The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-08
FLORIDA.

The Tuskawilla Netos has discontinued
publication.
A fund is being raised in Orlando for Miss
Myra Fancber, tue slayer Of Jones.
Rev. S. D. Paine, the newly e g 3tad
chaplair~in-chief Of the u. A. r., is a resi-
dent Of st. Augustine.
The Putnam County Teachers Institute
will open on Sept. |, and will be conducted
| by Prof ]. l. Hines of White Springs.
! G. W. McLane has retired from the eli
torial management Of the Punta Golda
Courier. and E. NJ. Poser succeeds him.
| Monday the sheriff sold at public sale in
Palatka the firearms, knives and raZOrs
taken from criminals during the past year.
Syg. Mccullough (colored shot and NOR
tally wounded has wife, Monday in Putnam
county. Jealousy was the cause OF the shoot
ing.
The large alligator in the pool at the
Jacksonville Sub Tropical Exposition is
now in the hands Of the court, along with
the other property
Twenty-Five CelestiaS. direct from China,
passed through Key West Monday on the
steamship Hutchinson en- route 20 Havana,
the nearest port to the promised land" at
which they are permitted to stop.
The Marion county commissioners took
the sense OF the county people at their late
meeting and flnd they would prefer to be
taxed under the new road law instead of
working some to keep their roads in repair.
The Florida Baptist Witness has
changed hands. NJ r. Hood, for the past
three years or,in-chief, steps down and
out. and J. c. Porter, heretofore the field
editor, steps in and mounts the editorial
tripod.
The committee Of cigar makers of Key
West are still raising funds, by subscription,
to send the idle cigarmakers from that city.
However, it is generally believed that the
manufacturing business will improve about
September.
The Charlotte Harbor division of the
Florida Southern railroad was broadened to
standard gauge on last Saturday as far as
Fort Meade. The immense traffic caused
by the boom of South Florida has become
too great for a narrow gauge.
The Sunday-closing law is now being
rigidly enforced 10 Fernandina and there is
much kicking in consequence. Not only
saloons, but cigar stores and soda water
stands must be closed GU Sunday aud moths
ing can be sold but ice, milk and drugs.
Tho citizens of Eatonville, suburb of
Maitland, aud the only town IN Florida
governed entirely by colored executives, con-
template gaia day on Aug. IS, when they
will celebrate the anniversary mot the first
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Alexander Campbell, who was convicted
last May at Jacksonville of the murder OF
Mamie Joseph, will serve out his sentence Of
imprisonment for life as pronounced by
Judge Young of the circuit court, the ap-
peal to the supreme court having been
withdrawn.
At present there are over fifty prisoners
confined in the Jail at Key West, and yet
there are only four rooms in which 10 huddle
fhavV 10 II
or eight are charged with capital otfenses,
and they have to be kept closely confiuel ,
greatly to their own discomfort and the in
jury OF the health of the others.
The Florida Central and Peninsular rail-
road Company has ordered large amount
Of lumber and as soen as it arrives will
begin the work of bulkheadlng around its
wharves from Hogan street to the ware
houses at Jacksonville. 1t will also fill in
the river bank with slabs and sand and
prepare to make pretty vegetation take the
place Of unsightliness.
Orlando Record: The question is often
asked, but never satisfactorily answered,
why the United States mail service is not
established between Orlando and Oviedo, on
the East Florida and Atlantic railroad AS
the service is now, a letter mailed in Or
lando, directed to Oviedo, Is obliged to go to
Sanford via the s. F. K. R., and then over
! bub .. O. VI. II. II. ". W ONAoup, COuSULllAR
over day in the journey. Again letter
mailed in Orlando for Winter Park, a dis
tance of only Ave miles, goes to Sanford on
| the midnight train and then back to Winter
! Park on the fast mail the evening of the
next day, making two whole days that il
takes to send letter and receive an answer
this short distance.
! Pensacola NetCS: Some rather strange
actions by a flock of pelicans were witness ed
| by habitues of the water front Tuesd ay
evening. The birds. which are rarely seen
so near the city, lowered about two vessels
! lying at the foot of Central wharf, and
| finally selected the yards of one of them, the
italian bark Angelina, then loaded and
ready for sea, as a resting place. Two OF
| the ungainly creatures attempted to alight
on a yard, but missed their footing aud fell
striking the deck before they could regain
their equipoise, and were captured by the
sailors. Five others of the flock succeeded
in getting a foothold on one of the
yards, but were frightened Off bv
one OF the men who pulled the brace and
shook their resting place. They attempted
subsequently, TO aligbt on the same vessel
and were again scared away. Though the
other vessel. near by, offered equal induce
meuts to the birds Whenever they would be
put to flight, they refused TO take advant-
| age Of the fact, and would invariable return
| to the Angelina, until after repeated futile
| efforts 10 secure peaceful rest they winged
their way to other and more hospitable
roosting quarters There is not an old sal;
alongshors that ever saw or heard Of peli.
cans acting IL such q manner before