The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-19
FLORIDA.

About 100 trunks were taken off the fast
mail at Sanford Sunday night.
Gadsden county has 2, 800 school children
i ,0l2 whites and 1858 colored.
The new water works in Ocala have been
| accepted by the city authorities.
| The Sanford ice factory runs five days in
| each week, making seven tons OF ice day
The next session of the Florida legislature
will meet at Tallahassee on Tuesday, April
2, 1889.
Tampa is on boom The big hotel and
numerous business and residence houses are
| building.
Some Of the guava bushes in and around
Lakeland are still occasionally blooming
and fruiting
Bishop Key has appointed Rev. H. E.
Partridge as preiding elder or the IaIla-
hassee district.
Three new passenger coaches for the
South Florida railroad arrived at Sanford
Saturday evening.
The Tampa Lumber Company have man
ufactured and sold about 10000 orange
crates SO far this season.
The thunder and lightning storm that
visited Sanford Thursday night was terrific,
but no damage was done.
DIR. Kalow, hydropathic physician, is
among Ocala's latest acquisitions He con-
templates starting a sanitarium.
Mr.. Fisher called a mass meeting at En-
terprise as a means of ascertainihg where
the epidemic fund was distributed.
The express company sent from Sanford,
Friday. four solid cars 1850 bCxes) of
oranges north, reside fish, oysters, etc.
The personal property of the Chautauqua
and LYceum Association of Lake Weir is
advertised to be sold at sheriff sale Jan. z.
E. D. Beggs has resigned as court COM
missioner for Osceola county, and Judge
Broome accepted his resignation last Thurs
day.
John J. Williams has sent in his resigna-
ton as freight agent OF the Florida South
ern railroad in Palatka, to take effect Thurs
day.
NJ. H. Warning and W. II. Goodbread of
Madison have traded farms recently and
will make an exchange of homes in a few
days.
DR.. Cromwell, of Gainesville. in twenty
eight days of shooting, succeeded in bag
ging 1,0l1 quails, or nearly an average of
forty per day.
1t is said that during the fever at Enter
prise the Red Cross nurses received So a day
and expenses, and that the doctors received
$50 day and expenses.
st. Augustine NetOS: The SAVANNAH
MORNING NEWS promises to have big run
here this winter, and as a morning paper
fills the bill to the entire satisfaction Of our
people.
1t takes SOC, 900 feet of lumber to make
orange boxes to carry the present crop of
fruit from the Orange City section to the
northern markets. This means $4,000 for
the saw mills at that place at II cents per
box.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Florida International and Semi
Tropical Exposition, for the election of
nineteen directors for the ensuing year. will
be held at their office, in Ocala, Tuesday,
Jan. l.
Orange county cast the highest number
of votes of any county in Florida for the
prohibition presidential electors, being 95.
The votes Of the other counties of the state
ranged l TO A. There were twenty-five
counties in the state which did not cast a
vote for the prohibition ticket.
James Dale has secured the contract for
the erection of a dwelling 25x60 for Stuart
& Scovile, on Lake Kissimmee in Polk
county. The building will be finished up
in fine shape with all the modern conven-
fences, and large veranda nearly all around
it.
w. A. Cooper, in charge of the immense
orange groves of the Hardness estate in
Orange county, has commenced the erec-
ton of a large packing house, thirty by
sixty feet, two stories in hight, with
shed room twelve feet wide along the whole
length.
II. s. Kedney will be president of the
Citizens National Bank of Orlando, in
place of L. o. Garrett, resigned, and F. r.
Weber, vice president in placeof Mr.. Ked-
ney. J. l.. Giles and friends, having taken
the stock Of Messrs. Garrett Bros, has been
elected cashier in place of II. G. Garrett,
resigned.