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VOLUME I.
i'ALATKA. FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 11. 1881.
NUMBER 93.
A Better Man Than Garfield.
New York Sun.
We have been somewhat interested to
learn the exact reason why so many dis
tinguished republicans and so many
hitherto faithful republican newspapers
refuse this year to support the candidate
of the party.
The grounds of objection resolve them
selves mainly into the assertion that Mr.
Blaine is personally a corrupt man. "As
Sp-aker of the House of Representatives,"
says the New York Times, "he bartered
his official influence for private gain."
The Brooklyn Union speaks of "his ve
nality." "Mr. Blaine," says the Satur
day Evening Gazette, of Boston, "is a
man whose integrity in private life has
been successfully assailed." The semi
religious, semi-political Independent has
"no heart to go into Mr. Blaine's private
record. We regard it," adds the Inde-
Iendent, "as not that of a man fit to le I
the candidate of the republican party."
Another religious contemporary, the
Baptist Weekly, remarks: "Ca-sar's wife
should lie above suspicion, and a man
who aspires to the Presidential chair
should le alove the charges which dis
honor the oflicial life of Mr. Blaine."
The expressions of individual opinion
coi respond to the utterances of the dis
satisfied newspapers. We find the lelief
in Mr. Blaine's personal dishonesty pre
sented with every degree of candor from
the declaration of Daniel Cliambcrlian,
the head of the gang who plundered
South Carolina, that "to ask support for
such a candidate is an insult to any hon
est man or republican," to the blunt as
sertion of the fellow who was put out of
the New York custom house for calling
Mr. Blaine a thief.
The bolting republicans say that they
cannot support Mr. Blaine liecauso lie is
a corrupt man. As the St. Jxmis Globe
Democrat put the case, a few days le fore
the convention, "ho is an unclean man,
and the people will not have him. He
stands self-convicted of prostituting the
high offices ho has held to build up a pri
vate fortune, of cohabiting with corrup
tion for dishonest money."
If the republican opposition to Mr.
Blaine proceeds from a sincere lielief that
lie is unfit to be President, and from the
single desire to promote the cause of hon
est government by repudiating a candi
date'of proved dishonesty, the movement
is highly creditable to the newspapers
and the men who are its leaders. Is
that the case ?
Four years ago, every one of the news
pajHTs from which we have quoted un
favorable opinions respecting James G.
Blaine's personal integrity, supported
James A. Garfield for President of the
United States. Many other republican
journals that now decline to lift a finger
for Blaine were zealous advocates of
Garfield. Some of them, in accepting
the nomination of the Ohio man. were
forced to swallow utterances of their
own respecting the candidate of ISfr'O
quite as positive and damnatory as any
thing ever said about the candidate of
1881. What a season of humiliation, of
retraction, of self -stultification that was
for the republican press ! Yet, without
any conspicuous exception that we now
recall, the newspapers that had judged
Garfield and condemned him on the re
corded evidence of his personal dishonesty
tumbled over each other in their eager
ness to shield and defend the convict as
soon as an accident had made him the
candidate of the party. The Garfield of
the Poland committee's report and of the
De Golj er investigation was immediately
replaced for campaign purposes, and
since then for historical display, by an
other Garfield of a very d liferent moral
complexion. It has been proved that
such transformation is not impossible;
why is it not undertaken for the benefit
of Blaine?
Wo have failed to discover any process
of comparison that does not exhibit Mr.
Blaine as Gen. Garfield's sujKrior in
point of moral respectability, as he un
questionably is in intellectual force. Say
the worst that has been charged against
Blaine, and worse still has lieen proved
aliout Garfield. Mr. Blaine's personal
dishonesty has lcen declared by a
committee of his republican associates in
Congress; he was acquitted of participa
tion in the Credit Mobilier bribery by
the very court that convicted Garfield.
Mr. Blaine has no occasion to pray for
the suppression of the Poland report.
Mr. Blaine is accused of using his oppor
tunities as Speaker of the House for the
promotion of his private fortune; we
know of no check that has been traced
directly from the lobby into his hands.
