The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-11

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track of phosphate land in Polk county.
The date palms at st. Augu slime are be
! ginning to bl ON much earlier than usual
| this year, and give promise Of maturing a
| good crop Of fruit this season.
| A prominent clergyman of Jacksonville
recen ly presented the fire department with
a handsome clock, which now ornaments
the walls of the central station.
Joseph RantIa, who for many years has
been assistant keeper of the A1astasia light
house, has received his app0intm mt as chief
keeper of that light, dating from Jan. 80.
1t is snid that two prominent geltemen
of Jackso willie got in on the ground floor
| in the phosphate business, one coming out
with 100000, and the other with S52, 900.
The exact loss by the fire in Norris
Cohen's store, at Jacksonville, on Wednes-
day, has bee computed, and has been set
at 81 ,0S7 II, all on the stock which was
covered by $4,000 insurance
Two negroes recently arrived in Mac
clen1y, each with a sack of shoes on his
shoulder, which they tried to sell. The
| authorities pick I'd them up, and they are
now in Jail to await investigation.
J. Z. Starr of Huntington brought last
August from Maryland tn ee pigeons, and
on August s two of them left for their old
home, where they arrived after voyage Of
forty-one days. They were common pig
cons.
During Garrison's stay in st. Augustine
an effort will be made to get up a race on
the Lorillard race track betwesn one of
Alexander's horses and Tom Falana's black
stallio1. II this is done Garrison will run
the black horse.
The lot at St. Augustine commonly
known as the I. T. Russell house, on the
bay, adjoining Capt Ed Aliens residence.
Nv mr. r,,F,r
OF Newport, r. l., who will probably erect
a handsome residence on it.
The steamer Vera yesterday began regu-
lar run from Ormond to Tltusvllle to connect
| with the steamer to R)ckledge. She will
run again Friday and three DAYS on the
| following week. So the long-louk ID for
east coast route may be considered open at
| last
New finds Of phosphate are being made
at Daytona S. c. Showers, in excavating
a ditch on Third ave ua, struck a large
pocket of the soft, cream-colored article.
and John Stanley has found the same
variety on his lot between Beach and Canal
! streets.
Charles Everett of De Funiak is decidedly
enthusiastic on the subject of phosphate in
| Walton county, and says tn It the sDeci-
mems taken from alds in the vicinity of
DE Funiak have besn aualvzed by expert
emists, whose reports show that they
contain IS per cent. Of pure phosphate
One hundred d sixty acres of land sit
uated in South Florida, AID owned by a
gentleman of Jacks )nville, was sold one
day last week for $500, and within twelve
| hours after the sale the venior paid the pur-
chaser $4,000 for one-sixth interest, and
within the next twelve lours sold oue-half
of his one-sixth interest for 81, 000 eau,
| whyf PhOsphates.
The east coast canal dredge, which left
Jacksonville in tow Of the steamer Mayby.
bound for Daytona, parted her cabl at Mos
quito inlet during the bl W asst week
| Fortunately it drifted in over tho bar in
stead of gong out to sea, aud lodged on a
spit of sand. The steamer Denny succeeded
in getting the dredge off Saturday night,
and towed it int Daytona Sunday morning
Surf fishing, as well as surf bathing, take
| much of the attention of the guests OF the
Ormond. DR.. l. L. Cornell of Brooklyn on
| Thursday caught two bass, weighing S1%
and ga pounds, and Friday DR.. Schuyler Of
| Troy hooked one that, after a desperate
fight of half an hour, during when tue
doctor several times expected to be obliged
to take a sea bath, parted the liue and got
away.
John L. Davis of Springfield, ILL.,, and
president of the Sangamon Loan and Trust
Company, and George L. Eastman, for
merly of that city, but now a permanent
residence Of st. Augustine, have recently
made a purchase of $500 acres of land
along the line of the Florida Southern rail-
way in De Soto county, The lands are
situated in the heart of the Peace river
phosphate beds, and are rich in the precious
stuff. One year ago the same gentlemen
purchased q tract of 1900 acres in Marion
county.
w. A. Merryday of Palatka, has an owl
that is as tame as his store cat. All day
long the ''Irishmans parrot rests on the
rafters overhead in the grain room. The
cat and owl have formed strong attach.
| mont in the last four months for each other
and it is not an unusual sight for the cat to
go Off and return with a rat for his owlship
In return for the kindness, the owl will take
its paw and scratch the cats fieas, when
pussy will purr aud rub up against the OWLS
feathers, both looking perfectly happy all
the while.
At Pensacola Friday night, the only boat
at that time alongside the Swedish bark
CURL, lying in the stream, was noticed to
be adrift. 1t had drifted soma distance
from the ship when a sailor, whose name
could not be ascertained, picked up the end
Of lead line, and with it jun ,ed over
board to swim to the boat BE was an ex-
pert swimmer, but he had gone only a few
yards when he was seen to throw I'D his
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outcry. nor did he rise again. 1t is supposed
that he was stricken with a cramp The
body has not been recovered.
Among the cases on the docket of the
police court at Pensacola, Thursday morn
ing, were two against Ag es Dorsey and
Mile Williams (colored) for fighting. Both
OF the women were convicted aud fined, and
after the adjournment of the court were
confined together in a cell. Scarcely had
the door closed upon them when they re-
newed the fight for which they had been
arrested and fined By the tiue the station
keeper, Charles Sherman, could open the
door and reach them, they we're engaged in
a furious struggle. SO e. eat was their fury
and hatred that Officer Sherman received
some ugly scratches and bruises on his arm
before he succeeded in separating them.
ey were afterward placed in separate
cells.
st. Augustine NeWS: The lengths which
some people will go to to obtain liquor 10
quench an artificial thirst is well illustrated
in the case Of young Smith, who is now
confined in the city Jail for drunkenness
and vagrancy. Smith, who was searched
before being committed and the am unit of
30 cents found on his pc son taken from
him, was enabled to purchase and drink
the contents of no less than five half
pint TASKS of liquor. He hailed every
passer-by and many out of pity contributed
to his wants BY this means he got enough