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 VOL. X. TITUSVILLE, FLA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1889. NO. 11.


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 Cocoa. Ten Mile Creek. : Melbourne. derful in freedom from insects. Duringour Lake Worth.

 The Fourth of July will not be celebrated A few refreshing showers during the i Showers nearly every day. Sunday walk we passed along one Enough wet.

 in Cocoa. past week makes vegetation decidedly And mosquitoes also. trail and fifteen or twenty minutes later Also enough sunshine.So .

 fresher for the returned by a parallel trail, not 200
 same.
 and Mr. R. Jones
 L.W. Wellhouse everything is
 )[r. How the weeds and grass grow ; thriving.
 Misses Gertrude and Helen Bevill yards distant from the first. We arepositive
 Ga. paid Cocoa a business are
 Atlanta, the
 of Dr. Holmes and wife, of City Point, there were 500 on the first trailto Especially mosquitoes. If anyone
 at Mr. Bell's while
 stopping attending
 week. they are -
 visit last doubts it let them and them.
 were in town last week and called come sample
 the district school. *' upon one on the second, the only difference
 )Irs. Dawson and her son Robbie, who friends here. G. Washington Bristol is short
 I being the growth was taller on the first, on a
 of the clerks in the firm of J. M. The Hendry Bros. have been at workon
 is one Mrs. Johnson will, we are told, open and the breeze very light. We are not trip north, but will return shortly and
 & Co. left last week for a few the county bridges, and rumor says
 ganders continue the his
 the Riverside as a hotel as soon as the at all interested in the locality mentioned improvements on west
 at their old home in Charleston. they are much improved already.Our .
 weeks' stay side
 painting is finished.Mr. so the above statement may be considered place.
 S. C.Sunday. school is progressing nicely, the
 R. K. Carron and his sister have correct. John Clemenson was down from Junoon
 morning Archdeacon S. B. attendance being larger and more regular taken of the the 24th and James Kinsley on the
 I possession! Idlewild Cottage, No person visiting our stores would ;
 held services and administered now than since the school began.A .
 Carpenter which will accommodate all who wish to imagine this to be the dull season. 25th. The former has bought one of1

 the Holy Communion in St. Michael's few visitors still continue to visit stop at Melbourne.We Large quantities of goods are received Capt. U. D. Hendrickson's mules and is

 Episcopal Church, Cocoa, and delivered our rural district, and many fine drivesare are to hear that Mrs. Nesbitt almost daily, and the outward-bound arranging to go into the wood businessat
 sorry;
 of his interesting sermons. : enjoyed by the Fort Pierce people on .
 one is still confined to her bed. Mrs. Thomas trade is in proportion. Mr. C. J. Hec- Jupiter.The

 Mr. Harry Eyre, who is spending the i the excellent road, which are as hard and also has been ill for a few days, but is tor's store floor was full of large packingcases Mary B. arrived in from Jacksonville -

 summer with friends in Webster City; solid as a brick pavement.We able to be up again. of dry goods, shoes: etc., and large the Ruby Dye and the Illinois from

 la.. receives hearty thanks from the side- understand. G. Bevill has arrived Work is progressing favorably at Melbourne lots of hats, clothing, trunks and satchels the B. I. E. and the Laura B. from Jupiter -

 walk committee for so promptly forwarding at Fort Pierce with his new saw- are coming. Never before have goodsof all on the 21st. The Ina returned
 Beach a tier of lots the whole
 the $2.5O which he promised to give mill. He is putting it up at Bell's Creek. ; such quality at so low prices been seen from Jupiter on the 24th and Emily B.
 length of the south side of Ocean avenueare
 towards the coquina sidewalk of our little and will be prepared in a very; short timeto being cleared and grubbed. Captain in this part of the country. The resultis arrived from Jacksonville on the 2: th.

