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PALATKA THE j i VOLUME I. PALATKA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 27. 1884. NUMBER 104. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES. THE IjATKST m:ws from ALL PARTS BY AVIKK AM) CABLE. TREMENDOUS FIXM)D. New York, June 25. Private advices from Pena Blanca, south of Fort Davis, Texas, say that a CTeat water rush from aljove on the Itio Grande has come down and is now filling the (J rand Canons of San Carlos, San Vicente and Itio Grande to a depth of more than 300 feet, and is spreading with great devastation. SHOT IN A STREET CAR. City of Mexico, June 25. Military Cadet Gonzales, the President's twenty year old son, was riding in a street car yesterday with Captain Pedro Garza, professor in the military school, when he became involved in a quarrel with General Major's son, and the latter, with his servant, was shot dead by Garza. A DEAD MAN'S DRIVE. Richfield Springs, N. Y., June- 25. The severe storm which vL-:i.ted this place yesterday afternoon Aid iiWe damage in the surrounding county than in the im mediate vicinity of Richfield Springs. Jack Waffle started from this village with a load of lurnier for Springlield, and when about three miles from the village the lightning knocked down one of his horses and killed himself. The horse finally recovered and got up, and the team took the wagon to the home of Waffle's father, the hands of the dead man still grasping the lines. death in the cream. Pittsburo, June 25. A special from Coal Bluff, Pennsylvania, says: "Satur day evening last eleven persons ate ice cream in a saloon, and within two hours the entire party were taken with vomit ing and pains in the stomach. Several were thrown into convulsions. The party conned of William Conlin, his wife and child; Joseph Conlin, Mrs Wilson, a widow with three children; Thomas Williams, Robert Cook and a negro man. One of Mrs. Wilson's chil dren died yesterday, and to-night one of the men died. Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Conlin are not expected to live, and the children are v6rjlow. There is groat excitement over- the aJTair. Coal Blulf is a small mining town on the Monongahela river, sixteen miles from here." rftVv itUftiDlW UP MORMONISM. children, a plurality of wives is a bless ing to civilization." "But, nevertheless, this part of your religion is a crime among civilized ih.h rle-" "It is not according to the law of God," declared Mr. Nye. "We are civilized; and more so than our oppressors. The latter object more to our belief in direct revelation than anything else. We are the true believ ers, and our converts come with us knowing this and believing as we be lieve." One of the single women in the party with whom the reporter had a conversa tion said that her parents hadlelieved in "Mormonism for many years, and had Kent her to Utah because they could not get enough money to go there themselves. "They will come over here," she con tinued, "as soon r,n they can get the money and will join me in Utah. "What are your intentions there? "I um going to mv uncle, but I suj- pose I shall marry some man who loves me." "Do you ltelieve in a plurality of wives "Well, I don't like the idea, and would not care to marry a man with another wife if I truly loved him. Mother says it would lie better for me to marry a man who could support me, with twenty other wives, than one who could not support himself, let alone a wife." Several single men in the party are going to Utah to earn a living, which thev could not do in England. They believe in Mormonism, and will follow its teachings, and will, if successful in business, have no objection to a plurality of wives. The entire party started for Utah late in the afternoon on a special train over the Erie railroad. They will distribute themselves in all portions of the tern tory. STATE PKKSS. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Arrival of Another Large Hatch of Immigrants for Utah. New York World. The largest party of Mo.inon converts which has been landed here in several years passed through Castle Garden yes terday on their way to Utah. They came in the steerage of the Guion steam er Arizona, and were accompanied by twenty-five Mormon missionaries. The whole party were under the leadership of Elder E. H. Nye, who has been abroad for several years. The other returni ng missionaries had been six months to two years abroad, and are well satisfied with their work. The converts, numlering ,r0fin all, are mostly in families and are from Scandinavia, with the exception of 100 who were gathered in England, Scot land and Wales, principally the former place. There are no Irish converts among them. An unusual number of little children are