The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-14
FLORIDA.


at the Warrington navy yard.
Three or four new stores will be opened
at or near Lake Joe in Taylor county.
r. E. Sharrard has b ZEN made quarter
master sergeant If Une Leesburg Rifles.
Hon. J. F. Latham. of Dade City, ha9
just sold and shipped to California 60, 0JO
orange trees.
Shad have been running very light lately.
One Of Sanford's fishermen had luck, he
took in 400 in three night work.
Messrs. sherwood and McCreery of New
SMYRNA went fishing on Wednesday, and
in about two hours caught sixsy-fye fac
fish.
A petition is being circulated asking for
The es ablis lment OF a mail route from
Perry via Oakland to Harmony in Madison
county.
Ex-United States Senator s. B. Conover
has suit before the supreme court at Tai
lahassee, involving some S25, 900 worth of
property
The next Sunday school state convention
will be held at Leesburg April 4 and 5. and
it is designed to make it the best ever held
in Florida.
A countryman at Palatka, who saw the
street car for the first time Saturday, re-
ferred to it as new style omnibus on
baby Wheels"
Lake Monroe is falling The lake has
bean comfortably hign-within five feet of
wha, it was in 1879. The prairie up river
is under water.
S. A Swami Of Fernandina sold last week
$4,000 acres If land in Levy county to an
Atlanta co npany. Mr.. Swami owns 70 900
acres in that county.
The county commissioners have deter
mined to make the nee ssary appropriation
.. s
at the OcAla exposition.
The annual conference of the African
Methodist church will be- held at Ma Olson,
convening to-day, Bishop B. w. ArnetC, of
Wherefore, o., presiding
F. II. Carpen er of Orage City, has sold
his entire crop of oranges, about 5000 boxes,
to a cold storage 60 npany in Macon and
Atlanta, realizing 81 per box net.
Dade City is making rapid strides in the
great march of progress. Truckers and
vegetable growers are more hopeful Straw
rry shipments will soon be the order of
The day.
There has been no damage done to
oranges this yea by t1e cold, aud the only
damage done by rain his been to those
groves which were either poorly or improp
erly fertIlized. .
The Volusia County Bible School Associa-
tion will hold its annual meeting at Empo-
ria, in t2e Ualon lurch, on Thursday and
Friday, March and next, opening service
Thursday evening.
Orange City Times: 1t is strange that
the rates on oranges 10 points up in Geor-
gia are from ~ TO 90 csnts per box, and
10 New York, Philadelphia and Boston they
do not exceed % cents.
Sanford's la4e front presented lively
appearance Tuesday NOR ling, four large
s1s,-,
were a the wharf at one time. Business on
the river is improving.
Mr.. S eerin,er, wife. four daughters an d
four sons, who arrived in Tallahassee not
long since, having Wake all the way from
Orange county, have settled down and gone
to farming on land near Tallahassee
Tue question OF draining the big lakes,
Harris, Eustis and Griffin and adjacent
country IS stirring the minds Of the public.
Included in this sclems is the deepening
and strengthening Of the picturesque Ock-
lawala
The DeLand band has bill OF 800 against
the de nocrats Of DeLAnd and the republic
ans owe $40. 1t IS not very encouraging to
the boys ~ keep IL practice whel tney get
30 few engagements at nome, aud can't col
lect Tor those they d. get
Nj Papot. street and sanitary commits
sioner Of Orlando, in his report TO the coun-
ell, estimates that there are 900 persons in
GRAND subject 10 pay street taxes. Ouly
taose between the ages oil Is and 40 are
liable TO road or street working.
Orland) Record: We understand that a
contract is ABOUT TO be made with the great
DeLes'eps for tue draining OF Lake Grimm.
III is thought connection can be mada
with the ST. Johns river, aud thus open up
Inc OF steamers 10 our very door.
At Orlando Butt & Silver have been en-
ployed to bring suits against some of the
transpo tation companies for da ages for
delays IN the shipment Of oranges.
w -e. her or not judgment is recovered by
the plaintiffs, 1t all demonstrate where the
fault is.
At Orla do some persons are putting out
meat OF the street VITA poison on il, and
teye al dogs have been killed GA vest r
day Mr. Mooney was ret 4rning frou
buat and one of mis- fine houn Is picked up a
liece on Central avenue, which killed MIN
In few minutes.
At Orlando Monday night some person or
persons entered tbs room OF w. NJ.
Mathews, on ri street, just west II ths
railroad. and stole from his clothes ms
p cketbook, containing about $50, and mis-
silver watch. They entered the room while
be was asleep, without either disturbing