The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-29
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA
James L.. Giles OF Orlando, has an insur-
anoe of S5l, zoo on hislAe.
John w. Mada oxis making arrangements
to embark In the livery stable business at
Apalachicola. T TT5FpT
8. A. Murder has instituted suit against
the Leesburg Commercial for $50, 900 dam
ages for libel.
1t is said the GuaSa crop viii be an utter
failure in Clay couBty8 bis season, In conse-
quenoe OF the drouhhts
A lodge Of Knights of Pythias will be in
stituted In Apalaohicola within the next
few days, the charter list having been COM
pleted.
1t was reported at Apalachicela few
days since that Mrs. Thompson, widow of
L. ID. Thompson, had been killed at Ocho-
lochonse
W. A MoWiliiams, municipal judge in
ST. Augustine, says that the council has no
right In law TO legislate him out of his
Office, and that he will contest the matter
in the courts 80
The Sanford variety works, lately owned
by Miller & Mccormick, have been lately
purchased by Messrs Morrison and Middle
oauf, the former from Maitland, the latter
from Orlando.
w. c. Sherman has raised about $3.50 by
private subscription for the purpose of pur-
chasing q large clock for the new court
house at Orlando. The city viii probably
add to this $3.50 and the county $3.50, making
a total of 81 $50
Prof. Arthur Robotham, who has been
preaching for the past year to the Presby-
terrain congregation of Plant City, will leave
for Scotland and England and from there
to the Congo Free states, to engage in mis-
sionary work in that far of country.
Borden & Mahoney of Fernandina have
enlarged their machinery by substituting
steam feed instead of hand feed to their
shingle mill. BY this Improvements they
will be enabled to cut SO, 900 instead of
30, 600 shingles per day, as heretofore.
A negro named Henry MoDuffie, who
was captured in Orlando last Thursday,
charged with stealing cattle, and after
ward taken to Fort White, was taken from
the jail on Saturday night and tied 10 a
tree aud shot to death. McDufie murdered
Deputy Sheriff Frank Brown some time
ago
Ocala Banner: From all over the county
and country come reports of short orange
crop. Good judges who have lately visited
the Harris and Bishop groves at Citra, re-
port that instead of the usual 10000 and
80, 0OO-box yield, this years crop will not be
over an eighth, and equally unfsvorable ac-
counts come in from other former heavy
producing sections.
a letter received from Ten. John ". Bur
bridge, now a resident OF st. Louis, saws
he desireI TO sell his lot aud improvements
corner OF Forsyth and Ocean streets, known
as Palace row, at Jacksonville II the
joint committees of the Elks, board of trade
and library association will take it for their
| new building he will let them have it
for $4,000 and give them fifteen years to
| pay for it at per cent. interest. Gen
burbridge says he, few years ago, refused
an offer OF $4,000 for the same property.
Titusville Aduocate: On Saturday last
| large barge, containing 2S6 hives Of bees,
landed at the city wharf. These bees have
| been in winter quarters on the st. Lucie
| river. The owners, represented by o. o.
| Poppletop, are now taking them to Hawks
| Park and the Hillsboro river to get the
mangroVe bloom. They have shipped fifty
barrels Of honey, taken on the st. Lucie river
| this year, and expect to ship at least 100 bar
rels from the mangrove bloom. At Titus
| vile they took on seventy-hve new barrels
made by our pioneer cooper, Tom johnson.
| They also shipped via the steamer Sweeney
fourteen barrels of honey from here, by J.
S. Watson & Co., TO Cincinnati, o.
Pensacola Nel0s: Col s. 8. Harvey of
| Quintette, formerly one of the leading
alliancemen Of Florida, arrived in Pensa-
cola last evening. In conversation with a
| NetCS representative, he asserted with some
feeling that he would not vote for CIeye-
land, and said that he was now with the
| third party, heart and soul Col. Harvey
| says that IL a western man had been nomi-
mated at Chicago re believes that the third
party people would have agreed, when they
meet in convention at Jacksonville July