The morning news., 1889-03-29
FLORIDA.
FLORIDA.
The Indian River hotel closed yestei

The printers of Pensacola have organizeC
Typographical Union.
The naval commission stopped at War
rington only 40 minutes.
Mr.. Northrup, a prominent banker o.
Kansas is prospecting at Barlow.
Thayer 81 Haisley have purchased th,
Bacon q Adams. Ocala abstract Office
A. E Phillips has purchased the drug
store of T. J. McRae X Bro. at Sanford.
The truck farms in North Gainesville are
as clean as a pin, and present a handsome
appearance.
The prospect is that there will be larg'
acreage of tomatoes in the vicinity o.
Gainesville this season.
In A'achua county strawberries are rap
idly ripening, aud growers report that the
yield will be very large.
Mrs. j. C. Wright of Barlow has a rose
bush one year old from the cutting that
has 425 perfect buds upon it.
Some Of the vegetable growers at Are
dondo are holding their cabbages for later
shipment, believing that better prices will
be realized.
A movement is on foot to have a road
surveyed between Maccle1ny and Glen st.
Mary in as nearly a straight line east and
west as possible.
About twenty-five workmen are engaged
iu the work of filling in the lot to be used
as union depot at the Florida Southern
junction at Palatka.
A subscription paper is being circulated
by Prof. Forbes for the building of a Bap-
tiSt parsonage at DeLand Quite a sum
has bsen already subscribed.
The st. Augustine Improvement Company
has just commenced to build two houses !
Buena Esperanza, one for Peter Arnau and
the other for Watson Kirkbride.
An effort win be made at the next meet
ing Of the Sanford council to amend the
liq lor ordinance so as to admit of the in
former receiving one-half of the fine.
A lot in Pensacola was sold few DAYS
ago three times At first for $4,000, then
for $4,000 and next for So. 900, and cl sed
with an offer Of So. 300. which was refused
Rev. Mr.. Gthe1s of Trinity Epi iicopal
church, st. Augustine, has received most
urgent call to st. Johns church, Albu-
querque, New Mexico. The call will be de-
clined.
Capt. s. c. Tucker, register Of the United
States land Office at Gainesville is confined
to his bed by illness. He was taken with a
chill Tuesday, and had more or less fever
during the day.
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor
OF the telephone, arrived at st. Augustine
yesterday to attend the entertainment at
the AlcaZar, given by the deaf children
from the Institute
The growth Of orange trees in and around
Grove Park the past season is said to be I'M
precedented. The trees are in healthy,
vigorous condition, and many young groves
are coming into bearing.
Below is the number Of tho marriage
licenses issued in Baker county during the
past ten ye0rs: 1879, 80; 1880. 23; 1881, 25;
1882, 81; 1888, 1S; 1884, 35: 1885, Al; 1886.
81; 1887. 81; 1888, 4s; total, 3l7.
j. z. Besselieu has withdrawn from the
management Of the business Of N. F. Jack
son a. Co. of Gainesville, and w. w. Bry-
ant of Savannah has assumed charge of it.
Mr.. Besselieu comes to Savannah.
Capt. f. G. Grugan, United States army,
who has been stationed at Fort Barraacas
for several years, has gone to Little Rock,
Ark, where he will be assigned to duty.
Capt. G. S. Grimes is in command of Fort
Barrancas.
1t is estimated that there are over 1 ,OOO
acres of cabbage at Rocky Point and vi
cinity. The yield will be much larger than
was anticipated, the cessation of rains Civ.
ing the cabbages in the low lands a chance
to develop.
Hon. f. R Gunby aud w. d. Holden
have returned to Sanford from Washing.
ton, whore they have been for week Mr..
Gunby Withdrew his name as an applicant
for the vacant judgeship, and it now will
undoubtedly go to an outsider.
Bishop Weed, while in Macclenny re-
Gently, made the remark that il necessary
he was prepared to spend thousands of dol
lars on the st. James academy at that place
and intended to make it rank with the best
educational institutions in the south.
Last Sunday night at Grace NJ. +. church,
St Augustine, Gen. Q. o. Howard told e
story of his service in Florida in his earlier
days and the manner Of his conversion
while stationed at Tampa. The large con.
gregation listened in rapt attention to his
narrative.
Sergt. Lunsford Daniels. Battery "B, ,
Second artillery, left Fort Barrancas some
days ago for Washington. He gues there
for his first examination as to his fitness tc
become a commissioned officer in the United
States army. Sergt. Daniels entered the
army tor this sole purpose.
A portion of the machinery belonging tc
the refrigerating company was sold at Mac
clenny the other day TO satisfy a claim OF
James Murry OF Baldwin for house reut. II
is claimed that the suit was illegally brought
and will be- set aside by the Florida Rail
way and Navigation Company, who hold
possession of the stuff.
A barn belonging TO j. r. Nicholson, or
Fifth street, at Macclenny, was discovered
to be on fire about l2 O'Clock on Monday
and though great efforts We're made to save
it, the barn and portion Of tho fence were
burned to the ground. 1t is supposed that
tho fire was caused by the burning grass.
The loss was about 800; no insurance.
Joyce's military band of forty-one instru
ments, now at St. Augustine, will make q
trip to Paris about May Is, to be present al
the Paris exposition, which opens in MAY.
They will give concerts daily in the Ameri-
can department. They will DO there about
six weeks and return to America in tine 70
open the seventh season at Saratoga Springs,
n. Y. NJ. j. Joyce will have the manag ge-
ment, and Thomas II. Joyce the leadership,
Of the band.
A boy named Calvin robbed a young
negro boy at Chattahooche the other day OF
49, The boy demanded his money. Calvin
gave him back s., and then ran down the
trestle, the boz in pursuit. He ran SO fast
that he fell from the trestle into the mud
below. As he got up from his muddy bath,
the boy in pursuit fired a shot at HIM. Cal
vim put his hand TO his back and yelled, but
kept ON through the woods. the boy in pur.