The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-08
FLORIDA.

F. Stanton Perrin will soon erect the first
brick residence ever built at Ooala.
A Band Of Hope has been organized in
DeLand. 1t now has fifty-six members.
A large otter was caDtured near Stetson
grove at DeLand on Thursday by j. r.
Wetherall.
DR.. w, q. Sibley is setting out about
1000 LeConte pear trees on his place near
Fairbanks.
Rsese Stidham of Barlow says that he is
now shipping thirteen quarts OF strawber-
ries daily and net ing 81 quart.
The object Maj Lancaster had in inviting
the firemen to Ocala was to organize a state
association. Key West, Orlando and Pa
latka are represented.
Over 10000 feet Of planking have been cut
out at the work shops OF the Orange Belt
Railway at Oakland, for the sidewalks of
tle new wharf at st. Petersburg.
Lee Powe while feeding a press in the
AgricuttUrtst Office at DeLand last
Wednesday, had his hand badly crushed
and the bone of one Of his fingers broken.
DeLand colored people have organized
band by the name of the j. V. Vaughan
Cornet Band, which he has worked t.
organize and procure instruments for mem
bers for three years past.
The Herald says that more merchandise
has been received at the q incy depot dur
ing the past four months than ever before
during the same length Of time, and the
amount continues to increase.
Rev. r. j. Carson of Philadelphia has
presented to the Methodist church of
DeLand 800 volumes OF excellent realing
matter. Mr. Cars is the father of Prof
Carson, of the DeLlnd university.
The several petitions in favor of Officer
Mccall for captain of police at S.. Au-
gu tine foot up about coo names, among
which are 235 Of the colo""d Knights Il
Labor The .Letition has been laid before
the mayor.
j. B. Enocl1s Of Ocala has two tangarire
| orange trees on is beautiful and thrifty
! home grove, years Old, from which he
| gathered and shipred twenty-five boxes,
receiving for same s. 60 net, and several
crates still remain on Tie ,rees.
The amount due the Unitei States from
Capt. Sheldon, post master at Gainesville,
and unaccou ted for, is S2,9jl 70. This
occurs in the money order department.
| The shortage, If any, in this other depart
ments has not been ascertaiaed.
Mrs. Leo Vogel is making arrangements
| to give two concerts at the opera house in
st. Augusti g during the mouth, the pro-
| ceeds OF which will be devoted to the build
| ing of substantial fences around the Cath
ole cemeteries at ST. Augustine.
ange Belt Railway accidentally shot himself
| with a pistol at Oakland last Saturd "
night The ball entered the thigh lutte
| below the hip, fracturing the bone aud
making a very painful, but not necessarily
| da Igerous, wound.
Col H. B. Church Of Orlando, who has
planted large quantity of tomatoes, is sell
ing plants 10 distant points He sold 20,0 900
to one person Wednesday. The young
oil II lla1k xyt fro
His place is so situated on Like Underhill
as TO be entir " protected from cold, hence
his success. He will have five acres in to-
matoes
According to the Army and Nduy
! Gazette, the artillery now at st. Augustin ne
will go TO Atlanta mex June occupying the
new barracks there until the first frost falls
| n Florida. Then they will exchange posts
with the 2nd artillery Companies l and
| 4, now stationed at st. Francis Barracks
| will likely then bs transferred to Fort
Trumbul, Com.
F. c. Hughes of Gainesville met with
what may prove ve.y serious accident
| Monday night. The circumstances are
these, while walking along the sidewalk he
| dropped his pistol, a Al caliber, from his h p
| pocket, when it struck the sidewalk it ex-
ploded sending the ball thr ugh the tlba
bone just below the knee joint SCATTERING
the bone terribly.
The regular Sunday sermon az Okla
humpka was interrupted by an alarm Of
fire, proving to be DR.. Snyder's two-story
packing-house. All the men left the church,
and succeeded in saving the horse, wagon
and buggy, a" d the contents of the lower
floor. TIE fire is supposed to havB or gi
mated from lamp exploiting il the doc
tors incubator. The loss on the building
and conte is, including a lot of YOU z
chicks, is nearly $500. s.-
On Sunday afternoon of last week party
Of young people, Misses Edna Fuller and
katura Cummins, and Messrs. Vivian,
Cummins and Lindsey, went sailing on
Lake Apopka. BY some mismanagem
the boat was capsized and the entire party
upset in deep water. Most of them We're
unable to swim, and the result would prob
ably have been fatal but for the timely ar
rival of J. II. Guilford, who heard their
cries and went to tueir rescue.
At Ocaln, last Thursday nj 5ht, about 6
o'clock, as Charles Maddox, highly re-
s ected citizen of Belleview, was vending
his way TO the Florida Railway and Navi-
CATION depot to take the 6:07 o'clock p. m.
train home, as he passed beyond Whitfield
a. Sanders store, some dastardly wretch
struck him on the back of the head with O
paling and felled him to the platform.
When he recovered his senses to grope his
way to the depot his valise. filled with cloth
ing, and s. worth of groceries and his
pocketbook with $40 were gone. Arriving
at the depot, he went into the
freight shed to await the coming of the
train, but he was so overcome with the
blow that he remained there for twenty
hours until the arrival of the Cracker"
train next day before he got home. He is
now lying at the point OF death from the
effects of the blow, and DR.. Knight, his at
tendant physician, said had tho scantling
struck Mr. Maddox an inch lower than it
did, he would have been a dead man. Mr..
Carmicae thinks it was a colored man who
did the slugging.
The commissioners, representing Citrus,
Polk, Lake, Pasco, Hillsborough, Sumter,
Leon, Lee, Osceola, o ange and Levy coun-
ties, selected the following gentlemen to
examine and make the awards, at the Semi
Tropical Exposition, at Ocala w. ID.
Morton, Dunster, Marion county; ex- Mayor
Abra Martin, DR.. s. w. Moody, L. P.
Creighton, w. T. King and James B. Car
Isle, Ocala; 2. j. Peacher, Citrus county;
and their verdict runs as follows: Lake
county, bot display OF citrus fruits, di-
ploma and 5000; Maj. o. T. Rocks of Lake
county, best individual citrus display,
diploma and 500; Lee county, best
tropical fruit display, diploma aud $500;
Cit.us county, best agricultural dis
play, diploma and 5000; John Bradford of
Leon county, best individual agricultural
display, diploma aud $lO0--the same indi-