The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-16
FLORIDA.

Orange trees at Apopka are white with
1 blossoms.
Cabbage shipping from Alachua county
has begun.
Fernandiua is talking of establishing a
telephone exchange.
The Rev. J. C. Sale of Tampa has gone TO
Charleston for medical treatment
Mrs. E. E. Williams died at Clear Water
harbor on April 4. Her daughter died a
week before.
An artesian well -four Inch) has just been
completed at Lske Worth, sinking to a
depth Of 500 feet.
A 4,OOO-pound Hewing safe has been pur-
chased for keeping the county records of
Nassau county in.
The Tallahassee city council will let out
the working Of the city streets to the lowest
bidder on April H.
A large force Of workmen are engaged in
building the veneering mill five miles south
east of Gainesville.
Never before in the history of Tallahassee
has their been such demand for fishing
tackle as at present.
The FL Destino cigar factory at Fernan-
dina on Thursday declared a semi-annual
dividend of 6 per cent.
II. NJ Bryan, an old and respected citi-
zen of Hillsborough county, died at his resi-
dence near Seffner Wednesday morning.
H. R. Shine and family, residents Of
Cedar Key for twelve years, will next week
return to Tallahassee, their former home.
w. C. Milteer, representing New York
| firm, will ship the first carload of strawber-
ries from Gainesville since the freeze to-
! morrow.
Judge Gardner of Gainesville carries a
match safe he has had for fifteen years, aud
| two years.
The cabbage around Micanopy is in
| splendid condition, much is being shipped,
and the prices being paid are greater than
ever before.
A branch of the F. c. and p railway has
| been surveyed from the Dunnellon phoS-
phate mines to Taylor's mills, two miles
below Arredondo.
The COMMITTEES which met on Wednesday
nominated II. Z. Day and J. Simonson for
councilmen of Gainesville, and Andrew
Pierce for assessor.
R. C. NJ Crawford, representing Gin
cinnati firm, will ship 800 crates Of cab
bage from Gainesville this week. The
average price paid is about 80 80.
An effort is now being made to organize
first-class band in Gainesville. 1t is said
there are a sufficient number of old-time
musicians in town to make up band
equal, perhaps, to any in the state.
j. N. d. Cloud. NJ. D., of Newnansville
and DIR. r. A. Lancaster of Gainesville
were elected delegates for Florida to attend
the National Medical Association, which
will meet at Nashville, Tenn, some time in
May.
A colored boy who was sent to the tur-
pentine farm from Gainesville several
months since, il is reported, has been sent
back by the authorities there. he being I'M
able to perform manual labor. He is now
sick and in destitute circumstances. He
was tried and sentenced to the state prison
for stealing a gold bracelet from Mondy
Mitchell
The sale of the residence of L. P. Wescott.
| on Main street, Orlando, was consummated
| Saturday, the purchaser being Leslie Pell-
| Clarke, of Cooperstown, Ostego county,
| New York. The price paid is SIS, 900. The
| property consists of about two acres of
land, having ON 1t an old bearing orange
| grove, and fine two-story residence,
which is elegantly finished throughout, and
is said to have cost about $4,000 when
built few years since
| About 200 people san the broadsword
contest at the base ball park at Jacksonville,
Saturday, between Maj. Mcclure and
Sergt Maj. Miller. Mcclure won by a
score OF Is to 10. Miller was handicapped
| by an unruly horse and lack of practice.
and while Mcclure il the better man now.
with practice Miller would make formid-
able opponent for any swordsman. Mcclure
showed thorough knowledge of his
weapon aud rode in splendid shape
Orlando Record: The following damages
| to the property needed for the right of way
| OF the Osceola and Lake Jesup railway
have been assessed by the juries summoned
for that purpose: 10 the property of A.
| Russell $500. and to that OF Mrs Liza f.
| Reynolds 1925. The matter will come up
| before Judge j. ID. Broome on April Is for
| confirmation. and it is to be hoped that the
| question will be settled that the road NAV
be Immediately pushed through to COM
| pletioE.
| E. S. Sevey had at his stall in the city
| market at Orlando Saturday a curious look
| ing fish. which he received in consgn-
ment from st. Petersburg, on the Gulf. A
| large number Of people examined the fish.
but none succeeded in naming it. It some
what resembled pompano. The fish is about
| a quarter OF an inch thick, is five and half
| inches wide, eight inches long, and it l. four
inches from its mouth to the top OF it's head
and has one fin on its back which is six
inches ana a half in length.
A telegram was received at Jacksonville
Saturday from J.. NJ. Lee at Rockedge
asking if anything had been heard of the
| Sbc<stA AkAuuSlA 1SlStf1 NLicu 1911 tDaG place
a week ago last Friday, bound for jackson
vile. She had on board Capt McGruder,
the engineer and pilot Nothing has been
heard from her since she started, and she
should have been Ia nearly a week ago. The
Liela V. is a launch thirty-seven feet long,
and was built in Jacksonville by Capt. Pea.
field only three years ago. She was bought
by j. NJ. Lee to be run on the Indian river
in connection with his hotel, and is a very
staunch, able little boat She may have
stopped somewhere on the coast, but The
lack of knowledge of her whereabouts i.
causing much uneasiness
Orlando Record: Prof. Norman Robin
son, state chemist of Florida, with head
quarters at Tallahassee, has been analyzlns
a large number of phosphate aud SUPPOSED
phosphate specimens at Tallahassee thi.
winter, ia fact, be states that he has exam
ined about l 200 in all, and short time agt
happened to think of the pebbles take1
from the artesian we'll at Orlando, and wher
his wife went up TO Tallahassee had hei
bring them along. The professor aaalyze1
them, and true to his superstition, found
that they contained about IS per cent. O.
phosphate of lime, and would have showr
a larger per cent. had the speci-
mems not been mixed with other differe a
deposits. Prof. Robinson states that tn,
pebbles taken from this we'll are exactl,
| characteristic OF the noted and vaIuahi,