The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-21
FLORIDA.


creasing every day.
TIE Tallahassee Street Railway Company
want to buy fifteen mules.
The Tallahassee Street Railway Company
will have their stables in Long Grove add.
| ton.
The work on the new residence of the
! Hon. H. E. Day at Gainesville is progress
ing favorably.
The Tallahassee Cotton Compress Com
| pany paid cut over 81, 400 Friday and Sat
| urday for cotton.
The fall term of the circuit court for
| Manatee county will convene on the first
| Monday in October.
A three-mast schooner discharged a cargo
OF 472 tons of coal at the Egmont coal sheds
| at BraidenCown last week.
DR.. j. j. Harris of Sanford offers his
property in that place for sale, as he has
made up his mind to leave the place.
The lumber for the new Methodist church
at IltusvllIe IS on the ground, aud work on
the building will soon commence.
Guavas are rjpening fast, and there is no
prospect for an end of the crop for a long
time yet, as the trees are still bloc ming.
The town council of Belleview has made
arrangements to insure the town hail for
$1,000 for three years. The rate will be $40
per year.
There is no change for the worse in the
condition of Mr.. Summerlin of Orlando,
and his physician entertains hopes of his re-
covery.
Mauatee county farmers took advantage
of last weeks su shine to make hay, many
OF them saving a sufficient quantity to last
them through the year.
There IS in Tallahassee a little 12-year-old
colored boy, Shade Adams by name, who
has six fingers on each hand, six toes on his
right foot and five on the lett
The residents of Cocoa have abandoned
the P0insett tramway scheme, and are be-
coming more satisfied with the working Of
the Indian River Steamboat Company.
The contractor that is now building the
big hotel at St. Sebastian, on Indian river,
has just ordered 81 500 worth Of hardware
at Jacksonville to be used in that structure.
The artesian well at the county jail at
jacksonville il now down to depth of
about 500 feet, and may strike water at
almost any moment The drill is now in
hintrock.
Four colored men succeeded in cutting
their way through thessouth walls of the
Jail at Gainesville Thursday, scaled the
fence and fled away to liberty. They had
not been captured at last accounts
Maj. Mclaughlin has just been offered
$4,000 for the lot adjoining the Travellers
hotel at Jacks 1nvile which he has declined.
The same party then agreed to lease it for
five years and pay $210 per month for it.
which was also refused.
The case Of the state of Florida vs.. Will
lam Cauthorn, Joseph Cauthorn and Will
lam Priest for the murder OF Leonard
Gore, and the case of James Rexford for
keeping gambling house in ST. Augustine
hnVn hoan p1jttaA iNNyT ,t1cra nnl
the March term of court.
The property of Leon county is assessed
at $2,065, 232. The county commissioners.
Ia session Wednesday, made the following
levies for the current year: For county
tax proper, mills; roads and bridges 3:
building u; interest and outstanding in
debtedness, 4; county school, mills.
The 400 state convicts have been awarded
to Hon. Il. B. Bailey of Monticello for two
years. He is to pay $4,000 for tho first year
and 1000 for the second year. Mr.. Bailey
has thousands of acres Of the best egricul-
tural lands in Florida, and he will engage
In farming on grand scale with the coz
victs.
Messrs. Sabel Bros. have at their store at
Jacksonville an alligator skin which is
probably the largest and fiuest that tue
state has ever produced. 1t is Is feet &
inches long by feet wide, and when green
it weighed about $50 pounds, aud filed a
barrel full. IL will be on exhibition at the
Sub-Tropical this winter.
The DeSoto Phosphate Mining Company
has extensive works On Peace river. There
are two large buildings, with fine machinery
for drying aud storing the phosphate The
company has a small steamer towing its
barges between the phosphate beds and the
works. The hull is now built for a much
larger and more powerful one, and the Gu
CINE and machinery are daily expected.
Cocoa Public Spirit: c. r. Kidder of
Merritt came to Indian river eight years
ago from the north an invalid from rheu-
matism. his joints swollen and infiamed and
his limbs distorted. He had 60 cents in his
pocket when he landed. He has made a
hving-good, conf Portable, bachelor fare
by manual labor, principally by grubbng
and clearing land; has home on the island.
Braidentown has genuine curiosity in
TIE Shape OF three legged pig The little
thing Is perfect in every respect, being
the finest OF q litter of SIX, except that
his left fore-leg isabsant. the place where
It should have been being marked by a
homeless projection about an inch in length,
lie seems to get around with perfect ease
and is alw VS. ready for a frolic with his
little brothers and sisters when they come
around.
Pensacola business men organized a
chamber of commerce Tuesday night. OIL
GERS were elected as follows: President. w
a: 5. Wheeler; first vice president, George
w. Wright; second vice president. C. W.
Hagerman; third vice president, A. V.
Cubbs; fourth vice president, c. Nc
Oerting; fifth vice president, Lewis Bear.
sixth vice president, j. T. Whiting; seventh
vice president, J. Denis Wolfe; secretary.
). N. Van Praag; treasurer, William II.
movies. Executive COMMITTEES: George
w. Wright, Xix NJ. Robinson, G. w. Hager.
man, w. II. Hutchinson. John Cosgrove.
Orlando Record: Wednesday Mai P. A.
Foster and his son Frank narrowly escaped
what might have been most serious acct
dent. While driving out 20 his home the
Major missed the bridge that crosses the
ditcn near c. A. Boones place. thus rnn-
ming into the ditch. The shock caused nv
the sudden stop threw Mr. Foster over the
wheel to the ground, while Frank was
thrown over the dasher, falling between
the single-tree and the horse, but luckily
the animal stood perfectly STILL otherwise
the young lad would have been most
seriously hurt, if not killed. Outside of a
slight hurt to one Of the majors feet. there
was no damage done.
A second negro died at Jasper Wednesday
night from the camp-car shooting affair the
mgnt before. The magistrate VINO held the
inquest says the further testimony was that
some OF the negroes in the car were playiup
cards In one corner of the car, when these
three notorious gamblers, who, it seems
laVa haan in rho kob hit Of FoI