Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-27
FLORIDA


Maitland has a minstrel troupe Of her Own.
Orlando Methodists have a new church
bell.
Long Pond has been christened Lake sum
init.
Strawberries are ripe and plentiful at Or
lando.
The first brick block is now going upiu san
ford.
Brooksvillc now has telegraphic commun-
cation.
Gardening is the order Of the day at sum
terviIlc
The mails are now carried to Tampa via
sanford.
Apalaehieola is to have another canning
establishment.
a successful church fair has been held at
ApalachicOla.
Land is being bought up in and aroun. sum
terEillc almost daily.
At Waldo the air is redolent with the per-
fume of the orange blossoms.
Capt. John johnson, one of the oldest pilots
ON the st. Johns bar. is dead.
Tie steamer Bertha Lee was recently blown
ashore i'm Lake TOhOpekaliga.
Editor Moore. of the Starkc TelegraDh, is
said TO be humOrist and poet
Charles W. Lewis and Charles II. Berg have
bought the Fernandna Mirror.
Ed. Z. Farrell. of Waldo, has Just finished
planting out 10000 orange trees.
B. G. Graham opened school in the Acad-
cmy at Manatee on the 2d inst.
The Cedar Keys Fish Company have located
their headquarters at Palma SOla
The ladies of Or. Alston's family at Braid
entown were the first to cross the great
bridge.
Manatee is to have a large steamboat wharf
running from Capt. Hairless store to the
channel
The nursery of Capt. r. W. Campbell, near
Waldo, Is not only unhurt by the recent cold.
but each stock is vigorous and healthy.
Hamilton county's Board Of Public Instruc-
tion has paid several bills, apportioned school
funds and ordered several new schools opened.
One hundred and fifteen acres of land have
been cleared and set ont in orange trees with
in the limits Of Waldo, within the past six
sixty days.
The Florida Press Association meets at san
ford to-day. and will be treated to an eXcur-
sion from that place to Tampa over the new
railroad.
Edward Mackey, of Alabama, died at Ia
veres sunday. Mr.. Mackey went to Florida
with a brother IN January, almost dead with
consumption.
NJ NJ. Hall. Esq. sold J. W Lowry, Of Mis-
sissippl, on Thursday, 35 acres OF pine land in
Halls addition TO Sumterville, directly south
OF town, for $3.50.
Capt. R. W. Campbell, of Waldo. plucked
and shipped several boxes of oranges exposed
to the recent cold snaps, which sold for 81 80
per crate in Boston.
LfAAANl rNNucOu SAYS THAT W dlNO = AliN
Council is again lost, strayed or stolen. and
His Honor the Mayor will do well to offer
reward for its return.
The citizens of Braidentown. Willemsen-
burg and Fogartyville have petitiOned the
Postmaster General to change the name of
their post office to De soto,
The recent match game of base ball played
in Waldo between the Waldo and Melrose
clubs was very closely contested, The Waldo
club was again victorious. however.
Several new houses are going mn at Waldo
and real estate eYlnees an upward tendency.
Many sales of real estate have recently been
made to parties from the North and West.
A Sandersonian thinks that fruit and vege-
table crops will exceed what they formerly
have been, the cold snap having destroyed all
insects and improved the trees that survive.
Around Waldo preparations for planting
are being rapidly made and the farmers are
buying large quantities OF Fertilizers. The
acreage of field crops Is largely in excess Of
last year,
One Of the best local pages printed by any
Florida weekly in a long time is that of this
. weeks Waldo AdUerttSer. Editor johnson
evidently has the nose for news so essential in
journalism.
Fire broke out in one of the bed rooms Of
the Davis Hotel, at PanasOffkee, on Thursday
evening Of last week, but being timely dis
I covered was distinguished without any ma
terlal damage.
The jury in the case Of Manatce county vs.
| saunders and Benedict awarded them
/ damages TO the amount of one dollar each.
/ The road VIII be a great Improvements to
/ Orange Ridge.
In the case of Markens vs.. Brown Collector
! OF laNss m DuVal county, Chief Justice Ran
] dali has hled an opinion Quashing the alterna-
I tive writ, and deciding the local option law
| valid as passed.
Forty families have located within four
I miles Of Waldo since the lst of December.
/ sixty more are expected. Thirteen dwellings
/ and one store house are now in process of con-
] More Will have n ha hufg
/ The owners of the land in Wares creek
swamp. near BraidentOwn, will hold a meet
/ ing Saturday night for the purpose OF dis
body Of fertile soils lying at the head of that
l creek.
Those who feel interested IN the future Of
! the Waldo and Santa Fe Horticultural and
/ Fruit Growers Association are called upon tC
meet in the Town Hall, in Waldo. Saturday
! March /. 4 thorough organization and much
I important business Is contemplated.
The Republicans of Willemsenburg district
, entOWn on the 18th INST. Mr.. Burgess says
heretofore the Republicans have been acting
] on the defensive only, but hereafter they will
I carry the campaign fright into Africa"
| \ large number of logs are being hauled on
the st. johns and Lake Eustis Railway to the
/ mills at Tavares. They were cut on or near
| the line Of the road between Tavares and
Lane Park, and are large, having been cut
/ specially for the timbers for the trestlc work
OF the Transit and Peninsula Railroad.
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For nausea, dizziness and sick head.
ache, DR.. sanford's Liver Invigorator has