The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-01
FLORIDA.

Brick is being hauled for the new court
house at DeLaud.
| The total tax assessment of Volusia
county is $4,93S, 8Sl.
Circuit court has been indefinitely post
poned FIR Putnam county.
Judge West of Tallahassee has lost his
eyesight, and is now totally blind.
Pile drivers are at work on the pivot for
the draw on the railroad bridge at Palatka
The Indian river people are beginning to
make preparations for the entectainment of
| winter visitors.
| Rev Henry M. Anderson, formerly of
Madison, died in st. Louis last week of
absess of the brain.
Capt. F. A. Hendry of Fort Myers has
lately sold to A. E. Goodwin OK Polk county
| 800 head of cattle.
Rev James p. DePass has withdrawn as
candidate for superintendent of public
schools in Levy county.
r. II. Seymour of Kissimmee recently
took 40-foot cut from IA tree which will
make 300 feet OF lumber.
Senator Call was unable to fill his appoint
ment at Orlando Monday on account Of the
fever scare about Live Oak and Baldwin.
At DeLand, John A. Bradley has bought
and moved into Col. Codrington's little
cottage, corner Minnesota and Clara
avenues.
Capt Mcintosh of Kissimmee recently
shot, and has mounted in good shape, one
of the largest eagles ever seen in South
Florida
On Monday last a bunch of cattle de-
stroyed several hundred dollars worth of
trees, etc., the property of Morris G. Mum
of DeLand.
Oliver Randall, one of Leon county's col
ored farmers, who owns no horse, has made
this year, with one OK, five heavy bales of
cotton, 1875 bushels Of corn and $50 bushels
of potatoes.
Mrs. w. s. Perry, of South Carolina,
died at the residence OF John r. Lee, near
Oxford, on the night of Oct. 90, in her Slst
year. She was sister of Gov. Perry of
Florida, and grandmother to j. G. and b.
z. Matheson of Leesburg.
f. b. Woodberry, Sam Woodberry, M,
G. 4. Towers and a negro man went to
| Oclockonee on squirrel hunt and spent
the night, returning home next day with
| seventy-three squirrels, having killed all Of
these in the morning, with the exception of
six.
While toying with 3Scalibre Smith &
| Wesson revolver, William Posten of Zeig-
ler's mill, near Quincy, had the misfortune
on Sunday evening last to drive hole
through his left hand. The weapon went
Off and the bullet, entering the palm Of the
hand, speedily found its way out at the
back, fracturing the metacapal bone Of the
fourth finger.
De Land NeiCs: In lengthy article the 4 O.
| ricuituTiSt reproves the NeDS for saying
that there is n shortage in the accounts of H.
j. Faulkner, our late county clerk, and tries
TO prove us wrong. All we have to say is
that the comptroller has written TO one of
the deceased clerks bondsmen that Mr..
Faulkner's accounts are short $6lS, and the
letter is dated Oct. l or g and that we
have undeniable proof OF the fact.
Mariana Alliance: 1t is rumored here
that a certain town in Alabama, in which
| the merchants were very much behind with
their collections, as well as payments, so
they quarantined against the world in order
to shut out collectors. In TINS wav they got
time TO make collections themse YES, and
when a sufficient amount was collected to
meet their own liabilities they raised tn
quarantine. and allowed Nj. "Grp-Sackp
60 come and get his share Of the sroils
Hurrah for the quarantinel "Sich is life"