The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-20
accumulated The value Of the stock and
the dividends Is about $1,000.


At Palatka the plaintiff has been refused
new trial in the celebrated case OF Harvey
VS.. the Georgia Southern.
A negro had a foot SO badly injur
at a saw-mill near DeLand a few days ago
that il had to be amputated.
The sheriff was busy at Jacksonville
Wednesday ssrvirg attachments on the
cigar factor Of Eichelberger q Go.
Bucki & Sons mill at EllavlIls which has
been shut down for two weeks on account Of
| a breakdown, has started up again.
Capt. Harry johnson has sold his house
and lot on Third street, opposite the oon-
vent, at Ocala, 70 DR.. Perins. The con-
sideration was 81 900.
The capital stock Of the fourteen phos
phate companies IN Polk county amounts to
over "a, 000, 900. Nearly all Of these COM
panies have been organized in the past six
months.s
The American barksntine Hattie G.. Nc
| Farland, lately wrecked on the outer beach
OF Santa Rosa Island, having been CON-
DENIED, will be sold as shs lies next Satur-
day morning.
| The South Florida Electric Light Com
| pany Of Tampa has determined to raise the
| building another story, and are contem-
| plating belt railroad around the city to be
operated by electricity.
Palatka EUening Herald: Beware OF
man who is going around teaching ladies
! how to cut dresses by the chart system. He
insulted a lady yesterday, and later in the
| day received ahorsewhippin9.
Lakeland Advocate: A large portion of
| the cemetery fence was burned on last
Thursday afternoon by fire started in the
woods. The town marshal succeeded IN ex-
tinguishing the fire before any other dam
age was done.
DR.. Stradley of Philadelphia, who, in
company with his wife, is spending the
winter at DeLand, has purchased the prop
erty on Indian avenue, running thrcugh to
New York avenue, and known as the Lucy
A Fiddis property. The price paid was
81 600.
The Harold Mill Company of Brewton,
Ala, Is reported TO have lost nearly 5000
logs few nights since by tho breaking of
their boom. Representatives of the COM
pany are now in Pensacola on the lookout
for the logs as they come down the Escam>
bia river.
Gainesville Sun: We learn from the
Baptist Witness that there is some prospect
that the negro college at Live Oak will be
removed to Ocala, providing we give ten
| acres OF land and $4,000 in money, the
American Baptist Home Missionary Society,
which Rev. DR.. McVicar represents, to give
similar sum.
About 2 o'clock Tuesday morning the
storehouse OF Clayton Yates OF Plant City
was discovered to DO on fire. The fire when
discovered had such Roadway that it was
impossible to cheek it. The flames soon
sDread to the building occupied by COL
Young as a real estate office. The 10
amounted to several thousand dollars, par
ly covered by insurance.
The novelty works in Orlando, which
have been shut down for several months
past. have been started up again. A new
natv
absorb the plant and business of the old
Pierce a TORY Investment Company which
recently settled with its creditors at so cents
on the dollar, and to be- known as the South
Florida Manufacturing Company Of Orlan-
do, Fla. The capital stock Of the company
is 100000, with D. q. Cary-El YES as presi-
dent, Oscar TORY as secretary, and L. A
Boone, Joseph Bumby and James L. Giles
| directors.
Oviedo Chronicle: One very warm
evening the past week one Of our mer-
| chants drove over to Lake Charm on a bus
| mess trip. Before he had completed the
the transaction that called him to the lake,
| darkness had fallen over the land, and for
getting all about having his horse tied to
| the fence, he walked within q few feet of
his rig and came back to Oveido perspiring
with the exertions of the walk in the warm
night air. When he reached the store he
| found that the horse and wagon were still at
| Lake Charm, whore the team was found
| by the clerk, who was sent back to bring it
home.
Sunday morning about 1 o'clock the
Floral City hotel at Manifold was con-
Bumed by fire, with the furniture, clothing
ana valuables of the occupants. OAly a
| Few articles OF clothinR and furniture were
| saved. The loss falls on its owner, Albert
| w. Williamson, editor Of the Phosphate
Field Tue value of the hotel and furni-
ture was about $1,000. 1t was covered by
| $4,000 Insurance. Several of the guests
lost money and other valuables. printer
bad $l50 in currency burned Editor
| Williamson lost his wearing apparel. watch,
| pocket change, etc. Adjacent buildings
escaped the flames only by reason of favor
able winds aud hercuean efforts. The
| Field printing office took fire but the fire
| was extihguished The lessees of the hotel
were ladies, who lost considerable property.
Palatka Herald: The reporter was
yesterday told an ante bellum story, or
| two Of them, twin Incidents, that although
| true and can be proven, are-well won
| derful, to say the least. It was told by the
captain Of the 6rst passenger steamer that
ever piled the turbid waters of the Ockla-
wahs. The vessel only had one stateroom,
the captains room and the pilot house. On
this trip up was an old northern gentleman
| ahd his wife. The husband was sitting
|
gold trimmed genuine pebble spectacles. All
at once a limb brushed alongside
and the spectaces disappeared.
| He said nothing of his loss
until his return. supposing them gone,
and useless to trouble the captain to stop
the boat. Well, the trip was made, the par
ties returning and tho boat laid up week
| and started out on another trip, but this
this time with another couple as passengers
| Just before night the lady and husband
were sitting in the same spot occupied by
| the gentleman when he lost his spectacles on
the former trip, Along came a limb and
| caught fine silk net and carried it away
The lady was bemoaning her loss, when
looking down in her lap aud loi there wer
the lost gold-rimmed spectacles They
had become fastened to the lin
and the last brush rubbed them OF
So much for the spectacles They
were sent to the owner, and the
captain still has his letter of thanks in which
was s. bill. Now comes the other part.
The lady who lost her net, very tine ons,
bought common one as a makeshift from
the country store kept at Silver Springs,
until her return to civilization. She came
back on the same boat, the same place was
reached with her in like position, without
knowing or noticing it, however, when her
net and switch were about to become en-
tangled in the limb AGAIN Sha frantioaIv