The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-13

the certainties at ST. Petersburg, on Tampa
[ Bay, the southern terminus Of the Orange
I Belt railway.
The Circuit Court for the Fifth Judicial
/ Circuit Of Florida, Judge J j. Finley,
/ presiding, convened at the court house at
| Palatka Tuesday.
J. II. Reynolds, of Troy, y. Y, has Sc
/ cured leo acres of the Susan II. Bailey
| property, at Orlando. and proposes TO beau
! ufy and improve it for a trotting park.
Mr.. Burdens residence on Central avenue,
/ Orlando, and three acres of ground opposi te
/ J. ?. Hughey's grove has been sold 10
/ William r. Denny, of Baltimore, for
$1,000.
| rhe name of Nine. MERGED G. Brent, of
/ Pensacola, widow OF Thomas W. Brent,
/ the mother of Messrs. F. c., D. G.. and K.
| J. Brent, Of Pensacola,) has been placed on
the national pension rolls.
| The President has recommended the use
! OF some g, 900 of the Seminole Indian fund
| for the purchase of additional lands for the
! Seminole Indians in Florida, adjoining those
now occupied by them.
John Hawkins, of Sylvan Lake. was
thrown from his wagon Monday last the
! team running away, and from the injuries
! received died Wednesday morning at the
residence Of his brother, William Hawkins
a guaya growing association is soon to
be organized at Punta Gorda in which the
members agree to grow a certain number Of
acres in guaves. From last years expert
eDce it is found TO be an excellent paying
crop.
The prospects are that Secretary Whitney
win not be able to accept the invitation of
Pensacola to visit the regatta. He has been
detained at home since Monday by slight
| injury TO his foot received while riding on
that day.
street railway company is being organ
lied on Palatka Heights The Palatka
Heights Street Railway is provided for to
the Palatka city limits, and the Heights
people want line to run up as far as the
academy.
Beach & Miller, of Palatka are nego-
tiatiag for the Silver Star, of Charleston,
to run in the place of the Kissimmee. on
the st Johns river. The Star is said to
be fifteen feet longer than the Crescent
City, and very fast.
Hon. S. r. Mallory and Messrs J. S.
Leonard and Hugh B. Hatton have been
appointed the committee authorized by the
McDavid wing of the county Democracy of
Escambia at a meeting Of their Executive
Committee last Friday.
st. Augustine will have within the next
week telephone connection with Jackson
Vile. The telephone exchange of st.
Augustine is nov in thriving condition,
having about 100 subscribers. Jacksonville
has about 300 subscribers
The Arcade Hotel at Orlando was sold
Tuesday with all of its furniture, to G. w.
Burden, formerly of the Magnolia Hotel
The price paid was $4,000. lie will take
immediate charge, make some needed re-
pairs and run the house in first-class man
ner.
The proprietor of large cigar factory at
Havapa arnpIOUino A00 hands has ciopi6a1
bis willingness to remove to Punta Gorda
If the people there will donate sufficient
land for factory and cottages. 1t is said
that there is not at present a disposition to
donate the land required.
The Sanford Ice Company has filed its ar
ticles of incorporation and completed It's
organization. They have purchased the ice
plant erected in Sanford last year, and will
substitute a new StrattOn machine for the
worthless one put in at so great expense
something less than a year ago.
1t rumored at Warrington that the
doctors in Pensacola are endeavoring to
have Surgeon J. w. Ross, United States
Navy, removed from the Warrington navy
yard They hold that he is taking practice
from them by attending civilians. A petit
ton is being signed at Warrington to have
him kept there.
The new Hotel Charlotte, across the bay
Dor side, Is nearing completion and will be
ready for next seasons business. 1t is q
twenty room house, and will be nicely fin
ished and furnished. A Methodist church
and Baptist church are soon to be con-
structed at that place.
w. S. Howenstein, Superintendent of
Tampa electric light plant left Wednesday
morning for Ocala to superintend the estab-
lishment of like plant in that city. He
rv~Tl !, Il
Electric Light Company, and will come
back once week to see that everything is
kept running properly.
Gainesville Advocate: While other por-
tions of the South, even part of our own
State, are favored with sufficient rain, this
portion Of it Is suffering severely. We
heard one gentleman who has good means
of knowing, say that unless rain falls soon
there will be n loss of 100000 on the vege-
table crop of this county.
Land sales in and about Lakeland are
looking up somewhat. Among those re-
Gently made are the following: DR.. Vine
yard sold to Mr.. Emerson, a new conner
from England, eighty acres with about 100
bearing trees ON Lake Hollngsworth for
$4,000 Mr. Scott has sold 1000 acres or
more OF railroad lands to sundry purchasers.
While l. Joseph was in Apalachicola a
few days ago he purchased William
t1unlpnfleS Interest IN tnS 1uuphfleS prop
erty at Old Woman's Bluff, and negotiat d
for that portion belonging to the Henry
HUMPHREYS estate. THIS is the property
leased some time since by the Gulf Naviga-
ton Company, with a view of building a
warehouse and marine ways upon it.
A meeting is soon TO be called Mt Arcadia
Of the bu 'iness men on the Charlotte Har-
Dor division of the Florida Southern rail
road to protest to the railroad commissiol
against their treatment by that road. Pas
senger rates are the same &c. per mile, ard
the freight rates are very much higher than
ever before They will protest against
granting every appeal Of the railroad com
pany.
The citizens of Peru, Hillsborough county,
are much exercised over the fact that T. B.
Coleman has anchored in the river in front
Of the villages small sail boat, on board of
which he has WHISTLES that he is selling at
retail aud otherwise, which is causing
no little trouble and dissatisfaction through
out the community. T. j. Head and J. NJ
Buzbee fought with knives as one result of
the whisky. Each was badly but not dan
gerously wounded.
A large flock of wild geese passed over
! Tallahassee a day or two ago travelling in
| southwark direction; they were quacking
and tluttering III a considerably excited
manner, making very loui noise, as if
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