The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-14
FLORIDA.

The paving of the streets around the
square az Gainesville goes on.
If four applications for every vacant
house will make building boom, then ST.
AN Justine is sure of a Guiding boom this
winter.
No further news of the supposed murder
on the beach near ST. Augustine comes in,
and the supposition that 1t Is canard grows
stronger.
case Of yellow fever in Gainesville for the
past thirteen days, all reports to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
J. W. Farley of Apalachicola reports
catch of 208 barrels of fish at the Picket
fishery for the season. Mr.. Farley has
closed work at this fishery for the season.
The st. johns county bank of st. Au-
gustlne has, by julicious advertising, and
bv the popularity of tie management,
doubled its business in the past seven
months.
Much damage has been done this sea'ol
to the Florida orange by the vast quantity
If green frui5 shipped north. In fact,
d alers are claimi g that foreign fruit is
gainl & better reputation than Fiori las
and solely by the shippinS OF unripe fruit
One man in Jacksonville has a cage
of one hundred and fifty young birds,
captured quite lately. and has already ship
poQ dDOub uIJy VI Ul6
to northern cities. This destroyer of
Florida's sweet warblers is employing ne
gro urchins to capture the birds wholesale
A large wildcat was brought to Orlando
We'd esday to the county judge, to claim
the boun y paid by the state. The AMI nal
was extrao binary one in size, weighing
forty-six pound, and quite poor at that.
His body was fully three feet in length. The
judge will have him mounted as an orna-
ment.
j. Hugh Murphy, solicitor for Orange
county. on Monday filed inforinations
against Henry W. Metcalf aud Gordon
Rogers, charging them with selling spirit
uous and intoxl ing liquors. the fnrmer
running what is k own as the Orange
Co Inty Club and the latter running the
Cosmopolitan Club, at Sanford.
The young ladies of Sanford have organ
lied a social club, the meeting to be held
every two weeks. It will be called "Oui'
Club" and gentlemen will receive notifica-
tions of honorary memb rship. The youlg
ladies will entertain alternately, and 81
good time may be expected The first meet
ing will be held some time in January
AT Avon Park, DeSoUo county, during
the past dull summer months since July, a
post office has been established and a saw
aud planning mill erected; school house
mas been built and op ned with twenty-five
pupils, 4 &c eral merchandise store has
been started, and at least twenty families
or heads of families have moved there,
the latter going in advance of the rest to
erect uecess ry houses. Plans are now
being drawn for q thirtyrive room hotel,
to be erected on one of the beautiful lakes
in the region.
Messrs. Pattison of Mobile and Downing
of Brunswick, Of the New York firm of
Downing, Pattison & CO., have been in
Apalachicola this week 10 king at it's
natural advantages. Their object Is to en-
gage largely in the square timber busiue IS,
and also to open Up naval store deDos for
the expectation, by way of the gulf, of all
the naval stores contiguous to the Chatta-
hoochee valley. They were shown around
the city by the citizens and taken down the
bay Thursday on tug. They expires ied
themselves very favorably impressed with
the outlook.
A gentleman recently applied to s.
Palatka attorney for divorce papers.
When the lawyer asked mis- wIfe's name in
full the man coul not give it. He wrote
to his father and mother, with whom they
had lived the past tea years of their mar
ried life, but they, too, were ignorant As 0
her name. He then wrote to TIE nei@hbors
around his new home. again without result.
The man who wanted the divorce had been
married about twenty years, aud IN that
time he never learned MS wife's full name,
which barred him from the plans he was
trying to execute.
Capt. William T. Morrill, and Mr.. Laugh
ton, both Of Milton, have been offered
$4,000 for the rights for America on their
saw swaging inventio J.. Saw swaging Is
not exac ly dental surgery, although it
deals exclusively with the teeth OF the saw;
tho teeth are inserted in the devices in one
shape and come out in al thor-tnat is they
go in in the shape of solid inverted V,
and come out with one edge followed,
giving the tooth the appearance of
produces tle difference in shape, and as
saw teeth must necessarily be Of that figure.
aud Capt. MorrilFs aud Mr. Laughto - i1-
ventiou is labor aud time saving machina,
it goes without saying in big lumber
county like this that the gentlemen have
a good thing and they know it.