The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-18
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The Volusia county jail is practically
empty.
While there are many inquiries for houses
in DeLand there is not one to rent.
The city council has got down to bust
ness in the matter of fixing up DeLand's
sidewalks.
Tho Hotel Putnam at DeLand will again
throw its doors open to the public about the
middle of October.
When the present contemplated college
building Is built, Mr.. SteJson will have
spent over $4,000 for the Stetsoa Uni
versity at DeLand.
Attorney General Lamar has moved into
his new Office room at the capitol. With
new furniture and new cardinal red carpet
it looks as delightful as a bridal chamber.
The steward of the R. Bowers, whose
watch was stolen from his room on ship
board at Fernandina, has recovered it from
Brunswick (Ga.) pawnshop, where it was
put up for $40.
1t Is only matter Of time when all kinds
Of factories will be scattered throughout
Florida. d. Henderson Of Brockton. Mass.
is arranging TO operate a boot and shoe
| factory in Eustis.
| The smallest man in Nassau county has
been heard Of. He runs one-horse farm
near Callahan, and it is related that one
day two citizens of Callahan were caught
in hard shower near his place and sought
shelter upon his porch. He charged them
10 cents for the privilege.
While it is true that the Dunnellon Phos-
phate Company has discharged 200 hands
the productive capacity Of the mine will be
more than doubled by machinery. The men
were instantly hired by the Crown and
Crescent Company, and by the Interna-
tionnl and the Hartshorn companies.
The supervising architects office has at
| last OBJ aimed all the required information
| from Jacksonville and will be able TO adj
vertise in few days for bids for the con-
| struction OF the postotfice building. The
| plan OF tue department is to let the con-
srnchon OF the entire building in one con-
| tract
ST. Augustine Ne,os: Kelley Bros. have
commenced the erection Of rioe mill at
Kissimmee. The mill will be 45x175 feet
and four stories high, and built where the
| three railroads can run cars to the doors.
| This firm will buy all the rough rice they
can get, and any one having a good crop OF
rice will do well to correspond with them.
Frank G. Bowyer, bookkeeper OF |. S.
Gddens & Co. Of Tampa, has Just had
copyrighted an invention of his own, known
as Bowysr's debit and credit balance led
WALL WOTh u
in bookkeeping. The ledger will show at
q glance the exact debit and credit balance
OF every person every day in the year and
is most valuable invention. Mr.. Bowyer
has already received several offers for his
copyright.
The other evening at George Miller's pool
parlor at DeLand one of the players missed
ball and knocked lamp out of its rack
overhead. Ii exploded when it hit the
velvet work Of the table, and a conflagra-
tion seemed imminent. George threw his
SO so vest on the flame, and it went up in
smoke in a second. Buckets of water were
then thrown upon it, and the fire subsidized
after scorching and marring O $3.50 table,
running the covering.
Isaac s. Craft OF Tampa met with pain
full accident Monday night. In jumping
from the back porch of his residence the
balls OF both eyes came in contact with a
faulty drawn wire clothes line, inhicting
painful, but it is hoped, not serious in
Juries. He struck the wire with great
force, and it is a great wonder that the ac>
cident was not more serious than it il. Both
eyes are very much swollen and infiamed.
and 1t will be several days before he will be
able to use them.
The work of renovating Lyceum hall at
Fernandina has commenced in earnest The
walls have just received two coats of kali
somine, and the contract has been let for
charging and remodeling the stage, provid-
ing new foot-hghts and constructing the
elevated floor. Negotiations are also pend
ing for the Introduction Of electric lights
into the hall. While in New York Mr..
Hubby expects to arrange for the new
proscenium arch, besides purchasing new
scenery aud q new drop curtain.
The appointment by the governor Tues
day afternoon of Hon. r. II. III. Davidson
| of Quincy to contest the election OF Senator
Call to the United States Sena e, has caused
quite fiutter of surprise, and is said by
many to have been unexpected to Mr.,
Davidson himself Toe appoint ment seems
to have been altogether informal, as Mr..
Davidson says the position had not been
| rendered him before bis arrival in Tallahas-
see on Tuesday afternoon. The appoint
ment was rendered and accepted in a verbal
manner.
st. Petersburg Mail: Our ice factory
will he in operation next wee =. 1t is nearly
a year since this enterprise first started il
! the hands of the Southern Fish Company
| The disastrous failure of that concern
through wretched management and lack OF
forethought, would have proved a teirible
blow to any town with prospects less bright
than those of st. Petersburg. In the hands
of the new company, composed as it is OF
thorou Zhly competent gentlemen its sue.
cess Is assured. This will give the fish
packers a better .chaDcs than they have had
before. What with high prices paid for
ice brought here, the loss by melting, and
and sometimes the uncertainty of getting il
at all, the fish dealers cf St Petersburg
have had hard time of it. But we belle We
that the ice factory, under the management
Of Messrs. Codrington & Suffer, will solve
| the greatest of the difficulties.
| New Clearings in Frontier Settlements
Often give birth to miasma, as one Of the first
fruits of an upturning of the soil. Malaria is