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

cigars will be forwarded TO tho Pacific slope
this week
The Casa Monica opened it's doors to the
public Sunday, Il completed building with
$50 rooms
Supt. Portuando is daily expecting the
arrival of the new cars for the street railway
at Key West
The bridge over the Hllsboro river at
Tampa was crossed by an engine Saturday
Tor the first time.
Wiudsor's Pail aud Tub Factory is proving
apayng investment It's capacity IS about
twenty-five dozen per day.
CaStillo'S cigar factory at Key West is
rushing things 10 keep up with orders and
are now working about 200 hands.
A number Of mechanics have been secured
at Pensacola TO build the proposed residence
for the keeper in charge Of 'Tortugas.
Mr.. Masterson will commence the cree
ton of business house opposite the Her
nando House at Brooksville this week.
II is reported that the contest for the
| MayOralty Of Gainesville for the coming
year VIII be between Messrs. Brown and
Barnett
The Orange City Times was burned out
Dec. II. It's new outfit has just arrived
ana the paper comes out prettier and better
than ever.
A number of the girls and boys of the
principals room of the Orlando public
school spent Saturday last in picnic style at
| Clear Lake.
Dr. Cornish has thrown up his contract
| to strike artesian water at De Land and is
| considerably out Of pocket. He bored for
two years without success.
Rev. George friedrich orga lied a new
Baptist church at Providenc school house
fernando county, on Jan %. The church
| starts with nine members
! At Brooksville DR.. Temple has purchased
the lot adjoining his drug store on the SOUTH
and contemplates erecting a brick tire-proof
store building upon it son.
Adam Waits, Postmaster and large mer-
chant of Washington Depot, Conn, has
Just bought the Myron Cole bearing orange
grove south Of Orange City.
Last Saturday fire started in the woods
south of Orange City, and before it was
stopped considerable fencing owned by DR..
! Allyn and others was destroyed.
The New Smyrna bar, which year ago
had but from seven to eight feet Of water
at high tide now has fourteen feet and is
| perfectly straight-a very great change.
A young lady in Orange City has received
an anonymous letter. The sender is well
known and will be published if the young
! lady receives any more of a similar Charac-
| ter.
| The protracted meeting being conducted
| in the Methodist church at Brooksville by
its pastor and Rev. DR.. Riley has been
largely attended and has done a great deal
Of good.
| A. T.. Morgan, for some time Superinten-
dent of the Palmetto Fabric Factory at
Melonvlle has rented the entire establish
ment, and will put in additional machinery
and will conduct the business on much
larger scale.
There was a meeting of the stockholders
Of the First National Bank of Orlando on
| Saturday, at which officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows: T. J. Shine,
President; f, P. Hyer, Vice President; Nat
Poyntz, cashier.
The Pennsylvania tourists, under the
guidance of Col. Dooper, of the Pennsvl-
vania railroad, passed over the jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West railroad Mon
day on their way to Titusville and the In
dian river country.
The schooner which struck on the st.
Augustine bar last week, the Virginia Lee
Hickman, has gone TO pieces. Sunday
night her masts fell and the south beach
Is lined with bales of hay and other mer-
chandise from the wreck.
Thieves entered the depot at Pitman last
| Friday night. few groceries belonging
to Mr.. Holiday were missing, and a trunk
belonging to Mrs. Armstrong was carried a
short distance away, broken open, its CON
tents perused and left scattered promiscu-
ously.
The building used as quarters for the
Ponce de Leon help on Cordova street is
being rebuilt. About forty of the sixty
rooms will be saved. Other portions of the
building are damaged by fire, smoke and
water. The total damage is estimated at
5000
Nathan George, of Volusia county, has
five barrels of fine orange WINE corked, and
viii manufacture several more before the
winter is over. He has twelve barrels of
cider slowed away at his Danbury home.
and altogether he can pull through next
| summer y. X.
| 1t is rumored at Orlando that on account
of some irregularities, not the fault of the
city authorities, but from the fact that the
acts of the Legislature were not published
! i'll time, the collection Of taxes ON the pres
! ent assessment and levy will be contested
and PROBABLY enjoined.
| The work of surveying the line for the
new proposed railway from Gainesville to
| Newnan's Lake began Yesterday under
the management of Capt NJ. Fitch Miller
| Money for constructing the road has already
been obtained, and the work will go stead
lily forward until the line is completed
d. McClinch, who has leased Lorillard's
villa at st. Augustine for n sporting house.
is very enthusiastic over South Florida,
and has put out at his Runnymede planta-
| ton thirty acres of sugar cane and twelve
acres of tobacco, the seed OF which Suna-
ira and Havana, was obtained at Washing
| ton.
1t is reported that Attorney General
| Cooper has brought two suits in the name
of the State OF Florida against the Pensa-
cola and Atlantic and Louisville and Nah
vile railroads, for 700 penalty in each.
I for noncompliance with the passenger
rates as fixed by the State Railroad Com
mission.
j. P. Martin, Sheriff of Hillsborough
county, and two deputies arrived at Or
lando from Tampa Saturday night to take
! charge OF the three prisoners, Gibson Gar
cha and Cejas, who are charged with hav-
ing committed murder in that county and
have been confined in jail at QElando for
| safe-keeping. The Sheriff has Nturned TO
Tampa with his prisoners,
! Capt Andrew. Of the steamer Florence,
! the ferry boat which plies between Enter
! prise and Sanford, was arrested IA few DAYS
| ago under and by virtue Of a warrant, sworn
/ out charging him with violating the local
! option law. The Captain was taken to Or
| lando, confined in Jail, but ultimately re-
| leased on a $500 bond for his appearance at
the next term of Orange county Criminal
/ Court
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