The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-01


! ago, that are six inches high. Six inches
IRON the planting OF the seed, in one week,
is good growing.
The Orlando Gas Company has made a
! proposition to furnish the city with forty
! posts and lamps, with gas ten hours each
! night, for 81 900 per annum and the cost OF
| lamps and posts.
At Sanford, Saturday, the j. T. and K.
w. railroad authorities we're prevented, by
an order of law, from laying the side track
! from the corner Of Emmett Herndon's house
to the Union depot.
| Jake Brown, who was shot IN the head by
Joe Brown, at Pensacola last week, as re-
| ported previously, is not doing so well. In
hammation has set in, and he is in a rather
precarious condition.
The vegetable shipments at Oakland dur
ing the past week have reached between 30
and 400 crates per day. Prices have kept
up well, and, all things considered, the sea-
son 50 far has been good one.
DR.. 4. E. Greene, while fishing in one of
the small lakes near Orlando, Saturday,
succeeded in hooking and capturing an ALI
gator about two-thrds grown. The doctor
says lie was sure he had caught a whale.
L. A. Marshal, of Chicago, recently pur-
chased eighty acres Of N. c. Bryan west Of
Lake Tracy, Haines City, and will come on
IN September to begin improvements, and
Intends building a house, to be completed
before New Years.
On telegram received from the wife of
the man Murphree, who committed suicide
by drowning at Sanford last week, the
body was taken up Saturday, placed in a
handsome case and shipped by express to
his home-Nunnelly, Tenn.
Mr.. Hendry, of Fort Myers, has made
arrangements for shipping his cattle from
Haines City, and workmen are busy putting
up cattle yards at the station. The cattle
will be held about eighteen miles south of
here, where the grazing is fine, and driven
here for shipment as wanted.
j. Charles Richard, of Starke, has sold
his beautiful little orange grove, which is
situated on the east side Of Alligator creek,
TO party from Wisconsin, for the snug
sum of $4,000. This grove has had but
ordinary care, and the total cost of it to
date of sale could not have been over 81 600
Hon. Frank Jones and Charles Sinclair,
of New Hampshire, who are largely inter
ested in Tayares, and lost heavily by the
late disastrous fire, have offered to furnish
the money to all whose buildings were des-
troyed at legal rates of interest for the pur-
pose of rebuilding. The offer will be ac-
copied by those who need it, and Tavares
will be rebuilt with better class of houses
than those burned
William Dinkle, while assisting at the
saw-miG at Crown Point, last week. re-
ceived an ugly wound in his thigh from a
piece of timber thrown from the planer
while running at full speed. The timber,
after penetrating to the bone, rebounded
five or six feet. Although Mr.. DInkle is
some IS or 40 years old, he bears the mis-
fortune with much fortitude. He is an old
war veteran, one of Stonewal Jacksons
foundation rocks.
Mr.. Hubbard, of Interlachen, Putnam
county, contemplates erecting within the
next twelve months one or two handsome
residences on his block, and making an
ideal home, surrounded by grounds rich in
trees. shrubs, flowers, green lawn, and
the charming and beautiful views of wood
land and lake He says he would consider
his grounds worth $500 to 81 900 more for
residence if the handsome pine and oak
trees had been left on it by its first owner.
Orlando reports that complaints OF
drought are coming in from the entire sec
ton south of there The gardens and truck
| crops have already sus aimed much injury
| and unless good soaking rains soon come
| the damage cannot be rep ired The lacl,
of rain, cool nights and light dews com
| bined have caused the tobacco crop to
suffer very much. Usually at this season
| of the year the dews are heavy enough to
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| withsta the lack Of rain, but this year. so
far, the dews have amounted to nothing
! Orlando Reporter: Last week family
came up from lover Brevard county with
a load of fine grape fruit, which they had
| no trouble in selling at PC apiece, by the
! wholesale. They came nearly sixty miles
to get here, and seemed wonder,truck at
the growth Orlando was putting on. One
| of the visitors was the wife of the famous
Alligator Platt," whom Canova tolls about
in his Life and Adventures in South
Florida" as having once jumped astride OF
big alligator and riding him to shore like
a horse, by simply boring his thumbs in the
gators eyes.
| A. j. hose, Esq, was up on visit from
kiSsimmee this week. says the Orlando Re.
porter, He says that his brother. Capt. r.
f., Rose, the general manager of the st
Cloud sugar farm, returned from Pnila-
delphia last Saturday, having ordered $75,-
600 worth of additional machinery, etc.
for the big sugar mill One OF the new
machines is called shredder, " and is used
for working over the cane which has been
ground, when it is soaked in water and run
| through another pair of rollers, thus ex-
! tracing the sugar remaining in the stalk.
which is lost by the ordinary method
Among other things ordered is the material
for four-mile tramway to be used for
hauling cane from the field. As it is now.
the expense of getting the cane to the rnill
is quite heavy.
+. H. Orvis, Of the Windsor Hotel Jack
sonville, has just completed the pu chase
| OF the fine lot on the south side OF Monroe
street, between Hogan. and Julia. opposite
the Monroe street entrance to tie Windsor.
and known as the Robinson lot, for which
he paid $1,000 cash 1t is expected that
Mr.. Orvis will, during the summer. have
erected Oh this lot a three-Story block, 80 or
So feet long, finished in the same general
style as the Windsor, which will be run in
connection with the hotel, and if there is
no objection by the authorities, the two
buildings may be connected by an over
head covered bridge. Mr.. Orvis is very
much encouraged with the past season..
business, which, at his hotel, has been x
per cent. larger than ever before
Not long sigce q couple of gentlemen
were out fishing near Orlando, one of whom
is an accomplished naturalist, who can
name the genera and species Of almost any.
thing he comes across. But there he found
something which he set down aS a natural
| Florida curiosity. 1t was little fish tina.
produced its offspring after the manner OF
warm -bloodei animals. 1t is fact Of in.
terest TO natllraiistS that in all the fresh
waters of Florida are found fishes that
bring forth their young alive and perfect
| instead of laying eggs in the manner of the
tinny tribe generally The parent fishes are
very small, being only from one and half
TO two inches long, and are often used for
| bait for bass. The exact name Of the genus