Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-27

From the Orlando tFla.) Record.

Wednesday morning the pedestrians
whose business took them to the vicinity
of Orange avenue and Pine street had
their attention called to a four OK team
which was hitched In front of Carpenters
shoemaker shop. The team was of the
most primitive kind and OF itself was quite
a curiosity, but to those who were of an
investigating turn of mind ana stepped TO
the vehicle, much more curious sight
was revealed. The outfit was the pro-
perty of Mr.. Francis Baxter, who lives on
the Ec0nl0ckhatchee creek, twenty miles
south OF ChuluOta, and fifteen miles from
anywhere else. His object in coming TO
tAe metropolis was for the purpose of dis
posing of a mass of those productions tor
which his country is famous, in short, he
had for sale l03 ailigators. They repre-
scented every variety, and in the collec-
ton that met the eye of the spectator
could be seen all the extremes of the
gator tribe, from the infant but a few
days old and six inches long to the old
grandfather of immense proportions. One
there was whose length by actual mea-
surement proved TO be a fraction over
eight feet and four inches. Z. Carpenter,
the curlO-loving shoemaker, whose cobb
ling establishment is saudwiched III be-
tween SInclair's real estate agency and
Sheym8n's jewelry store, after some higg-
ling with the owner, secured the whole
batch, and the alligator kingdom can be
studied by him who has taste for natural
history in all It's perfection IN the rear OF
MIR. Carpenters shop. The little fellows
have been placed in water tank pre-
pared for the purpose, and dart about
with an agility that is surprising to wit
ness, while the larger ones seem to con-
slider lie not worth the living, and lazIly
lie drinking in the sunshine in an unob-
trusive way, unless prOdded by the pre-
cocious urchin with a sharp stick. IL is
the sweetest of music to Dung America
to hear the large ones hiss, and he loses
no opportunity 10 produce the sound, run
ming the risk OF receiving a good dose of
strap oil from Mr.. Carpenter, while the
Jolly cobDler is engaged in talking shoes
TO a customer. one large gator secured
in the winter by this sell-same amateur
Barnum, was SO tortured by the small
boy that death claimed him IN few DAYS.
aud his hide now adORBslthe walls of the
shOemaker'S shop or the lower limbs OF
some of the numerous huntsmen of this
vicinity.
The gators will be sold, or rather are
for sale, and wait purchasers. They
make nice pet for the baby 10 play with,
and at the low quotations ruling at pre-
sent no family should be without one.
Aside from this use tue different parts Of
the gator can be utilized in many WAYS.
Mr.. Carpenter, from the hide, can make
the finest waterproof and almost indie
structible leggius or shoes, and by secur-
ing the services OF DR.. Grauniss, whose
chronological Office is over Sherman's
store, that gentleman Will in "a titFy ex-
tract one of the wisdom teeth from any OF
the grandfathers you may select, aud by
turning 1t over to the skill Of Sherman or
woodruff ~ Smith, it will make, when
fixed in golden setting, as fine an orna-
ment for either the watch chain Of gent
or as the breastpin Of a lady, as one could
wish.
Mr.. Baxter, who brought these "crit-
tersv to town, informs us THAT they are
not very numerous in HIS section, but
when be tells US That the lond he brought
TO town, which figured 103, is the result
OF only eight days work, we cannot recon-
Gle the two statements. 1t may be, how
ever, because We do not understand the
meaning OF the word "numerouav when
applied 10 the number OF ailigators in any
given section.