The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-14
ELOpIDA.

The grand lodge Of colored Masons met at
Ocala Tuesday.
II. G. Gates is a candidate for city sani-
tary inspector Of Ocala.
Several new houses are going up at Ocala
and carpenters are still busy.
Robert A. Ferguson, the gunsmith, resid-
ing corner of Charlotte and Green streets,
at st. Augustine, accidentally shot himself
in the right knee Sunday night.
Tampa's hotel accommodations have been
overtaxed for the last few days, most of the
hotels having turned away many would be
guests Another S2.a-day house would
meet with good business at the outset.
Mrs. Emma Bradley, who is employed at
Hotel Ponce de Leon aust Augustine, had
narrow escape froIu death Tuesday after
noon, by falling through the elevator
shaft, q distance of about seventy-fve feet.
seriously spraining her ankle and slightly
injuring her head.
President John w. Denny of the Florida
Coast Line and Trausportion Company an
enterprise under charter by the state. and
which contemplates the construction of the
canal from st. Augustine to some point on
the gulf coast near Key West, is DOW at the
Alcazar for the winter.
There is a little Improvement noticeable
In the orange market throughout the coun-
try and in many places the glut has been
broken. A little over half of the crop of
the state has been shipped aud the returns
have been, as rule, very unsatisi actory
and disastrous to the shippers. Better
prices are expected for the rest of the crop.
Congressman Thomas r. Stockdale, rep
resentIng the Sixth Mississippi district,
| passed through Pensacola Sunday. en- route
! for Washington. He was accompanied by
| his wife, a daughter and son. The party
spent few hours at Hotel Escambia and
would have remained to take look at
| Pensacola's attractions but for the urgent
necessity Of Col. Stockdales presence at
the federal capital.
The first station out of Pensacola on the
| Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound
railroad is to be named Henrietta, after Mr..
| Van Praags mother. Mr.. Van Praag re-
| fuses to disclose the location of the place,
| but he promises that the latter will be one
of the most inviting resorts TO visitors Of
any within radius OF twenty miles. With
| the permission of the county commissioners,
which he will seek in good time he viii
construct a road thereto from Pensacola
that will be 100 feet in cleared and thirty
feet In driving width, the latter to be bal
lasted after the manner of the Stoddard
system of drives
The medical examining board of the
| Fourth judicial district Of Florida met at
Jacksonville Monday and Tuesday, with
DR.. F. +. Smith of st. Augustine DIR. j L.
Horsey OF Fernandina aud DR.. j. ID. Fer
nandeZ of Jacksonville present. Certificates
to practice medicine we're issued to DR.. Il
r. Grant OF Beauclerc, Duval county; DR..
John w. Beaver of Verona, Duval county 4;
DR.. Horace Caruthers, DR.. d. l.. Hunting
ton and DR.. j. e. Garrison of st. Augustine,
st. Johns county. The board recognized
certificates from other state boards, ne {
compelling the holders to pass an examina-
ton before it, and then adjourned until tue
next regular meeting in July.
A called meeting of the state board of
health took place at Jacksonville Those
present were: President r. p. Daniel, Jack
sonville; William K. Hyer, Pensacola W.
b. Henderson, Tampa, and Dr. j. Y. Por-
ter, state health officer. The purpose of the
meeting was to open bids for the proposed
work of improving the Mullet Key quaran-
tine station and also to establish a disin-
fecting plant at Key West. A large number
Of bids were opened and considered, but nc
dehnite action was taken thereon. 1t is I'M
derstood that this is the last meeting Of the
state board of health with the present per-
sonnet, it being rumored that DR.. Daniel
and w. K. Hyer have concluded to send in
their designations.
A singular state of affairs exists ir
Brevard county in regard to jurors, and
probably prevails to a greater or less extent
in other counties of the state. The new law
prescribes that to be eligible to jury duty a
man must not only be a registered voter
but must have also paid his last assess ID