The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-09

For Pensacola amateur fisherman, - to
221 Dream and few trout are fair day S
sport.
The Oviedo post office sold, for the quar-
ter ending March 81, $3.50 worth of postage
stamps.
J. K. Franklin, of Philadelphia, has pur-
chased the Matthews property west of
Starke.
Foundations for Miller's and Rheinauer
* Bro. S brick blocks at Ocala have been
completed.
The pupils of the public school of Orange
City will be given an exoul sion to the coast
next Saturday.
Messrs. Brown and Wicher have decided
to erect a $4,000 hotel at Blue Springs the
coming summer
Col. Whitfield Walker has sold his grove,
half a mile west of Panasoffkee, to Yves
tern firm for $1,000.
j. A. Bethea is by friends formally an
nounced for reelection to the office of Mar
shall of Lake City.
A. H. Tullis, of Alabama, has purchased
the Jefford grove, situated at Thurston, four
miles south of Starke.
AT Orange City Capt Tainer has also
bought the w. W. johnson grove, cOntigu'
Gus to those he recently purchased.
The artesian well at Orange City has
reached depth exceeding 800 feet, and
strong mineral water has been struck.
The lumber is on the ground for the cree
ton of a new Methodist parsonage at
Acron, and that work will be commenced
at once
The Seminole Hotel at Winter Park
closed its doors for the summer Thursday,
after the mast profitable season since it has
been built.
An unfounded rumor has been in circula-
ton at Orlando for several days TO the eff
feet that the Orlando and Winter Park rail-
road had been sold.
William H. Hood has just opened a new
general merchandise store at Linden, the
station just beyond Cedar Hammock on the
Orange Belt railway
The Florida State Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation, organized short while since, will
hold its first annual convention at TallahaS-
see, May 5 and 9, next.
Once Week ventures the assertion that
there are more young men in Live Oak
studying medicine than in any other town
of its size in the State.
Clark Spencer, of Seville has just com
pleted and launched a handsome saiboat,
which can be seen almost daily upon the
waters of Lake Louise.
Jacksonville needs cigarmakers. An
agent was in Tampa last week offering as
an inducement to advance the passage for
all who might wish to leave
The election to decide who shall be desig-
mated the nominees for county officers in
Jefferson has been ordered by the Central
Committee to be held May 8.
There are in and around Lake City more
than thirty never-failing clear water
springs, and some of them are highly i'm
pregnated with both sulphur and iron.
DIR. c. C. Harris has already planted in
the rich hummock a short distance east of
Spar, Marion county, 900 orange trees,
and will increase the number this week to
:, 400.
The railroads are again all right from
Flamaton to River Junction Trains crossed
the Chattahoochee bridge Friday, and the
whole line is being operated as before the
freShet.
DIR. Ruffin Thompson, of Lake Weir, who
was lately appointed to a position Ia the
agency at Fort Simcoe, w. T., and had
entered upon his duties, died March II, and
was buried at his post
Six of the passenger coaches DUR
chased by the Orange Belt railway of the
South Florida Railroad Company have now
been painted and turned out for use, while
two more are under way.
At Monticello the verdict of the Jury in
the case of the State vs. Lee Bates, charged
with the murder of Jim Shackleford. was
He will go to the peniten-
tiary for term of years.
At Tampa a day or two ago Sam Faran
(colored) was convicted of having improper
relations with his l2-year-old daughter, and
will take lodging for the next three years
at the State turpentine camp.
Many of the farmers of Columbia county
have been induced to grow more largely of
rice this year than any previous one, and it
is expected that rice will enter largely in
the countys exports this season.
A few days ago the corner stone of the
new edifice of the Antioch Baptist church.
near Lacrosse, in Alachua county. was
robbed of its entire sacred CON
tents by some party yet unknown.
DR.. Mortimer Buell. and Senator Delano.
both of Glenwood, engaged in great chess
contest few days ago. The doctor is an
expert in manipulating chessmen, but the
Senator proved too much for him.
At Key West last Sunday Rear Admiral
S. b. Luce changed his flag from the Rich
mond to the OSsipee, and left in the even
ing for Havana, where he will remain for a
few days and return to Key West.
A Texas gentleman recently in Talahas-
see said the negroes of his State are rapidiy
deserving the Republican party and uniting
with the Democrats, and working and
voting for good honest government.
An extensive forest fire ragged in the
northern part of Tavares on Friday night
At first the school house appeared to be
threatened, but the wind changed its course
and the flames swept TO the westward
AtOviedo a. Wahlstrom has sold his orange
grove to G. Il. Adams and j. f. Coney, of
Hawkinsville, Ga, for $1,000 The grove
consists Of ten acres of bearing trees. and is
one of the finest i'll the Swede settlement.
The sale of the Bloonqui,t property at
Oviedo, which has been DELAYED for soma
reason, was finally closed this week, and
the property goes TO MeSsrs. Hoffman and
Mccall, of Hawkinsville, Ga, for $1,000.
There are in Columbia county flat
woods" farms that have been in continuous
cultivation for more than thirty years that
annually produce good crops Of both corn
and cotton, and fertilizers are unknown to
them.
The real estate and grove property sold at
Orange CITY the past winter has doubled
the aggregate sold for the two preceding
winters, and every indication points 10 a
more active market even in the summer
months.
Three more box cars are nearly completed
at the Orange Belt railway shops at Oak
land, and Will be ready to go upon q road
IN about a week. Although several have
been finished, there are still a large number
TO build.
The following municipol ofRca.s TO-. a.,