The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-12
FLORIDA,

Grove City has mail three times week
now.
The hotel registers at Pensacola show that
travel is getting light.
Palafox wharf at Pensacola is being ex-
tended further out in the bay.
The residence of DR.. g. Renshaw. at
Pensacola, is nearing completion.
Several new buildings are going up in the
neighborhood of Wrights mill, at Pensa-
cola.
The hotel block at Grove City is about TO be
fenced and planted in bananas and other
tropical fruit
A day or two ago Postmaster Hafer
caught Jewish from the wharf at Grove
City that weighed $50 pounds.
The proprietors Of the Gulf house at
Grove City say it will be- completed to ac-
commodate this winters travel
The report to the effect that supplies have
been shipped from Tampa for the military
encampment near Pensacola is unfounded.
The ridge" between Lemon bay and the
Gulf of Mexico at Grove City has all been
taken up, and the settlers all appear well
satisfied with their surroundings.
At Gainesville the jury in the case of
Peter jackson, tried for murder, disagreed,
standing nine for finding him guilty of muir
der in the first degree, and three for ac-
quittaL
| For about a year past the Hebrew con-
| gregation in Jacksonville has been without
pastor, and every effort TO secure the
services of a suitable and satisfactory one
has failed.
The Eola bath house on Lake Eola, Just
east of the Summerlin house near Orlando,
was burned before dawn Monday morning.
Its original cost was 81, 900, and there was
no insurance.
The executive committee of the Florida
Horticultural society met at..Sanford Tues
day, and selected Sanford az the place of
the meeting of the American Pathological
society next February.
A saw mill is needed at Grove City. and
it should be located on the bay so that par
ties up or down stream could come in to the
mill and load with lumber without having
to pay So so per NJ for hauling.
AT Pensacola X. II. Turner has purchased
| the two brick stores, now occupied by Har-
wells furniture establishment, on Palafox
| street. aud will at once add another story
An elevator will connect the two floors.
The west coast of Florida is promised a
big boom this fall and winter. There is ore
company of English capitalists who are So
| curing bodies Of land, and when they get
ready they propose to expend large sums in
its Improvement.
The new Presbyterian church at Gaines
Vile is taking form and shape. The car
penter work has progressed far enough to
allow the plasterers to go to work, and they
are as busy rs bees, mailing on laths. and
soon will be daubing on the plaster.
A hotel and six other buildings are in
process of erection at Nocatee, nine mile
north Of Liverpool. At Fort Ogden, thrt @
miles north, there are being erected a large
cottage, drug store, large mercantile
store and Methodist church Another
church is also building in the next town to
| the southwark.
At Jacksonville Tuesday j. l.. Bragassa.
a contectloler. at No. ~ West BAY street,
| became victim TO dull times and slow col
lecuons, and was forced u make an assign
ment to DR.. Hy. Robinson. The liabilities
are said TO be 50, 351. 50, the assets beng the
stock and fixtures in the store. The pre-
ferred creditors are Dr. Robinson, S5O5
Mrs. j. l.. Bragassa, s., S26. II, and V l.. d.
Nudge, $50. There are about twentv-thveo
other creditors, most of them in other cities.
The mayor of Jacksonville has suspended
Commissioner a. h. Jones (coloreCD. chair
man of the board of police commissioners
and at the next meeting of the city council
he Will formally prefer charges against him.
The mayor charges the commissioner with
interfering with the chief and himself in
the discharge of their official duties. and
Win making himself generally obnoxious
The charges, however, have not been deli
nitely specified as yet. Commissioner Jones
on the other hand, is very indignant, and
says that the action upon the part Of the
mayor is due to the influence exertcd over
the mayor by Commissioner Marzvck. who.
no says, has manifested desire for his re-
moval.
The board of county commissioners of
-. Johns have been busy equalizing taxes
during the last few DAYS The Ponce de
Leon hotel was raised from $l2j. 900 the
RETURN TO 100000 The total returns. as
made by Mr.. Flugler, on all his real and
personal property in st, Augustine and St
Johns county, is S2l9,S1O The board of
equalizers raised this u 1896 100 Accord
ing 20 that valuation Mr. Flagler Will pay
proportionately more taxes than half of the
taxpayers. Mr.. Flager has spent in the
past year so, 900 alone for pavements and
the grounds in front of the Alcazar are for
the purposes OF public park These
grounds and those of the Ponce do Leon
and Alcazar were three years ago, an un-
sightly marsh. Seventy-fve thousand dol
lars for pavement and 200 for a park
makes 100000 contributed toward the
uss Of the public
Monday afternoon, about 4:8O o'clock
Col Il. I. j. Allen was drowned ia Single
creek near KisSmmee. He was arranging
trout line in the creek aud wns standing
waist deep In the water, when he was sesG
by bis little grand daughter who was about
- feet away, 20 suddenly drop beneath Nh,
surface. The little girl at first
thought he was diving for somo.