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Volume II., Number 351 OCALA, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1897 Price 5 Cents

OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. rj onoomm a oteel'

OTlf fJOT set toe best?C0LUMBIAS,

a motion was made by Benjaminto the effect that a contract beentered into with the ElectricLight Co., for 3G lights at 22Jcents per light per night andhave the proposition submitted toa vote of the people and have itratified or rejected. After athorough discussion the motionwas carried. On motion ofGreen the matter was placed inthe hands of the city attorneyand a committee of three tocomplete the details of the con-

tract and report same at nextmeeting. The light and water

4 SIDNEY E. HILLER, Agent,

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CRESCENTPrice $30, $40, $50,

METEORPrice $75, $100.

STERLING"Built Like a Watch," Price $100.

PHOENIX"Stands the Eacket," Price $100.

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, $100.00HARTFORDS$65, 60, 50 and 40

coluqbiaAt A Bargain.

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Livery, Feed and Sale Stablekest' turnouts,fastest horses.

Best of attention given customer'speople of Ocala to the best of my ability and only ask for my legit!mate share ot the trade. Courteous treatment toH. Lowest prices.

u i U1L mill.The Light Question Will be

TO A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.

Another Sunday Ordinance Liable toExplode. The (as Company

Heard From. The CouncilHolds an Executive Session.was half past 8 o'clock last

night when the regular meetinirof city council convened with aquorum present. The followinganswered to roll call: Waterman,Weathers, Pittman, Carmichael,Green and Davis.

The reading of the minutes oflast meeting was followed withthe following order of business:

A communication was readfrom Capt. A. O. Macdonell,general passenger agent of theF. C. & P., asking that a samplejug of Ocaia drinking water besent to W. S. Webb for the pur-pose of making a public exhibi-tion of Florida jlrinking water.The matter was referred to thewater committee with power toact.

.Mr. Davis presented anotherSunday ordinance which closesevery shop and store on Sundavexcept news depots, cigar and to-

bacco stores and soda fountains,and allows drug stores to keepopen only for the sale of drugsand medicines. The ordinancewas referred to the judiciarycommittee. '

The board of health ordinancewas read and referred to thesame committee.

The street pay roll was read,amounting to $485, and on motionws orflered paid.

Other bills were read and ordered paid as follows: Fidelity &Surety Co., $2.50; Electric LightCo., $250.80; S. T. Sistrunk, $5.75;J. A. Giles, $18.50; B. H. Den-nar- d,

$3.55; R. G. Blake, $1.00;Mclver & McKay, $27.00; Anti-Monopo- ly

drug store, 75c; J. D.Williams, $10.25; Ocala LimeCo., $28.00; Fire department,$58.43; J. W. Smoak, $11.25; A.E. Delouest, $2.25.

The reports of the city marshaland tax collector were read andreferred to finance committee.

The matter of the ire buildingon the Trantham lot on whichthe city council has been paying$5 per month rent was referred tothe building committee with in-

structions to investigate andmake recommendation at nextmeeting.

Mr. Green offered a resolutionto the elTect that all the city scripbe advertised for and called in.It was laid on the table.

The sanitary committee recom-

mended that the water closet inrear of the Marion House be re-

moved by the maj'or. Therecommendation was acceptednnfi nn motion the mavor wasgiven power to act.

The light question was takenup and on motion of Green theritiznns nresent were asked toparticipate in the discussion. Dr.Torrey argued that we liaci noalternative but to take the lightthat was offered to us by the.Electric Light Co., at their ownprice. They were in a positionto dictate and we should yield asgracefully as possible.

George Mackav took a differentview of the matter. He statedthat the 40 lights from the Electric Co., would cost us $3,400,and, as a representative of theOcahi Gas Co., he offered to givethe citv 200 lights for $2,400, thus

ft vp. limps the number ofgivinglights at a saving of $1,000.

After a lengthy discussion bycitizens and members of council

An Interesting Interview "With Prof.W. I). Carn on the Subject or

Common School Education.In a pleasant talk with W. D.

Carn, county superintendent ofpublic instruction yesterday by arepresentative of this paper, somevery important facts were ob--

tained concerning the conditionand future prospects of Marioncounty schools. Among them wegleaned the following: All theschools in the county have closedlor tnc present term, liic regular spring examination for teachers will be held next week commencing on Tuesday, .June Sth;Mr. Carn expects about lift ywhite and thirt3-flv- c coloredteachers present. He thinks it ismuch better to take the June ex-

amination than to wait until Sep-

tember, as most of the schoolswill begin in August or first ofSeptember. It is hardly probablethat the school term next yearwill be over five months on ac-

count of the great scarcity ofschool funds The county boardis now in debt to the amount of$24,857.CS and the expenses willhave to be cut down. By reduc-ing the term one month and cur-tailing as much as possible alongother lines it is thought that bynext year we can have betterschools and longer term.

Four schools in the county em-ployed teachers and extendedtheir terms. Ocala had twomonths extra term with an aver-age attendance of over 200 pupils.Mcintosh had an average of GO

with an extra two months term.Fort McCoy and Greenwood

are both running successful nor-mal schools. The fowner underthe able management of Prof. M.J. Turner has an average of 48young ladies and gentlementeachers from all parts of thecounty. Greenwood with MissJulia Humphries as teacher, hastwenty-on-e students nearly all ofwhom are teachers. These youngpeople arc doing nobly in the wayof improving themselves in theprofession and deserve greatcredit and encouragement in theirefforts.

