The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1908-07-24
ITEMS OF NEWS
IN FAIR FLORIDA
What Is Being Done Towards the De-
YelOpmGnt Of the Peninsula

ville's principal throughfares IS TO De
paved with vitrified brick.
The stamp sales at the Pensacola
postoffice for the fiscal year ended
June S0th. amounted to S55.647.eh.
Jesse Hunter, sheriff of Lake coun-
". has resigned and the Governor has
appointed B. A. Cassidy to the posi-
ton.
A little Italian girl was run over by
a Tampa street car Wednesday. AT
the hospital the doctors were COM
PEELED to amputate a leg.
So far this season more than one
hundred carloads of watermelons
have passed through Pensacola for
northern and western points.
The convention of the Florida State
League Of Postmasters Of the Fourth
Glass, adjourned at Orlando last week
and will meet next year in Jackson
vile.
The school board of Osceola county
will replace the burned high school
building at Kissimmee with new
structure which is to cost not less
than $1,000.
Hon Thomas A. Darby, former State
Senator in Florida, who recently mar
ried Miss Caroline Brevard, of ITALIA
hassee, died suddenly last Monday in
Alaska, of apOplexy.
Acknowledgement Foster has refused
to accept the signature OF the Tampa
militia officers who sought to retire
from the Second Regiment, Florida
State Troops, on the ground that the
time for their withdrawal is unoppor-
tune and would be detrimental to the
welfare of the service.
The st. Petersburg postoffice shows
a gratifying increase of business for
the fiscal year ending June 30th last,
over the preceding year. The total
business Of 1906 was $1O077; of 1907,
$11,5S7 and of 1908, 1851. Money
orders issued this year amounted to
$53,276; money orders paid. $5O,617;
stamp sales, $12.57S.69.
The offer of E. NJ. Kean, the con-
tractor. to increase the flow of Jack
sonville artesian wells 100000 gal
Ions daily for the sum of $1,000 was
accepted by the board of bond trustees
of that city. His method for increas
ing the flow is a secret, but he de-
clares it entirely practicable, and
guarantees that it will not injure any
of the wells.
AS evidence of the rapidity with
which the English sparrow multi
plies a flock of not less than TWEEN
ty-five of these little pests were seen
in one place on the pavement on 18th
street this morning. Less than four
months ago not more than half
dozen of these birds could be found
in the city. At the present rate of
increase it will be only a short time
before the town and county will be
overrun by them.-Miami Metropolis.
L. L. Carlton has the belt for raising
the largest watermelon in this section.
Saturday afternoon he showed us one
which weighed lightweight pounds.
southern part of town on what is
known as Cartons pasture. He states
that the vine which produced thar
melon has borne seven others. all OF
which weighed over thirty pounds. He
is saving the seed from all the melons
of that vine and will plant three or
four acres next spring.-Fort Pierce
News.
On last Saturday, while Mr. c. e
Johnson was coming 10 town. Capt
Hickman passed him i'm his car. which
frightened his horse. and before he
could be gotten under control, the
horse reared up and fell on the cnd
of the shaft which penetrated the
horses side behind the shoulder. kill
ing il almost instantly. Capt Ficl--
man. when he saw that the horse
was frightened, stopped the car ina
waited until Mr.. Johnson ASKED him
TO go ahead. and ii was not until
after the car had passed around and
in frOn. - the horse that it began 70
rear and pitch. While Mr.. Hickman
was not to blame, and was not held
responsible for the accident by MIR.
Johnson, he showed his regret Of the