The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-22
FLORIDA.

The Record is the name Of a new paper
at De Land.
At Kissimmme, s. W. Jeter has sold his
grocery business to J. S. Oliver.
The friends of E. NJ. Hopkins announce
him as a suitable candidate for county
judge of Leon.
At Lakeland J. L. Barker has purchased
the handsome residence formerly owned by
A. ". Hardee
Not single citizen of Lakeland has
shown a disposition to emigrate on account
of yellow fever in the state.
| At Fernandina contractors are still busy
| in erecting buildings, and have no trouble
in securing reliable workmen.
| A move is on foot to have the prohibition
lists in CLAY county take action against the
! violators of the local option law.
| Postmaster Stanley of Barlow has been
appointed to fumigate the mails at quar-
antine between Lakeland and Plant City.
Putnam county has quarantined against
Sanford because the steamer City Of Jack
! sonville is allowed to deliver freight at the
| Sanford wharves
| Palatka has volunteer company com
posed of eighty of her best citizens, who are
| divided into four reliefs, and take turns in
doing guard duty around the city during
the night.
Prof. w. B. Summerall, who filed the
position of teacher in one of the depart
ments of the Eustis public school, will be-
come principal of the public school at Lees
| burg the coming term.
Amber and Taliaferro, of Starke, have
stopped shipping logs to Jacksonville, as
they cannot be received there any more.
| This will throw $50 hands out of employ
ment in Bradford county.
On Tuesday last, Frank Jolly, agent at
Laesburg of the Florida Southern, sold
| S346 80 worth of tickets, most of them to
people going out of the state. The day be-
fore he sold about 5000 worth.
The store of Thomas Brewer, at Okla
humpka, was broken into on Sunday night
and robbed of $50 in cash. valuable gold
watch and a few goods Mr.. Brewer thinks
the thief came from Dade City.
DR.. j. L. Gaskins of Starke has on exhi-
bition rice from his muck farm, that is six
feet tall with heads full of large grains
The doctor has about twenty acres. Messrs
Lewis and McCully have about twenty
acres more.
The steamer Colonist. Capt. p E. Gibson,
brought TO Kissimmee Sunday night. Aug.
5, 1900 lines aud lemons and about $50 ALI
gator hides, making something over 5000
alligator skins brought up from the KisSim-
NEE river by this steamer alone since May
Crawford Bros will shortly build tram
from their camp, seven miles out, into Lake
| City, which will give them a carrying ca
pacity of so to 100 barrels spirits turpen-
tine per day; and they now have work
enough ahead TO run at this rate until De-
| cember.
Valusia county has about $1,000 in the
| trea ury, but no one has authority under
the law to disburse it, G. =. Wilcox re-
fuses to qualify as treasurer on account of
the excessive bond required 1t is ru-
mose1 that William Jackson, the magnetic
leader OF the coast democracy, will fiji the
gap.
Gainesville Advocate: Notwithstanding
the yellow fever scare, there has been more
activity in the real estate market than for
months past. This is certainly healthy
indication, and demonstrates the fact that
it is imposs ole to check the upward and
onward progress of Gainesville aud Alachua
county.
The preliminary examination Of Edward
Salter and William Strong. charged with
the murder of II. W. Busk, commenced at
Sanford on Monday morning before Judge
Bryan. The examination bids fair to be q
long and tedious one, over twenty-five wit
nesses having been subp@naed on the part Of
the state
Up TO Sunday the owners of the buildings
on the north side of the quare, at Games
vile, ordered by the council to be pulled
down, had taken no steps to have them re-
moved. Mayer Brown indicated his readi-
ness TO 90 at the work at IL o'clock Satur-
day night, the time of the expiration of
thirty-six hours of grace, if the board of
health said s..
Ga Sunday afternoon, just before twi-
light, number of citizens Of Leesburg wit
messed an extraordinary meteor. 1t re-
sembed tho full moon in size and luminous
appearance 1t started In the cast and pass
ing slowly toward the southwest exploded
when apparently over Yalaha. The pieces
into which it burst retained their bright
ness till near the horizon.
Az tho Daytona Rifles were going home.
the other day, from the state encampment,
thov were stopped by the officials Of small
town and told they could not proceed with
out health certificates. Thor clptain re-
piled; I'VE have twenty rounds of cartridge
per man, and we are going 10 Daytona
StOp us IL you can" They were allowed to
proceed and arrived home safely.