The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
FLORIDA.

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Toe young men of kissimmee propose or
ganizing a light artillery company.
Dr. John f. Richmond hos erected n neat
little church at Riverside, Lake county.
A case of coins was stolen from the South
Florida Exposition at Sanford, Saturday.
Gainesville will send auto a delegation
to the jasper Festivals in this city this week.
The colored people of DeLeon Springs
hope to have their church ready for dedlca-
ton in a month
Collector Clifton, Of Nolusia county, has
another So, 900 in readiness to turn over to
the county and State treasures.
The coming orange crop of DeLeon
Springs promises to be n prolific one, the
trees being loaded with opening buds.
The engineer corps of the Orange Bot
railway has been busy the past week at San
Antonio in laying out the site OF new
town.
The fire which occurred in Ocala last
week was of incendiary origin, and
suspicion points very strongly to the party
who did it.
The ice house of the Key West Ice Com
pany was burned Friday. The cause of the
fire is unknown. The damage is estimated
at $400 with no insurance.
w. s. Broderick, of Deleon Springs, has
engaged his crop of cucumbers TO gentle
man who is buying vegetables at 25c. apiece
for all measuring 4 inches in length.
A fitting tournament will be held ut San
ford Feb 21 The victor will receive $50,
given by the South Florida Fair Associa-
ton, with $40 to the second competitor
AT Key West the Monte Cristo cigar fac
tory of Z, Pohalsli, has been commenced by
the contractor w. r. Kerr, and it is ex-
pected that it will be finished by June l.
Rev. j. G. McCasky has received com
mission from the State Board of Missions,
to preach the gospel from Fort Meade to
Charlotte Harbor and intermediate stations.
The hook and ladder trucks for which
Gainesville is TO pay $500 are still resting in
undisturbed repose at Younglove's stables.
No company has ever been organized to
operate them i'll case of fire.
News reached Palatka Saturday that the
boiler of the lumber mills at Satsuma,
owned and operated by the Satsuma Lum-
Der Company had exploded, tearing up
things generally and killing two negroes.
In the quarter of mile race at Sanford
Saturday, the jockeying was so apparent
that the judges had to cause the race run
over. In some sections of the country the
| jockey in this case would have been ruled
off the track, if not bodily injured.
A. F. Merrill, of DeLeon Springs, has
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Franco variety, the bud of which is 2 years
of age Mr.. Merrill has clipped from the
tree 400 blooms, leaving on the tree all
that it can properly nurture.
A movement is now on foot in gainesville
to organize stock company for the pur-
pose of erecting brick building, the first
floor of which will be an opera house built
on a modern plan, while the second and
third floors will be used for lodges of vari-
Gus secret orders.
Alderman Deaderck, of Orlando, intends
to remove from the city. Mr.. Jewell has
resigned and an election has been ordered
to fill that vacancy. The Record wants
Mr.. Deaderick to step down and out now,
| SO as to have only one election, and thus
save the expense of an additional election.
Will Wallace Harvey, of Orlando, re-
ceived a few days since from Mrs Paul H.
Hayne, of Georgetown, Ga, the pencil used
by her husband in composing his last poems.
1t was sent in acknowledgment of little
n emorial poem of her husband written by
Col. Harvey and published in BirOudc.
The editor in chief of the Key West Eqta-
| tor, G. b. Pendleton, has purchased of p
| T. Knight, editor and proprietor of the Key
| West Democrat, the entire interest of that
| paper, including type material, presses sub
scription list, accounts to be collected) and
| good will, and will merge it with the
Equator.
In the vicinity of Spring and Gregory
streets at Pensacola, the workmen engaged
upon the sewer work were so seriously i'm
peded in their work by reason of the i'm
| mense number of springs that burst forth
every few wards that the contractors have
been forced TO use an engine to keep the cuts
| free from water.
1t has been suggested that the Board of
Trade of Pensacola write Commander
Evans, Naval Secretary of the Light House
Board, inviting that gentleman to visit this
city and make, an inspection Of the harbor
The gentleman will be at Key West some
time after next Friday, and letter mailed
to that point will reach him.
There is TO be seen in the yard of Mayor
Iatimer at Tavares a lemon tree, or bush.
of only two years growth, which has upon
it buds, blossoms, small fruit, half grown
fruit and ripe fruit The tree was killed to
the ground during the freeze two years
ago. and it is upon shoots that came up
from the old stock that this display Of fruit
and flowers is to be seen.
William McCabe, of Toronto Can, who
snow at Deleon Springs, is owner of
| some 1000 acres of hammock land, on which
is the famous spring. and is now in Florida
to consummate the sale to syndicate of
Chicago capitalists. 1t is reported that the
syndicate expects to cut up the hammock
| into lots and sell them, besides building a
sanitarium near the spring. If this is done
DeleOn is destined to cut no small figure
among her sister cities in South Florida.
Saturday morning a guest at the DeSoto
House at DeLeon Springs, met with par.
tial but unexpected bath while sitting on
the veranda of the hotel. A number of
splint-bottomed arm-chairs usually occupv
the piazza at the hotel. and after heavy
shower the gentleman in question came from
the Office, nestled closely in a chair and
went TO sleep A few minutes later he sud
denly jumped up and uttered an expression
of surprise and disgust at the water, which.
like one Of Josh Billings "bilesn had gotten
In the chair before him Up 70 the present
time that guest is shy of chairs on the
veranda.
enterprising merchant of the occasional
variety arrived In Paatkn from jackson
| vile "A day or two ago with a sloopload Of
! bananas he had bought from some schooner
fresh from Southern ports He would sell
only at wholesale, and Offered "A seductive
per cent. Off on job lots nothing les, than
ten punches. Having loaded the local fruit
merchants 40, he began selling Mt retail
! He sold the Fingers at less hy retail than
| be bad at whOeaale--thres for "A nickel
undertaking The very men he had done a
wholesale trade with. The rc.e.i fruit deal
ers noticed that the = banana trade was fall
| Ing on, so0n dropped onto tho gnme nnd
bad the man aiYreted for laddling without