The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-14
FLORIDA.

A good rice crop W i'll be made this season
in Bradford county.
st. Augustine ha, an organized assembly
of the Knights of Labor.
Turtles weighing from 200 to 800 pounds
are daily captured at Key West
The cutting of rates has begun with the
Chattahoochee river steamboats,.
A scheme is on foot looking to the expor~
tation of Florida oranges to France next
winter
From the present outlook the orange crop
around Sanford this year will be the largest
ever known.
DR.. w. II. Melrath of Fairbanks has been
duly installed as city editor of the Gaines
vile Advocate.
Trinity NJ. E. church of Key West has
purchased a lot upon which to erect a church
at cost of $500 cash.
Application for postal clerks on the mail
steamships between Tampa and Key West
have been made to the Washington authori-
ties
Hon. John f. Dunn of Ocala is much
spoken of as the probable democratic sena-
torial candidate from the Twentieth dis
trict.
The bath houses on Picnic island, near
Port Tampa and a quantity Of building
material were destroyed by fire Monday
night.
A crab measuring IS inches from tip to
tip of claws, has been captured at st. Au-
gustine. 1t is about the size of a dinner
plate.
An ak was found recently in a well being
dug near Crawfordville, 10 feet below the
surface. The queer-shaped AK was imbed-
ded in an oak stump.
II :. = Le..
formed to build shell road from Ocala to
Silver Springs and line it on either side
with fine shade trees.
The plan decided on for the new Metho
dist Episcopal church at Lawtey will make
it one of the most picturesque in the state
for its cost, which is estimated at 81, 900.
Commercial men coming into our city re-
port that Sanford is improving faster and
more substantially than any other city in
the state, particularly so in the matter of
brick and artificial stone pavements.
Florida contains %, 43S farms. OF these
l6, 1873 or SO per csnt. of the number, are
cultivated by their owners. Our sister
state, Georgia, contains 1873, 625 FARMS only
76,4l5 Of which are cultivated by owners
Among the improvements to be made
within the next few months will be a
Methodist church at Limona two and a
half miles distant from the Seffner station
a new school house and a colored Odd
Fellows hail in Seffner.
The pursuers of Green Hodge, the muir
derer, returned to Ocala last Friday. They
tracked him to his brothers home in La
fayette county, where he had secured
several weeks rations, and no doubt is
hiding in the cedar and cypress swamps Of
that county.
At Lawtey petition is being circulated
by Col. Shipman, praying the authorities
of the Florida railway and navigation COM
panv TO enlarge the depot there, and other
wise provide better facilities for the accom-
mediation of the increasing travel and
traffic of that station.
At DeLand public interest centers on the
court house case. The county commission
ers have ordered that the county records be
removed to DeLand, but there are yet some
legal complications, which will cause fur
Their delay. The county judge, with his
official papers, came over Wednesday.
At Orlando, Monday, doctors amputated
the leg of the negro who shot himself in the
riot on the midnight train of the South
Florida railroad about a month ago. The
oall entered the knee, SCATTERING the knee
cap, from which ne has suffered intensely
ever since, and it was question of life or
death anyway, therefore amputation was
decided on. The leg was taken Off at the
upper third of the thigh
The mooted question as TO the origin and
the originator of the Homossassa orange
can easily be settled, as the man who
planted the first seed lives at Seffner A
great many years ago this gentleman, who
then resided in the Homossassa, made triu
to Tampa, and there purchased some
oranges which had just been landed from q
sailing vessel from sone of the tropical
islands The seeds from these oranges were
saved and planted, and from the trees which
grew therefrom the HomoSsassa orange was
started.
Hon. John F. Dunn Of Ocala is back
from St Louis, and lound in praise of the
presidential ticket of Cleveland and Thur.
man. Strange to say, Mr.. Dunn was a
Thurman man six months ago, and at that
time in discussing with friends the probable
nominees of the democratic party for the
fall campaign, named Cleveland and Thur
man. Mr.. Dunn looks so much like the
famous Pat Collins from Boston. who pre-
sided over the convention, that he was
frequently taken for him, and received
much recognition for the striking TO-
semblance to him.
Some people think that the board OF
trustees of the state agricultural college
made mistake In deciding the southern
Florida branch experiment station shall be
located south of latitude 27'. The twenty
seventh parallel crosses the peninsula Just
north of Jupiter inlet and Punta Gorda,
passing directly through the northern half
Of Lake Okeechobee. They claim that if the
station is established south of this parallel
it will be- farther from the center OF
population and productive industry in
South Florida than is the main station al
Lake City
At Lawtey, two or three weeks ago, a
| mid epidemic Of collie prevailed, which has
not altogether subsidized yet. 1t is the opin.
| ion Of our physicians and others that this
was largely caused by overripe strawber.
ries. After northern shipments ceased
abruptly, vast amount of berries accumu
lated on the plants, becoming dead-ripe
/ Heavy rains came on after the drought
and the juice from these berries seems tC
have rendered unwholesome all the other
berries as fast rs they ripened. II was
found that the only safe course TO pursue
was TO select n few rows and keep them
picked clean all the while.
Seffner is ~ feet above tide water, quite
a rise in altitude considering the short dis
lance to Billsborough bay, it being not
| more than five or six miles There are
| about $50 inhabitants, but the thickly
| settled section which surrounds il makes II
! quite a busy market. There are five general
stores, one drug store, three hotels, one of
them tho Carney house which is large
aud commodiOus building, saw and plan
! ing mill, pcstOflics, and a telegraph and
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