 town. furnish lumber to one wishing it.We trade of .Ir. Hector's
 any a big
 course. The usual Fourth of July picnic will
 Clayton, of Olean, N. Y., has a very fine
 Mr E. J. Johnson and Gus Johnsonare hope the people will patronize home building site there.Watermelons trade, last Saturday, reached nearly be held, but exactly where has not yet

 fulfilling their share of the promisedwork interest, thereby helping to build up an $200. Our drug store carries a good been decided. It is understood that the

 on the coquina walk by bringingrock enterprise of this kind. We wish you are coming in, though stock of the latest and choicest drugs and Jupiter and Lake Worth Railroad Com-
 still high priced. We have had them
 for the sidewalk which is to be laid success, Mr. Bevill. i medicines. Mr. Branch strives, at least, pany have tendered the use of a train
 for month and the kind-
 now a through
 in front of Mr. E. C. Johnson's candy Some of our neighbors expect several to keep even with the river trade. Our and offered a free trip to Jupiter and return -

 store. Rev. Butler Reed, one of our families of their relatives and friends ness of Mrs. Ely cantaloupes also, which hardware store does a good business, andis over the new road, and this offer
 were raised on the Goode House grounds. may possibly accepted. Be this as it
 worthy colored citizens, we are pleasedto next fall. They certainly would be quitean They were simply delicious. constantly adding to the variety of its may, the picnic will be held somewhere,

 note furnished his mule and cart for acquisition to this place. More people stock. weather permitting.As .

 one day's hauling of rocks for the side- ] is what we need-some that will buy The Riverside restaurant building of We noticed. two week's ago 'Ruth- the new school law makes a changein
 Mr. S. H. Phillips is receiving its finish-
 walk. the land and make permanent homes. venY' allusion to our regatta, and the the school board, the old board met on
 : ing touches in the painting. We notice
 Mr. V. H. Harris, the newly] appointed The land is for sale on easy installments, intimation that local jealousy barred 25th and finished up all business, and
 Mr. F. W. Comstock of Malabar, is
 en-
 postmaster at Micco, Fla., with his friend and is adapted to raising sugar-cane and Lake Worth boats. Not so, my dear sir. everything is in shape to turn over to
 the work. Frank is old
 Mr. T. J. O'Brien, spent a few days up vegetables, the soil.being of a rich, brown gaged on an The statement in the Xews was an error, the new board as soon as they are appointed -
 hand well versed in
 here last week. They cane up to overlook loam with clay foundation (this being the trade. every departmentof the matter having been fully discussedat and qualified. County Superin-

 the telegraph line, as the heavy the hammock kind), and then the pine the first: meeting, and decided that if tendent Gale is also ready to abdicate in

 Rate of the week before had done some land, on which can be raised quantitiesof We have been trying a preparation for Lake Worth boats were admitted, boats favor of John Clemenson, the new appointee -

 little damage to the wires between Micco sweet-potatoes which sell readily at mosquitoes prescribed by Dr. Stafford, from Halifax Matanzas and elsewhere commission., as soon as the latter receives his

 and this place. Mr. O'Brien has chargeof $1.00 per bushel; and, combined with and dispensed by C. H. Stewart, our little would claim the right to enter, as was

 station at Micco. Last our fertile country we have a climate druggist. After applying we took a walkin done in one instance at least from read- A year ago last February David Brownset
 the telegraph
 he had charge of the signal Service that is unsurpassed. We especially wish the worst place we know of, and not ing the statement alluded to. The cus- out some root sprouts of guavas and
 year ]last winter
 picked half bushel of
 our northern friends to know that here one mosquito settled on any part touched tom had been for a few years back to put a guavas -

