The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-24

Reports from all parts of Alachua county
say the prospects are f1attering for good
crop OF cotton.
The new union DEPOT at st. Augustine is
now being built The barracks of the Ponce
dc Leon are to be extended.
TLere have been about ten cases of yellow
fever among the colored people Of Manatee,
and all are recovering rapidly.
The prospects are iattering for the com
mencement of work soon on the Gainesville,
Tallahassee and Western railroad.
Some towns In the state are keeping so
strict quarantine against Jacksonville as
to refuse to receive carload OF ice from
| that city.
At st. Augustine the ice company has
raised from one-half to cent per pound.
The citizens don't Like this. Groceries have
also advanced somewhat.
Judge d. F. Hammond and Rev. n. A.
| PaileY spoke at the prohibition meeting at
the opera house at Orlando last night. Rev.
n. A. Bailey also spoke on the prohibition
platform.
At Orlando the preliminary examination
into the cases of Edward Salter and VIII
lam Strong, charged with the murder Of
W. Il. Busk in June last, resulted in the
discharge Of the prisoners.
The Jacksonville and s.. Augustine rail
road comuany will est lblish q telegraph
| station at Durham to facilitate the work of
widening the roadbed. General SUperin-
tendent Crawford has IT'S st. Augustine
men at work on the road.
The proprietor OF the Everett hotel at
! Jacksonville, Mr.. Webster, is advertising it
| for sale in the New York World. II is a
| fine property ard if there was no sickness in
| the city it would probai ly sell for at least
$3.50 900 the amount they say it cost.
| Capt r. e. Rose, formerly superintend
ent of the OGeechohee drainage company,
| and now large sugar planter at st. Cl7ud,
was probably fatally gored on last Satlr
day 10y mad Jersey bull. The bull tossed
him three times in the air, his horns eRter
| ing his bowels. He is not expected to live.
| The Carpenter house, at Barlow, changed
management last week, John p. Hall retir-
ing and Mrs. D. R. Todd assuming control
for an indefinite period Mr.. Hall and
| family have removed to a country place
ear Winter Haven, on Lakes Howard and
| CANNON, where they will rusticate until the
''mists (of microbes) have cleared away
Messrs. Lichten Bros, cigar manufact-
urers of Philadelphia, after examining a
sample Of Col. Hanson's tobacco, grown
near Barlow, report that it is good and
suited to the manufacture of smoking to-
baccO. for cigarettes and chewing purposes;
also that it has fine veins and is free from
white veins, two very great fhctors needed
for success in growing American cigar-leaf
tobacco.
The republican county convention of
Nassau met at Fernaudiya, Tuesday, aud
nominated the following ticket; State sena-
tor, Sam Petty (coloredJ; representatives.,
Riley Robertson and Mcdonnell county
judge, d. M. Hammond; county clerk, J.W.
Howell; county treasurer. A. w. Lohman
tax assessor, n. Bronson; tax collector w.
F. Scott; sheriff, John A. Ellerman. The
above is a STRONG ticket, Messrs. Scott and
Ellerman being the present incumbents for
their respective offices.
At Barlow. the old Franklin Reid house,
the old house on Mrs Cunningham's lot near
the Orange Grove hotel, the old building on
the square north of The court house. and the
old Lyle building belonging to DR.. Ken
nedy have all been torn down and re-
moved for sanitary reasons, while the nu-
merous other dirty places, and the "red
house" have been whitew ashed and put in
good condition. The removal of these old
landmarks not only adds to the healthful-
ness, but very largely to the appearance of
the city
At st. Augustine A. j. Corbett has been
appointed a member of the board of health
The board decided Tuesday to allow an
engine from Jacksonville to come to the
quarantine station, and after inspection, to
proceed to the depot. G.. H. Dewell has
been appointed quarantine officer at Tocol.
A committee appointed to revise the rules
consists of Messrs. Corbett and X.
Rainey. A large quantity of freight lies
at Tocoi Physicians were to meet with
the board Wednesday, to consider the adj
visibility of allowing freight to enter the
city.
The board Of health of Orange county
ho1A will H.
Long, president of the board of health of
Volusia county, in reference to the pro-
prlety of the steamboat City of Jackson
vile running between Jacksonville and
Sanford. 1t was decided to order the boat
not to land at Sanford, but to return to
Jacksonville. This step was taken only out
of abundant caution, as every precaution
was being taken in regard to the freight
and passengers brought by the boat 1t
was only deemed necessary that no freight
by the railroads should be allowed to come
through Jacksonville
The work of demolishing the old con-
demned buildings on the corners of the
court house square at Gainesville COM
menced carly Monday morning. AT l
o'clock workmen, under direction of Mayor
| Brown, attacked the old restaurant and
barber shop, and by z o'clock they were
| completely down, and the rubbish was
being cleared away. Soon after work on
the Cuisine buildings was commenced, as
also the corner buildings on the Buknight
lot. A disagreeable stencil arose as the
debris was gathered up to be hauled off the
ground, and the wonder is that pestilence
and disease had not been bred there in the
past.
The mayor of Apopka City, H. c. Brewer,
issued a proclamation on Aug. IA, published
in the Apopka Citizen, declaring quaran-
! Inst al W.. L
brought TO the attention of the board of
health, the b ard sent the following notice:
! Orlando, Aug. q, 1883. DIR. H. Brewer,
mayor Apopka City-Sir: am instructed
| by the board of health that you are now
notified TO call in your proclamation of Aug
IA without delay, or you will be arrested.
| We desire to notify you now that the board
! of health will take charge of Apopka and
| order you to issue no more proclamatio
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