The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-03

twenty four-page trade ISSUE which shows
Z Commendable enterpri 9 on the part OF
Editor Thompson.
Oeban citizens OF Tampa will celebrate
the tenth anniversary OF toe declaration
of Cuban Independence Get. TO- Thei e
Will be paradss, a torchlight proee sion,
speech making and grand banquet
The first train load OF phosphate from the
Sterling mines came into Tampa Tuesday
night, consisting OF four cars. the steamer
Argossa has been at Port Tampa several
days waiting. She will carry about i, 7OC
tolls.
Contracts have been let for sinking thrc6
/ or four wells at DeLand for the water
works there. The wells are 10 be 500 feet
each in depth, and must have capacity Of
10000 gallons per day to supply the de-
mand.
sc. Ledbetter of Marion county has
made a success in castor bean culture. He
| is corresponding with parties II reference
20 establishing a castor oil mill somewhere
| in Florida and is using his influence to
have the plant established at Belleview.
Tuesday afternoon loud report like an
! explosion was heard on Peck street, Palatka.
| Investigat located IL at J. G. Rabies
bottling works He was engaged filling
| bottles with seltzer-he had just pat case
a way containing ten bOttles-the whole ten
broken glass and settler in all directions.
There were several persons present, but
fortunately no one was hurt
Brakeman s. NJ. Buck of train No. on
the southern division Of the Florida Central
and Peninsula road met with painful acct
dent Friday. The train stopped at a wood
rack ten miles from Plant City and he,
with Others, was throwing wood into the
tender wren two sharp edges came together
. h., Al It fhal .fe h.,
tween, cutting it in two. He was taken to
Plant City, where the injured bone was cut
off below the first joint.
Jacksonville Standard: 1t was currently
reported on the streets yesterday that the
Dunnellon Phosphate Company, capitalized
at 81, 200, 600, had sold out to a syndicate of
English capitalists for S4,000,o0O. One Of
the stockholders in the company was seen
in regard to the matter. He said that the
report might be true, but that he knew
nothing Of it. Another party said that he
knew for certain that it was true, but that
he could not give any information on the
subject at present.
Arcadia A rcddidn. Arcadia is on steady
boom and is attractiog more attention than
any town in the state The whole of De
Soto county will feel the benefit derived
from the establishment of phosphate works
on Peace river. There is a steady demand
Tor labor here ana at other points where the
phosphate companies are dredging phos-
phate rock. Cleveland is to have a plant,
and the works at Fort Ogden are now under
Roadway. The Scoot works near Zolfo en-
ploy a number of men and distribute a good
sum of money weekly. The South Florida
Phosphate Company own large body of
land near Bowling Green, and will put up
works at that place De Soto county will
yet be the richest and most prosperous
county in the state.
Orlando Sentinel: B. B. Reams, an old
and experienced fruitgrower, has an orange
tree of which the trunk measures over six
feet and half in circumference just above
the ground. This tree is about thirty wears
old. Another curiosity is an orange tree ia
tie yard Of County Commissioner Roper.
which is a cross between the wild bitter
sweet and the sweet orange. The effect of
the sweet upon the wild orange has been
a happy one; it has relieved it of
all bitterness OF peel and hgament,
has thinned the skin and sol
iditied the fruit, and the combined sweet
ness Of the two is not only preserved, but
enhanced. The crossing has also developed
new quality of value posses sed by neither
parent; it is practically an ever bearer.
There are thres or four sizes OF fruit on the
tree now, the largest of which are full of
ripe oranges. These oranges, like the bitter
sweet, with hang on the tree for six months
after ripening, without loss OF price an
will therefore be valuable acquisition TO
any grove, if only for family use, as ripe
rich oranges con be plucked from the trees
any day in the year