The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-23
FLORIDA,

Thomas NJ Bush has been appointed Post
master at Blount Town.
4 new wharf and warehouse are among
the crying needs at Manatee.
Charles Peacock has been appointed Super
visor of Registration of Dade county
Fishing is good at Welaka, some very fine
bass being caught by spinner and bob.
r. C.. Breland of DeLand has cut 800
bundles of oats from three acres of land
A new depot is to be built at Enterprise
by the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railroad.
The Goodwin saw mill at Hickory Bluff
has been sold to the Charlotte Harbor Lum-
Der Company.
DeSoto County Board of Health has de-
clared quarantine against all infected ports
south of there.
A number of people around DeLand are
shooting alligators at the lake, and already
have forty skins.
j. f. Alexander, Post Office Inspector for
Florida and Georgia, is quite sick at Or
lando with chills and fever.
During a storm on Friday afternoon last,
considerable bail fell at DeLand, but no
damage is reported therefrom.
Halifax beach is growing in favor every
day as summer resort. Particularly is
that the case with Orlando and Sanford
people.
The mail car on the Altoona division of the
Florida Southern Railroad has been taken
off, and the mail has to 60 down in sacks in
charge of the conductor
A colored woman and her child persisted
in the flames at Columbus, on the Suwanee
river, Saturday, while trying to remove
their effects from burning house.
The contract for building the bridge
across the HIllsborough river, at the foot
of Lafayette street, Tampa, will probably
be closed within the next twenty-four
hours
At Green Cove Springs Monday, G. w
Hanford, Fleming Democrat, was elected
Alderman to I'LL a vacancy, over Wheeler,
Republican, by the largest majority ever
known.
There are fifteen orange trees of the
navel variety in Dr. II. j. Longs grove
at Enterprise, that put on bloom last
October, and they are now loaded with the
luscious golden fruit,
At meeting of the Council Of Altoona,
Wednesday night, A. c. Lawton was elected
Mayor to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of J. II. Jackson, who recently
moved to Fort Mason.
Manatee county has sent over to Pine
Level and taken away the big safe.
DeSoto's records are now exposed to fires,
casualties, reaches meddlesome people and
all other pestiferous insects.
Alderman Lewis, Of st. Augustine, has
introduced an ordinance appropriating
salaries 60 the Mayor, Clerk and Marshal
Its second reading will come before the
board al its meeting tonight.
The boss gator hunter of Welaka is l.. A.
Morris. he having killed last week twenty
three good-sizcd ones, which net, with teeth,
hide and carcass, about 81 - each He
also bagged thirty-six small ones
The Governor has issued his warrant for
the execution of George Prichett, who was
convicted of murder in the first degree at
the last term of the Circuit Court of Nassau
county. The day set for the execution is
June 49, 1883.
At Manatee, Capt. Andrew T. Harllee,
administrator of the estate of the late Capt.
John w Harllee, has sold out the entire
mercantile interests and "good whip to
Garret Murphy and John w jackson, the
former Of Miaklka, and the latter of Pine
Level.
A storm at Orlando, Sunday, looked at
first as II 1t woula be a Kansas cyclone, but
beyond blowing down a few small trees set