The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-19
FLORIDA.

A lodge 0. the Knights Of Honor has been
organized q. OsElsod There were eighteen
charter members.
number o. families in West Florida,
notably a. ST Andrews Bay, contemplate
emigI alton 70 Honduras
Andrew Wise OF Orlando hes Just sold his
Chuluota place, consisting Of sixty acres OF
land. eight acres IN an orange grove-300
bearing trees, 70 ". T. Merri v Gather Of
Chuluota for $4,000.
The Lake County Farmers'Allisncem ne. in
Eustis Sept IS, every suo-allianca being
present. They electe Col J. DeV. Haz-
Eard aud Hon. Ben Dowd delegates 10 ths
state convention, which meets in Dade City
Oct. 20.
A YOKE OF oxe belonging 20 George Tay-
lor were driven tn Monticello Saturday and
left standing yoked TO the cart They CONS
nenced to poll against each other and one
fell under the tongue AID tho other on II.
| The under OK had his neck broken and was
dead in few minutes
There was a great scare and tall screaming
On Palmetto avenue at Daytona Saturday
night Some ladies returning from angling
| thought they heard footsteps in their house,
and tested their lung power. They sue
ceeded In raising the neighbors. but no one
was found IN the house. IL was probably
| rats.
JEFF johnson, one Of Leon countys indus
| trious colorei farmers, was In Tallahassee
on Tuesday and turned over TO julius Dia-
| mond check for 1928, which amount be
realized for the sale of his tobacco crop of
this year. He planted only two acres
| After paying all bis debts and getting what
| goods he needed he carried home for a rainy
day sl76.
Lakeland parties recently purchased ninty
acres OF pebble phosphate land on Howell
creek, from William Clements and Mrs.
| Nancy English. for the sum Of "a COO. The
property is within three miles OF Plant City
and adjacent to the lands of the Polk
| County Phosphate Company. II the land
| is anything like as rich as that OF the Polk
county company, ii was a bargain.
Two gentlemen going to Madison the
other day observed a singular conflict. A
large hawk had caught black snake, and
the snake had coiled itself about the hawks
wings SO that IL could not fly. 1t had also
fastened itself around the hawks legs.
Neither could let the other 60. The gentle
man watched the curious encounter for a
considerable time. and then killed both the
hawk and the snake.
There is young lady at Mandarin who
knows how to use gun when necessary. A
few days ago this young lady, whose name
| is Nerelst, heard the chickens making q
strange noise IN the yard. She went out
and there were dozen fowls IN circle
around an immense moccasin snake. The
chickens necks were craned and they made
peculiar and disturbed clucking noise.
They were evidently charmed by the Sc -pent
and unable to move. The dogs spied the
snake and surrounded 1t also. Miss Vereist
rushed into the house and procured double
barreled shotgun. just as the snake was
coiled and about TO strike one OF the dogs
she pulled the gun to her shoulder and fired
and the reptile was torn all 70 pieces
Barlow Informant: In the early part of
last week Jack Mccormick, the night
watchmau, arrested George Land and pre-
sented him before the mayor on charges OF
intoxication and disorderly conduct. After
the trial Land accused Mccormick OF false
swearing, it is said and applied some
insulting epithets which Mccormick, on
Friday last, sought TO make hin
retract. Mccormick overlook Land near
the city market and the latter refusing &C
retract the Objectionable language, AcCor-
mick knocked MIN down and kicked him q
number of times, breaking three ribs and
infiictinR other painful injuries. The mayor
discharged Mccormick from the p lice
force aud has since given him the elterna,
tive Of paying S75 and costs or working OF
the streets seventy-eight days.