 station at Jupiter.The is place "where the heat is perpetualand I with the preparation. a very large portion of the money in from one of them, and now they are
 Poinsett and IndependentIndian
 Lake all loaded with fruit. Perhaps
 the sun forever shines ;" but at the Messrs. Morrion: and Hitchings have fir;t-class prizes and let foreign boats some
 River Steamboat Company ex- other section of the State can beat this.
 time want who will cast the and walls of the it while the who contri-
 same we people covered ceilings carry away, ones
 pected to hold a meeting last week, June We are willing they shall ; all we ask is
 their interests with and not afraidto in their with cloth buted and entered to make a race knew
 2bth, at Cocoa, in Hill's Hall but :Major I us are rooms building tightly that they will tell us of it when they do.
 detained in work, for, with industry enough, this l stretched and well tacked ; on this there was: no earthly show of securing a Mr. Brown also has about as fine mandarin 
 'ieo Cecil was unavoidably
 place can be made to "blossom as the foundation paper is to be applied and prize. We have been told that the above orange trees for one year's growth
 Jacksonville, so telegraphed down to ask from the as can be found
 that the meeting be postponed until rose." Would be pleased to give any finished with fine wall paper. The boys more than any reason, was the cause of where.L. nursery any

 information we can to anyone wishing it, will have a CO'iYiuitc: of rooms when dissatisfaction: and the abandonment of
 Tuesday, July 9th. As Major Cecil is D. Hillhouse, our County Collector,
 either through the columns of the STAR completed.Dr. the Oleander Point races. The resultwas
 the manager of the DeBary Line of as anticipated-one of the squarest, has a place on the west side which he is
 steamboats, and an important factor in or by private letter. Address to be had Schofield, Mr. and Miss: Moore, most enjoyable meetings ever held on improving considerably, and amongst

 the meeting, the committee have doneas at the STAR oflice. HERMIT.Hymciiial. and Miss Kate Eyre came down on the the river. Numerous prizes, happy win- other improvements was the removal ofa

 will Maud F. last week for another visit to ners, everybody well pleased; there being
 railroad meeting that had
 he asked and the but one soUtargrowler, and as he contributed gopher been depredatingamong
 be held Tuesday, July 9th, in Hill's Hall Melbourne Beach. The party occupy: nothing else we are glad he was the pineapples. The gopher was
 FORT PIERCE June 22 'SO.
 in Cocoa, and a large attendance is earnestly I I Mrs. Cummings' Myrtle Cottage, Ocean able to do so much. No, Mr. Ruthven taken to the east side of the lake and
 I.urieat residence of the bride's avenue. The distance is short to either remove from your mind the idea that
 requested. confined in a barrel for about a month,
 parents, Mr. J. B. Merriweather to Miss river or ocean, and if too ill or indolentto local jealousy etc.. had any influence in after which its
 thinking appetite was
 the matter and when we hold our next
 Gnllic. Alma Bell next daughter of walk the hand-car on the railroad will '
 Fan youngest
 May Day regatta. Come and see us sharp enough for it to eat almost any-

 We are still favored with showers and Hon. Alexander Bell transport them rapidly and comfortablyto even if your boats are barred. You will thing, it was turned loose to graze on the

 growing weather. The ceremony was performed by Mr. either place. find people ready to welcome you with east side pastures. What was neighborHillhouse's

 The artesian well in Hodgson Bros'orange McMillan, of this place, and was very We can see from the west side or mainland hospitable visit a pleasant hands and one.strive We to will make all your be surprise to see that gopher,

 grove has! reached a depth of 120 quiet. The happy couple immediately the new bath-houses at the Atlantic pleaded to greet you, and none more so in less than half an hour, nearly halfway

 feet. started on a bridal trip to Montgomery, terminus of the railway apparently al- than across the lake and headed directly

 her Ala., where they expect to make their most within a stone's throw of Myrtle U. D'ONOHU. for his old feeding grounds. A short trip

