The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06
FLORIDA.

Sam Jones is to lecture in Tampa during
the coming winter.
East Florida Seminary, of Gainesville,
was never so crowded as at present.
The Tampa city marshal has orders to
kill all the yellow ours i'll town.
Tampa is to have a new court house. II
will be the finest structure of its kind in the
state.
A considerable amount of long staple
cotton has been raised in Gadsden county
this season.
The phosphate boom in South Florida
continues to grow and lands are rapidly
rising in price.
Thunis Nicholson, mate of the steam tug
Celestine, was drowned in the bay near the
marine ways, Pensacola, Friday.
Fred Prange OF Micco has Just finished
cutting 9-foot canal from the river to his
house, distance of quarter of mile, for
the purpose of getting his vegetables out
from his garden to the river.
Orlando Sentinel. It ia the opinion of
conservative observers that the orange crop
will fall below estimates, and will hardly
be half of what IL would have been under
favorable circumstances; under the circum-
stances it will be wise perhaps to follow the
advice or the fruit exchange and hold for
50 box.
fernando county, remote from any rail-
way line, 1t is thought that the South Flor
ida management coatemplates building a
branch from Macon, Fla, to Brooksville,
thence to Homosassa, which will give that
road an excellent opportunity to do its
share of phosphate business.
Green Cove Spring: A crowd of colored
boys undertook to have some fun on last
Tuesday night by throwing brick bats at
hnT1aa ~ a rNAlN A1xx
But the be It laid plans gang aft aglee, "
for Marshal Sullivan has five of them at
work in the city chain-gang cleaning off
the side walks The others paid their fine.
Freeman Hodges, rair OF d conductor of
Satsuma Rights, Putnam county, has met
with loss under singular circumstances
A few nights back his horse broke loose
from the stable, and entering barn where
the mules are kept, attacked one of them
tooth and hoof," tearing and mangling
him in shocking manner. He did not
desist until he had actually killed his
victim.
The Pemberton hotel, at Pemberton
Ferry, one of the handsomest hotels on the
line of the Florida Southern railroad, was
totally destroyed by fire at 8 o'clock Thurs
| day morning. The fire originated in the
kitchen, and the whole FIRST story was in
| flames before the fire was discovered The
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ladies, narrowly escaped with their lives.
| The loss on the hotel was $4,000. A store
on the ground floor was also destroyed.
The grand jury of st. Johns county has
made war upon the rice beer dealers and
says: "Many complaints have been mad 3
about the sale of rice beer" aud the grand
jury calls the attention Of the states at
torney to try and convict persons reported
to him for selling rice beer without q
lioeuse;" the jury also request our repre-
sentatives in the next legislature to use theil
efforts to have the revenue laws amended sc
as to include rice beer as an article subject
to license"
Tampa Journal: State and county license,
expired at midnight Sept 80, and the rush
made upon the tax collector, W. J. Martin,
is unprecedented. Perhaps the grand jury
being in session accounts for the haste
made to renew licenses. From II O'Clock
10. Tuesday to 10 o'clock Wednesday, nearly
| 5000, mostly liquor tax, was paid in.
TAMPA has fifteen saloons to her population
of 1000. and each one pays a tax of 5000 to
the county and state for the privilege of sell
ing liquors. Collector Martin will be in his
office the remainder Of the wesk to issue
licenses
A most brutal murder was committed Sin
Wakulla county during the first part OF
| last week. The murder was committed by
a negro by the name of Jones, and his vic
tim was white man, Mr.. Powell The
fatal dispute was about two boxes of snuff,
which Powell accused the Negroes wife of
stealing. Powell had gone TO the Negroes
house to make the accusation and demand
that the snuff be replaced. A dispute arose
and the negro told Powell to leave his
| premises. which he forthwith started to do,
Hot words continued TO flow from both
sides, and the negro followed Powell, and
passing where his AK was lying picked it up
and dealt the fatal blow.