The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-03

A wildcat fell into cistern the other
night at Myers The water not being deep
enough to drown it, it was beaten until in
sensible. and then taken out with a rake
and put tn death.
The outl ook for the early construction Of
| the Gainesville aud Suburban railway con-
Il -ues to improve. IL is only a question Of
time. and most likely a very short time,
when the work will be begun.
Tampa's new deputy collector, F. A
Gunby, while fishing Saturday, in company
with NJ. &. Rerden, in a lake east Of Or
lando, succeeded in capturing a black bass
that tipped the scales at twelve pounds and
| three ounces.
At Tallahassee, Saturday, the supreme
court disposed of the following cases: Lew
ter ct al. VS.. Price ct al, affirmed; George
+. Wilson VS.. Dexter Hunter, affirmed;
| Hicks VS.. the State, affirmed. The court
adjourned to Friday.
During violent shower Sunday Mr.. Cot
ton, who resides two miles south of Or
| lando, met with the loss of valuable
| horse He had turned the animal into his
| field TO Craze and it was struck by lightning
and killed almost instantly.
The ginning heretofore done at Lake City
for Alchincloss Bros, agents of the Coats
Spool Cotton Company, will be removed t 0
| Madison, and the building and steam
power used in running a knit goods factory,
which will put on the market a superior
article Of kuit underwear, etc.
Maj A. S. Campbell of Oscsola county is
| shipping several cords of young cypress
sapplings to large factory in New England
| TO see II they will make good barrel hoops
If the experiment. proves successful the fac
| tory will be moved to Campbell, and tina t
industry will be established there.
a row occurred in the Bank saloon at
| Tampa, Wednesday, between John A. Nc
| Donald and mississippi" Jones' The for
| mer bit off and spat upon the floor the
! largest and best part of the latter's left ear
| Mcdonald was before the mayor nex5 MORN
! ing. and was fined $50 for disturbing the
| peace.
The Tampa Journal says it has received
| enough inside information concer ming the
| proposed Tampa and West Coast railway
to fully convince it that the projectors Of
| the enterprise have the ability to build the
road, aud that they mean to do it, Suther-
land would probably be the southern termi-
nus of the line.
Saturday Gov Fleming appointed Norman
| Robinson of Orange county to be state chem
| ist, and Frank Phillips of Pensacola to be in
| spectOr of fertilizers. These appointments
are made in acc 1rdance with the law
creating the bureau OF agriculture, and the
| bureau Will be put in active operation as
soon as practicable
| The Tilton grove on Lake Como. near
| Orlando, has just been sold to Edwin Val
liette Of New York city, the price being
$1,000. The property comprises fifty acres
| OF good pine land, and has a grove on it of
! 200 trees. 1t is the intention of Mr. Val
liette to enter into extensive improvements,
| and he will set out three or four acres in
white Niagara grapes.
Joe Brownlee, a negro, was drowned at
the Jetties at Mayport Saturday. The acct
| denU was caused by the anchor line parting
| on the lighter. There were sixteen men on
board at the time, ard all were thrown into
the water. jesse Byrd, another negro, was
under the lighter a considerable tine. He
was fastened up with the hawser, and had
considerable difficulty in getting free. The
lighter was loaded with she'll
At Orlando Saturday, in lowering the
Irvine building on Church street to the
! level of the side walk, the foundation upon
| which the jack screws were resting gave
way on the east side of the house and
allowed it to fall about foot. Fortunately
nobody was underneath the building or in
the trenches at the time the accident oc-
Cured, or it would have resulted in SO rious
injury, and herhaps loss of life.
The G. S. Phillips Tobacco Company,
Of New York city, that purchased 10000
acres OF land near Lakeland in Polk
county last April for large to
prepare 800 acres for tobacco which will be
| harvested in the coming year. This will be
| the beginning of Polk county's big tobacco
BOOM The establishment of a large to-
bacco factory at Lakeland is also contem-
plated.
Tho production of honey in Florida bid S
fair to become one of the great industries
of the state. f. Trueblood of Archer has
given bee culture a fair test with the most
Satisfactory results. He started in this
| spring with eight stands of Italian bees.
| From these eight stands he has already
secured over 500 pounds of honey, worth
SIS cents per pound. The total cost to Mr.
Trueblood has been about $l3, which in
| clude payment for nine new stands. Hs
expects to secure at least 500 pounds ad-
dltional of honey before the season closes.
H. s. Kedney, owner OF the San Juan
hotel at Orlando, is contemplating some
changes in the building before it is opened
| to the public for another season. 1t is
probable that after the STORES now occupied
by the Citizens National Bank and Menefee
q Palmer are vacated the partitions will be
| torn out and these rooms utilized for the
hotel. The dining room will be moved on
| to the ground floor, aid some thirty or
| forty chambers added TO the house, thus in
dressing the accommodations of the house.
In the season of 1SS1-'SS the hotel was not
nearly large enough to meet the demand.
| anu hlethy buoaUo were CDeroDy turned
away,
few days ago a rumor was circulated
III st. Augustine that a suspicious fever
prevailed in Jacksonville, and that two in
terments had been made at night DIR. F.
f. Smith was requested to ascertain the
nature of the fever, and whether or not any
burlals had taken place at night Dr..
Smith wrote at once to Dr. j. c. Kenwor.
thy, city health officer of Jacksonville, and
Saturday night received a reply. DIR. Ken
worthy states that the rumor is false and
absurd, that the prevailing fever is a type
of typhoid, that no interments have
been made at night, and that no suspicious
case of tever has existed since January
last.
Gainesville Advocate: News cached
this city to the effect that a terrible tragedy
had been enacted near Orange Heights ia
this county, in which Ben Boulware, Jr.
lost his life. One is that white man.
armed with a revolver, and a colored man,
having knife, assaulted Boulware, and
shot and cut him to death; another State
ment is that he was waylaid Saturday
night, and while riding into town was shot
from his horse by an unknown person.