The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-06

Parties around Orange City are getting
over So per box for oranges Of recent ship
ment.
Two more cars have been handsomely
repainted and are ready for use on the Or
ange Belt line
Mr. King, CITY Tax Collector of Ocala, is
Frustrated with rush of blood to the head.
His life is despaiIed CT.
Orange Belt railway train No. 10, on
Monday last, ran over a deer two miles
south Of Injun Hammock.
The two additional new locomotives that
arrived for the Orange Belt railway Friday,
make ten owned by the company.
A. S. Maynard. Of Orange City, is ship
ping 5000 heads of fine cabbage to Phila-
delphia and New York markets.
Only half premium at the South Florida
Fair goes to So tn Apopka-Sl for guava
| ielly-and Mrs McNab received that
During the five years ending Feb. l. 1888,
| there have been erected within the present
| corporate limits of New Smyrna, forty nine
/ buildings
A. r. Butcher is about to start a canning
establishment at Eustis, and will be ready
| for business as soon as the tomato season
| comes in.
! The fast steamer Anita is to do service on
| the Halifax and HillsborOugh rivers, run
| ing between Ormond, Daytona ard the
i Iudian river.
| The total number of votes registered by
| County Supervisor Terry was 3,1l0. This
| indicates that the population of Lake county
is over 5000
| The Daytona Messenger learns that in
short time a gentleman who has an income
of over $500 600 will build a railroad from
| BeresfOrd TO Daytona.
J. T. Bass, of Kissimmee, has an egg
| plane, grown on sandy land, which meas
ures l9M inches in circumference one way
and 2l = inches the other.
1t is intended to organize fire company
at Key West tomorrow who will take
charge of the small Button engine, form
erly used by Rescue No. l.
At Key West extensive preparations are
being made to entertain the Florida State
Press Association next Wednesday 1t Is
rumOred they intend TO visit Havana
DIR. c. f. McKhann, of Orlando, has just
completed $4,000 sale of Boca Grand City
property to a Chicago and Milwaukee syndi-
cate, whose representative is now in town.
| The towns along the Orange Belt railway
now need an ice factory more than ever, as
| the trains of the line could easily and
cheaply supply any point along the entire
| route.
William j. Doyle, of the Naval reserva-
| ton, has been recommended for appoint
ment to the keepership of the Barrancas
range bea2pns vice Albert NJ. Palmes, re
! signed.
Thursday evening a negro at ST. Cloud
! beca ia involved in a quarrel with a ne
| gr,s, curing which he drew n razor, cut
| her throat and inflicted several other cuts
and fed.
A mass meeting will be held at Leesburg
| Thursday evening, March s. There will be
a joint debate between the most prominent
| speakers of both sides on the county seat
| question.
| At Live Oak the divorce case which has
! been pending for some weeks past, Lillian
! p. Mercer VS.. S. c. Mercer, has come to a
| close. Judge White denied a divorce to
either party.
Miss Hattie Steele, rumor has it, one of
| Ocala's fair daughters, who was crowned
queen of beauty at the late Brooksville
tournament, eloped with her gallant knight
and was married.
The sale is recorded in the Escambia
County Clerks Office of 10,8lS acres of land
in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, from
the Pensacola and Atlantic railroad to L. II.
Skinner, for 81, 400 o..
1t is estimated that the famous Wright
Mills grove, northeast of Eustis, will have
from 1000 to 5000 boxes of oranges on it
| this season. A number of other groves in
Hon. Charles A. Sawyer, Governor of
New Hampshire, who gained fame last fall
by vetoing the famous Boston and Maine
railroad bill, was at the Ponce de Leon, at
st. Augustine, several days last week
The match game of football played on the
| grounds at Kissimmee, Friday, between
the Kissimmee and Narcoosee teams for the
silver cup, was won by the Kissimmee team
by score of five goals and two trys to
| nothing.
At Oakland nothing in the vegetable line
| appears to have been injured by the recent
| cold snap, the Thermometer, in sheltered
places, not falling below AS, but it was no
doubt somewhat lower in more exposed
localities.
Five hundred barrels Of cabbage were
shipped from Umatilla in one week, ending
last Saturday, and $50 on Monday and
| Tuesday of the present week. Garden peas
and beans are also being shipped in large
quantities.
At Rock Ledge it is rumored that H. NJ.
Flager has purchased the Indian River
Hotel, which is the first step in a grand
scheme Of extending his operations ON a
mammoth scale all along the coast from st.
Augustine to the Indian river country. The
price named is $4,000.
At Pensacola Friday, in the case of Rob
| ert Moore for the murder of Henry Ander-
| SOl, Jue cOlOTeu ufaNHnan, VINO nau pre-
liminary examination before Judge Es-
monde, the prisoner was remanded TO jail
| without the benefit of BAIL to await the
action of the grand jury in April.
The largest sale of lands ever made in
| Florida, except the Disston q Reed pur-
chase, was recently made by l.. o. Garrett,
Commissioner of Lands and immigration
for the Florida Southern Railway Com
pany. The sale comprises lands in three
counties, and amounts to 10000 acres.
The work of lining up the track and sur
facing on the T., A. and G.. r. R.. between
| Waits Junction and Minneola, is being
pushed with vigor, and in a few days
regular trains will be running into Cer-
mont Side tracks at Minneola and Cler-
mont will be put in at once, and depots will
be built.
st. Johns county is being made poorer at
the rate of about S25 per month through
the bill passed by the last Legislature au-
thorizing the payment of a bounty for wild
cats killed. The County Commissioners
have ordered that no more money be paid
out for this purpose until the county treas
ury is repenished.
A large saw-fsh IA feet in length was
caught in the bay, at the mouth of the
Myalkka river last week. DR.. King of
Boston, made the unusual catch while fish
ing for tarpon with hook and line. The
monster was brought to the Hotel Punta
Gorda wharf, where Mr. Pinard, the pho
| tptrra r,hor tool a piptura of tho t,riva