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NEWS VOLUME II. PALATKA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19. 1885. NUMBER 17. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES. Till: IjATKST XEWS FROM AM. PARTS BY M IRE AXD CARI-E. PREPAEIXO FOR CHOLERA. New York, March 17. The Board of I Iealth have directed that a tour of in3pec tion he commenced forthwith in view of the probable appearance of cholera this summer. couch's invaders reduced. Washington-, March 17. A telegram from General Hatch received at the War Department to-day says the presi dent's proclamation relative to the pro-pro:-ed invasion of the Oklahoma land had the effect of reducing the invadors to five or six hundred, and to turn back the remainder. Couch, the telegram says, continues to make threats that he will enter the Territory, but General Hatch is of the opinion that his strength will not be over six hundred men should he attempt it. PANAMA REVOLUTION. Panama, March 17, via Galveston. A revolution is in progress here. Aizpuru declared himself President yesterday, and with three hundred men attacked the barracks of the Columbian guard, the only force which opposed him. The garrison, consisting of one hundred, re sisted all day and all night, an indis criminate fusilade being maintained un til this morning, when Gomana, com mander of the Columbian Guard, aniv ed with reinforcements. All is quiet now. Colon is in the hands of the rebels, who are under tbe command of a noto rious criminal. The btores there are be ing pillaged by a mob, and the leader declares he will reduce the city to ashes if tbe government troops attempt to re capture it. THE VIRGINIA EXODUS. Lynchburg, Va., March 17. The pa pers in the counties of Southwest Virgin ia, from which emigrants are going west e Iitttle mention of the exodus ex cept in paragraphs of regret. So far the move has been principally from Grayson count', Virginia, and the adjoining counties in North Carolina, but the ex odus fever is now extending to other counties. Several railroad lines have agents in the country named making transportation contracts. Agents at Marion, Smyth county have shipped 300 jvjople, not including young children, west since March 1st, and have arrang ed for the removal of about 1,000 more by At ril 10th. Many of the emigrants are descendants cf the first settlers, and tho movement disturbs the strongest family ties in each community. Most of them are land-owners and compara tively prosperous. GEN. GRANT RESTLESS. New York, March 17. At the res- idence of Gen. Grant this morning his son, Col. "red. Grant, stated that Dr. Douglass was mistaken in lielieving the general was asleep when the doctor left the house at 11:15 o'loek last night. The general dreads to be a burden upon any one an 1 ho closed his eyes last night and lay quiet until his physician had left the house. Then ho became restless, and waa awake all night. This morning he has had no long sleep, but has dozed while sitting in two easy chairs. Mrs. Sartoris will arrive in the steamer Baltic. New York, March 17. Dr. Douglas, after a visit to Gen. Grant to-night said: "The general had a sleepless night, but he made it up to-day. lie slept much in the afternoon, and was much refresh ed by it. He was, at 11;30 to-night, in a sxind slumber. His temperature is nor mal and pulse about the same. He talked and acted brighter to night than in several days." filibusters' fates. Havana, March 17. The shooting of ltamon. Bonachea, Cornelio, Orapita, and the colored men Flutarco, Estrada, Bernandinia, Terres and Palico Cestera, leaders of the filibustering expedition captured near Manzamillo by the gun Wat Carido on the 3d of December, last took place on the morning of tho 7th inst. in tho esplanade near the Mora Castle of Santiago de Culwi. It is said that Tedro Cestera is the one who killed the captain of the Spanish steamer, Mon tezuma when that steamer was captured by Cuban filibusters near Santo Domingo in 1S78. The remaining members of the expe dition have boon sentenced by court martial as follows : Manuel Estrandat Gabriel Feral Lopez, Armando Dognlie coqurt and Pedro Peral to tho chaingang for life; Miguel Suarezy Herra and Pedro Ros to seventeen years and four Greek sailors composing the boat's ciew to 12 years imprisonment. Sergeant Riamundo Gomez Damora, who comanded the civil guards who kil led Carlos Agnero on the '2d inst., has been promoted to the rank of Ensign. Tixerto Principa paiers report the death of the celebrated bandit, Ramon Verriz, alias Calamabuceta on the 27th ult. He was killed in an encounter with the civil guards near Palmarito. Kennerly & Co. keep ou hand at all times a full line o5 hardware, etc., which is offered at price? that make sales. AX ERA OF GIMCHACKS. The Sort of Xests That Xewly-Mated Pairs Fit Up in a Crowded Town. New yyrk Mirror. I have been up town lately, visiting a pretty friend of mine, whose husband has a salary of $5,000 a year, and how jolly comfortable they might be on it if they were net permeated with the prin ciples of this era of rot. They have es tablished themselves in a stock apart ment house, where liveried servants tend the door and run the elevator. The light of heaven reaches them through stained glass and it falls in sickly greens and purples on tesselated floors. They hive in a series of closets, the smallest of them being the bed rcom. But they have no end of drapery and hangings. They have bought, with no discrimina tion and less taste, a lot of pictures real Daubinas. They are wonderfully f rained, but the frames are already open ing in every corner. They stand on fan cy easels, and the veneers are peeling off and sticking out like so many onion skins. There is no end of silver-plating on the open grates and the doors of the establishment; but my friend, being of a neat turn, has polished it so thoroughly that, after six months' occupancy, the silver is all off and streaky black takes its place. The house itself has been built perhaps two years, and a more shabbily put together edifice heart of man never conceived and hand never put up. In three more of man years it will be a warped dismantled wreck. The blamed little ginger-bread decorations are dropping off, it is tarnishing where it is metal and cracking where it is pain ted. In Case of War with Russia. Saturday Review. Russian finance is in an extremely bad state, but a war with England would cripple that finance in a variety of ways directly, as every one can see, by in creasing largely the military expendi ture, and indirectly by the blockade of the Russian ports. At present the Rus sian export trad? consists almost entirely of raw material, such as corn, flax, hemp and the like. A war would immediately lead to the blockade of the whole of the Russian ports, and all these products would be shut in, or else could be export ed only through Germany vnl Austria. The roundabout export would increase greatly the expense, and there would consequently be an immense falling off in the exports of the empire. The peas ants, already crippled by exorbitant tax ation and low prices, would be ruined by tins prohibition of exports; their mar kets would be closed against them, and they would have no profitable sale of their surplus productions. The result might be an agricultural revolt; but in any case it would increase enormously the difficulties of the government in meet ing the interest upon its xoreign tieot. In the case of India, on the the other hand, there would be no blockade; while the Russian blocade would diminish the competition with Indian wheat, ana would thus benefit the Indian farmers. Forthermore, if actual invasion were av erted and the war was fought out in Cen tral Asia, Indian production would be stimulated by the demands of all kinds for the supply of the troops, and in the long run. doubtless, markets would be opened up in Central Asia for many In dian products. The cost of tho war at the same time would be very heavy, would disorganize Indian finance, and press heavily upon the Indian taxpayer, But against the'se disadvantages is to be set, undoubtedly, trie stimulus to pro duction of