Mr. Blaine's republican constituents have
never demanded his removal from office
locause he was a bribe-taker and a per
jurer. Was there anybody personally
acquainted with the two men who would
not rather have had Blaine's word than
Garfield's bond?. Mr. Blaine suffered
sunstroke at a time when his testimony
was wanted by an investigating com
mitee; we have never heard at any time
he con tern plated suicide as the only way
out of his troubles. Mr. Blaine may
have gone down on his knees before
Mulligan; who can say that he has
raised his hand before God while swear
ing to a lie?
Why, then, should respectable republi-1 feet below the surface of the sea. At 3,
can voters and newspapers that supiortet.jSvX ft the temperature lowers to 40 de
Garfield reject Blaine? (trees Fahr., and from alxmt a mile from
STATE PRESS.
The Government has established a new
postoffice at Bloomfield, near Yalaha,
Florida.
Sweet oranges have now alnicst en
tirely disappeared in the Indian River
region.
Tomato growing is becoming quite a
business on the Indian river, and next
season's shipments will be unprece
dented. A large saw mill firm from the north
ern part of the State are going to put in
a seventy horse-power mill at (Spring
Garden as soon as the railroad i fin
ished. Captain Pllster, of Key West, has
made a proposition in writing to con
tribute 200 or 300 feet square on lots 18
or 19 for $2,000, to be taken in hotel
stock, as a site for tie hotel. Other
propositions have been made verbally.
A staunch and swift vessel, capable o
making the run from Cedar Key toCVar
Water within six or seven hours, is con
tracted to lo built in readiness for the
fall trade. Th;s boat is to be named the
Governor Sallord, will cost $3700, and
of this amount $12,200 goes into the en
gines. Some time ago El5 Hutchinson, of
Gainesville, had his horse stolen. De
tectives were put on his track, who suc
ceeded in capturing Robert Bronson, a
white man. at Trenton, a few days ago.
He was tiied in Justice Cotirt at that
place, and in default of $1,000 ba;' was
taken to Archer, to lie brought
to the county jail at Gainesville,
to await trial at the next term of court.
When the train reached Gainesville sta
tion, and its speed had somewhat slack
ened, the prisoner, although securely
handculfed; jumped through the window
and escaped. He. was fired iqon several
times, but nono of the shots took effect.
Dynamiters in Key West.
Key AVest, Fla., June 12. Upon the
arrival of the Mallory line staamer, late
last nighl, from New York, Frederico
Gil Marerro was arrested on a charge of
having explosives in his possession, upon
an affidavit of the United States District
Attorney. Since tho quarantine season
the Mallory steamers have not come to
the wharf, but anchor at the quarantine
ground, and the passengers and freight
are brougt ashore in boats. Upon Mar
rero's stepping into the boat he was ar
rested by the UnIfe(T Marshal under a
wairant from United States Commis
sioner Locke, and lodged in jail. The
information in the caso was probably re
ceived from officials in New York.
Marrero is a resident of Key West.
He went to N ew York a few waeks ago,
and his mission was evidently known
through detectives. Upon searching his
baggage the detectives found fuse, deno
lating caps and books of instruction
upon the manufacture of dynamite.
Marrero was airaigned before Com
missioner Locke to-day, and held until
to-morrow at 10 o'clock under $2,000
bail. Marrero is a Cuban, and affected
not to speak English until the officials
commenced to search his baggage, when
he exclaimed: "I did not know baggage
was searched here, coming from an
American port."
The vigilance of the officials has
doubtless caused the dynamiters to im
port materials separately and manufac
ture dynamite, etc., here.
Blaine ami t he Montoziuiias.
City of Mexico, June 13. The news
papers continue discussmg the nomina
tion of Blaine. La L'bertad, anti-American,
says it hopes for the election of
B'aine, for Mexico has more to fear from
a friendly president than from one who
is avowedly hostile, regarding it as
"more to the interest of Mexico to deal
with her neighbor in a spirit of want of
confidence and reserve than to hob-nob
with traitors who pretend to be friends
in order to lecome masters."
MILKS UNDER THE SEA.
Eislies that Carry Lanterns and
Light Up the Ocean Depths.
