The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-19
FLORIDA.
Orlando,s band has disbanded.


The work on the new Presbyterian church
at Gainesville is progressing rapidly
Several new buildings will probably be
erected on Anastasia Island, near st. Au-
! CUISINE, shortly.
One of the many new enterprises Of Pa
| latka is a steam laundry, to be established
by g. W. Smith
Dir. d. w. Gaddie, of Barlow, has Just re-
| Ceived an appointment as assistant surgeon
for the South Florida Railroad Company.
A post office has been established at Canoe
| Mills, Escambia county, and r. w. Brooks,
of Bluff Springs, has been appointed Post
master.
Mrs James T. Fields, the wife of the
Boston publisher, and Miss Sarah Jewett,
the actress, are at the Ponce de Leon Hotel
at St Augustine.
+. L. Sheats who is breeding carrier
pigeons in Palatka, sent out two Sunday to
lnterlachen to try their maiden pinions.
They returned Immediately.
Gainesville Advocate; The engagement
reception Of Henry Appel, Of Savannah,
Ga, to Miss Sarah Levy, of this city, was
celebrated on Sunday evening at the resi-
dence of Mr. Levy in this city.
On Saturday last c. L. Hasbrouck made
his last shipment of oranges from Palatka.
! The past season has been good one, over
/
and shipped from Mr.. Hasbrouck's packing
house on the wharf.
! \ little girl. about 10 years of age, passed
through palatka Monday. having travelled
alone all the way from Chattanooga, Tenn,
The little one came in via the jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West Railway and left on
the $40 p. M. train on the st. Johns and
Halifax Railroad, and was contented and
happy under the care Of the conductors.
Lieutenant Commander w. c. Gibson,
commandant of the navy yard at Warning
| ton, has received orders detaching him
| from there. He has been there four years,
| one year longer than he should have been.
! Three years is generally the time at one
place. Capt. Allen V. Reed will probably
| be the officer to take his place. Lieut.. Glib
son was anxious to stay.
The plans for C. b. Hazeltine's new build
! ing at Jacks inville, which is to be erected
on the site Of the one recently DESTROYED by
fire, have been completed. The new block
will have frontage on Laura street of $50
| feet, and will extend eastward on the pro-
! posed river street 70 feet. 1t will be two
stories in height with handsome front of
| pressed brick and artificial stone, similar to
| the one lately burned down.
! On next Tuesday special Pullman car
| will convey the remains of the late Mai
| George H. Norris from Spring Garden 10
ment will be made. The death Of Maj.
| Norris occurred in the early part of the
| winter, at his residence near this town
| The body was embalmed and temporarily
| inferred to await a favorable time for con
veying it to its final resting place.
For several months rumors of man.
moth hotel, at st. Augustine, to be built
south of the barracks have been circulated
| about town 1t is said that negotiations
are pending for the purchase Of the Hedrick
| property, consisting of five or six acres
| and situated south of Dr. Sloggett's resi-
dence. 1t fronts on the Matanzas, and would
make an elegant hotel site. 1t is also init
mated that Hon. Frank Jones, Ex-Governor
of New Hamphire, is interested in the pro-
| posed hotel.
"Jo-Jo, the little daughter of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Il. ii. Look, of Barlow, met with a
| painful accident last night. She was play
ing with some little girls at the Orange
Grove Hotel, when one of them caught her
! by the hand and swung her around several
| times until tho little creature suddenly
| screamed with pain. She was carried at
once to her fathers drug store, where Dr..
| Oglesby found the wrist dislocated, but
soon eased the pain and bound the arm in
| splints for few days.
They tell pretty hard story on one Of
the delegates from Pensacola to the Odd
/ Fellows convention at Orlando last week
| The Pensacola party put in night at ST.
Augustine, and nothing would DO one of
them but nights lodging at the Ponce de
Leon. He registered, and, when the clerk
asked what kind Of room be wanted, he
| said II want good one, to be sure" He
was given a room, and next morning, when
he asked for his bill, he fell back into the
arms OF Thomas G. Watson, and was famed
by G. G. Yonge. Jr., as he gasped forth in
echo of the clerks remark, "$40r' He
borrowed from his friends, who drew ON
their home account to get money enough to
pay fares back
The city fathers, of st. Augustine, are in
! a quaudary regarding the license petition
of MessrS. Benhayon Il Gonzales, which
may yet lea0 TO extensive Litigation. Tie
city leased TO Capt. Vail some city property
with the stipulation that no liquor should
be sold on the promises. Capt. Vail sublet
the premises 10 Messrs. Benhavon a. Con
zales neglecting TO make the same stipua-
ton with them. They have now rot ont
petition for liquor license, which will
probably be granted by the County Com
missioners, and according 70 law the Couu-
ell Will be obliged TO accept their aDpiica-
ton for a city license. The question seems
90 arise whether this will invalidate Capt.
Wallis lease or whether by granting the
parties license it releases him from that
CLAUSE in the lease.
fort Meade correspondence Barlow Cot
1ier: Mr.. G. H. Milman has just completed
his irrigatng scheme by means OF which
he is able to control 10000 gallons Of wator
per day. He has, during The recent dry
spell, allowed 10000 gallons to pass through
the Aood.gAte daily AS his farm needed it not.
We have seen, heard and read Of many
plans OF irrigation, but for simplicity, dut-
ability and service, this far surpsSses them
all. 1t is condu ted rs follow: ThYo,-
fourths OF a mile above the farm is pond
made by dammng the branch. The water
is conveyed from this poud TO the fl Id lay
means of gutter run under the
ground for one.halt nile, tnt OtAer
quarter being on poies about thirty feet il
height Alter reaching the farm the gutter
is again run under the ground passing
through the center Of the field. All along
that art of the gutter pa sing through tho
c inter- of the field are joints o which india
rubber hose can be attached FOR watering
ba oh l.