The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-04
FIORIDA.

Thornton the permanent receiver.
FLORIDA.
Watermelons from East Melbourne are
still in the market.
Minis e. Locke, of Milton, have failed.
Liabilities So, 1000, assets not known.
Lake County Circuit Court meets next
Monday at Bloomfield, the temporary coun
ty seat.
The January term of the Supreme Court
of Florida will begin at Tallahassee on
Tuesday, Jan. 10.
The commissioners have awarded con-
tract for the care of the Nolusia county
paupers at Sl2 per month.
Orange trees throughout the State are
autobiography, and, with no setback, will
be blooming within few days.
Col. J. w. Aderhold, of Kissimmee, is
getting up one of the finest private resi-
dences in that ambitious young city.
Orlando has regular Virgins and one
too, who on more than one occasion has pre-
dicte1 the exact weather, only missing it n
very few hours
G. w. Idner has completed a system of
water works on his place at Tillman, con
ducting water through 800 feetof piping
and having a 1000 gallon tank.
O. n. Hull has completed the setting ont
of trees in his lOO-acre grove near Daytona.
| In very short time this grove will be one
| of the most famous on the coast.
Ormond- is one of the incest
and most attractive places in Florida. A
| hotel has just been completed there at
cost of $4,000, and will be formally opened
on Jan. -.
! Options have lately beer taken on nearly
| all the lands owned by corporations in Levy
county. They are in demand, and will
rapidly enhance in value during the next
year or two.
Starke, the county site of Bradford
| county, is looking like a boom had struck
il. Everybody is busy and things are as
lively as can be. Crops are good and real
estate is active.
At Green Cove Springs a few days ago
difficulty occurred between Oscar Holloway
and Matt Wilson, during which Holloway
fired pistol at Wilson, slightly wounding
him in the arm.
Another election will be held in Lake
county on Jan. II for permanent county
seat. Maj. st. ClairAbrams is getting
ready for another vigorous campaign in the
interest of Tavares.
In Florida Notes in Tuesday issue signed
"H. II. j." a typographical error makes
the writer say that the exports Of Apalachi-
cola last year amounted TO only $3.50 90. 1t
should have been S750,000.
The Barlow young men do their serenad-
ing by the wholesale. They fill up three
wagons with good singers, have an organ, a
banjo, cornet, guitar, and all other instru-
ments they can gather up, and then set out
Judge Speer reports that the vegetable
crop on Apopka and in the vicinity of Oak
land is very fine, and up to the present time
has received no Jamage from cold. Should
/ 1t escape frost for the next twenty days the
| receipts will be much larger than ever be-
fore.
Ten days ago a boat was found some miles
below Cedar Keys capSiaed, and Monday
the owner was found washed ashore on
Snake Key He is thought to he Mr..
Gundanble, of Bayport. The young man
who sailed with him has not yet been heard
| from.
Conductor George Hawkins, an officer of
the Orange City road ever since it was a
horse trainway from the city to Blue
Spring, resigned his position on Thursday
| last, ard left yesterday for San Diego. Cal,
where he and his brother Will have engaged
in the real estate business.
AT late hour Sunday night a colored
tenement at Longwood caught fire and four
colored children, all under II years of age
were burned to death. The mother of the
children had gone to church and left the
| children in the house, when by some acct
dent the building caught fire and was con-
sumed with the horrible result above men
toned.
At the store OF II. V. r. Schrader, at
Tallahassee, may be seen a beautiful piece
of damask toweling made of Leon county
ramie and woven in Vienna. The ramie
| was raised on the Betton Hill plantation of
| Col. John s. Winthrop, near Tallahassee,
where IL has grown luXuriantly for two or
| three years past Col. Winthrop was recent
ly in New York and arranged with the "In-
ternational Fibre Company" who are the
! chief promoters of the ramie industry i'll
/ America, to have a decorticating machine
at the Jacksonville Sub-Tropical Exposi-
ton, where it will be IN operation, the
ranie stalks being supplied by Col. Win
throp.
At Sanford arrangements have been
made for the entertainment of the delegates
TO the Mayors Convention to be held in
that city to day. 1t is thought that about
20 will be present At 80 a. IN. the dele
gates will meet at the Opera House, where
after organization and a session of some
two hours, all will adjourn to the Sanford
House, where banquet will be prepared.
The dining-room doors will be thrown open
promptly at 10 o'clock. A large reception
committee has been appointed, on which
are the Mayor and Councilmen, J. f. Wei
borne, j. E. Ingraham. George Nj. Nolan,
j. }. Harris, j. j. Clifford and other prom-
nent gentlemen II is hoped that this con
vention Will be productive of much good.
Below is "A statement Of the total assess
nent of taxable property in Walton.county
FOR the years 1884 and 1857. showing how
fast the towns and county are building up.
In short reriod of three years the taxable
property has increased nearly 80 per cent
This county is progressing rapidly in
wealth, though most of it is confined To De
Funiak Springs: 1854, total valuation of
taxable property $500, 1863 Sc, total amount
of taxes -, 4,39 80; 1897, total valuation of
taxable property 81 800 062, total amount of
taxes Sl563G G3 In 1854 the value of tax
able property in the beat in which De
Funiak Springs is located, not including the
RAILROAD property, did not exceed $4,000:
to-day the same property is assessed at
sl70,25l
Two negro men at divers tie camp,
two miles south Of Fitzhugh station. on the
South Florida railroad in Polk county, were
seriously wounded with buckshot Friday.
The camp is organized into court for the