The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-04

and brought heavy list Of freight for
various points in South Florida
Jake Wells, Pensacola's popular base
ball player, was presented with gold
medal Friday by the Paetimes Base b II
Club. Nick Smith, another ball player,
was given gold-headed umbrella.
E. r. Stenhouse Of the firm of Stenh )use
Bros, st. Au justine, viii leave in about a
week for his old home, Columbia, s. c., to
establish a state agency for the handling Of
oranges and Florida fruit generally.
One of the largest vegetable growers at
Crown Point is b. o. N iguire, who has, or
soon will have, twenty-five acres planted
with vegetables, of which ninteen and a
half will be tomatoes, and two and half
cabbage
Louisiana, Georgia and Texas annually
plant a greater area in sugar cane than
Florida, yet in the matter OF p 'oduction of
sugar Florida ranks third, aud Of moIasses
second. Florlda's annual output sugar
| is l, 273 hogsheads, ana Of molasses 9, 029, SOS
gallons.
The Methodist annual state conference
will be held at f stis in January. The
meetings will be held in the Methodist
church, and will lie presided over by Bishop
J. Z. Newman. Bisnop Newman is one Of
the most distinguished c.ergymen in the
United States
The Johns Lake Boat Club proposes to
have, on MONDAY, Dec. 81. the greatest series
OF athletic gam ever given III the state of
Florida. In tho football game TO be played
there will be some LIBERATED internatio al
professional PLAYERS The horse trott ne
will be an important feature Of the occasion.
c. B. Pelton, John Davis and F. d. Coon
OF Lake Helen, accompanied by Peter Paul
OF Now Smyrna, were taken down to the
lagoon last Friday by Capt George VIII
Jams in his sloop, duck hunting. Toe wind
was high, causing the ducks 10 fly low, and
they returned with seyenty-five fine ones
Tuesday morning.
Several parties from the Clifton settle
ment, on the west side Of the county, ar
rived at New Smyrna in wagons last " eek
and caught several hundred mullet, which
they sailed down for their winter use. IL
is common practice for the people from
the interior to go over there and lay In tn
supply Of fish for the winter.
Arcadia has had wonderful revival of
religion, which resulted in about 100 CON
versions. This glorious result was attained
by the Baptist3 and Methodists uniting in
the work. As the ArcddiGn says, when
the Methodist fire and Baptist water is
combined 1t makes steam enough to ac-
complish wonderful results"
There was a young Swede at the station
at New Smyrna Monday morning when the
train came in who wanted to go to kissim-
NEE, hut he could not understand E1glish
enough to learn that the train did not leave
for several hours. so be kept following the
engine around as it went back and forth
switching cars, bound not to tie left
Orange City Times. Of Dec. /: An ISSUE
is joined in the Rock divorce case today at
DeIand. Mrs Rock is anxious for a legal
separation, but with the benefit of an ali
mony, claiming that Mr. Rock is, wealthy
and getting fat salary. She is repr,
sented by Hamlin & Stewart of DeLand.
Mr.. Rock says he is going to show up the
whole matter in good shape, and says that
represented by Attorney HuIst. Mrs Rock
is affectionately chaperoned by Dr. Med ~
aid of Orange.
B. +. Holland of Barlow has just returned
from Atlanta, and if the condition of the
oranges received at other points is as bad as
most of those he saw there, it is no wonder
that so little is realized on shipments. He
reports one carload as arriving in a grain
car, without ventilation, the fruit at almost
oiling heat, ard worthless, except few
boxes on the sides. He saw lot of twenty
five boxes reparked which had | cen shipped
from Polk county, six boxes of which were
in bad condition He SAYS that oranges
should be clipped instead IF being picked
and handled like eggs. In proof of this, he
saw a small lot that had been clipped, and,
although the fruit hal been there four
weeks, not one specked orange could DO
found. Ali of which goes to show thai
there must be some system applied TO the
business before our fruit-growers can expect
to realize much ON their crops.