The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-15

l. S. Giddens has bought the interest OF
A. J. Knight in the business OF /. S. GIddens
a Co, grocery firm Of Tampa doing over
S2OO,UOJ Of business yearly. Ihs style OF
the firm viii not be changed for the present.
A negro named Jim Ward was killed
Saturday at Dunnellon. by falling from an
I elevator at the Marion mines. Ward was
going up on the elevator on a buckeI when
1t broke and he fell to the ground, dying a
short time afterward.
The latest advices TO hand show that
nothing was damaged by the late frost at
| Fort Meade. Ripe samples Of tomatoes,
lines aud potatoes show them 20 be In spen-
| did condition. Guavas are III full leaf, IN
hurt Large crops are expected.
The FL Bonito Cigar Company Of Tavares
has earned a profit Of Il per cent. on its
| capital during the past year. Its capital
stock is to be increased TO as, 900, and the
| number of hands employed to fifty. A large
| New England cigar house has agreed 70
take 600 Of the cigars Of the factory
| weekly.
The Indian River hotel, at Rockledge,
| made "a narrow escape last Wednesday
! from burning. A drunken negro left
lamp burning in the oil room, and it ex-
plOded and the entire room was filled with
flame, but it was extinguished before much
damage was done the large can OF oil not
ignlting. The hotel was crowded with
guests.
party Of capitalists will leave Tampa
for Kissimmee or Lake Tohopekaligo next
Friday for an exploring expedition down
through the lakes into the Everglades. They
have purchased the steamer Sadie at ks
simmee. and have victualed her for three
months expedition. They propose to make
thorough survey and inspection Of the ur-
known region.
At Sorrento, a few weeks ago, some ono
broke into William Aliens store and took
about $50 worth Of jewelry aud clothing
Last week burglar broke into Matlack q
Co. S store and, blowing open the safe, took
considerable money, taking the papers 20
an outbuilding for inspection before
decamping. lie has not been caught yet,
though the officers are on the trail of some
one
County Surveyor ". II. c. Collins Of
Lake City is now engaged running the ln3s
aud mapping the recent 2O,OJ0-acra puI-
chase of tue Lake City Land and Timber
Company, lying along the Santa f. river in
Columbia aud Alachua counties, and cons
tanning, aside from the finest body of IN
broken timber in the state, also some Of the
richest and most extensive phosphate &C.
posts.
Many pieces of valuable property have
changed hands at Sorrento within the past
lew mouths. Warren Butts sold mis- old grove
to Miss julia Soule, Lebanon, o., for
$4,000. The Holt grove has been bought by
northern parties, who intend living here.
DR.. Russell of st. Augustine has purchase
and moved on to tue Seaman grove. Many
fiVe-acre lots have changed hands some i'm
proved. others not
Tavares Herald: In Wow Of the proposed
increase Of the FL Bonito Cigar Companys
working force, it Is absolutely necessary for
Tagares to have more small cottages that
can be rented for $40 per month. 1t is ex-
pectod that at least thirty families Will
move TO this place within the next ninety
days, and good opportunity offers to in
vestors to make large profits by construct
ing that many small, cheap cottages, that
can be rented by the cigar workers. At
present the only vacant cottages in town rent
from Sl5 to S25 per month, aud these figures
are higher than tine cigarmakers can pay.