The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-23
FLORIDA.
The Suwannes river is getting down near
low-water mark.

FLORIDA.
The Suwannee river is getting down near
| low-water mark.
On Nav 10 there will be an election on
Palatka Heights for town officers.
A pension has been granted to George W.
| Bailey of Orlando as an original Invalid.
The Florida Central and Peninsular pays
every month S45, 900 IN salaries TO their va
| rious employees.
The Florida Horticultural Society will
hold its third annual session in DeLand from
| April 80 to May q
| Forest fires are still doing considerable
| damage in the northern part OF Taylor and
| in Madison counties.
| The Sanford Journal has been sold to
| George A. Vannevar, and will be under the
the editorial charge of Mrs. Lucie Van
nevar.
J. N. Blount Of De Soto county planted a
piece of ground containing less than quar-
| ter of an acre in beans from which he real
| lied Sl07 % NIT
A pension has been granted to Elizabeth
| C.,1widow 0f Joseph IN Bodine, Enterprise.
and he pansion of George Ostrander,
| Manga, has been increased.
An election viii be held at Arcadia on
| May 10 to select a mayor and marshal to
| fill the vacancies caused by the resignation
Of I. J. Pepper and D. w. Brown.
| W. X. Washburn will build dwelling
| directly east of p. .. Knights place at Fort
| Myers, commencing work Immediately, the
probable cost of which will be about 81 600.
The Palatka Gun Club has been chal-
| lenged by the Welaka team for contest at
that place. The challenge has been ac-
copied, and the trial will take place next
week.
A number of brethren of the Masonic
| hau iafGf
from the grand lodge to organize at Bethel
| church, in the first district of Lafayette
| county.
Capt. ]. H. Welsh, the enterprising
| founder Of Welshton, has discovered very
rich vein of phosphate on his lands, and has
| received an order from London, Eng, for
| 1000 tons.
The amount paid to jurors and witnes Sos
at the recent term of the circuit court in
session three days, and about fifty witnesses
| were summoned.
There are cattle kings and phosphate
| kings In Florida, says the Gainesville Sun,
but Tison of Waccanoota is the goat king
of that locality. He is the proprietor of
about 200 goats.
Harry Clark. the shipping clerk of the
Kimball Lumber Company at Apalachicola,
had his leg severely mashed by a stick of
| will be obliged to remain quiet for few
days.
The glove fght between Tate and EzzelIe
| took place at McMurray's riuk at Jackson
vile Monday night, and Tate was declared
winner in the fourth round, Ezzelle leaving
the ring, claiming foul, and refusing to fight
any longer.
The following changes in Florida post
masters have been made G.. d. Menden-
ha1 NNI I'LL
county, vice j. A. Robinson resigned; +. f.
kinster at Leonard, Pasco county, vice A
s. Kuster resigned.
| w. G. Crum, editor of the Florida Farm
erS' Advocate. has been commissioned by
Robert f. Rogers, president of the State
Farmers Alliance of Florida, general or
ganizer for the state at large of farmers
alliances, including suballiances and county
alliances.
The postmaster at Perry has given notice
that bids veil be received during the next
ten days for a contractor to carry the mail
from Perry to Waylonzo, distance of
fifteen miles, commencing July l, 1890,
and ending June 80, 1891. The mail will
be carried twice week.
The surveying corps of the Tobacco Belt
railroad, in Taylor county, have surveyed
a line on the ca st side of the San Pedro
| bay to Stephensville, and will return on
1
the company will decide on the best route
and commence building the road.
Annie Moore. aged 10, died at st. Angus
tine Monday. She was the daughter of
John Moore, a brother of the Rt. Rev.
Bishop, bishop of the diocese an orphan
tenderly nourished by the good bishop and
his sister, Mrs. Leavey, taught by the good
Sisters OF st. Joseph's, and of whose merc-
full band she desired to be a member
| The gteamer Chattahoocbaa forrcar,x, 80
, the Peoples Line, arrived at Apalachecola
| Sunday from Indian river, where she has
been used as floating hotel for the past
two years. She has been purchased by the
Vicksburg and Greenville Packet Company,
and VIII run between Vicksburg and Green.
vile, Miss, after a thorough overbauling
Mr. Queen, special agent OF census. has
completed the work of listing the NOR
cages on record in Gadsden county, and
has gone to Bristol, Liberty county. Mr.
Queen reports the recorded indebtedness of
the county at less than S100, 900, which, the
J agent says, is about 60 per cent. below any
other county so far examined in his divis-
ion.
A few Of the leading moneyed men of
Fernandina are quietly forming company
among themself to develop suburban prop
erty. Their intention is to purchase a tract
of land, and by extraordinary inducements
and attractive improvements cause the
RAPID ueVelop1Dnb Oh community OF truck
gardeners and SUBURBAN residents. 1t is q
part of their plan to connect the new suburb
with the city proper by an electric street
railway.
Perry Banner: A good joke is told on
one of the citizens of our county: A short
time ago he went to preaching, and soon
after arriving at the church an old hen
jumped out from under his buggy seat, and
went away cackling at high pitch. The
man was somewhat surprised at car rying q
hen to preaching, and was greatly sur
prised when crowd of boys went to the
buggy to look for the hen nest, and foun d
two eggs and bottle of whisky under the
seat. Whether the hen was the mother of
all the contents or hot remains a mystery,
but it is evident that she is not prohi BIZ
zionist