The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-01

1 place near Fernandiua that shows growth
of Is feet in height since the freeze OF two
/ years ago.
! Carson Lake, whose bright column
Chat" in the New York Tribune, inter
ests thousands Of American readers, is doing
/ Florida with his bride.
The Spanish gunboat Guardian arrived at
| Key West Saturday from Havana and,
after taking a coil of cable on board,
anchored in the harbor.
W. L. Van Duzor is canvassing Kissim-
NEE to raise a sufficient sum TO induce
Teemer Ham and Mckay the great oars
men, to row there early in this month.
J. B. Claflin Of the firm Of II. B. Clahin
& Co., New York, has been spending few
days on a hunting expedition along the line
of the st. Johns and Halifax railroad.
There is a rumor that large hotel is to
be put up by some capitalists at or near
Wilcox Station that win nearly or quite
equal the Ponce de Leon at st. Augustine.
Two negro fishermen who left Sanford
Monday are supposed to have been drowned,
as the boat in which they left was found
bottom up, with their fish net tangled
around it.
movement is on foot to set the court
house park at Brooksville in orange trees.
1t will be laid out in regular order and
plat made and put on record, each tree be-
ing numbered and the donors name re-
corded with it.
The two colored men, Peacher and Hora-
ito, are in fair way to be convicted of the
murder Of Henry Fusche, at Fernandina, as
each is accusing the other Of the crime and
each haunting the other with the knowledge
in their daily conversations in Jail.
Cedar Keys at present supplies the Key
West entire fleet of spOnges with sponge
poles These poles are from % to 30 feet
long, from l 4 to inches in diameter and
must be free from knots. Several firms in
Cedar Keys are said TO do good business
in them.
At Orlando, on the first landing of the
stairway leading from the Office of the San
Juan Hotel Mr.. Courser has placed hand
some wreath of flowers frozen in a solid
cake of ice Looked down upon from the
upper landing it presents a beautiful sight
us it casts its reflection III the mirror back
of it.
Paul A. Clifford is at St. A ndrew's in the
interest of a number of citizens of Cleve-
land, O. The Clevelanders are the holders
of several hundred deeds to lots purchased
from the Cincinnati company, have formed
themselves into sort Of association and
sent Mr., Clifford on to investigate. He is
tavorably impressed.
A party of gentlemen from Atlanta and
elsewhere in Georgia were in Fernandna
last Saturday on a tour of inspection
Among the number were Senator Joseph
Brown. Col. Grant and Messrs. Kiser, Orme,
Winship, Porter, Rice, Dorton and Hin
man. They came in a special car and Wis
tied the beach, taking dinner at the Egg
mont
Capt. F. A. Hendry, Fort Myers, and ex-
Gov. A. Z. K. Stafford, of Tarpon Springs,
rat 10 X tCCi from a
trip TO the lands lying along the canal be-
tween the two lakes Tahopekaliga, which
they visited upon the request of Hamilton
DisstOn, who desired their opinion as to the
probable success that would attend the
planting of paragrass on those lands, Both
gentlemen have had considerable experience
in raising paragrasS, and they are decidedly
of the opinion that it could be raised with
great success on the lands visited. Mr.
Disston will probably plant 600 acres in the
grass. Capt. Hendry raises three crops of
this grass per year, cutting nine tons year
from the acre.
While the President was being shown
through the South Florida Exhibition build
ing, he spied very large, fine mullen plant
set in box, and asked his conductor, an
ex-railroad official, what plant it was. The
gentleman himself had never seen one be-
fore, and dislking to show his ignorance of
the products of Florida, after moments
reflection, answered: ssThat is one Of our
new fibre plants" and proceeded to explain
the great wealth to flow into the State from
its culture and manufacture Mrs. Cleve-
land, who was Immediately in the rear of
the President, overheard the conversation,
and at the same time recognizing the plant
as our old fashioned mullen, quietly nudged
her escort and whispered that it looked very
much like mullen, accompanying the re-
mark with a sly wink. IL any one SAYS
MULLEN now in the presence of the fisrt
mentioned gentleman he will have fight
on hand.
Hon. Winslow S Pierce, of New York,
the confidential friend and valued political
counselor of Samuel j. Tilden, and the
manager of the political interests of Thomas
A. Hendricks his brother-in-law. in the
Presidential convention of 1865, when Sey-
mour was nominated, is at the Carleton
House in Jacksonville en- route for Cuba for
a visit of few weeks. He was the contem-
porarY and friend of Stephen A. Douglas
Herschel Y. johnson, Yancy and other
Democratic statesmen of forty years, and is
full of recollections of the political events
of that stirring period. He was one of the
Forty miners" of California, and was
| Comptroller in the early DAYS of State
hood. His presence in Washington re-
Gently was the occasion of a very hospit-
able greeting. Among his many callers were
| Senator voorhees,, ex-senator Mcdonald
Washington Mclean and John r. Mclean,
Joseph Chamberlain, the English commits
sioner, and others. The familiarity of DR..
Pierce with the fishery problem had led to
an acquaintance with Mr.. Chamberlain.
DIR. Pierce also prepared the argument in
favor of the annexation of San Domingo,
which covered the general position taken
by President Grant on that subject. Dr.
Pierce is accompanied by his son, Henry d.
Pierce, late Assistant United States District
Attorney for Indiana, and law partner of
United States Senator Turpie, of Indian
apolis DR.. Pierce will return to Washing
ton in April, to remain some weeks in con-
nection with certain matters relating to the
foreign service of the administration. He
came South for his health.
STRANGE SUPERSTITION.