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'AIRI 001 DUR SIRE AA FLORIDA. Gainesville has seven soda water tains in use. A Chinaman will open a laundry Gainesville. The bills of the First National Bank Orlando are being paid out rapidly. Several tons of ice are shipped Apalachicola by nearly every boat. The State Medical Association booked to meet at the Opera House in latka yesterday. Bacon burning in the ruins of the fire at Gainesville is emitting an which is almost unbearable. L. G. Tubbs, an Orange Heights chant, plead guilty to the charge of ing tobacco without a license, and $200 peug George F. Young is burning a kiln 60,000 brick to be used by J. J. Patric and himself in erecting a brick buildin in Orlando. W. K. Bartleson and J. S. Allen each erecting for themselves an elegan residence nearly opposite the Methodis church at Gainesville, Petitions are in Washington for new post offices in St. John's county, at Warrifield's station on the St. tine and Palatka railway, the other Moccasin Branch settlement on the road. A 12-horse-power steam engine for running a cotton gin and grist mill the place of W. H. Sanders, six northwest of Monticello, exploded, the death of two negroes and woundin several others, Wednesday, while Samuel J. Johnso was walking across a floor at the Cypres Lumber Company's mill, near Apalach cola, he slipped and fell, causing the of a large and very sharp chisel he carrying in his hand to cut a serious painful wound in his thigh. The prospects for the new paper factor at Sanford are bright. The proprietor illiams Bros., of Brooklyn, have chased the patents bearing on the metto fibre process for making paper have secured machinery that will out 6,000 pounds of fine paper daily. The stockholders of the Apalachicol and Marianna Telegraph Company Tuesday last and elected the followin new officers as directors: J. N. Coomb W.T. Orman, H. C. Hicks, G. A. Patto one place unfilled. The new board directors then elected J. N. Coombs President and G.A. Patton Secretary Treasurer. At Sanford, last Saturday evening, at the beginning of the religious exercise on the corner of the Sanford House Arthur Schluman, better known "Cockney," ignited a lot of fire cracke near the crowd, and a terrible racket sued. He was promptly arrested, and Monday morning he was taken Mayor Sirrine, who, upon the urgent for leniency by the preachers and engaged in the religious exercises, him $20 and costs. The Grand Division Sons of Tempe ance met at Ocala Tuesday, P. G. W. Rev. C.C. McLean presiding. J. M. lie, Grand Scribe, read the annual report showing an increase of six divisions one hundred and fifty-six members the past year. Theofficers for the year are: G. W. P., Dr. W. L. Baldwit G. W. A., William P. C. Meeks; G. S., H. Bants: G. T., Joseph Thomas; Chaplain, Rev. C.B. Wilmer; G. C., ward Williams: G.S., J. B. Collins. Ocala division has entertained the gates handsomely, and the W. C. T. tendered them a grand reception in Opera House Tuesday evening. The Orlando Record prints the ing: An English lady has arrived Orlando with nine children, a parrot 40 pieces of baggage. What became her husband is not positively known, it is surmised that the poor man took the woods at the first favorable tunity.-Ex. You are mistaken in surmise about the man taking to woods. He came to stay, and has his arrival cleared 40 acres of planted 500 orange trees, and has a ble garden for the children to attend He has only been here three months. has sold vegetables enough to make living. pay for a horse team and farmin utensils, and owes no man a dollar. The yacht Frolic came near runnin afoul of a cyclone in Santa Rosa