The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-24


is being circulated. The proposed capital
is $4,000.
d. H. Hart, of Adamsville, Sumter
county. has just Melted $3.50 on one-fourth
Of an acre in Strawberries and there was
$50 worth he never gathered.
gigantic bear is making his headquar
ters near the Blackwater bridge, in the
Royal settlement, Lake county. The other
day he killed full grown COW.
William H. Brown came into Fort Myers
from the Corkscrew region Monday night
with over 800 bird plumes. This makes
over 1900 plumes that he has marketed this
season.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railway intends putting up a rOund-house
for their engines on the ground where the
turn table is built at Sanford, which will be
the finest in the State
William Laws, contractor and builder, of
Orange City, has been awarded the contract
to build two-story dwelling house and also
barn for W. S. Bedford on his land one
mile east of Enterprise.
The McKinnon post office, Orange county,
which has been suspended for the past few
| days, owing to the resignation of Thomas
Moxey as postmaster, will shortly be re-
opened with Mr.. Tucksberry as postmaster.
The Democratic Club of Punta Gorda was
permanently organized last Monday night
by electing Cen A. w. Gilchrist, Presi-
dent, and Attorney Edwards. Secretary. A
| large list of names was enrolled as mem
| berS
! The two blueiackets who were hurt in
| the sham battle last week, at Magnolia
| Bluff, are not so seriously. hurt as was at
| first believed. They wil~ not lose their
| sight. The peppering, however, was all
| that was claimed for lU.
The Weekly Tdrpon, of Tarpon Springs,
| has not been issued since March "a, owing
to the failure Of the cylinder for the new
press to arrive. The cylinder was lost in
! transit between Fernandina and New York
Another has been sent for.
A gentleman who Is interested in the
progress of Enterprise says that he will
build a street car railway on Main street
between the Brock House and the railroad
depot, if the property owners along the pro-
posed route will give him permission.
A Charlotte Harbor lady has a small
green frog with its home in the calyx of q
lily in her room. The little fellow Is quite
pet. and percheS high on the pistil of the
flower to receive his dinner, consisting of
flies fed to him from the point of pin.
Judge r. B. Norment, of Orlando, has
just dug up Irish potatoes that average
inches in diameter, and the Judge states
that he took tifty-iix barrels of them from
one acre Of ground. They were grown on
his vegetable garden just south of the
town.
Last week the term of the Orlando public
school was exteaded until May /. One-half
of the fines of the May or's Court and 1 =
mills on the dollar of the city's taxes are
available for school PURPOSES and the City
Council is authorized to appropriate them
for such purposes.
A few days since A. Bolton, of Malabar.
found a fine large deer tightly wedged in
deep sluice used to drain the muck beds
few rods back of his residence. The drain
was only about two feet wide, but very
deep, and the animal had been unable to
extricate himself.
A meeting was held at the court house at
Enterprise on Thursday, under tue auspices
of the Volusia County Bar Association, for
the purpose of recommending suitable
person to succeed Judge Chandler, deceased.
Those present were unable to agree and ad-
iourned without action.
Mr.. Scott has sold several hundred acres
of vegetable lands to actual settlers in and
around Nocatee and Fort Ogden, within the
last two weeks. He says the experience of
the truckers this season, in spite of extor-
tionate freight rates, has been such as to
greatly encourage tho enterprise in the
future.
On Saturday last a handsome lot Of
Florida produce was shipped from Orlando
to w. s. Webb for his roliiag exposition,
which is stationed at Springfield, Mass
| The Shipment consisted of pineappes,
oranges, lemons, celery, grape fruits, shad-
docks, citrons potatoes etc, fresh from the
gardens and groves Of Orlando.
IF it is true" remarks the Sanford Jour
| nal, "that the Plant Investment Company
have purchased the Stone e. Cove lot on
| First street, between Park avenue az / the
| South Florida railroad it is safe TO tOnjec-
ture that they intend erecting a large BRICK
| hotel between now and next winter. The
| location is fine one for such purpose
Fort Myers Press: 1t is an amusing sight
to see a strange dog come into town, evil
IDENTIFY half famishcd for drink. and rush
down to the broad Caloosahatchee. He
never gets further than two laps, then his
ears drop and he looks foolishly around to
see il any one has seen him. One lap will
do him if it happens to be high tide. The
water is salt
DR.. Henry Foster of Lake Charm, Orange
! county, has an abiding faith in muck as
| fertilizer He has recently drained an ex-
tensive muck bed, and now has several
hundred cords of muck piled up and under
going tho curing process preparatory to
using it upon his grove He uses lime with
| il very freely, IL being sprinlIled upon the
muck as the heap is built up.
The news sprea rapidly at Fort Myers
last Friday evening that little Joe, the +
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. c. w.
! Thompson, was lost. Pretty nearly the
whole town was engaged in the search far
and wide. People were just beginning to
weep over the conclusion that the COLD
had been drowned when she was found las,
asleep on the upper porch at her mothers
! house.
Every cistern belonging to the CONNER
cial houses along the docks at Key West.
is dry and the want of water is severely
| felt. Vessels arriving in want, have to get
their supplies hauled down in casks. Thurs
| day application had to be made TO the naval
authorities for supply for the steamer
Grace Pitt. The applications at Fort
| Taylor by the citizens fer daily supplies are
steadily increasing.
Florida did well in tho House of Repre-
! sentatves Saturday. Congressman David.
son succeeded IN getting bill through the
! House to appropriate $35 900 for a Ii hit
| house at Charlotte Hnrb r., aud Mr. Dough
! erty got an amendment TO the river and
harbor bill TO give So, 900 to the st. Angus
! tine harhor Mr. DOugholty was very sue
ceSsful, for of all the men who tried to get
amendments to the bill only two or three
were successful
Jacob Summerln, who has recently re-
| turned 20 Orlando from n trip through
| Dade county. TeOOrtS that the Spminole IN