The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-31
FLORIDA.

says he has never had cross word about
such a matter.
FLORIDA.
About half of the orange crop of Putnam
| county has been shipped.
| At Apopka mayor. clerk. marshal, and
two aldermen are to be elected Saturday.
The depot at Bostwick. on the Jackson
| vile. Tampa and Key West railroad, was
burned Monday.
| Ii is reported that colored alliance is to
| be organized in Palatka within the next
few days, by Rev. Mr.. Moore of Crescent
| City.
There is a rumor at Jacksonville that the
| principle mill owners in Southwest Georgia
and Florida will form pool. 1t will be or
| ganized by the 10th of JAM, and will repre-
sent $S.000,000
The crew of tho steamship Arisaig, now
at Fernandina, have all run aw y While
the police could easily capture them, the
captain does not want them back, but will
| get new crew at Brunswick.
The report going the rounds Of the press
| to the effect that Quinn Bass. formerly Of
Kissi nmee, was shot near Arcadia, on the
18th inst, is erroneous, as . linn Bass has
been In Georgia for some time.
Some six weeks ago man arrived in
Orlando from the north, giving his name as
William Richie, aud to the Knights of
Pythias be at once made himself known,
being a member Of the lodge at Halboro,
Penn. He has since developed into a
maniac and is in Jail.
d. A Boyd's single machine has arrived
at Palatka, and will be set in position at
once. The remainder of the plant has been
ready some time. and there is little to do
now but line up, turn on steam, and go to
work. The capacity of the mill is 10000
shin giles per day, without crowding the
machinery.
At the regular weekly meeting of the
ministerial alliance in Jack ;onville Monday
morning, the follJwing resolution was
adopted: Resolved, That under the ci =
cumstances the mi iisterial alliance does not.
at the present time, see its way clear to in
vite Rev. Ssm P. Jones to hold evangelistic
services In the city.
Lake Worth correspondent of Iitusville
Star: The East Coast Canal company have
| the deeds from the state for between 800, 900
and 400, 900 acres of land in this cou lty,
| some of which the state had no right 10
under the swamp act. as it is high, dry land,
and all Of it will probably average in value
over government prices an acre.
In his famous grove on Dream Lake near
Apopka, Frank H. Davis has a mandarin
orange tree, on one limb f which there are
delicious yellow and slightly fiattened fruit.
The little branch which supports so many
| oranges Is less than three-fourths of an inch
in diameter. Mr.. Davis will probably take
1t to the Ocala exhibit.
Prof. II. w. Wiley, chief of the division
OF chemi try of the agricultural department
| at Washington, passed down the J. T. g. x.
w. Saturday, to take charge a d put in
operation the experiment statiou or farm
at Load - l.
enterprise for Florida, and was first started
through the efforts of Hamilton Disston,
who gave the government the necessary
| land, forty acres, and Secretary Rusk at
once interested himself In the matter.
Last Fourth of July one of the Jackson
| vile Metropolis carrier boys, only ID years
| Of age, commenced saving money for
| Christmas. Shortly before Christmas his
| mother found out that he was intending to
| get her gold watch. She being widow,
and needing good many other things
more than watch, tried to persuade him
not to get 1t, and finally succeeded by ac>
| cepting instead henrietta d ess pattern,
valued at 81 25 per yard, and also a hand
some willow rocker.
| The pi ce owned by Capt. Childress at
Troy, consisting Of ten acres in bearing
| orange grove aud @ nice house, has Just been
sold to Col. d. B. Cooper Of Nashville, Tenn.
1
| joining property of H. G. Rinaldi. paying
the same price of $4,000. This place con-
sists of young grove of twenty three acres
and house. Col. Cooper is expected to
arrive with his family about the middle of
January, and will take up his residence on
his newly purchased property.
| The Spanish fishing smack Angelica, forty
tons, Capt. Perez, sailed from Havana on
| Dec. IL and was 20 zed by the United States
| ct1ffa 1T
Dec. 10. while anchored four miles from
Punta Rassa. She was fined by Collector
| Horn 81 900 for violating the United States
Revised Statutes, sectioi 2774. The Ange-
lita is now dismautled in the harbor by order
of Mr.. Hogr for failure to pay the fine. The
Secretary of the Treasury was petioned by
mail to remit the fine The petition
was presented to Collector Horn for indorse-
ment, but he refused for want of precedent.
| Capt, Perez says he was anchored only
fifteen hours and went in to avoid the storm
of Dec. IS.
Palatka Herald: Jesse Ivey was one of
the passengers who got on Conductor
Echols train at Jas or Thursday. He ia of
good family and lives at Branford, bis
brothers being at the head Of the Suwannee
River transportation Company we'll known
and liked by the bust ess community.
Jesse, however, is composed Of different
material, and what is known as "a killer. !;
having one man TO his credit. Immediately
after leaving the station the conductor be.
gan his trip through the train for tickets
and as Ivey was in the forward car, was
among the frss approached with ticket
SIR" His reply was the prompt presenta-
ton OF a Smith g. Wesson in the face OF
} Conductor Echols. with an oath, 81 will
Kill your The appearance Of the man
showed that he meant business There was
no opportunity for parleylng, all OF which
Mr.. Eshols realized instantly and he i'm O.
dia'ely clinched with the desperate. There
was OILY one white man in the car and
some egroes, none Of whom offered any
assistance, and the brakemen aud nagmeu
were each cut. single-handsd he wrestled
with him, however, aud flnally succeeded
Ia taking the pistol from him. He theI
J ATTEMPTED 70 draw knife. but having sent
word for help % the rear car iiumediately
after getting the pistol aud Il arriving th,
wouid-be murderer Has secured, a rope wa
procured add he ehs found hand aud FOO