The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-03
FLORIDA.
Key West has a tariff reform club.
A. Tou4 Ocrdan tba ri var ia AGAIN with

Sumter county will make a fine sugar
Gaze crop.
Manatee merchants report business as
beng good.
The schools in Orange county will not
open until Nov. l.
A farmers alliance was organized at
UHatilla on Sept %.
Oakland,s annual election for town Off
GERS takes place Nov. l.
Ed Eady of Wildwood shipped seventy
five carloads Of watermelons this season.
James A. Waddell has been nominated
for mayor by the republicans Of Key West.
Turkeys are so common at Fort Ogden, the
boys shoot them at pleasure since the high
water.
The opening Of Rollins college. at Winter
| PARK, Is deferred for the present, on account
Ct the yellow fever scare.
]. w. Gamble of Live Oak has moved
his stock IF goods to Quincy, whittier he
will shortly move his family.
Gainesville Adrocdte: Gainesville is the
only city having yellow fever which has not
been proffered aid from outside sources.
The opening of the Tavares school has
been postponed to the second Monday in
October, on account of the illness of the
/ teacher Mrs. 4. j. SAMPLER
! Horace Stalhert, a negro policeman, who
was shot at Kissimmee Friday night, died
Saturday. He said that Mack Bowen, a
negro, shot him. Bowen has been arrested.
Rev Earnest Benton and other industri-
GUS colored citizens of Freedman's Forest,
| Suwannee county, have purchased an en-
| CINE and other machinery necessary to put
ling up a gristmill and gins.
| 1t took sixteen men and fourteen dogs
and nina charges of buckshot to kill bear
in Madison county a few days ago. Four
of the dogs were also killed and three others
wounded. The chase lasted for twelve
| hours.
| DR.. r. NJ. Wells of Tampa, who was sent
to Palmetto week ago to render medical
aid, reports about twenty cases of yellow
fever on hand, generally doing well, and
three deaths during Friday and Saturday u
week ago.
The steamer Cumberland will be put back
on the line early this month, and will make
weekly trips between Tampa and Mobile,
stopping in at "Manatee river landings"
every trip. This will open up for Manatee
river a much needed line to the western
markets.
John w. Powell, living five miles north
west Of Live Oak, while in demented con-
dition, cut his throat last Thursday and
| jumped from the roof of corn house, receiv-
ing serious injuries from the fall as we'll as
the cut from the knife. He was still alive
at last accounts.
Capt. R. Fl. Marks, of Sanford. was in
| Madison last week, and says he will open a
real estate office there If the citizens of the
county will give him their property for
| sale. The captain has been instrumental in
building up Sanford, and had an experience
OF nineteen years selling real estate.
A. P. Fries q Co., of Jacksonville, ten
dered the employees of their three stores re-
ception at their rooms over the German drug
| store Saturday. These gentlemen, with
one exception. have all had the fever. Re
freshments were served, and singing and
dancing were INDUCED in until a late hour.
| At Oakland Rev. II. D. L. Webster has
purchased the stock of hardware, furniture,
| ETC., carried by Decker 81 Co. and two lots
on Tarpon avenue that belonged to the same
| firm. On one Of the lots he will at once
erect brick block 40y60, with 20 feet walls,
the upper story to be used for q Masonic
| lodge, while the lower floor will be divided
| into two stores.
William A. Gardner, an aged citizen of
Suwannse county, had been suffering with
a cancer on his nose for forty years, and
had been advised repeatedly by physicians
| TO let 1T alone as long as possible, but he de-
| cided TO remove 1t if possible, and recently
made salve of sheep sorrell, weed that
| grows spontaneously over the woods OF
Florida, and has effected perfect cure
| The schoolhouse known as Dyess institute,
near Hawthorn, was destroyed by fire Mon
day night, supposed to be the work of an
lncendiary. At a meeting of the patrons,
held on Tuesday evening. steps were taken
to rebuild on new site, and $50 was sub
| scribed TO aid In finding out the perpetrators
of the firing of the building. Prof Good
win donated the site for the new building
| The citizens and papers of the different
towns on the Manatee river are agitatihg
the question of a daily mail service by
steamer between Port Tampa and those
places. The mail is now carried by land by
way of Alfalfa and Little Manatee, and is
irregular at all times and particularly so in
the rainy season. During the recent heavy
rains no mails were received at Manatee fol-
ton days.
Tavares Herald: Maj. st. Clair-Abrams
wished to go to Orlando last week, after thu
Orange county board had declared theii
wholesale quarantine, and SO notified the
board. e. J. Reel, as president of tn,
| board, informed the major that the Quaran
tine was positive, and said he shonld wir,
him (ReeD for permission. The major a
| once answered that he would not accept a.
a favor that which is his legal right, anC
he was notified to come The board haC
clearly transcended their powers, as ne
board has the power to quarantine .except
Il ltlloCbeu lOChlibleS, dlld there IS DOC
nor has there been, a case of yellow fever IL
Lake. Marion, Putnam, Volusia, Orange
or Polk counties.
w. r. Tuten has a well in his yard, JUS
outside of Jasper limits, which has been dry
all summer. A few days ago he heard DC
culiar rumb1ing noises at the bottom of tn,
we'll, which is over forty feet deep in sole
clay, then a stream of water about the siz,
of a mans arm shot across the bottom OF
the well and disappeared on the opposit.
side. Shortly after this wind began to issue
from at least a dozen orifices near the bot
tom, making AS many different sounds, anC
Mr. Tuten says he had music down the wei
until about three feet of water accumu
lated at the bottom, and now IL is in a con
tinual boil, which can be heard distinctly
some distance from the well. The water /
a milky color, and tastes like that from
well just dug.
Braidentown Journal: There have beer
about forty cases of yellow fever in Pal
metto during the past two weeks, with tire,
deaths, viz: Miss Wimbish, young Zshne
and Mr.. Baumgarten. For few days las
week things had rather serious appear
ance, on account of the sickness of the resi-
dent physician, DR. Harrison. DR.. Pelo
of Manatee was the only available pbysi
clan, and at one time there were NOR,
patients than he could possibly attend TO
, hence the deaths above. Everything is il
good shape over there now. DR.. Harrison
is well and DIR. Wells Of Plant City is will
him, so that II all of the few that remain e
Iu oh lsak alr J.