The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-13

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The publication OF the Lee County Demo
crdt a Fort Myers, ceases with this wee
issue, the entire outfit h wing been sol Il
the DeSoto County Times. 1t Will b
packed and shipped to Arcadia, where
wll do service III the publication Of tina
new paper.
The Bradford county commissioners pa
So a month for a ma to guard the count,
| Jail, and when the sheriff has a prisone
that be is afraid Will get away. or on
whOse life may be III danger, the count,
pays his expenses to some safe jail, instea
of using the money to repair the Jail a
home.
Friday a man with one-horse Wagon
arrived in Orlando. The man slated tina
he left his home on the southern borders 0
Virginia on May 10, last, and driven all th
way, frequently trading horses while el
route, however. In the wagon was trunk
cooking utensils, double barrel, nnuzzie-load
ing shotgun, etc.
r. B. f. Roper of South Apopka has
couple Of orange trees that are very highly
priced by him, for ne knows of no more o.
the kind in the state. They are ever bear
ing. and at this season of the year oranges
in almost every stage Of development can
be found on them, from the smallest fruit
TO the luso GUS orange.
Apopka Advertiser: An indignation
me sting Of puUlic school patrons was held
in Harrison hall. Friday evening. Speeches
by gentlemen whose veracity Is unques-
toned indicate crooked work done at last
weeks meeting OF county board of public
instruction. The meeting was unanimous
In demanding investigation and satisfaction,
and TO this end a committee of ten was APP
pointed. From the well-known ability of
those ten gentlemen aggrieved citizens may
rest assured that the guilty persons will be
found out. On the other hand, some of our
very best citizens are decided in their objec-
tion to the Rev Mr.. prury as principal Of
our public school.
Over three weeks ago the Florida Dis
patch, Farmer and Fruit GrOiOer, of
Jacksonville, sent out postal cards TO prom
inent growers in all the counties, asking for
close estimates Of the crop in their own
neighborhood. Nearly all responded TAX
ing last seasons crop as the basis, the editor
II that paper figures out the followi z:
Percentage of next years crop, 1881; per-
centage Of young trees killed Ito the roots
1895; percentage Of new groves set out ION
the basis Of the acreage Jan u, 1921. Last
seasons crop was about 2, $50, 900 boxes
This would make the coming crop 1906. 900
boxes. M. Z. Turner, secretary of the fruit
CAOudhSc, SablIIttl6s ~ tJ S,OUU,OOU
In support of this estimate he gives the fol-
lowing figures: Yield of 1885, 90O, 900
boxes; yield of 1SS6-87, 1.25O, 900 boxes
yield of lS57-9S, 10000 ioxes: Yield of
1SS8-89, l., 10000 boxes; yield of 1S89-9O,
2. 10000 Even the great freeze did not
break the steady gain.
Jacksonville Times Union: Last Sun
day at one of the single mills on the st.
Augustine road, one of the negro hands,
happy in a plug hat and welcome leisure.
was sitting on long and heavy nine plank
which rested on two cypress logs Just inside
an open wagon shed in the shade. About
fifteen feet OF the plank projected into the
open air, and near it were piled high the
great sections of cypress tr nks from which
he shingles are sawed. The unfortunate
darby was talking politics with number
of his comrades when the jar of an ap.
preaching train affected the pile of cypress
butts, and the topmost one, which was
very precariously balanced, fell over, strik-
ing on the end of the plank on the other
extremity of which the negro was re-
Ginning, with most disastrous effect The
heavy mass, weighing, many hundred
pounds, hitting the long lever, sent the
other end skyward with a hurting rush.
projecting the luckless darkey into space
like stone from catapault. The shed
roof was 6lmsily shingled, and his head
struck it like a cannon ball, going throu n
as far as his shoulders with a mighty crash.
Here he stuck suspended by his chin, while
his companions looked on in awe stricken
amazement, until his yells for help ma ie
them get ladder, with which he was res
cued His neck was badly scratched and
cut, but his bullet-proof Uranium was un-
hurt.
Brooksville Net0s: Angus Mott, Jacob
VanPetten and Lewis Hope started out TO
lay i'll stock Of fresh venison for the sum-
mer dwellers in Bayport last Wednesday,
and chose as their hunting ground the
Weckiwoochee Spring. Jacob was placed
at the most available deer stand on the
scrub and Angus started to put In the dogs.
) ust below the spring stands O large dead
tree. Here the dogs opened and the game
ran g the swamp, and was pro-
coon or wildcat. The dogs did not
run far before their baying showed they
had freed. Then both Angus and Lewis
blew themselves out OF wind trying to call
the dogs back, but the horns had no charms
for that pack Of hounds, and, soon losing
all patience, Angus sailed into the thick
after them. To an angry hunter bushe;
and briers are very little impeachment. and
both. for Lewis followed close on his heels I
were soon under the tree, around which the
dogs were jumping and barking. Up
TO this time the growth had been too
thick to see what the thing was,
but here Mott had a chance to look
up, AID Immediately over him (he SAYS
1t didn't look TO be more than ten feet, but
it was) lashing his sides with his tail was a
monster panther, looking down at both
men and dogs. A hurried consultation
showed that retreat was out of the cues i)n,
and that if they expected to get Off with
whole skins some mighty good and quick
ready, both guns went off and the old
feline tumbled to the ground within three
three feet of where the mon were standing.
but dead as a doornail, and consequen tly
harmless. be measured eight feet three
inches, and from the looks of his claws
must have been one of the original settlers