The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-19
FLORIDA.


The Tampa high school will be opened
about Sept Is.
Bass fishing at Port Tampa is fine. Guam
titles are being caught there daily.
At st. Augustine, the grand army post
has fitted up room in rld Fort Marion
The board of road superintendent will
meet in the court house at Arcadia on
Sept 2.
DR.. Walls new residence, when com
pleted, will be one Of the handsomest in
Sanford.
On Sept 1G, circuit court will be held for
the first time in the new court house at
Arcadia.
The carrying trade between Tampa and
Havana has increased $4,000 per month
over last year.
The membership of the Manatee Orange
Growers Union Of the town of Manatse now
numbers thirty-one.
County Commissioner l. N. Withers of
Lady Lake was elected chairman at the
last commissioners meeting
The Bank of Pasco county, located at
Dade City, has been organized, with r. T.
Hall president and A. A. Parker cashier.
Contracts are out for the building of a
three-story brick building so by so, on the
corner of Cass and Franklin streets at
Tampa.
Messrs r. H. Herndon g. Son, of Tampa.
have purchased lot l, block 10. on Tampa
street, on which they propose to erect two
residences Price paid 81, 200.
With the rebuilding of dradge No. 3, and
the building of several new barges the
Okeechobae ship yard at Kissimmee pre-
sents very busy appearance.
Lumber is being shipped from Kissimmee
to Narcoos'ee, where 1t will be wagoned to
Lake Hart, to be used in the erection of a
large dredge 10 drain that lake.
At the city election at Kissimmee for
collector last Saturday, there we're only
ia votes cast, of which j. w. Maddox re-
ceived "a, j. w. Harwell So and J. l..
| Pherigo "a.
A petition is being circulated in Gadsden
| county calling for an election on the wet
| and dry question, and there is no doubt OF
| the county going decidedly wet as it has
been ever snce it was said to be dry"
! DR.. J. Y. Portar's order to the CITY
| authorities of Orlando to remove the
| garbage dumping ground to a more remote
| point has been promptly obeyed. II is now
| carried to an isolated spot two miles away )
Messrs. Pierce q Tory OF Apopka hav e
| contracted with q. W. Michaa, to furnish
their factory IN East End with cypress
from the Wekiva hummocS, which will
! give employment to ten or a dozen men
and about the same number at the shop.
Col. Sam Fox, Contractor of the st
Augustine and DaYtona railroad, has lust
| returned from Daytona. Col Fox saws tat
the road will be built at once, and that a
staff OF engineers has been secured and vii /
start out at once to work on the right of
| way.
Leesburg is enjoying a solid and substan-
tai boom. Lots are being sold for resi-
denceS to be built at an early day, and four
rick blocks are being built, business
houses, one of which is TilIson a. Notes
hotel, which will be one of the best furnished
and best kept hotels in Florida.
Columbia county had two murders to
chronicle last week, the first being Charles
Bradley, who was shot and killed by his
tather-in-law, Hector Thorn, and the second
was Sam Thompson, who was shot and
killed by his son-in-law, Gus Walker. about
three miles east of Lake City, Tuesday even
ing. All parties concerned are eolored.
Edward f. Pittman, a cigar manufact-
urer Of Quincy, went TO Jail Friday to serve
out his sentence Of lone year in the county