The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-05-08
GOINGS ON TN FLORIDA.

Winter Garden has begun the ship
ment of tomatoes.
Crops in the north central portion
OF the state are suffering for rain.
Tampa merchants have united il
an effort to drive out the trading
stamp business from that city.
Hon. Jno. M. Caldwell, the veteran
editor of Jasper, has been appointed
treasure of Hamilton County.
j. NJ. Barnett, a pioneer resident o
MelrOse and former postmaster
and prominent citizen is dead.
The republicans of st. Augustin,
have unaminausly endorsed IA. J
Ritchie for reappointment as post
master.
The Tallahassee base ball club d,
feated the Lake City club Ia.
Thursday by a score of to 2; ten III.
nings were played.
Gov. Jennings addressed the Bryan
Club at Birmingham. ALA. last Satur.
day w. j. Bryan was also expected
to be present and speak.
Twonty-eight convicts will be re-
leased from the Florida state prison
during the month of May by reason
of expiration of sentence.
Marcus l.. Smith, and aged and
highly respected old settler of Day
tOna is dead from the res ulL of a re-
cent fall from IL load OF hay.
w. w. Bradley of New York, in
behalf of the stockholders, 81 has been
appointed rect iVer Of the Interna-
tional Kaolin Cos. plants at Yalaha.
Last Saturday was the first ami
versary of the great fire which de-
stroyed Jacksonville. The city is
now largely rebuilt al! d on Il much
more magnificent Gale,
The corner stone of st. Johns Ev-
angalical Lutheran church was laid
Sunday afternoon, by the pastor; the
the balance of the building viii be
erected on week days. This in Jack
sonville.
w. S. Thomson a lumber man
from Greensboro, n. G. has bought
100000 acres of timber lands in Leon
and Wakulla counties and will soon
establish saw mills at points in those
counties.
VIM. Roberts of Centerville, Leon
Co. has several acres in wheat which
is now nicely headed out with fully
developed grains. During the civil
war iG was demonstrated that wheat
could be grown on the lands of Leon
county.
The red spider is doing considera-
Bile damage to orange trees near
Fort Myers. The insects have at
tackled nearly all groves in the coun-
ty. The insects not only injure the
trees but ruin the fruit They do
the work quickly.
The police department of Jack
sonville has Just completed a new
census of the city which shows a to-
tai population of 1861. OF which
II 80 are white and 1887 are
colOred. This is total gain of g.
5l8 since tie government census in
the summer of 1900
A Chinese laundry in which gam
bling was carried on after work hours,
was raidcd in jacksonville last Sun
day night, and ten Cinnamon were
arrested. They were setting around
table in the center of which was the
image of Il Chinese god. The whole
amount of rs cents in nickles and
dimes was taken from the crowd.
DeSOto Park, Tampa, is place
where the ungOdly cOngregate on
Sunday and have free and easy
time. The ungodly in Tampa con-
stitute a large proportion of the pop
ulatiOn, consequently there is usual
ly u large crowd at these Sunday
gatherings. The ministt rs of the
city have demanded of the sheriff
that he stop these Sunday carousals,
but the sheriff is none too righteous
himself, and besides he is n politician
and may come up for office again.
The ministers recently appointed
two of their member to visit the park
and insist on the enforcement of law.
They went last Sunday and ordered
certain people arrested The crowd
followed up the ministers and hoot-
ed and jeered at them. They took
evidence and they got away, more
than ever satisfied that hell is not so
far off as is commonly supposed.
Rev. F. M. Sprague, pastor of First
Congregational church at Tampa has
been having trouble with his cOngre-
cation, one part of the membership
being arrayed against him. 1t is
claimed 10y this element that the
pastor has summarily elected certain
of them from the, church. The
counter claim is that these people
had to go as they We're not agreeable
to the church. The members ar
rayed against the pastor We're to
bring the matter up for Investigation
at the Congregational Association
which met at Lake Helen last week,
but the pastor got out an injunction
which restrained that body from
taking any action. The order of the
court also restraints any person from
censuring the pastor or attacking
him in any way for any acts COM
mitted by him or for aEy language
used by him as u minister, or from
taking any act necessary toward re-
moving him as pastor. 1t is an
unusual injunction.
Adrian Britt, at one time editor
of the Jacksonville Uuion, was bur-
ried in the pOtter's field at Chicago
on Sunday. Britt was the son of a
Louisiana planter. who died leaving
an estate Of $l,000,000. Young Britt
came TO Jacksonville in 1874 when he
got control of the Jacksonville
Union, at that time the most power
full political organ in the state. Britt
and his paper were active in efforts
to wrest the political control of the
state from the republicans. At the
time If the Tflden-Hayes election
when the vote of the state hung in
doubt, Britt's paper cones eded the
elecIion TO the rennhlicans and