The morning news., 1889-03-27

the st res, ana Jne cIerAs Woulu amuso
| themselves by sitting on the counters and
fishing Another, merchant at Volusia,
said the water came so high in his store that
the catfish ate all the canned goods off cf
| the shelves.
TaUdhassean: Dawson Boatright, who
lives near Munsol lake, about AZ miles
southwest from the city, exhibited in our
Office, last Saturday, a number Of West
India yam potatoes Of extraordinary size.
| He gathered from a half acre last season
| l25 bushels. Fifteen will fill a half busael
measure They are ready for gathering in
six weeks from the bedding of the draws :"
Starvation is laughed out OF countenance
where nature provides such al ample store.
Eustis Lake Region: The ship canal
through this region is being seriously dis
| cussed by the newspaper and other rattle
Drained individuals. They don't seem to
| consider that such an enterprise would be
Of no use whatever to anyone but the
! owners. The actual drainage Of our large
| lakes and very many Of our smaller ONES
would wake them uD though, to sey nothing
of thousands of acres drained of necessary
moisture. The beauty Of our lake region
would be lost forever.
Col. James Dumars of Altoona died in
that place on Monday NOR ling. Col. Du-
mars was formerly a publisher of the
| Springfield, Mo-, Republican. He moved
| to Florida a year ago and became one of
the publishers of the Alt1oner Register,
with which he maintained but short con-
nection, disp0si1g of his interest in the pa
per to E. D. Oslin, its present publisher.
/ He subsequently engaged in mercantile
| business with w. S. Smith, in which he was
| interested at the time of his death.
| The Lake Worth correspondent of the
| Titusville Star says The task of moving
the county seat up from Miami was accom-
plished by P, Lsnnon and D. O'Neil, who
| brought the rec )rds in a canoe from Miami
up Snake creek and through the Everglades
to and down New river to the Ocean, then
up outside to the Orange Grove House of
| Refuge, then on horseback to the foot OF
| the lake and from there bv foot to Juno
! The whole trip was safely made; the only
incident being worthy of mention was seeing
a two-headed crane while coming through
| the Everglades.
New Smyrna Breeze: The name "Mos-
quito" rs applied to our inlet, is mislead-
inT, and raises unjust suspicious in regard
| to this locality Formerly all the territory
! east OF the st. JOINS river was known as
| Mosquito county, but the inlet is the only
| place that has been c)mpele1 to retain it TO
| this late day We think there can be no
objection to accepting the beautiful name
| of Smyrna" for all three, and thus fix our
locality directly in the ideas of the people,
and we are certain that in a very short
| time Smyrna fruit win be as well known
| and as highly appreciated as that mama
| for any other section of the state.
Lake City Citizen: Morris Anders IN, a
colored man living near Dowling's mill
was struck by too elSt-b )und cannon balln
| train on the Florida Railway and Naviga-
ii N, two or three miles west of here, aud
| fatally injured, his skull being driven in In
| two places and the jaw and one side of the
hsad and face cru she'd He was living asleep
beside the track with his head between the
| ends of the cross-ties and very near the rail.
| The engine pa ssd without hu ting him,
but he was aroused, and raising up was
| struck by the cars. He was taken on BOARD
and brought to Lake City. receiving atten-
tion from DR.. w. r. Chalker. He was
carried back home still alive, but with little
chance for recovery. Drink was the cause
of it.
A German named Muller and his wife
were making their way from Louisiana to
| South Florida, intending to locate perma-
nently In that Sc tion of the stat and had
purchased tickets as far as Flonaton,
where they arrived Tuesday last. While
they were still at that point the man was
relieved of his pocket book, containing $50,
all The money, with the exception of some
loose change, he had in the world. With
his remaining change he paid the charges
and expressed his trunk to Pensacola, and
he and bis wife then set out and walked the
entire distance from Flomaton to Pensacola,
arriving there Wednesday night. Th man
| found q friend in the person IF Charles ID.
Smith, who took the pair to his home,
where they are now quartered, and will
procure work for Muller.
Cocoa Spirit: We were shown letters
few days ago from parties living down the
river, giving the particulars of a shooting
| scrape which occurred there recently.
| From the reading of the letters we learn
that as ID. c. Erwin was passing Cantown
| Island in his at on March Z, on his way to
the postotfice, as he neared the isla I'd H. B.
| Archibald, keeper of Bethel Creek House
of Refuge, stepped from the house of Ul-
rich, who lives on the island with double
| barrel gun in his hands and ordered him to
| come ashore; if he did not he wou d kill
him. Erwin changed his course quickly as
| possible to get away from the island, where
| upon Archibald raised the gun and at
| tempted to shoot, but it missed fire; the
second barrel went Off, however, and the
snot rained thick about Erwin. No serious
damage was done. Erwin proceeded to
the nearest magistrate to secure warrant
against Archibald for attempt at murder.
| A feud has existed between the men for
| some time.
The Malco correspondent of the Fort
Myers Press relates tho following devil-fsh
stories: few days ago, at the end of Ma
| pies wharf, forty-foot pile of about one
foot diameter was loosely tied with 100 feet
OF cable. The hands lddenly noticed the
| cable running from the coil. and before
any one could secure it, both pile and cable
were moving rapidly to sea. A devi4-fisi
had got entangled in the cable. Boats were
at once secured and started in pursuit, and
after two-mile race they captured the line
| aad log, the monster having bee Jme 10 IS
| ened, which fact accounts for them being
able to overtake it. When we consider
that this species of ray attains weight of
| 5000 to 5000 pounds, aad strength to cor
respond, this is not astonishing. Some
| months ago the passengers of the steamer
| Fearless harpooned one Of these fish near
San Carlos bay, and after towing the
steamer for some time, the engine being
reversed and pulling against him, they
were compelled to cut the line to prevent
being carried on the Slnibe bar.
In advocating the establishment of a
factory for canning fish. the Mauatee Jour
nal says: 1.-THE fishermen along Palma
Sola and Sarasota bays, now engaged, are
said to number about 100, and during some
seasons of the year they lose both time and
fish because a market is not within con-
venient distance This would not be If a
canning factory was established at a con-
venieut place-say at Hunters Point, which
is on the ground, as we might say, has
deep water right on shore, needs no wharf,
save 10-foot plank, and vessels drawing d
feet can come through the passes leading
there. Hunters Point is five miles from
Palma Sola by land, and twelve or fifteen