The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-20
THE MORNING NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1889.

Pttsburg, Pa, for its logging road at
! MatarZas.
! Orange City collects about s. 800 in taxes
| per wear. Out Of the total collected for
| 1888, about $500 was expended in public inn
! provements,
! Twenty-six trains enter and leave Palatka
every twenty -four hours. Eight years ago
there was not a regular train within thirty
miles of the city.
The racing association promises a gala
day for the sporting fraternity at st. Au-
gustine next Thursdny afternoon. There
will be four purses.
Osban G. Chance of Marion county has
purchased ten acres of land near Pemberton
from j. c. Chance, and is erecting hand
some residence thereon.
John Whidden and irwin Whidden were
found guilty of murder in the first degree
at Sumterville last week and recommended
to the mercy of the court.
James Mattair, late master mechanic of
the T., o. 81 A railroad has rendered his
resignation and accepted the position of
foreman at Waldo for the f. C. e. P. rail
road.
A cat supposed to be afflicted with the
rabies bit colored woman named Charlotte
Bozeman and two colored children at Mon :
ticello last Friday morning. The cat was
killed
A negro at Daytona went to sleep last
week with half-dollar in his mouth and
swallowed it, and it came near choking him
to death before it could be poked down his
throat.
ID. D. Rodgers, chief engineer of the new
road to be built from Daytona to DeLand,
was in Orange City Thursday. He SAYS
the construction of the road is now a GER
tainty.
Orders have been received at Kissimmee
to put in new hues, a condenser, and other
wise prepare the steamer Floradelphia for
her trip across the gulf to Vera Cruz, her
new home.
A party of capitalists is in Sanford
quietly investigating the advantages of
Sanford as distributing point with view
to opening wholesale dry goods establish
ment there.
Orange City is without public hall.
There is a move to erect two-story ball,
the lower to be used for city purposes, and
the second to be used for entertainments,
concerts, etc. .trqaS
Orlando loses one of her enterprisipg citi-
zens in the person of w, A. Campbell,
ESQ.,, who has been offered and has ac-
cepted the management of the Tampa
Water Company
Hon. f. s. Bangs of New York is at the
San Marco hotel at St. Augustine, with his
family, for few weeks. Mr.. Bangs is a
- ember of the law firm that ex-President
Cleveland is now with.
The Ponce de Leon hotel at St Augustine
had 10 arrivals Sunday and seventy-five
departures. The prospects for the DO m
for the coming three weeks are good. The
other hotels are also filling up fast.
A traveller on the South Beach road from
st. Augustine, beholding the government
target through the car window, gravely in
formed his neighbors that that was Fort
Matanzas He missed it by about eighteen
miles.
Palmer Bros, merchants of Seville, Volu-
STA county, and at Huntington, Putnam
county, made an assignment on Monday
morning last to P. L. Jenkins. Their assets
are estimated at $4,000 and liabilities at
SIS. 600.
Thursday was the day set apart for beau
tifying and improving the plaza in Pensa-
cola, bv painting trees and defeating them
to the memories of those, whether living or
dead, who have won place in the history
OF that city.
Palatka. through its trustees Capt r. J.
Adams, w. C. Snow and William Bell, has
purchased cemetery, situated one and
half miles from the river. 1t contains
forty acres, and is due west from the city
on Palatka Nights.
The G. A. r. committee which started
out at st. Augustine Saturday has already
had subscribed $40 to the fund it are
raising. This is Independent of what may
have been subscribed at the hotels, in each
of which was left list.
The business men of Altoona have agreed
to close their places of business from 10
o'clock to II a. m, and at Z 80 p. M, for the
purpose of attending the series of meetings
now being conducted at the Baptist church
by the Rev. j. c. Porter, of Lake Weir
The ladies Of Lakeland have decided to
have an Arbor day in the park. This will
be held on the 2Sth day of March, at which
time all who are interested in the success of
the park will bring their contributions In
the shape of trees and shrubberry and they
will be planted out,
Palatka Herald: The Jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West conductors are ali resigning.
Neiland and Bently have left the road. j.
G. I. Hill. formerly of the Florida South
ern goes on the jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West, and other captains of the Flor
ida Southern will do likewise.
Jacksonville Metropolis: j. w. Thomp-
son, late editor of the Peoples Journal is
candidate for collector of customs, and
is heavily backed by the Plant system big
guns, who. ever since the big railroad acct
dent at Hurricane creek trestle last year,
where Thompson was badly injured, have
petted him.
A colored woman left town some time
ago, leaving sundry unpaid debts. She le
lot of household goods, among which was
picture of herself Having received notice
that the goods had been attached, she wrote
FredAllen to be sure and attend the sale and
buy the picture for her if it did not go too
high.-DeLdnd NeiOS.
The fine compact sand which gives such
firm footing upon the beach of Anas asia is
scarcely half an inch in depth Below it
lies bed of loose, broken she'll Under the
microscope pinch of this debris from the
ocean bottom is transformed into myriad
OF grottoes, towers aud minarets, built OF
ghttering crystals and gems of every hue.
Frank Well, who works in Pensacola
bay, had the misfortune to meet with
| serious accident Saturday morning. He
was assisting in slowing a vessel lying
alongside Of Railroad wharf. A piece Of
timber slipped, and crushed his right leg.
His leg was found to be fractured in two
places, below the knee, and the injury is
severe and painful.
The Ne,os says that a company has been
formed in DeLand, composed of D. b. Parce,
| John W. Cannon aud Claud Gailbraith, for
the purpose Of handling Texas horses. Claud
Gallbraith left Tuesday for San Antonio,
Texas, whore he will make arrangements
for keeping the company supplied. He will
return about April with fine lot Of horses,
and after that they expect to have them
IN, ucto Il.