The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-27
FLORIDA MATTERS.
Personal, Political, Industrial and
Religious Gossip.

Religious Gossip.
Sanford. Fla. Aug. 25.-sanford is get
ting into line with other towns and cities
in the multiplicity OF political cliques.
We now have the silver democrats and
the gold democrats. the Eagan republic
cans and the Gunby republicans with a
sprinkling of populsts. The gold demo-
Gratis were the last to organize and the
least in power Orange county is always
solid for democracy but our sister coun-
~ on the south, Osceola, is strongly pop
ulistic. and being in our senatorial dis
trict this fact viii make US more active
this fall As Osceola has given US a good
man in Nominee Carson for senator we
feel that his election is sure. however, the
rest Of the ticket IN that county may suf-
fer from a sharp canvass.
Some Of the newspapers have got badly
mixed about the yellow locomotive that
left the Plant system shops here recently.
As is well known, the cars that compose
the local train between Tampa and Port
Tampa are painted canary color This
has led TO the painting of the wood work
on the locomotive and tender the same
bright color, which contrast remarkably
with the steel and iron colored machinery
OF the working parts. This last locomo-
tive was - daisy and as it sped away
through the towns and cities between here
and Tampa its peculiar appearance Great
ed quite sensation. The ships here are
now turning out some Of the best work
ever done here being supplied with a full
force of skilled mechanics and running on
fun time.
Real estate men predict lively business
IN their line as soon as the season opens.
There Is small but steady tide OF new
settlers in this section Of the state. but
In West Florida large immigration parties
are being located by active syndicates.
With us it is more an individual matter,
our sales being largely to men of means
in search Of desirable winter homes with
an orange grove attachment. These cap
italists come from all sections of the
country, and some of them keep their
families here eight or ten months of the
year. Mr.. +. H. Briggs, manager of the
Baltimore and Ohio Fuel Company at
Cleveland, o., is one of the latest of this
class Of settlers He has purchased a splen-
did place between Seminary Lake and
Lake Charity, at Woodbridge station on
the Plant system, and is now shipping his
household goods, horses, carriages, etc,
which the family will follow.
The brief notice of the death of the VEN
cradle Hamlin j. Cook of Albany, father
Of 5. A. Cook, the agricultural editor of
the Morning News, failed to mention that
ne WdS ueSCenueu from INDUSTRIOUS military
stock. Hamlin Cook was made a first lieu
tenant in the famous Eighth United States
Infantry Col Patrick Juck, on March r.
1872. 1t was composed almost entirely of
Georgia and South Carolina troops and
numbered David e. Twiggs, Phil Cook
VIM. Chisholm and other well-known sol
diers in It's list OF captains. Lieut.. Cook
was made reglmental paymaster, but in
1913 he was promoted to be captain and
district paymaster, the district mo. g. en-
bracing North and South Carolina, and
Georgia, with Adjt. Gen. Thomas Pinck-
ney in command, and headquarters at
Charleston. When the old army was reor-
ganized and put on peace basis I'm 1916
Capt. Cook having served through the
emergency that called his regiment into
being, retired to private life.
l notice paragraph in the Florida
items of the Morning News in regard 20
DR.. J. E. Brecht. the special Indian agent
| among the Seminoies in the Everglades.
that he came to Jacksonville via Miami
to reach Immokalee, where the agency is
| located. and where his saw mill, etc. are
| In operation one route being from Miami
| and the other from Fort Myers on the
West Coast. 1t makes little difference
which route you go, It is safe to say
that you will wish you had taken the
other route, which you will feel sure can't
be any worse. Travel Is light through that
| uncivilized part of the state, and only
men OF heroic mould can enjoy 60 the
| trip. Bishop Gray has made it both ways
| and 1t required all his religious zeal and
conservation to enable him to take a Sec
| ond trip. In regard to the new mission
| church at Immokalee. now being complet-
| ed, l should have stated in previous let
| ter that Henry Gibbs was recently or
| dained a deacon by Bishop Gray, came,
! with his noble wife, to this uninvitins
| field of missionary labor from the print,
! Ing office of Drew Bros, in Jacksonville
| impelled to it by consecrated desire to
! serve his God as best he might where
the need was greatest. The typographical
| fraternity may well feel proud of his
| Christ-like example.