The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-10
EIORIDA A.

A Masonic temple is to be built at Day
tona.
DeLandi is greatly pleased with her electric
lights.
The DeLand Rifles have ordered new uni
forms.
Daytoua's new opera house will be opened
this week.
immigration associations have been or
gained at Sanford and Orlando.
An association has been formed to drain
and otherwise improve Daytona.
Samuel Wilson caught twenty-five black
bass in three hours near DeLand Saturday.
Key Vests sponge fleet is on the high
road to fortune, sales and catches being
good.
The machinery in C. A. Hedges new iron
and wood works at Apopka is valued at
$4,000.
The Presbyterians, of DeLand, are talk
ing about lighting their church with cleo
tricity.
The Pensacola Stone and Building Com
pany has begun the manufacture of arti-
fetal stone,
There are now more visitors in DeLand
than have been there at any one time for
three years.
Harvey A. Crane has succeeded George
Eugene BrySon as editor of the Daily Key,
of Key West.
Foxes are becoming numerous and saucy
near Tallahassee, but the hunting season
opens next week.
The colored folks of DeLand are arrang-
ing to start cooperative store. A colored
man named Sam Davis will be manager.
The Committee of the Poor of the Orange
County Commissioners urge the establish
ment of a farm and houses for the county's
poor.
r. H. Gordon has begun the erection of
handsome two-story brick business block
OH his property near the plaza at St. Angus
tine.
At Aurantia peach trees are in full bloom
and orange trees are all budding. Indica-
tions point to mammoth orange crop this
season.
The Earl of Craven and party. consisting
of his tutor, Rev W. j. Stavarj, and Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Gould, of England, are at
Tallahassee.
Work has been begun by Contractor A.
II. Cornish on the new city jail at st. Angus
tine. and the foundations are now being laid
of concrete
General Manager T. NJ McKennon, of
the Tavares Orlando and Atlantic railroad,
has been presented with n gold watch by
the employees.
Wednesday morning FOrlando was Wis
tied by an unusually severe thunder storm
for this season of the year, accompanied by
quite "a fall of hail
j. o. Fries, Surveyor Of Orange county, is
preparing a typographical map of the
county. The map will be 6x5 feet, not in
not including the border.
The Greek citizens of Pensacola have
given Greek George $50 with which to buy
a badge, 10 be worn as evidence of their
admiration for his prowess.
A large block of wood, cut from an i'm
menSe oak tree near OwensbOro, PaSco coun-
ty, measuring or feet in diameter. has
been sent 20 the Sub Tropical Exposition.
DeLand went several months without
saloon and the town was a model Of good
behavior. Now saloon has been opened
near town and drunkenness and braWls are
becoming common again.
Koenigsburg, Fali a. Co, wealthy San
Francisco cigar jobbing house, has opened a
factory al Key West for the manufacture
u Key West Havana goods for the Califor-
MIA and Pacific slope trade.
Julian Betton j. a. the head Of "A move 10
get up cheap excursion from brownsville
10 Tallahassee, iii order 10 give the Thomas
williams and Northern sojourners in that
city, glance al the capital city OF
Florida.
Gen William ~. lledwith. The owner Of
the city market al Jacksonville, has closed
a contract with M Hayes for the paving of
the entire open 81 ere ia front of the market
This space has heretofore been simply mud
hQle ln rainy 8eatAef.