The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-15
FLORIDA.

John Ward. the famous new 1 OK pau
player, is at Jacksonville.
A citizen OF Tallahassee has'refused 81, 0OC
per acre for his phosphate lands.
John W. Vogt has bought Gen. Tillson's
orange grove at Ocala for $1,000.
An increase Of pension has been granted
to George ". Emerson of Seffner.
The annual Ponce de Leon celebration is
being talked up at st. Augustine.
J. C. Taliaferro and Miss Stella Morrison
were married at Tampa Thursday.
China trees are in bloom and blackber-
ries will soon be ripe at Tallahassee.
Otter furs are in demand at Tallahassee
and sales have been made at s. each.
Business at the land office at GAINESVILLE
is brisker than it has ever been before.
Capitalists in Canada are writing for OPP
tons ca Leon and Wakulla phosphate
lands.
Mr.. Flagler is opening new street along
the west side of the Barcelona hotel at ST.
Augustine.
James Bauknight of Gainesville sold last
fall % head Of hogs, some Of them weighing
over 800 pounds.
A party of hunters at Oviedo Wednesday
killed within an hour after the start a fine
buck and q large bear
Prof. E. Dnbois, of San Luis and Andalu-
year over 5000 gallons of wine.
W. P. Savageis soliciting subscriptions to
pay for the maintenance at St. Augustine
of several professional ball players.
r. Kersting Of Palatka has on exhibition
in his Office specimen of gold from Keuka,
Putnam county, which assays $1,000 to the
ton.
A burglar entered the residence of DR.. J.
w. Hicks at Orlando Wednesday night, but
did not succeed il getting away with much
booty.
The state experimental farm at Lake
City is well equipped aud has some fine
blooded Jersey and Holstein cattle, fine
poultry, etc.
Albertus Vogt, the phosphate king, has
purchased the +. Poser grove, containing
sixteen acres, for SCI, 900 cash. This is one
Of the finest groves in Marion county.
The Tallahassee Gas and Electric Light
Company are now serving customers to
the amount Of about 1900 cubic fest of gas
per night, and the business is steadily in
creasing.
The big cattle ranches of South Florida
are having run or trade, and prices are
better than they have been for some time.
Capt. Whidden recently sold 800 head at
S11 each.
The railroads are catching on to the phos-
phate drive. The Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West system have gotten out folders
with map, showing how intimately they
are linked to the leading phosphate points.
About month ago the town council of
Maitland advertised for bids on 500 water
oak to be set out in the streets of Maitland.
The trees are now being rapidly put out,
and in a few years will add no little to the
appearance Of the town.
At Ocala Wednesday, j. A. Hathaway of
Santos was committed to Jail for killing
| Wan. jenkins of same place. Jan. 8
| Hathaway struck Jenkins with an ak, from
which wound he died The feud grew out
Of Hathaway paying too much attention to
Jenkins wife.
Two years ago Mr.. Whitaker of Macon
bought 400 acres of land, including fine
orange grove, in Polk county, Florida. for
$4,000 Phosphate has been discovered on
the property which assays 65 per cent, and
the fortunate owner now estimates the
value OF his $4,000 purchase at So, 900, 000
An 11-year-old negro boy was bitten by a
rattlesnake on the G. p. Chaires planta.i ion,
six miles east of Tallahassee, one day last
week and died from the effects of the
| poison. He ran his hand into a hollow log
| to catch rabbit; the snake was coiled up
inside, struck tie hand with it's poison
| fangs and death soon followed.
A man living not ten miles from Palatka
says that from four acres of land he has,
since last October, cleared over $500, and
| he is not near through yet, besides his fam
| lily consumed all they wanted. He says he
did it by hard Work, but didn't work as
hard as where he came from, and didn't
have to spend near as much for winter
clothing, while his fuel cost nothing.
Messrs. Ames g. Hollinger are making
extensive additions aud improvements to
their new brick works on the Ockloconee
| river west Of Tallahassee They are erect
| ing another large new building, putt in
new and improved machinery, enlarging
| their kilns and steam drying outfit and in
a few weeks will have increased the capac-
ity of the works to $1,000 bricks per day.
Alexander Manly, convicted in the cir
cult court for the Seventh judicial circuit
of Florida, in and for the county of Orange,
| at the fall term, held at Orlando, under the
name Of William Hansell, alias Alexander
| Manly, for the murder of Seth TAYLOR at
Sanford on June 3, and sentenced to be
| hanged, gives notice that he will apply to
the pardoning board of the state for a
pardon.
Henry Johns (colored). brakeman on
Jacksonville, Tampa aud Key West rail-
road, while engaged at gambling Thursday
in the swamp near Herndon's saw-mill at
Sanford, was shot below the right thigh
from the rear, the ball lodging in the leg.
The wound is not consided a very serious
|
At last accounts 1t was not known who did
the shooting.
At Palatka, Wednesday night, burglar
attempted to enter the residence of Judge
Vertrees. Mrs. Walton heard him as he
stepped on the veranda, and went to the
window and peeped through the blinds, and
about the time she thought it was myth
the scoundrel reappeared and tried to get
in at the window where she was standing.
She then called for Mr.. Walton and the
burglar made good his escape.
Mr.. Sayne, a French gentleman who
owns beautiful vineyard and fruit farm
few miles west of Tallahassee, is making
some successful experiments in grating
fine fruit and nut bearing trees on wild
stock. On his place there is little strip of
native hard woods, which he has converted
into a veritable wonderland. He has Brazil
nuts grated on native hickory stock
pecans on hickory stock, Spanish chest
nuts on wild chlnquapin stock, choice
plums on wild cherry stock, and various
other combinations, all doing we'll and
putting on n remarkable growth of new
wood, some of the shoots being twenty fe. {
long.
Tallahassee T'allGhdSseean: The Lake
Gatlin fruit farm of George Greenhow.
about five miles east of Tallahassee, on the
st. Augustine road, is one of the prettiest