The morning news., 1889-02-19
FLORIDA.


will convene in Luraville on Saturday,
Feb. %, at 9 9. IN.
The proposed Alliance warehouse at
Madison seems to meet with favor from all
classes Of citizens.
The present indications are that the next
orange crop grown in the Orange City
section will be simply immense.
Mrs. William Eveleth of Orange City is
still suffering from injuries received in her
fall down stairs at her re idence last week.
The population of Lake City has been in
creased during the last week by over thirty
people, and those who have come will ay
Fernandina Mirror: If there existed any
microbes IN Fernandina, the cold weather
of the last month has frOzen them to death.
Mode Bros. of Fernandina shipped $75,-
900 worth of cross ties last year despite the
prevailing" They expect to do better this
year.
A large number of acres will be planted
in tobacco this year in Gadsden county.
Nearly every farmer is patting in crop Of
The weed
Gainesville is in some danger Of losing its
furniture factory. Other cities and towns
are holding out splendid inducements to the
company TO move.
6. W Beyan is lending his energies
toward the establishment of n new post
Office at his mill, about five and a half miles
north y est Of Live Oak.
Moses Simmons, one Of Taylor county
best farmers, and most substantial and re-
spected citizens, dropped dead in his yard
at Perry a few days ago.
Quite an interest is being manifested in
the culture Of tobacco in and about Haw-
thorn. Some ten or twenty acres will be
planted this season as an experiment.
The committee appointed to raise $4,000
with which TO buy a lot on which to ere t a
hotel at Gainesville, is hard at work and
is meeting with encouraging success.
BY some means J. B. Brinson of Madison
accidentally got an overdose of morphine q
day or two ago and for time it seemed
that his life was in danger. Prompt assist
ance and vigorous measures soon restored
him.
The present session Of the Florida legisla-
ture has more members born in Columbia
county than any other county in tho state.
Some six or seven Of the members were
born there, and now represent almost as
many counties.
A shipment of five fruit and fat cars
was made last week from the car shops at
Green Cove Springs. These are a part of
an order for sixty-five which is now under
way for the st. Augustine division of the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West rail.
way.
At 1920 o'clock Wednesday morning NJ.
Moralez's store at Fort Myers was discovered
to be on fire. All that could be done was
to save the surrounding property. which
was accomplished. The loss is $3, 800 M
Moralez is insured in two companies for
81, 500.
NJ. Sullivan, representing company of
capitalists eng ged in the manufacture of
paper, was in Fernandina last week pros
pecting with view to establishing mills for
making pulp from palmetto fiber and snip
ping the pulp to the company's works in
Massachusetts
The election at Quincy last Tuesday re-
suited as follows: Mayor, II, L. Ray; mar
shall C. w. DUPONT; aldermen, w. w.
Keep, =. B. Stockton, Eugene l.. Hutchin-
son; clerk and treasurer, +. p. May; asses
sor # town taxes, John l.. McFarlin, Jr
The new officers are Aldermen Stockton
and Hutchinson.
James Mott brought into the office of the
Orlando Record Saturday hybrid variety
of the citrus family, being a cross between
a grape-f fruit and an orange. The fruit was
grown on the DummitD grove, on Indian
river. The flavor is delicious, containing
the juciness Of the grapefruit and the deli
cate flavor Of the orange.
Benjamin Riley Of st. Augustine had an
experience 0 Tuesday which has led him
'rU beiieve tIAt To srrUw-G rIt TO a aSChinanan
is a, dangerous as haunti1g a red flag in the
face Of a Texas steer. Some of the work
meu at Mr.. El2ar's residence killed an
enormous rat and persuaded M. Riley that
if he would take the rodent to the Chinese
restaurant he could obtain ready sale for
it. Being thrifty person, and ready to
earn an honest penny, he took it around to
the celestial eating house and tried to dis
pose of it. lie did not linger around there
long, and it is said that he had to flee for
his life to escape the Indignation of the
whole Chinese outfit, as they were ready TO
mob him.
An odd coincidence, which came near
having a tragedy as its sequel, occurred at
Muscogee, recently. A collision between
the switch eng ne and a wagon occurred
there. The wagon belonged to James Bow
man, who was on his way home. He had
his children in the wagon and drove mus
tang pony. At the crossing lumber is piled
on all Sides and the engine was in a few
feet Of them when first seen. The horse
jumped and broke the harness and left the
wagon on the track. The engine struck
the wagon and threw it against a lumber
pile and all VINO we're in it were thrown
out, but fortunately no one was seriously
injured. The wagon was a complete wreck.
The owner of the wagon AMI tle engineer
are brothers
The st. Petersburg correspondent Of the
Clearwater Harbor Times says: ION the
mo ming of Feb. q young but strong cy-
clone passed Bonifacio (Dis5ton City). In it's
course it pushed the hotel a little to the east
ward, and push d the cook-house so that
one end fell on the ground, leaving it ca t d
up at one end. 1t passed on. taking mo .
or less action on all the boats but Tom
Sawyer's in par,icular-the Minnie, which it
literally picked up, ca'ri q some distance,
turned bottom up, ard dropped with such
force that themast was uck.iLto the sand to
such depth that it could not be withdrawn,
and had to be cut off in order to set her on
her bottom. Bath houses and boats near
Capt Miranda's we're demolished, or nearly,
and Miranda's oranges and pomelos were all
blown down, also lot Of large pine trees
near Curry's. From there l have heard no
further tidings as it sped on eastward"
While returning to New Smyrna from
Daytona last Thursday evening +. T. Cum
minis had the misfortune TO lose his purse,
containing over 800, from his pocket. lie
did not discover his loss until he reached
town, when he Immediately started back to
look for it, but owing to the darkness did not
find it, and went ON as far as Port Orange.
la the morning he started a man toward
Daytona, and he came toward home and was
fortunate enough to find it lying by the
roadside near SUIT MS creek. He put it
into his pocket and on his arrival in town
discovered that il was once more gone. He
once moro Startai IN ouast Of IT. mud was