The gale., 1888-02-25
FLORIDA GLEANINGs.

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lector of Pensacola, will bt appointed
marshal of the Southern District of
Florida. >. On the grade about ts1lmiles
from st. Augustine a bed of II clay
has been struck. If upon investigation
this will make good brick, another in
dustry will be established i. The auction
sale OF orange groves and other property
IN DeLand aggregated over 81, 900, and
about $50, 900 worth of property has also
been sold to parties who failed to secure
what they wanted at auction. Joseph
A. Horton, of Pensacola, committed
suicide by shooting himself In the head,
while seated on the steps of his residence.
No reason can be ascertained for the rash
act, except it was attributed to fit of
dependency occasioned by business
troubles. The western portion of Ma.
rion county is in a futter over the ro-
mantle elopement of Miss Cora Holly and
Eddie Tucker. The young lady let her.
self down from second d-story window
at midnight and found Rev. Mr.. Hall,
who served the purpose of their midnight
Joicing. :. Stock is now nearly all sub.
scribed for the new hotel at Chipley, and
the building will go up at once. The
plans are said to be after the style CT the
one in Mariana, now in course of erec-
ton. AT a meeting of the Orange
County Commissioners, the committee on
the poor of that body, reported that q
county poor firm would be good in.
vestment fot the county AT the prize
drill of the Orlando Guards, Burch
Kuhl took the gold medal.
The Pensacola Stone and Building Co,
has received the molds and other machin
cry necessary for the manufacture oi
their artificial stone. ;. The surveyors are
out on the line of railroad to be built
from Naples on the Gulf to Jacksonville.
The survey will run from ten to fifteen
miles east of Fort Myers, the head OF
deep water navigation on the Caloosa-
hatchee. ;. AT a yacht race at Palatka,
the Wanderer beat the Bertha and Mar
tina by ten seconds. f. r. w. Hall, OF
Maitland, has large bearing orange grove
near that place, which is situated upon the
very spot where Gen. Maitland pitched his
tent during his campaign many years ago.
-. What effect will this hotel have on
Florida? 1t will make st. Augustine the
great Winter resort of this continent. The
of those who have seen the
Ponce de Leon this season will bring
thousands to see it next season. Men and
women will cross America to spend n day
or two withir 'ts1walls. Mr.. Flagler and
lis friends wiz make St. Augustine
worthy of this )le9el. Already the Casa
Monica, anotb oriotel, is finer than any.
hing else >6ckse country, except the Ponce
le Loops I The Alcazar, when finished,
will s. ass the wonders of both these
tote, With one hundred thousand
y pie collected in St. Augustine every
n inter, and there should be this num-
Der there next Winter, Florida will benc-
itimmensely.- Correspondent atlanta, Ga,
Constitution. The indications are that
he Lake Weir Chautauqua will merge in
o an old fashioned camp-meeting. Rev.
Sam Jones has been engaged for the first
i've days, to be followed by the evange-
ist, Rev. John b. Culpepper The
acksonvill Tampa & Key West Rail.
Dad has added another steamer
. its lino by putting on the 'Piccolata.n
-. Pcnsaco wants floating dock. ~.
neak thieves are again troubling the Pa
tkaites. s. Pcnsacola's young men pro-
ose getting up a gymnasium. Plant
ity gardeners are shipping large quaint.
Is Of cabbage, u. The first Spanish
ackercl of THE season was caught at Pen
cola. :. Col. A. M. Thrashcr has been
ectcd chairman OF the Sanford Board OF
ldelmcn. -. The South Florida railroad
i'll run special trains during the South
lorida exhibition at Sanford. IL. There
ill be a larger acreage in all kinds of veg
tables about Lake City this season than
Or several past. The shipment of or
nges from Columbia county, for the sea-
on just closing, will amount to some-
hing over 200. 900. =. The lanterns for
he beach lights in Pensacola bay are now
'eady, and the keepers have been notified
% report for duty at once. IS. G..
Bettes, better known as the "Sailor Evan
sclist," has pitched his tent in Palatka.
The house of s. S. Gray, Minis, was
struck by lightning the other day. The
building sustained but little damage, but
it gave shock to negro who was grind
ing an AK, the electric fluid striking it out
of his hands and sending it about ten feet
away. . The plans of DeFuniak's new
M. f. Church are in the hands of the con-
tractors. The building will be 81 feet
deep and 40 feet wide, with class-rooms
on each side 13x28 feet; 80 feet to comb
of roof from bottom of sill.