The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-01
FLORIDA.
The governor has appointed DR.. L. w.
Weldon county physician of Hillsborough.


The governor has appointed DR.. L. w.
Weldon county physician of Hillsborough.
At the fruit growers meeting at Apopka,
last Saturday evening, E. G. Smith was
chosen president, Frank Ii. Davis, vice
president, j. J. Combs, secretary, and q.
N. Mcdonald, treasurer.
The report that great damage was done
to the wharfs and trestles at Port Tampa
by the storm last week is all mistake. A
few plank were ripped up, and 81 20 paid
for all the damage done.
There is plan on foot at Orlando to hold
union night services during the summer
at the Baptist, Presbyterian and Method
ist churches one night each, all congrega-
tions attending the same church.
The Key West fire department has re-
ceived from Ocala the silver cup won at
the exposition. Upon it, engraved in old
English text, is the inscription: "Ocala con
test cup, presented by the Ocala fire depart
ment, 1889"
Last Thursday one OF the Braswell boys
| caused warrants TO issue at Greenville for
the arrest of e. f. Leverett and J. H.
| Slaughter, both living at Auclla, and
charged with tue murder Of T. NJ. Braswell,
near Aucilla, few weeks ago. The arrests
| were made.
At Sanford there is tramp dog which
goes to the postoffice every morning as soon
as it is opened and takes his stand in the
front room and remains there all day,
walks home with DIR. Harris at night and
| then disappears, to turn up again next
morning at the same place.
Jessie Frierson, near Alfalfa, last Friday
afternoon, chopped down a tree which
lodged against another one, and while cut
ting the other tree, a limb broke off and
| fell on him and broke his leg A physician
for and or A1n E,,,IN t,,N &C.. -
was done it was discovered that it was set
wrong and he was forced to submit to the
painful operation of having it all done over
| again.
j. o. Clarke, secretary of the semi-trop-
ical exposition of Ocala, has received a let
ter from George W Wilson, its honored
president, dated Rome, Italy, in which he
states that for the absolute hot, hot in its
| most superlative sense, the Florida
summers sun cannot begin to compare to
the sun of Italy. The Italian sun, he says,
is a scorcher. He says that Mr.. Plants ex-
hibit at the Paris exposition is attracting
| great deal of attention and is calculated to
be of inestimable value to the state.
The annual camp meeting at Williams
camp ground, near Pensacola, was begun
| Thursday night. Some of the ministers
expected to be in attendance were Rev.
Mark Andrews of Mobile, Rev A. " Brown
of Georgiana, Rev. w. p. Dickinson of
Mobile, Rev. }. H. James of Milton, Rev.
G.. d. Jordan of Evergreen, Ala, Rev Mr..
Barnes Of Powelton, Fla, Rev. A c. Hun
ley of Brewton, Ala, Rev. Mr.. Roberts of
| Stockton. Ala Rev. George Jones of Bay
Minette, Ala, Rev. w. S. Cox of Pensa-
cola, Fla.
Gainesville Record: j. A. Erickson came
| from Mlcanopy yesterday, and he says that
| the TN1npici alaOtinr, bald thora ~, T,,au
| day was warmly contested by the two cam
didates for mayor. J. M. Quarterman the
former mayor, was a candidate for re-
election, and DR.. L. Montgomery was put
in the field by the opposing element. Up
to o'clock Wednesday the votes had been
counted three times but the result had not
been declared Quarterman's friends claim
| about five majority, and Montgomery
friends want about nine majority.
E. F. Sperry, member of the Orlando
city council, thinks Orlando would be a
great gamer by having an open waterway
to the st. Johns river and consequently to
| the Atlantic ocean. The idea is not new
one, having been talked of for some years.
but Mr.. Sperry says it has never been prop
| erly agitated, and its Importance has never
| been appreciated. 1t is we'll known to many
that there is natural waterway between
| the chain CT lakes that lie between Orlando
and Lake Jessup, which, of course, has a
navigable outlet to the st. Johns. Mr..
| Sperry thinks a canal can be cut from Lake
lvanhoe at the foot of Orange avenue into
Lake Formosa, thence into Lake Rowena
at Wilcox, and from there through Lakes
Sue, Virginia, OSceola, Maitland and How
ell and down Howell creek into Lake Jessup.
He believes good canal, suitable for the
navigation of small steamers, could be con-
structed at a cost not exceeding that of a
broad gauge road of the same length.
| The Waldo correspondent of the Gaines
vile Record has good word TO say for the
hooking bird, and he might have included
all other tree feeders, for they ali have the
| same mission in natures wise ordinances
| be says: ut seems that some hortculturists
OF Florida are killing the hooking birds be-
cause they consider them quite destructive
TO the delicate fruit, and 1t is suggested
| that if they would notice the habits of this
bird the bright little songSter would be
| spared, as it is one of the finest insecticiie
! birds and destroyers of bugs and worms, so
injurious to fruit trees. This is from the
best authority on ornithology, as well as
practical observation. l predict that if the
wanten destruction of this bird continues,
not only Will the California spider be pillag-
ing among the orange trees, but Florida
will find her groves going TO ruin, with the
hooking birds lying about dead, victims Of
the shotgun, and the whitening groves be-
ing infested with pestiferous insects, bugs
and worms.n
kissimmee Leader: The ship-yard OF
the Okeechobee Drainage Company is be-
lng put in shape for active operations in
that department The company will at
once build anew and improved dredge of
the same style which has given so much
satisfaction here This dredge will be able
to cut canal 30 feet wide and 10 feet
deep as she goes along, and will be the
largest Of her class ever erected in Florida.
The company also entered into a contract
with the Osgood Dredge Company to fur
nish machinery for an Improved Boom
Dipper Dredge capable of cutting
a canal fifty feet wide at one operation.
This dredge is guaranteed to excavate $50
cubit yards per hour, and will be fitted up
with quarters In order that she can run
night and day. This boat will cut from
Lake Hart northeast and divert the water
into the upper st. Johns river through the
Observation-Disclosures. The work Of building ad-