The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-06
FLORIDA.


Work on the new custom house building
at Key West will soon be commenced.
Fourteen hundred shad were caught in
Lake Monroe by one de Iler Thursday nj hit
Certificates of stock in the Fernandina
Light and Power Company are now being
issued
In Brunswick. Ca, they furnish wood, de-
livered, for 95 cents per load. Fernandinians
pay ST % for the same quantity.
The seventh annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge Of Knights of Honor Of Florida
will be held at Fernandina on Tuesday,
March H.
Three cottages were destroyed by fire at
Key West last week. They were owned by
Gid Lave, colored man. Gato's cigar
factory was in danger.
James Long, all old and blind colored
man, died in Nassau county on March /.
Long was a native Of Nassau, N. p, and
was nearly 1l3 years old.
Fernandina is reaching out for the Jug
trade, aud judging from the appearances of
the steps in front of the express office at
divers times, she is getting a liberal share
of it.
There have been shipped from Upsalar sta
ton, Orange county, this season 5000 boxes
of oranges, and there are 5000 to CO. Be
sides there we're sent by wagon from this
Swede settlement / 800 boxes more.
One year ago Mr.. Rerdell of Orlando put
out two dozen peach trees, VIII ch by care
full attention have taken on an extraordi-
nary growth and are now full of young
fruit, present appearances indicating about
ten bushels Of peaches, If all will mature
The vast numbers of ducks that congre-
gate on Indian river are a great wonder
ment to the visiting tourists. They notices
thB countless thousands as soon as the train
rolls down the railroad wharf at Titusville,
and many varied exclamations of surprise
are heard.
Starke Telegraph: E. Strong, having
accepted a position as president of gas
company in Pennsylvania, left on Wednes-
day, so as to commence his duties with the
incoming month. Mr.. Strong retains his
same interests in Starke, and will be an
occasional visitor here.
Z. j. Whsle, who ships over 1000 boxes
of oranges from grove of 800 trees east of
Orange City, lost $lS7 in the returns made
him by W. s. Fletcher Of Savannah, whose
check for that amou 3 proved to be worth
less. Fletcher, having swindled other ship
pers who consigned to him, fled to paris un-
known.
The Key West Equator SAYS: eff our
sanitary inspect n could only be induced to
visit some Of tne Key West $50 called res.
are a disgrace to civilization. Some of
these dens, apparently, would give hog
the cholera to be forced to dwell in them for
twenty-four hours.
A meeting OF the trades committee of the
Lake County Farmers Alliance was held in
Eustis on Feb. 23 After consideration the
committee decided to establish farmers
alliance stores at Lsesburg, Umatilla and
Tavares. From each of these places several
hi DO no.
stores we're received. No bids were re-
c ived from Eustis merchants and it is not
probable store will be established there.
An attempt at burglary was made on the
Atlantic house at Oak Hill, which is vacant,
but in charge of keeper. The burglar and
companion escaped, going toward Ind ian
river. They were discovered getting in at
kitchen window. Both men are young
aud heavily built, and the smaller of the
two was smoo n-shaven. They left magic
lantern with slides in box with a strap at
tachei for carrying. They had a valise or
box with EN-. They came from the di-
rec5ion of New Smyrna.
At Tavares a justice court case occupied
ten days, which has just ended and resulted
in tie discharge of the wife and the falling
of the husband. Cordelia A. Keffer, charged
with larceny, was discharged ON the ground
that the husband is responsible for the acts
OF the wife in the cas- of the finding of
stolen property. W. p. Keffer. charged
with larceny and arson, probable cause was
found for binding him in the sum of $500
on each complaint for appearance at the
June term of the circuit court.
At Sanford, Friday mig t, the Masonic
fraternity had large meeting, with a ban
quet at the Sanford house. They enter
tanned may invited guests This lodge was
formed at the old town Of M llonviile. an
formerly met In the upper story QofD of
the warehouse at the ond Of the dock. They
held the first meeting on March B, 1872, at
which time there were but five or six mem
bers of this order within hailing distance.
Everything about the lodge remained in
very primitive shape until they moved to
Sanford, when the membership increased
very fast by initiation and utilization.
Positive arrangements are made to put
two new steamers on the ST. Jchu's between
Sanford and Lake Poinsett, connecting
with the DeBary line to Jacksonville, and
thence TO New Y Jrk by the Clyde line. Two
new boats viii be put on Indian river, con-
Meeting the st. Johns line by railroad
across from Cocoa to Poinsett landing.
Capt Paddison is general manager of the
Indian river and traIoroad division, and
leaves next Friday for New York to con-
tract for the |. r. boats a. d iron and other
material for the road Work is to be begun
at once and pushed ahead SO as to inaugu-
rate the new line regularly by Nov. /.
A very important land purchase in north
west, rn Florida has recently been consum-
mated by syndicate of English aud Amer
lean capitalists. A part of these gentle
men, headed by Roswell p. Flower, made a
trip to Pensacola and thence went over the
ground they had bought, and returned well
pleased with their acquisition. The object
Of this deal is TO utilize valuable timber re-
sources and TO increase the value OF the
lands by planting cotton on the cleaned por-
tions. The price paid was $500 900, and
one If the English delegates stated that the
investment should have been Sl0,000,0 900, as
tine purchasers were particularly sati ti,d
with the outlook.
The Pensacola Commercial of Saturday.
says; 1.-The only arrivals since last report
are the Bloomer with no fish, and the Ed
win Booth with three snappers. Both YES
sells consigned to Saunders q Co. The
total receipts of all the fish firms for the
past week have been kless than 400 red snap
pers. The outlook for receipts is very poor
for the next ten or twelve days. Both the
Booth aud Bloomer report several fish ng
smaokf on the banks, but they had no fsn.
The weather was bad and the snappers re-
fuse to bite. Saunders q Co. state that they
received orders this morning, in addition TO
their regular customers demands, for $4,000
pounds Of fish. but they had not u snapper
in o house, and the other firms are SINH
larly situated
Tue Melbourne correspondent of the