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

st. Johns county will build new jail at
| St. Augustine.
| The summer quarantine season was
| inaugurated at Pensacola Tuesday.
Commencement exercises of Stetson uni
| versity, DeLand, will be held May to Z in
elusive
The survey of the railroad from Chipley
| to st. Andrews, will be commenced in
| few days
Several fires have occurred at Daytona
recently, but fortunately no great damage
has been done.
Duval county alliance was organized at
| Jacksonville Wednesday. Six sub-alliances
were represented.
The manufacturer of fertilizer from fish
| is a new industry just started on North bay
| by Gay & Anderson.
The Interlachen African Methodist Epis-
copal church expects soou to break ground
| for a good church building.
The Plant Investment Company in a
short time will put in water works and
electric lights at Port Tampa.
| Fish packing companies of Charlotte
| Harbor are using over 600 barrels per week,
| and the season lasts until about May to Is
| Over one hundred acres have been planted
| in melons in Washington county already
| this season for shipment to northern mar
| kets
| If the season is favorable the sugar cane
crop will be one of the largest and most i'm
portant crops of Washington county this
| year. tDA7.
| In the Dunnellon phosphate fields 500 men
| are at week. which means $500 per day in
wages, and the men are paid off every two
| weeks.
Next season the amount of block and
| asphalt pavement to be put down in st.
Augustine will be greater than that of any
one year.
Rev. j. B. Culpepper and his assistants
are conducting a revival in their gospel tent
at Ocala. Much interest is manifested in
the work.
A boat is to be built and put on Holmes
creek to run between Vernon and Pensa-
cola by the time the next crop is ready for
shipment.
Chipley Times; 1t now looks as though
there would be enough watermelons raised
in this locality to supply the world the
coming season.
Archie Blount of Barlow shot a strange
species of fish In Peace river a few days
ago. 1t was IS inches in length and Is
inches around the body.
The Blaine Bros. of Green Cove
Springs have received and will fill an order
from the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad for 200 cars.
The protracted meeting now in progress
at the Baptist church in Lake City contiu-
ues TO grow in interest Several new con-
verts have been added to the church.
The farmers of Mcintosh have resolved
that in the future they will give vegetables
the go-by and devote their time, attention
and fertilizers TO the growing of tobacco
The South Florida Railroad Company
intends to put down heavier steel rails on
their road in the near future Heavier
engines will be provided to do their work.
With the latest issue of the Bronson
Times Democrat, Henry B. Coulter retired
from the editorial management of that
paper. He is succeeded by o. j. Farmer.
H. NJ. Flagler made another visit to Day
tone last Friday and decided to purchase
, Orange Island and build hotel there, pro-
vided certain conditions are complied with.
The first consignment of rock for the
: paving of Water street, Palatka, arrived
Wednesday. The florida Commercial
} Company will do the work at its own ex-
} pense.
The largest fish of the season was caught
} off Prof. Peck's wharf at Cocoa last Satur-
day. 1t was drum and tipped the beam
at As pounds, and measured AZ inches in
} length.
A young woman named Blanchard. living
near Cocoa, was shot in the right breast by
: / SOlA1S OtlC uhhiOWhs Aaob WSChs Iu6 WOUND
l is serious one There is q good deal OF
! mystery about the affair.
. The Iuterlachen town council has DUR
chased the Grooms property. corner of Com.
monwealth avenue and Washington street
: and will probably convert it into d public
hall, council chamber and library rooms.
A syndicate Of working men from In
, dianapolis, Ind, have bough a section OF
land at Bombay, and are converting il
into an experimental garden and farm, in
tending to import improved hogs and
. cattle.
Samson lake, in Bradford county, twenty.
: two miles northeast Of Gainesville, is being
drained into the Santa Fe river, whereby
thousands of acres OF what is believed to be
: as rich land as there is in the state will be
! reclaimed.
/ Capt John II. Welsh of Welshton has
! phosphates as rich as SO per cent. and mari
! without limit. which is an excellent plant
{ food. He says that this is already for use
g and he intends to give it to the world fol
; say SO ton.
2 sneciaI train of tha Atlantic Coast in<