The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-23
FLORIDA.

Mr.. kinsman of Osceola county is put
ting thirty acres in tomatoes.
The twenty-fourth session of the Florida
annual conference of the African Methodist
Episcopal church convened at Quincy Thurs
day.
The Ladies' Village Improvement asso-
citation of Green Cove is pushing a move
ment to secure the lighting of the streets at
night.
Orlando's majority for county site was
946. The vote was as follows; For Orlando.
1910; for Sanf I'd, 726; for Apopka, 1S8;
for Longwood, 48; for Oakland, /; for Palm
Springs, !.
The right of way of the Augusta, ITALIA
hassee aud Gulf railway has been cut into
Tallahassee, and the work of construction is
moving steadily forward.
H. V. Moszky of carlton, has the skull of
an alligator, and the jaw contains teeth
which measure twelve aud ons-half across
the top and twenty-eight inches along the
under jaw.
Officer Ball informs the Tampa News
that he has in charge one Antonio Lopez,
for whom the Havannah authorities are
said to have offered a reward of $4,000 on
the charge of murder.
Maj. j. n. Landrum, aged IS years, has
recently located at DeFuniak Springs to
practice law. He has had forty-two years
experience as a practicing lawyer, and
carries his four score years as if they were
but two score.
Pensacola Commercial: 1t is reported
that one of the principal parties in the big
land deal of 100000 acres to an English
syndicate states that the rumor is correct,
except as to price, whichis in the neighbour
hood of 81 per acre.
DIR. H. I. Lykes has named his new
Tampa hotel "The Almeria," Almeria
being Mrs. Lykes' name. E. 8. Douglas
proprietor of the Seminole hotel at Kissim-
NEE. has leased the house, and will open it
early in January. The work is progressing
very rapidly and satisfactorily.
The Orlando Sentinel says: "The new
Oviedo and Lake Jesup railroad, 81 miles
long, and which connects the to IN with the
lake, was finished last May. It was built
by the citizens of Oviedo at cost of s., 900.
though the DeBary, now the Clyde line, has
some stock In it. The rolling stock and
wharf yet remain to be supplied. 1t can be
readily made so serve in conjunction with
the Orlando and Oviedo road, now building.
by substituting broad for narrow gauge
track. thus giving an independent line TO
Jacksonville and the ocean.
There is living at point on East Bay.
near Pensacola, remarkable family of four
j
slider their sister to be one of themselves.
she being in nearly every respect as handy
as boy should be, and sharing the labors
of her brothers. They can draw the lines of
a ship, hew the timbers, build and launch
her, and then sail her around the world.
| Tney have done it and are doing it again.
The schooner Axel, fine little vessel which
| they have built, is at present somewhere on
the gulf under command Of Capt. G.. one
of the brothers, who is a most expert navi-
| gator. The other brothers and sister are
now engaged in building another and a
larger vessel, which is we'll under way.
and which, when completed and
launched, will be one of the
stanchest crafts sailing the Mexic
sea. The draughtsman who fur
nished the lines upon which she is being
constructed is one of the brothers, the car
penters who are building her are the
draughtsman and his brothers aud sister.
and the master who will sail her will be one
OF the boys, who will take the remainder of
| the family for the crew. For miles and
miles In all directions from their home the
boys have secured the forests looking for
natural crooks to be used as timbers. a
| great many of which they have found and
used as such. The work has so far pro.
| gressed that the stem will DO put in in a
few days, when planking will be in order.
| The vessel will be fashioned after the most