The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-06

$4,000.
The friends of Rev. c. b. Wilmer, rector
of Grace church, Ocala, have presented hlm
with a costly and handsome violin As token
of remembrance.
Business is increasing in the marriage
! license line at Orlando, fifteen having been
/ issued in the month of January, as against
/ twelve in December.
The bounty for bear and wild cat scalps
! is not payable if the animals 10 which the
/ scalps belonged be more than ten days dead
/ when the scalps be presented.
/ At Orlando gas is being put in many Of
/ the business blocks, and it will not be long
before the majority Of them will have done
/ away with the old kerosene lamps.
/ At Leeaburg the Sheriff has scooped in
! all the rolling stock Of j e Stapp's railway,
I and will sell even the innocent mule belong
! ing to it on the first Monday in next month.
Mayor Chapman. of Orlando is deter
mined that the practice of shooting off fire
! arms as a means of informing the people Of
| the breaking out Of fire shall be dlscon-
| tinued.
The South Florida Exhibition at Sanford
1 opens on next Tuesday week. The Sanford
| football players viii contest with those Of
| Kissimmee and jacksonville on Feb ID and
| IS respectively.
Mr. Hawthorn, of Minis, has been very
busy lately surveying his hummock land,
aud on Jan. 30 he made out deeds for lands
amounting 10 s., 800 He expects to make
a small town in the hummock.
Early Thursday morning the surface of
| Lake Lucerne near Orlando was dotted with
! the protruding heads of numbers OF soft
! shell turtles. There must have been at least
"a hundred Of the shiny heads above the
surface at one time.
| : 10 " nt.a he
residence OF A. J. Mostellar, on West Pine
| street Mr. Mostellar loses not only the
| house, that was valued at about $1,000, and
on which there was no insurance, but also
| everything that was in it, not being able to
save a change of clothing
Fry's Opera House, at Palatka, has been
secured for the colored boxing contest to
decide the middle, heavy, and lightweight
championship of Florida, to take place on
Feb 49, open to all colored boxers of Flor
| ida, for generous prizes. The contests are
to he decided by scientific points.
Recently Capt w. S Pitts, of Orlando,
the great alligator exterminator made a
contract TO furnish one firm with 5000
alligator skins. but, being converted to be
| leve in the culture of tobacco has cancelled
the contract, and now has 100, 900 tobacco
| plants up and will commence soon to trans
! plant.
Henis Peterman, whose assignment to
Joseph Price was announced at Palatka
Thursday, expects soon to be able to arrange
his accounts so as to be able to resume bust
ness. He states that his assets are consider
| ably greater than his liabilities, and that
tho assignment was made for the protection
| of his creditors.
Pelona and Cont, maaagers of the Swiss
| colony that was located at Welshton, and
VINO defrauded their people out Of all their
hard earnings, and after leaving them in a
| state of starvation, were captured and given
trial In Switzerland recently. They were
sentenced TO prison for three years each and
TO pay fine Of $4,000.
The Orlando Record says the necessity
is apparent more and more every day for a
stringent game law. Unless some game
law is passed at the next meeting of the
Legislature for the protection of game, pro
hiblting its slaughter during certain por-
tions of the year. there will be none 10 pro-
tect in the next two years.
John Rowell, of Ocala, is in possession of
a genuine Panama hat called "Jipjapa,
pronounced "Hippishapan by the natives of
South America. The value of the article is
$35 1t requires many months to make one
of them. 1t is a beauty, and Mr.. Rowell
says he is going to wear it to see Cleveland
when he comes to Florida.
In the United States Court at jackson
vile w. j. Cook, formerly a conductor on
the Florida Railway ana Navigation Com
pany's road, is suing the road for $50, 600
damages for the loss of an arm. The caboose
of the freight train of which he had charge
was deraied and the plaintiff jumped to the
ground, injuring his left arm and hand SO
that the limb had to be amputated.
At Orlando, c. A. Boone had an iniunc-
ton issued against having the wooden
building that was moved from the lot next
to the Magnolia House placed on the lot
next to 7. w. Shines auction rooms, as he
claimed that it was an injury to his prop
erty, for if placed there the insurance com
panies would advance his rate of insurance.
Consequently Capt. Shine sold it at auc-
ton, j. B. Parramore being the purchaser
at SO.
Prof. Shaler, geologst, and Messrs Beall
and family, of Howard College, Cambridge,
who have been making a scientific trip
through the State, were being brought up
to Lake Worth, ON the outside passage, by
Charles Colman, on Jan. l6, in a dory, but
the water got too rough, and the dory was
upset. Fortunately everybody succeeded
in getting ashore, but the professor and his
associates lost instruments, specimens,
clothing, etc, valued at $500.
As Charles Gary was riding along near
the Sara Sofa, Orlando and Gulf railroad.
near Ocala, "a squad of negroes suddenly
came upon him and he, thinking them foot
pads, fired upon them, a shot taking effect
in the leg of female above the knee, caus-
ing a slight flesh wound. Officer Mason,
hearing the firing, came up and arrested
Gary and turned him over TO the Sheriff
He was released on giving bond, and no one
appearing against him he was discharged
At st. Augustine, Prof List, of the Second
Artillery Band, has just finished the first act
of a comic opera entitled The Princess of
Soulfru. Several compositions from the
opera were played by him one day last week
before a select musical party, most of whom
were Northern visitors. The selections were
heartily appreciated by them. Ole of his
auditors was a gentleman connected with
the Queen City operate company, of Gin
cinnati. The latter has promised the pro
fessor to produce the opera as soon as it is
finished.
1t is said by a gentleman who was present
on the occasion, that Judge George C..
McWhorter, President of the State Rail
| road Commission, was on board of a Pensa-
cola and Atlantic passenger train the other
day, when ono man was put off at Cotton
dale and another at Mariana, for failure
TO pay more than the g cents per mile
for passage, prescribed by law. ami that he
witnessed the eviction in both instances.
w. A. Blount, attorney for the railroad,
was on the same train, and, it is said, also
witnessed the performance
Driving out in the country from Orlando