The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-12

Brooksville now has a Sunday mail
Brooksville is to have an artesian well.
Lake Buffers Jug factory turns out B

Brooksville now has Sunday mail.
Brooksville is to have an artesian well.
Lake Buffers jug factory turns out 300
per day
Lake City's new water works are nearly
completed.
One dollar of De Soto county script is
worth 1000.
T. NJ. Lybass, of Barlow, has sixty acres
in vegetables.
The tobacco crop of Gadsden county is
100000 pounds.
Hilsborough county built nine new school
houses last year
Tomatoes and cucumbers are being
shipped from Arcadia daily.
At Palatka the steamer Georgiana will be
ready for inspection in about a week.
Mr.. Sweet, the late President of the broken
Fidelity Bank, of Cincinnati, is at st. Au-
gustine.
A surveying party Of the Georgia South
eIn and Florida road are encamped at White
Springs.
The Naples Company will put up a forty
! iive-room hotel aud a number of cottages at
Fort Myers.
On or about Jan. Is there will be cheap
excursion to Punta Gorda over the Florida
Southern railway.
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min and fixtures to ]. H. Steel, who will
continue tine mill business.
Haynes, Young & Bailey have planted
1000 Niagara grapevines in Niagara Villa,
about one mile north of Orlando.
The installation of the officers of Putnam
Chapter No 8, Royal Arch Masons, oc-
CURED at Palatla Monday night.
Sergt G. NJ. Brown, in charge of the
old fort at St Augustine, reports that 257
visitors registered there on Sunday.
party of wealthy Key Westers have
purchased nineteen-acre field in the heart
of Arcadia, from the railroad company.
The proposition to convert the burned
district at Altoona into railroad depot and
public park meets with general approval.
The colored Catholics of st. Augustine
were offered the old Methodist church if
they would remove it from its present site
The scalps of twelve bear, wolves and
! tigers and twenty-six wildcats, were paid
| for by De Soto county Wednesday. Total,
| $l3S.
Capt Whidden, of Arcadia, has some fine
! Cuba tobacco growing in his hummock near
! Arcadia. 1t is between five and six feet
high
+ Page McKinney's resignation as Mayor of
Apopka City has been accepted by the
l.Couacil. The town will be without Mayor
until Jan. 81
In the game of ball at st. Augustine,
Tuesday, between jacksonville and st. Au-
! justine the former were victorious by q
score Of to |.
The Nelson brothers, of Oviedo, shipped
one dozen boxes of tangerine oranges to
| New York just before the holidays which
sold for 80 per box.
Over 100 acres of Cuba tobacco will be
planted near Arcadia this season. The
farmers are all sowing the seed, and the
/ prospects for a fair trial are good.
| Prof Richard A. Proctor left his home at
| Orange Lake on Friday last for a lecturinc,
! tour in the West. Prof. Proctor is one the
most noted astronomers in the country, if
! not in the world.
! There is premium of $50 offered for the
best brass band in South Florida, to be com
/ peted for at the South Florida exhibition
AS yet no band has signiied an intention to
! enter the contest.
| The steamer Okahumkee now makes three
| trips week from Palatka TO Silver Springs,
| in order to give Northern visitors an OppOr-
! tunitYto see the famous Ockawaha river
and Silver Springs
! Orange shipping is over at Eureka, and
/ now the people are beginning to prepare
| for planting their farms. gardens etc The
weather is as fine as any one could wish to
| see III the month of May
! The South Florida exhibition having
| failed to add dog show department in the
! premium lists now being distributed, a
number of gentlemen in Orlando propose to
get up one and use the Opera house foI.
! that purpose.
Messrs J. Crawshaw & Son. Of Lawtev
have received a consignment of fruit trees
direct from Japan, consisting Of I 800 persim
mons, $50 kelsey plums, and sundry curiosi-
ties, as chestnuts, giant lequats, camphor
! trees, gold dust trees, Canton hybrid, crys-
! anthemulns, etc.
At st. Augustine Andrew Burgers has
! purchased, through the st. Johns County
Savings Bank, a lot 81 by l05 feet on Char
lotte street of the Hernandez estate for
81 100, also lot in Lincolnville for 500
The bank also sold to Drysdale & Colee a
lot on Hypolita street, next to Baya d. Sc
gliS, 50xll4 feet, for 81, 100
Tuesdays orange auction was the twelfth
| regular sale held in Jacksonville bv the
| Orange Auction and Forwarding Company.
The prices We're in advance Of those obtained
at the sales of the past two weeks. The
fruit sold at the following prices: Choice
bIights, SO 20 brights, 81 2Oc2 90; golden
iussets, 81 60d2 o.; russets, 81 45611 %.
The case of the State VS.. X. j. Aston,