The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-20


laden with young fruit
w. NJ. Glrardeau Of Monticello shipped
eight cars Of melons last week.
At Monticello the returns for pears up to
date have been very satisfactory.
At Hypoluxo Capt Pierce is building a
fine steamboat wharf at the pOsoUffice land
ing.
Charles o. Maddox's house at Belleview
was burned, with its contents, a few days
ago.
Prospectors are coming 10, aud transfers
OF Tallahassee real estate are becon hing nu-
merous.
Over 300 barrels Of LeConte pears were
shipped from Tallahassee Wednesday by
freight.
Eugene V. c. Myers Of Bronson was
granted divorce from his wife, Flora f.
Myers, on June 10, in Judge Finley's court.
w. T. Davis has secured the contract TO
erect $4,000 residence for Charles q.
Wicker on his beautiful property near Tai
lahassee.
In u beef killed at Pensacola, W ednesday,
for r. NJ. McDavid, there was found a
double gall, both parts having been per-
fectly developed.
The Baptists Of TitusviIle have organized
with membership Of about twenty en-
rolled. Services will be held by Rev. 3. +.
| ObFe db lu6 bCnOJi mouse.
On and after Jan. l, $780, the capital of
| tho Merchants National Bank of OcalA will
be increased 70 500 900. The surplus will
| also be increased to $4,000.
1t is proposed by some enterprising citi-
zens to have the entrance of the Eau Gallie
river deepened and a substantial landing
stage erected within the harbor.
A horse valued at $500, and owned by
| George w. Gibbs of st. Augustine, killed
| itself night or two ago by falling on a
picket fence over which 1t was attempting
to jump.
c. j. Hector of Melbourne has on his
beautiful island place a mango that was
killed to the ground by the fire Ze of SO 1t
is now or 70 feet high, and is bearing sew
eral mangoes.
TitusvIlle Star: NJ. A. O'Byrne a Sayar-
nah lawyer, registered at Indian River
hotel Thursday last He came here TO do
business with George hi. Robbins in the
Garvin land case.
The citizens Of Metca1fe are petitioning
TO have route agent put on the Thomas
vile and Monticello railroad. Something
should be done, as it takes about two days
Tor a letter to 60 from Monticello to
Thomasville.
Daring the past week there has been for
warded by the Southern Express Company
from Tallahassee 492 barrels and 81 crates
Of LeConte pears, III crates of grapes and
quite number of crates of vegetables;
besides which they have about 100 barrels
of pears booked for shipment to-day.
The infant child of couple named Black
stone died at DsLand last week under
| suspicious circumstances. The mother of
the child had gone away from the house,
shutting it up, and leaving the baby on a
bed beside an open window In her
absence one Henry Small entered the house
through the window, and presumably par
| TALLY dislocated the child's neck.
The second artesian we'll for William
Treutler of Eau Gallie was completed on
| Wednesday last and the usual abundant
| flow of clear. fresh water obtained This
we'll gives a total of nearly l000, 900 gal
| ions of water every twenty-four hours on
the Treutler property alone, a superabund-
ance for all the irrigating. bathing and
| ornamental purposes for which the two
| wells have been sunk.
AT Pensacola night before last, while
| VIII Hyer, Adrian Dunwody, j. w. Blount
and some more of the boys were enjoying a
surf bath on the outside beach, a huge log
| gerhead turtle came to the surface in their
midst and splashed about considerably when
he found himself in such company. Down
| he went. and some of the boys after him,
but they were not in good earnest, and the
! turtle got away.
Titusvllle Star, Allen Campbell of Mel
| bourne has a number of good sized date
trees. Unfortunately, one cannot tell till
| they bloom to which sex they belong, and a
| judicious intermingling of the two is re-
| quired to obtain fruit. Mr.. CampbelPs
female trees have turned out to be in
group, but by artificial fertilization he has
secured several good punches of dates.
| They will be a great curiosity to northern
eyes this fall.
Capt r. P. Paddison of TtusvilIe has re-
ceived the contract from the government
| for erecting the beacon lights and standards
! on the river, between Titusvllie and Jupiter.
| The beacous number twenty six in all. The
| price for the work is about ZOO The
| logs for the beacon lights are being hauled
| daily to the river from the adjoining pine
| woods. They are all about thirty feet in
! length, with diameter of not less than
twelve inches.
| w j. Thebaut, travelling agent of the
| DeBary line, was in Palatka this week and
| received the signatures of twenty mer-
chants of Palatka, pledging themselves to
have their freights by the Clyde line, come
| up on the DeBlry and Beach and Miler's
line. These twenty merchants represent
| the business men OF Importance in the city.
| This new order of things is because the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Rail
way Company has failed to satisfy the mer-
| CnanJS as TO rates.
The saying that lightning never strikes
twice in the same place has been given a
very emphatic denial in Pensacola. There
is an ancient oak near the corner of Wright
| and Reus streets that has three times been
distinguished by an electric visitation.
Tuesday night it came in for a stroke that
rushed down its trunk, jumped to a post in
the fence incloSing w. w. Potter's resi-
dence and played havoc generally with post
aud pickets. The superstitious regard it as
| a certainty that gold lies buried at the foot
| of the oak. and various and highly amusing
are the remarks heard in that connection.
! There is quite a stir in land circles over
! Anastasia Island, near st. Augustine 1t
! is thought that the island will revert to the
! United States under certain contingencies,
| and there Is an eager rush TO enter the land
| Crowds of people from the island and from
| the vicinity of st. Augustine have been
coming and going for the past week Every
! foot of the island has been entered already.
and still the applicants continue to pour in.
| The island contains between six and seven
| thousand acres of land Mr. Flagler claims
! to have some hold on the island under the
terms of an old Spanish grant, and spirited
contest for the island looms up in the near
| future.
Grotjan Ronald of Titusville had quite
an experience with a snake called a rattle
snake pilot one day last week, He had seen