The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-09

manual vacations of life. $50; for perma-
nent injuries from wounds whereby a hand
or foot is rendered substantially and essen
TALLY useless. s25; for wounds or disease
which renders applicant folly disabled for
labor, or helpless, 800.
FLORIDA.
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan. the suthoress. is ut
Lloyd visiting her sister. Miss Julia Ed
wards.
A. J. Fenton is distributing large quanti-
ties of Cuba tobacco seed to farmers around
Quincy.
The new factory at Quincy for the Owl
Cigar Company is rapidly nearing COM
pletion.
The next session OF the Orange county
Sunday school convention will be held at
Apopka, Feb. 10 and so.
The Indian River Sunday School Associa
ton will hold a convention in the Methodist
church at Cocoa, on Tuesday, Feb. 10.
It is stated that steps are being taken to
erect a monument to the late Gen. w.
w. Loring who was buried in the New
Augustine cemetery and whose grave is un-
marked.
R. T. Youngblood of Keystone Park has
sold this season 900 boxes Of oranges,
which netted him 81 per crate ON the trees.
The greatest part 600 crates) Of the crop
was gathered from 100 trees.
james NJ. Graham of the First National
Bank Of GAINESVILLE, has just sold another
orange grove. The property is In close
proximity TO Micanopy. The purchaser
paid s., 900 for four acres Of bearing orange
trees and thirty-oight ceres Of land.
Gen. Tillson has decided to build an ad-
dition of twenty-five or thirty more rooms
onto the west wing of the Lakeview hotel
at Leesburg. The addition will be three
stories high with an observatory command
ing view Of the lakes and surrounding
country for fifteen miles around.
e. w. Perry Of Chicago is at Pensacola,
de represents the Honduras Land Com
pany, and visits Pensacola with excellent
letters to Mr.. Garfield, Col. w. d. Chipley
and others for the purpose of seeing If a
steamship line can be established between
Pensacola and points in Central America.
There is now in the treasury to the credit
or the Orange county school fund the sum
OF So,2l2 ~ The salaries of teachers of
the county schools amounts regularly to
about $500, and the funds now in hand
will more than meet teachers salaries and
incidental expenses for the next two month";
john Doe, sentenced to the penitentlary
for five years at Gainesville, Wednesday,
Tor househreaking, after Judge Finley had
passed sentence upon him became very
angry and cursed the Judge, the jury and
judge ordered the sheriff to take him in
charge and out of the room at once.
A progressive whist party was given Sat-
urday evening by Miss Rosebur Denham,
at the residence Of J. II. Tucker at Month
cello, In honor Of her friend, Miss Louise
King OF Atlanta. The first prize among
the ladies was won by Miss Bessie Turnbull.
BOBBY by Miss Mamie Perkins, Gentle
men, DIR. G. B. Glover and Col Smith tied
for the first, and DR.. II. W. McRory won
the BOBBY
Titusville Star: Last Friday, while
Messrs. Hersey, Huntington and Clune were
duck hunting across the river they probably
got rather excited firing at some ducks on
South creek, and not thinking that they
were opposite each other, Clune fired at a
duck which ranged exactly with Sergt.
Hersey, who was wading out for duck he
had just killed, and the result was q whole
load of No. shot hit the sergeant In his
face, on his coat and hands. Hersey called
to Clune that he had shot him, and the lat
ter, half scared TO death. hurriedly pad
died across the creek to Herssy. Several
shots struck him in the face and four or five
on his hands, but aside from being little
painful and causing tine blood to flow, did
no real damage.
Titusville Advocate: J. NJ. Lees bear
had narrow escape of meeting a watery
grave while being shipped from Titusville
TO Rockledge on Thursday last. Sergt.
Hsrsey took the bear ON board the steamer
St Lucie with the intention of accompany
ing it to Rockledge, but As he was informed
that bruin was perfectly safe, and could be
handled BY those on board, he returned
home. However, after the steamer
had started some distance down
Indian river the bear became excited.
| got the collar>snap unfastened and fell overs
board. A cry was Immediately raised of
Nd ~
hove>to as quickly as possible boat was
lowered and manned by Capts. William Lee
and Herman Fischer, who eventually sue
ceeded in securing the chain and collars
snap together again and bringing on board
his bearship, none the worse for his INNER
sion beyond slight cooling down.
The New York Continent says: "Some
wealthy Arabs in this and other cities have
under consideration a novel project Ii is
no less than the establishment Of purely
oriental city in this country. A syndicate
OF these oriental gentlemen has been formed
20 push the scheme. The city will be located
either in Florida or California The design
of the enterprise is to make winter resort
which will embrace all strictly oriental feat
ures-such az Turkish baths, hotels la
orientale, the exemplfication of eastern in
dustrial arts by native oriental operators
and artists, who will sell the fruits of
their toll to visitors ard residents. It is
believed that the enterprise will prove sue
cessful. both in the establishment of popu-
lar place Of winter resort for northern peo-
pie and as a financial venture. A Florida
railway corporation has offered the Arab
colony in this city large tract OF land free
in that state. The company also guarantees
TO purchase Of the colony, provided its offer
is accepted, all the timber cut from the land
at a specified price. 1t also guarantees spe-
cial facilities and railway rates for the ship
ment Of ali products raised. This offer may
influence the syndicate in deciding upon a
location Cor its oriental city"
SOUTH CAROLINA