 found sweetly sleeping and tlie swel
ling almost gone from his leg. Around
: h;m were lying dead near a half bushel
of mosquitoes, who had th.awn the poison
from him. The gentlemen, in great sur
prise, aroused Mr. Houston, who, barring
a little weakness from the loss cf blood,
was as well as he ever was.
This is a wonderful story and some
may 1? inclined, just as we were, to
doubt it at f;rst, but we are personally
acquainted with all the parties mentioned
e.Tceit Mr. Houston, and we do not be-
):eve thev would vouch for a story not j
i
tme in every particular. The snake was j
killed by the section hands and measured
five feet four inches in length and had
r'ne'een rattles and a button.
Offer the lie ward.
Senator Btovn's b:H providing for a
rewado7 $100,000 for the discovery of
the cr cse or yellow fever and any c?r
t?'a means of effce.:ng tho prevention
or eve of te dreaded disease without
the d:Pcoveiy of i's ceuse, ought to meet
with the approval ef Congress. The
gove mnent of German y hes just given
a 1? -ge sum rs a reward to the German
i-e'enc'sts who vis.tsd Egvit ana" India
hisfc year ,:1 search ot the germ or cause
of cholea. These scientists claim to
have been successful. Tne reward pro
vided for by Senator Brown's bill would
enhefc the best talent of the medicj'l pro
res;on in the world. The discovery of
the ctuse of chole.M, admitting that thu
cause l s eoi discovered, is rerson for
b1ievi-g ti'i j ;t is possible to discover
the cause of 3 eUow fever. The epidemic
oftlrs d'ser-e in 1878 cosi the South
many thousands of lives and hkidv mil
lions or dollf vs. It cost the North many
m-liuvs of dollars in lost business and
cont-ibutiors to sufferers. An epidemic
is possible any sammer. Strict quaran
tine measures ma1." be effective in keep
ing the disease out of the country, but
it is not certf in that it will. At none of
the polls J quarantine per "cot, end it is
P'obable that its is i.n possible to make it
perfect. In vie.v of the aHiosfc incalcu
lable damage to life pnd property that an
epidemic causes, no expense would be
t o great to incar iutiyiog to find out
the cause of the fever and the means for
ils prevention. Savannah News.
A Ilich Little Girl.
From Hit; "Washington Ui;piillkan.
The richest little girl in the worldisthe
7-year-old daughter of Capt. George II.
Perkins of the navy, who is well known
in this city. She is worth $7,000,000 in
her own name, the amount having been
left her recently by her grandfather,
Wm. F. Weld of boston. Mr. Weld was
the father of the girl's mother,and when
he thed four heirs, including the child,
come 'nto possession of the bulk of his
fori one, winch was divided into four
portion. The sum of $20,000 and a val
uable residence in Boston were liequeath
ed to Mrs. Perkins, wife of the Captain,
and $20,000 annually to 1 tensed in caring
for the little girl until she reaches tho
legal age and claims he millions. This
makes Capt. Perkin's income in actual
cash $10,000, without including his Gov
eminent salary or a rental of his magni
ficent residence in Bostoti. Secretary
Chandler yesterday characterized the
story that Capt. Perkins had resigned
from the navy to look after his estates as
untrue, and said that he hail lieen order
ed to duty on lioard the Hartford. Th
Capfain applied for one year's leave, with
a view of resigning at the end of the
year. The department, however, declin
ed to grant the request, as he had been
away from duty for two years. The Sec
retary said the Captain was one of the
lies;; officers in the service, because be
loves sea life too well.
Value of a Nickname.
From the Philadelphia Times.
"'Black Jack is a good nickname,''
said a dark-skinned citizen of the Seventh
ward. "It will 'catch on' well with our
people. They say if they can't have a
colored Vice President thej want to get
one as nearly colored as possible. And
tlo you know, some of our boys have the
notion that Logan is one of us. A yellow
felhiw asked me last night if 'Black
Jack' was a colored man. I told him he
w is. I only said so in fun, but I think 1
will keepjit up. 'By golly, is that soV
he said; 'then we're all fer "im, all the
t ime.' And he went up Lombard street,
telling every man he met that Logan is a
'darkj'.' I think if the national commit
t ?e worked that racket it would take like
hot corn."
The Changes in the Election Districts
of Putnam County.
