The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-21
FLORIDA.

Orlando has raised neatly 800 for the
! Davis monument fund.
At DeLan6 this summer 800. 900 will be
inverted in new buildings.
s. s. Pickett q Bro. Of Arcadia have
made an assignment to w. Z. Daniel.
The new steamer Volunteer. for the
| Tampa and st. Petersburg line, has arrived
at Tampa from the Mississippi river.
Josn T. Bass, ex-sheriff of Osceola county
died in his room at the Magnolia House
at ARCADIA, Monday, of heart disease.
Work on the Alcazar at st. Augustine
has been started. Abont forty large rooms
will be added, which will make one more
story TO the hotel.
A number Of Cubans and Italians have
pure ased sixty acres Of land near Tampa
and viii 60 into the culture of grapes on a
large scale this fall.
At ocala, Thursday, Joe Scraggs had his
pre 'ilninary hearing for killing AlonZo
Clark, aud was held in g., 900 bonds to await
the action of the grand jury.
At Tampa Thursday Justice Brockway
wss engaged all the forenoon in the trial of
n case where woman was charged with
stealing a chicken valued at 80 cents.
A. H. johnson of Tampa has invented
new metal cap, label holder and lock for
mail pouches, which does entirely away
with staples, Sits, straps and paddock.
a large addition is being built to the
Arcadia Novelty works fn which will be
placed new wood working machinery re-
Gently ordered by the enterprising pro-
prietors.
Leesburg Commercial: E. B. Cooper of
Montclair presented US with a genuine
Florida spider lily last Saturday. 1t was
one Of a number that he had found growing
wild in a low place not far from Leesburg.
Mr.. Cooper says il is a rare and beautiful
flower, and he considers his find big one.
Last week one of the dry kilns al Ellaville
collapsed and fell with crash. Fortunately
no one was in the building at the time. Ten
or twelve men who were carrying lumber
into it had just left it and were almost
ready to return when it fell. One man was
on top of the building at the time and he was
slightly bruised by jumping.
Fort Meade Progress: A petition has
been extensively signed here in favor Of the
appointment of G. A. X. Stevens to the
office OF phosphate inspector. Mr.. Stevens,
editor-in-chief Of the Barlow Courier In
JormGnt. has given abundant evidence of
his enthusiastic interest in our new phos-
plate industry, and his own paper is the
best testimonial of his fitness for the office.
The new college building at DeLaDd is to
be 800 feet long, three stories high, of gray
by electric lights throughout, involving an
expenditure of between $50, 900 and $70,O 700.
e. T. Sampson, the generous Washington
gentleman who presented the college year
or SO ago with an elegant library, has re-
quested President Forbes to draw on him
for $1,000 for the furnishing Of the building.
Barlow Netos: On Monday last a number
Of gentlemen, among whom were j. II.
Tatum, w. II. johnson and Col Boyd, were
out in the forest near Barlow. w. H.
johnson made a sudden halt and called out.
J. II. Tatum was just In front Of him and
all came to stand still. Mr.. Tatum had on
dark glasses to protect his eyes from the
light Of the gfittering sun and could not see.
Right in front of him lay huge RATHER,
with jaws agast and ready to strike. MIR.
johnson caught hold Of Mr.. Tatum by the
shoulders and jerked him suddenly back
ward several feet just as the snake struck
at hiru with all his might. But for his hav-
ing been ierked back at that very moment
Mr.. Tatum would have been bitten by the
vicious monster. His snakeship was soon
dispatched, and Mr.. Tatum carries his rat
tiles instead of his carrying Mr.. Tatum's
scalp.
Live Oak Banner: Some two or three
weeks ago negro man was committed TO
Jail by Justice CSalker of Luraville to
await the action of the grand jury for some
crime that he had committed. When he
arrived the sheriff discovered that he had
been shot In the right, leg with a
load OF turkey shot, and, being under
the impression that the county did not care
to establish O hospital, refused to put him
In jail until he could get legal advice upon
the case. Finding he had no other alter
native, he placed the negro in jail,
and called DIR. Diversified to attend
him. Last Wednesday he grew worse, and,
DR.. Overstreet being out of town, Sheriff
Potsdamer called in DR.. Airth, who, sfter
an examination, found that gangrene had
taken place, and that it was necessary for
the leg to be amputated. Calling to his aid
DR.. II. F. Airth, he cut the leg eff up as
near the hip joint as was possible. While
everything necessary for his welfare has
been, and is still being done at this writing
FRIDAY morning., the patient is in very
critical condition, and is not expected to
live.