The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-22
FLORIDA.

The orange crop at Cocoa will not be
fully.garnered before the first of April
The Sunday law against selling cigars
was strictly enforced at Orlando Sunday.
William Penn Nixon, editor of the Chi
cago hitter Ocean, is at DeFuniak Springs.
AT Cocoa orange trees are in full bloom.
A heavy crop of fruit next season is indl-
Gated.
At Cocoa no frost this season has come to
check the growth of even the tendereSt
branches.
Sanford and Palatka both claim that
President Cleveland and his party will visit
those cities.
T. H. Adams, grandson of ex-President
John Quincy Adams, of Quincy, Mass, is
at Enterprise.
Orlando has sanitary inspector pow in
the person of Capt. Cram with salary of
So per month.
A protracted meeting was commenced in
the Baptist Church at Brooksville last
Wednesday night.
At Jacksonville Monday the libel case
against the NelCS- Herald was continued
until Friday of this week.
The South Florida Exposition at Sanford
is drawing large crowds, and everybody is
delighted with the display.
tered the steamer Cleo and is enjoying some
genuine Indian river fishing.
Mrs. Max Myerson and son left Sanford
for Savannah, Ga, Monday, to attend the
Jasper Monument celebration.
A party of twenty-eight Philadelphians
are at kissimmee to look over the country
and enjoy themselves generally.
The orange grove now being set out by
Gen. Withers, near Brooksville will be the
largest in the State when completed.
Railroad officials at Orlando say that
within the past week passenger traffic to
that point has increased enormously.
At Cocoa guavas which were blighted by
the cold of 1886 have fully recovered, and
those around town are laden with fruit.
A grand military ball, complimentary to
visiting military, will be given bv the citi-
zens of Sanford at the Sanford House to-
night
The yacht Neca, of Palatka is having
club-topsail made, and it is rumored that
she is going to challenge the Mascot, of
Jacksonville.
The Sanford House has been crowded the
past week with tourist visitors, who aided
greatly in swelling the daily attendance at
the exhibition.
At Cocoa T. K Dixon has bought the
MAUI II. lIOlll T. Uus HOmlcI. Oub Will DC
run as heretofore, as party boat, Will j.
Fowler, master.
At Cocoa the orange and lemon trees are
fast putting on a coat of bloom and the
humming birds are futtering about the
banana blossoms.
Mrs S. NJ. Roumillat and her son Joe,
mother of Frank E. Roumlllat. of Sanford,
passed through Sanford Saturday night en-
route to Savannah.
A competent and experienced orange
grower has given it as his opinion that the
orange crop of Indian river this year will
be about $1,000 boxes.
Capt. Rose, of Kissimmee, has already
shipped about 500 worth of sugar cane to
the Sub Tropical, and the show isn't more
than one-third over yet.
On the first Monday in March the school
board will adopt a series of text books to be
used in the Lake county public schools for
the ensuing five years.
Five new additions to the colored Baptist
church of Sanford we're immersed in the
lake on Sunday, in the presence of a very
large number of spectators.
1t is said by the Clay Springs Southern
P,-oqress that boat will shortly be put on
the Wekiva and st. Johns rivers to run be-
tween Sanford and that place.
2. T. Mckay has been appointed commits
sioner at the Sub-rropical Exposition to
represent the town of Brooksville, and TO-
600 handbills will be printed for distrbu-
ton.
Notwithstanding the general excitment
caused by the South Florida Exhibition,
improvements in Sanford go steadily on,
causing much favorable comment from Wis
itors.
The steamer Leila v, owned by Mr. J.
NJ. Lee, of the Hotel Indian River, at Rock
ledge, will soon have a new cabin, and will
look as trim as anything afoat in those
waters.
Miss Carrie Moore and her friend Miss
Fischer, of Cocoa, sail boat as well as
any member of the sterner sex and are often
seen out sailing without any horrid man
to bother them.
Charlie Stewart, of Tropic, planted last
season one and half acres in tomatoes
and cleared over 5000 on them. He has
planted more heavily this year with prom
ise Of similar success.
Col. NJ. C. Osborn, who died at his home
in Windham, n. Y, Feb. 8, has been identi-
fed with the interests of Kissilnmee since
the first blow was struck here in the wilder
ness, some six years ago.
Emma Abbott's Opera Company took
Sanford by storm Miss Abbott was enter
tanned while in the city by Mrs. w. c.
Yeiser the two ladies having been friends
and companions for long while past.
Col. Coogler, of Brooksville. and several
members of his family were severely
shocked by lightning last week, and the
Colonel himself still carries the mark of
fine electric fluid. The house was badly
wrecked.
Hamilton Disston and Col Scott arrived
of Kissimmee Monday to make final
arrangements for the building Of railroad
from there to Runnymede and from thence
down the Kssimm5e valley on the east side
Of the river.
Can't. Nav, of Rock Ledge, is demonstrate
ing what can be done in the way OF raising
VEGETABLES in Florida soil-some call it sand.
Where palmetto scrub grew four months
ago the ground is now growing as fine cab
bage as could be desired.
] II. Carlton and Duane Young, bankers
of Iowa Falls, Ia, arrived at DeFuniak
Springs Saturday. They will probably in
vest. A good bank, cotton and wooden
mill. OF a wagon and carriage factory would
nav handsome dividends.
The Casa Monica Hotel and the Lyons
block at 81. Augustine Will decorate IN
honor of the Presidential party with strictly
Snanish and Moorish decorations. The bru-
mite ladies OF tue hotel will appear upon
tbe balconies Of the hotel in Spanish COS
tune.
Al st. Augustine Monday telegram
from Secretary Lamont 20 Mayor Greene
- .....i...a aasgguU the President desired