The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-08
FLORIDA.

| FLORIDA.
The shad season will soon be open.
The De Soto hotel at Sarasota opened last
week for the season.
d. B. Drew is TO have fine residence
built at Clear Water Harbor
A forty-acre park will be one of the at
fractions at the Newport Sulphur Springs
hotel
The acreage Of Strawberries around Gaines
vile will be considerably larger than that
of last year.
Point, near Cocoa, was destroyed by fire
few nights ago.
Berman & Co. of Kissimmee are going
extensively into the culture of flowers and
Towering bulbs.
The new Episcopal church at Willemsen-
berg is progressing finely and will be COM
! pleted by Christmas.
| The shipping of new vegetables has al
ready become a common thing among the
Palmetto vegetable growers.
The Leesburg cigar factory is pushed
almost beyond its capacity 10 keep up with
the orders that are constantly coming in.
c. G. Woodruff has been appointed
| travelling passenger agent of the South
| Florida railroad, with headquarters at San
| ford.
ID. s. Hutchinson, owner of the new
Indian River hotel at Titusville, is ex-
pected to arrive there about the first of this
| week.
The probabilities are that the engineers
will be in the field inside of thirty days to
locate the route for the Manatee and Sara
| sofa railroad.
The largest shipment of lumber ever
made from Fernandina during any one
| month was in November, 1887, when it
amounted to Is, sos, 685 feet.
The "Apopka House." at Apopka City, is
to be moved bodily from the present loca-
ton in the older portion Of the town to the
| new section of it, bordering on the t. A. &
e. railway.
| Eliza Powell, Ed Powell, her son, and
| Rose Pillow, all colored, are in Jail at PEN
sacola. Powell Is charged with larceny,
his mother and Rose Pillow with receiving
stolen goods
The total revenue of the United States
land Office at Gainesville for the past fiscal
year was 1872, 979 67. The revenue for the
| four months of the present fiscal year
amounts to over $1,000.
| At Tampa, Jose Baranto, charged with
assault with attempt to kill and attempted
arson, was bound over by Justice Donovan
| on Tuesday last in 5000 bond to await
action OF the grand jury.
| The old and renowned orange grove and
| place on Banana river known as the De Soto
| grove has been leased for five years to
| Arthur Canaveral. He will reside there
and go into market gardening.
DR.. Wright of High Springs. who went
there in the spring, has buckwheat nearly
ripe. picking cucumbers. just put out 2, 900
cabbage plants, fine Irish potatoes, sold
oranges on the tree for Is cents per 1O0
In its issue of last week the TalLahasssan
announced that John G.. Collins had as
sumed full control and management Of the
paper. Walter N. Shine, his late partner.
will remain with him in the capacity of
editorial writer
In 1S45 Marion county included Sumter
and Lake. The revenue for the first year Of
its organization was S6l4 70. The salary of
the collector for the first year was SAG %.
The revenue for the second year was $247 81.
and the salary $40 81.
Fernandina's chamber Of commerce has
been organized with the following officers;
H. e. Dotterer president, r. g. Schuyler
vice president, W. r. Kelly secretary and
treasurer, w. B. B. Duryee, +. w. Hoyt,
Thomas Kydd, and the president and vice
president, executive committee.
Tallahassee FIoridtaa: J. M. Earnest
has been on voyage Of discovery in the
Pinhook valley, on the Gulf coast, aud
showed us this morning string Of beads
taken from one Of the many mounds found.
He discovered great heaps of bones of a
prehistoric race, veritahle giants. Mineral
springs abound the lands are very fertile,
and be has located rich deposits of stone
cement, etc.
Gainesville Advocate: W. A. Jernigar
has in his possession the lower jaw of al
alligator, which is twenty-five and one hall
inches long The gator from which thu
jawbone was taken was killed by Moss
johnson, a negro hunter, several months
since In Alachua lake, near this city. The
mammoth saurian measured fourteen anc
one-half feet in length, and was undoubtedly
one of the largest alligators ever killed il
Florida.
County Supt M. f.. Payne of Mario,
has made an innovation in the appointment
of school supervisors by making Mrs. 3
Il. Kicker OF South Lake Weir, one Mr.
Payne says woman who can successful,
make an orange grove, and one of the fines
in the state, and create home SURROUNDED
with beautiful plants and lovely flowers
and adorn her land with vineyard that i
the pride of the community, aud is alive t,
church aud school influences is the best ma.
terial that can be selected to supervise
school, and he feels confident that he ha
found the right person in Mrs. Kicker.
Gainesville Advocate: Information camt
to us yesterday that negro was takel
from the Waldo jail last Thursday nigh
by band of regulators and killed. Tn
negro had been arrested a few days before
charged with stealing a valise from a pas
senger train, and locked in the Jail for SAT,
keeping. 1t was the intention of the partie
who did the killing to take him out ane
give him a good whipping, but, as rumol
seems to have 1t, the negro decided b,
would fight rather than take a whipping
upon which they beat him about the hea(
. and then shot him in the abdomen. from
which wounds he died in a short time afte
being shot. An inquest was held over th
/, body Friday morning, the result of which
we have been unable to learn.
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