The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-25
FLORIDA.


Orlando is to have a dancing school.
Florida now has fifteen daily newspapers.
Polk county is wild over phosphate dis
coveries.
Fort Meade is overrun with phosphate
prospectors.
R G. Metcalfe will open furniture store
at Fort Meade.
The semi-tropioal exposition is the attrac-
tion at Ocala now.
u. w. D. Boully thinks of publishing an
alliance paper IN Lakeland.
Mr.. Derby of Gainesville received $SS as
returns for twenty barrels Of lettuce.
The latest excitement on the lower Gulf
coast is over the finds Of yellow ochre.
A. B. Canter is building neat thres-
room cottage at Fort Meade for NJ. w.
Hogan.
Owing to the extreme dry weather there
are numerous forest fires occurring in the
vicinity of Orlando.
A. McFahrlane, late editor of the South
Florida Progress, is laid up at Fort Meade
with intermittent fever.
The members of the Gate City Rifles of
Sanford are happy over the arrival of fifty
new rifles of the latest pattern.
w. A. Evans, the stirring manager for R.
fortune to lose nearly half of his bearing
orange grove on Boffum lake by fire.
The ordinance consolidating the Offices OF
clerk, assessor, collector, aud treasurer, at
Sanford, has been repealed; therefore the
Same number Of officers will be- elected as
heretofore.
Lieut.. Morton, formerly commander of
the East Florida seminary at Gainesville
now occupying the same position at the state
college at Lake City, has been promoted to
first lieutenantcy ia the army.
One owner of phosphate lands in Polk has
received returns from samples sent to At
lanta for analysis. The chemists report is
that the samples submitted show 9027 per
cent of bone phosphate Of lime
The South Florida Progress, of Fort
Meade, has been sold to James Dickinson,
who will make it distinctively local news
paper, devoted TO Fort Meade and district
first, and the balance of the state next.
A wealthy italian is in Tampa looking
around with a view of establishing a bank
in Y Dor City. II be decides to locate there
he will probably purchase c. w. Wells
grove near Ybor, which is valued at
$25, 900.
Conductor Smock has resigned his posi-
ton on the Florida Southern and &C ,epted
one on the Florida Central and Peninsular.
his run VIII De from JaCkSOnYllI0 to Chat
tahoochee, with headquarters at jackson
vile.
A distinguished party Of Philadelphians,
all of whom have extensive interests in
Florida in connection with the improve
ment and development of the country in
and around Runnymede and Floradelphia,
arrived in Jacksonville Thursday. The
party includes David Garrison, William ID.
Summers, Theodore B. Stub, and II. l..
Keyser.
Big Arson and fifteen of the Chicago
base ball club will arrive in st. Augustine
on the first of next month and will play the
opening game at the new base bali park
with the local team, who will DO strength
ened by Billie Taylor, formerly Of the
Athletics Of Philadelphia and the Baltimore
clubs, and Jack Key, who formerly caught
for Teener of Chicago.
Two young men of Palatka think they
have discovered phosphate beds in Putnam
county. They have secured options on SOC
acres, and have no fear but that they will
be able to secure as much more if it becomes
necessary, and that, too, at a nominal pricd.
They were first led TO investigate for these
deposits by an old negro, longtime resiA
dent Of that section, who spoke Of using a
rock he found on his place to fsrtilixe his
crops, and that be never used anything else
ksnd always had good results.
NJ The following named have been appointed
to postonices in. -EEGGsQsIIida;s W. II, Mriglt
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