The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-14
FLORIDA.

Indians go into Melbourne every week to
trade.
Fernandna will have gun club tourna-
ment on July 4.
Col. J. b. Brown has sold his interest in
the phosphate mines at High Springs to II.
| F. Dutton * Co.
A thief entered w. L. Warren's bedroom
at Lake City last Tuesday night and relieved
his pantaloons pockets of SIC 80.
| aEG. II. Count has sold his interest in the
Daytona store to j. X. Aitken, and the firm
of Count Aitken & Co. is no more.
Disagreement In religious circles is Gauss
ing considerable talk in Ocala, and anys
thing but harmony seems to prevail.
On May the people Of Jacksonville were
eating Peento peaches and huckleberries
grown in South Florida. This is the earliest
| peach grown.
A $40 900 mortgage deed was recorded in
the Nassau county records last week.
| About 1000 of this money win be spent
in Fernandina.
Ingram Fletcher's century plant stalk at
Orlando has reached hight of 2S14 feet,
which is the tallest yet It has begun to
| put out the side stems, upon which the
| flowers will bloom.
The Ice Factory Company at Pu1ta
| Gorda is putting down the third artesian
|
are finished ana the mammoth smoke stack
has been put in place.
Cloyd Gates of Orlando has in his posses
| sion an original copy of the Ulster County
| New York. Gazette, printed Jan. 4, 1900.
| and containing an account of the funeral
of George Washington.
It was rumored on the streets at Ocala
Monday that the Ocala house would soon
open. The fixtures and furniture are being
| invoiced BY Mr.. Mstthsws. who has been
engaged TO take charge 0f the property.
Payne is the name Of a new postoffice
six aud a half miles south OF Lake City,
halfway between that point and Mt. Tabor.
james w. Payne Is postmaster, and has
| opened a general merchandise store there.
Mrs. r. NJ. Bennett, who recently left
| Orlando to visit her brother, Charles Bull
lard, at Unadtlla, Ca, reached there just in
time to attend his funeral. His illness was
unknown to Mrs. Bennett, and it was
naturally quite shock to her.
Leslie Pell- Clarke has purchased the lot
| on Main street in front of the SummerlIn
| house at Orlando from L. p. Wescott for
| $1,000 1t is Mr.. Clarke's intention, upon
| his return from the north In the fall, &c
| convert the place into park, which will be
thrown open TO the public during the day
time.
/ lLuho NAcS HbpOTtSFs ID. IT, Ol1AOlt
| ly of Lake City but now manager for the
Western Union Telegraph Company al
Jacksonville, has been in the city this week
principally to secure right of way over the
lands of the Lake City Phosphate Company
! for railroad to move the product of the
Alachua hard rock mines.
G. W. Hampton found on the shores oil
Lake Tohopekaliga a day or two ago
perfect specimen of Indian pottery in the
shape of what might be termed jug
though without a handle. 1t was founc
about two feet under ground. and evidently
had in time past been washed up from the
lake, where it had perhaps been lost by the
Indiana. The piece is % inches in high
and IL inches wide, with a 3-inch opening
at the top. It is made of red clay and il
very thin. The Indians evidently used it a.
a vessel in which to carry water. 1t ii
probably the largest perfect specimen Of
Indian pottery ever unearthed in the state
and will prove valuable relic.