The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-19

carried out 523 pass 3ngers from Jackson
vile Tuesday bound for New York. IRE
crowd was made up of employees from Jack
sonville and st. Augustine hotels which
have just closed.
A new factory has been established at
Prairie Greek, near the crossing, about five
miles southeast Of Gainesville, by DIR. Kelly
OF Windsor, Mr.. Jolly of Rochelle, aud
Others. Veneering. crates and shingles, and
other articles, will be manufactured.
Present indications are that Chipley will
soon have turpentine farm in operation.
A gentleman from Georgia. who has had a
number of years experience in the business,
will be there shortly. and if satisfactory
arrangements can be made will locate.
The Havana steamer Mascotte will be put
on the dry dock at Pensacola After May
Is she will make two round trips a week
between Port Tampa and Havana. While
she is off the steamer Olivette will make
two round trips week between the points
specified
At Orange Springs Maj. Robert Hanson
and Gen. A. s. Collins, with others, have
begun mining phosphates, and the latest re-
port is that Gov. Hill of New York is at the
head of syndicate which owns thousands
| of acres of land in that section, and will
put up manufacturing works.
The orange trees sustained serious dam
age in the vicinity of Barberville. Within
| radius of five miles of that place at least
! 10000 boxes of oranges wers shipped the
| past season, but it is thought that not more
than 900 boxes are now in sight in the
same territory for next season.
| A large alligator, twelve feet in length,
was lying in front of the Sanchez block on
| King street, st. Augustine, Wednesday,
carefully boxed up and awaiting transpor-
tation to New York. where he will no
doubt be placed on exhibition He was as
ugly and cross as anybody could ask for.
| Fred Hitchings, foreman of the DeLand
Record office, put up $50 ems in minion
book work i'll five and one-half hours on
| Friday morning last. This is the best re-
cord ever made in newspaper Office in
South Florida, and probably in the state.
Fred has been in printing Office three
years.
The third annual meeting of the Florida
Horticultural Society will be held at De-
| Land on April 80 and May / and 2. The
railroads will give reduced rates, and all
who send 81 to Il. o. Painter. secretary, De-
Land Fla, will get a certificate of mem.
bership which will entitle the holder to a re-
duced fare.
| Gen. J. j. Dickinson of Okahumpkee has
| 1000 acres Of almost solid phosphate above
| Spar. the whole tract bisected by the Flor
ida, Central and Peninsular railroad. Late
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| fabulous richness and extent. He is getting
ready to ship it., while options, which six
months ago were rs and so cents per acre.
have advanced to $500 an acre and have
been refused.
County Commissioner Healy of Volusia
| county, during the past winter aud spring
shipped 400 barrels of cabbage from his
truck garden near Seville. He received up
on an average 81 per barrel, and the aggre-
1 erako avNta, g.. -.
lie has six acres of grapes growing and is
preparing TO set six acres more He has a
fine place and bearing grove about two
miles up the railroad from Seville.
Notice is published of the incorporation
OF the Lake City and Tampa Railroad Com
pany, and also of the Brunswick, Lake City
and Tampa Raj road Company. me esti1
mated length of the former is 40 miles,
| with capital stock of $500, 900. and of the
latter about thirty-five miles, with capital
stock of 100000 The incorporators of
the two companies are tine same, viz: w. H
Perry, A. G. Bigelow, n. S. Collins, J. W.
Perry, B. H. Palmer.
At dance Wednesday night on North
Beach, st. Augustine, William Alexander,
a railroad man In attendance, was some
what under the influence of whisky. He
drew his pistol on nearly every man rras-
ent and threatened to shoot the first man
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profane language. Ga the arrival of the
train at st. Augustine he was promptly ar
rested by Officer c. II. Benet and taken to
police headquarters, He gave bond for his
appearance at court next morning.
The finding of a six-poand shot on the
north end of Anastasia island by an en-
gineer officer of the United States army
led to the discovery of the redoubt built by
Gen. Oglethorpe. Its lines are easily traced
and show the redoubt to have been pen
tagonal in shape. each face being eighty
feet. The face of the pentagon faces Fort
San Marco. aud the finding of the cannon
ball imbedded in tine bank on this face con-
firms the above. Lieut.. Gailliard will
send the bali to the United States service
museum at Governors island, in New York
harbor, where it will join the slx-pounder
compliment sent by Uglethorpe 149 years
ago TO the Spanish commander, which was
found embedded in the east flank of the
northwest bastion of Fort San Marco abont
two years ago by Capt. w. NJ. Black, and
presented to the museum. The "mounds"
that form the first elevation on the line of
the st. Augustine and South Beach railway
are in reality the Ogiethorpe redoubt, and
they should be staked out and preserved.