The morning news., 1889-05-29

Augustine
There is some talk of starting a band in
kissimmee.
Real estate circles at Dade City are quite
lively and transfers are frequent.
steven C. Weaver was commissioned
postmaster at Daytoaa on May q.
The oat crop at Dade City has been de-
stroved by the protracJed drought
William D. Mendenhau was commits
stoned postmaster at Bloomfield, Fla, on
May %.
The growth Of the peach crop at Dade
/ City has been greatly retarded by the pro-
tracted drought.
Quite a number of buildings will be
erected within the city limits at Dade City
during the next few months.
d.. jackson of Bronson has tangerine
orange trees not over three feet high that
are heavily loaded with fruit.
/ A. Hoppe has been appointed postmaster
at Apslachic Jla, and VIII take charge as
! soon as his commission arrives.
The watermelon prospect around Dade
! City is unusually good and If there is rain
at an early day the crop will be large.
Saturday. George W. Papot, street and
sanitary commissioner of Orlando, rendered
his resignation to the city council, to take
effect June l next.
The grand council of the United Friends
of Temperance have been invited TO meet in
Brooksville. The lodge at Brooksville is the
la gost in the state.
County Surveyor Edwin L. Snowden of
Columbia left with his family on Tuesday
last tor Albuquerque, n. NJ, intending to
make that his future home.
At Jacksonville, Saturday, Maxwell Cook
dived into the st. johns from q wharf and
was drowned. His father is the manager
of McMurrays livery stable.
W. Springstead & Sons furnished last
week a piece Of live oak timber for gov
ernuent dredge boat at Tampa that was 40
feet long and squared l6x20 inches.
The foundations of the Methodist church
at Dade City have been laid and the frame
is erected. This will be. when completed,
one Of the finest edifces in Pasco county.
Notwithstanding the prolonged drought
the corn crops around Dade City are un-
usually promising, and recent refreshing
showers have lent them renewed life and
vigor.
Judge George NJ Nolan Of Sanford went
to Lake Helen Saturday to make arrange
ments for the colonization of portion of
Sanford on the beach at New Smyrna this
summer.
Somebody introduced a resolution in the
House of Representatives last Wednesday
night after the marriage, to excuse Mr.
Hendry Of DeSoto from marrying any
more couples during the remainder Of the
session.
The dwelling and all the outhouses on the
place of J. r. Clark, in Suwan 90 county,
were destroyed by fire last week. Mr..
Clark has an invalid wife and several chill
dren and stands sadly in need Of prompt
assistance.
The dead BODY of Henry 'Sayers (colored)
was found beside the railroad track near
Mariana Tuesday morning. He had left
town the night before with party of
negroes, all in liquor, and it is supposed he
went to sleep on tae track.
The steamer Twilight, owned by Can't.
Wightmau, which has been mOored at the
Clyde dock at Jacksonville for months past,
got very weary Saturday night and went
down to the bottom of the St. Johns with
very little warning Of her suicidal inten-
tiOns
The Tampa Fish and Ice Company and
Messrs. John Savarese and V. B. McIlvain
will continue shipping fish right through
tho summer. This means steady employ
ment at good wages for a large number of
men who would otherwise be idle until the
fall season opened.
Last Sunday afternoon the residence of
james Mathews three miles from Quincy
was burned together with most of the
household goods. 1t is supposed that the
fire originated from a spark blown out of
the fireplace, and when discovered it was
too far advanced to be put out
Bronson Times: The citizens around here
have shown their feeling and sympathy for a
fellow man IN trouble. A short time ago
our old friend Richardson had the misfort-
une to lose all of his feucs and his neigh
bOrs put their shoulders together to give the
old gentleman lift, and to-day a new fence
is in the place of the old one.
J. X. Stevens, living near Newnansville,
notwithstanding the drought, has a sulen-
did crop Of corn, cotton, cane, etc. Other
farmers in the samo locality have good
crops. The secret of their success is claimed
to be that thev keep on working their crops
no matter how dry the weather is. 1t is
said that in almost every instance where
this has been done good crops have been
produced.
The drought at Lakeland is doing great
injury to the groves, and especially to the
growing crops of vegetables, corn, cane
and tobacco. 1t is now about six weeks
81 ce the last rainfall visited that part of
the county, and the vegetable crop has
suifared severely; the outlook is gloomy for
the corn crop, and all young trees planted
this spring and winter can only be kept
alive now by frequent irrigations.
In the conflict between Daniel Mather
and Lizzie w. Carter over a certain tract
OF land in the old military reservation at
Tampa, Secretary Noble has ordered a
hearing in the case of Mether to determine
whether said land is within the limits of
the Incorporated town, or occupied for pur-
poses of trade and business and to deter
mino the character of Mather'5 settlement,
and whether or not it was simply as an oc-
cupation by permission of the military
nuthori les.
A gentleman of Palatka last week spent
three days in northeast Putnam and Clay
counties. and while in the latter county OBJ
served in the fiat woods novel spectacle.
Ono day about noon he rode past a five-acre
field and saw the entire family working it.
In the middle of the field was plow, to
which was hitchei the old man. assisted by
the son aud daughter, the old woman doing
the blowing. The field was almost plowed
aud how long they had been thus engaged
the Palutlau did not learn.
Last Tuesday, as several employees of the
| VI. G.. G.. Co. Mt Madison were moving q
cask of sulphuric acid, the bottom of the
vessel dropped out and the contents were
| scattered in every direction. One or two
upon whom tie acid was thrown, were
more or less burned, aud one, in particular
| Clem Perry, is said 70 be considerably
! burned. e. G.. Dickinson had the pres
ence Of mind TO jump Immediately into a
/ tank of oil, thereby escaping the results
/ which yyero certain otherwise.