The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-01
FLORIDA.

personal and real estate, is S@,5O0,OOO.
FLORIDA,
A new steam launch has just arrived for
B. r. Lyons of Paatka.
h Fred Marley and c. T. Grinos have
\ Bought the Jennings mill at Ormond.
Dr. DAYTON, of Daytona, has lemon tree
still full of fruit whose crop this year is
about 5000.
Fires have been raging in the woods ad-
| jacent h. Apopks for several days and will
no doubt bc general.
The report that the Sanford House at
Sanford has been purchased by the stand
ard Oh Company IS unfounded.
There are grave indications Of the neces-
/ Sty of taking some radical steps in the di-
rection OF town drainage at Daytona.
Wright Bowen, employed at the depot at
Waldo, while coupling ear a few days ago
had his arm badly mashed at the elbow.
f. l.. Shectz, of Palatka, recently from
| Philadelphia, has just received two pairs of
fine carrier pigeons He intends to raise
| them.
A. Ruben, of Pierson, has been engaged
| by syndicate Of New York capitalists to
| cultivate roses from which to make per
! fumery
| About forty crates of Strawberries are
being shipped from Gainesville daily. Vege-
tables of all kinds are going forward in
! large quantities
/ John Boyd and Andrew Nilsson, two Of
the packers in the DeBarry packing house,
| at Enterprise, packed 80 boxes of oranges
| III ten hours on Tuesday.
Work on the Presbyterian church at
Apopka is progressing rapidly. IL will be
one of the largest and most imposing build
| ings in the county when completed.
George II. Count, proprietor of the En-
! terprise Cash Store, left Thursday for Day
tona where he will start a dry goods en-
| porlum if he can secure "A suitable building.
George II. Stewart and family have left
! Gainesville for their old home IN Bonnie
! Scotland Mr. Stewart goes 10 endeavor
TO bring a colony with him to settle in
! Florida.
DR.. G. l.. Jones, of Apopka, will soon
have erected a new and handsome residence
in the midst of his grove His Old house
has been torn down and lumber is being
placed on the ground.
j. H. Roberts, proprietor of the Oxford
| House, jacksonville, who suddenly disap
peared. writes from Winter Park that he
| left very few unpaid debts behind, and will
return and straighten out matters,
The Gainesville City and Suburban Rail
way Company has perfected the loan of suf-
| ficient funds TO build aud equip its line of
road TO Newman Lake, provided sufficient
| inducements can be offered in way of dona-
tons of lands.
The st Johns and Halifax railroad will
! soon lie provided with facilities for direct
travel to st. Augustine for carload ship
ments over the main Northern lines and I'M
broken transportation for passengers, all of
which will be a vast Improvement.
A bell, weighing about POO pounds. is
being placed on the warehouse of the Wal
nut street wharf, at Green Cove Spri ngs. to
be rung as a signal for steamers making a
landing in foggy weather This is the only
bell on the river used for the purpose.
Sawdust is being laid on all the principal
streets of Green Cove and the whi,ewash
brush has been passed over the fences of
nearly all the building lots Any strnger
in the village must be impressed with its
very neat and trim appearance generally.
Orlando Record. The very pleasant
weather we have been having the past
month has brought the black bass from his
winter retreat, and large numbers are now
being taken out from the surrounding lakes,
One gentleman caught seventy-siX one day
| last week.
John Anderson proposes to make a selec-
ton from the Halifax cOuntry'S fruit dis
play at the Exposition at jacksonville for
have challenged Florida Ito put up or shut
up and he proposes to accept the challenge
and shut them up
Lake City Reporter: A large vein of
quartz rock has been discovered near Co.
lumhia City, filed with gold The
assay of some of it shows 81 800 to the ton.
| This gold, along with our cotton, corn, lum-
Der and fruits will make Columbia county
the most prosperous of any county in
Florida.
The lot upon Ridgewood, Davtona, TEN
porarily used as a cemetery is being cleared,
and Saturday the remains of p w. Burr,
one of the original purchasers of Daytona,
who died Dec. 10, 1872, were removed to
line Wood cemetery on the peninsula In
exhuming the body nothing was found ex-
cept fragments of the coffin, clothing and
/ the skeleton.
While Col. Morgan and William Hen
bricks were out partridge shooting near
! Green Cove Springs last week fine bald
eagle came sailing above them. Mr. Hem
bricks quickly changed his cartridges and
brought to the ground the noble bird Col.
Morgan will send the bird to the exposition
as specimen of Clay county birds and her
manner of mounting them.
Among the oranges displayed in the CLAY
county section at the Sub Tropical are
several boxes of the fruit from
Aaron Geigers farm. These boxes
have upon them a printed label re-
citing that the oranges are from trees
grown from Indian river seed, 80 years old
= feet in circumference 81 feet high and
producing 5000 oranges each
The steamer Georgia, of the Independ-
ent line, when in sight of Palatka on her
regular trip between Crescent CITY and
Palatka, was suddenly brought to stand
still by the breaking of her shaft and crack
ing the cylinder head. The steamer Curew
went to her rescue and towed her to the
city Under the circumstances it is re
markable that she sustained no further
damage. She was only delayed some two
hours on her return trip
Sheriff Black of Green Cove Springs. re-
ceived a notice by telegraph on Friday that
Sherman Bran, who shot Mr.. Burlington,
had been arrested in Monticello The
Sheriff replied that the man should be held
for Identification. County Clerk Bardin,
made trip to Cedar Keys two weeks ago
to identity a suspicious character who had
been arrested at that place under the belief
that he was Bran, but the resemblance
proved to b5 very slight.
4. d. Rich, boss of section five Tomoka).
on the White road, near Daytona, met with
a serious loss Thursday. His family that
day had moved into the Carraway house.
near Benefits, built fire in the fireplace,
but being invited by w. T. Bennett to
dinner, before going put 1t out as was
thought. The SCOT in the chimney was on