The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-04
FLORIDA.

Inc cotton crop IN the Vicinity Oh O0IOTu
is generally good and the acreage larger
than for many years.
Hon. H. F. Sharon of Quincy will soon
commence building a residence on his lot in
che northern part of town.
Judge E. C. Love of Quincy has shipped
about 100 barrels Of pears this season, and
has not vet finished picking.
Lieut. Willard Of the Palatka Guards has
made requisition for 1000 bal! cartridges
and like number Of blanks.
| Cabbage will be the principal market crop
around Sumterville next season, it having
proven to be the most reliable.
B. F. Shook, father-in-law Of Hon.
Thomas HIND, died Wed lesday at Fruitland,
Putnam county. He was native of North
Carolina.
Some of the leading cit zens of Orlando
are talking OF organizing "a driving park
association aud fitting up a track around
some of the lakes about the city.
The largest number of hogs returned to
the tax assessor of Sumter county by any
one person was 1875, by A. +. Williams,
Cary q. Wilson following next with 100
head.
Brewton Standard Gauge. The sawyers
at our mills sometimes find pieces of iron
dogs that have have been carelessly left in
the logs by the ditchmen. and regard them
as very dangerous should the saw strike
them. Frequently other pieces Of iron and
bullets are found. Mr.. T. S. Lovelace re-
ports that VII bile working at the Pollard
mill he run the saw smoothly through a
large bullet that was deeply buried in The
log. 1t was found that the log was cut
ON grouud near Pollard where n skirmish
occurred during the war. Many of the
trees at this place have bullets in them.
The curiosity in question consists of an iron
rod about fifteen inches long that was fou d
in a slab last week at Parker a. Lovelace's
mill. 1t was in perfectly sound log, about
four inches under the surface. The mystery
is how it came there. Mr.. Lovelace thinks
II is part of an iron ramrod and was
embedded in the tree during the war.
In hn article on the local fiber factory
the Fernandina Net0s says: In the mean
time the development Of the capabilities of
the palmetto fiber is quietly going on under
the one single roof, so quietly as to attract
no attention among us, but pointing out
and opening up the way to a constantly
charging field of manufacture. For a
month past, besid S the brands with which
we are famili II, the factory has been turn
ing out something entirely new, a long
brown fiber which has gone into competl-
ton with the cocoanut fiber imported into
this country from London, and which it
undersells and will likely drive out of
was shipped on the State of Texas last trip
and one firm has placed orders with tue
LOOMS Manufacturing Company for all
they can make at their present capacity.
But another feature is about to be added,
aud one that will bring welcome addition
to the ueighboring farmer or laborer. An
order has been placed for new machinery
for the making If a long cheap fibre for up
| holstering work, which will be put on the
| market under the name of American
Fiber" 1t is intended to compete with the
African fibre used for the same purpose, and
made In Africa from palmetto that grows
| there. The American fiber can be put on
the market much cheaper than the for
eign article and it Is thought the
| African fiber is doomed. The feature of
this new fiber that makes it So ad santa-
geous TO the farmer Is that instead of re-
| curing the long stemmed palmetto, as the
| Nassau and other tibres do, it Will utilize
the common scrub palmetto, both the leaf
and STEM, as we'll as the leaf
of the long stemmed palmetto. So that the
man owning the poorest of scrub palmetto
land can get something out Of it, and the
scrub palmetto can be gathered and delv-
cred with much less trouble than the long
stemmed, as it can be moved down with a
scythe, raked up and carted TO the factory.