The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-12
fLOhlDA.
Sanford is full of strangers.

FLORIDA.
Sanford is full of strangers.
An electric light company has been
formed at Fernandina.
The cigarmakers' strike in Key West has
been satisfactorily settled.
Mrs. Mary Fl laysou, wife of Mayor w
d. Finlayson of Apalacnicola, died on Feb
Nire deer were brought into that to wn last
week by the sporting cltizens of Charlotte
Harbor.
There are 1919 licensed drays, wagons and
buses i'll Pensacola. OF this number 100
a drays.
The city council Of Apalachicola has re-
duced the assessment Of the ice factory
from 800 600 to 81 00O
The city council of Gainesville killed the
water works ordinance on the ground that
the city should build its own wo ks.
TIE winter cottage of Mrs. Kingsley on
Winter lake was dpsoyed by fire last week
he loss is about $4,000, with insurance for
IS, QUO.
The Gulf Coast Navy Yard Commission
will leave Washington about Feb. Is
They will visit ports on the Atlantic coast,
south OF Cape Hatteras, while en- route.
A private dispatch from Havana, asking
that POO or 300 cigar makers be shipped to
that city, if they can be had in Key West,
was received by a gentleman Of the latter
city last week.
Gottlieb Haefiiger was going to Month
cello from his county home on Thursday
and his horse became frightened and threw
him. AS he fell the horse kicked him in
tne face, fracturing his wer jaw-bone.
Fernandina was visited by good freezs
Wednes lay night, icIcles fully an inch in
length forming in some exposed places
Thursday night the weather was still cold,
covering house-toIs, trees and ground with
a snow-wnite frost.
colored boy by the name of Nelson
Adams, well known at Key West as a
vendor of crabs and crawfish, is reported to
have shot himself in tie breast lat Tuesday
night at his home, near the marine hospital.
His wound is said to be fatal one.
According to the report of the adiutant
general of the u tied States army, Florida
militia is rather top heavy, having 81 gen.
eral md staff officers to ], 2A rank and file
Louisiana with l ,1SS rank and file manages
to get along with 81 general and staff
officers.
The steamer City of Jacksonville, among
other things, brought up to Sanford Satur-
day 800 barrels of Canada ashes and 100
cases OF baking powder. The DeBary
wharf is being repaired; new flooring laid
and new piles put IN where they are needed,
and everything put in first-class condition.
horse belonging to Davis & Falrcl1th,
in turning around the square at Gainesville
Friday. ran full speed into the corner Of the
court house fence. His shoulder was
frightfully manglsd, and his high speed
caused him to turn a somersaut strik ng
on his head. his injuries were such that
he died in a few hours.
The flooring and supports of L. w.
Pierces wharf at Key West gave way last
week with the we ght of about eight cords
OF wood that the schooner Laura had Just
discharged on it, and fell with a loud crash
which ilighteIed everyone in the neighbor-
hood. Fortunately no one was standing on
the wharf at the time.
The subject of shipping oranges in bulk
is receiving the attention Of the press all
over the state, and the universal verdict is
wherever it has been tried that the method
Is success. If the expense of sizing, wrap
ping, packing and toxing oranges can be
done away with, it will prove Of the great
est profit to the grower.
Mayor Evans of Sanford says that he
does not think the town needs a day police
man. He thinks the marshal with the
special police of the railroads aud Sanf I'd
house, can do the work, and it will only be
necessary to have one night policeman. If
the services OF one policeman can be dis
pensed with it will save the town 5000 per
annum.
Master Russell Morrill,, the 13-yesr-old
son OF Col. Charles 1. Merrill, proprietor Of
The New Russell house at Key West, is the
champion amateur billiard PLAYER II his
age in the state, If not In the United States.
his average RUS in three oall carom
game are from ten TO thirty-four. He fire.
quently runs 6fty, and could easily run his
string up into the hundreds II he could take
short rests during the run.
The house Of Andrew DeBose, at Gaines
vile, caught frs last Thursday night and
was burned TO the ground The loss is
about $3.50. The fire is supposed to have
caught from a defective brick fue. Toe
progress OF the fire was so rapid that the in
mates barely escaped with their lives, and
succeeded in saving but little furniture or
effects. small unoccupied house adjoin-
lag DeBose's was also burned.
Orange Ridge correspondence Manatee
Adcocdte: A tve-yearold grove on Orange
Ridge p otuced seventy -nine boxes OF
oranges tn season. They Melted tho owner
81 per 900 on the trees. A fve-year-oid
buidsd orange tree on the Ridge produced
Sevea boxes Of fruit this season, which sold
Tor so and netted Sl2.SS. Trot them out
II you can beat IL. A one-yelr-old Herbe-
mont or peyine made a growth last season
OF $50 ltneal feet on the main canes, side
branches not counted. No fertilizer used.
At the meeting Of the Leesburg council
last week proposition from Davis Tillson
and Z. II. Mote, proposing 10 build $l0,0 900
hotel on the Leesburg hotel lot aud $40 900
brick building on the court house lot pro-
vided the town would sell said court house
lot 70 f. II. Mote for So, 900 and donate the
5000 to Davis Tillson and h. H. Mote for
the building Of said hotel, pla s Of both
buildings 10 be submitted for the approval
OF the town council, was presented, and
Alderman Hanson offered a res luton ac-
cepting the proposition of Davis Tillson and
e. H. Mote, and the resolution was adopted
by unanimous vote.
The Orange a'd Vegetable Auction Com
psny held It's third sale Of oranges by auc-
ton at Jacksonville on Saturday last, and
all sound fruit brought good prices About