The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09
FLORIDA

The cotton crop in Wakulla county is so
far good and well titled.
A new tier of cells has been added to the
Orange county jail at Orlando.
]. H. Dawson died at Palatka Monday
from the effects Of opium eating.
A bear weighing SOP pounds was killed in
Putnam county day or two ago.
The daily issue of the Ocala Banner has
been suspended until next winter.
The county commissioners of Osceola
county have accepted the new court house
and jail.
A new postoffice has been established at
Jensen, Brevard county, with John Soren-
son as postmaster.
The revival meeting at the NJ. E. church
at Daytona still continues, and a good
work is in progress.
At Daytona the new bridge was formally
opened May l. The work of getting out
shell for road to the beach is going on.
The railroads of Florida have kindly con-
sented to pass the active members OF the
Florida Press Association to and from their
twelfth annual meeting on May IA free.
Col. w. d. Chipley denies that he has
closed contract with some English capt.
talists for 100000 acres of West Florida
land now owned by the Pensacola and At
lantic railroad.
At Jacksonville Tuesday, Randall Palmer.
who plead guilty Of robbiug the mail at De-
Funiak Springs, was sentenced to the
Columbus Ohio penitentiary for eighteen
months and to pay costs of court.
At Jacksonville Monday, the motion to
quash the indictments against E. NJ. Gregg
for violation of election laws in Marion
county was denied and his trial set for To-
day. The case against s. ID. Swami was mol.
pressed.
A telegram from Florence, Ala. states
that the Railroad and Improvement Com
pany has just closed contract with Charles
+. Rogers, formerly resident of Orlando.
for the location of a furniture plant there
to cost 100000.
The circuit court convened at Gainesville
Tuesday. There are seventy EIGHT cases on
the trial docket, nineteen on the appeal
docket, two on the garnishee docket, one on
the claim docket, thirty-three on the chan
Gerry docket and forty-one on the criminal
docket.
A party Of colored men were in bathing
near McDavid station Sunday, when one Of
them, named c. Robinson, began to sink and
had gone down the third time before his
companions noticed that he was drowning.
The body was recovered after a search Of
three hours.
The Orlando street railway and appurte-
AdhSSo, HDlCu MGiO SOlNl AlOIudJ db
sale, were bid in by Nat Poyntz for 81 .033. =
60, the amount of Indebtedness of the road.
MIR. Poyntz purchased it for other parties,
and extensions and improvements are con-
templated for the near future.
Victoria Green, colored woman about
40 years Of age, was shot and killed on the
Evergreen cemetery road, on the outskirts
OF jacksonville, at midnight Tuesday by
Peter Williams, an aged colored man.
Williams gives as an excuse for the killing
that Victoria Green had enticed his wife
away from him to live at her house. where
the wes guilty Of criminal intimacy with
another negro.
An important case is now on trial in the
United States court at Jacksonville before
a jury. 1t is the case of Alexander T
schwartz against G. K. Dutton for 500. 600
damages The plaintiff was convicted of
Dlgamy In 1886 in the circuit court at
Orange county and sentenced to the state
prison camp for three years. The prisoners
were leased TO Dutton, who was working
them IN Suwannee county. Schwartz was
whipped while IN the camp, he alleges. nm
mercifully and brutally Schwartz claims
to be citizen of Philadelphia.
Orlando Record: A personal In tho
Record last week in regard to DIR. ] q
Slocum, surveyor general of Florida. has
caused much anxiety among his friends in
Orlando. The telegram received here bv
Mrs. Slocum was, it seems, not from the