The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24

batteau and went out to the wagon and cut
the other two mules out and led them safely
to shore. But the cotton still remains in
the stream, and the worried countryman
perplexed to know how he can manage to
get his damaged cotton out of the river.
FLORIDA.
Court meets at Lake City next Monday.
Capt. j. Z, Lucas is a candidate for the
Office of postmaster OF Palatka.
The wires are being put in place for the
incandescent electric lights at Pensacola.
The police of Pensacola are to receive
one-haf the present months salary paid
them before Christmas.
President Kern of the agricultural college
at Lake City has gone to Michigan to bring
to the land of SUMMER sunshine his invalid
mother
At Gainesville, Uncle SANS checks to
pay for labor performed during the cpl
demic are coming in just in time for
Christmas.
Ed. Carpenter of Orange City will ship at
least 1000 boxes from his groves in that
section, the grove east Of town yielding at
least 1000 boxes
Friday was the coolest morning of the
season Lake City, the mercury getting
down below thirty. Ice was plentiful and
the ground crusted in places.
A private telegram to friend in Pensa-
cola announces the marriage of Col. L. B.
Wombwell, commissioner of agriculture, in
Richmond, Va, last Wednesday.
The postmaster at Melbourne nowadays
has to sit up until o'clock in the morning
waiting for the mails aud all for the
munificent sum of about 81 a day.
At, Lake City James L. Burnett, the
shooting of whom was reported last week,
| ic still Icing fhOIInh in anita oriti
condition. jackson has been released on
$1,000 bond.
Mrs. W. j. Nesbitt Of Melbourne has q
tea plant with two blossoms out. This set
came from Washington a year ago, and
shows the pos Utilities Of culture of the tea
leaf III Florida.
A couutrynan went into the county
judges office at Palatka, day or two ago,
aud said: Look here, jedge, bout what ar
them gal papers worth to-dayg" He paid So
for marriage licence.
Mr.. Bison Of Orange City has shipped up
to date about 900 boxes of oranges from
his handsome grove on French avenue, and
has about 500 more to Ship The prices so
far have ranged above 81 per box net.
Robert jackson, one of Melbournes col
ored Nimrods, received an order from
Tltusville for fourteen saddles of venison
Upon receipt of the order he took to the
woods, and has now about succeeded in fill
ing it.
The Ocala house is being renovated out
side and inside. IL fairly dazzles in its new
dress of paint. Twenty thousand dollars
are being expended on its refurnishings.
Capt. Thayer will preside over its destinies
this winter,
The Cold Storage Company at Waldo in
tend storing 10000 boxes Of oranges as an
experiment. This experiment will be
watched with interest by all orange grow
ers, and if successful win prove an excellent
thing for Florida.
On Friday night last the S. V. White
brought to Melbourne from st. Lucie a
consignment of eighty-tlve green turtle,
shipped by Mr.. LaPorte to Oliver & Co..
Titusville. These marine delicacies weighed
about fifty pounds each.
Several teams from Taylor county, and
others from Georgia, sixty to seventy five
miles distant, were unloading cotton, chick
ems, eggs, hides, etc, iii front of Lake Guys
general merchandise stores during one of
the phenomenally busy days of the past
week.
Robert l.. Anderson's private residence
at Ocala is being plastered, and will be by
far the handsomest private residence, when
completed, that has ever been built in
Ocala. Six new cottages are contracted
for, while several new dwellings are being
put up.
The grading on the Jupiter and Lake
Worth Short Line is almost completed, and
will be ready for the laying of ties and
track next week. A large force Of men
have been getting out the ties for several
weeks, so that this part Of the work will
cause no delay.
The experimental agricultural station,
which Ocala il TO EN- ~, is being located,
Hon. Henry w. Long, F. K. Harris and f.
A. league is the committee to select the
grounds, while Hon. Frank Poser, sue
sessful and prominent fruit grower an
truck raiser, will have charge of the station.
1t is rumored that upon the arrival of the
new steamer st. Lucie, the s. V. White
will be transferred to the upper river, TO
run between Daytona and Titusville. IL
this is done, it will make through connec-
ton from Jacksonville to Lake Worth by
water, excepting the short run on the White
road and the Short Line from Jupiter.
Under the new management of the Jack
sonville, Tampa and Key West system,
Capt William Is. Watson becomes manager
of the Indian River Steamboat company
after January l. Several other important
changes are anticipated, and the many en-
ployees of the company are on the qut Cire
of restlessness as TO who will be who and
what what"
The new barge built for the transporta-
ton Of the rails, engines, timber, etc, to be
used in the construction of the Jupiter
Railroad, is now completed and loaded for
its first trip. Capt. 10 Fitzgerald ar
rived at Melbourne Monday to superintend
the towing Of II down TO Jupiter by the
Georgiana. lis capacity for weight aud
bulk eau be estimated by its Dimensions
% feet beam and l22 feet in leogtn.
As Arthur Whitaker OF New Smyrna
was working In the hummock one day last
week his pick struck against something
hard which upon investigation proved TO be
"A canister shot. which bad never been ex-