The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-04
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The Leesburg Rifles have received their
new arms and equipments,
A considerable crop of LeConte pears will
be raised in the vicinity of Green Cove
Spring this year
The Baptist Church Society of Fernan-
dina, recently organized under the State
laws, is discussing plans for a handsome
church edifice.
The fire department of Fernandina has
been reorganized, and it is now pr posed to
make it still more efficient by adopting a
serviceabe uniform.
The Bagdad Sash Factory Company is
going to add to its factory a large dry kiln
of an improved pattern, which will be far
| superior to the old one now in use.
A hen egg measuring inches round and
So inches in length the long way was for
warded to the Clay county exhibit last week
by r. II. Batten, of Green Cove Spring.
The bill appropriatng So, 900 for the
completion of the tower on the Federal
building at Pensacola has passed the Sen
ate and is now in the hands of Mr.. David
son.
Mrs. DR. Barrows, of Winter Park Sec
| rotary of the Womans branch of the Home
Mission Society of the Congregational
church, will be in New Smyrna Tuesday,
| April 10, in the interests Of her work.
On Sunday evening of last week at
| colOred settlement i'll Suwannee county,
| ColfaX Stockton was shot in the abdomen
| by Lonnie Tison. The ball was a small one
and the wound is not considered dangerous
Mr.. Johnson the foreman of Robinson's
| mill at Millview, fell from slab-conveyor
| Friday, distance of about 90 feet, striking
on a piece of timber. He was speechless
when picked up, and it is feared that he is
fatally injured.
Mr.. Hoover, of Panasoffkee, has already
| realized 81, 600 from the sale of Strawberries
| produced ON two acres Of ground, and the
season is not vet half over. He will manu-
factlre wine after the shipment of berries
| has become Improbable.
Among the largest vegetable producers of
| Sumter county is Mr.. Crawford, of Pan
| asoffkee. He has now growing ten acres of
| cabbage and two each of tomatoes and
| cucumbers, besides five acres of strawber-
| rieS, from which he has already shipped
| $500 quarts
E. NJ. Shepardson, Of Green Cove Spring,
has champagne made from the juice of
sour oranges. The flavor is excellent. and
the wine sparkles equal to Mumm's dry
Mr. Shepardson IS confident that he can
still further improve upon this, his first
attempt.
Within three miles of Leesburg are l $50
| acres in orange groves, all of them in thrifty
| condition and most of them bearing. These
have been yielding $4,000 boxes annually
and next season promise n yield of 100, 900
1t is computed that these groves are worth
in round numbers 81 200, 900.
Richard Clark, a stout young mulatto, is
| under arrest at Pensacola for pursuing Miss
Eugenia Brown, daughter of white steve
dore, while on her way home on the out
skirts of the city Saturday. 1t is believed
| the negro had evil designs against her per
son. He was frightened away by her
| screams.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ Brooks, of Leesburg
moved to Mansfield last Monday and will
| occupy their new cottage, which has just
been completed. Mr.. Brooks brother,
| Henry, of Crystal River has purchased
several acres near him and will erect a cot
tage soon. Capt. Zimmerman and Judge
Fleming have also purchased lots and have
the lumber on them for building.
The strike last week at the sash factory at
| Bagdad has been settled by all hands going
back to work without any gain for the
strikers They struck for an hour for din
ner. 1t is Customary for the mills and fac
tories to give an hour for dinner from April
| ! through thu summer, and three-quarters
| of an hour during the short days in winter,
but the boys did not want to wait until
| April l.
The Green Cove Spring election passed
off quietly Monday G.. n. Borden, for
! Mayor, lS2 majority; e. NJ. Mcintyre, for
Clerk, 200 majority; $. +. Hanford, for
Marshal, s. majority; w. j. Wilson, for
| Treasurer, 1913 majority; w. w. Hull, Jr.,
for Collector, III ma jority; T. j. Branning,
for Assessor, 1875 majority; Thomas Roberts.
for Alderman, l22 majority; G. &. Benis,
for Alderman l22 ma Ority; r. Redmond,
for Alderman, lSJ majority
Friday morning Louis Carlisle, a colored
man, aged % years, who resided in Live
Oak, was banking with an old musket,
| aud placing the muZzle ind r his chin,
called the attention OF some of the family.
saying, This Is the way some people get
killed, when his sister stopped. and, it is
supposed, accidentally touched tha trigger,
when the gun was discharged, the load en-
tering the throat and passing up into the
brain, which produced death instantly
The property Of Alexander G. Berry. in
Nolusia county, was sold under the fore
closure OF mortgage at jackson lille
Monday, tho sale having been adjourned
from March ,. II was sold To JameS II.
Challen, the compliments solicitor, for
$4,000. Several minor Masters sales were
made, most of them bringing good prices
At the court ! ouSe a dozen or more sales
were made, it being legal sales day. Real
estate, as general thing, brought fair
prices.
A large crowd assembled in the United
States Court room at Jacksonville Monday
TO witness the begin ing Of the long d =
layed libel su Is Of Il. II. Lewis and Mary b.
! CalvanO against the NetOs- Hcfdid 4 Jury
was readil, secured there being few cnal-
! lenges, ard the work was begun by the ex-
| animation Of wit lesSas. These suits will be
81 l~ely watched As another against the
Boston Herald and other papers elsewhere
will depend good aoal upon the decision in
\ these cases.
Max Myerson, of Sanford, has moved into
his new store. Mr.. Myerson, while standing
on a ladder in front of his store Monday,
fell to the ground, in consequence Of ore of
the rungs in the ladder breaking. For a
short while he was unconscious, but after