The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-20

/ gained az DeFuniak Springs wednes-
I day T. F. McGourin. president; W. l.
/ CaWthon. vice PRESIDENT r. ". sstorrs,
/ secretary.
Mr. Graham Of the Graham hotel. at
] Palatka, has just completed the purchase
/ Of fine building site on Biscayne Bay
] little south Of the Miami river, ana cor
I templates putting up "a sixty-room hotel
I this summer I'm readiness for the tourist
trade next winter.
Two months after the freeze the Mana
l tee river country shipped solid car Of
I 42A crates OF beans and Irish potatoes 20
/ ST. Louis, the potatoes bringing g a
/ bushel, the beans - 90 - oushel on me
! wharf. Cabbage have been shipping resl-
! larry ever d. month.
The board Of health at Pensacola IS
/ making active prepare tions for sumner
/ operations at the quarantine station by
/ constructing new ballast CRIB for the
/ isolation Of suspected or injected vessels.
I at a. distance Of Co yards from the exist
ing crib, and otherwise putting the station
/ into effective condition.
| Melrose. which is located in the corner
| Of three counties has had three school
! teachers. one each from CLAY. AiaChua
I and Putnam TO be paid by each county.
Clay has failed to pay her teacher for the
/ term expiring March 18th, and now Miss
| Morrison, the teacher threatens 10 bring
suit therefor
Mrs. Thomas c. Plat, Of New York.
| wife Of ex-Dnited States Senator Plat.
] accompanied by her grandson, Living
Q sion AfluLAs passed through JAEkHUnNllAEs
/ Thursday, on her way to Washington.
She has been spending the winter on her
| orange grove at Leesburg, which is
! entirely under her own personal control
/ and management.
The Acme Brewing Company Of Macon.
/ Ga, an enterprise in which +. r. Block is
one Of the prime moving spirits viii soon
/ begin the erection Of a large building at
/ Tampa. Negotiations are pending for one
! of two sites. Mr.. Block states that he in
| tends to build a structure three stories
/ high, with marble front and trimmings,
/ 1t viii cost at least $4,000.
H. J. Webber. assistant pathologist of
| the United States department of agri-
! culture, division Of vegetable pathology.
has sent out from the Sub-tropical Labo-
| ratory, situated at Eustis, circular re-
| port on treatment for sooty mold of the
! orange. This report Is approved by
| Chalcs W. Dabney Jr., assistant secre-
/ tery department OF agriculture.
The Naphtha launch Cherokee, which
/ started from Daytona for the Inlet
/ Wednesday morning, was capsized in a
! squall when opposite the burberry place.
/ ia Bethune Bay. She was near the east
/ side Of the channel, and drifted onto
! the fiat before she had time to fill and
| sink. There We're two gentlemen and
| eleven ladies on board and all escaped
| with a thorough ducking.
The Palatka bar met Thursday and
! passed resolutions protesting against the
| proposed legislation now pending al ITALIA
hassee, 70 cut Putnam county from the
I Fifth judicial circuit and annex same to
! the Fourth circuit The meeting appoint-
/ ed a committee of two, Capt r.. w. Davis
and Hon. Benjamin Il. Calhoun, to 90 to
/ Tallahassee, II necessary, to confer there
/ with the senators and members and take
! proper steps to defeat the bill.
Tampa Times: Seven years ago David
/ Davis went TO Brunswick Ca, and estab-
/ hshcd laundry. on his printed cards he
I referred TO n. Dixon, w. B. Gunby, Il. H.
| Harris and Eugene Blain, al of whom
/ We're residents of Brunswick. He came here
| Few weeks ago TO organize a company
! for the establishment Of a laundry, and as
! 1t happened his printed cards bore the
same refercnces-all the gentlemen being
] now residents and prominent business
| men of Tampa.
+. w. Markert. Of Wildwood has closed
/ MS books and issued the following cir
/ cular TO the public: by consent Of my
/ creditors, l Will sell at cost all hardware
! paints, harness and harness findings
| hats, caps. gents furnishing goods, cloth
! ing, dry goods and notions for spot cash
/ only. All Indebtedness to the firm must
| be settled at once. Positively no goods
charged Sale will begin Saturday April
~; 1888 and VIII continue until all indebt-
/ edness Is paid"
| In response to a call issued several
| weeks ago, the railroad surgeons met in
! East Florida Seminary assembly han at
| Gainesville and organized. The organiza-
| ton will be known as the State Railway
! Surgeons Association. The constitution
ana bylaws We're adopted. after which
| the following officers were elected Pres
| ident, Dr. $. G. Warly, st. Augustine; first
! vice president, DIR. X. p. Izler, Ocala; sec
| ond vice president, DR.. j. Harris Pierpont,
| Pensacola; secretary and treasurer, DR. j.
| NJ. Jackson, Jr., Bronson; executive com
| mittee, DR.. F. H. Caldwell, Sanford; DR..
| H Stiles, West Palm Beach; Dr. G. r.
! Welch, Palatka. Dir. Harry Stiles of the
] East Coast Line was chosen as a delegate
I TO the National Association of Railway
| Surgeons to be held in Chicago May /, .
/ and 3.
Florida, this year. will be five times
as strong competitor of Georgia in
| the acknowledgements industry as she
| ever was before. II is estimated that not
/ less than 500 acres of Florida soil are
| now planted in melons. On the line of the
| Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West there
| are LAB; on the Florida Southern 1856.
| and on the st. Johns and Lake Eustis.
4 ~; This makes a total for the Jackson
! VIE, Tampa and Key West system OF
| 2,1s6. Returns from other lines have not
! yet been compiled, but from those in
hand 5000 acres is not too large an esti-
| mate. Eight thousand acres, properly cul-
| tivated, should yield 5000, 600 marketable
| melons, at 10 cents apiece, net 5000 900.
! The unusually large melon acreage is
! due TO the freeze, which compelled the
| orange grower who has lost his CROP. Ia
/ put in the ground a crop that would Weld
/ quick cash returns. a large part of the
melon seed was the gift of the railroads
and express company.