The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-31
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
TIE first -four in sacks ever brought to
Gainesville was received FRIDAY.
4 colored woman was kaocked off the
railroad track between Waldo and Hamp-
ton Tuesday, and badly injured.
The employees of the Seminole hotel ut
Winter Park presented their employer, ".
+. Paige. with an elegant gold watch
Messrs. Perry and Streety of Lake City
went hunting one day recently and Gagged
ninety-sevel quail and eleven rabbits.
D.. Sco.c had on exhibition last week q
ca>sava root raised on his place near Stark
that weighs iifty-two pounds, net weight.
Caps }. y. Jones Of Ssarke had his
pocbet-booz taken from his trousor pockets
one night last week, and So in cash taken
therafr1m.
The Bradford County Bank at Starke
cashed between $500 and $1,000 worth of
strawberry checks day during the straw
berry season.
Among the distinguished guests who have
been invited and vii. participate in the cell
ehration OF Ponce de Leon day at St. Au-
gu5tine are Gov. Fleming and staff
Charles aud T. B. Brooks, who have
spent considerable time in Morocco, will
erect a handsome Moorish villa near the
government barracks at st. Augustine,
n. W Hackett, cashier of the Bradford
County Bank at Slarke, offered $4,000 in
casa for the Hoyt property On Call street
las5 week and was refused. He wanted to
put up brick block.
The wind storm last Saturday night did
considerable damage in the western D Irt of
Suwannee cuonty. Several houses were
blown down, a good deal of fencing blown
away. AMI other damage resulted. No one
was killed.
B. ". johnson of Monticello owned a
tract of land in Suwannae county, which
he paid taxes on twenty-five years, and
some time ago sold the land for 50 cents
Per acre. Now he is worried for fear that
phosphate will be found on the land and
that he has missed big fortune.
Pasadena, Pasco county, is situated on
the Florida Central and Peniusular railroad
thirty-fve miles northeast of Tampa, and
three miles south of Oade City, two miles
from the South Florida railroad, aud taree
miles from the Orange Belt railroad in a
very picturesque, healthy and productive
region.
Palatka Herald. The jury appointed by
Judge Finley of tine Fifth judicial circuit to
condemn -t4e White property and open
Front StEeatto the river met Yesterday and
attended to- their duties The jnry con-
demnei the property and assessed damages
at $1,000. This proceeding was done TO
llie6I IA9 NAubS Ol Luo NIbOTRl1 southern
railroad, which, it is said will erect a fine
passenger depot ut a point where the new
street terminates.
Gainesville san: Little Freddie Mixson.
the 1l-year-old son of c. J. Mixson, has
met with a calamity. Being bright little
boy aud OF an economical turn he had saved
during the past eighteen months-in nick
els and dimss-S6 80 Last Tuesday the
family removed into the new house recently
aDta 4 hrrh M Tb..E IL
think of his money until after dark, and
when he hunted up the box in which it had
been kept he found that his money had been
stolen. -
Capt. James Dunn, chief detective of the
Ponce de Leon, at st. Augustine, by his
sagacity saved a couple of New Workers
from the loss of $207 In cash Friday morn
ing. The two gentlemen were engaged in q
game of lawn tennis, aud as the day was
warm, thev threw eli their coats 10 do
| battle. Nhea the game was finished they
found that their coats had been robbed Of
the sum above mentioned. Capt Dunn
was informed Of the loss aud in short time
he spotted the thief, who was one of num-
Der of young colored gamins lounging
about the premises The money was re-
covered, and the parties refused to prosecute
the offender
Orlando Record. John Marshall better
known as "Arkansaw," the East Orange
| alligator killer, was in the city Yesterday.
and relates a curious story in regard to an
| alligator. killed by him recently at the
mouth of Blue Cypress creek. When killed
three Of It's legs were found to have been
bitten off, a portion Of its Jaw had been
eaten by a stronger kinsman, and holes
| were found in him where he had paid the
| penalty OF pound of flesh simply because
his opponent was the stronger. Arkansaw
states that aIigators feed upon each other to
the extent that regulates the supply to the
demand, and that if they were to cease from
their cannibalisJic habits they would soon
| abound in sufficient numbers to pile alliga-
tors four feet deep all over the st. Johns
river country.