The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-14
FLORIDA.
Ocala has a CANDY factory

Ocaia nus u Chllul AtCLOIl.
Anothet option of $500 was paid on phos-
phate land in Alachua county Friday.
The colored Masons Of Ocala are erecting
lodge room near the Florida Southern
depot
A gar fish was caught in the river near
Green Cove this week that weighed 2254
pounds.
The railroad employees of Pensacola will
have picnic at Marquis bayou, near Mil
ton, on June4.
The remittances for money orders and
postal notes at the Gainesville postoffice on
Tuesday was $S47.
Within the past month about $4,000 sur
plus has been transferred from the Gaines
vile postoffice TO Savannah.
j. II. Spafford has determined to contest
s. j. Kennerly's seat in the city council Of
Palatka before the supreme court.
Mrs. Slocum Of Orlando. wife of Surveyor
General Slocum, has gone to Tallahassee 70
spend the summer with her husband.
The Young Peoples Society OF Christian
Endeavor Of Oviedo has disbanded- The
society had been in existence a year.
A colored female evangelist of the Saliva
tlon Army stripe was preaching and sing
ing on the streets Of Lake City Tuesday.
S. NJ Brewster has been appointed post
master at Longwood . Orange county,
Florida, vice j. b. Henck, Jr., resigned.
There is some talk OF establishing addi-
tional manufactures in Gainesville, and
enlarging some of those already in oper-
ton.
Hickory Springs alliance has recently
started an alliance store at Romeo, Marion
county, Chaplain I. j. Dobbs being ap-
pointed business manager.
The Ocala Free Press boasts of having on
its force young lady who sets more type in
a weeks time than any compositor of
the opposite sex in the city.
Notice is given that the copartnership
heretofore existing at Palatka between w.
F. Krulder and A. l.. OFT under the firm
name Of Krulder s. OFT, has been dissolved9
A. ]. Higginbotham, Jr.. and S. P.
Whittemore of Harris road, Nassau county,
have just finished hauling to Nassau river
100 logs that will average 500 feet to the
log
Capt. w. P. Slusser of Tallahassee has
about completed arrangements to have
three-story frame hotel erected at st.
Teresa-on-the-Gulf, to be completed by
July !.
Mrs Donnelly of Fernandina, one of the
Oldest and most respected citizens of toe
island, fell in her room Thursday morning
and broke her arm near the wrist. She is rs
years OF age.
Dr. Goodwin of New Smyrna has in
vented copper wash for preserving wood,
cloth, etc. 1t is a substitute for the creosote
method of treatment, and has given salts
factory results on years trial.
Fernandina Mirror: The report that the
Mallory line was going TO take in Savannah
is incorrect. 1t probably originated from
the fact that the Mallory steamer Alamo
raan fool 49, 1oaIA a. Al.~k
port.
Notice is given of the dissolution of part
nership between E d. Sabin and c. A.
Hubbard Of st. Augustine The firms name
will for the future be Hubbard, Perkins &
Co. Mr.. Sabin is undecided as yet as to
what he will do in the future
The Kisslmmee Leader wishes it under
stood that the largest cabbage ever grown
In the state was grown by Col Osborn
near Kissimmee in 1885, and weighed 363[
pounds, which is Az pounds heavier than
the one grown at Braidentown this season.
1t is runored that the Clyde Line has or
dered tive new Steamers which are now
being built at Chester, Pa, to ply between
New York city and Palatka There viii
probably be a line of boats put on between
Palatka and Sanford to run in connection.
Green Coue Spring: The heavy yellow
pine and cypress forests of Eastern Florida
make the lumber business one of the indus
tries of this section of the state There are
but few native farmers who do not keep a
log cart, and, when crops are laid by, GO to
the woods, cut raft of logs and put them
in the river or nearest creek which are sold
to the merchaht saw-mills, for which ready
cash is realized. This industry is one that
goes far toward driving from US the dull
ness in trade usual with the midsummer
months.
Key West Equator: The ill-starred sloop
which left this place about two months ago
with young Cook in command, with Mrs.
Whitehurst and child as passengers, for
Cape Sable, and which was lost with all on
board was found the middle of last week
sunk in ten feet of water. She was raised.
Her jib andNH4ainsail were still set, although
the boom was broken. She was in sight Of
land. No trace of those who were on board
when she sunk was discovered. A few
pieces OF clothing were floating about in
the cabin, but the trunk which they were
known to have along had disappeared.