The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-24
STATE PRESS.

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be large this season.
Work on the opera house at Tavares
has been commenced.
Mr.. Chapman, of Bamboo Station, sold
$50 worth of squashes from three-fourths
of an acre two weeks ago.
Another military company is being
formed at Pensacola. 1t proposes to take
part in the encampment at Magnolia
Bluff on the 18th.
The traffic between Havana and Key
West is on the increase. Almost every
day some vessels from the fair isle ar
rives with fruit and passengers.
The death worrants Of Olefeo and Re
clio were received at Key West Saturday
by the sheriff The 18th of next month
issthe day set apart for the execution.
Orange county still complains of the
drought. The late rains only penetrated
to a depth Of six inches Below that, the
Orlando Reporter says, the earth is as
dry as ashes.
Some of the Iabdrers at Lasgo came
near capturinga Iargealligator last week.
She came up on the beach and made a
nest. After her departure twenty eggs
were found.
A herd Of sixty-six beef cattle from
Wakulla county passed through Ta'la-
hassee last Wednesday afternoon for ship
ment to Savannah by the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroad.
The farmers at and near Oxford, near
Sumterville, have shipped from that de-
pot over 3, 200 crates of beans, and the
quantity of tomatoes will exceed that
amount. Watermelons bid fair to make
a fine yield.
The Tallahassee Economist says that
thus far there has been received at that
place for shipment North by express /, 1856
barrels of Irish potatoes, ) barrels and IL
crates of beets, 1O7 crates of beans, and 7
crates of cucumbers. The shipments by
freight are somewhat less.
Two colored women quarreled near
Statewide and one stabbed the other,
inflicting a dangerous wound,
The Captain Of the steamer Greenwich
plying between Halifax and Jacksonville
has discovered a sulphur Spring four
miles at sea northeast of Ormond.
A contract has been made for putting
the capitol, at Tallahassee, in thorough
repair. The basement will be paved
with marble or flag stone, and every
thing put in first-class order and re-
painted.
A bold robbery occurred last Sunday
night at Gruelle. A negro entered the
house of Alexander Coulter and confis-
Gated lot of clothes belonging to James
Shannahan, and a watch, $25 in money
and clothes belonging to Benjamin Olive.
| The theft was not discovered until the
next morning A satchel and a portion
of the stolen articles We're found outside.
the thief having dropped them in his
hurry. 1t is supposed he went to Gaines
vile.
Our usually quiet little city has been
under considerable excitement to-day,
caused by a murder which was committed
about noon at the car shops of the South
Florida railroad, by white man by the
name of Ben Jones, who is one Of the
section bosses on the railroad. The evi-
dence in the case shows that Ben Jones
and one of his gang, a negro by the name
of Tony Lumpkin, had some words, when
Jones drew a pistol from his pocket and
shot Lumpkin Just above 'the left eye.
killing him instantly. Jones then skip
/ ped to parts unknown. 1t is not gener-
ally believed that Jones had proper cause
to commit such a brutal deed and om
citizens are, many of them, very indig-
nant at the ct.-Sanford Correspondence
/ Times-JJniOn.