The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-20
FLORIDA.

/ Candidates are already OUT lOl inc county
| Offices of NOlusia.
Quincy now has one of the incest opera
| houses in the State.
The mails are flooded with orange hos
SONS going North to friends.
At Gainesville the work Of laying gas
mains is about three-fOurths completed
The peach trees, as well Us the orange, are
blooming very profusely in Volusia county.
b. S. Gregory has been appointed mem
Der of the Board of Gadsden County Com
missoners.
1t is believed at Orange City that the At
! lantic and Western will go over to the Beach
! by summer.
The county board of Lee has voted $3.50
for the purpose of sending exhibits to the
! Sub-TropicaL
Charles Everett has purchased large
| tract of land near Mariana known as the
! Russ plantation
The prospects are good for the early com
| pleton of the new Congregational church
at Orange City.
The Sparkman orange grove, near
! Orange City, turned out 700 boxes the past
season. Only 200 trees.
Lake Helen proposes to have her say
about the court house question if submitted
to the people for vote.
Some of the shippers of Orange City re
port having been swindled by thieving com
| mission merchants North.
Col. W d. Chipley, President of tho
Chautauqua Assembly, arrived at DeFuniak
Springs Friday night.
There VIII be Examinations and fireworks
at DeFuniak Springs every night, weather
permitting, during the assembly.
A number of immigrant wagons passed
through Quincy last week, going to
counties in East and South Florida.
Capt Graves has completed shipping
oranges from his large grove near Sanford
and his returns prove in great measure
satisfactory
There are several boys in Gainesville
whose feet have not been encased III leather
this winter, yet those same boys have been
out on the street every day.
One hundred thousand boxes of oranges is
the prospective yield for Orange City an
| other season. This means a revenue of
$500, 900 from this source alone.
Mrs. f. E. Hooker, of Orange City. has
received from some Northern friend a dona-
ton of 500 for the Congregational church
fund. 1t will be used in the completion of
the belfry.
There are more strangers in Gainesville
| than have been there for a long time. Many
! of them are persons somewhat advanced in
age, on whom the ravages of cold weather
are very severe, and they are there to
escape it.
John Craycraft, of Altoona, believes in
bee culture as an industry. Last week h
removed nineteen hives from his late resi-
dence in the suburbs TO his home in town,
whore he can better keep an eye on them at
swarming time
The shipment of Strawberries by express
from Altoona, for the week ending Wednes-
day. Feb Is, were 81 crates of Is quarts each,
making a total of 1876 quarts. Shipments
are mostly made to Philadelphia, although
a few are sent to New York.
The county superintendent of Gadsden,
| has forwarded to the teachers of the county
full information as to the institute to con
vene at De Funiak Springs March II, next.
! The railroad fare will be sc. per mile, and
board will be very reasonable.
Deputy Sheriff Stevenson, of DeLand
was in Orange City Thursday to serve a
mandamus issued by Judge Broome upon
| the County Commissl )ners compelling
them TO- meet in session to take action upon
the petition TO remove the court house.
The local price of Strawberries at Altoona
is now l0c. to l5c. per quart. These prices
are obtained by growers who have small
patches that do not yield enough for ship
ment, or by shippers who SOLICIT out those
Last week f. B. Jordan of Quincy, gave
notice that his gun had been stolen and that
if the thief did not return it Sheriff Mitchell
would be sent after it. Last Tuesday mora
ing when Mr.. Jordan came out of his house
he found the gun lying on his front porch.
An illustrated journal of the highest type
has asked for the photo of one of the fair sex
Of Orange City. with the privilege of repro
ducing it in the columns of that popular
fpNy oel h., l.
est spirit but the request was not granted.
G1dsden county is much in need of a
County Surveyor. Since the death of Viii
liam Gee this county has been without an
official surveyor, and the lack of such an
officer has caused considerable trouble in
establishing the lines of lands bought and
sold.
There was a meeting of Registered voters
Of Altoona Feb II for the purpose of nomi-
mating town officers. One mayor, one mar
shall, one clerk ana one treasurer for the
term of one year, and two aldermen for the
term of two years each, to DO voted for
Feb. p.
Those favorable to Fort Mason for county
site at the forthcoming election, Saturday.
March 10, met at Altoona Wednesday even
ing, Feb. 10. J. T. White acted as Chair
man and Noble Harter as Secretary. 4
Fort Mason chb was organized, with a roll
of - members.
About 50 in gold and silver has been
found in the ashes of the house Of old Dick
Roster burned down at Quincy short
time ago. The money had been saved since
l>jl by hi, aged sister, who lived in the
house with him, and was given o. her by
her deceased husband during that year
The geological surveying party la charge
Of Prof Wilcox, came back ~ Fort Myers
from the up river country Friday they
were well supplied with specimens. shells.
cOrus, etc. ho inhabitants of the shells
died long before ADAM time Shells were
found entirely new, In a geological stand.
point
a. c. lnwtou, OF Altoona. who returned
from a trip tO IT, francis wednesday.
states that ia crossing tho ford ~ Spring
creek, seVen miles eaat VI Summit, hs sAN
tra0es ~ the cyclone in that vicinity lu the
shape of newly Frustrated trees. ~ seemed
~ have passed due easi in tie direction Of
tho ist Johns riYer
! H. L. nops9n has sgld bis sally acre tucl