Hillsboro recorder., 1888-03-01
FLORIDA ITEMS.

ID Gadsden's county roads are to be i'm.
proved. i. DeIland's artesian well Is now
down 435 feet "A revival Is now going
on In the DeLand Baptist church. !. Mr..
John Holden, Of Orlando, win plant six
acres in tobacco this season Mr.. Lew
ellen, OF Boston, shipped 10000 tomato
plants last week to gainesville and I.oeh-
bic. The Cocoa people are very indig-
nant over the fact that express packages
for their place are put off at Rockdale. :.
The pear trees roundabout Archer are
blooming nicely. Over three hundred
trees in that section will bearthis season.
-. The duplicate portions TO the parts
81 the Sanford post-ofiicc fixtures that
we're lost in the fire have arrived, and the
office is now being put In fine shape. ;.
Hawthorne has Farmers Alliance. l..
w. Fennel was elected president; w. ].
Waits, yice-president; II. r.. johnson,
Secretary; ]. II. Tompkins, treasurer; W.
G. johnson, chaplain. Pensacola sends
petition TO Washington asking that q
full corps Of officers be sent TO the Pensa-
cola Navy Yard, and that school ship
lie stationed there for the training Of
Young men in the science and practice Of
seamanslip. j. Z. The Gainesville Record
warns its readers against parties travelling
In Marion and Alachua counties claiming
to sell contiscated goods, and making
false representations to rope in the COM
mnnities where they travel. It is said
they are sharpers, and are fleeing and
swindling many Of the country people. !.
The Arcadia truck growers are receiving
good returns from the vegetables they are
shipping off :. The farmers IN the yicin-
ity Of Arcadia talk Of organizing q club
for their mutual profit and protection. :. :.
At the last meeting Of the Arcadia Abb
stainers, A. III. Williams was chosen
president. Miss Mabel Arnold vice-presi-
dent, and Soab Kinsey secretary =. Rev.
Mr.. Keeley and wife ut Palatka from In
dianapolis, Ind, and the fol
lowing evening some one entered their
apartments there and stole $50. .Atthe
Orlando armory the other night, just be.
fore the drill began, Captain Shine, in
behalf Of the company, presented TO Capt
Allen, OF the Kentucky Military Institute,
an elegant gold watch "A little Cuban
boy named Dominquez, the son OF wild.
iow was found drowned in the break
water at Fort TAYLOR, Key West....
Governor Perry has requested the resig-
nation OF Sheriff II. ID. Holland, Of Du.
val county, in consequence OF the escape
of George III. Carpenter. Governor Perry
holds that Carpenters escape displayed 0
laxity Of official duty that he could not
overlook Leroy Is to have a 25-room
hotel About two-thirds Of Orange
county's taxes have been paid in. !. The
Waldo ice factory will begin operations IN
about d fortnight. james Barrett OF
Silver Springs Park, observation-disclosures
planted IN oats, and three in rye. !. A
Lutheran Church has been organized ut
Martin Station, among the Pennsylvania
colonists The 0cala Grace Episcopal
Church Il being enlarged and improved,
and A new tower will be added. 1t Is
stated that the Tayares, Apopka 4 Gulf
Railroad will soon resume construction
southwark The j., r. q X. w. Rail-
road has purchased the steamer s. ".
White, now on the Indian River, to be
run as a mail boat between Tihisyille and
Melbourne Baron Ltittuchan, who has
4 handsome place In Alachua county, near
carlton, has 2, 500 grape vines out in his
VINEYARD, 5000 in q nursery, and over
10000 cuttings set ont ...St. Clouds
immense sugar mills will start up, and
continue operations until the present stock
Of cane Il used up. AT 81. Cloud there
l. about one thousand acres Of cane now
nlanted, aud hundreds Of acres around on
IL Iake shores. Next season the acreage