The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-19

R A. Redd, Wewahitchka, made a ship
nnent of thirty-eIght barrels of honey at
one time short time since.
Mrs. L Stienmetz, all the way from Dead
! wood, OAK, has come TO Cocoanut Grove,
on Indian river, and purchased home.
Sunday in Tampa the Methodist people
worshipped for the first time in their hand
some new church Very large congrega-
lions gathered at each service.
H. A. DeLand Of DeLand has Just COM
| pleted the setting of nine orange groves,
| the land Of which he has recently sold to
parties living in different portions OF the
north. These groves are five and ten acre
groves. set with choice seedlings and budded
stocks
Five big boats are engaged in carrying
pineapples from the Florida keys ard the
Bahamas to Melbourne and adjacent
piueries. The first load delivered at East
Melbourne consisted of of $1,000 plants,
while Capt. Roy McFadden alone has orders
on hand for the delivery of over a million
and a half OF slips.
Capt. Burr Crosby has just arrived at
Tampa from trip down the coast with a
cargo OF curios, among which was a huge
devil fish that he captured near the mouth
Of the bay. This monster measured 10 feet
and inches by 10 feet 3inches, 80 inches
between the eyes, and weighed 1000
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bones and the SIX Teton will be sent to Chi
cagO.
The remains of Charles Griffin (colored),
who was implicated in the murder on May
OF ). M. Carson, a special constable and a
highly esteemed citizen of New Branford,
ornamented an old NOISY oak tree near the
banks of Suwannee river Wednesday His
body had been riddled with bullets. Jesse
Burton killed Carson, Griffin being present
at the difficulty and furnishing Burton with
the weapon. Burton is still at large.
DeLand Record: The groves of Volusia
county would have five times the amount
OF fruit if there were irrigation plants on
them, and the day is coming when these
plants will be of general use throughout the
orange belt They will ultimately be neces-
sites, while apparently at the beginning
very expensive, will in the end be matter
OF small expense when compared with the
great increase in the quantity of the fruit.
Apalachicola Times Emanuel Gabriel
says that some days since while he was in
Deadmnn's Bay he shot an alligator that
measured thirteen feet, and that he and
Capt. Joe Raybon pulled the saurian on
shore with block and ropes. They went
off some distance after this, and upon their
return they saw some twenty-five alligators
around the dead one He and Capt. Ray
bon watched their movements for some
time. and finally saw the live alligators
carry the dead one into the water and some
distance from the shore.
DeLand Record: Katie Jackson, the
9-year-old daughter of Josephine jackson,
one Of the colored help at the Putnam was
found dead, lying in pool of blood, in her
bed Saturday morning. A suspicion arose
that the child had been murdered by the
mother, assisted by her paramour, Wade
Fitzgerald, and they were both detained
under arrest until the report of an autopsy
by Drs. Mellette and Lyon to the jury Sit
ting as a jury of inquest over the body of
Katie. The doctors reported that the girl
died from natural causes. hemorrhage of
the lungs, being a consumptive, and the
grave suspicious were removed from over
the accused