The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-07

| FLORIDA.
Hon. Wilkinson Call is TO speak in the
| opera house at Sanford tonight.
! Fort White is without lookup, it having
been burned during the recent fire.
Rev. F. e. Shipp of Barlow has been
| conducting a revival at Homeland. Several
| new converts were made.
1t is estimated that $4,000 boxes Of or
anges VIII be shipped this year from the
| groves around Lake Griffin.
On Monday morning a little daughter of
E. Mathews of Leesburg while jumping a
rope had the misfortune to fall and break
| her arm.
| Dr. c. c. Furgerson has bought the lot
Immediately in front of A. G Zipper's resi-
dence at Barlow aud will at once erect a
neat cottage.
! The legal restrictions against shooting
deer, turkeys, ETC., were off last Tuesday and
the boys can nowl legally proceed with the
work Of determination.
Columbia county has shown this year an
| increase Of 81, 900 over the valuation of
| 1891, which makes total valuation this
year of 81, 040, 900 worth of property.
The acreage in vegetables this year in
| South Florida will be larger than ever be-
| fore. The demand for fertilizer for the
| month of October has been almost three
| times as great as it was last year.
B. q. Granger of Arcadia died after a
| long spell of sickness, in that place, last
| Monday. Mr.. Granger was a prominent
and influential gentleman, clerk of the
| court for De Soto county, and largely inter
| ested in various enterprises.
On Wednesday Sherman Bozeman (col-
oredl, aged l year and 3 months, was
drowned in Bayou Chico, near the P. and P.
railroad trestle at Pensacola. The child
| had wandered from home and fell into the
! water, and when found the body was float
| ing.
An attorney at Orlando has client who
| desires TO wager a fine bearing orange
grove worth IS, 900 that Harrison will be re-
| elected against other property of equal
value, to be appraised by disinterested
parties, or against 50 900 in cash, deeds
with full abstracts showing property to be
free from all membranes to be executed
| and placed in bank.
Tom Ferrel, the mail carrier between
Tallahassee and Carrabelle, who was ar
rested some six weeks ago and carried to
Pensacola upon the charge of having lamp
cred with the United States mail, and who
has been imprisoned there pending his trial
| because he was too poor t. obtain bail, was
| tried in the United States court in that city
Friday of last week and cleared of the
charge.
A few nights ago the dwelling house of
| w. s. johnson Of Madison came near being
destroyed by fire. The family had retired
and were aroused from their slumbers by
the roar Of flames which were making
lively Roadway in their work of destruction.
Fortunately water was plentiful and con-
venient and the fire was subdued before any
great damage resulted. The fire is supposed
to have originated from spark from the
fireplace igniting some kiudlings left close
by.
| Barlow NetUs: The ''straightouts" hav-
ing recognized the faithful and herculean
work performed by Hon. j. W Trammell
| of Lakeland, for the cause of pure Jetfer-
sonian democracy during the recent cam
paign, presented him this week with an ele-
CANT silver tea service, as a token of their
| esteem for him as a man of noble and ster-
ling qualities and for the fearless and out
spoken manner in which he refuted the
numerous charges made by the nincom-
poops against the grand old Democratic
party OF Polk.
Rev. T. J. Lyle of Madison has In his DOS
session q watch charm which was apparently
made of silver quarter that would doubt
less be highly treasured could 1t be returned
to the owner or any of his relatives. On
one side it bears the words Geo. w.
Colvin, Co. F., % Mass. Vol. Vet VOL,
North Blackstone" Or the other side is the
inscription: "l5th Mass. w Mr.. Lyle
OOthlA4OO ~ run u negro WHO sdlu ne picked
it up in North Carolina when boy and
after an invasion Of that state by federal
troops during the war.
John White, one of the colored boy
"toughs" Of Green Cove Springs is again
in jail this time for breaking into the house
of o. Gudenrath, on Magnolia avenue on
Monday night. John took a watch, some
small trinkets and brass horn. 1t is not
! known what else he took, but these were
found in bis possession, and he was jailed
and will be held until another term Of the
circuit court. John has been free from
the penitentiary but few months, having
served q sentence of one year for burning
the Crocker block in 1890.
Ludwick Warrock, a well-known mer-
chant and citizen of Jacksonville, died Sat-
urday morning at his home on West Church
street. near Clay, of lung disease, in his
cd year. leaving a wife aud six children
three girls and three boys. Deceased had
been in failing health for a long time, and
his death was not unexpected. He was a
native of Marlborough, n. c., but had re-
sided in Jacksonville tor thirty-six years. He,
on going to Jacksonville. established a
large grocery business. which he conducted
for about seventeen years and then he en-
| tered into the business OF manufacturing
marmalades and jellies from semi-tropical
fruits, as well as choice candies, which he
continued up to the time of his death.
The following appointments have been
made the past week: Jem =. Walton OF
Ferry Pass to be inspector Of timber and
lumber for Esoambia county; Alfred II
Inman of Genoa to be rotary public for
Hamilton county; George w. Lee Of Point
Washington to be inspector Of timber and
lumber for Washington county; Isaac II.
N. Smith of Tampa to be notary public FOR
| Hillsboro county; Seth Woodruff of
Orlando to be tax collector for Orange
county, vice j. W. Parke, resigned: viii
lam 3. Wynn Of Completion 10 be tax
collector for jackson county, vice ]
b. Anderson, resigned; w. T. Sylvester of
Jacksonville to be notary public for Duval
county; David Dyal of Callahan to be
county commissioner of Nassau, vice b. G.
Dyal, resigned; G. u. Meigs of Monyhead
to be county commissioner for Walton
county, vice j. H. Reichburg, resigned :
John II. Afford of Arcadia to be clerk of
circuit court for De Soto county, vice G
Granger, deceased; Walter Nj. Davis Of
Palatka 60 be county judge for Putnam
county, vice Joseph f. Baldwin, resigned
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Every fall large colored camp meeting