The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-20
The spring term of Circuit Court will

E. F. Ptman, of Quincy, was in ITALIA
hassae Thursday making arrangements TO
establish cigar factory to work twenty
five hands
Capt. W II. Flower, whose remains were
disinterred at Fort Myers a few days ago,
was on account of his wealth known as
The Duke"
An election will be held at Manatee vii
lage May to decide on incorporation, and
for the election of Mayor, Aldermen, Clerk,
and Marshal.
His Honor Judge Broome announces that
he will hold no term of the Circuit Court
in Volusia county until the county seat
question is settled.
AT Fort Myers, Capt. johnson is tearing
the old planning mill and engine house down
preparatory TO moving it to his home place,
in the county, and rebuilding it.
Trains on the st. Augustine and Palatka
railway ran over the new connection be-
tween the old terminus and the new pier at
Harris Point for the first time on Monday.
A difficulty occurred near Micanopy
Monday between white man and a negro
named Franklin, in which the latter shot
at the former with a shotgun, the load
passing just above his head.
S. A. Jones has returned to Tampa from
| Washington. He is now getting up a
monster petition to Congress, asking that
the Tampa harbor appropriation be US ed to
deepen the channel that leads up to Porto
| Tampa
Frank S. Lewis, of Philadelphia, who is
a large landowner, near Waldo, and other
parts of the State, has cleared up and will
plant in June 100 acres of the Fort Cross
! hummock about three miles southwest of
Brooksville.
By the first of May the Orange Belt Rail
road will be finished to st. Petersburg, and
coincident Herewith a new steamboat just
launched for the trade between the Big
Bayou and Tampa win begin to make her
regular trips.
The Ybor City police succeeded in cap
turing a professional burglar last Saturday
night. He is a Cuban negro, aud was well
supplied with keys, having one that be-
longed to the court house. His name is
Philippe LeMoyne.
Messrs. Colwel & McWalters are manu-
| featuring in Palatia what they call an cleo
trio cleaner. 1t is used on the Florida
Southern railway in cleaning up vanished
and veneered surfaces, and in cleaning the
engines and iron work.
Manatee's new NJ. E. church presents
fine appearance on Main street. The out
side is almost completed, and the contractor
will apply the first coat of paint next week.
| The building, when completed, will cost
something over s., 0OO
The Alcazar at st. Augustine, with its
| magnificent architecture, is the finest build
ing in Florida with the exception of the
famous Ponce de Leon. Its probable cost
will be in the neighborhood of $500 900. 1t
is almost finished now, and will be opened
| in the summer.
The Christian (Campbellite) church has
organized a society at Brooksville which is
nominally mite society, but is in reality a
| literary and musical society. This society
meets every Monday evening" and is largely
attended by the cultured people, regardless
of their denominations.
The Grand Army of the Republic vete-
rams had a royal time at old Fort Marion
Tuesday night A flag was presented
! formally to the post for Ct. G.. Greene by
| Rev. &. G. Mclean, and on behalf of the
veterans Drs. Fowler and Rainey replied
and accepted with thanks Mr. Greene's gift.
Poultry rasers about Tallahassee are
complaining of weasels killing their young
! chicks. A colored woman living on the
Belair road reports that thirteen of her
CHI. ckens were killed in one night last week,
the weasels having caught them by the
throat and sucked every drop of blood from
their bodies.
| At st. Augustine, George Baynard a
| shoemaker living on Charlotte street, drank
three ounces OF oxalic acid Wednesday
afternoon, installing it for whisky. Drs
| Alexander and Shine were called in, and
administered emetics. The man is in a
critical condition, but may live unless in
| hammation sets in.
Willis Anthony, q Woodworking colored
| farmer, living on the Hopkins place, about
three miles nurtGeas of Tallahassee awoke
on last Thurs,li y night to find that his sta
| bie and corn-crio was i'll one seething mass
OF flame The fire was so far advanced
| that it was impossible to enter the stable to
| save his horse, and the poor animal was
burned to ashes.
At st. Augustine Prof Ward has organ
lied choir of twenty boys and girls, who
will sing at the opening of the cathedral.
! Previous to the opening they will sing at
masses and vespers in the convent. The
cathedral will probably be completely fin
ished and ready for use in month. A
| $4,000 organ has been purchased and will
| be placed in this grand old edifice. The
organ will have $50 pipes.
General Manager Sherman Conant, aud
| Ziba King, of Fort Ogden, the cattle king
| of South Florida, arrived at Brooksville
| one night last week on a special car and had
a conference with Howell T. Lykes. There
must be some big movement in the South
! Florida syndicate and from the drift of
things and the silence of the interested par
| ties ON the subj ct of their business, it may
be inferred that large body of land in
South Florida will soon change hands.
A number of capitalists of Orlando and
the North have organized the Orlando Loan
and Trust Company, and will proceed to
business at once. The capital stock is
$1,000 with 10 per cent. already paid in,
and entitled to carry liabilities of 81 900 900.
The purpose and object of the company is
to loan money on security and is not to be
confined to Orlando or Orange county, but
to be co-extensive with the whole State.
The headquarters of the company will be
| at Orlando.
Horace Weir, who was one of the origi-
majors of the IRON industries of Birming-
ham, Ala, recently made a visit to Brooks
| vile III company with Dr. Wood President
of the 1T. j., l.. W. and G. R'y, which has
already been surveyed through this part Of
the country. They visited the leading land
owners and went 10 Bay Port TO confer with
Maj. John Parsons, who sent them TO their
terminal point Anclote, in boat. They
see n TO he in earnest and enthusiastic over
the prospects and resources of fernando
! county.
At the centennial celebration held in Ma
| rietta, o., recently, a telegram from Mayor
Greene, of St Augustine, was read, convey
ing to the oldest city in the Northwest the
deep feeling Of the oldest city in the United
States, This telegram was read during the
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