The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-17
FLORIDA.

There are twelve pilots living in Fer
nandIna.
| Apopka is soon to be supplied with a
circulating library.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is coming
to pass the winter at her Pine Crest Inn, n
| Paola.
There are now thirty vessels at Fernan-
| dina and up the river. and some thirty
odd charters.
! 1fjAs Jacksonville Light Infantry is now
talking up reunion Of all past members Of
that command
B. T. Livingston shipped ten boxes of
oranges to Boston to-day. This is the first
shipment from Waldo this season.
DR.. w. II. Sibley, manager of the Inva-
lid Ministers tAssociation, is furnishing the
| cottages of that association at Fairbanks
| The saw at the Bluff mill, at Apalachi-
cola, flew to pieces, Thursday, and created
a stampede among the mill men. Fortu-
nately no one was hurt
| George Mccormick of Apalachicola got
IN his work on the pompano. near Cape
| San Bias, last Tuesday, taking In about
| l,2OO Of these highly priced fish.
b. II. DerbY's bond as postmaster OF
| Apopka was sent off some time ago. but
the department returned it because it was
| imperfect. Last Friday he tried again, and
| sent another.
The tenth day of each month is the paw
day with the PIERCE 81 TORY Investment
| Company at Apopka. Last Thursday Mr..
Frazee put into circulation 81 800. He paid
similar amount for help ana supplies last
| month
The report OF the commission on the selec.
| ton of navy yard on the Gulf and South
Atlantic coast is in the hands of Commo-
dore McCann, and will be forwarded TO the
Secretary of the Navy in few DAYS. after
examination by the members of the board.
just before the close of the Methodist
services at the Presbyterian church at
Apopka, last Sunday evening, Rev. T. A.
johnson, NJ d., was handed a telegram
conveying the intelligence that his eldest
daughter, Mrs Charles Williams, of Esmer-
aida, was dead.
The St Augustine Transfer Company.
through its agent, L. A. Coles, has Just pur-
chased the entire stock of carriages. horses
and harness of r. L. Irwin. This gives the
transfer company entire control Of the
livery business in the town with the excep-
ton of john Irtin's hacks.
The Norwegian bark Byzantine is at
Apalachicola, fifty-one days from Buenos
AyreS. Whom twenty days out from
buenos Ayres she met the bark Lena
bound from Pensacola TO Buenos Ayres
loaded with lumber, and water-logged, and
took twelve men aboard of her and landed
them at Pernambuco.
On their arrival at Jacksonville by train
from Orlando Tuesday Mr.. Maltbie was
arrested on IA charge of signing his COM
pany's name to an order for $40 when he
had no right to do so. 1t was afterward
found that the order was given by Mr..
Maltbie in his own name on party owing
him (Mr. Maltbie) $40 He was therefore,
| released from Gus tody.
Lake City Reporter: Capt. j. f. Baya.
while in New York a short time since. ex,
hibited few samples of his fine Columbia
| county cigar tobacco to some of the largest
dealers In the country, and they pronounced
1t as good as the imported goods, aud some
OF 1t, II 1t had been prepared in the Cuban
way, would have readily brought So per
pound. The captain SAYS that he is satisfied
tobacco is certain to take the lead over all
other Florida products.
Pensacola Commercial: W. B. Saunders
| United States deputy marshal, made him
| self conspicuouSly offensive in the presence
| OF some ladies i'll sleeping car on the
night train west from DeFdniak Springs a
night or two ago. Upon complaint to the
| conductor, the assistance of a passenger
| was called in and Saunders was eiected
from the sleeper. Saunders was probably
drunk, as no sober man would have been
| guilty of such conduct.
Sanford Jour9aul Dolph Edwards, the
recently appointed postmaster of Sanford,
| applied at the postoifica Tuesday afternoon
and demanded of DIR. j. J. Harris inne.
date possession. The doctor requested Ed
wards to ALLOW him tune to make schedule
OF what the Office contained, but this Ed
| wards refused to do, saying he had already
lost two weeks salary; that he was a snc.
ceSsrul business mau, aud could manage the
! office from now on, and that the schedule
could be made out later. Dr. Harris left
the office, but was compelled to return 20
deliver mail, applicants reporting that there
| was no one present to wait upon them.
The steamer Okeehumkee, Capt. A. W.
Edwards. owned by Col. Hart of Palatka.
made Its hrst trip from Palatka to Leesburg
| last week. The trip was an unusually in
teresting oae. the Ocklawaha never ap-
peared more weird, aud at night. with
torches burning and the screech of wild
birds resounding through the forests. the
SCENE added an experience never before re-
allied by those who we're on their first trip.
Capt. Ed~ards said that he experienced but
little dlfilculty IN making the trip up the
l river, 1t having been only necessary to cut
his way through number of floating
islands, aud that, having made the first
trip, succeeding ones would be easily accom-
/ pl5sAed.
1 Pensacola NepS: At the Strattou ice
! works, Monday, reporter saw Mr.. Ware,
one OF the proprieto $, on top of QUE of the
huge ammonia machines, intently watching
a long Jet of flame which was consumlnS
the gas as it issued from a half inch vent
pipe In the top of the machine Inuuirinp
what kind OF hight it was, the reporter
was informed by Mr.. Ware that il was a
gas which, by some mysterious process.
is generated in the "absorber' during
the process of ice making with ammonia
and which often creates such a back press
ure as to necessitate prompt attic ton ia
giving it vent to relieve the machine. The
gas burns with dull greenish flame. but
is quite combustible, aud while the matter
was being discussed yesterday the supply
was exhausted and the II ime went out with
a sputter. Mr. Ware then said that there
would be no more trouble with II for twenty
four hours, when another accumulation
would take place. He further said that no
chemist had rs yet been able 60 explain the
nature OF the gas or why it is generated in
/ this manner.