The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-15
FLORIDA.

issue the OSceolG Gazette
Mira C. S. Hart is having handsome COT
tage erected on the lot adjoining the Pres
byterian church at kissimmee.
Capt. Crlbbett has disposed Of his inter
est In the Marion County Abstract Com
pany to L. D. Davidson Of Osceola, Neb.
Supt. Crawfor of the Jacksonville, st.
Augustine and Halifax River railway is
preparing to put in the branch road to San
Mateo
The public school at Kissimmee COM
menced on Monday with $50 pupils and
four teachers, and will be continued for
nine months.
The Watertown saw-mill in Columbia
county, under the new management, COM
menced working again last week, with
daily output ranging from $4,000 to 80, 600
feet.
Several Of the prisoners in Jail at Jack
sonvllle were frustrated in plan to escape
Sunday night. They had cut through sew
eral bars with tools furnished them by out
side parties.
The erection OF the sugar house at the ex-
perimental station in Osceola county will be
commenced by Sept. 20. DIR. Sutton, the
manager of the station, is now in Washing
ton contemplating the necessary details.
The Cedar Keys Commercial has been
moved to Arcadia, where its name will be
make its appearance next week. The edi-
tor and proprietor, J. Ira Gore, had been a
resident OF Cedar Key for about fifteen
years.
Walton county's wool clip report shows
40, 745 Clips, and an aggregate weight of
163,6 sos pounds of wool. Escambia stands
second IN the list, with 10000 clips and
weight of 10000 pounds. Santa Rosa
county is fifth, with 500 and an aggregate
weight OF 1880.
o. F. Winkleman & Co. will at once COM
mence the erection Of a corrugated iron
warehouse at Orlando as they find their
present quarters insufficient for their increas-
ing business 1t Is TO be one story, 25xlO0
| feet. 1t is to be used principally for the
| storage of stoves and agricultural imple-
ments
Bids FOR building the Jail for Citrus were
opened at the session Of the board on Mon
| day and the work was awarded to w. c.
! Bull, contractor Of Inverness, for the
sum of 81, TIA. TIE steel work for the cells
| Of the Jail was awarded to the Hall Safe
and Lock Company of Cincinnati for the
sum of $3.50.
At Kissimmee Thursday night Capt.
Walter Scott Pitts delivered his lecture en-
titled Human Life, at the Osceoa county
court house to O large aud apprecative
audience. He was afterward "buncoedn
out Of the entire proceeds of the lecture
somewhere between the court house and the
South Florida house.
Kelley Bros. have commenced the erec-
ton OF the rice mill at Kissimmee. The
mill will De 45xl75 feet and four stories
high, and built where the three railroads
can run cars to the doors. Kelley Bros
will buy all the rough rice they can get,
and any one having "a good crop Of rice
will do well TO correspond with them.
n n parkar Of Gahria1la has oIooaJ
contract for his crop and other crops OF
oranges that he controls, amounting to 900
boxes, be to receive 81 per box on the trees
and so cents per box for packing. The
freight from Gabrielle or Golden Rod is 6
cents higher than from Oviedo. which would
make the price equal to 81 Sc on the cars
there.
The East Florida seminary at Gaines
vile has been notified by the navy Depart
ment that a naval officer from the active
list will be assigned TO duty as commandant
of cadets aud instructor IN military science
and tactics at the seminary. The Depart
ment declined to extend the detail Of the
former efficient commandant, Lieut.. c. s.
Ripley.
| A house owned by J. V. Weekly and
occupied by the family of z. T. Hernandez,
near the head Of Little Bayou, Escambia
| county, was totally destroyed by fire
| Thursday night. Hernandez lost all of his
furniture excepting sewing machine and
q mattress. The house was valued at 81 900
and insured for $500. Hernandezs loss is
about $500, uncovered.
Oviedo Chronicle: Tho MORNING NEWS
| OF Savannah, Ga, issued a trade edition
consisting of tweAty pages last Friday,
showing gratifying increase IN the bust
/ ness OF that growing city. Savannah is
making rapid strides TO the front, and is
destined to be one of the leading cities and
| ports on the Atlantic seaboard south of
| Philadelphia. The News, too, has kept
pace with the growth of the city, and ia
now one OF the best daily papers published
| in the south
| Quincy Herald: Last Monday night q
| party Of men, about twelve or fourteen in
number. went to a house on jefferson
street, owned by o. w. Pittmau, ESQ. and
occupied by family named Peacock, took
| out a man named Dan. Landrew, whose
| wife Is daughter ssof old woman Peacock,
and after tying and gag9ing him, took him
| to the woods near the south side of Mr.
| McFarlln's field, where thev stripped and
whipped him severely. We saw him
Tuesday morning and his flesh was
like a piece of raw beef and 80 badly
was he injured that it will be some
time before he will be able to do any work
| Why II was done we know not, but q sister,
| in-law, Nora Peacock, told him last Sud
| day that she intended to have some of her
| friends take him out and whip him, and in
the afternoon she borrowed his knife-his
| only weapon of defense-aud broke il, and
Dan says she opened the door and let the
men into his room while he was asleep, and
| only after some one took him by the throat
was he aware OF their presence, and then he
was powerless to defend himself.
Speaking OF the fisheries Of Florida. J,
Mortimer Murphy says: ~ understand that
there will be two fishing vessels in commits
sion this winter to one last year. 1t may
not be generally known, but it is neverthe-
less a fact that the fisheries of Florida are
about the best on earth, and that q greater
number OF different fish can be found in its
waters than In any equal area in the world.
The mullet are the most valuable, but they
are followed closely by the snapper, grouper
and Spanish mackerel. The snapper fisher
les alone are estimated to yield over $50. 900
per annum, and the Spanish msckerel fish
Ing will soon approach that figure, fresh
mackerel being worth $40 barrel. The
groupers Of the waters of Florida are the
best known, and Spanish smacks
come all the way from Havana to secure
them, as they stand a voyage better than
those fourd In more tropical regions Mr.
Murphy tells some interesting facts about
fish. When asked what was the largest
fish. be answered: THE great ray, or sea
devil, may be called the giant Of the specie.
an adult being frequently twenty-five feet
across the back and weighing from 1000 to
1900 pounds. One recently killed near
Mullet key is said to have weighed 300
pounds StinRaree sometimes attain