In accordance with the statute in such case
made and provided The chanyes in the boun
daries of the election districts of Put nam Coun
ty Florida are hereby made matters of public
n'ot ice, at the regular meet injur of the Hoard of
County Commissioners for said county on ,Ian
uarv "". isso, incompliance with a petition to
such effect.
On motion ordered. That the north half of
section 2, township south of ranye 27 east
le embraced within the boundary lines of
election district No. 5, as heretofore laid out
with votinjr place or precinct at C. T. Potter's
store.
In compliance with a jH'tition from the citi
zens in 1 tie vicinity of and livinjr at Buffalo
Bluff, askinjr tole annexed to election district
No. S: n motion it was ordered that election
district No. S. lc bounded and descriled us fol
lows: lieffinninjr at the intersection of the
Ocklawaha and the St. John's Kiver. thence
following tho ( kklawaha Kiver to the line
tween township 11, mnjrt' i"). and 11 ransre 2tJ
S. & E. Thence runnintr north to K ice Creek;
thence following Kice Creek to the t. John's
Kiver; thence southerly along1 the western
bank of said river to a point directly west of
tho mouth of IHmn's Creek; thence east across
said river to the mouth of said creek; thence
following said Creek to a ioint where it crosses
the township line, thence west in a direct line
to the west bank of the St. John's Kiver,
southerly along said west bank to place of t
ginning, with voting place or precinct at Pa
latka. On motion it was ordered that all that !r
t ion of election district No. 15 lying south of
the present northern line of Putnam county,
and east of Sim's Creek, lie annexed to arid
made a part of election district No. 14.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
IJENJ. PLTXAM CAI.UOUN. IHVIXtJ CILI.IS.
WM. LOWXbKS CAI.HOl'X.
Calliouii, illi Ar; Calhoun,
ATTOlii KYS-AT-LAW
PALATKA, FLO III DA.
Special attention paid to Insurance, Keal Es
tate and Collection of Claims. Will practice in
State and Federal courts.
A. AV.KOVSIK),
ATT OUN IS Y-AT-LAW
Office opposite St. John's Hotel,
Lemon Stuket, - Falatka, Fla.
it. :mtc3a:v,
AT TOK TV llY-AT-LAAV
Agent for Sale and Purchase of
FLOHI 1 A I. A IN 1
Palatka. Flohida.
Notary Public State of Florida.
W. II. W1"S,
AT T O 1 IN 1 : Y-AT-LAW
Office Lemon st., Mann's Building, Upstairs.
Pai.atk a, Fi.onitiA.
PALATKA HOTELS.
J UAI I AJI'S HOTEL
S. (i BA H AM, Proprietor.
Corner Lemon and Water streets,
PALATKA. FLORIDA.
rpi I i: AV.IT.MOIC I -21 ,ATV I.
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
"White Sii.i'iiiTit Watee, Hot and Coei
Sii.fiirit Baths.
Bus meets all trains and steamers.
OPEN AI.I, THE VEAK.
I AlfclvirV HOUSE,
I j ,
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
Add it ion built last summer of forty-live rooms.
Accommodations for iV) guests.
Open December 15. JSS:?.
LAKKIN & ALLEN, Proprietors.
DUTNAr ii oust:,
1 December to May. PALATKA, FLA.
TITVIS01t IIOTEE.
V 1 )ec. to May. J A CK SON V I LLE, FLA .
l?OUINOX IIOUST
lJ JimotoOct.,
MANtTl ESTER, VT.
No Dogs Taken.
F. If. OKVIS.
BOUNTY C'OXTltT.
J PUTNAM COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Office hours, 10 a. lit. to:j p. m.
Justice 'oitrt First Monday in each
month. Benj. Hahhisox,
County J udge.
J. H, MERRYDAY,
HOUSE AND SIGH PAINTER,
Corner Oak and Fourth Streets.
A. .T. I5E 11 S?Sr,
NURSERYMEN
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
ALL FRUITS C.UOWN SUITED TOTIUS
iv climate. Catalogue free.
CUAS-i. 1:. S3IITII,
Fresh Meats and Poultry
Always on Ilnntl at
SMITH'S STAND
On AViitM Street.
HARRY HEATH
Practical Watchmaker Engraver
HAN FURNISH ANY WATCH MA DE 20
KJ per cent lower than any house in the state.
Call and see. Can be found at, the music store
opposite St. John's Hotel, Lemon street, Pa
latka, Florida.
