The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-28
FLORIDA.

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Orange City.
A water cress farm has been started in
| New Augustine.
| Fort Myers now.
Another cigar factory began operations
| at Punta Gorda last week.
Phosphate has been found in many places
in the vicinity Of Punta Gorda.
The work upon the theater building at
Tevares is steadily moving forward.
! During the year 1889 Florida paid out
1927 ,242 so for the education of negroes.
Kissinmee now has two steamer lines
running TO Bassinger and intermediate
points.
A meeting Of the democratic executive
committee for Lake county will be held in
Tavares today
The experiment station farm at Lake City
has put out an orchard of five or more acres
in choice varieties of peaches.
James Lopez, in making an excavation
| four miles from st. Augustine, found the
remains of stone crabs three or four feet be
| low tAe surface.
| A branch of the Interstate Building aud
/ Loan Association was organized at Fernan-
dina Thursday night and $50 shares were
subscri bed for.
| Windsor has been thrown into consider
able excitement over tae wonderful dis
coveries made by Capt. Barker in the way
of phosphate bed
! At Daytona, on last Tuesday evening, the
Halifax Rifles celebrated the completion Of
their new armory by a bazaar, supper,
military drill, etc, and on Wednesday
evening ball.
Owing to long dry spell, growers who
have left oranges on the treets until now
/ .r,vaNA hat NI,, e L.
that they are forced to ship to prevent
further loss.
The teachers institute OF Clay county,
which was appointed for the first week in
February, has been postponed to the first
week in March.
G. II. Kraft has been appointed ticket
| agent of the Florida Central and Peninsular
and Tavares, Orlando and Apopka roads,
and I. Sims is freight agent.
The Farmers and Fruit Growers Associ-
| alton of Orlando went on an excursion TO
the sugar farm at st. Cloud Saturday.
There were 300 people in the party.
The ladies connected with the Methodist
church of Tavares are to organize society
for the purpose Of raising funds to be ap-
piled to the erection of a church building.
| Duval Bros. of Umatilla have sold their
orange crop for 81 % per box on the trees,
| TO Roberts q Williams of Philadelphia
The crop will aggregate about i 200 boxes.
| The joists for tine first floor Of the Still
| man hotel at Orange City are in place, and
the work is going steadily on. About
$4,000 brick have been put into the founda-
ton.
Col. Trabue of Punta Gorda says the
bottom Of Charlotte Harbor bay is covered
with stratum of phosphate rock six feet
| thick, from the mouth of Peace river to the
mouth of the Myakka.
at Madison last Sunday afternoon as NJ.
N. Drew and Miss Eliza CASTOR were return
| ing home from Hamburg their team, a pair
| OF young mules, took fright below the Gem
etery and ran. Both were severely bruised.
j. 6. Borden has donated two lots at the
| head OF Palmer street, near the railroad, to
the BapUists Of Green Cove, and tnis denom-
ination is now making preparations to erect
handsome building thereon at an early
day.
Two white tramps were arrested at
Tavares on Saturday, charged with break
ing into the house of S. Donaldson, at
Sorrento, on Friday night, and were lodged
in Jail to await trial before the criminal
court.
John Jones, an attorney of Orlando
while out hunting in Manatee county, found
some specimens Of phosphate. He took in q
partner and they bought up several thou
sand acres of land, which they recently sold
for $4,000
About three weeks ago A. S. Loveioy,
who is raising vegetables on the Tobacco
farm near Fort Myers, shipped several
crates OF tomatoes to Philadelphia, on
which he realized SO per crate They sold
at "a 90 per crate, and the shipping ex-
penses amounted to 81 so, giving a clear
profit OF SO per crate to the producer.
o. NJ. Crosby, formerly of Jacksonville.
and now acting Florida immigration agent
at SO Franklin street, New York, arrived at
jacksonville Saturday with a party of
seventeen tourists and settlers via the Ocean
Steamship Company and Waycross The
entire party Is going TO DeLaud on Mon
day, and on Tuesday starts for Avon Park
for hunting and fishing trip.
There seems to be prospect of a lively
row between Mayor Marks of Orlando and
the city council. The formers message, con-
tanning some pers )nal and other statements
regarded as unwarranted by the council,
was returned to him with request for re-
traction and withdrawal The MAYORS
Objectionable statements were made in ref
erence to the sale of city bonds.
Fernandina NetCS: The extraordinary
mildnesS of this winter season has caused
vegetation TO be far in advance of its usual
stage at this time of the year, and the de-
ciduous trees bear spring-like appearance
DR.. Frasier has china tree on which the
young leaves are ~ inches long, and on
Third street is a mulberry tree almost in
full leaf, while in Villalonga park second
crop Japan persimmons are yellow and
ripening fast.
On Wednesday Charles E. Wimberly
was arrested at Marietta, Nassau county,
by a United States deputy marshal. Gov.
Drew went his bond of $4,000 The officials
have been hunting high and low for Mr..
Wimberly, even extending their search
into Georgia, while in the meantime he
has been coming and going unconcernedly,
part of the time at Fernandina, part of the
time up in Georgia, and when arrested was
only twelve miles from jacksonville at
work in Gov. Drew's mill
Gus Pothin of New York has on the
stocks the frame and partially finished hull
Of boat which, when completed, will be a
decided novelty. The length tetween stem
ana stern posts is thirty feet, with eight
feet beam, and it will be finished as a
acknowledged steam yacht. While it is
not acatamaran hull, strictly speaking, the
peculiarly contrived division of the hull
gives 1t all the non-resisting proper
ties of the catamaran, without its vicious
propensities. Full-rigged, with sails, engine