The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-06

duce 5000, 900 sounds Of sugar this year on
his st. Cloud plantation.
The tobacco industry Of Middle Florida
is enabling the planters TO pay casn .or tneir
supplies. and add many oomIortS 10 tneir
homes.
Creps of tobacco: lately sold In Quincy
have averaged 37l3 cents per pound FTlces
are a little higher this year, ana owing TO
more proficiency in curing toDaccoa oetter
quality has been obtalned-
The Polk County Nei0s has started on its
second year. Early, openly and squarely il
hos fought for the past twelve months for
the progress and prosperity OF Polk county,
and il deserves the success II mas attained.
TAMPA is certainly favored as far as bank
fng facilities are concerned. She has three
| national banks, with ample capital, all OF
| which are doing big business. They are
| the First National Bank, the Tampa
| National and the Gulf National.
John Chapman, one Of the most reliable
phosphate men In the state. has been spend
ing some time in the LuraviUe phosphate
region hunting for the rock. If his exami-
nation proves satisfactory, and he thinks it
will. So, 600 will be expended in putting in
a plant spd developing these mines.
The Tampa Journal has it on good au-
thority that 1000 tons OF 60-pound steel
rail with fastenings complete have been pur-
chased for the Dunnellon extension OF the
South Florida Delivery to be made Nov.
l. This indicates that the extension is to
be built and equipped in tirst-class order.
One Of the ''oldest inhabitants" has at last
been located. He lives near Marianne, and
has birth certificate showing that he was
born in l765. He is an ex-slave of the family
OF the late Gov. John Milton, and has APP
piled for pension upon the ground that he
drove commissary wagon during the war
of 1Sl2-'15.
Jacksonville Times linton: An increase
OF 40 per cent. in the number of farm
horses In Florida during the last dscade, as
compared with an increase of 16 per cent.
in the whole south, is q pretty good show
ing for this state. During the present dec
ade there ought 90 be as great an increase
In the number of horses raised on the Flor
ida farms
Orange County Reporter: The wool
| growing business IA Florida is a more i'm.
| portant item than it is generally conceded
TO be. In the twenty-five counties of the
state where sheep are raised. the July bull
letin shows there are Ill 800 sheep. from
which have been clipped this year $3.50, 2O0
pounds of WOOL Walton county alone has
10000 sheep, thasiproduoe 125,0OO pounds
annually.
The supreme court has rendered de-
cision in tho l. I. Garner case, reversing
the judgment of the circuit court Garner
was indicted for the killing Of j. T. Lash
ley at Branford about fourteen months ago,
was tried. found guilty Of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hanged. A
motion for new trial was made and over
rIled, and an appeal TO the supreme court
was made. The decision Of the supreme
court grants the new trial
What might have been q very serious ac-
| NfdQnf nj tha mil 81 he
Lumber Company last Friday. One Of the
fiue boilers explode fortunately hurting no
one. The damage to the mill was slight and
work will not be interfered with, there being
enough reserve power to keep all depart
ments going. The boiler will not be re-
paired, but the pair will be replaced by a
lOO-horse power tubular boiler, which will
cost to put in about 81 600.
Improvements at Port Tampa city are
moving steadily forward. A number of
new streets have been surveyed and graded
and new houses are constantly being pro-
| Jected. There are men whose opinions are
sound who predict that within two decades
there will be continuous settlement from
Port Tampa city to the city of Tampa.
Hundreds of opulent citizens have their
ewes on that stretch of the bay shore known
as Myrtle bluff as a suitable place to locate
future summer homes.
AT Tampa the Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad Company is having its
docks on the river front in the garrison ex-
tended several hundred feet, upon which a
track has been laid, and in future cars will
be run along side of vessels, and freights
loaded from one to the other with com
parative ease. This is only one of the many
evidences Of the rapidly increasing BUSH
ness of this roads and the general prosperity
OF the country drown the guilt coast, the
| products of which find an outlet through
Tampa, and by this line of road.
Orlando Reporter: At this writing the
daily output Of commercial phosphate in
thu entire state will reach fully 500 tons.
Within the next three months, with the
improved machinery which is being intro
duced, the yield will reach $500 tons per
day. The net value to mine owners and
workers at present is about 81 per ton. The
demand is unlimited, and is increasing
rather than diminishing. while the supply
seems to be practically exhaustless. This
great industry will increase rather than
detract from the vast fruit and vegetable
growing interests of Florida 1t simply
adds another and far greater element OF
wealth. The present decade will show re-
suits which will surprise the world