The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-04
FLORIDA.

The Florida Baptist Association is in
session near Mount Pleasant.
The st. Augustine Rifles may abandon
their contemplated trip to Atlanta.
t. b. Rogers. who has been in the drug
business at Oviedo for some time, has
disposed of his business and will seek a
new field.
The Sunday school and Epworth League
convention, Gainesville district, convened
at the Methodist church at Williston
Wednesday.
Rev. James Stanton Of Ormond says out
of 400 orange trees that were frozen back
last winter he did not expect to lose seven
His trees have shoots ten feet high.
Ernest Cooper who was shot by John
Moses, in Baxter & Cashen's saloon at
Jacksonville, early last Sunday morning,
died Wednesday night at 11:3O O'CLOCK
The Hillsboro Cypress Company is now
10000 feet of cypress lumber. This il is
said, is but initiatory to an immense bus
mess.
Rev. e. H. Staley has sold his place.
known as DR.. c. o. Myers property,
northeast of Orlando. to capitalists, who
viii put out forty acres of pineapples there
this season.
The residence of B. R. Pitt. corner of
North Barcelona and Gregory streets, at
Pensacola, was entered Monday night by
burglars and quite lot of jewelry cloth
ing and other articles taken therefrom
The advance guard of the Michigan col
OnlStS is at w est PAIN Beacn, and others
may be expected every day. The new
settlers arrived with Congressman Lin
ton, and are now on their future homes
around New River. They are wen pleased
with the country.
The citizens of Fort Meyers are about
to form a branch of one OF the larger
building and loan associations of the
country. Business is reported to be daily
improving at this point and one hustler
from up the creek has sold $72,O0 worth
Of orange grove property in that county,
A. Hague, an old man who has for some
sewing machine dealer of Tampa. d TopneS
dead last Sunday night, at his home on
Ashley street. Mr.. Hague's death was
due to apoplexy, and he is said to have
left his family in very poor circumst tam
ces.
Up to Wednesday night 222 miscellane-
Gus and thlrty-one liquor licenses for the
state and county had been issued by
County Tax Collector Geiger at Jackson
vile. City Tax Collector Holmes had is
sued 276 miscellaneous, thirty-three LIQUOR
and four milk vendors licenses up to the
same time.
Cocoa has been Incorporated and town
officers elected. DR.. w. L. Hughlett was
named Tor mayor; Messrs. j. NJ. San
ders, j. F. Wooten F. Sitting. "A. A. Tay-
lof ana >. +. Travis, aldermen; r. N
Andrews clerk and treasurer; George i.
Lynch, marshal and collector; and e. G.
ton of about 600.
Judge Tunison, United States commits
sloner at Pensacola, issued two warrants
Wednesday for the arrest of II. c. Crab
tree, supervisor of registration for Es-
Gambia county. The charges are cutting
government timber One charge is for
cutting timber on abandoned homestead
lands, and the other for cutting timber
on lands which were never homesteaded
State Treasurer c. b. Collins SAYS that
owing to the great number of Insurance.
licenses to be issued. under the new law
and some complications having arisen in
this connection, it will be the middle of
the month before he can completes the
work. There are more than a thousand
licenses to be issued and sent out This
is new duty imposed upon the state
treasurer by the last legislature.
The orange groves of ST. Augustine
are doing splendidly. Scarcely any OF
the trees were killed below the surface
of the ground. and the new shoots. many
of them, are fifteen to twenty feet high
IN some OF the groves, Like that of H
H. Williams which We're grown from
sweet seedlings, there will be a croD OF
oranges in two or three years; the bud
ded trees will probably require at least
one year longer.
The importation of tobacco at TAMPA
continues TO be large. During the month
OF September last year 1.4S6 bales of to-