The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-25


The Altoona Register has been reduced
to four pages for the summer.
1t is said that work has been ordered
stopped on the bridge from Harris Point.
There have been entertained the past
sea on at DeLand's four hotels 3, 800 guests.
An orange auction and forwarding
company is being started in Sanford with
$1,000 capital.
The material is being put together at the
shops at Oakland for the new depot at Clear
Water harbor.
j. NJ. Lane has been appointed by Judge
Broome as one Of the Masters in Chancery
for the county Of Orange
1t is reported that Phillip Corbin, of New
Britain, Conn, contemplates erecting a
| packing house at Daytona
W. j. Terriberry, of Corpus Christi, Tex,
is prospecting for a site for machine shop,
and thinks of settling at Palatka.
The United States mail service on the
Orange Belt railway has been extended
| from Mascotte to Tarpon Springs
The vegetable season may now be deemed
| at It's height and the utmost activity pre-
walls everywhere among cur agriculturists.
The business meeting Of the South Apopka
Inning alton Association, at Ocoee, on
Saturday, April %, will be an important
| one.
The brick work of the new Presbyterian
church at Gainesville is nearly completed,
and the tower timbers are being put in
place
Some important railroad changes which
| Will greatly affect St Augustine and give
her direct connection with the interior are
on the tdpiS.
The Germans Of Putnam county will meet
in Palatka, next Thursday, to form a Ger
man society to promote the immigration of
their countrymen.
| Mitchdrs Journal is the name Of new
paper that has made its appearance at
Ocala. 1t is devoted to bees, poultry, pets
and home interests.
The Orlando sportsmen are organizing a
gun club. They will send for traps, glass
! balls, etc, and make all arrangements nee
essary for the summers sport.
Thanks to the persistent effort of Cabel
Bulwell, Brooksville will soon have a fine
military company. About thirty members
have already enrolled their names.
At Palatka, Monday, Capt. Lucas lighter
| got loaded with too much brick and lost its
ballnce. 1t now lies in IL feet of water
The 26, 900 brick will have to be fished out
1t is stated by citizen of Clermont that
Lake Minneola, as to surface of water level,
is II feet above Lake Apopka and % above
Lake Harris, the distance being about the
same number of miles.
F. w. Symons, formerly of Savannah but
now of Tampa, will represent the latter
city at the meeting at De Funiak Springs,
of the Grand Lodge of the Independent
| Order of Good Templars.
The vegetable shipments at Oakland
| during the past week have reached between
800 and 400 crates per day. Prices have
kept up well, and, all things considered, the
season so far has been good one.
A steam yacht has been purchased by two
young men of Orlando, which for the pres
ent will be placed on Lake Lucerne. 1t is
| one Of the small yachts used last winter at
the Seminole Hotel at Winter Park.
The hotel register indicates that at the
Punta Gorda House s, 300 people have regis
| tered since the house opened in December.
At other places in Punta Gorda 500 have
registered, making a grand total of over
1000
In Orange county the extreme dry
weather is doing damage both to gardens
and oranges Should dry weather continue
for two or three weeks longer there will not
be more than an average crop of oranges
made.
The workmen are getting out the material
at the Orange Belt shops at Oakland, for a
new station at Pasco. Material is sent
| down the road almost every day for some
| building improvement somewhere along the
! route.
The following marriage certificates have
been issued by the judge of Orange county:
Moses Thomas to Lucy Williams, s. w. j.
Battle to Lydia Duncan, Aleck Harris to
| Carrie Curry, George Hooks to Elvira
| Thomas.
The work of filing in the marshes south
of King street at St. Augustine has begun,
and will steadily be pushed to completion
| This will keep large force of men busy all
summer and keep locomotive and train of
| cars in operation.
On Thursday last there were shipped
! from Clermont SIS crates of vegetables by
the Orange Belt railway, and 81 by the T.,
| A. and q. railroad, making 627 in all.
! During last week l 1898 crates of vegetables
were shipped, of which III were ON Mon
| day,
w. c. Sherman, of Orlando, has in his
show window beautifully engraved solid
sterling silver cup lined with gold, which
he ordered for the Conway yacht club.
The cup will be contested for by the yachts
of this club ON Lake Conway next Thurs
day.
A convention of citizens will be held at
Linadale, Marion county, on Saturday for
the purpose of selecting delegates to
send to the county convention, which meets
at Ocala in May Some action will DO CON
sidered looking TO the removal of the Lima
dale post office TO Umatilla.
John w. Hardin and son. of Montverde,
are catching alligators on Lake Apopka.
During couple Of days, in the early part
of the week, they captured one that was 10
feet long. another -, and third that was
Is feet long, the latter having horn
inches long on its snout, hippopotamus fash
| ion. This is a rare circumstance.
Clarence Clark. son of f. NJ. Clark, of
Gainesville, in company with two other
boys, were near the Sink on Friday. when
| Clarence climbed a mulberry tree, and a
limb broke, letting him fall to the ground,
and his ankle w9s badly sprained rhe lit
tie fellows with him ran Off and left him,
but late in the afternoon a colored man
found him and took him home.
Monday the fruit schooner Pearl of Orr's
Island, owned by Capt. Robert Lunchey.
from the Bahamas, in attempting to enter
the harbor at st. Augustine, ran aground
on sand bar, and is at present lying on
her beam ends. She was in compare
lively safe position, however, but tho west
| erly winds prevented her from getting OIL
She has on board a cargo consisting in part
OF 800 lunches of bananas
Nearly 800 excursionists reached Jack
sonyille Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The occasion was that of tine annual ex-
cursion Of the Employees Mutual Benefit
Association from Charleston and Savannah
! ImmpliatalV unOu thpir a.rfvaI tb.N.