The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-10
FLORIDA

Haines City has newspaper Of her own,
and is correspondingly happy.
NJ. C. McAllIster is going t. build nice
dwelling at Montclair near Leesburg.
! 1t is reported that tine Arcadia house
has been sold and will soon change hands.
Needham Smith sold twenty-three otter
hides to a merchant of Arcadia last week,
for SIS.
The best phosphates are found in pal
me'to lands, according to the Arcadia ar
cddidn.
Ray & Bryan are down little over 200
feet with the artesian we'll at the depot at
| KisSimmee.
J. n. Blount of Arcadia is receiving IS
per crate for beans, and is much elated in
consequence.
| Palatka f0rty-nine residences, valued at
$500 to $4,000 each.
Several new houses are in course of con-
struction at Arcadia. There is a big de-
mand for dwelling houses.
Monday and Tuesday, Feb. II and IS.
have been fixed as the dates on which the
regatta will take place in Old Tampa bay.
DR.. j. Oscar Lorraine, one of Orange
| cOunty's most prominent citizens, is lying
dangerously i'll at his residence in Zell-
wood.
Alligator, otter and coon hunters are hav-
ing picnic at Arcadia. Otter skins are
worth 50 and over in cash and are in big
demand.
Many of the Cuban cigarmakers have left
| Punta Gorda because they could not get
houses to live in. There are no vacant
houses in that town.
One thousand five hundred acres of the
Terra Celia island phosphate land, in Man
| atee county, has be3n purchased by the
Montreal company for $4,000.
Hon. William II. sims, once lieutenant
governor of Mississippi, IS expected at Lees
burg to-day to spend the balance Of the al
! legged winter and look after his fine orange
grove at E.doradO.
The material is on the ground for the
building Of a new school house at Chuluots
| the old one having become too small for the
rapid increase il population at that place.
The new building will be % feet in width by
40 feet in length.
A movement looking to the compilation
and publication of a new city directory for
| Pensacola has been inaugurated, the gentle
man at the head thereof being Wantou s.
Webb of FLORIDA on Wheels" who got
out the last directory.
Large quantities of oranges are still being
shipped from Chuluota and Fort Christmas.
| Tea us have been at work hauling oranges
so continually that they are said to be badly
cut up in consequence
Thomas Berryhill of Terra Celia came
near losing his house by fire the other day.
While ne was from home at work, the prai-
RE was set on fire, which blew through a
window of the house, setting a bed on fire
and burning up one mattress. Mr. Jackson
| saw 1t in time to put out the fire and save
the house.
| cboOfipo afFroIy ooo,,,,oI
trollc Saturday night, about two miles
from Milton, where one Dennis Hardck
| shot two women and TWO men. HIS inten-
ton was to kill them ALL as he shot some ia
the head and some in the side. Tho sup-
position Is that they will all recover. The
shooter is still at large.
Two Greek sailors induced an Englishman
and Norwegian, both sailor runners, to 60
| out on Pensacola bay with them in a small
boat and then attemp pied to murder them.
The Englishman jumped overheard aud
swan to bark, aboard which ma remained
all night. The Norwegian, after bein o
terribly beaten, was put ashore.
Crescent City will be alive this week
when the Talmage party arrives, which
numbers l25. tabernacle is to be erected
at that place, $4,000 worth OF stock having
been subscribed for the purpose. The party
| Is to domicile at the Lakeside. When the
proposed tabernacle is finished, Rev. DR..
Ialmage will spend most of his winters in
| Crescent City.
Orlando Record. George E. Macy. the
carriage manufacturer, is preparing TO go
into the cultivation of fruits quite extern
sively He has purchased about thirty
acres of fine land east of town, five acres Of
| which has already heen cleared and set ont
in different kinds of plants Mr.. Macy in.
tends to have growing every variety of
| fruit indigenous to this climate, and will
thoroughly demonstrate by practical expert
encs to what extent Ora ge county is
capable as fruit producing section.
A big lawsuit is in progress at Pensacola.
The Nel0S says: Hugh Bellas. the plaintiff
is well known to Pensacolians as a timber
man, and it is in evidence before the iury
| that, during the lifetime of the late D. +
Sullivan, for period of some length he was
the European agent Of that gentleman for
the purpose of selling timber aud chartering
| vessels, except at certain points ma ned in
the contract. This C >ntract was in writing
and it stipulated that Mr.. Bsllas should re-
ceive for his services as such agent 30 per
cent. of the net profits of the cargoes
sold by him. 1t continued in force until
d. +. Sullivan'S death, in June. 1884
Mr.. Bellas claims that, from the time
of D. F. SulliYan's death, to Nov. 80. 1886
at the request of NJ. II. Sullivan, the de-
fendant in the case who was the successor
IN business OF us brother, ID. +. Sullivan
he continued to act, without anv Stimulated
agreement as to the amount of salary he
was to receive, in the capacity of European
agent. and that, in fact, he became in
spirit, if not In letter, the advising manager
of the business, not only as related to its
affairs in Europe, but as well in this
country. He also claims that it was at the
request of the defendant that he m ade trips
to this country, and remained for
months in succession in consultation
with and advising him as to the
management of the business in general
and the making of contracts and
the chartering of vessels. For these services
he claims that he should receive $25 900 per
year, which for the pc iod named, 29l%
months, would amount to about SOL 600 Il
answer to this the defendant admits that
Mr.. Bellas acted as agent during the
period named, without any stipulated
agreement as to salary, but repudiates the
claim that his services were more than that
of an ordinary agent, ami denies in toto
that he was the mentor of himself in the
ma lagement of the business, either in this
country or in Europe. He also claims to
have paid Mr.. Bellas the sum of S34. SIS
Of this amount $40, 1872 was in an unpaid
balance which he claims the plaintiff
owed d. f. Sullivan at the time of
the latter's death. Mr.. Bellas admits the
receipt Of $24, AL, but denies That he