The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-16
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The alliance exposition committee are
hard at work at Braidentown arranging q
county exhibit.
A mail route he's been established be-
tween Pomona and Welaka for the con-
venience of Welakians.
The new hotel Everett of Jacksonville is
| now under the management of McIver &
Baker, formerly of the Duval.
Work was commenced Wednesday morn
ing on the new passenger depot for the
South Florida railroad at Tampa
Carlos Recio's new brick residence at Key
West will be q beauty. The pressed brick
used by the contractors cost 500 per
thousand.
Il. Barr has been in business in Daytona
thirteen years, having started In 1877 and
now, feeling it was time to retire, has
closed out his stock
s. Fl. Grove, architect, who purchased
the DR.. Dayton property, will not come to
Daytona this winter. his business having
called him to Fort Worth. Texas.
The United States Rolling Stock Com
pany's works at Decatur. Ala, has about
completed the orders for the Georgia South
ern aud Florida for 200 fruit cars.
n. -. DAFT Oh DeybOna Is picking and
shipping oranges to Boston, New York and
Baltimore. A shipment TO Baltimore brought
81 per box for oranges and 81 for lemons.
An agent for the Florida Central and
Peninsular railway was in Arcadia last
week hiring hands to work on an extensiol
of that road from Plant City to Charlotte
Harbor.
F. G. Thomas, the negro lawyer, was on
trial at Tampa Wednesday before Judge
Harrison, charged with having forged a
deed to land belonging to Sarah Brooks
(colored).
large party of officials of the Orange
Belt railroad are investigating the towns
on that line with view to starting i'm.
provements wherever they can be advan-
tageousy introduced.
A. Il. Wellman, a prominent citizsn of
Nolusia county, has gone to Honduras,
where he will i'll future reside. Mr.. Well
man is the owner OF an extensive banana
plantation in that far-off country.
Roscoe Perry, a veteran of the United
States army and trusted employe in Capt
Blacks department, recently drew a snug
back pension, which he put to use in i'm
proving his North City home at st. Angus
tine.
Andrew McDermott, the painter who fell
firm a scatfold near the top of the Tamua
Bay hotel Saturday evening and received a
serious injury to his spine and had his skull
fractured, is getting better. and it is now
thought taat he will recover
Mrs. E. W. Haliord, wife of President
Harrison's private secretary, arrived at
Orlando from Washington Thursday. and
will be a guest at the delightful residence
of Postmaster Fletcher on Rock Lake. Miss
Jeannette Halford, who speut winter before
last in Orlando, will spent this winter in
Atlanta, Ca, cultivating her excellent
voice.
As Mrs. j. G.. Keller was driving up the
ocean beach near Daytona, a day or two
ago, with her friend, Mrs. Taylor and
child in the wagon, the horse suddenly
turned back cramping and upsetting the
wagon and throwing the occupants into the
surf, with the box of the wagon over them
Mrs. Taylor's shoulder was dislooated. but
fortunately no further injury was inflicted.
Palatka Times: Engineer j. II. Bacon.
of Capt. W. NJ. Blacks department, passed
through the city yesterday, en- route to
Punta Gorda, at which place he will be
Joined by Engineer a. q. Harper, who is
now aboard the snag boat Suwannee. en-
gagged in work on the Caloosahatchie river.
A survey, preparatory to dredging Char
lotte HarD0r the terminus of the Florida
Southern, will be made, also the shoal
points about the long wharf, Boca Grande
and throughout the ship canal from deep
sea to railroad connections at Punta Gorda
and Peace Creek.
The city council Of DeLand held a meet
ing last week and ordered electric lights for
SIX months at an expense Of $500. This
action is loudly condemned bv some. At
their last regular meeting the finance COM
mittee presented budget of expe ases show
ing an estimated deficiency of over $500
more than the tax list, and on top of this is
to be spent $500 more for this luxury. They
also propose to levy a special tax of az
mills, more than ever before, making the
total city tax M mills. There is a big
howl aud talk of an attempt to defeat the
collection Of the tax by legal process. 1t is
currently reported that pool has already
been formed and B. L. Miller employed for
that purpose.
Palatka Herald: The Herald is in posses
sion OF cane with quite a history. Last
week Tom Goodyear, an Old negro ared
about So years, died. Ia his death bed was
common walking stick, on the handle of
which were two leather straps, 20 which
were attlched two keystone larye
and the other small. The old negro carried the
cane during the las5 twenty Live years of his
life. lie never went without it, and always
proclaimed that the small key would open
his way into the better world aud that the
large key, should he not go to that desired
land, would allow him TO escape from the
doors of that land which is hotter than this
But when Goodyear died ne left the KEYS
and stick by his side while his spirit de-
parted to that undiscovered land. 1t mat
tiers net to which place the good old colored
man went he will find the doors open for
his reception
DeLand correspondence of the Jackson
vile Times Uision: Sheriff Stevenson has
secured another gictorv nv arraetipo n,,,l