The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-18
FLORIDA

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Primaries will be held In Putnam county
Aug. IL.
An orange leaf was plucked from a tree
| in the Quincy grove at Ttusville few days
since that measured 6xl0 inches.
J. F. PedrIck has purchased from W. J.
Epperson the Fryer place, comprising 200
acres In Levy and Marion counties The
price paid was s., 900.
Jimmie Garrett, a colored boy about IL
years of age, was drowned in the San Sc
bastian river near the foot Of Bridge street,
at st. Augustine, Friday, while IN swim
| ming
Engine IL of the Florida Southern, which
was precipitated into the river at Palatka
| some weeks ago, is out of the shops looking
as bright as the prospects Of the road on
which II runs.
Last month there we're seven deaths in
Orange county, four white and three col
ored. Six white and nine oolored mar
riages, and ten white and four colored babies
born. Population 1900.
A dividend of S5 per cent will be paid TO
claimants OF the First National Bank of
PalstkA as soon as the schedule and checks
can be prepared and returned from Wash
ington with the controllers signature.
The infant daughter of Walter Wyles,
who lives in the neighborhood OF the Wyles
school house, two miles west of Pelatka,
| while playing around a pot of boiling wa
Ter Friday, fell into it and was scalded TO
| death.
| Two plans for the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union auditorium at Somerset
park, Lake Helen, have been submitted to
the officers of the union, one of which will
be adopted soon. Work on the building in
| expected to commence about Aug. !.
Messrs. Chapman and Hazard, who re-
can tlV DurChaapd savaraI thousand aSra. ~
phosphate lands at Trenton, and who have
1000 acres still under option, are busy with
large force of hands pitting and mining,
and expect to have the manufacturing
plant aad a railroad completed 20 Suwannee
river within the next few weeks.
II. +. Stafford, living near Chairss Sta
ton, Leon county, has just completed the
building and put in iathes to manufacture
chairs. The material used will be oak and
hickory for the legs and rungs and rawhide
for bottoms. These chairs, well made, will
last for ages, there being some in this city
home msde-which have been in constant
use for over forty-nve years, and are still
intact.
The New Orleans States of July 10 saws:
"a lady whose sorrewful-looSing counte-
nance betokened great grief, was among
Chief Casters visitors this morning. She
said that her name was Mrs Guitard, of
No. 400 Goodchilden street. Her story was
TO the effect that several days ago q man
who claimed that his name was Flores, had
visited her neighborhood and had inter-
viewed a number of young girls, whose
ages range all the way from 10 to 90 years,
and by means Of promises Of lucrative stu
atoms In a cigar factory at Quincy, Fla,
had managed to get the young women to
leave their homes. Among the batch was
Mrs. Guitard's daughter, age 16 years The
lady told the chief that she only recently
ascertained her daughters whereabouts, and
requested him to try and get her back The
chief has written TO the Quincy authorities
and will ascertain just exactly what has be-
come Of the girls, and In what station OF life
they are situated