The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-30
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The San Marco hotel at st. Augustine
closes Monday noon.
Orlando defeated the Narcoossee club al
cricket at Kissimmee few days ago.
The spring term of the Leon circuit
court will convene in Tallahassee Monday,
April %.
Thirty-five members of the Lake Region
Shippers Union have shipped tnis season
81, 900 boxes of oranges.
The race for the state pennant between
the yachts Undine and Chemaun comes off
at st. Augustine this afternoon.
Charles Smith of the Sanford house, with
Arthur SchlemaD, killed thirty-two quail
and eight rabbits Wednesday afternoon.
Shad fishing on the st. Johns is at an end
for the season March 81. legally. The
catch has been excellent during the latter
part of the season.
The East Florida Land and Produce Com
pany have received from Pittsburg splen-
did locomotive, which will be used for l. e.
ging in their woods near Matanzas.
The Orange Belt railraad crossed First
street at Sanford Thursday The Journal
wants the mayor to call citizens meeting
to celebrate the formal opening of the road
In fitting manner
Substantial Improvements are being made
at Titusville at the railroad station in the
shape of the erection of freight depot and
the construction Of plank walk from the
station to the wharf.
Raymond C. Reyes of st. Augustine has
in his possession a rare old piece of money
"a note issued in 177j by order of the Con-
tinental congress, and g ittling the bearer
to seven Spanish mIIled dollars.
Mr.. and Mrs Albert Morton Of Longwood
celebrated their golden wedding Thursday
evening, March A. Many valua de and
useful presents were received by the happy
old couple, including some gold in.
F. H. Woodhouse, the secretary of the
Florida Produce Manufacturing Company,
Leesburg, will go to New Zealand, where
he has a fine inducement offered him. He
will leave some time during next month.
The farmers Of Orange county are very
busy; most Of them have already planted
their cassava and are getting in their peas
and preparing for sweet potatoes, thoug1 it
will be some weeks later before the main
crops are planted.
The voters Of Leesburg have signed a pc
tition, circulated by Mayor Lee, asking that
the municipal election be changed by the
legislature from August to January on &C
count Of so many citizens being absent dur
the former month.
There are many large mounds on the
Keys of Charlotte Harbor, supposed to have
been the work Of a tribe of people who
lived there prior to the Indians. A party
will be gotten up to invest gate them and
the surroundings about the middle of April.
]. E. Pace Of Sanfo has great faith in
the orange market, and proves his faith by
his works. Wednesday he closed a trade
with DR.. J. N. Bishop whereby he leased
the doctors fine forty-acre bearing grove at
Paola. This will make Mr.. PAGES proba-
bic crop for next year at least 10000 boxes.
The finest law library and office in the
state is in Jacksonville. TIE Office is that
Of NJ. G. Jordan, one of the leading legal
practitioners in the south. The law library
contains a complete set OF the reports of
the supreme court of each state in the
union, also of the federal courts and on all
the other legal subjects. 1t is estimated
TO be worth about $1,000.
The Tampa NelUs saws that it has leaked
out that the Pinellas Circuit railway is to
pass to an E glish syndicate shortly. II
satisfactory terms can be made with the
corporators, the line will soon be construct
ed. According to present plans, a water
portage of three and one half miles at Port
Tampa will make quick connection between
the lower Pinellas peninsula and Tampa.
The postmaster at Punta Gorda deserves
the belt rs a cabbage grower. From two
rows in his garden thirty feet long $50 large
heads wers grown. The plants were so cl 1se
that it was impossible for them to stand
cree and the heads bent both right and
left in the rows until they touched the
ground and yet were wedged against one
another. Some of the heads will weigh
twenty pounds.
IIOitad Sfatac Maycaa1 f-I Al -
Gainesville, Wednesday, b. A. Thrasher
Ferd Bayer and +. E. Hughes, according to
true bills found against them, charging
fraud in the late election. Messrs. Bayer
and Thrasher were taken to Jacksonville
Thursday, where they will fix up their
bond, but F. Z. Hughes was not able to
travel, not having recovered suffice thy
from his wounds.
Braidentown Journal: The desire of the
Baptlsts OF this section to see a church
organization Of their faith in existence on
the river is about to be gratified, as the
Revs. Sparkman and Eddings will be he q
this week with that purpose in view. BY
the second Sunday in April il is expectt
that all necessary notice will have been
given, and full attendance on that day is
especially desired
On Tuesday Of last week two negro Chi.
dren. one 3 and the other years old, the
LaJter Delng OF unSound miEd, StraYed from
their fathers house near Chetwynd and i'm.
mediate and diligent search was made.
Quite number Of folks, both white and
black, turned out to hunt the children, and
they were tracked Wednesday to the plan
tatiou Of S. James Gamble, two miles south
of Oxford, and we're und "Wednesday
afternoon. They were all right.
The following civil appointments have
been made during the past week: Eugene
NJ. Buckley, to be commissioner OF Geed:
for Florida in and for the State of Connec
ticut; II. NJ. DeGraffenreid, to be notary
public in and for the county Of Hamilton
William K. Dewitt, Jr., to be notary pub
lie in and for the state at large |. A. Ma
son, to be notary public in and for the STATE
at large; Benjamin L. Harrell, TO be county
commissioner in and for the county OF
Hillsborough.
Accidents TO children upon the streets al
st. Augustine have crowded each Other
closely toe past day or two. A colored boy
was riding one horse and leading another
by tho Alcazar Thursday, when the hortt
he was riding fell with him and the othel
fell on top Of him. The boy was badly hurt
and had to be taken home in carriage
Thursday morning little girl was run over
the little son of William Colee was run ovei
near the postoliice by a livery team, apC
about the same time Lawyer Henderson,
boy was thrown by his pony on Chariot,
street.
Last Monday, as X. D. Davis, D. D. s.