READY FOR THE
M OSQUITOES
I have just received a' larrsJlotVif
MOSQUITO NETS
DIFFERENT STYLE. ALSO
FIFTY PIECES NEW PATTERNS
-OF-
AT LOW FRICES.
WALNUT, ASH & PAINTED
CHAMBER SUITS
A FULL ASSORTMENT.
B. L. LILIENTHAL
Floor
latting
-AJI JCOZBSOTsTS
ONE PRICE STORE
o
DRESS GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
NEW LINEN LAWNS, PIQUES, SATEENS AND SUMMER SILKS.
LADIES HATS AND TRIMMINGS IN GREAT VARIETY.
A FULL LINE OF. HOSIERY, GLOVES AND CORSETS.
Gent's Furnishing Goods, Clothing and Hats.
FINE PHILADELPHIA MADE SHOES FOR GENTS AND LADIES
EVERY PAIR
ONLY FIRST-CLASS GOODS
WHOLESALE AND
Hardware
inc.,
A FULL AND COMPLETE
Hardware and
1
WE ASK AN INSPECTION OF OUR STOCK.
GRIFFIN'S BRICK BLOCK, CORNER
PALATJiA,
B. F. McGRAW & SON,
Buffalo Bluff Niirs'y
ALL ORANGE STOCK
FromSoiirJtothe Best Varieties
ONE" VARIETY OF
STH AW 11101 C 1 S T 12S, VIZ:
FEDERAL POINT, ORT . m
FLORIDA FOUNDLING
ICE CREAM AND
LEMONADE
S-ilSKVUO DAIT.Y
BY
H. A. Meyer & Co
A full and complete line; of
GROCERIES
Will tie kept on hand.
BEEAD
will le served twice a day with Wagons, and
II. A. MEYER will do his own baking in fu
ture. Pahitka, Fla., March 24, 184.
WILLIAM F. FORWARD,
pioxeeh ici: uoijj-ii:
AXD DEPOT FOU
Hay, Grain, Feed, Lime, Plaster,
BRICK, CEMENT, LATH, Etc.
Established in 1S80. Heid's Prick Block, front
ing wharf, PALATKA, FLA.
OUARANTEED.
KEPT AT THIS STORE
RETAIL DFALERS IN
Groceries,
KTC.
LINE OF I'. YEYT1I I N(i IN THE
Grocery Lim
FRONT AND LEMON STREETS.
FLOI J I DA .
LARGEST PUBLISHING HOUSE
I IV THIS STATU
RED CROSS PRESS. '
Warren, Thayer & Co.,
Steam Book & Job
PRINTERS
REID STREET, PALATKA, FLORIDA.
U A VINO FITTED UP AN ENTIRELY
new ollicc. we urc rpan-l toilo all kinds
ii Moi.k ;uil Job .l int inir. Hook ltiii(Jin
Stcrcoty.jiitr, Enjrra iiitf, etc.
Our fiicilif ics lire unsiiriuiwcd by any office
in the state. Wv lmvu the only Chromatic
Press in Florida, ju iitt injr any number of col
ors at. one impression, ulso tint only Railroad
Ticket Presx anl Nunilx-rinK Attachment,
print inf H.imi tickets an hour.
Callaml see us. Estimates on all clns.es of
work cheerfully furnished. A trial order will
satisfy all that we can do the lest work done
in the state.
WARREN, THAYER & CO.,
Reid street, near Putnam Houbo.
PIANOS! ORGANS!
3Iui:il In! 111111411 -iikI
SEWING MACHINES,
l,'li'Uj for Osxwli and on Tnsy
terms of payment when sold on install
ment plan. I buy direct from rnanufacturerg
and irive my customers benefits of commissions
paid to "Ajrents.'
$5,00 to $25.00 Saved!!!
Machines and Onrans sbiped to nny railroad
depot ar steamUiat lanlin within tifty milet
ot I'alutku, with privilege of examination and
icnirn at my exjtenso tree of cost, if not ier
tcctly satisfactory.
C. F. SULZNER,
"fieni C;ity"3rulc- f-itor,
CALHOUN PLOCK, Ix-tnon Street.
0'KEEFE & M'KINLAY,
Machinists, Boilermakers and
Blacksmiths.
T EPA IKING SPECIA LLLY ATTENDED
t to. New and second hand machinery
lioujrht and sold. Engineers supplies cheap.
Corner lieid and Second streets.
ft