The morning news., 1892-03-26
FLORIDA.


FLORIDA.
They are pushing the mining Of phosphat'
at Albion.
Aachua county will make no appropria
tion for the fair.
Master Fred ]. Wright, a boy 9 year
| old, 10 lecturing on temperance in Soutl
| Florida.
Improbable that full fledged telephone
exchange will be amoug the Institutions Of
Fernandina In short while.
1t is reported that bed Of pebble phos.
phste has been struck in the artesian wei
at Gainesville at a depth Of 100 feet. Shark
teeth and bone phosphate are pumped W
continuously.
George L. Davis of San Antonio has
ehipped 10i crates Of English pease from
one acre OF ground and expects to have
thirty crates more from the same piecs.
They netted him from 81 90 90 50 81.
Capt. J #. P. johnson, residing two mile.
southeast of Gainesville, has sincs the re-
cent cold snap planted two acres in Boston
squash, from which he expects TO realize
| 900 barrels worth SO 80 per barrel.
The United States steamship Kearsage
has arrived at Key West. The Philadel-
phia and Concord are in the West Indies
and upon the arrival Of the Newark at st.
Thomas they will all rendezvous at Key
West for target practice.
The cabbage crop in Alachua county i.
not materially injured. Not many tomato
plants we're set, most Of them being pro.
tec;ed in beds. The potato crop was moi
entirely destroyed, and the peach, pear anC
orange blooms are not killed.
John Weeks. residing at Rocky Hammock
q son-in-law of 8. H. Worthington, droppe
dead Saturday evening at Ellzey. Mr..
Weeks bad been to town to do his trading
and had just mounted his horse 20 return
home when he fell off dead. He was
sufferer from cancer of the face, which Il
supposed TO have penetrated the brain, pro
ducing instant death.
At a meeting of the directors of the JEFF.
ferson County State Bank held at Month
cello on March 81. the designations Of T. p
Denhan as president and J. N. C.. Stockton
as director we're accepted by the board.
The vacancies were filled by the election OF
d. A. F1nlaYson as president and John
tInlayson OF Jefferson county and b. r.
Swoope OF Sanford, as directors.
At Pensacola Tuesday night colored
thief entered the residence of G. w. Wills
on East Intendenoia street, and opened a
desk standing in the hallway in which Mr..
Wills keeps his books and accounts. Iuside
the desk was small box containing about
| $l7 in money. The fellow opened this. but
! in doing SO made noise which attracted
the attention OF Mrs. Wills in an adjoining
room. As she came into the hall the thief
dropped the box and silver half dollar,
but got away safely with the balance of tht
| money.
The state worlds fair directory met IL
the music hall OF the Tampa Bay hote
Wednesday, President Chipley in the chair
Only six coscsies reported, and in com
| pliance with the authority of the Orland,
| convention creating the directory, the fol
lowing address was issued ard signed pv
the members present, as follows: ITO th
Citizens Of Florida Florida's board O
directors for the worlds tair, appointed by
the Orlando convention, was authorized K
| raise the sum OF $l00, 900, the resolution ap
pointing them providing that, If mini
mum OF $4,000 was not raised by April
| 1892, the directory should return to the sub
| scrlbers their subscriptions, less 10 per cent
| which they were authorized to spend 70
expenses. The board not having secured
this minimum, a resolution was adopted a
| Tampa on March %, directing that al
subscriptions be returned In full, without re
serving any percentage, for the members O
the directory have themselves paid all thei
expenses incurred in their efforts to secur
creditable exhibit at the worlds fair Il
must be apparent to every reading citizeI
of Florida that the board has worked uu.
ceaslngly and on every possible line, to-
numerous to write in this address, to secur,
the amount called for; but it has not beer
| within the power OF the board, even il it wa
its desire, to over ride the law of the state
and the members find thoir labors are lost
The directory will maintain its organization
for several reasons, the most important be
ing that Florida may continue to hold it
superior assignment of space, to wit: First
for state building, it being in the opinion
of the directory the best location on tn
grounds; second, space in the horticulture
building, this being an acre of the main eE
trance; third, ,20O square feet in the agri
cultural building; fourth, spac
90x20 feet in the miuing building
Should South Florida, whose counties haS
shown SO much interest In this movement
or should any other new organization b
effected, the directory stands prepared 4
transfer to the same all the advantages 0
location already secured. The director
has authorized 3. B. Turman TO represent II
at HIS own expense, in securing phosphat
exhibit. The directory feels certain tha
the ladies will succeed in securing credit
able display in their work, and the school
Of the state will no doubt be we'll renre
sented. That South Florida will also dis
play the wonderful resources Of that sectio
Of the state is highly probable, and aroun,
this Florida must rely for an exhibit q
Chicago. Signed-W. d. Chipley, presi
dent; George w. Wilson, secretary; s. A
Jones, b. K. Swoope, George G.. Foote, w
Mrs james X. Duke, Mrs. II. L. Crane
Mrs. Ellen Call Long, Mrs. Fannie B
Chapman and Miss Z. Nellie Beck