The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-02

The town tax assessor of Micanopy has
Completed the assessment Of the property in
the town. and the books are now in the
hands Of the collector. The total valuation
of real and personal property amounts to
about 800 coo, and as ours is a 10-mill tax
the revenue will be about $500.
The census bureau reports that last year
Florida raised 4,SS0,075 pounds on 1885
acres. The weed, properly cured, is worth
frem 40 to IS cents per pound. and the poor
est of it is superior to that grown in Ohio,
Wisconsin, Psnnsylvan a and Connecticut.
In 1870 the crop was 81, lis pounds.
Micanopy NetOs: Our fellow townsman,
B. w. Fontaine, has sold his phosphate in
forests in the Camp Manufacturing Conn
pany for $500 end 1900 acres of good
phosphate land near High Springs Besides
this Mr.. Fontane owns considerable interest
in other lands, and mining plant also.
Tampa Tribune: Old Uncle Billy Yates,
one III not the Oldest citizens Of Hillsbor-
ough county, died at his home near Seaner
day before yes erdey. Uccle Billy was
30 odd years old, he had grandchildren,
great grandchildren and great-great-grand-
children, aud besides he married youlg
wife some three years ago, and has two very
small children, one nursing in its mothers
arms.
Daytona Messenger: An associas ion has
been formed for the purpose CT moving the
Russian authorities to treat their people
more considerably, which, after studying
Russian character and laws carefully, has
gotten up a petition which it deems best
adapted for the purpose of amsliorating the
condition Of the poor Siberian exiles, the
tales of whose sufferiugs have mo led every
true American heart to Indignation. We
who listened to DR.. Oren's description of
life in Russia have our interest quickened,
md ha lad tn hot al
have chance to sign remembrance
against these outrages. Mr.. Milburn has
the petition in his store at the postoffice.
Pensacola NelOS: A gentleman recently
from British Honduras, met here by a NetUS
reporter, says that Pensacolians ought to
encourage capitalists to establish at this
port canning plant to work up whatever
fruit that may arrive from Central Ameri-
can points III too ripe condition to bear
transportation to northern and western
markets, especially bananas. A French
man, says he, who came out to Honduras
from Paris but few years since, and put
up in Trujillo small plant, has already
made quite a fortune canning bananas for
export TO Europe, giving employment to q
large number OF people in the vicinity of
Trujiilo, and now Is preparing to extend his
operations to other points by the establish
ment Of branch plants at Puerto Cortez.
| b CT del Paduc and upon several of the Bay
islands, as well as Mt Port Livingstone in
| Guatemala At first his exports were con-
| fiued to Paris and Bordeaux. but orders were
soon received from England, from Ger
many. from Italy and even from Con-
stantinople, until the business, COM
menced, as it was, upon a most modest
scale, has gradually assumed Immense pro-
portions. The Indian women of Honduras,
the Mosquito coast and about Bocas del
| Toro put the banana in sugar, and, wrap
ping It in green corn shucks, expose it to the
sun until we'll dry, in which form it is a
rare delicacy, to be offered to favored
guests.