The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-29
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
A cigar factory is talked of for Madison.
What Live Oak needs worse than any
thing else is good, pure water.
The orange crop around DeLand this year
will be unsurpassed in sizs and quality.
| The Farmers Alliance Ia growing strong
in Wakulla. Crawfordville has a lodge Of
II members
The tax assessor Of Suwanee county will
soon have the tax books of 1888 ready for
the collector.
The DeLand board of health Is trying
vainly SO far-to prohibit social and re-
| ligious night meetings
Wakulla democrats will hold conven-
ton on Sept. 10 to nominate county officers
and member Of the legislature.
j. L. McFarlin is rushing the work on his
new hotel at Quincy, and Intends having it
ready for next winters business.
Alex Grice of Leon county, after gather
ing his potatoes in May, planted the ground
to corn and raised a splendid crop.
At Seville, last week, Lee Prevatt cut
John Feaster with knife, infiicting nine
| teen wounds. Feaster will recover.
At ENTERPRISE, last week, j. F. Devlyn,
formerly editor of the defunot Herald, was
badly beaten by man named Boyd.
Cotton is reported to be opening very
places rust hes set In and the weed is dying
T. L. Ward has commenced work on his
new block at Quincy, and will push it rap.
idly to completion. The block will contain
| four stores.
| Postmaster Sheldon says that the amount
of mail handled at Gainesville is fully 25
per cent. greater than for the corresponding
date last year.
| The board of trade of Gainesville has sent
| protest to Surgeon General Hamilton, be-
cause mail from Tampa is received there
without fumigation.
| The construction of the Merchants ma
! tional bunk building at Ocsla is delayed on
account of the artificial stone to be used for
vile.
A meeting of the citizens of DeLand was
| held in the city hall last week A report
was read showing that the expenses Of
DeLand in the court house campaign were
Sl,700
| At Ellaville, few nights ago, sneak
thieves entered the store and office of l..
| Bucki & Son and stole about 1856 from
| drawer to one Of the desks in the office and
escaped through the back way of the store.
Oaklawn will be the scene of grand old
| fashioned democratic rally and barbecue on
Sept. 6. George w. Wilson, the active
leader of the young democracy of his sec
ton, will be master of ceremonies, ably as
sisted by his alert neighbors, and big time
and crowd is anticipated.
There were two shooting and killing
scrapes in Marion county last week in that
many days. On Monday, at the railroad
croSs-tis camp near Citra, John Jackson
shot and killed Cyrus Luckman. A woman
caused the murder. Ga Tuesday Jim John
sou shot and killed Bailey at Silver Springs
All involved were colored.
Tom Fisher, ono of the lucky owners Of
the magnificent airing 100-acre orange
grove at South Lake Weir, is also the larg-
est owner in and superintendent of the
standard gold mine at Gold Hill, n. NJ. 1t
IS very valuable piece of property, and
with only five stamps in operation is clean
ing up net returns OF $1,000 month.
A bridge across the Withlacoochee, con-
| Meeting Madison and Hamilton, Is almost a
necessity t. Madison, for ii is almost an i'm
possibility for n loaded vehicle to cross
either way with the present Hat boats The
citizens OF Belleville have nearly $500 raised
for tins purpose, and the +. r. and n. r. r.
Co. has become Interested in the project,
and Will doubtless contribute literally.
Capt. p Fleming, the democratic
gubernatorlal candidate, in response 20 an
invitation from the club of district Thirteen,
addressed the citizens of Tallahassee, last
! lueNlaF msnt, at the opera house. Many
ladies graced the occasion with their pres
enca. The speech OF Florida's next gov
ernor, while not so flowery and eloquent as
some Of his predecessors', was sound, logical
and convincing, and was well received
n. u. Isler, one of Leon couuty's enter
prising farmers, has gathered this year
from une acre of ground thirty-six bushels
and three pecks Of measured corn, and esti-
mates that he will get, at tho very least, $50
gallons or six barrels Of syrup from the
same land. 1t was "stubblo patch, ~ ami
from the appearance of the cane in the
early spring he decided that it would make
nothing aud planted corn in among stubble,
with the above result