The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-09
FLORIDA.

| FLORIDA.
Lake Helen is taking steps to incorporate
The Daytona ice company has commenced
operations.
Green Cove Springs has not single ma
| tive loafer.
! Shippers new building at Orange City
was raised Friday.
! A heavy and very much-needed rain fell
at Green Cove Springs on Tuesday.
1t requires over si1 900 to run the public
schools Of Columbia county four months.
The contemplated store building Of
Chas Powers at Ormond will be 50x5O feet
A high school is to be established at
| Jasper in structure to be built by subscrip-
| ton.
The pear trees in Levy county are loaded
with fruit and present handsome appear
ance.
DR.. NJ NJ. T. Huchingson is announced
as candidate for county treasurer of
| Columbia.
The school house on the hill at Green Cove
| Springs is receiving the finishing touches OF
| the painters.
Capt. Sans, inspector of hfe-saving sta
tions for the Florida district, started upon a
tour of inspection last week.
The committee are now hard at work pre-
pairing a representative exhibit for the Gin
cinnati exposition from Columbia.
| Henry Kelker, a Woodworking and re-
| spected colored man, was drowned at
Cary's mill, near Milton, on Tuesday last
! A new postoffice has been established In
! the Holland neighborhood, thirteen miles
north of Milton, with Miss Mary E. Howell
as postmaster.
Out of respect to the late Marcellus A.
| Williams, nearly all the business houses of
Fernandina were closed during the funeral
services Tuesday.
j. l.. Kirkpatrick of Green Cove Springs
has been awarded a contract to supply the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail-
way with $1,000 ties
A rumor that George Pritchetts remains
had been stolen from the cemetery at Fer
nandina proves to be unfonnded. The grave
has not been disturbed.
John II. Parker, who has been for long
time at Leesburg, has been promoted to
the agency Of the Florida railway and
navigation depot, at Bronson.
Gainesville wants a canning factory
| Thousands of dollars worth of fruit and
vegetables go to waste in that vicinity
every year for want of market.
The parties accused of shooting DIR. Rich
burg were tried at Chaffin's Station last
week. DIR. Baggett was acquitted and Mr.
Morrison languishes in Jail in default of
$500 bail
Levy county is still suffering for rain; the
ground is very dry and corn crops are badly
| injured. The weather is intensely hot, and
but for the invigorating breezes from the
gulf it would be unbearable.
Arrie Bogue, a small boy of DeFuniak
Springs, who broke his leg few months ayo,
has again met with the same mishap. He
was chasing some pigs and fell, fracturing
his leg between the knee and thigh.
Most of the lumber has been delivered ON
the ground for the building of the new Lake
City institute upon which work is now in
progress. The school, which is to be of
high order, will open in September.
Tax Collector Clifton was in DeLeon
Springs, Thursday. He reports Volusia
county in Furnishing condition. Mr. Cliff
ton thinks the delinquent tax list will be
small az compared with that Of 1886.
The brick, tile & terra Gotta company
OF DeLeon Springs have shut down for a
month or so, the rainy season having inter
fered with the manufacturing of brick.
However kiln of $50, 900 brick is now being
burned.
Mrs. Crenshaw of Orange City, who is
| spending the summer at Sea Breeze, near
| Daytona, met with a peculiar accident last
Saturday. While bathing in the surf a
wave struck her foot in such manner as TO
| sprain her ankle.
! Willie Webster fell in the well at Mai
Pitzer's place at Orange city one day last
week, but was not injured other than re-
ceivlng a severe fright. Recently he was
rescued from the river where he had gone
in beyond his depth.
The Bradford Messenger has been pur
chased bv jeff L. Davis, formerly of the
! Oxford Orange Leaf, and will be moved to
| Perry, Taylor county. The Messenger has
been suspended, but the editor promises TO
resume its publication shortly
Thad. Stevens, who has carried the moil
! from smyrna to TituSvlle for long time.
carried 1t for the last time under his con
| tract Saturday. j. s. Watson OF Eldora
| has the present contract and Mr.. Wilkin-
sons boys of the same place are carving il
! now.
! Postmaster Weaver of Dayton proposes
20 make his office a presidential one. In
order to do this he l. going 70 materially
change the boxes, adding another large
section and will otherwise improve the Of.
fee. He expects TO make the changes about
July 10.
The old mail route between Green Cove
and Middleburg having been re.establshed
| j. Wilgate, sub-contractor, commenced
carrying the mail over this route on Mon.
day last. The mail days will be the same
as tormerly-Mondays Wednesdays and
Fridays
At Cedar Key, DR. Thomas, chairman ~
the building committee Of the Methodist
church has slcceeded in procuring funds to
put In the windows and do some other
necessary work, and in week or two IL is
expected that the congregation will be able
10 occupy IL.
Last Monday while negro was working
near the Wilder x owe at Dayton he heard
noise as II some ono was calling, Qni on
going IN the dir elton VI tho sound discoy.