The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-22
FLORIDA.

The fine horse and buggy of the late DIR.
| Gary of OcAln, has been sold for S4I5 at
| public auction.
The commencement exercises OF the
White Springs Normal School and l u,iness
! College begins on July 80.
More people from Kissimmee have gone
north on visit this season than ever before
in the history OF the town.
At Tampa Friday Capt. G. NJ. Mathes'
baby fell from chair and sustained very
serious injuries on the head.
On Aug 10 an election will be held at
Kissimmee for mayor to fill the unexpired
term of Mayor Watson, resigned.
The South Florida Telephone Company
has settled its differences with the Bell Tele-
phone Company, and all is again serene.
One phosphate company of Marion county
has closed a contract to furnish to a single
firm 800, 900 worth of phosphate at 50 80 per
| ton.
The corn crop around Micanopy promises
to be immense. Some fields will bring forty
bushels to the acre, and many twenty-five
! per acre.
AS Mr. Van Pelt of Tampa went to sit
down in his favorite chair on the piazza,
Friday night, he found it already occupied
by chicken snake.
r. II. Whitley of Madison county died at
Live Oak on July IL while waiting for the
train to take him home. He had just come
from Columbia county.
James Atkinson, one of the best citizens
| Of Enterprise, is anxious to close out all his
| property there and seek another home on
account of the i'll health of his wife.
The first settler of Enterprise, Maj. c.
Taylor, was accidentally drowned in Texas
| after having been convicted OF murder at
st. Augustine and allowed to leave Florida.
Aca af
Tarpon Springs few days ago with about
| 600 punches of sponge, 200 Of which we're
| sheepswool and the remainder the grass
| varieties.
The approaches to the iron bridge which
| spans the Hillsborough river at the head Of
! Nebraska avenue at Tampa, were com
pleted Saturday, and the bridge is now
ready for travel.
The light house steamer Putnam has been
engaged for the past week in changing
buoys in Hillsborough and Tampa bays
and putting in seven beacons for deeL
| draught vessels between Port Tampa and
the middle ground.
The Protective Hose Company of Ocala,
No. 2, of which r. 8. Clark is foreman,
has challenged the Ponce de Leon Company
of st. Augustine to run for $50, and the
challenge has been accepted. The race will
take place Monday, July n.
AuTeu L1OuSlOu, CO4OE6Q pTedCl6T, Is IN
Jail at Lake City for selling liquor 10 Jor-
dan Wilkinson without license. He was
required to give bail in the sun of $500,
and, failing to do so, he was committed
for trial at the next term OF the circuit
court.
At Bluff Springs Tuesday afternoon r.
D. Byrne and family had a very narrow
escape from death. The horse attached to
the vehicle in which they were riding was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
Mr.. Byrne and family were severely
! shocked.
The Ocala Commercial and Bazaar Com
pauy, organized aud managed by colored
men exclusively, with paid-up capital Of
. . $40 900, has just begun business in a fine
brick building erected by Alfred Davis, q
colOred man. Frank P. Goodson, city tar
collector and treasurer, is business
: manager.
Mary Willie Hooks, the little 7-year-o
i daughter of Thomas J. Hooks of Clermont
Lake county, is natural born poetess
: Even before she could write she could com
a pose verses. and her precocity is such tina
r her parents have to res rain her from studl
e aud application TO pre- vent her from injur
Y ing her health.
= Tarpon Springs Truth: Capt. Kendall
has lately finished for himself very nm
n canoe, made Of pine and covered with can
o vas. It is model of workmanship and re
z fleets much credit upon the captain as
s canoe builder. 1t will weigh less than IO
z pounds, is about sixteen feet long and is S,
= constructed that IL will ride a very rough
t sea safely. The captain expects to spenC
= many pleasant hours in it. George Turn
o paw mas also recently built very pretty
{ canoe of pine covered with canvas, and WI
: believe that there Is prospect Of TarpoI
{ Springs having a canoe club before long
q Mr.. Hafner has a canoe, and finds canoeinG
a very pleasant pastime.
Tampa Tribune: Report reaches US from
1 st. Petersburg Of the drowning Of William
Lumpkin aud the shipwreck Of party Of
: others who went TO his rescue. The tnf1r-
nation received is very meagre. IL seem.
, that Mr.. Lumpkin and a companion named
Miller left st. Petersburg Saturday after
noon in a sail boat for tue clam bauks, a1d
when near Passe au Grille were struck BIZ
, squall, which capslzed their boat Both
men started for the shore, but when a saor;
distance from the boat Lgmpkin sail be