The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-03

herons were seen last Sunday III the low
] water of Lake Lutea, near Mrs. Reide nRer
home, at Tarpon Springs, hunting for hsa.
Dunnelloh is soon to have another hand
some business Duildi &. W. T. Tompkins
! having purchas the lot owned by B. f.
! Lyons. will immediately erect q two-story
bui ding 24x4s.
Talk is heard among the merchants of
| Orlando of giving free excursions to that
place from all points along the line OF tie
Tavares. Orlando and Apopka railroad on
Dec. %, % and "A.
Prof. Baker of Washington. d. c., is a
guest at the Arc ode at Orlando for the win
| ter. the professor is the author of a book
of poems entitled "Marmondale,n all COM
posed after he was 20 years of age.
Eight Seminole Indian braves, on last
| Saturday. brought to the Fort NJ Sers mar
| ket 500 alligator hides, which tIey sold to
! w. r. " asnburn. They were paid good
price and the hides were spipped TO New
! Orleans.
An effort is being made TO organize a
base ball league Florida, to include the
cities OF Gainesville, Jacksonville. st. Au-
gustine, OcaIa, Orlando, Tampa, Key West
and other points. The movement origi-
mated In Ocala.
A couple of negro men were arrested at
Chipley day or two ago because 1t was
believed they were the parties who shot
and killed a conductor on the L. and n.
above Flomation several molths ago. They
proved OF TO be the parties wanted aud
were released.
New Troy Messenger: TIE great Chicago
and Tampa railroad takes old Lafayette
about right. The survey comes in at the
upper end of the county and passes through
the county length lSe, or ssing the SuwaA-
nee river at or near Cd Town, a distance
of about sixty or seventy miles.
The stockholders of tue Polk County
Bank have decided TO take advantage OF the
bank act of 1888 and 1889 and organize
anew after Dec. l, with Il paid up
capital of SIS, 900 At The next annual
meating in January tho board Of directors
wall be increased two, thus having five in
stead of three.
De Leon Springs was little excited on
Thursday owe. Ii tie row between a Bap
fist minister and Methodist elder about
cord of wood. After breaAing a showcase
for w. S. Broderick and using a great
amount of hard language the matter was
amicnbly settled by the parties agreeing to
pay ali damages.
A meeting Of the democrats Of Orlando
Saturday elected the following executive
committee for the ensuing year: ". p.
Watson, &. w. Papot, w. f. Barnes, S. +.
Ives and A. Fl. Doremus TIE meeting
tn adjourned to meet last night for the
purpose Of taking action in reference to the
forthcoming city election.
George Client, colored, is now lying in
Jail at Madison, with the neither part of
his anatomy punctured with handful of
shot ranging IN size from "must I'd seedp
TO blue whiStlers." He carved an, Their
negro by the name of Cleveland and posse
Of citizens, in attempting to arrest George,
shot him while he was trying TO escape.
Arcadia Arcddidn: Chris Stenstrom,
night engineer n the Peace River Pnos-
phate c, mpany's dredge Mabel, met wi
very painful accident on saturday night
last, that will probably confine him TO n S
bed for long time. The dredge was at the
first bend of the river north of Arcadia and
had not started to work Tor the night, when
the end of 8 inch tube blew out, sendi z
about forty gallons Of hot. scalding
water on Stenstrom, scalding HIM fearfully.
Stenstrom jumped into the river and swan
to the ba X, where he " as picked up BY the
hands and rowed to the bridge, where he
was put in buggy aud sent home, Drs.
Greene and Smith are attending him, and
the phosphate company will take care of
him until be is able TO work again. Part of
his body is cooked, and all the skin is off
where the water struck him.