The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-22

home a few miles northwest Of Apopka
City on the evening Of July 10.
A Lee county cattleman says that the in
discriminate firing of the woods did at least
$4,000 damages in Lake county.
Twenty-one deeds, eight mortgages and
four releases were fled at the Volusia county
clerks Office for record for the week ending
Saturday last
Julian Sharp sawed off part OF his right
thumb at Bakers mill few days ago. 1t
has been stuck back, and he hopes it will
grow on again.
Reports from every section of the county
indicate that Taylor will make plenty Of
corn to supply her citizens and some to sell
to sister counties
A son of Daniel H. Carpenter Of Con
necticut attacked a newspaper correspond
ent at st. Augustine Friday. Carpenter is
said to be Of uusound mind.
The treasurer of Marion county, Samuel
Pyles, had check for 5000 RENTED him
by the state comptroller at Tallahassee in
June, whlch has not yet come to hand.
The Tayares, Orlando and Atlantic rail-
road is having about 30. 900 new ties cut, and
within the next three months Supt. McKen
nan will have the entire road virtually re-
tied.
DR.. J. w. Douglass, formerly of Plant
City, has purchased the Cowart property
near the Plant hotel and become citizen
OF Tampa. iHe proposes to practice med
icine.
Mallory Horne of Jasper was so unfortu-
nate as to mash the bone out Of the end of
his Left thumb last Saturday, by a blow
from hammer, while trying to punch a
mill belt.
A number of citizens Of Orlando went
down to Kissimmee Friday to take part in
the celebration Of the opening of the Sugar
Belt railroad, accompanied by the Orlando
cornet band.
TIE Methodists of Starke have been con-
Quoting a protracted meeting several days
Rev. j. N. Jones, assisted by Rev. E. Z.
Barnett of Live Oak, has preached some
excellent sermons.
Lieut.. Bingham has been promoted to the
captalncy Of the Halifax Rifles, and Charles
Balough, the young and handsome looking
county commissioner from that district, is
the Rifles first lieutenant
Mr.. Plant is having magnificent paint
ing of The Tampa Bay hotel made winch
viii be hung in prominent position in the
main corridor Of the palace Of liberal arts
IN the exposition building in Paris.
DR.. Ida f. Rruce, of Tampa, has received
the appointment of state superin-
tendent OF the department of by
gene and heredity of the Woman's
Christian temperance Union Of the state of
Florida.
RImors of railroad deal at Gainesvill
has set the Fairbanks people up in business.
They have organized a company and are
going to build a railroad to Newnan's
Lake to compete with the proposed Gaines
Vile line.
Lieut.. Writ Robinson, who has had
charge of ST Francis barracks, st. Angus
tine, since the removal of the troops, has
received orders for his transfer to Fort
Adams, r. |. He will be Superseded by
Lieut. Deems.
George J. Scammell of Orange City, is
negotiating with New York parties to de-
liver to them 100000 feet of yellow pine
lumber. 1t will be shipped to New York
by schooner from New Smyrna and out
over Mosquito inlet.
Frank Sans, who for the past four years
has held the position of superintendent of
the life saving service for the Seventh dis
trict, has been bounced by the powers at
Washington and H. B. Shaw, republican
at Ormond, appointed in his place.
Ga last Friday as Leslie Brown was
driving bunch of cattle near Tampa. and
while his attention was directed another
way, a mad bull charged on him, and so
time. Fortunately he sustained no injury.
A petition asking the county commits
sioners to call an election to decide whether
or not whisky can bs sold in Levy county
for the next two years is being pretty freely
circulated 1t is proposed to present it to
the commissioners at their August meeting
The Orange Belt Railway Company has
purchased new steamer to carry tue mail
from Tampa to Manatee via ST. Petersburg,
the contract for which they secured about
two months ago. The new boat is 60 feet
long and has II feet beam, and is very fast.
the steamer Mary Disston was put on the
route, but could not make the time.
Mrs j NJ. Wilson, the noted pineapple
raiser of orange county, is threatened with
blindness. While directing operations
among her plants several days ago she be-
c me overheated, which caused an affection
Of the eyes known as iritis. She Temporal
rily lost the sight of her left eye, but Dr.
DIN is confident of entirely restoring her
sight.
Louis C. Massey, lately appointed county
commissioner of Orange county by Gov
Fleming, has rendered his resignation to
that board. After having been appointed
on the commission to revise the statutes of
Florida, it became doubtful if Mr. Massey
could cOnsiste1 tly hold the two offices, and
to save all comment and future complica-
tions, he has rendered his resignation as be-
fore stated.
Pensacola NetcS: J. 7. McConaughy has
on exhibition at his place OF business, No.
81 South Palafox street, a copy of The
Daily Citizen of date July 2 1868, pub
lished at Vicksburg, Miss The Citizen is
printed on wall paper and is one of the last
edition published. 1t is the property of
Capt. c. $. Moore of Flomaton, Ala, who
prizes it very highly. The paper is quite a
curiosity and is filed with war news from
one end to the other.
A white man at Smyrna day or tw O
ago bet a negro that the negro could not
eat the two watermeions before them. The
negro was to pay double price for the melons
if he failed. He cut the melons, weighing
thirty pounds each, up into sections, and il
was fun TO see his lips slide up and down the
sections of those melons, Within five min
utes nothing was left but the bare rindS.
which he turned over TO the white man.
who had just paid 70 cents for them
Mr.. Lamb, the manager of the East
Florida Land and Produce Company
brought some pumpkin seed with him from
England, which he planted in his garden in
North City, a suburb of st. Augustine.
Yesterday he decided to cut the largest Of
the pumpkins whlcn turned the scale at
ninty-tive pounds, and is 5 feet inches in
circumference. He has several on the vines
still which he thinks will equal if not sur
pass the above mentioned figures when
ripe.
Mr. Sweafzar tha lassaa Of CbiDolo i,o+ol