The morning news., 1889-03-16
manding. [Oficial1 John NJ. Obey, Jr., A
A. General. =.
FLORIDA.

county, now twinkIeth.
There is talk of starting female semi
nary or university at Belleview.
Unitei States court will convene in Tai
lahassee on Wednesday, March %.
Starke has military aspirations, and a
call for a meeting to organize company in
that burg has been issued.
George W. Robinson received from the
English syndicate, $250,000 for his lumber
interests in the vicinity of Pensacola.
Judge W. K. Cessna has forwarded car
load of orange trees from Gainesville to
California Tne freight thereon is $434.
There have been more partridges killed in
jefferson county the present winter than
any season before, but the woods are still
full of them.
Rev Josephus Anderson and family have
located in Leesburg. His paper, the Chris
tidn Aduocate, has not yet been moved
from Sanford.
The flowers have commenced to bloom in
the yards, and within a few weeks Monti-
cello will have the appearance of one i'm
mense flower garden.
Pensacola has nearly every mill and tim
Der man in West Florida in attendance
upon the United States court to answer
charges of trespass, and as witnesses.
The Episcopal congregation at Braiden-
town has secured subscriptions to the
amount of 81, 900 for its new church, and
will soon commence its construction.
Gov. Fleming has written to the Gaines
vile board of health asking if they would
like to have the stute health officer inspect
the city and county. They made an af-
frmative reply.
The sum of $26, 900 was paid few days
since for Mascot, a 2-year-old colt. D. S.
9uinton of Pensacola. purchased the colt.
Mascot has a record of q in 2S% and was
warranted TO do better.
Gov. Fleming is interesting himself
about the sanitary condition Of the Manatee
river section, and will no doubt advise the
state board of health to look after it before
the summer season arrives.
An old colored woman entered the Talla-
hassee postoffice, few days ago, saw her
reflection in the mirror of the box delivery
window, and exclaimed: Tank God, dars
niger in de postoffics aginw
Some navel oranges grown on Mai. Muir
phys grove, Eight Oaks, " at Orlando, were
ordered by a northern gentleman for
present to Pre- ident Harrison, and pro-
nounced by him to be the finest oranges he
had ever eaten.
On Saturday night, little after dark, a
row, doubtless caused by the use of too much
whisky, occurred among the colored peo-
rle on Bailey Bolto1's plantation, near Mon
ticello, in which five Of them were cut
three seriously.
George BiShoff has just completed the
first wagon ever built in Pasco county. 1t
is blackboard, built of native hickory,
strong and durable, and better material
and workmanship than Is per cent. of the
wagons brought to that country.
Cap. John NJ. Smith of Jerseyville, H.,
and Prof. r. B. Leak bought of Capt. F. A.
Hendry last week a two-qcre orange grove
in the central part of Fort Myers, for 81, 900
cash. I his is the cheapest purchase that
has been made there for some time.
A crazy patch work quilt made by Miss
Annie Rogers, TO be sold to the highest bid
der, the proceeds to go towards erecting
house for the priest at Gladstone. brought
$242 last Saturday, Miss Celia Bischoff hav-
ing entered the largest amount for it.
Charles E. Bacon has been rendered and
accepted the position of bookkeeper for the
Citizens National Bank Of Orlando. This
ls the position made vacant by the accept
ance of the state agency of the New York
Life Insurance Company by j. L. Guern-
sey.
Charles P. Lynch and Margery F. Cham
berlain were married last Tuesday in Apa-
alachicoa. They Travelled for miles in an
OK cart and then in crossing a lake in a
boat were overturned in the water and
barely escaped drowning. They, however,
got there at last.
The Manatee people seem disposed to out
do all other places on the river in the way
of fixing up things TGere is a general
overhauling of bridges and bitches, fences
and houses, and in many places old things
and ways are being transformed into new
ones, to the great satisfaction of citizens
and visitors.
LAST Friday morning Henry Davis of
Ellenton, while using an ak, had the mis-
fortune to cut himself very badly, which
will disable him from work for several days.
In making a stroke he accidentally struck a
stump and the AK glanced to one side, strik-
ing him on the shin, making a cash the full
width of the blade in the flesh, and also split
ting the bone, shaving off a considerable
chip.
Messrs. Chubb & Ward Of Winter Park
are realizing neat thing from a strawberry
| patch that they set out last fall. They have
| only three-quarters of an acre set out, and
| have already picked from it this week 14S
| quarts, and by to-day there will be 10(
| quarts more ready for picking. MIR. Chubt
says that they will realize between S400 and
| $500 for the seasons crop. Not very bad
for not quite an acre of land
Charlotte Harbor Beacon: The English
| company at Fort Myers which purchased
| poor, "sand-soaked" land at $50 per acre
and made considerable outlay in ditching
and buying artificial fertilizers for the same
wonderful to say, were highly pleased with
their first years work. and were able tC
declare a dividend of 10 per cent. above al
expenses. Ten acres in tobacco is what
they experimental with and IS cents pei
pound is what it averaged them.
The jury impaneled by Justice Maura
ex-otficio coroner, to investigate the murder
of the Austrian sailor, at Pensacola last
Saturday night, resumed their sitting Tues
day, and finally adjourned sine die, with
out being able to elicit any evidence thai
would justify the coroner in issuing war
rants for any suspected persons The Ital
ian, Poloverino Guiseppi, who had beer
held in Jail on suspicion Of being the mur
derer, was discharged, but re-arrested on 6
warrant issued by Justice Maura, for assault
and battery on the murdered man, and
sent to the criminal court The man -
Ettore, who was also held on suspicion, wal
discharged from custody after the adjourn
ment Of the jury.
A Ten-Year-Old Telegraph Operator
From the Neto York sun.