The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-17

length. bv the side Of the building now
usad as q shelter for the rolling stock.
Kreder Br theirs have set out so paper
1 81 ell pecan trees on their twenty acres
south OF Peppers addition 10 Arcadia and
100 on their place six miles south Of
Arcadia.
NJ L. Lambdin has sold the Bay View
/ hotel property at MelrIss to a company Of
phys clans who in end to enlarge and i'm.
prove it with the intention Of using it as a
sanilGrium.
Mrs. T. W Tompkies, wife Of the Rev.
| Mr.. TOmpkies, who was formerly pastor Of
the Methodist church at Gainesville, has
leaset and opened the st. Nicholas hotel at
/ Gainesville.
The case Of the state Of Florida VS.. T. H.
Braddock was called at Palatka, Thursday,
before Judge Baldwin. The defendant
waived examination and was placed under
$1,000 bond 70 appear at the next term Of
the circuit court.
Capt. J. w. Douglas was shot by some
party at Daytona Wedne day night about
9 O'clock. The ball took effect in the right
shoulder. The wound is a bad one, but DR..
Wallac. says that it is not dangerous A
| Mr. Smith and other parties have been
arrested.
Active work will soon commence on the
expect TO have dreige3 at work simulta-
| neously q. ST. Augu tine, the hauloyer and
various other points. They also will dig
the canal from st. Augustine to the st.
Johns river
The total assessment of taxes for Lake
county for the current year shows a prop
erty valuation Of $500, 900. According to
the county tax books Leesburg stands first
in property valuation, 1t being $4,000;
! fHay wi Ia RtHi Eu.fig fol
lowing with $50, 400.
Several Of the orange groves about Law
tey are budding freely, and as the buds are
very small yet they have escaped damage
from the recent frosts. A large crop OF tue
early peach blossoms are blasted. The grow
some specter Of rust begins to stare most Of
the strawberry growers IN the face.
j. j. Alexander Of St. Augustine lost
valuable horse Friday He was driving
through Granada street by the A cazlr,
when suddenly the horse slipped and fell on
the curbing aHd broke his leg a little above
the ankle The animal could not live, con
sequently it became necessary to shoot it,
James r. Estes, who was arrested by the
Putnam county authorities several days
ago for kidnapping l3year old girl in
Georgia, was turned over Thursday 10 the
sheriff Of Hart county, Georgia, By Sheriff
Shelly. he will alsJ be held for robbing
the United State, mail in South Carolina.
Capitalists are now figuring on the posi-
blllty OF suburban railway from Gains
vile to North Gainesville and the lake
being a profitable luvesCme Il, and have
about concluded that if the citizens Of
Gainesville should express a wish for the
success Of such an enterprise, they would
decide 70 make the investment.
T. Sims showed TIE Tavares Herald on
| Tuesday n novelty in the way Of a rat trap
| (rDin.r 1.lTp his gtlipR thu "a
found a rat with its head, shoulders and
fore paws in the neck Of an lux title, from
which it. was impossible for it to
withdraw. and his ratshio ha / thus com.
10 an untlmey and gnominious cad.
A Mr.. Smith, who, with his wife, has
been spending the winter in Gainesville
being ie5id ,nts Of northern Illinois, re-
ceiyed a telegram Welnesl lay saving that
his entire prop 'rty, to the amount of $3J,-
00O had been destroyed by fire. The in
| surance was only 81, 800. It was with a
heavy heart THAI he started on the return
trip.
Work is going on upon the railroad across
| from Jupiter to Lake Worth, but a little
slowly just now, as they are watt x for
tho lgGler with the iron. The roal is all
| IRA lie and the ties nre about all laid. 4
great many of the railroad hands WAC get
di,caargei go to Lake Worth, so a present
the supply OF labOrers far exceeds the de-
mind.
AT 81. Augustine petition has bael put
! ia the hands Of County Judge BucSuor, to
commit Moses Lew ,coloreD TO tho sta e
Insane asylum. Lewis has been maxi *
| considerable trouble for the inha6-
ltauts Of New Augustine la.ely by commit
| ting all sorts Of pranks. Tha other day, he
! junpel off au engine when it was going at
! full speed. Luckily he escaped injury.
In al lition to the court house building
! tw Other two-story brick blocks, at loas.,
! viii be built at Tavares this spring. One
will be erected by NJ. r. Fontana on the
| northwest corner Of Joanna avenue ami
| irma street. on the site o! A. J. Ssmbler's
market The other viii be built eighty feet
east of the Jones block, on the north side of
lrma street by G. W. James Of Leasourg
The loss of Mrs Windsor, living near
| Starke, by fire last week was oven greater
than previously stated. While the silver
was not valued at $500, the household
effects, furniture, paintings, piano,
| tapestry, carpAtilg, carriage afghan, beds
bed ling, clothing, India shawl, with
| numerous other wraps, would be valued by
| any competent judge at between s., 900 aud
| 5000
KiSsimmen Leader: between the Crea or,
the creatures aud the elements, the Dlsson
| company is in a hard row of stumps The
people of the Calico 'ahatCiis valley say no
more water SIall he drained from Lake
Okeechobee throug their sec. ion. Thecat-
| tlemen south of us say no more water shal
b drained from our lakes, as it floods their
grazing grounds and browns out their ca
tie, while I "a planters Of thi, section s.v
the dra,uage contract must be fully com
piled with The only way we can sec GU
of the difficulty is for the company to GO
ahead, put on all their dredges and enough
new ones to complete the work promptly
and expeditiously, end run them night and
day until tae work is filiShed and this
action we believe the company has deter
mined 20 take.
The Secretary Of War has Just sent to con-
gress report on the proposed Improvement
Of the st. Augustine harbor. The report
states that while thn harbor can be made
good by one expenditure OF a million dollars,
the Judgment Of the board officers who
examined 1t, is that the requirements #
commerce at that point are scarcely sufii-
Gent 70 warrant the expenditure The
report goes on to say that st. Augustine is
closely connected with Jacksonville by rail
and water, whore S6,5,OOO havo already
been expeIded on the st. johns river. and
i've sum on tho bar. Jacksonville, it says,
is tie natural outlet for the St Augustine
country. The report, however, recon neads
tie appropriation OF S3j, 900 for tho protec-
ton II Anastasia Island and North Point ia
s.. Augustine harb3r.
At kissimmea, Wednesday evening, while
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