with the party, but very few old people leing noticed. Mar riageable young women and men are also scarce, there not leing over 100 in all. Mr. Nye said yesterday: "Many of these people have leen converts to the Mormon faith for twenty or thirty years and were only waiting for an opportuni ty to go to Utah." "Did the church pay the passage of any of them?" asked a World reporter. "Not one. These people all saved enough to bring themselves here, and numy have snug little sums of money alout them to invest in agricultural im plements or some business: for we have many skilled mechanics in the party." "Will the church provide them with lands for cultivation?" "No free gifts of any kind will le made. People here have made a great mistake in reference tothis immigration. The church offers them nothing but a cood true leligion. If we were to offer prenv.ams for converts to our religion we could fill " Utah Territory in two years with people from the Old World. Every kouI who goes to Utah- from Euroje goes of his own accord and without any in ducements from us." "Are many attracted to the faith by your belief regarding matrimony?" "Emphatically they are not," and Mr. Nve lecame indignant. "People here again make a mistake in this particular. We lelieve in direct revelation from the Iiord Jesus Christ through our prophets, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and John Taylor, our present leader. The Lord favors and commands a plurality of wives as communicated to our prophets, and the Lord lelieves this command makes the world better and cleaner. Hu man nature is prone to wickedness, and you will find that in lands where polyg amy is a belief female debauchery and weakness are at their minimum. Any woman would prefer to be an honorable mother and wife to leading the other life, and where a man has wealth and can give his attention to his wives and The Carpet baa Savannah News. The Southern States have so prospered since thev have been under democratic rule that the people have almost forgot ten the days of carpetbag and scalawag corruption, and in the North a large part of the population look upon the charges of misrule in the South, made against the republican party, as gross exaggerations or absolute fabrications. A reminder of the carpetbag era goes to the country in the shape of an inter view, in tho Chicago Herald, with ex Governor of South Carolina Moses, alias Dr. Warren, now confined in jail at that city on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences: "Sometimes," said the ex-Governor, with a bitter smile. "I think it would have leen better for me if I had gone to Washington and got a clerkship. People call me a thief because I was Governor of South Carolina in a corrupt era, but I want to say right now that the bulk of the stealing, the horrible crimes in legis lation, the awful corruption and defiance of decency, which ran South Carolina's debt to $22,000,000, was before I came into the Governorship. I had nothing to do with Scott and Parker and John Pat terson and their New York man, Kimp- ton. They were the ones that piled the debt up. I was reckless, no doubt. I used to buy niggers for $2 to do any thinc I wanted done when I was speaker of the Assembly, and I got the money to do it with from this gang, but how they were stealing was never revealed to me. I wanted to Ixs Governor. It was a pride a personal and family pride. I saw that there was but one way make myself popular with the niggers. I did it. I flattered some, associated with others, but lought many more. It was wrong, I know. My life was ruined. I was made an outcast. I did not dare even to go back to Sumter. I had to meet my own father eve n in secret. I am now an outcast, a miserable, wretch ed jail bird, but even with that feeling I can see mv errors and blame nolxxly but myself. I say (this with the old pleading look) don't le too hard on me, now, will you?" Moses was not one of the worst of the set of villians that roblied the Southern States. For personal reasons he sought to tear down the social barriers that pre serve a cummunity pure and virtuous. But he was bad enough in all conscience. The wretched old man committed for trial is utterly friendless, deserted by those who used him in the days of his power, and even forsaken, it is said, by his wife and children. There are many others of the Moses stripe now in affluent circumstances, oc cupying high social and political posi tions and enjoying their ill-gotten gains. Surely the day of their punishment will vet come. Moses is doubtless one of those whose sins have gone beforehand to judgment. No doubt, even in the hevday of his power, Moses was a sneak thief at heart, but it is more than likely that when the Just Ruler of the