The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-06
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The Hotel Chautauqua at DeFuniak
closed for the season Monday night
There were only three deaths ia Palatkn
the past month, and two Of these were
babies.
DeLGnd Record: Maj. Abrams and
Judge j. ID. Beggs are, it Is said, the best
whist players In the state.
The kaolin work on the Palatlakaha river
will soon be in full working order, and will
give employment to fifty or more hands.
7 At the close OF the tourist season work
will begin on an addition 10 The Tampa
Bay hotel which will add more than - per
cent. to its present accommodating ca
pacity.
At st. Augustine white man Is fleeing
the shopkeepers on the change dodge that
is. by asking for change for bills of different
denominations and thereby confusing and
Iacheating.
The new cigar factory at Fernandina will
be designated as Ell Gabinete. Lohman q
Ross will probably commence operations
next Thursday, and start with two orders
for 5000 cigars each.
The managers Of the Florida Chautauqua
have designated tomorrow as childrens
day at the assembly The railroads have
named special rates to DeFuniak, and will
run excursion trains on that date from all
points along the line OF the railroads ia West
Florida.
The jacksonville, Sante Fe and Hard
Rock Phosphate Company will commence
next week the development of the mines
lying four miles from Fort White. The
company owns 200 acres IN that locality,
and will build railroad from Fort White
to their mines.
A number of negroes have appeared be-
fore his honor Judge Brooue at DeLsnd
this week and pleaded guilty to carrying
concealed weapons. The Judge let most Of
them or with light fines, with the warning
that IL before him again they could expect
IL to go hard with them.
Monday night some one saturated lot of
old paper with oil and placed it under the
barracks building at Gainesville One Of
the cadets was awakened by the smoke
entering his room and suffocating him, and
raised the alarm. 1t was put out by the
efficient cadet fire brigade.
George Willard of Palatka recently
shipped box Q76) of oranges to his father
in London, England, the entire cost Of
which, for freight, delivered at the house In
London, was about 50 so. These oranges
came from De Land, but laid in Palatka, by
mistake, ten days, and when received only
about eighteen Of them we're damaged.
DeLand Record: Within five years orange
groves in Florida Will command as fabu-
lous prices as California groves Tho ex-
periences for the past few winters have
been of great value to the growers. The
colds have really been blessing. They did
not damage bearing trees in the least, but
they did kill the various scale insects with
which the trees we're constantly infested
Palatlra Times: George P. Fowler. an
attorney at-law of Palatka, was arraigned
Monday for preliminary examination be-
fore Judge Baldwin on q charge of eriury,
preferred by Charles II. Avery. After
hearing the testimony, the Judge stated he
considered a prina facie case had been
made by the state, aud he would hold the
accused under $1,000 bond to appear be-
fore the proper tribunal.
A st. Augustine correspondent writes:
This is where they sold their slaves" is
the daily news dealt out to sight-seers visit
ing the erroneously called ''old slave mar
ket." There is not a scrap on record to
show NOR can the Oldest inhablteut recall
a single instance in which o slave was sold
in the old market. 1t is hard, of course, to
try and spoil tradition, but the truth should
prevail among the alleged guides, y not
withstanding a discrimination on the part
of tourists to adopt the ''old slave market
gag to the contrary.
Ocala NetC Capitol: Monday night three
inmates of the Ocala house had a very I'M
pleasant experience, which might possibly
have terminated seriously but for prompt
attention on the part Of Night Clerk Bar
rett. About o'clock Mr.. Barrett smet
the fumes of escaping gas in the office, and
Immediately set out on tour of investga-
| ton to try and locate tine rooms in which
the gas was escaping. This be succe ded in
doing by smelling through the key holes of
the doors, and finally placed it in
rooms ia, 107 and 1876. 1t was
only after prolonged hammeriny aud
| pounding that he could awaken the oc-
cupants. Room ia, was occupied by John
Britton of Jacksonville. Me- Britton was
made quite stupid by the gas, aud would
| have soon been inSensible. Isaac DaV eaya
of Orlando was in room 107, aud was fast
suc1umbing to the sitting effect of the gas.
Sidney Sign occupied room 1875. He bad left
his window open upon retiring aad the gas
did not affect him as much as it did the
| others. The pounding on the doors in the
hall awoke him. Sid said he felt as
| If 1000 pound weight was on his
breast, and he could rise only with diff
| Guilty, but at once surmising what
was the matter he got to the window and
was soon all right. It seems that the gas
machine at the Ocala house has to be wound
up twice day, and that it run down before
Night Clerk Barrett had any idea that il
would. The three gentlemen mentioned
had gone to sleep leaving the gas burning,
and when the machine ran down of course
| theSe lights went out. In the meantime
Clerk Barrett wound up the machine, which
through those burners which had not been