The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-13
FLORIDA.
Sanford is full of tourists.

ohlciu 10 1ui VI IOul lobo.
Punta Gorda is TO have cigar factory.
Tomato shipments from Key West are
very heavy.
The Duke of Newcastle and his party are
at Enterprise.
Holmes county will have a county seat
contest April Z.
The peach crop around Bombay was not
injured by the cold snap.
Gen. H. w Slocum and family, of Brook
Ign, was at Enterprise last Saturday
John W. Howells new cottage, on Fourth
street, Fernandlna, is nearly completed.
The Bombay Manufacturing Company
will soon have their new mill in operation.
The work of grading the shell road at St
Augustine preparatory to Smelling 1t has be-
gun.
There is now no such place in Florida as
Trabue. The name has been changed TO
Punta Gorda.
A meeting for recognizing and electing
officers of tue Gainesville Board of Trade
will be held tonight.
The Y. NJ. c. A. fair at st. Augustine
closed Friday night after a successful run of
three nights Something over $500 was
realized.
AT Punta Gorda, day or two ago, DR..
Keene, of Chicago, captured Tx foot
saw fish with a rod and reel and values him
at 81 900.
Many farmers about Bombay are plant
ing melons quite extensively this season
having had assurance of good prices deliv-
cred on board cars.
A company of Michigan men have a sur
veying corps in the north part of Holmes
county with the evident intention of putting
III a large lumber plant.
Anthony is selected for the place of meet
ing Of the Grand Lodge of United Friends
OF temperance in May. Nineteen lodges
are organized in the State.
The building boom in st. Augustine still
progresses vita undated vim. Many new
buildings are being erected and the mills are
kept running night and day.
The New York base ball club is expected
to play at Gainesville soon. The aggrega-
ton from Gotham does not include all the
Giants who have made the organization
famous.
l. NJ. Cox, of the Florida Southern rail
way, is in ST. Augustine and has gotten up
an excursion from st. Augustine to Punta
Gorda on Charlotte Harbor distance Of
800 miles.
Geu. John Varnum, of Gainesville, who
is now in Denver, Col, has purchased a
town lot there and is erecting dwelling on
it. However, he does not expect to move
away from Gainesville
At Bombay workmen, boring a we'll for
the mill company, at depth of twenty-five
feet, went through an old bay or muck bed
twenty five feet thickness. The well was
sunk fourteen feet deep
At Anthony a negro boy, while careessly
handling pistol Saturday, was accident
ally shot through the hand The wound is
quite painful, bat the attending physician
thinks amputaton will not be necessary
John f, Osborne. the deserter from Fort
Barrancas, left Warrington for his home in
Atlanta on Wednesday. Orders were re-
ceived on Monday from Washington direct
ing that he he discharged from the army.
The new roof being placed upon "the old
slave market at St Augustine is fast near
ing completion. II will be fac simie Of
the old roof. The pillars are to be replas-
tered and the whole structure put in first
rate repair.
AtP unta Gorda fruit club is being or
gained, the members of which agree to
plant one or more acres in groves. They
are assured OF guava jelly and preserving
factory when the fruit supply is sufficient
TO justify it.
Detectives are in Punta Gorda working
up the capture of a man by the name OF
Whidden. There is 81 900 reward for him
He Is a fugitive from justice and has been