Universe renders his judgment on the deeds of all , men it will le t-etter for the petty thief j than for the magnificent plunderers of I the carpetbag era. Peen-to peaches are plentiful in Co lumbia county. An unknown sail loat has been found adrift on Tampa Bay. Spongers from Apalachicola are meet ing with goxl success. A fruit evaporator at Quincy is having all the work it can attend to. The Gordon road from Wildwood to Sumterville is to le finished at once. An effort is being made to have the Baptist Female College erected at Gain esville. The farmers of Middle Florida have aid by their crop of corn and turned their attention to the cotton, which pros- ect is very flattering. A freak of nature in the shape of an ear of corn, surrounded by thirty-six small ones, forming a bunch, has loen found in Hamilton county. Fifteen hundred acres of the Disston amis on I-'ike Tahopekaliga last week sold for upwards of $5,000. There are six counties in the State that lave no bar-rooms, and of these four are in South Florida Sumter, Polk, Ilills- lxrough and Manatee. . Sugar cane culture is rapidly increas ing in importance on suitable lands along the Caloosahatchee for a stretch of coun try extending abmt 35 miles above Myers. The cane fields range from five to forty acres in extent, and the growth this season is already very promising. . Campaign Humor. Ratified candidates and rectified whis key are absorbing attention throughout republican states. St. Imis Critic. Ben Butler is the original and only performer able to do a double shuffle on two platforms without missing a step. Troy Telegram. Beecher insists that Hayes was a polit ical poultice, but a very weak one. He was only strong enough to draw Mr. lil- den's salary. San Francisco Examiner. Henry Ward Beecher wants to be counted against Blaine "100 times." Does the Brooklyn divine propose to train with the repeaters next fall? Chi cago Inter Ocean. One of the Chicago paiers puts it as "Blaine's tin pan boom." They proba bly resorted to a tin pan rather than a drum because they couldn't beat the tat too. Dubuque Democrat. In placing Logan on the ticket in stead of nominating a colored man, the republicans wished to acknowledge the war record of a hero. Every Confeder ate knows what a panic fear seized the Southern regiments whenever the voice of Logan, thus addressing his men, was heard upon the austral breezes: "Fellow- soldiers ! the eyes of the world is on us ! I hope nobody won't give no quarter in the battle to-day! I don't propose to give no man a show ! Their graves is dug ! Forward, march !" Louisville Courier Journal. Jso. T. Walker, E. M. Vary, Jacksonville. Palatka. aVttoruytSc Counsellors, PALATKA. FLORIDA. Office in Griffin's Brick Block. BESJ. PUTNAM CALHOVN. IRVING G1LL3S. WM. IJWNDKS CALHOCN. Calhoun, CiilllK fc Oalliomi, ATTOKN KYS-AT-LAW PALATKA, FLORIDA. Special attention pai1 to Insurance, Kcal Es tate ami Collection of Claims. Will practice in State anl Federal courts. -AT I. JACOBSOIT'S RISY DU 1 V. AV. HOYHDON, ATT O T IV 1 : A -AT-LAW Office opposite St. John's Hotel, ONLY FIRST-CLASS Lemon Street, Paijvtka, Fua. It. 31 olvlVIV, AT TORN EY-AT-LAW Atfent for Sale ami Purchase of JP I. O II I 1 A I. A IN' D H Pai.atka. Florida. Notary Pulilic State of Florida. 3V. II. AVIGO, AT TOKNE Y-AF-LAW Office Lemon st., Mann's Building, Upstair. PALATKA, Fl.OKIPA. ents' Furni shins PAYING REGULAR PRICES, CHEAPER THAN AT OTHER PLACES FOR COST. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. PALATKA HOTELS. fi lt.,YIIA3I'H IlO L Jil... S. GRAHAM, Proprietor. Corner Lemon and Water streets. PALATKA, FLORIDA. rpi IIS Wi:HT 31 'Oil IS L. l. PALATKA, FLORIDA. White Sulphur Water, Hot ano Colk Sulphur Haths. Bus meets all trains and steamers. open all the yeah. WHOLESALE AND RCTA1L DEALERS IN Hardware L AIIKIIV HOUHE, PALATKA. FLORIDA. Addition built last summer of forty-five rooms. Accommodations for 300 tfucsts. Open December 15. 18SJ. LAItKIN & ALLEN, Proprietors. , JBlk Gro ETC., ETC. A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE OF EYEYTHL, IE 1 I)UTNAI HOUSE, I . December to May. PALATKA, FLA. yri:vi!-oit TTotisi., V Dec. to Slay. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. roui'ox IIOTTMIS, Vj ) une to Oct., MAN CM ESTER, VT. No Dogs Taken. r- 1L ORVIS. U PUTNAM COUNTY, FLORIDA. Office hours, 10 a. in. to 3 p. m. Justice Court First Monday in each month. Hkn.i. Harrison, County Judjre. Don't Need to leline. New York Evening Post (Rep.). Maine's formal letter of acceptance is not expected till after the democratic convention, but it will make little differ ence when it appears. A candidate who can say that after giving that Chicago platform careful study ho is able to ap prove it unqualified, does not need to define his views any further. Sergeant Edward McCuire, familiarly known as "The Old Sergeant," of Fort Marion, at St. Augustine, died Wednes day and was buried yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, with military honors. T?ck: A.. .1. 