The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-05
FLORIDA


Monticello wants an opera house.
r. Mugge is erecting building 20x5O feet
for his bottling works at Tampa.
At Pensacola the sale Of the bark Ada
Carter has been postponed Indefinitely
w. J. Golden, of Pinellas, has been adj
mitted TO practice law at the Tampa bar
The formal opening Of the Hotel Marion
| Tuesday night at Silver Spring Park was a
! grand success.
The present Board Of Aldermen of San
ford will hold their last meeting as body
next Monday night.
! Hamilton Disston and family are ex-
! pected 20 occupy their new cottage at Tar
| pom Springs this week.
An excursion of business men from Me
! ridian and other points in that section OF
| country arrived at Pensacola Thursday.
| c. D. Seeley, of Crescent City. has sold
| his orange grove near Mr. Banding resi-
I dence. to Theodore Lane, of Parma, \. Y.
The snug sum of S5O1 has been expended
on the streets of Sanford for repairs, etc,
the past few weeks, and yet the good work
| goes on.
| Arrangements are being made TO send W.
| G. Crum to Jacksonville and the Sub
/ Tropical TO represent Tampa and Hills
| borough county.
| Hobbs, which is located on Citron street,
Tarpon Springs, has been purchased by Rev.
! Hunter OF the Presbyterian church.
A few citizens of Monticello met Monday
| TO organize a Board of Trade, but on &C.
count Of tue smallness of the attendance it
was decided to adjourn to a future day.
Last Tuesday Mayor and Mrs. DeGolier,
of Tarpon Springs, took a row up the An
clote, and on their way back in the after
noon the Mayor shot an ll-foot alligator.
At Plant City, Mr.. j. II. Frier had the
misfortune TO lose his residence and furni-
ture Monday night by fire. Willis Gold
circulated a petition in aid of the sufferers
and obtained considerable money.
The Sanford Argus Company has been
doing the presswork of the Sanford Journal,
but the two establishments have had a
| clash, and the Journal is now printed on
the press Of the Enterprise HerG ID
At Gainesville J. II. Williams furniture
store was broken open Wednesday night
and the safe opened, but nothing Of value
was taken. The burglars got nothing for
their trouble except some tools from the
work benches.
The Orange Belt Railway Company is in
doubt about extending its line to st. Peters
burg before another year 1t depends
| wholly upon the action of the land holders
below. 1t may make Tarpon Springs its
terminus Tor the present
The circus now in South Florida didn't
! take away as much money from Sanford as
the managers at first thought they would /;
and the gambling schemes of the men who
| follow the show were at once closed down
upon by the city authorities
The Marion County Farmers Alliance
was organized Thursday at Athony Har-
man G.. Martin was elected President, J W.
/ II.
! Dehon, Secretary. The membership is 1870,
representing ten lodges in Marion county.
| G.. f. Campbell, of Lake Weir. will ship
to Messrs Twogood q Cutter, of Riverside,
! Cal, four carloads of orange trees and , 800
! lemon trees next week. These will be the
first lemon trees that have ever been i'm
! ported to that State from the Land of Flow
! ers.
Kafiir corn grows we'll in jefferson county
on moderately poor soil, and the yield is
double that of Indian corn. As to its
utility as a food crop, it is said to be pala-
table and somewhat similar to ordinary
wheat flour, and as a stock food cannot be
excelled.
Although the rumored intended removal
of the factory of Julius Ellinger & Co,
from Key West to Tampa is denied by a
member of the firm, in a recent interview
with representative of the New York To-
bdcco, their going would not surprise many
at Key W est.
Horace Whiteman had quite good at
tendance at the Sanford Opera House recent
yto organize chorus for the opening of the
South Florida Exhibition. So far about
twenty Of the ladies' and gentlemen have
| agreed to aid in the matter, and about the
same number from Orlando and other points
will assist, making a chorus of forty or for
ty-fve voices.
AT G escent City David CARL has con
cluded to build a residence on his very de
sirable lot lying east of the Episcopal
church. j. r. Preston's two-story resi-
dence on his grove near the school house is
under way, and he will spare no expense in
making 1t a model home. Frank Brown is
having a dwelling erected on his lot at
| Grovesdale.
1t is now believed that the Norwegian
bark ashore at Tortugas. reported as the
Farino, bound from Pensacola to Monte
video is the Sabine, which cleared at Pen
sacola on Jan. IA, with S22, 900 superficial
feet of lumber, shipped by Baars & Co. for
Beunos Ayres. The belief, however, is
based upon the similarity of the name re-
ported to that of the SABINE
AT a special meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners of Jefferson, held at
Monticello on Jan. %, the sealed bids for
the purchase of jefferson county bonds
We're opened, and only two bids accepted,
to wit: Fred 7. Myers, Is bonds of 500
each and III bonds of 800 each, aggregating
$1,000; and Daniel A. Finlayson, % bonds
for $500 each and 5 bonds for 500 each,
aggregating s12, 000-making a total sale of
$4,000. This leaves a balance of $50, 400 of
bonds still to be sold, and the Board of
County Commissioners has authorized its
chairman to again advertise for sealed bids,
to be opened on March 2. They bear per
cent. interest.
Masters Orson Boothby, Ernest King.
Linwood Bullock and Warren Mcfarland
all of Ocala, growing tired of parental re-
stralnts and the depressing influences of
confinement at school, conceived the bril-.
liant idea of lighting OUT for parts t.
them unknown, and escape the restraint of
good home government Orson Boothby's
uncle made discovery of his nephews alb
sence, and surmising the trouble repaired to
the depot, and found the boys in the cars
ready for tour to Okeechobee, TO shoot
alligatorS and skin rattesnakes, for which
work they had secured three revolvers and
half a dozen Misunderstanding dirk knives.
The discovery broke up the boys plans and
they were unceremoniously hustled home
Thomas Twohy, of Vicksburg, Miss re-
ported to the police authorities of jackson
Vile Wednesday night that he had been
robbed ON Monday night Of quite a sum of
money. He claimed that while in an lnt1x-
icated condition he was accosted bv some
unknown person on Newman street near