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

{
and hardships have been caused. IuesaaF
Judge Broome commenced sounding the
chanceTy docket, having previously given
notice to the bar and all cases pending Tor
three years were dismissed, unless good
cause was shown for leaving them on the
| docket
The substantial bridge Of $500 feet across
the Halifax, connecting Ormond with the
! peninsula which separates it from the ocean,
IS completed, and iron is laid TO the beach.
! The horse car has arrived and in a few days
will be making regular trips from Ormond
depot, on the 81 Johns and Halifax rail
! road, to the beach on the peninsula SIDE
which it faces Near the bridge is the Or
mond. built by two Of Ormond's enterpris-
ing citizens, Messrs. Anderson q Price. II
is large and elegantly appointed hotel OF
! 100 rooms, and is one of the most attractive
/ in Florida
On Saturday George NJ. Dickinson started
! around Orlando with a subscription paper
! for the purpose of raising fund to be used
| IN procuring and arranging an exhibit for
| the Sub Tropical and South Florida EXPOSE
ton After several hours Of hard work he
! succeeded in raising about $50. Mr. Dick
enson them surprising he had started the
| ball rolling, and the time for his departure
| to his home in the country arriving, he
| endeavored to get some one 10 take his place
and continue the good work, but without
avail, No one was willing to take the time.
| Mr.. Dickinson, after eXhausting every
effort, then returned the money he had col
lected
army aud Nary Journal. Final ar
rangements are now being made for cruise
Of the North Atlantic Squadron to the West
Indies. The Yantic Is already there, and
tho Osippee, now at Norfolk, is expected TO
sail daily. The other vessels of the squad
ron--Richmond, Atlanta and Dolphin--are
being fitted out at New York for the cruise
and will be ready to sail shortly. The yes
sells will return to the United States in the
spring, and, after visiting New Orleans
Pensacola and Port Royal, will rendezvous
in Hampton roads by June /. The training
ship Portsmouth is also at Norfolk to re-
ceive supplies for winter cruise in the
West Indies
The case of the State Of Florida vs. John
ODonovan, which was first decided adj
versely TO the defendant in Escambia
County Court, and then, on writ
of habeaS corpus, in the Circuit Court. has
been taken to the Supreme Court on a writ
of error. The final decision in this case
will prove of interest to health, State and
Federal officers generally. The defendant,
now plaintiff in error, stands charged with
violation of the sanitary regulations OF
the port of IensacOla. He is a United States
Inspector of Customs and his offense con-
sist, in boarding a vessel before the latter
had been boarded by the Port Physician. A
decision is expected this month.
Orlando Record: II is now definitely as
certained that the law passed by the last
Legislature giving bounty of 50 for each
wildcat scalp will, in another way, besides
entailing great cost on the county, be the
means of causing great loss and damage,
probably amounting in the aggregate to
thousands of dollars per annum and in
creasing year by year, II is well-known
that foxes and wild cats are the greatest
enemies of the rabbit, and only resort to the
barnyards when their natural food (rabbitsl
Is scarce. No greater calamity could exist
among our truck farmers than an abun-
dance of rabbits, one of whom can, in
single night destroy, when young and ten
der, 800 worth of vegetables.
At St Augustine the verdict of the Cor
oner's jury in the case of Joe Brown was to
the effect that he came to his death by
means of gunshot wounds at the hands of
some person unknown. Several suspicious
coored characters are loafing about town
with the eyes of the police upon them
George Washington, the pal of Joe Brown
is still in the city and has picked up a new
partner Ever since the late outrages com
mitted at DuTbin and at the section house
of the railroad the country people have
been thoroughly aroused, and women are
afraid to be left alone. If any further
trouble occurs it will go hard with the
offenders, as the countrymen are deter
| mined to punish them without resorting to
the law.
A movement is on foot by number of
prominent gentlemen from New Jersey,
headed by the great cocoanut planter Ezra
A. Osborne, of Monmouth county, New Jer-
sey, in starting winter resort on the east
coast of Florida, opposite the Bahamas
! party of wOrkmen has been sent for the pur-
! pose OF laying out streets, building hotels
parking and improving the grounds, under
the direction of r. T. Field, the well known
landscape architect, together with large
| garden to supply the hotel with vegetables,
melons Strawberries and fruit, from Novem-
| Der to May. This location, heretofore mac
| ceSSlble, is one of the most attractive and
! romantic spots to be found. Land high and
| healthy, climate of Bermuda and Nassau:
! in fact, near Nassau, between the Atlantic
! ocean and Lake W lyman, on high sandy
! strip, about half a mile wide, little north
! of latitude 26', it is now covered
| with tropical vegetation, such as
! palms, rubber trees, live oak. and
acres of wild troyi cal plants having
| everything bout ii 20 make the most at
uactive and delightful landscape scenery o
be found in this country There are thou
sands of cocoanut trees now growing in this
SidlAh ItAl n ~ iiASAt oNcl VIVA Sllb Will
have several on il.
Mr.. Borden last year requested Mr. But
Ter TO prepare plans for the improvement of
the tract of land purchased from the estates
of Palmer and Ferris, and lying mainly
between the court house at Green Cove
Springs and the residences ON the Hill Mr.
Butler has recently completed these plans.
The plans cover the whole area of more
than 400 acres, and include not only the sub
divisions into building lots, but also the
treatment of the whole upon the principles
Of landscape gardening. In Mr. Buffers
map no street is i'll straight line, or at
right angles with another street The
streets are on curved lines, and the lots are
| consequently in great variety of shapes
A number of the lots are marked as
being intended for the erection of
public buildings These include
court house. several infirmaries and
churches and also bathing establishment
for the colcred people. A prominent fea-
ture OF the plan is a number of small lakes.
which viii be formed il a supply of water
can be obtained. The drainage viii he
thorough, and will he carried into Govern
or's creek, on the north, and the Cove on
the east OF course these plans can be ear.
ltet out only in the course of Il long period
of time, but work upon them has been al
rea " commenced by clearing along Pal
netto street beyond the railroad cutting.
Along the extension of this street. views of
the river will be obtained, which Will add