The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-01
FLORIDA.

FLORlDA-
The registration for Palatka's municipal
election is in progress.
The South Beach road at st. Augustine
is doing larger business than ever before.
The Brooklyn and Philadelphia base ball
clubs will play at Gainesville this month.
Mai Hollister, once a well-known citizen
of Palatka, will reside in the north here
after.
The pension of George A. Caswell of
Manifold has been increased by tho pension
office.
B. B. Barnum has been appointed post
master at Eureka, Marion county, vice L.
L. Meggs, removed.
The Gainesville Sun is one of the newsiest
local papers in the state. 1t is splendidly
printed, and deserves TO prosper.
Mrs. George w. Sparkman of Gainesville,
who has been seriously i'll at Tampa for
some months past, has greatly improved.
William Campbell of Archer has sold his
crop of sea island cotton of eleven bales to
Maj. Tinsley, representing W. w. Gordon
Savannah.
Oranges are nearly all shipped from
Archer. The past season was the most sue
cessful ever experienced by tho growers,
financially.
Mrs Silvius, wife of the master mechanic
of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railway at Palatka, died Wednesday morn
ing at O'Clock of paralysis.
Complaint is made that fires in the woods
are almost suffocating to those who are
compelled to travel the public roads in the
woods north and west of Gainesville.
Phosphate hunters are coming into
Archer from all directions. Many valuable
beds are being discovered daily Options
and purchases are both being concluded.
The Halifax hammock groves near Day
tona have not suffered from the drought.
Trees in the shelled lands of the peninsula
have felt it greatly, and also groves in pine
lands.
Wyman & Smith Of Archer are pushing
the growth of their twenty-acre cuke patch
as rapidly as possible, having the finest
prospect of success of any one in the
vicinity.
There is a move on foot In New York to
utilize the sour orange extensively. This
will be another boom for Florida, for this
fruit is about as perpetual as an alligator is
amphibious.
About one thousand dollars has already
been subscribed for the construction of the
proposed rock road from the northern linn
Its of Gainesville through North Gaines
vile to Hogtown creek.
Mr.. Camp will present his bond as county
surveyor to the county commissioners of
Manatee at their meeting this month for
their approval, after which he will be COM
missoned by the governor.
Real estate is looking up in the vicinity
OF Gainesville. A gentleman, who q short
time since purchased ten acres of land for
81 900 has since been offered for the same
tract by the original owner, 1900.
j. S. Christie, the orange king of Archer,
is setting out an increase to his already
large grove - about sixty acres of the
orange. This will make over $50 acres of
orange grove that MIR. Christie has in that
vicinity.
Engineers are now engaged making a
survey with the object in view of draining
Lake Alachua near Gainesville. Il is said
the enterprise will be pushed to completion
without delay. Thousands of acres Of rich
land will be reclaimed.
Phosphate has been discovered upon the
property OF George Warren near Hague
Inc lana is near the Savannah. Florida
ana western railway, and if the deDosit
should prove extensive it will be valuable
IN consequence of its accessibility.
Forest fires have been raging tn an
alarming extent in some localities in Col.
umola county-doing a vast amount of
damage. One or two evenings last week
Lake City was almost compietetely enval-
oped in smoke from those fires.
As an evidence Of the blightinp effect NJ
NE present protracted drought, there are !
great number OF acres Of land ia ana
lronnd Lake City devoted 70 the cultiva-
ion Iof Tie great variety Of garden vege-
aple crops which will not yield anything