The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-24

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Der crop is already lost, and unless it rains
in few days the crop will amount to almost
nothing.
On Tuesday. n A. Nsisius Of Pensacola
received from Pine Barren an alligator that
measured 10 feet from tip to tip. The
saurian was sent down to be mounted.
When he was cut open a good sized pointer
dog was found IN hiE stomach.
DR.. C. c. Ferguson, for the past twelve
years successful physician and orange
grover on Orange lake and Fort Mccoy,
exchanged his property with DR.. N. S.
| Brewar of Apopka, and has gone hither to
live, while DR.. Bre Nsr will go to Ocala.
Mr.. Dunn, a prominent attorney from
! Pasco county, Is getting abstracts OF all the
| lands owned in South Florida by tina A. e.
G.. c. c. and Okeschobse Land Company
This company with tbs unpronounceabls
name has borrowed $500 600 on their lands
| for the purpose Of carrying on their stu
! pendous work
| Col. Adam Eicheberger returned to
| Ocala from New York Saturday evening,
! whittier no had gone to have specimens OF
| his gypsum rock from his Pa asoffkes
| deposit thoroughly analysed. 1t proves
immensely rich in fsrtilizing propert es
| The colonel is way up in future prospective
financial returns.
| Capt. j. F. p. johnson has just returned
to Gainesville from an extended trip into
! South Florida on a COW hunt, having gone
down as far as Lake Oksechobss, where he
| lost his horse, aud had to take 1t afoot for
seventy-ive miles on his return. He says
the country is very dry, but that the graz
| ing for cattle is better than was ever known
in that region.
Robbers are plying their vocation at
! Oc4la. A numb4r OF premises have lately
been entered and deprived Of clothing, jew
cry and money. They Invaded last FRI
| day night tho sleeping apartments of Capt.
| Wright, the affAble teller of the Merchants
| National Bank, scooped in all the small
| change, took the key to the bank aud en-
! tered it, but rs all valnaoles we're safely
| locks1 in the burglar proof vault the rob-
bsrs' visit was prohtless.
Last Wednesday circuit court bailiff,
Hiram BeaSley, while in the neighbor hood
Of Lake Wekiva, noticed large numbers of
honey bees working on the gallberry bushes.
| By closely observing their movements lie
saw good line established, and by follow
ing it he discovered the tree in which the
hive was located. 1t proved to be a large
cypress, feat in diameter. Tais, with the
assistance Of a friend, Mr.. B9asley cut
down, and found a cavity feet 10 and
feet through, well fill d with 50 led comb
The tree had evidently bsen occupied by the
bees for number OF years, as the amount
of honey taken from it more than filed
busbel measure.
When ST. Augustine's new charter was
handed TO the Senate committee in ITALIA
hAsses lew days ago, by mutual consent
Of the joint session OF the citizens and cAar-
ter committee, tia bonding clsu o had been
| struck out. The Senate committee imme-
diately in serted the following clause: "rhe
amount Of bonds to o issued by said city
council, together with any outstanding
bonds, shall not, at a " ii ne, exec III Is per
| NfNFf h., L.
Of said city, and bear a rate Of interest not
exceeding per cent" When the
citzens Of ST.. Augustine heard that
such clause had been in serted,
they were in a nigh state OF indignation,
and Immediately distributed n scare cir
cular RI follows: Citizens, arouse! The
100000 md cl use back in tie chsr,er
and otner amendments have bsen inserted.
As enble in mass meeting at the court
house toni ght. Awake and save your
homesW As cons"qus Ga, the was a
packed hall, aud citizens freely expressed
themselves as first, last and always opplseI
TO anv such suicidal clause. IL was then
learned that there was no help for it, as the
bill had already passed the Senate, and in
all likelihood 4ad passed the house. Mr..
Genovar, who had gone up to Tallahassee,
said that the clause was wise one, cecause
when 9 amount Of bonis was left blank
the city council would have unlimited
power in making it as much as it chose to.
This had the desired effect, and many op-
possrS OF the clause went heartily in for it.
On last Friday and Saturday fires were
the railroad line, eliminating on
Friday ia the destruction of a
large quantity Of fencing and the
home Of Mrs. Strickland, south Of Eustis,
and that evening Of the livery stable on
Bay street. How The latter caught fire is a
mystery, and while some saY c relsssness,
others assert that the incendiaries had a
hand in it; still others think it emanated
ON sparks that came from some stumps in
the close vicinity burned out that day, and
that lay dormant for some time. The
building belonged to A. S. Pendrv and
cost originally about 81 800. Mr. Starbird,
The lessee, lost several hundred dollars in a
veterinary surgeons kit I'd medicines, etc,
and the cocred help his clothing and $40.
On Saturday fire again appeared farther
south, and about noon strong breeze arose,
and lew up the smoullerinR ashes into
blaze in dozsn places at once, so that no
available force could handle it, burning
Mr.. Sages' house an everything in it, go
that it left him without coat The 6re
pressed by leaps aud bounds eastward, and
some pieces, carried by the half gale blow
ing, struck the house Of James B. Davis Of
J orOnto, Canada, and in ten minutes from
the time the fire struck the house it was
heap OF ashes. The blaze in the meantime
passed near Mr.. Mathews house, but there
being clean ground, and the house not
being in direct line OF the wind, escaped
with searching only; but the farms Of
Davis and Mathews, and Of Mr.. II ward,
on the east OF Mat rs and south OF Davis,
we're swept away, and many pine treeI
irrotrievaoly ruined. The fire was not ar
rested till it struck the clean culture land
OF Mrs. Purdy. M. DAVIS houIe cast over
$1,000, aud there was about $500 OF other
stuff destroyed. Mr.. Sage los everything.
The fire was so intense that at Davis the
cooking stove was melted down into mass
The total loss Of the two days will not be
less than $4,000