The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-16

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sonville, Tampa and Key West system.
The presbytery Of East Florida. connecte
with the northern assembly Of the Presby
terrain church, conveues at Waldo to-day.
The $50 20 lost by Miss Mamie Schnatz a
the money order window of the pOstottice a
| Ocala week ago was made up for her bl
her friends.
Capt Julius Taylor, an aged and re
| spected citizsn of Tallahassee and en- old
confederate veteran. died Saturday nigh
Of general debility.
A disabled baggage car OF the o. and W.
| I. railroad has been placed beside the trace
| at the terminus Of the road III Orlando Iol
use as temporary depot.
Bids for carrying the mail between The
| postotiicc at Orlando and the South Florida
railroad are invited by the government, anC
can be filed with Postmaster Fletcher until
Dec. Is.
The stone steps for the new custom house
at Key West were shipped by the schooner
Nina Belle from New York on Dec. 4. They
| are contained in l06 cases. weighing thirty
five tons.
II. NJ. Thompson. marshal of Arcadia,
lost two notes Of 500 each last week, which
he warns all persons not to trade for. They
are both notes Of Ii. Raulerson, payable to
j. A. Fortner.
The negro who stole Albertus Vogt's
hammerlesj gun at Ocala, and shot him
self in the calf and ankle OF his leg, has had
the limb amputated by DR.. Van Hood. NOR
titcation having set in.
There never were so many new houses
going up at one time before in the history
of Key West, nor never before were there
so many demands for houses There is not
vacant cottage on the island.
At Tropic the heavy northeast blow of
last week washed down several small
wharves and sent numerous skffs adrift.
but the truck farmers took advantage Of
the rain and planted beans and set out thou
sands OF tomatoes. The prospects are good
for a fine yield.
Mrs. Sarah Harris of Citra is the owner
OF an orange grove on an avenue Of tho
same name nea Ocala, which suffered very
severely in the cold snap of last spring, and
all hops was abandoned of getting any fruit
OH OF 1t this season. She has lust had goo
boxes picked from it, however.
John Dignan, formerly well-known New
York journalist, but for nearly year past
OF Silver Springs Park, and Of notoriety in
the libel suit brought against him by the
Park officials for publishing certain articles
about their official conduct, recently AMIGA
oily settled, is with the Free Press OF Ocala
Monticello Tribune: Attorney General
Lamar informs US that the board Of t-us-
tees of the Internal Improvement Fund, of
wnlcn he Is q member, are making an eff
fort to sell what is known as the relief
lands, for the benefit of the bonded coun-
ties, III body, to an English syndicate
Should the sale be perfected Jefferson coun-
ty will get as her share of the proceeds
about $4,000. This will reduce her bonded
debt to about $50, 900, which we can easily
pay inside Of five years.
There is an increase in demand for phos-
phats land in Citrus. MesSrS. Priest and
Sanderson are negotiating, with fair pros
poets of success, a deal for the sale of a few
hundred acres, which is said by those who
have visited their pits to be the finest in tire
country. The Globe Phosphate Company
has acquired 10000 or l2,000 acres of land,
and is now ready to issue stock Those In
terested In 1t have great confidence in the
enterprise. This company, as well as the
Hard Rock, is expected to mine its lands.
Otto Rohkrehmer, who was induced by
the bureau OF agriculture in Tallahassee to
come TO Florida last win or, and who has
since been living in Fernandina, sailed Dec.
. on the Rio Grande for New York. From
there he goes to Germany, taking with him
samples of Florida earth and plants to
illustrate the fertility of the state. He in
tends to lecture to different societies during
the winter about the land and agriculture
OF Florida, aud will make the following the
theme Of his discourses: "Florida, a para
disc for the man with small capital" When
MIR. Rohkrahmer comes back it is to bring
over from the ''fatherland"a colony of Ger
man farmers and gardeners, who will be
settled In the northern part of Florida.
Last Saturday Citrus county held its fifth
election on the removal or permanent locs-
tlon of the county site, and, as at all pre-
vIous elections, no selection was made, no
place receiving q majority of the votes cast
as is required by law. The official count
will not be had until Thursday. but safff-
Gent information is cleaned from the in
spectors to know there is no choice. LeCanto
AID Manifold were the only candidates in
this race. About three hundred votes we're
polled, LeCanto receiving about one hundred
and ten, Manifold about oae hundred. Fort
Cooper, school neighborhood between In
verness and Floral City, received about
seventy-1ve votes. Other places received
q few scattering votes The county is evil
IDENTIFY not ready to settle the question yet,
as large number of votes were cast at
every election, not to elect but to defeat
Many of the substantial citizens are dis
gusted with election farces, and are opposed
To petitioning for other elections for the
present, while many are clamoring for a
continuation Of elections until choice is