The morning news., 1888-11-04
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The republicans of Gadsden county have
put out county ticket
The DeBary line of steamers will COM
mense running this week, and will connect
at Mayport with the Clyde line.
Contractor VIM. r. Kerr Is rapidly push
ing the new Masonic Temple on Simonton
street Key West, to completion.
At Chattahoochee, Monday night, at
about 10:30 o'clock, burglars made an effort
to break into Mr. Ferguson's residence, but
failed.
r bbers entered the store of Messrs
Churchouse at st. Augustine night or two
ago, and made away with some clothing
and other articles.
King Hall, the New York World CORES
pondent at jacksonville has been ap-
pointed as referee to decide the Harry
Miner-Nurse controversy.
Mr. c. Isear, "A dry goods and clothing
merchant, who last spring moved with his
stock of goods from Orlando to South Caro-
lima, has now returned, and will reopen.
Nearly every factory in Key West is now
running with full complement Of hands,
and IN ny of the larger ones are unable to
fill the many large orders that each mail
brings them.
Monday night, at 6 o'clock, r. J. Lee and
Charles Butler, hands engaged in z tting
out ties for the railroad near Arm ,trong,
St Johns county, became involved in a
dispute over the ownership of a saw, and
Lee shot Butler and fed Butler will not
die
The "boy-n of Sanford had Halloween
frolic Wednesday night. Nearly every
store window on First street was besnea ed
with soap, and all sorts of inappropriate
SiOns eirr
boards were swapped, and a barbsr's
pole was placed in front Of the postotiice
Key West Equator: All the young men
in Key West VINO vote the republican ticyet,
aud thus say to their northern leaders, Ego
ahead and strip the young females in the
cigar factories of as much Of their wages as
you can" ought to be put through the pro-
cess of stripping" which the fair ones have
81 deftly learned.
Jackso willie Metropolis: s. A. Adams.
the famous SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS
correspondent, is colfned to his bed to-daq y
with bilious attack. He says though he
has not got yellow fever and thinks he will
be up in a day or so. The world can ill af-
ford to lose the services of this brilliant and
plucky young fellow even temporarily, and
The Metropolis hopes sooI to seq him
o. X again.
Judge Clinton Dawkins prominent and
highly esteemed citizen of Jacksonville
accompanied by his wife and charming and
accomplished daughters, Misses Kittie and
Sallie, arrived at Fairburn, Ga, last week,
to remain some time the guests of Mrs. l..
s. Roam, who is niece of Judge Dawkins.
They left Jacksonville Immediately after
the yellow fever began its deadly work and
have been away since that time.
The Welaka correspondent of the News
wrote as follows, Nov. l: Both democrats
and republicans claim this county, but the
democrats will doubtless carry it by $50
majority. Rye is being SON. Orang 5
are going forward very freely, and people
are hopeful. Some 400 boxes of oranges
per week are being shipped from our
wharves. The steamer Gov. Stafford lost
two deck hands by drowning on a recent
trip up the river Both men had families
in Palatka.
Somewhere In the thirties St Joseph was
a thriving city of several thousand people
There was also a railroad running from
lola on ths Apaachicola river t.
s.. Joseph. To-day there is not vestige
of the city remaining, nor Of the railroad.
William Samuels, an old coored man wuO
lives near cambridge, Ga, said tie othe
day that many years ago he lived in ST.
Joseph, and Travelled thence by the railroad
from lola; also stating that it was the frs
the cars. He was astonished when told that
both city and railroad had been in the
grave for over forty years.
A New York dispatch of Nov. l saws:
"The Jacksonville. Tampa and Key West
system has become the largest in FLORIDA.
1t has already acquired control of the
Florida Southern and the st. Johns and
Lake Eustis, and now the Jacksonville, st.
Augustine and Halifax River, which bought
the st. Johns and Halifax river last spring,
has purchased the two Astor roads TIE
combined roads, all of which will have their
headquarters at jacksonville, represent
railroad mileage of 651, and steamboat
mileage OF 4O5, making a total of 1855
miles under the control and operation of
the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
system"
The farmers in the lower part of Marion
county are at last learning wisdom. They
plant oats and corn. The oat crop was
short, but the corn crop was good. Many
farmers have from 100 to 800 bushels of
corn to sell and will slaughter hogs enough
for home use Cabbage plants are large
enough to transplant, and many will be set
out when the rain comes. A few years ago
our farmers, both white and negroes,
quit farming. and either worked
by the day at from 81 TO 81 so, or
speculated in land and planted truck
largely. One bad year and few buyers
embarrassed 30 per cent of the people A
variety Of crops, with economy, has about
paid off the debts and they begin to live
again. The acreage of vegetables this year
will be large and also of oats, but the cot
ton acreage will be small. Col. H. w. Long
says, after a careful survey of facts and
computation Of figures, Marion will go
democratic sure. The Lake Weir Inde-
dendent and the Baptist Witness, both
newspapers of this county, have changed
hands within the last few davs