The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-20
FLORIDA.

Carrabelle has been made money order
Office.
The Banner says there are rumors in the
air of zig Ocala newspaper combine.
1t is said that the Hotel Coquina, on the
east Atlantic coast, is taking in $500 per
week.
J. NJ. Waters has been appointed post
master at Electra, Marion county, vice W.
r. c. Barcleft, resigned.
pear weighing twenty-five ounces was
found on tree in Judge Gornto's grove in
Taylor county last wee.
The Peninsular Phosphate Company of
SParr * Anthony has ready for shipment
1000 tons of material, destined for London.
A panther 10 feet and inch in length was
killed by James r. Drake and others near
his home, III Gadsden county, Friday week.
On Aug 9 Mrs. frankie Hill, wife of
! Charles B. Hill. editor of the Eustis Lake
Region, died of consumption at Frank
| lin, O..
Forty acres of land sold at public outcry
at New Troy on the first Monday in this
month for $400, and it wasn't phosphate
land either
The Indian River Loan and Investment
Company has purchased, during the past
week. ABOUT 1000 acres of land Just west Of
Minis station, in Brevard county, and expect
to make valuable improvements on the
property shortly.
1t Is reported that the artesian we'll near
the track of the Melbourne and Atlantic raj =
road, on the peninsula, near Melbourne, has
been completely lost; that even the casing
has disappeared. and no trace of what was
for time a strong flowing well now re-
mains
The tail of one of the dreaded "stingaree"
fish nrnDarlN- tsctiDUipoy Hah
with horn or tail four feet and five inches
! in length, was to be seen at st. Lucie one
day last week. 1t was sent to DR.. j. NJ
| Field, Plainfield n. j. The singing ray
was captured in Lake Worth last week.
Last Sunday evening while services were
being held in the Baptist church at Lake
City, 'possum, whose religious tendencies
cannot be disputed, walked in and leisurely
sauntered around. After listening to IL Q
organ awhile and appearing satisfied that
everything was all right, he quietly took
his departure.
Samuel Chapman (colored), who is charged
with setting fire t. a small colored lad
named General" Floyd on TIE night of
Aug. s, is now in Jail at Orlando. 1t seems
that old waste, saturated with oil, was
bound around Floyd's legs, and a heavy
piece of iron tied to them so that he could
not move, and then set on fire. The boy
was burned quite severely, but 1t Is not
thought that it will result seriously. The act
seems to have been one of pure deviltry, and
certainly demands punishment to the very
extremity of the law.
One of the bloodiest cutting scrapes ever
reported in Jacksonville took place in front
of Peacock's negro dive on West Bay street
about z O'Clock Monday night. A Negro
named Sonnie Hern inflicted the injuries.
One of the victims, a negro named William
Wright Of Orange Bluff, who had just ar.
rived on one of the excursion trains on q
visit TO his brother, received five severe cuts
The tempo al artery was cut in two, the first
joint of the first finger of the right hand was
severed, the tip of the second finger of the
same hand was cut off, severe cash was In
| t1icted in the center of the right hand, and
another deep cash in the left hand thumb
Another victim of the row was Zone arm
SAM a newspaper carrier of this CITY,
who received a severe stab i'll one of his
eyes, which will doubtless result in the loss
Of the optic. DIR. Mitchell also dressed
Sans wounds. Other negroes, whose names
could not be learned, received more OF less
severe cuts and bruises. but not so severe OF
| painful as the two victims above described