The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-07


of Ocala, has shipped 1000 crates of beets
Strangers continue to arrive at Quincy,
and are looking for lands on which to
locate
II. V. Morrow, of Madison, shipped zoo
dozen eggs during the first three days of
last week.
Mrs. NJ. J. Chaires, wife of the late BENZ.
| Chaires, died May l, at Tallahassee, in her
55th year.
On the fourth Sunday in this month
| Bishop Weed will hold confirmation ser
vices at Quincy.
DIR. Brewer, of Apopka, removed large
tumor from the person Of Miss Pyles, Of
Santos, Tuesday
Leroy is moving along nicely. Mr..
| Gates cottage is completed and he will i'm
mediately occupy it,
The BELL weighing $40 pounds, for the
new Congregational church at Orange
! City, arrived last week.
Bids are being received by the Merchants
| National Bank of Ocala for its new build
ing, as per Architect McKay's plans
w. r. Atkins has sold $40 acres of Wax.
| ulla land, near the wonderful Wakulla
Spring, to George Preston, of Virginia.
The Treasurer has just received dona-
ton of money from Gov. Perry for the
building fund OF the Episcopal church in
Quincy.
A number of colored people met at the
court house at Quincy last Saturday after
noon for the purpose of organizing a Union
Alliance
A. Usina, of Palatka has been unfortu-
nate in having 100 orange trees in his grove
down the river, aud considerable fencing,
destroyed by fire.
About forty took part in the spelling bee
at the Congregational church at Orange City
last week. Miss Alice McDufRee, of Mr.
Prevatt's side, won the prize as best speler
From April Is to April 30 Fernandina
shipped to New York PSF 900 feet of lum-
Der; 3, 100 crossties, 906 logs and $50 cases of
cedar; Jacksonville, ,29S,275 feet of lum-
Der.
Abel Fauria, of Pensacola, whose arm
was severely injured by charge of bird
shot, is doing very well. 1t IS almost
foregone conclusion that the limb will be
saved
The Ocala Gaslight and Cooking Com
pany, Incorporated under the laws of the
State of Florida, with capital stock $40, 900
fully paid up and nonaSsessible, is Ocala's
latest enterprise.
The quarterly contest for the David S.
Koonce gold medal, for the best drilled man
in the ranks of the Ocala Rifles, took place
at me Opera House Thursday. Glover Mil
Ter won the prize.
At Orange City, workmen have com
menced getting material out for the new
brick block to go up for Messrs. West &
Grover, on the lot where they were burned
out last December.
Clay county warrants to the amount of
$9,095 "a have been issued during the four
teen months ending May 1, 1888 During
the same period the sum of 81 ,G75 II was
paid into the treasury.
The Ocala Council has had the bitches
along the run cleaned and lime freely scat
tered over the low and wet places. The
Council has also given an order for fifty bar
rels of lime to be used as a germ destroyer.
The Presbyterian church of Ocala is out
with neat folder, showing 92 members.
Its Sunday school has 60 pupils; pastors
salary, $3.50; sections wages, $24, organists
salary $50. 1t is in a most hourishing con.
cition.
Despite the dry weather the Gadsden
County Tobacco Company has succeeded in
planting l5S acres of tobacco up to the first
of the month. and has made extensive
preparations to irrigate the land in case
the dry weather continues.
Mr.. Lambuth, of North Carolina, who
has cast his fortunes with Leroy, has pur1
chased Mr.. Taylor's saw mill, of the Ocala
sash, door and blind factory, will take it to
Leroy and open operations He has an
order as starter for 100000 feet of pine
lumber.
Mrs Julia Church Groom, wife of George
A. Groom, died at Tallahassee April 80,
aged "a years. Mrs. Groom was the daugh-
ter of the late Rev. Alonzo Church. d. d.
of Athens, Ga, in which city she was born
May 5, 1924. In 1913 she was married to
Mr.. Groom, since which time she has resided
in Florida.
The Florida Railway and Navigation
Company received at Fernandina during
the month of April cars loaded as follows:
Merchandise, 1l6; lumber, SIS; ties. 81 iron,
5; cedar, 81. Forwarded during the same
period: Merchandise, pa; lumber, IS: iron,
67 The lumber received amounted to
nearly 1000, 900 feet
The latest in railroad matters in Marion
County, is that 1000 acres of land has
been donated for a spur from Summecfield
on the +. X. d n. to north Lake Weir
The people of Watula are pressing tho Sum
merfield people hard, and say they will
have The spur, as they will give more land.
II so. it will pass around Carney's island
Secretary Whitney evinces the greatest
interest in the proposition to construct a
syftem Of docks for the Pensacola navy
yard, but objects to the use OF facilities at
inc yard as presently located, being i'll
clined to favor the recommendation of
Commodore Harmony that the yard be re-
moved to another point on Pensacola Bay.
The new driving road across the Lake
| Hart marsh lands from Narcoossee to Or
| lando will be ready in a few DAYS. This
| will give an opportunity to Orlandotes to
| visit the sugar lands around East Lake and
| to come to Kissimmee via st. Cloud. IL
| will also enable farmers at Narcoossee and
| Runnymcde TO send their farm products
| directly to Orlando market
Fernandina has a new corporation known
as The Knights of Honor Investment Com
parry of Fernandinan The substitution
| list is open only to members of the knights
of Honor and of the American Legion of
Honor. The new organization has in view
| the erection, in the near future, OF one or
more substantial mercantile buildings in the
business portion of the city.
The house of John Pinkerton, on his home
stead near Lake Byrant, in Marion county.
was consumed by fire last Friday, with
quite quantity of furniture ana several
hundred dollars worth of lumber, with
which he proposed TO build a new house.
and the loss Of fine nursery, and about ali
the fencing around the Enclosure. There
was no insurance. Incendiarism is sus-
pected.
A strenuous effort is being made by the
citizens Of kiSsimmee to extend substantial
aid to the railroad protected 10 ST Cloud