The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-18
FLORIDA.

Sheriff Burns of fernando received his
commission Monday night.
The State Bank of Brooksvillo viii be
ready for business about July l.
The corn fields around Orlando are look
ing fine and give evidence of a good yield.
Rumor has it that e. F. Griffin of Palatka
mail clerk, has refused an offer of 81, 00O
for his land in the phosphate region.
At Tangerine, in the western part o
| Orange county, forty acres of land hsvl
Just been sold by J. A. Hudson to MIR. Bar
! for g., 500.
1t is rumored that there viii be- consid.
cradle reduction Of the police force Of st.
| Augustine, the first act toward retrench-
ment by the new council.
Rev. Father Beytheiu of Vincennes, Ind.
has been given permanent charge of the
church at Green Cove Springs, and services
will be held regularly every Sabbath from
now on.
At meeting of Ward camp, confederate
veterans, of Pensacola. held at the court
/ house Saturday, delegates were appointed
to attend the reunion at Chattanooga on
July 3, and 3.
David Ayres, Sr., of fernando turned
his wool clip, amounting to l ,245 pounds, 10
Y. B. Trammell for shipment, and that
gentleman handled it 80 well that it Melted
the old gentleman $2S3 %.
Capt. John L. Carney of Lake Weir has
purchased several large tracts of land lying
between Belleyiew and Summerfield. These
lands are said to be rich in phosphates, and
were purchased at from $50 to 800 per
acre.
The Baltimore capitalist who bought a
tract of land east of Brooksville, on the
Florida Southern railroad, OF George Mar
shall, last week is making arrangements
to go to mining and shipping phosphate
rock at once.
Train No. Z, which left Wildwood twenty
minutes late Thursday night, had five
steamer passengers aboard, and under
special or iers Engineer Boone pulled wide
the throttle and got into Tampa thirty-fve
minutes ahead of time.
8. J. Higginbotham of Crandall killed a
large catamouut last Tuesday morning that
measured feet inches in length and
weighed twenty-five pounds. 1t had been
playing sad havoc with poultry in the neigh
borhood for some time.
Sheriff Shelley of Palatka received tele-
gram Friday from Satsuma Nights inform
ing him that colored man had been shot
and was not likely to live. The sheriff was
also told to leave prepared to arrest Adam
Hunter. He left that night.
The following appeal is being presented
to the citizens Of Pensacola by a colored
woman: ITO whom it may concern pleas
give me something to Pay for this little
Boy Sam he is an Orphant Boy With onely
One Mother and Father. EMMA CARR"
Brooksville Register: We learn that capt.
talists in England have instructed their
agents in Florida to purchase all the land
20 be had in the phosphate section at
reasonable prices, whether there are any
evidences Of deposit Of phosphate or not.
1t is reported that Capt. Frank Phillips,
who was editor and proprietor of the Pensa-
cola Advance Gdzette, mysteriously left
his home in that city last Sunday on the
steamer Dunbolm. for Limon, Costa RIGA.
He leaves an invalid wife and several small
children utterly destitute.
Jonathan Yerkes of Green Cove Springs
has big Siberian bloodhound. The dog
was weighed last Wednesday afternoon,
and lifted the beam at 12S pounds. Since
he has been brought to Florida his dogship
has fallen off In flesh considerably, as he
weighed at that time about $50 pounds.
Black bears are reaping a great harvest
of turtle eggs these nights on the beach op-
posite Melbourne. +. j. Webb tells of one
old bear and two cubs that have had regu-
lar beat for the past ten days between his
cottage and the house of refuge. distance
of three or four miles. Last Sunday night
bne UnIee uespOlleu Cnrueen nests between
midnight and morning.
U. j. White of Merrifield has started in
to raise rice on large scale. He has
planted a number of acres and the crop is
well above ground, and is in excellent con-
dition. He has it on his irrigated farm and
when weeds begin to appear he floods the
tract by his irrigating system, and when
the weeds are choked, or killed, he drains
the water off. When the rice is ripe he can
run all the water off and put in mower.