The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-30
FLORIDA.

A chestnut burr is to be opened at
st. Augustine soon. Amateurs are TO pro-
duce "Pinafore.n
Five carloads of phosphate rock from
below passed through Gainesville Monday
destined to Atlanta
Over 500 visitors from Jacksonville.
PaIatka aud other interior towns spent last
Sunday in St. Augustine.
s. s. Braddock Of Huntington, Putnam
county, has discovered valuable deposits OF
phosphate on his land at that place.
Hosmer, Ten Eyck and Hamm, the oars
men, are on their way TO Tampa. A purse
viii probably be offered for regatta.
Pensions have been granted to citizens of
Florida Is follows: Original invalid LaRoy
Dsmsat. Intsrlachsn; Joshua J. !BlaRton,
LAKE, Bird.
Perry Warrington, a gentleman from
Boston, proposes, with citizens of Gaines
VILE who are willing to join him, to estab-
hsh az once a canning factory.
C. A Sickles of Gainesville made a close
guess on Nellie Bly's trip around the world.
Nellie made il in ~ days hours and IL
minutes. Mr. Slckles came within minute
and quarter of that time.
1ilghmamis mammoth mills at Palatka.
which are about completed, turned out The
other day 1000 feet of lumber in one hour.
When the machinery climbers up" the
| capacity will be still greater.
The second trial Of the suit between J. C.
| Craver and ]. A. Cox for the possession OF
some property In the vicinity of Suther-
land, was commenced in County Judge
| Harrisou's court at Tampa Tuesday morn
| ing.
The Grand Lodge of l. o. o. F. will meet
in Pensacola in March; the Alabama Meth
| odist Conference, which embraces West
| Florida meets there in December; and the
| Baptist state convention voted last Satur
day. at Monticello, to hold their next meet
| ing there in January, 1891.
The school board of St Johns county
met Tuesday. and decided TO extend thI
school session one month. The cost of main
| tanning the county schools now amounts Il
$40. 705; an additional month will cos
81 $50, still keeping the expenses within tbs
limit of the 900 allowed by the genera
school fund.
A committee appointed by the manufact
urers, and one appointed by the ciga
makers, met in conference Saturday even
ing, and by mutual concessions from bot
employers d employees the strike il
Lozano, Pendas q Co.'S factory at Tamp
was brought TO a close, d the men all re
turned 10 work this morning.
A gentleman arrived at Palatka Tuesda
having in his possession a tooth weigh in
over six pounds which was taken from tn
bed of Peace creek, in South Florida. [
looked aged and its enamel was nearly gon
! from the wear Of the water. Four week
ago a similar tooth was discovered and sen
to the Smithsonian institute. 1t weighe
twenty-six pounds, and the scientists at tn
institute pronounced it to be an EXITING
species OF the elephant.
As Judge r. L. Campbell was going int
Pensacola from his residence at OakfielC
Monday morning, the top of his buggy sue
denly came in contact with a wire acros
Palafox street. The end of the wire wa
being placed in position on a pole by
negro man, who, the judge says, appeare
to enjoy the matter hugely, and made n
effort to loosen the wire. The wire struc
> the top of the buggy, and so great was til
force that the arms were bent backward
Had the top not bee raised, it is probab
that the Judge would have besn caught b
, the throat and seriously injured. The AM
!, NAL be was driving is very gentle, and i'm
mediately stopped at the command of il
driver.