The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28

| DfOONNds
| IN tho vicinity of Seville.
The County Executive Committee of the
Democratic party of Marion county is
called TO meet in Ocala on Tuesday, June 5,
at ii o'clock in the morning.
Last Saturday morning Joe Wynn, while
running the edging saw OF G. p Young's
saw mlll at Starke, had all the fingers on
his right hand completely severed.
The Baptist pastors Of Apopka, Sanford
and Orlando will participate in the ordina-
ton of Rev j. a. Richardson on the second
Sunday Of next month in Apopka.
]. B. Speer & Sons, of Cresston, are
among the successful shippers, having sent
off over 700 crates of tomatoes, with more
to follow, J. A. Asher has sent off about
100 crates, with more to follow.
Lumber is being delivered in Col. j. T..
Alexander's grove, at Ovledo, for building
a large orange packing house. AS the crop
on the trees is estimated to at least reach
10000 boxes, he will have good use for the
building.
There are rumors that the j., 7. and K
w. railway will soon take active steps
toward extending their line of road down
the coast as far as New Smyrna. They
lately have had an agent looking over the
territory.
|. d. Gore, an old citizen of Volusia
living near Bulow, was shot while at work
in his clearing on Tuesday Of last week
Four rife balls entered his body near the
heart and death followed almost instantly
There is no clue to his assassin.
George N. Dorr, of Heightsville, has an
! orange tree that was a. sour stump only
two years old, and Mr. Dorr bndded it with
a Mandarine bud in May, 1887. This tree
had quite number of blooms this spring,
and is now holding five nice and fine oranges.
inf e., D., Al
interior of the Slate that the oranges are
dropping off badly, some groves beng re-
ported as noarly bare of fruit The Day
! tona hammock groves are holding their
fruit, and the prospect is good for large
crop.
A jury was impaneled at Orlando Thurs
day to view and condemn the right of way
and assess the damages for the Orlando and
| Winter Park railroad through the property
OF the water works company at Lake High
land. Tho damage assessed by the jury was
$18 &C.
The train which left Tampa at 3 o'clock
Friday afternoon for Port Tampa, in charge
Of Conductor Coleman and Engineer Kin
son, was derailed six miles from Tampa The
damage was slight, and no one was seriously
injured. Fireman Davis was badly bruised
on the side.
Tampa's new bridge is TO be one-sixth of
a mile long and % feet wide IL is to be
completed by Sept. 20. A forfeit of $40
per day is to be paid by the contractors for
each day the bridge remains unfinished
after ITO days have elapsed from the date
of the contract.
At Mount Tabor on May 10 birthday
dinner was given William Feagle, now S2
years of age, and who has been a resident
Of Columbia county sGce 1856. All his
children were present, besides fifty grand
children and two great-grand children, and
all in good health.
jeff Richardson, Of Spring Garden, has
successfully grated tine Texas pecan on the
native hickory, and Mr.. Fish, of the same
place, has succeeded in grating the chest
nut into the scrub oak These gratis are
both growing finely, and will no doubt soon
become thrifty bearing trees.
Cottages in Leesburg rent at IS to 40 per
cent on the cost of building them Several
which did not cost over $500 each to build.
are now rented at $40 month, or 40
per cent on the cost of building. An office
on Main street that did not cost over 500
has been renting for si2 month.
The verdict brought in at Orlando Thurs
day by the Jury in The suit of c. NJ. Heard
VS.. the city of Orlando, was for damages in
the sum of 5000. The case was on trial
three days. The counsel for the defendant
filed motion for a new trial. The case
will undoubtedly 20 to the Supreme Court.
At Lake Worth over 1000 bushels of
tomatoes were left to rot on the vines.
About five vessels are out of the freight
on that many bushels, and the cost of pick
ing and packing is lost to the laborers here.
and all on account of that unauthorized or
der to stop sending tomatoes to jackson
vile.
The old Green Cove Springs and Middle
burg mail route will be resumed after july
l, next, and the Peoria route discontinued
The route now 20 be stopped proved very
unsatisfactory to the people of Middleburg,
and they, together with tho people of Green
Cove, will be thankful for the return to the
old route.
Wlllacoochee NetCs: In writing for the
NetCS, write on one side of the paper, sleep
over what you have written, strike out
nine-tenths of the ad Electives stew down to
news and strain; place what is left in the
hull of mustard seed, shake until you hear
1t rattle, then direct the same to the editor,
in legible hand.
Alexander jackson, who shot and killed
woman by the name of Lucinda Berry at
Brooksville last Wednesday, was captured
at Ocala last Friday by the Florida Railway
and Navigation operator and placed in Jail.
A party of lynchers and the Sheriff were
after him, but failed to get the murderer.
Both parties were colored.
A movement is on foot at Green Cove
Springs, looking to the establishment of a
Fire Brigade" and to this end the Clay
Guards are to be mustered into the new
service, provided the necessary expenses can
be met, of securing suitable uniforms, and
the wherewithal with which to purchase an
outfit of buckets, hooks and ladders
r. r. Wynn killed a monster rattlesnake,
few days ago, within 1870 yards of his
residence, about seven miles south of Starke.
having twelve rattles and a button and
measuring 8 feet and inch In length. This
snake bit and killed Mr. Wynn's dog late in
the evening previous TO his capture, and
when found next morning was lying "in
coil" between two logs. The snake was
very large in circumference and weighed
about $50 pounds.
A strange negro brought horse to G. D.
Younglove's stable at Gainesville Friday,
and attempted to sell him for SOS. Mr..
Hounglove suspected that the hoi Sc had
been stolen aud went to hunt an officer.
Marshal Davies was found, the negro
lodged in Jail and the horse placed in The
stable; and the development of the facts
showed that Sheriff Wisnges had just a few
hours before received a dispatch from
Ocala, asking him to look out for q stolen
horse. The description suited the animal
the negro had, and he is held to answer.
Thursday the little 12-year-old SON of Mr..