The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-26
FLORIDA.

The mail days from Now Troy to Mays
will DO Increased from semi-Seekly TO tri-
weekly after Sept. l.
Hundreds of crates OF guavas were re
ceived in Jacksonville Saturday, and they
are being retailed at six quarts for % csnts.
| w. A. Merriday Of Palatka pays out SIS
| day for vanilla which is brought in from
the country. He bales it aud ships it north.
| They say it makes good smoking tobacco.
The prospect of having an Episcopal
| church erected at Eau Gallie ia very bright
at present A fine site for the building has
been secured. The building will be we'll In
view TO parties passing up aud down Indian
river.
The orange growers in Putnam county.
| from past experience, will sell 70 the buyers
from the trees. This saves the cost OF trans
portation, picking, etc. Heretofore they
were at the mercy Of unprincipled commit
sion meu.
The new cigar factory to be started in the
Burland building, Punta Gorda, will be
called the Carojal Cigar Manufacturing
Company, T. w. Rhodes g. Co., propri-
etors. The factory will begin operations as
soon as preliminary arrangements can be
perfected.
Tampa's city council has authorized T. C.
Taliaferro, chief of the fire department, to
purchase a La France aerial truck. The
company offered Go furnish 10 for 50 800
cash, delivered in Tampa, or 81, 100 on time,
and also offers to take it to Tampa for in
spection and approval at their own expense
Twenty-Five per cent. Of the proposed
amount OF stock in the Eau Gallie canning
factory was secured before the preliminary
meeting was called. This speaks well Tor
the ultimate success Of the undertaking.
An early de to this fall will see the work on
a solid footing and the necessary buildings
being put up.
The Indian River Steamboat Company's
steamer White has been added to the fleet
anchored in the Eau Galle. She has just
been turned out of the tinishers' hands, and
is gem from the nicely carpeted and fitted
up saloon to the easy Longing seats on tho
promenade deck, and is credit to the COM
pany who owns her.
The costs of the criminal court of Volusia
county are simply the salaries Of the Judge
and solicitor aud the incidental expenses
attached to the court. The clerk gets the
fees The sheriff's and deputies fees are no
more than they would be il Judge Broome
were presiding. The state pays witnesses
and jurors of the court.
At Palatka G. M. Davis is constructing
at his tank factory a dry dock and haulup
for the accommodation of small crafts. The
OWDeTS Oh yachts anu Soall DOaJs nave long
felt the need of such convenience in
Paletka. The ways, when completed, will
be OF sufficient capacity to haul out any
craft from a canoe to the largest sized
steam launch.
As an evidence TINT farming pays in Co
lumbia county take the replies of two far
mers of the many who have made good
crops this season: No. /, who cultivates a
two-horse farm, says he will harvest more
provisions than can be used in waste in two
years, and he docs not owe anything on his
crops. No. 2 thinks he has made plenty
and will have l50 or 200 fat hogs to sell.
Volusid County Record: There is in at.
tendance at the criminal court as a witness
In the Blake arson case negro girl as white
as the Caucasian. Her name is Martha
Hubbard, fair complexion, blue eyes, hair
as white as snow, but woolly. She is said &
be about Is years old bat looks 80. She is 6
strange freak in nature. Both her father
and mother are pure African, and she has a
twin brother as black as the dark nights il
November.