The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-15

FLORIDA.
The electric lights at DeLand are TO be
shut off on May 10.
Charles Whitney, a prominent and
estimable citizen Of Orange Lake, died
Tuesday.
The closing Of the Stetson university
makes difference of about 200 in the popu-
lation of DeLand.
The Palmetto hotel, at Tampa. now the
property Of Capt. Webb, is undergoing q
thorough overhauling and refitting.
d. S. Macfarlane is having two neat cot
tages erected on the lot which he recently
purchased from Mrs. Craft on East Lafay-
cite street at Tampa
j. Potsdsmsr of Lake City has started on
three months visit to his old home in Ger
many He will endeavor to induce immi-
grafton from Germany.
The demand for laborers in Alachua
never was as great as at present. The
| phosphate mining operations have, it is
said, almost stopped farming in some Sec
| lions.
The governor has issued proclamation
Offering reward Of 800 for the arrest o
| Jesse Burden, the negro who murdered
| Deputy Sheriff Carson near Branford on
| May s
The annual commencement of the Florida
| Conference College at Leesburg will begin
! Saturday, May %. The railroads have
made special rates and big crowd is ex-
| pected.
| Pompano, mullet, red fish, sheepshead,
| perch, founders, red snapper and angel
fish are still being shipped from Tampa IN
considerable quantities. The other varieties
are out of season.
The steamer Crescent City will leave
Jacksonville for Savannah tomorrow. She
will run during the summer between Sa-
vannah and Warsaw. She is now being
| overhauled and put in good trim.
The city council of Titusville have or
| dered the Edison electric plant at that place
| to be abandoned, and have substituted n
Thompson-Houston plant. James Cham
bers, superintendent Of the company, will
therefore place 400-light plant at Titus
vile.
The strike at the cigar factory Of Messrs.
| Sanchez 81 Haya, at Ybor City. is still on.
Some of the men say they will go to work
on Monday next and from present indica-
tons such would seem to be the case, as the
tables are being prepared and the working
material laid to order.
The brick work upon the fine block near
the factory, in Ybor City, erected by
MeSsrs. Solomonson & Fessenden, has been
| finished, aid the carpenters are now at
work on the interior. This block will con-
| tain four good sized stores with rooms that
can be used as offices overhead.
Capt. Torres of the Gulf Coast Steamboat
| Company expects TO leave Tampa to-day
for Natohez, to conclude the arrangements
| for the new steamboat that is to take the
| place of the Mary DIsston, and, In case
everything is satisfactory, to bring her
| down. The steamer bargained for is first
| class boat. and is said to be the fastest of
her size upon the Mississippi river.
DeLand Record: Saturday Mr.. Joseph
| Milburn closed a trade with theIS
| Nursery Company of San Diego, Cal, by
which he dtsposes Of his entire nursery, con-
sisting of 10000 seedlings from three to four
| years old. Mr.. Hawkins, the treasurer of
this large company, is in Florida for the
summer and will have the above stock
budded to the company's favorits variety
| preparatory to shipping to California next
| winter.
Tampa Tribune: We hear 10 whispered
around that certain gentleman who for
merly lived and contracted in this city, but
more recently Of the west coast, has discov-
cred the largest bed Of rock phosphate yet
| discovered In tie county, somewhere on the
! west coast. He has had a sample analysed
and 1t ran up into the eighties. We under
| stand that q party of capitalists from
Tampa are investigating it, and IL found
as represented they propose to invest
| heavily in machinery for working 1t.
Tampa Nel0s: A murder was committed
in Ybor on Saturday night, and Casanovas
| Sierra, an inoffensive Spaniard, lost his life,
the victim Of the hate Of others. The evil
| dence SO far as has been elected was to the
effect that Claude Ortis, another Spapiard,
attempted TO shoot Francisco Ysaril, the
proprietor of the Hotel Habana. and missed
his aim, the shot taking fatal effect in the
| face of Sierra. Witnesses before the cero-
ner swore that they saw Ortis fire the shoS
| and run toward the street cars. He was
arrested shortly after the murder in Tampa
aud lodged in Jail. The preliminary
trial has not yet been held, and
until ii is we will net give any
OF the many rumors in circulation. Bad
blood existed between Ortis and Ysern.
| Ortis had procured the appointments as a
special agent of the custom house aud had
informed on Ysern, and had him arrested
for receiving Struggled goods, the day of
the tragedy. Ortis was notorious snug
| gler, and warrant had been applied for
| for his arrest. This seemed to have exas-
| perated Ortis, who, it is alleged, out Of res
venge went to the hotel to kill Ysern, and,
finding him on the back porch, in company
with Sierra, fred on him, and missed his
aim and killed man who had nothing to
do with their difficulties.
DsLand Record: The growing OF the
cocoon from which silk is manufactured,
| is becoming one the industries of Volusia
county. Miss Carrie Douglass, nisce OF
Com. Hart Norris, has 40, 600 worms now
as busy as bees spinning this fine fabric
into cocoons. These 40 900 are the third
crop this spring, and they have all been fec
from the leaves of young mulberry trees OF
about two acres of ground. The worm j,
about three inches in length aud feeds abou
two weeks before it begins to spin. Within
two or three days he is completely wrapped
in the Cocoon. 1t is then taken from 1t
crevice, limb or case, into another room
where it undergoes chemica
opration and is prepared 70
shipment. The room whe~
the 10000 are at work is about 8
feet long and 20 wide, with fireplace tha
may be warmed in case of damp, chilly
we Their. Miss Douglass superintends then
} herself, having several boys or girls gather.
ing the mulberry leaf fresh from the tree
to be given to the worms on traps scattered
all over the building and racks. Mis-
} Douglass will ship about $50 pounds thi
spring, realizing 81 per pound. At preSen
the farm is on a small scale, but in time il
} will become one of the most attractive in.
J dustries in this portion Of the state.