The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-09
FLORIDA.

Criminal court convenes at Tavares
Tuesday
E. Fl. Scott of Titusville died suddenly a
| day or two ago.
The phosphate fever is hot in the neigh
borhood of Trenton.
Senator Bailey has discovered phosphate
on his land in jefferson county.
The total value of CITY property at Fer
nandina, as assessed, is S772,537.
The new and handsome residence Of /.
o. Abbot at Lessburg has been completed.
The new steamers st. Augustine and ST.
Sebastian are on their way from the north
| to the Indian river.
| The analysis Of the recent supposed phos-
pilates IN st. Johns county show the de-
| post to be mostly carbonate of lime.
| At Titusville j. p. Turner & Co. bought
| up the stock Of millinery and ia cy goods
of Mrs. r. G. Scrimgeour last Saturday.
| 1t is said that Major st. Clair Abrams
has struck phosphate, and struck it rich,
the specimens averaging over 80 per cent
| Miss Ella May Albright Of McComb City,
Miss, was married to Samuel Boteler
| Thompson of Lake City, Fla, on Thu sday
afternoon, Feb. 6.
| A new postoffice has just been established
on the west shore of Indian River. about
two miles sou of Rockledge, called CO.
| quina, with j. Brady Bower as postmaster.
| The municipal election at Tavares will
take place on Monday, March 3. The mem
| hers of the council whose terms expire are
b. S. Burleigh, w. l.. Freeland, and j. N.
| Taylor.
Maj. William P. Cooper, who was for
| merry a large contractor on the Florida
| Southern, and who has grove property at
Lane Park, has received the cont act for
| building the bridge across the Halifax at
| Daytona.
1t is the intention of Eppinger & Russell.
lumber dealers, to establish saw-mills on the
| line of the Georgia Southern aud Florida
| railroad, and it is more than probable that
| the bulk of their lumber shipments will in
future he made through Fernandina
Three gentlemen in Fernandina and South
| Florida have secured an option on several
| thousand acres of the richest phosphate
land in Polk aud an adjoining county, and
1t is probable that another company will
soon be organized to engage in this new IN
| dustry.
Melbourne is in the future to have an
equal footing with Rockledge in the passen-
ger business. The various pursers are in
| structed to extend the same stop-over
privileges to passengers desiring to sop at
Rockledge, Melbourne and Capt. Wallis float
ing hotel at Indian river inlet
Billy Brisbane, a colored boy. was. it is
supposed, fatally stabbed at Gainesville
Thursday by h. Pope Anthony. Anthony
las been arrested, md is i'll the hands of
the sheriff Judge Gardner is awaiting the
issue of life or death of the boy to deter
niue what further course to pursue.
A young man named Benjamin q. Dias.
living twenty five miles south of Brons on
accidentally shot and killed himself on Jan
"a. he was prep airing to 60 hunting, and
had taken his rifle down before the fire to
clean it, thinking it was unloaded, as he had
left It, The gun had been loaded, without
his knowledge, by his brother.
Notwithstanding the continued dry
weather at Leesburg, the orange trees pre-
sent a truly bright and healtnful appear
ance. A gentleman from New York. who
made the trip from Fit. Mason to Leesburg
last Monday, was high in his praise of the
excellent condition of the vegetable crop.
He said it surpassed anything that he has
ever seen.
j. NJ. Lee. proprietor of the Hotel Indian
River at Rockledge, is the only landlord in
the state who publishes a paper entirely in
the interest of his house. This winter he is
publishing the Indian RiUer Hotel Ne,cs. a
four-page sheet, containing interesting men
ton of his guests, and crisp articles describ-
ing the attractions Of this section for tour
lists and pleasure seekers.
Wednesday night, near Lisbon. the ST.
Johns and Lake Eustis passenger train
struck two COWS. dragging one of them a
considerable distance, and throwing the
engine partly Off the track An engine
from Eustis was dispatched for the relief
of the train, but the regular engine was
again on the track and in readin to start
when 1t arrived. No further damage was
done.
A freak of nature at Lake Worth is a
black Spanish rooster, belonging to Mrs.
lived, moved and had his being as fine black
Spanish, and fathered numerous progen
of the same breed. A short time ago, how
ever, he began losing his feathers, and
the new ones that came in were pure
white This kept up until now the rooster is
as white as he was heretofore black.