The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-01
FLORIDA.

any bottom 1t will be found.
FLORIDA.
Green Cove has the largest camphor tree
in the state.
The Clay county board Of health has been
reorganized.
Mai r. G.. Wright Of Oxford will build "A
$1,000 residence III Ocala this fall.
Eleven steamers and eleven sailing vessels
entered the port Of Jacksonville during
August.
Three carloads of machinery for the st.
Cloud sugar mill arrived at Kissimmee a
few days ago.
DR.. w. 1. Seigler Of East Gainesville has
! twopears grown on a tree in his yard in
| East Gainesville, one Of which weighs sew
enteen and the other sixteen ounces.
"A grocer of Leesburg sold $500 worth of
goods ON Saturday, and on Monday last
found that his stock retained the same
value. owing to the advance in the price of
! provisions.
Robert T. Murrell, an active orange
buyer, during the past month has purchased
| 1900 boxes of oranges on the trees for 81 10
| per box. The present tendency is the hard
ening Of prices.
The Florida Central and Peninsula Rail-
road Company contemplate placing line
| of steamers on the bay to ply between
| Tampa and Manatee river points direct,
touching at Egmont twice each week.
Edward Gale Quina and A. NJ. Avery are
most prominently mentioned in connection
with the city commissionership of Pensa-
cola, to be vacated by Hon. s. r. Mallory
One of those gentlemen will in ali
probability be appointed.
The group OF young alligators carried by
| O. M. Mitchell Post Of Jacksonville, in the
| parade of the g. A. r. at Boston on Aug.
IL, under the name of "Shermans Bummers
from Florida" have been presented to The
odore Winthrop Post 35, G. A. r., Chelsea.
Mass.
Rev. c. NJ. Sturges and Capt. James Bell,
| who undertook to raise a small sum of money
| in Fernandina to assist Miss Harris to re-
turn from there to her home in Middletown,
Conn, nave succeeded admirably. The
young lady has been an inmate of the Jack
s1nvllle convent for a year.
Great excitement was caused at Ocala
| Thursday night in the Ocala house rotunda
by Mr.. Scarlet of Escambia county getting
into an alteration with H. L.. Anderson.
and calling the latter liar, whereupon he
was promptly knocked down. Friends in
terposed ana prevented further trouble
A general meeting of the farmers alli-
ance of Marion county was held at Anthony
Thursday, President Long presiding. to
consider the proposition of e. w. Agnew to
supply warehouse and store their cotton
in Ocala, and advancing money on the same
at low rate Of interest. 1t was accepted.
The republican club met at Kissimmee
last Saturday and nominated the following
ticket for the republicans of Osceola county
For representative, Clay Johnson; for
sheriff, J. L. Phergo; for collector, j. M.
Towne; for as essor, w. r. White; for
treasurer, Dave Bass for collector, s. Medli-
| colt.
The Ocala house entertained a colored
deleg ate unawares Thursday. He was Sam
mis- of Jacksonville. United States con-
sui to Stuttgart, Germany. His skin is SO
white and bis hair so straight that he was
looked upon as belonging to the great
Aryan race. When found out he ceased to
feast at the Ocala house tables.
A good one is out on c. L. Butterick of
Brooksvllle, who went to Ocala, Wednes-
day, with his fellow delegates to participate
in the proceedings of the republican con-
vention of the Second congressional district.
All the way up he was impressing his as
socates with the Importance of sticking
together in the convention, but he learned
when he reached Ocala that fernando
county belonged to the First district
l. S. Dougherty, of Lake Helen, Volusia
county, had valuable dog bitten by a very
large moccasin snake the other day he gave
the beast four drachms of gunpowder then he
cut the place where the dog was bitten,
about one-quarter of an inch deep, making
the wound bleed freely, filed the cash with
. powder and touched il off, which irritated
the skin, and in three hours the dog was
/, we'll
Ocala Banner: A. b. Rou OF Reddick,
one of Marion county's sterling citizens,
called on the Banner Tuesday, and we were
, grieved to hear Of Mr.. Rou's misfortune,
} which have overtaken him during the past
six months. First the frosts nearly robbed
: him of his orange crop, then the cholera
! killed every hog he had on hfs place, quickly
followed by the loss of half of his fac herd
, of cattle, seventy-dve in number, including
all OF his mich cows, which succumbed to a
mysterious disease, and to crown all his
I losses, and the heaviest and most grievous
| to be borne, was the sickness and death of
his beloved wife several months ago.
In the shallow waters between Pitts mill
) and the Durham residence, near Pensacola,
Thursday, Bennie Durham, with an axe,
killed an alligator that measured 81 feet in
length. The gator was after a dog that was
frolicking along the beach, swimming up and
down in accordance with the canines
movements, doubtless awaiting an oppor-
tunity, should the dog come near enough, to
seize and make meal of the pup. He had
become so greedy for his expected prey that,
emboldened by a more than usual extent by
) half way out of the water behind an old
boat that lay on the beach. when he was
dispatched as related, his executioner hav.
ing observed his movements and lain in wait
J for him.
Pensacola NetOS: Bill Ingraham, so the
story goes, is a colored man wanted by the
authorities for larceny a couple Of times
Yesterday Sheriff Wilkins dispatched An ly
, Mitchell (coored), one of his deputies, to
; ar. est and incarcerate the aforementioned
IGgraham, the latter having been duly
located IN tho Perdido wharf settlement
l Mitchell proceeded on his mission, armed
: with a warrant and Smith & Wesson, and
I in due time arrived at the abode of hi
man, who was standing in a doorway a
: the officer came up. Ingraham, telling
: Mitchell that he would go with him
: started for his neighbours yard, but the of
ficer was behind him, aud Ingraham broke
; into run in an effort to escape. He wen
: through a gate into the djoining yard anC
started around the house for the front gate
n AS he ran he was grabbed by dog tina
is laid hold of one of his legs and growled anC
l. snarled while he kicked and ran, Mitchell
II all the while in hot pursuit. Over tn,
9 fence went Ingraham, the dog like grin
d death retaining his hold and going owe
d with him. On top Of the fenc
p sprang Mitchell, about ten yard
ID behind the pursued, when witt
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