Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-19
FLORIDA.


Ocala is to organize fire department,
BronsOn's town election will be held on
March -.
The gardens in the vicinity of Brooksville
are looking well.
Work will soon be resumed on the light
mouse at Mosquito Inlet.
a hotel is being built at Interlachen by Mr..
Hastings. OF Springfield, o.
One OF BroOksviIle's prominent citizens is
aspiring 70 consulate in France.
james Mcclellan, OF Jackson county, wants
10 be surveyor General Of the STATE.
The trustees OF the Methodist Church at
BrOoksville have ordered a 59O-pOund bell.
The members OF the Baptist church at
BroOksville are taking steps to erect a par
sOnage.
There are a number OF visitors from the
West and New England States in South
BrOOksville.
A new business house is in process OF erec-
the Baptist Church.
The citizens of BrOOksville and vicinity
have organized an Agricultural and Fruit
Growing Association.
DR.. White, OF BrOOksville, has planted two
more bushels of OranGe seed, fourteen bushels
this season. thirty in all.
4 real estate company is being organized at
BrOoksvllle, with a branch Office in New
York, and one in Paris. France.
Eight hundred oranges, weighing a pound
nando county one day last week.
The st. Johns county teachers will assemble
on Tuesday, next week. and remain in session
al the week engaged in institute work.
Thirty thousand dollars have been sui
scribed toward the capital stock OF the ma
tional bank to be established at DeLand.
DR.. Henry Foster. Of Clifton Springs. y. y.
Is said to be fitting mp parsonage at his place
on Lake Jesup as winter resort for broken
down clergymen.
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county, once member OF the Legislature,
whose home was some 10 miles east OF Talla-
hassee, died the past week.
The striking bricklayers Of Palatka thought
better OF their action IL Saturday, and Mon
day afternoon most Of them returned to work
on the various buildings.
A cabbage weighing ~ pounds Ia on exhi-
bitiOn at Ocala. near which place it was raised.
One tipping the scales at twenty pounds is
promised from the same patch.
1. Harklns Hlliard has growing at his resi-
dence at Palatka, number Of Young chest
nut trees. several weeks old. They are ap-
parently thrifty, and seem as well pleased IN
Florida as In the states in which they are in
digenOus.
Notwithstanding the cold winter of last
year. the orange crop OF this season has been
the largest ever gathered in Florida. One the
Marion county groves a one has yielded up
wards of $4,000 boxes, and the crop is not ct
gathered.
When Orange Park was first started by Mr.
Z Benedict, seven years ago, it was named Or
ange Park, because there was one orange tree
there, one Of the old plantation trees, being
so large II could not BE- stolen. Now It is esti-
I mated that there are 10000.
Ten carloads OF Philadelphia pressd brick
arrived at Gainesville last week for he new
court house. There are now on hand "A. 500 of
these brick and also nearly all the material
for the masonry. The work OF construction
Is being pushed as rapidly as possible.
company is being organized under the
general Improvement act. for the purpose of
constructing and operating a tram railway
from BrOOksFille to the head Of Wickawachee
Spring by the sawmill of Mr.. Lespnasse. The
incOrpOratOrs are; y. A Lespinasse, son and
partner. and Messrs. Bradshaw and Barnett.
The right of way is being secured and rails
provided. A dummy engine will be bought.
The celebration Of the founding OF St. Au-
gustine will take place March y and 2Sth.
The executive committee is pushing the af-
fair right ahead. The citizens are responding
quite literally. and the hotels are doing like
wise. The harbOr and land features thereof
viii be intensely interesting By use OF cots
and tents and parlOrs, etc. 1t Is thought that
st. Augustine can take care of all. A big
time is coming.
Rev. John G. HaughtOn is interesting him
self in endeavOring to secure for Interachen
the location of a Congregational college for
the dissemination OF higher education. Win
ter Park. Mount Dora, and several other
places are cots peting as to who shall have 1t.
Several handsome contributions have been
placed at the disposal Of Mr.. HaughtOn to be
given as inducements for them to locate ''be-
tween the lakes.'