The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-28
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PalatlIa is touched by eight railroad lines
Sanford is being put in good sanitary
| condition.
Business is good at Rockledge, and the
hotels and restaurants are ali full.
II. r. Teasdale caught pOmpano weigh
ing eighty five pounds on Indian river last
week
Maj George r. Fairbanks, of Fernandina,
is spoken Of by some of the papers of the
State for Governor.
Congressman Davidson has introduced a
bill TO establish a lighthouse at Andrews
Bay, at a cost of S35, 600
Mrs. e. Young, of Thomasville, Ga, has
purchased DIR. Duckworth's property on
Park avenue, Auburndale.
Sanford's union freight depot, which will
be completed in a few days, will measure
$50 feet long by 40 feet wide
Messrs. Russell & Brown, of Orlando,
have bought one of the small steamers for
merly at Winter Park and had it placed on
Lake Ivanhoe
Panasoifkee still continues to be the lead
ing strawberry town in its section. Seven
and eight hundred quarts are shipped from
that point daily.
At St Augustine H. NJ Flagler has Just
contributed $3.50 to the Young Mems Chris
tan Association fund, swelling the gross
amount to 200.
The Judiciary Committee of the House
has decided to report favorahly Mr.. David
sons bill giving an additional term of court
to the Southern District of Florida.
+. NJ. Bayard, who went from Savannah
| to Auburndale several months ago, has re-
painted his store and added more room, to
accommodate an increase of business.
| Mrs. Garlic of Punta Gorda a few days
| ago, shouldered a rifle and walking to a
small lake not far from her home, shot
killed and hauled in siX-foOt alligator
The union meetings which have been
going on at the Baptist church at Sanford
| for the past week closed Sunday night, and
much good is expected to result from them.
r. B. Stewart, of Brantley, is shipping
| tomatoes and egg plants, and will probably
realize, without serious mishap, a handsome
profit. He will ship from 500 to 800 boxes
| of tomatoes.
The Phoenix Tobacco Company o Geneva
have force of hands at work clearing the
hummock land recently purchased by them,
and will set portion of it in tobacco the
| present season.
A sweepstakes gun shoot at clay birds has
| been arranged to come Off at Magnolia
Bluff during Pensacola'5 regatta week. The
participants will be local sportsmen and
members of the Tallahassee gun club
There will be shipped from Geneva in a
| few days to points in New York two large
alligators, one large eagle, one Florida
trout BLACK bass, and one large rattle
snake. all mounted by a resident taxidermist.
The lake region in the highlands of Polk
county is now in its full spring robes The
| orange trees have set an immense crop of
| fruit, heavy shipments of Strawberries con
tinue, and the guava bushes are in full
| bloom.
Mr.. Burden, of Sanford, will in a day or
two receive patent papers on a machine
| that will prove of great interest and benefit
| TO orange growers This machine is aside
from his great fiber apparatus, and is almost
equal in Importance.
The petition of the citizens of Florida OPP
| posing the consolidation of the st Marks
and Tampa customs districts and urging
| that the custom house at Cedar Key be re-
tanned, was presented in the Senate at
Washington Monday.
| George +. Smith, of Daytona, last week,
shipped the first orange and lemon buds
| from the Halifax coast to Italy for budding
| purposes. The shipment is result of a
] conclusion that the Halifax coast oranges
exceed the italian in quality.
Alderman Brnbaum. Of Orlando, intro
! duced resolution that passed at the last
regular meeting Of the City Council ex-
|
lishments of certain capacity from city
taxation for period Of years.
All subscribers to the Yaper held by b. A.
| Circle, for the purp 50 of building public
| hall at Cocoa, ara no flied that an eHgible
! lot having been donated, "A meeting will be
held at the literary hall Friday for the pur-
pose of electlng trustees and q committee.
Since the Diocesan College of Florida, an
institution established at Auburndale by the
! Episcopal church has assumed "A solid form,
many leading and prominent people through
out the country arr making them elves in
terested in that region for Southern homes.
Ransom Carney hqs contracted to carry
| the Live Oak and Little River mail in Su-
waunee county for four years, commencing
July ]. The schedule viii be changed to a
daily mail on Wed es LAYS and SATURDAYS,
| going from and returning to Little River on
| the DAYS named above.
While Gov. Lee and party were at St.
| Augustine Monday, and inst as they were
about To depart for th IT. Cuban tri0, a talc-
| gram was put into Gov. Lees hand which
announced the serious illness of his daughter
! at their home in Richmond. This, of course,
| broke up the plals for the Cuban visit and
the party Immediately returned home
ward.
Cocoa Public Spirit: As Public Spirit
was not represented at the bee tree cutting
| MI. IoptD'll hluelly Senu us a ltDefal snare
of the delicious honey. The honey being
made from orange blooms, has all their un-
| approachable fragrance and delicate flavor
which made us feel as though we were eat
ing an orange grove in bloom. We never
ate anything like it before
The editor of the Cocoa Public Spirit has
a curiou>lY shaped orange 1t Is OF the
navel variety I'll is divi led into two parts,
connecting at the ston One part is shaped
like a sharply pointed lemon, while tire
othei@rerembl' an eagles talon on larger
scale, running down ou the side of the first
described about third Of its length and
turning back toward the stem.
! AT Peru Bob Oliver. the negro accused of