The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-04

Warner and Frank Cooper Of Manatee. Al
ford was taken through Tampa on Satur-
day night by the sheriff Of Manatee county
ON route for the Barlow Jail. Afford has
been refugee from justice for three years
and states that he has been out of Florida
Warner and Cooper get the 81 900 reward
offered by the governor for Affords cap
ture.
Mrs McIrwin of North Gainesville, for
several days past, has observed a bird pass
ing in and out of the pantry window in the
rear Of her house. Having occasion to be
looking over her parlor in the front Of the
house, what was her surprise to find the
little bird snugly enscOnced In a nest on a
what-not, as though that article of furniture
was made for that especial purpose. On
examination four tiny eggs we're found in
the nest. The bird, to get to its nest, has to
go through several rooms.
A Philadelphia paper says that the neces-
sary capital, amounting to over 100000, for
the construction Of a railroad through the
sugar sections Of Florida, between Kissim-
NEE and Runnymede, has been subscribed
by Philadelphia business men, and the work
Will he commenced in a short time. The
road, which will be known as the Sugar
Belt railroad, will connect with the South
Florida railroad at Kissimmee City, and
will be fourteen miles in length, The line
will be standard gauge, and equipped with
the best rolling stock and Baldwin locomo-
tives.
b. f. Mizell, one of Polk couuty's promi-
nent crackers, has in his magnificent grove
near Kathleen, an orange tree which meas
ures 63 inches in circumference at tho trunk
and 40 feet across the top. 1t was plant ed
on his fathers place as young tree several
years old, in the latter part of 1919 1t
bore its first crop in 1852 and has borne for
thlrty-six years SUCCESSFULLY Nearly all
the trees in the northern portion Of the
county were raised from its seed, hence Mr..
Mill says: ITS the daddy of all the
oranges
A meeting of the voters of Lake Helen
the required number being present. was
held on Friday evening, June 20, to decide
on the proposed incorporation of the town
under the laws of Florida 1t was decided
by unanimous vote TO form a municipi |
government, and J. p Mace, J. Willis
Westlake and H. Maring were appointed
committee to give the notice required by
law. The public meeting for the adoption
borough officers is to be held on Friday,
Aug. 10.
On Jan ID Mr. Ravens, a photographer
of Jack onvllle, secured a cigar box i'll the
top of which he cut small slot sufficiently
large TO admit of the insertion of a ten cent
piece. He and his wife then agreed that
every ton cent piece that came into their
possession in the ordinary course of bust
ness should be deposited in this box, but
that no extra efforts should be made to
cure dimes for that purp Sc Saturday,
after five and one-half months had been
spent in making these deposits, Mr.. Ravens
opened the box, which had become rather
heavy, and found that it contained 1 ,035
dimes, representing $103 80, which had been
saved in this way Mr. Ravens, encour-
aged by the experiment, proposes to keep
the practice up in future
Probably the largest cat in this state is
big kItz, belonging to Mrs. Estelle Hyde,
Of Lakevi 10, Lake county. Kitty
is as playful as young kitten,
is not afraid of any living thing,
is fond of a dog and gun, and is
great hunter and fisher. He has often been
seen taking to the water for ashland get
ting the fish, too. One day last week,
somewhere in his rambles after game, he
came across black snake, which he brought
to the house, and the first thing Mrs. Hyde
knew about it Kitty had deposited it on the
carpet at her feet, in their cosy little sit
ting room. AS soon as the snake found it
was loose, it made for the open door, but a
we'll directed cuff kept it inside until Mrs.
Hyde helped it out when Kitty killed It,
The snake was over four feet long.
Every effort is being put forth by Or
lando's board of trade and the Orange
county board of health to obtain the CO
operation of the various counties of south
Florida in establishing and maintaining a
board of health able and competent to deal
with an epidemic. should one appear at any
poin i'll South Florida during the coming
season. BY the act of 1885, establishing
county boards OF health, full power is given
such boards within their respective counties,
but no jurisdiction beyond, and every
county board can act independently of any
other board. The object of the Orlando
board of trade is to consolidate that power
and jurisdiction, and organize out Of the
various county boards general or central
board, invested with ample power and
money TO meet any emergency that might
arise, ard at meeting of the directors of
the board of trade, with he president OF
the county board Of health, it was de
termined to send representatives to the
various counties to meet the county boards
of health and county commissioners, for
the purpose of securing their cooperation