 Mrs. John E. M. Hodgson and future home. The bride was presentedwith Cottage. They are built at the very edgeof --- with a skiff, a few blows with a hatchet
 little daughter arc both doing well under and the gopher went to feed the crabs: ,
 of flowers IIjpoluxo.
 handsome by
 a bouquet the ocean bluff, "down almost amid
 while the still
 in
 pineapples are growing
 the of Mr Bassett.
 care ? Mrs. Cornelia Bass, with complimentsand the slapping waves;" and, as we stated "There's music in the air," all their tropical luxuriance. Such, in
 Mrs. W. J. Nesbitt's friends in Eau congratulations. The bride The musquito is to hum. brief the facts related
 many once before, the baths are to be supplied are as by neighbor
 Uallie will be pleased to hear that she is loooked lovely in a rich costume of lavender with water from the artesian well, so He-or she rather-judging from the Hillhouse. who although from Georgia,

 fast recovering from her recent illness. soi de chine, and orange blossoms. bathers can take a fresh water rinse aftera name, i is of Spanish origin. The plain left there of young infection; so is it h probably before"this.He all.

 Mr. Henry U. Hodgson has gathered The bridegroom, of course, wore the conventional salt water soaking in the Atlantic English of it should be the"must-eat-oh," danger is also a good democrat over and as a

 the first crop of peaches we have seen on black. Congratulations of the Ocean. for they are indefatigable in search of a democratic ex-postmaster stands sponsorfor

 the Eau Gallie River. They are the Bid- many friends of both contracting parties I I meal, and they puncture the millionairewith the tale, we feel no hesitation in giv-

 well early and late varieties, and those were heartily extended, and at 3 Since the rain, tomatoes are putting on the game> calm indifference and bill ing it to the public in all its virgin sim-

 we saw were fine, fully developed, well : o'clock the bridal party took the steameren new growth and a second crop of fruit. tHat they do the humble cribe. They plicity.

 ripened fruit. i route to their future home. Water and muskmelon ,vines which were are democratic in their tastes and man- Improvements seem to be the order of

 apparently almost dead, have revived the here The Cocoanut Grove
 Treutler ners, and,per*', inflict the "solid South" day now.

 The grounds around and the laid out Jacob Summerlin;the well-known pio- and are again in full bloom. Guavasare and New Jersey. The suiphurous fumesof House, when completed, will have a

 House are being plowed and cattle rarer who i is an acknowledged loaded with fruit, and are blooming profanity drive them not, but a pinchof frontage of 96> feet, with five gables towards -
 preparatory to the pipe laying necessaryto neer continuously. Oranges have held their pyrethrum in the smoke-pot and theyare the lake; C V. Barton is having astory

 irrigating the young orange, lime and authority on matters pertaining fruit much better than we expected, and like the learned country constable's and half with
 a building a one-
 hotel buildingis to the Seminole Indians informs the Orlando I, return on his writ, "won cit t in veritus, in
! peach grove in which the Sentinel that the Seminoles will taking everything into consideration, we svampo up a stUnljJl)." You can take your story wing in the rear erected. This

 situated. take the have as much to be thankful for and as choice-patience, profanity or pyreth- building is of good size and will be used
 elect, a chief in a few days, to
 Recent letters from Mr. Jno. H. Mellor place of the one recently murdered. The little to complain of as the residents of rum.The for a fruit and vegetable ripening and

 (now in Chicago), advise us that an time for the election will probably be I I any other part of our country I Bessie: B., Lyman Bro, has: aftera packing house and jelly factory. He is
 ha secured for the :Eau Gal- I I about in the Gulf several alterations and
 organ ? been week's tumbling also haying improvements -
 inJuly.
 the third day after the new moon :! The S. V. White came up on Saturday
 He Church. Services are held in off the inlet anchored inside the made to his residence.
 Baptist stream Capt.
 I
t Their mode of election i io not :: evening and went directhon to Titus-
I t this church every Sunday at 10:30 a. m. clearly known to the white man, but it i i yille. The Georgiana having replaced I outer bar and outside the inner bar, and H. P. Dye i is arranging to enlargehis

