The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-08

! themselves win the spOfuNe Dlack pdsS AN,
pickere The winter has been so mild, and
The water being pleasant, game fish are out
| Of their winter resorts in great numbers
Little Jessie Saxon. son of Hon. f. E.
| Saxson, Of Brooksville, drank small guam
/ tity OF concentrated I've Sacu rday. doc
/ tor counteracted the, feet, and 1t Is now
hoped that the boy will entirely recover.
At Orlando Saturday two commercial
/ travellers entered into a dispute over sale
! of goods, and from words they soon came 70
/ blows and fought right valiantly Tor the
/ honor of their respective houses. a ponce
! man necessitated draw.
The Rogers brothers, of Orlando, are
! planting a 20D-acre orange grove mile
| from the southern corporate limits. THIS
will be the largest grove in the county, the
next in size being the Stebbins grove, OF 100
acres, just east of the town.
At Orlando L. F. Wescott has n LeConte
pear tree in his grounds ad tOining the court
house, that has about two dozen pears on 1t
| nearly grown. The tree hB green leaves,
and will soon bloom again and make an
other crop at the regular time, thus making
two crops a year.
Max Lowe, Of Palatka, on Saturday even
ing received n telegram announcing that
his brother Otto, of North Carolina. had
been accidentally shot. Mr.. Lowe left for
North Carolina. After his departure
another dispatch was received stating that
the brother had passed away.
A large collection of specimens, includ-
ing portions of the mastodon remains re-
Gently recovered by DR.. Kost from the bed
of the Ichtuc&nee river, were transferred
during the week from the Agricultural Col
lege Museum at Lake City to the Sub
Tropical Exposition building at Jackson
Vile
The British steamship Countess has been
fined 81 by the Pensacola custom house for
bringing two passengers from Galveston.
Under the law foreign vessels may not bring
passengers coastwise The Master of the
Countess claimed that his passengers, two
in number, were stOwaways but the gov
eminent CONSTITUTES the term stowaway to
mean passenger
At Palatka at 10 o'clock Monday morning
an incendinry attempted the destruction of
one of Martin Davis dwellings, a two
story structure on the corner of Orange
and Jones streets, of about So, 800 valuation,
the fire being set, apparently, in the attic.
The building was unoccupied. The blaze
was eXtingushed soon enough to prevent
any serious damage
A railroad meeting was held in the opera
house at Orlando Monday to secure the
building of a road from Oviedo to connect
with the Winter Park and Orlando road
ing an outlet to the Gulf via the Orange
Belt. Committees for soliciting subscrip-
lions were appointed, and the prospects of
success are iiISt-Class.
A certain large man, who is visiting De
Leon Springs for the winter and who
journeyed to Tick island last week and
while fishing succeeded in taking a large
piece of flesh from the side of his nose with
the fish hook, went TO Spring Garden lake
I'd, 1 h.,
tune to become slightly mixed up with the
muck holes in the savannahs.
Mrs. f. +. Petris, of Oakland, figured in
pleasant incident day or two ago. Alex
Strausz. Of Palatka. who was on a busiaess
trip to Oakland, falling into conversation
with Mrs. Pctris ici1entally mentioned the
name of friend of his whom he supposed
to be in the 'old country" aud whom he had
not seen for eighteen years nor heard from
for eleven years; whereupon Mrs. petris in
formed him that his friend Capt. Emerich
MeszaroS was living near Sanford, whore
he went and spent the following Sunday III
his company.
A curious coin about the size of a dime
was found on j. H. Sadler's place, on Johns
lake, day or two ago, and at first was
thought to be very ancient-perhaps relic
of the Ponce de Leon march across Florida
but an expert proved it to be scarcely
quarter of n century old, instead of three
centuries old. 1t turned out to be Swedish
coin, with this inscription: Oscar, Sver-
iges, Norr., G. O. V. Konung,n engraved
around the profile of a head. The inscrip-
ton on the reverse side is oblterated, moth
ing being visible but the crown and shield.
The second cold snap of the season around
Oakland occurred ON saturday night q week
ago, when there was considerable frost IN
many sections. Around the Lake Apopka
region, south end of the lake, not even egg
plants were visibly touched and they show
the effects of cold even quicker than cucum-
bers. In a few exposed locations, some dis
tance away from the lake. the latter, as
well as beans, were injured. AT ClermOnt
and Mascotte both will generally have to be
replanted, but in sheltered spots not "A thing
was touched by the frost. Not much danger
is to be aporehended, however, this late in
the season, and splendid crops are assured
J. n and Sarah c.. Shepard are the
parents of the largest family i'll Gadsden
county They have nineteen children.
fifteen boys and four girls. Their eldest
child is 81 years old and the youngest six
months old. They have been blessed three
times by the birth of twins. This truly re-
markable and happy family are conducting
one of the most successful farms in Cad
den, and do all of their own work, as all of
the children except two are still living with
the parents. Although under 50 years of
age, Mr. Shepard could muster a company
of sixteen soldiers, counting himself This
is as large as the muster roll of three-fourths
of tho military companies in Florida.
At st. Augustine Monday the property
known as the estate of Pedro Benet was sold
at public auction before the courthouse
door by T. T. Russell, commissioner, for di-
vision among the heirs, The property CON
sists of three very valuable lots on st.
George street, a, follows: Lot corner of st.
George and Hypolita streets, 10?x16 feet,
has upon 1t a two-StorY wooden structure
1t was sold to W. w. Palmer, of st. Angus
tine, for S7,030. The next piece offered was
the lot corner of St George and Cuna
streets, measuring 16lx63 feet, and occupied
by a small coquina store This was bid in
for the heirs for s. 800 The residence site
opposite, adjoining the Lorilard villa, was
also bid in for the heirs for $1,000 This
latter property measures 97xl50 feet and has
upon it two story coquina residence worth
$1,000
About year ago the canal between the
Indian river and Mosquito lagoon was com
pleted, thus giving water communication
from the head of the Halifax river to Jupi-
ter inlet at the southern end of Indian
river, a distance of POO miles. The canal is
60 feet deep, and from some cause, probably
the Gulf stream, which runs in close TO the
coast at Jupiter and the Indian river inlets,
has a very strong current, flowing at a