The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-29

The tobacco crop of Tallahassee country is
looking fine. a
A pension has been issued to Charles M.
Bachelor of Florida.
The new Masonic temple at Key West
was dedicated Monday. There was a parade
and the usual exercises.
Pineapples in considerable numbers have
been placed on the market at Braidentown
during the past few weeks.
The Baptist churches of the Manatee
Association will hold a union meeting at
| Oak Hill church near Pine Level to-day.
| Hon, v. J. Shipman, the new receiver at
the United States land Office at Gainesville,
entered upon the discharge OF his duties
Wednesday.
The new warehouse and offices of the In
| dian River Steamboat company at the end
of the railroad wharf at Titusville, are fast
approaching completion.
The Presbyterian church, at Foster Park.
has been condemned as unsafe. The heavy
winds and rains caused the roof to settle,
| causing the walls to spring. 1t Is regarded
as impossible to repair it.
| d. d. Rogers, chief engineer of the
| Atlantic, Gulf and Havana railroad. arrived
| in ST. Augustine Thursday from Daytona.
| Mr.. Rogers states that the drought has seri-
ously affected the orange crop in various
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| suffered very little on the east coast, where
most of the groves are planted on hammock
i land.
George w. Crawford has a black walnut
tree bearing on his place on lake Conway,
| the seed of which was planted by him in
1876. The tree is now about fifteen feet
high. 1t has few fully developed walnuts
now ON it, and will, probably, after this
season, yield full crop. 1t is believed
that this is the only bearing black walnut
tree in Orange county.
| AT st. Augustine Messrs Cook & Libby
have recently purchased the two houses and
lots owned by e. Dillingham; on Weeden
street. They now own the whole block of
buildings on the west side of Weeden street.
| Extensive improvements win be made on
the property, Including repairs on the pres
lent buildings and the erection of large
boarding house on the premises.
The artesian well recently bored by joyce
Bros. on the block road, which is to furnish
water for North City, suburb of ST. Au-
gustine, has probably the largest flow of
any artesian well in the world. 1t is an
| S-inch well, and its flow exceeds the highest
expectations. From a measurement made
| by Dr. j. K. Rainey the flow exceeds 5000
per minute or over II, $4,000 gallons every
twenty -four hours.
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gustine for the purpose of propagating
oysters and other bivalves on the waters OF
| the Matanzas river, neBr Matanzas Thew
have secured 300 claims of river front con-
| trining several acres of oyster beds and
propose to go extensively into the business
of cultivating oysters. A tract of high
land adjoining the plant has been secured
/ for the purposes or the company and a
town site will be laid off.
The Cocoa Spirit says that very few per-
sons comprehend the scope Of the Coast
! Canal Company's work. By the acts of the
last legislature this company Is to open up
within five years and afterwards to main
tain a water way from st. Augustine to
| Biscayne bay. This mammoth enterprise
will require great labor and millions of
dollars to complete it, and will be to East
Florida the most important public work
that has ever been inaugurated.
Two years ago Mr.. Rupert, direct from
the wine growing section of France bought
ten acres OF land west Of Tallahassee from
Mr.. Emf Dubois, paying $50 an acre for it.
He set out four acres of choice grape vines
| and is now, while they are only two years
old from the cutting, selling as high as six
pounds Of luscious grapes from the vine.
Mr.. Rupert is setting out 800 vines to the
acre and says that in the near future the
entire vineyard win be netting him 5000
| per acre.
| Last Friday afternoon during the thun-
der storm a bolt of lightning struck the
kitchen of S. =. Waterhouse, about two
miles from Orlando, and demolished a leg
| of the table at which Mrs. Waterhouse was
sitting and leaning upon, but strange to
say she was only slightly shocked. Two
negro girls, who were in the kitchen, also
escaped without injury. The bolt then
went across the open hallway and into the
dwelling, ran across the base boards, tear
ing pieces of the building off and scattering
it in divers directions and injuring the
| frame work.
DIR. Harvey Knight will experiment with
the irrigation system at Belleview this
summer on ten-acre lot. A tank, with
capacity of 50, 900 gallons, will be placed in
the grove on the rising ground fifteen feet
above the highest point of ground to be
irrigated. 1t will be built in the ground
and faced with rocks and cement. An en-
CINE and pump, with capacity for raising
1000 gallons of water per hour, will be
placed at the well. This will be connected
| wlth the tank by 4-inch iron pipe. Size Of
tank, e0x24, sd feet deep. Pipes from the
tank viii be laid over the land foot under
the surface, CT sufficient to clear the pillow.
The manner in which the water will be an
piled to the land has not as yet been fully
decided upon, although hydrants at con-
i vefilent distances, arranged for hose con-
nections, is thought to be the best plan.
Inc estimated cost of irrigating the ten
4 acres viii be $4,000, or 5000 per acre. IL
the plan proves successful, there is no
reason why the investment should not pey
~ int a~=3@ 5000