Many curious forms of fishes have re
cently l(een found in the deep sea. One
fish, dredged from a depth of nearly three
miles from the surface, shows'a complete
modification of structure. At this dis
tance from the surface the pressure can
hardly lie realized. It is estimated that this
fish has to contend against a pressure
equal to tvo and a half tons to every
square inch of surface. A sealed glass
tuK inclosed in a perforated copper cov
ering, ha at two milts leen reduced to
fine powder, while the metel was twisted
out of shape. Yet the fishes are so con
structed that they withstand the pressure.
Their l(ony and muscular systems are not
fully develojied; the bones are permeated
with pores and fissures. The calcareous
matter is at a minimum, and the l(ones
of the vertenv are joined together so
loosely that in lifting the larger fishes
out of the water they often fall apart.
The muscles are all thin, and the con
nective tissue seems almost wanting. Yet
these fishes are able to dart about and
capture prey.
Sunlight penetrates only about 1,200
the surface to the liottom, four or five
miles, the world over just aliove freez
ing. How do the fishes and other forms
that live here see? Then- eyes are modi
fied as well as their other parts. The
fishes that live 500 feet from the surface
have larger eyes than those in the zone
above them, so that they can absorb the
faint rays that re?ch them. In a zone
lelow this many forms with small eyes
liegin to have curious tentacles, feelers or
organs of touch.
Many of these deep sea fish have spe
cial organs upon their sides and heads
that are known to possess a luminous
quality. Other organs are considered
accessory eyes, so that the fishes have
rows of eyes upon their ventral surfaces
looking downward, while near are lumi
nous spots that provide them with light.
One of the largest of these deep sea torch
bearers is a fish six feet long, with a tall
dorsal fin extending nearly the entire
length of the body. The tips of this fin
are luminous, and also the broad patch
upon its head. Along the sides of the
body are a double row of luminous spots.
One of the most ferocious of these deep
sea forms is the Chanliodus. Its mouth
is fairly overflowing with teeth that pro
trude in a most forbidding manner. The
fins are all tipied with flaming spots,
while along the dorsal surface extends a
row of sj)Ots that appear like so many
shining windows in the fish, through
which light is shining.
The little fishes called Bombay ducks
are luminous all over their entire surface,
and when numliersare collected together
the present an astonishing spectacle.
One of the most interesting of these light
givers is the Chiasmadus, a fish that at
tains a length of only thirteen inches.
The top of its head is the principle liht
giving organ, and its fins gleam 'with
phosphorescent light. It is not alone re
markable as a light-giver. It has a jaw
so arranged that it can seize fish twice its
size and easily swallow them. H Ittwetom
ach lias the elastic quality of india rub
ber. It stretches to enormous proportions
and appears like a great transparent bal
loon hanging under the fish and eontain
its prey. n
The last expedition sent out by" Franco
1 rough t to l'ght some remarkable forpis.
The dredge off Morocco brought up from
a depth of one and a half miles a fish
that appeared to be all head or mouth. It
was of small size, and the length of the
mouth, was about four-fifths of the entire
tiody; so that, if the ImkIv had lieen sev
ered behind the head, it and two or three
like it couid have been stowed away in its
capacious pouch. It probably moves
very slowly, scooping mud and ooze into
its mouth, sifting out the animal parts
and rejecting the rest.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Miss Rachael Ewing, the oldest teach
er in the Pittsburg (Pa.) public schools,
has just resigned her position, at the age
of 7j. She liegan when but a girl, and
kept at her work until compelled to de
sist by the infirmities of age.
Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court,
should be the patron saint of tourists; he
rendered the decision three months ago
that all wearing apparel was duty free,
if intended to be worn by the importer,
whether it was worn already or not.
Fred Ward's liabilities foot up over
$700,000 for furniture, $l:J.i for hats and
5 for bread. Why, even in his astonish
ing recklessness, he should have allowed
such a bill to iun up for bread is among
the unexplained wondeis of Wall street.
