The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-22

bushels of oysters this seasonin addition to
the $1,000 planted last fall. They have
/ evidently been successful beyond all expec-
i tatlons, There is room in the waters sur
rounding Amelia Island for several such
! establishments to plant millions of bushels
and obtain oysters Of the finest flavor and
size. large area of the waterways in
/ Florida and Georgia has already been
secured by parties who propose to develop
/ this industry, and the results already indi-
| cate that the Cumberland oyster has an i'm
/ mense market value.
! The Kissimmee Water Company has been
| organized with the general powers of such
| companies to erect the requisite machinery,
stand pipes, buildings, ETC., dig wells, lay
! pipes and supply water to either individuals
or corporations for any and all purposes
The capital stock of the company to be
$40, 900 in shares Of 800 each, and the in
deotedneSs OF the company never to exceed
one-half the amount of stock, or $4,000
! he incorporators are Charles Swayne, John
King, J. NJ. Bowling and Cyrus F. Sugg,
aud the officers for the first year are Charles
Swayne, Presiden-; John King, Secretary,
and j. NJ. Bowling, Treasurer
r. H. Jones, of Jacksonville, the grocer,
has instituted two suits. one against Myer
q Muller the other against p f. McMur
ray, each for $1,000 damage for attaching
his property on the day he assigned. 1t is
understood that MIR. Jones will institute an
other suit against Sheriff Holland and his
suretles for breaking into his store to serve
the attachments. On the day MIR. Jones as
signed Deputy Sheriff Williams broke in
the front door Of Mr.. Jones grocery house,
on Bay street, with a sledge hammer. 1t is
understood that the object of the above
parties in a attaching the property was TO
prevent the proprietor from fraudulently
dlsposing of his stock.
Mr.. Walters, near Belle View, has a
grape fruit tree from which he has sold $50
worth OF fruit with $40 worth on the tree,
besides feeding his family all fall and winter
on them. The quality of this fruit is so re-
markably appetizing and delicious that it is
sought for all over the country, and he is
even getting orders for them from the New
England Sta,es. Mr. Walters opines that
grape fruit has an auriferous future before
1T, and his splendid variety in particular,
and he and several of his Northern friends
will plant ten-acre orchards of the same
MIR. Walters challenges the State for an
article OF fruit of similar variety the equal
of his
Not satisfied with their 100000 hotel
project, the citizens of Tampa are to have
a score or more of firSt-class caravansaries
to be ready for next seasons travel. At a
special meeting last week it was resolved to
put up S50,0J0 hotel at once to begin with.
A number of st. Louis, Chicago and Omaha
capitalists are talking hotel with Tampa's
citizens, who are determined to make it the
veritable.gate city of the Gulf. 1t is now
proposed to erect at Tampa, OH Fort Brooke
Reservation, a South Florida Tropical Elk
position, to cost 800, 900 Instead of being
an opposition TO the Sub Tropical it will
heartily cooperate with it. A mass meeting
is to be held at the Board of Trade rooms
in Tampa Saturday, to take action in re-
gard to the proposed tropical exposition.
The winners in the preliminary round in
the lawn tennis tournament which opened
at St Augustine Tuesday were Messrs.
Mum, Trevor, Stump, Dalles, Garrett,
Beckwith and Burden. In the first round
Trevor beat Dalles six, three, six, three
Garrett beat Burden four, six, six, four, six
naught; Beckwith beat Stump six, one, six
naught. The second round resulted as fol
lows: Garrett beat Mum one, six, five; Ire
vor beat Beckwith six, tive four, six, eight
six. Interesting work was done by Burden,
Garrett and Smith. Garrett and Teller are
Englishmen, and upheld the reputation of
England The former was entered at New
port last August. The last and best match
of the day was between Trevor and Beck
with. Seemingly impossible shots were
made, amid the greatest enthusiasm.
Out in the Whitmire settlement last Sun
day morning John Hamilton and James
Spears went out to hunt turkeys, narrates
Walkers Buzz-Sotg of Milton. On the
way to the hunting ground the subject of
bears came up, and both the
hunters were saturated with some
very big bear stories. On getting
near the hunting grounds they
separated, each going to his stand. A big
black dog belonging to Hamilton accom-
| panied them and soon after the men took
their stands the dog came out of the swamp,
and being mistaken for a bear by his master,
he was shot dead by him Hamilton yelled
at the top of his voice to Spears that he had
killed 400-pound bear, and great was the
| disgust of the pair when they discovered
| their mistake. They went home vowing
they would never violate the Sabbath again.
Some time last summer, during the alb
sence of their owners in the North, the resi-
dences of Mrs K. b, Huntington, Mrs. f.
p Wilson and Miss NJ W. Bidwell of
! Huntington, were burglarized. The greater
portion of the valuables had previously
| been removed and stored for safe-keeping,
and the thieves obtained merely some jew
elry, china sets, and crockery, lamps
liquors, bric-a-brac, etc. The stolen ar
ticles or most of them, were found Friday
in a curious way. A fire started in the
pine woods and burned a short dista ce into
bay near the Fruitland road A colo ed
| boy who was hunting for game caught sight
of pile of crockery at the foot of a pine
where the grass before the fire had been
particularly thick. He reported his dis
covery, and on investigation it was found
that most of the stolen property had beer
secreted there.