The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-17
FLORIDA.
Starke is to have water works.


Perry, Taylor county, has a new paper
called the Banner.
1t is said there will be an enormous crop
of guavas at Montverde.
Tho walls Of the new court house at St.
Augustine are going up rapidly.
The supposition is that a canning factory
! will be started soon in Pensacola.
The republican convention of Bradford
county assemblies at Starke on July u.
The name of the Casa Monica hotel, at
| ST. Augustine, has been changed to the
! Hotel COrdova.
st. Augustine will offer $50 900, and more
! if necessary, to secure the location Of the
State university in that city.
The base ball club Of Fernandina will
! play three games for $500 side at Jackson
vile Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Of
this week
At Ocala, Saturday, the precinct meeting
elected a solid Bullock delegation. Gen.
! Bullock will undoubtedly carry the county
by large majority.
Next Saturday the republicans of Leon
| county assemble in Tallahassee to select
delegates to the state convention, which
meets in Ocala July 81.
On Monday evening a rare sight wns wit
messed at the residence of J. +. Willis, at
| Oakland-nine Of his night blooming cereus
being in bloom at one time
Up to July Mrs. T. j. Cobb Of Madison
county had sold $50 dozen eggs from her
| poultry yard, realizing therefor an average
price of 1215 cents per dozen.
The former teachers and professors in the
schools and colleges at Tallahassee have
been reelected, and the outlook for the
future of these educational institutions is
encouraging.
| j. L. Derieux has just finished planting a
seven-acre grove on Lake Bonnet, near
| Lakeland, for John w. Siday OF Savannah
| One hundred trees were planted to the acre,
and all of the very finest budded varieties.
| The schooner Elizabeth Ann has arrived at
Key West from the sponge beds with a
cargo Of grass sponge. She reports sheep
wool scarce and hard to find, and only sue
ceeded in getting a few strands of this
grade
Hon. Frank Jones and Charles A Sin
| clair will build a court house at Taveres
free of cost to the tax payers of that county
| if that city is chosen the county seat of
Lake. The cost of the building is not stated.
| The election occurs to-day
The democratic executive committee of
Leon county has called the county conven-
ton to meet at Tallahassee on Sept. to
nominate county officers and members of
the legislature. The state executive COM
mittee desires full attendance at Talahas-
! see tomorrow to consider important M 1T
| tiers.
There was considerable discussion in st.
| Augustine concerning the merchants COM
bination" whereby the price was raised on
certain staple groceries. The truth of the
matter will not alarm the community The
raise is on articles that the grocers are
making no profit upon, and it is but slight
advance after all.
The new Italian steamer Benicia will ar
rive at Pensacola in a few days She re-
Gently discharged a cargo of pig iron at
| New York. The vessel is built on a new
model, designed especially for the timber
trade She has two compartments, one
forward and one aft of the engine, with
35-foot matches Her net register is .. 400
tons, but she can carry 3, 800 tons Of coal
on 81 feet draft of water.
Anastasia City is having quite a boom.
Seven new houses are now in process OF
construction. The St. Augustine and South
Beach railroad from St Augustine to Anas
tasia City, since Jan | to June have car
ried over the road 81, 544 people as follows
January, 3799; February, 6,134: MlrcI,
8, 70S; April, 6, ISL; May, 3,056; June, 8, 49i
communication tickets not counted, $500
making total of 81, 544. This is a first
rate showing.
doth colored), near JASPER, Friday night
Williams had but recently come to county
from South Carolina, and was working on q
turpentine farm. Although several negroe
were present and are willing to testify tc
the inexcusablen IS of thu killing, vet tnnv
allowed Woods to escape; and Saturday
morning about sunrise he went into a bar
room, where two mulattoS were, got q
drink and walked off
| no Ia
harbor seems to be an assured fact TIL,
Beacon says that a company of western
men will invest $50, 900 in this business al
Southland, a young town on the Miakka
river. The estimated cost of the buildings
plant, etc, VIII be $50. 1000, aud sixty hand.
will be employed. The schooner Henrietta
Frances of Portland, Me. will be engaged
i'll carrying turtle from the Bahamas to tht
canning establishment at Southland Ar.
rangementS are being made to erect an ice
factory TO supply the company and the diff
terout towns on the harbOr.
John Headly of Shngle exhibited q
sample of teoSinte last week, which. il ri
who raise 1t are as successful as he has been
etfectually dispose Of tie buving OF North
ern hay. He planted it four feet apart each
way one seed in n hill, and I, t. crop effect
ually covers the ground. The bunch he ex.
NIB. ted produced nineteen stalks which wa,
cut off and fed to his horses, and in four
weeks and five days from the time of cut
ting twenty-five other stalks had grown VI
from the roots to height Of aloat five
feet, making forty-one stalks from one seed
Stock arc S1id 10 pr, fer it to hay
1t keeps them in splendid condition
A base ball tournament, open TO all the
clubs in the st ,te, is 10 be held at jackson
vile, commencing July 80. The first prize
IS 81 and the sec md $50. The entrance
fee is S25, $40 Of which is to be put M when
application to entNr i, made. In ldition
to the cash prizes, the Bennett a Muiroy
silver prize uat to the Florida CLUB maRing
the best record This last prize is courte,
ouSy offered by tie present holders. the
Fernandna base ball club Gate receipts
VIII be divided oaca game as follows: 81
per cent. to the winner, and p per cent. to
the losing club. Entries will close July %
In the case that not less than six clubs have
entered by that time; otherwise they will
close ms soon rs six have entered Schedule
of games will De announced as soon as en-
tries close, and viii he so arranged that
visiting club, will not have to remain
longer than three days.