The biggest man in the late republican
convention was Mr. Ruth (IoIkt. lie is
a master of height and flesh, and seems
to be perfectly healthy. Indian-looking,
hair black and straight, he would apjear
to be over seven feet high and. probably,
to weigh GOO pounds.
Edwin P.ooth is said to le gradually
withdrawing from theatrical life. He
recently told a friend that he took no in
terest in theatr ical affairs, and longed for
the time when he could get away from
it altogether. He has determined to play
only twenty weeks next year.
Oscar Wilde, who was mairied last
Tuesday to Miss Constance Lloyd, has
written "a silly and thoroughly character
istic letter to a friend, in which he says
he has not been disappointed in married
life. He feels confident of his ability to
sustain its labors and anxieties, and sees
an opportunity in his new relations of
realizing a poetical coceptijn which he
has long entertained. He says that Lord
Rtaconstield taught the peers of England
a new style of oratory, and similarly he
intends to set an example of the pervad
ing influence of art in matrimony.
Mr. Blaine is the first Presidential can
didate from New England since the days
of Franklin Pierce. In 18o2 the East had
two men in the field, both citizens of
New Hampshire Pierce and John P.
Hale. The latter was l un by the Free
Sellers, lie carried no State,, and re
ceived onlv 156, 000 votes, as against
1.3SG,000 for General Scott and 1,001,000
I for Mr. Pierce. But four years later the
i republican party, inheriting the Free
i Soil traditions, gave Fremont eleven
States and almost as many popular votes
j as Scott received in "52. The Adamses
weie New England Presidents before
! Pierce.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
TJENJ. PUTNAM CALHOUN. IRVING G1LI.1S.
TM. LOWNDES CALHOUN.
Cnlliouii, Ciillisfc Calliomi,
ATIO IS IV mS-AT-LAW
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
Special attention paid to Insurance, Ileal Es
tate and Collection of Claims. Will practice in
State anil Federal courts.
A,. W. liOYSDON,
ATT O IV E Y-AT-LAW
Office opposite 8t. John's Hotel,
Lemon Ptheet,
PALATKA, FLA.
AT TOI IV EY.AT.LAW
Agent for Sale and Purchase of
FLORIDA LANDS
Pai.atka, Flokida.
Notary Public iStatc of Florida.
AV. II. WIO'CS,
AT T 0 l. TV E Y-AT-LAW
Office Lemon St., MannV Building-, Upstairs.
Palatka, Flokida.
PALATKA HOTELS.
Q.ltAIIA.31'!- HOTEL.
S. G RAHAM, Proprietor.
Corner Lemon and Water streets,
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
rpi ITZ AV1-:STI Oil EI AN1 ).
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
AViiitf. .Srr.rnru Watku, Hot and Cold
Sulchuu Paths.
Pus meets all trains and steamers.
OPEN ALL THE YEAIt.
j Aiticirv house,
I'ALATKA, FLORIDA.
Addition built last summer of forty-five rooms.
Accommodations for ;ou quests.
Open December 15. 1SS;1.
' LARKIX & ALLEN, Proprietors.
i)XirrTA3i iiousi':,
J December to May. PALATKA, FLA.
Af lIVI!iir 1 I()T1L,
Dec. to May. .1 ACKSON V 1 LLE, FLA.
t7uitv:a: iioitsii.
Aid J untf to Oct., M AN CHESTER, VT.
No Dog-s Taken. F. II. ORVIS.
C'ou:vrrv OOITISHT.
i PCTNAM COUNTY, FLORIDA.
Office hours, 10 a. in. to :! p. m.
Justice CoriiT First Monday in each
month. Pknj. Haukison,
County J udjje.
J. H. MERRYDAY,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER,
Corner Oak and Fourth Streets.
A. .T. IfHACIl fc j-iOIV,
NURSERYMEN
PALATKA, FLORIDA.
ALL FRUITS CROWN SUITED TO
1 V climate. Catalogue tree.
THIS
OIIYSS. E. SMITH,
Fresh Meats and Poultry
Always; on Hand at
SMITH'S STAND
On AVator (Street.
IRY HEATH
Practical Watchmaker g Engraver
pAX FURNISH ANY WATCH MADE 20
Vy per cent lower than any house in tin; state.
