The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-24

sells 5000 worth of postage stamps.
I. w. Sweat, dealer in general merchan-
| disc at Starke, made an assignment Thurs
/ day His liabilities and assets are unknown.
The celebrated Norwood Lewis case, which
attracted so much attention at the last term
OF court, was up again at Tltusyille
| Wednesday.
Capt. Frank Lewis, the veteran Pensa-
cola pilot, after lingering illness, died at
his home in that city, Tuesday afternoon, OF
consumption.
Two cigar manufacturers in Key West,
and a large manufacturer from Havana,
are now making preparations to move 70
Tampa to start business.
A taxpayers indignation meeting was
held in Clearwater one day last week to
| protest against the special levy made by
tie County Commissioners.
The Monticello Constitution thinks the
! probability is that melon growers will be
| able to ship their melons via Thomasville to
market the present season.
DR.. A NJ Powell, of Providence, Brad
ford county, died Thursday at the residence
| of his son, DIR. Tate Powell, of Starke. he
was afflicted with heart disease,
1t is rumored at Apopka that S28, 900 has
Just been refused for an orange grove. The
owner came there about ten years age, and
this is the result of thrifty industry
At Tampa Monday John p. Hill will com
mence work on n six-roOm twO-StOry cot
tage Tor Miss Kate jackson, on the lot oppo-
site the electric light works on the south.
H. e. Day has sold his residence at Gaines
vile to Mrs. Chapmal, who has been spend
! ing the winter at Mrs. Frenchs. She is a
! near friend of Mrs. Grant, widow Of Gen.
| U. S. Grant.
Mr. Griffin. late section master on the
| Florida Railway and Navigation company,
with headquarters at Lloyds, who has re-
| Gently been quite sick, is reported to have
| become deranged
Jane Williams, an old negro woman, was
found dead in her bed at Tampa Saturday
! morning Coroner Brockway held an in
quest and decided that she came to her
death from old age.
| The directors of the hotel company met
Mt Tampa Wednesday and organized by
electing w N. Conoley, President; DR.. H.
! r. Benjamin, Vice PRESIDENT Perry G.
! Wall, Jr., Treasurer.
! j. H. Fish, of Orlando, has sold his or
ange grove of 800 trees for 81 600 to Jacob
! Short, of Concordia Kan. Mr.. Short and
! family will arrive in Orlando in few days,
| prepared to make it their future home.
| The plume birds have almost entirely dis
! appeared from Hillsborough county. This
| is the result of the indiscriminate and whole
| sale slaughter that has been going on for
| several years for the sake of their pl1mage.
| The schooner Peerless was sold by Deputy
| United States Marshal Bartholomew, at
! Tampa, Tuesday, under an attachment
taken out by William Harding. John G..
| Williams, the former owner, bid her in for
! $l,005.
A steamer, in about twenty days, will be
! put on the route from Porto Tampa to Bay
| View, and will run regularly until railroad
! connections are made to the West Side.
| The time to Clearwater will be reduced to
two or three hours.
A Boston gentleman has bought num-
Der OF lots just outside the city limits of San
! ford, with the intention Of building a num-
Der of houses of the most improved style,
which will be for sale or to rent. Work will
be commenced Immediately.
On Tuesday morning E. II. Walters, Of
I New York, sold his three-acre orange grove
at City Point to Messrs. H. and j. Banks,
| of Atlanta, Ga, the consideration being
| So, 700. The Messrs. Banks have also pur-
chased land from Add. Dixon adjoining the
above grove.
Mrs. Rufus Wells, the widow of the engi-
neer who lost his life in the collision re-
Gently on the Florida Southern road, re-
! ceives IS, 900 from the Brotherhood of
| Locomotive Engineers, and 81 900 from the
| Equitable Life Insurance Company. She
shares the amount with her six children.
Rev. w. A. Byrd, a colored divine of
| Jefferson county and the Presiding Elder of
| the Monticello district, was recently thrown
from a train of the Florida Railway and
! Navigation road, at LIoyds, and was
severely injured. He has commenced suit
| for damages, and the company has rendered
! him SIS as a compromise.
Owing to the fact that the list of grand
and petit jurors, drawn for this spring term
! of Brevard Circuit Court several weeks ago,
were drawn from a box containing $50
names, whereas the law requires that they
| be drawn from a box with 800 names
Judge Broome, on his arrival at Titusville
on Tuesday, decided that the jury were not
! legally selected, and so the Sheriff had to
! summon another venire of jurors
The town of Melrose is not Incorporated.
but nevertheless they have graded streets,
sidewalks somewhat elevated on the
| principal streets, and a public we'll
! All of this has been done by
the energetic ladies of the town.
| They have Il club called the Melrose I'm
| provement Society, and give an occasional
entertainment, and appropriate the money
for the improvement of their beautiful little
town.
Friday night during heavy weather a small
boat containing Messrs Thomas Naples,
James Dennard and a small boy, Tiney
Smith, dragged from East Hole near Api-
lachicola in to Shell Point where the two
men and boy managed to escape to the Is
! land They remained on the island until
! Tuesday, when the anime" went after
! them. During this time the food of the
castaways consisted of raw oysters taken
from the oyster bar.
A man was arrested at Kissimmee
| Wednesday by Marshal Bailey who is sup
! posed to be the murderer of Smell, of Chi
/ cago, for whose capture reward of $40, 600
! is offered The desert tion of the man ar
rested and that sent out by the Chicago
/ authorities tallies very closely, even to the
scar on the leg, the only variance being in
! the teeth The man arrested is being held
! for identification, kilograms having been
| sent to Chicago. The prisoner will proba-
| bly, be saved by his teeth.
Constantine Apostle and Ms Carrie
/ Bos,o were married at Pensacola day or
| two ago The bride was the widow of the
! late lamented Or. X. Bosso, vino figured con-
! spicuously in the history OF yellow fever ep-
Idemcs on the Calf coast ami the groom is
| a confectioner and fruit mercha IT, Mr.
| Apostle was for some time an assistant of
! Dr. 80 50, whose formula for the well
| known febrifGge that bears the name of
"Boseo, lie purchased from Mrs. Bosso,
after The Doctors death.
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