The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-23
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Business is picking up at Green Cove
! Springs.
st Johns county's Jail is said to be un-
safe and unhealthy.
| An excursion party from Ohio will start
| for Melbc .rne on Nov. 25.
| w. E. w. Dunson of Gainesville, q young
| lawyer has become insane
| Several citizens of Eustis contemplate
moving to Washington territory
The absentees Of Green Cove Springs are
now drifting back to their winter homes.
Since Jan. /, 1888, Clay county has paid
for twenty-one wild cat scalps, at cost Of
| So per scalp.
| Shad are beginning to run" in the St
| Johns. The first catch of these fayorite fish
was made last week.
f. w. Whitfield has been convicted of
burning and robbing the house Of Charles
Kline, in Orange county.
Frank Wallace, white man, and Thomas
Bluff (colored), prisoners, escaped from the
Jail at Live Oak few days since
Sxty-four tons of fertilizer has been
shipped to Orlando to be used on the Steb-
Inns grove, just east of that place.
At Green Cove Springs the street cars
are being painted up, and will be put in
motion again this week. after a summers
rest.
The Hudnall block at Orlando has now so
far reached completion as to show what it
| will be-. The front is one of the prettiest in
the city
The Leesburg merchants have made
arrangements for big excursion from
! Brooksville and all intermediate points on
or about Dec. 4.
The annual camp meeting of the African
Methodist Episcopal chur will be held at
Evinston, on the Florida Southern.
Christmas week.
Thirty-eight public schools have opened
In Clay county for the school year of
lSSS-S9. Nine more schools will open dur
ing the present month.
During the past year Justice West of
Iallahas ee has lost his eyesight, but being
good man, the democrats elected him
Justice of the peace again.
The city council of Orlando is holding
two daily sessions for this week for the
equalization of the assessment of real prop
erty, as returned by the city assessor
Judge Bryan of Orange county has issued
twelve marriage licenses so far for the
month of November, eleven of them since
the election, six of them white and six
colored
About a week ago, while driving into
Bellview, 7. w. Freeborn was thrown from
the wagon and had four of his teeth knocked
out. He also received several other slight
injuries.
Q. A. Burlington, Sam Hendricks and S.
II. Hanford bagged forty partridges n a
hunt on Thursday. near Green Cove Springs.
Capt. Low and Henry Wilson took unit
after birds on Tuesday, and bagged fifty
cartridges.
Snap beans, okra, lettuce, radishes, sweet
and Irish potatoes, cabbages, turnips, but
ter beans, onions, new syrun, &c, now ada
their quota to the average Floridian'S pon-
day meal, with ''angel'S food" pre- Jared
from oranges, for desert.
Everything is getting to work smoothly
at the Green Cove brick mandatory, and
large kiln will be burned in a few DAYS
There are now 250.000 bricks under tie
sheds, and these are being placed in the kiln
as fast as they become dry
The work of paving the square at Gaines
vile commenced Monday. on the northwest
corner, under the direction of Mayor Brown.
This Will be much-needed Improvement,
besides giving employment to a large num-
Der OF needy men who are out of work
During the canvassng of the election re-
turns OF Clay county by the board of can
vassers papers were fled giving notice that
contest would be made of the returns of
precinct No. l on three counts, viz Illegal
voting, illegal counting of the ballots and a
discrepancy in the tally sheets of the telers.
over a question of veracity at the house of
a Mrs. Dees, about nine miles southwest of
Live Oak, and resulted in the death of
Mrs. Dees from fright, she being subject to
heart disease, and the severe stabbing of
one t. j. Ammons by J. E. Mercer was
too severe a shock to her nerves
Tampas artesian we'll is now down 1900
feet. The last 800 feet has been through a
kind of coral formation or coauina, and
there is no prospect of striking flow
until the drilling gets through this forma-
ton and bed rock. Tho rock brought up
at 300 feet is full of perfectly preserved
shells, some Of which, the Tribune says, are
crystalized, and hard enough to cut glass
equal 10 diamond.
In many instances the epidemic at Jack
sonville has brought into prominence the
nobe't quail ties possessed by both husress
men and othe rs. This has been evidenced
IN the remission of rents by a number of
the landlords, among whom stands L. f.
cleveland. Mr.. Clea veland is one of the
largest property holders i'll the city, and
the remission of his rents means the loss TO
HIM of large amount of money and is a
most practical way OF expressing sympathy
with his debtors. This Mr.. Cleaveland has
done, and from the beginning of the
epidemic until Dec. l, none of the occu-
pants of either his dwellings or stores will be
expected to pay any rents.
The St. Augustine NetUs of Monday saws.
"The rumor, all over town by now, that
there is a case OF yellow fever at Moccasin
Branch, built upon the merest fragment of
a fact is emphatically false and totally |
untrue. The facts are these: Frank Her |
nandez came from Fernandiua TO Moccasin |
Branch six weeks ago. Yesterday he had a |
chill, and the people thought he had the |
fever. This morning Willie Greatorex and |
George Baya were at his house, and shook |
hands with him at the gate He said that |
he got wet and had chill, nothing more |
nor less. Moccasin Branch is nine miles |
from st. Augustine aud even IL there was |
a case there st. Augustine should feel no |
alarm. As it is there is no yellow fever at |
that place or in the county"