The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-21
FLORIDA.
Ripe figs are reported at Bslleview.


Ripe figs are reported at Bslleview.
The Florida Alliance is the name Of a
new paper just started at Lakeland.
The fair for the benefit of st. Luke's
| hospital OF Jacksonville panned out $1,-
1876 53.
Last, but not least, Citra comes to the
| front and says she has phosphate rich and
cords of it.
1t is stated on good authority that there
are at least six gambling dens run openly in
st. Augustine.
Mr.. Aulin of Oviedo has several hundred
| turnips in his garden which are said to
weigh ten pounds each.
Messrs. Richburg e. Slote we're prospect
| ing for location for saw mill and tur-
pentine farm in Taylor county, this wee K.
w. II. Bell of Jefferson county and Miss
Fannie Wright, daughter of county COM
missioner A. j. Wright, Of Perry, we've
married last week.
Perry Banner: We have got the phos-
phate; now if we can get railroad, old
Taylor will boom. We are bound to be
great people and have a grand country.
Two Paulists, Fathers Brady and Clark
from New York, will arrive in Pensaco
during the week, and commence a mission
at st. Mic lael's church uext Sunday TO be
continued for eight or ten days.
Sylvester Bre yer, who, snort time ago,
sold his splendid phosphate property on
Blue Springs, has gone 10 Hanlan, Tenn,
purchased a -four and seed mill at that
place aud embarked in the milling bust
| LESS.
Charles Graves captured a crab near st.
| Augustine Wednesday, the species of which
has never been seen in those waters before.
1t is not much larger than a silver dollar,
and its shell is dotted over with white and
black spots.
Capt. Cribbett of Cotton Plant, Marion
county, had the misfortune to lose his stable
and contents by fire Monday nigut. Three
horses, a buggy, wagon, harness, AID feed,
valued at 1000, were consumed. There is
no insurance.
Herman Glogowski and Paul B. Lalane
| announce themselves as candidates for
mayor OF Tampa. John H Leonardo, B.
Burnsed, George II. Bell and w. II. Boil
want to be marshal j. Hirst seeks re-
election as city assessor.
The son of Senator John Wilkerson OF
| Santa Rosa county was instantly killed
Monday, at Otahite, near Milligan, by
being caught under falling tree which his
father wa, cutting. He was about IL years
of age, and bright, promising youth.
The run on the United States land office
| at Gainesville for homestead entries in the
| Trenton phosphate region is Immense.
! Every foot of vacant land will soon be
taken. Col. Shipman, receiver, says that
they wrote forty-one ''homesteads" Monday
and Tuesday.
A demand has been made for increased
wages for loading foreign vessels by the
longshoremen OF Fernandina. The present
prices paid are 81 rs, 50 and 81 so per day.
This they want Incl eased to 50, 50 so and
So per day. Foreign vessels only are af-
fected by the demand.
A fruit train of nineteen solid cars passed
through Orlando W ednesday over the
Soutn Florida railroad. Seventeen of the
cars We're loaded with bananas and two
with cocoanuts, which arrived at Port
Tampa Monday on the steamer Charles
Morand from Jamaica.
H. W. Greetham, manager of the Or
lando Water Works Company, says that
during the past two months and half the
people of that city have been using, from
that source of supply, $4,000 gallons of
water per day, which is an average of /, 200
gallons for each consumer.
Three cars were loaded with oranges on
the Orlando and Winter Park railroad at
Lakemont, Tuesday, one bound for Hart
ford, Conn, enc for Lafayette, Ind, and
one for Alabama. The oranges are going
out fast from that point just now and the
railroad company reports having done a
large business this season transporting the
golden fruit.
Gainesville Advocate: A very fine speci-
men of indurated tale was found on Dr. ].
d. Cromwell's place, near the CITY. This
substance is used in adulterating candies,
soap, flour, axle grease, and for lubricating
Journals in machinery, making steam pack
ing, lining heating furnaces, aud so on
This substance is found largely in Georgia,
} aud is very valuable. If found in body
in Florida it is more valuable than phos-
phate mine.
Peter Williams, United States marshal
for the Southern district of Florida, and
Judge Ramon Alvarez, q prominent citizen
of Key West, were in Arcadia Thursday
looking up their possessions in and around
Arcadia. They are interested In a large
} tract of Arcadia land, and donated 81, 900
and block of land for the court house.
Mr. Alvarez has bonanza in eighty acres
of phosphate land on Peace river. near
Arcadia, for which he refused several large
sums.
Mary Hippard, colored girl of is years,
del at Old Town Tuesday of what
was supposed to have been dropsy of the
heart The girl had been deceived by a
negro from Savannah, who was engaged on
the jetty work at Fernandina last summer.
He had promised to marry her, but after
his departure she was una le to learn any
thing about him, though she had frequently
mailed letters to him. While kneeling be
side her mother she said to the latter: Il
cannot live this way; I've got to die;' and,
bending her bead over, she was dead.
George p Gates and p K. Yonge, with
their attorneys, W. A. Blount and j. E.
Yonge, have returned to Pensacola from
Mobile, whittier they went last Wednesday
in attendance upon the United States courS.
The cases for alleged timber depredations
against Messrs. Gates and Yonge " ere
called for trial last Friday, at which time
their attorneys interDosed demurrers to the
indictments and argued the same before the
court. The decision of the court was rem
dered Saturday, sustaining the demurrers,
thus quashing the indictments The
United States district attorney was ordered
to prepare new indictments for the June
term Of the court.
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