all kinds to which we have re ferred. Nor is there any reason to sup pose that there is anything like so large a speculation for the rise in the case of Indian Government securities as is known to exist in the case of Russian Govern ment securities. Therefore it is not probable that the fall in Indian Govern ment securities would be nearly as heavy as in Russian Government securities, and in fact, the fall that has now occurred is due not exclusively to political causes. The Extent of Rvddiiism. Brooklyn Englo. Buddhism has overspread the eastern world like a mighty ave, thesulsidence of which is nowhere apparent, though it began its miraculous course five centu ries before the dawn of Christianity and more than 1 ,000 years before Mohammed uplifted his voice of prophesy in the Arabian deserts. It has been driven forth from the land of its origin, where the old hBraminic rights are still regnan, but everywhere else in eastern Asia it has taken firm and enduring root, uplifting its temples lieside those of existing faiths, and promulgating its gentle doctrines everywhere, from the equatorial lands to the wastes of Mongola. It is divided in to more sects than Christianity and Mo hammedanism; but all derive their in spiration from the teachings of their common founder, and have erected his j image into a common ooject ot worship. Its gospels have expanded into libraries, the commentary upon them into moun tains of literature which would appal Magliabecchi or Albertus Magnus. It has a divided pontificate, one seatof authority being in Thibet and the other in Ceylon, each buttressed with a codex as interminable as the acta Sanctoretn of the Roman church, and each asserting its claims to primacy. Considered historic ally and with reference to its still active and vital influence on uncounted myriads of the human race, it is'one of the most interesting religions known to the rec ords of man, nor is it surprising that its study engages more and more attention of that portion of the world to which un til within the present generation it waa but a name and a shadow. CHARMED BY COLD-WATER DEARS. Blue-Badge Beauties Get a Subscrip- iion Irom Mr. Tilden. Samuel J. Tilden was seated in the li brary of his mansion, says the New York Journal, when a bevy of beautiful young women, wearing blue badges, were ush ered into his presence. He blushed and apologized for his style of costume, being attired in a dres sing gown. A smoking cap sat jauntily on his head. He attempted to leave the room to get his broadcloth, but the ladies declared he looked just too lovely as he was. The lady who headed the delegation told the Sage of Democracy that they had called to induce him to urge upon his party the beauty of temperance. 4il am with you, ladies," said the Gov ernor, getting interested. "L always be lieved in water. Just let me show you my sideboard." He opened the door and showed them bottles of ginger ale, sarsaparilla and apollinaris. The ladies were delighted, and said so. One sharjer than the rest saw on the top shelf a bottle labelled Cognac," and called his attention to it. "Really, ladies now, really, I oh, that's for medicinal purposes only," re marked the Governor, somewhat abashed. Mr. Tilden assured the fair visitors, who represented the Westchester County Woman's Christian Temperanco Union, that they had his sympathy in their lau dable work. They departed pleased with their visit. After they went the Sage felt 60 hap py that he sent a check for $ 500 to the treasurer of the union. The Wrong Sign. A pretty good story is going the rounds by word of mouth. It is said that a trio of members of the Iliinois legislature went on a jamboree the other day, and having decorated the town with pigment ofja decidedly sanguinary hue.concluded late in the evening that they would have so i e oysters. There is no oyster house on the south side of Old Capitol Square, but the law-givers were not aware of this. They were not fully posted, and seeing a sign, as they supposed, of an oyster house, they went up stairs and sat down to a round table in a beautiful ly furnished room. A gentleman, very neatly dressed, came in and inquired: "Gentlemen, what can I do for you?" "Oysters for three, please," one of the triumvirate replied. "I'll take a dozen raw." 