The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-31
FLORIDA.

w. G. Thomas of Jefferson county is a
candidate for state senator.
II is rumored that an oyster canning fac
tory will be started at St. Augustine in the
fall.
The state convention of the farmers
alliance will be held at st. Augustine
June 9.
Kissimmee will celebrate the completion
OF her handsome new court house to-day
with barbecue.
This trip of the Clyde ship Seminole is
the one hundredth which she has made be-
tween New York and Jacksonville.
Mrs. Brown, wife of Capt A. W. Brown,
who has for years been in charge of the
Lighthouse at Mayport died there Wednes-
day.
W. ID. Fildes, late local editor Of the Month
cello Constitution, has severed his connec-
| ton with the paper, and has taken UP his
| abode in Admission, Ala.
Mrs John NJ. Taylor of BrooksviIle had
| the misfortune to fall and hurt herself very
painfully Friday. 1t is feared the small
bone Of one of her arms is broken.
Fred Fl. Gray, aged 10 years. son Of
Jacksonville, stole sos and hassstar ed to
visit his grandmother at Princeton, KY.
The employees Of the Orange Belt have
presented fine gold-headed cane to F. Z.
Bond, their former superintendent. Mr..
Bond is going into the lumber business In
Pensacola.
George I. Bunting is TO add steam power
to his establishment at st. Augustine, and
will manufacture furniture and all kinds of
fine cabinet work to order from native and
other woods.
At Leesburg the Masonic fraternity have
concluded to join with Postmaster j. C.
II nd r
with large brick block on Main street near
the postoffice.
1t is rumored at Tarpon Springs that
railroad of some kind between Tampa and
Dunedin is being agitated in certain circles
and that $40, 600 has been pledged by parties
interested in Dunedin.
The work of surfacing the Osceola and
Lake Jesup railroad Is proceeding rapidly,
and the road put into proper condition.
The first regular train will be run as far as
Gabrielle on Monday, June 2.
Changes in Florida postmasters have been
made as follows: j. r. Meelxs, appointed at
Grover, Suwanee county, vice J. E. Davis,
resigned; p. H. Jones at Homosassa, Citrus
| county, vice j. j. Fuller, resigned.
| At Mount Pleasant, Sunday, Henry
| Toler, while going to church on horseback,
( fell through a bridge and both himself and
horse were considerably bruised and cut.
| 1t was a narrow escape from death, and he
fears that his horse was ruined.
Nose johnson (colord), on Saturday,
killed crocodile near Alachua lake The
monster was dispatched in the edge OF a
| pond, where he had been after gang of
sheep. He was Is feet and 9 inches in
length. His head is 2 feet and inches
long.
| at depth Of something like $50 feet the
artesian well at Clear Water harbor has
reached salt water. Mr. Bryan does not
regard this as discouraging. but hopes to
| reach another stratum of flint pretty soon
and Immediately under that the desired
flow of pure water.
The hotel belonging to Capt. B. M. Sims
at Oconee was destroyed by fire shortly
after 10 O'Clock Thursday morning. The
building was unoccupied, having but re-
Gently been removed to its present location
for the purpose of repairing and enlarging
it. 1t is not known how the fire
originated.
Several smacks arrived at Pensacola Mon
day with good catches of fish, principally
led snappers. For several days past the
dealers have been able to fill their orders
from abroad with promptness. The supply
OF pompano was never greater than during
last week, and the local market for few
days was oyerstocked with them.
At Orlando Wednesday the horse of E. A.
| AeAChatuSs Al attempting 10 Jump over the
picket fence in front of his lot on court
street, did not leap quite high enough and
caughtits feet between the palings, throw
ing the horse on the pavement on the other
| side, and holding 1t there until the pickets
were knocked of and it was thus released.
After dismissing his school at Mount
Pleasant last Friday Alex Clarke called a
neighbor to assist him, and they scattered a
thin layer of pine straw under the house
and set it on fire to destroy the fieas. The
fire got beyond their control and burned the
house to the ground. A number of books.
school fixtures, coat and S13 in money
were destroyed.
Perry Banner: Mrs. Page, a widow re-
| siding in the Waylonzo neighborhood, suf-
fered heavy loss one day last week from a
| cyclone or whirlwind The top of her resi-
dence was blown away and her horse stable
torn up, but the horse escaped without in
jury A man and a child were picked up
and carried several yards, but were not
hurt. The wind seemed confined to her
place. as it never reached any of her
neighbors.
When the Phosphate craze was at its
hight Mr.. Agnew Of Ocala bought a tract
OF land Of VIII Tompkins, which that gen.
tleman had bought in at tax sale. Mining
was at once begun on the tract, as it