The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-24
FLORIDA.

Gainesville is in good sanitary eondi-
| ton.
Senator Call spoke at BrooksvIlle Friday
night
Work on the artesian we'll at Madison is
progressing favorably.
A boy in Jacksonville has won L., 900
marbles during the season.
A small sprinkling of cotton is finding its
way to market at Madison.
The corner stone of the Methodist church
at Rochelle will be laid ca Wednesday next.
A railroad from Jacksonville to Gaines
vile via Starke and Sampson City lis pro-
jected.
James B. Phares of Yalaha announces
himself as a candidate for tax assessor of
Lake county.
The heirs of DR.. r. j. Mays of Madison
have been paid this week the amount called
for by his policy in the Knights Of Honor,
$4,000.
1t is reported that DIR. Camp has offered
8, 900 cash to the Melrose company if they
will construct their road via Campville to
Gainesville.
The phosphate stock market at Ocala is
active The Ooala and Blue Rivers stock
Is active az 800 a share; Dunnellon's hard
to get at s165. Par value 800.
One thousand four hundred acres of land
ad jacent to Melbourne has been sold by c.
G. Adams of Warren. o., to prominent
real estate dealer in Kansas City.
1t is reported that a large bed Of hard
rock A No. phosphate has been discovered
on land about four miles west of Belleview.
Colored homesteaders own the land, and if
the report be true they have a fortune
The democrats of Alachua county are
more nearly united now than they have
been for years, and the probability is that
large vote will be polled at the next cleo
ton, resulting in an increased democratic
majority.
The first bale of cotton received at Madi-
son this season was brought to town last
Thursday by Bob Williams, colored, who
lives in the Cherry Lake neighborhood. 1t
was sold to w. L. Parramore 81 Co. for
l019 cents per pound.
AS the Maud F., Capt. Simmons, was
going up the Halifax river Saturday, a tar
pom weighing probably 100 pounds jumped
through the cabin curtain on the port side,
struck glancing blow on the center post
and then passed out of the boat
A letter received at Sanford from Miss
| Rose Elizabeth Cleveland early in the week
announces the sale of her property at Paolo
| to the same parties who purchased Pine
| Crest. Miss Cleveland will not come south
this winter. but has gone abroad.
The Ocala and Blue River Phosphate
| Company is adding additional lands to its
plant, purchasing several thousand acres
OF hrst-c class hard rock phosphates in Ma
rlon and Citrus counties, where shortly
they will begin active operations.
| Prof. w. G. Dodd of Orange Home reaped
| this season 5000 pounds of excellent hay
| from three acres OF pine land that had been
in cultivation for forty years. This was at an
expense of less than S. for labor employed
in saving the hay. The grass came up vol
unfairly on the land after a crop of water
melons had been taken from it
"The headquarters of the Second con-
gressional district democratic committee
viii be in Jacksonville" remarked G. w.
| Wilson Friday TO a reporter of the Jackson
vile Metropolis. This is DONE" continued
he, because Jacksonville is convenient to
the daily newspapers, and we have better
facilities here for reaching the general
| public. We will shortly go to work and
thoroughly put ourselves in shape for a
| campaign
Madison Recorder: few weeks ago, as
j. W. Cobb was engaged in cutti ng
some trees which blew down in his field he
| found flint arrow head, such as was used
| by tie Indians for killing game, embedded
III pine limb which grew forty feet or
more from the ground. The arrow head is
about two inches long and yet retains its
| place in the wood where it found u lodg.
ment years ago, when fired from bow by
the hand of some Of Billy Bowlegs' or Hicks
red warriors, mayhap at a bear or panther
St. Augustine Ne,oS; A gentleman living
in this city tells this for true story: have
a little dog that stays in the house at night
This NOR ming he came up to my room abont
the time usually get up, but although wide
awake | did not stir. The little fellow triec
| to attract attention by rolling on the foo,
in front of the bed, aud by so doing spread
! wide apart the folds of the mosquito
net, whether purposely or accidentally
don't know, but this is what followed: He
got up and faced me for a moment, but as
did not seem TO be awake. he quietly took VI
one fold of the net with his teeth, and carry
ing it past the other as far as it would go
let it fall to its place and then softly wen
downstairs. This dog had never beer
taught anything Of the kind, and If he die
not reason what shall we call itl