The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-05
FLORIDA.

The Seaside house at Cedar Key was
burned last week.
The new buildings going up in Tallahassee
have created lively demand for brick.
The school board have been forced to add
another teacher, which makes four depart
| mentS in kiSSimmee's school.
The orange and vegetable growers in the
| Coleman section, Sumter county, have petit
| toned the railroad authorities to establish
a depot at that point and appoint an agent.
| Kissimmee Leader: There is not at pres
ent, hasn't been the past summer, and so
| far as we can ascertain there never has been
a case of yellow fever in Osceola or any Of
the adjoining counties.
| Five or six homesteaders of st. Johns
| county are awaiting the arrival of blanks
| from the office at Gainesville to make out
their final papers and prove up their claims,
but it seems impossible to get them.
Sumterville Times: The SAVANNAH
NEWS is published in Georgia, it is true,
but Florida has ever had staunch friend
in this metropolitan journal. We regard
| the NEWS as one of the ablest and most re-
liable papers of the day.
DIR. Arthur Stivender is putting up
large steam mill in the Warm Springs
Hammock, Sumter county, near the grove
of Col. John r. G. Hamilton. Timber is
plentiful in that locality, such as red bay,
hlChOlJ, Jan, poplSI anu dsn
At Quincy Friday night. a negro named
| Coot Davidson, while fooling with pistol,
| managed to shoot himself. The ball passed
little above his heart and lodged in his
| shoulder. DR.. T. F. Munroe examined the
wound but'did not extract the bullet.
The flag now being made for the st.
| Augustine Guards, under Mrs. Vogels
supervision, will bs a handsome and expen-
| sIve one. 1t is to be Of white silk with the
city gate upon one side and laurel wreath
on the other, and will cost about $3.50.
At Kissim mee some rascal cut the new
sail from Uncle Johnny's sail boat last
Saturday night. Uncle Johnny is>a poor
man and is endeavoring to make an honest
| living with his two boats, so the theft Of
that sail is worse crime than stealing
There are about $50 scholars in the new
colored school at st. Augustine, and it is
rather crowded. One room alone out of
the four has seventy scholars. There are
four teachers and County Superintendent
| Arnau thinks two more will have to be
added.
Proposals are now invited by James T.
Fulton, paymaster general United States
| navy, for the erection of an adjustable
stern dock, to be constructed and located at
the naval station of Key West. There was
an appropriation of $50, 900 passed by last
congress for that purpose.
The sugar cane crop in Leon county this
year has been good, and the juice excep-
tionaliy rich. II. q. Lewis, of Woodville,
measured up last week 49, gallons Of good
thick syrup from olY eighty gallons of
| Juice. From a half acre patch of cane he
made up ten barrels Of syrup.
There is rumor at Gainesville that the
refugees are planning little surprise for
those who stayed in town through
the epidemic. They propose to come in
town en- masse and pass resolution that
those who STAYED in the city are now sus-
poets, and must go into quarantine for the
safety of the returning ones.
Surry Wilson (coloredD of Fernandina, for
twenty-three years in the employ of the
Florida Railway & Navigation Company
and nearly the entire time in the dangerous
capacity Of switchman, was seriously in
jured Monday by a stick of timber falling
from a fiat car and striking him across the
chest. The blow threw him to the ground
and the timber fell across him.
L. b. Woodbury. of Quincy received a
lot Of groceries from New York last
Wednesday, with nIue pounds of raisins,
twelve pounds OF mince meat and twonty
pounds OF French candy short These goods
were shipped in good order, and were burst
open and suffered in transit. They were
shipped via ocean steamer to Savannah,
care of Savannah, Florida and Western
railway agent TO River Junction, thence TO
this depot.
A few days since widow lady Of Fernan-
dina, who rents a house and keeps boarders,
met her landlord and apologized for not
having paid him, stating thai the prevail
ence Of the fever here had so curtailed her
income as TO render it impossible for her to
do so. Think Of her surprise when the
whole-souled landlord remarked: "Wby,
my dear madam, nobody pays rent now,
and | cannot see why you should be an ex-
ception TO the rule"