The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-19
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
There are $50 cigarmakers at work at
| Key West.
John Nelson, Tallahassee butcher, last
week killed a beef with double gall.
The large cigar factory of Mr.. Pohalsbi,
at Key West, will be commenced at once.
Ten thousand dollars worth of property
has changed hands at Key West within five
days.
The estimated value of cigars etc, ex-
ported to New York from Key West last
week is $6l, TBS.
The competitive drill of State troops will
take place at the South Florida Exposition
at Sanford, on Feb. %.
Another attempt is TO be made to open a
club house in Ocala. The Montezuma block
is to be che scene of action.
The increase of population at Key West
from the Bahamas, Cuba, and the mainland
will average about $50 monthly.
The compositors on the Key West Eqtta-
tor struck for higher wages Monday. They
have been averaging $15 per week.
Rev. w. H. Gotwald, of Ocala, organized
| a Lutheran church at Martin station Sun
day among the Pennsylvania colonists.
The Mulrennan property on Front street
was offered for sale at Key West, Tuesday.
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bid in by the estate at "a, 100.
Maj. HOLSTER says that the Lake Helen
depot will be completed and the general
Office of the Atlantic and Western railway
moved to that place i'll about two weeks
A new post-oflice has been located at
| Romeo, on the Silver Springs, Orlando and
! Gulf railroad, between Blue Spring aud
Dunnellon, and T. G. Martin made Post
master
An omnibus was received at KisSimmee
| Wednesday, destined for the Runnymede
! Hotel, to be run between there and ks
! simmee Four fine mules are to be used
with it.
1t is understood that the principal real
estate owner of Georgiana will give any
| experienced hotel man n lot for first-cass
hotel. The location is a fine one, having a
front on both rivers.
Tho steamer s. V. White has been sold to
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Kew West Rail
road, to run between Melbourne and Jupi-
ter, their new steamer, the Georgiana, not
being equal to the occasion.
The parties who recently purchased land
| from Ashe Il Wade above the Rocky road
near Key West, are having it cleared OFF
and active pr. paratiOns made to build three
| large factories on the ground, besides a
number of cottages.
George Greenhow has recently put out at
| his Lake Gatlin place, five miles east of
Tallahassee, ten and a half acres in pears,
two and a half acres in peaches, plums,
persmmons, apples, ounces, etc, 5000
grape cuttings and 5000 pear cuttings
1t is rumored at Kissmmee that the Tro-
pical, Runuymede and Floridelphia Hotels
are TO be run under one management next
season, SO that on being registered at one
hotel it will do for all and the guests can
pass from one to the other by paying at
one.
AT Eau Gallie last Sunday a cllored boy
named Nathaniel LipScomb was killed bv a
rife ball, which came through the wall of
house in which he was sitting and passed
through his body. The shot is supposed to
have been fired accidentally, but by whom
is not known.
jackson q Co., of Maryland have recent
ly purchased 81, 900 acres of land living north
of DeFuniak Springs. This is in addition
to former purchase of So, 600 acres in Ala
| bama, just north of the Florida line. The
company will build a railroad TO this place
in the near future.
The Pensacola AdUdnce- Gazette under
stands that u memorial will soon be circula-
ted there for signatures asking the powers
that DE ut W ashngton that full corps of
officers be sent TO the Pensacola Navy Yard
and that school ship be stationed there for
the training of young men in the science
and practice of seamanship.
Charles /. Collins, charged with misap-
propriating funds collected for a client. was
honorably discharged by Justice MacWil-
Jams at st. Augustine. 1t was proved that
the money had never como into Collins
hands The party owing the money admit
ted that it had not been paid, ami expressed
his willingness TO settle with complainant
The great sugar factory at st Cloud will
start up on next Tuesday and will continue
until the present crop of cane is exhausted.
| There is now planted at st. Cloud about
900 acres OF cane, besides hundreds of
acres around the lake. The reclaimed
lands in that vicinity are being rapidly
taken by those vino intend TO engage in
cane planting.
The Gainesville Record warns its readers
against parties travelling in Marion and
Alachua counties claiming 10 sell conliscated
goods, ana making false representations to
rope in the communities where they travel
II Is said they are sharpers, and are fleeing
the country people. They already b we So
cured several hundred doll trs in Marion
county, and will next take In Alachua.
Allen Barber, Of Tallahassee who wears
n No. 10 foot and sports body 10 flt IT, has
been carrying a bullet IN the muscle of one
Of his arms for nine long years II Is said
several physicians probed for the leaden
missile, but all In vain a few days since
VIII Adams took out his poke. knife and
cut out the bullet Dr. Adams seldom
practices on anything smaller than horse.
The dead body " a negro aan was found