The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-23


was about ready to lay hands on him. when
be- j-rkai from his pocSet his open knife and
plunged il into Nr. Rick stson's side and
| sprang = thu door. Mr.. Rickstson, real
iZng that he was cnt, tlr5ed and fired at
him twice each ball taking effect, one in
the hip ana the other in the calf OF the leg.
FLORIDA.
The St Augustine Transfer Company has
| all OF the business il can handle. l. has 120
hors3s IN use.
/ A 2-yeGr-old negro child was burned 70
death at Lady Lake, Wednesday. 1t was
/ playing with matches and accidently set fire
to its clothing.
/ The Baptist church of Orlando has ex-
/ tended a cal to the Rev. c. NJ FarriS OF
1 High Point, n. C., TO be Its pastor. which
| has been accepted.
Albsrtus Voyt has sold 345 acres of phos-
| plate land at Dunnellon, including the
| homestead aud spring, the site Of the origi-
nal discovery, to the Withlacoochee Cora-
| paly for S22G, 009.
The young girr who chopped her father,
/ Hurchheld. in tho head with an ak, and
who was also shot by his son. had hearing
at Lake county Thursday, was cleared
of criminality. The mans children killed
him in sslf-defense.
Gen. TillSon has engaged Mrs. Meek, at
present manager OF the Withlacoochee
house, Wild Wood, to assist duriug the
summer in the management OF the Lake
View hotel at Lsesburg. Manager White
will go north, possibly to Saratoga, next
month.
The most noted figure at the Putnam
house nj Palstka is Mrs Henry Ward
BeeciIeT, VINO has spent the past three sea-
! sons in that city. She is beginning to show
her age. Though her hair is as white as
| snow, Mrs. Beeeher's activity is quite re-
markable.
A rich bed of phosphate has been dis
covered on William McGauley's place at
Avoca, in Hamilton county. The deposit
| is only four feet under the surface, aud is
| fifteen feet thick. IL covers many acres,
but just exactly how many has rot yet
been ascertained. a large bed OF phosphate
has also been discovered on d. n. Halls
place.
New Smyrna Breeze: B. f. Chiffon sold
this week his Turnbull grove OF ten acres to
Mr.. Wilson, of England, for $1,000 The
grove has been set out less than seven years,
and it shows what can be done by Ierse-
verance and industry. Mr. Chiffon went
out into the hammock with comparatively
nothing, and beside supporting his family
he has brought his grove into bearing by
| his own unaided efforts
Haiues City HeGdliqht: Eyes sir. it il a
fact, and John Crane were sitting by
| lightwood fire reading, when hearde noise
| IL the corner, and on looking around saw
an old possum on the table eating our ba-
| con. Yes, we killed three the other night:
| have TO club 'em to keep 'em out of the
honse. There must be hundreds of 'em on
the island Thus spoke Mr.. Lewis Milan.
| who is truck farming on Cranes Island, out
| in Lake Hamilton. Georgia, in all her
| primeval glory, sinks into nothinguess as
postum state when compared to Florida.
Ocala Banner: The happiest man we havs
/ seen III many day was Gen. Dickson, tho
War Eagle of the Confederacy," as he was
known among the Florida troops He dis
| played a whole bagful of samples of phos-
phate rock in the Montezuna hotel yeste
| day. They were taken from his pine land
| place that the general abandoned before the
war, but which no has been paying taxes on
| ever since. He says the samples aualyze So
per cent, and the pits dug on his land;
shows that it exists in large quantities
| Charles Thomas, VINO owns, or did own the
adjoining SO-acre tract, sold recently for
$1,000, and the purchaser has since disposed
Of half interest in the tract for SIS 900.
The general says he has enough now to
spend the balance of his days in ease.
The Tavares Herald says that Mai. Alex
St. Clair Abrams of Tavare;, II. Seagraye
Adams of Sanford. DR.. G.. w. Fisher of
DeLand, +. c. Austin of Orange City, and
Judge !. H. Bryan OF Orlando, have united
Ia corporation for business and social pur-
poses, under the name of the South Florida
Fishing Club, tho places of business Of
which are to be at Tavares and Sanford.
Their intention is to erect hotel and club
| house at Coronado beach. on the east coast
The amount of the clpltal stock is S25. 900.
and the CONNIE ncemect of the corporation
VIII De the first Monday in March, and its
| not ion ffuo, Gxvn
Mr.. Austin is the superintendent of the At
lantlc and Western road, which runs from
Blue Springs to New Smyrna. Ii is only a
question OF time when this road will be
pushed across the river to the coast. and be
extended west to Tavares.
st. Augustine Net0s: Rittenhouse Moore
of Mobile, president of the largest dredg.
ing company in the world, who nave taken
| the contract to complete the East C1as,
Canal from this city TO Lake Worth, is now
at work widening the Indian river cut. The
former canal is forty feet in width, but ac
cording to the new contract made with the
state it is to be fifty feet wide Two dl.edgs.
arc now at work, and the contractors are
under bond to complete the canal within
two years. The canal, when completed tx
Lake Worth, will be 500 miles in length
Steamers will be placed on the can u
and st. Augustine will be the north
| ern terminus for the line. Can't W r
Watts IN, manager of the Indian river line
OF steamers, TO which two handsome new
boats have recently been added, hope.
within two years to be able to extend til
service to this city. If delegatiol from
this city is sent to Washington to present
) the claims of ST. Augustine for her bar i'm
provement, the strongest argument they
will use will be the fact that the East Coasi
canal will make 800 miles Of coast line. aIone
which the richest and most productive por
ton of Florida is situated, tributary to thi
port
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