The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-06

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Capt. Prince Of Panasoffkee is going to
build a new boat for the fall trade.
Il is stated that the Tampa street railway
pays 80 per cent. per quarter on It's capital
| stock.
More IeConte pears have been shipped
from Gadsden county this season than ever
I before.
James f. Griffin has been appointed post
master at Youmans, vice John y. You
mans, resigned.
Miss Annie Gruelle. daughter of the late
Maj. Gruelle, has been appointed delivery
clerk IN the Gainesville p0stoFtice.
The shingle factory Of A. B. Russell at
! Fort Reed, hch was destroyed by fire
short time since, is now being rebuilt.
The oranges In quite large number OF
groves in the state have already been con
tracted for at 81 por box on the trees.
The steamship Mlscotte brought 267
bales Of tobacco to Key West manufuct-
urers on her return trip from Havana last
week.
Crystal River makes an offer of 5000
and 1900 acres Of land for court house pur-
poses, in the event the county seat Is located
! there.
J. NJ. Jones, the leading contractor and
builder at Oviedo, has taken the contract to
build large and beautiful residence for
Rev. K. w. Lawton.
There were between 1900 and 1000
/ bunches of sponge offered for sale on the
sponge wharf at Key West Thursday, and
bidding was lively and prices good.
It is reported that the revenue cutter
McLain captured a Spanish smack fishing
aud smuggling il Florida waters and car
rled her INTO Cedar Keys a few days ago
The orange growers of West Apopka
hav~r = 4
ers for the handling of their oranges at 81
per box on the trees for the next five years.
Orlando sold $25, 900 worth of bonds in
New York at 96 cents one cent more on a
dollar than Tampa received for her bonds,
and both lots were purchased by the same
firm.
Last Wednesday about u O'Clock, while
VIII BOurand of Pine Level was stopping
about one mile from Arcadia to feed his
horses, lightning struck one of the horses,
killing it instantly. The boy and the other
horses escaped unhurt.
The colored man who was injured at
towards mill, near Quincy by land slide
last week. is slowly improving The am
putation of his leg by DR.. Thomas F. Mum
roe was successfully done, and the man is
now considered out Of danger, but he will
be cripple for life
Contractor Horne has been on the ground
in Lake City getting ready to begin work
on the new college dormitJrics. He is re-
ceivlng large supplies of material, among
that already to hand being four carloads of
brick from Tallahassee, which he is able to
lay down there at 81 80 per 1000.
There was a meeting of the Palatka and
Lake Shore railroad stockholders in New
York last weak, when il was ordered that
work on its construction begin at once.
This road is to run to Kissimmee, and VIII
Zig re largely in transporting the immense
amount of sugar made at the st. Cloud
mills.
Harry Armstrong, who was a we'll known
resident of st. Andrews, and who went to
Niles, o., to get married, is missing. He
| started for Florida last January, was at
Mandarin April is, but has not been heard
| Of since. Any information regarding him
will be thankfully received by his wife,
Mrs. Clara Armstrong, Niles, ..
Each member of the old board of Escam-
bia county commissioners, and each bonds
man of the late tax collector, NJ. Palmes,
deceased, has received a notification from
the new county Eoard, through their attor-
ney, Judge Avery, that unless settlement
is made by Aug. 10, foI the excess of COM
missions pald to the late tax collector, suit
will be brought to recover the same.
Judge Avery said he thought the new board
would make "a fair and reasonable settle
lnent of the matter
There have been six executions in Duval
county since the war, and the list is as fol-
lows: ". c. Scott (whitel, for the murder
OF Miss Rosana Carlin and the two Pagan
children in 1870, William Hall alias william
Keene twhite), for the murder of - Val
entine in 1873; - Brown colored), for the
murder of his wife in 1876; Ben Boyd (col-
ored) for the murder of Policeman ice Mel
son in 1880; Harrison Carter for the murder
of colored girl at Baldwin in 1882, and
-- Robinson, for rape.
During the season just past, w. d. Pow
ell of Fort Reed, raised on a tract of
ground, 30XlS0 feet, which is the merest
fraction over one-eighth of an acre, fifty
five bushels of Bermuda onions, which he
sold at So per bushel, netting him $ll0.
These were all disposed of in Sanford. One
of them weighed two pounds and two ounces,
while many others were nearly as large.
| One barrel Of Canada unbleached ashes
alone, costing 81 was used as fertilizer. The
soil is well-drained fiat woods, and natur-
ally very fertile.
A remarkable game of base ball was
| played at st. Augustine Saturday One team
had but five men while the other club had
the full compliment of nine players, but
Notwithstanding this the five players were
! victorious by the astounding score of 20 to 0.
The contest was for IA purse, the five men
making a wager that they could beat any
nino men found in the city The team of
! five men were Hebe Benet, w Gard, j. Au-
dreu, Dolph Bennett and +. Andreu The
full nine men We're composed of Charles
Benet, w Sayers, J. Gottbold, S. d.
Moore, Charles Perry, Lee Stout, Tom
Ryan, +. A. Andrea and Charles A. Segui
AT Green Cove Springs last week d. w.
Williams and j. j. Sweat were brought up
before Judge Greer on a charge of trespass
on the lands of the St. Johns Railroad
Company. 1t appears they had cut logs off
this companys land and RATED them down
to Brace Borden Il Co.'S mill, where the
sheriff, who had been advised of the theft.
was waiting for them. He seized the logs
and arrested the culprits. On trial the
prisoners pleaded guilty, but in extenu-
alton of the crime said that it was Gus
tomary to take (steaD timber. The Judge
fined them S25, bat admonis ned the n that
a heavier fac would be imposed if such
happened again.
Quincy Herald A large force of hands have
been employed the past week harvesting to-
baccp on the company's plantation, as we'll
as on the Alsace, ana the weather has been
very favorable for this work as we'll as
curing the crop. The tobacco this year
viii have large proportion of fine light
coloFs, which the tobacco market demands
at the present time, as the dark colorS are