The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-21

Senator Yancey has nominated Miss
Susie Rogers Of Paisley, Lake county, to
the scholarship in the Florida normal
school and business institute TO which the
Twsnty-third senatorial district is entitled
under the act Of the last legislature.
The barn of George F. King Of Villa City
was totally destroyed By fire early Wednes-
day morning about 3 o'clock. The loss on
building, harness. grain, agricultural i'm
plements, etc, is over $500 The fire was
| undoubtedly the work of an incendiary.
DIR. J. N. Smith Of the state asylum for
the insane, at ChattahoOchee, says that all
contributions Of newspapers, magazines,
ETC., will be highly appreciated. There are
| 300 patients in the asylum, and they re-
gard paper. regardless Of the date, as a
| treat.
The real estate of Lee county Is assessed
at $685., 272, and personal property at S155.-
| Sl0 total, 1888, 0S2. There are 1917 horses:
stock cattle, 1S6, 094; hogs, 2O4; cash value
Of animals, $S2. 465. Total acres of land in
Lee county, 1924, 900, and in cultivation
936 acres.
NJ. B. Willard and Benjamin Bugg, the
latter night telegraph operator at Starke
were rivals for the affections of the same
young woman. Friday night Bugg was at
tackled in his Office by Willard and terribly
slashed in five places with a razor. Willard
has been arrested.
Perry Banner Wilburn Williams had
committal trial last Friday, and after all
the evidence was heard, Judge Gorns
bound him over to appear at circuit court
under $4,000 bond. 1t took Mr.. Williams
only few moments to make the bond, and
he returned to his home in Georgia.
Rev. H. s. Miller of Green Cove Springs
was taken suddenly sick with cramp collie,
aboard the steamer Manatee, on his way to
Mandarin, on Tuesday, and but for the
timely assistance of a doctor, who came
aboard at Switzerland, he could hardly
have survived the pain to reach his desti-
nation.
The John Love grove, lying south of
town on Lake Harris. and consisting of
twenty-six acres, twenty-three of which are
IN grove with 1000 bearing trees, has been
SOLD to d. c. w. Smith of Darlington.
Nd There will be plenty of syrup made in
Columbia county this season. as the cane
crop is large and in fine condition.
Judge j. II. Goss of Gain svilie, who has
been spending few days at his grove in
Sumter county, returned home Thursday
evening He says oranges are selling freely
IN that section at 81 and 81 % per box on
the tree, and that during the past ten DAYS
there have been between $50, 600 and 500
OOO worth of orange groves sold to new
corners.
L. j. Branning of Green Cove Springs
mas an orange, perfectly sound, and ap-
parently as heavy as when picked from the
tree last year, which he claims has stood
the test of keeping the year round. Mr..
Branning does not propose to divulge, as
yet, the process of keeping, as he is of the
opinion that the cheapness and efficiency of
80 doing is worth patenting.
Capt Dimick has over TWENTY-FIVE
varieties of tropical fruits in his grove at
Lake Worth. He has oranges, lemons,
lines, citrons, date palms, cocoanuts, alli-
gator pears, mangoes, African gooseberries.
sour sops, sugar apples, jack fruit, maumee
sapoto, sapodillas, Spanish lines, tam
arlnds, pomegranates, Singapore tomatoes,
guavas, Jamaica apples, bananas and pine
apples.
A party III Green Cove and a gentleman
of Augusta Ga, have purchased the prop
erty belonging to Mrs. Haughton of Boston,
winch lies just across governors creek
from Green Cove. The purchase was made
for the purpose of establishing an extensive
brick yard. The clay which underlies the
property has been tested and found equal
TO the best. The projectors of the enter
prise will take immediate steps to secure a
plant that will turn out so, 600 bricks day.
Madison. Recorder: Deputy SheriffsWhlt-
lock tells us Of strange freak of nature
which may be seen on one of his planta-
tons in the person of a negro man. AL
though he is 20 odd years of age, aud has
fully developed head, his body and limbs
are dwarfei to the sIze and length of a
young baby. His feet are the most peculiar
parts, as tley closely resemble those of a
web-tooted bird, the toes of each foot turn
ing together as he steps. He is possessed of
average Intelligence and has learned to sew
and knit with considerable skill. Owing to
the dim nutive size of his body all his cloth
ing are made a la mother Hubbard, and
hang on from the band around his neck