The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-22
FLORIDA

FLORIDA
A lodge of Knights Of Pythias has been
organized in Gainesville. and a charter ap-
piled fer.
w. w. Hicks and others have just pur-
chased forty acres Of phosphate lands within
the limits Of Gainesville.
Poyntz Hicks & Co. will, about Oct. l
start bank in Tampa under the name of
The National Bank of Tampa, with a CAPT
tai of 100000.
The city Of Jacksonville and the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western railroad have
adjusted their differences, and WORK on the
viaduct will go on.
W. F. Stovall, having sold the Sumter
| County Times announces his intention of
establishing q new paper at Barlow, in a
few days, to be called the Polk County
Meas
Fourteen new tanks have arrived at Fer
nandina for the creosote works. They will
be used in the new process for extracting
the oil that will be shortly adopted at the
! works
At a meeting of the city council of
Gainesville Tuesday night the contract for
performing the scavenger work for the city
of Gainesville for the ensuing year was
awarded to ]. II. Jarvis for 5000.
The Nassau county commissioners have
| finished their labors as board Of equalza-
ton. An average reduction of about 1919
per cent. has been made on the assessed
valuation Of 1889, thus bringing the total
down TO about 81 1886, 500.
Fernandina Mirror: The republicans
have not as yet selected victims to run for
| county offices. They evidently consider the
prospects of success rather slim, and that the
slaughter of O'Donald, Watson and Stone is
enough for the sake of harmony.
Ii. L. Bradley, who was taken suddenly
| Ill at the beach at Fernandina on Saturday
died Monday. Cerebral hemorrhage was
| the cause of his death. He was native of
Connecticut, and came to Florida some
months ago for the benefit Of his health.
| Tampa Tribune: The schooner Robert
| Rolf is the first three masted schooner OF
her size that ever sailed up to the docks of
| Tampa, To go down upon the wharf
makes the old Inhabitants think of olden
times when the old Dill and White Wings
made their semi-monthly trips TO New Or
leans
Last Friday evening while Messrs. Nc
| Mullen and McKinnon of the Pensacola dele
CATION were looking over Mr.. Minis orange
| grove, south OF Barlow, lightning struck
tree near them, knocked them down and
stunned them. They soon recovered, and
were well enough to leave on the evening
train.
The Fernandina volunteers wrote some
permission TO dlsband as a state troop and
to reorganize as volunteer company
Monday letter was received from Adjt
Gen. Lang, the tenor of which indicate
that the request had never reached head
quarters.
Badger Wilder Of Hillsborough county
says his father, c. L. Wilder, Is
candidate for the legislature, and
tnat he Badger will be a candi-
date for clerk Of the circuit court
when the time comes two years hence. He
goes upon the old maxim: The early bird
catches the worm"
q. w. Hawkins, formerly a Florida rail-
road man, is now one of the nursery kings
OF California. He is in Florida buying
nursery stock, and has purchased the en-
tire nursery of Jared Wimberly at
Interlachen, comprising as many trees as
can be put upon thirty solid acres. He is
one OF the proprietors of the Sweetwater
Nursery Company, of San Diego, Cal.
The rates on phosphates, as established by
the railroad commission, are as follows;
Per ton of 1000 pounds, for ten miles or
under. 4S cents. increasing by gradual
scale; 100 miles and over, 95 cents 200
miles and over 100, 81 As; 80 mile, and
over 300, 81 70; 400 miles and over 800, 50.
etc. The OcaJa Banner says that If these
rates had prevailed when the Dunnelon
company made its first shipment the nice
little sum of 50, 900 would have been saved
on freight alone between Dunnellon and
Fernandina.
Orlando Record: A certain well-known
and energetic real estate dealer of Orlando
recently wrote to Private Secretary Ha,-
ford, at Washington, on some matter If
business, saying that he was introduced to
him winter before last, but didn't know as
he (Halford) would remember him. In his
reply Secretary Halford stated that: Eyes,
he remembered him quite well as the man
who was introduced to him as having only
one lung, but he thought before he got
away that be (the real estate mani had
about three lungs"
1t is reported that while Mrs. G. Taylor
OF Orlando was out walking one day last
weak at Ormond, at which place she is stop
ping, she suddenly came across a large bear
within 100 yards of the hotel A colored
man who was near by was Immediately
called, but Bruin made quick tracks into the
scrub. The editor of an Orlando paper who
was also stopping at the hotel, upon learning
OF the incident, provided himself with a rifle
and laid in wait a couple of hours for the
animals return, but Bruin came not Bears
are said TO frequent the coast considerably
and are great hunters for turtle eggs.
GEORGIA THRIFT.