The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-03

| tain the easy position of runner His
only duties consist In keeping the prisoners
supplied with water and in running
| errands for the overseers. Wright
Lancaster ia in the prison hospital dying of
consumption. John Lancaster was found
| In the buckle factory where he has obtained
| the position Of shipping clerk. A recent law
which was passed by the Ohio legislature
provides that ten days shall be taken off
each month or a short term mans imprison-
| ment for good behavior, and in this way
John Lancaster will be free much sooner
than he could have expected While pass
ing through the iron works the Telegraph
man found Louis Knight presiding at the
throttle OF a stationary engine.
FLORIDA.
A, Rinaldi of Orlando has a silver coin of
the reign of Charles III. Of Spain, dated
1878. It was apparently Of the value of a
| 25-cent piece.
1t is said that lodge Of the Uniform
Rank knights of Pythias will soon he or
gained in Sanford with a membership Of
about forty at the start.
There will be hundreds of bushels of to-
matoes, cucumbers, blackberrles, tigs etc,
wasted in jefferson county this year for
! went of a canning factory.
Barlow is soon to have a flrst-class foun-
| dry and machine shop. Work will be com
Sept. l. J. r. Palmer an old millwright
and manufacturer, is at the head Of the
| movement
| Woodwork & W ech OF Titusville received
| few days ago a malformed pineapple of
| the King variety, which was quite a Curl
osity. 1t was grown by T. Z. Richards of
Eden and was evidently a joint affair,
several pines having combined into one,
producing fanshapsd fruit with twelve
crowns something over two feet across at
the top and weighing 1874 pounds.
| W. G. G. Branning of Titusville has In
his possession q medal of interest on account
| of its antiquity, and of undoubted value to
some one as an heirloom. On one side is
engraved "Robt Black, best shot, Niths-
dale Battln. 1906" v bile on the reverse side
| is a representation OF a soldier In the act Of
dischargng his piece. This memento of
MIR. Blacks superior Workmanship was
picked up on the streets Of Enterprise by
negro about six years ago, aud had not
been lost very long at that time
Gainesville Sun: What in the world has
| got into the chickens around Hawthorne2
| 1t seems that their wonderful freaks will
| never cease. First Capt. John Yoder had
Matched nineteen chickens from eighteen
eggs then Mrs Hawthornes little chick be-
| came mother Of other smaller ones now En-
| nett johnson has one Matched with two
heads, one body and four legs, and John
| Sheffield has an old hen that began cackling
on last Saturday night aud continued cack-
ling necessarily until Tuesday evening at 5
| o'clock.
Ttusville Star: All the contracts for
| carrying the mails on the Indian river from
| Titusville changed hands at midnight
| Thursday. The route from here to Jupiter,
which has been in the hands of the Indian
River Steamboat Company, will be divided
at Melbourne, the contract between the lat
| ter place and Titusvile having been awarded
| to Newell & Austin Of New SMYRNA, who
will run the steamer Ajax. The tri-weekly
| north mail contract to Oak Hill has been
awarded to Capt. Jack Mooney Of this
| place, who has bought and refltted the
| Sheila for that purpose. The Cauaveral
| weekly mail will be carried by John W.
Jones, also OF TItusville.
In L. Kleiu's store, at Gainesville Thurs
| day, was displayed the largest pumpkin
ever raised around that city. 1t is not quite
| 4 weeks old, weighs 100 pounds and meas
ures rs inches in circumference and "a
| inches IN diameter. The pumpkin was
| grown on the farm of J. s. Crown on the
| Prairie. at what is known as Orange Point,
| about five miles from Gainesville. The
| water in the Alaohua lake has been rising
| rapidly on account Of the late heavy
rains, and the pumpkin was taken
/ out of pond of water waist deep. Mr.
| Crown thinks there are others in the same
spot nearly, il not quite as large, but the
place is now swimming In water and no one
has yet ventured in.
Live Oak Banner: On Thursday Of last
week John p. Allen, while in the discharge
| of his duty as guard at the turpentne farm
| of J. K. Young, near Luraville, was struck
by lightning. About o'clock in the after
noon while out in the woods with his men a
heavy cloud came up, aud as usual in sue
cases, when the rain began to fall he got up
next to a tree to keep as much OF
the rain off him as possible,
heaven WAS hurled into the tree by which
he was standing. He was severely burned
and bruised on one side from his head to the
sole OF his foot. A doctor was Immediately
summoned and everything possible done for
him. He began improving from the start
and on Wednesday last was brought up to
Live Oak to the home of his mother, Mrs
Ann L. Allen. where he Is now resting as
well as could be expected and will in a
short time, 1t is hoped, be able to be out
again.
The Lake Hancock Pebble Phosphate
Company, chartered in Barlow in january
last, has lately organized with r. W. Price
OF Dayton, Ala, president; o. r. Price Of
Barlow, secretary, and 7. M. Lyoass, also
| OF Barlow as treasurer and general man
ager. The company has contracted with
the Uric Dredge Company Of Kansas City,
No., for the construction Of a large plant,
full and complete in every particular
The plant will consist of a dry bin
of 1900 tons capacity, mining dredge
$500 feet. with engines, pumps. aud every
equipment necessary; three bRrges 3Ox60
feet, for conveying phosphate from the
dredge to the dry bins. The entire plant is
to have a capacity of 100 tons every ten
hours. The Uric Dredge Company has
agreed TO erect the plant, put it in running
nrha nm dor nj "a nd ha1f N,,4 b,
Lake Hancock Company for about $40, 600,
and after acceptance by the LAKE Hancock
Company the Uric Dredge Company will
become stockholders to the amount Of the
value Of the plant A saw-mill for cutting
the lumber is en- route, and the spur from
the South Florida railroad has been graded
and tel, and the work will be pushed to
completion with the greatest Tapidity pos
sible. The company's property which is to
be developed consists of SIS acres Of land
pebble deposits and privileges of over 1000
acres of Lake Hancock, leased from the state
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