The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-18
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Orange trees are booming in Tallahassee
county.
The palmetto factory at Arcadia employs
100 hands,
Circuit Court convenes at Ocala next
Tuesday.
c. Rhenauer & Bro, of Ocala, have de-
cided to erect fine store
A Farmers Alliance Club has been Or
ga lied AT Hayne, with Col. J. B. Dell as
President.
The new hotel at Leroy is progressing
| finely, and contractor Mckay will soon
complete it.
An average of 100 letters are received
every day from parties inquiring about
Ocala and Marion county.
William w. Woodward is preparing to
build a number of tenement houses in the
northwest portion of Tallahassee.
The revival at the Methodist church at
Ocala continues unabated and full of inter
est. Many have joined the church.
AT Ocala building and loan association
money was in great demand at the last
meeting. The surplus was bid off at 4013 per
cent
Leach Bros, of Daytona, have purchased
and are shipping the HARDWOOD Island grove
orange crop. 1t will amount to at least
l 800 boxes.
Hon. A. L. Wellman has been designated
by the DeLand people to canvass Volusia
county in the interests of that place for the
court house.
The forty-acre tract belonging to George
A. Groom, lying just north of Tallahassee,
has been sold to Isaac N. Harmon, of Chi
cago for $50 an acre.
John q. Heinl, prominent florist of
Terre Haute, Ind, has purchased the county
| jail lot, lying north of the Leon Hotel, at
Tallahassee, for the sum of $50.
The Merchants National Bank building
at Ocala is now an assured fact. Work viii
soon commence. 1t is to be an imposing
three-story brick and stone structure.
| The City Council Of Tallahassee has passed
an ordinance granting fee simple title for
the lot on which the Leon Hotel stands. to
the hotel company, to take effect when they
shall have added forty rooms to the present
building.
Palatka Nelcs: 1t is a curious prohibition
at the West View Cemetery which compels
the mourners at a funeral to walk half
mile through the sand from the gate to the
! grave Attention is called TO this from the
fact that MS Wells and her children, pros
| trated with grief as she was was compelled
by this rule to walk this long distance.
The Grand Lodge of Masons Of Florida
have decided to erect a Masonic Temple in
Jacksonville. The Grand Lodge has S.. coo
on hand, aud has taken step, % collect
subscriptions from the subordinate lodges.
A committee % purchase n site has been ap-
| pointed -NesSrs. w. Bennett, of Jackson
| Vile; Long, of Ocala, and Past Grand
Master Anderson, of Pensacola.
A few days agoa surgical operation was
| performed on John Ward, of Bellyille, bv
/ Dr.. Godfrey, assisted by Drs. Blalock and
! d. NJ Smith. A tropan was used, and a
small piece Of the skull removed. with the
hope Of curing the epilepsy with viii II the
| patient has for years been afflicted. 1t
was skillful piece of surgery. and the
young man was doing well at last accounts
An invitation has been extended 10 the
Ocala Rifles 10 participate IN the military
display at Nashville, Tenn, in May, open
10 all companies in the United States The
Rifles have the matter under consideration,
and rs other invitations have been extended
namely, one TO attend the military en-
campment at Greenvile, S. c., and o1e at
! Augusta, Ga, it is hard TO tell which will
| be accepted
There was a lively breeze at Jasper last
| Saturday night. which shook things prstty
! thoroughly. The colored church building