The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-31
FLORIDA.

Tho Lee County Phosphate Company of
Fort Myers has just completed and launched
another big lighter.
A road from Lakeland to the Alfalfa phos-
phate regions Is the next move in the way
Of railroad enterprises.
Hon. John A. Kasson of Iowa was regis.
tered at the Egmont hotel at Fernandina
wednesday, en- route for Jekyl island.
Nineteen hundred boxes of oranges we're
sent of from Oviedo last week The total
shipments have now reached 6 ,665 boxes.
A new depot building is being erected one
and half miles above Winter Haven,
The settlement will be known as Florence.
The tax collector Of Alachua county for
the month Of February collected for the
county S4,606 %, and for the state g..
1872 IS.
w. NJ. Denham of Winter Haven put in
five acres in tomatoes in December. Ho
has refused 5000 for the present crop as it
stands.
1t is given out that Capt. Bailey, the
convict labor contractor, is making 81 900 q
day getting out phosphate rock in Columbia
county
VIII White planted fifty tangerine trees
for DR.. E. A jerks at Oviedo three years
ago. This year he sold S415 worth of
oranges from these trees.
A few days ago the Bruce Bros. of
Quincy were offered 65 cents per pound for
all the tobacco they have on hand, and re-
fused to sell at that price.
1t is reported that the pear crop has been
very badly damaged, If not totally de-
stroYed, in the Lake Alta and Santa Fe
region in Alachua county.
Capt. William B. Bell has been appointed
buoy master of the port of Fernandina. He
was also notified that three small buoys and
supply OF paint and brushes had been
sent him.
Hughes & Swanson Of Oviedo have dis
solved partnership, j. II. Hughes retiring
The business will, in the future, be COZ
Quoted under the name of G. o. Swanson,
who will assume all liabilities.
1t is understood that Capt. T. w. Ge,zen
OF Lake City received SIC, 900 for the 300
acres of phosphate land sold to Capt. +. b.
Baily last week. This is in the vicinity of
the Columbia Phosphate Company's 600
acre deposit.
At the annual election of the town of
Oakland, held Saturday, the following off,
GERS were elected: Mayor, T. J. Appleyard
town clerk. +. E. Davis; marshal, c. F..
Thompson; assessor, John II, Allen: alder.
men, George a. Hill and John W. Clark.
Mat Armistead, the negro who last De-
cember shot and killed his father, was tried
at Quincy last week, aud found guilty of
murder in the first degree. Judge Walker
sentenced him to be hanged. and Gov
Fleming will appoint the day for the execu-
ton.
A box-making contest will be held at the
opera house at Orlando tomorrow night
between Elmer K. Gerard and r. C. Cain
for the championship Of the state and the
gate receipts An orange packing contest
between experts in the city will also take
place.
Three hundred thousand dollars worth of
postage stamps are used in Florida in a
year. The government pays $150,O0O per
annum to Florida railroads TO carry the
mails. A like amount is paid to postoffice
clerks. Other expenses sum up to half a
million.
Many times this season it has come to the
ears Of people of Fernandina that tourists
on Florida Central and Peninsular railway
trains were advised by employees tSSat the
hotel service in Fernandina was indifferents
or but little better than at boarding houses
a few days since an investigation was made
and one offender was cornered, and his
discharge from the service Of the company
followed. F-A'
Hon Roswell P. Flower, one Of the most
successful politicians in the United States.