The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-22
FLORIDA.


The new brick hotel at Orange City is
going up slowly.
Sixty students are in regular attendance
at the Seville public school.
Six hotels are now open in St. Augustine,
and there is a large number OF guests at
each.
Bradford county has gone wet by 16l
majority. ALI the precincts went dry but
Starke.
John H. Purcell Ccolored) fell in the river
at Palatka Saturday while drunk and was
drowned.
The st. Johns river conference Of the
Methodist church will meet at Orange City
in January next.
Numbers Of hogs in northwest Putnam
county are dying of cholera Eight were
found dead not long since around one pool.
DR.. Meredith, who recently opened an
Office at Orange City, has taken his single
down and returned to his former home,
Eustis.
8. Sparkman, who owns a beautiful grove
near Orange City, sold his crop in bulk for
81 100. The grove turned out about /, 400
boxes.
The Hotel Seville at Seville, will shortly
throw its spacious doors open for the winter
season. Most of the rooms have been en-
gagged.
D. W. Holbombe, postmaster at Beau
fort, in Taylor county, is making his ar
rangements to move to Arkansas, his
former home
The cadets of the East Florida seminary,
at Gainesville, have formed a military
gymnasium club for the purpose of aiding
in physical development.
James Lee, while attempting to couple
cars on the st. Augustine and Palatka rail
road at Palatka Tues lay, had his leg broken
in two places below the knee.
An original invalid pension certificate has
been issued to Jonathan Ellis, Ro k Spring,
and a reissue and increase to Andrew j.
Butler, Orange Park, and Cyrus MILFORD,
Hawthorn.
Work upon the new passenger depot of
the South Florida railroad at Orlando is
progressing finely, and it will be ready for
occupancy In ample time to accommodate
the winter tourists.
A number of the Jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West officials are attending circuit
court at Tavares, Lake county. That town
is suing the road for 100000 on a charge
of burning the town.
A. S. Lawrence, a well-known railroad
conductor and Miss Addie Bohemian, both
of Pensacola, were welded Monday even
ing at the residence of the brides parents,
MI. ana Mrs. j. l. stephens
The Orlando and Winter Park railroad is
doing considerable freight business in the
way of hauling oranges to Orlando for ship
ment north from the country surrounding
Osceola, Gabrielle and Chuluota.
The following changes have been made
in Florida postmasters: Mrs. E. j. Elan
ders, appointed at Nashua, Putnam county,
vice B. w. Brady, removed; w. j. Shine
at Sumterville, Sumter county, vice w. NJ.
Woodward, removed.
The Georgia Southern and Florida rail-
road will put on a night pile-driving force,
in order to finish their dock at Palatka for
the winters business. 1t is estimated that
thousands of crates of vegetables and
oranges will be shipped over this route the
coming season.
John T. Langford and Miss Melissa n
Mathes, of Lafayette county, were married
in the office of the Bradford Hawkeye last
week by Justice PuUerbaugh. They had
walked eight miles in the morning to find
the justice, and their haste and lack of the
usual ceremonious observances were due to
the fact that the lady's brother objected to
the match.
Crescent city correspondence Palatka
Herald: "A letter just received here from
l.. A. Ballard of New York states that If
the citizens Of this place would raise 500, 900
to build a chautauqua that Rev. DR.. Tai
mage would spend four months here every
winter. If the people here were foolish
enough TO do such thing, this would be a
very nice little scheme for Mr.. Ballard to
work up, provided he could get about
| $4,000 for his commissions. This makes US
think of the Crescent City and Huntington
Street railroad. Now, if we hear any more
of this $50 900 scheme we will see that the
worlds fair of '92 is held In Crecent City
instead of New York or Chicago"
The Walton county grand jury has in
dicted Sheriff b. j. CASTILLO and his deputy,
q. W. Black, of Geneva county, Alabama,
for the murder of Russell and Pye, who were
killed by them and other officers in Walton
| county a few months ago. The officers
attempted to arrest Russell and Pye. The
latter, who made show of resistance, it is
claimed by some, and without resisting the
arrest, it is claimed by others, were shot to
death. The arrest was attempted by the
Alabama officials with no requisition from
the Florida state authorities, and two or
three unlawfully constituted officers of
Walton county, it is said, were accessory to
the killing