The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-12

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from Tennessee. from birmingham, from
Lake Champaln, and from South Caro-
| lima and | am Of the opinion that the ore
of this vicinity ID equal II not superior to
them all There is enough here to run
/ blast furnaces for two centuries and more.
can take YOU said he enthusiastically,
''in half hours walk to where inexhausti-
BILE VEINS Of ore might be worked. There g
no use going TO Birmingham or Sweden for
iron ore. Atlanta has as much ore as the
state Of Georgia, perhaps the entire south
| will need in the next two or three cen
| turtles"
FLORIDA.
The banks Of Ocala are doing big bust
ness.
George Phelps Will open a new store at
| Oldtown.
The Tallahassee market is well supplied
with fine, hard-headed, home raised cab
bages.
The Grand Lodge of Florida, A. F. and
A. NJ, will convene in Jacksonville next
| Tuesday.
d. B. Reed Of Pensacola has been selected
as mail carrier 10 quarantine for the winter.
The salary is S2j per month.
s. A. Jones Of Tampa has gone to Wash
ington o push the settlement Of the Tampa
reservation question before congress.
The assessors new books for 1885, Just
accepted, show nearly s., 900 of taxable
| property in Marion county-a handsome
| increase over 1887.
Messrs. Mitchal and Piercs, employees of
the Banner Office of Ocaa, have submitted
a bid for printing the Christian Advocate,
| now published at Sanford.
George Austin Of DeLand will put up
cool 800 that he can wrap and pack box
or 100 boxes of oranges quicker than any
other man in Volusia county.
At the master in chancery's sale last
Monday the wharf Of the Pensacola Ice
Company was bid in by Mrs. Cody the
holder of the mortgage for $1,000.
The Merchants National bank OF Ocala,
earned net 81, 953 for the first years bust
ness, and 5000 Of which was paid its stock
holders as a semi-annual dividend.
]. II. Dudly has resigned his position as
night operator at the South Florida depot
at Orlando, and int DIS opening a mer-
chandise and brokerage Office soon.
Judge Cordero Of Ocala. is busy making
out his accounts, proceeds of Chautauqua
sales of dishes, etc, which amounted to
| $3.50 q. Everything went dirt cheap.
The telegraph meeting, which was to
have been held at Braident1Wn on Jan l.
was postponed in order to give the com
mittee more time in which to perfect their
report.
AtOcala seventy-three out of seventy-five
men answered in response to subp9nas is
sued upon Especial venire" to try the case
of the state VS.. G. w. Hodge, charged with
murder.
Several northern visitors have recently
made their appearance in Bronson, among
the number Dr. William Young of Gales
vile, Wis, who was formerly a resident of
Bronson.
w. G. Robinson at Gainesville has just
returned from Ocala, where he has shipped
$50 bales of cotton worth about $25, 900.
The cotton was shipped to English aud
northern splnners.
C. j. Huter of Bronson, who has been for
a number of years in the employ of w. J.
Epperson Of that place as head bookkeeper
has located at Ocala, as bookkeeper in the
First National bank.
Benjamin Price, of Lake Weir, who is
accused of stabbing Mr.. Roach with a knife,
was brought to Ocala by Deputy McCaa,
and placed under IS 600 bond. The doctors
say Roach cannot live.
Maj Marks of Orlando, sent to New
York Thursday samples of tobacco raised
III Orlando, with letter from Senior
Perez, who says that it will compare favor
ably with Havana leaf.
Mrs. Dr. Walkup died at Boardman, Jan.
5. She leaves a husband and ten children.
The community deplore her loss. Her
father, Rev. Mr.. Iverey, died recently in
Sumter county, aged 90
The steamship Clinton discharged very
large freight at Puuta Gorda on Sunday
Laborers were so scarce at that place that
all the deck hands and waters on the ship
had to lend hand to put the cargo on
shore.
At the last meeting Of the Pensacola
board of health that body donated, to
Messrs. Shlttlewortn and Mcintyre, $50
each for having performed the duties of
s Military guard, SO faithfully and satisfac-
torily.
At Key West, Monday, Uni ted States
Marshal Peter j. Knight, while cleaning
his revolver accidentally shot himself in
one Of his fest. Fortunately, however, the
wound is considered not serious, and will
only give the marshal slight trouble.
w. q. McFetridge, of Arkansas, of
whose purchase Of land in and around
Ocala, mention was made few DAYS ago,
has added to his possessions in Marion
county by the purchase through Col. Liv-
ingston, Of iae piece Of property on Lake
Weir. Price paid S4,700.
William Brison Of Key West has curl
osity at his house in the shape of a puppy,
recently born, which has his two forefeet
cloven. They resemble very much the feet
of a pig, and were It not for the fact that it
was given birth to by female dog it
would be difficult to say whether it was a
puppy or pig.
A fine scheme that the Georgia Southern
and Florida Company in contemplation
is the erection of a grand and beautiful
hotel, Of large proportions and elegant ap-
pointments, at Suwanee White Sulphur
Springs. Here is where the Georgia South.
ern crosses the Suwanee river, and right
fully deserves the beautiful title "Suwanee
River Route
w. M. Dunn Of DeLqnd, a saw mill man,
has had considerable trouble in securing
logs large enough from which to cut the So
called standard orange box, and is now
making box, identical in cubic measure,
but of different shape II will pack one
layer less Of oranges in depth, and one layer
more in width, in shape being like the
boxes in which foreign fruit is packed, ex-
cept that thy will not bulge.
Joe Williams, of Key West, son Of Joe
Williams, lately deceased, while cleaning
his revolver Monday, let the hammer slip
while the muzzle was pointing toward his
body. Fortunately h!s hand broke the
force Of tae ball, and passing through his
hand, it lodged In the heshy part of his
stomach, ana was easily ext acted by him
self. His physician pronounced the wound
% be slight, though painful in the hand.
Wednesday by about years old, son
of James Little, a mechanic Of Ocala, was
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