The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-18
FLORIDA.

S. ID. Smith has resigned as editor OF the
Temperance Alliance, of Sanford.
At Starke, Saturday, J. G. Wilbur. a
prominent citizen of that place died.
Thomas Allen, of Port Orange, is putting
in an excellent coquina sea wall $500 feet
long.
Volusia county has thirteen newspapers,
or about one paper for each thousand in
habitants.
w. b. Glidewell, few days since, killed
coon near Umatilla that weighed over
thirty pounds.
twenty-five Apalachicola oystermen have
signed an agreement not to work for less
than 30r. per crate.
The San Juan Hotel, at Orlando, has
been opened only one week and nearly 200
guests have been registered.
l. j. Wells and S. Sparkman of Orange
City, sold their crop Of oranges on the tree,
realizing about 81 So per box.
The Jacksonville branch of the Irish
National League has adopted resolutions
eulogistic of the late Col. MacWilliams.
Several timber syndcates, owning lands
near Milton, are making an effort to build a
railroad connecting Milton and Brenton
The County Commissioners of Orange
have voted not to honor four drafts drawn
in favor of George c. Brantley for $4,000
The election for county site came off on
Tuesday, Jan. 10, and the official count
shows that Braidentown was elected by
thirty-eight majority.
The Champion Fence Company, of Ken
ton, o.. has been awarded the contract for
building the proposed new Madison county
jail at Madison for 81, $50.
Mr.. Harold of Enterprise, has built
residence on his island in the Hillsboro, and
proposes to plant oyster beds, for which he
has the best surroundings in the State
Some one has telegraphed from Cleve-
land, O., to a Boston paper that yellow
fever is still raging at Tampa. The report
is of course absolutely without foundation.
The Reed canal, near Port Orange, has
reclaimed an extensive body of hummock
lands, which have no superior in natural
fertility aud adaptability to orange grow
ing.
Last week Oscar Tory, of Lake Conway,
purchased from Charles Groves fine young
orange grove consisting of five acres, adj
joining his place. The consideration was
81 $50 cash.
Seven-eighths Of the orange crop of CLAW
county has been marketed, and at fairly re
munerative prices Growers having fruit
still remaining upon their trees expect fancy
prices for 1t.
Rev. j. NJ. Hendry, of Arcadia, made five
barrels of fine syrup from sugar-cane grown
on one-ouarter of an acre of cow enned
pine land, and had enough seed cane left to
plant one acre.
Some of the neck bones of another huge
mastodon, found in the Ichatercknee river,
were brought to Fort White Saturday A
portion of the skeleton of tremendous tur-
tie was also found.
McMahan & Rowbotham have secured the
contract for tho bt.iCk work on ba ta,.,
Presbyterian church at Gainesville. 1t will
not be decided until Monday who will have
the carpenter work.
Fires have been playing havoc in the
woods at Hickory Bluff, and had it not been
for the ceaseleSS efforts of citizens in stop-
ping them, great loss of property would
have been the result.
George Hunter claims to have hauled
the lumber for the first house built at
Orlando. He is surviving soldier of the
Indian war, and expects several hundred
dollars in back pensions.
The Commissioners of RAYMOND and
Osceola counties have issued orders refusing
to pay any more bounties Oh wild cat scalps.
They found that it was becoming too great
a tax on their treasures.
Gait City is the name of a new aspirant
for city honors in West Florida. 1t is
located in Santa Rosa county, and is fifteen
miles east of Pensacola on the line of the
Pensacola and Atlantic railroad.
At Fernandina, Sunday, the Travelling
Passenger Agents were met by a citizens
committee, who came over from Brunswick.
Ga, accompanied by the famoas Atlantic
band Of that city, and escorted TO the
city of Brunswick, which was specially
chartered for the trip to Brunswick
At DeFuniak Springs Tuesday, a roman
tic wedding occurred. a Mr. VauNalken-
burg, of Birmingham, Ala, arrived on the
traiu, met the object of his tender affections
and, in a few minutes, they were married
After the ceremony had been performed the
lady notified her parents of what she had
done. ,
The pay roll of Lozano, Pendas g. Co.
who have removed their cigar factory from
Key West. was about $500. 900 a year: the
money dishursed by the lighthouse station
100000 more, and the loss 10y last summers
sickness cannot be es mated, but S2OO.OOO
would not cover the loss in business, while
the death and suffering cannot be spoken
of II is pointed out by the Equator that
IN view of these facts there should be no
hesitation about bonding the city for sew
erage.
The opening of the st. Augustine and
South Beach railroad took place Saturday
under the most favorable auspices The