The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-15
FLORIDA.
Key West owes only $1,000.

II. M. Lee, of Suwannee Shoals, wants to
be Sheriff of Columbia county.
The Punta Gorda hotels are doing better
business than they did two months ago.
Gov. J. G.. Sinclair will address the Or
lando Democratic Club Thursday evening
An ice factory, for the manufacture Of
! ice in large quantities, will soon be estab-
lished at Punta Gorda.
Over 1900 crates of vegetables were
shipped from Oakland and intervening
points to Monroe Oh Tuesday last.
Depot material is almost daily being sent
down the Orange Belt road from Oakland
for the construction of new depots.
Nearly 100 vessels are reported by the
lighthouse keeper at Bocca Grande as enter
ing the pass for the last two months.
A negro man named George Lanier had
his hand badly mashed while coupling pas
senger cars at Lakeland Tuesday night.
There are now being received more let
ters from intended settlers inquiring about
Columbia county lands than at any time
for years.
The second quarterly meeting for the
Lakeland and Plant City charge, will be
held at Lakeland, instead of Plant City, on
May 10 and 20.
Lake Citys new water works system is
about completed, and the mains and
hydrants are nearly ready to have the
water turned on from the pumps.
the following is the number of cattle and
| amount of fish sold in the city market at Or
lando daring the past seven months: Beeves,
1888 hogs, 70l; sheep, 426; deer, 129; fish,
1879 barrels
The fare on the main line of the South
Florida railroad has been raised from three
to four cents per mile during the dull sum
mer season, by permission of the Railroad
| Commission.
The improvements contemplated by the
Key West Commercial Company embrace
a large extension of wbarves and sheds to
cover them. The improvements will expe-
dlte the loading and unloading of ships.
The contract has been, or is about being
let, for the construction of the workshop for
the Industrial Department, TO be main
tanned in connection with the State Agri-
cultural College and Florida experiment
station at Lake City.
An immense radlsh has been picked by
Miss Mary Lambert, of Island Lake. 1t
weighed four pounds and was inches in
| diameter at the largest point. This radish
was Is inches long in the body proper while
its tap-root was IL more. making 20 in all.
On the premises of G. L. Barnhart, at
Glen Ethel, is native white freeStone
peach tree, about twelve years old, which
y
that were sold at fifteen cents per dozen,
or $3.50. His peach orchard, recently set
out within four years from planting, will
yield him good crop. He has $50 orange
trees, covering four acres, nearly one-half
of them being in bearing.
Hon. John v Brown, of Suwannee
Shoals, bid in Mt Mondays delinquent tax
sales at Lake City, upward of Cd, 200 acres
OF the advertised lands belonging mainly TO
the Florida Land and Mortgage Company
and A. d. Basnett. They may be redeemed
within year, of course, by payment %
him at any time within the period of %
per cent. extra of the taxes and costs paid
by him. Otherwise, he has a cheap lot of
land.
Sheriff Anderson, Of Orange county, has
succeeded in capturing the negro who did
The shooting IN the riot on the fast mail
train Of the South Florida railroad two
weeks ago. The Sheriff and his posse went
to the camp Of tas negroes on the next day
after the row, but this man, Jim Padding,
the ringleader and the one who was so free
with his pistol, escaped and went to Nolusia
county, where he was arrested by the
Sheriff Saturday, and now languishes in
Jail.
J. S. Tanner, residing about four miles