The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-27

| llrlH OF Johnson, Smith az Johnson mas De5n
employed to represent the prosecution.
FLORIDA
! A new sail line has been established from
| New Y ork to Tampa
Leesburg's free excursions on the lakes
| are permanent fixtures.
Manatee is Dragging over fine Niagara
| and Muscat grapes. Florida will soon be as
famous for her fine grapes she is for her
| oranges.
Ocala wants the Chicago board Of trade
| TO visit that city. and will have delegation
to meet them when they come to Tampa
| and invite them TO inspect that thriving
burg
The Citizens National Bank of Orlando
has had placed to its credit $24 600 by W.
n. Cooler d Co. of New York, who have
purchased that amount Of the city's bonds
at 80 per cent.
The cigar box factory at Tampa will be
| ready to commence work by Aug. 10. The
| proprietor, Mr. Wood is putting in the best
| machinery that can be had, and will make
| first-class box.
At Tampa about fifty reels of cigarettes
were captured by the customs officers on
| board the Mascotte on last Thursday. Jose
Carregal and Emelio Lopez were arrested
as the guilty parties.
Palatka Herald Capt. A. V. Mount,
| who left Palatka last winter to go into bust
ness at Pablo, has about sold out his inter
| ests there and contemplates returning to
this city, where he will again 60 into the
| grocery business.
Lieut. Clarence Deems and son arrived in
| ST. Augustine on Monday and registered at
the Alcazar. Lieut.. Deems will take charge
| of the st. Francis barracks in a few days
replacing Lieut. Writ Robinson, who has
been ordered to Fort Adams, r. |.
Titusville Star: The schooner Big Four,
| owned by Capt. Beu Hogg, was seized bv a
revenue cutter recently and carried to Kew
" est for sailing outside without papers.
Capt. Ben has been running these risks for
| some time, but unfortunately was caught
at last.
An enormous pumpkin, raised by Mr..
| Lamb, marager of the English mills, is on
| exhibition at Sullies fruit store at st.
| Augustine Mr. Sullies was offered cents
for each seed in the pumpkjn the other day,
| and Tuesday party offered to give him
cents per seed,
Miss Lima Jones of Jacksonville, who has
| been in New York for some time studying
| music, has signed contract to sing in
new opera of Manager Rice's, which will be
pat on the stage at the Standard uheater
about the middle of September. The part
| allotted to Miss Jones is a prominent one
The name of the opera is as yet a secret
The American Pipe Company, who have
| the contract for putting in the Tallahassee
water works, finding it impossible to get
| workmen TO go to Florida in the summer.
| asked for an extension OF time, which the
city council have granted. They Will begin
work in earnest Oct. l, and guarantee to
have wator flowing through the city by
| July l, 1890.
On Monday afternoon, about o'clock,
| the residence of Burton q Harrison, at
| Crescent City, with its entire contents. was
| destroyed by fire. Both of the owners were
absent at the time, Mr.. Burton being at
| Summer Haven and Mr.. Harrison had left
only a few days before for Connecticut.
The house was situated in the orange grove
and a large number of their finest trees
were ruined from the effects of the flames.
These trees were some eighteen or twenty
years old.
The survey of the Tampa and Gulf Coast
road has been completed by Capt. f. B.
Carter. the engineer The distance by the
lower route is 21.S miles; the Keystone
route is about five miles greater, but there
| win not be 50 much bridging and trestling,
which will go a long ways in eQuaizing The
| expense Of building by that line. The Key
stone route has great advantage in the
character of the company through which
the road would run. As general thing the
| lands are good, the country we'll settled and
we'll improved.
Cocoa correspondence TitusvilIe Star.
Col. Setz, who was most successful last
year in raising turkeys, has been unfortu-
nate this season in losing about fifty of his
young turkeys An insect called the
| chicken flea was the cause of the death in
| the young turkeys. They attack them
about the head and breast aud finally cause
death 1t is strange that these heas only
seem to be in certain places, for a lady who
| lives in Cocoa and raises chickens and tur-
keys for her own use is not troubled at ali
by the chicken fleas on her place. and her
young chickens and turkeys have not had a
! flea on them.
At St. Augustine the long talked Of
electric railway is soon to become an estab-
lished fact. DR.. J. X. Rainev, president of
the board, has received letters from parties
| interested in building the,road. STATING that
| arrangements have been made to begin its
immediate construction. The sleepers for
that portion of the road running along the
block pavement are already built. The