The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-05
FLORIDA.


Monticello.
Pensacola only had fifteen deaths last
month. Population 15,0 900.
Cotton is reported waist high from all
sections of Jefferson county.
Grapes are ripening, and the Monticello
market will soon be well stocked with the
delicious fruit.
The Leesburg Rifles and their friends will
arrive at ST. Augustine on the evening of
July g. and as their tickets are good until
the goth, it is hoped they will spend few
days in town.
1t is learned on what is considered good
authority that Judge l.. M. Brooks of Els
Gambia county contemplates a resignation
in the very early future. The gentleman,
it is said, will take charge of a sawmill at
Morristown. Ala
A fruit growers syndicate will.be organ
lied at Mariana for the growing of fruits,
which succeed so admirably in that section,
viz: Strawberries, pears, peaches, Chinese
and Japan fruits, and melons. There will
also be fruit growers association organ
lied the coming week.
P. o. Hanna, near Mount Pleasant,
plowed up couple of queer looking pots in
his field one day last week. They we're in
verted, and side by side when found. They
are made Of clay. From their perfect shape
and ornamented rims it is supposed that
they were made by civilized people, but to
what age they belong would be hard to de-
termine. They were both intact when
found, but one was slightly broken by the
pillow.
DR.. Mallette, who is attending the pris-
oners in the VoluSia county jail informs the
DeLand NelUS that their condition is pitt
able in the extreme, and that the life of a
ms hO hos 10 in in ba ioil
so short time as during the hot summer
months is in danger. Gaskins, the muir
derer, is suffering terribly with liberated
throat and stomach, and the other prison
ers are in bad condition, The probability
is that Gaskius will not live to expiate his
crime on the gallows-
Sanford Journal: Col. Bob Hardee of
Hardeevile, on Indian river, was in the
city to-day. He is much pleased at the idea
of putting on a line of steamers from here
to Lake Poinsett, and says the transporta-
ton outlook on Indian river was never
brighter The proposed road from ST.
Augustine, and line of boats by the East
Coast Canal Company, and the opening of
the port of New Smyrna are all enter
prises which the near future may see con-
summated, and in which we are all deeply
interested.
j. w. Newman, the engineer who made
the estimates for draining Sanford, adj
dressed the board Monday night, explain
ing the plans proposed by him, but said he
favored the third plan, which was to line
the bottom and sides of the bitches with
wood soaked in coal tar. His reasons for
preferring it are, in the first place it is a
great deal cheaper; second, it is easier re-
paired in case it gets out of order, and will
last from twenty-five to thirty years He
said 1t had been used for many years in
large cities for side drains and always gave
good satisfaction, and was the foundation
of all wooden pavements.
On June 25, as Frank Crawford and
Dennis Sheridan were at work at the Har-
ris place, eight miles below Fort Myers, they
got into dispute about moving some lime
and shingles. One word brought on ano Their.
and they were seen to retire behind a build
ing, as colored man expressed it, to
make up" Some person appeared on the
ground in time to catch Crawford in his
arms as he was falling. Crawford's last
words were, He has cut my heart, or my
heart is cut" and almost Immediately he
expired. On receipt of the news, sheriff's
posse was sent for Sheridan and he was
lodged in Jail. Crawford was at one time
editor of the Fort Meade Pioneer.
The Brooksville Ne,cs figures the profit
on tobacco raising in fernando at $3.50 per
acre, and figures and reasons it out as fol
lows: 1t is safe to estimate the crop of
Havana leaf on our fernando land at
1000 pounds to the acre James Parkston
made 800 pounds TO the acre in ante bel
lum days one-half of which, with proper
handling, will turn out fine wrappers that
will bring the grower from 81 to 81 so per
pound, according to grade. At the lowest
figures the remaining 500 pounds will bring
from 40 to 90 cents per pound as filters.
The cost Of growing will not exceed Is cents
per pound. But there are crop failures.
some Doubling Thomas suggests. Granted.
but never total failure. The crop NAV
not produce wrappers, but will always pro
duce filters, and as such will bring from
$500 to 5000 per acre.
The late storm did considerable damape
at Hudson, fernando county The truck
farms along the borders of the coast are a
total wreck. There is scarcely a panel of
fence left standing to protect what little
there IS left The tide rose at a frightful
rate, and the whole country for a half
mile TO mile back, was a vast sea of
water carrylng,a mass of fencing mixed with
melons and other truck from the fields. All
the people living near the Gulf fled from
their homes and sought refuge back in the
hills. Some of the neighbors went and left
their houses without putting up their
grocery supplies on some place higher than
the floor, and when they returned all was
washed away or ruined with salt water
some not having even meal Of victuals left.
Nearly all the poultry about the farms and
quite number of hogs were drowned. The
water got high enough 70 stand 2 to 10
inches deem On the floor of dwailinCs