The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-07

| DR.. Louis d. Blocker of Tallahassee has
accepted the appointment as physician
| at the state insane asylum at Chattahoochee
and has entered upon his duties there.
The st. Johns river steamers are now
| finding low water. Several times lately
they struck bottom and gotten away with
great labor. Il 10 said that the river has
not been 30 low since 1857.
Mrs. C. E. Riggs, wife of J. W. Riggs,
died in Gainesville on Sunday, May l, after
q painful illness of two weeks. The deceased
was born In Barnwell county, South Caro-
lima, and died in her 50th year.
E. W. Agnew. Simon Benjamin aud D.
A. Miller, on last Monday purchased at pub
lie sale, the semi-tropical building and
thirty-thre acres of land belonging to the
Semi Tropical Company of Ooala for
SC. 600.
The VOItsiG County Record says: j. B.
Stetson, all told, employs sixty-three men
in the vicinity Of DeLand, most OF them
working on his groves. His aggregate In
orange groves is 5S3 acres; and it takes
little fortune to care for them every year.
The case of the state vs.. B. R. Cole, for
having wild venison in his possession DUR
ing the time prohibited by the game law.
was tried before Justice Brockway at
Tampa Thursday. The defendant pleaded
guilty and was fined $25 and the costs OF
the court.
Workmen have been busy for several
days at the phosphate elevator in Fernan-
dina remodeling the interior OF one building
and putting up d conveyor on the other.
When these improvements are completed 1t
will facilitate the handling Of phosphate
from that point.
The board of medical examiners for the
Second judicial district will meet at Quincy
on Tuesday, May II, for the purpose OF
conducting examinations and granting GER
tificates to practice medicine according to
law, and to attend to other business that
may be brought before them.
DR.. J. B. Geer Of Winter Park met with
q serious accident at his home the other
evening. He was out on the veranda and
fell from the porchway, breaking some OF
the wrist bones. The doctor 10 up in years
favorably as could be expected
Some miscreant clawed few letters out
of the postoffice box at Orlando Wednesday
night between the hours Of 6 and o'clock,
tore them open and left the remnants in the
gutter in front of the postotice. There
we're nine letters taken out, and In them
were three checks and two county warrants.
all of which were torn up with the letters
Postmaster Fletcher states that the box was
emptied at o'clock and when the clerks
returned at 1855 o'clock it was full and the
robbery had been committed during those
hours. Sheriff Anderson found the letters
in the gutter early Thursday morning.
The convention OF the Democratic party
of the First congressional district OF Florida
called TO be held at Marianne, jackson
county, on Wednesday, Aug. II. for
the purpose Of nominating a candidate to
represent the First congressional district in
the Fifty-third congress, will be made up
by delegates by counties as follows: Cal
houn 8, Citrus 5, De Soto z, Escambia 20,
Franklin 4, Gadsden Is, fernando 4, Hills
boro is, Holmes 5, Jackson 10, Jefferson
II, Lafayette 6, Lee s, Leon Is, Levy7,
Liberty 2. Manatee 4, Monroe II, Pasco 6,
Polk l3, Santa Rosa 8, Taylor 3, Wakula
3, Walton s, Washington 6.
The counties will be entitled to repre-
sentation at the state convention as fol-
lows: Alachua 81, Baker 4, Bradford 10,
Brevard 5, Calhoun 3, Citrus 5, Clay 6. Co
lnmbia TO- Dade /, De Soto Z, Duval Is,
Escambia 20, Franklin 1, Gadsden 10, Ham,
iIton 7, fernando 4. Hillsboro IS.
Holmes 5, jackson 10, jefferson -, La
fayette 9, Lake Is, Lee 3, Leon ID, Levy Z,
10, Monroe IL, Nassau 10. Orange 10, Or
ceola 4, Pasco 6 Polk Is, Putnam IL. st.
Johns IL, Santa Rosa 8, Sumter 8,
| Suwannee 10. Taylor 3, Volusia 10.
Wakulla 8, Walton and Washington 6,
The United States fish commission car.
one OF the three in the government service,
| is side-tracked at Palatka. where a connec-'
ton is made with a hydrant of the city
water works. 1t is on account OF the pure
soft water necessary for the Matching of the
| fish eggs that the car is at Paatka-a
feather in the cap OF the water works. Two
| and half millions Of shad eggs are now n
process of Incubation in the glass tanks and
compartments which extend the length OF
the car. When Matched the small shad are
krNk . ola S.AA H. hn IIaII and
| Indian rivers--one-third to each stream.
Those for the Suwannee and Halifax rivers
are to be placed In cans and shipped TO New
Bradford aud Daytona. respectively, aud
the car will then proceed to Titusville.