The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-14
CLEANED AT GAINESVILLE
The Citron Tree Descrioed-Hsbits OF
the Gopher-The Hunting Season.


/ GAINESVILLE, FLA, Oct ia gentle
man named Prise. who lives st Orange Hill,
/ in Levy county. has citrou tree which is
full Of fruit. Every one who has eaten
/ fr..it cake is familiar with the citron OF the
stores, made mostly Of young pie melon /;
bus few people have seen the genuine article
while gro wing upon the tree The tree re-
sen. bleS the lemon, ami its leaves. when
crushed, give cut the same agreeable odOr
Characteristic of the citrus family. The
fruit 5 Ob.ong in shape aud Of The size
Of a small caDtaloupe, Of pale
green color, aid unpalatable until
stewed il sugar Mr.. Price planted
the tree in g corner made 10y the sides q the
house and chimney where it Is protested
from the cold Of winter by the heat OF the
hearth The growth OF the almond is now
attracting attention in Florida, and there is
no reason why it cannot be successfully
grown here, as the writer when child saw
the nut mature on tree as far north as
Newman, Ga. The pecan is success in this
city. The finest nuts ever seen are grown
yearly by F. Y. Miller on his lot in town.
What is known hare as hard rock seems
to have At present better sale than phos-
phAte It Is shipped 70 jacksonville to be
used il constructing the jettiss st the St
Johns bar. During the past two years the
supply has come from Archer, Arredondo,
hammock Ridge, Fort White and between
Evinston and Ocala Now the Gull ham
mock and the region around Williston is
being worked aud the rock sent out OF the
woods by Ambler's railroad. running
from q hamlet By the euphonious
name Of Fairly Bird TO the Florida, Ceutrsl
and Peninsular at Archer. We have daily
passing this railroad center probably the
most variegsted and interesting freight in
the United States. In train you viii find
a - v,k1enLota ~
rock for the jet.ies, another OF ced4r for
pencils. another Of fish and oysters. another
Of pine logs in the rough, another OF squared
lumber, another OF siding, one
Of soft rocks for building roads and streets,
one Of oranges, another Of lemons, another
OF bananas, one Of tobacco one OF hides,
another of syrup, while in the spring you
will see dozens loaded with cabbage. half
dozens with tomatoes. six with beans, five
with potatoes. dozen with cucumbers, two
with Strawberries, and 50 on. In tee winter
long trains bring railroad iron. coal, flour,
| bacon, oil, paint, guano, salt, horses, beef,
| mules, milk COWS, mackerel, dry goods,
| clothing, mowers, reapers, wagons, carts,
carriages. en- Zines, boilers and hundreds Of
other things needful, necessary. quaint and
| curious.
Up till now the weather has not been
| cold enough 70 bring down the wild ducks
| and geese, aud consequently there has been
| but little shooting done as our last legisla-
ture remodeled theiZame laws, leaving the
| county commissioners TO fix the time for
| bunting TO begin. The commissioners for
) me reason have failed 80 70 do AID will
| not now fix q day. as on Nov the law
| gives hoense to the guupers in case the
| commissioners have failed to name an
! earlier day. In consequence of non-action
| in the premises the quail have net been
moiested. They are therefore fully grown
! and are here III larger numbers than ever
| before. and will continue 10 increase under
this, both to the birds snditrue sportsmen,
| Just and wise protection.
SaIamsndsrs and gophers are bad this
yer on the pinder crop owing to the dry
weather cutting off their usual supply of
grass, nuts and tender succulent roots and
Lulbs. The gopher in Florida is species
of the land turtle or tortoise which bur-
roughs, like the salamander and prairie
| dog, deep into tue earth. 1t has three
stated periods, like I he salamander, for
! coming out TO forage, viz: Sunrise, noon
and sunset, and If the hungry negro can
| surprise him far enough from his citadel he
| will easily procure meal of delicious flesh
and pot OF savory soup, but
If Mr.. Gopher sees him in
time he will have two or three hours of
hard labor if he is "out Of meat and bound
TO get him." The gopher In the west is the
chIpmunk or ground squirrel; in LouisiaDa
1t IS large rusty snake; mere a shell-incased
quadruped. There is here also a serpent
called the gopher snake because Of its often
being found in the den of the gopher. The
writer has seen boys while digging out q
rabbit which they had run into gopher
hole. take out at the same tim
the hare, a gopher and snake.
! II it were not for the skunks, the animal
whose solitude ard privacy is so religiously
regarded by all who are familiar with it,
| we would soon be overrun with the gopher.
| The skunks, however. diligently work over
| In the hatchi5g season all the little mounds
| Of earth near the gopher holes, and In
which the eggs Of the latter are deposited
| TO De hatched by the sun, destroying them
| by the millions. Then. too, the country
| men in the most cruel manner thin them
| out by impaling them alive on sharp light
wood knoIs wherever and whenever they
| find them.
| A large camp-meeting is in fine working
| order near Lake City.
| Orange. persimmon and other fruit scions
| go from Florida 10 California and Texas. J.
| K. McIrvin, who lives in North Gainesville,
a very nice suburb, sent recently 500 Japan
! persimmon trees TO Dallas, Tex.
Another man with so per cent. phosphate
WAS in town yesterday.
Col Lynch of the United States land
Office has just returned from a trip to
| Taylor County. WneFe ne went 10 GEAR
| eli ent. He was successful.
George Broome's son Willie goes into W.
W. Hamptons Office, to be whitfield into a
lawyer.
Twenty-Five hands in charge of F. NJ.
Simmons of Thomasville, Ga, came in this
morning on the SaYsnnsh, Florida and
w estern bound for Penn berton's Ferry,
where they are to be worked on the grade
OF the Pemberton's Ferry extension to
Gainesville. hundred went down ten
days ago for the same purpose.