The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-13
FLORIDA.

Fishing with hook and line was never
better than at present on the Gulf coast.
Aid for the Cedar Key storm sufferers
is still being sent in from Tarpon Springs.
The new convent at Warrington is near
ly ready for occupancy. There are sixty
scholars for the school.
Mrs Beattie Capo of st. Augustine fell
from bicycle Thursday and broke both
bones in her left arm, near the wrist
The Presbyterians and Methodists of
High Springs are raising funds to build
new churches. They were all blown
down by the storm last fall.
Additions of 100 rooms on the Royal
Poinciana and sixty rooms on the Palm
Beach Inn will be made during the COM
ing summer the work to begin as soon
as the present season closes
The question of obtaining a charter for
the city of Gainesville at the coming ses-
sion of the Legislature is being agitated.
The city has had no charter, and the
municipality has existed under the gen.
eral Incorporation act.
Many farmers In Alachua county are
clearing land and preparing 1t for the cul-
tivation of tomatoes. There will be
large acreage of summer crops, as the
farmers will try to make up what was lost
on cabbage and lettuce
The board of commissioners of Escam-
bia county has adopted Plan. submitted
by the Pauley jail Company of St. Louis,
for charging the present jail and build
ing an annex. This Improvement will
cost about $4,000. and will give Escambia
very handsome structure.
The Ward Line Steamship Company of
New York will place six of its steamships
in the trade between Pensacola and Mexi-
can, West Indian and South American
ports The first steamer is announced to
sail about May /. This will give Pensaco-
la three direct steamship lines to these
ports.
Sebastian truckers are just beginning to
harvest their second crop of beans The
prices so far received are slightly above
the average at this time of the year. The
tomato crop will soon begin to move. The
crop will not be as large as at first antic-
ipated, because of the drought for the last
four weeks.
Malabar dealers report that the demand
for nursery stock to set out new groves
this year has been greater than the sup
ply The nursery there had call lately
for 10000 budded orange trees, to be de-
livered next fall and could not furnish
them all. All these were for one man. to
be put out at one place.
Tallahassee Correspondence Morning
News: Gov. Bloxham has offered $500 for
the arrest and conviction of the murderers
of ]. b. Barfeld and John Turner, at
Juiiette on the night of March 3. r. Dave
Mcleod, an editor at Oglethorpe, Ga, will
soon move to Crawfordville, Fla, where
he will publish a newspaper.
Jackson, a brakeman on the Florida
East Coast railway. slipped between two
cars near Titusville Thursday night and
part of the train passed over him. He
caught hold of the brake rigging of one
of the cars and held on until the train
was stopped. He was taken to st. Au-
gustine and placed in the railway hos
pital. He was badly injured.
Seffner reports gardens looking promis-
ing Beans and other tender vegetables
were hurt some by the frost ten days ago.
Irish potatoes have been planted largely,
and the crop is generally I'm good shape
The strawberry crop is the one of most
importance just now. Several refrigera-
tors are sent by every express train. The
first carload left a day or two ago. The
orange trees have made a heavy growth.
and some groves are white with blooms.
Strawberries are being shipped
from Clear Water barber in
large quantities, and are bring
Ing good prices to the growers This
bids fair to be one OF the leading indus
tries of that section in the future, as
the fruit raised there is of very fine quail
ty. and comes into the market much earlier
than from any other berry-growing dis
trict in the state. The cold wave in Feb
ruary, which cut off the crop i'm other
places, did no injury to the crop at Clear
water harbor.