The gale., 1888-03-03
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
Weekly News Notes Cleaned From the
Florida Press.

Florida Press.
! Gadsden's county roads are to be i'm
proved. DeLand's artesian well is now
down 435 feet :. "A revival is now going
on in the DeLand Baptist church. Mr..
John Holden, of Orlando, will plant six
acres in tobacco this season :. Mr. Lew
ellen, of Boston, shipped 100000 tomato
plants last week to Gainesville and Loch-
bic /. g.. The Cocoa people are very indig-
nant over the fact that express packages
for their place are put off at Rockdale. -.
The pear trees roundabout Archer are
blooming nicely. Over three hundred
trees in that section will bear this season.
-. The duplicate portions to the parts
of the Sanford post-office fixtures that
we're lost in the fire have arrived, and the
office is now being put in fine shape. :.
Hawthorne has a Farmers Alliance. l..
w. Fennel was elected president; w. j.
Waits, president; II. E. johnson,
secretary; j. r. Tompkins, treasurer; w.
G. Johnson, chaplain. Pensacola sends
petition to Washington asking that
full corps of officers be sent to the Pensa-
cola Navy Yard, and that school ship
beostationed there for the training of
vounanuen in the science and practice OF
sealAanship. The Gainesville Record
W; it's readers against parties travelling
in kpn and Alachua counties claiming
to seffA fscated goods, and making
false repres tations to rope in the com.
munities win they travel. It is said
they are sharpes@sand are fleeing and
swindling many ofSe country people. =.
The Arcadia truck growers are receiving
good returns from the vegetables they are
shipping off The farmers in the vicin-
itv of Arcadia talk Of organizing club
for their mutual profit and protection.
At the last meeting of the Arcadia Alb
stainers, A. H. Williams was chosen
president, Miss Mabel Arnold vice-prcsi
dent, and Soab Kinsey secretary =. Rev.
Mr.. Keeley and wife at Palatka from In
dianapolis, Ind, and the FOL
lowing evening some one entered theiI
apartments there and stole $56 AT the
Orlando armory the other night, just be-
fore the drill began, Captain Shine, in
behalf of the company, presented to Capt.
Allen, of the Kentucky Military Institute,
an elegant gold watch =. "A little Cuban
boy named Dominquez, the son OF wild
ow was found drowned in the break
water at Fort Taylor, Key West. -.
Governor Perry has requested the resig'
nation of Sheriff II. ID. Holland, of Du.
val county, in consequence of the escape
of George H. Carpenter. Governor Perry
holds that Carpenters escape displayed
laxity of official duty that he could not
overlook Leroy is to have 25-room
hotel About two-thirds of Orange
countv's taxes have been paid in The
Waldo ice factory will begin operations in
about fortnight. James Barrett, OF
Silver Springs Park, has twenty-five acres
planted in oats, and three in rye A
Lutheran Church has been organized at
Martin Station, among the Pennsylvania
colonists ~ The Ocala Grace Episcopal
Church is being enlarged aud improved,
and new tower will be added. 1t is
stated that the Tavares, Apopka u Gulf
Railroad will soon resume construction
southwark :. The j., 7. s. X. w. Rail-
road has purchased the steamer 8. v.
White. now on the Indian River, to be
run as a mail boat between Htusville and
Melbourne Baron Luttuchan, who has
handsome place in Alachua county, near
carlton, has $500 grape vines out in his
vineyard, 5000 in nursery, and over
TO- 900 cuttings set out st. Clouds
immense sugar mills will start up, and
continue operations until the present stock
of cane is used up. At st. Cloud there
is about one thousand acres Of cane now
nlanted. aud hundreds of acres around on
he lake shores. Next season the acreage
will be vastly increased.