The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-26

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Decoration day address at Quincy.
The public s,hools throughout the state
| are beginning to close for the summer.
Lack of patronage hes compelled the
ApOpka City UaiOH to suspend publication.
Three hundred acress will be plant d
in watermelons around Monticello this
year.
/ Crops are very promising in Jefferson
county Cotton chipping has begun. Rain
is needed.
Ex-Gov. George F. Drew is now a resi-
dent of Fernandina, and is one OF her larg
est lumber shippers.
The waters Of the Miccosukie lake, near
Monticello, are reported lower than they
have been for years.
The people of Amelia are talking Of in
cooperating in order to protect themselves
against cattle running at large.
Judge Finley states that the court ex-
penses In Florida for 1889 exceeded those
of the previous year by $I5,OO0.
IL is said that the large orange grove of
/ L. A Barnes, three miles southeast Of
Gainesville, is one solid mass Of bloom.
The harbor lines at FernandIna will be
established very soon. the preliminary
soundings and survey having already been
| made.
ID, E. Cooper has commenced the cree
ton Of his new furniture factory at Gaines
vile. The main building will be 40xS6 feet
with wing S5x120 feet.
Mrs. William Scott of Monticello has a
large tract Of land in Camden county,
| Georgia. on which extensive deposits of
| phosphate have been discovered.
Rev. Mr.. Culpepper has been invited to
go to Monticello and hold a series of meet
ings, and he will be there as soon as he fills
| his anOapamanta in SOrfl Florida
Among the improvements to be made at
st. Augu slime this summer will be the
filling in of the basins on the bay front
at the Plaza and st. Francis barracks.
NJ. Endel & Bros. of Gainesville will, in
few days, have the longest sign in the
state. 1t will front on two streets and will
be within fraction of 100 feet in length.
Several capitalists have Joined U. s.
White & Co. Of st. Augustine with the in
tention Of charging the Merrifield truck
farms to 600 acres, so successful has the ex-
pertinent OF last year proven.
The forty-seventh annual council of the
diocese of Florida will assemble in st.
Johns church, Tallahassee, Wednes lay,
May7. The bishop will be with the Talla-
hassee congregation on Sunday, May 4.
At the regular meeting of the Leon
County Building and Loan Association of
Tallahassee Monday night, the issuing of
COO shares OF stock in the new series was
authorized, every share of which has already
been taken.
The Levy county circuit court adjourned
Wednesday in consequence of an error in
the drawing of the jurors, a postmaster
having been found on the list, b esides there
were 301 names in the box in leu Of 500, as
required by law.
Walter Gwynn, long land agent of the
Southern Florida railroad, has bought up
thousands of acres of phosphate lands
around Plant City, and there Is talk of the
organization of a syndicate and the erection
of phosphate factories.
Henry R. Shine, former citizen of Tai.
lahassee, who has for the past twelve years
resided Id Cedar Keys, has returned to Tai
lahassee, bringing with him wife and
eleven children, and again takes up per-
manent residence there-an increase to Tai
lahassees population of thirteen.
One good resulting from the revival meet
ings at Ocaa Is the cancellation Of the debt
of 81, 500 which rested on the Presbyterian
church, and the calling of a pastor TO fill a
pulpit permanently uloccupied during the
past year. 1t is intimated that the Hon.
John F. Dumas hberalty was largely in
ssrumental in lifting the debt.
The following civil appointments have
been made during the past week: Sheriff
of Alachua county, s. G. Tucker; pilot
commissioner, Nathaniel Niles, Key West;
commissioner of fisheries for Florida, Louis
| ii. Sellars, Pensacola; county commits
| sioners. W. F. Miiligan. Santa Rosa, Sam
| uel Rutan, Walton; commissioner of deeds
for Florida in Iowa, L. j. Rice. Notaries
public, r. j. Wright, Orange; q. L. Bailey,
Putnam; J. e. Forworthy, Osceola; Will
Ion. kIn- rsDl- n.-xt 4
Marion. Justices of the peace, George w.
Littletield, Liberty; James PerrynAn, Levy
John Il. Grant, Dade.
n. NJ. Bowen, editor OF the Tallahassee
| FiOrididn, and secretary of the Florida
Guano, Phosphate and Fertilizer Company,
has recently made trip through Hills
borough county personally examining the
phosphate and guano belonging to the COM
pany, and reports himself we'll pleased He
states that on the Hillsborough lands they
have bird rookery where tine quality of
guano is deposited, ranging in depth from
| eight to twelve feet Among the natural
curiosities unearthed by them was a piece
of petrified sponge, looking now like clui-
ter OF crystal gems. They also discovered
a bed of brilliant green mineral paint.
| The Putnam county commissioners at
their last meeting instructed Joseph T.
| Lancaster, one of the board to dispose OF
the court house square at Ocala for $40 900.
If the sale can Ice made, the present build
ing will either be moved over to the jail lot,
| which is owned by the county, or 1t will be
sold and new building, larger and more
commodious in every particular, viii. be
erected, as the present building is entirely
too small to accommodate the various
county Offices There is but little doubt bu
that the land can be- sold at the price
named, but the hue and cry made by thu
property owners around, and by those whC
think the exchange would spoil the beauty
of the town, is fearful to hear.
Tampa Netcs: Work will be commenc &C
Immediately upon the new quarantine sta
ton TO be erected at Mullet Key, at the
mouth of Tampa bay. The quarantine sta
ton and disinfec lug plant will be com.
pleted between July l and l5 When com
pleted it will have ali the latest scientific
improvements and will not be excelled by
any in the United States 1t will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 Messrs. Walk 81 MUIR
dock of Charleston, have the con
tract for the iron work. Capt
Thomas White has toe contract for the
wood work and Col. W. +. Haskins will be-
the supervising inspector of the work
The piling will be driven in twenty-five