Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-03
.artow wants an ice factory.

bdTIoW wants an Ice factory.
The building boom at Orlando con-
tinues.
A Young Mems Christian Association
has been organized at Apopka.
More houses are under contract in Bar
tow and vicinity than ever before at any
one time.
The new Baptist church at Kissimmee
was dedicated Sunday. Rev. j. K. Powell,
OF Sanford, preached the sermon.
More land sales have been made within
the past week than within the same time
at any period since Barlow was settled.
G.. j. Robbeth has purchased the bank
building and the adjoining lot at Barlow,
and will probably invest largely in other
property.
Many of the lands advertised for sale at
/ Fort Myers for nonpayment of taxes are
put down as belonging to parties who had
disposed OF them several years ago.
o. E. Chapman has sold his residence
and two acres on Lake OsceOla, near
Winter Park, for $4,000. He will move to
Colorado, where he is interested in a
ranch.
George LeMoyne has recently sold his
residence lot in Orlando to the Congrega-
! tlOnalists, who will erect a church upon
| it at an early date. The consideration
was $500.
/ The party appointed by the County Com
missiOners to lay out the road from the
eastern limits of Orlando to Jessup ave
nue. discovered a bed of offers in little
| pond Monday.
! Two young rabbits have been placed
among a litter Of kittens at G. w. Bid
delPs residence at Orlando, and the old
cat has adopted them, and seems to be as
/ fond nj fboun q Of tho kiffnnG
A box car OF tramps was locked up at
| the Tavares, Orlando and Atlantic depot
at Orlando last Monday night, and spent
! the night in prayer, as they thought they
would be delivered to the city authorities
the next day.
The temperance people are circulating
| blanks over Orange county with the fol-
lowing heading: 1--WE hereby pledge each
other, upon honor, not to sign any petit
| ton to sell liquors in Orange county.
! Witness our Names"
Brevard Circuit Court adjourned Satur-
| day for the term. The trial of Joseph
Casmer, charged with killing Squire HOl-
! lings worth, another negro, on the night
Of Feb. Is, occupied several days Of last
week, but resulted in a mistrial.
At Gainesville the police have succeed
! ed in arresting three men and one woman
about four weeks since of $500 worth of
! fine clothing and other articles of value
One has turned States evidence. Two OF
those arrested were employees of Mr..
Barnes, and all of them are cOlored.
Gen. William S. Harvey has written a
letter to Col. W. W. Harvey, of Pine
Castle, expressing his great appreciation
of the reception which he received in
| Orlando and elsewhere, and his great
IL, Nf h al 4
! iers. He regretted, however, that there
were a great many he was unable to see.
| At Orlando Thursday Nat. Povntz sold
| the Summerlyn house property to Messrs.
! Hobart and +. Frank Sperry, of Ansonia,
| Conn, for $50, 000cash. The latter gentle
man stated that the probable outcome OF
this purchase would be the organization
of a stock company, which will build a
large. cOmmodiOus and first-class hotel
on the property.
A tour among the many new buildings
| being erected in Palatka develops the fact
that Palatka's building boom is rather on
! the increase. In nil parts Of the city new
buildings are going up, of all classes. The
/ building going on in the business portion
of the city presents a busy scene, with the
army of hricklayers, carpenters and plas.
/ terers hard at work. The aggregate cost
| of all these buildings Will be in the neigh
! bOrhOod of 100000. and a number OF
buildings to go up during the summer
will add fully 100000 more to that
amount.
During Saturday night, between mid
night and day, some party at present un-
known attempted to set fire to and destroy
| the home of Mrs. Cartmel, located in the
heart Of Monticello, fronting the new hotel
! building. All that prevented success OF
the diabolical scheme as the interference
OF watchful yard dog. which made such
a determined fight that the villains fiend-
ish heart failed, and he fed in fright, bu,
! left behind the material he intended to
en- Dloy to ignite and secure the destruc-
| ton of the building-a bottle of Kerosene
oil and quantity OF lightwoOd splinters.