The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-01

II NJ. Telles Of Tampa has assigned
Work on the new bank ut Cocoa is progress
ing rapidly.
A fire company has been organized at
Orange City.
A new bank begins business at Palm
Beach today.
The Palatka Herald and Advertiser news
papers have been consolidated.
The Indian River State Bank has deposits
of over $500 900 in its safe mt present.
Evangelist Fife is conducting a religious
meeting Of absorbing interest in st. Angus
tine.
The Sun says that Gainesville is growing at
a rapid rate New buildings are going up in
every direction.
The state Bank OF Eau Gallie throws open
its doors for business this week with paid
up capital of 10000.
The new electric cars for the Tampa Street
Railway and Power Company are expected to
arrive in a few days.
The Fernandina people are enjoying great
sport catching drum at Seymour s point.
Many Weighing as high as fifty pounds are
caught.
1t is the general opinion among the people
of Fort White that the negro who did the
shooting there on March 26 has been captured
and lynched.
Track laying on the new extension of the
Jacksonville. st. Augustine and Indian River
railway Is now below Hartand and will reach
Eau Gallie in few days.
The Alcazar at St. Augustine closed Satur-
day morning after breakfast. The remaining
guests removed to the smaller hotels and
boarding houses in the city.
Ground was broken for the new bank build
ing at the corner of Beach street and Magno-
liza avenue. Daytona, Monday morning, and
the erection Of the structure will be pushed
rapidly
While out fishing in Polk county few days
since, Paxton Hicks tied his pony to a tree
with a long rope so as it could Craze around.
The pony became entangled in some way in
the rope and broke its neck.
Il came to the river in 1853" said Mrs. j. ].
Robertson of Palmetto recently speaking of
the growth of that country. There was then
but one house where Palmetto now stands.
There were seven houses in Manatee, and
from there to the mouth of the river but one
dilapidated cabin. However, there were !. 100
acres planted in sugar cane in Ellenton that
year"
The expense for removing the Tttusville
school house will be $3.50 This is the bid Of
Mr.. Arnold Of Orlando. Mr. Flagler will give
81 900 for the lot the school house at present
stands on, which money is to go toward the
purchasing of new lot and removal of school
house, the total cost being $3.50 This leaves
a surplus of $3.50 for fencing and other pur-
poses.
few days ago two children of Mr.. and
Mrs Colee of St Augustine were at play in a
lot in the rear of the Methods church. One
of the children wore a red shirt. and a COW in
the same pasture took offense and rushed for
the child, catching the frightened young one
! on his horns and tossing him in the air. Two
colored men passing by jumped the fence and
! rescued the child Fortunately the boy was
more scared than hurt
Bradentown Journal Forty years ago the
early settlers of this river realized that South
! Florida was the greatest sugar cane country
/ in the union, and picking out this part as the
most suitable, although it was only reached by
tedious sailing journeys they hewed
| their plantation out of the original
/ forest, invested a great sum in the enterprise
and worked it on an enormous scale. The
| change since that day is considerable; pop
ulation of 5000 people surrounds their great
plantation, which is now principally again a
| forest. Two daily steamer lines at present
| connect US with Tampa, which brings our
| products within fifty hours of New York
| Such transportation was beyond the most
| brilliant dreams of those old sugar planters
and yet although South Florida is as much
! superior a sugar country as ii was in that day
/ only few scattered acres are so cultivated
the department of agriculture says but forty
| eight. They endured hardships to place these
! plantations beyond the hurt of frost and yet
| we. living in the haven which they SonRht
| which is now the center of civilized country
| have not benefited from the fact, The ad
| vantages (which this country offers TO the
sugar planter are not duly recognized,