The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-04
FLORIDA.
FLORIDA.
Lakeland tobacco growers are gathering
and housing their crops

ana housing their crops.
Gadsden-county-r raised apples are now
plentiful, and are Of good quality.
The Fort Myers hunters are agreed that
bird plume and gator hunting is played out
for tais season.
Col. w. q. Ponce died at his residence at
st. Augustine Monday, of a complication Of
diseases. in the 55th year of his age.
Mr. Morrill,. who has been filling the pull
pit in the First Presbyterian church, Pa
latka, slncs January, preached his farewell
sermon last Sunday.
G. W. Papot has sold to B. F. Bowen a
lot fronting 80 feet on Lake Eola, near
Orlando, on which Mr.. Bowen intends erect
ing handsome residence.
At Gainesville Saturday the Florida
Southern transferred to the Savannah,
Florida and Western 2. 400 packages Of veg
etables for eastern markets.
Thirteen was the crop of marriage Ii
censes issued by the Orange county judge
for the month ending June 30. Four were
to white and nine to colored residents.
The jacksonville Times Union says the
sentiment of the people in different sections
of the state is overwhelmingly opposed to
the scheme to annex West Florida to Ala
bama
Car sheds are being built for the Florida
Southern railway on the lot at Palatka,
formerly occupied by Blaine Bros. Car
works 1t viii be large enough to hold all
the passenger coaches of the road at one
time.
8. G. Brooks of DeLand left Thursday
with a crew of men for Lake Apopka,
where he has the contract for moving S.
| foot boat from that lake to st. Petersburg
for the Orange Belt railway.
John O'DonoYan has resigned the office Of
| inSDectOr of customs q Pensacola which lA
has held since Mr. MCGUIRE was given the
| local dictatorship, aud John klumker has
boon appointed in his stead.
j. E. Lucas of Palatka has a contract to
build dock for Mr.. johnson, at Moon
| stone, down the river to DO $50 feet long,
with a bulkhead 70 by 80 feet. He also has
the contract TO build large lumber dock
for the Tllghmans at their mill in the cove
A young son of John j. Berry of Apa-
lachicola was scalded by hot water day or
| two ago. He was in the rear of
the ice house fishing. and the steam escaping
from pipe connected with the boiler Of
the ice house and running out on the wharf
escaped suddenly and scalded him.
As the pilot boat was crossing the bar at
| st. Augustine on Saturday on it's way out
to the schooner Caroline Hall, big sea
struck the bows and overwhelming Dan
| Allen, who was steering, threw him over
lines and after being towed a short way
was hauled on board none the worse for his
ducking.
The total. cash receipts at the custom
house at Pensacola during the fiscal year
ending June 30 were $25, 32S 81. The ex-
penses during the same period were $l7,-
| 757 0S The number of vessels entered was
622. The number of vessels cleared WIS
6O3. The exports in timber and lumber
pial
of foreign exports was So, 4S0, 500 The
value Of coastwise shipments was $267, 345.
The value of imports was $37, 1851 81. The
books now show the number of vessels en-
ployed in traffic in Pensacola bay to be
sail lO6, steam 81.
1t is related of the British steamship Eos
cola, which left Pensacola about last July
for port IN Great Britain, that but four
of the men then composing the crew are
now living. The Pensacola healUh authori-
ties refused to allow the vessels approach
to the city because Of case of chagres
| fever which appeared on board of her
when she came III. She was loaded across
the bay. Her then boatswain is now on
| board of vessel now at Pensacola, and he
it is from whom the information comes that
all but four of her crew, the latter not in
Guiding the captain or second mate, con-
tracted the disease which proved fatal to
| them.
Eustis Lake Region: Charley Means (col-
ored) was up before Mayor Ross yesterday
on the complaint of his w fe for maltreat-
ment. They brought one witness with
them, who testified that the so-called fight
ing was mutual, and resulted i'll nothing
more than the tearing off of the clothes
from the participants. The witness testified
that she considered the fracas but frolic.
The charge was not sustained. As Means
took up his hat 10 50 he said to his wife:
Mary, Is done with you now; Is clar
through. Judge, just give her divorce"
Mary replied thai she didn't care; she was
tired of married blifs nohow."
Tampa Tribune Ibid you know that
ants would make lemonadeP said Bridge
street grocer to a Tribune man the other
day. They will, for have seen them do
it several times. The other day [ left a
slice of lemon on the counter, and there
happened to be some sugar not far off, and
directly noticed the ants carrying the
sugar to the lemon juice. l thought it was
rather queer, as well as cute, and to test the
matter have tried it several times by put
| ting piece of lemon on the counter and
placing some sugar near by, and the ants
never fail to carry the sugar to the lemon.
What do you think Of that now? 1t is an
absolute fact
Just little over four years ago the first
where Chipley, in Washington county, now
stands. Then there was nothing but pine
and cypress trees TO meet the eye of the
passer by; but now there is a place of be-
tween 600 and 200 inhabitants, who, by
their energy and hard work, have succeeded
in Transforming part of the great forest
into a beautiful little city. The town has
l6 large business houses, good hotels, l
restaurant, 2 elegant churches, 3 we'll
graded schools, 2 blacksmith shops, large
saw mills, 3 grist mills, a well-equipped
cooper shop, 2 cotton gins, a well-stocked
livery stable, millinery and dressmaking
establishment, spring bed factory, a Ma
sonic lodge, an Independent Order Of Good
Templars organization, and ground has
been broken for large guano factory and
saw mill combined.
A writer in the Sanford Journal saws:
"While in Augusta, Ca, recently, | had
the pleasure of seeing the five living genera
tions of that city. They are kin folks of
mine, and | will tell you who they are, and
ask if it can be beat or equaled south of
| Mason and Dixon's line: l. Mrs. Jane
Butler, 80 years old 2. Her daughter, Mrs.
l. V. Tarver, 60 years old. g. Her daughter.
Mrs. Fannie Tarver Doolittle, 40 years old.
T. Her daughter, Mrs. Georgia Doolittle
Richards, 20 years Old; s. Her daughter,
Cleve Richards, month old at this writ
ing, a bouncing fine baby. This is not all,
it occurred in the same family twenty years
ago when Mrs. Buffers mother was living.