The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-14
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Palatka, says the Times, needs a sanitary
inspector
AlIigators twelve feet in length are yet to
be found about Tampa.
Thomas W. Hutchinson and John w.
Frater want to be sheriff of Escambia
county.
The public clock TO be placed in the tower
of the county court house at Pensacola has
arrived.
Col. FlagIer, the st. Augustine money
king, has just paid the doctor for attending
his daughter S250,0o0.
The Hillsborough county board of health
offers to vaccinats any one free of charge
from April Is to June Is.
The first peaches of the season made their
appearance in the Leesburg market Satur-
day. They were pien-tos.
The construction of Il hard road between
Pensacola and the national cemetery at Bar.
rancas is among the probabilities.
Sheriff j. C. Anderson of Orlando is out
on the streets again after being confined at
home with sickness for about week.
''Sug," l5-year-old son of Mrs Oliver,
who has been working at NeppaT's mill at
Chipley had his leg broken last Monday.
Sid Brown of Cotton Plant has pecan
tree twelve years old from which he gath
cred over two bushels and realized nearly
$25.
The semi-annual session of the Lake
County Sunday School Association will be
held at the Chautauqua grounds at Tavares
on Thursday, May s.
syndicate of twelve young men of PEN
sacola have bought section of land near
Bombay, in Holmes county, and will con-
vert it into a fruit orchard
The Jacksonville Rerielc, published in the
interest of the colored people, says the
Presbyterians contemplate founding a fe-
male seminary at Palatka for colored girls
in the near future.
Daytona Messenger: 1t is rumored that
large land owner will soon have suits in
stituted against him to get possession Of
land to assist in paying extensive debts that
he owes up north. 1t is said the debts ag-
gregate 100000.
Ordnance Sergeant James H. Ochlltree,
who has been stationed at Key West for the
past two years in charge of Fort Taylor,
expects to be relieved next week His sue
cessor, Sergt. Jacob B. Fugitt, was ordered
to Key West on March %, and will arrive
shortly.
AT Apopka last Monday, Capt D. C.
Shaw met with serious and very painful
accident. He was on a chair boring hole
balance and fell to the floor. breaking two
ribs. DR.. l.. F. Henley was immediately
sent for and set the ribs. Capt. Shaw was
then carried to his home mile north of
town. 1t is thought that it will be month
before he will be able to be about
Another citizen of Jacksonville is in big
luck. He owns considerable body of land
about three miles north of Seffner, on the
Florida Central and Peninsular road. in
Hillsborough county. and recently sent
specimens of phosphate found on the land
to Washington, where it was subjected to
of agriculture. He has received an official
statement Of its rating, and it is more than
satisfactory.
1t is reported that J. o. C. Blount of Bar
tow has made some large sales of Peace
river lands. The rumor puts it $56, 900, but
as he is as mum as an oyster, the facts can
not be ascertained. Messrs. Greesoa, Farr,
and Gibson of Atlanta, Ga, have secured
the phosphate property OF Mr.. Barkalow,
adjoining Barlow, and will at once begin
mining and the cree ion of plant for the
manufacturing of fertilizers. Recent de-
velopments and careful Investigations are
proving that, outside of the Peace river
bed, the largest and best phosphate deposits
in Polk county are within radius of two
miles Of the court house square in Barlow.
Pensacola Ne,os: A very novel case was
tried before Justice Maura in this city yes
terday morning Last Sunday at colored
Baptist church near Powellton, Alfred
Cole (colored) walked in, during the
service, aud took a seat on the front
bench. 1t appears that Cole is net noted