The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-16
FLORIDA.


The houses in St. Augustine are being
numbered.
The Hessian fly is injuring cucumber
plants in Polk county.
Col. W. T. Forbes of Jacksonville is
dying of heart trouble.
Nearly 50, 800 is being paid out weekly in
the Tampa cigar factories for labor.
1t is rumored that the Moune cigar fac
tory at Tampa will employ Chinese labor.
A loggerhead turtle bit Off half of fish
erman's foot near Egmont Key few days
ago.
A Tallahassee merchant has ordered ten
gross of Thurman bandanas for the cam
paign.
Work will soon begin on j. L. Demilly's
new residence on Clinton street, Talla-
hassee.
Duncan D. Redd of Crawfordville, sur
vivor of the Mexican war, has been granted
a pension.
The Orlando Southern Methodist revival
has resulted in about seventy accessions to
the church.
A restoration to an increase Of pension
has been granted to X. ID. Thompson, of
Lady Lake.
The sales of Columbia county produce for
the year ending March 81, amounted to
over $780, 900.
The Henderson three-story brick block,
on Charlotte street, at st. Augustine, is fast
nearing completion.
The temperance society Of Monticello has
about 100 members, and is increasing in
membership at every meeting.
A young man of Monticello says he makes
POS calls a year, and never visits the same
young lady twice in one week.
Mr.. Knellinger of Bonnie Lake has
invented corn and pea planter, which he
claims is superior to any in the market.
The democratic executive committee of
Leon county and the central committee
will both meet in Tallahassee tomorrow.
W. 5. Fry of Palatka has completed the
dressing and mounting of an alligator
killed in Ashley river by Pierre Lorillard.
1t is whispered that stockholders of the
7. T. and G.. Railway intend building a
frst-class hotel at st. Teresa at an early
day.
The sponging business at st. Marks is
rapidly increasing, and thousands of dollars
are paid out there by Mr. We'll, the sponge
buyer.
The committee on streets and lanes of the
St Augustine council will make report on
paving around the plaza at the next council
meeting
When Lozana Pendas g. Co.'s new fac
tory is erected, \ Dor City Will then have
| five factory buildings, none less than 100
| feet in length.
The Orange county commissioners have
taken out fire insurance policies on the
! county Jail for $4,000 and OH the court
house for SO 800.
A man at Fernandina has made 81 900
this season by cultivating and selling the
Boston squash. He spent 800 for fertilizers
and cultivation.
| Work on the gas works at Tallahassee is
| rapidly progressing, but the new Jail is at a
standstill, only a portion Of the foundation
being completed.
A Lake City trucker has sold $50 worth
! of beans, peas and pota toes from an invest
| ment of less Than 81 in seeds, and now has
/ the same Ian d in corn.
Fish can be caught by the thousand on
! Alligator creek, in Washington county.
| The creek is very low and the fish spare no
time in taking any kind of bait offered
| them.
The infant son Of William Smith Of
| Orlando died Wednesday night. Mr. Smith
is absent with the Knights Of Pythias in
| Cincinnati, aud is not expected home for
several days.
Runor has il that the StgnaL, a repub-
lican paper published at DeFunall Springs,
| is to be moved to Tallahassee 10 help hold