The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-11

| Stetson contractor IoE extensive aodluOns
and alterations to his already fine residence
at DeLand.
Work on the city hall at Tampa has
begun. The building is TO be finished by
March !, 1890. Il will be handsome two
story brick building.
Mr.. Goodrich has forwarded his resigna-
tion as mayor of DeLand, which was laid
before the DeLand city council Thursday
evening. He was serving as mayor for his
fifth term.
On a train near Orlando, last week, q
man stole the sample case of ALI Williams,
a drummer for liquor house. The thief
got drunk on the contents of the sachel and
was jailed.
The Ri. Rev Father McFall Of st. Louis,
No, who spent the winter at Ocala two
years ago, win be there IN time for Christ
| mas and will conduct services in the city
| during the winter. Ocala has no resident
priest.
L. D. Gulliford tells the Tarpon Truth
that he cured his orange trees after they
| began to die from an invasion Of insects by
a hypodermic injection between the bark
and the wood, but he fails to say what the
medicament was.
Fernandina Mirror: We learn from
Charles Williams, the courteous snperin-
tendent of the city water works, that the
number of strokes of the pump for Novem-
Der were A., S25, pumping 1885, 500 gallons of
water, at at an expense of 1919 cords Of
wood. Total number Of taps on Nov. 81
was sixty.
The electric plant Of the Ponce DeLeon
hotel at ST. Augustine is being overhauled.
In all probability two dyuamos will be
placed in the boier-houss of the AlcazRr.
This hotel now depends upon the dynamos
in the Ponce DeLeon and during spring,
summer and fall the electric light fixtures
remained unused.
AT Tampa the work of converting the
LYke's building, on the corner of Washing
ton and Frasklin streets, into a hotel, is
rapidly approaching completion. A large
force Of masons Is hurrying things up in
their line. and the contractor, James Built
want, is certain that he can turn it over to
the owner by Jan. l.
The fish and oyster business of Melbourne
is constantly growing in magnitude. There
are now three or four companies engaged
in shipping fresh fish. One boat took 1000
mullet last week at a single haul. There is
quite business also at the inlet in shipping
green turtle. The oyster trade has not yet
opened for the season.
Tampa is looking forward with great
anxiety to the completion of the F. c. and
7. railroad. The main terminus will be on
Depot Key. or big Island" as it is most
commonly known. One track will run
through the reservation, however, to the
river, about 200 feet south of the Collins
house, right up to the several fish houses
The hearing of testimony in the case of
Maj. st. Clair Abrams against the Jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West railroad, for
$4,000 damages caused by the fire at
Tavares a year ago last summer, which is
being tried at Tavares, was finished Satur-
day and argument by counsel begun.
There were over 500 pages Of testimony in
troduced.
High Springs Adrdnce: s. w. Vaughn.
a farmer living here, reports that on one
half acre OF sugar cane he made nine barrels
of syrup and one barrel of sugar. Aver
aging the syrup at thirty gallons to the
barrel equal 270 gallons, and at 40 cents per
gallon Sos. The sugar, 200 pounds at 6
cents, Sl2, making total of $40 on one
half acre. Cane at this rate surely paws.
The general average Of cotton is 200 pounds
to the acre, and rarely ever brings cents
per pound, and even at that price would
only be S12, and we don't see why it is the
farmers still cling to cotton.
The Herkimer IN. " Citizen says that
Jacksonville's distinguished citizen, Gen. F.
K. Spinner, has been sojourning for several
weeks at his old home in the neighboring
n
fact which is extremely painful to all of
the generals friends, namely: that he is
afflicted with a cancer on the nose which
must ultimately prove fatal 1t has been
developing very slowly for several years
past, and it may be that some malady less
TO be dreaded, or merely the infirmity of
old age, may intervene to bring about the
end in a form less to be dreaded. Although
the generals hearing and sight have been
r1nTN T,,nwz swsuI 60.
although he is far advanced in the eighties.
yet his mental faculties are remarkably
well preserved. and his correspondence
and writings for the press display the same
vigor and terseness of expression for which
they have ever been distinguished.
Key West Equator: L. G. Hayman. one
of our clothing merchants and dealer in no.
lions, ETC., made an assignment of his stock
of goods, ETC., to Peter t. Knight for the
benefit of his creditors, last Saturday, and,
as far as we have been able to ascertain, his
liabilities will amount to some 81, 900 or
5,000-perhaps more. 1t is impossible for
us to find out the exact amount of his liza
bilities, as the sworn statements of the
creditors have not yet been sent in; how
ever, we know that one of the largest credit
ors some thousand dollars or more) resides
in Italy. We also learn that Mr.. Hayman's
assets, after lis Homestead and 81, 900 worth
of personal property shall be set aside, will
not amount to over So 600; hence, after the
costs and expenses of the assignment are
paid the creditors will not receive over Is
or 20 per cent. on the dollar. This is the
first assignment that has been made in this
city under the new law, which provides.
among other things, that there shall be no
preferred creditors, hence the assets will
have to bepro-rated among all the creditors;
no favoritism can be shown.