The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-21

Ocala is to have a telephone exchange.
The Hawthorn Southern Star is adver-
tised for sale
Eustis is considering the advisability of
putting in water works.
w. A. White was the winner of the gold
medal at the shoot of the Orlando Gun Club
Tuesday.
Thirty thousand dollars a month is paid
out for lottery tickets In Key West, says
the Equator Democrat.
A. R. Erwin of Cordele is one of a num-
Der of heirs to a s750,000 estate in Scot
land, which was left by one Of his fore
fathers.
Young King, democrat, has received his
walking papers as clerk in the postoffice at
Ocala, and Robert Monroe, republican, takes
his place.
Collector Denton Of Gainesville says that
on Thursday of last week fifty republicans
paid their poll tax, while on the same day
not a single democrat made application for
a certificate.
The Fernandina Mirror says that petit
ton is being circulated for the purpose of
preventing the removal of the electric
lights from the city, as it was feared they
might be sacrificed on the altar of coon
omy.
The Hillsborough county board of health
reports four deaths for the week ending
Saturday, Aug. 10, as follows: lnfamma-
ton of the kidneys l, intermittent fever l.
heart failure l, typhoid fever / three
males and one female.
The orange groves about Panasoffkee,
| through the copious rains of the past few
weeks, have assumed richer green and
| put on vigorous growth. A few growers
have commenced the preparation of their
strawberry ground; but the acreage bids
| fair to be less than last year.
J. A. Campbell of Orlando, Fla, has
been given by the Jeter 81 Boardman COM
| pany the management of the water works
at Cartersville, Ga, aud he will take charge
on Sept l. Two OF MIR. Campbells brothers
are already managing water works for the
abovesnamed company William Campbell
at Tampa and Charles Campbell at Ocala.
! The Oviedo Chronicle states that there is
| colored mau named Robert Washington,
"a years of age, working on the Osceola and
Lake JeSup railway, who measures 6 feet
| ~ inches III hight in his stockings, and
they say be can get a pine tree off its baE
ance in less time than the immortal George
required to cut down that famous cherry
tree.
Sam Wau and Sam Lee Ocala's respect
i've celestial restaurauteur and laundrymen,
remembered their dead chum, Son Lee
Sunday, by preparing a sumptuous feast
over the grave of their departed friend,
saturating the ground with liquors and
wines and then setting it on fire It's
their way of making celestial spirit life en-
durable.
Panasoffkee is soon to become an import
ant shipping place for phosphate rock from
several localities, and for prepared fertility
ers. Twelve barges, having a capacity of
two carloads each, are in process Of con-
struction for the Shell Mound Phosphate
works This company is putting in ma
chlnery for grinding the phosphate and
preparing a new brand of fertilizer by mix
ing it with gypsum and humus, of which
they have an inexhaustible supply at hand.
Just as Rev. ]. B. Ley, Methodist minis
ter, was finishing his sermon at Ocala on
Sunday morning, quite a fiutter was created
IN his large congregation by the apparent
fainting of Miss Jessie Sinclair. What
| frightened the assemolage and alarmed her
friends was the long time that elapsed be-
fore she showed any signs of retur ing life.
The doctors atterward said that the attack
was congestion of the brain. Sunday night
she had another attack, aud now serious
fears are entertained for her life.
w. B. Lamar, the accomplished ard
handsome young attorney general of the
state of Florida, on his way back from the
Barlow convention, stopped over at Ocala
for few days that he might visit some
lands of his in Citrus county, near Mann
field, said to be rich in hard rock phosphate
deposits. Referring to the Barlow conven-
ton, the distinguished attorney general said
that DR.. Hills speech defeated Davidson.
Mr.. Lamar considers Hill the most accom-
plished orator within the borders of this
state.
At M. Vernon last Thursday morning
some of the citizens were aroused about
O'clock with the cries Of fire. fire.
help " The cries were found 10 proceed
from the jail, and ON going TO that place it
was found that some parties had broken
through the brick wall Of the jail and made
an opening iar1e enough 70 20 in. They
had then picked the lock Of the outer q lor
sud were at work Oh the locks Of the cell
doors Shen discovered. They fed at once
and escaped Ia the darkness without its
being found out who they were TIE sur.
mise is taat they were after Pomp Bra we'll,
the negro who murdered Sam Reynolds last
! week, though there Is no certainty about II.