The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-11
FLORIDA.

] pau III OEdnRo county,
A large acreage will be put in grapes
about Haines City next season.
The Ocala republicans will start paper
soon. The material has arrived.
There are now only four prisoners ia the
Duval county chain-gang. All negroes
| Work has been resumed on the artesiau
well by the Ocala Water Works Company.
The well is now over 500 feet below the
level OF the sea.
The solitary engine of the Jupiter aud
Lake Worth railroad is being repaired, and
the business of the road is being handled
with hand car.
The orange crop at St Francis will exceed
all expectations, and, in few weeks, will
be ready for shipping. The groves are al
in excellent condition, and are as fine as we
ever saw.
Reese Kirkland has recently killed Two
bears out in the vicinity of Lake Mario"
He says they are getting very numerous Oh t
there, in fact, too much so for pork Iaisiu q
TO be profitable.
Haines City Headlight. After a lull
through the summer season the shipments
of venison have again commenced, ana the
| quality is much better than last year on ac-
count of better range, caused by the ex
tensive forest fires of last season.
The receipts for duties on imports for the
week ending Oct. 8 at Key West were
| SS0,275. 80 This sum was probably ex-
ceeded by only four other ports in this
country Ordinarily Key West ranks as
ninth in the amount of duties collected.
St Francis Facts Since the successive
| rains the cotton crop at st. Francis has
turned out much better than was expected
Ii is now opening well, and the formation
of new bolls is very perceptible. 1t is
blooming yet, and in spite of adverse cir
cumstances the yield will be very respec-
table one.
Warrants for the arrest of the members
of the Hillborough county board of road
supervisors for contempt of court, we're put
in Ehe hands of the sheriff at Tampa Weines-
day. Their otfense consists in letting con-
tract for the building of the Alfalfa
bridge, while an injunction was standing
against it.
Orlando Record: Old Mink, the dog
owned by John Miller. and we'll known
throughout the city, died at the post of
duty on Sunday last, he having gotten him
self fastened in gopher hole from which
he could not extricate himself. Mink was
IL years old, and was brought to Florida by
DR.. j. n. Butt several years ago.
AT meeting of the Orange county
board of public instruction in Orlando
Tuesday the following promotions OF teach
ers were made: Mrs. A. Is. Chapman, Sec
ond assistant Orlando bign school, salary
$50 per month; Miss S. q. Ovens, first as
sistant Apopka school, salary SEQ; Mrs.
Angie Tucker. first assistant Sanford school,
salary $40.
Haines City Headlight: The success met
with by W. b Campbell in the cultivation
OF the mango has caused considerable inter-
est to be felt in this, to our section, new
industry, and as a result quite large num-
bar of these plants will be put out this fall
aud winter. Mr.. Campbell, we learn, has
about 300 for sale, which will soon go at
good figures.
There was a wreck on the Florida Cen
trail and Peninsular railway about ll:30
o'clock Wednesday morning, u miles south
Of Plant City, caused by the rails spreading.
Three freight cars, the express car and a
sleeper were thrown off the track, but fort
unaJely no one was hurt. The track was
cleared, aud the train came into Tampa
during the evening.
AT Pensacola Wednesday Jerry Moloney,
youth about II years of age, while visit
ing at the residence OF his sister, the
w!d W of the late Capt Thomas II. Stokes
on East Intendencia street was seized with
convulsion and fell down the airway
leading from the second story to the first
hoor He fell to the bottom Of the steps and
received severe scalp wound GU the back
VI Juo ubdu.
Halifax Journal: We, of the Halifax.
claim our oranges TO surpass the Indian
river proper, in fact and are intending tint
such fruit hereafter shall be sold upon lls
merits as Halifax river oranges. Some of
our leading growers have branded their
fruit properly for two or three years, whilst
others have feared to lose the prestige of
Indian river aud lacked the nerve and bust
ness shrewdness to make market of their
own, although claiming our fruit to be su-
perior
A very rich bed of phosphate has been
discovered by w. B. Glass and Charles
Evans on the Blackwater river, about six
miles from Sorrento, on government and
A hole sixteen feet deep has been sunk and
they report solid phosphate. Specimens
have been analysed and pronounced a fne
quality. Sharks teeth, large bones, cocoa
nut shells and various kinds of teeth have
been found in the excavations also on the
top OF the ground in various places. The
land has been secured and mining claims
have been taken by many townspeople, aud
the hope of rich bed is enjoyed by those
who have invested in the claims. The
Royal brothers have taken quite an extern
sive interest In this new find.
Key West Equator Democrat: About s
O'Clock yesterday evening fracas occurred
near the colored Baptist church on Thomas
street between two colored men namei
Robert Knowles and Alfred Cambridge
The trouble was caused by the wives of the
two men. Cambridge's wife is said to have
called Knowles wife ugly names. Knowles
went to Cambridge's house for satisfaction.
aud assaulted his wife, whereupon CAM
bridge used a knife, inflicting two ugly
wounds on Knowles-one across his left
cheek and ne k and another near the abdo-
men. Cambridge was arres ed by Capt.
w. Q. Kemp of the night police and was
conveyed to Jail. Toe wounded man was
attended by DR.. L. w. Livingston, aud the
wounds, though painful, are not considered
dangerous.