The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-27
FLORIDA

| The democratic canvass in Gadsden coun-
! ty will soon commerce.
! Fred D. Smith Of Kinsley, Kan, arrived
/ in Orlando Saturday. Mr.. smith has re-
/ Gently purcha sed the well-known Whentley
grove at Palm Springs. the price paid being
Z $4,000, and comes to take charge OF the
place.
/ There have been about fifteen births in
] Oviedo the pas twelve months. The local
editor Of the Chronicle don't remember
when the last death took place, as 1t Is 81
long ago that 1t has passed out Of his recol-
! lection.
! A man named Dickey, formerly OF
| Brooklyn, y. Y, and known to a number
of people in Pensacola, shipped as steward
on board the tug Carbonero, belonging 10
the Export Coal Company. on her late trip
from Pensacola to Cardenas, and died on
the passage.
/ Several of the alliance unions in Nassau
I county are making a move to establish an
alliance store in Fern andina. A quaint y
OF S ock has already beea subscribed, and
/ the matter seems TO be pushed with energy.
/ The shares have been placed at SO each, so
every alllancsman eau be a stakeholder.
b. G.. Oppe1heim Of New York has sold
the entire issue Of Lee county bonds to New
! York parties. The price paid for these
| bonds is said to be par. They are a 6 per
the John White bank of Key West and is
10 be used for the building OF a court house
at Fort Myers.
Another candidate for legislative honors
has entered the arena in the person of Cap.
B. F. Whtner of Fort Reid, who has con-
sented to allow his name % be used. Capt.
Whitner is the present chairman of the
board of county commissioners, and was
chairman Of the recent democratic county
convention.
There will be a meeting Of the recently
appointed congressional committee of the
Second district at the committee rooms Nos.
and Hubbard block, Aug. %. 1890, at 3
o'clock, for the purpose of efPectlng an or
ganiZation and formulating plans for tho
forthcoming campaigG, and for electing an
auxiliary campaign committee.
Fernandina Mirror: Jack Hippard, Jr.,
one Of Old Towns colored population, has
recently lost his father -in-law, but bis grief
is considerably assuaged by the circum-
stance that the old man left Jacks wife the
snug little sum of 1900. The money is in
Savannah, where the deceased lived, and
the owner has gone there to get it.
Fernandina Mirror: From private letters
received by gentleman in this city yester-
day it appears that the phosphate men are
still dissatisfied with the rates offered them
over the Florida Central and Peninsulsr
road, and are thinking strongly of accepting
the offers made them by the Plant system
IL they do, of course, Fernandiua will be
left, as far as the phosphate business is con-
cerned.
Fernandina Mirror: large flock of
birds, which the knowing ones declared to
be gannet, passed over the city Yesterday
afternoon about 8 o'clock They were flying
very low and the unlocking sportsmen
sighed with longing for shot The birds
were headed southwark and were doubtless
making their way from their summer home
in northern waters to the Gulf coast, where
multtudes of them congregate.
Henry E. Williams OF Key West has made
application at the patent Office for a patent
for bed fan, an invention of his own, and
also a hat fan for the use of masons timers,
and all Others engaged in outdoor occupa-
tions. The latter Is designed for the pur-
pose Of preventing sunstroke, while the
former is for the purpose of flaming a per-
son while asleep. He has also invented a
very Intricate piece of mechanism which
has been running continuously over twenty
five months
Oviedo Chronicle: J. II. Hughes returned
from bear hunt at Chuluota Wednesday,
exhibiting a large black fore foot of a 800
pound bear that had been killed by Josa
Jacobs in the Nottingham hammock. He
reports that the hunters had great sport in
bringing down the game, as the ISLANDERS"
had Mr.. Bruin hemmed in, aud whichever
way the ''drivert" ran him he had to look
into a barrel Of buck shot. Eek eiting races
took place, in which all partici pated, and at
times the bear, unwittingly, was the pur-
suer