The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-29
villo, aud is good clifton. He says he is
firm believer in snake-charning
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Orange county needs now court house.
Some fine horses ere now owned in
Quincy.
Sanford is getting ready for big Fourth
of July celebration.
Tic&ets for the Pythan trip from Orlando
to incinnati and return have been reduced
to $40.
Dr.. w. N. Reeves, of Orlando, who has
been quite i'll for some weeks, is con-
| valeScing.
The oat crops in Gadsden county are fine,
the recent rains having made them shoot
up at rapid rate.
r. S. Craig q Co.. OF Kissimmee, bought
over 1000 p!umeS last Saturday, paying
therefor over 81 900.
A. l. Hurd has been ordered to Dade City
to sink 3-inCh artesian we'll for the South
| Florida railroads branch.
The banks and most of the business
houses at Americas closed at l o'clock Satur-
dav in honor of the late Capt Edward
Kuhl.
The case Of Max Myerson VS. Q. H. LET
| fer, both of Sanford, for 1000 damages
! which was called for Saturday in the Cir
cult Court, was postponed on account of
the adjournment Of court until Monday.
Willie Smith, tho coored man who at
! tempted to sell horss at Youngove's stable
at Gainesville Saturday and who was ar
rested on suspicion of having stolen the
animal, was taken back to Marion county.
Fifteen negroes left Gaines Ville Saturday,
for Liberia They have gone to stay. In
the past year nearly 100 negroes have left
Gainesville for Ii eria. All write back
that they are much pleased with the coun-
try.
The case of Joe Wiley. charged with
murder, was tried at Orlando, Saturday.
Wiley pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree, aud was sentenced to inn
prisonment for life in the penitentiary, at
hard labor.
George Frost, of Orlando, lost his fer
tiliz ,r house by fire Friday night. His loss
will amount to about 81 900. The loss con-
sisted Of his stock Of fertilizers, manufac-
tured and manufactured, and about
| fifteen barrels of orange wine.
Z. II. Cato, of Key West, last week
shipped sixty-two cases Of cigars containing
IN all 303, 500 cigars, valued at a minimum
price Of $2l ,266. This shipment is not as
great as is often made by HIM in a week,
nor above the general average shipment.
The weekly pay roll of such "a factory is
simply immense, and shows why Key West
is so generally prosperous.
Saturday evening oolored man was run
! ONcI ny AL enSlLq Du Inc JuCGSOnNlIi0,
Tampa and Key West railway at Palatka
| and was instantly killed 1t appears that
the man was drunk and for some unknown
cause lay down on the track near the juno
ton with tho Florida Southern road. AS
the locomotive was backing upinto the city
the engineer could not see him.
The birds Of the coast are fast disappear
ing before the guns Of the plume hunters.
There is an especial scarcity of the great
American egret, the snowy heron, the
Louisiana hen, the reddish egret, Wards
heron and the little blue heron. Birds that
were common at Fort Ogden a year and q
half ago, are no more to be net with. The
past dry season has enabled the mercileSs
plume hunter of the border to penetrate
dry shod into the former impenetrable re-
treat of the birds.
At Pensacola, Saturday, Court Commits
sioner John Eagan heard the testimony in
the case of Eli Flowers, the alleged princi-
pal, and Mrs DuBose, Flowers sister, the
alleged accessory, in the murder of James
Robinson, which was committed six years
ago in the northern part of Escambia county.
The defendants have been confined in the
county Jail for some little time past, both
having been indicted by the grand jury
shortly after the commission Of the crime,
and both having escaped detection and APP
prehension up to few weeks ago, when
Flowers was captured IN Clarke coHnty,
Ala. Mrs. DuBose subsequently, gave her
self up to the Sheriff. The hearing
by the court commissioner was on
writ of habeas corpus demanding
that defendants be admitted to bail, and,
the testimony showing no completely on the
part Of the woman, the latter was released on
her own recognizance. The evidence against
Flowers is the death-bed statement of Rob-
inson, who declared that Eli Flowers was
the man who had cut him unto death.
Flowers admits that he killed Robinson, but
claims that the deed was in self-defense, and
his statement is borne out by the testimony
OF four witnesses who say that Robinson
bought gun a week before the killing, re-
marking at the time that the weapon would
prove the death Of Flowers. Commissioner
Eagan placed the bond in Flowers case at
$1,000, in default Of which the prisoner was
Iemanded.