'Gimmo a half dozen fried ones," said another. ' 'I'll take a dry stew, please," chimed in the third. The proprietor looked dazed and worried and began : "But, gentlemen " "Oh, we've got the dust. Needn't fret about that !" exclaimed the one that was standing treat. "We will pay in ad vance if neccessary," and he laid a hand ful of silver on the table. "But, gentleman " "Come, come !" cried the man impa tiently. "But, gentlemen this is no oyster house. This is " "No oyster house !" exclaimed the trio. "Then you had better take in your sign of a big oyster at the foot of the stairs." "Sign of a big oyster ! Why, gentle men, you are mistaken. This is the othce of an aunst. If you want your ears doctored, I am at your service, That sign is an car, not an oyster I"' Then the three members of the legislature looked sick and went out to drink some thing strong. The Wines of Ancient rimes. lhe ce!o.iratea ancient wines seem rather to have been syrups or extracts than wines. They were undoubted sweet and little fermented, and Chaptal, in his "Elements of Chemistry, declares it to be impossible to suppose that they could have obtained any spirit, or possessed, in consequence, any especially intoxicating properties. The wines so valued by the Gieeks and Romans contained much saccharine matter and little alcohol. Aristotle says the wines of Arcadia were go thick, either by boiling or by adulter ation, that they dru.nl up in the goat skins, and the people would scrape the dried material off and dissolve it in wa ter. The thick and fat wines of Chios, Thasos Lesbos and Crete were probably of this character. The pitched and picked wines are doubtless the wines the Romans kept to such extraordinary age. Horace boasts cf drinking some seventy years old, and one kind is said to have been kept in Rome more than one hundred years. The cele brated Opimian wines, which took the name of the consul who lived when they were first made, are spoken of by Pliny as having been preserved until this time, nearly two hundred years, and so excel lent were they that money could not buy them. " One of Evarts' Sentences. Mr. Evarts replied in a sentence. It was not an ordinary sentence, such as he would unwind in a supreme court trial, or a mere passing remark like the one that made a half a yard of agate type in the papers last week while he was in New York. He was touched by Mr. Du pee's queer conceit, and gave the club a full, well recounted, healthy, complete and perfect regulation sentence that seemed for a long time likely to prove as extraordinary as the ceaseless noise of Niagara Falls, softened by distance. The reporters went down town,filed their dis patches, and took the thread of it up when they returned. Men passed from sobriety to positive hilarity as they drank and listened and listened and drank. The table, which was well laden when the great man began his remark, bore a mean heap of fragmeats when he had done. But still the sentence ran on, filling the great club house and piling up its sound under the roof and its meaning in the minds of the audience until it seemed a long while before he came to its end, that the great man must stop cr fall ex hausted up'n the floor. Report of the Condition ; or The First National Bank of Palatka, at Palatka, in the State of Florida, at the Close of Business, March 10th, 1885. 3323.- RESOCRCES. Loans and discounts $108,017.98 Overdrafts 4,8US V. S. Bonds to secure circulation. . . 12,.V)0.00 Other stocks, bonds and mortgages 18,878 29 Due from approved reserve agents 125,401.66 Duo from other national banks 512.4S Due from State Banks and bankers 15.024.06 Real estate, furniture and fixtures 15.4H1.12 Current expenses and taxes paid 1,6".15 premiums paid j,&huki Bills cf other Banks 10,2o2.00 Fractional paper currency, nickles, and pennies Specie 7,243.00 ijrai tenuer notes au.ew.ou Hedempton tund witti u, h. Jreas- urer (& per cens ot circuiat ion) . . utti.uu Total 8115,914.31 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 50.0Cfl.00 Surplus fund 3,000.00 Undivided profits. . . 