The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-09
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9. 1888.

The ROYAL bows Of CaSsia have killed be
tween thirty Ave and forty offers this year.
I The hides are selling this season Tor from
! 50 10 81
/ Up to a few DAYS ago over thirty quarts
+ Of fine straw berries had been gathered from
q small bed in the Hildredth garden az
/ Orange City.
! The Master of the American bark Ada
/ Carter, Capt. Heustis, has fled from feI.si-
/ cola, leaving judgment against MS 'ease- 70
/ be taken by default
The hotel on Anastasia Beach, near st
! Augustine at the terminus Of the railway
is expected ~ be finished this week. a plat
/ form has been built 40 feet long.
/ In the yard of J. ). Dennis at DeLeon
| Springs is a stalk Of kale about three feet ~
/ height, from which its owner has had fuIl
supply Of kale during the past year.
| Saturdays fish report at Pensacola was
probably the heaviest haul the season has
| thus far known The different catches az
( gregated II 500 fish that weighed ~, 400
/ pounds.
/ Some six or eight different varieties Of
( Florida woods We're prepared at Orange
! City last week by Messrs Jones q Wheldon
/ aad sent as exhibits from Nolusia county TO
4 the Sub-Tropical.
At Ellavlle the place for the new club
| house which Charles l.. Bucki, in joining
/ the order Of the Knights of Honor, donated
/ to the lodge, Is now ready, and the building
Will soon be erected.
! Peter Coats, of Orange Park, who has
/ been at the point Of death several times
! from hemorrhages, recently went to Cape
! Colony, in Southern Africa, and report
says he is rapidly convalescing.
! Rev. W. j. OBrien, formerly of Fair
banks, Alachua county, who few months
since removed to California, has been APP
pointed rector Of st. Johns Episcopal
church at San Bernardino, California.
The efforts of several citizens of Orange
City the present season have thoroughly
demonstrated the fact that vegetables IN
any quantity can be raised on our high,
rolling pine land with perfect success, and
at remunerative prices.
There is probably more cabbage growing
in that section of Alachua county known
as Rocky Point than in all the balance of
Florida The crop is in excellent condition
and the prospect for remunerative returns
to the growers was never 50 fattering.
| Mr. Edrdge, who owns and edits a Re
publican paper at DeLand, was on the
streets of Orange City last week soliciting
names to go on the petition for the removal
of the county seat TO DeLand. lie sue
| ceeded in securing one name, and it was not
the signature of a white man either
! Company at Jacksonville Tuesday sold or
anges as follows: Navels, 81 10: choice
| brights, 81 70 to 81 50; poor brights : 50;
/ good brights, 81 IS; golden russeCs, 81 40 to
| 81 81; russets, 81 80 to 81 IS; russell culls,
/ 81 10 20 81 p. The fruit averaged I'm
usually large sizes, and the grades were not
as fair as at former sales.
| At Arcadia few DAYS ago w E. Daniel
offered Johnnie Haygood all the bananas
] ba could aat for - Mr. naD;aI ,rac calli,,r
them three for nickel and imagined that
Johnnie would stick on three. especially as
they were not fully ripe. HIS fond hopes
were bauished, however, when Johnnie
much to the amusement of the spectators
| placed himself outside of thirteen.
Lieut.. Col. Walter Mcfarland, of the
corps of engineers United States army. in
| charge of the harbor improvement at New
York, and now on sick leave at Key West
will be in Pensacola between Feb. 90 and %
and will meet Capt Henry S. Taber, also of
| the engineer corps of the army. 1t is in
| ferred that they are under instructions to
examine the harbOr defenses at that point
Judge John f. Donall, United States Col
lector for the port of Cedar KEYS, says that
he recently had an interview with Gen
Anderson a New York capitalist. and MIR.
Chapel, and Englshman of great wealth,
and that they had recently been over pro
posed route for ship canal from the st.
Johns river to Cedar Keys, and were favor
ably Impressed with the project. They now
have the matter under serious considera-
ton, and estimates will be made soon.
On the east side of the Ockawaha river
Eddie Tucker had long been enamored OF a
lovely rural maid in the person of Miss
Cora Holly, but the older he ads were averse
to their union, and the young people Ian
guished alone and apart, until at the wee
small hours of night. 4 day or two ago
Miss Holly lowered herself to the ground
from a second story window of her home
and went in search of her wooer After a
mile and a half away she stopped at the
home of Mr.. Tucker, who speedily arranged
a team and they set out TO find Darson
before the dawn should reveal their plot
With only themselves and their affections
to cheer them on a midnight drive, they
finally reached Parson b. J. Hulls, dis
tance of eight miles, only to find the parson
out. Nothing daunted, they continued the
drive eight miles farther to the Rev Mr..
Halls, where the twain were speedily made