The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-30
FLORIDA.

Bloomfield is to have phosphate factory.
The Lake Weir alliance has opened a
store.
The Presbyteri at Quincy have de
cided to build new church.
Judge A. Doggett is lying critically i'll at
his residence in Jacksonville.
A fire-proof oil house is being erected in
the yard of the lighthouse on the hill near
Fernandina.
The farmers of the surrounding country
are taking wagon loads of palmetto stems
to Fernandiaa for tle fioer factory.
At the Windsor hotel at Jacksonville
there were 1896 arrivals from Jan. 2, 1890,
to date, Loss arrivals from April to date
At the meeting of Olivet Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Orlando, Saturday,
the order of the Red Cross was conferred
upon B. f. Bowen.
I. c. Morton of Staunton, Va, arrived
in Lakeland few days ago. Mr. Morton
purchased a tract of land containing eighty
acres about four miles northeast of town
several years ago at So per acre, and he
sold it TO d. A. Kayser last week for SOL
per acre, or $4,000 for the tract. The land
had beds of phosphate on it.
Arcadia ArcadiGn. Capt. d. D, Mahon.
the veteran tear hunter Of the big scrub.
drove IN town yesterday with eighty otter
skins which he sold to Simmons. Carlton q,
Co. for $3.50 cash. He killed on his last trip
1856 offers, aud sold the skins of seventy-six
in Fort Myers and brought eighty to Ar
cadia. He also killed over 200 ailigators, the
skins of which are on the way to Arcadia
now.
There is no longer doubt about the ex-
istence of large bodies of very fine phos-
pilates in Madison county 1t has
been discovered in several parts of
the county, but principally in the southern
and southeastern parts. Experts who have
seen samples say that the quality is equal il
not superior to the best previously found in
South Florida, and the quantity seems to be
inexhaustible.
Gainesville Sun: W. +. jackson. who
sold $50, 600 worth of phosphate lands in this
county a few days since, yesterday made
another lucky hit by disposing of all his
land lying on the Santa Fe river, in Ala.
chua county, to D. Y. Dancy of Savannah
for $25 an acre. Mr.. jackson, at the rate
he is now progressing, will be very rich
man in the course of q few weeks. Mr.
Dancy is to be congratulated upon being
able to secure and hold such valuable lands
at such low figures.
Green Cove Spring: In giving the repor
of the exhuming of the body of the late M r.
Dlegen, at Belmore, this county, the state
ment that two wills of the deceased were in
existence, given as rumor, seems to have
been not well founded. A will dated in the
year 1887 has been probated. No other will
has come as yet to the attention of the
county judge That the body was ex
humed is true, and the reasons given there
Tor, SO far as we have any means of ascer.
talnlng, were as given last week Exami
nation OF sthe dead mans stomach may sci
aside all rumors that he died other than a
death superinduced by heart disease or kin
dred ailment.
GAINESVILLE Sun: There has been dis
tributed around this city during the dark
hours OF night, in many instances thrown
IN the yards OF respectable people. a lot of
vulgar and obscene literature. Such yul.
garity can only originate from LOWERED
cowarcly ''skunks, and intended tointerest
tnose OF their grade, for no resDectablf
gentleman would admit such obscene litera,
lure SHOWN their family, or cherish such as
pocket relic. The author aud printer Of
such vnigarity may yet fall into the clntcbSs
OF the law and be placed behind the hers
where they can find more congenial com,
pany. The authors name of this artici.
can be had from the editor of the mi,
Sun by leaving his own name at the sam: