The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-15
FLORIDA.
Ocala has six base ball mines.

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Ocala has six base ball mines.
The fish business at Tampa is lively.
J. B. Hinsoa has opened a school at Dell
wood.
Tampa's big hotel will be open for guests
on Jan. l, 1899.
Work on the new Jail at Mariana is pro-
| crossing rapidly.
! The passenger travel over the Plant
steamship line is increasingly
The wholesale grocery houses in Tampa
are doing rushing business
The Baptists of Kissimmee have about
| $40 subscribed for their parsonage.
The Hickman brothers are building a
new residence on Central avenue, Tampa
1t is reported that Pat McQuaid, Of Jack
sonville, will open a wholesale grocsry in
Tampa.
j. X. Munnerlyn has been appointed
postmaster at Armour aud is every day
looking for his commission.
A few days since Mr.. May found his
cabin in the prairie. near Clear Water Har-
Dor, occupied by huge moccasin.
A gentleman says chat the mysterious
graves found on Palatka heights are moth
ing more than holes made by coons hunt
ing gophers.
c. b. Wynns, late tax collector of Jack.
son county made settlement with the county
commissioners of the amount of his
deficiency due the county.
As an inducemsnt to encourage manufac-
| tories to locate in DeSotO county, the county
commissioners Of that county exempt from
taxation for five years any factories that
are established there.
L. l.. Deering, manager of the DeIIand
Base Ball Club, agrees to present to any
base ball club in Florida purse of $50 if it
Will defeat the DeLand club in game of
base bail on the DeLand grounds
Col. W. G.. Bartholomew of Tampa has
received letter from Judge j. w. Locke,
who went to Chicago with the delegation
that visited Tampa, in which he states that
much good will be done Tampa by the
party that recently visited Tampa.
An elegant residence will shortly be
erected by DR.. A. S. Baldwin on
his lot on Laura and Adams streets at Jack
sonville. The building will be on the style
of the Ponce dc Leon architecture, and be
the handSomest structure OF its kind in
Jacksonville.
At st. Augustine interest is conferred in
the murder trials that are to be tried at this
term of the circuit court One of the most
important is that of William Delespine
(colored), who is charged with killing a
colored man, named Charles Collins, last
summer. The trial is now in progress.
Serge Malyvan, former manager of the
Leesburg Florida Produce Manufacturing
Company, proposes to open similar bust
ness in Ocala. He will manufacture all
kinds of wines for growers and farmers.
His specialteS are orange aud craps wine
for the present season-tomato and guava
wine for next summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Mann of Manntown
went t. Lake City on Monday with their
little boy, who accidentlv swallowed potash
some three or four weeks ago, for medical
advice. 1t is feared tine passage to the
stomach will close, as it is with difficulty
that he can swallow a few drops of LIQUID at
Il time without strangling
While going home from Gross Prairie
last Sunday, the horse Sheriff Buckets of
Kissimmee was riding got the advantage of
him in some way, so that ne lost the reins,
and started on a run. In jumping ditch
MIR. Buckles was thrown TO the ground
under the horse, and as the horse brought
his hind feet forward one of them struck
Mr.. Buckes on the side of his head bruising
him somewhat, andirendering him senseless,
Fortunately the injury was no more serious
than bad bruises
Clear Water Harbor Times: On Tues
day Theodore Kamenskv took his tienart-
ure for the city Of New YORK, where he has
accepted a position from the America
school of art. His studio will be at No. 26S
Fifth avenue. This famous Russian sculptor
has been quiet, unassuming citizen of
Clear Water for several years, known as
Mao Dak and while not living in poverty.
as some OF our exchanges have unfortunate
ly reported him, has lived in such obscuritv
that MS identity was never suspected. His
proper name was known TO his friuds here
land everybody is his friend, bus they
didn't happen to be posted in art literature.
and Mr., Oak was too modest to advertise
himself
Talking about adventures in strange
places, said j. S. NJ. Hodge of louisville,
as he settled himself down IN thrse-legged
chair in the Gainesville Re cord office, Tone
year ago had an experience that | shall
not soon forget or repeat In my neighbor-
hood there are numbers of natural wells.
These wells are round, and the walls are of
rock. Some of these wells ere very deep.
and Others are deeper, having no bottom.
One year ago my neighbor, Henry Turner,
lost calf, and after searching for it a
week he decided that it had fallen in one
of these unused wells, and came to me
for assistance, | told him that the
calf was dead, but consented to 20 down
the well. Descending to the depth of
about 40 feet came to what | suppose was
the bottom. Becoming accustomed to the
hdlh..cSS, tAl>CJNoIeu q long, horizontal
cave in the rock. The lost IF had on a
bell, and after listening | heard the tinkle
far Off In the distance. Moreover it aD-
peared to be partially submerged in water.
The hunt was growing exciting, but | could
not enter that dark hole, peopled with
! snakes by the Imagination. by myself
| Calling to the top, | asked that another
man come down with a lantern. Nv
brother came down, and we started on our
| journey through the earth. We had t.
crawl, for the crevica was not more than
feet high. We had proceeded about
! 100 wards, when suddenly we came
! TO large cavern, which could not be-
measured in the darkness. Just before us
was body OF water into which the ca {
had fallen. We managed to throw rope
around it aad pull it up, and then we got
| out of there will all possible haste. | hid
| no inclination to explore further, and [
| shudder now when ! think of the possible
| danger that surrounded us in the earth -
! These natural wells are among the wonders
| upexplaiaed. IL is believed by many that
| In ages past the ground sunk in, leaving
these round holes in the solid rock. Mr..
Hodge uses the water from one of theee
wells for drinking. 1t is 81 feet deep and
the water is cold, clear and pure
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