The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-05
FLORIDA.

According to the survey just completed
/ the depth of the Ocklawaha ranges from
three TO twenty-five feet.
| The Fifth United States Infantry, now sta
| toned at Atlanta, will be transferred u St
Augustine, including the military band.
There is a race between two companies e
| get bills through the legislature for a rail
road from Arcadia or its vicinity 10 Fort
! Myers
A. G.. Hayes has purchased a grove on
Lake Como for 81 900. Mr.. Sweet of Woon'
socket, r. l., has also purchased one on
Lake Holden.
| over the Favares, Orlando and Atlantic and
! Florida, Central and Peninsula railroads t.
Middle Florida on May IS.
A local branch of the Chautauqua Liter
! airy and Scientific Circle has been organized
at Tavares. and H. II. Duncan chosen presi-
| dent and Miss Ada Irving secretary.
On Tuesday last Tenny Perry shot two
aligators in Peace river about one mile
below the bridge at Fort Meade. One was
6 feet and the other . feet in length.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Vinegar late man
ayers Of the Magnolia hotel at Orlando, will
move to Chicago for the purpose of conduct
ing hotel or restaurant in that city.
Miss Georgia Long, sister of Mrs. J. B.
Parramore of Orlando, died at her parents
home in Enterprise, few days ago of con-
sumption, in the 26th year Of her age.
The printers of Pensacola have organized
branch organization of the international
Typographical Union. There are eleven
charter and two apprentice members.
The Chuluota farmers alliance proposes
to hold a grand picnic on Thursday, May
u, to which prominent speakers from vari-
GUS sections of the county will be invited.
Superintendent Beeks reports the appli-
cations on the part OF teachers for public
schools in Orange county coming in from
almost all sources, and that they are very
large.
E. Leybourne OF Gainesville shipped to
Boston Saturday 5000 quarts of strawber-
ries. Berries are selling in the Boston mar
ket at from Is to 80 cents per quart Mr..
Leybourne is the only one now Shipping
berries from Gainesville.
Gorham Everett of Pensacola, employed
in the John II. Cross Lumber Company
mill at Caryville, was struck on the head
Saturday by flying fragment from a
broken emery wheel. 1t is feared that his
skull was fractured. His condition is
critical.
The Magnolia hotel at Orlando has
changed hands. Monday Mrs. Vinegar
sold out to her partner, H. F. Martyr, and
Tuesday Mr.. Martyr sold to Mrs. j. D.
Caldwell. Mrs. Caldwell for the past three
or four years has had charge of the Sum-
merlin house.
The heavy rains of Sunday night and
Monday caused the Econlockhatchie river
to rise above the bridge at Oviedo on Tues
day and Wednesday, making it dangerous
to cross. On Wednesday the mail carrier
reported the water four feet deep on the
Oviedo end Of the bridge.
W. H. Allison, son Of Judge Allison of
Philadelphia, has purchased the grove of
Mrs. A. A. Mizell on Lake Rowena, the
consideration being $4,000. Mr.. Allison
will erect o handsome residence upon it this
fall and contemplates becoming a perma-
nent resident of the county.
VIM. Jones, of the well-known firm OF
Jones u Porter, orange growers, dropped
dead Wednesday just as he had returned &c
his home at Conway. Heart trouble is sup,
posed to have been the immediate cause oil
his death, although he had not been we'll fol
some time, having but a few weeks age
had severe case of la grippe.
The Florida Museum of National anc
Political History. recently established il
Gainesville by number of enterprislnl
young men, has 100 pounds Of live snakes OF
all varieties on exhibition. Among the
number is one of the largest moccasins ever
caught, being nearly five feet in length and
about one foot IN circumference.