The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-10

won by Miss Dollie Tarver and MIR. y. w.
Ford, respectively.
! FLORIDA.
DR.. J. n. Bishop is going to erect large
store at Paola.
Private Joe lie Fills won the medal at the
Fernandina prize drill
Tomatoes for shipment North and West
are coming in abundance al Key West.
The safe Of Guernsey & White, insurance
agents at Orlando, was broken into Thurs
day night and about $l4 stolen.
The car shops at Green Cove Springs
have long string Of complete cars upon
| tracks ready to be pulled out and put to
| active use.
The remains of Andrew Lundquist and
! Harry Nicholas, who were drowned while
| going from Enterprise to Sanford, have
! been recovered.
A call has been issued for the citizens of
! Osceoa county TO meet at kissimmee Thurs
| day for the purpos of organizing County
! immigration Association.
Gen John Varnum has sold the brick
| store-rOom, at Gainesville, in which the
! star House grocery is located TO w. A.
Geiger, of Archer, for So 100.
| J. J. Hewitt, of Newnansville, brought to
Gainesville Saturday two rutabagas that
measured % inches in circumference and
weighed eight pounds each. Mr.. Hewitt
| has several large rutabagas and turnips
which he will probably send to the Sub
Tropical Exposition.
Gainesville Advocate: w w. Wyman,
of Archer, brought TO the city Saturday a
| number of sea island cotton stalks seven
teen feet in length. This is undoubtedly
| the longest cotton ever produced in Flori-
da. The stalks all had innumerabl9
branches, all of which were laden with
bolls from which the feecy staple was pro
| truding. After exhibiting the massive
stalks here Mr. Wyman forwarded them to
the Sub-Tropical Exposition at jackson
Vile.
At Tallahassee this week the Supreme
| Court and tue Railroad Commission will be
in session, and perhaps the Circuit Court
also. The present grand-ju for Leon
county has found quite a number of true
| bills against those who have violated the
criminal Code, and the Circuit Court is con
! Sequently kept busy dispOsing of the cases.
! The Railroad Commission has several i'm
portant matters to decide, and their de-
! cisions are awaited with considerable in
| terest
| Orlando Record: Now that the Orange
| Belt railroad has reached the Gulf and will
in thirty days be at ST. Petersburg, where
there is the best harbor and deepest water
on Tampa bay, why is not something being
!
land road Build this road and Orlando
will get the benefit of all that magnificent
country living west and southwest of Oak
| land, as we'll as the trade of South Apopka
This is a matter Of vital importance to Or
lando and it should not be allowed to pass.
Live Oak Banner Of Liberty: On last
Tuesday morning our heart was moved at
seeing a lady and four little thinly clad chill
dren wading through the heavy frost TO take
| ~, Ia Poi viz
ing train east Two of the little children,
while thinly clad, were without shoes. Two
gallant young men of Live Oak, seeing
the condition of the poor children, was
moved with compassion and went into Mrs.
Maisron's, and bought nice shoes and stock
ings for the little sufferers, paying for them
from their own purses.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles w. Peek, of Stony
Point n. Y, are at st. Augustine. Mrs.
Peek comes from an old family of Stony
Point who lived there previous to the war
of the revolution. Tony the colOred
man who pioted MAD Anthony" Wayne
Up the narrow cow-path where he surprised
and captured the British i'll their stronghold,
was the old body-servant of Mrs Peek's
great grandsire. Tony used to visit the
British quarters and sell the products of the
farm, and was therefore well acquainted
with the narrow path leading to the camp
of the red-cOatS.
The burned district at St Augustine will
be rapidly rebuilt with handsome and sub
stantial business blocks which will present
a striking contrast to the frame shells which
formerly stood there and were destroyed by
the fire Hon. John G. Long is making
preparatiC us to rebuild Immediately, and
work will begin within "A week or ten days.
He will erect handsome block of stores
|, | either of brick or of concrete, facing ON the
Plaza. simultaneously with the beginning
of work by Mr. Long the erection of q
handsome building by r. II. Gordon will
begin This building will be one of the
most durable i'll the city, and perfectly fire
proof.
One of the leading features of ST. Angus
tine in the future will be its convenience as
winter resort for business men. The
placing of vestibule train between Jack
Sonvlle and New York will give the bust
ness men of Boston, New York and Phila
delphia a chance to leave their families al
St Augustine for the winter and run down
occasionally for visit, with only one II ght
on the road each way. Besides this, regu
, lar sock exch lnge and brokers' office viii
be opened in the Ponce de Leon where all
kinds of stock transactions can be made
A CONNIE cial wire is now being run to
ST. Augustine from Savannah, making 8
direct connection withNew York. The turbin,
water wheel connected with the artesian
| i
Augustine was put in operation Sunday
The trial resulted very satisfactorily, the
great wheel making $50 revolutions pei
minute, and successfully demonstrating
that the power afforded by artesian wells
can be practically utilized The wheel viii
be used for running the dynamos and foi
, other purposes about the hotel.
| At Orlando, Friday, the Synod of Florida
and South Georgia took up what has BE-
; come somewhat famous as the "Woodrow'
5 case DR.. Woodrow, who was the Pres
} dent of Columbia Theological Seminary
some two or three years ago, promulgated
some evolution theories that were moi
} orthodox to the Presbyterian church, ant
evoked a great deal of discussion before the
ecclesiastical bodies of that church and the
A religious press of the whole country, anC
/ the result was that Dr. Woodrow was un
S seated from the chair, that proceeding being
0 submitted to the Presbyterian synod foi
+ ratification The committee appointed hJ
/ this synod was composed of eight members
70 and brought in three separate reports, tive
r of these being signed by three and one 10y
4 two members OF the committee. The report
$ read by DR.. Smith, chairman of the com.
/ mittee, was taken up first for action ant
part of it, which alluded TO Dr. j g. Mach
S DIR. WoOdrow's successor), promised K
bring on a warm debate, and being the
| only t0iut in tha ,Vhola nattar yyb ioI