The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-23
SANFORD SETTINGS.
Bishop WhippIe Going AbrOad-The
PropOsed New County-High Points.

Bishop WhippIe Going AbrOad-The
Proposed New County-High Points.
Sanford. Fla, April 22.-Bishop H. B.
Whipple and wife were in the city yester-
day en- route to their summer home at
Faribault, Mimi, but their stay there
viii be short, as they propose to spend
the season in an extended European tour.
As usual the bishop held the Easter SER
vices at the Church Of the Good Shepherd
opposite his winter home at Maitland, and
confirmed several adult persons. The con-
gregation overfiowed the church, many
coming from Forest City, Altamonte and
Woodbridge.
Sanford is getting a move on her. In
the matter of good roads, but more from
necessity than inclination just now. The
completion of fine cay road from Malt
land to Orlando has drawn big country
retail trade TO the latter city, some OF
which properly belongs to Sanford. To
retain this trade it becomes absolutely
necessary that we build a good shell or
clay road to Longwood and thence
through Altamonte Springs to Maitland.
This will give our retail merchants fine
trade from a large section of the best part
of Orange county.
People who consider South Florida
fiat country will be surprised to know tnat
the elevation above tidewater at Sanford
is twenty-five (22) feet, while at Lakeland,
about eighty miles south, it is 20S feet,
from which point 1t declines gradually I'M
I'll 1t reaches ten Q0) feet at Tampa. The
highest point on the line are Altamonte
Springs 100 feet, Winter Park, l0 teet,
Orlando, 113 feet, Haines City, l5S Ieet,
Plant City, 128 feet, Barlow Junction 10
feet. It is a singular fact that the nnest
clearwater lakes abound in the highest
sections of the country through which the
road passes. About Barlow Junction are
deep cuts that show abundant clay de-
posits, and from this vicinity large guam
titles of white and red clay have been car
ried to town and cities to be used IN max
ing good clay streets and sidewalks, the
railroad giving liberal transportation
rates.
The bill introduced in the Florida legis-
lature to create a new county to be called
Kirby county, in honor of the late Lieut..
Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, of the con-
federate states army, who died some Two
years ago, while professor at the UnlNer-
sity of the South at Sewanee, Tenn, is at
tracing considerable attention he was
born in St. Augustine, but derived his CIV
en- names, Edmund Kirby, from gallant
Connecticut soldier of 1872 Edmund Kirby
was appointed ensign of the Fourth IN
fantry on July g. 1872, and although the
regiment was made up entirely OF new
England companies, the colonel, (Ropert
Purdy) was from Tennessee, and the
lieutenant colonel, John Darlington
from South Carolina. When the army was
reorganized in 1915 having made good
record. Second Lieut.. Smith was trans
ferred to the corps of artillery. From cap
tain of artillery, he was made major and
paymaster in 1924, which rank he held at
the time of his death, Aug. 2, lS4s. Fol
gallant and meritorious conduct in the
Mexican war he was brevetted Lieutenant
colonel and colonel. His career as a gal
liant soldier and honorable gentleman was
such that his name has ever
since been held in high esteem
| in army circle where 1t has been fire.
! auently reproduced in the names OF
| Younger, but no less distinguished OIL
| GERS. The second Edward Kirby was born
| in New York, but appointed "at large" to
West Point Military Academy He grad
uated in the early class of May, 1851, ano
entered the Second Artillery, but died as
| first lieutenant on May Is, 1868, Of wounds
| in the battle of Charlottesville Va The
| first Edmund Kirby Smith was born ID
| Connecticut but appointed to West Point
| Military Academy from Florida. He
| graduated into the Second Infantry In
| July, 1896 but died as captain in the Fifth
Infantry on Sept. IL, 1877, of wounds in
battle of Moline del Rey of the Mexicar
war. The second Edmund Kirby Smith
was born in Florida and appointed fror
| this state to West Point, graduating II
| 1916 into the Fifth Infantry. His career
| in the Mexican war was meritorious ant
| gallant and rewarded by two brevets
| When he resigned in 1861 to enter the con
| federate army he was major of the Sec
ond Cavalry. In the confederate service
he became a trusted lieutenant genera
and held high and responsible positions
| After the war he was always a conspicu
Gus and honored participant in the United
| Confederate Veterans reunions, and the
naming OF a new county in Florida fol
him will meet the hearty approval o.
every confederate veteran, as well as Of
thousands of old union soldiers, who still
revere the long familiar name.