The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-17
FLORIDA.


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FLORIDA
/ There are still about 8, 700 boxes of oranges
/ in the vicinity OF Geneva, and shipping at
/ present Is almost at a standstill.
The Osceola County Racing Club will
/ hold its spring meeting at Kissimmee, FEB.
/ IA and Is. There will be eight events, and
valuable prizes are offered.
| The strike In the large factory of the Ha-
vaua and Key West Company at Key
West, has been settled and all hands are
now at work. Two hundred cigarmakers
are at work.
On Tuesday burglars entered the post
Office at Lake Mary and absconded with
several hundred dollars, the property of
private individuals, but none belonging to
the government.
Seth Parsons sold his orange grove and
residence near Lakeland last week for 90, COO
j. Q. Adams purchased a business lot on
Pine street last week paying 81. 500 for the
same. Sloan, Green 81 Co. have purchased
a lot corner Cedar street and Kentucky av-
enue for 50 900.
Fort Myers Press: Capt. Willard Day was
in town tue first OF the week and reports no
damage done to fruit or vegetables on his
! place on the north side OF the river. The
captain has about 900 grapefruit trees. all
| in fiourishing condition and many of them
just beginning 10 bear. When they do
begin fruiting the captain can rest from his
labors, and enjoy handsome income from
his grove.
The Colgrove Steamship Company has
! decided to put another line of steamers on
the Indian river and one from Miami to
| Key West. This move has been in contem-
! plation for a year of SO, but has only re-
Gently taken shape. The Colgrove system
| has many branches over the country, the
most important of which are the line from
Boston, Mass, to Esstport, Me. distance
Of PAS miles; from Eastport to Portland,
1870 miles; from Georgetown, ETC., TO Bucks
4 vile; from Sandusky, O., TO Putin Bay !;
from Tacoma, WASH, to Lake Bay; from
| Port Townsend, Wash, to Hadlock, and
| from Punta Gorda, Fla, TO Fort Myers,
Fla. On oil Of the foregoing routes the
company not only owns the steamers. but
has the contract for carrying the mails
Until recently it held the contract for car
| rYing the mails on several other runs In
Florida, but sublet them.
| The weather Friday night was the coolest
that Florida has experienced in five years
| The weather bureau office at Jacksonville
reported the temperature at 25' above zero
at o O'Clock Saturday morning Their
mometerS having sKy exposure registered
a few degrees lower. This was the coolest
weather experienced there since Jan. 4,
| 1887, when ths mercury fell to 22o. Only
eight times during the past twenty-five
years has it been colder than IL was Friday
night. The lowest point reached since the
weather Otfioe was established at Jackson
Vile in 1871 was Is 3-100 on Jan. IL, 1886
But twice in twenty-five years has the tenn
perature fallen below 20. The two weeks
ending Friday were probably the
coolest as compared with any period
! Of equal length during the past
twenty -five years. The daily deficiency in
! temperature since Jan. ! has averaged
| So. Freezing weather 10 reported as
far south as Brevard county on the east
coast and Hillsboro county on the gulf
coast. The weather bureau office at Titus
vile reports a minimum temperature of 80,
Tampa so aud Jupiter 36' Reports
from DeLand, Enterprise and Lawtey state
that the temperature fell Friday 70 20.
while Person reports minimum of IL.
| The damage, II any. to the orange cror
cannot be determined for some time. Doubt
less all early vegetable crops not proteeted
were killed, or more or less inj ured accord
ing TO iocationl % FAR south as the middle OF
the peninsula.
The Lexington (Ky.) Leader, of recent
date, speaking Of the large purchase Of land
lately made near Chipley by several Ken
lucky gentlemen, says; "A number Of large
deals, heretofore unpublished, have recently
been made by Lexingtonians in Florida
land. The gentlemen making these pur-
ohases are well known citizens of this city,
and they have an eye to business Hamil-
ton Scott. W. s. McChesney. ,Jr. c. B.
| Gilman, William Bliss and J. Curry Me-
Chesney are the gentlemen who have
bought large slices of land in the alligator
state. The first three named have Jointly
purchased about 1900 acres about 4
miles inland, situated In jackson county
$50 miles from Pensacola. This large tract
OF land is now heavily timbored with pine
but will soon be cleared and planted in to.
bacco, Cuban seed being used, and all kinds
OF fruit except oranges. Twelve
strong Kentucky mules, carts
and other necessary implements, three ex-
post tobacco growers and an experience
German fruit raiser have already been sent
south by the purchasers. Mr.. Bliss has pur
chased 629 acres, aud Curry MoChesney
640- All of the three tracts Of land adjoin
and 1t will ell be cultivated. except a Dor.
ton that will be set aside to lay out town
This land was the property Of the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad Company anC
was purchased at a reasonable price pei
acre from w. d. Chipley, formerly OF thil
city, general land commissioner, and fol
whom the town Of Chipley, not far from
the purchased land, is named. 1t is sale
Mr.. Gilman will sell his business interest:
in Lexington and at once remove to his
newly obtained possessions in the sunny
southland