15IS.VCII fc SON, NURSERYMEN PALATKA, FLOR1 DA. LL FRUITS GROWN SUITED TO THIS climate. Catalogue free. Lift ardware and Grocery m ASK m INSPECTION QF OUR STOCK. GRIFFIN S BRICK BLOCK, CORNER FRONT AND LEMON STREETS PALATKA, irr-OItllXA.. B F. McGRAW & SON, j LARGEST PUBLISHING HOUSE CIIAS. IS. Fresh Meats and Poultry Always on I land at SIXTH'S STAMD On Wider Street . Buffalo Bluff Burs'y ALL ORANGE STOCK From Sour to the Best Varieties HARRY HEATH Practical Watchmaker Engraver f IAN FURNISH ANV WATCH MADE 20 Kj per eent lower than any house in i lie state. Call and see. Can lie found at the music more opposite St. John's Hotel, li'iimn street. I'a latka, Floriiia. J. H. MERRYDAY, HOUSE AND SIGH PAINTER, Corner Oak and Fourth Streets. MEAT AND FISH MARKET! W- IS. CKOSS, (At Smith's old Stand.) Water Street, - - Palatka, Florida Fresh Meats and Fish always on hand. LIVEETI The late Rogers Bey. tlie great Egypt ologist and Arabic scholar, and the dis coverer of the tombs of the caliphs, leaves a wonderful collection of Arab coins worth some 6,000, Parties wishing to purchase an excel lent quality of Georgia Brick, cheap, will do well to call on Drew, H. L & Gardner, SEASONED CYPRESS LUMBER DOWELS, CHAIR SEATS FURNITURE REPAIRED, VAR NISHED & RE-UPHOLSTERED -AT- : OSCAR W. YOUNG'S ' Lemon street, one door east Convent: ! Saws Filed 20 Years Experience. i State of Florida, County Court for Putnam County. ; In the matter of the estate of Frederick D. Lento, deceased. Notice is hereby jriven that the undernamed :haslieen appointed by the county court or , ,,mn m,ni - m t mt Putnam county. Florida, administrator of the A T) U 1 T R A TOR S A OTIC E estate of Frederick Ii. Lente. deceased. All i AUJlliMOI lUHUit O JAUX IXJj ! persons having any demands atraiitft the es tate of paid deceased are hereby notified to ; present the same to the undersigned, within ' the time presented by law or this notice will lie iilended ill luiiv William Kemble Lente. Administrator of the Estate of Frederick D. Lente, deceased, falatka, Florida. For a First-Class Horse and Buggy, JS.VDDI HORSES Or anything in that line, go to the STABLES of JOHN RAMSAUR, FRONT ST., : PALATKA, FLA. j Prices Moderate. Only Stables in ! the Uity. ONRZVAUIFTY OF. ST 1 S AAV1J K 12151 KS, VI X FEDERAL POINT, OR 11V THIS HTATIi1 RED GROSS PRESS. "5 FLORIDA FOUNDLING ICE CREAM AND LEMONADE HAVING 1'EEN DULY QI AL1 r I fc. I ) As Administ -atorof the estate of Joseph H. i Mann, 1 herebv require all claim? an I nemards against sani estste to ue iwh-w no i'i in scribed bv law. or this notice will lie pleaded in bar; ai.d ail debtors are warned to make immediate settlnient to the undersiimed. A.W. MANN, Administrator hi:hvi:i daita HY H. A. Meyer & Co; A full and complete line of GROCERIES Will le kept on hand. IB BEAD will be served twice a day with Wajrons, and H. A. MEYER will do his own baking in fu ture. Palatka, Fla., March 24. WILLIAM F. FORWARD, PIONKKU ICE iioui: ASD DEPOT FOR Hay, Grain, Feed, Lime, Plaster, BRICK, CEMENT, LATH', Etc. Established in 180. Reid' Iiriek Block, front ing wharf, PALATKA, FLA, Warren, Thayer & Co., Steam Book k Job PRINTERS REID STREET, PALATKA, FLORID. HAVING FITTED VP AN ENTIRELY new ollicc. we are prepared to do till kiiw of Itook and .lob prijitinir. Hook Rinding1 Stereotyping, EnKnivin;r, etc. tir facilities are nniirpaK.sed by any offlct in the Kiate. We have the only Chromatic Press in Florida, printing any numlxT of col ors at one iinprcKKion, alno the only Kan road Ticket Press and Numtieriiitf Attachment, printing 14,K) ticket an hour. ( all and seo us. Kstmatcs on all claswdof work cheerfully furnished. A trial order will satisfy all that we can do the lx-st work done in the (Mate. WARREN, THAYER & CO., Reid street, near Putnam House. PIANOS ! ORGANS ! SEWING MACHINE., 71i-n 1 for Cnwli nucl tux J-'r. . terms of c.yi- nt when sold on i),s ( 1 : merit plan. I t.i'y ',;rect. from rnanuf 9 i nndjrive my cti! :....-! lienefits of eoua.. ! paid to "A rem-." i $5.00 to $25.00 Saved! j 1 Machine and 0r - hipped to any t ! deit or MteHHiboai !.ui-;p(? within fl ' j of 1-aiutka, with tir:v:.' :: of examine' ; return at rny exp. f cost, if I fectly witislactory. C. F. SULZNEt. "fieni Clty'VIiiIo Htore. CALHOU iu :CK. Lemon St 0'KEEFE & ivVKINLAY, Machinists, Boilermakers a Blacksmiths. TJEPAIKING SPECIALITY ATTEND? It IV to. New and second hand machinery lupht and Bold. Engineers supplies cheap. Corner Reid and Second streets. r