The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-27

5heliwood Farmer, grocers of East Jack
sonville, made an ass gnment TO P. Q. Rob
bins, assignee. Their liabilities are 81, lcO,
and their claimed assets 81 800. The pre-
ferred creditors are W. S. Wightman, VIII
lam Law, Thomas Farmer, William Burst
and Others Mr.. Robbins hopes to be able
to settle affairs up satisfactorily so that the
firm will be Enabled to continue business
Fort Ogden NeoS items: Many thousands
| of orange trees, and hundreds OF new
groves have been set out during the past
spring in De Soto county, and poor men
who are struggling to-day will, 1--we years
hence, be free from the burdens and per-
plexity Of care Pineapples will be an i'm
mense crop this 9eason. They seem, like
! the vine, to rejoice In a long, dry season.
La Costa island, near Punta Gorda, viii
soon be one immense cocOanut grove. Six
teen thousand two-year-old trees were re-
Gently sold in Punta Gorda, most of them
| to be set out on that island. There are 125
school children reported in Fort Ogden dis
| trict The upper Peace river has been
! stocked with shad by the United States
fish commission.
| S. B. Knight shot and wounded s. L.
Belk at Tampa, June %. Height is re-
spected citizen and known as q peaceable
man. He has been admitted to bail. Belk's
wound is not thought to be one which will
result in death but it Is a serious one, and
/ y
well. The trouble between Knight and
Belk is said TO be complicated and arose
| from disagreement on money matters, on
account of which Belk sent Knight a very
insulting message lately, and this message
IL seems, aroused Knights ire, who sought
Be ( with the result mentioned. Parties
are inclined TO think that knight intended
merely to force retraction from Belk,
pulled on the trigger and fired before he
really intended to shoot Belk.
Charlotte Harbor Beacon: The man
ayers of Southland are about to locate a
manufacturing establishment at their town
which would eclipse anything in South
Florida. The Indian river canning COM
pany consists of thirty-five stockholders
with a capital stock of $50, 900, all men of
wealth and influence and residents of Kan
sas City, Mo. The company was organized
for the purpose of canning turtle, and two
years ago they were led to believe that the
Indian river would furnish them all the
turtle that could be manufactured by them
consequently the company was duly incor-
porated and $4,000 plant established at
Jacksonville. The manufactured goods
sold readily on the market, and orders in
creased SO rapidly they could not be filed,
as the supply from Indian river was not
sufficient.
| st. Augustine correspondence Jackson
vile Times Union: A very large and
| stupendous idea of the munficence and
| liberality of st. Augustine and her citizens
has become circulated around in Middle
! Florida. DR.. Shine of this city received a
letter from friend in Lake City who says
he understands that the citizens of st.
Augustine, with Mr. Flagler at their head,
would contribute $500 900 toward the es-
Enlistment of a medical college in st.
| Augustine. and that one of our prominent
| physicians had agreed to endow the college
will ~ &c anti
too healthy for any physician to be able to
endOw anything with even $1,000 let alone
$40, 200; and if anybody knows anything
about the $500, 900 let them communicate
with DR.. w. F. Shine and enlighten Middle
| Florida and ST. Augustine on the subject.
| St Augustine would no doubt be delighted
| to have a medical college here, and her citi-
zens would no doubt respond literally, but
they wouldn't pay 100000 for it.
Three gent emea, A. g. Roberts, A. G.
and Clinton Spear, had fearful experience
at Bocca Grand City last Thursday While
they were preparing for dinnor, Mr.. Spear,
who was doing the cooking, discovered
there was no baking powder at hand. Mr.
| Roberts told him to 60 to his boat and he
can in which was q small paper sack con-
tanning the powder. He remarked that it
! didn't look like baking powders, but Mr..
| Roberts assured him it was, as he had been
using it. 1t was then used in mixing the
bread. Soon after they had eaten the bread
| they became deathly SICK vomiting vio-
| lently. No physician was at hand, so moth
ing but the simplest remedies were applied.
Before night the two Messrs. Spear, having
vomited T eely, were getting better, but
| Mr.. Roberts grew worse, and about morn
ing died, after terrible night Of suffering.
No one knows how the arsenic got in the
baking powder can. Foul play is suspected.
L.nl,1
a veteran surveyor. He leaves large fam
lily.
Orlando Daily Record: AS stated in a
former issue of the Record, rumors haye
been afloat of late of the existence of nujsE
ance IN house near Sanford in the shape
of decomposIng human body The ru-
mors were not groundless, a$ Mill be learned
from the facts given below BY one who ex-
amined into the matter. Mr. ES6h6ls, from
Maine originally, living near Sanford, and
engaged in growing fruits and vegetables,
had the misfortune to lose his mother-in-
law on April 5, last, and to crafty his wife,
promised to send her remains back to her
home in the fall. To save the expense of q
burial, he consulted an undertaken of San
ford, who told him, as he says, that he could
sell him a metallic case in which he could
keep it perfectly until he was ready to ship
it. He had il placed in the casket and stored
away in a room adjoining his own, but it
but 1t was not very long before 1t began to
smell and at this time became very often
sive. The expansion and contraction Of the
metal it is supposed caused it to partially
destroy the cement and let the air into
the case, consequently the decomposition
went on. Dr. J. w. Hicks, of the county
board of health was notified of the rumors
as to the case Saturday last, and immedi-
ately proceeded to Sanford, investigated the
matter, and promptly ordered the burial of
the casket aud its contents
The New York World of recent date
gives an account of the arrest of George
Hayward Carpenter, who, it will be re-
membered, escaped from the custody of the
two keepers, Gordon and Bernard, who had
; been deputized by Sheriff Holland to take
charge of him. The New York Worlds
special is from Chillicothe, O., and Is as fol
lows: George Hayward Carpenter, who
| fed from New York some time ago, where
he is under indictment under two charges
| of forgery, was arrested here this morning
by Detective Sheldon, Of Inspector Bvrne's
staff After Carpenters escape from the
local authorities at Jacksonville, Fla, last
January, while Detective Sheldon was at
Tallahassee, where he went to procure
requisitIon papers, Carpenter roamed about
the country, and arrived in Chillicothe five
weeks ago, since which time no has been
secreted at the residence of his father, Rev
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