The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-15


Twc ,,11rs5 republican cubs were organ
I7sc Il IElEhEssaa Iasi week
al 1ns sencrolt II Lson county have
CLOSED 3or rhs Bu,u-IHr vsrsilu
F'll.r tzre ritsrE1g u Lsc- county and the
g;rl, llI'-'--l,sss 10 lie -l1s1s--y large.
Tts Lame q Locius " Merritt Of Pensa-
cha 1zs bse1 placed - the national pension
rolls.
James Ballard ot Greenwood has cleared
$3.50 from six acres Of tomatoes despite
drought.
The Cuban way of keeping ripe tomatoes
fr sh and firm for several days Is 10 pack
them in dry ashes.
A meeting of the Escambia county demo-
| cratic executive committee is TO be held in
the county court house, in that city, on
Tuesday, July 3.
River navigators report the Upper st.
Johns as very low; as much 50, some say,
as they have ever seen it. In some portions
it can easily be forded.
There is talk of organizing a salvage
| corps in the fire department at Palatka,
and Chief Kersting will probably be author
lied to employ two or three special police
men for duty at fires.
Brevard county is agitating the question
| of a new county seat, and as a consequence
| candidates are rising up in many places
each one extolling the advantages peculiar to
and existing no whore else in the county ex-
cept that one particular place.
A house belonging 10 Rufus J. Edmond
| son, situated across the bay from Pensacola,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Iucen-
| diarism is suspected, as no one was in the
house when the fire broke out His loss
| amounts to $500 with no insurance.
Now that the tomato crop Is gathered,
| Polk county farmers who have realized
| from $50 10 800 per acre, can grow crop
| Of sweet potatoes, from whicn thsy can
realize another 500 per acre, and yet have
the land in ample time for another crop of
| tomatoes.
Charles A. Flowers. charged with burn
ing barn on the Walter n Hart estate,
at Federal Point, and held under $500 bond
was taken to Ocala last Thursday under a
writ Of habeas corpus before Judge Finley,
who ordered him back to Jail with the bond
reduced TO $500.
Articles Of incorporation have been filed
with the clerk Of Polk county by number
OF Georgians, for the formation Of a COM
| pany 20 be known as the Central Florida
| land company Among the incorporators
are julius Brown, II. w. Grady and A.
Beck, of Atlanta.
At Barlow, last Friday, the case trans
! ferred 10 Polk county from Pasco county
| Of the state VS.. Horace Anderson for the
murder Of Thomas e. Eyans-was tried,
and resulted in acquittal. The shooting
was brought about by controversy through
the columns Of a newspaper.
Among the effects left by r. J. Aston, of
Orlando, for the benefit OF his creditors,
were four large mastiffs, which Capt. 4. w.
Shine, trustee, will ship TO Pittsburg, Pa
having sold them 10 a kennel there. Those
| dogs are of the purest breed, aud are said
10 have cost fabulous prices.
The Live Oak and Madison base ball
clubs crossed bats at Live Oak Tuesday
with score Of II TO 10 in favor of Live
Oak. There was some fine fielding by the
Live Oak club. The Madison club could
not hold tho balls, and were whitewashed
three times, and Live Oak twice
Mr.. Gillett OK Palmetto, on two-6fths Of
an acre Of land, made 80 boxes of vegeta-
bles, 3Gj boxes of oranges and 20 barrels OF
| egg plants which Melted him S644 So; and
he has ~ orange boxes TO hear from. Up
70 date he is still shipping from the Same
patch, though they are not as good as at
FIRST.
John A. Wales and family left Pensacola
| Wednesday for Spokane Falls. Washington
Territory, where they will remain month
or two, their ultimate destination being
| Tacomah. Mr.. Wales, for some years past,
had been in business in Pensacola, first rs a
member OF the firm Of White & Wales, and,
later doing business in the clothing line
for himself
There was recently killed in the orange
grove II A. h. Rowland, at Winter Park,
an alligator which measured over nine feet
In length when attacked with a rake he
showed fight and demolished the rake, and
would have tackled the young man at the
other end Of Il, but the young man deemed
discretion tho better part Of valor and took
b his heels. The reptile was finally dis
patched.