The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-20
FLORIDA.


Floral City IS to have phosphate com
pany.
Mrs. Oakley opened the st. Elmo hotel at
Monticello last week, and viii keep open all
| summer.
The condition OF the city Jail is the sub
ject Of much unfavorable comment in Jack
sonville
The Monticello Tribune says the Mon;
tlcello and Tampa Airline is among the
| certainties.
The DeLand registration list was revised
last week by striking therefrom about 100
names Of voters who had died or moved
away.
The city council Of DeIand is negotiating
with some Philadelphia parties for the
| granting Of a franchise for system Of
water works.
The Stanton mills at Braidentown are TO
be enlarged and rearranged. Work has al
ready been commenced on the foundation
for the new plant.
| Fourteen deer and fifty turkeys is the
sum total Of the game killed in Lafayette
county few days since by Suwannes
county hunting party.
The clerks in the the dry goods aud shoe
| stores at st. Augustine have started an
early closing movement. From May ! to
Oct. they want the stores closed at p. m.
A fertilizer factory wilfprobably be built
in Pensacola. The large quantity of otfal
| from the fish markets. now dumped into the
bay, could be used in manufacturing fer
tilizers.
The Tavares fire case is progressing slowly
| before the circuit court. About fifteen wit
nesses have been examined for the plaintiff
SO far and there are about ten more TO be
called on this side.
| Rufus II. McCarty, passed assistant sur
geon United States navy, died Of pneu-
monia Saturday of last week aboard the
man-of-war Yantic. just as it was entering
the Key West harbor.
The Dunnellon company and the Baldwin
| Fertilizer Company Of Savannah, whose
| phosphate interests adjoin, 1t is said, nave
500 men employed. Each company have
now ready for shipment about fifty carloads
of phosphate rock.
The receipts at the Key West custom
house are gradually approaching six fig
ures; S95,0i3 81 was the amount collected
| during the month Of March, this being the
| largest amount ever received in any one
month and exceeding the previous month by
| $4,000.
The largest fertilizer mandatory in the
world is about to be established in Tampa
| Agents of an English syndicate, represent
| ing over 5000, 900, have justed visited
Tampa to find a suitable location. From
| five to ten acres Of land near deep water
and railroad will be required.
The fruit interest at Bombay suffered to
some extent by the cold snap in March, and
the farmers are now complaining of dry
weather. AS the pear trees put out their
second foliage, the first having been killed
| by the cold, a fine bloom is making its ap-
pearance, which gives hopeful prospect of
a good crop.
St. Augustine Democrat. It. is rumor ed
that man with brains will establish a new
evening paper in St Augustine at an early
date. The material has already been ''or-
| dered," and Is expected on the next steamer.
There is a good field for newspapers in st.
Augustine, and 1t is expected that there
will be at least six dailies here before the
| season opens again.
Wakulla Times. One Of the most pros
| porous farmers who farms on q small scale
in this county is Joseph M. Allen. Mr..
Allen does not owe cent In the world, has
nice home and an excellent small orange
| grove that was not much affected by the
| cold of 1886, and last year killed thirty-six
meat hogs, which averaged $50 pounds each,
and has already sold 500 pounds of bacon
and 200 pounds Of lard.
Capt. John ID. Leitnsr of Leitner, Ma
| rion county, died last Saturday of throat
troubles, from which he had been a sufferer
for four months. Capt. Leitner had been
| cltlzen OF Marion county Tor over thirty
years, going there from South Carolina.
and was 50 years of age at the time of his
death. He had been twice married, having
a family of six children by his first wife
and two by the second, who survives him.
Capt. Leitner. during the war, was NOM
Der of Col. John M. Martins artillery COM
panY.
Eustis Lake Region: The canal, for the
better draining of Eustis meadows, is
finished, and the results are all that could
be hoped for, 50 we are informed by DIR.
Hicks he has now growing 100 acres of
rice which stands three or four inches high,
and which is spoken Of by rice planter who
recently visited the meadows as one of the
finest sights, speaking from rice pla teris
standpoint he has ever seen. The work of
breaking up ground for further planting
goes steadily on. As the ground Is soft
oxen ara used, and nine yoke are kept
busy. DR.. Hicks expects in few days to
have a patent shoe, something after the
style of snow shoe, which, when attached
will bear up the heaviest horses on the soft
ground, aud enable him to use these aaima Is
instead of the slow going oxan. AS there
are still three months left at which rice
may be planted. and it is the doctors pur-
pose to get in all that is possible, the acreage
will be immense. 1t pleases us greatly TO
see such an immense industry as this grow
ing up in our midst.