The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-20
FLORIDA.

The East Florida Seminary at Gaines
vile will open on Jan. 3.
Osceoa county has been offered money on
| the county bonds ate per cent
The Dunedin Horticultural Society has
postponed their fair until Jan. "A.
All the dredge boats are at work widen
ing the canals in OSceola county to Is feet.
rev. o. A. Myers, now at Gainesville. is
! considering an invitation to return to Key
| West.
The school at the institute at st. Angus
| tine for the deaf. dumb and blind will soon
| be opened.
The new court house and Jail of Osceela
| cou ty will cost about S2j, coo, and building
begins about Feb. l.
| Iron mas arrived for the bridge across the
| Marlborough river at Tampa, but the work
men have not showed up yet.
The Orlando and Winter Park Railroad
| has just received 230 tons Of forty-fve
| pound steel rails and fittings.
Lake City has three booming schools, the
| State Agricultural college. Peabody High
school, and Lake City institute.
There is talk of union passenger depot
| at Kissimmee, to be built as soon as the
| Midland has reached that place.
Willie, little son of w. Z. and Emma
Floyd, OF SuwaBnee county, WIS burned to
| death last week by his clothing taxing fire.
The schooner August Flower, from New
York to ST. Augustine, is given up as lost,
as nothing has been heard Of her for a long
| time.
T. c. Andrea has disposed of his entire
| interest in the st. Augustine EUening NeUs
establishment. and the business will here
after be conducted by stock company.
Dr. Hall of Klssimmee will plant tobacco
ON his land between the prairie and the
muck, as recent experiences have shown
that the finest of wrappers" can be grown
| there.
T. s. Tutwiler, long connected with the
South Florida railroad, was appointed gem
eral superintendent of the St. Cl nd Sugar
Belt Railway Company, Nov. 70, with office
at Kissimmee.
The NEWS reports of the interstate immi-
grafton convention, lately held in Mont
| gomery, Ala, are causing considerable in
terest at Cedar Keys, and an immigration
| club will be organized.
| Alex Little, of the firm of Little Bros. of
| Orlando, has sold his bearing grove, stu
ated at Formosa, to the Hon. Cnas. Hill
| Trevor. The grove is about fourteen acres
| in extent and sold for $4,000.
The saw-mill operated by j. ]. McCaskill,
| two miles east of Argyle, was destroyed by
| fire last Tuesday night, also about $500
| worth of lumber and two cars belonging to
| the Pensacola and Atlantic railroad were
destroyed.
The busiest place in Gainesville is at the
Savannah, Florida and Western aud Flor
| ida Southern depots. Near half hundred
| hands are on The run all the time, and be
| tween 5000 and 10, 900 boxes of oranges are
| transferred daily.
P. j. Parramore of Sanford had a valu-
able mare seriously injured if not ruined,
| Wednesday, by running into 5arbed wire
| fence out at his grove The wire cut the
| flesh to the bone between the knee and
shoulder on the right leg.
The fate of the missing Pensacola man Nc
| Kee is not yet known. His threat to COM
| NIT suicide led nearly every one to believe
| that that was not his intention. He ha
been seen since he left the city, and it is
| therefore improbable that he sailed for
| South America as surmised.
White, the colored pitcher Of the "Cuban
| Giants" New York, is in st. Augustine.
| lie is the advance guard of the rest of the
| base ball club, W ich will soon be at tue
| Ponce de Leon. White brings the informa,
| ton that Mutrie, with his champions, will
again visit ST. Augustine this winter.
Two prominent business men of Orlando
are in receipt of letters from a large cigar
| manufacturer of Havana, making inquiries
about Orlando and what Inducements will
| be offered for him to move his factory
| there. He employees over 300 operatives,
and says he Is anxious to locate somewhere
| in South Florida.
| At the house of F. A. Garrison at Palatka
| Tuesday. his 9-year-old daughter, Mile,
arose from her bed and went 10 the opel
| fireplace to warm. when her clothes took
| fire, painfully burning her body before as
| -istance could be had. She was burned
| from head to foot, ald was in critical con-
| dition at last accounts.
| Lake City tobacco growers, becoming
| impatient waiting for buyers to come to
them, are buying up the dry goods boxes
about town, transforming them iuto stan
| dard cases, and shipping their cigar leaf
direct to Chicago, CT cinuati and other
| markets, where some OF 1t has already sold
| at rendunerative prices.
| Capt. s. j. Fox, the railroad builder, re-
| turned to st. Augustine from Philadelphia
on Saturday night highly elated at The re-
| suit of his trip. DE has secured the neccs-
| sary capital aud will prosecute the COM
| plelion OF his road with vigor. He is already
| engaging "A large force of hands and will
begin work Immediately.
The children OF Il. w. Woods of Sanford
and r. w. Wheeler OF Lake county have
entered suit against the Jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West railroad--ths former for the
killing of their father last February and the
latter for damage to property in Tavares by
sparks from a locomotive. The children
ask for $20, 900 and Wheeler for $1,000.
The circuit court is now In session ut
Kissimmee and has been for the week past,
and will continue all this week. Tho bust
ness in court this session shows very
large increase over that of the last. The
trial of the three negroes charged with the
murder of Horace Stolby, the negro police
man killsd some months ago, is in progress
When the train on the Orlando Belt rail-
way was approaching Iarpon Springs on
Wednesday morning, c. NJ Evans, the road
master, who was inspecting the track from
the door Of the baggage car, was thrown
out a. the train cGreened on entering
curve, and struck the ground violently,
from which he received severe and painful
injuries.
A meeting of number Of capitalists and
business men of Orlando was held on
Saturday, for the purpose Of discussing the
advisability Of holding an exhibition in Or
lando in February next. A pretty full dis
cussion was had, and showing IL to be, by
majority Of those present as favorable
toward the enterprise. Another meeting
was to be held Monday, when some pre-
lininary steps were to DO takca.
An accident on the +. II. and N. r. r.
Monday night DELAYED the train on the Il.
o. and A. X. K. six hours IL did not get
into Orlando until about $3.50 Tuesdiy
morning. IL seems that when the train was
about three miles the other side of Tayarss