3,H!i2.29 National Bank notes outstanding. . . 11,240.00 Individu 1 deposits subject to check 3-'4.499.H0 Demand certificates of deposits 13,:472 22 Certified checks 110.00 Total 415,914.31 State op Flohida, Coukiy or Putnam, ss: I. iTarrv G. Favne. Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the abrfve statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. H. G. Payne, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this lath day of March, 1885. F. P. Mebsereau, Notary Public. Correct Attest: It. J. Adams, ) . s. CROSBY. Directors W. J. WlNKQAR. ) For the Constitutional Convention. To the Voters of Putnam County: Knowing, as we do. the necessity of liavinf? competent and experienced men to serve as delegates for the revision of the Constitution of the State of Florida, and recotrniziii(r the service of Maj. Geo. P. rowler m this respect, we wonld suirgest his name as delegate to the convention to be held lor that purpose in June. Major Fowler has served a number of years in the Illinois legislature, and was member of the Illinois constitutional convention held some years ag:o, in which he acquitted himself with honor and distinction. In view of these facts we would invite all citizens of Putnam county, irrespective of party affiliations, to Kive Major Fowler their earnest support at the coming election for delegates. Many Citizens of Putnam County. Palatka, March, 1S85. Calhoun, Gillis & Calhoun INSURANCE AGENTS. REPRESENT THE HOM E INSURANCE COMPAN Y.of New York, THE "SUN," of London, THE NEW YORK UNDERWRITERS, THE GERMANIA, THE FACTORS & TRADERS, of New Orleans, THE ACCIDENT, of North America, THE EQUITABLE (LlfeJ FOR CATALOGUES OF NURSERY STOCK, SENO TO Georgetown, Florida. J. H. MERRYDAY, HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER, Corner Oak and Fourth Streets. WANTED SAW LOGS, PINE AND CYPRESS, VINCEXT& MElDSICIUt, Cor. Lemon St. and Tampa R. R. HEWSONTHE PRAGTIC ALTAILOR lias reopened his Shop opposite The Old St. Johns Hotel, in the Miiler Building. He does Good Work at Fair Prices. Good Lands Cheap. 40 acres 2 miles from Keuka, $10 80 acres 1 mile from Keuka. $15 80 acres 3-4 mile from Keuka, $lt 40 acres mile from Keuka, $20 10 ten acre lots in town each 5 two acre lots in town each $KO 29 town lots, all that's left, 5 to $100 Will divide to suit.- Come and see for your self. Eo. Rcmley. Keuke. Fla- For Sale. I have for sale about 1500 orange trees, buds and seedlings. Stocks five years old, buds two rears old. Address L. R. WOOLFOLK, Welaka. Fin. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. BEN J. PUTNAM CALHOUN. IBVINQ OILLIS. WM. LOWNDES CALHOUN. Calhoun, Gillls fc Callioxin, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW PALATKA, FLORIDA. Special attention paid to Insurance, Real Es tate and Collection of Claims. Will practice in State and Federal courts. l'AUIi AV MOUNT, Attorney mill Counsellor u. Htiv, OPERA HOUSE BUILDING. PALATKA. AV. THOMPSON, Lawyer & Notary Public Has moved his office to Hart's warehouse, on the wharf, up stairs. Commissioner of deeds for New York. Special attention (riven to conveyancing, buying and selling lands and examination of titles. 3. M Randall, Jacksonville, Jno. T. Walker, .7-eksonville. JK. M. vary, Palatk i. RANDALL, WALKER & VARY, Attorneys& CouusellorM, PALATKA. FLORIDA. Office in Opera nouse Building, opposite Court House. A.. AV. ROYSDON, ATT OKNE Y-AT-LA W Office opposite St. John's Hotel, Lemon Street, Palatka, Fla. JE. IX. McKEAN, AT T O It IV EY-AT-LilW Agent for Sale and Purchase of F LO KIDA LANDS Palatka. Florida. Notary Public State of Florida. AV. II. AVIGG, AT TORN E Y-AT-LAW Office in Opera House Building, opposite Court House. Palatka, Florida. IIt. A.. Ij. COLjS. HOMOEOPATHIST. Graduate of the New York Homoeopathic Medical College. Special attention given to the diseases of women, diseases of the lungs, and