The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-13
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Kingston. suburb of Daytona, is
making serious iuroads upon the corporated
limits Of the latter place
Aullet are now running in large schools
in the St Johns river and the fishermen
are reaping a rich harvest.
The Masonic temple at DaytOnA has been
completed, and win soon be occupied by
the brethren OF the mystic tie.
The ice factory at Daytona is being re-
built The machinery has been received,
and will soon be in running order.
J. K. Muanerlyn has changed the name
Of his new town site south of Clearwater
Harbor from Catalina TO Warsaw.
Dr. ". s. Fitch has been appointed per
msnent pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal
church, St. Augustine, by Bishop Mallalieu.
John Wilbur, who has charge of the 100
acre South Lake Weir orange and lemon
grove, says they will have splendid crop
OF fruit
A syndicate Of Englishmen have leased
the Palmetto house at Daytona, and will
overhaul and enlarge it for the season Of
IS and SO.
Charles II. Webb, formerly editor of the
DeLand Chronicle, is running on the Jack
sonville, Tampa and Key West railroad as
brakeman.
Until it is definitely settled whether the
armory building is safe one, the Santa
Rosa Rifles of Milton will drill in front Of
the court house.
Work on the addition to the Orange Bluff
hotel, Clearwater harbor, is going along
well, aud the building begins to assume
goodly proportions.
Charlie Palmer of DeLand has unex-
pectedly fallen heir to a legacy Of 81, 500,
which was left to him by an uncle, who
recently died in Chicago.
The Christian denomination of Starke is
about completing large and very hand
some church building, which will be ready
for dedication very soon.
Strawberries are still to be had for the
trouble of picking in patches about Green
Cove. The season Of the berry in Florida
covers nearly six months.
Half million young shad fish have been
placed in the headwaters OF Peace river
within the past few days by the United
States fish commissioner.
Frank J. Coakley will shortly start, on
his place near Palmer, Alachua county, a
kennel for raising blooded dogs for both
pets and sporting purposes.
The Orange Belt route is now fully sur
veyed between Monroe station and Sanford,
the line adopted, and graders will be at
work on it in a week or two.
A colored man by the name of Graham
dropped dead Of heart disease at the Hall
fax depot at st. Augustine Saturday The
day before his mule dropped dead
The pineapple crop of the lower Indian
river and Lake Worth is said to be the
largest ever raised. The pines are ripening
fast and are beginning to be moved to
market.
The officers Of the First Florida battalion
have held meeting, at the request of Gov.
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hold the encampment, and have favored
Pablo Beach.
Sanford's Fourth Of July subscription
fund now reaches nearly 5000, while there
are those who will subscribe at least $50
more, but who do not desire their names
placed upon the general list.
Harry Artman of Kissimmee bought a
Wyandotte cock and hen of the Burpee
stock, and from the proceeds of that pair
Of fowls, in one year, his sales amounted to
S57 80, and he gave away four.
After having one of Starke's capitalists
to build costly brick structure for them
the prospective bankers have given up their
idea of locating there, and have departed
for other fields and pastures new.
The Escamtia county criminal court ex-
hausted its patience waiting for an opinion
from the supreme court which had been
submitted to it several weeks ago, and ad.
journed sine die on Wednesday last
A check for $500 was received, a few
days ago, from Hon. Frank Jones Of Ports
mouth, n. H., to be applied toward the
completion of the church at Altoona. The
work on the edifice is under full Roadway.
homesteader of Lee county was
a little tired of bacon and bread, and the
happy thought struck him to boil some
castor beans After his recovery he en-
phatically denounced them as an article Of
diet.
On Saturday last 230 crates of vegetables
were taken on at the small station of
Chipco, on the line of the Orange Belt road
Up to Friday night last 2, 74S crates had
left there by freight and over 200 by ex-
press
Punta Gorda has now quarantined
Havana and other infected ports, and it
will be strictly enforced. The people have
not forgotten the rough experience last year.
and are on the alert to use all proper pre-
caution.
Last week S. E. Phillips of West Farm.
Madison county, captured Sampson Sim
mons, an escaped convict, and returned
him to the lessees in Suwannee county, and
received the reward of $50 Sampson was
sent up from Jackson county.
At Daytona the long bridge e, S3S feet
has been completed and opened to public
travel. 1t fills long felt want, and will no
doubt prove financial success. The second
bridge, about a mile south, is now being
sgitated, and belt line of horse cars is
also projected.
Tho trustees Of the Leesburg Methodist
college, at their meeting last week, elected
Prof. Galloway of Marvin college, Ken
lucky, to the presidency of that institution.
Prof. Hollingsworth declined reelection
because his physician advised against
further work in the school room.
The incipient strike among the colored
employees of the Florida tobacco producing
and trading company Of Gadsden county
which was inaugurated some three weeks
ago, is entirely at an end. Not only have
the strikers returned to work, but there are
now more applicants than the company has
room for.
There is said to be smoke house in the
southwestern part of Madison county that is
a veritable beehive, and from which large
quantities of honey is taken throughout the
year by merely cutting the comb and catch
ing the liquid honey which pours from it.
The bees have sealed the interior OF the
house with comb
Sanford now boasts an ice factory, a fiber
factory, two fertilizer factories, a wagon
factory, orange box factory, a $ ash, door
and bind factory, soda water factory
and factory for the cleaning Of moss. She
now wants a canning factory, factory for
picking vegetables, cigar factory, a piano