The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-30
FLORIDA.
Noble A. Hull is a candidate for the Office
of clerk OF DuYal county.

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Noble A. Hull is a candidate for the Off &c
of clerk OF Duval county.
Judge Hanson is a probable candidate for
congress in the First dis riot.
s'Lily.n the manatee at the Sub-Tropical
Exposition at Jacks jnyils. is dead.
John A Moore declines to be a candidate
for the tax collectorship Of Escambia
county.
C. 7. jenkins, the Oldest citizen in Citrus
county, is a delegate To The democratic state
| convention.
Ten opossums were killed in one night last
week while stealing eggs and chickens in a
Gainesville coop.
W. H. Bristol OF DeLaDd announces him
self a candidate for the state Senate on the
democratic ticket.
| L. L. Stone has been appointed postmaster
at Woodbridge, Orange county, vice Jane
B. Turner, resigned
1t i, estima. ed that the LeConte pear crop
in Madison county is but about one
twentieth as large as it was last year.
| At Graham's timber camps, il Liberty
cou ty. on the Och llochonee last Saturday,
| 5000 logs were put in the river TO float to
Carrabelle.
A hollow stump from which a noise
comes similar to a boiling kettle is one of
OF bees are probably inside.
r. d. Kirk of Lees burg is a candidate for
reelection as tax collect n of fernando
county. A. II. Bar Aer is also a candidate.
Z. w. Wilson seeks reelection As tax as
SCISSOR.
Osceola county has fine court house. 1t
cost $4,000, and Is brici structure 110xS0
feet. two stories nigh, offices for every
official, and cupola 125 feet high, from
which every sugar plantation on the lake
can be seen.
The past week was one of the dullest in
the history Of Pensacola. The almost in
cessant rain put an effectual stop to all out
door work, AID scarcely anything was done
in the bay. The result was more idle wo k
men than is usual aud trade in every de
partment has .ffered considerable loss.
Delegates from Manifold and Lecauto
met the court house last Tuesday for the
purpose of settling their differences on the
location OF tue county seat, about which
there Is 50 much feeling and excitement.
After friendly and dispaSsi mate discus
sion OF the ques ion they agreed to disagree.
Gen. F. E. Spinner writes to a frie ID in
New York state from Pablo Beach: my
case is constantly growing worse. | cannot
see to read single word of this, my own
writing. Ny eye is kept open by a bit of
adhesive plas er. | write with pain and
suffering" the general is afflicted with
cancer / his left eye.
Fort Myers Press: We learn that some
time since one of the Seminole squaws left
her 6-yea old pickaninny with another
woman while she Went on some errand. The
little CHAP lit out for himself, and has not
yet been found, although about all the tribe
looked for tx days to ind him. They have
given up the search, and what has become
of the poor little fellow is only conjecture.
The property holders of Citrus county are
considerably stirred up on the tax assess
mont of phosphate lands 1t appears that a
majority of the board of county com MIS-
sioners favor assessing pine Ia d a. Sc so
per acre, good hammock at S. and phos-
phate lands, which are SELF e from S25 to
Sl20 per acre, at only S. per acre. A mass
meeting has been called for next Monday
night to protest.
The Fort Myers Press says that the Inter
national DC an Telegraph Co npany now
has two cables in perfect order between
Punta Rassa, Fla, and Havana, which is
the first time since the line has been estab-
lsled; and the company are now at work
struggling an extra wire between jackson
vile and Punta Ra sa to enable them to
work the duplex system from jacksonville
t Hivana, using the wire solely for that
purpose, aud tue other for way offices under
the old system.
Mike Kurtz. who was surrendered a few
days ago by his bondsmen in Jacksonville,
is still prisoner, f. m the fact that under
the implicated circu Instances # his case
there Is no one TO receive bond to releas
him. Kurtz was convicted year ago of
keeping tmbli & house in that city and
sentenced TO three months in the site
prison. He appealed his case to tn sup enc
court, giving bont in the sum f 81 900.
On cancel alton Of the bail he was delivered
to the sheriff and placed in jail