The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-18
FLORIDA.

There will be a good peach crop at
| Archer.
The Florida judgeship fight remains I'M
| changed.
Brooksville shipped 100 wagon loads of
| cabbage last week
Capt. T. J. Shine of Orlando is confined
to his bed by severe spell of sickness.
There was quite a hailstorm a few miles
north of Gainesville on Sunday morning.
John g. Long of ST. Augustine has writ
ten the President approving of his southern
policy.
Col A. NJ ThraSher Of Sanford is moving
into his handsome new residence on Park
avenue.
Most of the cotton seed planted in Florida
this season was imported direct from the
sea islands.
The acreage of cotton In Alachua county
this year viii probably be 10 per cent. more
than it was last year.
There were more tomato plants set out in
Alachua county Monday than on any pre-
vious day a It's history.
Complaint is made that the sanitary con-
dition of Gainesville in many quarters is
not such as it should be.
1t is estimated that Micanopy will ship
this year 100000 boxes Of oranges and
u.s. 900 crates Of vegetables.
Congress man Davidson presented Eli
tor w. w. Keep of Quincy, Thursday,
with handsome walking cane.
There is a considerable demand for cotton
seed south of Marion county, where there
has been but little cotton grown for years.
Most of the public schools in Alachua
county are now closed, but quite number
will reopen in July for terms of two and
three months.
IA l. o.. -.
lishment Of the gas and fertilizer factories
the buzzards have made themselves scarce
in and around Gainesville.
The store and postoffice at Hudson, PaSco
county, was totally consumed by fire one
night last week. The mail and everything
connected with the Office were burned.
About thirty-five ocean-going square
rugged vessels, aggregating a tonnage Jap
proximately) of 5000 have entered the
port OF Pensacola since Friday morning.
jackson & Crawford of Gainesville
shipped Monday thirty-fve head of fine
beef cattle to Savannah. They expect to
ship at least one carload per week through
the season.
There are twenty-eight prisoners in the
Alachua county jail all colored. One prs-
oner, Peter ia ckson, is charged with muir
der, while the remainder are charged with
petty larceny.
Miss Mollie Reeves Of Orange Home, a
lady Of superior musical talent, can play
two tunes on the piano at the same time
every note in each being made with per-
feet distinctness.
The Florida Railway and Navigation on
April Is took 1000 quarts of Strawberries
and forty-four barrels of lettuce 20 Phila-
delpha and fifty crates of cabbage to New
York from Gainesville.
J. f. Turpbull, ID. II. Mays and John |.
Walker of Monticello, after spending a
week in the iatwoods returned home on
Friday. They killed seven deer and lots of
other game and bad good time
The people OF Gainesville it would ap-
pear appreciate their newspaper men.
They have chosen Chaplin OF the Record
Lewey of the Sentinel, and Drake OF the
Advocate, as members Of the city council.
The Pensacola Netcs is informed that the
English syndicate that recently purchased
the large milling interests Of the Nuscogee
Lumber Company and George w. Robin
son will inaugurate the joint operation Of
their purchase about May l.
Armentero g. Gutierras, Cuban cigar
makers, have established cigar factory at
Palatka. They have rented building OPP
poste the Putna house for their factory
and six cottages for their hands, OF whom
there will be from twenty-five to fifty en-
ployed.
There are in the country tributary to
Sanford over 900 acres planted In peaches,
which this year will have about as much
fruit as the trees ought TO bear +. NJ
Pearson Of Mount Dora has 1000 trees.
Last year his peaches sold in New FORK at
from IS 10 $50 a crate
f. Tics writes the Witness concerning
the burning of the church ut Carrabelle:
"Allow me space in your columns to notify