The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-15


arrive with party of twenty next week.
Saturday Dec. %.
MThe furniture factory Of Gainesville is
turninE out set of magnolia furniture that
is said to be very fine by those who are ill.,
formed in such matters.
L. w. Pierce recently had | ,026 oranges
gathered from one tree in his grove at
Miami. They were as fine favored as any
raised in South Florida.
r. K. Riley, of the firm of Riley, Grower
& Co., Jacksonville, has purchased tract
Of land near Tallahassee and is having 1t set
out in LeConte pear trees.
Some of the cars built for the st. Cloud
and Sugar Belt railroad passed down the
South Florida railroad Thursday morning
on the way to Kissimmee.
The Leon County Building and Loan
Association has done much toward starting
the building boom in Tallahassee aud the
good work goes steadily on.
At Orlando real estate agents are picking
up every vacant house they can find for
their customers, and nearly all are taken.
Within the next four weeks everything will
be full.
Three handsome cottages have been con-
structed by the Invalid Minister'S Compa y
| at Fairbanks. The cottages are neat and
! commodious, well constructed, and well
finished.
Cotton is coming in to Gainesville from
every direction. The crop is fairly good,
but some of it has been somewhat damaged
by the storms, which makes the ginning
pretty dusty work.
Thomas G. Gray, one Of Orlando's promi-
nent citizens, died Thursday. Mr.. Grey
has not been in good health for some
months past, and about four weeks ago had
to take to his bed with gastric fever
A negro named Charles Linton, who was
left in charge of tn opera house at Jack
sonville dur .ng the epidemic, is now under
arrest becau he stole and sold during the
summer nearly ever thing movable in the
playhouse.
The Florida Railway and Navigation
railroad conte plates building a branch
road from some point on their western di-
vision to either Columbus, Ga, or Mont
gomery, Ala, thus securing a through
route to the northwest.
Three hundred dollars has been appropri-
ated by the county commissioners of VolIsia
county for the Improvement of the road
between DeLand ami Crows bluff, on the
st. Johns river. A ferry boat will also be
put on to crDss the river there.
Senator Allan r. Jones of Walton county,
who was recently appointed timber agent
of the government, is not at ali sure that he
will accept the position. He sees no reason
in qualifying, if he is to be kicked out by
the incoming administration.
Charles Adam ), Of Horti, while moving
his sail boat in one Of tbs small ponds con
nected with New Found Harbor, dropped
| chain, in about 2 feet OF water; the mud
and grass at the bottom prevented the find-
| ing.
| w. R. Green, colored, living on c. w
Bannermans plantation, in Leon county
has made a crop this year, with one mule
consisting of eleven 500-pound bales Of co..
ton. 800 bushels of corn, 220 bushels of po
tatoes, z, 500 pounds of fodder and ten large
barrels of syrup.
DIR. Cromwell of Gainesville takes the
cake as the boss nimrod of the refugees. III
twenty eight days of shooting he succeeded
in bagging 1,0l1 quail, or nearly an overa e
| of forty per day. The scene Of the doctor
exploits with the dog and gun was in the
vicity of Lake Rosa. three or four miles easI
| of Melrose.
| The French brig Lut1n, condemned al
| Key West several week. ago, was sold Tues
| day at IL o'clock at the wharf Of Consul w
j. H. Taylor, by order of the admiralty
court Her cargo, consisting of 142, 0O(
| feet of lumber, will be sold on Tuesday
| Dec. IS. The oat was purchased by Mr..
Taylor for $500.
Gainesville outgoing postal facilities ar,
still very much hampered; no mail IS re
ceiyed for points north by the Florida Rail
way and Navigation road, or for point
south by the Florida Southern. P. M
Sheldon is doing all he eau to change thi
state of affairs, but the United States, lik
all great bodies, moves slowly.
The superintendent of the Orlando am
Winter Park railroad, j. H. Abbott, is de
sirous of ascertaining the preferences of tn
people along the road as TO the time for ru
ming the trains, and he states that he would
be glad if perso1s interested would drop
communication through tie mail, addressed
to him at Orlando, expressing their prefer
ences.
State Comptroller Barnes says: "a per
son may sell the vegetables raised by hin
without taking out license, and a perso
who sells beef or other meas butchered By
him is not subject to a license tax as mer
hant or storekeeper, but when a persoI
buys and sells vegetables not raised by him
or buys and sells meats not butchered b,
him, he becomes liable.
The prominent orange growers Of tn
Indian river section propose to band them
sslves together in an organization whic
shall have for its object the p rfecting O
some plan by which the orange crop of tina
section can be systematically shippe
through February, March and April. in
stead of rushing it unfortunately TO mar
ketat the present time.
g. w. Jennings, who was at one tim
forman of a composing room at Sanford
was convicted, Tuesday, in the crimina
court at Orlando, Of wife-beating, and ser
fenced t six months hard labor in the cour
~ Jail. There is no Law in Florida agains
wife beating, so he was prosecuted for as
sault and battery, and received The highes
penalty which could be imposed under th
law for that offense.
, Lum Taylor, a negro of bad reputation
, entered Miss Betty Hartman's room las
; saturday night, in Brooksville, but, Will
; feeling around the room in the dark arouse
Miss Hartman, whose screams frighteue
, the thief so badly that he fed, leaving h
, hat and shoes behind him. He was pro nptl
arrested, but says whisky did it" II
! stands good chance of keeping away fror
whisky for a year or two.
g The legislature does not meet until Apri
4 | but already the friends of number of I'll
senat rs-elect are pushing their sewers
b. claims for the presidency Of the Scnat
, | Among those most prominently mentione
5 are Capt. 2. HouStoun of Leon, Hon j.
t Wall of Tampa, and Judge K. NJ. Han
g mond OF Ora Ige. DR.. j. L. Gaskins {
y Bradford will most probably be a candidat
4 for the speakership Of the house, as will ali
J, I. w. Shine of Orange.
The Umatilla correspondent of the NEW
wrote as follows Dec. ~: The truck farmer
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