The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-12
FLORIDA.


The saw-miIl &C Fitzville, near Apopka,
is being pre- pared for shipment u Tampa.
Pensions have been granted to John
Block. Bay View, aud Sam c. Hodgman,
Haines City.
The Palatka Herald win be 81 years old
| on March Il, and the event is to be cele-
bra,ed II grand style.
H.G. Cronk of Apopka has been granted
| a patent on the daisy" churn, which be
| invented last summer.
W. Lyman presents Rollins college,
Winter Park, with 5000 building, Co be
used for gymnasium.
Judge ". S. Jennings and Miss Corinne
Jordan were married at Brooksville on
Wednesday evening last.
The total assessment at Tampa last year
was "a. 032 900, and the assessor thinks it
will reach 81. 100000 this year.
Gov Fleming has telegraphe1 to Col
John NJ Martin: al will be present at the
meeting of the veterans at Ocala on March
p"
The deaths in Palatka last month we're
ten, three white and seven coiored persons.
half of whom were under the age Of five
years.
P. N. Oliver of Gainesville is such
practical joker that many people believe
that be is fooling them in claiming to have
discovered gold on his place in Alachua
county.
Congressman Bullock is to have a hear
ing before the committee on military
affairs Friday, in behalf Of the bill which
proposes TO grant land ON the military
reservation at st. Ausustine.
AS showing the rapid appreciation OF
property in West Tampa the fact may be
cited that Charles c. Maynard bought prop
,r-+w- Fk,..a 60. ,.,1 d.
urday last was offered $500 for the same land
Arthur w. Cuscaden of Tampa received
his commission from Judge G. A Hanson
Saturday as receiver of the Hillsborough
County Bank, aud has assumed charge of,
and will at once proceed to settle up tn g
affairs of that short-lived institution.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Tampa is negotiating for the missing
Link" properly, at the intersection of
Franklin and jackson streets, at present
occupied by w. r. Burke as auction rooms.
If they secure it the building will be re-
modelled.
The following changes have been made in
Florida postmasters: |. O. Roberts, ap-
pointed at Berrydale, Santa Rosa county,
vice A. II. Roberts, resigned; j. z. Wagner
at Drexel, Pasco county; r. H. Wilson at
Ferry Pass, Escambla county, vice ]. L.
Hoyt, resigned.
The county commissioners of Putnam,
who purchased the lot adjoining the Jail at
Palatka at their last meeting, propose to
erect a hospital on it at some future day,
but in the meantime the premises will be
devoted to garden purposes for the feed of
prisoners. who will be re quired to work
the garden.
George Dougherty, engineer of J. r.
Melons steam yacht, now lying at Pala ka,
VIC IA CHI out loAz 8,
preservers, when it was accidentally dis
charged, the load tearing the flesh from the
right arm between the wrist and elbow.
The bone is badly splintered and the sin
ews of the arm are exposed.
Vice President Milton III. Smith of The
Louisville and Nashville railroad has noti-
fed Col. w. d. Cnipey, vice president of
the Pensacola and Atlantic railroad and
mayor Of Pensacola, that Baron Rothschild
will visit Pensacola in a few days He will
60 from Pensacola to Jacksonville unless
some change is made il the present pro-
gramme.
The fourth session of the Mount Dora
Chautauqua, which closed last week, goes
into history as more successful and better
attended than its predecessors Next ysar
they propose to hold the assembly tw O
months. beginning March II and continuing
till the middle of May. Five hundred dol
lars has already been guaranteed, and the
prospects are promising in the extr eme.
ApoplIa Advertiser: For nearly two
years the county commissioners have been
trying to secure some good place for a poor
farm. During their recent session they
bought forty acres formerly owned
by the late Capt. T. j. Shine, situated
about two or three miles east from the
court house. All but five acres is set in
grove, which will soon begin to bear.
Twenty-one hundred dollars is the price
Maid