The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-26
FLORIDA.

FLOh1DA.
The San Juan Hotel at Orlando will close
for the season ON Saturday.
Maj. Foster, of near Orlando, has pro-
duced some fine samples of ginger root.
Paving is being put down on the streets
of st. Augustine at the rate Of 500 yards
per day.
DR.. j. P. Wall has been reappointed
| President of the Hillsborough County Board
| Of Health, and has accepted
The Baptist Witness has its material all
IL its office over the First National Bank,
at Ocala, and was preparing to come out
yesterday with its first Ocala edition
c. s. Leonard, late editor of the Citra
NetC Era, under whose management that
sheet has recently suspended, was arrested
at the Montezuma Hotel at Ocala, on Sun
day, aud taken to Citra on the charge Of
forgery.
The house and lot on Lake Lucerne, near
Orlando, formerly owned by A. H. Birn-
baum, was sold Tuesday to A. C. Barker, of
Atlanta, Ga. Mr.. Barker proposes to add
many improvements to his property and to
make Orlando his winter home.
A Democratic convention to elect dele
gates to the st. Augustine convention con-
vened at Jasper Monday and elected the
following as delegates: William Back, r.
| A Jennings, j. D. Tater s. S. Sharpe,
William Robarts, Frank Adams and c. f.
Cone.
The parties owning the electric light
| franchise for Ocala are about to retire from
the field, although the machinery had been
| shipped, and many additional concessions
made by the Council to the original CON
tract. 1t is said that the material is about
to be returned to the factory.
The orange growers in and around Or
lando are making extensive inquiries for
| piping, pumping engines, etc, to he put in
their groves for irrigating purposes III case
| of any protracted dry weather, thus guard
| ing against the danger of the fruit dropping
from the trees, which is usually the result
| of too long an interval between showers
Maj st. Clair-Abrams has been hard hit
by the fire at Tavares. losing some $65 600
with less than s., 600 insurance. This, with
the fact that the Railroad Commission has
co npletely stopped the sale of the bonds of
his railroad the Tavares, Apopka and Gulf
railroad), is likely to prove an overwhelm-
| ing calamity to him.
Capt. PhareS, of Yalaha, having the
curiosity TO know how many bushels Der
acre ms Irish potatoes were turning ont,
measured the marketable crop of one
| thirteenth of an acre, and ascertained that
the yield was at the rate of go bushels per
acre. At that time his potatoes were bring
ing i'll the Northern markets s.. 80 to So
| per standard crate, 81 to $4 50 per bushel.
Rev. Josiah Ashurst died at Lake City
| Tuesday, aged rs. He was paralyzad in
| February, and had gradually declined. He
was "A native of Putnam county, Georgia
and in early life moved to Florida, and was
one of the earliest settlers of Ocala. He was
n member of the Methodist Episcopal church
and a skillful physician, and his charity
was extended to those who stood in greatest
| need.
J.. w. Gray, who lives two miles south Of
| Orlando, is givi special attention to bee
! keeping. He keeps Italian stock, and now
/ has upwards of 100 queen-rearing hives. He
/ divides his time between his bees and his
: orange grove, and does not find that they
in any manner interfere with each other
He has now on hand quantity of orange
blossom honey, which for delicacy of flavor
and attractive appearance cannot DO sur
passed
The water mains are now being laid
around the public square at Ocala, and
more than mile of piping has already
been buried. Some confusion was occa-
stoned by certain parties obiecting TO work
on account of n supposed nol.-santary
effect the dltching might have on the city,
bat az "A meeting Of the Council the COM
pany was given three weeks IN which to
complete the work, and at the rate thcy are
proceeding 1t will no doubt be finished.
IN the United States Court at jackson
vile, Tuesday morning, the first case heard
by Judge Settle was that Of T. H. Lewis
vs.. George c. Wilson ct. al. The plaintiff s
counsel being called upon to determine
whether or not he would accept the
am ended verdict in the case, which was
$1,000, he arose and stated that il would be
satisfactory. The counsel for the defense
then announced his rea illness to accept the
Judgment. and the court ordered the clerk
TO enter mp judgment in that amount
The Rockledge Board of Aldermen have
passed an ordinances requiring each proper
ty holder along the river front t. bull a
coquina rock walk six feet wide through
his premises along the river bank from the