The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-03
FLORIDA.

1t is reported that a Republican daily
paper is to be started in Gainesville soon.
A line of steamships direct to Palatka
from New York is to be established soon.
| The Palatka Nei0S says Henry NJ Flagler
has selected a site in that city for resi-
dence.
1t is stated that the DeBary Line will
| put on two steamers to run from Drayto
! Island TO Jacksonville.
The proprietor of the st. James Hotel, at
jacksonville, is said TO have cleared $50, 900
on the seasons business.
| Circuit Court will convene at Kissimmee
next Monday for the spring term, and the
week following at Orlando.
| Real Estate Agent Joseph T. Lancaster
has sold eight parties from Pennsylvania a
large tract of land on the Ocklawaha river,
near Grahamvile.
1t is rumored that the headquarters of the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail
way offices and machine shops are to be
transferred to Palatka.
w. L. jackson, of Archer, has recently
sold his cotton ginning establishment, at
that place, TO gentleman from Virginia,
who will continue tie business at the old
stand.
A house ON Cunningham lane Gainesville,
occupied by Ben Clifton (colored), was CON
sumed by fire Monday, and child was
b irned to death, the neighbors being unable
to save it. The cause of the fire is not
| known.
Robert Mickler has purchased the old
| convent at MaYport, of Co. Baya for 500.
and is now engaged in tearing it down
| Lumber that is good will be used in erect
| ing several new cottages, one of them at the
Burnside beach.
! 1t is limited at Palatka that the bridge is
| to be continued across to the Florida
| Southern railway dock and that there is
strong probability of another bridge being
built TO the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
| West railway dock.
Work on the north jetties at Mayport
has been discontinued for the present, and
| the tools and plant used in making the
coquina blocks for cap-stones have been
stored until another Appropriation is made
| for the continuance OF the WORK
Exhibitor Charles G.. Leonard, who was
incarcerated at Ocala on the charge of for
gerry, has been released by his Georgia
friends depositing the money to the amount
of his bond, and accompanied his friend,
MIR. Martin, TO the Empire State.
George Spalding, Knee Silas and several
Others from Mayport have started in small
sloop for Indian river. They have a large
| order tor bird skins, and expect to find
| game plenty in that locality. White heron
skins bring from Toe. to 81 apiece.
| Col. c. f. Merrill, of Jacksonville. has
been invited to deliver the poem at the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the Confederate
monument at Jackson, Miss, on May %.
| The invitation comes from the President of
the Mississippi Confederate Monument As
| ISOLATION.
! At Mayport every cIstern is dry except
| Capt Wallace's and the one at the light
/ hon go .v,N-. H.,
| per barrel DR.. Quackenbush has Just built
a cistern holding 1000 gallons. He says
that il is all right except at high tide, when
| it leaks in at the bottom
Clay, which by actual test is said to be
capable of producing brick equal to tho
! Georgia product has been discovered on
the Marion and Sumter line, on the Florida
Railway and Navigation road, short dis
| lance south OF Natula. Benjamin Smith
| and Charles Brown have erected a brick
machine, which will be operated by steam.
A young lady who resides on the north
| western border of AlachuR county was ra-
Gently married TO "A Bradford county man,
who said he owned a 200-acre farm, n good
| team, buggy, stock, etc. The lady soon
found that the farm wa, in her husbands
eye, that the clothes he was married in
were borrowed, and that his earthly possess
sions consisted only of a single-barrel shot
/ m.
and returned TO childhood's happy home.
The Ocala Banners article al out the in
difference of the people IN supporting Mr..
! Waterman's electric lights has produced a
! feeling that is more than likely 10 give the
town both gas and electricity, as a com
pany for the creation and supply Of the
former has been organized, and the follow
ing officers elected; f. II. Brown, tresi-
! dent; c. Il. Capers Secretary and Treas
/ Al ri II ~ 10
and Fuller, and w. L. Vandeventer, Di
| rectors.
Judge w. X. Cessna, of Alachua county.
has shipped over 1000 crates Of beans in tie
past two weeks, ana he has an order from
Chicago house for forty carloads e
tomatoes. Dry weather, the Judge says,
has boon very damaging, cutting the straw
berry crop Of the past month fully three.