The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-27
FLORIDA,

FLORIDA.
A large force of workmen is at work on
the new court house at DeLand.
The Pico block at Sanford will be ready
for occupants in day or two.
LeConte pear trees and Honey peach trees
ara now in full bloom at Green Cove Spring.
Strawberries are being offered for sale al
Green Cove Spring at 70 cents per quart at
retail.
The Starke grove near Orange City,
yielded 5000 or 5000 boxes of fruit the past
season.
Thomas A. Ivey, aged about 81, died at
Orlando Sunday night of pneumonia, after
a short illness.
The Ocean house at New Smyrna is do
ing the largest business it has done for the
past four or five winters.
Mrs. Mary M. J. Speir of Orlando has
received check for $4,000, representing
| insurance on the life of her late husband.
B. w. Brown of Gainesville has sold his
| residence west of the CITY on the rock road,
to J. H. Graham, Of the FIRST National bank.
Perey is bringing Strawberries into the
| Orange City market from his garden east
of town. They sell for 80 cents per quart
A row among negroes at Enterprise on
| Sunday resulted in Frank Davis getting
badly cut and Lawrence McCullins getting
shot, so that he will die.
| The Orlando Water Company has several
| expert men, under the management of Mr..
! Ditman, busy laying the pipe for the great
extension of the water system.
| Judge Broome, of the circuit court of
| Orange county, issued naturalization papers
last week to five persons heretofore subjects
of Oscar H., King Of Sweden, and one of
| Great Britain.
At Palatka Saturday, Edwin Lewis Of
the Marion Fidler theatrical troupe, was
| arrested on charge OF attempting a helm
| GUS outrage on a 7-year-old child whom he
had enticed into the opera house. He was
acquittedE
Dade City Democrat: Col. Fitch is the
| unanimous choice of the business men and
| all the prominent and best people of Dade
| City and vicinity for the place of post
master at Dade City, if republican is to
| be appointed.
j. X. Duke, city clerk of Orlando, has
been engaged for several weeks in ascer-
tanning the amount of ex-Clerk and Treas
| urer Watson's defalcations, and has made
| another report, in which he shows a short
age of s., OPS 10.
Lawrence Lewis Of Philadelphia was so
| deeply impressed with the excellent practi-
cal work done by the Ladies Village Inn
provement Association of Green Cove
| Spring, during the past year that he has
written his Endorsement upon it in the shape
of check for 800.
II. Teasdale. Jr., has a collection of the
| different kinds of Confederate States money
| issued during the war; also the currency of
| Florida during 1868, the latter fractional
| currency of p cents and so cents. Some
rude work is shown on some Of the bills,
| while others are we'll executed.
Brooksville Register The man Ran
Rewis, who died near the mouth Of Ham
mock creek, of whom we spoke last week
as the enc who loaded the car at Jack SON
vile that created SO much unnecessary talk
here, we are reliably informed was stricken
down by pneumonia brought on through
exposure while ut Jacksonville.
Capt. Steve Chadwick and associates of
Fernandina, have purchased the steam tug
Wade Hampton of Charleston, paying SIP
600 for her. This tug was built in 1887, at
a coStiof $4,000. She is a staunch propelle'
built of liveoak and yellow pine, and being
copper fastened. Her dimensions are:
Keel, SO feet; beam, 20 feet; depth of hold,
9feet; with engines Of 30-inch stroke.
sunday as a gang of men were pushing a
freight car on the Sugar Bolt railway at
klsSimmee, an Italian named A tonic
CICERO met his death in a somewhat I'M
usual manner 1t appears that he was
walking on the track Immediately in front
of the car, when his foot slipped and he fell,
and, although the car was moving very
slowly, he was unable to get out Of the way
before it was upon him. His right leg
was broken, and he received such internal
injuries as to cause his death within brief
space Of time
A very important document was re-
corded by County Clerk Wolff at Fernau-
dina last Thursday, being mortgage given
by II. r. Duval, president of the Florida
Central and Peninsular Railroad Company,
TO the Central Trust company, and provid-
ing for the issue and redemption of $3, 00O,-
900 of first mortgage bonds of said railroad
company The bonds are of 81 900 each,
bear per cent. interest, and are payable IN
1918. The mort gage covers the entire road
bed and lands Of the Florida Railway and
Navigation Company, except the govern
ment and state land grants.
James Wylie Of DeIand, while at Tarpon
Springs last week, bought nice little steam
launch and will arrive st Lake Beresford in
few days. He comes all around the coast
of Florida and up tie st. John. The launch
was built by Messrs Sampson and brought
70 Tarpon from Chicago by way of this
Lakes aud the Mississippi. It is 40 feet in
length, 3 feet beam, has two 10 horse power
boilers, and all the latest improvements. 1t
Is lice lsed to carry forty passengers. After
making some changes in it MIR. Wylie,
accompanied by bis brother, will probably
make a trip TO the Indian river
DR.. w. A. Shelby Of Orlando died Sun
day night. His death is peculiarly sad from
being an accident, and caused by himself.
He went into the drug store Of DIR. Peak,
on the corner Of Maine and Pine streets,
and walked behind the counter where the
small bottles are kept and poured out from
one about q teaspOonful, which he drank at