The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-31
FLORIDA.

ana Where IL IS carefully guarded Dy the
police authorities.
FLORIDA.
The Middle Florida fair project is still
being agitated.
The Monticello Tribune offers 70 give a
gold medal each for three best essays writ
ten by girls of Jefferson county.
Ii is said that the guava crop throughout
the state will be immense. The yellow and
red Galley guavas are especially abundant.
The Brooksville Methodists have sent out
circulars asking aid of the church to re-
build their church destroyed by the cyclone
some weeks ago.
For one and half days work, the SUD-
scription of S54, 800 of the 100000 needed
to erect the cotton factory at jacksonville
IS a most encouraging result.
DIR. Shine, president of the board of
health, says that he intends to have the
council do their duty in keeping certain
places in st. Augustine clean and will, if
the matter is not attended to, cause the ar
rest Of the members of the board to whom
the matter is intrusted.
The taxes this year will be 8 or mills
higher than they have been in Volusia
county for number of years. One and
one-half mills will be levied for the purpose
OF building a jail, an expenditure made
necessary by change of county seat, as the
old Jail at Enterprise could not be removed.
The Key West Building and Loan Asso-
citation, incorporated in May, 1886 issued
8, 325 shares to 754 stockholders, and loaned
out S255,0OO up to June 30, 1889. Dividends
are declared semi-annually, and when the
amounts paid in on each share, together
with the profits theron, aggregate 800, the
share has matured and is paid.
Kau IVoo+ Do.aoo~of w, 40
by r. A. Montsalvage that his firm is ex-
pecting direct from Spain soon the first
vessel and cargo that was ever consigned to
Key West direct from Europe. Among the
articles Of freight will be 400 tierces of wine,
a large lot of coloring pepper and other
Spanish goods. The vessel is consigned TO
X. A. Montsalvage 81 Bro.
Key West Democrat. 1t is reported here
that the ice factory in Matauzas, Cuba, has
broken down and that the Havana factory
cannot make ice fast enough to supply the
Cuban market, aud the price of that luxury
is now worth cents per pound in Havana
at the factory. IL this is true it is hardly
probable that we will use much Havana ice
| in Key West this summer
At a meeting Of the city commissioners
of Key West, held Thursday evening, Presi-
| dent Maloney IN the chair they discussed
| the necessity of entering into communica-
| ton with engineers for the purpose of
grading and leveling, and the practicability
of an underground sewerage, but came to
| no definite conclusion, the chairman saving
they would meet again in few days
John Lewis. Pensacolas coloredmiddle-
weight, is matched to fight Tom McGrath,
also colored, Aug. Is, at Kupfrian's park,
| for S25 side. Ten rounds will be fought,
Marquis of Queensbury rules to govern the
contest. Lewis says if he shall be victori-
GUS in his battle with McGrath that he will
will challenge any colored middle-weigh
in America to fl hit him for the champion
ship. Lewis, upon one occasion, knocked
out Wiley Evans, the California middle
weight champion, in four rounds. The
fight took place Feb. II, 1886
The remains of George, the 19-year-old
son OF James Brown, a very respectable
colored man of Pensacola, were.found in a
swamp near the old Palmes place about a
| lille from the head of Big bavCsl. Satur-
day. About five months ago the boy, who
was a mute, wandered away from home.
He was last seen near the spot where his
body was found, and some one pointed out
to him the road TO Pensacola, which, it was
presumed, he was seeking. He was after.
ward tracked to the swamp III which he
now lies, but no further trace of him al
that time was found. He was subject to
fits, and it Is believed that he wandered off
INTO the swamp, where he was stricken
down with apoplexy and persisted.
The Silver Springs, Ocala and Gulf Rail-
way Company is slowly grading on its
main line in Citrus county 1t is now
working at Anita, nine mikes south of Dun
Mellon. The force at present is small but
the company will soon put on extra teams
and laborers The road is already COM
pleted from Ocala via Dunnellon to Homo
| SaSSa From i)uDnallOp In tho Iatta,.
the road Is known as the Gulf Branch.
Crystal river and Chronicle are on this
route The main line, from Dunnellon
| south through the center of the county.
passes through arich country, many of their
cuts aud fills showing earth as black as
coal, demonstrating that the hills of Citrus
are certainly rich and fertile. AT Anita,
unless change of survey is made, the road
viii be nearest TO the famous Lake Tsala
Apopka region.
Three convicts escaped from Cypress
Lake Camp (brancd Florida state PRISON.
last Thursday. Two of the convicts were
life prisoners, all desperate men. and il is
very probable that they will push straight
for the vicinity of Savannah Their de-
scriptions are as follows: Jim Ora. life con-
Wet, age 36, but looks much younger: hight
8 feet 10 inches, weight 1856 pounds, light
yellow SKIN, long nose, thin lips. small
! mouth, hlgA cheek bones, pleasant voice
and talks very deliberately. Turner Wright.
six years sentence, age 30, hight feet Z
inches, weight 165, black skin, hair and
eyes, prominent chin, has lost upper teeth
IN front and talks indis,inctlv. Sam Jones.
life convict, age 40, hight feet A. inches,
weight $40 pounds, hair, eyes and skin
black, foot M inches long, has large,
plaln scar on the top of mis- head, bow
legged and has an awkward, shutting walk
A reward Of 500 each is offered for the two
life convicts and $50 for the ether.
Orlando Reporter; 1t is reported that s.
b. Carter has been pardoned. He was con-
vlcted of the killing of John W. Griffin in
TINS city, and sentenced to be hanged But
upon a numerously signed petition his
sentence was commuted to imprisonment
/ for life. The killing Of Griffin was an afro