We found Prof. Carn diligently at work on a graded course ofstudy that he wriil soon introduceinto all the county schools. Hispurpose is to arrange the coursein such a manner that it will pre-sent a complete term course foreach pupil. It is so arrangedthat when a pupil enters schoolhe will have a definite idea ofwhat he is expected to accomplishduring the term. He will under-stand that a certain amount ofwork will have to be done in orderto acquire a "common school edu-cation." It is thought that sucha plan will be of great benefit topupils and simplify the work ofthe teachers. It will also be anincentive to more thorough wo'rkboth by teacher and pupil.

Mr. Carn is also preparing aschool report that when com-pleted will be the most interesting and comprehensive documentof the kind ever attempted in thiscounty. It will contain all thevaluable school statistics relativeto the schools of Marion county,besides a complete financial re-

port of the receipts and expendi-tures for the school year of 1S9G

and 1S9 7. It will contain a briefhistory of the educational develop-ments of the county with cuts ofall the principal school buildingswith a complete set of rules andregulations He expects to havethis work readv for distributionby the first of October.

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Ocala Lannlry Sold.

The Ocala Steam Laundrychanged hands today. It wasthe property of the First Nationalbank and receiver G. C. Stap-1- -

ton sold it to E. M. Howard ofAi bundalc, Polk county who willtake charge at once.

Health and strength carry usthrough dangers and make ussafe in the presence of peril. Aperfectly strong man with rich,pure blood, has nothing to fearfrom germs. He may breathe inthe bacilli of consumption withimpunity. If there is a weakspot where the germs may findan entrance to the tissues, thenthe trouble becrins. Disease

likc rapidity. Once in the blood,the only way to get rid of themis to kill them. That is what Dr.Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is for. It purifies the blood.That means that it kills the germsbut that is only part of what itdoes. It assists digestion bystimulating the secretion of di-

gestive lluids, so promoting assimilation and nutrition; purifiesand enriches the blood and sosupplies the tissues with the foodthey need. It builds up strong,healthy flesh and puts the wholebody into a disease-resistin- g

state.

Send 21 one-ce- nt stamps tocover cost of mailing only, andget his great book, The People'sCommon Sense Medical Adviser,absolute free. Address, WorldtsDispensary Medical Association,No. GG3 Main Street, Buffalo,N. Y.

To South Georgia and WestFlorida. June 7th the PlantSystem will sell excursion ticketsto Lake City at $4; Live Oak 4;Valdosta, Ga., $4.50;Thomasville$4.50; Chattahoochee $5.50; Mon-ticel- lo

$4.50; Uainbridge $5.50and Albany $5.50. All ticketslimited to return 10 days fromdate of sale.

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McGrathwill leave in a few days for theirsummer home on Lake Luwapaa,New Hampshire.

Dr. King's eiv Discovery for Con-

sumption.

This the is best medicine in theworld for all forms of coughs andcolds and for consumption. Ev-ery bottle is guaranteed. It willcure and not disappoint. It hasno equal for whooping cough,asthma, hay fever, pneumonia,bronchitis, la grippe, cold in thehead, and for consumption. It issafe for all ages, pleasant to take,and, above all, a sure-cure-. It isalways well to take Dr. King'snew life pills in connection withDr. King's new discovery, as theyregulate and tone the stomachand bowels. We guarentce per-fect satisfaction or return money.Free trial bottle at F. C. Ahvorth& Co. C.

committee was named to attendto the matter.

The request of Glasco Smith toerect a fruit stand on the squarewas refused. The council thenwent into executive session on thewater question and the crowd ofcitizens that had assembled toget some light on that importantquestion were invited to vacatethe room

Deafness Cannot lie Cured.

by local applications, as theycannot reach the diseased por-tions of the ear. There is onlyone way to cure deafness, andthat is b3r constitutional remedies.Deafness is caused by an inflamedcondition of the mucous lining ofthe eustachian tube. When thistube gets inllamed you have arumbling sound of imperfecthearing and when it is entirelyclosed deafness is the result, andunless the inflammation can betaken out and this tube restoredto its normal condition, hearingwill be destroyed forever; ninecases out ot ten are caused bycatarrh, which is nothing but aninflamed condition of the mucoussurfaces.

We will give one hundred dol-ar- s

for any case of deafness(caused by catarrh) that cannotbe cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.

F. J. CHEXNEY& Co.,Tolcdo,0.

i? Sold by druggists, 75c.

Funeral Services of 'Judsro Hill.

The remains of Judge Hill arrived here from Lake Weir at1:30 this afternoon accompaniedby the family and a number ofsorrowing friends. They wereconveyed to the family residenceon Tuscawilla street. At 3 o'clock,the hour for the services to begin,a very large crowd assembled topay their last tribute to a departed friend. The pall bearerswere O. T. Green, Charles Abson,S. T. Sistrunk, U. R. Waterman,D. A. Miller and A. Mclntyre

The Knights of Pythias lodgeNo. 17, Jno. F. Dunn lodge No82, F. & A. M., and members ofthe Ocala bar association attend-ed in a body. Rev. J. C. Porterpreached a brief but' very touching discourse, after which the re-

mains were convej-e-d to Green-wood cemetery where they weretenderly deposited in their longresting place. D. . E. Mclver,Our leading undertaker, hadcharge of the remains.

Another spirit's gone to rest,Another soul is with the blest,

It upward wings its flight.But let the scalding tear drop startFor death has stilled another heart;

And we must weep tonight.

The suburbs of our city arethickly spriukled with small butthrifty patches of tobacco.

The many patrons of thenarrow guage barber shop willfind it a few doors further southin the Montezuma, where GeorgeWilliams, the proprietor, will bepleased to see vou.

Base balls, 50c, 75c and $1.The standard league ball for $1.regular price $1.50 at the Anti-Monopo- ly

drug store.

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r clock in and have it made alive againso that you will enjoy life more

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