Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1900-06-08

furnishings really are TO the travelling
public and the thousands Of tourists
who visit il each year, and for that
reason are especially anxious that they
be preserved, at least, and il possible,
TO convert tho old building into mil
itary museum, which question has
been considered before. The old fort
is Of both local aud national interest,
and ii is to DO hoped that the war de.
partment will lend it's assistance in
bringing the matter to q successful
issue.
Pine Land Strawberries.
Mr.. L. T.. Hill OF Miami planted
1, 800 hills Of strawberries last fall.
In December they began to bear aud
are still fruiting. Mr.. Hill has picked
about 400 quarts, for which he has re-
ceived 30 cents per quart. He ex-
pended Slt for fertilizer, which leaves
him net balance Of Sl06. The plants
arc now putting on numbers of run
ners, aud he expects TO sell at least
$50 worth OF plants. The land on
which these plants were set Ia ordinary
rocky pine land. For nearly six
months Mr.. Hill and family have hsa
ripe strawberries on their table daily,
and the end Is not yet Az result OF
this experiment Mr.. Hill will plant
two acres in tho early foil.
After taking 1876 ballots, the sena-
torial convention for tho ninth district
adjourned at Inverness without max
ing q nomination, and referred the
nomination OF q senator for the dist
riot back TO the people through
primary, the executive committee BE-,
Ing instructed to call a primary for
that pnspose. From the sixth to tho
one hundred and ninesy-sixth ballot,
the vote stoods For 1D~.-s.Sheldon
Stringer, fernando county, two votesss
Hon. John Mason Young, Citrus coun-
~, three votes; DR.. j. q. Waller,
Pasco county, four votes.
The Leesburg Rifles celebrated the
second anniversary Of their muster into
service OF the United States by giving
a hop, which was attended by the elite
OF the town and country. A feature
OF the occasion was patriotic address
by DR.. +. W. Butler, candidate for
state senator.
Application was made few days
ago Tor charter for the recently or.
ganized Tampa Fertilizer company.
This has been fully explained already.
W. r. Fuller, who 10 TO be the general
manager, went to Charleston the past
week TO attend the meeting Of the
Wholesale Groccrs, and
while he was there he made close In
spoction Of the fertilizer factories aud
their mode OF operation.
The following young gentlemen OF
Florida have been appointed by Hon.
John l.. Crawford, secretary Of state.
to free law scholarships In the Nash
Vile Law college: John @. Granting.
Little River; George A. Stephens, De
Funiak Springs; Ion L. Harris, Ocsla;
Samuel ID. CLARK, Monticello; II. p.
West Palm Beach; J. II.
Hunter, Miami; Walter Crum, Tampa;
Charles 8. Mountieu, Vernon. There
are two scholarships yet TO be awarded.
J. L. Allnut, representative OF the
South Florida Planting and Sugar Re
Aning Company, states that he has re-
ceived letter from the Plant System
aging that q satisfactory rate would
be made on cane In the stalk from oil
points on their lines within the state.
He is daily expecting letter from the
+. 9. q p. bearing the Same state
ment. The company will soon be
making some show In their prepaYa-
tions for building and equipping the
plant, which will be large one.
George Ketcham, II. Stern and II.
II. Brown OF Macon, Ca, promoters
Of the Georgia & Gulf Railroad, q new
line projected from Anderson, s. O.,
vic Tallahassee, to Carrabelle, on the
Gulf, were at the capital the past
week on q second visit In the interest
Of their enterprise.
The United States court at ITALIA
hassee adjourned after two-days ses-
sion, to meet in fall term on Novemr
Der 90. The grand jury did not return
o single indictment