The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-24

FLORIDA.
Barlow is to have water works soon, and
they are making strong pull for large
hotel.
At Gainesville, Thursday. r. M. c. Craw-
ford bought and shipped $4,000 worth OF
cabbage.
7. B. Minis, one of the pioneer citizens of
Polk county, died Tuesday evening in the
65th year Of bis age.
The governor has appointed DIR. II. NJ.
Bruce Of Tampa homeopathic medical ex-
aminer for the state Of Florida for four
years from April 20. 1892.
The seats and pulpit for the Palmetto
Baptist church have arrived. and the
church will be duly dedicated on the fourth
Sunday in May, by Rev. w. N. Chaudion.
A. NJ. Cushman Of Gainesville has shipped
from patch of one half acre, 400 quarts
of Strawberries, which have netted him 30
cents quart, and he Is still shipping from
the same patch.
No rain has fallen at Sanderson in sew
erai weeks The farmers are In a bad con-
dition. But little cotton has come up and
there are many complaints OF corn doing
badly from the drought.
Last Friday morning a large fire started
in the woods north of Melrose and burned
much fencing. Had it not been for the hard
Work Oh men ana students several houses
would have been burned
The South Florida railway has completed
their extension from Pemberton Ferry to
Inverness, twenty-one miles. with four new
stations. to-wit: Istachatta, Floral City,
Hambro ny, and Inverness.
The good people of Hague realizing the
great need of rain, In consequence OF the
long drought, are assembling dairy in PRAYER
meeting and asking the good Lord to bless
them with refreshing showers.
Mrs. Keys, mother-in-law of Capt. E. c.
Harrington. both of Lemon City, has COM
menced the erection of q 3-story hotel on
the bay front at that place, which will be
completed in about sixty days.
The Winter Haven section is on big
tomato boom. j. r. Davis Of that place
has shipped over 1000 crates, receiving
from 80 to Sc per crate. He averages be-
tween seventy-fve and one hundred crates
per day.
Assistant Postmaster G. S. Warner of
Braidentown resigns on May and his place
will be filled by jesse Stebbins of Manatee.
Mr.. Warner has secured the contract to
carry the mail from the Palma Sofa post
Office to and from the mail steamer.
The Paradise Phosphate Company in
Alachua county will be ready to commence
operations in two or three weeks. The tram
road from the factory to the mines and the
Savannah, Florida and Western railway
will be completed in O week or ten days.
Mrs Morgan, while walking along one of
the sidewalks of Apopka, got her foot in
hole in the walk, and, falling forward on
her side. crushed several bones of her in
step. She brought suit against the town
authorities for $1,000 damages Friday the
| jury disagreed.
Mariana Courier: Allen Mcclellan was
rta hhad laat MONDAY
evening and died before medical aid could
reach him. Both parties lived in the adj
| joining county of Calhoun. and were argu-
ing the best method OF hauling logs when
the difficulty arose.
An unoccupied house at Sanderson,
owned by f. J. Pons, Jr., was burned q
night or two ago. 1t was a very comforta-
| BILE house, with five rooms. with kitchen
! and dining room attached. IL is not known
| whether there was any insurance or not
| The fire is supposed to have been incendiary.
| Mr.. Plant has decided not TO make any
addition to the Tampa Bay hotel building
but instead to put up 50-room frame build
ing in the Hayden grove, adjoining the no.
tel grounds on the north, and to build two
cottages between the grove and the laundry
building. These bulldogs will be put uu
during the summer.
l. A. II. Adams, druggist from Chicago
who came Co Melrose last winter
with severe case of rheuma-
tsm and was hardly able to get
around with the aid of crutcheS, left last
Friday for his home, entirely a new mar
physically. He Is now not only able &c
walk without crutches but feels young and
strong.
De Soto county falls into line and instructs
her seven delegates to the state convention
who were elected Thursday, to vote as a
unit for H. l. Mitchell for governor. The
convention was harmonious all the way
through, with the exception of a little dis
affection on the part OF some Of the alliance
delegates. who insisted on the adoption of
the Ocala platform.
There was a large fire in the southern
confines of Daytona, Friday, and extended
es far southwark as A. (. Barr's older grove
few trees of which were injured, and some
3J6 or 400 trees were destroyed in his young
orchard. Osborne's. Jackson's snd Barnes
houses were in much danger at times, anC
much timber, ETC., was damaged. Only de-
termined efforts on the part of many pre-
vented widespread disaster.
No rain TO speak of has fallen at Sorren'
TO for two months, and everything is suf-
fering. Orange leaves ore curling badly
and dropping, while the young fruit seem;
Bcorched. The later blooms do not sci
fruit, while the plums in many places are
burned and dried up completely. In SONS
: locations cisterns are nearly all dry, and TIT
lakes are passable in places by teams Thi
lake near town is dryer than it has been fol
: years.
The steamboat Alert caught fire witt