The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-18
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z. Mccall has sold his orange grove in
/ Marion county 70 C. z. Cannon for 81 800.
/ Ocala has eleven salesladies, all occupy
/ ing lucrative positions in the different
storel.
There will be an immense cabbage crop
/ in Alachua county during the coming
season.
I Miss Mary Gardner lost fine gold watch
and chain Monday while walking the streets
Of Palatka-
The fall term of Leon county circuit
court will not convene until after the Christ
mas holidays.
The new residences of Sam Ray and DR..
| j. NJ Dixon at Titusville are being rapidly
| pushed forward.
F. c. Thomas is under arrest at Tampa
charged with forging a deed from Sarah
Brooks to his wife.
A napntha launch, named the Kansas
CITY. has this week been shipped 10 j. W.
Merrill Of Tropic.
a. J. DaCosta Of Gainesville has donated
valuable lot to aid the construction Of the
North Gainesville rock road.
All bids for extending the city wharf at
Titusville were rejected by the town couacil
at their meeting Thursday afternoon.
Ely Adams (colored) who was shot at
Miconopy several weeks ago, died last Sat
urday night. The negro who shot him fed
and has not been seen since.
S. NJ. Mixson Of Gainesville received a
turkey from Williston which weighed
thirty pounds. IL is believed to be the
heaviest turkey in the state.
Phosphate is being shipped from the
Hicks & Summer mine in the western limits
of Gainesville. The phosphate in this
mine is said to be equal to the best in the
state
P. S. Johnston, George Fl. Young and
w. c. B. Rawson have started a poultry
company at Seville. Mr.. Johnston is the
travelling auditor of the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West railway.
In the Milton district George W. Hamil-
ton, DR.. Hundley, Gus Harrison and T. b.
Hopper received one vote each for justice of
the peace. Arch Lindsay. B. ID. Whitmire
and DR.. William Judge one vote each for
constable. No election.
The house of L. j. Yeates, near Velrico,
was burned Thursday. The loss of his
household goods was almost total. The fire
caught from the kitchen flue. The house
was comparatively new two-story frame,
and is a serious loss to Mr.. Yeates.
j. P. Miller gave up the proprietorship of
the Indian River hotel at Titusville on Sun
day, and H b. Herse ytook charge until the
arrival of Mr.. Peck, the new proprietor.
This is the seventh change in the proprietor
ship Of the hotel since it first opened.
Near A. L. Woodward's residence in
Tallahassee grows freak of nature in the
shape of an oak and chinaberry tree from
the same stump About six feet from the
ground the china tree and oak trunks
branch off separately and distinctly.
The final papers passed Wednesday
morning in the conveyance of n. Dixon's
saw mill at Tampa to the Tampa Lumber
Company. The consideration is $22, 500 for
the saw mill, dry kiln and the five aud a
half acres of land on which they are sit
uated.
An order was issued Friday to the port
physician at the Pensacola quarantine sta
ton, by President Hargis of the Escambia
county board of health, instructing him that
on and after to-day all vessels arriving
from ports not infected and with clean bal
last, shall not be detained at the station,
but be allowed to approach the city with
the least possible delay.
The hotel at McDavid, on the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, thirty-five miles
north of Pensacola, belonging to the Miner
Lumber Company, was discovered to be on
fire about 2 O'clock Friday morning.
Despite all efforts to save the building it
was totally consumed, with all the furni-
ture. No one was injured. The origin of
the fire is not known, but it was probably
the work of an incendiary. Mr.. D'Alem
berte says the company will begin at once
to build another hotel.
d. NJ. Henderson, foreman of the railroad
section at Milton, met with a serious acct
dent Monday morning. The hand car was
coming down grade near Pond Creek,
when a dog ran at the, car and became en-
taO0lQ6 n rho yphaalS In npcCin0 the
dog, Henderson, who was sitting on box
at the front end, was pitched headlong from
the car. He managed to get out of the way
of the car, but in the fall and scramble
his right cheek bone was mashed in, his
left jaw fractured, the right side OF
his neck and face badly bruised and Il Sc
we're abrasion Of the skin received just
above the right hip. the injured man is
getting along very well.
The Belleview Phosphate Company have
struck it rich. if all things prove agreeable
This company has only recently been or.
ganized, and already have an order
for a thousand tons from Baltimore
house. and a proposition was laid before
the company yesterday afternoon from ri
English syndicate to purchase the entire 207
acres of land belonging to the company il
Marion county. This land is now to be ex-
amined by experts. representing owners anC
buyers, to see what average OF tons or phoS
plate per acre it will yield, and a rate of s.
ger ton is hoped to be secured. One acre
one foot deep, it is thought, will produce
1000 tons, and at 200 acres will give 5000,
900 tons There is a chance of scoopinf
about $2,000,0 900 if the trade is consum
mated. The owners are confident that tn
| per cent. will be satisfactory.
Lake Weir Nelos: On Thursday after
noon a peddler passed through here an,
Stanton, selling dry goods. etc. At tn
latter place he called at the house of
Lytle, " no was not at home, but seeing Mrs
| Lytle, endeavored to sell some of his wares
but not succeeding in selling any, used Ian
guage that might or might not be inter
preted as insulting. Mrs. Lytle took it il
the latter sense, and informed her husban
| Of the fact on his return. Mr.. Lyte q
once went in pursuit, aud caught the pee
dler at the Stanton depot. he ordere
him to put his pack down, which wa
done, and Mr.. Lytle administered a mos
severe thrashing, with barrel slaves an
boards, until the man was not able to stand
and then some severe kicking when on til
ground, Some Of the prominent citizens {
Stanton encouraged the beating TIL
peddler begged most piteously for mere
during the whole time. After this he We
allowed to 20 on. After going for littl
distance some of those present called hir
back to get his pack, but be was warned b
others not to come back or they woul
shoot him The peddler walked into Ocal