The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-24
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA
The Feraandina Volunteers have dis
banded.
oviedo has shipped % 900 boxes Of
oranges 70 date.
The expenses Of the fall term Of court in
DeSoso county amounted 70 over S2,eOJ,
James Mcbride gathered 2, 2Oo boxes Of
oranges from the trees on his hve-aere
grove near Arcadia
1t is said that Lakeland has q larger pop
ulatiou now than ever before, being esti-
mated at nearly 900.
| T. J. McLain, Jr., has purchased the
Will Luther grove of five acres, situated at
! Oyiedo, of J. N. Pitts, from W. h. Merry
weather.
The attachment heretofore levied upon
the stock Of q. II. Jacoby, jeweler at %
South Palafox street. Pensacola. has been
dissolved, owing 70 a serious defect In the
attachment bond.
A postoaice has been established at Acme
on the South Florida railroad, four miles
south Of Fort Meade. alexander Diebold
Of the United States Phosphate Company
has been appointed postmaster.
E w. Glidden of DeLand hasI invented
a perfect carpet stretchsr and has applied
for a patent The machine weighs only
about two pounds, and Ii strong aud well
made A ratchet does the work.
The Southern Loan and Trust Company
has attached the Sterling phosphate mines,
near Brooksville. These mines are said to
be seventy-dve feet in depth. penetrating a
solid bed OF phosphate. Mining has been
suspended.
While cutting down a hickory tree on
Jefferson street, at Quincy, a few days ago,
colored man found horseshoe imbedded
u tho wood mora fha, ais fnnhac from, tho
outside. The tree has for many years been
used as a hitching post
Jack Harris, Billie Mccoy and II. B.
Weaver, three Suspicious characters con-
fined in what is known as the dungeon at
the city prison, at Pensacola, escaped Satur-
day night byremoving sufficient number of
bricks In the wall to permit them TO squeeze
through hole about l2x14 inches.
At meeting of the Gem City Guards at
Palatka Tuesday evening, Lieut.. McLaury
was elected icaptalD and Walter Davis
elected first lieutenant. This change Of at
fairs was caused by the resignation of
Capt R. w. Davis, whose business obli-
cations prevented him from remaining in
command.
Two Enterprise negroes named Joe Wat
kins and Jesse Gum attempted to cross
Monroe lake during the gale on Wednesday,
The lake was a seeEhiug storm dashed body
of whitecapped water, which swamped
their sail-boat when they reached the
middle. Watkins was drowned and Gum
had an extremely close call The drowned
man was watchman at the Brock house
at Sanford last winter. His body has not
been recovered.
Fernandina NetCs: ECapt. Mehaffey of the
Howard b. Peck, lying at Drew's wharf,
discovered a sunken wreck floating by his
vessel on the incoming tide at 10 O'Clock yes
terday morning 1t was the stern of small
schooner, from the transom up, and bore
this inscription, MARY K. Gildersleeve.
Elizabeth City" and there was also a square
and compass with the letter &c" IN the
center painted on the stern. Capt Mehaf-
fey thought the wreck had not been long in
the water. 1t may now be stranded SONG
where on the marsh as wiad and tide were
in that direction.
Fernsndina Mirror: We do not want any
elixirs, pills, catarrh cures, 81, 900 pianos for
$50, 800 sewing machines for Sl2, garden
seed, mowers, windmills, nor any of the
100 other articles which are constantly be-
ing given away TO newspapers-always in
exchange for advertisinS-and IL is a waste
of paper and stamps to send such PROPOSE
tons to the Mirror. We took three of the
articles in this way-anybody can have
them for the price Of one. Who'll buyi
DON'T all speak at once. A skunk never
gets but one chance at US, and Che older we
grow the more we learn.
Fort Meade Progress: On Saturday
afternoon last q dsplorable accident oc-
CURED on the Florida Southern railroad
four miles north Of this place. A south
bound freight train was passing over a por-
ton of the line which was under repairs,
when the cars left the rails Three fiat
freight cars were completely wrecked. On
one OF these, which was loaded with rails
was young colored man named Arthur
Dudley, from st. Augustine, who was pro-
ceeding to Punta Gorda to work there. In
the upset Dudley's legs were damned by the
rails and badly injured. He was conveyed
as speedily as possible to Fort Meade, whore
he was attended by DR.. Duce and DIR.
WeeIns, who found the left leg SO severely
crushed as to render necessary its amputa-
ton below the knee