The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-16
FLORIDA.

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FLORIDA.
The foundation for the court house is be-
ing laid at De Land.
Mo t.cello can boast Of more cats than
any town In the state.
The scalp law cost jefferson county $500
during the year Of 1883.
The Florida State Bar Association will
meet at Ocala on Feb. u.
The colored people at De Land are going
to have cake walk on March 2.
Last Saturday was an unusually good
dav with the merchants OF Monticello.
About 5000 people rods over the Orlando
and Winter Park railroad Wednesday.
Florida grown cab5ages are now finding
their way TO market in large quantities
Rev. ]. B. Chevis has succeeded in estab
fishing very prosperous church at Green
vile.
A new steam saw mill has been put in by
c. f. Minis, eight miles south Of ITALIA
hassee.
A new burglar and fire proof safe has
been added to the furniture in the Office OF
the secretary of state.
Hamilton Disston and a party of capital
lists Of Philadelphia passed through Jack
sonvile Thursday, on route to Mr.. Disston's
sugar plantation near Kissimmee.
One OF Monticelos leading business mon
conuemplates building one Of the finest brick
blocks this spring that there is in Middle
| Florida. The front is to be put in Of the
very finest french plate glass.
! G. E. McEwen is building on the vacant
| lot corner of Main and Pine streets, Orlando,
| one Of the portable houses patented by Rev.
| Z. II. Welburn. 1t Is to have six rooms,
and can be taken apart and shipped.
Following is the amount Of dressed meat
brought into the Orlando market for the
month ending Feb 5, as reported by Mr..
| Dean, market clerk: 1862 head If beef cat
| tie, 1879 hogs, 80 sheep, and 46 saddles OF
| venison.
At the Presbyterian church supper at
! Tallahassee Tuesday night, Miss Ella
Manucy was declared the most beautiful
and popular young lady present by ma
| jority OF forty votes, and to her was
awarded the handsome SIC cake.
The Jacksonville Base Ball Association
| have sold fifty-eight season tickets at $40
apiece. The association will continue to
sell these tickets for the balance of the
| week, and as soon as circumstances war
rant will have frst-class clubs come and
play.
Banker Dawson of ST. Paul, Mimi, and
one Of the purchasers of tho Ammo grove
last year, IS listed among the millionaires
If Florida by the Now York Sun, and put
down at s. 900, 900. Mr.. Dawson and his fam
| lily are expected daily at the Seminole hote'.
| Winter Park
The tile negro boys became so numerou,
on the streets at Monticello that Marshal
| Ware decided they were a nuisance aud
arrest ed twelve Of them Saturday for fight
ing on re streets. He had them cleaning
up trash Monday. Tw I've of them are
better than half dozen scavenger carts.
p. c. Hodges, George p Sewell, Lewis
Robinson Jack Bird and Pinkston of Or
| la1do returned home Wednesday from a
weeks hunt at Green Swamp, about thirty
| five miles southwest of town. They report
having had a splendid time. During the
trip they killed four deer, two foxes, and
| birds innumerable.
At Monticello two gentlemen SATURDAY.
we're discussing their qualifications as
| marksmen, Wien one offered to bet the
| other $40 that he could not kill two par
tridges in a whole afternoons hunt. The
| proposition was quickly accepted and the
stakes put up. The young man shouldered
his gun and was soon in the woods banging
| away at everything he saw in the shape Of
a bird. He returned at dark with one dove,
and some say 1t was wounded before he
shot it.
Just as Bingley's circus was making
ready to depart from ST. Augustine Satur-
day night, Deputy Sheriff Perry attached
the tent for an account held against the
circus for wages. The manager disputed
the claim, and upon refusal to paw the at
tachment was served. Sheriff Perry had
considerable trouble to get a settlement at
one time two men of the circus threatened
to shoot him if he did not surrender the
| property. But when they found that the
county officials were as we'll prepared with
ammunition, they speedily made settle
| ment.
Earnest Staphanaus, a Herman, living
five miles southeast OF Braidentown, on
| Sarasota Lay, was found dead in his var on
| Monday last by Thomas Harris. He lived
alone, having no relatives in the county,
and for some time past has been subject to
fits, and had expressed to his neighbors a
| dread of drowning at some time when at
tackled in this way. Judge Cornwell inn
paneled jury and held an inquest tuesday
and the jury rendered a verdict that
| death was produced by drowning during
one Of these fits. 1t was thought from sur
rounding circumstances that no had been
dead since Friday or Saturday.
The Leon county commissioners nat
| Tuesday and elected Julius Diamond chair
man, vice Capt. p. Houstoun resigned. A
| committee was appointed to secure $4,000
additional insurance on the court house,
and to insure the county Jail for S. 900.
| The clerk was instructed to notify the road
| commissioners to at once proceed to put the
county roads in good condition or they
would be dealt with according to law. A
committee was appointed to consider the
advisability of purchasing uniforms for the
chain-gang prisoners, aud we're authorized
to order such uniforms if it be found that
they would be as cheap as ordinary cloth
| ing
| E. NJ. Goodall and a friend arrived at
| Melbourne last Sunday in 32-foot craft OF
| feet beam, after a run of /, 100 miles at
| sea from Sanford, Ne. The boat is a novel
! combination, as it can be run either as a
| kerosene launch or sloop-rig yacht This
is the smallest craft that has ever made the
run from Maine to Florida and she is look
| ing as fresh and nRtty after her long battle
| with the breakers, as if Just in from an
| hours pleasure cruise. The owners, the
Messrs. Goodall, who are noted as the man
ufacturers of plush upholstery for parlor
| coaches, will pass the winter enjoying the
| delightful Yachting and fishing on the now
| fam Gus Indian river.
Patrick Murphy, whose death near La
Courses brlckyard, west OF Jacksonville,
was mentioned in a recent issue, was Goa
| nected with an interesting event-the de-
parture of John G. Breckenridge, at the
close OF the civil war, through Florida Mr.
Murphy was member Of Capt. (then GEM
Decisions famous cavalry company, all
througl the war on duty along the St
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