The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-09

Drs. Bardwel and Bryan amputated the
arm. and the unfortunate man Is now get
ting along as well as could be expected.
/ FLORIDA.
I THE Parceland hotel at DeLand will open
ron Dec. l.
The supreme court of Florida will con-
yeuefn regular session about Oct. 16.
SThe city of DeLand no longer levies an
occupation tax upon its business men.
During the month of September there
were only two deaths in st, Augustine.
The orange market is opening with prices
ranging from 90 cents to 81 % per box on
the tree.
A Mr.. Fraser, from the West Indies. is
operating a fish curing establishment at
Carabelle.
DeLand Record: Mayor Dore Issues an
order for the streets 10 be clear Of people by
~ o'clock at nights.
The progress of Orlando may be judged
from the fact that about $500 900 worth of
new buildings are contracted for.
The Sabbath school convention OF the
Methodist Episcopal church for the Gaines
vile district will be held at Rochelle Oct.
IL, Is and l6
The new license law at DeLand imposes a
tax Of $15 upon lawyers. They had. previ-
Gus to the passage Of this act, been allowed
to go scot free.
The Florida Presbytery will meet in
Quincy Oct. IA. A large number of min
listers will be in attendance, and the services
will be especially interesting.
jesse McAbee of DeLand has purchased
the crop OF fruit from the Hart Norris
grove near Glenwood, paying 80 cents per
box He started carload for st. Louis.
The John B. Stetson University at De-
Land opened with 106 students enrolling.
This is large increase over the number
that we're present at the opening last year.
Quite a number of orange trees in the
Rock Ledge hammock are 10 bloom again,
some of them full, others fewer. Many
groves have the heaviest crop of fruit
known for years.
There are four other places named
Orlando, viz: In Cleveland county,
Arkansas, Rock Castle county. Kentucky,
Oklahoma county. Oklahoma, Prince Will
lam county, virginia.
Lakeland Advocate: Buyers are round
through the country freely offering Ia
cents apiece for grape fruit. This is a far
beginning. considering the general depres-
sion in the fruit market.
Judge J. NJ. Lans is about to leave Or
lando. He has accepted the position of
special agent for tho Washington Life In
surance Company in the state of Arkansas,
with headquarters at Little Rock.
Subterranean Florida is honeycombed
by underground streams. When these are
obstructed from any cause they work their
way to the surface. making the great
swamps which are characteristic Of the
state.
The East Coast Transportation Company
is making preparations to build a marine
rutl tafax Mt Ma GFVnxy hnrr
for repairing the Sweeney, and will
probably build their new boat there this
winter.
Watson Murphy, a little negro boy about
Is years old, was arrested at Ocala and
jailed for holding up another negro boy the
past week and compelling him to give up
all the wealth be had, amounting to about
S3. He drew pistol on the boy and told
him to deliver, as he was dangerous indi-
vidual, having killed> three men already
that day.
Near Evergreen, few days ago, William
Braddock, who has been subject to fits ever
since childhood, was out riding and while
crossing a pond was taken with fit and
fell from his horse face downward into the
water and was drowned. His horse went
home aud his wife aud q coiored man set
out to search for him, but it was some
hours before he was found and all symp~
toms of life were extinct.
The report Of the commissions appointed
to set aside, out Of the Norris estate at De-
Land, the dover right Of the widow Mrs.
Eliza U. Norris. was set aside by Judge
Broome Monday upon the ground that the
abstract furnished the commissioners by
the clerk aud the abstract Office included
lands not belonging to the property from
| which the dover is TO be selected. The
| work will have to be gone over again.
Oct. 3. perhaps, the oldest inha5itant OF
Nassau county passed peacefully away.
Ibis was the old African, Stepney Mitchell,
| well known to nearly everybody in Fer
naadina. As well as Mitchell could remem.
Der, he came to America during the time
the country was under British rule, being
| then about 5 years old, and also had dis.
tinct recollection of the building OF the
Stafford house on Cum berland Island. The
deceased must have been more than 13C
| years old.
Mr.. Bonner showed Floridian, now in
New York, Maud S. the other day while OF
| a Yisit to his farrytown farm. The grand
| old mare was quietly grazing in paddock
near her stable when they went up to her
She was enshrouded In blanket and a cot
ton cover, and when she saw the beamins
face of her master she moved toward him
winnowing. ''She is great pet, said Mr.
Bonner, plucking handful of grass, land
r ants little grass from. my hands. Lool
| at those eyes," he continued; "see the grea
| space between them. They show her great
intelligence. Maud is still a wonderful
mare. though her days of trotting havt
gone BY"
A bill passed both houses of congress in
the last year of Cleve and's administration
to have government building erected a
Tallahassee, which bill was signed by
President Cleveland, and the money appro
priated for the purpose of building til,
same, all OF which action has lapsed into
state of "desuetude." A very convenien
lot was selected by government official
titles secured and rec 9rded, and many san
guine people almost expected 20 see al
Aladdin like ediice arise in their midst
But the genius Of the magic lamp of publ,
buildings seems to have forgotten that Tai
lahassee ever wanted, or the goyernmen
ever intended to build an edhce for the us
of the United States business in that sec
ton. and nothing has been heard OF /
lately.
Pensacola NelcS: The board OF pilot com
missioners, through their president L. ID
Merritt, are in correspondents with Capt
J. E. Turtle, the engineer, under Capt
Price, in charge of the government work il
Pensacola harbor, with view to learning
What might be accomplished in the way o
improving Pensacola bar by the use o
dynamite, as the latter was SO successfully
employed at Bruins wick, Ga. Mr. Merritt
is also writing Thomas O'Connor of Bruins
wick, who is chairman of the board of trad
committee which directed the operations a
that point, with view to securing furthe
information relating to the Brunswick ex
| pertinent. 1t is the intention of the pilo
1 ~ ha or