The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-08
FLORIDA.


John n. Dowd is the new chief Of the
FernandinR fire department.
The police are raiding the houses OF ill
fame of Jacksonville.
The guava crop in Lee county promises to
be abundant this year.
The Escambia river is now in good raft
ing condition, and rising.
The new brick block owned by William
Rivers at Ssarke will soon be finished
A pension has been granted to Milton
Richardson, OF Gainesville. as an original
invalid.
A farmers alliance will be organized at
Harris Road by Henry Foutz ON Wednes-
day, April 10.
During the last gale at Fernandina the
wrecked bark Svanen moved about one-half
mile shoreward.
The Ponce de Leon hotel at st. Augustine
will probably close on April Is, after most
prosperous season.
w. A Watts appears to be the only one
mentioned for the position Of collector of
customs at st. Augustine.
Bigelow a. Smith are moving their mill
from Altoona to Aston Park, where they
expect to do an extensive milling business
George 81. Atwood looms up as a forrni-
dable candidate for the st. Augustine post
mastership. He has the backing of the q.
A. r
Harry Jones, for years a re sident Of Jack
sonville, has been appointed TO the position
of organist in the Presbyterian Memorial
church at st. Augustine.
Gen. jackson, in command at the United
States barracks, st Augustine, has received
a special invitation to be present at the
military drill next Thursday at the Sub
Tropical exposition.
In making soundings for the new railroad
bridge at Aston the engineers struck an
artesan flow of sulphur water in mid
stream. 1t comes from a depth of fifty fest
and is quite curiosity.
The low hammock lands in cultivation at
Astor Park have suffered but little from the
the past seasons droughts The orange
trees which grow wild here in the ham
Knocks were not damaged by the recent
freezes
A. Gocanour Of Aston Park has found
rich grade of phosphate on his Summit
property also a superior article of fire
brick clay He has also found deposit of
something which looks very much like
phosphate on his Aston Park place. The
doctor is in luck.
The Gainesville Daily Record and Id
Socate has been purchased by H. II. Nc
Creary, proprietor of the D0iLy Sun of that
place, and the two are consolidated in the
sun MIR. McCreary has also bought the
JcO OAhSS Oublll OF L. w. Carr. The Sun
now has the field to itself.
Astor Park is three miles from the St
johns river, on the highlands. It is a new
town which IS building up with the devel-
opment OF the adjacent rich hamnocks
Whlch are IN the Aston grant. Taken with
Astor, the river town, 1t forms the most
northern settlement in Lake county.
AS the Investigations into the quantity
and quality Of phosphate in and around An
thony continue interest increases. What
has been anaiyzed SO far is said to be equal
70 any IN the state, and, by some, it is CON
sidered superior. Col. Wall discovered one
piece that weighed 700 pounds and another
that would reach ,200
The j., 7. 81 K w. company is about to
begin the construction Of a railroad bridge
across the st. Johns river at Astor. The
engineers are now busy taking the sound
ings OF the river led. In connection with
this bridge railroad will be built from
this point to some point on the j., T. & X.