The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-17


came frightened and would not enter the
house TO wake his brother, and consequently
he was burned to death.
The protracted drouth has seriously i'm
pressed upon the minds of many that some
sort of a system of irrigation will become a
necessity in Florida. Many thousands Of
dollars would have been saved to the
farmers of Alachua county had they been
prepared TO water their crops. Those who
are first to introduce irrigation will reap
the greatest benefits. 1t is probable that in
few years irrigation viii be generally
adopted.
DIR. H. NJ. Stafford, formerly of the medi-
cal bureau of the famous Hoosac tunnel in
Massachusetts,, has selected place on
Merrittis island, near G.. W. Schuyler of
Indianola. He went there for the benefit
Of his invalid son, whose health has been
so restored that Indian river has almost en-
chanted them. He has ordered yacht and
steam launch from the north, and has closed
a contract with J. A. burst for an artesian
well on his place.
The st. Augustine city council in its
wisdom has chosen the following gentlemen
to serve the city, viz: For city clerk,
Joseph A Usina; marshal, Stephen Bennett
collector, A A Papy; comptroller, G. +.
Hopkins; treasurer. @. j. Vedder; commits
sioner of public works, William Mickler;
municipal judge, NJ. r. Cooper; police
commissioners, A B. Philips, f. B. Geno-
var and j. B. Thomas. The salaries, as
paid by the old council, are considerably
less
People now living in the south, and it
may be that some of them are residing in
Gainesville or Alachua coun ty, who were
born on March 8, 1885, will BE- interested in
the fact that an eccentric old gentleman,
who recently died in Tyler, Tex, and who
was born on the date given, has left a large
fortune to those whose birth was coincideut
with his own. d, p. Atkins of Tyler, Tex,
is engaged in collecting the names Of all in
terested parties, which must be sent in with
in sixty days after June l, 1882
Leesburg Lessburger: DIR. Green, besides
bel & au fGit in physic and surgery, is
skilled in waggishness For example, he
recommends DR.. Sessions, who wants some
post holes dug, to buy the town well and
saw it up into post holes He is the same
man who went to the ice factory, bought
piece of ice with a hole in it and utterly
mystified the ice man by demanding that
the weight of the hole be deducted from the
price of the piece. The ice man wanted to
know how in the thunder he was to ascer-
tain how much the hole weighed.
The board of trustees of the Florida Agri-
cultural College at Lake City concluded
night. aud returned home on
the first train Friday morning. They
reelected Rev. j. P. DePass director
of the experiment station and the same
corps of assistants. Robert w. Howe was
elected superintendent of the sub-station
near Ocala. DIR. J. N. Pickel and j. C
Earle were reelected chemist and assistant
chemist. Professor f. L. Kern was ra-
elected president of the Florida Agricultu-
raj College.
Orange City Times: R. G. Moore of En-
terprise, while hunting in the scrub be-
tween this place aud that on Wednesday
last, found near the lake called Chapman
lake, and in the vicinity of that uroccupied
house called Spruce Cottage, the bones of
man. All the flesh, or nearly so, had been
taken from the body by buzzards. Phe
skull was fractured and the shoes and a part
of the clothing were living near by. A cor
oner's inquest was held Thursday, but what
the result os the jury's investigation is, we
have been unable to learn; neither is it yet
known whether the person was white or
black.
At Sanford Thursday night about mid
night Deputy Sheriff Davis was awakened
by negro, who had testified in the James
case, asking him to protect him from the
negroes, who, he said, had threatened to
kill him for telling what he knew about
the matter. Mr.. Davis took charge of him
and told him if he would swear out a war
rant against them he would arrest them and
bring them before Justice Shrine. The
negro replied that there were too many of
them. From the above it would seem that
there was conspiracy to shield James
from justice. and possibly there was con-
spiracy TO murder Taylor, of which James
was a member.
Orange City Times; r. s. Nelson, Capt,
Fulford and H. p. Bryan were in the CITY
Tuesday on business. Capt. Fulford says
that for three years Is feet of water have
been on the bar at Mosquito inlet and the
channel from the inlet down to the railroad
wharf at Smyrna is Is feet With a little
help, he says. the inlet can be deepened
sufficiently to pass any steamer that can
come over the bar at the mouth Of the st.
Johns. The ST. Augustine bar is only
thirty miles from the st. Johns bar, and
it can never amount to much for seagoing
vessels. The Mosquito inlet is 100 miles
south of the ST. Johns bar, and its improve
ment for commerce is a growing necessity,
especially with all South Florida.
Thursday nights mail brought the follow
ing letter to the st. Augustine EUeninq
NelUS. which explains itself: "Johnstown.
Pa, June 5-Editor: l met w. w. Kill
gore who said that he owned a store in st.
Augustine, Fla, before he came here, and
that he was hunting for a location for his
family. The house we boarded in went
with the flood, he has not been seen
since. My leg was chopped off to get me
from the pier and l may die MY two
children have gone, am alone and it looks
like there is no God to pity me. Mr.. Kilgore's
friends may not know of his death, SO please
publish this. He came here from White
Sulphur Springs. You can't have any idea
of our sutferings. JERRY WYMAN.n
Kissimmee Leader: On Monday Capt
Rose presented the Leader with a large
basket of luscious peaches, raised on his
place at ST. Cloud; and still later in the day
he sent over a half bushel basket of the
same excellent fruit. The captains orchard
consists of 2,700 trees, and when we state
that these trees, though only seventeen
months old, are larger, more vigorous and
thrifty than the 6-year-old orchard of the
famous Bidwell grove near Orlando, some
idea of the fertility of the soil on which
the orchard is planted may be obtained.
The contract by which Rose sold his crop
on the trees has been Cancelled, and the
captain is now gathering and shipping the
fruit himself, with a prospect of making
much more than the $1,000 he contracted
to sell for.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The railroad commissioners are making