The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-05
FLORIDA.

is now quite promising,
Cleveland, on the South Florida railroad,
has Teen made flag" station.
1t is said that Alex st. Clair Abrams of
Tavares will be married in Ohio this sum
mer.
The valuation of the property of New
Smyrna as returned by the assessor is over
SlOs,0C0.
A man named Riley, while asleep. rolled
out of bel at Palatka Thursday and broke
his thigh
S. G.. D)live of Orlando recently sold his
pointer pup to man named Tunstall Of
Mobile for SS5
Key West auctioneers now have oil the
goods, vegetables and fruit t. sell that they
they can find storage room for.
The steel rails and bolts have arrived for
the street railroad at Gainesville. Track
laying VIII be commenced this week.
Mr.. Davidson has secured an increase of
postal faci tiles for Homosassa. so that that
place will now have mail six times per
week.
The Kissimmee light infantry will have
a picnic to Dick island or Southport July
4, for the purpose of raising funds to buy
uniforms.
Capt. T. A. Bivens will reorganize the
Hills5orough Greys, of Plant City, this
week. This company made fine display
at the Pablo Beach encampment.
The cash valuation Of property within the
corporate limits of the town Of Punta
GOria, as reported blythe finance committee
to the council Tuesday night, is S729 900.
The Gainesville Adroc1te made its last
appearance Saturday under its recent man
agement. 1t will be issued this morning as
a republican paper, under a new manage
ment
Griffin & Co. will put up a large saw mill
just outside the town limits of Plant City
in few days, and the South Florida rail-
road has ordered a side track put in for
them.
A protest has been raised in Orlando
against poor and diseased stock roa ming
around the streets. Some Of the horses re
Gently taken up are SO mserably poor that
their heads are the thickest part about them.
Henry C. Jones met with painful acct
dent while engaged at work on the Hildreth
tax at Orange City last week. One OF his
hands was badly mashed and cut with q
piece of timber, and one arm is now in a
sling
A gentleman of Augusta, Ga, will, in
company with a prominent business gentle
man Of Plant City, erect near the last
named town barrel ald shingle factory,
shingles and barrels.
The subcommittee of the house commerce
committee has made favorable report on
the bill for lighthouse at Dog Island,
Florida. Mr.. Davidson feels confident that
the whole committee will act favorably on
the bill. He hopes TO get the bill through
at very early dat.
At Plant City. Saturday, DR.. Andrews
went on the street and Ia two hours had
secured for a canning factory for that
placa 81, $50 by subscri ption, aud says that
he will be able TO sec ure all the money
necessary to start it in very short time
Now a man is wanted who understands the
management of a factory, and it will open
up.
Saturday night the fruit growers asso-
citation of Lawtey voted unanimously to
publish the names of delinquent and fraud
ulent commission houses, and list will be
prepared for this purpose shortly. The act
of incorporation, which was STAYED off
during the busy season, will now be carried
out to completion, and n joint stock COM
pany will be established.
AS Capt Finnegan of New Smyrna and
Justice Sturdevant of Orange City were
going from Enterprise to Orange City
Wednesday night, it was 50 dark that ii
was impossible to keep the road. The
buggy wheel struck a stump and upset,
Capt. Finnegan falling upol his left arm,
sustaining a complete dislocation Of the
elbow joint and injury to hgaments and
soft parts.
A woodman from Lake Helen attempted
to take short cut through the hammock
near DeLeon Springs Wednesday, but after
walking about for half hour came back &c
the same road from which he started. H.
had left the roId at its south side, and when
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never remembering to have crossed it, A
second attempt proved as signal a failure
The person in question lisa temperance man
AS regards number, w. H. Wood of New
York takes the lead in tarpon fishing AT
Fort Myers with twenty-thTee tarpol,
caught between Jan. IL and April 4, inclu
sive. Next on the list is O. A. Mygatt OF
Boston, with a total of fourteen to hi,
credit. Taking weight into consideration
r. b. Duyckinck of Brooklyn carries the
palm with a moster fish, length & feet 4
inches, and weight not less than 154
pounds.
l. Sixteen years ago Capt. T. J. Burriu, a
hardy English pioneer, settled at Lawtey il
| the unbroken forest and went TO making
| turpentine and selling ship lumber. A single
pine mast sometimes brought him $50. He
bought twenty-four sections, a small part
of il co sting al % an acre, the greater par
only 90 and 70 cents. Today he looks ou
| from his coZy windows over land WORT
| 900 an acre. A tract of six acres wa,
recently sold at that price. and sngl,
crop of Strawberries on two acres of it paid
| for the six, and enough over to have paid
for theseventh.
Punta Gorda Beacon: II. II. Jones, a
member Of the editorial staff of the SAVAN
NAH MORNING NEWS, has been in our town
for several days. Mr.. Jones visited oul
community before, and is known as a de
cided friend of South Florida, to which his
many excellent articles testify, and as al
! indefatigable worker for toe journal he
represents. His trip to South Florida at
this time is for the express purpose Of thor
| oughlY investigating the sanitary condition
of this end of the state, and TO make fair
unbiased statements with regard to the
same. few weeks ago the SAVANNAH
| NEWS was hastily and uniustly criticised
and censured by some Of our neighborinl
papers for publishing an official Telegram
from the United States surgeon general
and Information given by DR. Drummer q,
| health and quarantine officer of the port Of
Savannah, than which there could have
been no better authority, and the refusa
to publish them would have been non
journalistic ii the last degree. Their actor
in sending "A disnterested party to insect
all misrepresented sections in the state ant
to authoritatively refute the yellow fever
| charges made against them is far NOR,
than any paper in the state has done, anc
| nplVr Nyafi0ae tvbat ba L..