The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-26
FLORIDA.


A number of strangers are in Quincy
looking for locations.
The hotel at Blue Springs is filed with
tourists and sight-seekers.
The spring term of GadSden Circuit Court
commences at Quincy to-day.
T. A Dromgoolo announces himself for
City Collector of Gainesville.
The shipment of garden peas from Lake
City is going on at lively rate now.
There is but little sickness in Gadsden
county and the doctors horses are growing
fat.
j. C. Littler, of Gainesville, has sold his
photograph gallery to 7, L. Darnell, Of
Durham n. G..
Contracts have been made for the build
ing of several residences in and near Quincy
and number more are in prospect.
Wiley Lucas, one of Lake City's indus
trious colored citizens, has sold this season,
at 2Oc. per quart, strawberries at the rate Of
500 per acre.
B. S. G.. Smith, of Quincy has purchased
herd of fine Jersey cattle from a gentleman
in Tallahassee, and will do away with his
stock of common cattle.
A day or two ago some person or persons
went to Antioch Church, near La Crosse, Ala
chua county, dug out the cornerstone and
All insurance on buildings destroyed by
the late fire at Ocala has been adjusted and
paid. The agents are still figuring on the
stocks of merchandise that went up in
smoke
A very large force of hands are now at
work ON the La Camelia tobacco plantation
near Quincy, and work is progressing
rapidly. Over 200 acres of land has been
cleared.
Architect George MacKay's plan for the
new Merchants National Bank at Ocala has
been accepted, and at the next meeting of
the directors the contract on same will be
awarded.
d. A. Miller, of Ocala, had ten orange
trees in his yard on Magnolia street insured
for $50 apiece, which were destroyed by the
late fire and for which the insurance COM
pany promptly paid.
A committee of the Baptist church Of
Fernandina have issued a circular letter
appealing to their brethren for assistance
in rebuilding their house of worship which
was destroyed by fire in 1888.
At Pensacola, Saturday, Parker Douglass,
an aged aud helpless colored man, fell into
a wood fire that was burning in his fire.
place, and was severely, possibly fatally,
burned, before he was rescued.
Adolphus Jones. colored, aged "A, living
sumption. While preparing to remove the
body from the house, Emily Jones, mother
of the deceased, suddenly expired.
The rubbish is being cleared off the burned
district at Ocala aud eight brick stores will
ornament the chayred sight shortly. Messrs.
Jeffords and Thompson will build two-story
buildings and d. A. Miller five one-storv
store rooms.
The acreage in cotton in Columbia county
will be, as rule, reduced this year, and its
place taken up with tobacco, rice, etc.
Many of the farmers have been waiting for
good rain TO plant their cotton. 1t came
ON Wedne day morning.
DIR. J. F. Miller, of Goldsboro, N. c.,
owner of one of the finest orange groves
west of the Ocklawaha river, near Graham
vile, formerly owned by Mr.. Henderson,
has been appointed Superintendent of the
Eastern IN. c. Insane Asylum.
At Gainesville new hotel scheme is on
foot. Two citizens who are men of means
are willing TO invest an amount equal to one
half of the cost of a good hotel, if any one
can be found to take the rest of the invest
ment, and a lot is furnished them.
Summerfield, formerly Whitesville, was
visited by an incendiary last Thursday,
burning the barn of c. Fl. White. The
building was well filed with feed The
loss was total. On the same night fences
were fired and general CONSERVATION pre-
vailed in the community.
In Gadsden county, the tobacco company
has started in on their new system of hiring
men by the month, or monthly hands. The
hands have the use of the house free with n
tract of land sufficiently large for all neces-
sary garden productions. Besides this the
company gives them rations and wages by
the month.
1t is reported that there is movement on
foot among few enterprising citizens to
establish in Lake City during the summer a
cooperative land association, their purpose
being to divide up a certain tract of land
into ten acre blocks and give away every
alternate ten TO an actual settler under GER
tain conditions.
Tuesday the residence of Mrs O. A. ].
Bizzell, a short distance south of Quincy,
was burned, together with several out houses
and a crib Of corn. The fire is supposed to
originated from defective stove pipe and
caused n loss of about $500. She appears to
be very unfortunate this being the third
time she has been burned out.
In the last eight cen months $31S, 900 has
been invested in permanent improve ments
at Fernandina. or the improvements. those
OF the Creosote Lumber and Construction
Company are the most important, more
than one-third of the total amount having
been expended in their construction The
remainder was principally for wharfage
improvements and private residences.
The Florida Moss Hair Company is an en-
terpriSe which will soon commence opera
tions in Gainesville in the moss manuf g.
turing busn s. Extensive and expensive
machinery has already been purchased aud
a large building will be erected near the
switch north Of the city The members of
the firm are: J. w. Williams, e. e. Voyle,
II. Magee, James Doig and L. A. Barnes.
Mr.. Williams is President of the company,
and +. Il. Noyle Secretary.
While j. J. Goodwin, of Fautville, Marion
county, was sitting in his wagon a day or
ago tree fell upon him, throwing him to
the ground and causing a compound frac-
ture of his lower eft leg During the same
week tree struck Isaac Nixon, Of the same
place, which caused severe bruise on his
throat and chest. Mr.. Nixon was sitting
on a stump some ten feet from where the
tree fell, but the falling trunk strdck an
other tree in its descent, rebounded and
knocked him off the stump.
There came near being a murder commit
ted at Fort Barrancas few days ago. There
is garden about half a mile back Of the
garrison. in which Col Langdon is having