The morning news., 1888-12-25

court last Monday till Jan. II, SO as 10
give ali a chance to enjoy the holidays
The ladies of the Episcopal church at
| Quincy realized about $50 from the supper
at the court house last Thursday night
J. V. Burke OF Bronson has sold his stock
of merchandise to J. B. Cosrsey and will
| give his entire attention TO the real estate
| business.
From just one-hah an acre of common
! Wakula pine land, William Moody gath
cred this year seventy-fiye bushels of sweet
| potatoes.
| George T. King, founder of Villa City,
| Lake county, is getting things into shape
for the erection of a fine hotel for that at
tractive winter resort.
The schooner Caroline Hall, from New
York, is at Green Cove Spring taking on a
| cargo of over 10000 feet of lumber from
Burlington 81 Wilson's mill.
At. Lakeland party from Burlington
la. has rented the building in the rear Of
| Col. Bowyer's feed store, and will start a
broom factory on January l.
W. J. Wilson is having a neat cottage
erected on his lot, ON the corner of Palmer
and Palmetto streets. at Green Cove
| Spring. 1t will be occupied by Sheriff
| Peeler.
The stock of goods of G. R. Murray &
Co. of Quincy. T: s. Stearns, assignee, was
bought by 7. L. Ward on wednesday last
at 6l cents on the dollar. The stock
amounted to about 800.
The steamer Gov. Stafford, of the Crescent
| City lire, went up the river on Friday for
| the hrst time since the opening up Of bust
| ness. She had on board heavy load of
| freight for different points.
Maj. Walpole, editor of the Sumtervlle
Times, has been appointed by Secretary
Fairchild as inspector of customs for the
port of Mobile, which necessitates the
change of management of the Times.
A Farmers Alliance was organized at
Montclair Wednesday night, which makes
the twenty-third organized in Lake county
to date. There are 5000 members of
the alliance in Florida, and over 1000, 900 in
the south.
Prince Morgan (colored), living six miles
southeast of Ocala was shot on last Monday
night by some unknown party. The wound
inflicted was painful but not necessarily
fatal, the load entering the right side of his
face and head.
The Leesburg Rifles, having been invited
to attend the Inauguration of the new state
government at Tallahassee, held meeting
Thursday night and decided to accept the
invitation. Tho railroad gives a special
rate Of cent mile for the round trip.
DIR. Weston's saw mill, on the banks of
the beautiful Wekiwa, has an order for a
bill of lumber which will be framed into a
nice house for Mr.. Hartzell. who will i'm
prove the lot bought by him of Mr.. Sylves-
ter Brewer. adjoining the Romeo depot.
Gainesville Record: 1t now comes out
that our thriving little sister city Waldo
was visited by the yellow fever scourge
| Only visited, however, for the fever could
not spread beyond the cases that were i'm
| ported. Waldo has made record for her
| self.
Capt. Brossier of the Island City Guards
| of Key West has accepted the invitation
| from Gov. Fleming to be present at the
| gubernatorial inauguration. which will
| take place in Tallahas ee Jan. s. The guards
| viii carry the Island City silver cornet and
reed band with them.
Joe L. Barton, a young farmer Of Leon
county, died recently under very peculiar
| circumstances He had a horse suffering
| with glanders, and sat up Saturday night
| doctf ring the animal. Subsequently, he was
suddenly taken with the disease himself and
died eight days after in terrible agony.
| A sailor of thirty-two years. experienca
| arrived in Pensacola overland from New
| Orleans, and has entered complaint that he
| was compelled to walk the streets all night
because none Of the sailor boarding houses
would take him in for fear of prosecution.
| He is Norwegian, named John Olsen.
| The few sponge vessels that arrived at
| Key West last week say that the water,
| which has been too muddy for their bust
| ness during the past few weeks, has now
| almost cleared up, and those vessels which
| remain at the beds will doubtless reap a
| rich harvest, but will lose the fun of spend
| ing the Christmas holidays in Key Wet.
On Recommendation Of department Com
mander William James, the following ap-
| pointments on the staff Of the commander
| in-chief, q. A. r., are announced: Mem
| ber of the national council of administra-
tion, s. W. Fox, Jacksonville; G. H. Nor
| ton, Eustis, assistant inspector general; to
be aides-de-camp, c. NJ. Ellis. Jacksonville;
and Z. W. Henck, Longwood.
| A few years ago, before the time of rail-
| roads, and when Tampa was Lakeland's
nearest market, A. w. Lunn gathered about
| $500 oranges, and, to protect them from the
| weather, not being ready to take them to
| market, made pile of them, similar to a
| sweet potato bank, and covered them over
| with some cane fodder. When he got ready
| to haul them, seven weeks later, he found
them all right-sound, firm, juicy and
| sweet.
AS specimen of the keeping qualities of
| the Kieffer pear, J. NJ. Moss of Green Cove
] Spring says that in looking over his trees
on Thursday, Dec. 20, he found two large
| pears lying on the ground under a small
tree. They were quite firm yet. but had
been partly eaten by some animal, which
caused them to sour. Mr.. Moss says the
trees of this variety ara very full Of blossom
buds. and promise large crop of fruit the
coming year.
Old Boreas broke loose with whoop and
| hurrah at Eustis early Monday morning,
| and although the storm was not sufficiently
| of a tornado character to alarm the eeping
| population, it was found that most things
| portable that had been left ont doors were
| slig tly displaced. The street lamps in
| front of the Eustis house and the Lake Re
| gion Office were thrown to the ground and
| broken, and the tin roof on the third story
part of the McCulloch block was torn looss,
| falling to the ground.
Harry G. Edwards, of Center Hell, re-
ports that the people there have made ar
rangements to plant a large area in tobacco
next season. They have subscribed 81 600
| to build large warehouse in which the
| crop is TO be stored and cured, and they will
employ a skilled man from Cuba to super
intend the curing. They have already laid
in an ample supply of seed of the finest
varieties. They were induced by successful
| experiments made last season to embark
largely in tobacco raising the coming sea-
| son.
The democratic executive committee for
Clay county met Thursday and passed uoon