The morning news., 1888-11-05
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Brick is being hauled for the new court
| house at DeLand.
The paint brush is being very freely used
around Monticello.
A cassava root weighing twenty pounds,
less than year old, is on exhibition at Bar
| tow.
Last Monday the democrats erected flag
staff "A feet high in Mariana, aud unfurled
the stars and stripes to the breeze.
The Rev. Mr.. Patten, the new pastor of
the Presbyterian church, arrived in
| Orlando last evening by the fast mail.
A party of thirty or thirty-five armed
men passed through Mariana Tuesday.
They had been on the hunt for murderer.
The meeting announced for tonight at
Day tona, and was to have been addressed
by Hon. Charles Dougherty, has been can
celled.
Senator Pasco returned home to Monti-
cello Monday from Waukulla and Taylor
countless whore he has been making polit-
zeal speeches.
On Oct 81 Mr.. ESTES, of Gambler, acci-
den ally had his house burned, about |
O'Clock in the afternoon. The family being
from home, almost everything was lost.
There was no insurance.
The English citizens living in the vicinity
of Conway will celebrate Guy Fawke's
day in an old-fashiolei English manner
to-day. BoItires, fireworks and other ap-
proprate demonstrations will be the order
of the day.
The refugees from Gainesville who are in
the neighbOrhood OF Are londo-and
there are great many-are mostly com
fortably located, and are camly and quietly
waiting for the longed-for frost 80 they can
return to their homes again.
At Arredondo, on Oct 4, the barn of
w. f. Rice, containing over 800 bushels of
corn, all his fodder and hay, farming i'm
| plements, etc, was destro ed by fire, the
act of an incendiary, being set on fire be-
tween l aad 2 o'clock in the morning.
Loss 5000; no insurance.
Crescent City held an exciting town meet
ing on Oct. 25, to decide the question
as to whether or rot the town fran
chise should be surrendered. The cleo
tion was ordered by a proclamation of
the mayor, and at the close the vote stood
30 against a surrender, and 16 in favor
OF it.
A carload of oranges from Weir Park,
Marion county, went out from Palatka on
the Florida Southern Railway Thursday,
bound for Sacramento, in the golden state
Of California. The car WAS painted red
with big advertising cards, showing the
advantages OF Florida over any other fruit
growing section.
The city council of Palatka Heights had
an interesting meeting on last Wednesday
night, with full board present and among
other business, accepted the resignation of
Calvin Gillis the former mayor. A call is
soon TO lie made for the election Of mayor,
one alderman and city clerk. The reason
for Mayor Gillis' resignation was not given.
Benjamin Z. Morgan publishes card in
the Palatka papers charging Rev. Thomas
Hind with n falsehood. Hind is the repub-
lican candidate in Putnam county for state
senator, and Morgan says Hind has recently
first declared himself a democrat; later
that he was more of an independent, and
finally, when he appealed to the passions of
the negroes with all the zeal and infamy
that he could bring to bear, he was repub-
lican.n
Gainesville Advocate: Dr. Martin evil
IDENTIFY has reason to remember the hospi-
tality of the citizens of Live Oak, at which
place he made a post mortem examination
upon the body of man who had died with
the symptoms Of yellow fever. The doctor
was informed that there was no place in
the town for him to stay unless he occupied
the house and bed of the late deceased
This he did not object to, but he was kept
under guard the entire time Of his soiourn
lue ClUl2eIS ulu DOU want TO credit the oX-
istence of yellow fever in their midst. but
there were not more than six men and
dog to be found anywhere few hours after
the announcement. They must have been
demoralized
Judge Bryan, in the Orange County, Re.
porter, explains at length the reasons for
erasing from the registration list, by the
county commissioners, the names Of SlS
voters. Referring to precinct No. 3, he
says: when precinct No was called,
Thomas Whiteman, the republican nominee
for collector Of revenue. was present with
the list of the democrats in that precinct
whom he desired stricken from the list. He
also had list of the republican
voters who were gone. The informa-
tion furnished the board by him
of absent democrats was received
by the board as being true, ,sand the names
Of those suggested by him were str ,cken.
The fact was also developed that the nfor-
nation had received regarding disquali-
fled republican voters in this precinct tailed
very closely with the list held by Mr..
Whiteman, with this exception, that he had
the names OF quite a number that had not
been furnished me- 1t is also a fact that
when any name was suggested by me, and
he stated that my information was faulty,
the name was not stricken OF the SlS
names stricken from the list, 1873 have been
restored.