The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-25
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Many new pear orchards will be planted
out in TIE Tallahassee country.
Several nor bern tourists have arrived in
Taliahas ee during the past weeh.
The growing OF leaf tobacco is becoming
quite an industry in the Tallahassee coun-
try.
| Home raised hay is beginning to take the
| place Of western hay in the Tallahassee
country.
Wild duck and quail shooting is furnish
| ing excellent sport III the Tallahassee couu-
try now.
The board Of the State Agricultural Col
| lege viii meet in Tallahassee on Nov. % to
| dispose Of the DR.. Kost case.
Some of the farmers of Leon county have
already begun to break groundsand get
really to plant their next years crop.
ST. Augustine has managed to worry
along somehow with only a dozen saloons,
but now there are prospects of a thirteenth
coming to the rescue.
George J. Zehnbar, sheriff of Putnam
county. has gone to South Carolina wi h
SquireS, the prisoner VINO Is wanted in that
state, charged with arson.
NJ Maxent of Esc8mbia refuses to doua' e
foot of ground 10 the Pensacola and Mem
phIs railroad, the contemplated route of
which is through his tract.
The city schools of Orlando are now under
full way, having an attendance of 215
scholars. Some of the furniture has rot
yet arrived, though shipped some weeks
ago.
Maj D. D. Young, an inmate of the in
sane asylum at Chattahoochee, died of heart
disease on Nov. 10. The deceased operated
an orange packing house in st. Augustine
several years ago.
Where the bank of the Alapaha river was
cut on the west side, north OF the bridge at
Jasper, to aid ia raising the approach. an
eddy has been formed which is fast cutting
away the embankment.
DR.. Wall Of Tampa wires that there have
been no deaths since Nov. IL and no new
cases of yellow fever since Nov. IL and that
only two cases are under treatment, which
are of a very mild type.
At Pensacola eighty poles of the electric
light system have been erected thus far
Ed Gale Quipa, sec -etary of the company,
thinks the plant will be in active operation,
distributing light and power, by Dec. 1.
| Hugh Murray, a river engineer well
known at Pensacola, attacked Peter Burke
at Mobile, Monday, and was cut twice in
the stomach with pen-knife welded bv
Mr. Burke. Murray's injuries are not sup
| posed to be of a serious nature
| 1t is understood that II. NJ. Flagler will
! pave in front of the Hotel Cordova, at
| st. Augustine, with asahalt, similar to that
laid on Cordova and other streets There is
also a possibility OF pavement of the same
kind being laid up as far as the plaza.
The railroad bridge across the st. Johns
river at Palatka is completed, all but the
draw. The draw will be $50 feet long, and
near the Palatka end. The builders say tEev
will have it done by Dec. l, but it is consd-
cred doubtful if it can be completed by that
time.
An accident occurred Wednesday night
on the north-bound mail train that might
have been a very serious one. Just as the
train reached the emhankment at Wilcox
the truck of one Of the passenger coaches
broke, but did not juno the track until
having passed the embankment d trestle,
the wheels being held in place by the guard
rail. After passing the emoankment the
coach left the track, but did no serious
damage.
A party out hunting Wednesday after
noon, when about three or four miles from
Lees bur z, discJverel the remains of col
ored MAJ named Adam Felter, who has
been missing since Aug. t. and who was
was supposed to have gone to North Caro-
lima. A wound over the right eve showed
tho man had been murdered, and bowie
X life lying beside his head fitted the CHASTITY
cut. Felter was an industrious m IN and
highly respected.
The fishing schooner Champion, Capt
Peaccn. that catches Fl h in and near
G arlotte harbor bay and corns them for
the Cuban market, arrived at Key West
Sunday evening with her jlb stay gone
and otherwise damaged. The captain re-
ports having encoun; cred a severe gale
between and O'clock Monday morning.
while en- route TO Key West from Havana,
during which his vessel sustained the
above damage. 1t is feared that small
| fishing boats out must hive suffered fear
| fully, If they were not entirely wrecked.
! President Reel and Secretary Chapman
Of the Orange county board Of health went
| on special train, in company with Supt.
| Swoope Of the South florida railroad to
! Port Tampa, Thursday, on an inspecting
tour, the object being to see if through
trains can be safely permitted to run from
Sanford 20 the port As it is now, the
S uth-bouud train meets the north-bound
/ train just below the quarantine station Of
| Polk county, whore transfer is made.
| Should it appear TO be safe, permission will
be given to run through without change.
The city assessment of Orlando having
been completed and now in the hands OF the
council for equalization, shows some re-
markable inequalities. The Young Mems
Christian Association building, one Of the
finest in the city, is valued at $4,000; the
O'Cunnell block at $4,000, the lot and
frame store occupied by L. II. Rice & Co
at 1900 the ice factory, building and lot
at $1,000, j. DeLaney's ten-acre grove and
residence at $4,000 DR.. DAVIS grove on
Orange avenu', worth Sl2, 1000, assessed at
$1,000. No furniture is assessed in the San
Juan hotel, worth probably $4,000.
Wonderful Cures.