The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-13
FLORIDA.

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| years,
The marsh lots of Fernandina are all
being filed up with earth.
Only three weeks remain before the
meeting Of the regular session of the legis-
| lature.
Oak Ridge, three miles this side of Mid
| dleburg, now has a postoffice, with VIM. +.
! Wilson as postmaster.
G.. s. Haines, who has lived in DeLand
for several years, left for Lancaster, KY,
last Thursday, where he will go into bust
| ness.
John Pollock, Sr., who lives near Me-
dulla, on going to his stable Monday morn
ing, found his horse dead-his neck having
been broken during the night in some I'M
| explained manner.
| The st. Augustine Presbytsrians have
elected DR.. Anderson II. Garfield, c. +.
| Hopkins, B. G. Rude j. 2. Dodge, Dr.
| Webb and A. p, Heard trustees, and
Messrs. A. Berry and j. p. Dodge deacons
| for three years.
Mrs. Proctor, widow of the late Prof.
| Richard A Proctor, has received dispatch
announcing that Queen Victoria, in pur-
suance to memorial signed by number
| OF eminent men, has granted her a civil list
| pension of $500 per year
The seventh annual state convention of
the Knights of Honor of Florida was called
to order at Fernandina at noon yesterday
by Jacob Huff, grand dictator of the order
There are twenty-three lodges i'll this state,
and al were represented.
The circuit court at Orlando will be oc-
cupied this week with criminal cases alone
and will only hold this week. as the regular
term will commence next Monday in Bre-
ward county. Two capital cases will be
tried this week, one fol rape and one for
| murder
Mr.. Welcomes portable house, which is
being erected on the corner of Church and
Main streets, opposite the Presbyterian
| church, at Orlando, is nearly completed
The patentee thinks he has solved the prob
| lem of building portable residences at mini
| mum cost.
Oakland Sun: Fourteen different men
have been engaged the past three weeks in
sinking we'll near our office. Several
curbs have been made and eleven thousand
eleven hundred and eleven gallons of water
have been drawn out, and the end is not vet,
| but will perhaps end tUeU.
The Orlando and Winter Park railroad.
| though running for but a short time vet
has become to be felt as a great necessity,
and the few days stoppage, waiting for
their new engine, has produced much in
convenience. As soon as the engine arrives
| there will be no more trouble
d. K. Turner, of the Manville nurseries,
Lakeland, recently shipped to A. II. Man
vile, at Denver, 500 Washington navel
orange trees. These completed a carload,
which Mr.. Mauville shipped from there to
California. Mr.. Turner expects to ship an
other carload to California in few days.
Ybor & Co. aud other capitalists have
| purchased several hundred acres of land on
| Hooker's Point in Tampa and have COM
| menced the erection of summer cottages,
| bath houses and pavilions The place will
be known as palmetto Beach" and the
| track of the Tampa street railway will be
extended at once.
| The United States court at Pensacola adj
| journed over for day Thursday, in re-
| spect TO the memory of Judge Settle and
| Col. Q. G. Yonge. The court room was
draped in mourning, two wreaths of i'm
| mortelles, one havin the letter j. and the
| other Y, in the center, attracting gen raj
attention. The usual memorial re olutions
were read and adopted.
Monday morning the fast train from
jacksonville rolled up to the new union de-
| pot at st. Augustine. Joyce's military
| band was filling the air with musical
| sounds and crowd of men we're settiug off
| day pyrotechnics while the crowd was
| passing back and forth, taking in the beau
| tiful surroundings of the depot. When the
! whistle blew and the bell of the new, big
| No. engine rang, the cannons were fired
| OH In honor of the opening of the depot.
|
reverend Bishop Henry B. Whipple of Min
nesota will BE- pleased to learn that his be-
| loved wife has recovered from her late Sc
we're Illness and is now able to attend SER
| vices at the little memorial church at Lake
! Maitland, Fla, where the bishop officiates
! White at his winter home in that place.
| This church is a memorial to his sainted
daughter, who, with the bishop and his
family, hold warm place in the hearts Of
Maitland people Of all denominations.
Palatka Nelcs: President Coleman of the
| jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail
way, lives in jacksonville, and quite fire.
| quenty takes run up on his road to Pa
latka. In appearance no is a thick-set man,
| with black mustache, closely trimmed
| When on the train he never fails to ride in
the smoker, and to see him you would never
| think hun TO be the man that he is. Presi-
! dent Coleman is a machinist by trade, and
| when new engines are purchased for his
] road he makes the test trial himself. He
has private car Of his own, very elegant
| In its arrangement, but seldom uses it. I'M
| less Off for long journey. In his ways he
| Is plain, but on his shoulders is head that
is capable OF doing great things, and Presi-
dent Coleman takes as much pleasure in
talking to a laborer as he does to men Of
noted prominence and wealth.
st. Augustine Menus: II there is any
longer doubt existing as to the future Of
W. SANy ~ "AiA pAbbhpl1 NdulSh Vheh Np
state, as we are now prepared tn do, that
line Of steamers will be running from this
port to New York probably withia one
years time. A company has been partially
organized, stock sufficient for guarantee
has been subscribed, and ono vessel will be
built Immediately. Owing TO the bar, YES
sells of peculiar construction must be
obtained-light draft and exceedingly
strong. 1t is the aim OF the proprietors TO
run vessels as often as the necessities Of the
case demand, and thoy are expected to do
the work now done by sailing vessels aud
all new business that may come. This
project originates with II. A. Barring,
Jr., whose three years. experience
in the shipping business here
peculiarly qualities him for establish
ing the line OH a permanent and lucrative
basis. He had very little difficulty in Sc
curing subscriptions among our merchants.
In fact, the work was all accomplished in n
few hours time utter his plans were ma
tured, for the value Of such means of
transportation, especially for heavy mer-