The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-14


sent a message of confidence 70 the Crown
Prince OF Germany, because of the recent
death OF his father, the Emperor William.
C. F. Hopkins, Jr, has just received a
| commission from Gov. Perry appointing
him Supervisor of Registration for the
county of St. Johns for two years, COM
| mencing March /, 1855.
Bluefish at Jupiter Inlet are in great
/ abund nee and the sport of catching them,
which is done by trolling, for persons WHO
are fond of this diversion, is one of daily
occupation at that place.
At Oakland the Orange Belt Investment
Company has bought out the Gulf Coast
Steamboat Company, including the two
steamers, Mary Disston and Gov. Stafford.
They took possession Monday.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Baptist
! church, of Brooksvlle, has by mutual
| agreement been dissolved, and Monday
afternoon the Ladies Missionary Society
was organized for larger work.
! A difficulty occurred Monday in the Gate
| City barber shop, at Orla do, between the
two owners of the shop, STEPHENS and Jack
son. III which Stephens received severe
cut in the face from a razor in the hands of
jackson.
On Friday evening Nose, negro who has
been doing odd jobs around New Smyrna,
made an assault upon a little girl of DR..
| frightened him off and he has not been
heard of since.
At Ellaville during the past week the mill
OF l.. Buck ~ Son cut over 100000 feet
daily. The amount of lumber turned out
on wednesday last was lis, 600 feet, which
record has never been reached by any other
mill in the State.
Arrangements are now being perfected
for a rowing match on the river off Jack
/ lI., -. q ~
March 70 with John Teemer, the champion
of America. John Mckay and Albert H.
Hamm as the contestants.
George w. Hawkins, formerly conductor
on the Atlantic and Western railway who
is now in San Diego, Cal, has bought sew
eral thousand budded nursery trees from ]
ii. Barrow, Orange City. W. E. Lancaster
will pack them and go with them to Cali
fornia.
j. w. Sears and a young man visiting
| Kissimmee by the name of Gilmore, ran a
foot race Of 100 yards last Monday, Gilmore
coming out first best On Tuesday they
had another contest at rs yards, in which
Sears regained his laurels with a little to
brag on.
Lee Bryant, for several years an employe
! of Jacksonville in the scavenger depaTt-
ment, died on Sunday morning at II o'clock
| from the effects of blow on the head adj
minstered about three weeks ago by an
other negro, who is now confined in the
county Jail
There was an effort made at the heel of
the last Legislature to have Polk county
divided 1t did not succeed then, but the
| fire that was smothered has not ceased to
| burn. 1t will blaze this year at every pre-
cinct in Polk county. This will be the alb
sorbing issue in the coming campaign.
Orlando Record: From indications that
have not made their appearance on the sur
face we are satisfied that before the year
ends Orlando will have two, if not three
new roads. We know that efforts are being
made by those interested to extend at least
one important road, with every hope of sue
cess.
1t is said by the Sanford Journal that
the Methodists of the Florida Conference
have raised sufficient sum to buy a news
paper outfit, and that they will shortly
establish an Office of their own and publish
| the Florida Christian AdUOc ate, now pub
lished by the Sanford Publishing Company,
at Sanford.
Sunday was the eliminating day of the
Chautauqua at DeFuniak. Excursions
| came in from both directions and all the
hotels were crowded There were fully
| 1000 people at Sam Jones' lecture at night
and $500 in the afternoon. The Chautauqua
closes Friday after the most successful SEES
| sion ever known.
On Saturday night train load of excur-
! sionists going east from DeFuniak Springs
were worked by gang of pickpockets, who
succeeded in relieving the passengers of
| several hundred dollars. The empty pock-
et-books of the passengers were found near
Ponce de Leon Sunday having been thrown
| from the car windows.
Charles Magruder, of Tropic, has a fine
place and is making money raising and
shipping vegetables. He will market within
| the next few weeks something like 900
place are also profitably engaged in truck
farming, among whom are Messsrs. Booth,
! Tuten, Simmons and Stewart.
At Lakeland Justice Billiards. court was
the scene of lively litigation SATURDAY. in
which r.. NJ. Robinson sued the South
Florida Railroad Company for damages for
lumber burned in April, 1887. There were
a large number of witnesses and consider
able discussion by the attorneys The iury
gave verdict for the plaintiff for $50.
"Hope deferred" is making the new city
officials of Jacksonville rather dispirited.
The long delay in rendering the decision has
| caused much comment, and friends of the
new board say that game of freeze-out is
being played. The knights of Labor, who
have shown their strength, say that they
propose holding some one responsible for it.
| IL IL IuultIeu lilHJ AlIGed CcOuiZe, doing
business at st. Augustine with Mamie 7
Masters, under the firm name of Masters q
| Schuize has absconded, leaving victims to
the extent of $1,000 Masters q Schulze
We're contractors and builders, and, by good
work, had established a good bust
ness in st. Augustine and won the conf
dence of the people.
Green Cove Spring: Some of the old
orange trees, so far this season, have de-
voted their energies TO charging their size
rather than in proving their fruitfulness by
| putting on profusion of blooms, and a. the
report 10 this effect is not confined TO locali-
ties, the chances are that large proportion
of the bearing trees of the State will Weld
but little fruit tie coming season.
Thomas Shea, government agent, arrived
at Fort Myers last week to superntend the
exhumation of the remains of fortv-five
soldiers who were killed in the Seminole
war and buried in the post cemetery near
that place. The remains will be taken to
the National Cemetery at Fort Barrancas
near Pensacola, for interment One of
| these unfortunateS was Capt. Flower
known on account of his wealth as 1.-THE
| Duke.h
Capt. J. c. Thorpe, one of the founders
of Orange City, spent several days in that
! city last week. The Captain has five acre
! grove near Sanford that has been bearing
| now for four or five years. and the last sea
sons crOp from Il he sold on the free for