The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-22
FLORIDA.

Dade City's Methodists are going to build
a church.
A gentleman of Orlando has parrot that
| speaks three languages
Teemer. Hamm and Mckay will row at
! St. Augustine next week
JAY Gould. George Gould and their fami-
lies VIII probably spend at least week in
| Florida.
Twenty-four people who are residents of
| Bradford, Pa. held a reunion at Tarpon
| Springs last week.
Mr.. Veomct, of Cocoa, found chick with
! four perfectly formed legs and three wings
a day or two ago. 1t has died.
! The grove of S. r. Kirkwood, near Or
\ lando has been sold for $l4 900 to o. +.
| Wmkleman, of Nashville, Tenn.
Twenty barrels of shad were shipped
from Sanford Tuesday. Monday about
twenty-three barrels were sent off.
Mrs. Johanna Karrel, mother of Mrs.
Antonio Simon, died at her residence near
Sanford Monday from cancer of the breast.
Mr. Davidson bill to appropriate $50, 900
for a lighthouse at Charlotte Harbor, Fla
was favorably reported to the House Tues
day.
The A. c. Carpenter place on the north
size of Lake Ivanhoe, near Orlando, has
been sold to Melvin Cone, of Baltimore, for
81 1000.
The catch of shad at Sanford Monday and
Tuesday mounted to about 1850, with
large amounts of small fish, such as Dream,
IT, out, etc.
Phe orange trees throughout Pasco county
are in the most vigorous condition and the
promise for an unusually heavy crop is en-
couraging.
The case of the State VS.. Dr. r. J. Aston
for mauslaughter has been fixed for tr a |
before theCriminal Court atOrlando to-day.
1t will probably last several days
1t is rumored at Green Cove Spring that
John g. Borden will clasp hands with II.
NJ. Flagler, of Ponce de Leon fame, and
purchase the sulphur spring and build a
large hotel.
1t is rumored that the st. Johns and
Halifax railroad will soon remove the gen
eral offices of the road to Palatka, and that
they have secured rooms in the Florida
Southern buildings.
A proposition will be made to the City
Council of Orlando by a responsible party,
to put down an Is inch sewer with street
connections at every street along Orange
avenue, for about s., 600
At Sanford the old shop on First street,
between the express Office and the jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West railway, will
soon be torn down, and an entrance made
to the union freight depot.
NJ. C. Rerdell left Orlando Tuesday for
Titusville for the purpose of taking testi-
mony in big chancery case in which he is
master, the suit being one in which the Gov
ernor is one of the defendants.
1t is rumored at Ormond that 500 feet of
the peninsula Immediately south of the rail-
road has been sold to st. Augustine parties
| for $4,000 1t is surmised that the property
| is to be used for hotel purposes
The body of Arch Randall, the coored man
who was drowned near the East Palatka
bank week ago Saturday has been recov-
cred, and j. Russell Kennedy, of Welaka, a
Justice of the Peace, has been notified to
hold an inquest.
Gov. Fitzhugh Lee with his wife, Col. j.
b. Palmer, Vice President of the Atlantic
| Coast Line, and Col. C. OBJ. Cowardin, of
his staff, were booked to leave Richmond,
| Va, yesterday in private car for jackson
vile, South Florida and Havana.
If satisfactory arrangements can be made
| with the managers of the White railroad it
is not at all improbable that a steamer will
be chartered TO run on this river in connec-
ton with that road for the transportation
of freight for the Indian river people.
Dade City is to have canning establish
ment. Considerable stock has already been
subscribed for. After a sufficient amount
was taken the stockholders proceeded to
elect the following board of directors: Dr.
| f. p. McElroy, w. C. Sumner, G.. II. Block
| er, j. A. Hendley, n A. Carter, IL. c. Grit
fin and G.. II. Staley.
While passing Lake Ivanhoe day or two
ago gentleman noticed large osprey sail,
ing over the lake. Suddenly it paused, and
making a swift dart downward, struck the
water and, for the moment, disappeared be
| meath the waves, but in the next second re-
appeared, bearing in its talons large black
bass that must have weighed three or four
pounds.
The grand jury of st. Johns county rec
| ommends that the county build without de-
lay new court house. The jury also rec
ommends that the school term be increased
from a six to an eight months term. They
also recommend that the officers be more
jealous than heretofore in prosecuting
houses Of ill-fame and gambling houses, anu
in suppreSsing the carrying of concealed
| weapons.
A large delegation is booked to go from
Orlando to Jacksonville in order to appear
| before the State Democratic Executive
Committee, which meets there tomorrow
| and urge the claims and advantages of Or
lando as the place for holding the State con
| vention. If the committee decides to hold
the convention in Orlando, as was promised
two years ago, it will bring at least 500
visitors to the town.
The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad and
Steamboat Company, having invested large
sums of money in plant near St. Lucie, on
Indian river, in the erection of immense
buildings and steamboats, for the preserving
and canning Of fruits and fish, is now look
ing out for additional outlets, and has EN-
poyed A. G. Aldrich to make the prelim
nary survey for railroad from st. Lucit
TO either kissimmee or Orlando, the ter
minus to be decided after the survey i,
made.
Herbert Clark, of Jersey City, one of tn,
most expert fly fishermen in the United
States, Is at the Ponce de Leon at st. Angus
tine, having recently arrived from Kissim
NEE where he has been spending the greater
portion Of the season. Mr.. Clark has done
some great fishing this winter in the lakes
in the Kissimmee region, and he believes il
to be the greatest fishing ground in the
country. His best days fishing was in ks
simmee Lake, where he caught with the fly
alone 1872 black bass.
The Macy Wagon WORKS at Orlando
which within the past few years have be
come such a marked feature of the place
and now employing twenty five men, viii
be greatly enlarged the coming summer
the design being not merely to make, as
heretofore, the celebrated Macy wagon, ,
but TO add 10 the manufacture of the same
both buggies and carriages to order, while
q large ready made stock Of them is kept on
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