The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-21

The prospects are that the new Baptist
church at Charlotte Harbor, so long talked
Of, viii soon be reality.
The Caloosa river has gone to grass be-
tween Myers and Beautiful Island. A
steamer can scarcely pull through.
1t is rumored that State Solicitor Wilson
will resign soon and that P. o. Knight of
Fort Myers will be appointed in his stead
Over g., 900 worth of bird plumes and
alligator hides have been shipped from the
bargain store at Charlotte Harbor this sea-
son.
During the past three weeks the Orlando
Building and Loan Association has issued
additional shares Of stock to the amount Of
5000. .
1t is ahassured fact that Lee county viii
get the experimental station, the legislature
having donated 200 acres Of land for the
purpose.
heavy fire swept through the pine
forest at Harbor View last Sunday night
leaving devastation and impoverished soil
in its track.
Tn Q new mail contractors for the routes
betweec Punta Gorda and Grove City, and
Punta Gorda and Charlotte Harbor, will
begin work on July l.
At Gainesville, Tuesday, H F. Dutton g.
Co. honored over 800 checks presented by
vegetable growers in that locality, aggre-
eating the sum of $4,000.
c. F. A Bielby of DeLand has put in an
irrigating plant, run by hydraulic ram.
he has an S00-barrel tank built of cypress
which is one of the finest in the state.
A petition, largely signed, has been cir
culating around Charlotte Harbor asking
for the appointment Of Capt. William
Reed of Sanibel as United States inspector
of vessel hulls for the southern district of
Florida.
Western Union telegraph office in Sanford,
H. M. Killian, has just had sent him by the
company a handsome rolling top desk, the
only one on the line between Sanford and
Jacksonville.
J, II. Benjamin of DeLand, charged with
the killing OF j. Wade Douglass Of New
Smyrna on June G, will have a hearing be-
fore Judge Broome. of the Seventh judi
ciary, at DeLand, to-day, on writ of
habeas corpus.
About a year ago the grand lodge of
Knights of Honor offered beautiful banner
to the local org anization which would show
the greatest gain in membership at the end
of the year. The Tampa lodge has won the
banner, having gained 80 per cent. in men,
bership during the year.
Thirty thousand cigars are now ready
for the market at the Palmetto cigar fac
tory. Their cigars are made from a supe-
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ably with the celebrated Key West cigar.
MIR. Borges will soon put man on the road
in the interest of this factory.
The travel on the boats on the st. Johns
river for the last month has been largely
class of people coming from the north to
see just what Florida is during the summer.
Many people from the New England and
middle states (families) have arrived at
Sanford within month to make homes.
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called our attention to the fact that the red
spider which has made its appearance in
some OF the orange groves in this vicinity
is product of wet weather, and that the
recent drought has destroyed them. There
is nothing to be feared from them again this
season.
The Orange Hammock correspondent of
the Altoona Register says that Orange
Hammock is to have a canal boat line. An
agent of the Florida Railway and Naviga-
ton Company has examined the farming
region adjacent to lakes Yale and Ella and
has found the prospect for a boat line
excellent, and will so report to the com
pany.
Abram Beers Of Merrimack reports having
taken three fish from a hook at the same
time. He set a hook with a small fish as
bait. A catfish had taken the bait, and
large trout mine pounds had taken the cat,
and the trout, in attempting to swallow the
cat, was caught in the gills by the horns of
the catfish. The three fish were taken out
of the water dead.
The storm Monday morning blew the
steamer City of Jacksonville aground about
twenty miles down the river from Sanford,
and the Plant carried large force of hands
to get her off. the steamer is said to be
stuck hard and fast, as the Plant vainly
tried to get her ahoat, and she will have to
be dug out. The vessel is not injured at all,
and no one was in any way hurt.
The high wind that prevailed during the
storm Monday morning blew large limb
off from pine tree near the ice factory at
Orlando. and it fell directly across the
track of the D. and W. p railroad, En-
gineer King, who was bringing the train
in from Winter Park, saw the obstruction
just IN time to stop his train and avoid what
might have been serious accident
The following changes have been made In
Florida postmasters: A. F. Painter ap-
pointed al Melrose, Alachua county. vice J.
NJ. Barnett, removed; j. Herschen at Oak
land, Orange county, vice J. R. Wise, re-
moved; CilSo Pieracei at Orange Heights,
Alachua county, vice F. w. Bellmer, re-
moved; d. A. Dickson at Rockledge, Bre-
ward county, vice Stephen Ryder, resigned.
Sanford Journal: Arrangements have
been made for novel entertainment at
Picnic island o-morrow-something never
witnessed by any OF our citizens, save three
or four-a fight between fiddlers. About
100 of them have been trained for the coca
sion, the ring leaders and umpires having
been prepared for the work some time ago
by two of our citizens-Messrs. Miller and
Parham.
The largest alligator skin yet brought
into market at Charlotte Harbor is now in
the possession of w. B. Gray. The skin,
when spread out, looks like the bottom of a
} good sized boat, and measures 40 inches in
width. The gator measured IS feet inches
in length, and if not the largest, is among
the largest ever caught in the state. Robert
Smallwood and others killed it in Lostman's
river, an outlet of the Everglades.
One night last week negro was captured
at Port Tampa by Customs Inspectors
Mckay and Andrea with large soap box
full of struggled cigarettes. He was
brought to Tampa and put in Jail that
! night, but Collector Spencer released him
next morning on his own recognizance
The same inspectors also found ten gallons
! of aguardiente and seven reels of cigarettes
/, hid on the dock at the port, Saturday.
At Fort Myers, about 2 o'clock one morn
ing last week, a wildcat fell into w. H.
simmons cistern. The water was not so
deep but that the cat could stand on the
bottom with its head above water. After
considerable difficulty, and the help of James
Stebbins, the cat was half drowned and