 Seats free, and all cordially invited tp ocems.th \t the biggest fighter and most 'i I her rudders, came down on Sunday evening I the big sloop Oliver, of the same firm, is accommodations at the Hotel Lake
 I Le : The Illinois Pierce Worth E. B. Plunket] has
 present. unloading her. Capt. nearly finishedhis
 successful hunter of the tribe, whether to take her place on the lower river. I

I.i i Commissioner' P. A. McMillan id making he be a descendant of a chief or of the I! The river is so high that no trouble is has also arrived ; The Bon Ten, Capt. dwelling in the flat wood*, James
 Will Moore, i is farming now ; the little Davidson's
 great improvements in his grove is most likely to be anticipated in getting through, and the I Wood place is being reno-
L commonest subject, ; clipper} yacht Rosie B., belonging to the vated, repaired and improved and improvements -
I hauling out muck and fertilizer preparatory chosen: as the head of the tribe. Mr. f shipments of pineapples are so heavy Brauley'boys, is taking a rest on the are going on at the McCormick -

 to laying out an extensive truck Suuimerlin says that if there happens to that the White's capacity is inadequate. ways: also sundry coats of paint and anew Cragin and several other place iJ

 garden this fall. With the aid of an artesian be a tie between two candidates chief, ; The returns for pines arc \"eQgood, so sail. while arrangements are being made for

 well gardening on a large scale is II one receiving as many votes as the other, : far as heard from, ranging from Sc. to I!! The Indian River Steamboat Compa other buildings this fall, or sooner, if
 their method of deciding it is to have possible,among which are the Episcopal
 an assured We say good luck to net for Key Largo's. n8' representative, in the person of our
 success. I each candidate place a live fire coal on !' loc. common or rectory, James McFarlane's A. M. Wil-]
 8U(-h pushing citizens, and send us moreof his bare wrist. The one who flinches or : The last Philadelphia quotations we solemn friend Mr. Carl Curtis made a ders and Col. H. L. Hart's private residences 

 them. I grunts first loses his office. Mr. Sum- saw were in good demand at lOc. to 15c. flying visit to Hypo and the heavens .-all on the east side. It is also
 ;
 MUs Piazzi has kindly consented to be merlin has known a warrior to submit to ; There is money in pines at those rates, have been overcast ever since he left. We rumored that two or three buildings will
 this ordeal so well that when the coal I go up in Atlantic City this fall, while
 the Eau Gallic and 5 '. net would beat almost northern wish he could cheer up a little. We knowit
 fir t of the and live ( any i
 organist died out he cooly stooped put a i; h solemn thing to be married, hut itsa several of the west side bachelors are fig-
 Church will be organized its That must have been a the cost of dwellings
 and classes coal in place. crop. deal solemner not to be. We hopehe uring on big enough
 and a choir started as soon as the new old Chief Haluckeetustenujrgee, who died We frequently hear people jokingly good will crack us a"smile" when we meet, for two and counting: the profits: on their
 chief who.
 i TRUTH. some years ago. He was the prospective pineapple crops.
 instrument Cracker.
 arrives. if he is not a
 I when a sewing machine was brought into : say, in answer.to statements, that there Short devotional exercises were heldat
 his camp, kicked out his squaw declar- t: are very few mosquitoes in a certain ]0t County Superintendent Clemonson, of
 in Rev. E. homestead residenceon
 Gainesville, Heysers
 In
 the cage the of Circuit Walter Court Hurst, at vs. the F. S. he ing now that had he had something no further that use would for her do ,all as t cality. Oh, no, there are none here, but Jupiter, paid us a pleasant call .and the morning of the 23d, and Sunday
 A counted our children. School in the afternoon at the usual
 ; just ocronder there are plenty. up
 for and didn't have to be fed and
 rO:1r: ). thejury a verdict com- his sewing,
 gave time and SAM.
 RTTTHVEN. place. .
 clothed. I little difference in location is often won
 pminant for $5,000 damages.


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