The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-09
FLORIDA.

! q candidate for recollection.
There are already four candidates out for
tax assessor of Lake county.
Orange county's delegates to the state
convention favor Mitchell for governor.
The assessment on the property in Volu-
STA county has been reduced 25 per cent.
this year.
Hon. F. E. Saxon of Brooksville an
| nounces himself candidate for clerk of the
circuit court.
Charles M. Cooper of Duval is being
| prominently mentioned as a suitable cam
didate for congress.
Hon. Charles Dougherty sold 800 900
worth Of real estate the past winter In tie
vicinity Of New Smyrna.
Out of about 2,4O0 voters in Volusia
county 500 of them have not yet paid
their poll tax to the collector.
There are only one or two houses 20 rent
at DeLand, and they are suitable for keep
! ing boarders More houses are needed.
| The Gainesville Guards now number forty
| active members. Capt. Webster will strive
to make of the Guards the crack company
of the state.
Tax Collector Smith of Volusia county
turned in $4,000 or IS, 900 t. County Treas
| urer Correll Monday, the last of tae tax
! money for 1891 taxes.
About $4,000 Of city taxes for 1892 hara
been collected at st. Augustine. There ar
only nine days more in which to collect c.
balance which amounts 60 $1,000.
J. B. Stetson is to make extensive i'm
provemeuts out at West DeLand this sum
mer. Among them a large packing house,
where the crops OF oranges from his 500
acres are TO be prepared for shipment.
Oscar Bryan, who supported corpulency
IT psf pounds, too much, he thought for
Florida, placed himself under DR.. Gilleu's
treatment at DeLand about month ago,
and his weight the first mouth was reduced
forty pounds He wants further reduc ioI
of fifty pounds, and will then ask the doctor
to stop.
The following democratic ticket Is before
the voters # Jefferson county: For sheriff,
T. b. Simkins for representatives, J. S.
Denham, T. L. Clarke; for county treas
urer. B. W. Partridge; for tax assessor, J.
P. Grantham; for tax collector, j. II.
Tucker; for school superintendent, J. A.
Walker.
DeLand Record: The growers of this
section can now appreciate or feel the wont
of a system OF irrigation on their orange
groves. 1t is from Feb TO the season in
June when the rains set that we need our
groves irrigated, and the day will come
when every bearing grove around DeLan1
will be artifcially watered.
The st. Johns County Confederate Home
! kASsOClbtlOH az us regular monthly
| meeting Wednesday night decided that
"while as an organization it could not take
| part in the reunion of the confederate vet
| Grams in st. Augustine in May, its members
| individually would form Committees for
that purpose" This was done after the
| regular meeting.
! Brooksville Ne,cs-Register: Four demo-
cratic presidential electors are to be selected
| this year, and we want to sac Ben II Hop
| kius nOmipn tad for ono Of than ETa Ia "a dra6
in the wool democrat, has always do yeo-
| mans service in the cause and mas never
asked for an Office of any kind, The party
owes to him for past services the honorary
| position of elector.
DeLand Record: On June l administra-
tors, executors, guardians, etc, are re-
Quired to make their annual returns o the
county judge. Judge Lowery reports that
| heretofore this law has been actically
| ignored by many of the administrators,
ETC., Of estates of this county, but hereafter
they must comply with the law. Two
| months notice previous to June l must be
| given Of such intention to make annual re-
| ports. .
DeLaud Record: It is an arr moving
large bearing orange trees and save them
| In February o. d. Hull presented Oscar
| Bryan q number of these trees from the De-
| Leon grove. Oscar was just ready TO buy
| large nursery stock, so was delighted at Mr.,
HILLS offer. He proceeded Immediately to
| remove them to his place six miles distant.
1t took him week or so to accomplish the
| job, but succeeded without losing single
tree. They grew right on and are now full
with bloom.
/ An alliance rally took place at Vernon,
Friday, with about $50 people present.
Hon. A z. Baskin made a speech in favor
of more money for the people" He sald
nothing in favor of third party, but
seemed to be in a straight line with the
| Ocala demands. His speech was pointed
aud logical, urging the alliance to stick to
the princlDleS OF the Democratic party,
| with the Ocala platform to the front, at
| Tampa. June l.
At Tampa, Wednesday, the sheriff at
tempted to eject Mrs Clinton, formerly
Mrs Wilde, from q dwelling on writ Of
ejectmsnt, but was forced to call for rein-
| forcements from the police. During the
| engagement the woman swalloH ed some
draught with suicidal intent, she said, aud
the frightened officers called in doctor
who pronounced It sell" 1t is SAID that
several attorneys were sent for, bat, under
the circumstances, felt justified IN being
unavoidably detained from appearing 1t
is said to have been exciting.
DeLand Record: The Cloughs, swith the
Winuemisset Park Company, are moving
for railroad from here TO Lake Helen, or
In other words, to have the DeLand branch
Vile, Tampa aud KEY West people propose
20 do it the sum of 81, 900 is raised. The
grading is all completed under an old
charter or contract, and there is nothing
to be done but to put crossties aud the iron
down. The same service that is now oper-
eting the DeLand branch viii operate the
proposed extension. The building of this
extension would mean big thing for Cor
Hnado beach, for every Saturday DeLand
would empty her population on the beach
untl Monday morning during the summer
season.
D. U. Fletcher. president OF the Florida
Fiber Company, says that the sisal hemp
fiber industry is going TO be the source OF
considerable wealth for Florida in the not
.. very remote future. Mr. Fletcher has good
reason for his predictions, being backed as
he is by the opinion of the Hon. Charles r.
Dodge, special agent of the department of
agriculture, who has been in Florida for
weeks experimenting with the sisal hemp
fiber. Mr.. Dodze's opinion ia that the
Florida fiber is the finest in the world, aud
l that IL will be used in the manufacture OF a
very superior class Of goods Most OF his
time was spent on the plantation Of the
. Florida Fiber Company on New river, be
l tween Biscayne bay aud Lake Worth. The
company has 1,30O acres of land of
: which twenty acres are in SIsal hemp, and
| Twenty-Five acres are being planted. The