surgery. Electricity scientifically applied. Office on Lemon Street, Palatka, Fla. DENTAL CARD. DRS. H. R. & W. W. ESTES Have opened their office in the Merryday Buil ding, over Farrar's Carriage Shop, corner Lemon and Second streets, and are in readi iness to wait on their old patrons and the pub lic generally. Remember the place nearly opposite the Opera House. C. J. JosEPn, C. City Engineer. E. Wm. M. Hrssos, C. E. JOSEPH & IIUSSOA, CIVIL ENGINEERS, Surveyors Architects, PLANS AND SPECIFICATION'S FOR ALL KINDS OF BUILDINGS. Office: ) Fry's Brick Building, f Talatlca, Fla. H. J. CAMPBELL, ARCHITECT & CIVIL ENGINEER Plans, Specifications, Superintendence and Estimates For ail Kinds of Buildings. Surveys, plans and estimates made for all kinds or civil engineering, canals, docks, ter minal facilities for railroads, water works, sewerage, irrigation, drainage, river and har bor improvements, and landscape gardening. Land surveying, examination, laying out and mapping off town sites. Barometric levels and Hvinjr reconnoisance taken. Properties and proposed work examined and reported on for non-residents. Office in Griffin's Brick Block, Palatka. Ila. PALATKA HOTELS. Qviti'rorv iiouhi; A. SHELLEY, Proprietor. Finest location in the city. Newly remodel ed and refurnished, making the finest home accommodations. Table unsurpassed. Electric bells in every room. 350 feet of piazza prom enade. Accommodations for 300 guests. Om nibus at ail depots and landings. TR0PICALH0TEL& RESTAURANT SITUATED ON THE DOCK. lonvenient to all railroads and steamboats. Meals and lunches served to order on Euro pean plan. Terms moderate. Regular meals a and 40 cents each. E. C. Post, Prop'r. HOTEL. S. GRAHAM, Proprietor. Open December 1st, 1SS-1. Comer Oak and Second Streets. PALATKA, FLORIDA. WESTMOUEL.ANT. PALATKA. FLORIDA. This house with its addition, put up last spring-, has accommodations for 200 guesU. WrLBT & Manx. At JACOBSON'S First First SPRING CALICOES First NEW jfirst NEWEMBROIDERIES "c e phIrIacy," "W". O- "Woltz, .Fry's ISloclc, ITi-osit St., Pulntlcn, Florida. Drugs and Chemicals, Toilet and Fancy Articles, Patent JVTecicdLaLes, &c. ProHnriptioiiM Carofully Oinpouudcd n( nil Hours. Country Orders Filled with Xeatness and Dispatch. IB. ZFIR-A-TSTIK: ctjbtis WHOLESALE AND RETaTL DEALER IN BOOKS.STATIONERY.NOTIONS.CONFECTIONERY&C,. DIRECT MANUFACTURERS' AGENT: NFW YnRKfstnRF. Goods sold for spot cash at bottom prices. New ork prices. Two doors east of P, O., J. M. YOUNG, JR.; DIULEH IIV WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY SILVERWARE, OPTICAL GOODS, POCKET CUTLERY, RAZORS STATIONERY. GOLD PENS. STYLOGRAPMC TS IN CHARGE OF MR. A. E. STUI!!!S, OF JOHN T. 'The Cheapest Man under the Sun," IQsT HABT'S BLOCE: Corner of Lemon and Water. Streets, Palatka, Florida. "His Same Old Stand," W h o 1 e s a 1 c ji h l 15 l st i l Dealer i n Staple and Fancy Groceries, Provisions, Feed &c, also 'Wood and Willow-ware, Crockery and House Famishing Goods. Makes a Specialty of Fine Teas and Coffees and oicest Butter. Having larger facilities and 1 0 years experience in catering to want of this trade he flatters himself in saying "he knows just vhat you want" and will always furnish the "Kest." COODS AT LOWEST PRICES. LARGEST and MOST COMPLETE ! FURNIT UEE ! isstabiiKimieut soti. j Selling Out At Cost ! fi C Unnl'Aii Pr nniavin& Decided to Discontinue the u. o. liaoMH a quiii MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings BUILDING MATERIAL Established in Office and Warerooms, KJn?, opposite Can non street. E. M. IIACKER, Proprietor, Charleston. H. C. Buy direct from the Factory and Bev deal ers' profits. Country orders solicited and filled at Lemon st Palatka, Fla. PENS. ROLLER SKATES. FISHING TACKLE. MASSACHl'SETTS, A WOK KM AN OF 1VS DUNN7 furniture business. y I Offer the Entire Stock at Cost. AH Goods Marked In Plain Figures. - ONE CASH PRICE ONLY! Al'Gl'ST IIAIL, Corner Luure and Kirklnncl Streets. ORANGE TREES, From I to 5 Years Old, Budded or Seedling At The Buffalo Bluff Nurseries. ij. i"". McGnAW fc -o:v, KufTnlo IJlMr, Via.