The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
FLORIDA.

Inc oaTasOUa nOJeI VIII open THIS week.
Ed Hummer of Palatka Heights is quite
sick.
The daily shipment of oranges from
Gainesville is 5000 boxes.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
controls $50 miles Of railway.
There were 1 200 boxes of oranges shipped
from Panasoffkee one day last week
Ripe Strawberries are expected to be
placed on the market aJ an early date
Panasoffkee has the greatest acreage of
Strawberries of any place south of Starke.
E. G. and F. w. Orvis will manage the
Putnam hotel at Palatka the coming sea-
son.
At Chipley, Bird 81 %. have purchased
the stock of groceries owned by w, G.
Payne
T. Walker & Sons of Orlando have pur-
chased AZ, 900 orange trees to ship to Cali
fornia.
The north approach to the Jacksonville,
st. Augustine and Halifax River bridge
over the st. Johns river, is completed
Judge Cornwell has let contract to
Messrs. Wadham & Williams for a two
story addition to his Braidentown resi-
dence.
Pierre d'A. Pratt, business manager of
the Palatka Herald, won SOLID gold watch
at rattle day or two ago. which is valu
able time keeper.
Orlando will have surfeit of elections
next month, the municipal election oc-
curing on Dec. IA, and the county site
election on Dec. 49,
Willis M. Ward, for some time past sani-
tary inspector for Lake county, left last
week for Arizona, where he intends ca
| gaging in the nursery business.
The suit of Miss L. w. Varnum against
7 fna rlsO,.,
cult court before Judge Finley at PaIatka
Friday, and resulted in favoref the defend
| ant.
The ''iron gang" on the Georgia Southern
| and Florida road, working twelve or four
teen miles below Lake City, struck on Mon
day for an advance in wages from 81 rs to
81 70 per day.
Arthur Irwin, of the Washington league
club. may be engaged TO manage the st.
| Augustine club this winter. A state league
| is TO be formed. Several northern clubs
| will be in the city in March.
The African Methodist Episcopal church
building in course of construction at Fer
nandina, is nearly completed. When fin
ished it will seat comfortably 300 people
being the largest building of the kind in
the city.
Leesburg merchants have arranged for
two excursions over the Florida Central and
Peninsuiar railway during the first week IN
! next month. The first will BE- from Cler-
mont and Minneola, on Dec. 8, and the
second from Dade City and intermediate
points on Dec. 5.
At Palatka, several months ago, Mrs.
Lichleitner went to the office of DR.. w. II.
Rosenberg to have a tooth extracted. Sub
sequently Mrs. Lichleitner claimed that her
jaw had been fractured by the operation.
and entered suit for damages, alleging
Ix,v. ctin lB.a i,,flfr -
| of court.
AS far as information goes, the bulk of
the orange crop i'll Sumter county has been
sold either on the trees or delivered at the
| railroad stations. Especially is this true of
the smaller groves. I. w. Graham, near
Sumterville, has been realizing 81 per box
delivered at the depot, and prefers to ship
in small lots direct to retail dealers.
Horace Lee, charged with the murder of
Isaac Munger on Sc pt 20, 1889. was
brought into court at Palatka Friday Lee
is a coal-black negro, is about 5 feet
inches in hight and has villainous face.
He was very much disconnected, and nerv-
ously toyed with his hands. After consider
able parleying the case was continued until
the next term Of court, and Lee was
| remanded to jail.
Sumterville Times: The organization at
Leesburg of the company to straighten and
| deepen JHG OChldWhnd river is OF much
portance TO this section, as lying near our
town are thousands Of acres of land equal
ing the st. Cloud lands at Kissimmee, which
would be reclaimed if this company do what
they propose. All that is needed to bring
this valuable land into cultivation is to
deepen the river and straighten it.
At Key West nearly all the cigar manu-
facturers who joined on the lockout, and
who form thes manufacturers union, with
Mr.. Cato. president, met Wednesday, and
after long discussion concluded not to make
any advances whatever, or open their fac
tories until the cigarmakers are willing to
return to work at the old rates. For the
past week some of the manufacturers have
been acting individually and offering to