The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-28
FLORIDA.

Seventy carloads Of phosphate wait re-
shipment at Fernandina.
DeLand has a home minstrel company
that played to $40 house the other night
A whale thirty-five feet long was washed
ashore on the beach at Mayport Tuesday
night
An addition of twenty-five cigarmakers
arrived in Pu tn Gorda Friday TO work In
the 81 Palmetto cigar factory.
V. J. Herlong has a standing order for
his mill, on the Florida Central aud PENN
sular railway, for 100000 feet Of lumber
monthly.
The Erie board Of agriculture and the
Lake Erie Fruit and Wine Growers Asso-
Citations will visit Florida, arriving at st.
Augustine On March 9.
A house occupied by Mrs. Carer on
Adams street, next to the public library
bulldog, at Jacksonville, was burned at 8
O'Clock yesterday morning.
Rev. William Reddy Of Elstis has been
appointed presiding elder of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in place of Rev. J. w.
Walker OF Orange county, deceased.
Arcadia Is TO have a cigar factory. Mr.
Green, who has been employed in the FL
Palmetto, at Punto Gorda, intends opening
up Cigar factory at that place sho tly.
The Florida Fish, Oyster and Ice Com
pany of st. Petersburg has bought and
shipped since Monday. the 10th, 3,0O7
pounds Of sheepsheads, $50 pounds of trout,
Sl5 pounds Of Spanish maokerel.
Cards are now out for the nuptials of
Hon. Willis L Palmer. mayor of Orlando.
on the evening Of March 4, at $3.50, at the
Methodist Episcopal church in Orlando.
Two months ago a number of Italians
from the Kissimmee sugar plantations
moved to Tampa. Wednesday night a
number of Italians declared their intention
to become citizens and registered to vote.
o. K. Paxon, who was found guilty of
conspiring to remove the postmaster of
White Springs, was sentenced by Judge
Swayne, In the district United States court.
to pay 81, 900 and costs, which also aggre-
gate 81 900.
L. D. Townsend of Tampa has natural
curiosity in the form OF pair of deer's horns
with q clearly defined hounds head on the
tip Of one of them, formed in a manner
that makes it impossible that it should be q
work Of art.
At the sale OF the wrecked American
barkentine Hattie g. Mcfarland, at Pensa-
| cola wednesday, at auction. the rigging,
material, etc., was sold to various parties
for the aggregate sum Of SI,S4l. The hull
was bought by William Turpell for $25.
Tom V. George, the Silver Spring Park
druggists, has made an assignment to Ben
1amin f. Hopper OF che same place. for the
benefit of his creditors. His liabilities are
| supposed to be about $500; his assets about
| 5000. This step was made necessary by the
serious condition of Mr.. Georges health.
P. T. Ink OF Orlando has just entered into
| an arrangement with /. II. Babcock Of
| New York state under which they will
| plant at once twenty acres in Niagars
| grapes. They have purchased forty acres
| of land short distance west of the city
| Operations will be pushed with all posi- bis
dispatch in order to get vines in as soon al
| possible.
At Jacksonville Thursday DIR. Sollace
Mitchell, assisted by Drs. Bacon and Miller
ampltated the leg of Edward Raney, the
| young white man who was run over by the
| Fl rida, Central and Peninsular train last
| Wednesday night. DIR. Sollace Mitchell
says he thinks Rsney will recover. He is q
| young man about 10 years of age and is a
native of Bainbriige. Ca, where his mother
and a number Of other relatives now reside
The Florida Land and Improvement, the
klssimmee Land Company, and the San
Pablo and Diego Beach Company held their
annual meeting at Jacksonville Thursday
at the office of the Florida Land and I'm
provement Company on Main street.
| Boards or directors we're chosen for the
three companies. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year: Florida
Land and Improvement Company-Presi.
dent, c. H. Gross of Philadelphia; sscre
tary, Richard Salinger If Philadslp his
general state agent, w. B. Grant of Sar
Pablo. The Kissimmes Company-President
L. W. KIahr of Philadelnhia: secretary,
Richard Salinger. San Pablo and Diego
Beach Company - President, j. NJ.
Kreamer; secretary, J. w. Klahr of Phila
dslphia; superintendent. W. B. Grant
IrwAs nna Of Can sharrnan.a d.,,rh.o.. Al.