The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-09
FLORIDA.

Jupiter I1gDHdn, OIL fIduClS, L ubudIl
county, is bree1ing terrets.
Paatka's fremen will celebrate the Fourth
of July with parade, dinner and ball.
The proprietor Of the hotel at Iuterlachen
will try to boom the place as a summer re-
sort
Some Of the artificial stone walks on
First street, Sanford are turning ont to be
decidedly inferior.
DIR. c. A. Baird, Of Orlando, has been
SUNNI ned north by telegram announcing
the death of his father
At Interlachen the peach crop will be
short on account of the drought, and many
young oranges are dropping
Hon. j. &. Preston having resigned, w.
5. Jennings las been appointed County
Judge of fernando in his stead.
Nassau county Democrats will meet at
Callahan on Saturday, May 10, to select
delegates TO the State convention.
The Democratic club for the Orlando pre-.
cinct was successfully organized Saturday
evening, and is now ready for work.
The Curtis building at Orlando has now
reached the second story and ows it will
be one of the handsomest in the city.
The Hillsborough River Brick Company,
| of Tampa. will commence the work of de-
livering the 100, 900 brick for the jail next
week.
The committee appointed by the Sunday
schools of Sanford to arrange for the pro-
! posed picnic at Rockledge, will probably fix
the date for May Is.
At DeLand, Thursday, c. r. Stockton
sold, to w. Fl. Winton Of Rondout N. Y,
forty acres of high pine land, OF the shores
of Lake Winnemissett. The consideration
was 1925.
While Charles Christopher, residing on
the east side of Lake Dorr, was digging a
we'll on his premises, he found, at distance
of % or 80 feet from the surface, a half
bushel of petrified sharks teeth.
Cairns q Pearson are making, out of
native woods, $40 side board, for E. w.
Bond Of Wiloughby, o. They are MAX
ing out of the same materials, a SAG man
tel-piece, for c. W. Bently, Jr.. of jackson
vile.
J. J. Buckheit was before the Mayor, at
Sanford, Saturday afternoon, charged with
selling beer and whisky, The result of the
trial was that Buckheit was fined $3.50, or
forty days in Jail. The case was appealed
and will DO heard again in tho Circuit
| Court.
The site for city park donated to Or
lando by DR.. Watkins aud others, has been
surveyed and plated, and will furnish, as
soon as little money is expended on it,
| most desirable resort, and be credit to
the city. The street railroad will continue
its line out to it.
Elaborate preparations have been made
for the reception and entertainment of the
delegates to the State Democratic Conven-
ton, which meets at st. Augustine May 20.
The Chairman Of the County Executive
Committee, b. F. Oliveros, has appointed
the various committees who will take care
of the guests.
Frank Davis was brought before Judge
| ut
charged with stealing $50 from John Ellis,
former employe of the Ponce de Leon,
while the latter was under the influence of
! liquor. Davis admitted his guilt. and in
| default of bail was committed to the county
Jail to await trial at the September court
The City G uncil Of Orlando has Just
| fixed the salaries OF some of the city officials
as follows: The Clerk is to receive $3.50
Der annum; the Treasurer, $3.50; the Mar
shall, $3.50; the City Attorney, $50. The
Clerks bond is $500; the Treasurer's, 81 900;
| the Marshal's, 800. The salaries are to be
| paid quarterly, on the first of January,
April, July and October.
At Mascotte neat and commodious pas
senger and freight depot has just been con
! structed by the residents aud property own
ers who are non-residents, which will be
presented to the Orange Belt railway. Mrs.
| &. Johnson, of Mohawk, n. Y, gave one
acre of land, on which the depot is located
! Tho building all complete cost 1925 In adj
tition 10 this the different property owners
| donated 800 acres of land to the COMPANY
Nineteen years ago Mr.. O'Qunn left his
home in Southwest Georgia and headed for
South Florida. His poverty may be i'm
agined when we state that his worldly pos
sessions we're easily loaded on an OK cart He
| settled at Johns Pass, went to work imme-
diately. and has been hard at il ever since
He has made two large orange groves, ono
of which is bearing and the other just com
ing in, and while the groves were growing
has made a living for his family and paid a
debt at his Georgia home of 1925. Twelve
thousand dollars will not buy his property
| to-day.
Three Celestials-Toy King, Lee Foo and
Sam Wo-have just left st. Augustine for
| China, by TIE way Of San Francisco, having
obtained the necessary certificates from the
collector of the port All three of the Chi
namen are naturaljzed citizens, and expect
| t. return to this country in few mouths.
! The law of 1880, which prohibits Chinese
| immigration, does not affect their case as
they came here before $40 and took out
papers. All of the three are members of
the Presbyterian church of st. Augustine,
and have property there to the value vi sew
eral thousand dollars.
The place at San Mateo formerly owned
by {. +. Bromley, of Rochester n. ", has
recently passed into tho hands Of William
Bancroft, Of Hopedale, Mass It's locati NJ
Is one Of natural beauty, occupying a COM
mandng position on the St Johns river
with fine water front. 1t comprises al out
thirty acres, several of which are in an
orange grove of large aud thrifty trees.
Mr.. Bancroft will probably rechristen the
place in honor Of his native town, and has
III contemplation the enlargement of the
grove, an addition to the already commo-
dious residence and the building of new
| dock.
George w Mitchell the foreman of the
Palatka Daily Nei0s. was thrown into n
contemplative mood the other day by a
strange occurrence. About seven Years agn
he was travelling III Mexico, and while OF t
! walking one day he saw something on the
ground that excited his curiosity. and
stopped down to pick it up. While thus
sstooplng or sitting on one knee he lost his
balance aud fell over against a cactus, run
ming one of the thorns into the calf Of his
| leg. He tried to pull 1t out, but did not
| succeed, and when ne got up, a. it had stuck
| into muscle, 1t had firm hold. and was
drawn in through the skin and disappeared
For week after that the only inconven-
| iencc wa a little soreness I'm the wound.
/ and two or three years after, Mr. Mitchell
| said he felt as if he had rheumatism IN that