The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-04

The surveyors of the Leeshurg and Lake
Region railroad passed through Sumtary,lle
| Tuesday morning, and continued their way
west to PaU asolfkee and the outlet. Every
indication points TO the fact that this east
and west line will be built in the near fu-
tGre provided the people along the route
encourage the enterprise.
There Is money enough in the treasury of
Fe nandina TO redeem all outstanding city
scrip. The license and occupation tax,
| amounting to about s., 900, will be cue III a
/ few moIth,. and the large number Of oulld-
! lngs erected during the present year will be
taxable next, thus swelling the ctys reve-
! nue.. Felnandlna Is on a sound financial
( footing.
The Gainesville Aaroc1te had a call Fri
/ day from a gentleman who is agent Of a
I colony OF people in orc of tue North western
( States. The colony is composed Of seventy
/ five faIni,s, and tHey desire to purchase
/ iand and permanently locate in Florida.
/ They are thrifty, enterp Using people, and
/ have means sufficient 70 enable them to inn
! m diaely proceed to business.
The editors who have been in charge of
| the Church Year, at Jacksonville, since it
was established about year ago, find IL
necessary 20 discontinue their labors in that
d rect on. Rev. r. H. Weller, D. D., for
| many years pastor Of St. Johns Church. of
| Jacksonville, has been selected to fill the
position Of editor of the publication, and
next November assumes his new Office and
Its accompanying duties.
On the premises of II. L. Wheatley at
Palm Springs there are fifty-two three
year-old Peen-to peach trees in bearing, the
product of which, shipped this season,
yielded him about 81 80 per tree-or at the
rate of nearly $500 per acre. They real
lied S. per buShel. He saws that a Peen-to
oh Of To-, 4
old, has produced four bushels the present
season, with an average of three bushels for
the other trees.
The following civil appointments have
been made during the week: Jas. L.
Young and f. F.. NOyle, TO be Notaries
Public in and for the State at large /;
Thomas Gordon, TO be Harbor Master in
and for the port of Apalachicola VIM. c..
Cobb. to be County Commissioner in and
for the county of Baker; D. A. Miller, to
be County Commissioner in and for the
county Of Marion; Ezekiel Clifton to be
County Judge in and for the county of
Volusia.
Mrs. NJ. E. Frink was standing in the
back porcl of the residence of her son, DR..
L. f. krlnk, at Jasper, on Saturday after
noon last, when lightning strucH her on the
right shoulder, tearing and scorching her
clothing. She fell to the floor instantly,
and il Is safe to say never knew what hurt
her, as she was dead when the first persons
reached her, Immediately after she fell.
Mrs Frink leaves four children: Mrs T. J.
Blaloci, of Cherry Lake; Mrs. n. w.
Marion, of Marion. and Drs. L. F. and l..
NJ. Frink, of Jasper
The Orlando Reporter tells of a vegetable
garden owned by Lucius Merritt, on
foiting island in Lake ApoplIa, in which
there are tomato vines with sixteen feet of
spread, one Of which yielded three pecks
of splendid tomatoes at one picking. Cucum-
bers foot and a half long and onions as
big as Saucers are among the productions of
this wonderful island, which is about three
acres iii extent. 1t is managed as raft
and it is said that when the Apopka steamer
IS late, and likely to give the island the go
by, MIR. Merritt poles his garden up to it.
DR.. Doyle, of Syracuse, n Y, who is a
friend of J. II. Sullivan, Superintendent Of
the Orange Belt railway, sent him recently
a dimiHutive English pug" dog which is
vet very youthful. The following note came
att lched TO the box containing the animal :
"Aotice-I am a tramp from Salt City, and
my name is 'SnooZer.' / am going South
or my lungs Tn a dandy SO please,
kind strangers, feed me well and give me
something to wash it down with. | do like
milk. Haven't got using meat yet SO l
don't care for any on my plate. SNoozER ="
The subject of opening an inlet at Pepper
Haulover j. again being agitated at Titus
vile. Recently, old ocean has shown a de-
sire to this effect by cutting away the bank
on tie ocean side, and now it is estimated
that at less cost than 800 an inlet sixty
or seventy feet wide could be cut out. This
would be OF great benefit to Banana and
Indian rivers, If it remained open only a
few months. 1t would remove the grass
which almost prevents navigation through
Banana creek, and would make fish more
plentiful. If it would stay open it could be
utilized for the planting and growing of
oysters.
Peaches are not bearing so well as last
year, but still a good tree yields half
bushel or more, and that pays very we'll
The fruit is selling at s. so TO Sl0per busnel
in New York, and of this the express takes
out about 81, leaving about So 80 or So for
the grower or about 3 per tree. At Is
feet apart there are 2J0 or more trees to the
acre, which, as above, would yield 5000 net
returns for fruit Allowing $50 for ferti-
lzsrs and work for a year. we have left a
clear profit of $3.50 per acre, which is cer-
tainly not very bad. Peaches do not do so
well after warm winter like the last, while
oranges do better, and so peaches have been
resorted to since the freeze of 1886 as an
alternate for oranges, but from the above it
would seem that even in their Off years
they make very able second to the orange
crop.
A few days ago five negro men left
Panasoffkee for Ocala by the cross tie route,
oyer the f. r. & N. and when within five
miles of Ocala they stopped to rest. While
resting, three Of them, Alex Brown, Car
Horn and Levi Nelson, went to sloep on the
track, while the other two started on their
journey. The south-bound passenger train,
which passes through Ocala at 3
o'clock in the morning, came thunder
ing down on the three sleepers, and
before the engineer could slacken his
iron horse thair bodies were passed over
They were terribly mangled and scattered
for some distance around The engineer, in
his attempt to apply the brakes, did so in
such fOrcibe manner that one of them
was completely wrenched off. Those that
were killed Friday night were all young
men, none being over the age of IS.
They were before the grand jury recently
for firing into the Florida Southern train
near Martin.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A company has been formed at Manning