The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-10

Work is progressing rapidly on the bridge
| across the Hillsboro at Smyrna.
| It is proposed to change the name Of the
! Hillsboro river at New Smyrna, as there
are two other streams in the state by that
name.
The groves around DeLand are coming
out since the rain set in. They show now
very little effect Of the long continued
drought
The DeLand Manufacturing Company IL
to irrigate all the groves Of j. b. Stetson.
The company has put IN an immense irri-
eating pump.
United States Naval Cadet 81. A. Evans,
son of Holden Evans Of Bombay, graduated
from the naval academy at Annapolis last
| Friday, standing No. 8 in class of thirty
| four.
The Bond Lumber Company shipped
during the month Of May, from its mills
near Glenwood, eighty-fve cars, in addi-
ton to the local demand. The company has
orders ahead that it cannot reach before
July.
The case OF Bailey vs. Saunders was tried
| before Justice Davis at Gainesville Tuesday
The testimony was sufficient TO hold the
prisoner in 800 bond to appear at the next
| term OF court. Saunders not being able to
furnish bond is now confined to the county
Jail.
Moore. the reckless dog shooter, was taken
| from the Gainesville lookup Tuesday night
and placed in the county jail, as it was
| feared that an attempt would be made to
take him out of confinement. On Monday
night there was half executed attempt to
get him out.
The citizens of Key West rendered Hon.
jefferson Browne a serenade Wednesday
| night sOver 500 democrats were present A
speech was made by Hon. jefferson B.
Browne. He spoke OF the result of the Tampa
| convention. and enthusiastically Endorsed the
nomination OF Judge Mitchell and the entire
ticket Of the Tampa convention.
Hamp H. Robinson of Port Orange was
| recommended as the new registration officer
| OF Volusia county, the present incumbents
commission expiring on June 80. William
jackson was asked to take the office, but he
declined. The name Of the present incumb-
ent was also before the committee, and the
vote stood TO 2, the chair voting TO break the
| tie. Committeeman Brad lock and Oscar
! Bryan voted for Mcleod. Two of the COM
mittee, Rodgers and James were not pres
| ent.
| o. de G. Bertola, one of the large orange
growers Of that section, having a fine grove
at Fort Florida and down at Lake George
| says he has already been offered 81 IS per
| box on the tree for every orange he grows
| this year, and he will have several thousand
| boxes. One Of the Oldest and most respon-
sible buyers made Mr. Bertola this offer,
| but he is Of the same opinion of many of
the growers around DeLand, that the next
crop of fruit will sell for more than 81 35
per box.
Interest in the fearful tragedy In Pensa-
cola bay Saturday morning in which two
baymen lost their lives continued through
out Sunday. At an early hour Sunday
| morning a detachment of the Pensacola
Light Artillery took their 6-pound gun to
Palafox wharf and fired several rounds over
the waters OF the bay with the hope that the
body OF jeff Stringer, the colored bayman
who was drowned in the collision, would be
forced to the surface. The effort was vain
at the time, and the theory that the body
had been carried out by the tides was gem
orally accepted and the work of dragging
near the whArves was abandoned.
Capt. Hurd, c. Hopf and Sam Linde n,
while in a sailboRt off Fort Pickens Sunday
encountered q school of eight devil fish.
| They report one of them to have been of
monstrous size and they shot two balls into
it from pistol. These failed TO kill 1t and
they then attacked it with harpoon. The
harpoon was embedded in the flsh, which
Immediately put to sea, carrying the boat
| in tow. After going some distance the har-
pooh fell from the fish which then easily
escaped. The gentlemen report that the
| devil nsn was surrounded by an immense
school of sharks attracted doubtless by the
blood from the wound caused by the har-
poon.
City Marshal w. II. Cozsn Of Orange City
brought to De- Land on Friday last an insane
negro boy. He was adjudged insane before
Judge Broome on Monday. aud as soon as
an officer arrives from Chattahoochee he
will be taken to the asylum. Nothing /,
known OF the history of the boy. He wal
,Nfnk rod - "a.
ward learned that he wandered to that plac,
from the south. Several attempts have
been made to get an intelligent interview
with him, but the sheriff says he know
nothing that is g ing on about him, and thc
only word that can be had from him i
'coooanut. This word he is constantly
repeating, and il is a mere supposltion thai
he has been at work down in the cocoanu
groves Of Indian river.
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