The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-15
CLEANED AT GAINESVILLE.
The Famous Rocky Point Hammock
and Its Irnrnansa Oufnnt

and Its Immense Output.
GAINESVILLE, Fla, Oct. 14.-To the
southwest of this city, five miles distant,
and bordering on the west end of Psyne's
prairie, is section of hammock land known
as the Rocky Point region. This region
has been made famous in all the great
Inarts of the northeast and northwest by
the abundance and fine quality of
vegetables and oranges grown there,
and it is now astonishing the natives
by its enormous production of hay
and grain. The News reporter went among
tine good people of this thriving section
yesterday for the purpose of eliciting some
facts and obtaining some figures. j. II.
Crown, J. S. Crown, BUST Crown, Clinton
Crown, S. P. Cannon, Henry Denton, d. L.
Wroten, Jones & Brown, c. w. Mcdonald,
and w. H. Barton and Daughtry Ferst.
eleven farmers, shipped last spriug IS. 900
barrels of cabbage aud $4,000 crates of other
kinds of vegetables TO northern and western
markets. These eleven farmers paid to the
railroads for moving this freight S3l, 900.
The increase in the freight rate
this year over last cost them
So, 300, the Crown family alone paying
Sc, 400 of the increase. They have cut and
housed over 300 tons of crab grass and beg+
gar weed hay and most of them have made
corn and oats enough to feed their stock for
the year to come. This hay sells here at
$40 per ton, half the price of western, and
is yet considered even better than the latter.
This wonderful work has been accomplished
mainly by the use of manure and improved
imp PIGMENTS of all kinds. +. S. Wroten was
the first to use the moving machine. seven
years ago. Now almost every farmer has
one.'
EMPLOY WHITE LABOR.
White labor il now almost exclusively
employed, because the negroes have gone
off to tue phosphate mines and railroad
camps, being enticed hither by higher prices
than the farmer can afford to pay for SUCH
labor and their natural preference for en-
ployment where large numbers are congre-
gated. These farmers say that they find
the white labor cheaper, more careful,
trustworthy aid altogether more satisfacs
tory. The owners Of groves on Rocky Point
report the crop bright and about one-third
larger than last year.
We are having extremely chilly, damp,
cloudy weather now. and the fires are again
blazing on the hearthstones.
One schooner load of iron has arrived for
the Gainesville and Tallahassee railroad
aud another is on the wave bound for Fer
nandina, from which place it will be taken
by rail-
Judge Findly has dissolved the injunction
previously granted against the liquor men
at Archer.
There are now 176 pupils at the high
school here.
The Orlando fair convention resolved
to raise 500 600 as the maximum, $50 900
as the minimum amount to
secure representation for Florida
at the great show. Individual
subscriptions is the method, supplemented
If possible by appropriations by the COM
missioners OF the various counties. IL the
minimum is not secured by April l, 1892,
then the money is to be returned to the
subscribers less 10 per cent for inciden-
tails during collection.
AGENT OF THE sEMINoLEs.
DR.. s. B. Chaplin of this city has been
commissioned by the Secretary of the In-
terror special agent for the remnant Of the
once brave aud powerful tribe OF
Indians known as the Seminoles
About $40 all told of these
Indians have isolated themselves in the
terra incognita south of the CaIoosahatchie
river, and which desolate region they only
leave once in great while, and then only
few at a time, to procure salt and aTmu-
milton from the whites at Punta Gordan or
Punta Rassa. This tribe once had for a
chieftain the famous Powell, or as
better known to ''song and story"
Osceola or "Rising Sum-" who Yves
betrayed by flag of truce and mserably
persisted of consumption contracted between
the damp walls of Fort Moultrie in Charles
ton harbor. The doctor leaves Thursday for
Fort Myers. the nearest point of public
communication, to take up his residence
with the dusky sons of the swamp.
Mr.. Hyde is going to erect another brick
block on the north side Of the square
A society for TIE prevention of cruelty to
animals is about to be organized. It is
much needed; needed in the interest of
helpless children as we'll as horses, cats
dogs and COWS. Another organization is
on foot, VIZ. that of the sons of confed-
crate soldiers. Its object Is the perpetual
ton of the southern story Of the var as
told by their fathers and the collection of
data for history of the great struggle.
Once, years ago, when the owl had never
been disturbed by any sound more discnrd-
ant than the voice of its mate as it called
from the dead spike of tie tall cypress in
the brake, all travel in South Florida was
by hack or stage coach. Capt. +. II. Ora
ham, then the owner of the line. was one
day driving a consumptlve yankee up to
Ocala, then the railroad terminus south
ward, when the feeble sick man in a wheezy
voice asked: "What is that which smells
so badly underneath my seatW
"Guavas, 4" answered the suave captain.
"Weu, said tho sick man, sit is dead
and wish yoT would stop the coach and
throw it out"