The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-30

southwest of DeLand. last week Messrs.
Deering. Veenfiet & Mcdonald struck q
! strata OF phosphate deposit thirteen feet
thick IL IS thirty feet, however, from the
/ surface, but above water. 1t has all the
! appearance Of the genuine bone phosphate
| rock. 1t is to be analysed, aud if it prove
| to be Of the high grade the owner Of the
| property will have a mine Of wealth
The Hon. W. w. Long, president of the
Marion county alliance, and chairman OF
! the Marion county board of commissioners.
has just transformed his old home, near
Cotton Plant, into cosy Swiss villa. 1t
will be occupied by himself and bride as
their future home, on his return from Sc
dalia, Mo. whittier be goes next week as a
delegate to the national meeting Of farmers,
TO which Gov. Fleming appointed him.
{. DeWaal OF Tampa has invented an
electrical retouching machine for working
Photographic negatives, and has applied for
letters patent. The machine is very simple.
consisting of battery and pencil, to which
is impaired rapid reciprocating move
ment. By the use Of this devica an artist
ca ndo double the amount Of work that can
be done by hand. The work is not Ct all
fatiguing, the force is more regular and the
pencil is guided better.
1t is understood that L. o. Gibbs and
George Coleman, patentees of the new proc
ess OF creating white lead, are DESTROYS of
placing plant in Ocala, providing its cit-
Zens will put up a reasonable amount of
''pecuniary persuasion" They claim that
the plant will employ $50 men, make Al. 200
pounds of lead day and that the profit on
the same Is 81 cents per pound. Their proc
ess renders the lead ready for use in twentv-
four hours, while it requires 1928 days under
the old methods.
Jacksonville Standard. short time
ago at the depot was box not labeled, con-
tanning number of Photographic glasses
and no one knew what they were. No one
claimed the glasses, SO they were scd at
kind of 'ole boss" sale to shaw & Sons, che
photographers, who bought them for 81 %.
Some days later they developed some Of the
pictures and found them to be scenes taken
during the recent Indian war. The scenes
are quite natural The negatives were
taken bv an artist who accompanied the
army, and ths value of them is probably
81, 0U0 as it would be impossible to dupIi-
cate them. Among Others are photographs
Of number of the Indian chiefs. Mr. Shaw
proposes at an early date to show them in
his stereopticon views, and give the history
Of each. The show will be given on Bay
street and will be free. The great mystery
is, whore did they come 'front.'
The Health Island Orange Grove Com
pany, situated eleven miles from Ocala on
the Oclawaha, has disposed If It's crop to G.
w. White of Citra for S47 1000, it is said,
which, according to estimates made, gives
the stockholders 81 box on the trees for
their fruit. Among the fortunate stock
holders Of this valuable and promising prop
erty are the Hon. John F. Dunn of Ocala,
DR.. Miller of North Carolina, President T.
w. Strange of Wilmington, N. c., aud Col.
Fairbanks OF st. Johnsbury VT, president
of the famous scales mandatory of that
place. The grove covers $50 acres, all of
which are IN bearing trees, from few
oranges on a tree to the oldest budded wild
trees, which have as many as ten boxes on
a tree. Those who know say it Is the finest
looking as we'll as the largest grove in the
state, and the soil so rich that not an ounce
of fertilizer Of any kind has ever been put
on the grove The fortunate owners have a
bonanza In this property.