The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-15
FLORIDA.


The proposed railroad from Gainesville to
Lake Butler is still talked of.
A Hardshell Baptist church colorsd) has
been organized at Fernandina.
Palatka is already talking up big cale-
bration for the Fourth of July. $
The lakes around Seffner are lower than
at any time since the town was founded.
The Times says the Palatka board Of
trade has gone where the woodbine twineth.
Signal Service Officer Hyatt at Pensacola
has been ordered transferred TO Vicksburg.
Government agents ara after the tres
passers on timber lands in the western coun-
ties
A patent has been granted 10 John w.
Trammel of Lakeland for railway cattle
guard.
The receipts of the internal revenue Office
at Tampa from May l to May 10 were
q, 6s5 So
j. II. SAMPLE has sold his residence in
Gainesville TO Jacob GUNNER. The price
paid was IS, 800.
The Florida Midland Railroad Company
has surveyed a road from Melrose to Mean
opy via Rochelle.
George II. Baer is selling in Fernandina
and Brunswick over $40 worth of vegeta-
bles per month from his garden of 100xl50
feet.
Hon. Sherman Conant and wife, OF
Palatka, have gone north for the benefit of
their son, who has been i'll for the past six
months.
Fort White Boomer: Two phosphate ex-
perts while in Marion county we're handed
two samples of phosphate as being from
two different places. They analysed them
and pronounced one 40 per cent, the other
SO. 1t turned out they were chips off of
the very same rock.
In Orange county since the recent rains
the orange trees are blooming. Buds and
blossoms have appeared freely during the
past few days upon trees which have seemed
almost dormant since December. They are
also putting on vigorous growth and are
| recovering from the protracted drought.
A prominent physician of Sanford has in
mind the erection of a sanitarium for the
treatment of diseases of women, and of all
chronic troubles of both sexes. The work
of constructing the buildings will probably
begin June 1, and it is intended to have the
sanitarium completed aud in readiness to
receive patients on or about Sept /.
st. Andrews Bay MESSENGER. John
LutZ brought in from his homestead Mon
day bundle of buckwheat, taken from his
crop which was planted March 10, ten days
after the big freeze, which is well headed
and filled aud fully ripe, and WILL with a
fair stand, yield forty or fifty bushels to
the acre.
Judge Swayne of the United States court,
now at Jacksonville, believes in exercise,
and nearly every afternoon after his official
duties are over for the day hires a rowboat
and pulls up the river at racing gait,
accompanied by couple of friends, who do
their share of the labor. The exercise forms
pleasing relaxation from the days fatigu-
ing work.
Prof. Earle met with an accident at the
state agricultural college at Lake City last
Tuesday by the explosion of bottle of sui
phuric acid, which he held in his hand, the
contents flying in his face, burning him
considerably. Luckily he was standing by
a bowl Of water into which he plunged his
| face, mitigating the effects of the acid and
saving himself from what might have been
a serious misfortune.
The confederate soldiers buried in the
cemetery at Frankfort, KY, from Florida
| are: - McCullock, Sixth Florida regi-
ment; E. s. Ray, Sixth Florida regiment;
Sergt. II. G. Williams, A. A. Henderson,
| Charles Anderson, J. Young and j. Z.
Potts, Seventh Florida regiment; William
J. Spencer, Company F, Florida; e. Smith,
Florida infantry; Zehemia Brown, Florida
infantry; j. Jones, Seventh Florida; -
| Gage, Sixth Florida cavalry.
Henry Plummer interfered in q quarrel
between Page Tillman and the latter's wife
recently at Daytona, and on the afternoon
| OF the same day was shot by Tillman, re-
| ceiving probably fatal wound. Tillman
has disappeared. The shot appears to have
| been accidental, even by Plummer's story.
He was sitting down on a crosstie end at
the time, and Plummer standing near him
leaning on the gun. Suddenly the gun fell
from Plummer's hand, and was discharged
In falling Both men ara cOlOrad
Pensacola NelOS: The recent rains have
caused good rise in the rivers, and large
stocks are arriving from the Escambia
river and other streams There has been
little change in the local market since the
last quotations. Sawn timber is quoted at
lO17 to ll13 cents according TO average, and
hewn timber on basis of IL cents, though
one or two sales were made during the lat
ter part of the week on basis of 12L cents
The stock of hewn is limited, but good re-
ceipts are expected on the present rise.
Gainesville Sun: Letters have been re-
ceived by prominent men in this city from
the bureau OF immigration of Kansas City,
making inquiry in regard to lands in this
part of Florida. Large NUMBER of people
residing in Illinois, Missouri and kansas
are seeking homes in other parts of the
country, and it is believed by those who
control the bureau of immigration at
Kansas City that many of them can be in-
duced to settle and invest in real estate in
Florida. The bureau is seeking information
whereby large tracks of land can be
purchased at reasonable figures for actual
settlement.
w. H. Marshall, master of the steamship
Charles Morant Of Liverpool, England, saws
he is of the opinion that Port Tampa will
develop into one of, if not the very first,
port of the United States, north or south,
for the receipt of fruit from South and
Central America 1t is easy of access, hay
ing deep water channel right up to the
dock, and there are no port, wharfage OF
pilotage charges. He came up to the dis
charging berth the first day and all subse-
quent voyages without pilot. he adds
that any master of ordinary intelligence
can do likewise with ships not drawing more
than sixteen or seventeen feet