The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-01
rhatever-evsrything being literally burnt

whatever-everything being literally burnt
up.
While loading lumber from the lighter 10
.he deck OF the bark which is lying outside
the bar at st. Augustine. " ednesday.
a col1red stevedore by the name of
Meadows was caught between the ligh o.
| and the vessel in one OF the sGellS, and sus-
tanned a serious compound fracture of the
| leg.
Gainesville Sun: A gentleman informe
| US yesterday that he would put in 5000
worth of machinery with any reliable man
| and join him in starting broom factory in
this city. Such factory would undoubt-
edly pay. The raw material can be raised
anywhere in Florida, and the demand for
brooms is unlimited.
Gainesville Sun: Henry Bailey Of North
Gainesville delivered TO G. F. Sickles ye,-
terday 752 quarts of strawberries. J. r.
| Fleullen picked 500 quarts Mr.. Sickl
says the increase is unaccounted for, except
it is the beginning Of the fruit of the new
crop. The increase is about 60 per cent
over any previous shipment this year.
Gainesville Sun: Valuable deposits of
phosphate have been discovered five miles
east Of Rochelle. A gentleman, whose
name we did not learn, was offered, but de-
clined to accept, $1,000 for eighty acres.
Specimens taken from this land and ana
lyzed in st. Louis and Ocala, show 60 per
cent. phosphate. The deposit is easy of ac-
cess, being near two railroads
j. j. Mixson, south of Archer, has a very
interesting hill of prehs toric animal re-
mains forathe biologists to look after. DIR.
J. G. Neal. formerly of Archer, now Of
Lake City, frequently examined them, both
scientifically and curiously; sending numer-
GUS specimens to the Smithsonian Institute,
but it remains for the biologists to deter
mine their full character and value.
Saturday afternoon last John Digger,
while hunting his oxen. found the dead
body of a man, supposed to be a negro
drifted ashore at low water mark, about
one and three-quarter miles from the Put
nam and Clay county line, south of Palatka.
The body was SO badly eaten by crabs and
buzzards that he was unable TO say posi-
lively whether the corpse was a white man
or negro.
Orange shipments are about over at Self
ner. The growers in that section realized
about $4,000 for their crops. A few vege-
tables have been shipped. though the
drought has cut the crop off considerably.
The gardens are needing rain again, as
also the orange groves The growers are
anticipating a short crop, and many are
using fertilizers to obviate this. Irrigation
Will eventually be resorted to.
Gainesville Sun: 1t is rumored that par
and Marion county are scheming to secure
the construction of a railroad from Fort
White through the phosphate regions of
Alachua county to Ocala. 1t is said this
movement has been sprung for the purpose
of defeating the building of railroad from
this city 10 the Suwannee river Perhaps it
would be well for some of our sagacious
citizens to inquire into this matter, and if
necessary sit down on any attempt to Grip
pie the interests of this city and county.
Gainesville Sun: All is not gold that gilt
tiers, as many Of our friends who have en-
tered phosphate lands are likely soon to
discover 1t was reported in this city yes
terday that a number of the homesteads
taken by the citizens of Gainesville are oc-
cupied by squatters, who propose 10 hold on
to their claims and maintain their rights
with the rifle and shotgun. 1t is asserted
that squatters boldly proclaim that any
attempt on the part of other claimants to
dispossess them of their property will cause
the trespassers to be met by "bloody hands
to hospitabIe graves" 1t is not improbable,
therefore. that quietus will be put upon
the rush for homesteads in the western part
of the empire county of Florida