The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-07
FLORIDA.

Tomorrow is Arbor day.
Eau Gallie is to have n Baptist church.
The Baptist church at Chipley will soon
be completed.
Eagles are as almost as plentiful on Char
lotte harb0r as crows.
Timber stealing is still going on in some
parts of Gadsden county
A great many deer are being killed in
various parts of the State.
A number of horses in Gadsden county
are suffering with distemper.
Game of all kinds is reported plentiful on
and around Lake Okeechobee.
The Volusia county school convention
will convene in DeIand, March T.
A new post-office is soon to be established
at LaCosta Island, Charlotte harbor.
All the hotels and boarding houses at
Chipley are full of Northern tourists.
The work of building church for the
Baptists of Oxford will begin at once.
Col. r. Walpole has been reelected editor
and manager of the Sumterville Times
The Parceland and Carrollton hotels. at
DeLand, will be sold at auction to-day.
Oviedo needs a public hall, and Col. Alex
ander offers to donate a lot as a site for it,
The colored Methodists of Live Oak are
Mckay, the oarsman, pulled out a 125
pound jew fish at Punta Gorda Wednesday.
c. p. Williams has sold his orange grove
near peLand to New York gentleman for
$4,000.
Gas mains are being laid at Gainesville
and it won't be many days before the lights
can be turned on. -....
The State Association of Congregational
lists meets at lpterlachen this evening, and
will adjourn Thursday evening.
The old building belonging to Stephens
and Potsdaner, near DIR. Bynum residence,
at Live Oak, has been torn down.
Saturday a gentlemen of Orlando and
with one troll in three hours landed sixty
fine bass averaging at least two pounds
each.
Rev James Mcconnell, recently from
Chattanooga, Tenn., hopes to establish
church of the Presbyterian denomination at
Punta Gorda.
Mr.. Blake, of Bushnell, Sumter county,
dealt heavily in oranges this season--ship-
ping twelve car loads-upon which he net
ted 81 800.
Thomas Shider, of Quincy, recently
made q trip to Carabelle, and caught
negronamed Brimley, who shot a negro last
year near Concord.
Nine large turtles in the pen at the Weaver
Hotel at Charlotte, discovered a hole
in the fence after six months search
and left for parts unknown.
The Gadsden county tobacco syndicate
has planted seven acres of seed beds, and
expects to plant about three times this
quantity IN the next six weeks.
On the place of Hon. William Bryson.
near Live Oak, is hen of the Georgia
shawlneck game that is over 10 years
She is still good layer and setter
Near Quincy, a day or two ago, a farmer
found large hawk with one of its legs
seized by a terrapin. The hold could not be
loosed, and he had to cut the leg Off
4 The Oxford Orange Leaf boasts Of having
the smallest "deviln in the State in person
of Master Charles Ferris He is IA wears
old and tips the beam at tifty-four pounds.
London Lawson, who shot Henry Bryant
near Live Oak, has surrendered himself up
to Sheriff Sessions. The committal trial
will come off before Judge Phillips on Feb
H.
e. NJ, Donald. Superintendent OF the
Parker Spring Orange Grove, Volusia
county, has shipped 307 boxes Of oranges
this season. Last season he shipped $50
boxes.
The legal firm Of Ammo a. Browne. Of
Orlando, has been dissolved and Col Ammo
has taken a new partner in NJ n. Lucas,
the firm hereafter being known as Ammo g.
Lucas.
Mr. Gilchrist OF Sumterville. has been
exploring for the past few days, in the
gully bstween here and Tompkins' Mill afd |