The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-14
FLORIDA.

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templates visiting Ocala in early April
The pension Of r NJ. Wilds Of Crandall
has been increased by the pension Office.
A petition is being circulated to have the
mail route changed back from Barlow to
| Fort Meade.
H. F Dutton s. Co. ara assessed for one
tenth Of the entire taxable property OF
Gainesville.
There are eighty-taree students of the
| coIored public school at DsLald who are
studying geography.
Anastasia island is booming. Mr.. Flag
Ter wants it. and the other folks are deter
mined be shan't have it.
| Postoffice rumors at Palatka are quiet,
but it is generally understood that strong
| effort is being made to upset the appoint
ment Of Mr.. Garrison.
At the convention of watermelon grow
ers, held at Chipley, it was ascertained that
over 500 acres would he planted by citizens
Of Chipley, Mariana and Sneads.
| Mrs. J. A. Friebele sold a piece 50x105
| feet # her property, at the corner of Frank
lin and jackson streets, at Tampa, Wednes-
day, to Gen. Salomouson for $1,000.
George E. Harris and Jose Gonzalez Elias
will make the race for councilmen in the
Fourth ward of Tampa, and G.. \. Brigham
Will run for councilman-at-large from that
ward.
Spencer, a colored restaurant keeper at
Jasper, was shot Tuesday afternoon by
Harry Burgess. also colored, and is very
seriously, if not fatally wounded. Burgess
escaped.
Circuit court for Vousia county con-
I venes at DeLand a week from Monday.
The court will prob ably hold its session in
the new court house, as the committee ex-
poets to have it ready.
The Spanish citizens of Ybor CITY have
issued in pamphlet form protest against
the recent action of the Cuban cigar
makers of Key West in trying to drive all
the Spanish workmen out Of that place.
The tracks of the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad were laid into Hampton
Monday, from the north. Trains will be
running into Hampton in very few days.
There Is general rejoicing among the
people.
Bartolo Avalo, Cuban, accidentally
shot a negro in Ybor City Monday night.
He vas arrested and takeu before the
mayor, but the evidence proving conclu-
sively that the shooting was accidental. he
was discharged.
The pilots of Fernandna are now furnish
ing weekly reports of the soundings on the
bar and condition of water, direction of
wind etc. These reports are officially made
and record kept of the same by the cham
Der Of commerce.
Capt. w. A. Andrews, who has crossed
the Atlantic twice in an open boat, the first
time in the Nautilus, and the second time in
the Dark Secret, was in Jacksonville We'd
neSday. On the last trip Capt Andrews
was out sixty-two days.
The grading on the Florida Central
and Peninsula extension is finished
with the exception of two miles
hat Vvaan Tap1Da apI Siv Mia Craaly M0st
of the cross-ties are laid and the road will
be completed by March l.
The annual meeting of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion church convened
at Pensacola Wednesday Forty or fifty
delegates are present from various portions
of the state. Bishop T. H. Lomax of
Charlotte, N. c., presides over the delibera-
lions of the body,
| It has been reported to the board Of pilot
commissioners that the water on the bar at
| Mosquito inlet is becoming more shallow
The truth of the matter is that the inlet is
as deep as it has been at any time within
| the past year, and the channel is straighter
and better to navigate than for some time
| before.
There was a good rain last Saturday in
the section around Sanford. 1t was one of
the few showers in this locality for several
months. 1t was the hardest shower of all
in six months. This part of Florida has not
| passed through such a protracted drought
for a long while. Notwithstanding the
drought, however, vegetables have come into
market regularly.
f. Snelson, agent of the Elgin and Ar
kansas Telephone Company, is in Tampa
trying to organize a company to put up
telephone line from Tampa to Plant City.
Lakel and and Barlow. 1t is decided to
raise 81, 900 in Tampa-twenty shares of $500
each. He is succeeding well and it Is att
gether probable that the line will be in op-
GRAFTON within six weeks.
The travelling auditor for the Jackson
vile, Tampa, and Key West Railway Com
pany was in town the first of the week. He
| Is strengthening the books of the road at the
DeLeon Spring station. The young man in
charge there mad gotten matters so mixed
that shortage in his accounts was sus-
pected, and he is in charge of an officer
until the investigation is completed.
Fifteen sales of ten to forty-acre tracts
were made in three days at Avon Park this
week, mostly to exc rsionists There are
twenty miles of choice lake fronts in the
township, but sixteen miles of these are
| already sold A great many new purchas-
ers have cleared, fenced and ploughed their
lots, and are waiting for rain sufficient to
plant with oranges, lemons and pineapples
Mr.. Parce, at Friday nights session of
| Une Guy coulclI, at DeLand, proposed to
deed to the city, for a park, the beautiful
woodland tract west of the Parceland at
about one-fourth its present value. The
council is willing to entertain the PROPOSE
tion from Mr.. Parce, but thinks the city is
unable to purchase at present, and suggests
that this valuable property be secured for
a city park by general subscription.
The PIERCE 81 Tory Investment Company
have under consideration the building Of an
extension during the coming summer of
their road, now running between Apopka
and Clay Springs, TO some point on Lake
Apopka- In this event, a barge will be put
upon the lake, which will enable the fruit
and truck growers of that region to much
more easily ship their produce to the north
ern markets, as they now have to haul it a
considerable distance by wagon.
When the $40 train arrived at Orlando
Tuesday afternoon, Capt r. T. Patton, of
the land department of the South Florida
railroad, stepped OFF and shook hands with
several friends at the depot, leaving his
sachel in his seat On returning to the
train he was unable to find his valise. and
had the train stopped about mile south of
town, and came back and notified Deputy
Sheriff Pickett of his loss. Wednesday
the sachel was returned to the depo by a
party who claimed to have taken it by mis-
take. Before leaving the train the captain
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