The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-04
FLORIDA.


The custom house at Tampa collected
about s34, 900 for the month Of February.
J. w. Franklin, Of the firm of c. E.
Frauklia e. Son of KiSsimmee, died Tues
day night
Tampa has purchased one Of the Hayes
extension ladder truck and fire escapes for
81. 800, to be used at fires.
A. J. johnson has sold his 50 acre place
near Seffnar to James A. Hudson OF Ar
kansas, who will move into it next winter.
The price Of both pine and Cypress logs at
Apalachicola continues low. Some rats
OF cypress, nice timber, brought So so per
600 The contractors are holding their
own at IS 80
Bishop II. B. Whipple spent last week at
Punta Gorda and other points on the coast,
enjoying some fine fishing. be was accom-
panied by Assistant Bishop Mahlon Gilbert
Of his diocese and Judge Z. T. Wilbur Of
Redwing, Mimi.
Fifty 20 60 cents Is about the average up
to date. that the growers IN VOlusia county
have obtained per box for their oranges on
the trees. Now that the bulk Of the crop
has been marketed, 1t is believed that what
remains in the state will net at least 81 on
the tree.
Judge Broome, on Thursday last, sus-
tanned the finding of the commission ap-
pointed TO set aside the right OF dover OF
Mrs. N. NJ. Voorhis from the large Voorhis
estate in Volusia county. The case went
before Judge Broome upon appeal from the
report of the commission.
About week ago Michael II and, whil
fishing in King lake, Pasco county. caughte
a 3-pound trout. which seemed to have an
unusual extension of the abdomen. Curios-
ity prompted him to open the creature,
where snugly rolled up in its intestines, he
found a water moccasin fully / foot long
and just dead.
Dr. James A. Henshall and Mrs. Henshall
have returned 20 Tampa from Key West,
where he has been engaged in procuring
specimens Of fish for the Columbian exhb-
ton. He obtained in that vicinity about
100 varieties, which, added TO the fifty that
be had obtained at Tampa, make a total Of
about $50 varieties already transported to
Washington.
The first lawn tennis tournament Of the
Tampa Bay Lawn Tennis Club will be held
at Tampa Bay hotel courts, West Tampa
on Tuesday, March 20, and following days.
DIR. James Dwight is the referee. The
matches will be the best two In three sets.
Finals three In five vantage sets. For the
championship of the gulf coast sprize
valued at $500 will be given.
The ticket sales for the month of Febru-
airy ct the Tampa Bay hotel ticket Office
amounted TO nearly $1,000. MIR. McKen-
nan, the agent. expects to more than
double this amount for the month of March.
For the month of February the travel was
largely to Cuba, for this month ID will be
the returning tide to the north, and also a
large amount of travel to Cuba.
The Ladies' Villags Improvement Associa-
ton Of Sanford has been organized. An
election of officers resulted in the following;
President, Mrs. r. T. Patton; vice preSi-
Early; secretary, Miss Juna Robinson
treasurer. Mrs. J. +. Lenahan. A com,
mittee consisting Of Mrs. M. +. Robinson,
Mrs Thrasher, Mrs. Manly, Miss Gertrude
Harris and Miss Lila Early, was appointed
TO draft constitution and bylaws, to he
voted upon at the next meeting.
The executive committee of the University
Association Of Florida-C. A. Boardman,
'66, and Henry Stevens, Yale 49,
has just issued the following circular letter:
THE first annual dinner Of the University
Association Of Florida will be held at the
Putnam house, Palatka, Wednesday even
ing, March l6, at s p. M. College men who
are residents or visiting In the state are In
vited TO enroll themselves as members Of
the association and attend the dinner.
Tickets for the dinner will be So, 70 include
membership fees. Applications should be
made without delay to j. K. PARROT,
president, Yale 'S3, or to Hon. Joseph e.
Baldwin. Princeton 'S3, secretary" All
men who have been graduated by a college
in good standing, or who have spent one
year in the classical department OF such
college, are eligible for membership