The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-04
FLORIDA.

Frederick A Garrison has been nominated
for postmaster Of Palatka.
Engineers are surveying the San Sebas-
| tian river for the government.
The Alcazar at st. Augustine is now run
on both the American and European plans.
Jake Marsh Of Panasofkee has found
rich deposit OF phosphate on his land near
jumpers creek, in Sumter county.
At Fernandina Albert Glaiber has com
menced preparations for the immediate re-
building of his saw and planing-mili, de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday morning.
At Monticello. Friday, DIR. Turnbun re-
moved u tumor about the size of partridge
egg from the inner corner of the right eye
Of Rufus, the 10-year-old son Of A. e. Gay.
Capt. J. A. Roberts has sold his valuable
twenty-acre orange grove, near Sumterville,
to Mr. Graham of Mississippi, for $4,000
Capt Roberts and his family will shortly
| remove to Tampa.
A fisherman known as Louis Burns, be-
longing on the smack Ada, in the employ
of the Pensacola Fish Company. fell from
wharf at Pensacola night or two ago,
while drunk, and was drowned.
Miss Anna f. Mcmillan, who, for severa
years, has been q teacher in public school
No. !, at Pensacola, has been forced by con-
tinued i'll health to tender to the school
board her resignation as teacher.
George W. Williams, the Charleston
millionaire, and daughter, accompanied by
his married daughter, Mrs. Pat Calhoun of
Atlanta, passed through Palatka Saturday
in his private car for st. Augustine.
Capts. Alex d. Ferguson and William
BaZzel are in Washington on their annual
tour as delegates from the Pensacola Bar
Pilots Association, to work against the pas
sage of the ever recurring Dingely bill.
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a sale of land at Interlachen, aggregating
$1,000. There is good deal of prospecting
out In that direction in a quiet way, and
some rich phosphate finds have been re-
ported.
The second annual convention of the
Florida Christian Endeavor Societies will
be held at Winter Park next Thursday
and Friday. An interesting programme
mas been arranged, and many prominent
people throughout the state will take part.
Two st. Johns river pilots say they are
ready to take up the $3.50 offered by the
Paiatka Lumber and Manufacturing Com
pany for the plotting Of schooner draw
ing over II feet of water between Palatka
and Jacksonville. The company is also
ready.
The British bark Mertola, Capt. Green,
which left Fernandina on Dec. 26 was
abandoned in sinking condition on Jan. IL.
Her crew landed at Weymouth. The Mer-
tola was cleared by Davis a. Bros. with
2S4 600 feet Of yellow pine, and was bound
for Queenstown for orders.
From so to $50 boxes of oranges are daily
being transferred from the Western railway
to the city dock at Green Cove Springs for
shipment by the steamer Manatee. Other
freights are coming in freely by this new
route from Melrose and Intermediates points,
aud return freights are equally heavy Over
500 sacks of fertilizers have gone out by
this road within few days.
The body OF Charles N. Morris of Cincin-
natl, who was drowned last week while
canoeing at Mosquito inlet, was found
Thursday, thrown by the waves, near the
inlet. When found one arm was off at the
elbow and the other close to the shoulder; ;
| one leg was also gone at the knee. The IN
| fortunate mans mead was separated from
t o body, but, notwithstanding the multi
| ated condition in which the corpse was
found, the deceased's son, who had offered a
reward Of $3.50 for the recovery of his
body, paid the reward in full.
A Barlow special says the phosphate finds
being made in Polk county are truly
| wonderful. Peace river on the east, aud
the Alfalfa on the west, are full of pebbles
or nodular phosphates; and now Mr..
| Whitaker has made wonderful discovery
| on his land of white and cream rock de
pOSltS, tue same as tne Dunnellon beds. 1t
is one of the largest and most valuable finds
! yet discovered in the state. The analysis
| from the agricultural department at Wash
ington gives him 90 ITO per cent DR..
Pratt of Atlanta, Georgia's state chemist,
has been on the ground, and pronounces
the deposit of a very superior quality. Mr.
Whitaker bought 400 acres, including one
of the handsomest groves in Florida, pay
ing $4,000 for the whole, two years ago
| hnf ha ha 70 I,a ;,
5000, 900 in phosphate alone