The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-27

! On Monday, while William Drake of
! Monticello was showing a watch TO negro
in his jeWelry shop, another negro reached
into the safe, which was open, aud stole
s. dollar bill which was lying in one of the
| pigeon holes. Mr Drake detected the thief
and caused a warrant to be issued for his
arrest Sheriff Simkins nov has the pris-
I oEer in Jail. The arres Of this negro will
I probably lead to t1e arrest Of Others, as 1t
is supposed he is one of a gang who has been
committing depre1atlons around the town.
Senator Z. A Bailey, vino has leased the
400 convicts of the state, said at Monticello
WedHes lay: II propose to develop all Of
my fine lands, make the model plantation
Of the south, and my intentions now are to
build railroad through my plantations,
and will probably build a road from Month
cello to New Branford on the Suwannee
river. If can succeed il tat, it will be
tho greatest thing for tails county chat has
ever happened, and Will bring jefferson
into greater prominence than any county in
the state"
The Atlanta PerfuEery Company, man.
ufacturers and distillers Of SoundStrom's
handkerchief extracts. colognes, toilet
waters and toilet articles, propose to erect
factory and distillery this winter, for the
manufacture OF raw materials for per-
fumery with capacity of 200, 900, pounds
OF flowers in the season. The piaut is to be
put up In the orange belt of Florida, where
such flowers as orange blossoms, rose ger
aneum, roses, wild yellow jessamine. cape
jasmine, tube-roses, nsgnolias. etc., can be
nad in large quantities. The company pre-
fer to locate their factory and plant la a
place where the necessary ground will be
furnished free.
The dreige boat now being constructed
at the yards at Kissimmee, In siz1 25x76
feet, will soon be completed, and
viii be used for cutting the
Southport canal thirty-fve feet,
The dredge which is now at work there
will finish cutting into Lake Cypress by
Nov l, and will then g brought to Klssim-
NEE and thoroughly repaired. The drcdge
being built at Lake Hart will be 35x1O0 feet.
and will cut canal fifty feet wide. The
drainage from Lake Hart will be carried
out through the st. Johns river Instead of
through the Kissimnlee river as now, and
it will reclaim 10000 acres of the best
quality of muck Land.
Pensacola Ne,cs: The board of port
wardens have selected Spanish cove as the
place In which t. dump the coal dock
| dredglngs, all dumps to be made in not less
than ten feet of water. Spanish cove,
across the bay, is peculiarly suitable to the
purpose, in that the tide within it is an
eddy, and tae conditions are such as to pre-
to the waters Of the bay. When the tide is
ebbing in the bay ths current sets upsh ore
| In the cove, and such sediment as it carries
up IS deposited on the point. When the
tlds is flooding in the harbOr it is running
down i'll the cove, and anything that is car
rled ont OF the We at suca times is met by
the flow and kept from going down the
bay.
News has reached Kissimmee from Tur-
Hof ,,.f1o
Kissimmee, that last Friday James Yales,
Jr, shot and instantly killed NJ. II. Mitchell,
a merchant at that place. A crowd had
been drinking heavily in the store, and
Mitchell became intoxicated when they put
him to bed, and took al the whisky off
with them. After being absent some time
| they returned. Mitchell was rather pro-
voked with the crowd, and some words
| ensued, when Mitchell walked behind the
counter; Yates now says that be thought
he was after his gun. So Yates pulled his
pistol and shot him dead Yates was ar
| rested at Kissimmee Monday night a I'd is
now in Jail. This affair was in the same
neighborhood where ex- Sheriff r. A. Bass
shot and killed Bart Johns a short time
| since.
DeLand Rscord: The case of Rones VS.
Eldridge, which has excited considerable
| comment, came up for trial before the cir
cult court on Thursday. Ropes sued on a
note which bore interest at the rate of
| threequsrters of ono per cent. per day."
| When the note was produced the plaintiff
offered to sho@ that the right hand end of
| the note had besn enten off by mice and
that the word per" had been thereby de-
| stroyed, thus causing very material al
teration OF tue note. The court refused to
admit the note i'll evidence for the reason
| that the note as il stood showed upon its
face complete contract, auo that verbal
testimony was not admissible TO change
that contract. The plaintiff took a nonsuit
| and will appeal the case to the supreme
| court. The peculiar nature of the case has
| excited great interest among attorneys,
none Of whom have ever heard of any case
| like it.
| A visit to DR.. W. W. Hicks farm at Eus-
| tbs Meadows shows what drained lands in
| Florida will do. The doctor has besn try
| ing an experiment with both low land and
upland rice. Last May and June he sowed
about six or seven acres Of rice-three of
low land and the rest in uplaud-and he is
now harves ing the crop. The white couch
low land rice yields 100 bushels to the acre;
the straw Is from to feet in length, and
the heads often 12 inches long, yielding
| from 2So to 500 grains to the head. The
low land is o drained. sandy soil, was
| planted before the rains, aud the best rice
is on land that he sowed in the water, and
|
time. This is contrary to the agricultural
view that it is necessary to alternately
flood and drain this crop by dykes and
bitches. On the upland DR.. Hicks used
some calcined humus as a fertilizer and
raised sixty bushels par acre. On land ad-
| joining it, unfertilized. he got only from
twenty-five t. thirty bushels per acre. Thus
it pays TO fertilize He is preparing to
plant frcm 800 TO 800 acres in December
| and January, aud expects to get the crop
of in April and May, before tue rice birds
arrive. Later crops are much injured by
these voracious depredators. He also has
an acre or two of sugar cane. 1t looks well,
I but does not pay or yield like rice and is
| good deal more trouble.
| The founder of the American Pathological
association was Marshal Pinckney Wilder.
The society was organized in 1S4S Ius
objects were to promote fruit growing and
horticulture generally, and to stimulat to ex-
cellence in all things germ lin TO the subject
Mr.. Wilder as president of the association
for thirty-five years. At his death he willed
a considerable sum of money to be used by
the ASSOCIATION in awarding medals through
out the United States and the world for
| great and distinguished merit, the award to
| be made by committee composed OF men,
| bers of the association. These medals are
rarely awarded, and always upon an open
contest, when great merit and superior ex-