The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-27

and 4. e. Hutchinson TO be quartermaster' 5
sergeant OF OF the Third battalion Florida
state troops. Both gentlemen are we'll
known citizens Of Pensacola
Wednesday morning between and 5
| O'Clock the clothing store of Mayor Glogo-
wski, in the Almeria block at Tampa, was
entered by burglars and nearly 800 worth
| of clothing, gentlemen's furnishing goods,
etc, was stolen. No clue has yet been dis
covered to the thieves.
DeLand Record: They are having
| trouble about slurch services being held 10
the school house at Deleon Springs. The
patrons justly complain to the board OF
this service-not 50 much of the service, but
| the manner in which the church property L
abused. The board will doubtless order The
school house to be used for no other than
school purposes.
Business on the Ocklawaha river for the
past week in shipping oranges has been
| good, Capt Coon carried to Silver Spring
about 1000 boxes, Capt. Honial nearly
200 boxes, and the Hart line Of boats car
ried to Palatka perhaps another l 900 boxes.
| This with the amounts moved during the
six weeks before this week is good show
ing of over 5000 boxes, and nearly one
half as many more to go. Most Of them
| were sold on the trees, and large number
of the groves are just beginning 10 bear.
| There is great plenty of the best land on
the line OF the river yet that can be had to
| put out more groves.
The Fruit Buyers Association held its
first meeting in Tampa Thursday, there
being about sixty delegates, number of
whom were accompanied by their wives.
A permanent orga lization was effected,
and the name of the florida Orange
Buyers Protective Association was adopted.
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, +. MorehOuse, Los
Angeles, al. first vice president, r. K.
Coburn, Chicago; second vice president, +.
b. Chase, New York; secretary, j. +. Ed
wards, Chicago; treasurer, j. A. Baird. Gin
cinnati. An executive committee of five
was appointed to draft a constitution and
bylaws. A business meeting OF the COM
mittee will be held prior TO March l, when
the place of the next meeting will be chosen.
The object OF the association IS to protect its
members interests and not to antagonizs
railroad lines.
Arcadia Arcddidn: Through Joshua
Mizell we learned Saturday morning that
the postmaster at Arcadia had received in
sJructions not to allow the Arcddidn of
Dec Is to pass through the mails because it
contained an advertisement of Puckett's
gift organ, the p stoffice department claim
ing that it was gift enterprise and came
under the lottery law. We Immediately
called on the postmaster, who said he had
received Instructions from headquarters on
Friday morning, and, upon reading in
structions, tied up oil the Arcddi0ns
which had not been delivered in a
bundle and slowed them away. He
claimed that Puckett's advertisement was
a lottery ad. and positively refused to de-
liver the Arcddidn to subscribers who
asked for same. He ignored the paper alto
gether. The ArcddidnS were Immediately
taken out Of the postotfice and placed in
Woods store, where most of them were de-
livered during the afternoon. 1t is We
strange that Postmaster Carlton was notl-
fed F'rid morning, stopped delivering the
Arcddidn, and yet could not notify US so
Tat we could see that subscribers got their
papers. 1t was through mere accident that
we learned of the suppression, having acci-
dentally dropped in where Mr.. MiZell was
working in the court house.
John G. Webb is the author OF the follow
ing little sketch: Several years 60 pub
lished in your paper q theory to account for
the occasional destruction of fish on the gulf
coast of Florida The theory was founded
upon the existence of vast underground
reservoirs Of water, which, in contact with
iron pyrites, containing sulphur, arsenic and
phosphorus, became impregnated with
poisonous gases. which. when this poisoned
water was forced out into the bays
by excessive floods and into the gulf it
self, rendered the air which is SOLVED in
the water of the bays and the gulf and
over extensive areas fatal to the fish
which breathed it. There have been no ex-
csssive floods this year and no fish killed
that have heard OF. But the great drought
of last winter compl ately dried up one Of
the Myakka lakes and left the vast hole
which exists on one side of it accessible, and
more accurate Observations were made con-
corning it than ever before. The hole is by
estimation fifty yards in diameter and by
actual measurement l36 feet deep. The lead
which was attached to the sounding line
was blackened while in the bottom, as sui
phureted hydrogen would blacken it. And
there Is no reason to doubt that there is sui
phur in it, for the artesian we'll at Sarasota
twelve or fourteen miles Off. is very hghly
impregnated with that gas As the lake
dried up all the fish naturally went to the
hole, and in January it was full Of them,
the lake still existing on one side. AS the
water dried up. combining the
fish more closely in the hole, all
the higher orders of fish died. But the gar
fish still remained. But at last they also
died. and in April the sole denizens Of the
place were leather-baok turtles animals,
need not say, which breath air. This hole
is about ten miles from the gulf, and the
ordinary surface Of the lake when full
about seven feet above the gulf at mean
tide. But when | saw the hole in April 1t
is probable that its surface was only a foot
or two-perhaps not at all-above the level
of the gulf. If so, and if it communicates
with the gulf, there should be a tide Men
who are often there tell me there is no
doubt but that there is; that they discover
sometimes in walking around it just those
signs of de that one sees on the shore Of
bay, COW tracks partly filed with water,
which afterward become dry"