The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-08
FLORIDA.

PENSACOLA neellS more CATpbulcIs.
The assessment of Osceola county this
year foots up 81, 467,20l o..
w. w. Hooper has been appointed by
| Collector Gunby inspector OF customs at
Tampa.
The colored teachers Of Leon county will
| be examined ON Wednesday, Sept. IS. The
whites will be examined Sept. 10.
The champion pears are claimed by
| Mayor Robertson Of Jasper. Eight Of them
weighed nine pounds.
Hillsborough county has more paupers to
| support than any other county in the state.
The cost of the same is about $3.OOO per
year.
The q. A. r. veterans are returning one
! by one from Milwaukee, and all speak 10
giowing terms Of the way they we're treated
and the time they spent with old comrades
A plug blown out of the engine of the
Tallahassee FYOrididn last week demolished
the smoke stack and stampeded everyone Ia
the building, but no one was hurt.
Commissioner of Agriculture Wombwell,
in ms August report on the condition OF
crops, places Osceola county as follows:
Sugar cane l25, rice 100, sweet potatoes 10,
field peas 10, hay 100.
A cage Of Guinea pigs was brought over
from HaN ana last Thursday on the steam
ship Mascotte for a medical man in Ybor
City, who sent for them for the purpose of
making preparation Of the Brown-Sequard
elixir
On Oct. 1 Tampa will have three lines of
steamers running to Mobile, viz; The steam
ship Lizzie Henderson, belonging to the
Tampa Commercial Company; the Cum
berland, belonging to ii. A. Fuller, and the
Juniata Of the Plant Steamship Company.
Lydia Montgomery, a colored woman
residing in the suburbs of Lake City, died
Thursday, Sept. 5. She was over 100 years
of age, and retained full possession of her
health and faculties up to the moment Of
death, presumably from heart disease.
Mrs. f. Sackett, of the Indian River
hotel at Titusville, had her watch, valued
$3.50, stolen last Friday. Maj. Putnam and
Fred Redding, both colored, were suspected
and arrested. Putnam confessed and
handed over tho watch to Sheriff Bowman.
Capt Patrick Houstoun has accepted the
appointment OF lieutenant colonel and as
sstant adjutant general on Col. William
Miiler's staff; Judge d. W. Gwynn has been
appointed colonel, Capt. Edward Lewis
lieutenant colonel, and Hon. George w.
Walker, major of the Eight regiment,
Florida state troops.
X. b. Drew, one Of Clay county's mil
lionaire farmers, tells the biggest snake
story of the season. His son, l.. A. Drew,
full-grOwn mother rattlesnake, together
with eighteen little ones Mr.. Drew brought
the entire lot to Starke in box and offered
them for sale.
The schooner Nettie Langdon, Capt. Ross,
owned by John &. L'Engle, and bound for
Now York with a cargo of lumber, grounded
on the bar at the mouth of the st. Johns
river, Friday afternoon, while being lowed
out by tue tug K. l.. Mabey. Efforts to
float her were unsuccessful, and fears We're
entertained that she would go to pieces
There was quite a sea running at the time,
and from Burnside the waves could be seem
dashiug over the vessel, which was careen-
ing well over to the right.
c. f. Wadron of Nelaka, Putnam
county, has just finished making his wines
from eight vines that cover three-quarters
of an acre, and has made seven barrels,
nothing but sugar beng added. Holmes
Erwin of Sisco, of the same county, will
make goo gallons of the same wlues, and
besides his own grapes is buying from
neighbors at 215 cents per pound. All this
on common pine land.
At Tampa a negro man named Harry
Cotton was shot AMI killed on Sunday lasC
in the house of Nancy johnson (coiored), on
Nebraska avenue. Nancy says she and
Cotton were the only persons in the house
and that he shot himself accidentally while
taking a gun out of wardrobe. The au-
thorities thought that the killing was done
by Nancy or some other person and she was
arrested.
Tallahassee W0rididn: The Leon hotel
is to be enlarged. Work has begun on
Raymond Gays planning mill. Maj w. o.
Ames' magnificent plate-glass front brick
block is nearly ready for occupancy. Ills
said that Charles q. Wicker will erect a
magnificent hotel at Newport Sulphur
Springs. The contractors to build tine Au-
gusta, Tallahassee and Gulf rail way say
that it will come through with a rush. The
! Tallahassee Water Works Company will
begin work in earnest Oct. l, and give US
pure water and plenty OF it. The ITALIA
hassee Street railway company are not
talking much, but they have secured too
| liberal charter to forfeit il. Work will
soon begin on the new and handsome semi
nary west of the Suwannes. Work is pro
crossing on Tallahassee new bank building.
New residences are being erected on nearly
every street. Tue suburbs are being rapidly
built up and are reaching out toward the
country for more territory. Various small
industries are being organized and will sooa
be in operation.