The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-24

has so far contracted 70 place ID can
descent and four arc lamps in Lakeland.
EFF. Kennedy Of Tava-es is setting out
500 orange trees on his ten-acre place Just
west Of town, and otherwise improving bis
place.
The Mail is the name Of new paper that
has Just been launched at St Petersburg.
W. B. Miranda and L U. Horton are the
editors.
Two little negro children living near VI.
| J. Ciark's plantation, near Monticello, died
on Wednesday from chewing up the blooms
of yellow JASMINE.
Some statistician has computed that there
are ITO phosphate companies organized TO
operate IN Florida, and all OF them backed
by more or less money power.
T. A Meter has purchased Is. 900 pounds
Of medic nal Florida roots at Palatka, and
is about purchasing 1000 pounds al Eagles
ton Heights and 1000 pounds at Msyport
Tampa Daily Journal: The Florida
| Electric Light Company has laid a cable
across the river, and will soon have the
| lights ready TO turn on IN the Third
/ ward.
Apopka Advertiser: Some hungry scamp
made a raid on Mrs. Morgan's pantry
Friday night, and stole everything eat
able. cooked and uncooked, that could be
| found.
The outlook now is that the cigar facto-
ries In Tampa will be more than doubled
| within the next feH months. Some Of the
largest factories in Havana are making ar
rangements TO come there
The first shipments Of Florida phosphate
was made from Tampa, and the Peru Phos-
phate Company made 1t. The first sample
OF phosphate sent from the state for anal
ysis was taken from the Alfalfa.
At the council meeting at ST. Augustine
a
that the tax levy for the ensuing year had
been hxed at l per cent. for general pur-
poses and IS per cent. for fire and water.
The notorious Florence Baker, Kid Eagan
and ID. G. Foster are in Jail at Ocaia, as the
result OF rumpus. Flora said Foster at
tempted TO strike her with bottle. Eagan
inteTfered, when Foster tore Eagan's mouth
with GLACIERS knife.
The partnership Of B. R. Stripping g. c.,
doing a general mercantile business at
Anthony, has been dissolved by mu-
tual consent. E. W. Pugh retiring, and b.
R. Stripping assuming all debts and liabill
ties, and continuing in the business.
Within the past few days several RATS,
! principally OF sawn timber, have been
seized at Ferry Pass by direction of Marp
shall Walker, of Alabama, recsiver Of the
Mobile and Girerd railroad lands This
timber came from South Alabama, and it is
| claimed was cut from the lands of the Mobile
and Girard road. 1t is held at Ferry Pass
in charge of special agent of the receiver.
Tarpon Springs Truth: There is a new
departure to be made here in the way of
( sponge fishing. The steamer Erie Of Tampa
| has been brought around and with three
dinkies will visit the sponging grounds and
begin fishing in a few days, as soon as the
water is sufficiently clear. The "catches"
| will be sold here to the Auclote and Rock
Island Sponge Company. This is the ii st
steamboat that has ever engaged in the
sponge business and the experiment will be
| watched with much interest.
The old building on the river bank az
| Tampa, recently occupied by j. H. Morse
with wood and machinery, ana belonging
| to A III. Krause had a narrow escape
/ from going up il flames Saturday morning.
Smoke was seen issuing from the rear of
the building and the parties upon hurrying
! to the scene found a pile Of shavings which
had been placed against the building en-
| fire in six places. showing clearly a pre-
meditated attempt to burn it. This is the
second attempt to burn the building.
Ocala Capitol: No wonder darkies will
steal when such opportunities exist as did
the other night. A carload Of salt bacon
came into the Florida Central ard PENN
sular depot, and the unloading OF it was but
half completed when darkness stopped it,
| Now, this car was left standing on the
| track with both doors wide open and with
at least 1000 pounds of bacon lying inside
exposed to any vagrGnt or thief who might
happen along. In another car left open in
! the same way were canned goods and other
provisions.
Saturday was q big day for phosphate
deals at Ocala. George c. Stevens Of tue
! Ocala and Blue River Company sold for
/ fvlr 1tl1
| 800 md 700 acres of phosphate land in Her
nando county to an agent for Hamburg
| parties for 100000. Col. Livingston and
| Capt James A. McDavid sold two-third
interest in $40 acres in Levy county, a
short distance south of Archsr, on the line
of the Taliaferro and Amber rail-
road, to R. L. and II. L. An
derson, R. B. Mcconnell of Ocala
and Owen J. Carpenter of Covington, Ky,
for $33, 900. BeaureEard Jeaki IS sold 1870
acres at Spar to Maj. Eugene q. Gordon of
| Georgia for $500 Jenkins bought it a
| year ago for $500. Hon. John F. Dunn S Id
a half interest in a twenty-acre bearing
orange grove at Citra, to his brother, Henry
Gordon. for $1,000. Grove property il
looking up.
A detective, who has been engaged of late
in running down some of the gang which
has been committing so many outrages il
and around Gainesville, gives the rather
startling information that this band Of
robbers, incendiaries and murdsrers is
thoroughly organized one and extends al
over the state, but its operations Of late
have been chiefly up and down the middle
peninsula. IL is made up mostly of escaped
| convicts, and Comprises counterfeiters
forgers aud confidence men, as we'll as vii
lains Of a blacker type. "John Doe" who
was arrested at Gainesville some months
ago and convicted in the circuit cour
there recently, being ''sent up" fo
long term, was one of this banC
and was one of the first to get caught
That is what made hun so furious, so vim.
dictive and abusive. He never REVEALED
his real name, but was undoubtedly
leader aad terribly chagrined at his owI
early capture. John Does" trunk is RICH
now in the hands of a white man and
woman not many miles from Waldo, and
in iu dies for making all denomination
of counterfeit coin. as well as thousands o
dollars worth of jewelry. Then there ar,
barn burners, burglars and almost every
variety of law-bf eakers. These mon havt
been in all the safe crackings in Florida
this inter-. and a favorite scheme o
another wing of this nefarious army to buy
no cattle with counterfeit money, take then
OF long distance and sell them for gooC
money.
The Spring Medicine.