The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-16
FLORIDA.
Polk County may hold fair next fal

Polk County may hold a fair next fall.
Dolph Edwards is now editor of the San
ford Argus alliance.
The Press Association denies that it was
not well treated in Cuba.
The United States steamer Wisteria, buoy
tender, is anchored off Palatka.
The school term in O5ceola county has
been lengthe led to seven months.
Orlando is discussing the merits of crema-
ton for disposing of her garbage.
The work on the Summerlin Institute, at
Barlow, wa, completed last week.
1t is limited that a new oyster factory will
be put up at Apalachicola next fall.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher and daughter,
| Mrs. ScOvile arrived at Palatka, Tuesday.
The Key West cigar manufacturers used
$22, 229 IS worth of stamps during Febru-
airy.
The people of Indian river will soon be-
| gin preparations for their annual May day
regatta.
Key West spongers market yearly over
500 900 pounds of sponge, the bulk of which
goes to Paris.
Another aspirant for the Office of City
Marshal of Palatka has come to the surface,
Joseph w. Wells.
The Baker County Commissioners have
decided not to awaxd the contract for the
| erection OF jail. ~
Both oyster factories at Apalachicola are
| now running on full time, a new supply of
cans having arrived.
E. r. Farrar has received from Gov.
| Perry his license as auctioneer in and for
the county of Putnam.
A meeting of the citizens will be held at
Gainesvill this evening to take some action
| in relation to the coming election.
Rumors are ahoat that the Orange Belt
Railway will come into Sanford, over its
own line, within the next ninety days.
The repairs on the steamer Queen of ST.
Johns have been completed, and she has re-
sumed her trips from Jacksonville to San
| ford.
Tax Assessor Joseph Matthew's of Marion
county, has discovered a new variety of
| oranges which he thinks can be grown only
in this climate.
The timber market at Apalachicola con-
tiuues active, and in consequence of strong
competition the market has taken an up
ward tendency.
The boiler of the locomotive for the
| Townsville, Tallahassee and Gulf railroad,
was brought to Apalachicola Monday by
the Thronateeska.
The custom house receipts of Key West
for February, which always shows the
lightest importations of any month in the
| year, dHlOuuUou W SOt,COt TO-
Travel is on the increase at Orlando, and
every day is felt the want of larger hotel
accommodations. Tuesday every hotel in
the city was full and had to turn away
guests.
At River Junction Tuesday Miss Julia
Parish, who has been living with Mrs. Jesse
| Wood for the past year, and who was sub
ject to fits fell into the fire and was burned
to Death.
At Gainesville Wednesday the game be-
tween the New York and Gainesville picked
nine was witnessed by large crowd. The
score was 80 to l, in seven innings, III favor
of New York.
j. B. Magruder, a Sanford liveryman
has secured flow of 100000 gallons of
splendid water per day from recent
driven artesian we'll The water is only
slightly impregnated with sulphur.
At Fernandina, Wednesday, Cam Robin
son, a colored man employed on the lumber
docks, suffered a complex comminnuted
fracture of the left leg above and below the
knee by pile Of lumber falling on him.
Within the last week there have been
quite a number of real estate transfers in
and around Orlando Some of them were
quite large There are also a number of
similar transactions nearing consummation.
The Orlando Record has in its employ a
| girl about II years old who commenced
about four months ago and now sets an
average of 5000 ems per day, and her com
position is as good as that of the old prin-
ters.
A fun grown panther was killed about
| two and a half miles northwest of Cocoa,
Brevard county, one day last week by Win
| Dixon and colored boy. Two of its
Young were captured, but they lived but
few days.
Parties have their eyes on Apalachicola
as a point at which to establish an oyster
shipping depot in the event that the rail
road is completed next fall. The oysters
| will be packed raw in cans and shipped TO
various points.
At Tampa, Wednesday, large and en-
thusiastic meeting of citizens was held to
take action in regard to the erection of our
mammoth hotel. The people turned out en-
maSSe The prospects for work to begin
early are flatteringly bright
At Welaka Joseph f. Chase has purchased
from j. Russell Kennedy lot 3 in the Re-
serve block belonging to the j. NJ. Clark
estate. The lot is one of the most desirable
600 feet by 200 feet and covered with beauti-
full live oak trees.
The petition sent in to the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West railroad by the San
ford merchants. some weeks since, asking
for reduction of rates on certain classes Of
freight on the sanford and Lake EuStS rail-
road. aud placing Sanford on an equal foot
ing with Jacksonville, has been granted.
A colored man was employed by Mrs.
Morton to dig well upon her property in
Welaka. While doing so, at depth of
about twelve feet, large quantity of the
sand slipped from above and buried him
completely. Horace CASTOR, after consid-
cradle difficulty, succeeded in rescuing the
man.
April l, Col. Romeyn b. Ayres Third
Artillery, now at st. Augustine, will re-
lnquish the command of his regiment to
Lieut.. Col. LOOMS L. Langdon, who will
exercise it until further orders from his
present station at Fort Barancas, Fla Col.
Ayres will proceed 10 Governors Island ~
Y, and report in person at division head
quarters.
AT Orange Heights last Wednesday col
ored man named Happy Wright was killed
at Beek q Self s lumber mill lie was
stepping through the belt, when he STUN
bled and was carried under the wheel and
instantly killed, his neck being broken. A
verdict of accidental death" was rendered
by the jury.
At Palatka Wednesday the funeral of
Engineer Il. II. Wells, who lost his life in
+ the recent railroad accident on the Florida
| southern while saving his passengers from
| n terrible death, took place from his late