The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-06
FLORIDA.

Circuit court convenes in Ocala Tuesday.
There were eight deaths at Fernandina
last month.
The semi-tropical exposition at Ocala VIII
open Jan. Is, 1890.
Henry Nance died at st. Augustine
Thursday, aged % years.
A teachers institute will be conducted at
st. Petersburg on Tuesday, Oct. 8
Train service has been resumed on the
Clay Springs and Apopka railroad
B. L. Dean has been reappointed as city
market clerk of Orlando for the ensuing
year.
The Peace River Short Line has ordered
new steel rails to be laid on portions of the
road.
The phosphate companies are shipping
immense quantities Of Arcadia phosphateS
every week.
Mr. brentwood, Of the English colony in
Alachua county, has made application for
pqstptlce-
The purpose Of erecting a school house
between Orange Home and Wildwood has
been abandoned.
The Catholics Of Bloomingdale are put
ting the lumber on the ground for the erec-
ton Of a church house 24x45 feet.
A dispatch from Citra denies that J. A.
oranEe grove, as. before reported.
Perry Dice of Madison had the misfortune
to cut fearful cash across his ankle and
into theFepne with an ak few days ago.
About fifty carloads of sand a day are
being dumped inside piling for the purpose
of filling up for the new depot at Tampa.
The old school building at Wildwood,
which was blown down last spring. is bang
rebuilt and fitted up for use the coming
term.
At Tampa the steamboat Lola has been
sold to parties in Miami, and will be taken
there to run between Key West and that
point.
Egg plants are ripe at Palmetto, and the
growers are beginning TO ship them in con-
siderable quantities, realizing fair returns
therefor
]. s. Pinson Of Madison reports his yield
of corn and fodder from nine and half
acres to be 1850 bundles of fodder and 1876
bushels of corn.
Maj. Duryee of Fernandina has just
closed contract to furnish rough and
dressed lumber for nine cottages to be built
on Cumberland Island.
At the meeting of the city council of
Tampa Thursday night, $40, 900 was APP
propriated for the erection Of city hall.
The purchase of the Gamewell Electrical
Fire Alarm system was authorized.
1t is reported that the Florida Southern
will enlarge the Arcadia depot in time to
store the coming orange and vegetable crop.
The freights received at the Arcadia depot
are four times as much as last year.
Robert Brown, alias jim Whittle (col-
ored went into Capt. Hausman's store at
Madison, last Saturday night. and walked
out with hat and pair of pants without
leaving the proper amount charged for
them. He was arrested.
The recently appointed postmaster of
Apopka City, B. II. Derby, forwarded, to
the postoffice department some days ago,
the required bond and is now awaiting Doti-
| fication of its acceptance. William L.
| Wilson will assume the duties of assistant
| postmaster.
The following municipal ticket was
elected in Fort Brooke on Monday: Mayor
u. t. Lesley. Councilmen-L. ID. Town
send, s. P. Phillips, Daniel Walker, A. NJ.
Cowart and Harold Clarkson. Tax Assessor
aud Collector-W. 0. Ellis. Treasurer
w. c. Clarkson. Marshal-W. G. Green.
The Adamsville school house, in Sumter
county, has been moved to the new site
selected for it, about three-fourths of mile
northwest of its present location. The recent
consolidation of the Adamsville and Har-
mony schools rendered such change neces-
sary for the better accommodation Of the
children.
A stock company is now being formed in
Eustis to be called the "Eustis Fruit and
Vegetable Company for the purpose of
engaging in the growing of citrus. and
other fruits and vegetables, also to buy aud
sell on commission, or otherwise the same.
| The projectors of the enterprise have So
lected los acres of land situated near Eustis
Mariana Times: The making of quilts
/ nil lie hai ind, al ra1 ir,b
some of our lady friends Some weeks age
an account was sent in of a lady making
one with 1900 pieces, and another who
made one having 8, 200 pieces, and on Tues
| day last we were shown one made by Lizzie
Anderson, a little girl Is years old, daughter
of Capt. j. B. Anderson, which contained
1850 pieces not including the border, and
the number of stitches Is estimated at 349
440.
Madison Recorder: Last Tuesday was q
busy day in Madison. The school board
was in session, the patrons of st. john.
| seminary elected a supervisor, the stock
holders of the Farmers Warehouse Associa
ton held an important meeting, the city
council was in session and ordered some
blocked alleys opened. two new establish
ments were opened, a retail and a wholesale
establishment; an election Was on tout soor
declared, Off for the extension of the limits
of the toxin.
Orlande Record: The case of the state OF
Florida rs. L. H. Eldridge for criminal
libel, which has recently been on trial before
the circuit court of DeLand, was ended last
Saturday by the jury bringing in a verdict
OF guilty with recommendation to mercy.
The, state was represented by Judge j. d.
Beggs Of Orlando, and Maj. Alexander st.
ClairAhnams of Tavares. The alleged
loel appeared in the December Weekly NeUS
of April 20, 1889, of which paper Eldridge
publisher aud proprietor, the paper
was publishing an article stating that
two citizsns of Volusia county had been
caught ia a criminal act, aud on this
article was based the indictment under
which Mr.. Eldridge was tried and con-
victed. The case vas one of peculiar inter-
est, from the fact that it was the first time
in the history of the state that any one had
been tried for the offense OF criminal libel,
and owing to the prominence of the parties
interested in the proceeding. Under the
common law the publication of an article
which tends to disgrace or degrade person
is libel, and the publisher is not allowed to
plead justification on account of its truth.
The constitution and laws Of Florida, how
ever, allow the defendant to introduce evil
dence to prove that the publication was
true and was published for good motives.
If he succeeds in this he must be acquitted
or exhonerated
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