Call and see. Can be found at the music store
opposito St. John's Hotel, Lemon street, Pa
latka, Florida.
READY FOR THE
SQUITOES
I have just received a' larjrsllotlof
MOSQUITO NETS
DIFFERENT STYLE. ALSO
FIFTY PIECES HEW PATTERNS
-OF-
AT LOW PRICES.
VfllfiUT, ASH I PAINTED
! CHAMBER SUITS
i
A FULL ASSORTMENT.
?B. l. lilienthal
F bor
Hatting
-AT I. JACOBSOIn-'S
ONLY FIRST-CLASS
othing & Gents f-urnishing,
PAYING REGULAR PRICES,
CHEAPER THAN AT OTHER PLACES FOR COST. COME AND
SEE FOR YOURSELF.
WHOLESALE AND
Hardware
ETC.,
f :.
A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF EVEVTIIINC. JN THE
Mware and
WE ASK AN INSPECTION OF OUR STOCK:
GRIFFIN'S BRICK BLOCK, CORNER
PALATICA,
B. F. McGRAW & SON,
Buffalo Bluff Nurs'y
ALL ORANGE STOCK
From Sour to the Best Varieties
ONFVARIETY OF
ST I AWIt El Jl JI Eji, VI rZ.i
FEDERAL POINT, OR
FLORIDA FOUNDLING
ICE CREAM AND
LEMONADE
HKUVKD DAILY
BY
H. A. Meyer & Co
A full and compu te lin? of
GROCERIES
Will Ikj kept on hanil.
BREAD
will lc served twice a day with Wagons, and
II. A. MEYEH will do his own baking In fu
ture. Palatka. 11a., March 24. 1884.
WILLIAM F. FORWARD,
PIONEER ICE HOUSE
AND DEPOT FOR
Hay, Grain, Feed, Lime, Plaster,
BRICK, CEMENT, LATH, Etc.
Established In 1S80. Iteid's iMcflc TOoc-k, front
ing wharf, I'ALATKA, FLA.
RETAIL DEALERS IN
Groceries,
ETC.
Grocery Lin
FRONT AND LEMON STREETS
LARGEST PUBLISHING HOUSE
IN 'I'lII- HTATK
"RED GROSS PRESS. '
Warren, Thayer & Co.,
Steam Book & Job
PRINTERS
REID STREET, PALATKA, FLORIDA.
HAVING FITTED I P AN ENTIRELY
new oilice. we tire prepured to do all kindt
ol' Hook and Job printing, J look Minding
Stereotyping, Enjrruv injf, etc.
Our l'ueilities nre unsurpaKsed by any ofllca
in the Mate. We have the only Chromatio
Presri in Florida, printing any nurnlK-r of col
ors at one impression, also the only Railroad
Ticket Press anl Numbering Attachment,
printing 14.(WJ tickets an hour.
fall and pee un. Estimates on all clnswiof
work cheerfully fmnished. A trial order will
suTinly all that we can do tho best work don
in the state.
WARREN, THAYER & CO.,
Re id street, near Putnam House.
PIANOS! ORGANS I
3Iii!i?iil Insit l-umeutM mil
SEWING MACHINES,
01iaj for Oji loli niitl jilT2ny
terms of payment when sold on Install
ment plan. I buy direct from manufacturer
and u-ivp my customers ljencflta of commiMlon
paid to "Ag-ents."
$5.00 to $25.00 Saved 1 1 !
Machines and Organs chipped to any railroad
depot or steainlioat Jandinif within llfty mile
ot Palatka, with privilege of examination and
return at my expen.se free of ctst. If not per
fectly satisfactory.
C. F. SULZNER,
; in City"IisIc! Ktore,
CALHOUN BLOCK, Lemon Street.
0'KEEFE & M'KINLAY,
Machinists, Boilermakers and
Blacksmiths,
ilEPAIlUN ePECIALLLY AOTEKDED
fit to. Nev and twemd htm rftachftwiy
DouKiit and Pold. Ensrtneers Applies cheap
Corner Reid and Second street..
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