The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-22
FLORIDA.


The oyster works at bernandina will con-
tinue canning oysters about two weeks
longer.
Last weeks entertainment for the benefit
of the Presbyterian church at Quincy real
lied $94.
Messrs. Malayvan g. Carr have made up
ward of 400 analyses since the opening of
the laboratory in Ocala.
Mrs George H. Wright of shuluota took
arsenic or strychnine, by mistake, for
quinine and death resulted.
Tampa is full of idle carpenters seeking
in vain for work, who were inveigled into
going there to seek employment by false
representations.
The Jacksonville ADdily Tribune (rep.)
complains of the failure of the republican
merchants to give it their advertisements,
| saying if they did the democrats would
boycott them.
Ell Destino factory at Fernandina has
been filling numerous orders during the
past week The cigars are going to New
York. New Hampshire. Chicago and Mon
tana and to points in Florida.
Mr.. Newton, an old gentleman living
several miles west of Oviedo, who has been
resident of Florida for over sixty years,
took his first ride on a railroad train last
week, taking trip to Sanford,
The New York World of recent date con-
tains notice of the assignment of DR.. Up
ham. The doctor is owner of the Strath =
more hotel and several lots on the beach at
Fernandina and is also half owner in the
beach railway.
J. F. Mays, a son of Samuel Mays of
Peru, receiving clerk at the South Florida
railroad depot, recently patented an auto
matte adding machine. He sold part in
terest in it, and has been offered $50 900 for
his remaining interest.
Fernandina Mirror: A rumor is aioat
that ex-senator Chandler of Marion county
has been appointed collector of customs at
would please democrats much better than
some Of the other applicants for the Office.
Maj. Duryee, one of the pioneers in Flor
ida fancy woods, will make shipment of
cypress, cedar, bay and cherry, on vessel
which he is daily expecting to arrive at
Fernandina. He has received an order for
| 100000 red cedar bolts for shipment to
| Europe
James Courier of Manatee had close
| call from large moccasin snake last week.
| He heard hen cackle under the house, and
| stopped down to look under, saw a snake
| within foot of his face just as it struck at
| him, but the snake hit O palmetto leaf right
at his head.
|
| notices roses are selling in some places In
| Fernandina at 10 cents each. He calculates
| that he can grow 41G, 879 roses to the acre
| and says he Is going to plant ten acres this
| season, and expects to come out 81 600, 900
ahead on the crop.
| A number of Palatka's citizsns have pre-
ferred serious charges against James II.
Shelley, sheriff of Putnam county, and
| Gov. Fleming has requested States Attor-
4 No 70 iuUa 20 fha aha md
| report at once. Judge Wigg is now here
for the purpose named and is taking testi-
mony.
The crew OF the schooner Ethel, which
was wrecked off Cape Canaveral week be-
fore last, has been heard from and is safe in
Nassau. Tue schooner Brothers, which
sailed from Fernendina for Nassau on the
same day as the Ethel, also took course
near the coast and rescued Capt. Garvin
| and crew.
Tampa Ne,cs: A great many Of the cigar
makers OF Key West are out of employ
| ment The factories there are catching up
with the work they lost during the strike,
| and the workmen are turned out In large
| numbers. Every steamer brings a number
| Of them over here, some of whom remain
and others scatter over the state.
A negro named George GODDARD, who
| recently hailed from South Carolina, met
| with a terrible accident while in the woods
near Spar searching for phosphate. In
attempting to arrest the escape of the
| frightened horse that he had driven out
there, he got his leg entangled in the spokes
of the road cart and was dragged by the
running animal some distance, breaking the
leg in three places, and otherwise mangling
and bruising his body.
Fernandina Mirror: On Tuesday Ma
honey q Hunt shipped direct to San Fran
cisco in sealed cars 900 dozen one pound
and 900 dozen two-pound cans of oysters
the value of which was $1,000. Such in
| dustries as this and the fiber works, which
use up the resources of our section, are
worth more to the town than a mercantile
business of many times lis volume, as the
total proceeds, with the exception of the
packages, come into the hands of our OWL
people, and thus into circulation among us