The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-24

have a talk with them and if l get an en-
couraging reply will 60 to work as quick as
possible"
The ORANGE County Reporter gives the
following reason for believing that Florida
will yet surpass other portions OF the Uni ed
States in grape growing: Immediately
after the grape harvest there-at the north
tho foliage drops and the vines become
dormant and remain so until the following
spring. Here the fruit ripens early IN July
sometimes in June, while the vines con-
tiuue TO grow until September. Thus they
| have the benefit of eight TO twelve weeks
regeneration and growth after the fruit is
harvested. This gives them a store OF vi
tally to throw into the fruit crop of the
following season, which will naturally have
the effect of increasing the yield and hasten
ing maturity. Orange county in the vicin-
ity of Orlando is setting out the White Nj
agara forty acres at time.
Ocala Banner: For several days the air
has been full of rumors of the sale Of the
Peninsular phosphate mine at Anthony, and
Tuesday evening all the papers were de-
posted in the bank for the receipt of the
money. DIR. Twillier, general manager of
the French Company of phosphate, Paris, is
the person who will make the purchase, and
the price to be paid is 100000, the
amount at which it was capitalized. Those
most largely interested in the property are
Capt. Thayer, Judge McConathy, Mrs.
Milton and Win Sparr and Samuel An
thony Of Ocala, Capt Harter of Spar. and
! Mr.. Swain of Anthony. The company has
been in successful operation for some time,
and several cargoes Of phosphates have been
shipped, for which good prices were real
lied. The number of acres of land in the
tract are go, of which 1856 are at Sparr
| G. B. Smith of Jacksonville has been seen
| by Times Union reporter in regard TO the
explosion of dynamite in his building on
| Tuesday night. He Gays: II will tell you
| of the whole transaction. Three years ago
when Nichols failed the Eltna Powder Com
! pany of Chicago sent an agent down here,
| and he called on US Rad we took the agency
for their powder. dynamite, etc. went
with him to the magazine on the Moncrlet
| Springs road to take an inventory OF the
| goods there. On entering the magazine
| discovered that dynamite was there and ex-
pressed fears of handling it. The agent
| said; Mr. Smith, you probably have in
| mind nitro-glycerine, which is a very dan~
| gerous explosive, but this is dynamite and
| / want to show you that it is not Danger
GUS at ALL | said: IF you drop piece of
| it it will explode He then reached in
the box, took out a piece or roll
OF the stuff and threw it against the brick
| wall. 1t didn't explode. He repeated it,
| then hammered it with hatohet. and be-
came satisfied that it would not go Off. He
said that it would only fire with fulminat-
ing cap. ! felt so safe that moved some
in my store, at No. 30 West Bay, and for
two years it sat in the warehouse where Mr..
Haines, the insurance agent. and others
went by it every day. They knew it was
dynamite, because every box was labeled in
large letters. While it was there Peter
Jones, the fire chief, came there and called
his attention to the fact Of keeping it and
showed 1t to him. l asked il there was
any ordinance against it, and he said, No,
| consider 1t safe; you can keep it, Mr..
Smith He said: 4 am glad you spoke
to me, because now ! know where to put
my hand on it at night in case Of fire.
While In that store l sold dynamite twice to
the chief of the fire department, and it was
taken out by him. When l removed to my
new building | showed it to him again and
was so satisfied that the stuff couldn't 60 of
that put 1t In my own building, and left
it there for five or six months. One day
was in the insurance Office Of John Will
Jams, and in talking about explosives ! asked
him If 1t would vitiate my insurance by
keeping dynamite in the store. He said he
was not sure, but opened a drawer, pulled
out a blank policy, read 1t and found that 1t
would do so. l Immediately called a dray
and sent all of the dynamite and powder
OuO W thO hAuEdAlbO OACoDb buc bllAd4ACob pJS-
sible quantity to enable me to supply small
daily orders. l kept the small guam
tity in the receptacle made of boiler
iron furnished by the powder COM
pany for that purpose and kept
that receptacle, not in the building, but out
in the yard as far away from the building
as | could possibly place it. No dynamite
has ever been kept in the store since the
conversation with Mr. Williams. After
the death of Chief Jones / showed Mr..
Singer where it was. it being located in the
same place that Chief Jones had seen it.
We have shipped it as dynamite on all the
railroads going out of Jacksonville fire.
quently and in no instance did they refuse
it. We have received it by railroad from
the west, and il has remained in the depots
several days at time awaiting delivery.
1t is kept in other cities within the city
limits-Birmingham, Ocaa and many other
places, and it is MOI regarded as an explo>
sive capable OF being set OFF by fire or con,
custom" In regard to the ordiuanc;
governing the storage of powder
1t is said tho city attorney had
advised the mayor that the exist
ing ordinances do not provide against tbs
storage Of dynamite in the city, and hence
no action will be maintained by the city
| against Mr., Smith.