The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-08
FIORIDA.

The machinery for the new saw mill at
Hampton has arrived.
S. f. Gardiner has gotten up a pamphlet
of 10000 copies, representative of Bradford
county.
The ladies have taken hold of the matter
of improving the court house square at
Tampa.
Mr.. Burden, of Orlando, has bought the
Palmetto Hotel property at Tampa and
will take charge this week.
DR.. j. H. McBrayer, proprietor of the
Wild Orange Syrup, is putting up 1900
bottles of the medicine at Starke
Mrs, J. Falcantera's house in Ybor City
was entered last Saturday night by some
thief and SIS stolen from drawer.
AT Tampa the grand jury has found a new
bill against +. r. Gibson for the murder of
Don Hail. The trial will not come off be-
fore next fall.
Harold Il Bro, formerly of Apopka City,
but now of Victoria Station, shipped twenty
barrels of Irish potatoes recently and re-
allied 81 per barrel.
Work was commenced last Friday on the
excavation for A Ross two-story brick
building at the corner of Franklin and La
fayettee streets, Tampa
The material with which the Maitland
Courier was formerly printed has been
moved TO St Augustine and will be used in
the publication of the st. Augustine Daily
NetCS, which will shortly appear.
Robert Bouquardez, of Tampa, has a
drum head cabbage which weighs 1917
pounds and measures IL inches across the
solid head. He raised it on his place in
North Tampa, and says he set it out just
three months ago.
Mr. Council has planted several acres in
corn on some of the reclaimed land of the
Apopka lake swamp, and is confident that
it Will yield as well as the famous farming
lands of Middle Florida. He is counting on
100 bushels to the acre
j. C. Coon, an old newspaper man and
former editor and proprietor of the NetUs
Dealer of Wilkesbarre, Pa. has purchased
the material of the defunct Mirror at Lake
Helen and will establish first-clasS paper
there during the summer
Rev. Thurlow Bishop, who formerly
resided at Lake Conway, Orange county,
made on his little place out there last year
p bushels of corn ON one-fourth of an acre
of pine land. Besides this he sold Sli worth
of beans off the same land.
Col K. B. Thomas of Tampa, has some
fruit for which he is looking for name 1t
resembles a haw in color aud shape, but is
larger. 1t i, acid in taste, and grows on
what the Colonel calls lemon vine. It is
quite palatable, and eagerly eaten by the
children.
Ocoee is one of the prettest places in
Orange county Its beautiful lakes, fine
bearing groves and eligible building sites,
together with the enterprise of its citizens,
render it place for which much can be
expected 1t has four stores, several board
ng-houses and a fair prospect for hotel in
the near future.
Eustis has organized a Democratic club
with finance committee composed of w
B. Denham, b. f. Adams, T. A. Poole, f.
j. Ttcomb and p. Y. Pendleton to collect
funds. canvass the precinct and enroll its
Democratic votes. The pledge Is: I'VE the
undersigned, agree TO support the State
and county candidates of the Democratic
party for the year 1883"
Sim Gould, Of Formoa. has been given
the contract TO take charge of the grove re-
Gently bought by Messrs. Dawson and JOY
at Lake Conway. This summer there will
be a number of improvements made on the
place among which will be the clearing
and setting out of considerable more land
and the building Of a packing house They
expect to ship next winter about 5000
boxes OF oranges
The sponging sloop Glance arrived at
Key West Wednesday, and reports that the
water on the sponge bars and along the
! coast IS very black, and in that condition
the sponge fleet are unable to do ANYTHING.
The whole fleet, with but few exceptions, is
on the grounds. The boats have been fitted
out at considerable expense, and il they
make an unslcce.s ful trip it Will fall
heavily on the owners.
S. b. Alexander, of Monticello. has sold
! 100 acres Of land to an experienced to5ac-
conist from Boston, Mass He has examined
tine lands OF Madison and other counties of
the State, and finds the lands of jefferson
county best adapted 10 the cultivation Of
the weed He will move his other plant
! from Boston TO the land purchased from
MIR. Alexander, and thus make the factory
convenient TO the field where the tobacco is
| grown.
At a meeting Of the City Council on Mon
day night contracts were awarded for work
ing the streets OF Tallahassee for the cur
rent year to John johnson for $40 and