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


Ripe whortleberries are in the market at
St. Augustine.
A colored Baptist church mission has been
organized in Titusville.
Farmers in st. Johns county are in de-
spair on account of the continued drought.
The prisoners in jail at Gainesville can be
hired by applying to the county commits
sioners.
c. D. Schafer of North Gainesville has a
Satsuma orange tree two years old in full
bearing.
The excursion under the auspices of the
railroad conductors of the state will be in
st. Augustine June Is.
Judge Finley has appointed TO the respon-
sible position of court commits sioner of
Alachua county, A. j. Cone.
About twenty witnesses have been sum-
moned i'll the Tennyson Hook murder case.
to be tried at Gainesville. Nearly all are
from Rochelle.
The Jefferson county commissioners at
their meeting Thursday passed resolution
giving one-third of So. 600 toward boring an
artesian we'll, amount to be paid when the
well is completed.
Mrs. j. Charles Davis, wife of the man
ager of Miners New York Opera Company,
was IN Jacksonville Thursday, accompa MED
by her mother and Mrs ]. X. Emmett.
They were en- route for st. Augustine.
1t is announced that the mayor of San.
ford, doubtless having in view the murder
of Deputy Sheriff Taylor by worthless.
idle negro, will sweep the town clear of
Migrants and idlers, both black and white.
Capt. John Ulmer last Saturday brought
bale Of wool to Monticello which weighed
4S0 pounds. The captain has been very sue
cessful with his sheep, and no doubt others
would find the raising of sheep equally as
profitable.
One or two prisoners having broken out
of the calaboose at Jasper lately, that insti-
tuition has been overhauled, and those in
carcerated hereafter will not find it so easy
to pull off locks and pull out for Georgia
| through the swamps.
| The gentlemen in the office of the Pensa-
| cola Pilots Association refuse to name him.
but they tell the following good story on
one of their number: He had Just come
ashore from a vessel, and he was asked WHY
in thunder he had gone aboard of a yes sel
from Aspinwall. He Indignantly denied
that the ship was from Aspinwall. 81 was
| very careful to ask, before l boarded her,
whence she came, and / was told she came
from Colon" said he.
The correspondent of the MORNING
NEWS at Live Oak, writes as follows: Re-
cent rains in this locality will greatly help
the melons. Work is progressing rapidly
on Levin Maisson's brick building w.
| Stephens and Co. have torn down and re-
moved the wooden structure in the rear of
their brick store preparatory to putting on
an extension of twenty-five feet. A great
many fine trout are being captured. The
largest one brought in yet weighed 9A
pounds, and was caught by our sheriff,
Gus Potsdamer, with bob in lake near
| town.
|
Jasper Times: Two cases of highway
robbery took place here last week. Two
colored ladies were saluted by two coIored
gentlemen and ordered to give up certain
sums of money or they would be killed.
Looking into the muzzles of the revolvers
they. gave up their money to the chivalric
wards Of the nation, amounting to over SIS.
Then one rushed into the office of one OF
their brutal lchite oppressors and begged
to have her life protected from the negro
gentlemen. This was cheerfully done BY
the 1ghite trash and her assailant lodged il
the calaboose.