The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-22
FLORIDA,

James Miller will soon open livery
stable at Kissimmee.
Lumber is being hauled for a school
house on the Hill, at Green Cove Spring.
At Green Cove Spring, huckleberries have
supplanted dewbsrries, at 15c. per. quart.
The revival at the Methodist church at
Orlando still continues to draw immense
congregations
There are 107 cases on the appearance
docket of Osceola county and twenty-nine
chancery cases.
Apricots Of perfect development and fine
flavor are now ripening at several different
places in Lake City.
Town scrip of Green Cove Spring is sell
ing at 75c. to SOC. on the dollar. Six weeks
agoit was worth par.
Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville
| Courier-JourndL is having concrete cot
tage built at Naples-on- the-Gulf
Ocala Free Press: Bob Bullock, Bob
Davis and Bob Davidson Take your
choice. All candidates for Governor
In Clay county, the long dry spell has
retarded vegetables. Tomatoes are only
now just beginning to come into market.
One hundred dollars foot was offered
for ground on the square, at Ocala, by
new conner last week, but was not accepted.
The heaviest expense the State has to
bear is that of the judiciary, which
amounted to S203, 1853 So for the year 1887.
The government sale of cigars, gin,
brandies, two boats, junk and old furniture
at Pensacola, Thursday, brought about
$3.50.
Harry Curry (colored), who was shot in
Green Cove some months ago, while endea-
voring to escape the officers of the law
died on Sunday last.
h. 30 81,
of Orlando have advertised for bids for the
construction Of their new brick church to
be erected at the corner of Main and Church
streets
A 3-months old beet, weighing 616 pounds,
took rank in the market, at Green Cove
Spring, last Saturday, as the king of its
kind. 1t was raised by w. T. Morton
(colored).
/ The Board of Health has requested the
health officer TO examine all the houses
within the corporate limits of Fort Myers,
to see if their surroundings are in good
sanitary condition.
At MacClenny, Saturday, the following
delegates were selected to represent Baker
county at st. Augustine F. J. Pons, ST.,
j. w. Gurganus, J. X. Herndon and w. w.
Williams. They go uninstructed.
j. w. Bushnell, chief engineer for the
Florida Railway and Navigation Company,
has several acres of pineappleS IN the west
ern part of Fort Myers that are doing fine
and will soon be in a marketable shape.
J.. D. Gore, an old citizen living near
Bulow, was shot while at work in his clear
ing last Tuesday. Four rife balls entered
his body near the heart, and death follows
almost instantly. There is no clew To his
assassin.
A meeting of the doctors of Marion
county was held Tuesday for the purpose of
organizing county society. DR.. p. G..
Snowden was elected president, +. Van
Hood, M D., secretary, and L. NJ. Aver,
NJ D., treasurer.
j. M. Bryan, of Kissimmee, has just re-
ceived returns from 150 crates of tomatoes,
which Melted him 81 per crate in the New
York market He has 400 crates more on
the road, and will ship something over
1000 crates from six acres.
Tho cabin sloop yacht Susie B., of New
Orleans, which won second money in the
Pensacola regatta last month, took the first
prize at the Southern Yacht Clubs regatta
! on Lake PonchartTain last Thursday, beat
ing two competitors in handsome style.
Maj. NJ. K Marks has just returned to
Orlando from trip over the Orange Belt
railroad, and reports the country through
which it runs as the finest in Florida. He
says there are over 1000 crates OF vege-
tables day being shipped over that road.
A horse belonging to n colored drayman
! by the name of Robert McKnnon, was
badly cut on the foreshoulder by some
unknown miscreant, ut Key West, Thurs
| day night. The brute entered the stable TO
do the fiendish act This is the second time
this same horse has been wounded in this
/ way.
The delegates from the various districts
Of Bradford county assembled at Starke on
Saturday and selected the following to rep
resent tho county at ST. Augustine: w. A.
! Crosby, l.. b. Rhodes, Guilford Roberts,
| w. T. Weeks, +. r. Ward, f. L. Bugg, j.
w. Sutton, j. L. Gaskins, j. K. Richard
and A. Crosby.
On account Of the dry weather, Mr..
Hart, of kissimmee, became discouraged
over his tomato crop, and came near selling
the entire crop for few hupdrod dollars.
The sale was not made, however, and he
has since shipped from Gig t. acres 400
crates, which netted him "a per crate, and
Will have 60J crates more to ship.
One Of the colored hands of the Crawford
Brothers turpentine camps In Columbia
county was thrown from and run over by
| ma of their hoa yily lpada1 vvaeronq 1vbila In