The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-30
FLORIDA,

There are no refugees at Camp Hagnauer
There are twenty-three prisoners in the
Marion county Jail.
The Ocala and Lake Weir public schools
will not open till Nov. l.
Hotel Monticello is now ready for the
plumber to put in the gas pipes
The sugar cane crop will be unusually
good in Putnam county this year.
There will be at least half dozen private
schools opened In Monticello this winter.
DR.. Maxwell of Jacksonville has treated
$50 ca es of yellow fever without reporting
any of them.
Papy, who was burnt out in the last
Lincolnville fire, has almost completed q
large new tenement.
The New York Life Insurance Company
has appropriated 81 500 for the relief OF the
yellow fever sufferers.
The pay roll OF the Tallahassee Cotton
Compress Company for common labor alone
amounts to 1925 per week.
DR.. L. NJ. Aver of Lake Weir is having
his S0-acre tract at Long swamp prepared
to put in cabbage this fall.
The South Florida railroad has resumed
the running of Its accommodation train be-
tween Sanford and Kissimmee.
Contractor Masters says he expects to
have the court house at St. Augustine
ready for occupancy by Sept. l.
A number of wild ducks were seen in the
river at st. Augustine Thursday A SIRE
criterion that cJld weather is coming
AT Tallahassee a COW belonging to a col
ored woman died last week from eating
wild olive, which had been thrown in the
street.
Alfred Aver of Lake Weir, the inventor
of Ayers Orange Sizer" that is proving a
ha N n nate Co.. 49,
datacher.
The board of health of St Johns county
| has granted permission for the democratic
county convention to be held on the outer
western Gordon, Oct 2.
Rev. F. Pasco, who has been spending
| the summer in the mountains, arrived in
Montice 10 last week, and viii remain there
until he can return to Jacksonville.
Vertres q Co. have about made arrange
ments for the establishment OF meal and
| grst mill in Palatka. The plant is all ready
| to be put in just as soon as q suitable loca-
| ton can be had.
The state normal college at Tallahassee
| for colorei students will open tomorrow.
The president, Prof T. DeS. Tucker. will
| be ably assisted by Prof. Thomas V, Gibbs
and Miss Laura l.. Clarke.
Gainesville now has population of about
Il
Der of women and children, and 800
| negroes-yet she has three daily papers. all
running, or trying to run, In full blast.
Four pounds of ammonia exploded in the
| Palatka ice factory Thursday before day
| light. The tank containing the ammonia
when it exploded tore a large hole in one
side OF the building, somewhat alarming
the sleeping neighbors.
Mrs. Capt. Balentine of Fernandlua,
stopping at the Commercial hotel at Starke,
is in a critical condition from the effects of
a dose of carbolic acid, taken by mistake
for Jamaica ginger. No hopes are enter
tanned for her recovery.
Walker B. Hargrove, a young man living
on II. b. Fishers plantation, about six miles
north of Tallahassee, while ginning cotton
last Friday, got his arm caught in the saws Of
the gin, which terribly lacerated it, tearing
the flesh from the bone. He died in about
| twelve hours.
A few days ago two of the prisoners in
the Jail at Monticello got into dispute
| over some trivial matter As they were in
separate cells they decided to wait until
Sheriff Bird came and ask him 10 let them
! into the yard TO settle their differences. Mr.,
! Bird was perfectly willing to have little
/ sport, and turned the two negroes together
J In the jailyard. The sheriff reports it "a
I frst-class fight
Gov. Scales Of North Carolina has ad-
! dressed a letter TO President Mitchell of
/ Jacksonville. in which he forbids any
! further colonization Of Florida refugees
| within the borders of his state. As about
all the people OF Jacksonville who wish to
! 20 have alreadK left the csty. aud tnaspauc5