The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-18

4 get 10, ana lurtaef ueNeIo1iIle4lS VIII De
awaited with Interest.
FLORIDA.
The oat crop promises well in Madison
| county.
The adjourned term OF circuit court for
| Taylor county meets tomorrow.
Fire consumed the residence Of ]. E.
| Wyrick, ST., near LlOyd's station, on March
| 10.
! r. C. Wa ers was elected superintendent
of the Presbyterian Sabbath school at
| Apopka last Sunday.
1t is claimed that the Florida cabbage
crop will be below the average this season
and prices will bs higher.
Capt C. E. Pierce is now in the north
| buying iron and machinery for the Apopka
City and Clay Springs railway.
| John Shuler (colored), an escaped con-
vict from Georgia, was captured by Sheriff
John Pearce of Tallahassee a few days ago.
William T. Wilson has been investing in
! Apopka City real estate. having purchased
the G. G. Dolby place, i'll the Bradshaw adj
dition.
The grand and petit jurors for the spring
term of the circuit court will be drawn in
the court house at Fernandina on Monday
March %.
March IS will be baby day at the Semi
awarded the handsomest baby 10 months
old and under.
Slabs are being hauled and placed in posi-
ton for the new railroad track on Front
street, Fetnandina. These win soon be
| thrown into the marsh and covered with
sand after which piling will be placed and
the track completed
The past week has been fruitful in changes
in public Offices at Tallahassee. Judge j.
1 49, 4 i IL
office Of clerk # the supreme court, vice ID,
C.. Wilson resigned, and r. c. Long ac-
| copied Q office Of county judge, vice J. B.
| Whitfield resigned.
Last Friday night as John Sharp. the
night Waterman of the NJ. G. G. Company
at Madison, was making his rounds he was
| set upon by a person, who felled him to the
ground with blow on the head with his
fist. Mr.. Sharp's face came in contact with
post while falling and is considerably
bruised. He has no idea who his assailant
| was
While James Meginniss and a young
| friend, each about the age Of thirteen, were
| boating aud cunning on small lake near
Tallahassee last week, the former accident
ally pitched overheard with his gun, while
the boat was shot off some distapc'. But the
| plucky little fellow, abandoning his gun.
| struck out for the boat, which he succeeded
helped him.
H. M. Jeter, of the Jeter &, B9ardman
| Company, arrived at Fernandina Wednes-
| day. On Thursday a meeting of the board
| Of public works was held, when the con
tract and details for building the water
works were signed by both parties Under
| the conditions of the agreement the work
il to be completed within SIX months from
March 10, but Mr.. Jeter thinks it will be
done in four.
| Leesburg Commercial: Leesburg will
| have this summer few more street lamps,
| a cigar factory, a large, frst-class hotel, a
| new Episcopal church, several hundred
shade trees set out. and general and big
boom What Leesburg wants, beside the
innumerable blessings she now enjoys, is a
few more energetic capitalists to locate
within her borders, and these we are going
to have. We are going to have, also, the
Florida Christian Advocate, and number
of handsome residences. The Methodist
church parsonage is now being erected
A colored man, Needham Nashburn. was
accidentally shot by Thos. Clinch, a colored
boy, last Thursday morning while out
rabbit hunting near Fernandina.
distance when a rabbit was jumped
near him. Chnch, not knowing that the
former was near blazed away at the rabbit.
| He missed his game, but the unfortunate
Mas burn received the contents of the gun
in the back Of the head, killing him in
stantly The boy gave himself up to the
sheriff, but an investigation showed that
the affair was purely accidental and he was
discharged.
Tallahassee TaLahdSsedn: Re Gently
Judge Hilton, in Jacksonville, received a
little missive from money swindler, Civ
ing his name as Laurie Perkins" of Tai
lahassee Nv o has not been out of our CITY
| for many months, and stating that himself
and sister were at the Duval house, and in
need of $40 to pay their way home, as he
had suffered a loss on his way from Wash
ingtoD. The hnd-hearted Judge know
| Jag the parties, and wishing to in
quire more particularly into the
misfortune Of his young friends, instead of
sending the money asked for by the colored
messenger, walked around to the Duval
| house. Inquirlng for the parties, no such
name could be found on the register. The
clerk. however, said he had seen person in
the morning who had asked for pen and
paper on which to write note. But no
person answering to the name or descriD-
| ton of Perkins could be found at any of
the places at which the judge called to in
quire.
Cotton was not always king in the south.
AT former and not very distant period
the culture of indigo was profitable and
a material industry in the southern states,
and was as much the king of products as
| cotton is at present In many sections of
Florida the old indigo fields can still be
seen, connected with which are the watts,
| drying houses, st1re-rooms, etc. For some
reason, perhaps because the preparation of
indigo into a marketable article was
an expensive and unwholesome opera
ton, its culture yielded to cotton,
which, if less profitable, is more
attractive. The annual exp )rts of indigo
| from the southern states once amounted to
| 100000 pounds. At the beginning OF the
present century it was only 5000 pound,
AID now there are only few places in
Georgia and South Carolina where it is Gull
tivated at all. The department Of agricul-
ture is of the opinion that its cultivation in
| Florida at this time would be remarkably
| profitable, as many improved methods Of
preparing it for market have been
! discovered, which materially lesse /
the cost and tedium Of the opera
ton. The following directions for the
cultivation and preparation of the indigo
will prove Of interest to those who wish to
give the industry a trial: The plant re-
quires a moderately rich soil, the seed being
sown early in the spring, sometimes broad
cast, but preferably in shallow drills about
10 inches apart, so that weeds can be re-
moved or kept down By hoeing. The plants
will be ready to cut in about three months
after sowing the seeds. They are cut Just
hafora coming intn dOwar n M ~ cnnd itiOn g